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Tweakers love bikes, no? Even the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department admits there’s “an inherent association between meth users and bicycles.” But is area law enforcement just slapping the same criminals’ wrists over and over again without any impact on the local drug market? Is this cycle of bike crimes and misdemeanors a never-ending game of law enforcement vs. tweakers tag?

Raheem F. Hosseini reports. Also this week: Amy Wong explores whether Mormon Mitt Romney can inspire solid evangelical-Christian turnout in November, and Christopher Arns looks at funding for alternative fuels here in Sacramento.

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It’s the 150-year anniversary of California’s Great Flood, which effectively drowned Sacramento. Retired meteorologist Leon Hunsaker has been studying historic floods for decades and thinks he has evidence—though many hydrologists disagree—that the government has seriously underestimated the flows of the American River at the time of the 1862 floods. Hunsaker therefore questions the accuracy of levees and protections against future flooding. In fact, he thinks we’re due for another big one.

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Josh Fernandez explores the cult of kombucha—that fermented fizzy drink that tastes of vinegar and is rich in bacteria. While the jury’s still out on its healthfulness, there are those—including a handful of local entrepreneurs—who swear by the odd-tasting liquid and are almost fanatical in their dedication to the beverage. Also: the Pork Belly Grub Shack dishes up four-star-worthy swine dining, things get a little hot and bothered in the Teatro Nagual’s rendition of Anna in the Tropics, while teen folk singer Parie Wood proves she’s an old soul with the release of her debut EP. Popsmart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 The good, the bad and the bacteria . . 22 Scene&Heard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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“Are you peeing on somebody or yourself?”

Asked near the Sacramento Convention Center downtown:

Is it OK to pee in the shower?

Ruth Abbott

Scott Fitzgerald

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Yes, because it is your shower, and you are going to clean it, anyway. If you live with someone, you better clean it—and at the gym, it is nasty.

Shaun Esfandiary

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Absolutely, as long as the drains do not back up. As long as you have a clear flow going, it is OK by me. I would have to draw the line at public showers.

I’m going to say no, it is not OK, although I do it.

I would not do that at the gym. It is not sanitary.

I live with my fiancée, and I have never caught her doing it. I’ve done it when she is not looking.

Kimi Gipson

Kelly Night

Travis Fox

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producer and director

No! That’s disgusting, because I would be the one cleaning the showers. So, no, that’s gross. I can’t say that I have never done it—but no, it’s disgusting.

producer

Are you peeing on somebody or yourself?

That’s fine, especially if you have athlete’s foot.

If you’re living with someone, sometimes you have to piss on everybody.

Absolutely. For me, I actually enjoy it.

I think my husband enjoys it, too.

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Re “Laughing” by Todd Walton (SN&R Essay, June 7) and “Sue the government” by Auntie Ruth (SN&R An Inconvenient Ruth, June 7): I loved Todd Walton’s touching essay, “Laughing.” If your readers missed it, they should read it first before continuing with my comments here.

I was so overcome with emotion after finishing the piece that I spontaneously broke into a laugh/cry, actually chuckling aloud while tears came to my eyes. How fitting was that? I hope this work can find a national audience.

And while I agree—to a point—with Auntie Ruth’s contention that “the environmental movement of today has not seen the violence of the anti-slavery and civil-rights LETTER OF movements,” there have been several murders of environmental THE WEEK activists around the world—people who were trying to protect their homeland’s rainforests and other ecosystems from development and exploitation. Karen Silkwood may also have been murdered for her whistle-blowing.

So let’s not forget the people who have already lost their lives while trying to protest environmental degradation; at the same time, let’s continue to hope that we can save Mother Earth without any more martyrs.

Thank you for your wonderful newspaper.

Janet Mercurio Winters

As nature intended Re “Your ultimate summer outfit?” (SN&R Streetalk, June 14): The suit I was born in!

Trish Russell via email

Call out bigotry Re “Just sayin,’” “Just clarifying” and “Just gets it” (SN&R Letters, June 14): I have been following the debate over Rachel Leibrock’s column “A Texas state of mind” (SN&R Popsmart, June 7).

Should the intolerant be tolerated? Should Jews suffer anti-Semites? Should AfricanAmericans suffer racists? Should gays suffer homophobes? All this hatred has been justified with the Bible over the years. The so-called “Christians” who use the Bible this way say that they shouldn’t be criticized because it is a mere difference of opinion. I beg to differ.

In a much earlier life, I spent some time in Texas while I was in the military, and can vouch for the intolerance of the place, although they have probably improved a bit. Maybe they no longer say the N-word in public, but at that time there was nothing lower than a Mexicanor African-American.

But let me say this: If history is a guide, our society cannot and should not treat any form of bigotry as just a mere difference of opinion. The bigots have a right to spew their hate, but they should be opposed at every turn, because, as history has shown, it can and will spiral out of control into unspeakable violence, as we witness every day in the world.

The bigots are a real danger to the country.

Grenade launchers?

That’s news!

Re “Sacto’s army” by Raheem F. Hosseini (SN&R Feature Story, June 7): This is a big story about nothing.

Anyone can go to the gun store and buy a semi-automatic rifle. The only real change is how many rounds you are allowed to have in the magazine and how you change the magazine. Don’t believe me? Check out any local gun-shop website.

The cops have had rifles for years, and they need them. So now they get some for free; that saves us money. Aircraft? Rafts?

Really! That is shocking. This story is someone’s best try of making a story out of nothing. These guns are not special. The grenade launchers are the only interesting thing in the article.

William Ross Roseville

Grants and redevelopment funds helped pay the $24,000 to restore the Fred Mayes Jewelers street clock, which returned to J and 10th streets last month. Some say the clock is more than 100 years old; it was originally located at K and 10th streets.

First, get rid of politicians and priests Re “God only knows” by Rachel Leibrock (SN&R Popsmart, June 7): This continual hyper-religious nonsense is very disturbing. The rich people and politicians use religion to control the population and to distract most people from the real pressing questions of our time. The more civilized countries (there are many) laugh at our provincial thinking, and who can blame them.

They understand the old axiom, as presented by George Santayana in The Life of Reason: “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute, there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Americans fail time and again, because they don’t understand the true nature of the world and continue to make the same timetested mistakes. We, as a nation, are undereducated. And which groups are continually cutting education? The rich and the politicians who represent the rich.

Please, remember the words of the great thinker Voltaire: “Man will never

Californians beware Re “Amazon’s dance” (SN&R Editorial, June 7): Since you Californians are selling out your state for some quick-fix Amazon jobs, it seems necessary to offer a warning about these jobs (and corporation) that are coming to a town near you.

Have you heard about Amazon’s labor practices? Are these the jobs you want? I worked as a “picker” in its Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, fulfillment center (subject of a major exposé), and it was brutal. I wrote a few stories that can be found by Googling my name and “Dissident Voice.”

Nichole Gracely Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Joseph Bruno Carmichael

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POET’S CORNER Heads in the Garden Young’s Winery, Plymouth, California Eyes closed as they emerge from the dirt smooth with the sheen of element upturned to lead the way for what has grown from roots with tendrils sunk into the otherworld considering the context of godhead, they do not look out of place why should not the gods sprout heads from the earth?

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Is Sacramento’s cycle of bike crimes and misdemeanors a neverending game of law enforcement vs. tweakers tag?

Christopher Allen Fontaine should be used to taking wrong turns.

On probation since Dubya’s by Raheem F. Hosseini first term, the hard-luck 28-yearold was grinding his bike down the wrong side of a Rancho Cordova street when a patrol cruiser’s piercing squawk signaled that an all-too-familiar humbling was at hand.

The hound-eyed probationer, halted for the moving violation on May 22, had his person and possessions searched by two of the Sacramento County’s finest. Deputies found a glass pipe in his backpack and a plastic bag containing crunchy crystal meth in the front pocket of his pants. The pipe’s spout was caked with white and black residue.

Soon, the docile Fontaine was handcuffed and headed for his 12th tangle with the county’s criminal-justice system—and local law enforcement had turned yet another bicycle stop into a drug arrest.

Within law-enforcement circles, it’s an accepted maxim that tweakers travel by two wheels. “The simple fact is that there is just an inherent association between meth users and bicycles,” explained Deputy Jason Ramos, spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department.

That may be unsettling to a proud cycling haven such as Sacramento, but the logic—and mounting anecdotal evidence—is sound.

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arrests that led to additional, more serious charges.

According to agency records and interviews with law-and-order types, stopping bicyclists for traffic violations and arresting them for drug possession or other crimes isn’t unusual.

“The simple fact is that there is just an inherent association between meth users and bicycles.”

Jason Ramos spokesman Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department “We get these cases weekly,” said Karen Flynn, chief assistant public defender for the county. She added that such arrests have been common her entire 25 years with the office.

“Unfortunately, it appears that a large number of people riding bikes past 10 p.m. at night do seem to have a small amount of drugs on them,” Flynn shared. “It is always a small amount. I have not known of any big drug busts on a bike.”

As sketchy as this may sound to some, lawenforcement officials say it’s a fair and legal way of taking repeat drug offenders and small-time traffickers off the streets.

“I know that some people hearing this might take exception to it, or think it’s ‘underhanded,’ ‘sneaky,’” Ramos acknowledged. “But I keep it real and tell it like it is. I always say, ‘If someone doesn’t want to be stopped by law enforcement, don’t give law enforcement any reason to stop you.’”

Fair enough. But in reality, this drama between keen patrol officers and bobble-eyed riders doesn’t amount to a whole lot. Cops legally can—and are—pulling over drug-addled bicyclists for moving violations and busting them for holding. The courts can—and are— pleading these cases out at a swift clip. And the offenders can—and are—swapping brief jail visits and extended probation terms for the opportunity to ride again.

Fontaine and the rest get churned through a system that doesn’t have the space to incarcerate them or the means to rehabilitate them. The cycle continues. The wheels keep spinning.

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Occupy foreclosures PROBABLE FLAWS Of all the stereotypes attributed to your average tweaker, “preferred mode of transportation” is probably way down the list past “Skeletor cheekbones” and “Iggy Pop physique.”

Yet the bicycle has become the meth consumer’s most trusted friend. It’s cheaper and less obtrusive than a car, and, perhaps most importantly, less prone to enforcement stops for any number of the California Vehicle Code’s probable-cause-friendly violations.

Law enforcement is hip to this anecdotal trend, however, and has taken to using a flexible reading of the CVC doorstop bible to conduct traffic stops.

“The California Vehicle Code is a very large book, and there are so many violations that someone can commit while riding a bicycle,” Ramos noted. These violations, he added, amount to probable cause for the officer to detain and search.

The month of May in Sacramento saw many of these incidents. Fontaine, of course, who was stopped and cuffed for meth possession. And, on the night of May 11, deputies trawling Rancho Cordova’s suburban sprawl stopped 42-year-old Dorian Keith McCants for “a vehicle-code violation” and arrested the probationer for having 20 oblong Hydrocodone pills.

And still, more: Shortly after midnight on May 6, deputies stopped Dana Goodman for riding her bicycle on a public sidewalk in a Rosemont housing tract. A sheriff’s department incident report states the arresting officer recognized the 47-year-old probationer from several prior contacts. A Ziploc bag pulled from Goodman’s coin pocket reportedly contained crystal meth.

Two nights earlier, on May 4, Jina Marie Woolley, 52, made the double mistake of riding her bike down the wrong side of the street without a light. When deputies picked her up at the mouth of a cluttered residential enclave in Rancho Cordova, they discovered she had two outstanding misdemeanor arrest warrants and found a bag of crystal meth and smoking pipe in her duffle bag.

Just a few hours earlier that same Friday, a black male matching the description of “a wanted subject” was spotted pedaling against the flow of traffic southbound on the fieldabutted thoroughfare near Mather Airport.

The arresting deputy’s incident report states that Antwan Martel Johnson “appeared to be under the influence of a stimulant.” During a pat-down search, a glass pipe and bindle of methamphetamine were found.

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The probationer was arrested for having a bag of crystal meth stuffed in his pocket.

Every one of these suspects had prior contact with local law enforcement. None of them were charged for the vehicle-code violations that led to their stops. “[T]hat’s just how it’s done,” Flynn said.

“Is it legal? Yeah, it is.”

Her office does bring motions to suppress, under Penal Code section 1538, arguing that the stops were for the purpose of harassment or targeting minorities.

“We don’t usually win those motions,” Flynn added, “but we do bring them.”

Sacramento Police Department officials say their agency also claims a sizable number of drug arrests off of bicycle pullovers. “Quite a few stops that we have related to bicycle stops relate to drugs,” said spokesman Sgt. Andrew Pettit.

You just wouldn’t know this from the information made available to the public.

“A large number of people riding bikes past 10 p.m. at night do seem to have a small amount of drugs on them.”

Karen Flynn chief assistant public defender Sacramento County The department’s daily online activity logs do not explicitly mention every instance where officers stop someone on a bicycle, Pettit acknowledged. Oftentimes, reports only read that a “suspect was contacted and arrested for amphetamine,” he explained.

Yet even with that, city online documents mention 12 bicycle-related interventions in May. One included a bust for methamphetamine possession and several involved arrests of probation violators and individuals with outstanding warrants. A couple of bicyclists were robbery suspects.

And then there was the “suspicious subject” reported to police on May 8, for wheeling past a kid on a red beach-cruiser bike without his pants.

While stats for drug-charging bike stops within the city remain elusive, Pettit says you don’t really need them to say they’re a common occurrence.

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Counting the May 8 arrest of a man who fled the scene of a Rancho Cordova convenience store robbery on a bike, the sheriff’s department’s tally of seven bike-related arrests breaks down as: four white individuals (including two females) and three black males. Of the three times that race was listed in the city’s online activity reports, it referred to two white males and one Hispanic male.

SPINNING WHEELS Perhaps a subtler, more relevant issue than race has to do with why this is happening.

None of those arrested by the sheriff’s department faces any serious time. Fontaine was found guilty of one count of misdemeanor drug possession on May 29; he was sentenced to 30 days in jail and charged $120 in restitution fines, according to court documents. McCants, who was nailed for the Hydrocodone pills, traded a May 29 nocontest plea on one reduced count of felony drug possession for a five-year probation stint and a round of drug rehabilitation.

Repeat offender McCants—online court records show 14 other criminal cases dating back to 1989—was also ordered to pay $655 in related fines and fees.

“Clients accept plea bargains on these cases because they can get far less than the maximum, and they don’t want to risk getting more time,” said Flynn. “We are constantly monitoring the probable cause of stops, whether there was a reason to stop the person.

But for the most part, there generally is.”

Still, when it comes to a crazily destructive narcotic that’s only growing in prevalence, the meager ends aren’t doing all that much to justify the wily means.

“Aside from the ubiquitous marijuana, meth is by far the most pervasive controlled substance that we deal with in the Sacramento area,” Ramos said. “Meth is everywhere.”

Charging the more serious drug offense and forgetting about the moving violation is supposed to keep the legal system honest, and make sure Suspect X doesn’t plead down to a “lesser-included offense” such as biking on the sidewalk, say both Ramos and Pettit.

But the reality doesn’t amount to much more than a bureaucratic game of catch and release. These small-guppy drug offenders wheel through a system that can no longer house their numbers, treat their addiction or accommodate their tragic individual circumstances. Within no time at all, they’re back to playing tag with the very cops that jacked them off their wheel to begin with.

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The Occupy movement, perhaps more than ever, is still getting a bad rap.

Leading the charge lately is comedian and TV host Bill Maher, who’s repeatedly trashed the movement for not complementing liberalism the way tea partiers complement right-leaning politics.

Consider this recent Real Time With Bill Maher rant: “Instead of organizing interstate hootenannies, maybe it’s time for Occupy Wall Street to actually participate in the American political process. That means boring stuff, like canvassing neighborhoods, raising money, running candidates for office, manning phone banks.

“And making a baby with John Edwards.”

Joking aside, Maher obviously was unaware that Sacramento County saw two Occupy candidates run for supervisor this past election cycle—one of them raking in nearly 30 percent of the vote in his race.

It’s also worth noting that movement does not boast such wealthy benefactors as the Koch Brothers, whose financiering of the tea party during its nascent days was instrumental in establishing its political grassroots infrastructure.

Yet Occupy is far from flat-lining. Witness this Monday, June 25, when organizers say more than 1,000 statewide occupiers will converge on the Capitol grounds to demand a moratorium on home foreclosures in California. The event, called Rally for Homes begins at 10 a.m., ends at 3 p.m. and will include a protest march, plus teach-ins. And even lobbying efforts.

Occupy Sacramento activist Bob Saunders said despite setbacks, he’s still motivated. “The more legislators we meet with and the more they say we’ll never find an author for a bill for a foreclosure moratorium,” he said, “the more we feel that’s what we need. It’s the only thing that’s going to stop the hemorrhaging.”

Find out more about this Monday’s protest at www.rallyforhomes.com. And be sure to send a photo from the rally to Bill Maher. (Nick Miller)

El Camino outrage Last week’s Drug Enforcement Agency raid on the city’s most popular medical-cannabis dispensary, El Camino Wellness Center, has sparked indignation among the region’s pot activists. And they plan to take to the streets this Wednesday, June 20, when protesters and Americans for Safe Access will demonstrate outside the downtown federal building at 1:30 p.m.

Pot advocates are shocked that the feds, who said they were only going to target traffickers and criminals, put El Camino in the crosshairs. As local ASA representative Courtney Sheats put it: “If El Camino Wellness, a taxpaying pillar of its community, fails to pass muster with the federal government, then no one is safe.”

El Camino spokesman Max Del Real told SN&R that, when the dispensary was raided on June 11, “The immediate reaction on the ground was ‘This was payback’”; El Camino sued the federal government this past December.

Del Real added that the feds seized more than $50,000 in medical cannabis, plus the executive directors’ “computers and cars” while they were handcuffed at their homes, “in front of their kids” for three hours.

He rejected the argument that El Camino was profiteering.

“When you have a limited number of dispensaries … and have a lot of patients,” Del Real said, “those patients are going to go through the doors of legal, and limited, dispensaries.”

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Indeed, as many national church leaders have noted, evangelical Christians have been reluctant to embrace Mormonism, a sect of Christianity that emerged in the 19th century as part of the restorationist movement. They argue that the 14 million Mormons worldwide deviate too far from traditional Christianity.

This is because â&#x20AC;&#x153;[their] authority is the Book of Mormon,â&#x20AC;? reminded Brad Nystrom, a professor of humanities and religious studies at Sacramento State. Or, he explained, Mormons donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t view the Bible as the final word.

This faith gap came to a head earlier this year, when mega-evangelical pastor Rick Warren went on TV and cited the issue of the Trinity and the Book of Mormon as major sticking points for evangelical Christians. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the historic doctrine of the church.

Three in one, not three gods. One God in father, son and Holy Spirit,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mormonism denies that.â&#x20AC;?

But Allison Coudert, professor of religious studies at UC Davis, says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the wrong call to assume evangelicals wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t turn out for Romney like they did for President George W. Bush. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are 2,000 different sects, denominations of Christianity,â&#x20AC;? she pointed out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And who is to say which one has it right?â&#x20AC;?

Many mainstream Christians and secular voters, for instance, have limited knowledge

about the Mormon religion because Mormonism is somewhat secret, Coudert added.

In spite of these differences, however, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life recently reported that Mormons are still predominately Republican: 66 percent identify themselves as conservative and 74 percent identify as GOP supporters.

And, perhaps surprisingly, Pastor Cole told SN&R that, for him, a candidateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faith isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a deal breaker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When it comes to whether a person is capable as a leader, I think we have to be careful to look at their whole ideology. â&#x20AC;Ś Our Constitution is based upon the freedom of religion. It will matter some, but it shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be, in my mind, the decisive question.â&#x20AC;?

Nystrom agreed that â&#x20AC;&#x153;most traditional Christians have a live-and-let-live attitude toward Mormonism. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recognize the Book of Mormon, but since they arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t involved with [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter much to them what Mormons believe.â&#x20AC;?

He added that a similar issue arose when John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, was campaigning for the presidency, an office typically held by protestant Christians. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In that presidential race as well, the religious affiliations of the candidate mattered to many voters,â&#x20AC;? Nystrom said.

Cole did say, though, that there are evangelical Christians who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t on board for either Romney or President Barack Obama.

And that morality can apply to more things than just faith.

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Rick Cole pastor, Capital Christian Center â&#x20AC;&#x153;To me, economic issues are moral. World affairs and what we do with other governments is moral,â&#x20AC;? Cole said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all, to me, quite interconnected. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to agree with everybody on everything, [but] it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean we throw them out because we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t line up on a particular issue.

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I have had more than my fair share of happiness, thanks to my family, my job and my friends. But when I think of all the happy moments in my life, high on the list is my time spent with Habitat for Humanity families when they are getting their homes.

Watching the little kids run through their new house, seeing the parents tear up, and sharing a sense of pride with fellow Habitat board members and staff are some of the happiest moments I have ever had.

This joy certainly tops a great dinner, a new piece of clothing or some new electronic gadget. This emotion is what inspires many people to volunteer and make a difference in their communities. And despite working longer hours in humble surroundings, these volunteers are often happier than their higher-paid, better-dressed corporate associates.

I found this same sense of happiness recently when I attended Sunday services at Bayside of South Sacramento. Director of compassion and outreach Donna Trumbo shed tears of joy and pride while describing how, on God knows I am not the previous day, 371 BOSS volunteers made meals for the conservative, nor homeless, landscaped a couple schools and took to the do I belong to an of streets to deter gang violence. evangelistic church. The video of these efforts created an uptempo holiness rarely felt at church services.

Sitting in the pew, I felt the congregation’s well-deserved sense of pride in these accomplishments.

Like hundreds of other Sacramento churches, BOSS is participating in the Season of Service. Twenty-thousand Sacramento-area residents from 473 churches volunteered in our community over the past six months, and the goal is to continue this Season of Service into the future.

In a moving and passionate sermon, the lead pastor, Would you like to volunteer or help out Sherwood Carthen, discussed the biblical story of a rich in Sacramento? man who asked Jesus what he could do to support his Go to www.serve work. Jesus told the man to give his possessions to the sacramento.com/ needs to see current poor. The rich man, deciding to stay a rich man, went Season of Service away disappointed. Carthen’s booming voice filled the projects. room as he told us that the man did not own his possessions, but rather his possessions owned him.

Not expecting his congregation to give up all their Full disclosure: Jeff vonKaenel is the possessions, Carthen urged his audience to become more president, CEO and Christ-like by generously participating in the Season of majority owner of Service. the News & Review While Season of Service has mainly been organized newspapers. On June by conservative, evangelical churches, I believe that they 7, SN&R published a paid advertising are sincere in wanting all of us to join them in the Season program for the of Service, regardless of religious affiliation or lack Sacramento Festival thereof. They have certainly made me feel welcome, and with Luis Palau, which featured Season God knows I am not conservative, nor do I belong to an of Service. evangelical church.

So, I say let’s join them. Whether inspired by Jesus, Karl Marx or Groucho Marx, you too can find some real happiness of your own while bringing happiness to others. Ω

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Eco despair The news, environmentally speaking, is generally just south of awful. Past bad to worse, moving into the cataclysms. As a result—an occupational hazard—environmental columnists are an unpopular lot, and not in some cool, geeky way. Nobody hangs out with them at parties, asks them out to coffee or to join their nudist colonies, or otherwise open their mouths and opine. It’s just too friggin’ depressing. Environmental columnists are better seen and not heard and, should they find themselves in a verbal way, would preferably talk about the Sacramento Kings’ draft picks or fantasize how Mitt Romney will drift back to the center should he win the election.

Nope, we columnists are a huge astral bummer, and there’s no end in sight.

The California Energy Commission granted millions to Sacramento’s Atlas Disposal, whose biorefinery converts organic waste into natural gas for its trucks.

Could a new grant help put Sacto’s green economy on the map?

The California Energy by Christopher Commission thinks so. Last week, it Arns awarded $23 million to firms working to develop renewable transportation fuels, such as biogas and hydrogen, as part of the state’s program to improve air quality and reduce carbon emissions.

More than $6 million went to Sacramento companies Clean World Partners and Atlas Disposal, who are expanding the Sacramento biorefinery at the city’s transfer and recycling station on Fruitridge Road. The biorefinery, which converts organic waste into natural gas for Atlas garbage trucks, will be expanded with a new biofuel storage facility and increased capacity for 100 tons of garbage per day.

The best part about the newly funded expansion, says Warren Smith, vice president for Clean World Partners, is that local government vehicles can also start filling up at the biorefinery once the project is finished. Atlas Disposal is currently the only company using Green Days is on the the natural gas produced from the lookout for innovative facility. sustainable projects “We happen to think there’s throughout the Sacramento region. great opportunity for biogas to be Turn us on at used as a transportation fuel,” said sactonewstips@ Smith. “This will open it up to other newsreview.com. people other than Atlas Disposal.”

It’s also been a big month for the local green economy.

Several other area firms also received grants from the commission last week, including Sacramento’s Tmdgroup, which received $2.2 million for biofuelmarketing programs, and a Davis-based research center for the U.S. Forestry Service. And two weeks ago, the commission gave $5 million to SacPort BioFuels in West Sacramento to build a biodiesel refinery.

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known as Assembly Bill 118. That legislation is supposed to pay for green transportation projects, including research on biofuels and renewable energy’s impact on air quality.

It’s also been an economic shot in the arm for Sacramento’s green technology firms. Without public funding, the biorefinery expansion would have been shelved for several years—but instead the commission’s award will create 80 temporary jobs and six long-term positions.

The California Energy Commission awarded $23 million to local firms working to develop renewable transportation fuels.

“I think we were going to do something before the award, but it was going to be very small and exclusive to Atlas,” said Dave Sikich, president of the disposal company.

The commission also awarded UC Davis researchers at the university’s Institute of Transportation Studies with $2.7 million to analyze how consumers use green fuels.

“Right now, we have a lot of learning to do about how people like these technologies and how they interact with them,” said professor Joan Ogden, head of the institute’s Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways program. “There are no pat answers for these questions, and that’s where [researchers] can really help.”

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Ogden said the institute’s findings will help companies and governments figure out which green technologies seem most feasible.

For instance, researchers will figure out if it’s possible to make better refueling stations for electric cars and how to reduce carbon emissions for the aviation industry.

“We want to see real cars and real vehicles on the road during this time,” said Carla Peterman, one of the energy commission’s five members, who awarded the new funding.

“We also want to see the money being leveraged for more private investment.”

The money isn’t exactly a handout, Peterman said. To qualify for the state’s program, companies have to finish their projects and turn in the receipts before receiving the award.

“If a project isn’t done, the money doesn’t get paid,” said the commissioner. “We try to work with the awardees to make the project succeed and if it doesn’t, that money can be awarded to somebody else.” Ω

scientists? Two UC Davis professors made national news for their participation in a study that suggests, according to a UCD release, that “humans may be forcing an irreversible, planetary-scale tipping point that could severely impact fisheries, agriculture, clean water and much of what Earth needs to sustain its inhabitants.” Reported in the June 7 issue of Nature, Dr. Alan Hastings and Dr. Geerat Vermeij joined 20 other authors in a grim consensus: “Localized ecological systems are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to another when they are forced across critical thresholds. [The study reviews] evidence that Do we have to the global ecosystem as a whole can react in spell it out? the same way and is approaching a planetaryscale critical transition as a result of human influence.”

What is to come has happened before—the Big Five mass extinctions, and the last glacial-interglacial transition 14,000 years ago. The difference in future shifts, of course, is the human impact: “[H]uman population growth with attendant resource consumption, habitat transformation and fragmentation, energy production and consumption, and climate change,” all of which “far exceed, in both rate and magnitude, the forcings evident at … the last glacial-interglacial transition.”

Huge Astral Bummer? Yeah.

“Many people who have written about our ecological future have expressed a level of optimism that I simply don’t share,” notes Vermeij. “[P]eople don’t like pessimism, and rightly so. But sometimes you have to say things the way they are.”

Read, digest, despair over the Nature article. Then pick yourself up off the ground and figure out what’s next. Come share on Ruthie’s Facebook page. It’s a start, and nothing more. Ω

ECO-HIT Superfun(d) tourism

In his new book, Visit Sunny Chernobyl, author Andrew Blackwell explores some of the world’s most environmentally devastated places. He embarks on a journey which he calls “pollution tourism,” visiting such places as Chernobyl, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and Brooklyn, New York’s, Gowanus Canal. Sacramento County itself has its own fair share of Superfund Sites—or “uncontrolled or abandoned place(s) where hazardous waste is located,” according to the Environmental Protection Agency. So if you’d like to do your own self-guided, local pollution tourism, you can check out a list of Sacramento County’s Superfund Sites at www.epa.gov/region9/superfund.

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No pass for Romney I was puzzled by the recent SN&R guest commentary Women who have had breast cancer in the past from Phillip Fujiyoshi with all of his criticisms will no longer be refused a health-insurance of President Barack Obama (“No pass for policy; millions of young Americans under age Obama,” June 7).

26 are now covered by their parents’ healthMr. Fujiyoshi failed to be transparent by not care plan; and Medicare recently reported that stating he is a Peace and Freedom Party voter 14.3 million American seniors have already with his own horse in the presidential race, received preventative health-care services someone who will get less than 1 percent of the under the Obama health-care-reform plan. vote. People who vote for candidates who will His administration worked to repeal “don’t never be in office usually have an ax to grind. ask, don’t tell”; supports marriage equality; But here are just a few things that and the Obama adminstration’s Department of by Mr. Fujiyoshi failed to mention about Justice is no longer opposing legal challenges Bob Mulholland President Obama: to the Defense of a Democratic Party His administration got After eight years of no Marriage Act—the campaign strategist our combat troops out of Republican House of and delegate to the increase in privateIraq, and combat troops Representatives is 2012 Democratic doing that.

National Convention are being brought out of sector jobs under the Afghanistan. He put on Obama has previous administration, reformed the U.S. Supreme Court student loans we’ve had an increase of two very qualified to save thousands of women (including the dollars for each stumore than 4.3 million first Hispanic justice), dent—and the first bill jobs so far. and ended the Bush Jr. that he signed was the recession; after eight Lilly Ledbetter Fair years of no increase in private-sector jobs under Pay Act of 2009, which gives women the right Have a comment? the previous administration, we’ve had an to take their employer to court if they disExpress your views increase of more than 4.3 million jobs so far. cover—even years later—that they were not in 350 words on He pressed for and signed a health-care law paid equally with men in the same job. Gov. a local topic of interest. that outlaws lifetime caps on Americans with Mitt Romney opposes that legislation.

Send an e-mail to many health problems (such as those While some people want to go to their editorial@ wounded—including myself—in wars who are grave saying they never voted for anyone who newsreview.com. refused coverage by insurance companies). was elected, Americans deserve better. Ω BEFORE

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Tipping points This week, the United Nations’ Rio+20 Conference gets underway. The sustainable-development conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, marks the 20th anniversary of the Earth Summit held in 1992. That first conference held huge significance for the future of the planet.

This one, not so much.

In 1992, heads of state from 100 governments across the globe came together and created two institutions (the U.N. Convention on Climate Change and the U.N. Convention on Biodiversity) that were meant to tackle global warming and the ongoing human destruction of the environment and natural world.

Sadly, the June 20-22, conference now underway, In the run-up to Rio+20 with both President Barack Obama and German Conference, a team of Chancellor Angela Merkel scientists—including two on the list of no-shows, will serve mainly to illusfrom UC Davis—reported trate how much hasn’t been that humans may be accomplished in either of forcing an “irreversible, these crucial realms.

Greenhouse-gas levels are planetary-scale still rising; species are still tipping point.” disappearing.

A few weeks ago, a team of 22 scientists—including two from UC Davis— reported in the journal Nature that humans may be forcing an “irreversible, planetary-scale tipping point” within a few generations that could wreak havoc on global water systems, agriculture and fisheries.

Yes, you’ve got that right. While scientists are using language about our future that sounds taken from a dystopian science-fiction novel, world leaders at real-world gatherings like in Rio seem incapable of taking action to avoid predicted ruination.

What comes next? We can only hope and work toward another kind of tipping point—one where the Nature study, and activism of citizens, finally serve to wake up governments and speed an accelerated global transition to replace fossil fuels, reduce world populations, and protect us from catastrophe. Ω

Reform … or else On June 5, voters in San Jose and San Diego weighed in on the issue of pension reform, overwhelmingly approving ballot measures that roll back benefits for current and future city workers. Democratic lawmakers here in Sacramento should take heed.

Nobody begrudges government employees’ reasonable pensions, and the average government worker’s retirement benefit is only about $25,000 annually. But it’s also clear that many local governments have indeed provided overly generous pensions. There are plenty of cases—in the local school district, city and country government—where certain workers walk away from jobs with royalty-class retirement pensions.

Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed a modest pensionreform package but has been unable to get it past Democrats in the Legislature. But it’s be better to move forward on moderate pension reform than risk a ballot measure that could be much worse. Right? Ω |

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FAR AWAY FROM SACRAMENTO, OUTSIDE A TINY TOWN CALLED HUGO IN THE ROGUE RIVER VALLEY NEAR GRANTS PASS, OREGON, LIVES AN OLD WEATHERMAN. LEON HUNSAKER IS HIS NAME.

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If you go to visit the weatherman and you ask how he’s doing, he’ll likely tell you, “Not too bad, considering the mileage on the frame.” Then he’ll insist that you refresh yourself with a glass of “this wonderful Hugo water,” drawn from his well.

The weatherman lives in Southern Oregon, but he has a story to tell about Sacramento. It’s a bit of a scary story.

He and his brother built this house in Hugo in the 1970s.

Inside, next to the stairs to the second floor, he keeps a little sign-in book titled Clouds and Quilts Tour.

In one of the upstairs rooms is a collection of beautiful quilts that the weatherman’s wife Margaret made. She was literally a champion quilter, and a “remarkable woman.”

She passed away two years ago, and Leon Hunsaker, now 89 years old, lives alone. Across the hall, another room has been turned into a sort of museum of Hunsaker’s long career in meteorology. It’s an atticlike space, the walls come together in an “A” shape at the top. All the way up, they are covered with weather maps, showing storm tracks on particular dates in history. There are framed newspaper articles, with accounts of historic floods or wildfires. There’s an old promotional photo of Leon during his TV weatherman days, drawing a weather map with a dark-colored marker.

The maps have started to take over other rooms in the house, too. Just a few weeks ago, Hunsaker had a giant map of California installed on a wall in his dining room. It’s laminated so he can draw on it with dry-erase markers. Tacked around the map are hand-drawn charts showing historic rainfall numbers

and the position of the jet stream as it hit California on certain dates long ago.

All of the charts and maps in this room are telling the story of the Great Flood of 1862, in the Sacramento Valley.

It happened some 150 years ago and 340 miles from Hunsaker’s house.

The flood was the biggest in California history. Actually, it was a series of floods. During December of 1861 and January of 1862, storm after storm pounded the state. Snow built up at unusually low elevations in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Then warm rain blowing in from the south melted all that snow and rivers swelled, and Sacramento’s undersized levees washed away.

California’s Central Valley became an “inland sea,” and by some estimates one-fourth of the real estate in California was destroyed. The state capital was temporarily moved to San Francisco. The streets of Sacramento were even raised to fight against future flooding.

It’s hard to imagine a more passionate student of the flood of 1862 than Leon Hunsaker. He’s thought about it for about 40 years and even written a book, called Lake Sacramento: Can It Happen Again?

If you’re familiar with TV show The Wire, you probably remember the detectives’ “murder board.” The board is where they tack pictures of the suspects, along with notes and scraps of evidence—all laid out on a giant board, which helps to visualize all the connections and crack the case.

His dining-room wall is his version of the murder board, and Hunsaker is doing a sort of forensic meteorology, trying to solve a mystery. Will a series of storms like the winter of 1861 hit Sacramento again? What happens if they do?

His conclusion: “When this hits again, and it will, it’s going to cost many times what Katrina did.”

THE BIG ONE Here in Sacramento, we’re all at least a little anxious about the big one. The idea is that when it comes, we’re all underwater like New Orleans, or worse.

A couple of years ago, scientists introduced the term “ARkStorm” to refer to a bibilical-style flood scenario that brings with it mass destruction, simultaneous flooding in Northern and Southern California, and billions of dollars of property damage.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the ARkStorm would likely wipe out one in four homes in the state. Sound familiar?

Call it “The Big One” or the ARkStorm, you’re pretty much talking about the same kind of scenario: California’s Great Flood of 1861 and 1862.

Every year there’s a big meeting for meteorologists and hydrologists and other scientists held at UC Davis, called the California Extreme Precipitation Symposium. The university is holding it again next week, and this year’s theme, naturally, is the 150-year anniversary Great Flood of 1862.

“We’ve never seen anything like it since,” says Marcia Eymann, Sacramento’s city historian and one of the folks scheduled to speak at the symposium. It’s sometimes called the “Noachian deluge” after the Noah of the Bible. And the storm and flooding actually extended not just throughout California but to Oregon and Nevada as well.

The city of Sacramento got 24 inches of rain in a three-week period. The average for Sacramento is 18 inches in a year. The storm affected troops fighting the Civil War as far away as Tennessee. Sacramento was underwater for three months. “The new governor—Leland Stanford—went to his inauguration in a rowboat,” Eymann noted. Then, the flooding got worse.

Eymann will make her presentation and meteorologists and hydrologists and other scientists at the event will talk about

what lessons the flood of 1862 hold for our efforts to manage flooding in the modern era.

They will also note, as Gary Estes, the symposium coordinator, does, “The world is very different today than it was in 1862.”

The river has been straightened in places. Much of the mining debris has been removed from the riverbeds. The streets of Sacramento have been raised, and the levees and dams have been built high. Today, the flood-control system is designed to handle something “50 percent bigger than any flood we’ve ever seen,” Estes explained.

THE CITY OF SACRAMENTO GOT 24 INCHES OF RAIN IN A THREE-WEEK PERIOD IN 1862.

THE AVERAGE IS 18 INCHES IN A YEAR. SACRAMENTO WAS UNDERWATER FOR THREE MONTHS. That’s based on estimates of river flows on the American River during January of 1862, gleaned from historic records and calculated by competent scientists from institutions like the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

So, we’re good, say the government scientists. The flood of 1862 can’t happen again.

No, we’re not good, says Hunsaker, because those estimates are wrong.

“Realistic flood boundaries have not been set. There are houses built where they should not have been,” he said.

How Hunsaker got to this troubling conclusion takes some explaining, and starts back before he was diagnosed with “double cancer.”

By most measures, Hunsaker has been a successful man with a lot to be proud of, down to the good Hugo water in his well. When he retired from broadcasting the weather, the papers called him a local legend.

He started his career in meteorology with a master’s degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was chief meteorologist for Pacific Gas and Electric Company, and for a time was president of the Northern California chapter of the American Meteorological Association.

While at PG&E, he successfully predicted the flood of 1964, which caused Yuba City to be evacuated. He was even the subject of a documentary on San Francisco station KPIX about the event called Head for the High Ground.

His TV career hit one of its high points at KPIX in the late 1960s. It was the No. 1-rated news show in the nation, and Hunsaker was the weatherman. Newspaper accounts credit him with helping to popularize the idea of the “jet stream,” an idea that was pretty cutting edge at the time.

In the 1950s and 1960s, meteorologists helped with PG&E’s “weather modification,” or cloud-seeding program.

The utility shot silver iodide into clouds over the Sierra at certain times in order to cause more rainfall and in turn generate more hydro-power from its series of electric dams.

PG&E still does cloud seeding. It’s controversial, and it was back then, too. After floods on the Feather River in 1955, citizen groups sued the state of California and PG&E, charging that cloud seeding had worsened the flooding.

As part of PG&E’s defense, Hunsaker was tasked with finding out everything he could about historical floods in the area.

He ferreted out watershed records and newspaper stories. “I spent two or three years digging, all over the Gold Country,” he said. Some of the most important data he turned up had to do with snow and how melting snowpack could suddenly release large amounts of water into streams and rivers.

ISN’T MENTO SACRA S K IN H IT THE D HE T HAT H NES T TH, AN A O M E H E IKE T NE TH RMS L AS D O KER H OF STO A S S N IE U R H SE L EO N THER R ANO E D FO R A P .

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“A S YOU CAN SEE, I’M NOT TOO FAR FROM GRASS. AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE T H I S I N F O R M AT I O N U S E D. ” LEON HUNSAKER, RETIRED METEOROLOGIST AND CO-AUTHOR OF LAKE SACRAMENTO: CAN IT HAPPEN AGAIN?

PG&E ultimately beat the lawsuit, and Hunsaker believes his research helped strengthen the case. For his hard work, Hunsaker got to keep all the research. He was sure he wanted to do something with it, perhaps a book. The floods of 1862 especially haunted him. “I hauled those boxes around for 40 years,” and he kept coming back to the question: What would happen if California experienced a similar sequence of storms?

LAKE SACRAMENTO In 2005, Hunsaker was diagnosed with cancer in his bladder and prostate. He had surgery to remove both, but the doctor told him he had only about three years to live.

Despite all that he had achieved, Hunsaker felt like some piece of his life’s work was not finished. He still had a story to tell about the remarkable floods of 1862.

His friend Claude Curran, a geography professor at Southern Oregon University came to visit him in the hospital.

“I must admit that I put on quite a show. It was a real pity party. I said, ‘Will you pleased help me, Claude?’”

Curran couldn’t say no, and so the two launched a project that they’ve been working on ever since.

By November of that year, they had compiled many of those historic records and newspaper clippings, along with their own analysis, into a 140-page book called, Lake Sacramento: Can It Happen Again?

The opening reads, “We are two old men with something to say and not much time to say it.”

One of the quotes they came across in their research was from a man named W.T. Ellis, who they describe as a “longtime levee boss in Marysville.” In 1920, Ellis said of the 1862 events, “This flood is not generally taken into account in flood planning simply because to have done so, the expense would of been prohibitive.”

Indeed, the men found it impossible to pin down an accurate estimate of river flows.

There was a 1941 estimate by an engineer named L.E. Bossen, who figured the peak flows on the American River near Fair Oaks (where the gauging station is today) was about 265,000 cubic feet per second during the 1862 flood.

By the time Hunsaker put his book together, matters had not advanced much beyond Bossen’s estimate, and it seemed obviously too low to him now.

After all, the January storms of 1997 had caused a peak flow of 295,000 cubic feet per second on the American. There was major flooding along the Klamath, Cosumnes and Feather rivers, and local flooding throughout Northern California. Some Sacramento neighborhoods were voluntarily evacuated, some downtown and Midtown streets were underwater for a while.

Communities like Wilton, Olivehurst and Modesto got it much worse as levees broke and homes were submerged. In all, there was about $2 billion in damage, and 46 counties were declared disaster areas.

“ H E ’ S A S P E C I A L G U Y. I H A V E A G R E AT D E A L O F R E S P E C T F O R LEON [HUNSAKER]. BUT HE’S A M E T E O R O L O G I S T, N O T A H Y D R O L O G I S T. ” GARY ESTES COORDINATOR FOR THE CALIFORNIA EXTREME PRECIPITATION SYMPOSIUM

The 1997 floods had just come on the heels of the 1986 floods of Rio Linda and north Sacramento, and in some places there was renewed interest in Sacramento’s historic floods. The California Department of Water Resources reviewed the literature and determined that the 1862 flood was probably similar to the 1997 storm, estimating peak flows on the American at around 295,000 cfs. He would later learn that the U.S. Geological Survey had come up with its own estimate of about 320,000 cfs.

There’s work going on now at Folsom Dam, including a small raise of the dam, construction of an auxiliary spillway and some levee work on the lower American River. According to the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency, that should allow for peak flows during a 200-year flood of up to about 450,000 cubic feet per second to flow into the Folsom Dam.

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On paper, that 450,000 cubic feet per second is 50 percent greater than the biggest flood on record—the Great Flood of 1862. But for several reasons Hunsaker thinks that’s not good enough.

In their monograph, “The Great California Flood of 1862,” Leonard and Robert Taylor note that the flood flows coming through the Sacramento River Delta overpowered the tide at the Golden Gate strait. “For a week ... there was a continuous and forceful ebb of brown fresh water 18-20 feet deep pouring out above the saltwater.”

Of course, that brown water also owed a lot to the hydraulic mining that for years had been clogging rivers and the San Francisco Bay with sludge, and had actually raised the bed of the Sacramento River by 7 feet.

Up and down the state there were other phenomena that haven’t been seen again in 150 years. Take the rainfall recorded

by Dr. Perez Snell, a Sonora dentist, whom Hunsaker calls “Tuolumne County’s pioneer scientist.” Snell measured 30 inches in 10 days at Sonora, a number that for a long time seemed to Hunsaker to be unbelievable.

“You had to wonder if he had been tapping his own medicine bag,” Hunsaker cracks. In fact, Snell’s numbers are dismissed by many scientists today.

Where the December and early January storms were cold, and produced snow at unusually low elevations, the lateJanuary storms were unusually warm and southerly.

Hunsaker notes there had been record flooding on the Santa Ana River that year, floods that haven’t been seen since. There was record rainfall in Arizona during that time, too.

Based on his research, Hunsaker was pretty convinced that people were underestimating just how much snow had fallen that year, how much had built up on the frozen layers of ice beneath, and how much runoff was created when that snow and ice was socked by the warm rains that followed.

‘WHAT IF’ SCENARIOS By 2010, Hunsaker and his friend Curran were certain that the flows at the American River, at the Fair Oaks gauging station had been at least 365,000 cfs—much bigger than anyone had estimated before.

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They hadn’t had much luck getting anyone to listen to then up until that point, but Hunsaker decided to attend the California Extreme Precipitation Symposium at UC Davis in June 2010. The theme that year was the ARkStorm.

This was just after Hunsaker’s wife died. Symposium coordinator Gary Estes wouldn’t put Hunsaker on the regular program. After all, despite Hunsaker’s long experience, he is essentially an amateur in this field. Avid and extremely wellread, but not a professional hydrologist.

Still, Estes relented and said Hunsaker could give a 15-minute talk at the end of the day, if anybody wanted to stick around.

Estes later told SN&R that he thought it was good the man had something to occupy his mind “and not be lost in his grief.”

The presentation was recorded, and the audio is posted on the symposium’s website. On the audio, Hunsaker jokes about how one of his hearing aids went out when he hit the California border. Estes helps him by showing Hunsaker’s slides on projector controlled by his laptop. The old overhead projector Hunsaker asked for had been retired a year before.

But Hunsaker knew exactly what he wanted to say, and he made quick work of it. He talked about Snell. He talked about the frozen ground, and the heavy snowfall on top of it. He asked for help, for someone to take a close look and test out the theory he and Curran had put forth.

“As you can see, I’m not too far from grass. And I would like to see this information used. If you want to come and spend the day in Southern Oregon and look at the material, all are welcome. I might even give you a glass of ice water from Hugo, and it’s great.”

In fact, he got a warm reception from the people still in attendance at the symposium, whether out of respect for Hunsaker’s theory, or just his years and experience.

There were some supportive comments, too, during the question-and-answer period. In particular, Robert Collins, then chief hydrologist for the Army Corps of Engineers, where he spent 40 years, agreed with Hunsaker that the heavy snowfall in the winter of 1861-62 had been overlooked in some estimates.

Collins says he thinks the average flows on the American River that year may have been underestimated by about 30 percent.

Hunsaker never talked to Collins again, but the comment made a huge impression.

In his dining room, Hunsaker keeps a 3-foot-long rectangular chart that he’s adapted from a graph produced by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The vertical axis on the graph shows the average flows on the American River, at Fair Oaks, during heaviest three days of rain, every season, going back to 1905. The horizontal axis shows the peak flow during those storms. Every storm is represented by a point on the graph, and nearly every storm falls neatly into a line, including, the big flood years of 1955, 1964, 1986 and 1997. If you know what the average flows are, you can predict the peak flows and vice versa.

The flood of 1862 is not shown on the graph, because those measurements weren’t taken back then.

Hunsaker and Curran had the graph modified—and then printed onto a large board and laminated—by adding in data from 1862. They even paid a mathematician to do the calculation for them.

Take the three-day flood flows on the American River during the 1997 storm, then add 30 percent, per Collins, then plug that number in the Army Corps’ big graph, voilà, you get a peak flow of 414,000 cubic feet per second—far above what anyone else has estimated.

And that’s pretty conservative, said Hunsaker, when you take into account things like the Snell rainfall numbers. All told, he thinks there was a pulse of more than 500,000 cubic feet per second going down the American at its most terrible stage.

THE FLOODS OF 1862 HAUNT HUNSAKER. HE KEEPS COMING BACK TO T H E Q U E ST I O N : W H AT W O U L D HAPPEN IF CALIFORNIA EXPERIENCED A SIMIL AR SEQUENCE OF STORMS AGAIN? Sitting there in Hunsaker’s dining room in Hugo, it’s not always easy for a nonscientist to follow the trail of the meterologist’s evidence. By cramming his arguments into a few explanatory paragraphs, the author is probably doing the weatherman a disservice. Perhaps the best that can be done is point the reader to the source. Hunsaker’s book, the audio of his presentation and a couple of his key papers are all on the symposium website (the presentation is at http://cepsym.info/Sympro2010, and the book is at http://cepsym.info/history).

The upshot is it would be very bad for Sacramento if he’s right. Folsom Dam and the existing system are just not built to handle that much water.

WE JUST WANT TO BE HEARD Luckily, Hunsaker is not right, said Gary Estes. “He’s a special guy. I have a great deal of respect for Leon,” Estes said. “But he’s a meteorologist, not a hydrologist.”

For one, the Snell numbers really are complete “outliers” and can’t be taken seriously, he said. And even Robert Collins, the guy who agreed with Hunsaker that the snow fall in January 1862 had been underestimated, came up with his own estimate of the peak flow on the American that year of a little more

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But more than 400,000? “I have a tough time believing that,” Collins said. “The American River produced a lot of floodwater. But that’s an awfully high value.”

Then there are the swamp commissioners.

At the symposium this year, some long-lost records from the Sacramento County Swamp and Overflowed Lands commission are going to be revealed that Estes said will shed new light on the American River flood flows in 1862. “Here’s an actual estimate by people who were on the ground.”

At first, Estes was reluctant to reveal what the documents say ahead of the symposium. “I kind of don’t want to give away the punch line.”

But ultimately, Estes allows that the round number is about 320,000 cfs—just a bit higher than the 300,000 estimates that have been going around.

Asked why he thinks it’s important that this document is being revealed, Estes said, “Because it’s been the big bad flood of 1862. Leon is saying we’re going to have it again, and Sacramento is going to flood.”

“Well, we’ve already had another 1862: It happened in 1997,” Estes added. And we’re all still here.

Hunsaker isn’t at all convinced by this. For one, he doesn’t think much of the swamp commissioners’ ability to measure flood flow 150 years ago. He likens the argument to “a murder investigation, where the eyewitness accounts and the DNA evidence tell different stories.”

“Our argument is based on the DNA,” he added.

Even if Hunsaker is wrong, it seems his needling, and his persistence is shaking some things loose, getting us a little closer to understanding what happened in this terrible series of storms. And there’s the fact that the Estes has posted Hunsaker’s book and other papers on the symposium’s website for other scientists to see.

Hunsaker says he won’t travel to the Davis symposium this year. Estes wouldn’t put him on the agenda this time either and the travel is too difficult, he said. You can tell he doesn’t like the way it sounds, even as he says it: “Here they are having a conference on the 150-year anniversary of this flood, and they don’t want to hear from us.” It’s about the only time he sounded a little bit bitter, during this reporter’s visit to Hugo.

All this is no mere intellectual exercise for Hunsaker, or hobby to keep himself busy. He believes the difference between his estimates and those of the Army Corps is literally a life and death difference—between a relatively safe Sacramento, and one that is certain to be underwater again at some point.

“At least our conscience will be clear,” Hunsaker said. “We just want to be heard. We want to be on the record.” Ω

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The notorious V.A.G. Last weekend, while on a camping trip, my friend and I, bonding over our love of the open road, found ourselves brainstorming an ingenious business model: A trucking company hauling lady products to lady customers: Tampons, delicate pink plastic razors, pretty-smelling

by RACHEL LEIBROCK soaps and shampoos.

“Our motto will be ‘Got a vagina? We’ll find ya!’” my friend exclaimed with excitement.

A genius slogan, but if some lawmakers had their druthers, one that’s also a crime.

Indeed, a hoo-ha over the technical, medically correct word for hoo-ha erupted last week after a Michigan state representative was barred from the state House floor for uttering the V-word.

State House Republicans silenced Rep. Lisa Brown after she spoke out June 13 against a bill that aimed to, among other things, criminalize any abortion carried out after 20 weeks gestation.

“I’m flattered you’re all so concerned about my vagina,” Brown told her fellow representatives in explanation of her opposition to the bill. “But ‘no’ means ‘no.’”

Brown’s use of that choice word was an affront to several of her colleagues’ delicate sensibilities.

“What she said was offensive,” said Rep. Mike Callton. “It was so offensive, I don’t even want to say it in front of women. I would not say that in mixed company.”

Majority floor leader Jim Stamas agreed and, citing concern with “the decorum of the House,” banned Brown for one day from speaking on the floor.

Seriously? Shut down for saying vagina—a word that’s inarguably an integral part of a bill designed to regulate, at least indirectly, vaginas? A bill that, for the record, features the word vagina three times? My stars, why don’t they just pin a scarlet “V” to her little lady jacket while they’re at it?

(Meanwhile, Brown’s colleague, Rep. Barb Byrum was also given a one-day verbal time-out after she tried to, as part of her own protest against the abortion bill, attach to it an amendment regulating vasectomies. The horror.)

I’ll be the first to admit that, at least socially, the word vagina is somewhat awkward. And, certainly, it inspires equally awkward verbal replacements—vajayjay, anyone? But any social embarrassment over the word is the result of an overarching institutional and cultural squeamishness when it comes to discussing body parts and their bodily functions (see also: tampons, menstruation, labia and vulva. OK, maybe vulva really is an odd little word, but still.)

Vagina isn’t a swear word, it’s not vulgar, and, frankly, it’s much more embarrassing that so many adults still allow themselves to be inflicted with such an adolescent case of the heebie-jeebies when it’s uttered in their presence.

True story: I was once assigned by a newspaper (not this newspaper, duh) to write an article about The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler’s series of soliloquies on all things notorious V.A.G. Along with the assignment, my editor handed down one adamant piece of instruction: Use the actual word vagina as little as possible.

True story update: Six times turned out to be five times too many.

(Update to the update: So far this column contains nine uses of the word.)

On Monday, Ensler staged a performance of her play on the steps of Michigan’s state Capitol in Lansing. Several female legislators, including Brown and Byrum, joined Ensler in the readings. During the event, the word vagina was uttered many, many times in front of thousands of supporters and, as it turns out, grown men did not actually die from shock or embarrassment.

Vagina. Vagina. Vagina.

Grow up and get over it. Ω

My editor handed down one adamant piece of instruction: Use the actual word vagina as little as possible.

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Kombucha tea cultivates a strong Sacramento following—and debate over its healthfulness and safety

he jury’s still out on kombucha tea; it’s either the drink of the gods or a juicy mold bacteria that will kill the world, one yoga enthusiast at a time. Those who swear by the oddtasting liquid are almost fanatical in their dedication to the beverage, which is, depending on whom you ask, at best healthy and delicious, and at worst going to kill you.

Kombucha, for the uninitiated, is a delightful little tea said to have originated in China centuries ago.

It’s made by leaving a fungus of yeast and bacteria to ferment in sugary tea at room temperature for one to two weeks. The result is a bold, carbonated, vinegary beverage that for many is an acquired taste.

And while there aren’t enough medical studies to know for certain what the long-term effects of drinking kombucha might be, one thing is certain: Many are obsessed with this strange drink.

THE CULT OF KOMBUCHA Kombucha lovers are fanatical, like Jehovah’s Witnesses—one gulp away from knocking on your door in the morning and preaching the good word.

Take, for instance, Zachary Nelson, an artist and musician who gets a glint in his eye when the subject comes up in casual conversation.

Nelson loves kombucha so much that he and a friend, Bobby Mull, decided to turn their home-brewing hobby into a business, named Borrelend (Dutch for “bubbling”), currently still in the testing phase. Using Mull’s kitchen as a laboratory, the two are working to perfect different recipes—with varying results. For example, the hops flavor was a hit for the partners (“Skunky, bright and refreshing,” says Nelson), while the tomato-garlic turned out to be a putrid mess. Part of

Here, taste this!

Bobby Mull (left) and Zachary Nelson want to turn their kombucha homebrewing hobby into a real, bubbly business.

the fun of brewing kombucha, it seems, is the trial and error.

Whatever the outcome, the purpose remains the same.

“I think there’s a reason people drink it,” Nelson says. “When I drink it, I feel great.”

Mull agrees.

“It is probiotic, and it’s antiseptic,” he says. “But I don’t think there’s been enough research on it.”

To be sure, the drink’s health benefits are, so far, at least, largely anecdotal. Kombucha has been said to, among other things, clean the liver, increase blood flow, repair the digestive tract and increase serotonin levels.

But until there’s science behind such claims, they should be treated as bogus, says Sarah Baracco, a dietitian with Kaiser Permanente in Roseville.

“It’s not necessarily something that’s true or proven,” she says, adding that the whole method of kombucha brewing—fermenting tea—is sketchy at best when it comes to health considerations.

“If you’re not careful, the exposed crock pots and live cultures are a recipe for sickness,” Baracco says.

“There’s lots of potential risk with those types of things—food-borne

illness and cross contamination and all of that stuff.”

And, if it’s probiotics you’re after, Baracco says, there are other foods such as yogurt, sauerkraut, kefir and pickles that contain “good bacteria” that aids the digestion process.

But we live in America, where the dietitian’s voice goes largely ignored.

Despite warnings from the medical community, kombucha is steadily creeping toward the mainstream.

In Sacramento, it’s available at stores such as Nugget Market, Whole Foods Market and the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, as well as in various restaurants. Local brewer Zachary Pasillas, for example, distributes his Zack’s Kombucha drink to The Green Boheme, Midtown Village Cafe and The Plum Cafe.

And don’t tell Baracco, but pretty soon, the world’s first kombucha truck will cruise Sacramento streets dispensing the beverage. The truck, Kombucha Kulture, is the brainchild of Joey Melrose and Brianne Giatras, a Sacramento couple who have spent most of their free time modifying an antique 1950s trailer they hope to have rolling through Sacramento by mid-July. The plan: drive their ride around to health festivals, weddings, special events and food-truck meet

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ups to dispense kombucha on tap from well-known companies such as Revive, Kombucha Botanica, House Kombucha, Clearly Kombucha and Zack’s Kombucha.

“We’re trying to keep everything as local as possible,” Melrose says.

Melrose, who works in the construction business, is a full-fledged kombucha fiend who says he came across the brew while researching ways to quit drinking alcohol and quickly fell in love with its claimed probiotic benefits. He then introduced it to Giatras. The two were so fascinated by the product, touting its health benefits, that they decided to become a part of the kombucha community.

To start, Melrose and Giatras ran a little test in Sacramento to feel out

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between his fingers, looks at it questioningly and chomps down.

The verdict?

“I don’t like it,” he says, squinting his eyes, chewing loudly as he makes a funny face that conveys either complete disgust or unbridled love.

“It’s like sour-vinegar spaghetti … slash sashimi,” he says.

photos the market, setting up a tasting station on a Midtown corner during Second Saturday.

The reaction from passersby surprised the couple.

“They loved it,” Giatras says. “I thought we were going to be fighting for people to come see us, but we had people coming back … and back.”

A QUESTION OF TASTE Perhaps once Nelson and Mull have finessed their recipes, their Borrelend brew will spew freely from the Kombucha Kulture draft.

Until then, however, Mull’s house continues to double as a testing ground where crocks covered by cloth take up space in the vinegary-smelling kitchen. Dark-brown bottles with their contents scrawled on tape compete with food for space in the refrigerator.

In his living room, Mull pours a couple ounces of a mandarin-and-pu-erh-tea blend into a small glass; the drink is strong—fizzy and vinegary with a bold orange flavor.

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Explosions in the kiln?

Some day soon, Brianne Giatras (left) and Joey Melrose’s retrofitted 1950s trailer will bring the kombucha to you.

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others make you burp instantaneously. Some taste strongly of alcohol—of which kombucha contains trace amounts because of the way it ferments. When kombucha is bottled, the fermentation process continues, making it difficult to gauge exactly how much alcohol and carbonation have been produced—hurdles that can sometimes make it difficult to sell the product commercially.

As the night wears on, Nelson talks about his unusual love for kombucha that reaches even beyond the bottle; he began using every part of the waste, making sculptures with the dried up, leathery leftovers (“biofilm”), which he crafts into gigantic zombielike animals and apocalyptic landscapes as if they were hunks of clay.

Nelson talks a good game, but then someone urges him to prove his dedication by taking a bite of the gelatinous “mother” blob floating on top of the kombucha liquid. With little prodding, he tears off a hunk of the Frisbee-shaped substance, which flops around like a jellyfish in |

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Kombucha lovers are fanatical, like Jehovah’s Witnesses, one gulp away from knocking on your door in the morning and preaching the good word.

So while the jury’s out, you might as well try a bottle and see what you think.

The tastes are as varied: Revive tastes like light beer with a bit of vanilla; GT’s Raspberry Chia is sour and thick with slimy little seeds, while the Rejuvenation Company’s Original tastes like slightly spoiled apple juice.

Here’s a hint: The initial sip is always weird, like the first time you try beer—a bit jolting and unpleasant—but before you know it, you might be buying in bulk, doing keg stands and running wild in the streets, singing the praise of this strange, strange brew. Ω For more information on Zachary Nelson’s kombucha art, visit www.zacnelson.com. For more information on the Kombucha Kulture truck visit http://kombuchakulture.com.

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First a sign appeared in a church parking lot at 19th and X streets that depicted a sassy old guy in a fleece pullover who apparently had the name Luis Palau. The sign offered no details about the man, just the vague phrase “Sacramento Festival” and the dates of its occurrence.

Then billboards featuring the same image as well as yard signs that blanketed the lawns of the city— sometimes against the homeowner’s wishes.

Then another mysterious billboard appeared on the Yolo Causeway, this one featuring a motocross dude flying through the air.

Wait, what was this thing supposed to be again?

Eventually, I learn it’s some kind of religious revival.

Intrigued, I decided to attend. Besides, it’s free.

I arrive at Cal Expo on Saturday afternoon; the sun is already beating down as I head toward a crowd clustered around a fenced-in arena. There, an extremely handsome skater is pacing atop a skate ramp, testifying to the power of Jesus.

The skater, part of the King of Kings Skateboard Ministry, shares his personal journey, and then calls out for those in need of help to come up and pray with him. A couple of hundred people file up to the stage—including quite a few little skate rats who probably just want to be in closer proximity to a pro.

Confused about the connection between skating and Christ, I venture over to a small white tent bearing a “SkateChurch” sign and inquire within. Here, a nice lady explains that “skaters are a marginalized group, they get kicked out everywhere. … Jesus reached out to the marginalized. … It’s skaters reaching out to other skaters.”

Elsewhere, no one in the crowd seems to have heard Palau preach before, but when I ask one attendee why the evangelical leader brought his festival here, he offers a theory.

“There’s been a lot of speculation about that.

Sacramento is the intersection of two trails from the frontier days,” the man says. “It was the head of the spirit that pulled people west. There was also that meteor recently; people had visions, and some think that Luis Palau was that meteor.”

Later, a buoyant announcer for a motocross event calls for music and a mash up featuring Willow Smith’s song “Whip My Hair” starts to pump out of the speakers, underscored by the sound of engines revving. I watch for a while as rider after rider executes insane flips and twists, some trailing their bikes high in the air only to grab the seat and remount at the last second. The words, “Jesus Christ!” issue from my lips, although probably not in the proper spirit.

By this point, I’m succumbing to the heat. A woman urges me to stick around for the main event and even offers to loan me her umbrella, but I fear I’m going to end up in one of the many ambulances scattered around the field if I don’t get back into air conditioning. As I walk back to my car, I hear the crowd ooh and ahh at the riders, and the announcer exclaims, “It’s getting gnarly out here!”

Gnarly for Christ.

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NIGHT&DAY 21THURS DON’T MISS! NASCAR HAULER PARADE:

Race fans will enjoy a parade of up to 50 NASCAR haulers through the streets under a full police escort. The route is as follows: Cross Tower Bridge and drive up Capitol Mall.

Right turn on Ninth Street.

Left turn on N Street. Left turn on 16th Street. Left turn on L Street. Haulers will then be directed to the freeway and head to Infineon Raceway, where they will be parked in the garage for the race weekend. Th, 6/21, 2:30pm. Free.

Tower Bridge, Capitol Mall and Front St.; (916) 448-2440.

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Special Events DRONE WARFARE: KILLING BY REMOTE CONTROL: Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange, will discuss the growing menace of robotic warfare that has been used to murder hundreds of civilians in the Middle East and is now coming to U.S. police departments. Th, 6/21, 7pm.

Suggested donation $5-$15.

Sierra Arden United Church of Christ, 890 Morse Ave.; (916) 448-7157; www.uccwebsites.net.

Art Galleries GALLERY 2110: Art with a Heart, Enjoy a fun-filled night of art, music, entertainment and refreshments. Proceeds benefit My Sister’s House 5001 Nights shelter project, which helps provide 5001 nights of transitional housing for victims of domestic violence. Th, 6/21, 5:30-8:30pm. $30. 2110 K St.; (916) 476-5500; http://gallery2110.com.

Kids’ Stuff VENTRILOQUIST STEVE CHANEY: Chaney demonstrates his ventriloquism skills using various puppets including a duck who talks about his big dreams.

Audience volunteers join the fun when they become the puppets. Th, 6/21, 3:30pm. Free.

Sylvan Oaks Library, 6700 Auburn Blvd. in Citrus Heights; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

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Concerts GRACE FAE ALBUM RELEASE: Grace Fae releases her original jazz and folk-inspired debut album From the Apple. Local singersongwriter Aedryan Gantt opens. Fae plays guitar and sings with the Faetones, her eight-piece jam band, and classic Western swing band Cousin Cricket closes. There will also be CDs, handmade jewelry and crafts for sale, and free apples.

Th, 6/21, 8pm. $15. Miners Foundry, 325 Spring St. in Nevada City; (530) 913-0604; www.nevadacityboxoffice.org.

TWILIGHT THURSDAYS: Enjoy warm summer nights at the Sacramento Zoo with extended hours on Twilight Thursdays.

Dinner specials, live music, car show and activities start at 5pm. Visit the zoo’s website for each evening’s theme. Th, 5-8pm through 7/26. Free with

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DON’T MISS! SQUAW VALLEY BENEFIT POETRY READING: Come hear

celebrated poets Kazim Ali, Robert Hass, Sharon Olds, Claudia Rankine and C.D. Wright read for an evening in the Setzer Auditorium of the Crocker Art Museum.

To purchase tickets, visit www.squawvalleywriters. org. Tickets not available at the door. F, 6/22, 7-9pm. $15$20. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.; (877) 537-8073; www.squawvalleywriters. org/readings.html.

Special Events CARVALHO FAMILY WINERY PRESENTS: A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be perfomed on Old Sugar Mill’s outdoor crush pad.

Come grab a glass of wine, and food by Jackson Catering will be available for purchase. F, 6/22, 6pm. Call for pricing. Old Sugar Mill, 35265 Willow Ave. in Clarksburg; (916) 514-2270; www.carvalhofamilywinery.com.

REDROVER’S BEST FRIEND FRIDAYS: Join RedRover for Best Friend Fridays. Admission includes a free drink, hors d’oeuvres and the opportunity to purchase raffle tickets for prizes. All raffle proceeds will help RedRover bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through its programs. F, 6/22, 5:30-7:30pm. $5. Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St.; (916) 429-2457; www.redrover.org.

RTAA SHOW CHOIR CONCERT: Join for a night of singing and live entertainment by the Roseville Theater Arts Academy Show Choir. It will include selections from Les Miserables, Chicago and Ragtime . There will be a dessert and champagne reception after the concert. F, 6/22, 7pm. Free. Roseville Theatre, 241 Vernon St. in Roseville; (916) 772-2777; http://roseville theaterartsacademy.com.

Film FREE MOVIE NIGHT: It’s a summer blast from the past at Free Movie Night at Village Green Park. Featured flick, The Sandlot, begins at 8:45pm. Bring a blanket, lawn chairs and the entire family. Come hungry: Food trucks will be there. F, 6/22, 8:45pm. Free. Village Green Park, 3141 Bridgeway Dr. in Rancho Cordova; (916) 273-5704; www.cordovacouncil.org.

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW: Yell some call-back lines and throw some props, as Amber’s Sweets presents a RHPS experience on a wide screen with a live shadow cast, Barely Legal.

Costumes strongly encouraged.

Doors open at 9 p.m. Witness history as Rocky returns to a Sacramento screen and stage after an 11 year hiatus. F, 6/22, 10pm. $15. Colonial Theatre, 3522 Stockton Blvd.; (916) 869-8954; www.sachorrorfilmfest.com.

SCREENING: THE COCKETTES: Experience the outrageous tale of San Francisco’s most fabulous

acid-drag theater troupe.

Documentary featuring original members and fans such as John Waters. F, 6/22, 8pm. Free.

Lavender Library, 1414 21st St.; (916) 492-0558.

Now Playing SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS: From Jose Rivera, School of the Americas chronicles the last days of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, book-ending the life of the 20th Century’s most iconic revolutionary. A live band opens each night, on half an hour prior to play start. F, 6/22, 8-10pm. $15$20. The Grange Performing Arts Center, 3823 V St.; (916) 281-5129; www.facebook.com/ EnkiduTheatreCompany.

INDIGO GIRLS WITH FULL BAND: Catch the Grammy-winning duo, whose constant touring, as well as staunch dedication to a number of social and environmental causes, has earned them a devoted following over the years. The Shadowboxers open. F, 6/22, 8pm. $35-$40.

Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 255 South Auburn St. in Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384; www.thecenterforthearts.org.

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DON’T MISS! BITCHIN BAKE SALE: The BBS

bakers are whipping up delicious vegan treats to satisfy your sweet tooth and raise money for BBS packaging, promotional materials and future events. Pick up a few sweets, buy some vinyl, and help Bitchin’ Bake Sale raise money for local charities. Sa, 6/23, 1pm. Free.

Phono Select; 2312 K St.; (916) 400-3164; www.facebook.com/SacBBS.

DON’T MISS! GRAND OPENING OF LA RAZA:

The all-ages daytime fete will honor powerful bookends in the Latino community: Manuel Pickett, director of Teatro Esepejo, and Estella Sanchez, Director of Sol Collective. The Grand Opening includes a silent auction, art and craft vendors, ballet folklórico and live music. Sa, 6/23, 11am-8pm. $8. La Raza Galería Posada, 2700 Front St.; (916) 446-5133; www.larazagaleriaposada.org.

Special Events CASINO ROYALE CHARITY FUNDRAISER: The Sandles Foundation Charity’s Casino Royale Night blends food, music, glamour and gambling to raise awareness for the fight against prostate and breast cancer. Sa, 6/23, 7pm-midnight. $25. Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H St.; (707) 628-9444; www.sandlesfoundation.com.

FIESTA EN LA CALLE CONCERT SERIES: Literally translating to “party in the street,” this festival celebrates Latino and world music. Now in its second season, the festival was created to provide a family-friendly outlet for Latino music, culture and food.

Sa, 4-9pm through 8/11. Free.

Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I St.; (916) 541-6302; www.fiestaenlacalle.com.

KING OF FEASTS: Enjoy this unique gourmet food and wine luau featuring live entertainment, Polynesian dancers, local celebrities and a silent auction.

Enjoy foods from dozens of the finest Sacramento area restaurants and bakeries.

Sample premium California wines, beers and spirits in the setting of the Sacramento Zoo. This is an adults-only event. Sa, 6/23, 6-9pm. $45-$60.

Sacramento Zoo, 3930 West Land Park Dr.; (916) 808-5888; www.saczoo.org.

RUMMAGE SALE: The Elk Grove Police Activities League Booster Club is hosting a summer rummage sale. Spaces are available for $40, and vendors must provide their own tables, chairs, shopping bags and change. A dumpster will be provided to dispose any garbage and two donation trucks will be available to donate any unsold items. Sa, 6/23, 7am-3pm. Free. Cosumnes Community Services District, 8820 Elk Grove Blvd. in Elk Grove; (916) 714-9834; www.elkgrovepal.org.

WOMEN TRAVELING SOLO WORKSHOP: Visit the Sacramento Hostel for a free travel education workshop specifically designed for women traveling solo.Women Traveling Solo is a workshop for women of all ages who are planning to travel by themselves for the first time, or who are looking for smart tips on how to add more value and independence to their solo travel adventures. Sa, 6/23, 1-2:30pm.

Free. Sacramento Hostel, 925 H St.; (916) 443-1691; http://norcalhostels.org/sac.

Classes TIPS FOR HEALTHY EATING ON THE GO: The Sacramento Public Library has invited Brenna Gorman, a registered dietitian, to discuss ways to make smart food choices while still enjoying the fun of a busy summer. This workshop will cover restaurant and snacking tips, as well as healthy eating while on vacation. Sa, 6/23, 2pm. Free. Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 S.Land Park Dr.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Film REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA: Rocky Horror Picture Show melds with Blade Runner to deliver a cinematic, theatrics and interactive displays of music, blood and skin.

Witness the genetic nightmare! A special blood spray zone will quench your thirst for gore. Sa, 6/23, 8pm. $15 general, or $25 for blood spray seating. Colonial Theatre, 3522 Stockton Blvd.; (916) 869-8954; www.sachorrorfilmfest.com.

Kids’ Stuff POPS IN THE PARK SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Steve Cohn and the Pops in the Park Committee present the annual Pops in the Park summer concert series, with this week’s show featuring Ivan Najera and Friends. Food and beverages will be for sale, and all proceeds go to neighborhood and park improvements. Sa, 6/23, 6-9pm. Free. Bertha Henschel Park, 160 45th St.;

(916) 808-5240; www.eastsac popsinthepark.com.

Sports & Recreation BATTLE FOR THE GOLDEN STATE: The Sac City Rollers will battle it out on the track against So Cal Roller Derby. This event features a pre-game exhibition by the Bad Apples Junior Roller Derby team. All raffle proceeds will go to The Sacramento Children’s Home. Sa, 6/23, 6:30-10pm. $6-$30. The Rink, 2900 Bradshaw Rd.; (916) 363-2643; www.saccityrollers.com.

GUIDED PHOTO WALK: Join a guided photo walk at the Cosumnes River Preserve. 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, 6/23, 9am-noon.

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

Concerts THE MACHINE PERFORMS PINK FLOYD: Music in the Mountains and The Center for the Arts presentThe Machine performs Pink Floyd featuring The MIM Festival Orchestra and the Interstellar Light Show. Sa, 6/23, 8-11pm. $15-$65. Nevada County Fairgrounds, 11228 McCourtney Rd. in Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384; www.thecenterforthearts.org.

Hennessy Christophel and experience the delight of the sun as it casts shadows from the top of Same Sun. Su, 6/24, 10am-1pm.

Free. 44085 County Rd. 32A in Davis; (916) 442-7467.

Classes HIP-HOP DANCE AUDITIONS/CLASS: Hijinx Dance Company is an upand-coming urban dance crew looking for dancers to join. Even if you don’t want to audition, you can take it as an everyday dance class. Bring a headshot, dress comfortably, and come ready to dance and have fun. Su, 6/24, 59pm. $5. 916 Dance Studio, 8465 Elk Grove Florin Rd., Ste. 160 in Elk Grove; (916) 470-7422.

Kids’ Stuff THE SCIENCE WIZARD: Make science fun and exciting for your kids.

Don’t miss the hands-on science experiments at this event. The engaging Science Wizard is sure to inspire curiosity and spark young imaginations. Su, 6/24, 10-11am. $30. Arden Hills Resort Club & Spa, 1220 Arden Hills Ln.; (916) 213-4373; www.ardenhills.net.

Concerts LIFE AFTER EIGHT CONCERT: This concert benefits Courage House and features the Reel along with Fate Under Fire and Josiah James. There will be testimonial

by Courage to be You founder Jenny Williamson. Su, 6/24, 7pm. $10-$12. Bridgeway Christian Church, 3735 Placer Corporate Dr. in Rockliin; (916) 425-3529; www.lifeaftereight.com.

24SUN 25MON DON’T MISS! DRUM & BUGLE CORPS SHOW:

The Moonlight Classic is the oldest continuous Drum and Bugle Corp show in the Western United States. Drum and Bugle Corps from around the United States will be competing in this fundraising event, sanctioned by Drum Corps International. Competing corps can include up to 150 youths, ages 8-21, comprised of marching percussion and brass, front ensemble and color guard. Su, 6/24, 6-10pm. $20. Hornet Stadium, 6000 J St. on the Saramento State campus; (916) 278-6011.

Special Events BRIDAL OPEN HOUSE: With early summer heating up all around us, wedding planning is in high gear, too. Arden Hills Resort Club & Spa invites brides, couples and event planners to a bridal open houseù, where they will enjoy appetizers and refreshments while touring the site. Su, 6/24, 10am-1pm. Free. Arden Hills Resort Club & Spa, 1220 Arden Hills Ln.; (916) 482-6111; www.ardenhills.net.

Art Galleries SAME SUN (EAST AREA WATER TANK): Celebrate this Summer Solstice with art: Summer Solstice Sunday will be an opportunity to explore Davis’ public art landmark, Same Sun, at the East Area Water Tank.

Participate in a guided tour led by the artists Sofia Lacin and

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GROUP VOICE LESSONS: Instructor Pavel Kravchuck will teach this class for beginning to intermediate vocalists looking to explore theory, sight singing, placement and technique. Class will benefit all singers who want to learn to optimize their talent. M, 6-7 & 7-8pm through 6/25. $65. Roseville Theatre, 241 Vernon St. in Roseville; (916) 772-2777; http://roseville theaterartsacademy.com.

SUMMER NATURE DAY CAMP: NATURE STORIES: Give your child the opportunity to experience, discover and explore the great outdoors. These week-long day camp sessions focus on different nature-related themes with hands-on science investigations, art, song, hiking and more. M, 6/25, 1-3pm. $75-$85.

Placer Nature Center, 3700 Christian Valley Rd. in Auburn; (530) 878-6053, ext. 608; http://placernaturecenter.org.

Museums C.N. GORMAN MUSEUM: Visualizing History, Then and Now, this exhibit brings together recent acquisitions that reflect and respond to Native American experiences by visualizing social and political histories. Included is an educational series of illustrations by Andrew Tsinajinnie (Navajo) and others in 1966, about the identification and prevention of Trachoma on the Navajo Nation, shown alongside works by Carl Nelson Gorman (Navajo), Doug Hyde (Nez Perce, Assiniboine, Chippewa) and Ron

Noganosh (Ojibway). M, 6/25, noon-5pm. Free. 1 Shields Ave., Hart Hall in Davis; (530) 752-6567; http://gormanmuseum. ucdavis.edu.

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DON’T MISS! BENEFIT CONCERT FOR FRANCIS HOUSE CENTER: Join

for an evening of choral music by three excellent choirs: the Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus, American River Chorus and Sacramento Women’s Chorus. Proceeds will go to Francis House Center and support services and programs that directly help those most in need. Tu, 6/26, 7pm. $10-$25. Pioneer Congregational Church, 2700 L St.; (916) 443-3727.

Classes ARGENTINE TANGO: Learn the Argentine tango through classes which are taught as a monthly series that begin on the first of each month. Preregistration is recommend. Tu, 6:30-7:30pm through 8/30. $50 per person for a four-week series.

Tango By The River, 128 J St.; (916) 443-7008; www.rivertango.com/ tunitalei6p.html.

NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: The Sacramento Public Library will show you that you don’t have to stop taking photos when the sun sets. Photography expert Ron Nabity will discuss camera equipment and techniques for taking nighttime photos. Tu, 6/26, 6pm. Free. Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 S. Land Park Dr.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Literary Events JAMES ROLLINS AUTHOR APPEARANCE: The next installment of the Sigma Force series involves a genetic mystery with

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ties to both an ancient history and modern-day government, as New York Times bestselling author James Rollins tells it.

Bloodline is Crichton meets Dan Brown meets Brad Meltzer. Tu, 6/26, 7pm. Free. Barnes & Noble, 1256 Galleria Blvd. in Roseville.

LIFE DRAWING SERIES: Join the Blue Line Gallery the last Wednesday of the month during a monthly “life drawing class.”

Reservations are required and the class is non-refundable unless class is canceled. Last W of every month. $10-$15. Blue Line Gallery, 405 Vernon St. in Roseville; (916) 783-4117.

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DON’T MISS!

sculpture with newspaper, tape, aluminum and other recyclable materials. Create a fantasy or realistic sculpture to take home. W, 6/27, 2pm. Free.

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

SACRAMENTO HARRY POTTER CLUB: From online fandom to

giant theme parks Harry Potter fans are more active than ever. Now in its seventh year, the SHPC meets monthly to share, analyze, and speculate on all things Potter. W, 6/27, 7-9pm. Free.

Ettores Restaurant, 2376 Fair Oaks Blvd.; (916) 446-1033; http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/sacramentoharry potterclub.

FRATELLO MARIONETTES: PETER AND THE WOLF: Based on the Russian folktale, The Fratello Marionettes’ version of the story features the beautiful music of Sergei Prokofiev

combined with handcrafted marionettes. The show tells the story of how Peter, with help from his animal friends, captures the wolf. W, 6/27, 6:30pm.

Free. Ella K. McClatchy Library, 2112 22nd St.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

THE MAGIC OF ANDY AMYX: Magician Andy Amyx is known for his dazzling style of magic and illusions. He combines sleight of hand and amazing feats with comedy and audience participation W, 6/27, 3:30pm. Free. Orangevale Library, 8820 Greenback Ln. in Orangevale; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Concerts PALLADIO WEDNESDAY NIGHT SUMMER CONCERTS: Come to the Palladio at Broadstone Wednesday Night Summer Concert Series for free musical entertainment located in the Piazza near White House Black Market. W, 7-9pm through 8/1.

Free. Palladio at Broadstone, 240 Palladio Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 983-9793; www.gopalladio.com.

ONGOING Classes

ROCKET SHIP ORIGAMI WITH ARTWORKS: Learn how to fold

WINGS: BUGS AND BIRDS: These

paper to create a rocket ship.

Then create a painting to launch your rocket ship into the stars or to the moon.

W, 6/27, 3:30pm. Free. Elk Grove Library, 8900 Elk Grove Blvd. in Elk Grove; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

weeklong day-camp sessions for children focus on different nature-related themes with hands-on science investigations, art, song, hiking and more.

Through 6/29, 9am-1pm. $75-$85.

Placer Nature Center, 3700 Christian Valley Rd. in Auburn; (530) 878-6053, ext. 608; http://placernaturecenter.org.

WHILE THE 1950S

wasn’t exactly the most exciting decade in American history, its blandness certainly helped spawn a few cool countercultural movements. These included (but were not limited to): hot-rod culture, swing dancing, tiki culture, pinup girls and rockabilly. Now—in case you hadn’t noticed—there’s been a revival of sorts celebrating these movements. This weekend’s Sacramento SwingTime festival will give you a good taste of this resurrected ’50s counterculture.

The fourth-annual car show and music festival features not only cars and music, but also a pin-striping jam, a pinup pageant, swing dancing, an art pavilion, a custom-bicycle show, a vintage-fashion show, a pool party, a mustache contest, guest artists, a swap meet and vendor booths. It kicks off Friday night at the Crowne Plaza Hotel parking lot with a cruise to Shakers Pub in Citrus Heights. Then, the festivities return Saturday at the hotel for the all-day main event. With tickets priced at just $20, it’s a pretty good bang for your buck.

Vehicles displayed will be pre-1972 American cars. Musical guests include Deke Dickerson and the Ecco-Fonics, Three Bad Jacks, Phat Cat Swinger, Cash Prophets, Jailbreak, Cattie Ness & the Revenge, Golden West Trio featuring Miss Kay Marie, Peter Petty & the Double Ps, Patt James and the Night Crawlers, DJ Rigatony, and DJ Vida Lee. The pre-party and cruise happens Friday, June 22, at 7 p.m. It begins at Crowne Plaza Hotel, 5321 Date Avenue before continuing at Shakers Pub, 5940 Sperry Drive in Citrus Heights. On Saturday morning, a swap meet before the show begins at 7 a.m. in the hotel parking lot. The show’s events will take place in the hotel pool area, lobby and ballroom from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. For a full schedule and more information, visit http://sacramento-swingtime.com.

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Pork Belly Grub Shack encourages its customers to pig out. A prominent painting carries the mantra, “Swine is Fine.” It is very fine, but the cut from the underside of the pig hovers near 90 percent fat with multiple hundreds of calories per serving.

Explaining it a different way, when cured and smoked, pork belly is bacon. The words “pork belly” just scream south of the Mason-Dixon Line: “Hey, y’all, let’s git us some grits and pork belly and maybe fry us up a mess o’ catfish.” But, usually cubed or diced, pork belly is routinely showcased in Asian cooking, and now appears with increasing regularity at swanky white-cloth restaurants.

As the name implies, Pork Belly Grub Shack is anything but swanky with its redand-white checkered tablecloths and towering plastic self-serve napkin dispenser.

The space is sunny and utilitarian. It is a joint venture of Aimel Formoli—of Formoli’s Bistro—and Billy Ngo, creator of Kru Contemporary Japanese Cuisine and the great, lamentably late Red Lotus Kitchen & Bar. The shack sits in a Natomas strip mall, and, on an initial visit, patrons may recognize a friendly face behind the counter: Kim, the waitress who brightened all visits to Momiji Sushi and Grill, the downtown Japanese joint. Now she’s helping Ngo at the Grub Shack, and the eatery is a better place for having her there.

Kim and the other helpful staff tend to steer patrons toward offerings starring the first two words in the restaurant’s name.

(Shocking!) But there is also a barbecue chicken salad, a catfish po’boy, a couple of steak options and several powerful burgers.

For vegetarians who venture in, there’s the French Pig sandwich—Brie, roasted tomatoes and caramelized onions—and the Porkless Bella Burger—portobello mushroom and jack cheese with tomato and mixed greens.

A brief detour: The bulk of the burgers and sandwiches are garnished with mixed greens, which deliver a panoply of flavorful interplay with the other ingredients that iceberg can only dream of.

But who the hell wants steak and chicken and big-headed mushrooms at a place that so proudly promotes pork belly? Go whole hog with the Big Piggin burger and accompany it with Pork Belly Fries. Then, try and finish the meal. The first bite is salty and sweet.

The beef patty is richly flavored and the barbecue sauce piquant. There’s also some bitchin’ mixed greens, cheddar, a strong splash of garlic aioli and sliced pork belly.

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not quite as big a handful, however, or as fast a disintegrator as the Hot Mess, a similar burger that’s sans pork belly and served on sourdough with a fried egg on top.

The Pork Belly Fries elicit an immediate, “You’re kidding!” The mound is mondo, laced with thick lines of a mayonnaisey lemon pepper aioli. It’s topped with blue cheese, swell seasonings and 1-inch-by-one-half-inch bricks of pork belly that reveal to the naked eye just exactly how little of them aren’t pure fat. Had medical researchers been sequestered in a laboratory and asked to create the definitive heart plug, this would be it. But what bliss on the way to cardiac shutdown, although personal preference would lower the blue-cheese quotient.

The Pork Belly Fries elicit an immediate, “You’re kidding!”

The blue cheese, however, works far better in one of the innovative daily specials, The Stinkin’ Pig, which features the aforementioned cheese, plus pepper jack, plus barbecue sauce, plus cured and smoked pork belly, plus caramelized onions, and a hot chili sauce that’s sweetish with a modest end-of-the-bite burn. There’s nothing stinky about his sandwich—it’s the after-meal-paint-peeling breath that the name memorializes. This kind of hogwild legerdemain, mixing and matching items found elsewhere on the menu to form a new amalgam, is what elevates this grub shack to well beyond a simple sandwich place. Ω

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THE V WORD It’s not easy being fake cheesy I remember when I was a wee beastling, my mom, curiosity piqued by ubiquitous advertisements, bought a box of Velveeta cheese. Her reaction: “What do I do with this stuff?” And disappointment. My initial reaction to WayFare’s

We Can’t Say It’s Cheese cheddar spread was kind of similar. However,

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But it left my taste buds in the shape of a question mark, so I asked a friend to try it for a second opinion; he said it reminded him of Velveeta.

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

Downtown

Estelle’s Patisserie With its marble tables and light wooden chairs, there’s an airy atmosphere, casual and cozy. Estelle’s offers an espresso bar and a wide assortment of teas and muffins and rolls for the breakfast crowd as well as sweets, including DayGlo macarons.

For the lunch-inclined there are soups, salads, sandwiches and meat or meatless quiche. One of the authentic touches is the spare use of condiments. The smoked salmon is enlivened by dill and the flavor of its croissant. Its tomato bisque is thick and richly flavored, and, in a nice touch, a puff pastry floats in the tureen as accompaniment.

Everything is surprisingly reasonable. Half a sandwich and soup is $7.25. A caprese baguette is $5.25.

Ham and cheese is $5.75. There’s a lot to like about Estelle’s—except dinner. Doors close at 6pm. French.

901 K St., (916) 551-1500. Meal for one: $5-$10. ★★★1⁄2

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

The Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar

Sampino’s Towne Foods

Thir13en From the start—and, lo,

Resistance is futile when it comes to Red Rabbit’s desserts. The berryinfused 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 mayor-of-Munchkin-City-sized lamb bocadillas. American. 2718 J St., (916) 706-2275. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★1⁄2

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.

Very authoritative. American.

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

Dinner for one: $12-$20. ★★★★1⁄2

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Surprises in a box I’ve subscribed to different community-supported-agriculture—or CSA—boxes for many years, but I finally hit the big time with the Del Rio Botanical box. As a cookbook author, editor and all-around food nut, I’m pretty well-versed in types of produce.

But farm owner Suzanne Ashworth promised me I’d get at least one item a week that was new to me. My first box (only $20 a week!) contained umeboshi plums, nopals (cactus paddles), green tomatoes, red garlic, basil, amaranth greens, apricots, raspberries, lemon verbena, stevia and fennel

flowers! While I’ve heard of all of them, I’ll admit to never having tried amaranth greens.

According to Ashworth’s very educational insert, you can eat them like you would spinach, but they’re best braised or stir-fried. I’ve also never seen unfermented umeboshi. I’ll look for a simple recipe and stash them in the fridge until Ashworth sends the perilla leaves she says they need. Tonight’s dinner is likely to be pasta with homegrown yellow squash and a pesto of the Del Rio basil and garlic, topped with some diced green tomatoes.

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Formoli’s Bistro Formoli’s is the other half of the restaurant swap on J Street that sent Vanilla Bean Bistro (formerly known as Gonul’s J Street Cafe) to Formoli’s old warren and brought Formoli’s into its current high-ceilinged, spare, dark cranberry space of black tables and chairs just six blocks away.

Flavor combinations are a big part of the Formoli playbook, and the blend of the tower’s components is the payoff just as it is in the salad of beets—wafer-thin enough to be used interchangeably in the carpaccio—with shaved fennel, frisée, a few orange segments and pistachios laced with a stentorian balsamic vinaigrette.

Mediterranean. 3839 J St., (916) 448-5699. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★★★ Juno’s Kitchen & Delicatessen To quote Gov. Jerry Brown from his first iteration as California’s chief executive more than 30 years ago: “Small is beautiful.” Juno’s proves this axiom in spades. The menu is fairly compact and slanted more toward lunch than dinner. Juno’s macaroni and cheese, which comes with rock shrimp on rigatoni, a Grana Padano, Gruyère and cheddar trio and a dusting of paprika, is a creative take on a comfort-food classic. In the traditional-sandwich realm, all start out with the advantage of Juno’s homemade sour—but not sourdough—bread with its crunchy crust and soft interior. In the soppressata salami sandwich, the bread amplifies the tartness of the pepperoncini while the turkey sandwich with provolone, tomato, arugula and pesto

requires several napkins as the oil in the pesto seeps inexorably through the airy bread slices.

American. 3675 J St., (916) 456-4522.

Dinner for one: $5-$10. ★★★★

Mamma Susanna’s Ristorante Italiano There’s something endearing, almost Norman Rockwell-esque about a neighborhood restaurant that is most commonly referred to by its patrons as the neighborhood restaurant. There is no shortage of options on the menu with nearly a dozen or so pastas, even more types of pizzas, a smattering of salads and various entrees, including the piccata chicken or veal dish that Mamma Susanna’s counts as one of her specialties. Of the pastas and pizzas, the norcina tastes like and looks like an orangey vodka sauce with roasted red-pepper slices and sausage rounds tossed in a bed of penne. While the menu claims spicy, some red chili flakes do the trick. Italian. 5487 Carlson Dr., (916) 452-7465. Dinner for one: $12-$20. ★★★

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

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same name offered by the region’s northern neighbor, China.

Pleasantly provocative is the avocado curry—a panang curry featuring myriad slices of avocado.

Portions are large here: The beef salad is enough for two and does have some heated heft. Another salad worth consideration is one featuring a sweet, chewy sausage with plenty of cucumbers, red onion and mint. Refreshing, particularly on a hot Sacramento day.

Thai. 4310 Marconi Ave., (916) 482-5019. Dinner for one: $10-$15. ★★★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

Pangaea 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 a Save Mart Supermarket 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

Arden/ Carmichael

Phaya Thai Thai places seem to define heat differently. At some, requesting “medium hot” still leaves lips tingling for many minutes afterward, while “hot” causes eyes to bleed and steam to gush from ears.

Phaya is more circumspect in its application of heat. Medium is barely so and hot is closer to medium. Here, the tom kha gai coconut soup is a bit sugary but, in its vegetarian iteration, brimming with plenty of tofu, dried red peppers with seeds, mushrooms, tomato wedges, galanga and cilantro. Thai fried— as with Thai sweet and sour—is far less heavy than entrees of the

Gourmet gladiators If you’ve ever watched the Food Network show Iron Chef America, you’ve probably always wanted to judge the competition. You’ll have a chance to do just that at this weekend’s Sacramento Chef Challenge. Hosted by and benefiting InAlliance—a nonprofit dedicated to enriching the lives of people with developmental disabilities—the event features two culinary battles, food vendors, wine and beer tasting, and live music. The three chefs battling in the main event are Pyramid Alehouse’s Kristela Nazario-Mendoza, Colusa Casino Resort’s Keith Erickson and the Institute of Technology’s Philippe Caillot. They’ll prepare a menu for guests who vote to determine the winner. A separate competition, titled Battle Cupcakes, pits three bakery professionals against three amateurs and is also judged by guests. It happens Saturday, June 23, from 4 to 9 p.m. at the InAlliance Sacramento campus, 6950 21st Avenue. Tickets are $25 in advance and $35 at the door. For more information, visit www.chefevent.com.

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Purple craze Broadacre Coffee’s lavender latte In a coffee scene that seems to have reached a saturation point, Broadacre Coffee has quickly distinguished itself with specialty coffee drinks. Its lavender latte is, arguably, the cafe’s most popular.

Co-owner Andrew Lopez says they make the lavender DRINK syrup in-house by extracting the flavor with grain alcohol and mixing it with simple syrup. The resulting cup is rich and lightly sweet with a faint floral flavor. The flower somehow manages to intensify the chocolate note in the espresso—currently Stumptown Coffee Roasters’ Finca El Injerto from Guatemala. If this cup of coffee is not quite your cup of tea, Broadacre will soon introduce five new specialty drinks for summer, so stay tuned. 1014 10th Street, (916) 442-1085, http://broadacre.com.

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Rajesh Parameswaran’s debut collection I Am an Executioner: Love Stories (Knopf, $24.95) has the power to change your definition of love. Throughout each story, love is so closely intertwined with other human emotions, that it becomes nearly unrecognizable.

Parameswaran’s stories are reminiscent of Roald Dahl’s short works for adults. They are imaginative and rich in their prose, BOOK yet darkly humorous and at times stomach-turning. Each story is unique in its concept and process. In fact, the title describes the author well—he is a superb executioner of short fiction. This powerful collection is not for the faint of heart.

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Olive the good stuff The Chefs’ Olive Mix You’ll be forgiven for mistaking The Chefs’ Olive Mix for a winery, given its quiet, calm atmosphere and the presence of tasting equipment. Instead of vino, though, this Old Sacramento shop is loaded to the brim with artisanal olive oils—extra virgins, both FOOD California and imported, and varieties infused with natural flavors such as blood orange or Persian lime. In addition to olive (and a handful of specialty oils such as sesame, almond and walnut), the shop also sells artisanal balsamics and specialty vinegars. It’s a mix-your-own cornucopia for foodies, complete with knowledgeable sales staff to help with suggested pairings. 131 J Street, (916) 706-3105, www.facebook.com/olivemix.

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by JOEY GARCIA

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savored the view from The Dead Fish restaurant in Crockett, California.

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Write, email or leave a message for Joey at the News & Review.

Give your name, telephone number (for verification purposes only) and question— all correspondence will be kept strictly confidential.

Write Joey, 1124 Del Paso Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95815; call (916) 498-1234, ext. 3206; or email askjoey@ newsreview.com.

My dad sends me clippings from your advice column, with key pieces of your advice underlined, such as, “People are imperfect.

Few can see where their need to control, manipulate and appear ‘good’ infects their words or actions,” and, “Try focusing on the ways love transforms you.”

I am a 24-year-old single female.

But my dad is the last person to give love advice. He’s only been in one relationship his entire life.

How do I get him to stop? It’s embarrassing to have a dad who sends you columns and newspaper clippings about relationships and love. Advice, please.

Oh, sweetie! It’s only embarrassing because you fear he is right, that there is something wrong with you or the way you behave.

The truth is every one of us has shortcomings. Each one of us has unconscious spaces in our minds that are triggered when we least expect it. It’s these dark gaps, our shadows, that inspire us to be unkind in word or action.

Knowing this is freedom.

Awareness allows us to change and to offer compassion to others who behave as if they are separate from the human family. So please don’t fear being seen by your father. Transparency is essential on the spiritual path (and we are all on a spiritual path, whether or not we accept that reality). Let yourself soften. Open your mind and heart. See if you can learn something new about yourself by exploring the column phrases your dad underlines. Try not to judge his relationship history. Explore your own.

Awareness allows us to change and to offer compassion to others.

Still invested in resistance?

Consider this: If you were not worried about how you appear to others, you would meet your father’s mementos from this column with a shrug. Or you would feel a surge of sweet joy from your heart to head because receiving the newspaper clippings reminds you of his love for you.

He may express it differently than you would, but that’s just being human, right?

One last thing. Let me confess that I have two major lifelong romantic relationships—with God and with myself. The other romantic relationships in my life have been with men that I dated, one of whom I married and, nine years later, divorced. Some of these men are now among my dearest friends. That’s right—my experience with love and relationships has been as perfect for me as your father’s is for him. Trust your own path.

I have a female friend of six years, and she is one of my best friends, so much so that I’ve considered dating her for a long time.

You don’t have a relationship question, honey. You have an unclear philosophy about life.

Without values, principles or a commitment to pursue a higher truth, you lack direction. Without a sense of calling or connection to something greater than yourself, you will always stumble when life invites you to step into the unknown. And love is the unknown, a great risk and a beautiful mystery.

If what you are reading begins to stir something deep within you, try this: Take a hike somewhere quiet in the natural world. Find a place to sit undisturbed for a while. Center yourself with meditation or a prayer. Then journal answers to the following questions: Who am I? What is my work? Who is God to me? Who is my life partner? The answers you pen are not definitive. You are, after all, constantly changing and always more than can be imagined, just like everyone else on the planet. But the responses you write offer a beginning to your compass-making process. It is a lifelong endeavor and one that provides a foundation for your existence and decision making.

Enjoy your delicious adventure into the internal world! Ω

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Meditation of the week: “If we desire a peaceful world, that will be the result of today’s work,” says Fethüllah Gulen, a Muslim scholar and activist. What are you doing today to ensure that the poorest people in this world will suffer less, or not at all, tomorrow?

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Art with a Twist

Ah, the fine art of the hand-rolled Cuban cigar. Today, the hand-rolled cigar is becoming a lost art, but at one time it was a major industry in Cuba and by Florida, with professional cigar rollers taking Patti Roberts pride in producing the perfect smoke.

Nilo Cruz’s 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Anna in the Tropics transports us to a small cigar factory in 1929 Tampa and introduces us to the transplanted Cuban shop owners, rollers and their prized lector—the learned man who reads to the factory workers to break the monotony of their work.

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Things can get a little heated in the cigar factory—and that’s before anyone starts smoking.

ART MIX: RED HOT & BOHEMIAN MIX THURSDAY • JULY 12 • 5-9 PM

Art Mix gets into the avant-garde spirit of studio-glass artists at this bohemian bash, inspired by the exhibition Red Hot and Blown: Contemporary Glass from the Crocker’s Collection • Glass-inspired art making • An outdoor screening of La Bohème presented in collaboration with the Mondavi Center • Live music by YoloMambo

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Sunday; $15-$20. Teatro Nagual at the Coloma Community Center, 4623 T Street; (916) 548-4435; www.teatronagual.com.

Through July 1.

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CASABLANCA Hear Patty Felkner from Viewpoint Photographic Art Center talk about this film’s groundbreaking cinematography and how you can spot these techniques in the exhibition Brought to Light: Masterworks of Photography from the Crocker Art Museum. Then join an all-ages click-along and learn tips and tricks for using your camera phone or digital camera (BYOC).

Cocktails and snacks available for purchase.

action onto the floor, creating an intimate theater-in-the-round, complete with a simple, handsome set of wooden cigar-rolling tables.

Add rhythmic music, the aroma of cigars, and the fact that Teatro Nagual sells cuba libres, mojitos and sangria at the shows, and you’ll leave with a Cuban beat bouncing in your brain. Ω

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Sacramento’s Teatro Nagual provides a fascinating peek into this world of laborers thirsty for knowledge and literature while facing a changing world where machines are out to replace them. This is the same company that— along with Teatro Espejo—produced the impressive Frida last year, and is busily filling the void in local Latino theater.

Teatro Nagual is a small but mighty troupe with a collaborative spirit that’s contagious, bringing together enthusiasm, talent and committed community members, including local Cuban immigrant and third-generation cigarshop owner Pierre Perales (whose wife, Ana Maria Perales, plays Conchita), who provided cigar-rolling lessons, lent them authentic props and actually became one of the cast members.

The result is a satisfying and sizzling story that swirls around a suave new lector Juan (Martin J. Rodriguez), who introduces Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina to the impressionable women and resentful men. It’s no surprise that Tolstoy’s tale foreshadows future drama in the factory, and for the most part, the juxtaposition works.

The cast works well together under the watchful eye of director Kristine David, who draws out notable performances from Perales as a frustrated factory worker; Jay Patrick as the jealous husband; Ernesto Bustos as the resentful cuckold who lost his wife to the previous lector; and Rodriguez as the new lector.

The staging is creative and effective—instead of using the high auditorium stage at the Coloma Community Center, they move the

God, guts and glory Henry V

Talk about a character-building challenge: The plucky three-year-old Davis Shakespeare Ensemble has mounted Henry V, a panoramic history set in the 1400s, with 40 mostly male speaking parts. It’s staged in an airy gazebo at the leafy UC Davis Arboretum. And they do it with a nimble cast of five, lending literal meaning to Henry’s inspiring talk to his outnumbered troops at Agincourt: “We few, we happy few.”

Needless to say, some scenes are streamlined; performers inhabit multiple roles (watch the color-coded costumes); sword-wielding women sometimes portray noble men.

Yet the show remains largely true to the spirit of the source. That’s an achievement, because Henry V manifests a kaleidoscope of emotions—from battlefield bravery to cowardice, dynastic royal strategizing to secret treachery, tragedy, victory, humor, pathos; there’s even a marriage proposal on bended knee.

Above all, the play tracks Henry’s swift, mythic transformation from the wastrel Prince Hal into “dread sovereign,” a just-but unsentimental king who sends old drinking buddies to the gallows when they deserve it and conquers France despite long odds. Casey Worthington is vivid in the title role, and the gazebo affords an opportunity to feel Henry’s intensity up close. Other memorable vignettes include blushing Cody Granger as Princess Catherine and cocky Mitchell Van Landingham as France’s foppish Dauphin.

Director Rob Salas handles his cast well and makes savvy use of space. This is not a “big” Henry V, with armored soldiers clanging swords in vast scenes, but a gutsy little production that nonetheless delivers the goods, in a compact package.

—Jeff Hudson

Henry V, 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 6:30 p.m.

Sunday; $10-$15. Davis Shakespeare Ensemble in the UC Davis Arboretum Gazebo, 1 Garrod Drive in Davis; (530) 802-0998; www.shakespearedavis.com. Through July 1.

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This one-woman show features respected local actor Linda Nalbandian in five rolesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;911 dispatcher, elderly nursing home resident, beleaguered middle-aged wife, beautician with big dreams and a woman who seems to have been born to loseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all crafted from the Alabama memories of playwright and director Charlotte Higgins. The monologues are fully realized and Nalbandian is more than up to the task; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all humor and heartbreak, and isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that the very definition of Southern Gothic? F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm.

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Campy comedy with a metastructure, as the cheesy lounge act Maxwell, Butternut and Bean (Bill Arnold, Michael Pearce Donley and Bob Stromberg) performs forâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and involvesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the audience. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s either family-friendly fun or a strange open-mic night, depending on your point of view. W 7pm; Th 2 & 7pm; F 8pm; Sa 2 & 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 7/22. $20-$38; student rush available. The Cosmopolitan Cabaret, 1000 K St.; (916) 557-1999; www.calmt.com. J.M.

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This musical adaptation of Roald Dahlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famous children story is all bright colors and snosberries; more music and less substance. The kids are cute, Willieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit on the two-dimensional side, and the adaptation itselfâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;well, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take a gobstopper any day. The only plus is that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s under the stars in Fair Oaks. F, Sa, Su 8:30pm. Singalong shows on 7/8 and 7/15. Through 7/22. $8-$15. Fair Oaks Theatre Fest at the Veterans Memorial Amphitheatre, 7991 California Ave., Fair Oaks; (916) 966-3683; www.fairoakstheatrefestival.com. M.M.

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Dodge continues to show up at work, unable or unwilling to see the absurdity of business as usual for an insurance man when the world is about to end. By night, he sits in his apartment pining—not for Linda, his wife, but for Olivia, the college sweetheart who got away.

He is invited to a dinner party by friends Warren and Diane (Rob Corddry, Connie Britton), but when the party devolves into an end-of-days orgy, he tries to get away. “This is one thing you can’t run away from, Dodge,” Diane warns him (in case we’ve missed the symbolism of his name).

One night, Dodge finds his neighbor Penny (Keira Knightley), whom he barely knows, sobbing on the fire escape outside his window.

She’s broken up with her boyfriend and is stranded an ocean away from her English home and family, now that commercial air service has been suspended. Dodge awkwardly offers comfort to her, but is uncomfortable with the offer himself. On top of that, he is more than a

little miffed to learn that, as a result of their mail carrier’s sloppy delivery habits, she got a lot of his mail and has been carelessly sitting on it for months. Among all those bills and ads and junk mail, there’s a letter from Olivia, who after all these years has written to tell Dodge, “You were the love of my life.”

This is all the excuse Penny needs to prod Dodge into a cross-country quest to find Olivia and reconnect one last time before everything blows up. In fact, the explosions have already started and forced their hand—there are riots in the street outside, and Dodge and Penny barely manage to get her car started and underway before the looting and destruction engulf them.

From this point, Seeking a Friend becomes a picaresque adventure, as Penny and Dodge encounter a variety of characters on the road: a truck driver (William Petersen) who has hired an assassin to kill him suddenly and without warning; a roadside diner where the staff (including Gillian Jacobs and T.J. Miller) offer a range of off-the-menu services similar to the ones that made Dodge flee Warren and Diane’s party; a borderline-psycho-survivalist exboyfriend of Penny’s (Derek Luke) who believes he can ride out the apocalypse—and has a fleet of minicars to help Penny and Dodge continue their journey; and finally, Dodge’s estranged father (Martin Sheen). Oddly enough, the one person they never encounter (spoiler alert!) is Olivia; she becomes irrelevant for writer-director Scarafia’s purposes, which involve the growing relationship between Penny and Dodge. And that’s where Seeking a Friend for the End of the World runs into trouble.

There are loose ends and plot holes all through the movie, but they would scarcely matter if the central thread running from Dodge to Penny and back were strong, and grew stronger as the movie wore on—but it’s not, and it doesn’t. In almost any movie, there’s that mystery ingredient, chemistry, and here the chemistry is just a tick or two above nil; when, in time, Dodge whispers Olivia’s “love of my life” line to Penny, our reaction isn’t “Aw!” It’s “Huh?”

It’s chemistry; sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn’t.

Nobody’s really to blame for this. It’s chemistry; sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn’t. Co-star chemistry is a specialty of Steve Carell’s—with Catherine Keener in The 40 Year Old Virgin; Juliette Binoche in Dan in Real Life; Anne Hathaway in Get Smart; Tina Fey in Date Night; Julianne Moore in Crazy, Stupid, Love.; even with Paul Rudd in Dinner for Schmucks.

With Keira Knightley, alas, it’s just not there. At the fadeout, Dodge may no longer be seeking a friendship, but we are. Ω

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A mortician in a small Texas town (Jack Black) befriends a rich, cantankerous old widow (Shirley MacLaine); soon they’re taking trips all over the world on her dime. Director Richard Linklater and co-writer Skip Hollandsworth (adapting Hollandsworth’s magazine article) recount the true story of Bernhardt Tiede, currently serving a life sentence for the murder of wealthy Marjorie Nugent. The movie adopts the style of a Dateline NBC true-crime feature, mixing dramatization and interviews with local townspeople (some of whom are the real McCoy). We’re probably not getting the whole story—we’re left with a clear impression that Tiede did the world a favor by blowing the old battle-ax away—but the movie is wry and stranger-than-fiction quirky, and Black gives the performance of his career (so far). J.L.

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Hysteria

It’s hard to begrudge this innocuous film, except maybe for its innocuousness. So unchallenging that it becomes a challenge, director Tanya Wexler’s cutesy and inauthentic tale of female sexual liberation, written by Stephen Dyer, Jonah Lisa Dyer, and Howard Gensler, posits the invention of the vibrator as a bland comedy of Victorian manners. Hugh Dancy plays the exceedingly genteel inventor, with Maggie Gyllenhaal as a forward-thinking hothead suffragette who must teach him a thing or two. Also there are insubstantial parts for Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett, and Felicity Jones.

Dotingly costumed and lit, narratively treacly and trumped-up, restlessly edited, and complacently condescending to its characters and its audience, the movie doesn’t offer much of real interest beyond a montage of evolving vibrator technology played out over its closing credits.

And quite unlike, say, an orgasm brought on by the Hitachi Magic Wand, it just takes way too long to get where you know it’s going. J.K.

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For Greater Glory

Mexico’s Cristero War of 1926-29, an uprising of Catholic rebels against president Plutarco Elías Calles (Ruben Blades) and his oppressive anticlerical laws, forms the spine of this movie from writer Michael Love and director Dean Wright. The story deserves a better movie than it gets here, but almost any story would.

Despite the bracing presence of actors like Blades, Andy Garcia (as rebel general Enrique Gorostieta), Peter O’Toole (a martyred priest) and Bruce Greenwood (U.S. ambassador Dwight Morrow), many performances are amateurish, and Wright’s pacing is a leaden, enervating slog.

The atrocious handheld cinematography of Eduardo Martínez Solares doesn’t help, weaving drunkenly from one face to another, often cutting off chins and the tops of people’s heads. An epic story becomes an epic bore. J.L.

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A graduate student (Greta Gerwig) gets dumped by her fiancé three weeks before the wedding and is forced to cope with turning 30 without a steady squeeze. Written by director Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister Jones (who also plays Gerwig’s best friend—and gives herself all the best lines), the movie has the low-budget indie look of a wannabe Woody Allen, but at heart it’s just a trite and shallow Hollywood rom-com, closer to Failure to Launch or He’s Just Not That Into You than to Annie Hall. It’s the kind of movie a woman is usually expected to carry only after she becomes a star, and Gerwig isn’t a star—not yet, anyway. Still, she gives it her best shot and manages to wring some sympathy out of us, although we may feel more sympathy for the actress’s plight (trapped in clichés) than for the character’s. J.L.

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Alex the lion (voiced by Ben Stiller) and his zebra (Chris Rock), hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) and giraffe (David Schwimmer) pals are still trying to get home to New York, this time joining a circus and being chased across Europe by a Javert-like cop (Frances McDormand). Is this the worst animated-feature franchise of all time, or is it Ice Age? I guess it’s whichever you’ve seen most recently (Ice Age 4 is coming next month; oh joy). Anyhow, this one was rotten in 2005 and 2008, and by now it’s really beginning to stink. Directors Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon give us more of the same nonstory, the same noncharacters to go with the star voices (including Sacha Baron Cohen, Martin Short and Jessica Chastain), the same frantic

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Men in Black III

An alien criminal (Jemaine Clement) escapes from prison, goes back in time, and kills the Man in Black who sent him up: Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones). This leaves K’s partner J (Will Smith) the only person in the present who remembers him (the reason is foggy but never mind—if he didn’t, there’d be no movie), so J travels back to 1969 to work with K’s younger self (Josh Brolin) to prevent the murder—and by the way, also to save the world. Written by Etan Cohen and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, this second sequel to the 1997 smash is a vast improvement over the first one, and may even be better than the original. The story is fast and funny (with a sweet and surprising twist at the end), the pacing sharp, and Brolin does a bangup impression of Jones. The only drawback is the dim (and superfluous) 3-D. J.L.

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Prometheus

With Alien, in 1979, director Ridley Scott, more or less invented the modern sci-fi horror genre; now he’s warmed it over with this prequel for no apparent reason other than the privilege of stealing back his own fire. Scott’s reclamation, expectedly engorged with pomposity and meticulous production values, also includes a few people or approximations thereof, most notably Noomi Rapace as a researcher investigating humanity’s otherworld origins, and Michael Fassbender as an inscrutable android.

Gory freakouts ensue, and Scott manages a technically impressive equilibrium between the sleekly gadgety and the grotesquely suppurating, but so what? Before long, it’s hard to tell between specific familiar franchise bits and general genre clichés, or to want to. Screenwriters Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof somehow turn a surplus of exposition into a shortage of clarity.

There’s a lot of spelling out of what still amounts to muddled nonsense. J.K.

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Rock of Ages

An Oklahoma girl (Julianne Hough) in 1987 Hollywood hopes to make it as a singer but ends up working in a club on the Sunset Strip and falling for an aspiring rocker (Diego Boneta).

The movie version of the hit Broadway jukebox musical surrounds these appealing youngsters with stars (Alec Baldwin, Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tom Cruise, Mary J. Blige) and flashy retro-rock musical numbers, staged with electric glitz by director Adam Shankman and choreographer Mia Michaels. The story is stretched too thin for too long, and an added subplot with Zeta-Jones as the mayor’s wife out to clean up the Strip does little more than let her in on the fun. Cruise (as an Axl Roseish rock star) and Blige (as a strip-club owner) give the best performances, and the driving beat keeps toes tapping. J.L.

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In Wes Anderson’s new movie, co-written with Roman Coppola, a 1960s New England town suffers mild upheaval when a sensitive Boy Scout (Jared Gilman) runs away with the girl he loves (Kara Hayward). Anderson still knows better than anybody how to survey the cusp of adolescence with all the existential angst of a midlife crisis, and, for relief’s sake, to salt his findings with droll irony. He revels in bric-a-brac production design, eloquent riffs on stagings from his earlier films, and a tendency to arrange his stars—Bob Balaban, Harvey Keitel, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Bruce Willis—in handsome tableaux. But there’s also a welcome new allowance of naturalness, particularly in landscape and weather. The filmmaker’s typically tasteful musical affinities lean here toward English composers especially; sometimes it seems like he could’ve just done a video for the entirety of Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. Which, of course, would be fantastic. J.K.

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For the second time this year, we get a revision of the Brothers Grimm tale of the conflict between Snow White (Kristen Stewart, dull and lifeless as ever) and her wicked stepmother (Charlize Theron, snarling up a storm). Where Mirror Mirror was sweetly tongue-in-cheek, this one has delusions of Shakespeare; Theron seems to be auditioning for Regan in a production of King Lear (she’d probably be pretty good, too). With Stewart as the heroine, the movie is inevitably soft in the center, so it falls to others to hold our interest—Theron, Chris Hemsworth as the huntsman, Sam Claflin as a childhood friend. The seven dwarfs are created by digitally “shrinking” such pros as Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins and Toby Jones; their presence is a boost, too, though the movie is too dark and doomy to be really any fun. J.L.

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Sonic homework Local high-school student’s internship leads to debut album Parie Wood was only 10 when she hit upon her calling one long-ago Sunday while flipping through the newspaper. by There, an ad for an inexpensive electric guitar Rachel Leibrock sparked her imagination. ra c h e l l @ “Playing music had never really crossed my ne w s re v i e w . c o m mind before,” Wood says now.

In fact, although her father played in a thrashmetal band and Wood wrote poetry, she says that until that moment she hadn’t considered herself musically inclined at all.

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to pick hers, Wood turned to Marty DeAnda, whom she’d met after he came to check out one of her shows.

DeAnda in turn, given a tape of Wood’s songs by a mutual friend, says he was immediately struck by the singer’s talent as well as her maturity. So, when Wood called looking for an internship, he didn’t hesitate.

“I just remember thinking she’s so much bigger than her age,” DeAnda says. “I thought, we can give her so many advantages and opportunities that other people in this town don’t have at that age.”

The internship, which resumes this fall when the teen returns to the Met as a senior, included a weeklong stint in the studio to record Manifest.

The goal, DeAnda says, was one steeped in pragmatism.

“I said, ‘Let’s not get crazy, because you’re still developing your sound,’” he says. “It wasn’t so much about selling [an album] and making her famous; I wanted Parie to go through the steps of a recording session and learning about that.”

For Wood, the experience realized years of dreaming.

“I always had an idea of the songs, because I’d wanted to make it so long,” she says. “It was fun to be able to explore and make it sound the way I always wanted it to.”

And so Wood went into the studio with a handful of musicians, including Walking Spanish’s Alex Nelson.

The resulting tracks, sung in Wood’s husky, world-weary voice, are at once introspective and universal, autobiographical and political.

Parie Wood emptied her bank account at age 10 to purchase her first guitar.

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That picture of a cheap guitar, however, changed everything.

“It cost $99, and I had $100 in my bank account, so I decided to empty it out,” she says.

“I became instantly obsessed.”

In the years since, Wood, now 17, has honed that obsession into art. By age 12, she was writing her own songs and, at 15, earned the 2011 Judge’s Choice SN&R Jammies award. This week, Wood releases her debut EP, Manifest, a five-song collection that mines influences that run the gamut, from folk to punk, blues to rock and pop to country.

The latter sound, she admits, comes as something of a surprise—at least to her.

“I thought I hated country,” she says.

“Apparently, I don’t.”

Well, classic country anyway—lately it’s been a lot of Hoyt Axton, playing in the background as Wood packages albums for shipment at her internship for the local record label Dig Music.

While the job includes plenty of administrative duties, Wood’s internship doesn’t just entail the typical entry-level grunt work—it’s become the epicenter of her artistic and professional development.

As a student at The Met high school, part of Wood’s curriculum requires an intensive internship in a chosen field. When it came time

“ I thought I hated country.

Apparently, I don’t.”

Parie Wood Soft-spoken and reserved, Wood says she knows that such songs open her up to public inspection.

“All my songs are very personal, but mostly I don’t want anyone to analyze them,” she says.

“They’re true stories, [but] I think I’m vague enough so that people can interpret the songs as they will and still decide who they think I am—I just want to write songs that people can relate to.”

When Wood talks about Manifest, it’s easy to hear the old soul DeAnda recognized in those rough demos.

“It’s a benchmark for me, as a songwriter, as a musician, as a person,” she says of the record.

“Pretty soon, I’ll look back and I’ll say, ‘Oh, that’s where I was—and now I’m somewhere else.’” Ω

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For years, this paper spelled DJ Epik’s name with a “C,” as in “epic fail.” It was “Epic” in the calendar, even “Epic” engraved on the oldschool hip-hop deejay’s Sacramento Area Music Award, which was certainly a face-palm moment.

Anyway, Epik is back in these pages—Webster’s approved—and also back on the Sacto nightlife scene in a big way.

For starters, hit up popular Midtown patio spot The Golden Bear (2326 K Street) every second Thursday night for Golden Era Music, where Epik will be spinning classic hip-hop and other party goodness.

And don’t forget, every third Saturday at Level Up Lounge (2431 J Street on the second floor, above Thai Basil). Level Up recently installed a pretty dope new sound system (full disclosure: I know this because my brother was the tech on the job), and Epik ran the party this past weekend; it goes by the name True.

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Wednesday above Harlow’s (2708 J Street) at The Momo Lounge. Back when The Distillery did live music (RIP), Life was Midtown’s hip-hop destination each week. It’s back, in a less frequent rotation, but still going strong.

For sure, it’s an Epik lineup of dance nights.

Cap Radio’s big garage sale: Actually, the team over at Capital Public Radio has been kind enough to invite me on the air a few times over the years, and so I know that it doesn’t actually have a garage. But what it does have is an ark-load of CDs, records, DVDs, books on tape, and laser discs. Maybe even some cassettes? Hence, its annual Used Record and CD sale and party, which goes down this weekend at Sacto’s most peculiarly named shopping plaza: Howe ’bout Arden.

Friday, June 22, is the kickoff: It’s a preview party, from 6 to 9 p.m., where Cap Radio members can fork over 10 clams ($20 for the general public) and get a sneak look at the goods. And 20 percent off all merchandise. There’ll also

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Alive & Kicking goes tele: It’s crazy that there’s a whole new guard of youngsters in the music scene that never grew up reading Alive & Kicking, Jerry Perry’s sonic street rag of yore. Anyway, A&K is now all grown up and making TV shows: This Friday, June 22, at 7:30 p.m. at Midtown’s The Refuge (1723 L Street), Access Sacramento will film a concert featuring Honyock, the Trees and Alyssa Cox. This is all part of the Alive & Kicking TV series, which is a halfhour episode of songs and interviews. Seven bucks gets you in, and if you’re interested in playing a future A&K episode, hit up Perry on Facebook: www.facebook.com/jerryperry03.

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Full disclosure: I have known Kevin Seconds of 7 Seconds through multiple encounters.

And through his stints as a coffee-shop owner, open-mic-night host, solo artist, member of Go National, Ghetto Moments and others, he has been a huge part of what has given Sac its local flavor in recent years. Originally hailing from Reno, 7 Seconds still reps Nevada, but it will assuredly bring the homePUNK away-from-home love. And, what else can I say? I was a fan long before I came to town. Bastards of Young and City of Vain open the Friday Night Concerts in the Park show. 910 I Street, www.facebook.com/official7seconds.

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Fairytale Town, 7:30 p.m., $20-$25 This event isn’t strictly a musical performance, but there will be music. The Readers of Homer is a Sacramento-based nonprofit organization preEPIC POETRY senting readings of The Iliad and, on this particular night, The Odyssey. Readers of all ages are welcome to read aloud any section of the poem in any style and in any language—whether rapping, singing or just reading—and the entire work will be read relay-style, continuously from dusk to dawn. Two-hundred people are expected, and the story will be embellished with music and other effects.

Free for students, active military personnel and veterans. It’s gonna be epic. 3901 Land Park Drive, www.thereadersofhomer.org.

Sacramento’s Sun Valley Gun Club obviously has a sense of humor. It received a bad review online and decided to post it on its website. The reviewer, Gary, said the group didn’t sound like Weezer (as the band claimed), but more like a Weezer CD in a blender. That’s not really fair; a better description would be that Sun Valley Gun Club sounds like Weezer blended ROCK with Dinosaur Jr.—with elements of ’90s power-pop in the vein of Fountains of Wayne. The singer’s voice sounds a bit like John Linnell from They Might Be Giants—perfect for his clever lyrics of heartbreak and loneliness. 2416 16th Street, http://sunvalleygunclub.com.

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After a few years of local gigs, English Singles finally celebrates its first release—a foursong EP, Backstreet Pages, on Slumberland Records—at this show. The one song I’ve heard off the release, “Finer Points,” is a crisp but salty pop-rock INDIE POP hitter. Memorable, contagious—and while I won’t pretend to know whether the band’s sound is “in the tradition of” whomever, the Slumberland site pigeonholes English Singles in the vein of Buzzcocks and Cause Co-Motion! Local favorites Knock Knock make this a must-see gig—this, not to mention fellow Slumberland artists Manatee, from Oakland, and Washington, D.C.-based headliners Lorelei. 1517 21st Street, www.slumberlandrecords.com.

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Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White describe their songs as “funk-psychedelic feminista sci-fi epics,” but that only begins to plumb the depths of the NEO-SOUL duo’s freewheeling neo-soul sound. On the band’s debut album, Awe Naturale, songs such as “Earthseed” and “Bitch” marry sultry slow jams with frosty vocals and hypnotic hip-hop beats—imagine Amy Winehouse getting Adele drunk and the two dancing to Chet Baker, Wild Cherry and Arrested Development. Check out the video for “Queens,” which showcases the ladies as reigning house-party royalty. Better yet, catch them live on this bill with Lee Bannon and Raleigh Moncrief. 1050 20th Street, www.theesatisfaction.com.

Marcia Ball’s music is a lesson in geography, with a sound that crosses from Texas blues into Louisiana boogie-woogie. Growing up on the state line, her formative years were informed by the region’s swamp blues, Big Easy R&B and Zydeco, as well as BLUES Texas’ storied electric-blues heritage. It results in earthy, rocking, grooving piano blues—driven as much by Ball’s smoky soulful croon as her fleet-fingered swing.

She’s released a dozen albums the last 35 years, populated primarily by up-tempo floorstompers with a sprinkling of Cajun funk and husky ballads. She’s supporting Roadside Attraction, her first collection entirely of originals. 13 Main Street in Winters, www.marciaball.com.

There are weird metal bands, and then there is Russian Circles. The weirdest thing about this Chicago three-piece is how little time it has for metal conventions. Last year’s Empros was a tonally unpredictable listen animated by the same psychedelic ethos as Boris or Pelican. The high-voltage intensity of one track could snowball into an orgasmic string well.

METAL Produced by Interpol parttimer Brandon Curtis, Empros kicked hard enough into gear to let you know it wasn’t fucking around, but it was a numb, stoned, stoically beautiful album. Whereas 2009’s Geneva was a thrash assault, Empros was the soothing afterglow. 2708 J Street, (916) 441-4693, www.russiancirclesband.com.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Swans, geese,

and ducks molt all of their flight feathers at once, which means they may be unable to fly for several weeks afterward. We humans don’t do anything like that in a literal way, but we have a psychological analog: times when we shed outworn self-images. I suspect you’re coming up on such a transition, Aries. While you’re going through it, you may want to lay low. Anything resembling flight—launching new ventures, making big decisions, embarking on great adventures—should probably be postponed until the metamorphosis is complete and your feathers grow back.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 2011, car

traffic began flowing across Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, a newly completed span that joins the city of Qingdao with the Huangdao District in China. This prodigious feat of engineering is 26.4 miles long. I nominate it to serve as your prime metaphor in the coming weeks. Picture it whenever you need a boost as you work to connect previously unlinked elements in your life. It may help inspire you to master the gritty details that’ll lead to your own monumental accomplishment.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): An apple

starts growing on its tree in the spring. By early summer, it may be full size and as red as it will ever be. To the naked eye, it appears ready to eat. But it’s not. If you pluck it and bite into it, the taste probably won’t appeal to you. If you pluck it and hope it will be more delicious in a few weeks, you’ll be disappointed. So here’s the moral of the story, Gemini: For an apple to achieve its potential, it has to stay on the tree until nature has finished ripening it.

Keep that lesson in mind as you deal with the urge to harvest something before it has reached its prime.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Dear Rob:

In one of your recent horoscopes, you implied that I should consider the possibility of asking for more than I’ve ever asked for before. You didn’t actually use those words, but I’m pretty sure that’s what you meant. Anyway, I want to thank you! It helped me start working up the courage to burst out of my protective and imprisoning little shell. Today I gave myself permission to learn the unknowable, figure out the inscrutable, and dream the inconceivable.

— Crazy Crab.” Dear Crazy: You’re leading the way for your fellow Cancerians. The process you just described is exactly what I advise them to try in the coming weeks.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Picture yourself

moving toward a building you haven’t seen before. Trust the initial image that leaps into your imagination. What type of path are you on? Concrete or dirt or brick or wood? Is it a long, winding way, or short and direct? Once you arrive at the front door, locate the key. Is it under a mat, or in your pocket or somewhere else? What does the key look like? Next, open the door and go inside to explore. Where have you arrived? See everything in detail. This is a test that has no right or wrong answers, Leo—similar to what your life is actually bringing you right now. The building you’ve envisioned represents the next phase of your destiny. The path symbolizes how you get here. The key is the capacity or knowledge you will need.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My first poetry

teacher suggested that it was my job as a poet to learn the names of things in the natural world. She said I should be able to identify at least 25 species of trees, 25 flowers, 25 herbs, 25 birds and eight clouds.

I have unfortunately fallen short in living up to that very modest goal, and I’ve always felt guilty about it. But it’s never too late to begin, right? In the coming weeks, I vow to correct for my dereliction of duty. I urge you to follow my lead, Virgo. Is there any soul work that you have been neglecting? Is there any part of your life’s mission that you have skipped over? Now would be an excellent time to catch up.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s my

nomination for one of the 10 Biggest Problems in the World: our refusal to control the pictures and thoughts that pop into our minds. For example, I can personally testify that when a fearful image worms

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the hands

of a skilled practitioner, astrology can help you determine the most favorable days to start a new project or heat up your romantic possibilities or get a tattoo of a ninja mermaid. Success is of course still quite feasible at other times, but you might find most grace and ease if you align yourself with the cosmic flow. Let’s consider, for example, the issue of you taking a vacation.

According to my understanding, if you do it between now and July 23, the experiences you have will free your ass, and—hallelujah!—your mind will then gratefully follow. If you schedule your getaway for another time, you could still free your ass, but may have to toil more intensely to get your mind to join the fun.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

What is your most hateable and loveable obsession, Sagittarius? The compulsion that sometimes sabotages you and sometimes inspires you? The longing that can either fool you or make you smarter? Whatever it is, I suspect it’s beginning a transformation.

Is there anything you can do to ensure that the changes it undergoes will lead you away from the hateable consequences and closer to the loveable stuff? I think there’s a lot you can do. For starters: Do a ritual—yes, an actual ceremony—in which you affirm your intention that your obsession will forever after serve your highest good and brightest integrity.

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

someone who thrives on simple organic food and doesn’t enjoy shopping, I would not normally have lunch at a hot dog stand in a suburban mall. But that’s what I did today. Nor do I customarily read books by writers whose philosophy repels me, and yet recently I have found myself skimming through Ayn Rand’s The Virtue of Selfishness. I’ve been enjoying these acts of rebellion. They’re not directed at the targets that I usually revolt against, but rather at my own habits and comforts. I suggest you enjoy similar insurrections in the coming week, Capricorn. Rise up and overthrow your attachment to boring familiarity.

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

ancient Chinese book of divination known as the I Ching speaks of “catching things before they exit the gate of change.” That’s what happens when a martial artist anticipates an assailant’s movement before it happens, or when a healer corrects an imbalance in someone’s body before it becomes a full-blown symptom or illness. I see this as an important principle for you right now, Aquarius. It’s a favorable time to catch potential disturbances prior to the time they exit the gate of change. If you’re alert for prebeginnings, you should be able to neutralize or transform brewing problems so they never become problems.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

Neurophysiologists say that singing really loudly can flush away metabolic waste from your cerebrum. I say that singing really loudly can help purge your soul of any tendency it might have to ignore its deepest promptings. I bring these ideas to your attention, Pisces, because I believe the current astrological omens are suggesting that you do some really loud singing. Washing the dirt and debris out of your brain will do wonders for your mental hygiene. And your soul could use a boost as it ramps up its wild power to pursue its most important dreams.

You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18 or older. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785.

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Worlds in motion Though he spends his days firing clay into immovable shapes, Bar Shacterman thrives on motion. A Ukraine native who immigrated to Israel at age 6, and later toured the world before settling in Northern California, Shacterman’s artistic outlook is a product of the cultures he’s absorbed on his travels.

He’s even incorporated motion into his normally static art form by staging live sculpting shows with a band, manipulating clay in response to the music.

This interview started in his crowded indoor workshop in his Fair Oaks studio, and then moved to his outdoor workspace—which contains two kilns, dozens of hand-carved mallets and clay-shaping tools, and an unfinished wall-sized ceramic piece involving Lady Justice and the Ten Commandments. It ended in the front room, supervised by his sculpted mythological deities—all alien limbs, science-fiction mechanics, warrior armor and holy visages.

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What do you hope to communicate with your art?

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I don’t want to sound too bombastic, but I don’t know how much is you doing it and how much is the art doing through you.

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With ceramics, is there a danger of sculpture exploding in the kilns?

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You have moved a lot: Russia, Israel, Europe, India, Japan, New York.

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[gestures to sculpted figures] you can see a little Japanese in what they wear, especially the armor. It’s like a samurai’s.

You’re Jewish, but spirituality from all over the world is reflected in your art.

Does that mirror your personal spiritual evolution?

It’s possible. When you’re a kid and you’re looking around and talking to people, you can see that life doesn’t begin and end with the things that most people try to get: money, power, relationships. And you can see that the people who get these things often aren’t too happy, and they have regrets. So you start asking yourself, “What is life about?” …

And every religion says it has the answer.

So you start listening and you see that some of them are more correct. You won’t find where to walk; you really find where not to walk. For you. It’s very individual.

So, yes, I express some of the spiritual stuff I see in my art. I started sculpting planets. And then I sculpted some landscapes for those planets; I call them “clayscapes.”

They are like artifacts related to those planets. And then I started doing mythology for those planets—beings. So everything you see here is a piece of that imagination. I don’t know if I am playing God. Each of us plays God in a way. You have a lot of living organisms in your body that have nothing to do with you, so many bacteria, so many viruses. You are basically a universe. And if you really go in, it’s endless, as endless as if you go out.

So I try to play with those ideas. Ω Bar Shacterman’s Gods and Planets in Clay will be at Gallery 2110 at 2110 K Street from July 12, to August 3. Meet the artist at the gallery on Thursday, July 12, from 6 to 8 p.m. For more information, visit www.barbotic.com.

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