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Do unto others I’m trying hard not to lose faith in people.

A letter that arrived in my email inbox this past weekend, however, threatened to shred what little I seem to have left sometimes.

As it poured buckets of rain, I sat inside, cozy and warm, secure in knowing that during this particular winter storm at least, my most basic needs were being met.

Outside, I realized, others were not as fortunate.

What I didn’t know, however, was the extent to which some people do not care—the extent to which they instead feel disdain and contempt for those worse off.

Then I read the email, written in response to my co-editor Nick Miller’s recent story, “The real face of homelessness” (SN&R Feature Story, November 15): “Unfortunately, for these homeless, Obama has seen to it that they will have tougher times ahead with no hope in sight. Really, a lot of the homeless should commit suicide.

Wouldn’t it be easier to go away than to exist and suffer the way they do?

Why continue existing in this life, knowing it will probably not change for the better … I’m just sayin’.”

There are no words.

Actually, I found plenty. Instead, however, I resisted the impulse to hit “reply” and let my anger match his ugly callousness.

I’m not a religious person, but I do believe that we are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers. That we are beholden to a responsibility to treat others as we wish to be treated.

I pity that letter writer. I hope somebody somewhere treats him with kindness—and soon. He may have clothes, food and shelter; his basic physical needs are most likely met, but when it comes to that which makes us caring, content and compassionate creatures, however, he clearly has nothing left to keep him warm.

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My biggest vice is actually overeating. I can’t seem to overcome it, first of all, because I come from a Latino family, and you don’t get off the table until you finish everything that’s on your plate. I’ve got a great cook, my wife, and also my mother-in-law is a great cook, so I tend to keep on the extra pounds.

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My biggest vice is that I don’t love God nearly as much as I should, and I can’t kick the habit because I am a foul sinner in need of grace.

Mario DeBernardo consultant for the assembly

I’d say that it’s watching too much football on the weekend. On Saturday, Sunday, even Monday and Thursday nights. I can’t seem to kick the habit because of fantasy football.

By the end of the week, I look back and see how much time I’ve wasted.

I don’t see myself kicking it anytime soon.

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Re “Quitter” by Nick Miller (SN&R Editor’s Note, November 29): I really love this opinion piece by Nick Miller about Facebook. My enthusiasm for this website died when they went public, and had been waning for some time before that, as I found out about the information gathering they seemed to be doing and where all that was leading as we forfeit our privacy in the name of being social.

I “friended” mostly people that I knew or had known years ago, who found me on Facebook, along with a few who I didn’t know in “real life” but who were artists like me. I thought it was a good way to keep up with people I knew, but then I realized that if you don’t log onto your page several letter of the week times a day, you miss most of the postings. And when big businesses began to appear so you could become a fan, I lost my desire to even check my page. I do like the idea of small local businesses having fans, but when big businesses and corporations try to act as if they are my “friends,” I draw the line.

I’ve been told by a wise woman I know that to release that which no longer serves you is the way to freedom. There’s still email and real-life conversations for being social, and is the rest really worth it if you give up your right to privacy to a corporation who thinks of you as a dollar sign and not as a real-life human being?

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Hey, Walters is a good writer Re “War of the words” by Bill Bradley (SN&R Feature Story, November 29): I read Dan Walters’ column regularly in [The Sacramento] Bee. I rarely see things from his perspective, but I do feel Bill Bradley should give credit where credit is due. Walters is a damned good writer.

Jim Carlson Rocklin

More shelter for less money Re “Gimme shelter” by Dave Kempa (SN&R Frontlines, November 29): You may be one of 25,000 people to need housing assistance in Sacramento next year. If so, the odds are 160 to 1 against getting into the [7th & H Street Housing Community] development. And if you are not one of the lucky ones, it’s back to the tents.

Taxpayers are being gouged to provide expensive housing which serves only a few families. The 7th & H project cost $44.8 million, or $300,000 for a one-bedroom unit. This is the price of a nice three-bedroom house in the suburbs.

Similarly, the Globe Mills project cost taxpayers $262,000 a unit, and the Hotel Berry cost $218,000 a unit.

Rent vouchers would spread funds more fairly than any of these projects, at a fraction of the cost. And Habitat for Humanity homes cost less than a quarter of this new housing community.

The Sacramento Housing Alliance admits that providing housing and in-house medical care could cost $42,000 a year per person. They claim this to be a bargain, compared to emergency-care and jail costs. But emergency care is already BEFORE

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Why have we chosen the most expensive and unjust approach possible to low-cost housing?

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Add instructions, please Re “Gimme shelter” by Dave Kempa (SN&R Frontlines, November 29): A lot of articles talk about affordable housing. Few—if any—say how one can actually apply to get it.

Noah Kameyer Sacramento Editor’s Note: A link to the affordablehousing website, www.mercyhousing. org, was provided in a column note next to the story.

Less Facebook, more Monkey Knife Fight Re “Quitter” by Nick Miller (SN&R Editor’s note, November 29): I gave up Facebook and started exercising—my self-esteem shot up through the roof. By the way, I suggest the Monkey Knife Fight [Pale] Ale at the Rubicon Brewing Company.

Mark Condit via email

Offense is liberating Re “Boo for bias” (SN&R Letters, November 29): In response to the letter “Boo for bias” by G. Feldmann: Enough with the “politically correct” admonishment to staff writer Raheem F. Hosseini. Old terms of speech are just that: old!

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After running a couple dozen miles from Folsom to Sacramento during the California International Marathon in a torrential downpour on Sunday, December 2, it must have felt good to enjoy the blinding sunshine that eventually overtook downtown.

You are probably one of those concerned citizens who wants to rewrite the old classics, such as the censored version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which removed the type of language some people find offensive in today’s society. Phooey on your suggestion of sensitivity training; unless you are the one taking it.

The writer of today has to be apprehensive when old terms of our language are said to be offensive. The phrase “a redheaded stepchild”—it’s true meaning is somewhat vague, but it’s doubtful it is discrimination. But let’s take it to The Hague and allow that international court to decide so the SN&R writers may print without anyone taking offense.

Be offended. It is liberating.

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Re “Giving thanks, SN&R style” (SN&R Editorial, November 21): As the holiday season approaches, we should give thanks to the tea party for the blessings it has bestowed on our nation: Thank you for forcing Mitt Romney so far to the right during the Republican primary that his subsequent backflips and contortions made him appear lacking any core values. Thank you for giving us a collection of candidates who were manifestly unqualified to be in the Senate or House [of Representatives].

Thank you for imposing on the Republican Party unyielding opposition to immigration reform, thereby delivering to Democrats a large and growing voter block; for denigrating gay and lesbian A RT S & C U LT U R E

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Tea party, you are truly the gift that keeps on giving—and will provide a long-term Democratic majority in our country. Thank you.

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It is loosed.

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Low profile Bedeviled by bureaucracy and political inaction, Sacramento’s racialprofiling advisory body is stuck in limbo Sacramento law enforcement’s documented trouble with racial profiling hasn’t dissolved, but by the commission tasked with addressing it Raheem pretty much has.

F. Hosseini The city’s Community Racial Profiling Commission is mired in a kind r a h eemh@ newsr eview.c om of bureaucratic limbo. Because of the specific way the city envisioned the commission and a lack of political will to update it, members haven’t convened a meeting since September 2011 and—bizarrely enough—can’t formally discuss anything having to do with racial profiling.

This despite being confronted with new tales of racially biased policing and having four-plus years of backlogged traffic-enforcement data to analyze.

“The things that people bring to us, we can’t do anything with because it’s technically outside our scope,” explained the Rev. Ashiya Odeye, who’s served on the commission for more than two years.

The Catch-22 is that the commission was originally established to make recommendations based on a 2008 trafficenforcement study. Because no new study has been commissioned since then, the commission’s hands—and lips—are locked.

In 2008, a data-collection project from Lamberth Consulting analyzed trafficenforcement patterns at 55 locations throughout Sacramento and confirmed what had long been speculated: Police officers were stopping blacks and Hispanics at a disproportionate rate and subjecting them to more pat-down searches and probation inquiries than their white and Asian counterparts.

The report caused a stir at the time, with the police department and the Office of Public Safety Accountability calling the results “alarming” and implementing a handful of training and internal-tracking measures in response.

No one can say what effect, if any, those reforms have had on racial profiling.

“We don’t know, because we don’t have another study out there, which we would love to have,” explained commission chairwoman Danette Brown.

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The chief obstacle to commissioning another study, predictably, is money, though commission members believe they would be able to seek their own funding—as well as conduct community outreach and start discussing racial profiling again—if city council takes up an amendment that’s been floating around for two years now.

Police officers were stopping blacks and Hispanics at a disproportionate rate and subjecting them to more patdown searches and probation inquiries than their white and Asian counterparts.

“We’re at the mercy of the city council. They can pretty much abolish us at any time. That would be a shame,” Brown said. “There’s really great, passionate people on the commission, but their hands are tied, unfortunately.”

Even without a new traffic-enforcement study, other available statistics reveal that racially biased policing

remains a trip wire in the capital city.

Historically, OPSA says that most of the people who complain about police abuses in Sacramento have been black or Hispanic.

Of the 191 formal citizen complaints made against the police department last year, 51 percent came from black and Latino residents.

While the police department commissioned its own somewhat maligned traffic-stop study in 2000—one that downplayed the nature of the problem using dubious evaluation models—police officials have been active in working with the commission since its 2004 inception.

The department continues to compile raw traffic-stop data for the commission and, before the commission went into hibernation, police officials made regular presentations on hiring and training practices, traffic-enforcement trends and internal investigations.

“It’s supposed to be monitoring us, you know,” reasoned department program analyst Mary McFadden.

Odeye and his fellow commissioners likewise think the commission still has a purpose.

“Racial profiling is still going on,” the minister contended. “The [2008 traffic-stop project] was only the tip of the iceberg. Most of the people being harassed are on foot and on bicycles.

Especially bicycles.”

Between the months of July and September alone, the police department initiated 8,124 traffic stops. Officer

Doug Morse said the department has collected statistical data on nearly every one of those stops. But the commission is unable to look at this data under its current scope.

A slight drop in police-misconduct complaints between 2010 and 2011 makes OPSA director Francine Tournour believe the public’s perception of the police department might be improving, though she allows for other possibilities.

“Just because people aren’t complaining doesn’t mean they’re happy,” Tournour acknowledged.

For instance, residents may have stopped filing complaints because they have less faith those complaints will be investigated. Tournour is a one-woman show, after all, and other watchdog groups—like the commission and the district attorney’s office, which stopped investigating all officer-involved shootings last year—have fallen by the wayside.

Odeye said the written amendment would free the commission to spearhead its own community-based studies every few years by reaching out to local universities and professional organizations and by actively pursuing grants and alternative-funding opportunities, all of which it hasn’t been permitted to do.

“All we need is someone on the city council to back it,” Odeye said. “The reports need to be done on a regular basis until we solve [the problem]. And who knows when that will be.” Ω

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Two weeks after its launch, Sacramento Steps Forward’s Winter Sanctuary program is already running at full bore, with more homeless Sacramentans seeking shelter than the initiative can reasonably provide.

“The maximum we can handle is 100 [people],” said Christie Holderegger of Volunteers of America. “We reached that the first week we were open.”

Due to the combined efforts of Sacramento Steps Forward, Volunteers of America and the area’s faith community, Winter Sanctuary is now in its third year of housing and feeding homeless men and women.

From November 19 until the end of March, area churches and mosques take turns sheltering homeless adults ranging in age from 19 to 70-something for a night of food, interaction with church volunteers, games and, often, a movie.

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Before Sacramento Steps Forward created the program, Sacramento County had been

providing winter shelter at Cal Expo, with up to 154 men, women and children. But this proved unsustainable, costing the county around $700,000 each winter, and funding soon ran out.

Although Winter Sanctuary provides fewer beds than Cal Expo, Sacramento Steps Forward executive director Ben Burton notes that it has been successful both in costs (the entire program functions on $150,000 in donations) and in getting the community involved.

The program has also proven more peaceful than its predecessor, with participants held to strict standards regarding violence, smoking and substance abuse while in the shelter.

“The old situation, Cal Expo, they had no guidance,” said participant Kenneth Whitaker.

“It was just putting problems from the street into one place.” Whitaker, 61, has been making use of the Winter Sanctuary program since its inception two years ago.

While it may be much more streamlined and community-oriented than its predecessor, the current Winter Sanctuary seems to suffer almost solely on capacity: There are fewer spaces than there are people who need shelter.

“We would absolutely like to meet the need,” said Holderegger. “And it’s possible, if we had more resources.”

But this would mean a larger staff. And more churches. More vans for transporting homeless people to the shelters, or perhaps a bus. More staff. More sleeping bags. And in the end, more funding.

“ The old situation, Cal Expo, they had no guidance.

It was just putting problems from the street into one place.”

Kenneth Whitaker homeless man on the winter shelter at Cal Expo

Donations, however, do not come easily, and in the past, the program was unable to start on time due to funding issues.

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Meet your District 4 councilman, another rich guy who doesn’t like questions Welcome to City Hall, Steve Hansen. You are off to a terrible start.

Let’s start with your pledge to give up your city council salary and instead put it into a “technology incubator.”

Most of us make just a fraction of the dough you pull down as a lobbyist for Genentech. (Sorry, “senior regional manager of state government affairs.”) vIn Ar G It is great for you that you don’t need o SM

by Co that money to live on, and can instead cos mog@ n ewsrev iew.c om use it for your own projects. But what exactly are you going to do with the money again? Put it into one of those 501(c)(3)-type deals, where the public will never get to see the books? Because that’s not worked out so well in the past.

If you don’t want the salary, you could give it back to the general fund. There are plenty of other good uses for it. Better yet, why don’t you just take the salary that comes with the job, and give up the corporate-lobbyist gig? The council job is often described as “part time.” But it’s not, really. And $60,000 is hardly part-time money for most people around Sacramento, not even for most of the people who live in your district.

Sure, lots of council members have day jobs, and some are wealthy compared to the rest of us. But they don’t have jobs as lobbyists, directing corporate money to political candidates around the state. They don’t then turn around and ask those same politicians for donations to their own political campaigns, as you have done in your job.

We tried to talk about this once, remember? Well, actually you didn’t want to talk about it at all. In fact, you kind of flipped out and said that being asked questions like this was akin to “being thrown in the water like a witch.”

Is this how it’s going to be for the next four years, Steve? We last talked about this stuff on Election Day, and you haven’t responded since. Bites supposes that’s because it’s just like being burned at the stake when a reporter says something like, “Hey, Steve, I noticed that a lot of the candidates that Genentech donated money to over the last couple of years also donated money to your city council campaign—sometimes on the same day.”

Or, “Hey, Steve, it looks like Genentech doesn’t really give much money to local government candidates. But one rare exception is Jay Schenirer, your friend and the guy who appointed you to the city’s redistricting panel last year. Any connection?”

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Or, “Gee, Steve, how do we know you’re not using your job at Genentech to leverage campaign donations?”

These are natural questions, given what you do for a living and the office you now hold and the public interest in knowing how one affects the other. But on Election Day, you made it clear how unfair you thought it was for any reporter to ask questions like that. You said, “I’m not the Pillsbury Doughboy, and I don’t appreciate being poked.”

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Probably not. But it is the job you signed up for. Of course, you’re not the only one who doesn’t like being poked by reporters, Steve.

Your fellow city-council newbie is Allen Warren, whose troubled personal finances and convoluted legal troubles actually cost him his endorsement from The Sacramento Bee—after SN&R brought them to light. He too acted like no one had a right to press him on his business.

And no one hates being poked more than Boss Johnson, whose lawyer rebuffed requests for information about Johnson’s controversial network of nonprofit funds by saying, “If the public wants more disclosure, the public should change the law.”

So, you’ll fit in fine, Steve. Which is too bad. What happened to “repairing public trust in government”? A couple of halfwaychallenging questions and you are all, “Oh, I’m melting! Mellltiiing!”

Bites is not trying to torture you or crucify you on the cross like some sort Jesus of Midtown, Steve, though it may feel that way to you.

These are not even “pokes,” really, just the sort of routine questions that reporters are supposed to ask politicians. Though it should be said, the more you freak out, the more interesting those questions become. Ω

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Or to be more accurate, I checked the “yes” box. I figured it was a way to give a little more money to the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services.

It is not like I needed the race officials to time me. I wear a stopwatch, and I knew I would use l ne ae nK Vo ff Je by it. At the start of the race, I dutifully lined up with j e ffv @n e wsr e v ie w.c o m those expecting to run at an eight-to-nine-minute pace. While running the 10k race, I noted each of my mile times. For reasons I cannot explain, I care how my time compares to other males in my age group (60 to 64). And I care how my 61-year-old time compares to my previous times. In case you are wondering, I am slower than my younger self. At this point in my life, I am also trying to outrun the Grim Reaper. I expect that bastard rarely does better than a 12-minute pace.

After the race, I collected my free bottle of water and Cliff Bar and walked back to my car to start driving home.

Having neglected to review my race packet, I did not know which route to take. So for the next 20 minutes or so, At this point in my I drove around looking for a path through the thousands of life, I am also trying walkers and runners. than 27,000 people: to outrun the oldMore people, young people, Grim Reaper. school groups and corporate groups, most of whom did not care what their running time was. But we all cared enough about ending hunger that we were willing to spend our time and money to help. And we did, raising almost $1 million.

Sitting in my car, watching a steady stream of neighHelp Sacramento bors pass by, made me very proud of our town. But it also Food Bank & Family made me sad to think about just how much hunger we Services serve more hungry families in have in our region.

Our food banks are being slammed. As the head of the the community by making a donation at Sacramento Food Bank, Blake Young, will tell you, we www.sacramento must dramatically increase food-stamp participation in our foodbank.org. region. There are almost 150,000 people in our five-county region who qualify for food stamps, now called CalFresh, but do not receive them. We stupidly turn away more than $200 million in federal funds each year because of our Jeff vonKaenel is the president, weak participation in CalFresh.

If we simplified and improved food-stamp procedures CEO and majority owner of in our five-county region, and if nonprofits and faith the News & Review groups assisted with outreach campaigns, we could newspapers in Sacramento, dramatically reduce hunger in our region. And if 27,000 of Chico and Reno. us can walk and run to reduce hunger, I think we have the will to change this. It’s time. Ω

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Will lawsuits plague, or just be speed bumps for, California’s new cap-and-trade program?

Here’s what we know so far about California’s spanking-new cap-and-trade program.

For starters, it’s popular. At a special auction in by Christopher Arns November, companies snapped up all 23 million carbon credits sold by the California Air Resources Board. And most of the buyers were companies, not speculators who could skew the price.

On the surface, everything seemed like good news for ARB. The auction seemingly went off without a hitch.

Well, not so fast. Now the ARB is facing criticism and court battles over the program that could bog down the whole thing.

Earlier this year, two Bay Area activist groups sued ARB over the board’s emissions-offset program, which allows polluters to buy cheaper credits from conservation projects that keep carbon out of the atmosphere. Companies can use those credits to offset up to 8 percent of their greenhouse-gas emissions while buying the rest through ARB’s credit auctions.

Activists from Citizens Climate Lobby and Our Children’s Earth Foundation believe this offset plan won’t actually reduce pollution.

Citizens Climate Offsets will only reward existing conservation projects, they argue, Lobby and Our without creating additional forms Children’s Earth of carbon reduction. Those offsets could potentially make up 85 Foundation believe percent of all emission-reduction the offset plan won’t efforts if demand is high enough.

Laurie Williams, an attorney actually reduce and volunteer with Citizens pollution. Climate Lobby, said this problem undermines the state’s cap-andtrade market. The case starts this week on December 7, with a hearing in San Francisco, and Williams said eventually the two groups want ARB to reform the offset system.

“It’s about an attempt to prevent a loophole from swallowing the rule and basically making this a bad example for how to proceed,” she said.

Citing the pending lawsuit, the ARB refused to address specifics about the offset program or the issue over whether it actually reduces pollution. Dave Clegern, an ARB spokesman, would only say the board disagreed with Citizens Climate Lobby.

“We will defend the program and the offset portion of it vigorously,” Clegern said.

There’s another legal dustup facing the board. On November 13, the California Chamber of Commerce Green Days is on the lookout for innovative filed a lawsuit challenging ARB’s carbon-credits sustainable projects auction, scheduled to take place four times a year throughout the through 2020. In a statement, the chamber claimed Sacramento region.

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“The business community has repeatedly underscored the fact that the auction will raise energy costs significantly in the state, harm the economy and impact California’s competitiveness without providing any additional environmental benefits,” the chamber said in the statement.

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The devastating media coverage, the strange timing, the odd political bedfellows. And then there was New York’s Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo linking it all to climate change. And then there was the image on the front page of The New York Times Sunday Review on November 25: the Statue of Liberty standing on Ellis Island, shoulder-deep in a rising ocean. As images go, it reminded Auntie Ruth a tad of Charlton Heston and the fallen Statue of Liberty at the very end of the first of the Planet of the Apes series. (A map detailing the impact of rising sea levels on Sacramento was included in the Sunday Review’s story.)

Climate change: Gee, it’s arrived.

Groups lobby—and sue—the California Air Resources Board to ensure that the cap-and-trade program results in actual emissions and pollution reduction.

In addition to these lawsuits, a new report also questioned the offset program’s effectiveness, asking whether the program would offer enough carbon offsets to satisfy demand. According to the American Carbon Registry, a voluntary offset program that published the report, the ARB needs to approve more conservation projects to sell carbon credits.

Currently, ARB has approved four categories, or “protocols,” including “dairy digesters,” “urban forests,” “rural forests” and “ozone depleting substances.” The board is considering two additional protocols next year.

Belinda Morris, the registry’s California director, said even with six types of protocols, the approved conservation projects would only meet half of the expected demand for offset credits. She said the board needs at least eight protocols to meet demand.

“We feel like the program as a whole [is] going to be a better program as more protocols are adopted by ARB,” Morris said.

ARB spokesman Clegern had a different take, arguing that a cautious approach is needed before considering more protocols.

“We must have genuine emission reductions,” he said. “That’s our first priority. There may be folks out there in the market who have a timetable, but we have to make sure these are actual reductions.” Ω

When the NYT—arguably, America’s paper of record—writes, “Whether in 50 or 100 or 200 years, there is a good chance New York City will sink beneath the sea,” while it may not be news to a lot of people, it marks a sea change of a sort.

Does your home float?

But we’re Sacramento. Boy, howdy, we’re a floodplain people. Build it and they will come and, hopefully, float.

Matt Weiser and Phillip Reese reported in The Sacramento Bee in mid-November that in the case of a superstorm and the possibility of broken levees—by nature less predictable than, say, a hurricane—floodwaters could rise 1 foot in two hours or less.

That among the Pocket, Land Park, River Park and Natomas areas, all “considered ‘rescue areas.’ … As the flood continued, some of these areas would see water rise high enough to submerge a twostory house.” The variables are many.

Chilling stuff.

There are those who advocate we mitigate the effects of climate change, and those who advocate we adapt to it. All over the world, the strategies unfold. International Marine Floatation Systems Inc. builds houses on a foundation of concrete shell and a Styrofoam core. Along these lines, the Dutch have floating houses built on steel-pole anchor homes: They float up and down the poles as the waters rise and fall. In a Guardian UK article, Denis D. Gray details hospitals on stilts in We bet your aunts Thailand, quotes experts envisioning Manhattan aren’t as cool as ours. ringed by a sea wall and “a network of floating Friend Auntie Ruth islands” in the Maldives, the world’s lowest on Facebook country. and let’s hang out.

What’s the long view here in Sacramento?

A good question to ask. As to the short view, you can find detailed flood information by Googling “Sacramento neighborhood flood depth maps.” Ω

Year of the green car This column has previously recommended visiting the Green Car Reports website (www.greencarreports.com) to help when purchasing a “green” car. But in 2013, there will be so many fuel-efficient vehicles for sale, people will likely need another website: www.fueleconomy.gov. It’s the U.S. Department of Energy’s site, and thus, the official U.S. government source for fuel-economy information. It’s also a great resource for prospective car buyers of any kind. There, consumers can compare the latest hybrid models, electric vehicles and other cars; search for ways to save fuel and money; and read the latest news about fuel economy.

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One of the best things to become established in America in my lifetime is the popularity of bicycles and bicycling.

When I moved to Sacramento in 1980, my main means of transportation was a bicycle, and so few people rode bicycles in those days that I was soon known in Midtown and downtown as “The Guy Who Rides a Bike.”

Seriously. I’m not kidding. I walked all over town, too, and dozens of times I was greeted by complete strangers with, “Hey, where’s your bike?” or “Hey, it’s the bike guy.”

Speaking of bicycles, things—as in the projected changes in the Earth’s climate based on actual measurable data—are not looking good for the survival of humanity beyond another couple of generations unless we dramatically, fantastically and heroically shrink our carbon footprints to almost nothing—and soon.

“Oh, dear,” we Americans collectively respond to the irrefutable information about what’s happening on Earth at this very moment. “But how can we reduce our carbon footprints even a little if the powers that be won’t provide us with groovalicious mass transit and spacious, sturdy solar and electric cars made from recycled plastic and inexpensive renewable energy There is no doubt and stuff like that? How can we change that we can figure the way we live if someone else doesn’t provide convenient and excellent alternaout myriad ways tives to the way we’re living now?”

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Indeed, the only thing stopping Americans from inventing and implementing wonderful, new low-carbon lives is our unwillingness to believe that such changes are truly necessary. Ω Todd Walton

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Good council It’s imperative that when District 2’s Allen Warren and District 4’s Steve Hansen are sworn in to the Sacramento City Council this Tuesday, its nine members work quickly to remedy the impasse and “dysfunction” of years past.

This means that council leaders need to get to know each other by taking a group retreat, both the mayor and the eight members alone, and also with staffers. Yes, this sounds easy, simple, perhaps silly.

But it hasn’t happened. And, like a married couple on the outs, there’s been bad blood.

Consider: A council member recently told SN&R that in the past years, there was but one council retreat—and it lasted for only 90 minutes. And it took place inside City Hall at the dais.

That’s not a retreat—even city leaders need icebreakers and to do team-building exercises and all of those occasionally eye-rolling games that foster trust and community.

It’s also important that staffers take the time to get to know each other better. A vital City Hall staffer told SN&R last week that they never recalled speaking to another council member’s chief of staff over the years.

That’s not good. Council leaders need to ensure strong, intelligent, regular communication among their staffers.

There’s much work to do—allocation of Measure U funds, budget battles, utilities, etc.—but nothing will get done if the people in City Hall don’t know how to work with each other.

A not-so-grand bargain A recent Sacramento Bee editorial called for smaller We should oppose the notion that some steps to avoid the “fiscal cliff.” Then, strangely, “unified” fiscal cliff must be addressed in the it listed small steps that only call for compromise lame-duck session of Congress. It is, in fact, a as advocated by the Republican’s austerity “fiscal obstacle course” that Congress should proposal. address without panic early in 2013, while heedWe do not need more austerity. If you want ing the election results. some small steps, President Barack Obama More than 200 community organizations suggested extending the Bush-era tax reductions in the Strengthening America’s Values and for the bottom 98 percent of earners. This is a Economy for All campaign of the Coalition on proposal that almost everyone agrees with. Let’s Human Needs, along with organized labor, are disagree over cuts for the top 2 percent and work mobilizing their members and allies to protect by out a compromise. low-income and vulnerable Duane Campbell We should immepeople; promote job creation the chair of the diately reauthorize to strengthen the economy; We cannot promote Sacramento increase revenues from fair democratic Socialists funding for extended the common good by sources; and seek responsible unemployment benefits of America and an emeritus professor to prevent 1.5 million cutting ever more savings by targeting wasteful of bilingual/ workers and their depenspending in the Pentagon and in services and jobs. multicultural education dents from losing their other areas that do not serve the at Sacramento State benefits. California has public interest.

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During the mayor’s SN&R interview, Kevin Johnson laid out his vision for a Sacramento that wields more regional and national influence. “I always looked at what I was doing as eight years,” he said.

Four years didn’t change Sacramento’s opinion of Kevin Johnson, but is the city better off? SN&R sits down for a chat with the mayor on the eve of his second term.

by Nick Miller nickam@new srev iew . com

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ocal kid doin’ good or political-machine powerhouse up to no good? Rock-star politician or divisive prima donna?

If it all sounds familiar, that’s probably because four years as mayor didn’t alter Sacramento’s perception of Kevin Johnson.

Trumpeters still champion his pro-business ethics, ability to rake in private dollars for the public good and inclination for the national spotlight. Doubters still sound off on his highfalutin “world-class” speak, private-fundraising secrecy and affection for cause célèbre politics.

So is Sacramento a better place after four years of K.J.?

The mayor never rolled his eyes during an hour-plus interview with SN&R last week, but there’s no denying Johnson rebuffs the notion that Sacramento isn’t prepped for greatness— and that he’s largely the one to thank for its recent successes.

He’s quick to tout his résumé: K.J. saved the Sacramento Kings (for now), revitalized downtown and K Street, raised tens of millions from private donors for city programs, stepped forward to battle homelessness, planted seeds of an eco-friendly “Emerald Valley,” got the city’s fiscal house in order.

K.J. is K.J.’s best salesman. He’s likeable, easygoing under fire and passionate, whether it’s about laying out a contentious vision for Sacto’s schools or praising his new wife, Michelle Rhee, and her savory tuna casserole (she cooks, he takes out the trash).

Johnson’s verve can charm. He crows about how Sacramento is on the cusp of a promising new identity—a proverbial smalltown big city that, in his words, is poised to become “the secondmost important capital city in the country”—and you almost want to join in with him and let out a few fist pumps, just as he often does while seated at the dais.

But while Johnson excels in the mover-and-shaker politiverse, back at City Hall his administration oftentimes is the devil in the details.

For instance, K.J.’s Sacramento Public Policy Foundation, initiatives and nonprofits allow the mayor to raise unlimited millions in private money, but the donors, coffers and expenditures of this “K.J. Inc.” machine mostly go undisclosed; the California Fair Political Practices Commissions levied a significant fine this past Monday—25 violations, a $37,500 slap—for failing to report millions in donations.

The mayor told SN&R that he’s followed the rules, which, of course, isn’t true—and implies that he possibly doesn’t think the details are important, that the public doesn’t really deserve to know.

The mayor’s snub and secrecy has reared its head often over the past four years: his office’s credit-card scandal, all those travels and missed council meetings. And his penchant for drama—whether it be chastising fellow council members, soapopera redistricting brouhahas or the umpteenth incarnation of his “strong mayor” power grab—had many questioning his brand of leadership.

Despite the prospect of an hour-long chat with SN&R, Johnson entered his fifth-floor City Hall conference room in good spirits

last week. Two city council candidates, purportedly sympathetic with his agenda, Allen Warren of north Sacramento and Steve Hansen of downtown, had just won the election. It’s good news for a mayor wanting to get stronger.

Like any successful politician, the mayor excels in evasiveness and pivoting, especially when pressed on tough issues. So, not every question has answers. But in the end, it’s commendable that he even sat down with the fourth estate; as Mitt Romney will tell you, one can ignore the media and nearly finagle the presidency.

The following is an edited transcript of Mayor Johnson’s SN&R chat, a check-in one month before his next term officially begins.

Four years from now, when you look back on your second term, if one thing could go Sacramento’s way, what would you want it to be?

People say this all the time ... we’re a community overreliant on government jobs and the real-estate industry. And I would love to be part of an era [in which] we diversify our economy, and the green sector, for me, is the opportunity to create a self-sustaining sector. So when you think of Sacramento, it’s the Emerald Valley.

It’s “Man, we lead in green jobs, we lead in green growth, we’re a hub for clean technology.” This notion that we can transform Sacramento into the Emerald Valley.

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“K.J.’S NEXT ACT” continued from page 19 Yet do you support more aggressive environmental policy? For instance, should the city require energy audits of buildings more frequently at the point of sale? Or will you vote yes next time for the longdelayed Green Building Program?

One of the things I’m proud of is you have the folks on one end, on the real-estate side, who weren’t in favor [of point-of-sale audits], and the city worked back and forth, and we came up with a resolution that both sides felt comfortable with. ... It doesn’t do any good if we mandate things without having conversations with people who are in the business community and represent other interests. When you can create a win-win, where they’re actually weighing in on whatever those policies are, then they have a different sense of their investment, and I think that’s something that we’ve been able to do.

What’s been your biggest success so far?

When I got elected, one of my mindsets was to redefine the mayor’s role in Sacramento, which was really important. I thought that the mayor of Sacramento needed to not only be the leader of a city but also the region. I think the mayor of Sacramento has to play a role statewide, because we’re the capital of California. And then … if we’re going to be the second-most important capital in the country, then I think there’s a national dynamic—really elevate the profile of Sacramento. ...

I also thought, in the last four years, we were able to be creative in tough times. We had to cut $200 million over a four-year period, but we found ways to do creative publicprivate partnerships. …

I grew up in Sacramento … and since the late ’60s and early ’70s, downtown has [left] a lot to be desired, as you know. But I think the downtown core over the past years, we’ve made really great strides making a strong, regional downtown core.

Is it the mayor’s job to, say, help the developers of the 700 block of K Street secure a loan? Shouldn’t you be at the table with them and a bank, working something out? It’s not unlike meeting with AEG and the NBA. I would say it’s always the mayor’s job when there’s a priority. If there’s a problem that has a solution and you need a person to get that done, I think it’s always the mayor’s job.

People say the sale of Sacramento Downtown Plaza took too long.

When I grew up here, I remember the early ’70s, what K Street was. And when you look at it over the last 40 years, you think about the hundreds of millions of dollars we spent, and you have nothing to show. Right now, K Street has something to show. We have new owners in Downtown Plaza who are committed to Sacramento. That right there is huge. So the fact that we got it out of somebody’s hands, as opposed to being held hostage, that is a huge win for Sacramento.

OK, so what’s the next step?

It’s going to be a combination of things in my mind. But then again, the developer’s going to say, “First, we have to stabilize it.” Right? We have to make sure Macy’s doesn’t bail, because they’re already kind of downscaled. ...

What I will tell you that I know we need there—and no one disagrees with it—that Downtown Plaza cannot be an inward-facing mall. It’s got to be outward-facing, it’s got to have connectivity to the grid, to the rest of K Street. You can’t have it feel like it’s a fortress. I want to see blue skies, and I want to see it connect to the grid. ...

I know that, collectively, we need more housing downtown, so when you think about, say, San Diego and the Gaslamp [Quarter], you know we need more housing density. … So I think that, in term two, you’re going to see a lot more emphasis on downtown housing and affordability in general, because we need more people to live downtown, and that’s the natural next thing. Whether that happens at the Plaza or [in] the role that the 700 block plays or if things are one block off either way, that’s got to be the totality of the vision downtown that takes place.

It’s got to be a cool place. For example, you’ve been to Lucky Strike?

“I came out of the block goIng, ‘I want to Do theSe fIve thIngS,’ anD the leSSon learneD beIng a John wooDen quote: ‘be quIck, but Don’t hurry.’”

The bowling-alley chain? Yes. Everybody’s been to Lucky Strike! I would love to see a Lucky Strike come downtown. … We don’t always have to get the big names, but I think Lucky Strike is one that puts the stamp of appeal, because it’s the hip, young, millennial, next-generation people that have to populate that area. That, to me, is the energy that we’ve lacked.

So that was when I came in. ... Then you become part of that very system. And I realize that there are certain things in place, and that you become part of the same problem, regardless. Even if you’re not it. Or if you are doing it. ...

We’ve got two-thirds new council members over the last four years. … That’s a whole different perspective. I feel like people are going to be here for a common vision, and I don’t think you’re going to hear those words “a dysfunctional council” over the next four years.

All right, so what things would you go back and do differently?

I think, for me, I felt like I started out really quickly. You know, I came out of the block going, “I want to do these five things,” and the lesson learned being a John Wooden quote, “Be quick, but don’t hurry.” But I just went full steam. I got voted [in] by the public, I felt they knew what my vision was, and what I did not do was sit down and engage council or different coalitions or constituents on the front end, get their input, then tweak it along the way. So, that notion of being quick but don’t hurry, that’s primarily my biggest lesson.

The mayor at the announcement of a Sacramento United Soccer League franchise on December 3.

Some fault Johnson and his Think Big Sacramento initiative for being too sports-focused, while others thank him for (temporarily) saving the Sacramento Kings.

I read interviews with mayors from other U.S. cities—Michael Bloomberg of New York City, Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, etc.—and Bloomberg basically says that as mayor, you go in and you do the hard stuff first, and in the end, if your approval ratings are low, then you know you did a good job.

Does his philosophy resonate with you?

Critics blame President Barack Obama for not uniting Congress. How much of city council’s “dysfunction” is on you?

It does, but again, this whole notion of strong mayor, he has a different environment. He’s the CEO of a city, so he can do the hard stuff. I couldn’t. I think I thought I could do it, but I didn’t realize it’s not the same government, so it didn’t quite work out that way. What works in New York [City], his style, doesn’t quite work out in Sacramento. But I certainly can understand why he said that and what he’s talking about.

In my campaign, one of the things I said was that I want to bring a new energy and a new perspective to city council.

This was ’08. And I remember saying then that the council’s dysfunctional, our community deserves better, etc.

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“business-friendly.” For example—and this is my pet issue—people say Sacramento was built with beer and brewery money. Yet today, it’s illegal to sell single bottles of beer in the central city.

Right.

You can’t go to the Sacramento Natural Foods Coop, which your campaign manager, Steve Maviglio, is president of, and buy a single bottle of one of the world’s finest beers. Meanwhile, a ton of new breweries have opened shop in the region. Is this a microcosm of larger problems inside City Hall?

The mayor doesn’t hide his emotions on the city council dais. He also told SN&R that there wouldn’t be a new “strong mayor” proposal right out of the gate this year.

At home in my free time when I play armchair city clerk and look at the new city council makeup, I now see five votes for strong mayor. Do you?

Off the record or on the record?

On the record. Are we going to see another strongmayor proposal in the next few months?

What I’ve learned, going back to “Be quick, but don’t hurry,” is you’ve got to have a dialogue and engage people.

I cannot come out and say this is what we want to do. It’s not the right approach. It would not be smart for me.

So we have a new council that’s going to get seated, I think [voters] sent a strong message that this community wants a different energy, similar to my agenda. I’m

“i would love to see a lucky strike come downtown. it’s the hip, young, millennial, next-generation people that have to populate that area. that, to me, is the energy that we’ve lacked.” pro-business, I’m pro-public safety and taking steps forward. We’ve got to get to know each other. We all actually know each other, but we’re all on the same team, in the same uniform now. We’ve got to get to know each other.

And I think what will happen is, very early, we’ll start setting out some priorities.

So, another strong-mayor push in the next three months?

I think a natural dialogue and conversation will include everything, but I’d be making the same mistake all over again if I spent any time thinking about that as an early conversation. It’s just not smart to do.

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How has married life changed you?

I don’t eat out as much as before (laughs). I appreciate what home-cooked meals are on a whole different level.

I’ve seen you and your wife often at the Sunday farmers market. What do K.J. and Michelle Rhee cook for dinner?

So, I go to the farmers market every Sunday, whether she’s in town or not, I do that. I do not do the cooking. I pay for the groceries; that’s my contribution (laughs). I bag the groceries. I carry them into the house. And I put the dishes away and do the trash, all that stuff—those are kind of my duties. And she’s a good cook, she enjoys cooking. She’s a modern-day woman who can multitask and do a hundred things well. She’s like Superwoman—she does everything very effectively, and I’m the beneficiary of that.

She lives part-time across the country, and while I personally see the upside of your traveling, you get a lot of criticism for traveling too much, for missing council meetings. How can Sacramento benefit from your travels?

I want us to reach our potential as a city. I want us to play to our strengths, and I want us to have an identity that we all feel very good about. … So, Austin, [Texas], what do we think about Austin? We think about the music festivals or the tech folks there. All these places have things that are their identity and have been for years.

And when I think about Sacramento, if I go around the country, people think about the gridlock and the dysfunction of the state. “Oh, your state can’t do this, your credit rating’s down. The Legislature there”—that’s all that people know. And that Sacramento sucks. ...

And they’re not just talking about the city, they’re talking about the state and the city. And I feel like that if you look back to the 1800s and the transcontinental railroad and people out here discovering gold, Sacramento had a pioneering spirit. It wasn’t afraid to take risks; there were entrepreneurs who were willing to risk it all. I feel like we have to tap back into that for the next 100 years.

It’s interesting you mention innovation and risks and going back to the 1800s, because I want to know what you think it means to make Sacto more

Those are no-brainer things to me. So let’s not even talk about the beer question in general—I’ll get to that, though.

For me, it’s not that hard to be a business-friendly environment. You just create a business climate where your permitting and fees are all conducive to what the customer needs. … And we’ve made strides on that. We’ve streamlined a lot of things when it comes to permitting.

We’ve found ways to make it one-stop instead of when you come in, you have to go to 50 different departments. It’s inefficient, it’s dumb, it’s not smart. Those [things] cost no money. ...

One of the big things for us is I would be out in Sac saying, “This parking thing is a pain in the butt.” Those things aren’t hard to fix. If you want people to come downtown, you can’t have such restrictive parking so that no one wants to come downtown. … There are things we can do to create a more conducive and inviting business climate for all these things. Again, I’m a fan of—and I say this all the time—what West Sacramento, Roseville and other places do. They shouldn’t be the only places doing it.

So in terms of the beer question: Why would we not look at that, send it to the Law and [Legislation] Committee, look at different ordinances and do that? Other cities do that. These are not hard things to do.

Your vision for education and that of the teachers union are extremely polarized. So, concisely, describe your priority.

We want kids to learn. OK, so you’ve got 100 schools.

How many are doing well? OK, well, how do you know if they’re doing well? So we have to figure out a way to measure that somehow. And whatever we agree on to measure, I’m good with that. I don’t care what it is. But we’ve got to measure it on whether kids are learning.

But there’s no agreement on how.

Something has to give?

Please don’t have our whole interview be on what I’m about to say, but I’m going to give you the answer: You have some mayors in some cities—not Sacramento—where they have control of the schools. What does that mean?

They can appoint a superintendent. They appoint a school board. So you’re taking out the politics.

It’s what Villaraigosa wanted in L.A., but it was political.

But it changes the whole dynamic, because then you can empower somebody to be able to lay out policies, and they have leverage in a different way. If you don’t have that, then it’s just always going to be a battle of wills that’s 50 percent on one side and 50 percent on the other.

Education, green economy, the arts, “Farm-toFork,” homelessness, the Sacramento Kings—you have a lot of issues. And there are critics who say that you try to do too much and, two, you make proclamations such as “Emerald City,” but they’re sort of empty.

I would feel like I would ask anybody, “How do you want to evaluate success?” on any of these issues, any of them.

So whether they’re my detractors or just someone who is asking, I think that’s a fair question. So if you were to say homelessness, I’d say homelessness is down 16 percent in the last two years.

But why not focus on two or three things, build a consensus, set big goals, accomplish one or two core issues all the way? Instead of just doing a lot of things maybe so-so.

If you take homelessness, there were all these people camped along the river. But, as the mayor, I don’t get the privilege of saying, “Well, these are the things we are going to worry about, and you can’t worry about the other things.”

If all of the sudden a homelessness problem occurred, I would want the mayor to jump all over that. And try to resolve it in a real way. So, as a result, I created ...

Sacramento Steps Forward. I don’t think people would look at that and say it has not been successful. People may say it, but if you really look at it, there’s no one who’s going to say that’s not successful.

One of the first things you brought up today was confidence and trust. But your attorney told SN&R that people don’t have the right to know who donates money to your private groups and initiatives, or how this money is spent, or whether your donors have business in front of you at City Hall. Doesn’t the public have the right to know these things?

When you ask that question the way that you’re asking it, there is no dollar—no dollar—the public does not know about. We’ve announced every single thing. So that’s not really what you’re asking me. Let me explain why.

I don’t know what legally the process is, I don’t know what the answer is. If all those things are what should be done and need to be done, then we should do it. Behests, right? We didn’t do all the behest forms properly. OK, that was wrong on our part. But nobody will say one of those dollars wasn’t [explained] in a press conference, wasn’t on a website and wasn’t what everybody knew. So that was never the case with any of that, so I don’t feel like that’s what you’re really getting at.

OK, so do you truly believe there’s been sufficient transparency?

One-hundred percent. We didn’t cross a “T,” but there’s never been dollars over here that we don’t want—you can put me up in front of the court of public opinion and there will be nothing that will ever be, because that’s what you’re really getting at, because you’re getting at transparency and knowing who gave all the dollars, [and] we’ve done that.

But what you’re actually getting at, and let me give you an example: The way [SN&R contributing editor] Cosmo [Garvin], or whoever, asks questions of me is, “Well, if you’re having conversations with the Kings, they need to be public.” And it’s like, if you’re asked this, not really.

Because if we make every conversation public, we can’t negotiate. But overall, I would like everyone to know that we’re having conversations, but I can’t say every single thing that we do all the time.

So, I go back, I don’t think that there’s any single dollar that anybody doesn’t know about, but if the process is that you have to declare it a certain way or you don’t, then we’re just going to do whatever legally you’re supposed to do.

I feel like the media’s job is to be a watchdog of all and act like something might be wrong. I’m good with that—it’s the fourth estate, I’m all good. … But, at the same time, they can hold me accountable to a higher standard, and I’m OK with that, I don’t mind that.

But for anybody to say that I’ve done something not transparent, that’s just not, I’m sorry, that’s not. …

Everything was done, we go out and do it every single day, so people know what it is.

But when you go to Sacramento News & Review, I feel like Cosmo had a beef. It is what it is, so I put Sac News & Review in a little bit different category. …

[Editor’s note: Read Cosmo Garvin’s response, right.]

“ Behests, right? We didn’t do all the Behest forms properly. oK, that Was Wrong on our part.”

I would like to end on a more upbeat note.

I love what I’m doing. I’m so excited I got re-elected, I love my job.

Did you sort of feel left out of the spotlight because you didn’t get to campaign, that you didn’t have a worthy adversary to go up against this election year?

Cosmo Garvin responds: When the mayor says “there is no dollar … the public does not know about,” that’s simply not true.

In fact, there are hundreds of thousands of dollars that have come into his private initiatives and nonprofits from sources that he has so far refused to disclose to the public.

The “behests” are disclosed, for the most part, as required by law. But this is just a fraction of the money coming in to Kevin Johnson’s Sacramento Public Policy Foundation and other groups.

In year 2010, in addition to the donations officially behested by the mayor, there were about $200,000 that came in from other sources that are not disclosed to the public. They are not listed in the nonprofits’ tax records, and Johnson has not responded to public-record requests. For 2011, the difference was almost $400,000. So, again, that’s hundreds of thousands of dollars that the public does not know about.

And, of course, the spending by Johnson’s groups isn’t disclosed on federal tax forms, either, except in the most general and nonuseful way. For example, how much money is spent on programs and how much on salaries?

We don’t know.

Reading the mayor’s statement, it’s not clear to me whether the mayor doesn’t understand the problem or if he is just being evasive. Either way, yes, I do have a beef with it.

Because the public deserves better. There should be full and accurate disclosure of who is giving money to the mayor and how much.

Now, if by “no dollar” Johnson means that he has changed his policy and now wants to disclose the source of every dollar that comes in to this nonprofits, that’s great. He should move to make that information available to the public right away. Otherwise, he really should explain why he won’t disclose the sources of that money. (Except for when they aren’t. Remember, Johnson was just fined by the FPPC for 25 different violations of state law regarding these behests.

That’s a lot more serious than not crossing a “T.”)

To me, whatever. I like competition. I like that no council seat is safe if you’re an incumbent. You have to run.

I always looked at what I was doing as eight years.

That I had term one to learn and get smart, and then term two. And I felt we did a lot of really good things. I felt like I could be smarter and a better leader. But part of it was getting the right energy, the right view and the right vision and the right electeds. And I think we’re doing that. But I’m not a complainer: the media not being fair—that’s not how I work. They’ve got to do their job, whatever that is; I’m OK. If I felt like the economy sucked for four years, I can’t complain and say I can’t go out there and solve problems.

It’s so easy for a mayor to say, “We have no money, we have all these problems, oh well.” My job is to try and fix those things.

If I’m being criticized … I don’t think it’s fair, in terms of what we’ve done, in terms of job creation and bettering Sacramento. I mean, when you think about competitive grants, we’ve got tons of competitive grants, because I’ve been back in Washington and lobbying states. All those things are what I believe the mayor of Sacramento should do. Not just sit there and go to every council meeting.

Who’s going to be marketing the city? Whose job is it to be marketing the city? Whose job is it? It’s not your council members, who are part-time employees. The city manager’s job is just to run the operations part of the city. And the way the mayor’s job in Sacramento was before, he or she was just a council person. So you have nobody marketing the city, nobody lobbying for resources, nobody trying to attract electeds to government. You still have the legislative pieces to do what they do. It doesn’t change. They’re not mutually exclusive.

So, that to me is where I get criticized most, but I know in my heart it is the right thing for Sacramento. And that’s why I continue to do it now. Ω

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The mayor has been criticized for missing many council meetings. “[But] whose job is it to be marketing the city?” he says.

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Well, hold on, we don’t know, because you haven’t disclosed all the money, and the donors and amounts and expenses aren’t declared on IRS forms.

So when The Sacramento Bee editorial board or SN&R says that’s not enough transparency, it’s just the media not treating you fairly or something?

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Tim Kahl may not have a “safe little academic job,” but his standing in the world of academia, he says, allows him to be “pointedly critical about things.”

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Perhaps it’s that necessary bit of distance that lets them speak the truth that the artist sees most clearly when he or she is able to focus on what really matters: writing, and the stories that need to be told.

That’s certainly the case with Sacramento poet Tim Kahl and fiction writer Valerie Fioravanti, both rare birds: literary writers who make their art the center of their lives, without a university appointment—and outside one of the so-called “literary cities” such as New York City or San Francisco.

They’ve both got new books out—Kahl’s second poetry collection and Fioravanti’s first collection of short stories— and they both exemplify a particular literary indie spirit.

Kahl is well-known in Sacramento’s extremely active poetry scene. He’s been in town for 15 years, in service at the venerable Sacramento Poetry Center (he’s vice president and the events coordinator) with regular readings throughout the area. He’s also picked up some teaching gigs in the Los Rios Community College District system.

And with his second book, The Century of Travel (WordTech Communications, $19), he’s entered into a poetic conversation about the state of the country and, particularly, the West. In poems like “Bear and Bull” and “Lebensraum in the Wild West,” Kahl adheres to his usual high aesthetic standards while taking on some sacred cows.

“I’ve always kind of hoped for a nice, safe little academic job—and I have that to a certain extent—but I also understand that I’m not going to be part of the academic star-making mainstream,” he said. “As a result, you give yourself a certain permission to then go out and be more pointedly critical about things.”

What he’s done with Century, he said, is “jump into the fray and make some criticisms of class, which is a big thing, because it’s really the elephant in the room in American society.”

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And he does that in a collection shot through with notions of traveling the American landscape where “the men of interests and not of ideals would prevail,” as he writes in “Bull and Bear,” a poem about the great mess of excitement and speculation that is California history.

The centerpiece is a lengthy description of the cruelty of an Old West-style Sacramento entertainment: forcing a bull and a bear to fight to the death. Kahl points out that the grizzly on the state flag is the same one forced to fight: The bull and the bear are bet on by the vaqueros on the day of the patron saint of gravediggers. They are all related to each other by their wagers, in love with the fullness of life, in love with their dear mothers who showed them how to submit to something other than the lesson of fortune.

“Bull and Bear” sets the tone for—and is, essentially, the heart of the rest of the collection. It grew organically, Kahl said, once he’d noticed that he tended to have a great many poems about travel.

“It’s not always people that are moving around,” he said. “It’s feelings, it’s ideas, it’s memes. Everything is in motion to a certain extent.”

And so he went back to the very first poem he wrote after moving to Sacramento, “Hierophany”—the title comes from the word that derives from the Greek and invokes something sacred or holy, but not directly related to a god or God. It’s more of a spiritual understanding than a moment of revelation.

That makes sense, both in light of the poem’s origin and subject matter, inspired by an event that happened shortly after his move here.

“I opened up [The Sacramento] Bee and saw a story about a guy committing suicide by jumping off a bridge over the American River while dressed in a bunny suit,” said Kahl, “and I thought, ‘Wow, this is going to be an interesting place to live.’”

The poem builds around the list of places to which one can drive from the site of the bunnycostume suicide, thus opening up the theme of movement beyond just one’s location but also one’s existence itself.

“I’ve always been a fan of Josiah Royce, whose quote opens the book,” said Kahl. “He was up there in Grass Valley and wrote about the movement of the 19th century, of all the changes displacing his countrymen. And I thought, ‘Well, if you thought the 19th century had a lot of that, what would you think Valerie Fioravanti received a Fulbright of the next one?’”

Program fellowship So he wrote about it, perhaps to and now teaches Royce, and perhaps to us. The Century writing through of Travel is a collection that marks both the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. a transformation in Kahl’s work and an artful look at what is good and bad about this place—both California and the 21st century—that we call home.

Kahl’s poems take a close look at an emerging understanding that “there are a lot of opportunities that are not going to be there for you and coming to realize that the reason for that is the way things are structured socially and politically.”

In that sense, it’s got a lot in common with Valerie Fioravanti’s short stories.

Fioravanti, a Sacramento resident since 2009, came to California after finishing an Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction at New Mexico State University, and she’s got some big cred as a writer, including a Fulbright Program fellowship. She makes a living— albeit “a modest one,” she noted—by teaching through the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program and working as a private writing teacher and coach.

And she writes about poor people.

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The stories in Garbage Night at the Opera (BkMk Press, $15.95)—which won the 2011 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction from BkMk Press through the University of Missouri-Kansas City—are set in North Brooklyn in New York City, the neighborhood in which Fioravanti grew up.

They unfold over time, as the largely working-class neighborhood suffers industrial collapse that closes the factories where most of the residents work, attempt to survive in a transitional service economy and are eventually pushed out by gentrification.

But that’s just the background. In tales such as the title story, we meet Massimo, a widowed Italian immigrant who deals with heartbreak and his fully Americanized daughter Franca in a changing North Brooklyn.

Although it is fiction, Fioravanti pointed out that “these are the lives of real people. Even though the work is invented, these people live in our United States. We don’t see much of them in our literature.”

For Americans who’ve been forced out of the working middle class, something as simple as seeing a theatrical show becomes a trial. In Garbage Night at the Opera, Massimo wants to share his love of opera with his daughter, and his struggles—and pride—in trying to give her a decent life are depicted in loving detail.

“Massimo clips the advertisement from Oggi, the Italian newspaper, as proof of the small price for students. He fears it is a misprint, but if he brings the clipping along it must be honored. He has learned this much in his years here, the attitude so different from home, where such mistakes are laughed at and accepted. He puts the clipping in his wallet, along with his photo card from the community college.”

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As the night unfolds, Massimo sees clearly how his daughter is becoming very different from him, but she retains his most important values. It’s thoughtful, respectful, honest—and most importantly, a really good read.

And, like the rest of the stories in the collection, it’s upfront about the way that working people are being displaced, both in employment and in their own neighborhoods. It’s a subject Fioravanti knows intimately, as the North Brooklyn neighborhood in which she grew up, Greenpoint, is being transformed from a working-class community to an enclave for hipsters and the literati.

“I was visiting some of my family that remains in Greenpoint,” Fioravanti said, “and I was sitting on a stoop while my cousin was pouring her heart out about the people who were no longer living on the block. They’d been squeezed out. And as she was lamenting this, some of the literati came down the block and shouted out, ‘Hey, Valerie!’

“The look on my cousin’s face was just like, ‘You traitor!’”

The fact is, she said, some members of her family do see her as one of “them”—the people who are displacing the neighborhood’s former inhabitants.

“That’s one of the reasons I wrote the book,” she said.

“It is sort of mortifying to see yourself as one of ‘them’ who upend the people you grew up with.”

Fioravanti also noted that this subject matter isn’t exactly mainstream.

“I’ve been told, specifically by New York City publishers, that I should stop writing about poor people, and I think not,” she said.

“I think I’m going to keep writing about poor people. I think they deserve to have their stories told.” Ω

Kahl’s new works in The Century of Travel mine the Old West’s gritty, pioneering spirit.

Fioravanti’s book, Garbage Night at the Opera, explores working-class themes.

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SCENE& HEARD Putting the ‘no’ in NaNoWriMo I still remember when I told my family about my goal to write a novel in a month. I had hopes and dreams of creativity-filled, brandy-sipping evenings when I would type out a loose but complete 50,000-word novel in only 30 days.

That was in September. Before I was laid off from my job. Before I decided to move. Before I found out I would have family staying with me for a week during Thanksgiving. Before I realized that writing 1,600 words every day for 30 days is not as easy as it sounds.

Each November is recognized as National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. Each year, impetuous writers sign up at www.nanowrimo.org and fill their heads with the idea that writing 50,000 words in just one month is actually possible.

After I signed my soul away, I figured out that I would only need to write 1,667 words per day to accomplish my goal. That’s nothing. I regularly write that much in one day—often more. I thought I’d be able to breeze through it. After all, I am a professional writer.

What I didn’t figure is how difficult it is to sit down in front of a computer when I’m not actually working.

After spending eight hours typing away for my job, the last thing I wanted to do was to keep typing.

I was also tremendously overworked in the month leading up to NaNoWriMo. The most time-consuming part was that I’d just moved. So, starting on November 1, the first day of NaNoWriMo, I was trying to unpack my entire life.

I know. Excuses, excuses.

By the first Sunday in November, I still hadn’t written a single word. That easy, breezy 1,667 daily goal had just shot up to 1,924 words. I knew I had made a mistake.

I managed to eke out about 5,000 words before I finally gave up about a week before Thanksgiving, and I haven’t even looked at the file since then.

Last year, nearly 37,000 writers—out of more than 250,000 participants—actually reached their goal of 50,000 words in 30 days. That is a success rate of less than 7 percent.

Does that make me feel better for my failure? Not in the slightest. I wanted to be one of the 6.8 percent who did write a novel in one month. I thought I had some kind of superpower that would let me easily fill 175 pages with clever and interesting anecdotes.

I may have failed at my first attempt, but it’s given me incentive to try again next year. Next time, I’ll be sure to tell my friends and family that I am off-limits for 30 days. I won’t move at the last minute or go out of town without bringing my laptop. I can’t tell my family to stay somewhere else, but I can tell them to give me a few hours alone with my thoughts.

In the meantime, maybe I’ll try to finish that novel I started. Maybe it will take me longer than a month to finish it, but 5,000 words is a good start.

I wanted to be one of the 6.8 percent who did write a novel in one month.

—Lory Gil

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Be a square Another December means another installment of a juried exhibition at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center. More than 400 square-format photographs were submitted for Twelve: Square, and juror Byron Wolfe selected 72 images from those entries. The first-place honor went to Elizabeth Bond’s dark and eerie square-within-a-square “King’s Crystal.”

Where: 2015 J Street, Suite 101; (916) 441-2341; www.viewpointgallery.org.

Artists’ reception: Friday, December 7; 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Second Saturday reception: December 8, 5:30 to 9 p.m. Through January 5.

Hours: Tuesday through Thursday, noon to 6 p.m.; Friday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.

“King’s Crystal” by Elizabeth Bond, photograph.

Sweet and grim

“Rebuild” by Justin Wood, digital rendering, 2012.

New kid on the block Over the past year, Midtown and downtown have lost a few art spaces, such as Pamela Skinner/Gwenna Howard Contemporary Art and MAIYA Gallery, but the neighborhood has also gained a few new ones. A relative new kid on the block is the Shimo Center for the Arts, and this month, the gallery is slated to show the work of Libby Harmor, Rachel Kline and Justin Wood.

Wood creates digital 3-D drawings, such as “Rebuild,” which is based on mid-20th-century architectural photographer Julius Shulman’s iconic shot of the Stahl House in Los Angeles, a.k.a. “Case Study House #22.”

Wood creates surreal scenes that tend to come across as sterile because of the medium, which seems to suit the illustrator’s commercial clients, including Fortune and Wired Magazine.

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See them in person at Red Dot Gallery through January 4, in her show Cabinets and Curiosities.

Where: 2231 J Street, Suite 101; www.reddotgalleryonj.com.

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NIGHT&DAY 06THURS DON’T MISS! DESI BHANGRA FEVER:

Bhangra Fever encourages you to enjoy a synergistic blend of cultures and traditions together with contemporary music, live dhols, dance performances and deejays. Bhangra is a famous dance form— performed with zest, enthusiasm and energy— originating from the northwest region of Punjab, India. Th, 12/6, 8pm. $10-$15. Laughs Unlimited, 1207 Front St.; (916) 837-9855; www.laughsunlimited.com.

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Special Events TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS:

conservationist and activist Terry Tempest Williams. A naturalist and advocate for freedom of speech, she shows how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice.

Her most recent book, When Women Were Birds, was published in the spring, and will be available at the event. Th, 12/6, 7-9pm. $40-$45. Don Baggett Theatre, Nevada Union High School, 11761 Ridge Rd. in Grass Valley; (530) 265-5961; www.wildand scenicfilmfestival.org/wildscenic-arts-and-lectures.

KENDAMA CLUB: Join other “dama” enthusiasts for the monthly ken-sesh (sessions) to showcase, or learn new tricks with this popular Japanese skill toy. Th, 12/6, 3:30pm. Free. Elk Grove Library, 8900 Elk Grove Blvd. in Elk Grove; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

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Classes BALLROOM-DANCE LESSONS: Join for ballroom-dance lessons on Wednesday nights at JB’s Lounge, followed by karaoke and open dancing. The class is designed for beginners and includes East Coast swing, Latin dancing and the waltz.

Partners are not required; most of the class attendees come solo. Th, 7-8:30pm through 12/19. Free. JB’s Lounge in the Clarion Inn & Conference Center, 1401 Arden Way; (916) 968-0571.

Film FOLSOM FILM SOCIETY DOUBLE FEATURE: The Folsom Film Society presents a screening of Valley of Saints and All Together. Valley of Saints is a love story against a backdrop of political violence, and All Together is a comedy about retirement and the idea of communal living. Th, 12/6,

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Poetry ALAN WILLIAMSON AND JEANNE FOSTER READ: UC Davis professor Alan Williamson and St. Mary’s College of California Professor Jeanne Foster read for a special Thursday night event at the Sacramento Poetry Center. Williamson earned a bachelor’s at Haverford College and a Ph.D. at Harvard University, where he studied with Robert Lowell.

Foster published a book with Theodore Weiss’Quarterly Review of Literature Series, and has recently had poems in Southern Review, Hudson Review, TriQuarterly and Literary Imagination. Th, 12/6, 7:30pm. Free. Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th St.;

STUPID

ONE TIME IN HIGH SCHOOL, my friend and I found an old

workout video at his parents’ house. We shoved the cassette into the VHS player, and the screen filled with the image of a half-naked man doing yoga on a rocky seaside cliff. Although it wasn’t meant to be funny, we laughed our asses off uncontrollably.

This is the same kind of unintentional humor curated each year by the Found Footage Festival, which arrives in town this week at Hinde Auditorium at Sacramento State University. The event is co-sponsored by Movies on a Big Screen and the Hornet Film Society.

The first Found Footage Festival happened in 2004 when co-creators Nick Prueher (former head researcher for Late Show With David Letterman) and Joe Pickett (contributing writer for The Onion) started screening stupid, weird and hilariously awkward VHS footage that they found in thrift stores and Dumpsters across North America. Much of the footage is full of eccentric people who are oblivious to the humor they are creating.

Other videos are just out-of-date, bizarre or feature silly juxtapositions—such as a 1999 clip from the Los

6:30-9pm. $8.50-$10.50.

(916) 606-4303; http://sac ramentopoetrycenter.org.

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DON’T MISS! ANNE LAMOTT LECTURE: Anne

Lamott is a progressive political activist and the author of seven novels, as well as five best-selling books of nonfiction. Lamott has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has taught at UC Davis as well as at writing conferences across the country.

F, 12/7, 7:30pm. $25. St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, 2391 St. Mark’s Way; (916) 475-8554; www.stmarksumc.com/ upcomingmoon.

Special Events BLACK FLAGS AND WINDMILLS: Join a visual, fast-moving and engaging presentation of stories showing what ordinary people can do to change their own worlds without governments. It is equal parts personal story, history and organizing philosophy. F, 12/7, 7:30pm. Free. Lavender Library, 1414 21st St.; (916) 492-0558.

CELTIC CHRISTMAS WITH MOLLY’S REVENGE: Molly’s Revenge and special guest vocalist Christa Burch join with Irish dancers for an evening of music, song and dance to celebrate the festive season. Molly’s Revenge, known for its unique and infectious onstage enthusiasm with bagpipes, fiddle, whistle, guitar, bodhran and mandola, has toured extensively in the United States, Australia, China and Scotland. F, 12/7, 8pm. $18-$20.

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Angeles public-access television show Dancing With Frank Pacholski, featuring a patriotic-Speedo-clad Pacholski prancing about in front of senior citizens.

Much of the footage is full of eccentric people who are oblivious to the humor they are creating.

Stopping in Sacramento in the midst of a 50-state tour, highlights of this year’s festival include clips such as a pet-care video called Ferret Fun & Fundamentals; a video featuring a psychotic woman who creates art using sponges; and never-before-seen footage from a series of Kenny Strasser yoyo pranks, which hit local news stations throughout the Midwest in 2010 (hint: Prueher and Pickett were indeed behind the pranks). Skip Elsheimer opens the show with clips from his collection of classroom films from the ’60s and ’70s.

Thursday, December 13, at 7 p.m.; $10. Hinde Auditorium at Sacramento State University, 6000 J Street; www.foundfootagefest.com.

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(916) 488-3550; www.mollysrevenge.com.

Literary Events AUTHOR FRANK LUNA: California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch presents Frank Luna, author of Red Storm, at its monthly Writers Network breakfast meeting. Luna will speak on how current events influenced his decision to self-publish, the importance of a good writers group, and how he uses social and mass media in his marketing. Luna is an Emmy-winning TV news director at CBS 13 in Sacramento. F, 12/7, 9-11am. Free.

IHOP, 2216 Sunrise Blvd. in Rancho Cordova; (916) 213-0798; www.cwcsacramentowriters.org.

Now Playing BROADWAY TODAY: Some of the best plays on Broadway come together on one stage for one evening. Hear music from West Side Story, Hair, The Lion King, Ragtime, Chicago, Wicked, Mamma Mia and more.

Performers include Jason Graae, Jessica Hendy, David Burnham and Christina Saffran. F, 12/7, 8-10pm. $29-$49. Three Stages Peforming Arts Center, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.three stages.net/Online/default.asp.

Concerts HOLIDAY BENEFIT: ’Tis the season for giving and thinking about those who are less fortunate than we. Every year, Ross Hammond walks the walk and hosts a benefit for the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services. The lineup is eclectic. It includes some Sacramento icons and Sammie nominees. Show your generosity and make this benefit a success. F, 12/7, 7pm. $10 or donation of canned food or clothing. Antiquite Maison Privee, 2114 P St.; (916) 276-8737.

VOCAL ART ENSEMBLE: FRANKINCENSE & MYRRH: The Vocal Art Ensemble gathers silken songs, choral gems, instrumental spices and exquisite tapestries of vocal beauty in Frankincense & Myrrh. The concert features rich and varied traditions from throughout the world. F, 12/7, 7:30pm. $6-$20 suggested donation. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 2620 Capitol Ave.; (530) 757-2396; www.vae.trug.com.

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Experience lavishly re-created period decor and an array of live holiday music during two upcoming special “Christmas Memories” events. Surrounded by docents in period costume, mansion visitors will be transported back in time to the place where 13 of California’s early governors and their families lived and shared holiday traditions.

Sa, 12/8, 10am-4pm; Sa, 12/15, 10am-4pm. Call for

pricing. Governors Mansion State Historic Park, 1526 H St.; (916) 323-5916; www.parks.ca.gov/ governorsmansion.

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CAMELLIA WALDORF WINTER FAIRE: Children will enjoy watching puppet shows, making crafts and shopping in a children-only store. Parents and friends can shop for unique and handcrafted gifts, as well as enjoy live music and hearty food. Sa, 12/8, 10am-3pm. Free. Camellia Waldorf School, 5701 Freeport Blvd.; (916) 427-5022; www.camelliawaldorf.org.

CHRISTMAS & CANDLELIGHT TOUR: Join Sutter’s Fort for this special seasonal event which presents several vignettes showing holiday scenes, including foods, music, decorations and traditions from other cultures. During the day, visitors will be able to dip candles, make cornhusk dolls and create Christmas ornaments.

Sa, 12/8, 10am-9pm. Call for pricing. Sutter’s Fort, 2701 L St.; (916) 445-4422; www.suttersfort.org.

FUSION ARTISAN EXPO AND GIFT SHOW: Shop for hand-made jewelry, soap, crafts and more.

Gift wrapping available. Sip on hot apple cider, taste treats and enjoy holiday music.

Participate in workshops and craft seminars. Sa, 12/8, 11am5pm. Free. Fusion International Arts Center, 501 Arden Way; (916) 821-8378; http://fusion iac.com/Artisan_Expo.html.

VICTORIAN TEA PARTY: This event will feature Victorian-era music, costumes, food and a miniplay. Music by the Sacramento Recorder Society will be performed at 11 a.m. At 12:30 p.m., the Elk Grove High School Theatre actors will present Darcy & Elizabeth, adapted by Jon Jory from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Sa, 12/8, 10:30am. Free.

Elk Grove Library, 8900 Elk Grove Blvd. in Elk Grove; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Meet the authors Dr. David Styles and Colonel Ken Nielsen.

This event opens with Styles, the museum’s Air Historian, discussing his latest work, Doolittle Tales. Following Dr. Styles’ presentation Colonel Nielsen discussing his new book, Pressed Steel!: An American Company’s Contribution to Victory in World War II. Sa, 12/8, 1-3pm.

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

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of every month, 6-9pm through 10/12. Free. 1001 Del Paso Blvd.;

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Of the roughly 80,000 girls who have been adopted from China since 1989—a decade after China implemented its One Child Policy—this film intimately follows four teenagers: Haley, Jenna, Ann and Fang.

These four wise-beyondtheir-years yet typical American teens reveal a heartbreaking sense of selfawareness as they attempt to answer the uniquely human question, “Who am I?” Su, 12/9, 7:30-10pm. $10-$13. Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad St. in Nevada City; (530) 265-2990; www.catsweb.org.

(916) 333-4833.

PATRIS STUDIO AND ART GALLERY: 2nd Saturday Art Walk and Art in Action, Draw, paint, sculpt from a live model from 3 to 6p.m. or observe artists in action. Enjoy live music and an artist reception from 6 to 10 p.m. Second Sa of every month, 2-10pm through 12/14. Free.

3460 Second Ave.; (916) 397-8958.

SACRAMENTO GAY & LESBIAN CENTER: THEshow, THEshow’s mission is to showcase both emerging and established artists of the Sacramento region in an environment of creativity, love and acceptance. Second Sa of every month, 5-9pm through 12/8. Free.

1927 L St.; (916) 442-0185.

ARTHOUSE UPSTAIRS: Size Doesn’t Matter, See small works by 19 artists, all costing under $150.

Artists include Andy Graham, Anthony Montanino, Brenda Boles, Carol Ross and Diana Jahns. Some studios will be open all day. Free parking is available in front of the building. Sa, 12/8, 3-9pm. Free.

1021 R St.; http://arthousesacramento.com.

an alternative Christmas fair with products from local and global nonprofit agencies, artists and craftspeople. Avoid the mall and shop local. Su, 12/9, 8am-12:30pm. Free. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 2620 Capitol Ave.; (916) 451-6292; www.trinitycathedral.org.

SMITH GALLERY: Series of Sacramento, Local artist Steve Memering’s newest original acrylic on canvas paintings include a variety of subjects from the Sacramento and surrounding areas. Sa, 12/8, 6-9pm.

Free. 1020 11th St. Ste. 100; (916) 446-4444.

Saturday Events, Cafe Dantorel will host two Second Saturday receptions for Womens Wisdom Art, a nonprofit organization featuring women artists of Sacramento. Artwork by the artists of Womens Wisdom Art will be on display through 1/9/13. The cafe will offer discounts during the receptions.

Symphonic Winds, conducted

by Dr. Les Lehr and featuring soloist Roger Gosline performs “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”

by Elton John, “The Christmas Song” by Mel Torme and Bob Wells, and other Christmas music. Su, 12/9, 2:30-4pm. $5-$10. La Sierra Community Center, 5325 Engle Rd. in Carmichael; (916) 489-2576; www.sacwinds.org.

gram of both sacred and secular music will represent the various traditions celebrated during the season and feature some of Sacramento’s most talented vocal performers accompanied by the Pioneer Celebration Choir and instrumentalists with Musical Director Jim Jordan. Sa, 12/8, 6pm. $7.50-$20. Pioneer

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12 DAYS OF MIDTOWN: Each year from December 1-12, Midtown kicks-off the holiday season with events and specials. This event showcases local businesses and organizations through festive activities that engage the public to make Midtown a part of their holiday traditions. Through 12/12. Call for pricing. Midtown Sacramento, 20th St. between J and K streets; (916) 442-1500; www.exploremidtown.org/ 12DaysofMidtown.

HOLIDAY CELEBRATION OF DANCE: The Miners Foundry

presents a celebration of dance featuring Holt Ballet Conservatory, the Movement Alliance and the Sierra College Dance Club.

The celebration will feature scenes from The Nutcracker and original modern dance choreography. Tu, 12/11, 5:30pm. $12-$15. Miners Foundry Cultural Center, 325 Spring St. in Nevada City; (530) 265-5040; www.minersfoundry.org.

Art Galleries BRICKHOUSE GALLERY & ARTS COMPLEX: HAIRitage, A Second Saturday event featuring fine art and photography celebrating the legacy of the barber shop through art, poetry and jazz. Meet poets and artists and hear live music from Harley White Jr. Through 12/30; Sa, 12/8, 7pm.

2837 36th St.; (916) 457-2502; www.brickhouseoakpark.com.

Special Events NATURALIZATION INFORMATION SESSION: The Sacramento Public Library will host a free information session for legal permanent residents and interested naturalization applicants. Topics will include the naturalization process, the new naturalization test and the rights and responsibilities of United States citizenship. Tu, 12/11, 6pm.

Free. Elk Grove Library, 8900 Elk Grove Blvd. in Elk Grove; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

CENTER FOR THE ARTS: Artful Women: Contemporary Fabric Artists, The group consists of seven local textile artists.

Pieces are available for purchase. Through 12/8, noon-5pm.

Free. 314 W. Main St. in Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384; www.thecenterforthearts.org.

EVOLVE THE GALLERY: Sketchbook, View Richard Mayhew’s newly created drawings and sketches. Th-Sa, 1-6pm through 12/29. Free. 2907 35th St.; (916) 572-5123.

Concerts FALL CHOIR CONCERT: Folsom Lake

Performing contemporary pop and commercial styles: jazz and rock fusion, rhythm and blues, soul, folk, urban styles, country, and Latin.

Tu, 12/11, 7pm. Free.

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James Scott’s work has been published by numerous public and private organizations. In this exhibition, he captured digital images of wetlands, some of the most ecologically productive and threatened landscapes locally and abroad.

Subjects include: natural landscapes, people, community, wildlife and more. M-F, 9am-4pm through 12/12. Free. 10 College Park in Davis; (530) 753-5007.

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College music ensembles, solo performance studies and creative music studies students perform. Tu, 12/11, 7-9pm. $5.

Three Stages Peforming Arts Center, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net/ Online/default.asp.

with the Sacramento Master Singers to Ireland, Scotland, and Great Britain as they celebrate the holidays with a decidedly Celtic flair. Celtic

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Camerata Capistrano, Sacramento State’s baroque ensemble, performs. The program includes “Water Music”

by Telemann, “Concerto for Strings” by Vivaldi, “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” by Handel and more. Su, 12/9, 4pm. $5-$10.

Capistrano Hall Room 151, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-5191; www.csus.edu/music.

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Sacramento State Winter Jazz Festival includes performances by middleschool, highschool and college jazz ensembles. The Wee Trio performs at noon, and the festival concludes with the Sacramento Jazz Orchestra, with guest alto saxophonist Dave Pietro. Sa, 12/8, 8am-6pm. $10. Sacramento State University Capistrano Hall, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-7987; www.csus.edu/music/jazz.

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Elk Grove Community Concert Band will perform a special holiday concert with special guests, the Sacramento Mandarins Brass Academy.

They will play holiday songs.

M, 12/10, 7pm. Donations accepted. Laguna Town Hall, 3020 Renwick Ave. in Elk Grove; (916) 920-2272.

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GALLERY 1855: Photographic works by Walter Kitundu, Photographs of birds by Walter Kitundu. Su, 12/9, 1pm.

Free. 820 Pole Line Rd. in Davis; (530) 756-7807; www.daviscemetery.org.

will use a story wheel to create thematic writing from memories of childhood to present day, personal and family stories. Author Janice Kelley will blend her expertise in oral storytelling with the written word to lead writing and storytelling workshops for both children and adults. W, 12/12, 6pm. Free.

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

Enjoy a lighthearted evening of Christmas and holiday songs sung by the chorus and the audience. Songbooks are handed out so you can sing along. M, 12/10, 7-8:45pm. $5 suggested donation. First Christian Church, 3901 Folsom Blvd.; (916) 508-4471; www.fccsacramento.com.

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Box, View a Second Saturday art show and closing reception showcasing 50 papier mache box creations by 50 local artists. These unique and varied art pieces will be displayed in the gallery and sold in a silent auction as a fundraiser for the organization. Additional bidding opportunites will be available during Vox open hours. Sa, 12/8, 4-9pm; Th, 12/20, 7-9pm. Free. 1818 11th St.; www.voxsac.com.

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HOLIDAY CONCERT & SINGALONG:

make science fun and exciting for kids? The engaging Science Wizard is sure to inspire curiosity and spark young imaginations. Parents are welcome to stay to enjoy the fun or leave their children in the care of staff. Su, 12/9, 10-11am. $30. Arden Hills Resort Club & Spa, 1220 Arden Hills Ln.; (916) 482-6111; www.ardenhills.net.

Cosumnes River College Ceramic Art Club members display techniques to create unique works of sculpture and pottery art. There will also be a wood sculpture demo in the garden by Douglas Adam Bradley, and Peets coffee. Sa, 12/8, 6-9pm. Free. 2126 K St.; (916) 448-2452.

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Sacramento City College Performing Arts Center, 3835 Freeport Blvd.; (916) 558-2243.

duo, Men of Worth, are guest performers. Su, 12/9, 3pm; Sa,

Congregational Church, 2700 L St.; (916) 443-3727; www.pioneerucc.net.

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1346 Fulton Avenue, (916) 481-1580, www.abyssiniaethiopianrestaurantsac.com At Abyssinia Ethiopian Restaurant, it is equally as easy to order a completely vegan meal and one that is composed almost entirely of raw beef. As with all by Ethiopian cuisine, the tradition of vegan dishes Becky arose from the custom of abstaining from conGrunewald suming animal products during the fasting days observed by the Orthodox Christian religion, which has many Ethiopian adherents.

In contrast, a fondness for uncooked beef, especially by males, is also a part of Ethiopian food culture. At makeshift cafes in Ethiopia, raw muscle is sliced from the side of a freshly killed cow and butchered and eaten on the spot, dipped in chili sauce and lemon. Legend has it that this practice traces its roots to wartime, when soldiers couldn’t risk giving their position away with the smell of grilling meats.

Rating: If you’re interested in raw or rare beef but not ★ ★ 1/2 quite ready to attack the bloody chunks in the gored gored dish—which Abyssinia does offer— Dinner for one: then the kitfo, a finely ground-beef dish, is a $10 - $15 good place to start. The kitfo can be served extremely rare (or completely raw) if requested, and is seasoned with a mix of spices called mitmita, which includes chilies and a light dusting of cardamom and cloves. The “special” kitfo comes with a side of fresh cheese made from buttermilk that is simmered until curds form.

Another meat dish available here is the standard doro wat, chicken legs simmered in chili sauce and clarified butter. Clarified butter, or niter ★ kibbeh, is the staple cooking fat of Ethiopian POOR dishes and is present in many dishes, both veggie ★★ and meat based. The food can be surprisingly FAIR rich for that reason, which is true of the ye-doro ★★★ alicha, chicken legs smothered in sweet onions GOOD and garlic sautéed in what the menu bills as ★★★★ “healthy spicy butter” and seasoned with EXCELLENT turmeric. Most chicken dishes are served with a ★★★★★ hard-boiled egg.

EXTRAORDINARY I’ve yet to encounter truly tender lamb in an Ethiopian restaurant, and Abyssinia is no exception. At this point, I’ve just accepted it as a given, so if that’s not a turnoff to you, any of the lamb dishes are recommended— just anticipate a strong ovine flavor and a springy, tough bite.

Many of Abyssinia’s vegetable dishes are too salty or have the stale taste of spices kept too long in the bag. The still-firm chopped Still hungry? collard greens suffer from the former problem Search SN&R’s big-time, and the ye-misir wot, or lentil stew, “Dining Directory” to find local restaurants suffers from the latter. A salad of beets and by name or by type of potatoes is novel but is un-dressed and plain; a food. Sushi, Mexican, mixture of cabbage, potato and carrot is Indian, Italian— simply those three ingredients boiled. A dish discover it all in the “Dining” section at of split peas seasoned with a berbere-spice www.newsreview.com. mixture of chili, ginger and garlic, or shiro wat, has some heat; and the al dente peas have a pleasing texture.

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The family that owns Abyssinia used to run Addis Ababa Ethiopian Restaurant in the same area, and the owners seem dispirited but still valiantly cheerful. The restaurant is nearly empty on both dinnertime visits, although it may be busier during the inexpensive lunch buffet.

The restaurant lacks a cozy ambience due to its cavernous space, but there are pictures of Ethiopian scenes on the walls and a constant soundtrack of cool Ethiopian jazz.

If you can save room, the tangy, spongy injera bread underneath the dishes gets soaked with mingled juices and spices and is always the best part.

Abyssinia’s meat dishes are definitely the equal of any Ethiopian in the region, notably the special kitfo and the ye-doro alicha, but it needs to jazz up the vegetable dishes and put down the salt shaker to honor the vegetarian aspect of Ethiopian cuisine. Ω

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A spinach salad features ingredients that could be considered boring elsewhere: blue-cheese dressing, bacon, onion. But here, the sharply cheesy buttermilk dressing and the woodsy pine nuts make it a salad to remember. Grange’s brunch puts other local offerings to shame. The home fries are like marvelously crispy Spanish patatas bravas. A grilled-hamand-Gruyere sandwich is just buttery enough, and an egg-white frittata is more than a bone thrown to the cholesterol-challenged, it’s a worthy dish in its own right. American. 926 J St., (916) 492-4450. Dinner for one: $40-$60. ★★★★ B.G.

Here are a few recent reviews and regional recommendations by Becky Grunewald and Greg Lucas, 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 G.L.

Midtown

Firestone Public House

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A sports bar with a focus on craft beer isn’t exactly a groundbreaking concept, but two local and prominent restaurant families, the Wongs and the DeVere Whites, know what Sacramento wants: good beer; solid pub grub; and a casual, unpretentious atmosphere. Here, the bar is the centerpiece with a full stock of liquor and 60 beers on draught. The menu features savory appetizers—the tortilla soup with poached chicken, avocado and tomato is particularly noteworthy— and a selection of sandwiches and pizzas, including a simple pie with fresh mozzarella and tomato sauce. American.

Grange Restaurant & Bar You won’t find any “challenging” dishes on this menu—just delicious local and seasonal food such as the Green Curry & Pumpkin Soup, which has a Southeast-Asian flair.

1132 16th St., (916) 446-0888. Dinner for one: $15-$20. ★★★ B.G.

Shady Lady Saloon

So many bars try to do bar snacks, and so many fail. Shady Lady, however, nails it. The fried green tomatoes are punched up with a tarragon rémoulade and the huge charcuterie board is more like a groaning board, stocked with abundant regional meats and cheeses. The pickle plate looks like Peter Rabbit’s dream, all teeny turnips and tangy carrot chunks. Generally excellent, the saloon’s cocktail list veers from the classics with a list of bartender-created drinks with unusual, but wisely considered flavor combinations: cilantro and tequila, blackberry and thyme,

and the surprisingly sublime mixture of celery and pineapple.

American. 1409 R St., (916) 231-9121. $10-$20. ★★★1⁄2 B.G.

North Sac

Asian Café serves both Thai and Lao food, but go for the Lao specialties, which rely on flavoring staples such as fish sauce, lime juice, galangal and lemongrass, lots of herbs, and chilies. One of the most common dishes in Lao cuisine is larb, a dish of chopped meat laced with herbs, chilies and lime. At Asian Café, it adds optional offal addons—various organ meats, entrails, et al—to three versions of the dish: beef with tripe, chicken with giz-

zards, or pork with pork skin. The beef salad offers a gentle respite from aggressive flavors, consisting of medium-thick chewy slices of eye of round with red bell pepper, chopped iceberg and hot raw jalapeño. The single best dish here is the nam kao tod, a crispy entree with ground pork that’s baked on the bottom of the pan with rice, then stirred and fried up fresh the next day with dried Thai chilies and scallions. Thai and Lao. 2827 Norwood Ave., (916) 641-5890. Dinner for one: $10-$15. ★★★★ B.G.

South Sac

Giò Cha Duc Huong Sandwiches With banh mi, it’s the

bread that sets the tone. Giò Cha Duc Huong Sandwiches goes against the grain with bread that’s more football shaped than submarine shaped, garlic bread, and a selection of premade grab-and-go sandwiches right by the counter. And, with its substitution of butter for mayonnaise and the emphasis on pâté, Duc Huong shows a stronger than usual French influence.These details may seem trivial, but with banh mi, such small variations make all the difference. The small menu is limited to eight sandwiches (mostly pork) and two soups: chicken curry soup and a beef stew called bo kho banh mi, which comes with bread.

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Mexican. 5701 Franklin Blvd., (916) 428-7844. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★1⁄2 B.G.

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fast or lunch here on a weekend, you’ll likely encounter parties of bleary-eyed men conversing over large bowls of menudo, but La Victoria has plenty of other dishes on offer: breakfast plates, chile verde and roja, tacos, and tortas.

In general, the food here has a reliable mid-level heat, but it distinguishes itself with its “normal” tacos, especially the cow-based ones, such as cabeza and lengua, and also its asada, which demonstrates a mastery of the cow: fatty, well-salted steak with a hint of garlic. They are served on tortillas fried in oil—which just adds to the decadence of the piled-up tacos. Mexican. 6830 Stockton Boulevard, (916) 427-1745. Breakfast or lunch for one: $5-$10. ★★★ B.G.

Tacos & Beer This is one of the area’s best Michoacán restaurants. Of its regional dishes, the enchiladas Apatzingán are unusual, filled with only a smattering of sharp cheese and diced onion, soaked in a vinegary sauce, and smothered in very lightly pickled, shredded cabbage with raw hunks of radish and avocado slices.

Another specialty is the morisqueta—the ultimate comfort dish due to the unique texture of the white rice, which is as soft as an angel’s buttock. Diners also have the option to order hand-shaped, griddled-to-order tortillas. They are

Bowl & Ramen Randomness yields wonderful rewards at Bowl Ramen, a ramen eatery under the same ownership as Mana Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar. This venture may explain the miso soup, not a common occurrence in other Korean joints, which is proffered here, along with the eight banchan dishes. It also explains the initially incongruous ramen and California Roll combo. For the less intrepid and the spice-averse, there’s nine ramen options, including ones that feature dumplings, cold buckwheat noodles and potato noodles. If not a believer in the miracle of sundubu, Bowl & Ramen offers conversion. This unique tofu stew has mushrooms, veggies, onions and an egg on top but simply reciting the ingredients doesn’t do the combination justice. Here, the bibimbap is presented in an artful way; among the dish’s vegetables are small cubes of zucchini that appear out of place but skillfully augment the other flavors.

Korean. 2560 Alta Arden Expy., (916) 487-2694 Dinner for one: $9-$15. ★★★1⁄2 G.L.

Famous Kabob It seems like if you’ve had one kebab, you’ve had them all. But as its name implies, Famous Kabob doesn’t disappoint.

A skewer of juicy steak sports a nice chew to satisfy any craving.

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lemongrass-laced curry soup, which, at first, is off-putting until you realize it can be dipped into the yeasty, crusty, fluffy bread.

Vietnamese.6825 Stockton Blvd., Ste. 200; (916) 428-1188. Dinner for one: $5-$10. ★★★1⁄2 B.G.

begins with small dishes of banchan. There are three types of kimchi, all pretty low on the spice-o-meter, but Sarang Bang’s gul bo sam is the real Korean taco, no food truck required.

Lightly steamed napa cabbage serves as a scoop for pork, spicyand-sweet zucchini, and thinsliced raw garlic and jalapeño.

Some entrees fall short, but all is forgiven with the spicy chicken.

Here, chopped chicken is heavily sauced with a chili paste, garlic and honey concoction. It’s the kind of meal during which conversation is replaced by lip-smacking, grunts and short murmured exclamations like, “So good!” and “Holy crap!” Korean. 3631 S. Port Dr., (916) 368-2277. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★1⁄2 B.G.

Another of ground beef is flavored with chopped onion and a hint of cinnamon. The braised lamb shank in a tomato-and-saffron sauce tastes best when the sauce has cooled a little bit and the lamb fat coats the meat like a silken sauce.

With deft use of dried herbs and acidic flavors that brighten the dishes and stimulate the taste buds, these are meals that are quietly hearty and nourishing. Persian.

1290 Fulton Ave., (916) 483-1700.

Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★★ B.G.

Davis

Zen Toro Japanese Bistro & Sushi Bar Zen Toro features a large sushi menu, made up of both the steroidal Americanized rolls and traditional nigiri, but it also changes seasonally and features some uncommon offerings: Kinpira gobo with renkon (braised lotus and burdock-root salad) comprises matchstick-sized fibrous pieces of burdock root and juicy slices of lotus in a sweet mirin soy sauce. It also features inventive desserts.

The “uji kintoki parfait” (it translates roughly to “Best. Dessert.

Ever.”) is served in a sundae glass filled with layers of green-tea ice cream and sweet red beans, and it’s topped with whipped cream, chocolate Pocky candy, salty sesame crackers, peanut clusters, and warm, soft squares of mochi.

Sushi. 132 E St. in Davis, (530) 753-0154. Dinner for one: $10-$25. ★★★ 1⁄2 B.G.

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Hanukkah begins Saturday night, December 8. This means it’s time for latkes. These potato pancakes traditionally prepared

The Willo The Willo’s menu is simple, centered on a slab of meat and starchy sides—although the restaurant has added a veggie burger to its lineup. While the thick, smoky pork chop and the tender, butterflied half-chicken suffice, here it’s really all about the New York strip steak offered in small, medium and large portions. If you’re not the designated driver, slip into the bar for a shot to lull you during the long drive home.

The sassy bartender will fix you right up as you take in the curving walls of this prefab structure from a long-gone era, the E Clampus Vitus plaques and the regulars’ birthdays listed on the wall.

American. 16898 State Hwy. 49 in Nevada City, (530) 265-9902.

Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★★★ B.G.

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Sarang Bang The servers at this Korean restaurant are courteous and friendly, and each meal

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Ingredients: six large russet potatoes, four eggs, a large onion, 10 stalks of parsley, 4 tablespoons of matzo meal (found in the kosher-foods aisle at the market), enough olive oil for a quick panfry and salt.

Peel potatoes and grate using a cheese grater. Place them into a large bowl, soak in water, drain and squeeze to remove water. Add finely diced onion, coarsely chopped parsley, scrambled eggs, matzo meal and a pinch of salt. Stir.

Scoop enough of the mixture to create 4-inch pancakes; place scoops in a frying pan with hot oil. Flatten them into pancakes with a spatula, and fry on medium heat until golden brown. Flip and cook other side until golden brown. Serve with sour cream or applesauce—or experiment with other condiments.

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The Brooklyn, New York City-based illustrator includes the text from original posts to concoct dreamy and quirky representations of them with Chinese ink and watercolor. Think mustaches, butterflies, skinny ties and sailing ships. In addition to gleaning details from the posters’ brief encounters—like the charming “We Shared a Bear Suit” or the clever “Chinese Food in Queens”— Blackall evokes the feelings of unrequited love by drawing what might have been in the poster’s thoughts.

Perhaps the greatest triumph of this collection is the archiving of a 69-year-old man’s final attempt to find his friend from decades ago with whom he shared his first kiss on Coney Island. The accompanying illustration of the two unsure, gaze-locked youths standing in the pastel water holding a beluga is stunning. www.sophieblackall.com.

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Hello, midlife crisis

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

Unfortunately, most people don’t respond to their midlife crisis with grace. It’s like the saying: “How you do anything is how you do everything.” People who are superficial, selfish and status conscious will buy a sports car, have an affair with someone 20 years younger (or an old flame found on Facebook), get divorced and take up an adrenaline-rush activity like skydiving. It’s a response to the numbness caused by years of slogging through a daily grind of obligations, now replaced with the rush of infatuation and other forms of thrill seeking.

Some people experience the midlife crisis through sudden depression, anxiety and anger, the latter often directed at a partner or family. These people blame others for their unhappiness. In their cloudy thinking, they did everything “right” and are not

happy, so the fault must rest elsewhere. Then there are midlifers who burst out of a gray existence yearning for the alternative lifestyles they previously envied.

Is that your clan? If so, becoming a yoga teacher won’t help. Hey, there are yoga studios that are fundamentally dishonest to their employees and patrons. There are also yoga teachers who think yoga is a fad. Don’t put yoga on a pedestal. If you want to explore a new lifestyle or career, do it. But don’t assume that the mind now claiming office work is meaningless will be satisfied. In time, your mind will have to discover that yoga, too, is meaningless. That’s because the problem is a lack of appreciation for who you are and what you have right now. Without that perspective, it is difficult to complete the task all humans begin in adolescence: finding a true identity. The midlife crisis is just nature’s clumsy attempt to force us to mature.

Ready to grow up? Begin a gratitude practice. Like this: I am grateful for my mother’s gift of reflecting my fears and negativity back to me so I can see myself.

I am grateful for my role in the flow of an office that serves (fill in the blank). I am grateful for discovering the ways that I have been fundamentally dishonest with myself and I am open now to be honest.

Whoa, did you read that last one? Yes, this is a chance to explore how you have deceived yourself by pretending you needed your mother’s approval and by telling yourself that your work is meaningless. Practice true yoga by bringing your mind, body and spirit into alignment with reality.

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B. Modern’s costumes—with some recent updating by Jessica Minnihan—are still gorgeous, and John Klonowski’s and Victor En Yu Tan’s stage and lights are still supercool. The entrances of all three ghosts (Devon Hayakawa/Courtney Shannon; Michael R.J. Campbell; and Shane Turner as past, present and future, respectively) are particularly stunning, and … well, actually, kinda scary. Hell, I’m even gonna give props to the stage manager (Andreanna Konomos), pun intended.

The Sacramento Theatre Company has had 25 years to build up to this production, and it shows. A Christmas Carol deserves a piece of your holiday-entertainment budget—and this is the last chance to see it for five years, as the company is putting it on hiatus until 2017. Ω

What’s better than a visit from a scary dead friend on Christmas Eve?

A Christmas Carol, 7 p.m. Wednesday; 12:30 and 7 p.m.

Thursday; 7 p.m.

Friday; 2 and 7 p.m.

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Sunday; $17-$37.

Sacramento Theatre Company, 1419 H Street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org.

Through December 23.

Michael Laun directs as the Sacramento Theatre Company celebrates a quarter-century of producing Richard Hellesen’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Incidentally, this year also marks the bicentennial birthday of Charles Dickens. The performances breathe new life into the production, and it is the cohesiveness and tight timing—no doubt in part due to the wonderful music of David de Berry and orchestration by Gregg Coffin (who added some new arrangements this year)—that makes this a don’t-miss holiday production.

Matt K. Miller, former artistic director of STC, has been starring as Scrooge for five years. In each production, his performance has evolved, and this time, Miller’s in excellent form. Marley’s ghost is terrifyingly portrayed

by Jerry Lee, whose rattling chains and forceful voice set a phenomenal vision of the businessman doomed to roam the Earth shackled.

The ensemble is tight and just plain sounds good. The children work well with the adults, and Tiny Tim (Liam Nevin/Max Miller) gets the audible “aw” for delivery of his famous line. Happily, English accents range from excellent to passable.

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You never know what you’re going to get with one of Buck Busfield’s holiday plays for his B Street Theatre. He’s written 17 of them, counting this one. Some of them have only a tenuous connection to the holiday season, but whether light or dark, silly or serious, they are always— here’s a potentially deadly word—“interesting.”

This one is all that and a lotta laughs.

There are no Christmas carols and not a hoho-ho to be had here. But there is plenty of heart in this comedy about a man whose close encounter with God changes his life and makes him intent upon changing the lives of others. It drives his family crazy when real-estate tycoon John Finuken (David Silberman) meets God outside of a Starbucks and decides to share his wealth with the world—through sponge baths and giveaways. No surprise that his family begins to question his sanity and fear for their finances.

Busfield has written a play that plays to the strengths—and they are considerable—of his ensemble cast of B Street regulars (Kurt Johnson, as the language-mangling Zjelko Krelko; Stephanie McVay as John’s earnest wife Sally; Elisabeth Nunziato as striving, strident daughter Brenda; and David Pierini, who never disappoints as disappointing sibling and family scion Les). Busfield’s direction is swift and sure and gets all the laughs—many of them a little too easy—from the script. His deeper concerns about salvation and redemption are communicated without preachiness in this holiday comedy that’s filled with genuine goodwill toward men (and women).

— Jim Carnes

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Sunday; $23-$35. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. Through December 30.

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Dionysius becomes an outrageous glam rock star, worshipped by the Bacchae (cheerleaders with a taste for blood). When narrow-minded military man Pentheus deliberately pooh-poohs the God of Wine’s divinity, the ecstatic Bacchae tear him apart. This wild, unsettling update of Euripides’ cautionary tale provides a fine counterweight to saccharine holiday sentiments. Th, F, Sa 8pm. Through 12/8. $12-$19.

Wright Hall, Main Theatre at UC Davis; 1 Shields Ave in Davis; (530) 754-2787; http://theatredance.ucdavis.edu. J.H. Jerry R. Montoya’s left-field holiday surprise is loosely based on the O. Henry story, with talking animals in a sputtering 1930s town (the railroad’s closing), domestic comedy à la The Honeymooners, and a hilarious birth scene. It’s loopy, funny and full of heart. Sa, Su 1 & 4pm; special performances 12/26, 27 & 28. Through 12/30. $18-$27. B Street Theatre, 2711 B St.; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. J.H.

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Mark (Dan Fagan) is a charming and beautiful man who may or may not have been on the roof with Jeremy (Kevin Kirtland) when Jeremy fell or deliberately stepped off the building to his death. After the funeral, he works his way into the lives of Jeremy’s sister and her husband (Elise Hodge, Eric Baldwin). As lies mount up, lies are also exposed in this intense drama, directed by Kara Ow. For adult audiences only: strong language, some nudity and adult themes. F, Sa 8pm; Su 7pm. Through 12/8. $15-$20. EMH Productions at the William J. Geery Theater, 2130 L St.; www.emhpros.weebly.com. K.M

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Big Idea Theatre continues its streak of well-updated takes on the Bard with this rock ’n’ roll fantasy of a comedy. Think Shakespeare meets This Is Spinal Tap as a band named the Kings of Navarre swear off booze, drugs and sex for a year—only to be seriously tempted by the arrival of an all-grrrl band on the scene.

Director Michael R.J. Campbell does magnificent work with a cast that includes Kirk Blackinton and Kristine David. Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2:30pm. Through 12/15. $10-$15. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.com. P.R. Eric Wheeler plays Felix Artifex, a minor-league New York theatrical producer scrambling to bring a show together. It’s phone hell, with a goldfish puppet (designed by retired Sacramento State University professor Richard Bay) to share his misery. Hilarious inside-showbiz humor, with a touch of pathos at the end; directed by Carolyn Howarth. W 7pm; Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm.

Through 12/16. $22-$32. Capital Stage, 2215 J St.; (916) 995-5464; www.capstage.org. J.H.

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A tycoon who finds God and decides to shed all his worldly wealth hits obstacles thrown up by his family in Buck Busfield’s new holiday show.

Laughs abound in this comedy that’s full of genuine good will toward men (and women).

With B Street regulars Kurt Johnson, Stephanie McVay, Elisabeth Nunziato, David Pierini and David Silberman. Tu 6:30pm; W 2 &

6:30pm; Th, F 8pm; Sa 5 & 9pm; Su 2pm. Through

12/30. $23-$35. B Street Theatre, 2711 B St.; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. J.C.

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WAITING TO BE INVITED Celebration Arts limps through S.M. ShephardMassat’s play about mid-60s Atlanta, Georgia. The script deals with overcoming racial boundaries in the newly integrated South, but the lack of professionalism from every angle is astounding for this multiple-award-winning theater.

Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 12/15. $8-$15.

Celebration Arts, 4469 D St.; (916) 455-2787; www.facebook.com/CelebrationArts. M.M.

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Don’t use that knife on foie gras Hitchcock In 1960, American movies couldn’t even show a toilet being flushed. You can imagine how they dealt with sex and violence. Or you can remember, by Jonathan Kiefer even if you weren’t yet alive then, because you know that things changed that year with Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.

How they changed is of little concern to Hitchcock, another defanged Hollywood history done in the biopic-snapshot style (see also My Week With Marilyn) and complete with voguish prosthetic distraction—this time in the fat-suited form of Anthony Hopkins, rolling suspenselessly along as the master of suspense. As Janet Leigh, Scarlett Johansson leads with her cheekbones and remains ever gracious. “Compared to Orson Welles, he’s a sweetheart,” she says. Maybe.

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Puffing up its behind-every-great-man mythology, which is at least good and righteous and quite true in this case, Hitchcock strikes an unconvincing, unilluminating pose of feminism.

While her husband paws at his pile of blond women’s headshots or peeps like Norman Bates at his leading lady through a hole in her dressing-room wall, Alma merely negotiates the flirtatious attention of a less famous but more romantically inclined colleague (Danny Huston).

That leaves us waiting around while the Hitchcocks endure these blatantly screenwriterly obstacles to marital and creative fulfillment.

More promisingly, as Janet Leigh guides her co-star Vera Miles (Jessica Biel) through the minefield of their director’s neurotic misogyny, with both ladies looking splendid in period costumes, Hitchcock briefly begins to feel like an episode of Mad Men. Too bad it doesn’t have time, or apparent interest, to develop much further in that vein. Meanwhile, James D’Arcy does a fine impression of Anthony Perkins, but the film doesn’t seem to need him.

Hitchcock goes from helplessly pigging out on canned foie gras to infusing the shower scene with his own murderous fury.

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Perhaps afraid of appealing only to a rarefied film-wonk crowd, director Sacha Gervasi (Anvil: The Story of Anvil) settles very early into broad, easy strokes. The result is companionable but eventually sort of irritating, like a good friend with a bad habit of pantomimed stabbings and a cappella renditions of Bernard Herrmann’s violins. Reportedly—and demonstrably—Gervasi was prevented by copyright restrictions from using any actual Psycho images or direct recreations thereof.

Bravely, he went ahead anyway, heeding if not exactly living up to the master’s example: Worried about advancing age and declining reputation, this Hitch bucks all career advice and stakes his house on a self-financed adaptation of Robert Bloch’s novel, which in turn derives from the true story of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein, who appears to the director in a few cheesy and ill-advised dream sequences.

“But what if someone really good made a horror picture?” Hitch has cause to ask. The answer is that it would alter the course of the genre, paving the way for, among other things, Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs; in Hitchcock, those days seem far away

Adapted by John J. McLaughlin from Stephen Rebello’s book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, Gervasi’s film strikes a chastely mischievous tone, inadvertently making clear that nobody but Hitchcock ever could really nail that tone. Another useful source might have been David Thomson’s recent book The Moment of Psycho, which offers this reminder: “Throughout the fifties (his best work) the films are charged with the lust and guilt of watching a beloved figure under stress. In Psycho another such woman—Janet Leigh—is remorselessly studied for forty minutes and then torn to pieces.” This is fertile material, all right, but not for a feel-good movie.

Yet everything works out in Hitchcock.

We behold the tidy arc of an artist’s anguish redeemed: He goes from helplessly pigging out on canned foie gras to infusing the shower scene with his own murderous fury to cuing audience screams like a triumphant conductor.

Masterfully, he got Psycho made, and we’re all the richer for it, but the legacy isn’t only happy-ending stuff. Next came The Birds, and to see Hitchcock at work on that, try HBO’s The Girl, which offers another take, this time from Tippi Hedren’s point of view. Ω

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Anna Karenina

Tolstoy’s oft-filmed tale of adultery in Imperial Russia gets a daring treatment from writer Tom Stoppard and director Joe Wright: The movie takes place in an ornate, slightly run-down theater, an apt metaphor for Imperial Russia itself, and for the rigidly structured conventions of upper-class society. As Anna, Keira Knightley is as alarmingly assertive as ever, her performance growing stronger as Anna grows ever more neurotic. Aaron TaylorJohnson plays her lover, the dashing cavalry officer Vronsky, as a callow pretty-boy, while Jude Law makes her stiff-necked, conventional husband more than the standard cardboard villain. Stoppard and Wright presume a passing familiarity with Russian literature—which may have been reckless of them—but the result, if you’re open to it, is bracing and stimulating. J.L.

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Argo

In November 1979, as Iranian revolutionaries overrun the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take the staff hostage, six Americans manage to escape and find refuge in the residence of the Canadian ambassador (Victor Garber). A CIA exfiltration expert (Ben Affleck) hatches an elaborate cover story to smuggle the Americans out disguised as members of a Hollywood film crew. Director Affleck and writer Chris Terrio fictionalize a real-life story, the CIA component of which wasn’t declassified until 1997—and is here emphasized somewhat to the detriment of the Canadian contribution, which was considerable and highly risky. Still, it’s a crackling good suspense thriller, told with mounting tension and just the right splashes of humor. John Goodman plays Oscarwinning makeup artist (and CIA contractor) John Chambers. J.L.

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Killing Them Softly

When two small-time hoods (Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn) hold up a mob poker game, an out-of-town enforcer (Brad Pitt) is brought in to mete out appropriate punishment. Writer-director Andrew Dominik updates George V. Higgins’ novel Cogan’s Trade from the 1970s to the 2008 financial crisis, with pronouncements from Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama streaming like mood music from every TV and radio, a counterpoint to the violent action in the foreground. Dominik overdoes the pseudo-political deep think—but then, he overdoes everything. The title is ironic; nobody is killed softly here—one execution plays in agonizing slow motion that seems to last 10 minutes. Still, it’s repellently fascinating, like watching a snake eat a rat. Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta and James Gandolfini round out the hard-boiled cast. J.L.

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Lincoln

Writer Tony Kushner and director Steven Spielberg adapt Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, one of the indispensable books on the Civil War. Alas, they dispense with all but five of Goodwin’s 916 pages, concentrating on the process of guiding the 13th Amendment (abolishing slavery) through Congress—a process where Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) leaves the wheeling and dealing to a party operative (James Spader). This makes Lincoln actually a supporting role, but there’s no making Day-Lewis a supporting actor: He’s Lincoln to the life, and his performance—far more than Kushner’s dramatic fripperies or Spielberg’s reverent listen-to-these-golden-words staging—is the best reason to see the movie. As Mary Lincoln, Sally Field overacts in an ill-written role. J.L.

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Silver Linings Playbook

Recently out of a mental institution but far from stable, a man (Bradley Cooper) obsesses about reconciling with his ex-wife, even as he meets a woman (Jennifer Lawrence) who is equally emotionally fragile. Writerdirector David O. Russell adapts Matthew Quick’s novel in his usual quirky manner, and the movie takes a while to reel us in. Cooper’s character is at first as exasperating to us as to his harried parents (Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver). But before we can completely turn off to this annoying nutcase, Lawrence comes along with a fearless performance that not only captures us but, within the story, calms and humanizes this nervous wreck without his even knowing it. Russell builds this romantic dramedy patiently, and the patience pays off; that inevitable warm feeling at the end is honestly earned. J.L.

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Life of Pi

An Indian youth (Suraj Sharma), shipwrecked while emigrating to Canada with his family, finds himself in a lifeboat mid-Pacific Ocean with the wreck’s only other survivors: a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a tiger. Soon, it’s just our hero and the tiger, both hungry and desperate. Yann Martel’s award-winning novel becomes, in the hands of writer David Magee and director Ang Lee, one of the great adventure movies of all time, while not ignoring the spiritual undercurrents in Martel’s book. The movie is brilliant in every sense of the word, evoking Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli and Shere Khan one moment, The Story of Little Black Sambo (without the racism) the next, and cradling it all in magical realism. Cinematography (Claudio Miranda) and visual effects (Bill Westenhofer) are beyond superb, as is Sharma, who has never acted before. J.L.

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Skyfall

We’ve had James Bond movies for 50 years now, and this one treats the benchmark like a special occasion. It’s clever how Daniel Craig still is becoming the devilish 007 we’ve always known, even as his third outing in the role applies a framework of fussing over oldness and possible obsolescence. Part of Skyfall’s project is sorting relics from ruins. The movie does right by its major players, including the impeccably tailored Craig and the immortally matriarchal Judi Dench, plus it welcomes franchise newcomers Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw and Naomie Harris. Its blowback plot involves Javier Bardem delighting in villainy and a rather cheeky British take on Freudian mama’s-boy anguish. Urbane yet never too serious and beautifully shot by Roger Deakins, this all seems a good fit for director Sam Mendes, who’s made his career imposing a sort of British pretense on American movies.

The posh popcorn-muncher seems like just what the Bond experience always was all about. Nice to see there’s a future in it. J.K.

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Smashed

An alcoholic schoolteacher (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) finally realizes, after too many blackout nights and hungover mornings, that she must dry out—but her newfound sobriety only emphasizes the fact that her relationship with her husband (Aaron Paul) depends entirely on both of them being constantly drunk, and he doesn’t want to quit. The script by Susan Burke and director James Ponsoldt avoids over-thetop melodrama, but in its low-key naturalism it neglects to develop a strong dramatic arc, always promising more than it ultimately delivers. Still, there are many things to admire: Winstead’s breakthrough performance chief among them, but also strong support from Paul, Octavia Spencer as Winstead’s Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor, Nick Offerman as a co-worker and Megan Mullally as the principal at Winstead’s school. J.L.

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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part 2

The vampire newlyweds (Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson), their werewolf buddy (Taylor Lautner) and various allies square off against the Volturi, led by the sinister Aro (Michael Sheen, in a campy performance that’s equal parts Mike Myers and Davy Jones of the Monkees, only less threatening).

It’s probably not over—this series is too lucrative to end now—but be that as it may, Lautner, while no great shakes as an actor, at least has screen presence and a twinkle of humor in his eyes; Stewart and Pattinson remain monumentally dull, stiff and lifeless

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The Waiting Room

Pete Nicks’ documentary asks how Oakland’s Highland Hospital cares for its unfortunate abundance of mostly uninsured patients, then actually listens to the long answer. Punctuated only with discreet flourishes of music and time lapse, Nicks’ style feels more retro than novel: the fly on the wall during a day in the life. And indeed, what makes The Waiting Room worth visiting is how well it does without the usual narcotizing doc tactics: There’s not a single animated interlude or hectoring infographic, and scene after scene goes by without any polemical point scoring. The closest Nicks comes to narration is overlaying episodes of patients’ stoic triage endurance with their self-told tales of recent layoffs, lost wages and lack of coverage. Rather than press suffering people into service as political pawns, he judiciously allows them a nonreductive sort of anonymity and allows the audience a felt experience instead of mere recorded testimony. J.K.

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The villain in a classic 1980s videogame (voice by John C. Reilly) gets tired of being the bad guy, but his efforts to prove himself a good guy end up jeopardizing every game in the arcade. This animated feature has a lot going for it: clever writing in the early scenes, good voice work (Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jane Lynch—even the usually annoying Jack McBrayer), and brilliant animation that wittily spoofs the evolution of vid-game graphics over the past 30 years (the design of the climactic Sugar Rush game is particularly clever). But the story dissolves into a puddle of familiar to-thineown-self-be-true bromides, and from there, it becomes a matter of been here, played this. Not a bad time killer, but with a bit more sustained inspiration, this might have been a classic, like Who Framed Roger Rabbit. J.L.

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Drive-Thru Mystics play fun garage rock that resonates with surprising depth and smarts It isn’t just music that influences local quartet Drive-Thru Mystics’ sound: It’s also B movies, John Waters and existential philosophy. But the idea by Aaron Carnes for the band really came together when lead singer and guitarist A.a. Ron—a.k.a. Aaron Hutto—had a vision.

“I visualized these guys in a van hanging out at the drive-in in the ’70s, talking [about] really deep stuff, watching B movies and getting high, sort of like Dazed and Confused or something. I like the idea because it symbolizes cheap and deep,” Hutto said.

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warped sense of humor. She ... influenced the tone of the band significantly,” Hutto said.

Now, the band includes drummer Kevin Shakur on drums and bassist Dave Adams, and its easygoing, whimsical sound almost disguises Hutto’s intense passion for the music he writes.

“They’re fun songs, but this is something I take really seriously. This is my art. I put a lot of myself into this. I sing so hard sometimes [that] after songs, I feel like I’m going to fall down.

My head is all woozy,” Hutto said.

When Hutto writes a new song, he said he plays it 50 or 60 times alone before taking it to the band—which makes sense, considering the scope of their subject matter.

“Sunshine Superscam,” while seemingly an upbeat power-pop rock song, is really a social critique of American culture that takes on the recent housing crisis. It tells the story of a couple that’s trying to figure out what to do after losing their home.

Likewise, “Synergy, Revenue Stream, Jargon” sounds like a sunny, psychedelic-pop tune, but in truth, it’s about a friend of Hutto’s who has drug problems; he refuses to deal with them and burns every bridge as a result. The song is particularly personal for Hutto, because he once dealt with his own drug addiction. Now, Hutto, who quit using drugs seven years ago, said he could have become like his friend in the song.

Catch the Drive-Thru Mystics on Friday, December 7, at 9 p.m. at Fox & Goose, 1001 R Street; $5.

The band also plays on Saturday, December 8, at 9:30 p.m. at the G Street Wunderbar, 228 G Street in Davis; no cover; www.facebook. com/drivethrumystics.

The meaning behind the name turned out to be a perfect fit to match the band’s fun, retro, straightforward, almost campy, garage-rock songs, with subtle nuances and lyrical content that resonates in a surprisingly thoughtful way.

“It’s music that’s not so complicated that you have to spend a ton of time thinking about it, but at the same time, if you do stop and think about it, there’s something going on,” Hutto said.

It’s a bit of an oversimplification to even call Drive-Thru Mystics a retro garage-rock band.

Their influences encompass not only Nuggetsera psychedelic rock, but ’70s glam rock, ’80s post punk, ’90s droning indie pop and everything in between. In fact, when Hutto first posted a Craigslist ad looking for bandmates, he listed nearly 50 bands as his main inspirations— and that was just the tip of the iceberg. He is, in short, a walking musical encyclopedia.

“I have all these influences running around in my head at any given time, and they just kind of find their way into the songs,” Hutto said.

Though Hutto met several different musicians via the ad, it wasn’t until early this year when he found Farfisa organ player Jess Goddèsse—a.k.a. Jessica Kelly—who played in the legendary South Bay Area band, the Guttersluts, that Drive-Thru Mystics really gelled.

And while Kelly is no longer in Drive-Thru Mystics, her influence remains. “She has a

“ I sing so hard sometimes [that] after songs, I feel like I’m going to fall down.”

Aaron Hutto Drive-Thru Mystics Drugs weren’t his only hurdle in forming a band. In fact, over the years, Hutto has had to deal with various health issues, the challenges of raising his son and financial troubles.

“I couldn’t afford musical equipment. I couldn’t afford baby sitters to even be in a band,” Hutto said.

Not only has he finally found the right band members, but he’s also gotten married, something he said enabled the pursuit of his dreams.

When he met the woman he’d eventually marry, Hutto said, everything fell into place.

“My life started to come together,” he said.

“She was a big part of that.” Ω

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Detroit in the 916: Local emcee and musician Chuck Taylor calls me up. “Hey, it’s Chuck,” he almost whispers. Then he gets excited, because—while he seldom puts on shows—he says he’s got a pretty sweet gig Friday, December 7, at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub; something that Sacramento hasn’t seen in a long time.

Surely, the lineup impresses at a local level. Rapper Npire Da Great is one of the city’s finest breakout emcees, a dude with long braids and penchant for catchy street raps with good bass and fast hooks.

And there’s Dibiase, formerly of Los Angeles now of Natomas, one of the most respected producers and beatmakers in the city. These two are enough on their own.

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Tuff enough: I don’t play beer pong often, but I can easily imagine a scenario in which my apartment is filled with liberal-arts baccalaureates in the throes of their respective professional-life crises. After several bottles of chardonnay, the conversation would wander to the carefree days of studentdom and, voilà, a rousing game of beer pong is just what the doctor ordered.

The soundtrack to this scenario? King Tuff.

I swear to God this exact situation has happened across the United States several times since King Tuff dropped its self-titled rock ’n’ roll party album earlier this year on Sub Pop Records. It is upbeat, body moving and magnetic, and the shoulder-to-shoulder audience at Bows & Arrows (1815 19th Street) this past Sunday night seemed to hold back the urge to mosh on grounds of propriety alone.

As bodies swayed and joyfully careened, the girls behind the counter struggled to meet demands for beer, deftly changing out kegs and slinging overflowing mason jars of foaming IPA as quickly as they could be poured. Beer was drunk; heads were bobbed; and hips were nonchalantly swung as smokers warmed themselves by a smoldering fire pit on the patio, tendrils of smoke wrapping the area at-large in a thick blanket of wood ash and nicotine.

Another perfect December night in Sacramento that makes me thankful for all those boons we so often take for granted: comfortable cafes, high-alcohol-content IPA, and totally legit rockers who seem to love what they do as much as we enjoy them doing it. King Tuff, rock on.

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away between bro bars, mermaid bingo, sushi karaoke, bassy dance floors and hard-rockin’ pizza, the theater destination, which opened in 2008 and was operated by the California Musical Theatre, wasn’t Pleasure Island enough for the new-look K Street.

So now musical theater is out, and Randy Paragary and Co. are in.

The new concept—which thankfully is called The Assembly and not, uh, Venue—is club meets live comedy meets touring bands.

Paragary, Bob Simpson and Trevor Shults are reportedly meeting with local promoters, including those who put on this past summer’s Friday Night Concerts in the Park series, about how local bands can be part of The Assembly mix. And this week, Marcus Crowder over at this town’s daily reported that Paragary also will be teaming up with Buck Busfield of B Street Theatre for a comedy component at the club.

It’s worth noting that, as Cosmo Garvin has reported on in the past, there was a hot debate over whether the city should spend nearly $14 million to renovate the Cosmopolitan building on the corner of 10th and K streets. So much for that: The theater’s gone and, voilà, a new club arrives with little fanfare (granted, developer David Taylor owns the building now, not the city).

Anyway, stay tuned for a grand reopening on March 1, 2013.

the gig is that he’s bringing the quintessential sounds of Detroit hip-hop to Sacramento for a night: Guilty Simpson, collaborator with J Dilla, and some of the Motor City’s finest, plus DJ House Shoes, who good ol’ Wikipedia calls “Detroit’s Hip-Hop Ambassador to the World.”

The show kicks off at 10 p.m., and it is 10 clams in advance, $15 at the door. Needless to say, it’s a don’t-miss event.

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Warehouse Christian Ministries, 7 p.m., $12-$40 Sanctus Real has been a fixture in the Christian-pop and rock scene for nearly a decade, churning out radio hits that have CHRISTIAN encouraged and uplifted listeners in a variety of ways. Whether calling for unity in “We Need Each Other,” extolling the virtues of God in “Everything About You,” or covering the U2 song “Beautiful Day,” the band has always brought vim and vigor to rock ’n’ roll. This Christmas, as part of K-LOVE radio’s Acoustic Christmas Tour, Sanctus Real will bring a different sort of joy as it teams up with Sidewalk Prophets and Dara Maclean to sing acoustic versions of holiday favorites. 9933 Business Park Drive, www.sanctusreal.com.

Mondavi Center, 8 p.m., $12.50-$60 Step back nearly 100 years to when German and British soldiers celebrated Christmas in the midst of the violence of World War I. The year is 1914. A German soldier crosses into no man’s land and begins to sing “Stille Nacht.”

A night of gift giving, singing and peace is shared. History is brought to life in the theatrical production All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, featuring the nine voices of renowned vocal ensemble Cantus in collaboration with Theatre Latté Da. New arrangements of European carols and war songs CHORAL complemented by the narration of entries from soldiers’ diaries complete this Christmas event. 9939 Old Davis Road in Davis, www.cantussings.org.

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N Street Music, 8 p.m., $10 Davis hip-hop-and-soul hybrid group Tha Dirt Feelin performs a show Saturday, benefiting three Ugandan children who lost their parents. The Davis six-piece blends hip-hop with funk and reggae influences—kind of like Michael Franti & Spearhead or Red Hot Chili HIP-HOP/SOUL Peppers, but with more references to NorCal, and a bit more soul. Tha Dirt Feelin is joined on this night by Bay Area reggae group Ital Souls, who will perform two sets—one each with local reggae artists T-Rosemond and Sky-I. Enjoy a unique blend of worldmusic beats, jams and raps—and raise money for three Ugandan kids’ education.

The $10 price is a suggested donation.

716 N Street in Davis, www.thadf.com.

—Jonathan Mendick

Midtown Village Cafe, 8 p.m., call for cover Knock Knock has been a Sacramento favorite for a decade, playing for several years before releasing its debut album in 2004.

The group’s folky acoustic rhythms, sharp surf-rock lead guitars, grooving dance beats and sunny 1970s-AM-radio-inspired pop makes the music immediately infectious, but it’s also some deep stuff. The group’s dark, introspective lyrics counter the lighthearted, free-spirited nature of ROCK the music—giving the whole thing a bit of sophistication. Fans can not only dance, but also dig in and invest themselves in the songs’ content and feel like it isn’t just a guilty pleasure, but rather art with some substance.

1827 I Street, (916) 668-6052, http://sacramaniacs.com/bands/knock-knock.

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Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Taj Mahal (real name Henry St. Clair Fredericks Jr.) cofounded the Rising Sons in 1964 along with Ry Cooder and other cohorts who later played with the Byrds, Captain Beefheart and Spirit. Mahal has since amassed an amazing arsenal of country, Delta, Chicago and gut-bucket blues, and flavored it with roots and world music. His solo performances have showcased not only his harmonica, guitar, piano and banjo expertise, but also an infectious sense of humor, and sometimes BLUES gruff, sometimes creamy vocals punctuated with growls, groans and scat. Expect an evening that is, indeed, fingerpickin’ good. 314 W. Main Street in Grass Valley, www.tajblues.com.

NOFX is not new to the punk party. After 25 years, the fast-paced, hook-conscious skate-punk band from California is showPUNK ing newer indie punks what’s up. Its latest LP, Self Entitled, marks NOFX’s 12th studio album—not counting compilations and band members’ side projects. With a catalog full of songs about everything from humor to heartache, the group’s three-chord riffs never get old. Fat Mike—NOFX vocalist and bassist, and founder of the Fat Wreck Chords label—is pretty much punk royalty. Anything goes during live shows, including stage dives and tequila shots. Be prepared to bop up and down all night long. Chuck Taylors are encouraged.

1417 R Street, www.nofxofficialwebsite.com.

—Mark Halverson

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David Bazan is a spiritually conflicted alcoholic father who writes poignant songs about such subjects as rapture, dereliction and premarital sex. When his band Pedro the Lion released its album Control in 2002, Christian-rock fans around the United States were disappointed and confused by the band’s sudden departure from scripture and a more exploratory questioning of faith.

With songs about beer, cigarettes and girls, ROCK it was one of the group’s bestselling albums. This year, Control turns 10 years old, and the David Bazan Band is celebrating a vinyl reissue of Pedro the Lion’s back catalog with a nationwide tour, playing Control in its entirety. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.davidbazan.com.

—Allison Mayoral

Forming on a whim, writing songs and performing at the Blue Lamp all in the span of less than a month is a feat that could only be achieved by the longtime Sacramento musicians in the Peace Killers. Consisting of memROCK bers from the Walking Dead and Killdevil, this three-piece named its new project after the 1971 exploitation film of the same title. After a handful of practices, the guys developed a sound with plenty of blues elements, soul and, of course, rock ’n’ roll.

Other scheduled performances include the roots music of Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devil, and the Babs Johnson Gang. 2030 P Street, www.facebook.com/thepressclub.

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BLUE LAMP

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

PLAYBOY SCHOOL, ARE WE HUMAN, THE KNIFE OUTLINE; 8pm, call for cover

PSYCHOSOMATIC, RAD!, SHOVE IT, SKRUNT; 9pm, $5

HELLBOUND GLORY, 9pm, $10

THE BOARDWALK

FORCE MULTIPLIED, VERA, BRI, ANONY-

THE CASH PROPHETS, DELTA CITY RAMBLERS, SNAKES N CIDER; 8pm, $15

FALLUJAH, RUINS OF ALPH, NEKROCYST, WOLF BRONSKI; 7pm

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 MOUS, SHOT OF HONESTY; 9pm, $15

BOWS AND ARROWS CENTER FOR THE ARTS

PERSIST TO RISE, ANTI SOCIAL, ABSTRACT ABYSS; 7:30pm, $10

314 W. Main St., Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384

JONNY MOJO, 8pm, $8

MAXWELL HUGHES, BONE MACDONALD; 10pm, $10

DISTRICT 30

DJ Benji, 9pm, call for cover

DJ Elements, DJ Penthaus, 9pm, call for cover

ELKHORN SALOON

NECKBONE, 6:30pm, no cover

ISLAND OF BLACK AND WHITE, 6:30pm, no cover

Deejay dancing and karaoke, 9pm, $3

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

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

THE NEIGHBORS, JAY SHANER; 8-11pm, no cover

DRIVE-THRU MYSTICS, MINDFLOWERS, TALKY TINA’; 9pm, $5

AKRON ENGINE, GABE NELSON, ONE BUCK STRING BAND; 9pm, $5

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

MONDO DECO, DRIVE THRU MYSTICS, COOCOO BIRD; 10pm-1:15am, no cover

GUILTY SIMPSON, DJ House Shoes; 10pm, call for cover

BILAL, 10pm, call for cover

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

FACES

2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

FOX & GOOSE Hey local bands!

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

Standup Comedy Open-Mic Night, 8pm W, no cover TAJ MAHAL, 7:30pm, $55-$65

STRANGE PARTY, COLD HEART REPRESS, COMMUNITY, HYBRID CREEPS; 8pm

3512 Stockton Blvd., (916) 267-7576 594 Main St., Placerville; (530) 642-8481

G STREET WUNDERBAR 228 G St., Davis; (530) 756-9227

HARLOW’S

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

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

HERB OHTA JR., KEOKI KAHUMOKU, JOHN KEAWE; 7pm, call for cover

STONEBERRY, KEATON NELSON; 8pm, $6

MAGIC BULLET, COVE, CHRISTOPHER FAIRMAN, OLLA; 8pm, $6

MARILYN’S ON K

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

SOLWAVE, FUNK DEFIED, RESSURECTION MEN; 9pm, $7

Bad Santa Costume Party, 8:30pm, $15$20

MIX DOWNTOWN

DJ Billy Lane, 9pm, $10, no cover before 9pm

DJ Elliot Estes, 9pm, $15

DJ Mike Moss, 9pm, $20

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN 1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

CHRIS WILSON & PLANET EARTH, REGGIE GINN, DANTE ROMANDIA; 8:30pm

ERIK HANSON, JAY SHANER, SHERMAN BAKER, JOSEPH KOJIMA; 8:30pm, $5

OUT OF PLACE, ALYSSA COX, ALEX MOYLE; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz, 8:30pm M; DYNAMIC FUZZBOMB, JANG, A HAPPY DEATH; 8:30pm W, $5

OLD IRONSIDES

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

MONOMYTH INCEPTION, ZEROCLIENT, SKIN OF SAINTS; 8pm, $10-$12

Fascination, an ‘80s new-wave dance club, 9:30pm, $5

THE NUANCE, 7:30pm M; Karaoke, 9pm Tu; Open-mic, 8:30pm W, no cover

ON THE Y

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

AXIS, THEORY OF OUR KIND, BEYOND THE CONTRARY; 8pm, $5

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

1901 10th St., (916) 442-3504 670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731

ACE OF SPADES

Nebraska Mondays, M; Sacramento Peace Action Christmas Dinner, 6pm Tu

DJ Gabe Xavier, 9pm, $10

Open-mic comedy, 9pm, no cover

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Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover

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THE SWORD, GYPSYHAWK, AMERICAN SHARK; 8pm M; CHARLIE HUNTER; W

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

1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 12/10-12/12 DAVID BAZAN, 8pm Tu; BOB WAYNE & THE OUTLAW CARNIES, 8pm W, $10

STEELIN’ DAN, 8pm, $18-$20

THE COLONY

THE COZMIC CAFÉ

SUNDAY 12/9

A night of music and spoken-word poetry, 8pm, no cover

1815 19 St., (916) 822-5668

18398 Old River Rd., West Sacramento; (916) 371-2277

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THURSDAY 12/6

FRIDAY 12/7

SATURDAY 12/8

SUNDAY 12/9

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 12/10-12/12

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

GUITAR SHORTY, 8:30pm, $20

THE PARK ULTRA LOUNGE

DJ Peeti V, 9pm, $15

Asylum Downtown: Gothic, industrial, EBM dancing, 9pm, call for cover Open acoustic jam, 9pm-1am, No Cover

Open-mic, 10pm-1am Tu, no cover; Trivia, 9-11pm W, no cover

Karaoke, M; DJ Alazzawi, Rigatony, Tu; WHITE MINORITIES, RESTRAYNED; W, $5

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

ROB ICKES AND JIM HURST, 7:30pm W, $20

PINE COVE TAVERN

Karaoke, 9pm-1:30am, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm-1:30am, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm-1:30am, no cover

PJ’S ROADHOUSE

DJ Old Griff, 9pm, no cover

SAMPLE, 9pm, $10 or one gift donation

DIPPIN’ SAUCE, 9pm, $5

LOCASH COWBOYS, JESSICA CAYLYN; 8:30pm, $10

JOURNEY UNAUTHORIZED, 10pm, $10

8 TRACK MASSACRE, 10pm, call for cover

MAXX CABELLO JR., 3pm, $10

THE PRESS CLUB

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

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

Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

SAMMY’S ROCKIN’ ISLAND

METAL SHOP, 10pm, $10

MOTHER MAYHEM, 10pm, $10

502 29th St., (916) 446-3624 5461 Mother Lode, Placerville; (530) 626-0336

POWERHOUSE PUB

614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586 2030 P St., (916) 444-7914 238 Vernon St., Roseville; (916) 773-7625

SHENANIGANS

Comedy Night and DJ Selekta Lou, 9pm, $5

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FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 6, 2012

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Spencer Silver

was a co-inventor of Post-it notes, those small, colorful pieces of paper you can temporarily attach to things and then remove to use again and again. Speaking about the process he went through to develop this simple marvel, he said, “If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.” I’d like to make him your patron saint for the next few weeks, Aries. Like him, you now have the chance to make practical breakthroughs that may have seemed impossible or at least unlikely. Ignore conventional wisdom— including your own. Trust your mischievous intuition.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The axolotl

is a kind of salamander that has an extraordinary capacity for regenerating itself. If it loses a leg in an accident, it will grow a new one in its place. It can even fix its damaged organs, including eyes, heart and brain. And get this: There’s never any scar tissue left behind when its work is done. Its power to heal itself is pretty much perfect. I nominate the axolotl to be your power animal in the coming weeks, Taurus.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you now have an extraordinary ability to restore any part of your soul that got hurt or stolen or lost.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the coming

months, I hope that you will get sweet revenge. In fact, I predict that you will get sweet revenge. Keep in mind that I’m not talking about angry, roaring vindication. I don’t mean you will destroy the reputations of your adversaries or reduce them to humiliating poverty or laugh at them as they grovel for mercy while lying in a muddy gutter. No, Gemini. The kind of revenge I foresee is that you will achieve a ringing triumph by mastering a challenge they all believed would defeat you. And your ascent to victory starts now.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I would love

to speak with you about your hesitancy to fully confront your difficulties. But I will not speak forthrightly, since I’m pretty sure that would irritate you. It might even motivate you to procrastinate even further. So instead, I will make a lame joke about how if you don’t stop avoiding the obvious, you will probably get bitten in the butt by a spider. I will try to subtly guilt-trip you into taking action by implying that I’ll be annoyed at you if you don’t. I will wax sarcastic and suggest that maybe just this once, ignorance is bliss. Hopefully that will nudge you into dealing straightforwardly with the unrest that’s burbling.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Drama is life with

all the boring parts cut out of it,” said Leo filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. By that criterion, I’m guessing that your experience in the coming week will have a high concentration of magic and stimulation. You should be free from having to slog through stale details and prosaic storylines. Your word of power will be succulence. For best results, I suggest you take active control of the unfolding adventures. Be the director and lead actor in your drama, not a passive participant who merely reacts to what the other actors are doing.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of my spir-

itual teachers once told me that a good spiritual teacher makes an effort not to seem too perfect. She said some teachers even cultivate odd quirks and harmless failings on purpose. Why? To get the best learning experience, students must be discouraged from overidealizing the wise advisors they look up to. It’s crucial they understand that achieving utter purity is impossible and unrealistic. Being perceived as an infallible expert is dangerous for teachers, too: It makes them prone to egotistical grandiosity. I bring this up, Virgo, because it’s an excellent time to reduce the likelihood that you’ll be seduced by the illusion of perfection.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This would be a

good week to talk to yourself far more than you usually do. If you’re the type of person who never talks to yourself, this is a perfect time to start. And I do mean that you should speak the words out loud. Actually address yourself with passionate, humorous, ironic,

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sincere, insightful comments, as you would any person you care about. Why am I suggesting this? Because according to my interpretation of the astrological omens, you would benefit from the shock of literally hearing how your mind works. Even more importantly: The cheerleading you do, the encouragement you deliver and the motivational speeches you give would have an unusually powerful impact if they were audibly articulated.

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

tale “Beauty and the Beast,” a grotesque humanlike creature hosts the heroine in his home, treating her like a queen. She accepts his hospitality but rejects his constant requests to marry him. Eventually, he collapses from heartache. Moved by the depth of his suffering, she breaks into tears and confesses her deep affection for him.

This shatters the spell and magically transforms the Beast back into the handsome prince he originally was. Your life may have parallels to this story in the coming months, Scorpio. You might be tested. Can you discern the truth about a valuable resource that doesn’t look very sexy? Will you be able to see beauty embedded in a rough or shabby form?

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

you thoroughly shuffle a deck of cards, the novel arrangement you create is probably unique in all of human history; its specific order has never before occurred. I suspect the same principle applies to our lives: Each new day brings a singular set of circumstances that neither you nor anyone else in the last 10,000 years has ever had the pleasure of being challenged and intrigued by. There is always some fresh opportunity, however small, that is being offered you for the first time. I think it’s important for you to keep this perspective in mind during the coming week. Be alert for what you have never seen or experienced before.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I wish I could do more than just fantasize about helping you achieve greater freedom. In my dreams, I am obliterating delusions that keep you moored to false idols. I am setting fire to the unnecessary burdens you lug around. And I am tearing you away from the galling compromises you made once upon a time in order to please people who don’t deserve to have so much power over you. But it’s actually a good thing I can’t just wave a magic wand to make all this happen. Here’s a much better solution: You will clarify your analysis of the binds you’re in, supercharge your willpower and liberate yourself.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In his

book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins talks about a gourmet who “gave up everything, traveled thousands of miles and spent his last dime to get to the highest lamasery in the Himalayas to taste the dish he’d longed for his whole life, Tibetan peach pie. When he got there … the lamas said they were all out of peach. ‘Okay,’ said the gourmet, ‘make it apple.’” I suspect you’ll be having a comparable experience sometime soon, Aquarius. You may not get the exact treat you wanted, but what you’ll receive in its place is something that’s pretty damn good. I urge you to accept the gift as is!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Having ‘a

sense of self’ means possessing a set of stories about who we are,” according to William Kittredge in his book The Nature of Generosity. He says there are two basic types of stories: The first is “cautionary tales, which warn us” and therefore protect us. The second consists of “celebratory” tales, which we use to heal and calm ourselves. I believe that you Pisceans are now in a phase when you primarily need celebratory stories. It’s time to define yourself with accounts of what you love and value and regard as precious.

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The mind-body connection Lemuel Adams played football on a full athletic scholarship at Washington State University from 1999 to 2000.

When it came time to get drafted into the National Football League, however, the San Jose, Calif., native didn’t fare as well, training with the San Francisco 49ers for only a couple weeks. So, Adams turned to arena football—an indoor version of the sport usually played on plastic turf. That’s where he came up with the idea to train other athletes indoors, using a combination of speed and agility exercises to build stamina and skill. Adams started his business in the two-car garage of the house he shares with his wife and five kids two-and-a-half years ago, and earlier this year, he officially launched Game-Fit Fitness Training Depot (1201 Del Paso Boulevard), a sprawling indoor athletic center that’s home to clients of all ages and fitness levels. It’s not just about the body, however: GameFit also offers tutoring in college-test prep and math and English for highschool athletes. Adams, who hopes to expand the business into a statewide franchise, talked to SN&R about parental involvement, personal fitness and why athletic excellence is nothing without academic achievement.

How did you come up with the idea for Game-Fit?

personal training—I’m certified in speed and agility. My oldest [client] is 67.

great.” But some parents, they don’t show up; half of them can’t get here.

Why did you decide to incorporate tutoring into your training program?

How do you deal with the challenge of working with a student whose parent is not as involved?

I came out in the NFL draft but didn’t get signed. I was trying to get picked up as a free agent and started working out with the 49ers but got released after two weeks and wondered what I was going to do. That’s when I started playing arena football in Mobile, Alabama. I played there from 2001 to 2010, and that’s where I got the idea of [working out on] turf. ... I started training [adults], and one of the parents came to me and said, “Hey— can you work with my kid?” I said, “Absolutely,” and laid some turf in my garage. It started growing, and then my garage got too small.

The bulk of my clients are student athletes from [area high schools]. The main thing for us is that we want to develop the kids from an athletic standpoint, but without the academics, it doesn’t work. I didn’t get that until I went to Washington State when they partnered you up with a tutor to make sure you were eligible to play. I thought, “Wouldn’t have this been nice when I was growing up?” I would have had a whole different mindset about academics.

What kind of training do you offer?

How do you tailor the training?

Is it difficult to get that message across to a teenager?

We talk about past history and what you’re looking to accomplish as a player. Are you doing this to be fit, or are you trying to develop as an athlete? Are you being recruited now? What’s your process? Are your coaches helping you get seen? If not, then let’s … film you on drills … and we’ll critique it.

It is, it is. It’s work, but you stay on it, you stay committed. My parents were superinvolved in my academics … but there were times when I had friends who didn’t have the same structure but they had the work ethic, regardless of whether their parents were involved or not. They saw the big picture.

How do the parents respond to this?

Are you ever a couch potato?

Well, that’s why I brought it to this area.

A lot of parents [here] aren’t involved; they don’t know anything from an academic standpoint. I’ll ask a kid, “So tell me what do your parents think about your grades?” and [I’ll learn] that they don’t care. Some of the parents are like, “Absolutely, this is

I’m not. I work out every day. I do yoga. My kids work out, too. Everyone does yoga, everyone has great eating habits, everyone is in shape—they know the importance. Ω

We focus on speed and agility and conditioning. We do explosion-type drills. We do very [little] weight training. This is more of an athletic style with parachute training and resistance bands.

Do you work primarily with students?

We do NFL draft prep, too. We have [former Grant Union High School students] C.J. Wallace and [Shaquille] Thompson. A lot of those players will come here during the season and in the off-season to train. I worked with them in the past, even before I had this facility. We also work with athletes of all ages, from ages 7 and up. I work with a young lady who is 8 years old and runs track. I also do

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That’s when I’m constantly calling. I don’t care if the student is a high-end athlete or someone who is just struggling academically and trying to play sports. To me, it doesn’t matter. My goal is not for you to make the NFL or make a college team. My goal is for you to graduate from high school and maybe have an opportunity to get a free education.

For more information on Game-Fit Fitness Training Depot visit, www.game-fit.com.

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