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internet wars Have you heard of the Copyright Alert System?

It all started when this country’s music and movie powerhouses—the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America—partnered with the nation’s biggest Internetservice providers—Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, etc.—to monitor users’ Internet habits.

This isn’t the first time ISPs and Hollywood have joined forces: Remember the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act, or SOPA and PIPA, which never made it far in Congress but were trailblazing efforts to monitor and throttle Internet users?

The Copyright Alert System is similar. And it doesn’t need to pass Congress: It’s already in the works.

What’s it do, exactly? The ISPs and Hollywood hired a third-party company to monitor what we do online.

Everything. But if you illegally download the latest episode of Homeland, or Peter Jackson’s new Hobbit flick, this third party will mark a “strike” on your permanent Internet record. Ooh. Six strikes, however, and the third party will rat you out to the ISPs: “Hey, this guy’s downloading way too much illegal stuff.”

This means the ISP will penalize you. And, while the ISPs haven’t disclosed how exactly they intend to punish users, rumors include slowing down Internet speeds, redirecting browsers—basically whatever penalties they want to impose, including the blocking of thousands of Internet domains.

That’s the rub: ISPs and Hollywood are colluding sans oversight to pluck, monitor, disseminate and now criminalize the online habits of millions of Americans. The Copyright Alert System will operate with little transparency or accountability. Who knows where this road leads. Congress should be preventing ISPs from infringing consumer’s Internet habits, not looking the other way.

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Re “K.J.’s next act” by Nick Miller (SN&R Feature Story, December 6): The questions are: Can we trust Kevin Johnson? Does he have the background to govern (correctly)? Has he properly disclosed and/or spent campaign and nonprofit monies? Are we comfortable with the findings and/or his level of involvement in Phoenix and at St. Hope academy?

If we have doubts about the above, we should be concerned. He has consistently been seeking more empowerment as mayor, spent an inordinate amount of time and effort seeking to retain a professional LETTER OF THE WEEK basketball team, and incurred fines and sharp criticism throughout his career.

We should elect persons to be mayor who have a strong understanding of the workings of government and a proven track record, rather than place our trust in the skills of a professional point guard.

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Tumor on Sacramento’s neck Re “K.J.’s next act” by Nick Miller (SN&R Feature Story, December 6): While I truly believe in [Mayor Kevin Johnson’s] incompetence and corruption and thus the effort to recall Mayor Kevin Johnson, it is the arrogant impunity with which he acts that really makes me want to vomit. It brings forth a vile loathing of “politicians” that I don’t want to admit exists in me. Whether he just doesn’t understand or if he’s being evasive doesn’t matter—there’s a cancerous tumor growing straight out of the neck of Sacramento and an unfortunate four-year prognosis to have it removed.

Shawn Mainville Sacramento

Difficulties in tracking racial profiling Re “Low profile” by Raheem F. Hosseini (SN&R Frontlines, December 6): I was chairman of the Sacramento County Chapter of the [American Civil Liberties Union] from 2007 through 2009.

At that time, the Rev. Ashiya Odeye was on the board, and I was well-aware of there being a problem of racial profiling in the city of Sacramento and that it involved— besides automobile drivers—people on foot and bicycles.

The problem I had in seeking a direction for the ACLU to take action was a lack of basic information about how, when, who and the circumstances of the police stop.

[Sacramento Police] Chief Rick Braziel was certainly aware of the problem, but it was difficult to determine how the issue was being handled. I thought for whatever reasons the Community Racial Profiling Commission—with the exception of Rev. Odeye—was ineffectual, and their periodic reports were insipid. Further, I didn’t see a real commitment by the city council to deal with the issue.

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Newly elected, new nickname Re “Witch hunt!” by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Bites, December 6): Thank you, SN&R, for the next four years of political satire and chestbumping. I loved Cosmo [Garvin]’s prose on our “senior regional manager of state government affairs” dude and new District 4 [Sacramento City Councilman] Steve Hansen.

Steve, you’re correct: You are not the Pillsbury Doughboy. You are now christened Pokey.

Learn to love it. Do no harm in the next four years. Oh, and I voted for you.

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Aaron Hutto is a true poet, and they rock. As someone born in London in the swinging ’6os, I kind of have a feel for the real deal, and they are it!

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Real Ethiopian Re “Less salt, more jazz” by Becky Grunewald (SN&R Dish, December 6): I am a naturalized American citizen of Ethiopian descent. I strongly disagree with your Dish review of Abyssinia Ethiopian Restaurant. I found the food to be the best I have tasted since I left Ethiopia. Your reviewer has missed the mark by a mile when discussing the vegetable dishes. I found the place to be spacious and relaxing and the staff to be very friendly.

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Living on the grid forever, I was the winner of multiple “Where the fuck is my bike?!” awards. Is there anything lower than your average meth-head bike thief?

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Nothing for you to worry about, good citizen. Continue on your way.

It wasn’t until I inherited a women’s pink mid-level mountain bike that my luck changed. I tried to cover the pink with tons of stickers from a Mexican radio station. It was hideous looking.

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Environmentalists sued the state over what they say is the Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources’ rubber-stamping fracking permits and general lack of oversight.

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It might lack the big hair and cowboy hats of Dallas, but the latest dustup between by California’s oilmen and environmentalists Christopher Arns is certainly dramatic.

In October, a group of activists sued the state’s Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources over fracking, the controversial type of oil and gas exploration that involves blasting water, sand and chemicals deep into the ground.

Activists believe state regulators are basically industry pawns, allowing hundreds of new wells while ignoring possible environmental impacts to groundwater and earthquake faults.

George Torgun, an Earthjustice attorney who filed the lawsuit, argues that the regulatory agency isn’t following the California Environmental Quality Act when approving new wells.

Actually, he claims the agency is lazy when it comes to oversight, essentially using a generic approval letter for each fracking permit application—like it’s copying and pasting the same document over and over.

Read Cosmo Garvin’s “The language is pretty much the same cover story on fracking in California from document to document,” said Torgun.

As a result, the lawsuit claims the state (“Oh, frack!” SN&R Feature Story, has allowed the oil companies to regulate March 29) at themselves for decades. http://tinyurl.com/ “Right now, they don’t require frackingSNR. anything,” Torgun said. “They don’t really know where or when fracking is happening and what chemicals are being used.”

So why the fuss over fracking? The practice has led to a boom in the country’s oil and gas production as companies have discovered billions of new energy reserves buried deep in shale deposits. In fact, the U.S. Energy Information Administration thinks the Monterey Shale formation in Central California might hold at least 15 billion barrels of extractable crude oil.

According to the EIA, Americans consumed 6.87 billion barrels of oil in 2011, so the Monterey Shale formation holds enough to supply the entire country for almost two-and-a-half years. It’s 64 percent of the country’s total shale oil reserves, per the EIA. For comparison, Saudi Arabia has 267 billion barrels of total crude reserves.

“The technology is remarkable, and the economic implications are remarkable,” said Donald L. Turcotte, a professor and geophysicist at UC Davis. “On the other hand, there are certainly serious

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environmental effects and some of these have been documented.”

Environmentalists point to accidents in Wyoming and West Virginia where the Environmental Protection Agency discovered contaminated groundwater after well casings leaked. They’re concerned that California’s regulators aren’t taking those dangers seriously.

The attorney claims California is lazy when it comes to oversight, essentially using a generic approval letter for each fracking-permit application.

Meanwhile, Vermont has already banned fracking, and several other states are also considering a moratorium until further research is completed on its side effects.

“Our main concern is that we want proof that it can be done safely, and it’s properly regulated,” said Bill Allayaud, a spokesman for the Environmental Working Group, one of the organizations that banded with Earthjustice to file the lawsuit.

The state has until December 17 to respond to the lawsuit. Department of Conservation spokesman Don Drysdale refused to comment on the case, but the oil and gas industry is furious.

Tupper Hull, a representative from the Western States Petroleum Association, said environmentalists are clueless on the issue.

“They clearly are misinformed about what oil companies are required to report to the state of California,” Hull said.

“Everything that takes place on a drilling site is recorded and reported.”

Last year, Hull said that California’s oil and gas companies fracked at least 600 wells in 2011. Most were oil wells near Bakersfield in Kern County.

But Venoco Inc., a Colorado-based outfit drilling for natural gas north of Sacramento, may have fracked for natural gas at least 15 times in Sutter and Colusa counties this year, according to a press release issued by the company last December.

Allayaud said it’s hard to tell which wells are actually being fracked in California. The state’s online database of oil and gas projects doesn’t provide that kind of information. Neither do energy companies. SN&R reached out to Occidental Petroleum Corporation, one of the state’s largest oil firms, and asked for details about its fracking operations. In response, the company’s spokeswoman, Susie Geiger, wrote an email stating that Occidental doesn’t “discuss the specifics of its operations.”

“The whole thing is extremely proprietary,” said Turcotte. “You really can’t find out what they’re pumping down because they don’t want anyone else to know it.”

But activists believe California regulators shouldn’t let companies get away with keeping secrets. They’re also outraged

about the federal government’s plans to auction off 18,000 acres of oil and gas rights in the Monterey Shale later this month without tougher state rules.

Credo Action, a national activist group, planned a rally outside the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Sacramento office on December 12 to protest the auction. In a statement posted on Credo’s website, the group urged the feds to wait “before selling off rights to oil companies to move ahead with totally unregulated fracking in California.”

Ironically, the federal government has sometimes sided with environmentalists in the war on fracking.

Last year, the EPA scolded California’s regulatory agency over its lack of oversight, and now the state is finally considering new rules for fracking. The regulatory agency hopes to present a set of draft regulations early next year, according to Drysdale, the state’s spokesman.

Environmentalists are hoping for tougher oversight in the new rules, including more information about drilling accidents and what chemicals are pumped underground. Still, Torgun thinks the agency should act immediately, even before issuing the guidelines.

“The concern is it’s going to take a while before we have any final regulations in place,” the attorney said. “In the meantime, we have [that] existing environmental review process under CEQA that’s applied for many decades now. That’s the law, and we want them to follow the law now.” Ω

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When Ellyn Bell decided to leave the Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Trustees earlier this year—so she by Cosmo Garvin could live closer to a new job in San Francisco—her colleagues on the cosmog@ board decided it was too late and too ne w s re v i e w . c o m expensive to call an election to fill her seat.

They decided instead to pick their own replacement to represent the district’s Area 1 (Land Park, Curtis Park and the grid) for the remainder of Bell’s term, which ends in December 2014.

This is allowed by state education law. But some community activists and labor leaders say it’s undemocratic and are now calling for a special election to replace Bell.

And they’re threatening a petition drive that would force an election, even if the board makes its own pick, which is expected to happen on December 20.

“We will challenge the appointment, whoever it is.”

Annette Deglow community activist Annette Deglow is leading the effort. She was also one of the community activists who helped to write and pass measures J and K, which brought area elections to the district and replaced the at-large system in 2006. Deglow says the school board’s decision to appoint a new board member rather than allowing area residents to pick their own representative undermines the system voters put in place just a few years ago.

“It flies in the face of J and K,” said Deglow. “We will challenge the appointment, whoever it is.”

If the board decides to go ahead with its plan to appoint a new member, Deglow and company would have 30 days from the time of the appointment to collect 2,454 signatures, which would force the district to hold a special election to fill the seat.

If the petitioners turn in enough valid signatures, the election would likely wind up being held in the summer of 2013. That means the new board member elected at that time wouldn’t be seated until December 2013. And this raises the possibility of

having multiple board members rotate through that seat until the next regular election in 2014.

Bell took the San Francisco job in the spring. Had she given notice at that time, her seat could have been up for election on last November’s ballot.

The other big argument against a special election is that costs are too high. County election officials estimate the cost from $155,000 to $280,000.

Brad Buyse with the Sacramento County elections department said the school district could opt for a “mail-in ballot only” election, which could save money, because the county could then avoid setting up polling places.

But Buyse said he didn’t have enough information to give an estimate.

The Sacramento City Teachers Association and other district labor unions are supporting the call for a special election. SCTA president Scott Smith said the board often finds money if the cause is important to them. For example, “They had $500,000 to spend on City Year,” a program which places AmeriCorps members in struggling schools.

“The difference is that if we spend money on an election, that is going to go to an election bureaucrat,” countered board member Jeff Cuneo.

Cuneo is concerned about the costs of the election and also expressed frustration that the push for the special election didn’t happen sooner. “We had hearings, and nobody said anything about a special election. Where were [these] guys a month ago?”

As the board has closed in on an appointment, there have been persistent rumors that one of the candidates, Bina Lefkovitz, had already lined up four votes needed to get the job. She has some very powerful friends supporting her, including California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg. And she’s married to Sacramento City Councilman Jay Schenirer, who is also a professional education consultant.

But Cuneo said “it’s just not true” that Lefkovitz is a lock for the appointment. “I’m undecided at this point.”

Deglow said the process is suspect, no matter who gets appointed. “This should have been on the ballot. Those candidates aren’t out there trying to work the residents of Area 1. They are trying to work the board members.” Ω

County continues to grapple with ‘recent phenomenon’ of Internet-gambling cafes You are such a slot.

Such was the message Sacramento County supervisors delivered last by Raheem week to a minimart hoping to separate F. Hosseini itself from a raft of internet-cafe gambling fronts ka-chinging throughr ahe emh@ out the state. newsre view.c om Earlier this year, when the county rejected Town & Country Mini Mart’s bid for a business license, it was because owner Paul Avery neglected to mention his Fulton Avenue shop’s primary source of income: rows of computer terminals that allow customers to play “sweepstakes” games like keno and poker. All customers need to do to is purchase Internet time.

According to the county, this is enough to make the computer terminals de facto slot machines, which are prohibited under state law. (Unless they are on recognized American Indian lands, of course.)

“These things usually open up in poverty-stricken neighborhoods.

They draw from folks who don’t have the means to get themselves to a casino.”

Aaron Wong California Department of Justice’s Bureau of Gambling Control Avery and his attorney, Kathleen Finnerty, argued that customers could use the purchased computer time to conduct other business, and that the games met the legal definition of electronic sweepstakes similar to ones offered by McDonald’s and Visa.

“Although these sweepstakes games can resemble gambling, so too do any sweepstakes games,” Finnerty contended. “The fact that they’re conducted electronically doesn’t change the nature of the lawful sweepstakes.”

Despite this being their first brush with this phenomenon, county supervisors didn’t spend much time parsing the legal differences between gambling devices and electronic sweepstakes. The latter are permitted under the county’s business and professions code, said deputy county counsel John E. Reed.

Following the board’s unanimous decision, Finnerty said Avery closed his business and laid off a handful of

Read SN&R’s previous coverage of Internet-gambling cafes in Sacramento at http://tinyurl.com/ gamblingSNR.

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But Avery’s wasn’t the only ambiguous gaming business around these parts.

According to law enforcement, Sacramento has experienced a “recent phenomenon” of so-called Internetcafe businesses operating as fronts for gambling, especially in poorer neighborhoods.

Within the last month, the sheriff’s department’s Special Investigations Intelligence Bureau conducted an enforcement operation on a number of these businesses, said spokesman Deputy Jason Ramos.

But defining the scope of this “phenomenon” remains difficult.

There are no firm numbers describing how many Internet cafes and copy shops may be running electronic gambling machines in Sacramento or elsewhere. That’s because law enforcement only really learned of the problem a few years ago, said Aaron Wong, acting special agent in charge of the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Gambling Control’s Northern California compliance and enforcement section. The DOJ’s first encounter with these kinds of businesses was in Stockton, roughly four years ago.

“It sounds legitimate,” he told SN&R of these pseudo Internet cafes.

“But these things usually open up in poverty-stricken neighborhoods. They draw from folks who don’t have the means to get themselves to a casino.

It’s a shame because these are the same folks who probably can’t afford to lose the 30, 40 bucks.”

These plain-sight gambling halls have been easier to spot since Internet cafes went the way of pagers and silk shirts. And once inside, the businesses’ true purpose is usually evident, Wong said. There are rows of computer terminals with video slot-style games pinging and ringing throughout the main entryway.

All of which should make them easier to shut down. But the argument that they’re offering sweepstakes games makes them harder to kill.

Finnerty told SN&R that supervisors ignored the legal nuances that distinguish gambling from sweepstakes.

“I believe an appeal is wellfounded to obtain a proper legal view of these issues, but no decision has been made on that yet,” she said. Ω

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Freshman disorientation If the state Legislature were a business, would it get Bain Capital’d?

Imagine trying to run a successful business in which every two years one-third of the veteran employees leave and are replaced with green sieve heads who require training, mentoring and vigilant supervision to avoid All-World clusterfucks that feature overzealous health inspectors, class-action lawsuits, mangled co-workers—or a combination of the three.

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by GREG LU exactly the chamber-of-commerceseal-of-approval model for caplowdown@newsreview.com caplowdown@newsreview.com profitability. Yet California’s 17 million voters expect the Legislature to boldly smack down the state’s ills, despite that this year, 40 of California’s 120 lawmakers are brand-spankin’ new to the gig as of 10 days ago, when they swore to uphold the Constitution and not engage in any animal husbandry within 1,000 feet of a public school for a t least the next two years.

What too often happens is these new-to-the-Capitol kids get “domed.”

Most of these Sacramento solons believe they’re the most righteous, badass problem solvers to stride purposefully beneath the white sepulchre’s rotunda since Hiram Johnson. Self-esteem doesn’t seem to be a chronic psychological deficiency n e w s & r e v i e w b u s i n e s s u s e o n ly among elected officials, state or designer MK issUe dATe 05.26.11 federal, newly ACCTelected eXeC REM or otherwise.

Nor do newbies FiLe nAMe DAVIDALLEN052611R1 reV dATe judiciously 03.02.06 restrain themselves due to ignorance of any issue, policy procedural. All of their please carefully review your advertisement and verify theorfollowing: ideas are novel—downright revoAd size (CoLUMn X inChes) lutionary—and deserve unanimous speLLing enactment yesterday. nUMbers & dATes The crafty, grizzled lawmakers try ConTACT inFo (phone, Address, eTC) to impart the rudiments of California’s Ad AppeArs As reqUesTed Rube Goldberg-esque legislative ApproVed by: process to their less-experienced colleagues. There’s any number of seminars and group gropes this month Greg Lucas’ so that come January, when the Big state-politics column Capitol Show lumbers into first gear, these Lowdown will appear 40 tabulae rasae have at least some every-other week in CliffsNotes scribbled on them.

SN&R. He also blogs One of the more droll conceits is a at www.californias capitol.com. course called “Ethics Training,” which new legislators and their veteran colleagues must submit themselves to annually. Doesn’t take Plato or

Pliny—Elder or Younger—to realize if a player doesn’t bring their own moral compass to the ball game, they aren’t going to find one laying around on the field—regardless of the amount of training.

In fairness, it’s not like these new lawmakers were just beamed over from some alternate universe. Most have local political experience—a school board, city council, board of stupidvisors, mosquito abatement district. What too often happens is these new-to-the-Capitol kids get “domed,” as one lawmaker called it, before knowing better. “Domed” in this use describes the phenomenon of public officials forgetting everything they learned about the needs and mechanics of local government as soon as they set foot in Sacramento.

(No doubt, with a healthy amount of trepidation, a member of this legislator’s staff alerted the boss that the Urban Dictionary’s three principal definitions of “domed” are, in descending order: “To headshot someone in a video game,” “the act of giving oral pleasure to the male penis” and being “so high that you can’t perform simple operations.” Not that a Del Webb denizen would necessarily be aware of that, but in politics, “caution” is the watchword, and “domed” has disappeared from the legislator’s public presentations.)

Would that there were one snappy aphorism, some universal truism to guide legislative conduct. At least one a bit less violent than, “They put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue.”

Here’s a possibility: On the wall of the office of former senator and Assemblyman John Burton—now head of the California Democratic Party and an octogenarian as of December 15—was the quote, “It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

Abiding by that rule worked pretty well for millions of autistic kids, countless poor Californians, beneficiaries of Cal Grants college aid and advocates of lower greenhousegas emissions. All benefited from legislation, primarily authored by other lawmakers, which wouldn’t have become law without Burton muscling them through.

That can be hard, lonely work, however. A key reason some lawmakers continue to opt for the time-tested corporate-sponsorship route. Ω

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Fresh and sleazy Great floods of the future, the ghosts of development deals past One of the highlights of this past year for Bites was the opportunity to leave behind the sleaze and corruption of this capital city and hang out for a couple of days with one Leon Hunsaker of Hugo, Ore. Hunsaker is a retired meteorologist and TV weatherman who has spent a good chunk of his long and accomplished life studying the Great Flood of 1862, which nearly vin AR G wiped Sacramento off the map.

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by CO He thinks that something like the cos mog@ n ewsrev iew.c om “Noachian deluge” of 1862 (after the Biblical Noah) or the ARkStorm (derived from “Atmospheric River 1,000” and is also a Noah reference, again) will return, and that Sacramento’s flood system just isn’t ready for it.

For reasons too complicated to go into here, hydrologists at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers think Hunsaker’s wrong (see “The weatherman,” SN&R Feature Story, June 21).

He has challenged the Army Corps to debate him, but no luck. Couldn’t even wrangle a spot at the annual California Extreme Precipitation Symposium in Davis, even though the theme this year was the 150-year anniversary of the Great Flood.

Well, perhaps the weatherman can take some satisfaction in a big article due to appear in Scientific American next month, which offers some scary support to his hypothesis. In “The Coming Megafloods,” hydrologist Michael Dettinger and B. Lynn Ingram, a professor of Earth and planetary science and geography, detail new evidence gleaned from sediment layers around the Bay Area and Southern California that 1862-style storms have been routinely pounding the area every 100 to 200 years, and climate change could mean more.

Did Bites mention it’s the 150-year anniversary of California’s Great Flood?

After reading the early online version of the story, Bites wasn’t sure whether to call up Hunsaker and congratulate him on being ahead of the curve or to let him know that Bites is packing up the family and moving to Hugo.

California Musical Theatre is pulling the plug on the Cosmopolitan Cabaret after four years and an awful lot of city money. The Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency subsidized development of the building on 10th and K streets, originally an old Woolworth’s store, to the tune of about $10 million. Oh, and don’t forget the $3 million that the city spent buying up the property.

The project also included some dining and a nightclub, the whole package. But it was the theater that justified the city money; it was the bait for the big development subsidy.

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will go in there. Fine, but not what the city paid for, not by a long shot. And no, it wasn’t intentional, but a bait and switch nonetheless.

And now that the developers David Taylor and the CIM Group are getting ready to sell off that block for a profit, how much of its money is the city going to get back? Better be careful, or folks might start to grow a bit cynical about redevelopment. Not that anyone will remember after a couple of months. Bites will, for a little while. It’s not weird.

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But is it weird that Bites thought recently again about that Fresh & Easy store on El Camino Avenue and Del Paso Boulevard in north Sacramento? You know, the one that’s just a parking lot and a concrete pad with some wires sticking out of it? Remember when the SHRA loaned the company $2 million to build the parking lot and other infrastructure for the much-needed grocery store, but then Fresh & Easy never built it? Remember? No?

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The Cosmopolitan Cabaret was the bait for a big development subsidy. Now comes the switch.

The company kept building stores in other neighborhoods, but never got around to north Sac. Comes word now that F&E’s parent company, Tesco, which is like the British version of Walmart, is getting ready to sell off its Fresh & Easy stores. Tesco CEO Philip Clarke said that a strategic review of the chain reveals that “acceptable returns will take too long relative to other opportunities.”

Wonder if Clarke ever thought about getting into the redevelopment game?

Anyway, it looks like the completion date of the world’s slowest grocery-store construction project has been moved back to never.

And that’s about when Bites expects the $2 million to be paid back to the city. No worries, soon forgotten.

Hey, someone should call up the neighborhood’s new city Councilman Allen Warren and tell him to straighten that grocery-store thing out. And hey, speaking of Allen Warren and redevelopment and a bunch of money that ought to be paid back ... oh, never mind, no one remembers anyway. Ω

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In fact, like many local elected officials, he became an accomplished problem solver while serving on the Davis Joint Unified School District, the Davis City Council and, finally, as the city’s mayor from 2008 to 2010. Now, a member of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, Saylor has set his sights on ending hunger in Yolo County. SN&R sat down for a talk with Saylor about his push with Yolo Food Connect.

Jeff vonKaenel: Let’s start by talking about hunger in Yolo County. How big of a problem is it?

Don Saylor: Hunger is one of the critical issues here because 17 percent of the Yolo County population has been defined as “food insecure.” One in four children lives in a household where they are not sure where the next meal is coming from. It’s an interesting problem “People who receive a to have in Yolo County we live in an CalFresh benefit don’t because agricultural treasure. But send the money to the we do have a couple of Cayman Islands, they food deserts, located in parts of West Sacramento spend it immediately and parts of Davis. One of in their local the bigger challenges in a place like Yolo is that we grocery store.” have rural communities with little access to fresh Don Saylor fruits and vegetables—this Yolo County supervisor poses a challenge when it comes to distribution systems. Ironically, many of the people who live in these rural communities and have food-access issues actually work on farms.

Another big challenge we have is to understand why many who are eligible are not participating in CalFresh.

This is a problem we are having for all of California—we still have one of the worst CalFresh participation rates in the country. In Oregon, 90-something percent of eligible people participate in food stamps. We only have about 51 percent.

Over the past couple of years, people seem to have become more aware of this challenge. That’s because for every dollar that comes into the local economy for a CalFresh benefit or a supplementalnutrition assistance benefit, a $1.80 boost in the local economy occurs. People who receive a CalFresh benefit don’t send the money to the Cayman Islands, they spend it immediately in their local grocery store or their farmers market. It’s an

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almost feel a little sorry for them. Sure, there’s disarray after any lost election, and while “shellacking” is the more presidential description for what the rest of us—especially here in California— might term a “manifest butt kicking,” the Republicans are lost.

Lost between the tea party and the Latino vote; lost on climate change, even as it finally rises up the national agenda; lost on how even to keep score as the election concluded.

And so they throw a couple of punches in the dark at Susan Rice, and they dig in their heels on fiscal issues as if all that’s old is new again. And then there’s Bryan Fischer.

He’s the director of issue Thank you, Jesus. analysis for government and public policy of the American Family Association and, according to Raw Story, monologued on his radio show about how he got a birthday present as a tyke, one that he did not like, and he said so aloud. “The person that gave me gift was there. … And it just crushed that person. It was enormously insensitive of me to do that.” Fischer continued: “And you think, that’s kind of how we’re treating God when he’s given us these gifts of abundant and inexpensive and effective fuel sources. … And we don’t thank him for it and we don’t use it.”

Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor wants more people to take advantage of CalFresh.

immediate boost to the local economy. That means local jobs, and it means connecting with existing food distribution through the retail system.

Let’s move on to the food coalition that you have put together. Tell me about that.

So, we started with a look at how we could increase the participation rate for CalFresh. But we realized as we worked that hunger is really a systemwide issue. So we need to work at it on a systemwide level. The way we have started that attack is to bring together a coalition—an ad hoc coalition we call the Yolo Food Connect—that includes growers, many nonprofit groups, individuals involved in the food support system, farmers markets, food cooperatives and school-nutrition programs. We started with a group of about eight or 10 people and a steering committee, then expanded to a working group of 45 or 50. In October, we conducted a full-scale Yolo Food Connect Summit on the campus of UC Davis. Basically, we want to build a sustainable food system with abundant and healthy affordable food for everybody in the region and in Yolo County.

Not only does that notion turn SUVs into little churches with big tires, it also means we can’t be grateful to God for genetically modified organisms, being man-made and all. Which is a tiny irony, as Proposition 37 and its discussion of genetically modified foods was one place where Manifest Butt Kicking didn’t occur, at least not in the same direction. While Michael Pollan stated famously for The New York Times that what “we will learn on Nov. 6 is whether or not there is a ‘food movement’ in America worthy of the name,” the measure went down harder in Sacramento County (43 percent to 57 percent) than it did in the state (48 percent to 52 percent).

On October 1, polls had Prop. 37 leading 3-toWe bet your aunts 1 after the onslaught of ads, in which the Yes on aren’t as cool as ours.

Friend Auntie Ruth 37 campaign was outspent 5-to-1 in what many on Facebook consider a dirty campaign, and the tide turned. and let’s hang out.

Such tactics don’t spell the end of a movement, only a skirmish. Mother Jones noted that similar battles are predicted by ballot in Washington and in the state houses in Oregon, New Mexico and Maine. It’s a dinner party, the night is young, we’re far from dessert. And that ain’t lost. Ω

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So you’ve gathered all the players that have any connection to this issue?

Yes. There are multiple strands of activity and, in Yolo County, we’ve got such an amazingly creative group of people working on the inner-play between agriculture and the economy, between agriculture and the environment and all of the local food movements and the farm-to-school efforts. Each of these efforts has some connectivity possible with other work. Unfortunately, in many cases, those connecting points had not been drawn. So part of our effort has been to bring the connections together in one place.

What seems to happen often is that we have to make decisions in silos. If you talk to people running the school cafeterias they say, “Our job is to run things as economically as possible,” so they buy more processed food, and that food is not as healthy. And that has a cost. So we’re in silos, and nobody’s looking at the big picture.

Well, let’s take that as an example of what we’re trying to do. The school food-service directors in each of our school districts have a very finite budget—its pennies per meal that they must comply with. But they are a pretty creative bunch, these food-service directors!

Having had extended conversations with a couple of them in what they are doing is trying their best to source ... high-nutritious-value products into their menu planning.

They have to be pretty clever to ascertain which products they are sourcing that are locally produced, because a lot of times the labeling is not clear enough to identify it.

Now, tied into this we have two school districts that have had very well-established farm-to-school programs with school gardens and curriculum around how food grows and putting salad bars together with local produce, etc. As these expand, it’s going to involve a lot of community support because it involves a scaling up of the food system that supports it. In other words, we need more suppliers and more growers who are growing specifically for that purpose. And we need aggregation facilities. And the list goes on. These are really interesting, engaging projects—they excite people.

What’s your No. 1 goal in the next two years?

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happen in two years. But we will have increased access to fresh fruits and vegetables throughout the county in the remote areas. Second, I think that we will have a good, strong food-policy council with broad representation. Third, we will have increased CalFresh participation. I would like to have 90 to 100 percent participation.

And in terms of the food-systemenhancement projects, what’s the big goal there?

It would be to have one or more aggregation hubs in place to supply our kids farmers-market food from local growers and to have a series of individual projects in place that support the bigger picture.

We in Sacramento are, of course, eating much of the food that’s grown in Yolo County, including Capay Valley. How do you see your effort in terms of a more regional approach?

Well, Valley Vision has a food council that we participate in, and we should increase that. The chefs in the Sacramento area have started this farm-to-fork effort, and Yolo will be participating in that. … I am a member of the [Sacramento Area Council of Governments] board of directors, and I’ve been active in

“ I would love to say my goal is to have no hungry people in Yolo County, but that ain’t going to happen in two years. But we will have increased access to fresh fruits and vegetables in the remote areas.”

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the rural-urban connection strategy set of projects there. … There are a number of things that we can do regionally, and I’m very interested in continuing our engagement there. When you look at hunger, it becomes very clear very quickly that you are talking about poverty and how our society responds to the issues of poverty. By attacking hunger we are going to leverage societal change, and by building awareness about hunger among us, I think it causes us to really reflect on who we are as a region. Ω

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Good therapists put clients first Good therapists talk to each other. We do this in order to keep the best interest of the client at the consultation, where we protect the privacy of forefront of therapy. Certainly, a therapist may by our clients to discuss clinical needs, best pracexpress clinical opinions and reserve the right to Nicola tices and the best interest of our clients—and diagnose and prescribe treatment; however, these Simmersbach ourselves. The concept of therapist self-care is should always be grounded in evidence-based, a doctor of one of the key elements of a solid professional professionally acceptable reason and research. psychology with a practice.

And that’s why the recent order by U.S. therapy practice in Developing good interpersonal and District Judge William Shubb that stayed Midtown Sacramento professional boundaries—an endless process enforcement of the law and seemed to construe of personal maintenance—includes having a a licensed therapist’s “right” to impose his or her clear understanding of personal religious belief on the clinician’s rights a client in session is beyond in providing a very Never in my 30-plusme. It flies in the face of personal and often every ethical standard I have year career has any emotionally draining ever read. teacher, supervisor or service. We don’t often So-called reparative discuss the rights of colleague asserted the or “conversion” therapy, a therapist with the purporting to alter a person’s right of a clinician’s public, but they are a sexual orientation, has been key component of good freedom of speech in repeatedly debunked as junk boundaries. The rights science by every mainstream session with a client. of a therapist when professional organization providing treatment are in the healing arts. The last generally considered to bastion of legitimacy for this be the right to safety, personal privacy, permisviewpoint fell last year, when psychiatrist Robert Have a comment?

Spitzer apologized for the harm his flawed express your views sion to set limits with clients and other such research has caused to the LGBT community. A in 350 words on protective measures. a local topic Never in my 30-plus-year career has any fringe of religiously driven zealots is attempting of interest. teacher, supervisor or colleague asserted the to drag this unseemly quackery into the courts Send an email to to impose it on a profession where it does not editorial@ right of a clinician’s freedom of speech in belong and causes documented and deep harm to newsreview.com. session with a client. In fact, we often are called upon to suppress our personal beliefs in our young people. Ω

K.J.’s green cred In last week’s SN&R interview (“K.J.’s next act” by Nick Miller, Feature Story, December 6), Mayor Kevin Johnson said his vision for Sacramento as an “Emerald Valley” will be one of his top second-term priorities. We embrace this. But we also urge him to be more progressive and aggressive when it comes to environmental policy. This is the only way to give said proclamation teeth to make it green and mean.

For instance: In January, the city council’s Law and Legislation Committee will discuss banning plastic bags at major grocery outlets. The pitch is to implement policy not unlike laws that already exist in counties such as Marin and San Jose, and Johnson should take a hard look at this.

Because if Sacto’s really If Sacto’s really going going to be this so-called Emerald to be this so-called Valley, it needs to green up. This means a mayor who embraces Emerald Valley, policy and advocates on behalf of it needs to green up. composting and proactive recycling of food waste, elimination of plastic waste (no more Evian on the fifth-floor conference table), implementation of the city’s Green Building Program in 2014, mandatory energy-conservation requirements for commercial and residential housing, more bike lanes, the activation of streetcars downtown, Read SN&R’s interview and big-time outreach to promote the new Property with the mayor at Assessed Clean Energy program (see “Unsexy but brilhttp://tinyurl.com/ mayorSNR. liant,” below).

You’ve heard it before, and it’s really true: It’s not easy being green. Decisions will irk big business. But—as New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg might attest on the heels of Hurricane Sandy—these choices need to be made now for the mayor’s next four years. Ω

Unsexy but brilliant Last year, the Sacramento City Council gave a unanimous thumbs-up to a $100 million Clean Energy Sacramento project that will help commercial-property owners retrofit buildings to reduce energy use and create jobs. Participants in the Property Assessed Clean Energy program, or PACE for short, which starts in January 2013, will use the money to install more efficient windows and doors, new energy-efficient air conditioners and heaters, better insulation, green lighting systems—you get the picture.

It’s true that fixing up old buildings is not exactly as sexy, sustainability-speaking, as mounting solar panels or erecting wind turbines. But boy, do simple changes do wonders to limit greenhouse-gas pollution.

Plus, the effort will create about 1,500 construction jobs.

Based on a 2009 law that allows California cities and counties to provide up-front costs for energyefficiency improvements, Sacramento is one of just two cities chosen to benefit from millions in privateinvestment funds that will make this expansive local retrofitting operation possible. (See column note for more details.)

The Sacramento community owes thanks to none other than billionaire business magnate Richard Branson and his nonprofit Carbon War Room for making this happen. He’s the reason Ygrene Energy Fund, a part of Branson’s consortium, will develop, administer and fund a project we hope will become a green-building-retrofit model for the state and nation. Ω

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LOODS, DROUGHTS, WILDFIRES. RISING SEA LEVELS AND DISAPPEARING COASTLINES. The world’s scientists have warned for decades that our planet is warming and—thanks to extreme storms like Hurricane Sandy—we finally seem prepared to believe it. A recent Rasmussen Reports poll found that 68 percent of Americans now agree that global warming is a “serious problem.”

To arrest the crisis, scientists say we need to cut back drastically on greenhousegas emissions that are causing our atmosphere to deteriorate and the planet to warm.

But who will lead this colossal endeavor?

As it turns out, a surprising number of scientists, politicians and policy makers based right here in the Sacramento region are taking bold action to forge the path ahead on a statewide, national and global level.

California has been on the cutting edge on climate change from the beginning, passing laws since 2002 that have pioneered limiting the emissions of greenhouse gases and one, even, that actually beckons a future low-carbon economy by putting a price on carbon. Each decree, in turn, became a rallying point for innovation, strategic policy and action to curb the emissions that are warming the planet. And as policy makers embarked on their course, nearby UC Davis began to sharpen the state’s cutting edge on the climate issue with a scientist’s blade. In the last decade, UC Davis has convened teams of scientists, industry leaders and policy makers in

partnership-driven institutes—like the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies and California Lighting Technology Center—in search of real-world solutions to climate change.

Five years ago, SN&R led an effort in the alternative press that had millions of readers nationwide reading stories about the dangers global warming presented to the future. The journalism from our 2007 Kyoto Project was published on the 10th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol, the first occasion where the Earth’s governments came together in agreement that humankind faced the giant challenge of a warming planet. Sadly, the United States never signed the Kyoto treaty, and global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, has risen 50 percent since 1990. And the pace is quickening.

But this is not where it ends. This week, on the 15th anniversary of the nowmoribund Kyoto Protocol, we bring you promise of hope.

In this issue, we’ve compiled a roster of 15 locals who are involved in essential work on mitigating greenhouse-gas emissions. (For our purposes here, we’ve chosen to focus on those involved in mitigation and not the many concerned with what is called “adaptation”—i.e., figuring out how to tolerate the effects of the warming.)

SN&R hereby presents the most impactful of those who are creating replicable models to reduce global-warming pollution. There is no doubt that these individuals stand on the frontlines of the fix to what former Vice President Al Gore calls “the crisis of our time.”

QUICKLY’ MICHAEL SIMINOVITCH,

As he tours a reporter through the corridors of the CLTC, the place’s smart lights fire up overhead one by one, illuminating the way as the sightseeing proceeds.

Formed in 2000 in partnership with the California Energy Commission and the U.S. Department of Energy, the CLTC is another of UC Davis’ applied-research institutions, formed with the idea of moving university research and innovations into the real world.

“We take a round-table approach,” said Siminovitch, founder of the center. “Our goal is to create critical mass.”

When the California Public Utilities Commission called in 2010 for a 60 to 80 percent statewide reduction in electricallighting consumption by 2020, UC Davis was the first major institution to step up to the plate with its CLTC-inspired Smart Lighting Initiative. In fact, Siminovitch said the UC Davis campus in its totality has become the largest lighting demonstration laboratory in the country. Its plan is to reduce energy use for campus lighting 60 percent by the end of 2015, and meeting that number is already well in hand.

On campus, thousands of outside smart lights with predictive motion sensors that use the LED lights have already been installed.

Just like at his center, the LED lighting on campus “sense” when pedestrians or bicycles are approaching, “talk” to one another (via a wireless connection on an antennae) and help efficiently and safely guide people to

DIRECTOR, UC DAVIS CALIFORNIA LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY CENTER xasperated by all the talk—whether about sustainability, greenhouse-gas pollution, energy efficiency or climate awareness— Michael Siminovitch has had enough. “There’s an enormous amount of talking on this issue,” he said. “Far too much talking!”

“Our energy intensity is so high in this country! … What we need is to start doing simple things quickly.”

Indeed, in Siminovitch’s realm of concern, small changes—like installing “smart” lighting systems and using LED, or light-emitting diode, lights—can net big results in reducing emissions. That’s because artificially illuminating our homes, workplaces and urban spaces (like streets and parking lots) accounts for nearly 30 percent of California’s electricity use. And electricity generation, in turn, makes up about 25 percent of the state’s total greenhouse-gas pollution.

With striking looks and angular features, the director of the UC Davis California Lighting Technology Center wears all black and presents more like a British rock star than an industrial-design geek. In fact, Siminovitch has become one of the state’s most influential leaders when it comes to lighting design and energy efficiency.

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where they are going—all while saving vast amounts of energy.

Siminovitch, on the development team for what is called California’s Strategic Lighting Plan (another integrative partnership effort), also helped lead the push to update the new Title 20 and Title 24 recalculations for exterior light. Among other things, the new standards mean that buildings and parking garages won’t have lights blazing 24-seven and will be required to have occupancy controls and sensors.

Taken together, California is on a path to literally transform how buildings and urban spaces are designed, built and operated with a goal of reducing energy usage “and making our lives better,” said Siminovitch. The state’s leadership “has been phenomenal,” he said.

But he doesn’t feel the same about what’s happening at the national level. With his 2012 appointment as the first Arthur H. Rosenfeld Chair in Energy Efficiency at UC Davis, the lighting guru sees it as part of his new challenge to figure out “how to make things happen faster.”

“Lots of this technology existed years ago,” he said. With a flourish, he holds up a small electric device with a sensor attached.

“Every light switch should have this!”

Does Siminovitch ever despair about the enormity of the climate challenge?

“I know climate change is a real deal,” he said. “On an intellectual level, I know we have a daunting task ahead. But I just want to get really focused. Let’s fix the pipes.

Let’s get after this.”

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DANIEL SPERLING, DIRECTOR, UC DAVIS INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION STUDIES rom his smallish office in the drabbest engineering building on the UC Davis campus, the unassuming professor Daniel Sperling seems like an unlikely point man in the global challenge to create a low-carbon future transportation system—and fast—so as to allay the worst impacts of global warming.

But make no mistake: Sperling is the man.

An international leader in the field of alternative transportation fuels, Sperling co-wrote the 2006 low-carbon fuel standard for the Global Warming Solutions Act and shared a portion of Vice President Al Gore’s 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for writing the transportation sections of reports by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

He has authored or edited a total of 11 books, including his most recent, Two Billion Cars, which even scored him points with students, since it landed him a guest appearance on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.

Founding director of the UC Davis’ Institute of Transportation Studies in 1991, Sperling knows well that transportation is the source of a massive 40 percent of California’s contribution to climate change. He is not interested in convening civil engineers and urban planners in some ivory tower to make academic proclamations about it. He’s about partnerships in the real world that will lead to change.

“It’s all about policy when it comes to carbon,” said Sperling. “We’re taking what we’ve learned in California and asking, ‘How can we go national?’”

Though environmentalists have known it for a long time, “the automotive industry now understands the future is in electric drive vehicles,” said Sperling. “We are starting to see battery electric cars and plug-in hybrid vehicles unveiled by the major car companies. … On the vehicle side, it’s a very upbeat time.”

However, replacing petroleum with low-carbon fuel alternatives remains a difficulty. Biofuels are faltering from lack of oil-company investments, said Sperling, and hydrogen remains “just over the horizon.”

“The fuels challenge is the most difficult,” he admitted.

Sperling’s work on Assembly Bill 32 created the country’s toughest low-carbon fuel standard for California. Specifically, his work was the basis for the first major regulation built on the concept of measuring greenhouse gases over a fuel’s life cycle and requiring oil refiners to either reduce the fuel’s carbon intensity or buy credits (cap and

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trade) from those that do. Similar policies are under consideration in 11 other states, as well as in Canada and Europe.

Sperling now advocates a similar standard at the federal level. He co-heads the National Low Carbon Fuel Standard Project, which seeks to create a similar template for a fuel policy that would save American consumers billions and usher in “cheaper, cleaner, more ‘made-in-America’” fuels.

Not surprisingly, all but a few oil companies are so far opposing this. Sperling’s response is to propose a national target that lets energy companies know exactly how clean the fuel they sell needs to be. “The idea is to take decisions out of the political realm and base it on science,” he said.

The third leg of the stool when it comes to emissions has to do with land use and the vehicle user, said Sperling. If people drive less because of things like reduced urban sprawl and better public transit, carbon emissions go down and less greenhouse gas is emitted. Here again, California is on the cutting edge, thanks to passage of S.B. 375, which provided a framework for moving cities and communities to a less car-intensive future. Sperling, as a member of CARB’s board, is charged with helping figure out how to set suitable standards in various cities.

Criticized occasionally because his transportation institute accepts funding from the auto and oil industries, Sperling is nonplussed. He responds that his organization requires “soft money” (not just university funding) in order to exist. He makes every effort, he said, to show transparency, to keep his distance from special-interest groups and to minimize potential conflicts of interest.

As for the scientist’s overall sense of where things are headed for the Earth’s atmosphere? “There’s a very high probability that very bad things are going to happen to the climate,” he said. “But we are going to be here. So anything we can do, we should do.

“Humans are very creative and resourceful. If humans get focused on a task, I have confidence that we’ll dramatically reduce carbon emissions. You can get depressed … but I like to be an optimist.”

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Sacramento’s own Mary Nichols is widely known as the most influential climate regulator in the world today.

‘WE HAVE SET A PRICE ON CARBON’ MARY NICHOLS, CHAIRWOMAN, CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD he nations of the world gathered last week under the United Nations banner in Doha, Qatar, to discuss the ever more obvious warming of the planet. First, they faced a simple truth: Scant progress has been made in the last decades to protect the world’s populations from the dangers of climate change.

With the United States and other key countries represented in Qatar unwilling to cross the threshold and commit to sweeping cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, who can we look to for direction?

So far, it’s to the states … especially California.

And Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board and the most influential climate regulator in the world today, is foremost among the leaders now confronting the problem full force.

Under Nichols’ direction, CARB has taken up a three-part mission that resembles one out of science fiction: lead the fight against a global danger, implement the early-stage rollout of a low-carbon economy, provide a model that others might follow.

Just a few weeks ago, Nichols’ agency made history when it held the first-ever U.S. auction of greenhouse-gas pollution.

“We have set a price on carbon,” Nichols told SN&R. “It’s a big milestone, a real victory. … Investors had faith in this market.”

Governments and energy-industry leaders around the world have a keen eye focused on the work of Nichols and her team. Educated at Cornell University and Yale Law School, Nichols worked for the National Resources Defense Council, then

rose to become an assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency under President Bill Clinton. In 2006, the lifelong Democrat let Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger talk her into accepting her current position as the director of CARB. Known for her capacity to turn bold vision into achievable goals, Nichols hasn’t looked back since.

The mid-November cap-and-trade auction, a result of Assembly Bill 32, also called the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger, is the most ambitious piece on the chessboard at the moment. Basically, the program holds greenhouse-gas emitters responsible for the pollution they put into the atmosphere. The auction sells and trades pollution allowances; it will cover 85 percent of California’s emissions by 2015. At its moment of opening, the auction was instantly the largest emissions trading system in the country and the second largest in the world behind that of the European Union.

The price-per-pollution credit came in a bit lower than anticipated—$10.09 per metric ton of carbon—but still generated $290 million on its first day and will eventually raise billions for the state and, particularly, efforts to further reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Nichols found irony in the fact that shortly before its launch, many were worried that the price for allowances would actually be too high.

“Fears run both ways,” she said.

In 2015, fuels and natural gas will also come under the cap—an eventuality Nichols said will make the market even more interesting to investors.

Cap and trade, of course, is just part of CARB’s A.B. 32-related work. Last January, Nichols oversaw the enactment of sweeping “clean car” rules—the latest in decades’ worth of clean-air initiatives that ultimately seek to revolutionize the automobile industry. Indeed, 15 percent of all new cars sold in California by 2025 will emit little or no pollution. And, once again, other states (this time 13) have signed up to replicate.

Though auto manufacturers were at first opposed to changes, they now embrace the inevitable—a future full of clean-car vehicles. Nichols wishes she could say the same for how the oil industry will adapt to change. While there has been some progress, she is not naive about the road ahead.

“The petrochemical industry is not interested in making big changes unless they absolutely have to,” she said. After all, “We’re dependent on them for a product that most of us use every day.”

Still, she remains optimistic.

“One observation I’ve made over all these years [is that] the way we’ve always been successful is start with the vehicle.

Push the automobile industry to find technical fixes. [Eventually], the fuel had to follow what the car needed.”

On yet another front, Nichols’ team is at work figuring out how to enforce Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg’s Senate Bill 375, a 2008 law that requires CARB to set targets for emissions from vehicles in cities.

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J I M B OY D Jim Boyd’s name came up repeatedly when SN&R asked experts who belonged on this list. A pioneer from early on in the fields of air quality, renewable fuels and new vehicle technologies, Boyd served until recently on the California Energy Commission where he oversaw transportation programs. Prior to his appointment to the CEC, he created the state’s first Joint Agency Climate Change Team which sought to convene teams of interested parties from agencies throughout state government and get them working together to figure out how to move forward on climate change. Before his work for the CEC, Boyd served as an executive administrator for multiple state agencies including serving 15 years as chief executive officer of the state’s Air Resources Board.

R A L P H CAVA N AGH Co-director of the National Resources Defense Council, Ralph Cavanagh has a reputation among politicians, policy wonks and environmentalists as an optimist on behalf of the future. Since joining the NRDC in 1979, Cavanagh has been an aggressive activist for clean and efficient energy practices. A graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, Cavanagh set his sights on reforming the state’s electric utility sector, which accounts for a huge swath of greenhousegas emissions. He has won multiple awards, including the Heinz Award for Public Policy for being “the thinker, the convener, and the listener”—someone who actually makes change possible. Cavanagh has impacted far-reaching public policy related to utility-regulatory reform.

J O H N D I STASI O As leader of the sixth-largest publicly owned utility in the country, one with a national reputation for being ahead of the curve in slashing greenhouse-gas emissions, Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s general manager John DiStasio lives on the frontlines of the climate issue. With its decades-long push for renewable-energy sources, energy experts see SMUD on a replicable path. Its current goal is to supply

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a whopping 33 percent of its energy from renewable sources—such as solar, wind and water—by 2020. Also under DiStasio’s widely praised leadership, SMUD undertook the installation of smart meters, a key technological advance critical in helping utilities and their customers face a warming future.

A NTHONY EGGERT Meet the man chosen to lead UC Davis in its bold attempt to better leverage university expertise with good policy at the state and national level: Anthony Eggert, executive director of the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy. He seeks to integrate relevant science into policy discussions on the climate issue. After first working as a fuel-economy and emissions authority for Ford Motor Co., Eggert served as manager of the West Sacramento-based California Fuel Cell Partnership, then as senior policy adviser to CARB Chairwoman Mary Nichols before taking up the UCD post.

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of climate change will do to farms and food. Her research team focuses on both mitigation and adaptation. Among other projects, she has studied the potential for greenhouse-gas reduction in organic farming. Jackson is well-known for her policy focus and strong outreach.

MIK E MC K EE VER Executive director of the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, Mike McKeever has a 30-year track record of helping change communities for the better with his focus on integrated land use and transportation planning. More than most others in his field, he has helped in creating state policy that goes after one of the state’s largest sources of greenhouse-gas emissions—vehicle miles traveled by citizens. McKeever projectmanaged SACOG’s Blueprint Project (an examination of land-use patterns that has been replicated in other communities) and was a key strategist on Steinberg’s landmark S.B. 375.

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“Lots of thinking goes into what the next steps should be,” said Nichols. We’re very eager to share and encourage others to join us in these efforts.”

Does Nichols believe we humans can avert the most severe predictions about climate change, even as 2012 proceeds on track to becoming the ninth-hottest year on record?

A self-described “realistic optimist,” Nichols’ answer is yes, we can.

“The climate deniers are in remission after the election and in the aftermath of Sandy,” she said. “It’s really important to face the science. … Then, it’s time to take action and look at new ideas to solve problems.”

A NDY FRANK Widely acknowledged as the “father of the plug-in hybrid,” UC Davis’ mechanical and aeronautic engineering professor emeritus Andy Frank always insisted there was a better technology than the internalcombustion engine. Today, the inventor holds a legacy spot on this list as one of the world’s most influential people in the climate-crucial conversion of conventional automobiles into clean hybrid-electric ones. In addition, many hundreds of his former students are said to work today in the “clean-car” industry.

LOUISE JAC KSON As the soil gets hotter and drier, that’s going to impact agriculture big-time.

Louise Jackson, a UC Davis professor of plant physiology and an affiliate of the campus’s Agricultural Sustainability Institute, studies soil and root ecology so as to understand what that inevitable result

MARY NICHOLS MAR K MODER A Making indoor spaces comfortable in an energy-efficient manner is key to lowering emissions of greenhouse gases as well as saving water that will become scarcer as the climate warms. Mark Modera, director of the UC Davis Western Cooling Efficiency Center, is key in this fight.

Air conditioning, especially, presents an enormous challenge, since traditional units are among the worst power guzzlers, and as the temperature warms, people will tend to use them more and more. Modera’s research team is also exploring energysaving strategies for the California Energy Commission, such as hybrid rooftop air conditioners and technology that seals leaks in buildings.

SEN. FRAN PAVLE Y The work of Sen. Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) in the fight to curtail global warming can’t be overstated. It was 2002 when

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she authored the landmark piece of legislation, Assembly Bill 1493, known as the Pavley bill, which made California the first state in the country to reduce greenhousegas emissions in automobiles, specifically, calling for 30 percent reductions in new state auto emissions by 2016. The bill was later adopted by 11 states. In 2006, Pavley co-authored the Global Warming Solutions Act that set California on its ambitious path to reduce emissions by 25 percent by 2020. Recently re-elected to a final term in the state Senate, Californians owe a debt of gratitude to Pavley for kick-starting the fight to lower greenhouse-gas emissions.

H EID I S A NBO RN Heidi Sanborn’s goal is to kick-start a national debate about consumer waste— yours, mine and ours. An integrated waste-planning activist, Sanborn started her Sacramento-based California Product Stewardship Council in 2006 with the idea of changing how citizens, institutions and governments think about the products they purchase. “We are polluting by what we buy,” she tells audiences all across the country. We should instead strive to keep materials out of landfills, thereby massively reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Sanborn knows the road ahead is going to be tough: “Just trying to change the coffee cups can be stressful.”

J O H A N S IX UC Davis plant scientist Johan Six made headlines recently. That’s because Six and his group found a clue that may go a long way to understanding future climate change and, potentially, curbing impacts of future carbon releases from the soil.

Until this team’s study, scientists knew that soil erosion (which occurs primarily when forests are converted for agricultural purposes) buried huge amounts of carbon, creating “carbon sinks.” What Six and his teammates discovered is that roughly half of the carbon buried or “sequestered” in the soil from erosion will be rereleased into the atmosphere within 500 years or less. The discovery is important because scientists will learn where and how much carbon will be released in the future.

THE GOVERNORS Without the leadership of the state’s current and past governors, California’s guiding role on the climate issue would not be what it is today. Years before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s legacy-making Global Warming Solutions Act, Gov. Gray Davis signed the landmark A.B. 1493, which launched the state on its pioneering path to regulating greenhouse gases. Gov. Jerry Brown’s leadership on the climate issue throughout the course of his political career can’t be underestimated—especially his recent efforts to promote California’s clean-energy economy and create greencollar jobs. Ω

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photos by Kayleigh MccolluM

Gang violence shakes a south Sacramento barbershop to its core—but it will take more than tragedy to keep its resilient, smack-talking owner down Toriano Mason (right) tends to a customer at his Fly Cuts & Styles barbershop in south Sacramento.

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t’s the eve of Thanksgiving inside the raucous Fly Cuts & Styles barbershop on the edge of Sacramento’s Little Saigon neighborhood, and the lunchtime dash is on to get pretty. All seven chairs are filled as a droning orchestra of clippers nags in tune. The only sound threatening to overtake the mechanical din is a steady chorus of laughter.

At the moment, shop owner Toriano Mason is being pitched by Tony X, a local entrepreneur bandying two long black belts slotted with dozens of vials of perfumed oils. Tony’s trying to close multiple deals. Mason asks for one he’s used before.

“You got that Player?”

“Player’s out right now—it’s called ‘Play’—I’m gonna get that real soon,” Tony assures.

“Oh, man, it’s called ‘Play’? You had me thinking I was a player all this time,” Mason says to crackles of laughter. “I was play-pimping! That’s why I get no respect in this game. They revoked my heart and fur coat. Maaan!”

This is the show, and it airs daily here at Fly Cuts, crammed between a taqueria and a nail salon on the forgotten corner of Stockton Boulevard and Florin Road. It’s fitting that Thanksgiving Eve is one of Fly Cuts’ busiest days in recent memory.

This spot has much to be thankful for two years after a tragedy nearly made the south Sacramento business another casualty of the city’s growing gang violence.

Two years ago, the shop was the scene of a shootout between rival gang members. With all the speed it takes to exchange a few hard looks, guns were drawn and chaos erupted. The violence spilled onto the streets, where a 30-yearold woman fastened her infant son’s car seat. As the young particulars exchanged indiscriminate barrages, Monique Nelson smothered her 2-year-old and absorbed a fatal bullet to the chest. Five people were injured, and one of the alleged shooters died the next day, but Nelson’s son lived, and his mother became the poster victim of Sacramento’s fledgling gang-prevention campaign. Preliminary hearings are underway for the six alleged perpetrators in Sacramento Superior Court.

The tragedy rattled the local hangout and its devoted clientele to the core.

“A lot of those guys were really shaken up,” says a customer the fellas call “Coach.” “They were worried about people coming back.”

The burly Coach got his first high fade a year before the shootout and was one of only a few to return after. Indeed, Mason says a majority of Fly Cuts’ customers—especially females and the

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SCENE& HEARD Bad Santa, frantic mall It’s Christmastime, which means shouldering up to the thousands of aggressive shoppers aprowl for that perfect je ne sais quoi at the glistening consumer palace that is Arden Fair mall. Unfortunately, “je ne sais quoi” is about as far as I get Christmas shopping. Normally, I fall back on what you buy anyone in a holiday-season emergency: socks. This is a gift I have found to be generally well-received if you put enough effort and money into acquiring a quality pair: cashmere-blend knee-highs, 100-percent merino wool or highly quirky pairs to be found at noveltysock-specific stores.

This year, however, there are a few relatives coming into town for whom socks probably won’t cut it. So there I was, looking up at the towering Christmas tree in the center of Arden Fair without a clue as where to begin. Getting my bearings proved difficult as I listened to the flow of pleas tinged with notes of hysteria from the nearby garish Santa-land display. Here, a photographer stood exhausting her supply of rattles and brightly colored toys as a child sat, perched on a stranger’s lap, with a frown as immovable as a mountain. It made sense, of course. He knew this wasn’t Santa, but rather he was sitting on a strange man’s lap, which went against everything he’d ever been taught to do.

His parents huddled together behind the photographer, guarding themselves from their child’s stare of angry, broken trust. The photo itself costs about $10, but it stands as a seed of deeply repressed feelings that will cost many thousands of dollars more to reconcile in the years to come.

Time to move on and, after fruitlessly wandering from shop to shop, I found myself in a Best Buy down the way.

You can probably As I contemplated an unget these socks identifiable thing with buttons, on Amazon.com. a man in a polo shirt approached me. “Have you heard about the big event?!” he asked. “Christmas?” I suggested, hopefully. His frozen smile remained: “Do you have cable or wireless?”

Without a clue as to what he was referring to, I picked one. It was like a game. “Cable,” I said definitively.

“Of course!” he exclaimed. “I’ve won!” I thought. He went on to say something about bundles and bills and fell into a conciliatory tone. “And it just gets higher and higher, doesn’t it?” I nodded my head solemnly. After a few more questions, my responses hinted that I didn’t actually know what we were talking about, and his expression melted from sympathy to irritation.

“You pay $50 a month for Internet, phone and cable TV?” he asked in a beleaguered and deflated tone.

“Oh, no,” I corrected him. “We don’t have a phone line or TV at all.” The polo shirt decided to cut his losses and walked away.

Deflated of motivation myself, I returned home to my secret weapon, Amazon.com. It’s possibly the only online marketplace where one can pick up replacement Cuisinart parts, a Taylor Swift poster and a variety of esoteric books on the history of electrical theory. All stocking stuffers for my loved ones! I think this is the year I’ll really nail it.

in 2010, fly cuts & Styles was the scene of a murder that rattled its owner and clientele. now, two years later, the barbershop is still in business and stands as an oasis in a long-neglected neighborhood.

elderly—left en masse. For a long while, cops, reporters and community activists were the only ones filling the void. And for a neighborhood used to institutional neglect, the sudden outside interest was upsetting.

Several people told Mason to move and change the name of his business, but rather than listen, he doubled down.

“We couldn’t falter in the community,” he says. “We had to do more of what we were already doing and be more of what we were. All eyes were on us.”

A young boy of about 10 or 11 shoves a broom through the shop’s peopled corridor, snatching up tufts of hair as they drift to the checkered floor.

For his labor, he’ll make a few bucks.

Mason usually reserves this privilege for after-schoolers with decent grades, but sometimes bestows it on youths who need the positive male camaraderie.

The tall, lanky Mason is serious about that. The constant smack talk bouncing off these walls may get a little ribald, but there are certain things Mason can’t abide. To the left of a pictorial display of historic African-Americans—a Barack Obama poster is flanked by small, illustrated portraits of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X—is a printed sign that announces this point: “Effective immediately the ‘N’ word is not permitted in this shop. Thank you for your cooperation.”

When a longtime customer the barbers call “O.G.” runs afoul of this rule, Mason lets him know.

“Yo, drop the N-word,” he says.

O.G., who was cutting up a 16-yearold Florin High School student with some braggadocian claims about money and women, quickly corrects himself.

“I don’t ever want to offend,” he says.

Mason first picked up the clippers at age 12, initially to stop his parents and sister from accosting him with uneven haircuts. He became so proficient at

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maintaining his own ’do that aunts and uncles started pimping his talents. At 15, he was lining up the fades of most of his high-school buddies.

Fly Cuts, which Mason’s owned since 2009, reflects aspects of his experience.

When Mason refers to his staff, he says he has “seven barbers, two stylists and a whole community.”

That’s not hyperbole. The conversations exchanged on this day run the gamut from the silly to the philosophical.

Tony is loudly debating anyone he can about the difference between knowledge and faith. Others talk about school or work, which family members are sick and which ones are being enormous pains in the backside.

“We couldn’t fAlter in the communitY. We hAd to do more of WhAt We Were AlreAdY doing.”

Two older gentlemen are hunched over a small table in the back playing chess. Mason sometimes joins in and says it’s “an honor” to spend that time with his elders—even when they’re taking his queen.

“Your barber is more than just your barber,” Mason says.

He regularly takes that message outside the barbershop’s walls. This past summer, Fly Cuts hosted a neighborhood

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barbecue. At the start of the school year, the staff gave free haircuts down at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Sacramento. Today, a large container sits at the door waiting to be filled with toys.

Closer to the holidays, Mason and his crew will top it off themselves.

“We’re all willing to pour in to the lives of our community,” Mason says.

Lately, the self-described “man of God” has been itching to go further.

Mason wants to build a nonprofit that mentors kids in practical life skills. To make that happen, he knows it will take money. He also knows that one day he’ll have to leave Fly Cuts.

“You can only use the wrong tool for the right job so long,” he muses. “I can only do so much here.”

For now, however, Fly Cuts remains on the comeback.

Mason says a part of him thinks it will never reclaim its old luster.

Two weeks later, business is a little slower; those in the barber chairs and the people trickling in— mostly kids and older men—are all regulars. After considering the contented vibe around him, Mason allows that maybe his business has recovered, and it’s just him that will never be the same.

“For someone who opened those doors and has grown with it, it’s a part of you,” he says. He pulls up a gray shirtsleeve to reveal an inky tattoo of a clipper crawling up his shoulder to drive home the point. “It’s part of you.”

Just then, a regular wanders in out of the drizzle and pauses in front of Mason. The 38-year-old barber seats this extended “family” member in a lowbacked leather throne and steps down on the hydraulic riser.

“The usual?” he asks.

The man nods.

Mason takes out a pair of long, silver shears and begins clipping away the worries. Ω

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NIGHT&DAY 13THURS DON’T MISS! CROCKER ART MUSEUM: Art

Mix celebrates all things Americana in honor of the exhibition, American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell. Visitors will enjoy live music by Not An Airplane, see Rockwell paintings come to life in tableaus by Scavenger Theatre, create their own Rockwellian magazine covers in a photo booth, take guided tours and engage in interactive artmaking. Th, 12/13, 5-9pm.

Free with museum admission. 216 O St.; (916) 808-7000; www.crockerartmuseum.org.

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Special Events ASSESSING THE 2012 ELECTION: ONE WEEK OUT: A panel of experts will take a look back at the 2012 election. What impact did new campaign finance rules make? What strategies worked?

What do the results mean for the state and the country?

Come for a lively discussion.

Th, 12/13, 2pm. Free.

Sacramento State University, Hinde Auditorium, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-6997.

FORUM: MANAGING THE MIDDLE: Join Metro Edge and its guests—Gordon Fowler, president and CEO of 3Fold Communications and Keri Thomas, director of community and government relations of Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region, as they tackle the difficult and relevant issues that come with middle management. Th, 12/13, 11:30am-1pm. $25. Pyramid Alehouse, 1029 K St.; (916) 319-4261; http://metro-edge.org/event/ edgeucational-forummanaging-middle-part-ii.

HOW TO BE IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE DIFFERENT: This particular talk considers the way differences can interfere with our ability to relate to our partners. While even seemingly little things—like which dishes are OK to leave in the sink till morning—can carry a charge, this discussion is aimed at the way pervasive, subtle and sometimes not-sosubtle differences can cool the entire system. Th, 12/13, 7-8:30pm.

Free. Hope Counseling Center, 1430 Alhambra Blvd.; (530) 863-9499; http://rebeccawitter.vpweb.com.

Classes HOLIDAY ENTERTAINING ON A BUDGET: Let Whole Foods Market help you impress your guests without breaking the budget. Come hungry to this tour as there will be samples from every department. The first 15 people at the event will receive a $10 gift card.

Th, 12/13, 11am-noon. Call for pricing. Whole Foods Market Davis, 500 First St. in Davis; (530) 750-2266; www.facebook.com/WFMDavis #!/events/138189379662641.

Concerts CLASSICAL LATIN HOLIDAY MUSIC: El Mundo, the Grammy-nominated classical Latin music group led

by Sacramento State University music professor Richard Savino,

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will perform a holiday concert.

The group will perform sacred and secular music from the 17th to the 19th centuries from Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and Italy. Th, 12/13, 7pm. $20.

St. John’s Lutheran Church, 1701 L St.; (916) 278-7978; www.richardsavino.net.

JAZZ CONCERT: The Sacramento City College Jazz Ensemble will be highlighting music by some of the great modern jazz artists, including Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Wes Montgomery, Lennie Niehaus, John Coltrane, David Benoit and Buddy Rich. Th, 12/13, 8pm.

Free. Sacramento City College Performing Arts Center, 3835 Freeport Blvd.; (916) 558-2515.

REBEL YELL: Rebel Yell features both female and male vocalists, backed up by guitar, drums, bass, and keyboards. The six performers, decked out in ’80s threads, put on a high-energy show featuring performances of all the greatest everything from ’80s to modern hits. Th, 12/13, 6pm-2am. $5-$7. Reunion Nightclub, 4370 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 100 in El Dorado Hills; (916) 939-0777.

SALVATION ARMY BAND AT RIVER’S EDGE: Join for a special concert performance with the Sacramento Salvation Army.

The performance continues Hank Fisher Properties’ Bringing Regional Arts and Volunteer Organizations series to its retirement communities.

Th, 12/13, 2-3pm. Free. River’s Edge at Campus Commons, 601 Feature Dr.; (916) 921-5131; www.hankfisherproperties.com.

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Special Events HOLIDAY PARTY: This holiday party starts in the ’60s and takes participants on a musical journey. It features the B Sharps, a seven-piece ensemble, as well as a Michael Jackson impersonator, a fashion show and other entertainment. F, 12/14, 6pm-midnight. $95. Granite Bay Golf Club, 9600 Golf Club Dr. in Granite Bay; (415) 810-2401; http://RosevillePoint.com/ HolidayParty.

Kids’ Stuff KIDS’ HOLIDAY PARTY: The Sacramento Public Library invites school-age children for its Southgate branch’s annual holiday party. Popular storytelling juggler Izzi Tooinsky will be performing live. F, 12/14, 4pm.

Free. Southgate Library, 6132 66th Ave.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Concerts CHRISTMAS CONCERT: The Sacramento City College Chorus will be singing Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s “Magnificat,” along with other sacred and secular Christmas music. F, 12/14, 8pm. $5. Lutheran Church of the Master, 1900 Potrero Way; (916) 558-2496.

POSADA NAVIDEÑA: Featuring 20 dancers and musicians, this holiday celebration provides a whirlwind tour of Mexico’s distinct cultural regions and includes a traditional Christmas processional (posada), Mexican holiday songs (villancicos), a visit

from the three wise men, a festive piñata scene, and a holiday finale performed in the spirit of a true fiesta. A new piece, “Yucatan,” will premiere this year. F, 12/14, 7:30-9:30pm. $20-$35. Three Stages Peforming Arts Center, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

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DON’T MISS! CHRISTMAS MEMORIES:

Experience lavishly recreated period décor and an array of live holiday music during two upcoming special “Christmas Memories” events at the Governor’s Mansion State Historic Park.

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, 12/15, 10am-4pm.

Call for pricing. Governor’s Mansion State Historic Park, 1526 H St.; (916) 323-5916; www.parks.ca.gov/ governorsmansion.

FOOD MEMORIES: This event

DON’T MISS! MERRY SCARY: Enjoy an

evening full of holiday horror short films, dance performances, and a double feature of the 1980s classic Ghostbusters and the 1974 slasher Black Christmas. Take photos with Psycho Santa and his Evil Elves. Bring donations for a toy drive for the Sacramento Children’s Home. Sa, 12/15, 8pm. $7, or $5 with the donation of a new unwrapped toy.

Colonial Theatre, 3522 Stockton Blvd.; (916) 869-8954; www.sachorrorfilmfest.com.

Special Events DRAWING FOR TOYS: The Sacramento Comicbook Creators Group along with other artists are coming together from around the Sacramento and surrounding areas once again for a live drawing session and auction to raise toys and money for the Marines Toys For Tots Drive. Sa, 12/15, 11am-6pm. Free; donations of toys accepted. Empires Comics Vault, 1120 Fulton Ave., Ste. K; (916) 482-8779.

encourages local residents to bring cherished recipes, a potluck dish, photos and personal essays of favorite food memories. The recipes will be included in a special cookbook.

Attendees are encouraged to contribute photos of their most memorable family meals or memorabilia from local restaurants to be added in the cookbook. The program will feature a potluck meal. Sa, 12/15, 11am. Free. Rancho Cordova Public Library, 9845 Folsom Blvd., in Rancho Cordova; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

judge on MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew and participant in two seasons of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance, will be offering a dance workshop. It is open to all dancers ages 8 and up. Sa, 12/15, 10 & 11:30am. $45.

Mesa Verde High School, 7501 Carriage Dr. in Citrus Heights; (916) 771-0775; www.dancegallery2.com.

Classes TECHNOLOGY PETTING ZOO: Thinking about buying a tablet or e-reader for the holidays?

The Sacramento Public Library can help you decide which one to purchase at its technology petting zoo. There will be a full selection of the latest gadgets to see and try out. Plus, library staff will show how to use them with the Sacramento Public Library’s digital catalog of downloadable books. Sa, 12/15, 1pm. Free. Pocket-Greenhaven Library, 7335 Gloria Dr.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

GIFTS OF WORDS & WINE: Local authors will be appearing at Gifts of Words & Wine at the Old Sugar Mill. The authors, who will sign books and talk to fans, will be featured along with the wineries. Authors include Shelley Buck, Jeanne JohngNishikawa, Frank Luna, Carol Ryan, Kiyo Sato, Cheryl Stapp and more. Sa, 12/15, 1-5pm. Call for pricing. Old Sugar Mill, 35265 Willow Ave. in Clarksburg; (916) 744-1625; www.carvalho familywinery.com.

Film NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION: This special screening

WORKSHOP WITH DOMINIC D-TRIX SANDOVAL: Hometown B-Boy Dominic “D-Trix” Sandoval, YouTube personality, current

is part of the Food & Film Series, pairing movies with a dining experience. The admission price includes one complimentary drink ticket.

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watching movies around Christmastime is a tradition for many—especially in Jewish families like mine—I was never a fan of watching holiday films (except that one year Home Alone 2: Lost in New York was on).

Fortunately, this year, there are several good Christmas bigscreen options.

An evil spirit named Pitch tries to corrupt little children in the 1959 film Santa Claus.

One of those options is part of Movies on a Big Screen’s Crappy Christmas programming.

On Thursday, December 20, it will screen the Mexican exploitation film from 1959, Santa Claus. It’s a notoriously bad film, with Santa Claus battling an evil spirit named Pitch and teaming up with Merlin to defeat him. It’s been panned by Mystery Science Theater 3000 and, as of this writing, it ranks No. 57 on IMDb’s

Bottom 100 list, as voted by the site’s users. The screening will be hosted by Cinema Insomnia’s Mr. Lobo, and audience members will randomly be given “Crappy Christmas presents”—whatever those are. It happens at 7 p.m. at the Grange Performing Arts Center (3823 V Street). Tickets cost $5. For more infor-

Sa, 12/15, 7pm. $12-$15. Miners Foundry Cultural Center, 325 Spring St. in Nevada City; (530) 265-5040; www.minersfoundry.org.

Kids’ Stuff CHRISTMAS TREE SPIDER: Enjoy hot cocoa, make a glass beaded spider ornament to take home and learn about the legend of the Christmas Tree Spider. All materials and instructions will be provided.

The story of the Christmas Tree Spider is a tale that has been told for generations in Germany. Sa, 12/15, 2pm. $9.

Explorit Science Center, 3141 Fifth St. in Davis; (530) 756-0191; http://christmastreespider. brownpapertickets.com.

OWL PROWL: Discover the owls that inhabit the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. After a hands-on introduction, venture on a short walk along an accessible trail to look and listen for owls. Sa, 12/15, 3:30-

5:30pm; Sa, 12/29, 3:30-5:30pm.

$6 per vehicle entrance fee or pass required. Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, 752 County Rd. 99 in Willows; (530) 934-2801; www.fws.gov/ sacramentovalleyrefuges.

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GET BIG MONEY OUT OF ELECTIONS: January marks three years since the Supreme Court opened the floodgates for unlimited campaign spending by corporations and the rich.

Help organize an action around the anniversary to press for a Constitutional amendment that will overrule the court. Join to plan the local portion of a national day of action. The meeting will include a teleconference with Public Citizen and with Keith Ellison, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Sa, 12/15, 12:30-2:30pm.

Free. Davis Public Library, 315 E. 14th St. in Davis; (530) 662-7693.

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City College professor Matthew Grasso’s Intermediate Guitar class and his group, 7-String Guitar Church, perform an evening of classical music. Sa, 12/15, 7pm. Free. Sacramento City College Little Theatre, 3835 Freeport Blvd.; (530) 759-9071.

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will present The Writing on the Ring: A Tengwar Writing Lesson, which will focus on the script version J.R.R. Tolkien uses in the title page inscriptions for The Lord of the Rings. Bell will demonstrate how to write in English using the Tengwar “elfish” language found in the book.

Materials will be provided.

After Bell’s talk, there will be a general discussion of the new Peter Jackson film The Hobbit. Su, 12/16, 2pm.

Free. Sacramento Public Library (Central Branch), 828 I St.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

ENGLISH CHRISTMAS: Hear music from England with Renaissance Choir Sacramento, a consort of viols, and seasonal passages from early English Bible translations read by American River College professor Kathy Rodgers. Sa, 12/15, 3pm.

Donations accepted. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 7850 Watt Ave. in Antelope; (916) 320-8423; www.renaissancechoir sacramento.com.

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HOLIDAYS HAWAIIAN STYLE: Join slack-key guitarist Patrick Landeza for an evening of holiday standards, Hawaiian tunes and aloha at the Strum Shop.

Expect an evening of laughter and fun with Ladenza, who will be joined by Bill Griffin on mandolele and Chris Lau on bass.

Sa, 12/15, 7pm. $15. The Strum Shop, 408 Roseville Square in Roseville; (510) 575-9621; www.thestrumshop.com.

with the Sacramento Master Singers to Ireland, Scotland and Great Britain as the choral group celebrates the holidays with a decidedly Celtic flair.

Celtic duo Men of Worth are guest performers. Sa, 12/15,

Cultural Center, 325 Spring St. in Nevada City; (530) 265-5040; www.minersfoundry.org.

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE: Learn simple to advanced dances from Croatia, Greece, Israel, Turkey, Russia and Armenia.

Most don’t require a partner and dances are fun workouts and mentally stimulating. Bring grit-free non-marking shoes to dance in. Beginners welcome.

Su, 7-10pm through 12/30.

$25-$35 for 5-class dance card. Davis Art Center, 1919 F St., Studio E in Davis; (530) 758-0863; www.davisfolkdance.org.

Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. An eight-passenger refuge van will transport the group along the auto tour while a guide assists you with bird viewing and identification. This tour is best for beginner birders or nature enthusiasts interested in honing their nature skills and knowledge while witnessing the activities of winter guests. Su, 12/16,

10am-noon; Sa, 12/22, 10am-noon; Su, 12/30, 10am-noon. $6 per vehicle or pass required.

Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, 752 County Rd. 99 in Willows; (530) 934-2801; http://fws.gov/sacramento valleyrefuges.

PERSIAN BOOK CLUB: Come for a discussion in Farsi of books regarding Persian culture, history, literature, and other topics. Titles change every month. Tu, 12/18, 6:30pm. Free.

Fair Oaks Library, 11601 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Fair Oaks; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

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W, 12/19, 6pm. Free. North Sacramento-Hagginwood Library, 2109 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

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For the Christmas-movie purist— or your relatives who voted for Mitt Romney—there’s White Christmas, the 1954 musical film classic starring Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney and featuring the music of Irving Berlin. It screens at the Crest Theatre (1013 K Street), Friday, December 21, through Monday, December 24. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Friday; and 1, 4:30 and 7:30 p.m.

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LEGO BUILDING: Kids may spend the afternoon playing with Legos. Refreshments and plenty of Legos await participants. Staff will display the creations in the library after the program. W, 12/19, 3:30pm.

Free. Fair Oaks Library, 11601 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Fair Oaks; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

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

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HOLIDAY DANCE: Approaching its 12th season, El Dorado Musical Theater is one of the premiere youth theater companies in the Western United States. It is regularly recognized for excellence by the Sacramento Area Regional Theater Alliance Elly Awards. M, 12/17, 7pm. $17-$25.

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School-age children are invited to a special puppet show, based on the classic tale of The Nutcracker . The Puppet Company’s 40 puppets will tell the tale of Clara, who rescues her toy nutcracker from the Mouse King and turns him into a Prince. In doing so, she visits the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy and witnesses all kinds of holiday marvels. Tu, 12/18, 4pm.

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

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A second Christmas-film option is a pair of film screenings at La Raza Galería Posada. The arts group will show La Pastorela: The Shepherd’s Tale on Friday, December 21; and Pastorela on Saturday, December 22. The former, a kid’s movie, and the latter, for adults, both are pastorelas, traditional Mexican (with roots in Europe) holiday stories about shepherds seeking the power of Christ. Both screenings happen at 7 p.m. at La Raza Galería Posada (2700 Front Street); both feature an introduction by LRGP director Marie Acosta; and both events are free. Find out more at www.lrgp.org.

Dream is a collection of photographs depicting the color and design of the game, as well as the character of the men involved in professional baseball at the Triple-A level. Tu, 12/18, 8am7:30pm. Free. West Sacramento Civic Center Galleria, 1110 West Capitol Ave. in West Sacramento; (916) 617-4620.

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Chronicling the group’s rise in the 1980s, fall from grace in the 1990s and subsequent comeback, this is the authorized biography of the band told by rock author Nikki Van Noy. Van Noy is a Sacramento native and will be signing copies of the book. W, 12/19, 7pm. Free. Avid Reader at the Tower, 1600 Broadway; (916) 441-4400.

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I can tell you, I have tried these nuts, and they are good. People buying nuts in grocery stores forget that they have been picked weeks before they arrive in the kitchen. Dewey Farm’s nuts are fresh from the farm, and Harry Dewey attributes the boost in flavor to the “tender loving care in the growing.” Because the Dewey family grows the nuts themselves, and sells them directly to the public, they have a strong connection to what they are growing. They see the faces of their customers at the farmers’ markets and are careful that their nuts are top of the line.

Dewey Farms, always in touch with the customer, tries to sell the majority of their nuts directly

“ My Grandfather planted almonds in 1912...and we’ve been nuts ever since.” to the consumer. So if you have fallen in love with this old timer, he will be at the Sacramento Farmers’ Markets, grinning as you sample his crunchy almonds. And although Harry isn’t always able to be there these days, someone from the family will always be there.

Three generations of Deweys have taken over the family farm, and soon the grandsons will be in charge. Don’t worry, they will be fine.

Harry lets them practice by running the stands at the local farmers’ markets.

Dewey Farms has wonderful almonds and walnuts, that this reporter was able to sample.

They are also famous for their pistachios, which Harry Dewey claims are the best in the business.

You can get Dewey Nuts: Central: Downtown State Parking Lot Farmers’ Market: Operating Sundays year round, 8am-noon, at 8th & W Streets, Sacramento

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Bánh Xèo 46A 7837 Stockton Boulevard, Suite 700; (916) 476-4895; http://banhxeo46a.com There is an art to softening the thin rounds of Vietnamese rice paper, or banh trang, in water. You have to leave each one a little bit stiff in order to transfer by it to the plate without it folding over and sticking, Becky and you have to trust that it will continue to Grunewald soften on the plate once it’s transferred. You’ll get lots of practice at Bánh Xèo 46A: Most of the dishes on its short menu are meant to be wrapped in banh trang. Luckily, a server will bring a handy little gadget to your table for this purpose; rather than soaking the paper in a bowl of water as you would at other Vietnamese restaurants, here you spin the round in an upright tank.

Bánh Xèo is named for its signature dish, a Vietnamese egg crepe, and there will likely be at least one on every fellow diner’s table. Each one completely fills an oval-shaped platter and resembles an omelet. They are served stuffed Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 with shell-on shrimp, onions and bean sprouts, and in the week before Thanksgiving, cubes of Dinner for one: turkey—a cute touch. The banh xeo are shatter$10 - $20 ingly crisp on the outside, soft on the inside and wonderfully oily.

All of the dishes are also served with a mound of lettuce and mint—no cilantro or other herbs come with it. I wonder how I can possibly use all that lettuce and then observe that diners at other tables start their meals by tearing the lettuce and mint into a salad and then dressing it with sweet fish sauce. I follow suit and find it to be a refreshing appetizer.

Other appetizers include banh bot loc, or ★ shrimp and pork dumplings. The unwrapping POOR of the banana leaves that enclose them reveals ★★ bits of meat visible through greenish, gummy, FAIR semitransparent tapioca flour—it resembles a ★★★ small alien placenta. A plate of fresh-out-ofGOOD the-fryer wings and drumettes tastes like KFC, ★★★★ and the sweet sauce served on the side would EXCELLENT not be out of place there save for the deeply ★★★★★ funky flavor of fish sauce. Perhaps the Colonel EXTRAORDINARY should look into it.

I order an appetizer of baby clams more out of reviewer duty than with any thought that it will be very good, and it turns out to be a sockknocker-offer. Pinky-nail-sized clams are sautéed with chili oil, sesame seeds, black pepper, dried garlic and abundant rau ram, or Vietnamese coriander, which is somewhat similar to cilantro.

All of this gets scooped onto a sesame chip, and it’s superior to even—gasp—Mexican nachos.

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Even bún, a vermicelli-noodle dish usually Search SN&R’s served in a bowl, is presented here as a self“Dining Directory” to find local restaurants assembled wrap. Bánh Xèo also offers nem by name or by type of nuong, or grilled pork sausages on skewers, food. Sushi, Mexican, but its version can’t measure up to that of the Indian, Italian— nearby Quan Nem Ninh Hoa (6450 Stockton discover it all in the “Dining” section at Boulevard), where this dish is a specialty. I www.newsreview.com. especially miss the nem chua, the small, garlicky, fermented pork sausages that Quan Nemh serves.

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Depending on what you order, you may have three or four sauces brought to your table, not including the two chili pastes labeled “hot” and “extra hot.” The most unusual condiment here is a mixture of canned pineapple; ground, dried shrimp; and fish sauce. It is a perfect addition to the grilled shrimp wrap.

A plate of wings and drumettes tastes like KFC, and the sweet sauce served on the side would not be out of place there. Perhaps the Colonel should look into it.

The staff is friendly—one server exclaimed “Aw, yeah!” when I ordered the turkey crepe, and a flat-screen TV emits a constant stream of saccharine Vietnamese love songs. One table near us, its party squeaking in near the restaurant’s closing time, said that they had traveled from Fresno. When their banh xeo arrived, they declared, “It’s huuuge!” I can’t speak to whether a drive from Fresno is warranted, but Bánh Xèo is certainly worth a trip to the intersection of Stockton Boulevard and Mack Road.

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Buying organic-cotton and recycledpolyester women’s attire made in the Bay Area by JulesElin, however, is totally inbounds. Designer Julia Burnbaum creates both classic and modern feminine silhouettes, like cowl-neck knitwear tunics and coats with ruched collars that can also be worn as a hood.

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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.

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.

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.

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Firestone Public House 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

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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

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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. There’s a thick float of chili oil on top of the yellow, turmeric and lemongrasslaced 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.

La Victoria Mercado y Carniceria No. 2 If you breakfast 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 warm, soft, taste like corn and barely resemble those cardboard things you get at the store.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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Olive, my love I didn’t eat olives when I was younger. But I’ve come to love the small fruit. Last week, I walked past a handful of olive trees at a park near my house. As I resisted my urge to pick the ripe black olives (I don’t exactly know how to cure them), the tree made me wonder if there were many olive-oil producers in the Sacramento area. Turns out that within an hour-or-so drive out of the city, there are indeed plenty, including Apollo Olive Oil (www.apollooliveoil.com); Bariani Olive Oil (www.barianioliveoil.com); Bozzano Olive Ranch (www.bozzanoranch.com); Calivirgin (www.calivirgin.com); Corto Olive (www.corto-olive.com); Frate Sole Olive Oil Co. (www.fratesole.net); Jovia Groves Olive Oil (www.joviagroves.com); and Mia Sorella Olive Oil, Vinegars & More (http://store.miasorella.com). There’s even an oliveoil tasting room and shop in Old Sacramento called Chefs’ Olive Mix (131 J Street). A purchase from one of theses local businesses might even make a good holiday gift.

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Singer-songwriter Bonnie Prince Billy (a.k.a. Will Oldham) has gone the celebrity route by releasing Bonnie Billy, a new, pricey scent in collaboration with Sanae Intoxicants. The stuff reportedly smells of Egyptian jasmine, tobacco and the agarwood tree, but there’s a mystery as to its intended use. The Sanae Intoxicants website categorizes it under GIFT “perfume,” but most peeps on the Internets seem to think it’s an aftershave, which I guess would classify it as bona fide hipster ironic, seeing as how Oldham rocks the bushiest beard ever. Seriously, it doesn’t get much cooler than buying a $220 aftershave for a bearded guy who doesn’t intend to take razor to face anytime soon. Brilliant. http://sanae intoxicants.bigcartel.com/product/bonnie-billy.

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Victorian clothes, balloons and airships Steampunk Try explaining steampunk to the uninitiated: “It’s got Victorian clothes, and there’s lots of mechanical stuff, but instead of airplanes, there are balloons and dirigibles and bOOK airships.” Fortunately, it’s much easier to understand with Brian J. Robb’s lavishly illustrated history of steampunk, which is chockablock with gorgeous drawings, paintings and photographs.

Steampunk: An Illustrated History of Fantastical Fiction, Fanciful Film and Other Victorian Visions (Voyageur Press, $35) is more than a mere primer. Robb starts with steampunk’s roots in science fiction: Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs, who delivered the first speculative fiction of the industrial age. Robb then traces the development of steampunk through 1960s science fiction and reminds us that the term itself was first used in 1987, giving the art and fiction culture a longer pedigree than one might expect. He then deftly shows how steampunk was influenced—and rejected—by cyberpunk; how images of heroines evolved from Victorian-style “damsels in distress” to more empowered, intelligent proto-feminists; and how popular audiences met steampunk in sources as disparate as the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the 1960s-era TV series, The Wild Wild West.

Whether you’re looking for the perfect gift for a steampunker or artist, or just a great compendium and resource, this illustrated history is hitting on all steampowered cyclinders.

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Don’t put a ring on it I really want my boyfriend to propose to me this Christmas. We’ve dated for four years, and I still don’t have a ring. I think a proposal would be the best gift ever. I am tired of waiting to be a bride. He never seems to get anything done unless I force a deadline. Do you think I should give him an ultimatum?

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Have you both expressed a desire to create a shared future? If yes, then give him the time he needs. If not, begin that conversation so you can make an informed decision about your future. But before you have that chat, shake the anxiety out of your head. Feeling like you need to be married is no reason to get married. Marriage is not the solution to a problem. It’s a lifestyle choice.

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So, take the pressure off the holidays. It’s bad enough that friends and relatives will ask whether you’ve set a wedding date. Don’t add to the drama by demanding a ring just to appease your ego. There is nothing you can do to keep family and friends quiet. But you can quiet your mind when others project opinions about how they think you should live your life.

I also noticed that you didn’t say you can’t wait to share your life with this man. You said you can’t wait to be a bride. A wedding is a one-day party. Marriage is intended to last a lifetime. Plan accordingly. Yes, that means stop obsessing over vows, dresses, rings and cake. Be grateful for the privilege of having a wonderful man in your life.

I wear a wig because my babyfine hair won’t hold a set. It looks great and makes me look 20 years younger. But I am appalled that complete strangers ask why I wear a wig. If I explain, they say things like, “Why do you have such low self-esteem and feel so poorly about your appearance?” Other than lying and saying my hair fell out from chemotherapy, how can I get them to mind their own business? If I claim chemo they would probably ask about my cancer diagnosis. I’m not a defensive person, but I object to busybodies who have no boundaries. Advice?

How do you define family? If family includes all of us on the planet, then your brothers and sisters are just inquiring about you. Accepting this perspective allows you to relax when fielding personal questions. But if you believe family includes only those who are closely related to you by birth, marriage or legal adoption, then the rest of us are irritating busybodies. Honestly, that view feels like too much of a burden on the heart. Why not answer as if everyone is family? Like this: “Can we talk another time? I’m not ready to chat with you about this.”

Or, if you’re feeling sassy: “I wear a wig because it’s a conversation starter. Look, it’s working!” You can even add: “OK, conversation over. Ciao!”

Honestly, if I had a wig perched on my head and someone approached me assuming my wig symbolized low self-esteem, I would probably laugh. I mean, hey, how the heck does a brain make a leap like that? But that’s my goofy personality.

If you want freedom from annoying questions, think less about boundaries and more about letting go of caring about what others think. Ω

Meditation of the Week “Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made,” says Darren L. Johnson, a New Mexico-based business coach.

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In the greater Sacramento area, theatergoers have both classics and new works to choose from, and these are always perfect spirit lifters—as well as a good way to spend time with relatives you’d prefer not to talk to—and an excellent opportunity to introduce youngsters to the stage.

There’s a holiday-tinted production at each of Sacramento’s handful of professional theaters. B Street Theatre (2711 B Street, www.bstreettheatre.org) offers a furry retelling of O. Henry’s story of gift giving and karma with The Gift of the Magi (through December 30, $15-$22) in the Family Series. For grownups who want to be reminded of that white stuff people everywhere else in the country see falling from the sky (I think it’s called snow), you might check out the latest work from B Street’s own Buck Busfield, A Pail of Grace (through December 30, $23-$35), the story of a tycoon who claims to have seen God outside of a Starbucks on a cold winter night.

Sacramento Theatre Company (1419 H Street, www.sactheatre.org) hits the quarter-century mark with this year’s production of A Christmas Carol (through December 23, n e w s & r e v i e w b u s i n e s s u s e o n ly $15-$38), starring Matt K. Miller as the 03.17.11 clk designer ss issUe dATecurmudgeon famous and with ACCT neweXeC orchestraFiLe nAMe steveberniker031711r1 reVitdATe tion by Gregg Coffin. Check out on03.10.10 STC’s main stage; it won’t be back until 2017. please carefully review your advertisement and verify the following: B Street Theatre’s Family Series has a little fur around the edges of its adaptation of The Gift of the Magi.

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The Nutcracker is showing up all over: two versions at Three Stages in Folsom Lake College (10 College Parkway in Folsom, www.threestages.net), as well as the annual production by the Sacramento Ballet at the Community Center Theater (1301 L Street, www.sacballet.org), which features more than 500 local children in dancing roles (through December 23, $18-$75). Pamela Hayes Classical Ballet (www.phcb.org) will be at Three Stages for four performances (December 21-23, $15-$26), and then the Moscow Classical Ballet will swing into Folsom for five performances (December 27-30, $29-$65).

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Got kiddies? Why not take them to one of the brightly colored performances of Broadway Sacramento’s Peter Pan (December 26-30, $19-$86, www.calmt.com) at the Community Center Theater? Or if their fancy runs more toward a tale of confusing math allegories and men in drag, they might enjoy the closing weekend of City Theatre’s Alice in Wonderland: A British Panto (through December 16, $5-$15) performed in the troupe’s recently renovated Performing Arts Center at Sacramento City College (3835 Freeport Boulevard, www.citytheatre.net).

Or—for more historically accurate and educational fun—take the kids to see Holiday in the Hills (through December 23, $15-$22) at the Sutter Street Theatre in Folsom (717 Sutter Street in Folsom, www.sutterstreettheatre.com).

It’s a holiday tale set in Folsom in the 19th century that’s perfect for all ages. Sutter Theatre’s Family Series is also producing Madeline’s Christmas (through December 30, $13-$17), a musical based on the classic children’s books about a French schoolgirl.

Go by yourself. Take a friend. Take the family. Make a Facebook event and get a bunch of people to say they’ll go and then act surprised when no one shows up. Do whatever—but go and see one or more of the great holiday shows that are playing in Sacramento for the remainder of the year. Ω

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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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Furry feet and slow going The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey One thing you should know about The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is that it’s the world’s first feature to be shot in high-definition 3-D at by Jonathan Kiefer 48 frames per second, instead of the standard 24. And that if you think moving twice as fast means getting there in half the time, this is not the movie for you.

Early reports were cautious: It looked weird, made people queasy. Deal breaker?

Nah, although not necessarily a groundbreaker, either, or at least not in any immediately obvious way. Maybe it’ll be obvious later, once you’ve been weaned from old-fashioned eye guidance and can see things in the new way, with both dramatic span and visual depth stretched out beyond reason toward infinity.

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Just as the worldwide box-office total for Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy wasn’t quite $3 billion, but close enough, so the running time of this first of Jackson’s prequels isn’t quite three hours, but close enough. You must try to understand that you now are dealing with quantities and capacities greater than your mind has wanted to comprehend.

You already know that a series of still pictures, seen quickly enough, can seem like a moving picture. Persistence of vision is the familiar phrase, which also must describe the determination it takes to adapt 1,400 pages of fiction into a nine-hour movie trilogy and then, a few years later, adapt 300 pages of related fiction into, well, another nine-hour movie trilogy. As befits a conspicuously elongated part one of three, whose scenes often play out while also being narrated, The Hobbit’s doubled frame rate is a glaring amplification, a willful sort of anti-efficiency.

In the distance, there’s a mountain. In the mountain, there’s a city. In the city, there’s a castle. In the castle, there’s a dragon. Before the dragon, there were dwarves, but they got displaced by fire-breathing force. Since then, the dwarves haven’t felt great about the elves, who didn’t help during that dragon attack. But

a certain hobbit, vouched for by the dwarves’ old wizard friend, might be of use to them.

He’d rather not, but the movie is about him, and there you have it. An impending quest involves fending off orcs, goblins, trolls, giant spiders, mountains that come combatively to life, and one familiar tragic schizoid little creep whose jewelry is unnaturally important to him. Also some elves, for only they can read the moon runes.

Even appreciators might reasonably feel silly summarizing this stuff. Even J.R.R. Tolkien, its inventor, seemed, at least initially, to be hurrying through it. Say what you will about Jackson—here scripting with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens as usual, plus Guillermo del Toro, whom he hired to direct and then nudged aside—but at least he does take ownership. To come away thinking you really ought to visit New Zealand someday is not the same as thinking you’d really ought to brush up your Tolkien, but maybe it’s better.

Like LOTR before it, The Hobbit manages not just CGI-enhanced spectacles but also some invitingly affectionate ensemble charisma.

This takes a while, and seems to have less to do with the dwarves, too few of whom even register, than with Martin Freeman in the role of Jackson’s eponymous diminutive. As he’s made so appealingly clear in the original version of The Office and more recently Sherlock, Freeman excels at comporting himself with kooky company, particularly by means of self-effacement. Here, when told, “I’m sorry I doubted you,” he quickly replies, “No: I would’ve doubted me, too.” It’s just the sort of humility you’d hope for in a hobbit.

The Hobbit manages not just CGI-enhanced spectacles but also some invitingly affectionate ensemble charisma. This takes a while, and seems to have less to do with the dwarves than with Martin Freeman in the role of the eponymous diminutive.

Obediently, the movie also provides a few of the previous trilogy’s other human touches: the patient wizardry of Ian McKellen; the elfin nobility of Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving; the moistly sibilant voice and motion-captured form of Andy Serkis. Ultimately, yes, it does look weird, and it is too long, but at least it’s less like watching someone else play a video game (albeit in unprecedented HD) than it might have been. That enhanced digital imagery has a vaguely fluorescent chill, but at least the film it’s in seems like a promising warm-up. Ω

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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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Hitchcock

Here’s another defanged Hollywood history, done in the biopic-snapshot style and complete with voguish prosthetic distraction—this time in the fat-suited form of Anthony Hopkins, rolling suspenselessly along as the master of suspense. Adapted by John J. McLaughlin from Stephen Rebello’s book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, director Sacha Gervasi’s film seems slightly afraid of appealing only to a rarefied film-wonk crowd, and settles therefore into broad, easy strokes.

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 misbegotten dream sequences. There’s also some behind-every-great-man mythology, helped along by Helen Mirren as Hitchcock’s wife and unsung collaborator Alma Reville. The net 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. Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, James D’Arcy, and Danny Huston co-star. J.K.

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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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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

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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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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.

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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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

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In his first feature since 1999, French writer-director Leos Carax goes blessedly berserk with pent-up ideas. Denis Lavant stars as a protean performer who travels through Paris by limousine to a surreal series of “appointments,” by which he becomes an array of very different people, or at least movie characters. These include a bag lady, a motion-captured acrobat, and the same sewer-dwelling madman who appeared in Carax’s portion of the 2008 anthology film Tokyo! Together, they offer an aggressively confounding fantasia on the movie actor’s art, aptly and approvingly described in one minor character’s words as “weird, weird, so weird!” This is a critic’s darling, to be sure; at once a preemptive art-film eulogy and a giddy rebuke to all mass-entertainment formulas. See it for the thrill of knowing you’ve never seen anything like it before and might never again. Co-starring Édith Scob, Eva Mendes and—oh, yes—Kylie Minogue. J.K.

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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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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 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 as the pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Director Bill Condon injects a modicum of visual style, and Melissa Rosenberg’s script adds a cheap-shot ending that, though it departs from Stephenie Meyer’s novel, will probably please the fans. J.L.

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“All of us listen to such different music that we knew we were going to evolve based on what [our] influences were,” McCarrick said.

The other band members all contrasted with McCarrick and Wilson in one major way—they didn’t grow up exposed to traditional Irish folk music.

“That’s kind of why I asked them to join the band. I wanted someone with totally fresh ears and ideas to be able to blend all that stuff together,” McCarrick said.

Stern’s tastes are probably the furthest from traditional Irish music. She comes to the band from a shoegaze and indie-rock background, bringing atmospheric-guitar soundscapes to the Irish-punk, something McCarrick was excited about.

Now, as a whole, the band takes all the competing elements of punk, shoegaze and bluegrass and mashes it together into what sounds predominantly like an Irishinspired punk band not unlike the Pogues or Flogging Molly—yet even those bands have a smaller scope of sounds than Whiskey and Stitches.

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Originally, the pair played in a more traditional Irish band, the BlackEyed Dempseys, but felt limited by its singularity of sound.

When they left to start Whiskey and Stitches, however, they weren’t entirely sure what it even meant to bring their American selves to Irish music.

“I can identify with my grandfather’s stories, [but] I am still detached enough from it that I didn’t really own the whole thing,” McCarrick said. “I wanted to add my own experiences to it growing up here.”

And so they experimented by adding traditional American music—bluegrass and Americana, for instance. But they soon realized that they need to allow the punk rock and post-punk sounds from their teenage years find a place in the mix, too.

“We’re fans of Sonic Youth. We grew up in the ’80s. We all had a lot of exposure to stuff like the Cure, the Smiths, the Sex Pistols, the Ramones [and] the Subhumans,” McCarrick said.

The more diverse and the heavier they let their music become, the more natural it sounded.

“ We were going to evolve based on what [our] influences were.”

Mike McCarrick Whiskey and Stitches The band, for instance, often closes its set with “Parting Glass,” a sorrowful traditional Irish tune, a sort of last-drink-at-the-endof-the-night folk ballad—but then, midway through, it turns it into a big, extended blast of Sonic Youth-like feedback that sometimes lasts as long as eight minutes.

“I like messing with people’s heads,” McCarrick said.

Still, even these noise jams have a natural cohesion within the mix. Punk rock, Irish folk and Americana music are all simple, honest, working-class styles—they just come from different times and different places.

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He laughed.

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off the kitchen pantry as thunderous guitar tones proceeded to burst blood vessels and eardrums until near obliteration. The bass vibrations themselves were punishing and almost immediately lead me to take refuge with freezing tall boys of Pabst Blue Ribbon a few thin walls away. Regardless of my particular response to the situation, it remains a standout memory as one of the most unadulterated heavy-metal experiences of my life. I’d expect nothing short of the same when the guys come through town this Saturday, December 15, to play a show at the Davis Bike Collective. They seem to really thrive in unusual venues regardless of space or acoustics. Not that you can hear much beyond thunderous bass vibrations, anyway.

As for Snoop Dogg, he’ll be rolling into Sacramento Sunday evening at Ace of Spades. I’d heard rumors that following his conversion to Rastafarianism, “the artist formerly known as” would tour under the moniker “Snoop Lion,” but this is not the case. While Snoop Lion has released an album of reggaeinspired material, Sacramento has been billed with the same old Dogg we’ve always known. The guiding light of rap, the godfather of all that is smokable, and now, according to sources on his Wikipedia page, the self-proclaimed reincarnation of Bob Marley. That said, Sunday will be an excuse to get as high as humanly possible (on life) while pretending like you’ve actually heard anything he released since his debut Doggystyle (the one with “Gin and Juice”) went four-times platinum in 1994.

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Bright lights, big icon: Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck died December 5, one day short of his 92nd birthday.

Brubeck, who grew up in tiny Ione, referred to Sacramento as “the city” whenever he chased a downhill road to the bright lights that every teen from a small town craves.

Brubeck said so himself when he performed three years ago at the former Radisson Hotel stage.

He spoke of driving an old truck to Sacramento for his first beer. He was 16. The year? 1937. Before he recorded jazz impressions of far-off places, marched in 5/4 time to the pinnacle of celebrity or appeared on the cover of Time magazine, Brubeck drank his first beer in Sacramento.

The sky was clear and black on that night in 2009 as summer refused autumn’s overthrow. The air was silky and warm from the nearby river. I waited with my husband and friends for the concert to begin. An upward streak of light sliced the sky, running lights from a jet heading somewhere beyond Sacramento.

Brubeck was on his way beyond Sacramento, too. He would play the Monterey Jazz Festival the following night. On the festival’s eve, he was here for family, friends and fans proud of his homegrown talent. They gathered in a hotel room alongside the concert lawn.

Murmured voices inside tinkled like splashing water. Through gauzy drapes, I glimpsed at Brubeck’s clan. Then, I saw Brubeck. He stood hunched after nearly 90 years at a piano stool, wearing Mr. Magoo-like glasses. The boy who had bought beer in Sacramento was back to spend a Saturday night hanging out with buddies.

Like the jet, he had gone beyond Sacramento to the stratosphere of fame. When Brubeck took the stage, no one stirred. He called out names to the audience: his brother Howard’s family and friends.

He then plunked the first notes of “Take Five” from Time Out, his legendary 1959 album. The sound sent listeners to a Brubeck state of mind, inside some bar where bourbon splashed on ice and smoke rings curled in the air. He kept playing into the night.

At 10 p.m., though nearly half his age, I was fading. He ended with a lullaby. When the last note sounded, something came over me.

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Many know him by his hit 1970s albums, Year of the Cat and Time Passages, but Al Stewart has enjoyed a rich career before FOLK and since. Coming up in the early 1960s, he was inspired by Bob Dylan and was swept up in the British folk movement. Stewart roomed with Paul Simon and studied guitar under pre-King Crimson Robert Fripp. His popular albums found a sweet spot between the soft-rock balladry of Harry Chapin and the adventurous Celtic folk of Fairport Convention. When the fame receded, Stewart returned to cult-singersongwriter fandom. He’s continued to release delicate, mellifluous folk music— frequently with a historical bent.

2708 J Street, www.alstewart.com.

—Chris Parker

Three Stages, 7:30 p.m., $20-$35 Prepare for an evening of swirling colors, music and a lively piñata scene when the dancers, singers and musicians of Compañía Mazatlán Bellas Artes present Posada Navideña. Under the artistic direction of Steven Valencia, this holiday celebration honors—through dance, music and costumes—many of Mexico’s distinct cultural regions. In addition to the performance of Mexican holiday songs, a traditional Christmas WORLD/DANCE processional and a finale of dance and music, a new piece choreographed by guest artist David Lopez-Mancilla will premiere.

Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; www.imbasac.com.

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The Grouch

Motoshi Kosako

Ace of Spades, 6:30 p.m., $20 He doesn’t care if you’ve been naughty or nice, but the Grouch is surely returning to Sacramento yet again to mix it up this holiday season. This year, he’s back on the road with Mistah F.A.B., Eligh, DJ Fresh and others for the How the Grouch HIP-HOP Stole Christmas tour. With 15 years of music-making experience, the Grouch is one of the founding members of the hip-hop crew Living Legends, and he’s also recorded albums as a solo artist. His latest, this year’s Three Eyes Off the Time, is the Grouch’s 10th independent release, and it doesn’t look like he’s slowing down anytime soon.

1417 R Street, http://therealgrouch.com.

—Steph Rodriguez

JB’s Lounge, 5 p.m., $10 If you’ve never heard live jazz harp before— my guess is you haven’t—it’s a must to check out Motoshi Kosako. Originally from Japan, the harpist moved to Northern California and has recently been performing around the Sacramento area as well as in Oakland and Stockton. After so many years of hearing bebop and other jazz musicians serving up somewhat harsh licks of dissonance, his performances sound like a fresh and cool reinvention of the genre. It’s akin to JAZZ hearing a great melodic vibraphonist, such as Lionel Hampton, but even more soothing and mellow. Kosako will be joined by saxophonist Joe Berry, bassist Bill Douglass and drummer Barry Eldridge.

1401 Arden Way, http://harpmusician.com.

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Three Stages, 7:30 p.m., $25-$55

“Gin and Juice” basically informed my entire adult life. In fact, I don’t think I’ve heard a Snoop Dogg song since his debut album Doggystyle dropped in 1993. But it shaped me into the strong, capable woman I am today. Funny how that works. What I’m trying to say is this: You don’t have to be a current fan of Snoop Dogg—or even be familiar with his more recent reggae-inspired work released under the moniker Snoop Lion—to reap the benefits of Snoop live. If you have so much as heard HIP-HOP of rap, you have a moral responsibility to represent.

Remember, it ain’t “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ thang.”

1417 R Street, www.snoopdogg.com.

—Julianna Boggs

The Press Club, 9 p.m., $5

Did you know that Sacramento Master Singers was the first area choir to have a website? Did you know that this co-ed CHORAL chorus was the first in the region to appear with the Boston Pops orchestra in 1996 at Arco Arena, two years after releasing its first CD? Did you know that the group has performed many West Coast premieres of significant choral works? Did you know that this group has collaborated several times with Mary Youngblood? Now you do. And, catch this: Sacramento Master Singers will perform updated versions of traditional carols such as “The Little Drummer Boy” in its program, A Celtic Christmas. Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; www.mastersingers.org.

Fox & Goose, 8 p.m., no cover

This is a guitar trio from Portland, Oregon, which must mean they’re either deliciously psychedelic, poppy, garagey, retro and all that—or straight-up unlistenable. Right?

Thankfully, the Woolen Men fall into the former camp, but with less psych—sans some jam-out moments on tracks such as “West Coast” from its latest record—and a lot more pop. Except it’s a ramshackle crash-cymbaljust-about-to-keel-over vein thereof.

INDIE POP Basically, the only good guitar-pop music out there.

Locals So Stressed open the gig, another trio that rips it hard—hardcore vocals, uptempo guitar-drums—but are super uneasy about media and don’t like being written about in SN&R. (Sorry, dudes.) 2030 P Streeet, http://woolenmen.bandcamp.com.

—Trina L. Drotar

John Gruber approaches blues the way a folk singer would, which is to say that it’s not gut-wrenching in any obvious kind of way—it’s more subdued and tender. Or, to put it another way, rather than wearing his BLUES heart on his sleeve, it’s resting comfortably in his jacket’s front pocket. Yet his folky presentation makes it no less emotional. I challenge anyone to call Woody Guthrie a man without passion. What makes Gruber’s blues songs interesting is how often they steer into other musical territory. There’s some rock ’n’ roll, folk, and pop, but the blues still dominate. It is the framework of his sound. 1001 R Street, www.twitter.com/ultraplanet.

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STEVE MCLANE, 8-11pm, no cover

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

AL STEWART, DAVE NACHMANOFF; 7pm, $25

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Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Hot Pants w/ DJ Rock Bottom

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR

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

RAIL FLOWERS, AWKWARD LEMON, KATHY BARWICK, PETE SIEGFRIED; 8pm

MARILYN’S ON K

908 K St., (916) 446-4361

MIX DOWNTOWN

2431 J St., (916) 448-8768

BRANCHES, 8pm Tu, $5

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

THE BENNYS, STONE SOOP; 9pm, $7 CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, DJ House Shoes; 10pm, call for cover

Hip-hop and R&B deejay dancing, 9:16pm Tu, no cover CROSSING THE RIVER, AMY REED, ROSS HAMMOND, JACKSON GRIFFITH; 8pm

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

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

Team karaoke competition, 9pm, $8

MRQ, 5:30pm Tu, no cover; GREX, JACK O’ THE CLOCK, 8pm W, $5

DJ Billy Lane, 9pm, $10, free before 9pm DJ Elliot Estes, 9pm, $15

DJ Mike Moss, 9pm, $20

1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

FULKERSON AND CLARKE, SANDRA DOLORES, BILLY PATTON; 8:30pm, $5

WALKING SPANISH, JULIANNA ZACHARIOU; 8:30pm, $8

JUSTIN FARREN, MELODY WALKER, RICH DRIVER; 8:30pm, $7

Jazz session, 8:30pm M; BILL MYLAR, ROCCO, KEN KOENIG; 8:30pm W, $5

OLD IRONSIDES

Fresh Cuts w/ DJ Krave Deez, 9pm, $5

THE OTHER BRITTANY, WHITE WALLS, WAR ELEPHANT; 9pm, $5

STUCK, TRIBE OF LEVI; 9pm, $5

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

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ROOK2000, MA BARKER; 9pm, $5

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FRIDAY 12/14

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SUNDAY 12/16

DJ Eddie Edul, 8pm, call for cover

DJ Politik, 9pm-2am, $15

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

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

Open acoustic jam, 9pm-1am, no cover

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LONESOME LOCOMOTIVE, 9pm, $5

CALIFORNIA COWBOYS, 9:30pm, call for cover

CHEESEBALLS, 10pm, $12

ATOMIC PUNKS, 10pm, $12

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

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

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614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586

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2030 P St., (916) 444-7914

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Country Karaoke, 9pm M, call for cover; DJ Alazzawi, DJ Rigatony, 10pm Tu, $3 Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

TWIN STEPS, BIOSEXUAL; 9pm M, $3; SO STRESSED, WOOLEN MEN; W, $5

INSPECTOR 71, 10pm, $10, no cover before 10pm

238 Vernon St., Roseville; (916) 773-7625

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

705 J St., (916) 442-1268

Vinyl Lounge w/ DJs Danny Woods, Carlos Campos, Tokit, 9:30pm

SHINE

MR. FRIEND, GHOST PINES, THE STILL SEA; 8pm, $5

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BARREL FEVER, THE TREES, FONTAINE CLASSIC; 8pm, $5

Open jazz jam w/ Jason Galbraith & Friends, 8pm Tu, no cover

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2574 21st St., (916) 832-0916

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Holiday, family and kids’ craft and arts day, 1pm, call for cover

Microphone Mondays, 6pm M, $1-$2

JOSHUA PAIGE, 9:30pm, no cover

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

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

Country dance party, 8pm, no cover

Comedy open-mic, 8pm M; Bluebird Lounge open-mic, 5pm Tu, no cover

TORCH CLUB

904 15th St., (916) 443-2797

X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; TRACORUM, 9pm, $6

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30pm; KB & THE SLINGTONES, NICKEL SLOTS; 9pm, $8

JOHNNY KNOX, 5pm, no cover; MR. DECEMBER, 9pm, $7

Blues jam, 4pm; GOLDEN CADILLACS, WAYNE “THE TRAIN” HANCOCK; 8pm

BUMPTET, 9pm Tu, $5; Acoustic openmic, 5:30pm W; KERI CARR, 9pm W, $5

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Deejay dancing, 9pm, call for cover

DJs Shaun Slaughter, Adam J and Sam I Jam, 10pm, $5

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

Open-mic, 9pm M, no cover; Eyewitness Wednesdays, 9pm W, no cover

MICHAEL BECK, ACES UP; 9pm, call for cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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

Brandy Robinson with David Garcia, Love Is..., Chelsea Hughes and Stephanie Holt 6:30pm Thursday, $10-$12.

Club Retro Soul and funk

THE WRANGLER

8945 Grant Line Rd., Elk Grove; (916) 714-9911

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1417 R St., (916) 448-3300

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1529 Eureka Rd., Roseville; (916) 988-6606

THE GROUCH, ELIGH, MISTAH F.A.B., PROF; 7pm, $20

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WORTHWILE, EIDOLA, WHAT THIS MEANS, VITALITY, RETRACE; 6pm, $5-$7

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She did say, however, that she does not think the Golden State will be the next to tax and regulate marijuana. “I think a state like Maine or Rhode Island, where they could introduce and pass a bill through the legisLegalize weed? lature, will happen before California,” she wrote. “But Hell, we can’t even that’s OK. The more states legalize gay marriage. that do it, the harder it is for the Feds to stop it, and the more we will know about how to write the best initiative possible for [California].

“If people are looking to do something right now, they can start educating their friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc., about marijuana, but also about prohibition and its negative impact on young people and society.”

So, there you have it. We have four years to get it done. Start now, stoners. Start talking to people and organizing your friends; show up at city-council meetings and go to court support and stuff. Let’s legalize weed in 2016.

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—Oaktown 420 Not yet. On Friday, November 30, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo quashed an eviction proceeding initiated by the Harborside’s landlord. Judge Grillo dismissed the action, which was undertaken in response to pressure placed on the landlord by U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, on the grounds that California courts cannot evict state-legal medical-cannabis dispensaries simply because they are breaking federal cannabis laws.

And while this is good news, the battle is not yet won. Don Duncan, California director at Americans for Safe Access had this to say: “It’s really great that state court is upholding state law, but federal interference is still a threat to patients’ access to medical marijuana.”

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FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 13, 2012

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Can you

manage to be both highly alert and deeply relaxed? Could you be wildly curious and yet also serenely reflective? Can you imagine yourself being extra hungry to crack life’s secrets but also at peace with your destiny exactly the way it is? If you can honestly answer yes to those questions, you’ll get a lot of help in the coming week.

The universe may even seem to be conspiring to educate you and heal you. You will receive a steady flow of clues about how to get closer to living your dreams.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the

coming week, you would be wise to deal with your vulnerability, your fallibility, and your own personal share of the world’s darkness. If you refuse to do that, either out of laziness or fear, I’m worried that you will reinforce a status quo that needs to be overthrown. You may end up rationalizing your mistakes, clinging to false pride, and running away from challenges that could make you smarter and stronger. Don’t do that, Taurus! Be brave. Be willing to see what’s difficult to see. There will be big rewards if you choose to explore the weaker and less mature parts of your personality.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the 1968

Summer Olympic Games, Bob Beamon broke the world record for the long jump. His leap was so far beyond the previous mark that the optical device designed to calculate it didn’t work. Officials had to resort to an old-fashioned measuring tape. After that, the word “Beamonesque” came to signify a feat that vastly outstripped all previous efforts. According to my analysis, you Geminis will have an excellent chance to be Beamonesque in 2013. I expect that you will at least surpass your own peak levels of accomplishment. If you have not yet launched your ascent, get started now.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The fire ants that invaded the southern United States back in the 1930s are an annoyance. They swarm and bite and sting. The venom they inject makes their victims feel like they’ve been burned. Two communities have decided to make the best of the situation.

Auburn, Georgia, and Marshall, Texas, both stage annual fire-ant festivals with events like the Fire Ant Calling Contest, the Fire Ant Roundup and the Fireant CASI Chili Cook-Off (to win the latter, your dish must contain at least one fire ant). Maybe their example could inspire you, Cancerian. Is there any pest you could develop a more playful and festive relationship with? Could you possibly turn into the equivalent of a fire-ant whisperer?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): While reading William Kittredge’s book The Nature of Generosity, I learned about the oldest known sentence written in ancient Greek. It was inscribed on a wine jug that dates back to 740 B.C. Translated into English, it says, “Who now of all dancers sports most playfully?” Another possible translation is, “Which of these dancers plays most delicately?” I’d love to make something like that be your mantra in the coming week, Leo. The time is right for you to do more dancing and playing and sporting than usual—and to seek out companions who’d like to help you achieve record-breaking levels of those recreational activities.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the movie

Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays a man who gets trapped in a time loop. Over and over again, he experiences the same 24 hours. When he wakes up each morning, it’s still February 2. At first, it drives him crazy, pushing him to attempt suicide. But, eventually, he decides to use his time wisely. He becomes a skilled pianist and fluent in speaking French. He does good deeds and saves people’s lives. He even learns what he needs to do to win the heart of the woman he desires. This transformation turns out to be the key to gaining his freedom. Near the end of the film, he escapes to February 3. A comparable opportunity is looming for you, Virgo. You have a chance to break a spell you’ve been under or slip away from a rut you’ve been in. Generosity may play a major role.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Events in the

immediate future may have resemblances to reading a boring book that’s packed with highly useful information. You might feel that there’s a disjunction between the critical clues you need to gather and the ho-hum style in which they are offered. It’s OK to be a bit disgruntled by this problem as long as you promise to remain alert for the partially disguised goodies. Don’t fall asleep in the middle of the unspectacular lesson.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Instinct

tells us that sharks are more deadly than delicious fatty foods,” writes Jason Daley in Discover magazine. But “instinct is wrong,” he adds. In fact, eating food that tastes good but is actually bad for us is a far greater threat than shark bites. That’s just one example of how our uneducated urges can sometimes lead us astray. I invite you to keep this possibility in mind during the coming week, Scorpio. It’s by no means certain that you will be misled by your natural inclinations, but it is crucial that you monitor them with acute discernment.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

For the last six decades of his life, Pablo Picasso created art that was adventurous and experimental. He didn’t invent abstract painting, but he was instrumental in popularizing it. And yet in his early years he was a master of realism and had an impressive ability to capture the nuances of human anatomy. Commenting on Picasso’s evolution, travel writer Rick Steves says that when he was young, “he learned the rules he would later so skillfully break.” I suspect you’re in a phase of your own development when you could profit from doing the same thing. So I ask you, Sagittarius: What are the rules that are so ripe for you to bend and twist as you graduate to a more mature level of self-expression?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Through some cosmic intervention, a sad or bad or mad story will get tweaked prior to the final turn of the plot. Just as you’re getting ready to nurse your regrets, an X-factor or wild card will appear, transforming the meaning of a series of puzzling events. This may not generate a perfectly happy ending, but it will at least result in an interesting and redemptive climax. What is the precise nature of that X-factor or wild card? Perhaps a big secret will be revealed or some missing evidence will arrive or a mental block will crumble. And it’s likely that you will have an epiphany abut how valuable your problem has actually been.

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

honest. Have you had any of the following symptoms? 1. Lack of interest in trivial matters and a yearning for big, holy mysteries. 2. Unfamiliar but interesting impulses rising up in you and demanding consideration. 3. Fresh insights into people and situations you’ve known a long time. 4.

An altered sense of the flow of time. 5. Outof-the-blue recall of long-forgotten memories. If you haven’t experienced any of the above, Aquarius, I must be totally off in my analysis and this horoscope isn’t for you. But if you’ve had even two of these symptoms, you are on schedule to get what those of us in the consciousness industry call a “religious experience.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You just

might be able to teach a statue to talk this week—or at least coax a useful message out of a stonelike person. You could also probably extract a delicious clue from out of the darkness or wrangle a tricky blessing from an adversary or find a small treasure hidden in a big mess. In short, Pisces, you now have a knack for accessing beauty and truth in unexpected sources.

You can see what everyone else is blind to and love what everyone else has given up on. You’re practically a superhero. Use your powers wisely, my friend. Be benevolently unpredictable.

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

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The voice of Christmas Jonathan Williams’ parents were so impressed with their hyperactive child’s ability to stand still for 15 minutes during a school play that they plunged him into the world of theater, taking him to auditions for every role they could find. Williams relished the attention and has been onstage ever since. Ultimately, he found a home in Sacramento with his wife, Stephanie Gularte. Together, the pair and Pete Mohrmann founded the Delta King Theatre in 1999. Six years later, they renamed themselves Capital Stage, and in 2011 they converted the Old Sacramento Armoury in Midtown into their permanent home. Now, in the spirit of the holidays, the company will stage It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. The production is inspired by the 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, but performed as a live radio broadcast from the 1940s in front of a studio audience. Williams, who channels Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey for the play, talked with SN&R about breaking the fourth wall, wearing pajamas to work and why he’s OK not owning a Porsche.

Sell me on this production of It’s a Wonderful Life.

Why is it better than catching one of the many TV broadcasts of the movie?

(Laughs). To me, it captures the real essence of Christmas—that’s kind of the reason why we do the production. It gives people that nice shot in the arm for the holidays. … I’ve [done] Jimmy Stewart as a voice since I was a kid and really honed it. When we got the opportunity to do it, we really embraced it. It takes the idea that there’s a group of radio performers [putting on the show]. The story around the story is you’re seeing the actors come in and being introduced to the audience as if they are putting on the play live.

What you’re seeing is not Jimmy Stewart but an actor playing Jimmy Stewart.

You’re an actor playing an actor, who’s playing an actor?

You got it.

What about theater drew you in?

It’s the storytelling element in combination with the fact that it happens live and you’re affecting people right there. Not in an egotistical, “Oh, I love when people laugh or clap,” kind of way, but just that shared communal experience.

Speaking of the audience, have you ever broken the fourth wall?

(Laughs.) Yeah, absolutely! There’s one occasion I remember that things went so

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completely wrong onstage that I had to do it. [Once], myself and another actor played 30 characters—just two actors— inside of a two-hour show. There were times there were literally four- and fiveperson scenes, but there’s still only two actors, so you’d step to your left and say another line to yourself. It was ridiculous and over-the-top, and part of the humor of it was how “out there” it was. I say that my fellow actor stole the line from me because just before the play started, he came up to me and asked, “What do you say after I say such-and-such line?” I looked over at him and a piece of music started playing and we literally had to walk out on stage. When we got to that point in the show, I couldn’t remember what that line was because he stole it out of my mind. … Luckily, I had enough presence to stay in character—it was a big Irish piece, so you had to be a bunch of Irish characters—and I looked to our backstage person and asked, “Do you have a line back there for me, Boyo?”

Do you plan to stay in theater exclusively or are you open to voice acting, TV or film?

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commercial because it would help pay the bills. When I lived in Los Angeles, I got a pretty steady gig doing voice-overs for National Geographic. You know when the foreign-language speaker would start to speak and then it would fade out and someone else’s voice would come in to do the translation? I did that, and it was great because you could show up in your pajamas if you wanted to.

You said you always knew you wanted to be a theater actor, but was there any point that you doubted yourself?

There’s been a few times, but it’s been when the desire to do art and the reality of making a living and how are you going to keep a roof over your head and feed yourself come into contrast with one another. I’ve been very, very lucky in that I’ve been able to find a way to make almost my entire living as an actor and theater artist. The way I look at it—especially if you are young—it’s about being very clear about your expectations. You’re probably not going to be a theater actor and drive a Porsche. Ω Catch It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, December 18-24, at Capital Stage, 2215 J Street; www.capstage.org.

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3127 Eastern Avenue The YMCA is a community asset that helps kids and families through programs Sacramento focused on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. It's a 916.231.9622place where everyone is welcome!

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AMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY FOUNDATION 5700 ARDEN WAY, CARMICHAEL (916) 486-2773 • W W W.ARPF.ORG The American River Parkway has long been regarded a community treasure,

one that begs to be properly maintained. From riders on horseback to rafters

or kayakers, runners or cyclists, picnic-goers, bird watchers or fishermen, there is a common sentiment among all who partake: The American River Parkway is uniquely special. ARPF is out to make sure the Parkway stays special for generations to come.

The American River Parkway Foundation coordinates over 16,000 hours of volunteer work each year along the American River Parkway.

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ARPF relies on its volunteers to implement Parkway projects and programs. Volunteers are needed for:

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Annual river cleanups Invasive plant removal Parkway improvements Oak grove maintenance Office support Special events

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Adopt one of the 23 miles Become an ARPF member Participate in a special event Give a monetary donation

UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS: • Spring Cleanup ‒ April 20 • Parkway Half Marathon ‒ May 4 • 10th Annual Rex Ride ‒ June 9

Gett y Owl FOundatiOn 5714 FOlsOm BOulevard, suite 193, sacramentO (916) 476-3977 • www.gettyowl.org • hoot@gettyowl.org Getty Owl Foundation is a local 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to end Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic cause of death of young children. In doing so, Getty Owl Foundation raises SMA awareness, supports affected families, and helps fund research to cure or treat SMA. What is SMA?

Spinal Muscular Atrophy is a genetic disorder that causes progressive muscle weakness. SMA can cause a child to lose the ability to move, swallow, and breathe.

Getty Owl Foundation was founded by mark storm and Kate mathany in honor of their daughter, getty. She has SMA type 1.

About 1 in 40 people unknowingly carry the SMA gene. SMA is not in standard in prenatal screening. There is no treatment or cure for SMA; however, there is hope. The National Institutes of Health chose SMA as the #1 disease closest to treatment of over 600 neurological disorders.

Ways to Donate, Volunteer, anD/or learn more about sma:

eVents: 2nd Annual Getty Owl Run/Walk at Crocker Park, February 24, 2013.

Go to www.gettyowl.org.

W W W.LIFESTEPSUSA.ORG Strengthening Individuals. Building Resilient Communities. Providing Hope for the Future.

LifeSTEPS’ mission is to provide effective educational and supportive services to maximize the strengths of individuals and build resilient communities. We do this by providing supportive services to affordable housing residents, the most vulnerable members of our community. We are there to catch them before they fall into deeper poverty and help them avoid homelessness. By helping them, we strengthen our entire community.

“Seniors benefit greatly from LifeSTEPS supportive services. They are able to maintain their independence far longer, and with more dignity, because of our supportive services, safety net programs, and friendly visits.”

LifeSTEPS is a member of the California Housing Hall of Fame. Nearly 9 out of 10 residents we catch stay in their homes. Through our emergency safety net program, 87 percent of the people we catch remain in their homes for 12-months or longer. They receive valuable financial management education and receive supportive services — like job training — that move them onto the road of self-sufficiency. Families gain hope.

Children stay in school. Seniors maintain the dignity of independence.

WAYS to give It doesn’t take much. To make a tax-deductible contribution go to www.LifeSTEPSusa.org or call (916) 965-0110, ext. 212. Your investment truly makes a difference.

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SACRAMENTO THEATRE COMPANY 1419 H STREET SACRAMENTO 916.443.6722 • 888.4.STC.TIX • W W W.SACTHEATRE.ORG STC professionally produces contemporary and traditional theatrical works, provides rigorous and comprehensive training to young professionals and uses theatre as a tool for educational engagement. STC exists as an ongoing community service producing works that address issues that resonate with the many cultures and backgrounds that make up the Greater Sacramento region. We entertain, educate, inspire and enrich our community. Our award-winning productions, education and outreach programs reach over 60,000 patrons each year.

We entertain, educate, enrich and inspire our community through professionally produced live theater.

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Volunteers are welcomed. Please call the business office at (916) 446-7501 for current opportunities.

As one of the oldest and largest arts institutions in the region, STC presents only the best classical, musical and contemporary plays.

•A Christmas Carol /Nov. 28 ‒ Dec. 23

WAYS TO GIVE STC must raise $3,561 each day to produce live theater and operate its School of the Arts. Individuals may become subscribers or members. See www.sactheatre.org/ Memberships. Cash and in-kind donations are always appreciated. A wish list may be found and cash donations may be made online at www.sactheatre.org/Donors.

•Bark! The Musical /Jan. 9 ‒ Feb. 17

•A Midsummer Night s Dream /Feb. 27 ‒ Mar. 24 •Master Harold and The Boys /Mar. 27 ‒ May 6

•A Little Princess A New Musical /April 24 ‒ May 19

Developmental Disabilities service organization 5051 47th avenue sacramento, ca 95824 w w w.DDso.org Developmental Disabilities Service Organization (DDSO) envisions a world where people with intellectual and developmental disabilities live healthier and enriched lives and are nutured by caring and supportive communities that minimize and eliminate barriers.

DDSO exists to enrich the quality of life for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities by fostering individual growth, creativity and community involvement through innovative strategies and artistic expression.

For more information contact us at info@ddso.org.

DDso utilizes the arts to enrich the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Make a commitment to impact a life, volunteer with DDSO today.

Volunteer activities include: facility projects, administrative support, special event planning, advisory boards and student aides for field trips. For more information, contact us at volunteers@ddso.org or call (916)456–5166.

Donate. As a California-based private nonprofit organization, we rely on contributions from the community to fund a portion of the services we provide. You can make a meaningful difference in the lives of the people we serve by making a tax-deductible donation to DDSO. Visit us online at www.DDSO.org

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XP FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP 8495 FOLSOM BLVD #1 SACRAMENTO, CA. 95826 (916) 628-3814 OR (916) 379-0741 W W W.XPFAMILYSUPPORT.ORG

Xeroderma Pigmentosum (or XP) is a rare inherited disease affecting both males and females. It causes a person to be extremely sensitive to the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation. Undiagnosed and untreated, XP can lead to the early onset of skin cancer and blindness. Research on XP patients can eventually lead to a cure for skin cancer.

The XP Family Support Group is dedicated to improving the quality of life of those affected with Xeroderma Pigmentosum through education and support services, researching effective treatments, and ultimately finding a cure.

Sponsored by Deja Vu Showgirls

WAYS TO DONATE Make a one-time donation or set up an automatic recurring gift via Paypal at www.xpfamilysupport.org.

EVENTS Land & Sea Tri-Tip & Crab Feed: Tickets $60 each and can be purchased on our website. January 19, 2013 at Carvalho Family Winery, 35265 Willow Ave, Clarkburg, CA. Art for XP: March 9, 2013 at the Sugarmill.

Chevy Cruze LS Raffle: Tickets are $40 or three for $100 and can be purchased on our website. Drawing will be held May 18, 2013.

CASA SACrAmento CASA — mAking memorieS Po Box 278832 SACrAmento, CA 95827 w w w.SACrAmentoCASA.org CASA Sacramento is Court Appointed Special Advocates for children and our mission is to ensure consistency and support for children in the foster care system through the use of volunteer advocates advancing the best interests of each child. Making Memories is a special program which funds the “little extras” that mean so much to children ― sports equipment, music lessons, prom expenses and field trips. Please donate and help build confidence, social skills and create happy memories for local kids.

“thank you making memories, i was thrilled to be able to purchase my senior yearbook.” – k.t.

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Become a CASA and speak up for a child. Check our website for upcoming orientation dates.

Making Memories — funds extracurricular activities for local foster youth. Average cost to fund an activity — $100.

eVeNtS Crab Feed – Surfin’ Safari January 19, 2013 Tickets $50 through 12/31/12

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