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arisol Yanez knows making a positive impact on a youth can have a tremendous effect on their future. As the Youth Leadership Coordinator for the Youth Voice program at La Familia, she works especially hard to give at-risk youth in South Sacramento a place to be able to express themselves and plan out their futures. The comprehensive counseling, support and outreach organization is sponsored by the Building Healthy Communities grant of The California Endowment — a 10-year plan to improve 14 underserved communities across California.

“WHEN I JOINED THE PROGRAM, I WAS EXTREMELY SHY AND UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN I [SPOKE] TO OTHERS … THE YOUTH VOICE PROGRAM HAS IMPROVED MY LEADERSHIP, SOCIAL AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS.”

their community through projects the group decides to take on. Currently, the group is working on putting on a performance of the musical “Let the Eagle Fly.” The musical is about the life of labor leader Cesar Chavez and his ten core values.

“It only takes one person to make a change in someone’s life,” Yanez says. “I feel like, as an organization, if we can help them make that change and succeed, that we’ve done a pretty good job at making sure they’ve accomplished what they wanted to accomplish.”

Executive Director Rachel Rios says part of the program is also aimed at reducing youth violence and having a safe place where youth can express themselves is important to helping achieve that goal. Sixteen-year-old Mimi Wong says she has become more confident after getting involved with the program in 2010.

“Everyone should be able to express themselves freely within limits,” Wong says.

“However, school somewhat alters that experience.

Students like me may feel afraid to speak out or feel insecure. At the Youth Voice Program, leaders want youth to speak out.”

Mimi adds being involved with the program has her excited about her future.

She’s already planning out college and hopes to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in biology.

“When I joined the program, I was extremely shy and uncomfortable when I [spoke] to others,” Wong says. “I also didn’t like to express my opinions as I thought others would judge me or [I would] be ashamed if I was wrong. Over the three years, I have broken out of my shell and become less shy and nervous. … The Youth Voice program has improved my leadership, social and communication skills.”

The Youth Voice program provides young people between the ages of 14 and 21 the opportunity to take part in community projects, have a creative space to express themselves and communicate with each other and take on leadership roles to increase their confidence and experience. Yanez says often, teens she has worked with in South Sacramento say they feel ignored by their peers, teachers and parents. Yanez believes the program gives them a place to be themselves and say what’s on their mind. It also helps them improve their selfesteem and gives them a chance to improve

BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES In 2010, The California Endowment launched a 10-year, $1 billion plan to improve the health of 14 challenged communities across the state. Over the 10 years, residents, community-based organizations and public institutions will work together to address the socioeconomic and environmental challenges contributing to the poor health of their communities.

THE YOUTH VOICE PROGRAM The Youth Voice program gives at-risk youth in South Sacramento a safe place where they can express themselves and learn valuable skills they can use in the future. The comprehensive counseling, support and outreach organization is sponsored by the Building Healthy Communities grant of The California Endowment.

Youth Leadership Coordinator Marisol Yanez and Mimi Wong.

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Same drama, different year Here we go again. Another year, another rumor that Joe and Gavin Maloof aim to sell the Sacramento Kings and move the team to another city.

Another would-be deal. Another potential goodbye. Another Maloofsized headache. Sigh.

In 2011, the Maloofs, who own a 53 percent majority in the NBA team, tried to relocate the franchise to Anaheim. The deal fell through after some last-minute maneuvering on the part of the NBA and Mayor Kevin Johnson. But then in April, before anyone could get too comfortable, the Maloofs reneged on the arena proposal meant to give the players a shiny new home.

Now we’re back to the same old pick and roll. Same drama, different year. This time out, it’s a Seattlebased group bidding—reportedly upward of $500 million. But wait, stop the presses. On January 12, The Sacramento Bee reported that a new group aligned with the owner of Downtown Plaza was hashing out a proposal to buy the team for $400 million—and build an arena where the dilapidated shopping mall now stands. Meanwhile, billionaire Ron Burkle (who originally proposed to buy the team in 2011) and Bay Area investor Mark Mastrov (once a contender to buy the Golden State Warriors) have also emerged as potential bidders.

I love the Kings, good or bad, and firmly believe that any well-rounded city needs a major league sports team. But I also just want this chapter to end already.

Just do it. Whether we find a way to keep the team or let them go, do it fast. Pony up the cash or rip off the bandage—whatever it takes so that we aren’t forced to endure another round of speculation, grandstanding and big-money theatrics.

How hard can that really be?

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What would you say to President Obama?

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I’d ask [him] to be real careful with any decision he makes with these people who want to enforce the new gun laws. Think real hard.

Don’t jump to conclusions about guns and gun owners.

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I would recommend he take a real careful look at Congress. …

We must reduce inefficient spending. We must support our country and [keep] its people growing with fresh opportunities and freedom of choice in careers and services.

National Guard

When are we pulling the troops back? I’m in the Guard, and I am not on official orders yet, but we are looking to deploy June 2013. You hear a lot on the news, “The troops are coming back.” I would like to hear his side of it.

Sheila Garcia

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Does he have any plans for sustainability, as far as going green [goes]?

Global warming? What is he trying to do with that; does he believe in that?

[Does he have any plans] to make our economy more sustainable, so we don’t have to depend so much on gas and the war?

information-technology consultant

I would talk to him about being white-identified until he was in Chicago, and what was it like to go with his new wife to Africa and get in touch with those roots. Was she the person that pushed him to do it?

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Re “Kids and pot” by Ngaio Bealum (SN&R The 420, January 3): The problem with filling the air with pot smoke is twofold: One, not everyone wants to smoke it and be high. The second and more important factor is that you are imposing secondhand smoke on people with health issues. My girlfriend has asthma, and smoke triggers breathing problems for her within a very short period of time. For someone to go around thinking it’s their “God-given right” to smoke wherever they please is insensitive and rude at the least. There’s nothing stopping people from getting high letter of at home and then going to a movie or dinner. We certainly the week should have an “open pot burner” law in order to protect others from inconsiderate smokers who think the world only belongs to them.

I used to smoke weed on occasion, but I don’t miss the smoke-filled concert halls one bit. In fact, it’s pretty damn nice being able to go out later and not smell like a pot farm.

John Kuckowicz

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Pragmatic plastic Re “Will Sacto finally ban plastic bags?” by Christopher Arns, (SN&R Frontlines, January 10): For those of us who reuse plastic bags as trash bags, this simply means we have to buy bags which will be single use instead of the free ones that we’re getting at least two uses from.

I put my soda cans for recycling out in a plastic bag for the homeless. I’m not spending $1 for a reusable canvas bag every week, so the neighbors will have to put up with my cans and bottles rolling around loose when there’s a strong wind.

Furthermore, I was told by a trash supervisor that used Kitty Litter must be corralled in a plastic bag before being placed in the trash can, and aside from being significantly larger (therefore more wasted plastic), the flimsy store-bought trash bags simply don’t hold up to that much weight and tear as I’m carrying the litter to the can—which I guess means the solution is to buy the heavy-duty yard-waste bags, at 30 times the size and far too heavy to ever decompose. This helps the environment how?

Karen M. Campbell Sacramento

Proof of homeless kidnappers?

Re “Breton isn’t wrong” by Nicholas Adamek (SN&R Letter of the Week, January 3): Adamek claims his 8-year-old daughter is constantly harassed by the homeless in Sacramento. One has to wonder why, if this is true. Does the child yell out insults? Does the father? He is sure that the homeless will soon begin to abduct children like his 8-year-old. He recalls the wonderful, oh-sosafe Sacramento of 30 years ago.

Funny, that. I moved her just a tad under 30 years ago, and as a television reporter and anchor I covered many, many stories of rape, murder and mayhem in BEFORE

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Most of the perpetrators were not homeless, but they were apparently folks that Adamek would never fear, because they aren’t homeless.

Could Adamek perhaps give some citation to back up his assertions that the homeless people he so enjoys deriding have ever abducted children like his? Ever?

Anywhere?

Christine Craft via email

Domestic violence and the misandrist twist Re “Girl-on-guy violence” by Raheem F. Hosseini (SN&R Frontlines, January 3): I am dismayed by Ms. [Julie] Bornhoeft, director of development and community relations at WEAVE, and her fallacious dismissal of the many studies on domestic violence that do not fit a misandrist feminist narrative. There is, in fact, a large body of research, from this country and others, that indicate women initiate acts of domestic violence as much as—and at times, more often than—men (see the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s report “Differences in Frequency of Violence and Reported Injury Between Relationships with Reciprocal and Nonreciprocal Intimate Partner Violence”; U.K. equal-rights charity Parity’s “Domestic Violence: The Male Perspective”; and Dr. Martin S. Fiebert’s “References Examining Assaults by Women on their Spouses or Male Partners: An Annotated Bibliography” for an exhaustive list of peer-reviewed publications on the subject). It is also worth noting that a number of past studies that claimed women to be the primary victims of domestic violence were actually carried out by feminist ideologues that manipulated the data to accomplish their ends (see Murray A. Straus and Katreena Scott’s “Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence: The Evidence, the Denial, and the Implications for Primary

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Brian Donald Sacramento

Gun education, not regulation Re “The shameful epidemic”

by Bill Durston, (SN&R Essay, December 20, 2012): I’m [getting] on my soapbox after all the bickering about gun control in the wake of too many recent tragedies.

I feel the shooters did not fully understand that death is final; families are left to grieve, and you, the shooter, will spend the rest of your life in a place you really don’t want to be. I support “responsible gun ownership.” However, a gun is an inanimate object. It is the person behind the gun [that is] responsible for the assault. Until we fix the mindset of these individuals, no amount of regulation will be fully effective.

Many will not consider or understand the impact of their actions. I support education over regulation. I suggest the [National Rifle Association] use their funding to collaborate on a program to educate our youth. We do it for drugs and cigarettes. Why not guns and death, and the trauma that shootings leave |

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Death and tax associations Conservative groups like the Sacramento Taxpayers Association struggle to stay relevant in a changing America.

Is this the end of the GOP as we know it?

Kayla Wright’s blond hair flecks the shoulders of her revolutionary-red sweater. The El Camino by Fundamental High School student smiles Raheem easily during a sunstruck tea party rally, F. Hosseini holding a matching sign beside a whitehaired man with a glum expression and a ra h e emh@ newsr evie w.c om charcoal cross scrawled over his forehead.

The older man hefts an American flag over the shoulder of a pristine white smock that drapes his body. The gold crucifix dangling around his neck suggests it’s a priestly robe, but he looks more like a Ku Klux Klansman without a hood.

Wright notwithstanding, the Grand Old Party is showing its decrepit age.

She interns for the Sacramento County Republican Party—on whose website this tea party rally shot is featured—but the youngster is proving to be more of an exception than the rule. Like the SCRP, another stalwart conservative group, the Sacramento Taxpayers Association, is struggling to get younger, more diverse and stop the membership bleed out.

It hasn’t been easy.

While the SCRP ducked multiple requests for comment, the Sacramento Taxpayers Association’s Bob Blymyer was more than willing to discuss his group’s challenges. As the candid Blymyer talks, it becomes clear this local bastion of fiscal restraint is at a similar crossroads to the one facing an entire conservative movement.

Since its heyday of the 1970s—when the then-named Sacramento County Taxpayers League boasted 400-plus members—the group’s membership has steadily fallen to about 150 today, and it isn’t getting any younger. Along with bodies, the association is also hemorrhaging relevance.

The STA’s last major success was its opposition to a rail-yard arena deal last year.

“If anything, that was our coup de grâce,” says Blymyer.

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have prominent roles in other, more active groups such as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and Eye on Sacramento. The association’s newsletter output has also dwindled, from a dozen issues in 2006 to two last year.

Efforts to engage a new generation of fiscal conservatives, meanwhile, have fallen flat.

“We just don’t seem to have that appeal,” admits Blymyer, the group’s vice president of administration and a former executive director. Blymyer says a brief dalliance with “a Facebook” went nowhere and that the College Republicans club at Sacramento State University showed only “marginal” interest in the association’s mission.

“I was very surprised,” he says. “As a result, I’m reluctant to even reach out [again].”

Fountainhead of youth

The trend is affecting both of this country’s major political groups, but it’s hitting Republicans hardest. Of the young adults who registered last year, most generally affiliated themselves either with the Democratic Party or no party at all.

Republicans placed third.

Lauren Lombardo is part of that coveted electorate. The 18-year-old economics major is young, bright, female and “a lifelong Republican.” In many ways, she’s the cure for an ailing GOP. There just isn’t enough of her kind of medicine going around.

“There’s definitely more out there than just Facebook.”

Lauren Lombardo UC Davis College Republican club member

flat. But Lombardo says she won’t start worrying about the overall health of the Republican Party unless the Democrats win big during the 2014 midterm elections, when the precocious sophomore will be all of 20.

The Sacramento Taxpayers Association may not be able to wait that long.

Old and getting older Inside the association’s modest headquarters on the second floor of a converted walk-up in south Sacramento, two white-haired ex-transit officials talk about old buses.

In a lot of ways, the 52-year-old association is like an ancient transit rig itself: delivering fewer people to a place they once thought they wanted to go.

For the past five years, the STA board has shuffled presidents and executive directors around like a game of musical chairs, something Blymyer wants to steer away from in the future—if there is one.

Joe Sullivan, 87, is the group’s latest returning executive director. He sees America “becoming a socialistic nation” that will ultimately “fall into anarchy which will than evolve a dictatorship.”

Those sentiments are in the association’s latest newsletter, covering September through October 2012, but they don’t seem to be appealing to anyone with both feet planted in 2013 and beyond.

Other than one 14-year-old “boy genius” member, Blymyer says the association has two or three members in their 30s and “a whole bunch” in their 50s and 60s.

For Lombardo, economic and socially conservative values are why she feels at home in the College Republicans club that apparently spurned Blymyer’s advances.

While Lombardo has no intel on what happened there, she says her club is having the same trouble attracting the fiscal conservatives of tomorrow.

“I feel we can relate to what they’re going through,” Lombardo tells SN&R. “On a college campus, of course the vibe is a little bit more liberal.”

Besides struggling to fatten their ranks, both conservative groups have other signs the pendulum is at least temporarily swinging the other way. The college chapter saw its campaign efforts on behalf of GOP lion Dan Lungren and up-and-comer Peter “deatH” Tateishi—and against Proposition 30—fall continued on page 9 F E A T U R E S T O R Y | A R T S & C U L T U R E | A F T E R | 01.17.13 | SN&R In effect, the local association’s struggles mirror that of the Grand Old Party— currently trying to crack the riddle of how to get younger and more diverse.

Statewide, the prospects aren’t encouraging. According to a recent study from UC Davis, a record number of young adults in the state registered to vote for last year’s election—the majority online—and are more willing than ever to flout party affiliation. “[If] this trend continues, a younger electorate will mean even smaller percentages of both registered Democrats and Republicans,” said the study’s author, Mindy Romero, a researcher at the UC Davis Center for Regional Change.

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Independent reporting for this story is funded by a grant from Sacramento Emergency Foodlink.

Rawashdeh is perhaps the very kind of Sacramentan who might be interested in dialogue surrounding California’s proposed Homeless Person’s Bill of Rights and Fairness Act, introduced by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano.

Backers of this bill say that its central purpose is to affirm homeless Californians as citizens protected by basic human rights. But certain language in the bill’s first draft left detractors thinking long and hard about where and how the homeless can drop trou.

Critics include The Sacramento Bee editorial board, who—in a recent opinion piece titled “Ammiano bill on homeless is an embarrassment”— painted a colorful picture of what could be in store if the bill becomes law. The Bee envisioned a fictional homeless man, Tom A. (get it?), living outside a local coffee shop, panhandling and urinating on the sidewalk.

“He’s a turn-off for customers,” the opinion read, “but the proprietor is powerless to interfere with Tom” under the proposed law.

Law enforcement also wouldn’t be able to stop these hypothetical out-ofcontrol homeless Californians. In fact, detractors say that Ammiano’s bill, as written, would basically allow homeless residents to do as they please— from peeing to panhandling—anytime, anywhere.

According to the San Francisco assemblyman this is, of course, not the bill’s intent.

“The thrust of the bill is recognition that homeless people have the same rights and need the same things as other people,” Ammiano told SN&R. “You cannot criminalize people for not being housed.”

Ammiano said that there is no intention and no language in the bill that says bad behavior should be tolerated or condoned.

Indeed, most of the proposed legislation is fairly uncontroversial.

But there is one paragraph in particular that editorial boards across the state have found particularly disturbing.

This excerpt would protect the homeless community in carrying out certain “life-sustaining activities” outdoors without harassment from law enforcement, including “eating, congregating, possessing and storing personal property, urinating, or collecting and possessing goods for recycling, even if those goods contain alcoholic residue.”

Critics of the bill believe that, as written, this paragraph could allow for unfortunate loopholes in state and local laws. But the bill is new, and proposed legislation can undergo multiple rounds of edits.

After a call with Ammiano’s office, for instance, SN&R found that the paragraph in question has since been removed.

Local civil-rights attorney Mark Merin still believes that at least a portion of the bill’s provisions will pass.

“I think that there are very important aspects to the bill that will resonate with the legislators,” he said.

This includes provisions such as adding the term “housing status” to the list of protected conditions under the state’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, or making it legal for someone without a bed for the night to sleep in his or her vehicle.

“It’s not that you’re entitled to urinate in public; it’s that there should be bathrooms for the public to use,” explained Merin. “It comes down to human needs.” Ω

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“I get the idea that other taxpayer groups are facing the same thing,” Blymyer surmises. “People born after 1980 have a different view of government’s role.”

When the then-taxpayers league got its start in 1961, it came together as a result of a handful of Elk Grove farmers who were pissed off about life in pre-Proposition 13 California. The fledgling group began attracting more of the area’s business elite—executives from the region’s top banks, hospitals and retail sector. But at some point Sacramento’s captains of industry stopped signing on.

Blymyer blames a flattened economy for chasing away AT&T, a former corporate sponsor, and possibly the Campbell Soup Company, which is shuttering its local plant in favor of one in New Jersey.

Blymyer also says tremendous growth in the public sector has populated the area with people who may be less sympathetic to the association’s values, especially when that association rages against inflated pensions.

“That seems to have hurt,” Blymyer says. “Public workers are less interested in a taxpayer group than private workers.”

The association is now the smallest Blymyer can remember it being, and last year’s name change—from the Sacramento County Taxpayers League to the Sacramento Taxpayers Association—hasn’t been a marketing bonanza.

Oddly, the STA’s refusal to weigh in on individual political races could have something to do with the group’s flagging fortunes.

“If we got into supporting individuals, it would destroy the integrity of the association,” he argues. “If we did endorse candidates, we probably would get a little bit more exposure overall, but it might also cause ill feelings. It’s hard to say.”

Whatever the answer may be, the association better figure it out quick, says Sacramento State University political professor Kimberly Nalder.

Nalder, director of the school’s Project for an Informed Electorate, says the latest data suggests that people settle into their political values during their mid-20s.

“After that,” she adds, “there’s very little change in one’s political philosophy.”

All of which means if groups like the STA are having a harder time finding young people who identify with its message—or if there are fewer of these right-minded folks around—the future probably won’t look any brighter.

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Bright and friendly, Blymyer isn’t one of the anti-tax extremists Nalder believes has “worn out its welcome” with average Americans.

A light-rail nerd and longtime Sacramento Kings fan who must be pretty anxious right now, Blymyer sees the STA’s role as holding elected city and county officials accountable to how they spend the public’s dime.

To keep doing that, he knows his association has to adapt.

“Any group that’s unwilling to change is headed for disaster,” he says.

The association’s uncertain footing regarding advances in technology and social have stymied efforts to attract the next generation of fiscal conservatives. Those obstacles still flummox an executive board made up almost exclusively of gray-haired white men.

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According to a recent study from UC Davis, a record number of young adults in the state registered to vote for last year’s election—the majority online—and generally affiliated themselves either with the Democratic Party or no party at all.

Lombardo suggests the association take another stab at social networking and do a better job of articulating how its mission fuses with the concerns of young independents and graduating seniors.

“There’s definitely more out there than just Facebook,” she said.

Blymyer promises future board meetings on the subject and plans to devote more of his time to outreach.

He’s even willing to consider some of the algorithmic tricks that made the president’s campaign such a microtargeting success.

“We haven’t really taken any steps to do anything about it,” Blymyer offers.

That’s not entirely true.

The association did recently attract more than 200 online inquiries, but it was for a part-time office job advertised on Craigslist.

At least the association can still get some love as a job creator. Ω

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If you’re sick of the latest Sacramento Kings soap opera, I’m sorry: This is the new regularly scheduled programming.

As during the previous two years, the Maloofs-Sacramento divorce will again dominate the first four months of 2013. Last week’s frenzy of media gossip masquerading as journalism accomplished exactly what the brethren Maloof wanted: a bidding war between monied interests in Seattle and Sacto, ler

by NICK MIl which will persist until NBA owners meet in April. ni c k a m @ne w s re v i e w . c o m The NBA precludes the sale or relocation of a franchise without approval of ownership. And the bigwigs won’t play face-to-face again until well-after April Fools’ Day. Meanwhile, pity the fool who gets their chonies in a funk by riding the Maloof’s Thunder Mountain Railroad for another three months: more K.J. press conferences; local sports “journalists” citing anonymous sources-cum-Scotch-drinking buddies; ubiquitous talk-radio blowhardery; and storm-of-the-century sensational TV newscasts ad nauseam.

Pity the fool who gets their chonies in a funk by riding the Maloof’s Thunder Mountain Railroad for another three months.

For the record, my money is on the team staying right here in Sacto—and with a spankin’-new arena, to boot.

K.J. has to hang his second term on something, and he’s got Grant Napear tears and Tesla, too, in his arsenal.

Love will find a way, right?

(Please shoot me.)

Actually, don’t shoot. I don’t want to be the latest Midtown crime statistic.

Last Friday night, a thug shot a woman twice in a robbery turned nightmare. The victim apparently is in stable condition at an area hospital, but this incident, which occurred around 10:30 p.m. near H and 27th streets—the same damn neighborhood where multiple other robberies went down over the past month—has rattled already on-edge residents.

Sacto’s thug contingent is still at it, it seems. And while city leaders and

police hold neighborhood powwows and scramble together new patrols after hours, there’s really no practical vision for how to stop the recent surge in home invasions, car thefts and robberies on the grid. Other than to twiddle thumbs and wait for Measure U tax revenues to kick in, so that city brass can start training more cops. Sometime later this year. At the earliest.

There are certain neighbors, however, with a “plan.” But it’s a familiar mantra: “Close the bars!” they proclaim. “And bars masquerading as restaurants!” “And by 7 p.m.!” Which won’t rid Midtown of its thuggish visitors.

Meanwhile, police advise that those with less-than-fortuitous juju who fall victim to a mugger to not fight back and, instead, hand over the goods while memorizing the assailant’s appearance. Even though I’d imagine the last impression you probably want to leave on a robber is that you’re taking extensive mental notes.

If this all seems backward and hopeless—e.g., City Hall and the media’s bloodthirst for the Kings and co-occurring nonchalance toward crime in its breadwinning central-city neighborhoods and entertainment districts—then you’re not alone.

So, it’d be nice if the 24-seven will-they-stay-or-will-they-go Kings media frenzy took a Xanax.

Remember: In 1992, the San Francisco Giants were a done deal, sold to owners who wanted to ship the team to Florida, yet the Giants have remained.

To that end: NBA commissioner David Stern says Sacramento will have a chance to counterbid, and Mayor Kevin Johnson announced at a State of Downtown breakfast on Tuesday that he’s gotten the green light to present at the NBA board of governor’s meeting this April.

So, until then, let’s focus on Midtown and downtown, where over the past 40 days there have been: 241 reported breaking and entering incidents, two homicides and two homicide attempts, 32 robberies, 215 vehicle and person thefts, 40 assaults, 55 property crimes, and 120 quality-oflife crimes.

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Rhee’s report card doesn’t add up California gets an F for bucking corporate education reform Like a lot of local folks, Bites tuned in to The Education of Michelle Rhee earlier this month, the Frontline documentary on Sacramento’s own selfstyled education-reform badass, bride of the mayor, bee-murderer, etc.

The doc covered familiar ground, mostly Rhee’s tenure as der chancellor of D.C. schools.

There’s footage of Rhee firing a school principal on camera and showing that if you aRvIn G scare just the bejesus out of educators, their o SM Co by test scores will go up, at least temporarily. cosmog@ n ewsrev iew.c om Though they may cheat to do it. (Here is probably a good place for the usual disclosure that Bites is married to a public-school teacher and generally prefers not to see teachers terrorized.)

And the Frontline producers do leave their viewers with the impression that at least some administrators got away with some cheating during the dramatic (and short-lived) spike in test scores at some schools during Rhee’s tenure in D.C. And while chancellor Rhee presumably didn’t know about the cheating, Frontline suggests she sort of half-assed the investigation.

But the cheating scandal has already faded.

Rhee’s StudentsFirst education organization, headquartered downtown on K Street, is still plugging away, trying to get state governments to adopt the hardball policies Rhee initiated in D.C. StudentsFirst picked the day before The Education aired to debut its own “policy report card” of the 50 states. It generated some buzz around our state; plenty of news outlets dutifully reported some variation of “StudentsFirst gives California education an F.” Casual readers may have been given the impression that the report actually measured something important—like student achievement. But in fact, the report card was more of a political wish list, rather than an actual assessment of how states are doing at educating kids.

California flunked the StudentsFirst test because the state still allows teacher tenure, and it doesn’t put mayors in charge of school systems. We still don’t use test scores in teacher evaluations.

StudentsFirst also says California is too generous with teacher pensions and not generous enough with charter-school operators. The list of violations goes on.

The report card doesn’t actually say anything about how well these policies are working in the states that follow them. For example, Louisiana and Florida earn B grades on StudentsFirst’s policy report card—the highest marks; Rhee is a tough grader. But students in those states lag behind rest of the nation in reading and math scores. Ironic, given the constant emphasis Rhee puts on testing and results.

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On the other hand, Lerum argues, there’s no evidence that the status quo is good for kids, either. “There’s no argument for standing still.

What we have right now isn’t working. It’s killing our kids.”

Because schools are failing, right? Everybody knows it. Just check the editorial page in any daily newspaper.

“It’s absolutely not true that our schools are failing,” says veteran education consultant and former legislative staffer John Mockler, who wrote California’s school-funding rules, Proposition 98, along with a good chunk of the state’s education code.

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And that’s not too bad, Mockler argues, for a state with a (stunningly) fast-growing population of English language learners, and bottom of the barrel per-pupil spending.

He’s a bit galled by Rhee’s report card. “It is, like all of her work, just politics.” Mockler gets a lot of the credit, or blame, for the state of the state’s education system. Not surprising, perhaps, that he would defend it. Then again, what Mockler calls “the California School Suck Industry,” has its own powerful incentives for declaring the state’s schools as failures.

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The California Department of Public Health has found that there is now an increasing number of kindergartners whose parents have filed “personal beliefs” exemptions, allowing them to avoid the usual state-required immunizations. The highest rates of nonvaccinated children are in our wealthier communities and private schools. And the Waldorf schools are among the very highest. Seventy percent of Camellia Waldorf School kindergarteners do not have the usual state-required immunizations.

Seventy percent. I have a simple question for these parents: “Are you out of your goddamned minds?” l

by Jeff VonKaene I assume these parents love their kids. They would not let them run in the street when cars are coming j e ffv @ne wsr e v ie w.c o m down the road. They probably make them wear seat belts and tell them to eat their vegetables. But these children don’t get whooping-cough shots, and then these parents send them to a school where 70 percent of the kids have not had whooping-cough shots, either. That is crazy. That is an epidemic waiting to happen.

Now, some people say that they don’t need to immunize their children because the “herd” will protect them. But “herd” immunity will only kick in where at least 90 percent of the population are vaccinated. In addition to these parents putting their own children at risk, they are putting others at risk too, especially babies, seniors people who are already Seventy percent and battling illness.

The idea that immunizations of Camellia cause autism, Crohn’s disease Waldorf School and cancer has as much scientific as witchcraft. If these same kindergarteners do basis people said that old women with not have the usual warts wearing black dresses and black hats caused autism, state-required would we believe it? There is no immunizations. credible, reliable information that supports the idea that witches, or immunizations, cause cancer or autism. There has been one discredited study, and there have been celebrities, like ex-Playboy bunny, talk-show Read a new host and current nincompoop Jenny McCarthy, who have brochure from promoted scare stories about vaccination. McCarthy seems the California to think that because she is a mom, she knows more about Immunization Coalition for medicine than people who have been to medical school.

When I was growing up, there were kids that had polio parents who are concerned about in my town. It was not a fun disease. I remember when the vaccinating their polio vaccine came out. Believe me, my parents would not children at http://tinyurl.com/ have opted out. In fact, they would have driven across the ImmSafety. country to make sure that we received the vaccine early.

It really is simple. We used to have kids getting sick and dying from whooping cough, mumps, chickenpox, measles and other diseases. I’m old enough that I can remember Jeff vonKaenel this. And because of advances in immunization, we have is the president, almost eliminated these horrible diseases.

CEO and But now these diseases could come back. They could majority owner of come back because misguided, uninformed individuals the News & Review newspapers in do not believe in immunizations. They could come back Sacramento, because people are not doing their civic duty and getting Chico and Reno. immunized. We cannot and should not allow this. Ω

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by Auntie Ruth

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Nonprofit group Village Harvest distributes fruit from residential homes to local food shelters A daily part of life for many Californians is passing by trees heaving with fruit—oranges, apricots, cherries, plums—and seeing pounds and pounds of that fruit by Kat Kerlin rotting around the base of the tree and thinking, “Wow, what a waste when there are so many hungry people.”

The co-founders of Village Harvest had this same reaction, but they actually did something about it.

They started a volunteer-driven nonprofit that collects fruit from residential homes and distributes it to local shelters and food pantries.

The original Village Harvest began in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. There are now volunteer teams in Yolo, Santa Clara, San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties.

Village Harvest in Davis began in the spring of 2009. Since then, the Davis group has collected more than 120,000 pounds of fruit. In 2012, the Davis team held 53 harvests at Yolo County homes and orchards and collected more than 42,000 pounds of fruit.

The group held its last harvest of the year— persimmons—on December 30, 2012, at Dianne and Mike Madison’s Yolo Press Winters.

The visual effect nearAcross from a row of olive of the fruit on the trees, about 10 volunteers had leafless trees was their hands and heads deep among persimmon branches, rather Seuss-esque. which were bare except for the globes of bright orange fruit. The visual effect of the fruit on the leafless trees was rather Seuss-esque.

A persimmon’s flavor is a little like candied yams.

To me, if a pumpkin were a plum, it would taste like a For more information persimmon. Got that? about Village Harvest There are two main popular varieties: the slightly team in Davis, visit crunchy, applelike Fuyu, which we were harvesting www.villageharvest. org/davis, contact Joe that day, and the Hachiya, which is best used for Schwartz at baking or even eating with a spoon when it’s nearly joe.schwartz@village overripe and squishy soft. Some regular Village harvest.org, or call Harvest volunteers have a dehydrator at home, and (888) 378-4841. they say dried Hachiyas taste like candy.

For a longer version Dianne Madison, who was getting ready to start of this story, visit a batch of marmalade, said, “We just like to see all the blog Farmophile at www.farmophile. the fruit used. People should be able to eat good wordpress.com. food. We sell as much as we can but are happy to donate, too.”

As volunteers snipped persimmons from branches, Village Harvest co-founder Linda Schwartz and a volunteer were busy sorting through boxes of the harvest, throwing fruit that was cracked or too ripe into a “cull box” for volunteers to divide among Green Days is on the themselves. lookout for innovative The fruit deemed worthy was packed into boxes sustainable projects for distribution to Short Term Emergency Aid throughout the Sacramento region.

Committee, to a women and children’s shelter, and Turn us on at to a men’s shelter in Davis. Village Harvest also sactonewstips@ takes fruit to the Davis Korean Church; the Episcopal newsreview.com.

Church of St. Martin for its community meals, also in Davis; and to the Food Bank of Yolo County in Woodland. Sometimes, big harvests are also distributed to the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services.

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Yes, this is an eating persimmon, not a baking one.

“We’re very careful that we give our agencies good fruit,” said Schwartz, while examining a persimmon for cuts or blemishes. “We don’t want people to feel like they’re getting something secondhand.”

Biting into a persimmon herself—“Oh, this is good”—she explained how the Village Harvest process works.

Homeowners fill out the home sign-up form on the Village Harvest website to arrange a harvest. The owner can claim a tax deduction for the number of pounds of collected fruit, priced for market rates.

Village Harvest also keeps a database of trees and checks it each season to schedule harvests. There are currently about 250 homes and more than 500 Yolo County trees (not counting orchard trees) in the registry.

Interested volunteers can learn about upcoming harvests by filling out the volunteer-registration form on the website to get on the group’s Listserv.

Harvests range from one tree to 100. A big one was this past weekend: a navel orange harvest in Winters on Saturday, January 13. At that harvest, some 100 volunteers picked oranges to the sounds of live music in the orchard and the sight of sweeping valley views.

A similarly large tangelo harvest is in the works for February.

Most Village Harvest collections are held in people’s backyards, with just a few trees and a handful of volunteers.

“Some of the most satisfying harvests for me are the ones where the homeowners planted the trees when their kids were young, and they feel like stewards of those trees,” said Schwartz. “It saddens them that they can’t pick that fruit anymore. They’re just beaming when we’re telling them how great their fruit is and how it will be appreciated at the shelters.” Ω

You know them for sure, you must. According to the January Harper’s Index, only 70 percent of Americans believe in global warming—and only 48 percent of Republicans so believe. Auntie Ruth has a beloved uncle who falls into the latter camp. Smart guy.

Stubborn, too.

But, as compared to the 48 percent of Republicans who don’t believe in climate change, Harper’s reports that 68 percent of Republicans believe in demonic possession.

Demonic possession has been around as long as God, so it’s had more time to hone marketing strategies. But damn: What are the demonicpossession people communicating that we climate changers aren’t? Should we pause here? Is this a Satan is greater learning moment? than Al Gore?

Auntie Ruth tried a schema: devil > God = climate change > Al Gore. The exercise was not clarifying.

Perhaps we suffer from a failure in cinema.

There are more salable movies on the subject of demonic possession than on climate change. Auntie Ruth consulted with one of her favorite 20-somethings—the expertise of her generation on all this is vast.

Consider the grandmammy of them all, The Exorcist—head spinning, projectile vomiting, priest killing. An Inconvenient Truth didn’t have any of that. The scariest moment in AIT was when Al Gore went up on the little riser thingy and pointed at a graph line, but it wasn’t Al’s safety we worried about at the time. Auntie Ruth was worried about the obliteration of the Bay Area.

OK, OK: recast AIT with Matt Damon playing the Koch brothers. Both of them at the same time—and just to be creepy, join them at the hip. Maybe their heads spin in the same direction at the same time, kind of like ZZ Top’s guitars. And then they spin in different directions at the same time. That would be pretty scary. And Al can just, oh, work around them.

Based on Auntie Ruth’s exhaustive research into movie trailers, the similarities between demonic possession and climate change are many: It storms a lot in these flicks. There’s no escape. It scares the bejesus out of you. And at some point, a priest says, “It has begun.”

We bet your aunts Maybe we don’t have a cinema problem aren’t as cool as ours. at all, other than we spend too much time at Friend Auntie Ruth the movies. And no happyish ending to climate on Facebook change is guaranteed, eh? Ω and let’s hang out.

Off the grid A new art installation at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Sacramento’s Raley Branch (1117 G Street) has a unique environmental twist: It’s a multimedia piece by local artist Anthony Padilla featuring a wall mural and functional leaf sculptures with solar panels on top. It’s completely off the grid, and the sculptures store energy from their panels to power USB devices. The goal, says Padilla, is for the piece to be educational, showing that the energy from the sun can be collected in a self-contained unit and used to power electronic devices. Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission helped the project come to light.

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We should have said, “Early birds will be attacked by slavering hounds,” but we didn’t, and so they came.

Oh, I forgot to mention that the aforementioned, possibly sadistic and certainly ironic universe had, just two days before the event, seen fit to break our two-car garage door, a folding fiberglass contraption running on Rube Goldberg-like tracks, so that the bottom of the door was left hovering some 4 feet above the ground, which necessitated our doing variations on the limbo as we brought forth weighty boxes of goodies. And as we ducked and bent and schlepped, I wondered if I would live to see the opening bell—9 a.m.—without collapsing.

But long before 9 a.m. the so-called early birds began to arrive, though we had specifically requested in our ad, “No early birds, please.”

We should have said, “Early birds will be attacked by slavering hounds,” but we didn’t, and so they came, the first few deflected by our stern renderings of wishful thinking such as, “We don’t open until 9.

Please go away,” and “We’re not open yet.” By 8:20 a.m. there were 12 of the patient scavengers—and for some reason, I thought of the

disciples—standing on the very edge of our property, impervious to our entreaties to go away. Soon, we opened up for business.

Two of the early birds were a husband-and-wife team who, in a matter of few minutes, had set aside 65 books and a dozen CDs. And as I watched the husband riffle through the pages and make sure the covers were clean and the spines intact, I realized these two were not buying books to read, but to sell. Indeed, we would eventually learn that they had an online used-book business, their inventory largely furnished by early-bird assaults on yard sales.

My favorite parts of the day were those glorious moments when shoppers found objects they had been wishing fervently to find, yet hadn’t (probably) thought they would ever find for a couple bucks at a yard sale.

For instance, one of the items on sale was an electric shredder mounted on a wastebasket, something Marcia hadn’t used in a decade. Toward the very end of the sale, a woman sped up in a little sports car, jumped out and pointed at the shredder. “Oh my God!” she exclaimed. “Does that work?”

“Yes,” I said wearily.

“Oh my God,” she repeated. “I dreamt last night about shredding all the piles of papers on my desk and on the floor in my office that have just been in my way.” Then she stomped her foot. “How much do you want?”

“Two dollars,” I said, though I would have happily given it to her gratis.

“Sold!” she cried, as her dream came true.

Another high point of the day was when Marcia sold (for only $5) a very nice and fully functional electric keyboard to a young couple with a 6-year-old son who was literally hugging and kissing the keyboard and begging his parents to buy it for him. The husband was cradling their other child, a month-old baby girl, and smiling in wonder as his son danced around the keyboard.

Soon after, a crusty old man approached me with a big basket brimming with things he’d found to buy. “Good yard sale, man,” he said, handing me a wad of money.

“What, pray tell, makes it so good?” I asked, marveling at the subjective nature of reality.

“Good stuff,” he said, winking.

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The economy still reels from the housing-market collapse. And head-butting with GOP adversaries over debt, spending and taxes—which, in essence, are battles in the larger war over the size and role of government—persists. All this bogs the president down in a political time suck; there’s little room for policy and legacy matters such as the environment and education.

Let alone board games and brew.

And then there’s also what the people demand of their president. Jobs and schools, drones and guns— SN&R readers’ “Letters to Obama” reveal a diversity of expectations. The dozens of Sacramentans who participated this year spoke to a hopefulness similar to what Americans felt on the eve of Obama’s first inauguration.

Yes, people still believe Obama can change the country.

But there’s also doubt and uncertainty.

These are SN&R readers’ words. Will the president hear them?

It’s just common sense Our most pressing need is for Americans to go back to work. I am not touting that more low-paying service jobs need to be added; on the contrary, since most Americans’ earnings have remained flat over the last three decades, what we need is a greater abundance of fair- to good-paying jobs. Many of us cannot find work that matches our skills or educational qualifications.

Many of us were forced to borrow student loans that we cannot pay back simply because we cannot find jobs that would enable us to do so. Consequently, we are then

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bama overburdened by capitalization added to the interest of our loans, further encumbering us with more money we will need to pay back to lenders. This alone could cause our next economic crisis.

Need I tell you, Mr. President, we are in very deep trouble as a nation? Need I also tell you that the only solution to restoring our economy, to help bring the domestic debt rate down, and to stimulate our economy by spending on goods and services, and to bring the national debt down through taxation, is to create good jobs for our citizens? It doesn’t take a longterm study by economists to prove that this is common sense.

Janine R. Wilson Sacramento

Stand firm against cuts I’m old enough to remember the time before Medicare and Social Security—it was not pretty—and these were promises made to the American people. Will you please stand firm against any attempt to cut the life out of these?

MaRtha h. oehleR Sacramento

Drive it over the cliff Whatever happened to “We don’t negotiate with terrorists”?

If the only way to get a deal with the House GOP is to raise taxes on the middle class while gutting Social Security and protecting tax cuts for the wealthy, I want to see you drive over that “fiscal cliff” holding hands with John Boehner like you are Thelma and Louise. You can even be Thelma.

John MaRcotte Sacramento

Thank you, I can eat now You managed to accomplish a great deal in your first stint in the Oval Office. First and foremost, you killed Osama bin Laden. You have succeeded in the honor of being the first African-American president. This in and of itself is a huge accomplishment. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be proud, Malcolm X would be ecstatic and Don King would give you “daps.”

You have given hope to those people that need it and [provided] strength and power through your words. You have actually provided change to our country. For instance: 1. A $20 billion increase for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps (thank you, I can eat

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3. Health coverage can’t be denied to children with pre-existing conditions. 4. As part of the 2010 tax extension, unemployment insurance was extended to the 7 million Americans who would have been without income. I personally thank you for this.

KeRRy t. hoefling Sacramento

Trade all guns … for muskets?

Congratulations on your re-election. “Fiscal cliff,” Afghanistan, health care—honestly, at this point, I don’t care. Let’s focus on the defining issue of your second term: gun control. I have a simple one-point plan that can help:

Remember your campaign promises

In your first term, you promised openness, transparency, an end to Guantánamo Bay and a renewed protection of our basic human rights. Yet Guantánamo is still open; drone strikes have killed an estimated 282 to 535 civilians, including more than 60 children; and three American citizens were killed without due process, including a 16-year-old boy. Your administration pleads that we trust your judgment and that these actions are justified. However, your policies are nearly indistinguishable from those of your predecessor, and will allow the next president, whomever that may be, the same extraordinary license to kill. How have you so completely forgotten your campaign promises? One can only suppose they were abandoned as soon as it was no longer politically expedient to hold them.

Katelyn sills Sacramento

I want to see you drive over that “fiscal cliff” holding hands with John Boehner like you are Thelma and Louise.

Respecting the wisdom of our Constitution’s framers, we must defend our Second Amendment right to bear arms. And the only firearms of any utility that were available to private citizens in 1791 were muskets. I suggest that you honor that vision and issue an executive order mandating that muskets be the only firearms legal for Americans to possess. Barrels shall measure 7-feet long, and balls and powder shall be sold separately in convenient single-use, childproof containers that take six minutes to open.

Americans shall have one year to exchange any and all guns for muskets. After one year, all other firearms shall be considered illicit and their possession or use grounds for incarceration.

There will be complaints, for instance: “I’m a hunter. How am I supposed to hunt with a 7-footlong musket that fires only one ball every six minutes? I might miss.”

Presidential response: “Practice. With luck, your ball will hit home.”

More jobs, cleaner planet In your second term, I ask you to carefully conserve your political capital by drawing upon your roots in community organizing. I ask you to work on the following: 1. Provide or create jobs for everyone who is able to work. Our local colleges and universities can be awarded for innovations that make use of alternative energy sources, which create engineering and manufacturing jobs that can be done (and must be done) right here in the United States.

2. Prepare the future on this planet for our children.

We can protect the lives of our children by ensuring that they have all the clean water they will need for drinking, cleaning and agriculture by keeping creeks and streams in our communities free of plastic and other toxins and refuse.

3. Maintaining our land base. As we saw in the fury of Hurricane Sandy, our shorelines are threatened by climate change. We need to keep our community intact by decreasing consumption of fossil fuels and lowering global temperatures to prevent further ice melting. We need to at least let our children know that we cared enough to try to maintain our land base upon which our communities are built.

Kathleen DeVRies Fair oakS

WilliaM Doonan, Ph.D. Sacramento

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Keep kids in school As a father, you know the importance of providing the best foundation possible to give our children the opportunity to pursue their dreams and achieve success as adults. Concentrating our efforts on building strong families and the health and welfare of our kids is both the best shortterm and long-term strategy for creating safer, healthier and more economically sustainable communities.

Here in California, and across the nation, we face a problem not yet acknowledged in many circles, let alone adequately addressed. Too many of our young people are being suspended or expelled from our schools. In California alone, over 750,000 students are suspended per year—more than the number who graduate. Not only is the sheer number alarming, but we know the impact is severely disproportionate, with three and a half times as many African-American children suspended or expelled as Caucasian children, for example, according to a recent U.S. Department of Education study. Worse still, kids who have been suspended or expelled are five times more likely to drop out and 11 times more likely to turn to crime.

I urge you to put the weight of the federal government behind efforts to keep kids in school and to end the school-to-prison pipeline.

If we fail to do so, we are sadly condemning a significant number of our youth to unproductive, problem-filled lives that not only threaten their own well-being, but also the well-being of entire communities. We know what the solutions are to avoid these results: to maintain necessary classroom and school discipline; to keep young people in school and on track to graduate; and [to keep them] out of the criminal justice system by addressing behavioral issues with alternative means of correction. But we need the leadership and resources that only the federal government can provide to support our efforts at the local and state levels.

Our work to create a better world will be handed off to our children and grandchildren.

Help us give them the best chance we can to succeed.

AssemblymAn RogeR Dickinson Sacramento

Make us care, make us proud I’ve had this recurring nightmare for the last 10 years. Half of my life. A little girl with black curls and huge blue eyes stares at me. The whites of her eyes are red and moist. Then, a white flash. Her father with sunken eyes is comforting her as she is overcome by her tears.

She doesn’t understand why these people keep attacking her. Why did her brother die? Why was her city destroyed? What did she do? Why do they hate her?

Then I wake up. And then I hate you. And I hate President George W. Bush. And I am filled with this horrible feeling of embarrassment and shame for being an American.

And I don’t want to feel this way anymore.

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disability so we can save our houses and stay in our houses for a long time.

Rosie PRAsAD elk Grove

Let’s talk about race You have a unique opportunity to advance the conversation about race in our beloved USA, but your administration has not led with affirmative messages or assumed much leadership of consequence.

Believe us, we do get it: In more ways than one, perhaps your job as the first black president required nothing more than to be black, and to do it with at least moderate success so that other black candidates and Fortune 500 executives stand a chance in the future. Nevertheless, we await with anticipation a bold move and quantum leap in leadership. Should the federal government and public universities recast affirmative action? How will the gains of affirmative action be preserved, or should they? And more to the point: How shall fairness of opportunity be defined in a more complex and multiracial society?

Owing to the rapid advancement of smartphones, high-tech gadgets, social media and wireless connectivity, the world has become smaller and our worldview much larger. This new generation of young people that turned out to vote in record numbers secured your second term as president. They are the offspring of a many-colored society, both in terms of interracial marriages and in the images they see on TV, in sports, entertainment and politics. Help us unlock that blessed potential and write a new chapter in U.S. history.

Al heRnAnDez-sAntAnA

makes this country what it is. We are a collection of diverse belief systems and cultures. While some countries embrace homogeneity, here, everyone’s Thanksgiving is a little different from their neighbors. And when I do feel proud to be an American, it is one of the warmest, fuzziest feelings you can have growing in your heart.

And I know that you feel this way, too. And that is the problem.

Americans actually really like you. They may disagree with you. Be pissed about drones.

Pissed about health care. Pissed about gay rights.

Pissed about the economy. Pissed about weed reform. They may hate what you’re doing or not doing, but when you’re shaking hands and your daughters stand behind you, literally beaming, the cuteness factor wins. You are still our president. At least you’re trying.

So for your next four years, you need to re-evaluate what your purpose in office is. You were deemed “The Great Communicator.” Then you fell flat on your face. I know you have heard this already. But come on. Make us care. Make us feel like if we wrote you a letter on your White House “We the People” page, you would respond. If we could text you, you would text back. Because you represent all of us.

You are being thwarted by politics in Washington. Rise above it. Go to the people, and make us feel proud of our country again. nAtAshA vonkAenel Sacramento

Sacramento

End the entitlements Kudos to you for finally passing much needed health-care reform. Now can you please let politically powerful seniors know that providing both Social Security and Medicare benefits after the age of 65, or even 67, is simply completely unsustainable (even today)?

When Social Security was first established, more than 90 percent of recipients never lived to 65 anyway, so it was really just a luxury benefit.

How about Americans get to choose only one benefit or the other until age 75?

Americans would be wise to remember that the Roman Empire crumbled from within (not due to being overrun or attacked by enemies or external armies), but rather due to an overly entitled, entertained and war-hungry populace.

JeRemy bAiley Sacramento

Save our homes I need your help in my mortgage-loan modification. I am still struggling with my high mortgage payment, and I am sure there are thousands of other people like me having the same problem.

I do not want to lose my house. I bought my house for $480,000, and now it is worth only $230,000, or maybe less. I am on Social Security income. Please help and give us a program for people who are on permanent Social Security or

Just. Stop.

Stop killing innocent villagers with cowardly drones.

Stop running up the debt.

Stop prosecuting whistle-blowers.

P. ceRnAc Sacramento

Peace in the Middle East Remember Palestine and Israel! It was disheartening to see peace in the Middle East become more elusive during your first term. Yet I maintain my audacity to hope that you will use your second term to exert pressure on the Israeli government to end its settlement-expansion policies that are making a two-state solution unviable and to grant Palestinians their rights. cAmil RAAD FolSom

Let the fresh air in I believe you can persuade this country in the wake of so much gun violence to finally ban the sale of automatic assault weapons to the general public. When innocent children cannot be safe in

their classrooms, we have a serious situation that has to change.

Secondly, how many tax dollars must we U.S. citizens fork over every time there is a natural disaster in this country? This is especially tiresome when you consider the entire United States’ infrastructure of worn-out bridges and roads that go dangerously unattended.

Speaking of resources: We need to protect our environment and limit our reliance on oil.

All consumer vehicle manufacturers should be held to a mandatory 40 mpg on all models by the end of this decade. Not only that, but all new commercial-building construction should include mandatory solar capabilities to cut waste, pollution and energy dependence.

Lastly, I would like to see you pursue term limits to congressional representatives. Open the windows of the musty old Washington attic and let the fresh air in!

C.W. Kelly

As a father, you know the importance of providing the best foundation possible to give our children the opportunity to pursue their dreams and achieve success as adults.

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A short list of goals Thank you so much for your deep compassion for all people and your passion to advance the state of human culture. You are smart and I have confidence that you have learned much from a couple of serious errors in your first term. You handled the “fiscal cliff” excellently, which evidenced your learning and enhances your power to accomplish the following in your next term: Equitably balance the budget—while there is reasonable dispute on the means, the conservatives are right on this. It is not fair that we live off the hog and leave inordinate debt to future generations Raise the eligibility age for the able-bodied (and minded) significantly for retirement entitlement programs—these programs were conceived when life expectancy was at least 15 years less than [it is today] and should not be providing 20 or 30 years of noncontribution to the collective well-being.

Lower the medical costs of dying—if people are at the end of their life, let them pass. We operate too much in fear of death.

Eliminate corporate subsidies—especially those that perpetuate an unsustainable future and hurt the Main Street economy.

Fix education policy—this is the key to the American Dream of equal opportunity for all.

A carbon tax—clean and simple and allows our free enterprise system to do what it does best and figure out the most efficient ways to reduce use.

Focus on urban quality and efficiency to get us out of cars for a multitude of reasons—this will also address many of our other environmental challenges such as loss of farmland, air and water quality, and obesity. The most important federal means to this end is to redirect all infrastructure and housing funding programs away from subsidizing the automobile and sprawl, and to transit, bike and pedestrian modes and redevelopment of our existing communities.

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Go for the gold Turn swords into plowshares Now is the time to do something truly meaningful for the country, begin the process of turning our swords into plowshares—or, to put it into modern idiom, turn our battleships into schools and hospitals.

Defense spending is strangling our economy.

We have no real military enemies that justify spending up to 50 cents of every federal dollar on military and defense-related stuff. The Cold War is over. Current (and possible future) threats to this country do not require battleships, atomic weapons, massive armies, intercontinental ballistic missiles and hundreds of foreign bases. We no longer need (if we ever did) to spend as much money on defense as the entire rest of the world.

It’s time to go on a defense-spending diet.

John C. ReigeR president, Veterans for peace, chapter 97

With due respect, I offer this second-term agenda for your consideration: 1. Prosecute assault weapons smugglers who supply guns to known murderers. Start with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

2. Prosecute corporate CEOs that fleece the U.S. Treasury for billions of dollars in subsidies for fruitless, dead-end enterprises. Start with your friends at General Motors Co., General Electric Co., Solyndra, et al.

3. Suspend pay and benefits for employees of any federal government organization that can’t balance a budget and permanently reduce costs by 10 percent. Start with Congress.

4. Adopt the same climate-friendly, carbonfree energy policy for the United States that has succeeded in your home state of Illinois for decades: 40 percent nuclear power.

This will keep you pretty busy. If you get it all done, make another run at the Chicago 2020 Olympic Games. What have you got to lose? gReg vlaseK del paso heights

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Since making her film debut just two years ago, the Sacramento native has wowed critics and audiences alike with an array of characters, including an effervescent housewife in The Help and a weary former prostitute in Lawless.

But Zero Dark Thirty, the saga of a CIA agent’s 10-year mission to capture Osama bin Laden, required an almost minimalistic performance from Chastain, who received a Best Actress Drama Golden Globe as well as her first Academy Award nomination for Actress in a Leading Role for the part.

“I’m playing a character who’s trained to be unemotional and analytically precise,” said the 35-year-old actress. “As an actor, you spend your whole life trying to be emotional and keeping yourself emotionally open. So, to find the humanity within that, in that arc, was a great [challenge].”

Written by Mark Boal and directed by Kathryn Bigelow (the same team behind the 2008 Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker), Zero Dark Thirty begins on 9/11 and ends with the shooting of bin Laden at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

In between, the film encompasses scores of events in multiple countries around the globe. Since Boal and Bigelow’s intention was to “capture the on-the-ground reality of this mission as truthfully and viscerally as possible,” they opted to document the moral lines—including torture—that were crossed.

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“I had to approach her like any other character I was playing. Any questions I could answer through the research, I did. But questions that I couldn’t answer through research, I had to use my imagination.”

Born and raised in Sacramento where she attended El Camino Fundamental High School and Sacramento City College (where she acted and was a member of the school’s debate team), Chastain said she can’t remember a time when she didn’t want to be an actor. She studied at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City before scoring in a handful of Broadway and off-Broadway productions, including Rodney’s Wife, opposite David Strathairn.

She made her film debut in the littleseen 2010 release Jolene but quickly earned accolades for films such as The Help and The Tree of Life.

Her latest film, Mama, in theaters Friday, January 18, takes the actress in a different direction: It’s a horror flick about a couple tasked with the care of young nieces who grew up in the forest.

Chastain is also currently starring in a Broadway revival of The Heiress, the 1947 adaptation of Henry James’ 1880 novel Washington Square.

The back and forth between film and theater can be overwhelming, Chastain admitted.

“It’s a very strange thing to be talking about Maya and then think, ‘OK, at 6:30 p.m. I’m going to start putting my hair in pin curls and go onstage ... in The Heiress.’”

Still, she adds, such chaos is “a great gift,” especially when she manages to connect with a character on a deeper level.

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In some sense, Maya’s development from innocence to determination reflects the evolution of America as it attempts to deal with what the filmmakers call “the ruthless calculus of terrorism.”

For Chastain, the interrogation scenes, which comprise a very small portion of the film, were among the hardest to shoot.

“Those scenes, they were tough,” she said. “We filmed that section of the movie in a Jordanian prison, so we weren’t on a soundstage in Los Angeles.”

“But, it’s like Kathryn [Bigelow] has said, it’s a part of the history of the characters. So instead of looking at it and making my own judgments on what I personally believe is right and wrong, I try to look at it in terms of the character.”

While Zero Dark Thirty celebrates the efforts of hundreds of hard-working CIA agents, Chastain insists that politics are kept out of the equation.

“It’s not a propaganda movie,” she said. “It’s not, ‘Go, America!’ It’s [a movie told] through the eyes of this woman who became such a servant to her work that she lost herself along the way.

Ultimately, it’s both a personal and a global journey. “[After bin Laden is killed], there’s the question: Where does she go now? But then, also you have to ask: Where do we go as a country?” Chastain said. “Where do we go as a society? I find that ending the film on that question is far more interesting than providing an answer.”

Filming primarily in Jordan and India allowed the actors to feel as if they were, in Chastain’s words, “immersed in the story.”

Chastain was particularly determined to take her job home with her, reading books on the subject and studying her character in depth.

“I had the props person print out all the pictures of the terrorists that Maya looks at, and I actually hung them in my hotel room. So even when I would come home from set, it was always around me.”

She said she would have loved to meet the real-life Maya, but that option was never on the table, since the woman upon

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The saga pivots on a little-known participant in the intel hunt: Maya (depicted by Chastain), a young, obsessively determined CIA officer who proved central in tracking down bin Laden’s whereabouts. The character is based on an actual CIA agent.

“When I was reading the script, every page that I turned was a shock to me, especially about Maya and the role she took in [the capture of bin Laden],” said Chastain.

“Then, I got upset that it was such a shock to me. Why would I assume a woman wouldn’t be involved in this kind of research? Historically, in movies, lead characters are played by women who are defined by men, whether as a love interest or as a victim of a man. Maya’s not like that.”

Buoyed by outstanding reviews, Zero Dark Thirty has emerged as a frontrunner to win this year’s Best Picture Oscar—The New York Times called it a “wrenchingly sad, soul-shaking story about revenge and its moral costs.”

Still, some critics are uncomfortable with the film’s refusal to condemn interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding and the forcing of detainees into stress positions.

Zero Dark Thirty (the title is military jargon for “the dark of night,” as well as the moment—12:30 a.m.—when the Navy SEALs first stepped foot on the compound) has proven so contentious, in fact, that three senators, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.), wrote a letter to Sony Pictures decrying the film as “grossly inaccurate and misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the location” of bin Laden.

In response, Sony released a statement in which the filmmakers’ argue that they depicted “a variety of controversial practices and intelligence methods that were used in the name of finding bin Laden.

The film shows that no single method was necessarily responsible for solving the manhunt, nor can any single scene taken in isolation fairly capture the totality of efforts the film dramatizes.”

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The first mistake was starting with Les Misérables.

Considering that I’ve never made it past Fantine’s death dry-eyed in any venue, it was hopeless to think I’d avoid tears throughout the whole—long—movie.

So I bawled my eyes out in a nearly deserted Regal Cinemas theater in Natomas last Thursday morning. I cried when Anne Hathaway turned “I Dreamed a Dream” from a power ballad to a breathy lament—and it did work, I think— and I cried when Gavroche got shot, and I cried when Javert took his own life—and I think Russell Crowe actually added some nuance to the role—and I cried at the end.

This, of course, meant that my eyes were already plenty red and puffy before Lincoln even started later that afternoon, when I was faced with the personal grief of the Great Emancipator and his wife, not to mention the terrible wounds of an entire nation.

Fortunately, I’d recharged by the time I saw Life of Pi the next day. Is it a bad thing if you’re rooting for the tiger to just go ahead and eat the annoyingly spiritual kid?

Perhaps it was just exhaustion, although I did thoroughly enjoy the spectacle and special effects.

Ang Lee knows how to make a screen beautiful, and he didn’t hold back at all with this philosophical story.

Nonetheless, I fell short in my plan to see all the 2013 Oscar nominees for Best Picture in a mere four days.

I burned out. I used On Demand to pull up Beasts of the Southern Wild, found that most of the criticism of its racial politics appeared to be accurate, and gave up. I couldn’t even hold out for the weekend, which was supposed to be Argo and Silver Linings Playbook.

That’s because the rule for awards season is “go for the emotional punch.” Oscar-winning movies must make you cry, either because the tragedy is too great to bear or because the triumph overwhelms your cynical heart.

There’s no such thing as a “small” Oscar movie.

And even though by those standards, the tear-extracting Les Misérables should sweep the awards up with a big broom, I’m not going to bet on it—though you really should go see it, if only to see how musical film can work when there’s a decent story and the actors are truly committed. Also worth noting: The big stars—Hathaway, Crowe, and that Wolverine guy—aren’t nearly as bad as the musical snobs are saying, plus Eddie Redmayne kicks ass. He’s the best Marius I’ve ever seen, and I was plenty skeptical.

But Les Misérables won’t be the best picture this year.

When the Academy picked Chicago in 2002, they guaranteed that the musical film won’t be “rediscovered” until 2022 at the earliest. Les Miz is great, but it’s not fashionable.

My money’s on Lincoln. Not because it’s the best film (although it is quite good and I’d happily see it again, if only to see some Republicans with moral fiber), but because its political timing is impeccable. Today’s good guys are tomorrow’s bad guys, and politics has always been a dirty business where the lobbyists do the real work and a bunch of rich old white guys make decisions about lives they’ll never in a million years fully comprehend.

“Can you hear the people singing, singing the songs of angry men …”

Oscar-winning movies must make you cry, either because the tragedy is too great to bear or because the triumph overwhelms your cynical heart.

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DON’T MISS! THE TRUE COST OF OIL:

Garth Lenz, photojournalist, is coming to Sacramento with his touring photo exhibition, The True Cost of Oil. Lenz uses his photography to illustrate the ecological and cultural costs of the Alberta tar sands. Th, 1/17, 7pm. $10. St. John’s Lutheran Church, 1701 L St.; (916) 444-0874; www.stjohnslc.org.

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Special Events BEING THE ONE WHO IS DIFFERENT: This event is the third and last discussion in the Different Strokes series. Each of the two preceding events explored the ways in which differences can challenge our capacity to relate to the important people in our lives. This discussion considers, instead, the ways in which physical anomalies, special intelligences and cultural histories interfere with others’ ability to relate to us and our ability to relate to others.

Th, 1/17, 7-8:30pm. Free. Hope Counseling Center, 1430 Alhambra Blvd.; (530) 863-9499; http://rebeccawitter.vpweb.com.

UTI MONSTER JAM OPEN HOUSE: Sacramento hosts a monsterjam-themed open house, which will offer visitors tours of the Universal Technical Institute Sacramento campus, the chance to meet a monster-jam driver and an opportunity to get an upclose look at a monster truck.

Th, 1/17, 10am-2pm. Free.

4100 Duckhorn Dr.; (916) 263-9100, ext. 16019; www.uti.edu.

Classes SEASONAL FRUIT TART WORKSHOP: Join Tracy DeVore and learn how to make the a fresh fruit tart with a cookie crust and pastry cream base. You’ll be provided an overview of the types of pastry used for tarts, and each student will create a hand-made fresh fruit tart and mini chocolate tart during class to enjoy at home. Th, 1/17, 6-8:30pm. $40-$49. Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 1914 Alhambra Blvd. (916) 868-6399; www.sacfoodcoop.com.

Film MOONRISE KINGDOM: This whimsical, poignant and quirky comedy film stars Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray and Edward Norton as the “normal” adults, when two “oddball” 12-year-olds fall in love and run away into the wilderness of this New England island. Th, 1/17, 7pm. $8. Auburn Placer Performing Arts Center, 985 Lincoln Way in Auburn; (530) 885-0156; www.livefrmauburn.com.

Kids’ Stuff FROSTY’S MAGIC HAT PUPPET SHOW: This puppet show (for kids ages 6 to 12) is about a little girl who makes a wish upon a star and then makes a magic snowman.

The program features music, poetry, magic and ventriloquism. Th, 1/17, 4pm. Free.

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NATIONAL OATMEAL MONTH: Celebrate all things oatmeal, and take part in activities such as making oatmeal play-doh, eating oatmeal cookies and hearing basics facts about this basic food. Th, 1/17, 4pm. Free.

Valley Hi-North Laguna Library, 7400 Imagination Pkwy.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Sports & Recreation K1 SPEED RIBBON CUTTING: Join the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce for the K1 Speed Sacramento official opening. K1 Speed offers allelectric, indoor go-kart racing.

Th, 1/17, 5:30-6:30pm. Free. K1 Speed, 3130 Bradshaw Rd.; (916) 368-7223; www.k1speed.com.

Concerts DAILEY & VINCENT: This group has won the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year award three times, and won Best Vocal Group and Album of the Year awards in 2010. Grammynominated and chart-topping (on both the Billboard Bluegrass and Country charts), the six-piece band is one of today’s premier bluegrass groups. Th, 1/17, 7:30pm. $12-$39.

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

G-SPOT BOOGIE BAND: With highlevel full-time players that have toured the country for decades, the G-Spot Boogie Band prides itself in giving the audience the an organic disco and funk performance reminiscent of 1976. Th, 1/17, 6pm-2am. $7 after 8:30 p.m. Reunion Nightclub, 4370 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 100 in El Dorado Hills; (916) 939-0777.

JOHN MCCUTCHEON: From such inauspicious beginnings, John McCutcheon has emerged as a respected and beloved folk singer. As an instrumentalist, he is a master of a dozen different traditional instruments, most notably the rare hammer dulcimer. Th, 1/17, 7:30pm. $20-$23. The Center for the Arts, 314 West Main St. in Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384, ext. 14; www.thecenterforthearts.org.

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DON’T MISS! WINTERFEST BEER AND WINE SOCIAL: Join a beer and

wine social featuring 50 breweries and 15 wineries with unlimited tastings, local food vendors, and live music from Mother Mayhem. Proceeds for this event will support Runnin’ For Rhett’s local youth fitness after-school program.

F, 1/18, 6-10pm. $35.

Woodlake Hotel, 500 Leisure Ln.; (916) 922-2020; www.runninforrhett.org/ winterfest/beer-winesocial.html.

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stars a favorite German actor of the 1940s, Heinz Ruhmann, playing the role of a university professor with a doctorate degree. When he and his friends, all in their 60s and 70s, get together to indulge in the heart-warming Feuerzangenbowle drink, they get carried away by telling stories of their school years, remembering all the nasty tricks they played on their teachers when they were young. F, 1/18, 7pm. $15.

Sacramento Turn Vereiin, 3349 J St.; (916) 442-7360; www.sacramentoturnverein.com.

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DON’T MISS! MC HAMMER: MC Hammer

brought rap and hip-hop music (and a smooth style) to a mass audience. Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ’Em, released in 1990, was No. 1 for 21 weeks on the Billboard 200 and sold more than 10 million copies, led by the the hit, “U Can’t Touch This.” His other hits include “Too Legit to Quit” and “Turn This Mutha Out.” It’s Hammer time. Sa, 1/19, 8pm. $55-$75. Cache Creek Casino Resort, 14455 Hwy. 16 in Brooks; (888) 772-2243; www.cachecreek.com.

Special Events TALL FOREST BIRD SURVEY: Join world-renowned ornithologist John Trochet as he ventures into California’s largest remaining old growth valley oak forest to catalog the birds of the Cosumnes watershed.

Public access to this sensitive habitat is only allowed on these excursions. All you need is a strong interest in birding and appropriate gear for rugged outdoor exploration. Expect to be in the field for a minimum of four hours. Sa, 1/19, 7am-noon.

Free. Cosumnes River Preserve Farm Center, 7300 Desmond Rd. in Elk Grove; (916) 870-4317; www.cosumnes.org.

TRAPPERS, TRADES AND TREATIES: As part of a special and continuing interactive program, Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park will present a special event called Hands on History: Trappers, Trades, and Treaties.

Visitors to the Fort will step back in time to the 1840s to learn why trappers were considered “jacks of many trades” and experience how they lived, worked, explored new territory and traded with local Native Americans. Sa, 1/19, 10am-5pm. $5-$7. Sutter’s Fort, 2701 L St.; (916) 445-4422; www.suttersfort.org.

Art Galleries KNOWLTON GALLERY: Contemporary Marine Artists of the West, a gallery show coinciding with the 15th Annual American Society of Marine Artists show. In total: 34 paintings, with artists from California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and Arizona. Sa, 1/19, 1-4pm. Free. 115 S. School St., Ste. 14 in Lodi, (209) 368-5123.

free advice from Lee Mahla and Joy Zgola, who will give you tested tips on making your lifestyle work in a smaller space. Learn how you can keep the things you love, let go of the clutter and move forward with less stress. Sa, 1/19, 2-3pm.

Free. Rivers Edge at Campus Commons, 601 Feature Dr.; (916) 921-5131; www.hankfisherproperties.com.

TREE PRUNING CLINIC: Learn how to help your trees develop good structure and form. A variety of pruning tools and techniques will be presented and discussed. There will be a walkabout on library grounds to look at tree structure and pruning. Sa, 1/19, 10:30am-noon.

Free. Folsom Public Library, 411 Stafford St. in Folsom; (916) 974-4304; www.sactree.com.

Dance CINDERELLA AUDITIONS: Placer Theatre Ballet invites dancers from all studios to open auditions for its spring production of Cinderella. PTB is a nonprofit open-theater ballet production company, dedicated to the joy of storytelling through the art of dance. Sa, 1/19, 10am. Free. Conservatory of Dance, 4561 Pacific St. in Rocklin; (916) 630-7820; www.placertheatreballet.org.

Kids’ Stuff DINOFAIRE: DinoFaire is a fun and exciting event for kids of all ages. DinoMan starts each 2hour time slot with an interactive and visual presentation featuring his giant blow-up dinosaurs. Each ticket also includes time to tour the Star Eco Station and meet exotic rescued wildlife. There will also be a DinoDig, games and crafts. Sa, 1/19, 9-11,

11:30am-1:30pm & 2-4pm.

$7-$10. Star Eco Station, 4465 Granite Dr., Ste. 700 in Rocklin; (916) 632-8347; http://ecostationevents.org.

Literary Events AUTHOR TED WITT ON BOOK MARKETING: California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch presents author Ted Witt on book-marketing material. Witt, current president of Northern California Publishers and Authors, will discuss the use of point-of-sale displays, banners and placards to market books.

Witt is the author of the book No One Ever Told Me That. Sa, 1/19, 11am-1pm. $12-$14. Tokyo Buffet, 7217 Greenback Ln. San Juan and Fountain Square in Citrus Heights; (916) 213-0798; www.cwcsacramentowriters.org.

Volunteer HABITAT RESTORATION WORKDAY: These workdays are a great way to connect with the local environment and are ideal for individuals seeking service learning hours. All Habitat Restoration Workdays meet at the Cosumnes River Preserve barn. Wear: Closed-toed shoes, long-sleeve shirts, long pants, hats and work gloves. Bring: lunch, snacks and a reusable water bottle. Sa, 1/19, 9am3:30pm. Free. Cosumnes River Preserve Barn, 6500 Desmond Rd. in Galt; (916) 870-4317; www.cosumnes.org.

Sacramento Women Take Back the Night is partnering with the Tony-award-winning show Menopause: The Musical. Five dollars of every ticket purchased using the code “WTBN” will go to support Sacramento Women Take Back the Night’s projects in the Sacramento area. Sa, 1/19, 3 & 7pm. $50-$65.

Sacramento Community Center Theater, 1301 L St.; (925) 321-0706; www.sactakebackthenight.org.

Concerts BLU ROC: Listen to blues and rock music by the Blu Roc duo featuring acoustic guitars, banjo and vocals by Ken Bigham and Paul Siese. Sa, 1/19, 7-9pm.

Donations accepted. Colfax Greek Bistro, 30 N. Main St. in Colfax; (530) 305-4050; www.colfaxgreekbistro.com.

CONCERT PRELUDE TO SPIRITUAL JOURNEY: Join for an intimate evening of music with renowned cellist Richard Andaya. The program includes works by J. S. Bach and Maestro Christian Baldini will provide insights on the upcoming Spiritual Journeys concet on February 9 with Andaya performing Dvorak’s celebrated cello concerto. Sa, 1/19, 7pm. $25. Sacramento City College Performing Arts Center, 3835 Freeport Blvd.; (916) 929-6655; www.camelliasymphony.org.

AN EVENING WITH CARY FARLEY: Local musician and schoolteacher Cary Farley performs a melodic mixture of alternative and contemporary rock with a five-piece band—featuring piano, guitar, cello, mandolin, bass and drums—in a benefit for the Mustard Seed School.

Sa, 1/19, 7pm. $10-$15. Three Stages Peforming Arts Center, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

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DON’T MISS! JAY GATSBY AND THE ROARING ’20S: Andrea

Lagomarsino, Advanced Placement English and Composition teacher will introduce The Great Gatsby. Ron Cunningham, Sacramento Ballet artistic director, will discuss the challenges of transforming the novel, with its firstperson narrator and unsympathetic cast of characters, into a ballet.

Su, 1/20, 2pm. Free.

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

Special Events BRIDAL OPEN HOUSE: Newly engaged couples and event planners are invited Arden Hills for appetizers and refreshments while touring the site with three ballrooms, two wedding courtyards, overnight Villas, spa and salon. Su, 1/20,

10am-1pm; Su, 1/27, 10am-1pm.

Free. Arden Hills Resort Club & Spa, 1220 Arden Hills Ln.; (916) 482-6111; www.ardenhills.net.

CHOCOLATE INFUSION: Enjoy an afternoon tasting chocolate and wine, and listening to jazz pianist Ludi Hinrichs. Admission price includes a wine glass, chocolate and wine tasting.

Su, 1/20, 1-5pm. $20-$25. Miners Foundry, 325 Spring St. in Nevada City; (530) 477-4241; http://theunion.com/chocolate.

DEPRESSION GLASS AND POTTERY COLLECTING: International Depression Glass Club members will share their expertise about depression glass and pottery collecting. Attendees are encouraged to bring their collectibles to the library event for identification. Su, 1/20, 1-3pm. Free. Sacramento Public Library (Central Branch), 828 I St.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

WORLD PEACE DIET: Dr. Will Tuttle— acclaimed educator, author, pianist and composer—delivers a talk about the food we choose, where it comes from, and how it affects us physically, culturally, and spiritually. You will learn how to make positive changes that promote wellness, encourage wisdom and abundance, and minimize our eco-footprints on the Earth. Su, 1/20, 4-6pm. $-$9. Arden Park Community Center, 1000 La Sierra Dr. 4800 Manzanita Ave in Carmichael; (916) 798-5516; www.meetup.com/sacvegan society-org/events/95235352.

Literary Events AUTHOR ANNE HENDREN BOOK SIGNING: Anne Hendren’s new novel, A Dream of Good and Evil, introduces architect Loisann Cooper to a world fallen apart. A professional failure prompts her to quit her job; she discovers a man she loves is arrested in the brutal killing of a journalist; her sister lands in jail. Su, 1/20, 2pm. Free.

Avid Reader, 1600 Broadway; (916) 441-4400; www.annehendren.com.

Concerts EDDIE WATKINS JR.: Watkins has performed with Marvin Gaye, Quincy Jones, James Brown, Santana, Cher, Diana Ross, Herbie Hancock, Patti LaBelle, Peter Frampton and more. He was a studio musician for the Motown record label and became a sought after player for recordings in Los Angeles. Su, 1/20, 1:30pm. Free.

Center for Spiritual Awareness, 1275 Starboard Dr. in West Sacramento; (916) 374-9177, ext.

104; www.csasacramento.org.

LEGENDS OF THE CELTIC HARP: Three of the premier Celtic harpers in the world—Patrick Ball, Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter—have created a dramatic ensemble that takes you deep into the myths, magic and fabled history of the harp.

Su, 1/20, 2pm. $10-$20. Winters Community Center, 201 Railroad Ave. in Winters; (530) 795-2009; www.legendsofthecelticharp.com.

THE MANHATTANS FEATURING GERALD ALSTON AND BLUE LOVETT: The Manhattans featuring Gerald Alston and Blue Lovett are a popular R&B vocal group with a string of hit records over multiple decades, but are best known for the million-selling songs “Kiss and Say Goodbye” and “Shining Star.” Su, 1/20, 8pm. $25-$49. Cache Creek Casino Resort, 14455 Hwy. 16 in

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fundraising program of the American Heart Association for all levels and abilities. Whether you choose to walk or run, staff and coaches will train you from step one all the way to completing a half-marathon.

Tu, 1/22, 6pm. Running Zone, 8470 Elk Grove Blvd., Ste. 135 in Elk Grove; (916) 446-6505; http://sacramentostart training.org.

Brooks; (888) 772-2243; www.cachecreek.com.

MILLINGTON HIGGS BOSON: Local musicians LuAnn Higgs (pianist and soprano), Anne Millington (cellist) and Stephen Millington (cellist, arranger and composer) will perform sonatas, a selection from Handel’s Messiah and more. Su, 1/20, 4-5:30pm. $10. Davis Community Church, 412 C St. in Davis; (530) 753-2894; www.dccpres.org.

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WINTER SALADS: Join Chef Ame Harrington and learn to put a spin on winter produce with sophisticated salads. This is a demonstration-style class.

Tu, 1/22, 6:30-8:30pm. $35-$45.

Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 1914 Alhambra Blvd.; (916) 868-6399; www.sacfoodcoop.com.

DON’T MISS! SACRAMENTO HACKER LAB LECTURE: This talk will be a

quick walk down memory lane from Charles Blas’ days at UC Davis in the mid-’90s, and how that experience led him to cofound the Hacker Lab. He’ll discuss why Sacramento needs another hacker space, and what Hacker Lab and the Linux Users’ Group of Davis can do for each other. M, 1/21, 7pm.

Free. Veterans Memorial Theatre, 203 E. 14th St. in Davis; (530) 757-5626.

JOHN OLIVER

is taking a short break from writing and working as a fake-news correspondent on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart to perform stand-up comedy—including a stint this week in Sacramento. Since starting on the Comedy Central show in 2006, the English comedian has also somehow found time to host his own stand-up series, John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show; appear in other television shows, such as Community and Important Things With Demetri Martin; act in films, such as The Love Guru and The Smurfs; and co-host podcasts The Bugle and Political Animal with his friend Andy Zaltzman.

The following are 10 reasons to check out the British expat’s show at 8 p.m. this Friday, January 18, at the Crest Theatre (1013 K Street; tickets cost $35):

3. In 2009, he and other writers on The Daily Show won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Series.

HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS: The Harlem Globetrotters will bring their new 2013 show You Write the Rules to Sacramento. For the first time ever, fans will determine the rules of the game by voting online. Fans can choose to see anything from the team playing with two balls, double points per basket or any other zany new rules. M, 1/21, 2pm. $19.50-$139.50. Sleep Train Arena, 1 Sports Pkwy.; (916) 649-8497; www.harlem globetrotters.com/rule.

Classes BACK TO BASICS: STOCKS AND SOUPS: Learn how to make stocks and soups from instructor Gigi Warshawsky. This class will give you the basic building blocks for a well-rounded repertoire. This class is a combination of hands-on and demonstrationstyle instruction. M, 1/21, 6-8:30pm. $35-$45. Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 1914 Alhambra Blvd.; (916) 455-2667; www.sacfoodcoop.com.

4. You should feel sorry for him because he’s a fan of the Liverpool Football Club and the New York Mets— both those teams have sucked for years.

5. He voiced the character Vanity Smurf in the 2011 liveaction film The Smurfs.

6. He took part in the Writers Guild of America strike from 2007 to 2008.

10. On his podcast The Bugle, he coined the term “fuckeulogy,” and has since fuckeulogized Osama bin Laden, Moammar Gadhafi and Kim Jong Il following their deaths. Ω

50 Kids is a community service event that matches 50 welldeserving youth with teams of volunteers to assemble a bike for each child on the team. These “volunteer engineers” hail from local community organizations and businesses, and range from bike enthusiasts to mechanical novices. M, 1/21, 11am-4pm.

Inderkum High School, 2500 New Market Dr.; (916) 419-9955; http://northnatomastma.org/ bike/50-bikes-50-kids.asp.

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8. He met his wife at the 2008 Republican National Convention, where he was working as a Daily Show correspondent and she was campaigning with Vets for Freedom.

ent a program titled Textile Travels in Africa. Take a visual journey to Ghana, Namibia and Uganda. Visit the workshops of Kente cloth weavers, follow the steps of glass bead making and see the basket makers as they work. Experience culture, people and places. Tu, 1/22, 10am-2pm. $3. Shepard Garden & Art Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd.; (530) 887-5471; www.sacweavespin.org.

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7. He turned out intensely humorous portrayals of William Shakespeare and other characters on the sketch-comedy show Important Things With Demetri Martin.

9. As of 2009, he’s a permanent resident of the United States, so now he can live and work here legally but still be deemed an “alien.”

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1. Although he’s most famous for his work on The Daily Show, Oliver’s been performing stand-up for more than a decade.

2. As host of the Comedy Central show John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show, he’s invited a number of comedians to the show, including Sacramento native Brian Posehn.

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Special events happen each night of Bacon Fest, including parties at Formoli’s Bistro, LowBrau, Enotria, Old Ironsides, Pangaea Two Brews Cafe, Selland’s Market-Cafe, The Golden Bear, Bacon & Butter and more. There will be doughnuts, bacon pizzas, cocktails, coloring contests and secret parties, too.

1/20-1/27. Visit website for pricing. Various locations in the Sacramento area; www.baconfestsac.com.

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Two gas stations, two restaurants, many options to fill up your tank The human entrepreneurial spirit is amazing. For instance, New York magazine just published an article by about rings of thieves stealing vast amounts of Becky Tide laundry detergent in order to resell it for $5 Grunewald a pop on the street. Anywhere there is a tiny gap, someone will envision a business or product to fill the need—so why not a restaurant inside a gas station? Why not two such establishments?

Gold Town Chinese in Davis, which adjoins an Exxon station, is not the first Chinese restaurant to occupy this space—or even the second.

The first, Hometown Chinese, specializing in Taiwanese cuisine, was successful enough to move to a storefront in downtown Davis; judging from how popular it is with UC Davis students, Gold Town may also be well on its way.

When you enter, either through the gas station or a separate door, you’ll find steam tables filled with trays of the usual Chinese-American Gold Town Chinese fare such as chow mein and broccoli beef.

1601 Research Park There’s also a dumpling menu on the wall and Drive in Davis, handwritten signs featuring dishes written in (530) 758-0058 both English and Chinese. $7-$10 The dumplings here are rough-hewn and ★★★ rustic—clearly handmade—and arrive furiously steaming and smelling of fresh dough.

The mushrooms in the chive-pork dumplings Sinai #2 4491 Franklin Boulevard, lend a rich earthiness, and the wide Chinese (916) 739-8788 chives give them a cruciferous taste.

The pork cabbage shoots a stream of broth $5-$10 across the table when I bite into it and is so ★ ★ 1/2 juicy that it’s almost like the elusive xiaolongbao—or soup dumpling. Spicy pork wontons have glossy wrappers and are laced with chili oil. Gold Town sells frozen dumplings to go, and if you buy two orders, you get one free.

The cold spicy-beef tendon appetizer could serve as a gateway tendon to anyone who isn’t sure about eating cartilaginous bits. The thinsliced tendon is springy and mild—not tough or funky. It’s dressed with a subtle peanut chili sauce and interspersed with cucumber. ★ POOR The Mexican cafe Sinai #2 in south Sacramento also adjoins a gas station—this time ★★ FAIR it’s the Franklin Gas & Mart—but has a separate entrance. Really, “cafe” is stretching it: This ★★★ GOOD is just a counter and a grill, with a few tables parked outside in the cold. The woman cooking ★★★★ EXCELLENT and assembling food here is constantly in motion. Her primary tool is a large, wide spat★★★★★ EXTRAORDINARY ula; she sometimes wields one in each hand.

When I ask her about the name of the eatery, she dashes my food-dork dreams that it’s a combo Israeli-Mexican restaurant: Rather, it’s a Bible reference. Luckily, the guy who orders after me asks too, so I feel vindicated.

On this day, the restaurant features two specials: a $3.99 torta and Mexican hotdogs priced at $1.99 each. I spy two baconwrapped hotdogs on the grills nesting sweetly on a bed of papers and onions, but I go for the cheap torta instead. It’s hamburger-shaped and sized, and similarly topped, too, with BEFORE

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shredded lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise and avocado. The bolillo arrives perfectly crisped, but it’s all the stuff that surrounds the adobada that shines.

The tacos are a steal at only $1.25.

Asada—well-salted and chewy but not gristly, the beef birria is composed of tender shreds.

It’s a treat to see mulitas on the menu, although it’s basically just a meat quesadilla.

It has a delicious crispy cheese skirt, but the pale carnitas are too lean by half. I recommend dousing every dish in the thin, spicy red and green salsa.

Gold Town Chinese’s cold spicy-beef tendon appetizer could serve as a gateway tendon to anyone who isn’t sure about eating cartilaginous bits.

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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.

There’s a lot to like about Estelle’s—except dinner. Doors close at 6 p.m. 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,

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selection of sandwiches and pizzas, including a simple pie with fresh mozzarella and tomato sauce. American. 1132 16th St., (916) 446-0888. Dinner for one: $15-$20. ★★★ B.G.

Shady Lady Saloon

So many bars try to do bar snacks, and so many fail. Shady Lady, however, nails it. The fried green tomatoes are punched up with a tarragon rémoulade and the huge charcuterie board is more like a groaning board, stocked with abundant regional meats and cheeses. The pickle plate looks like Peter Rabbit’s dream, all teeny turnips and tangy carrot chunks.

Generally excellent, the saloon’s cocktail list veers from the

classics with a list of bartendercreated drinks with unusual, but wisely considered flavor combinations: cilantro and tequila, blackberry and thyme, and the surprisingly sublime mixture of celery and pineapple. American.

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

North Sac

Asian Café Asian Café serves both Thai and Lao food, but go for the Lao specialties, which rely on flavoring staples such as fish sauce, lime juice, galangal and lemongrass, lots of herbs, and chilies. One of the most common dishes in Lao cuisine is larb, a dish of chopped meat

laced with herbs, chilies and lime.

At Asian Café, it adds optional offal add-ons—various organ meats, entrails, et al—to three versions of the dish: beef with tripe, chicken with gizzards, or pork with pork skin. The beef salad offers a gentle respite from aggressive flavors, consisting of medium-thick chewy slices of eye of round with red bell pepper, chopped iceberg and hot raw jalapeño. The single best dish here is the nam kao tod, a crispy entree with ground pork that’s baked on the bottom of the pan with rice, then stirred and fried up fresh the next day with dried Thai chilies and scallions. Thai and Lao. 2827 Norwood Ave., (916) 641-5890.

Dinner for one: $10-$15. ★★★★ B.G.

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Bánh Xèo 46A Bánh Xèo 46A is named for its signature dish, a Vietnamese egg crepe. Each one completely fills an oval-shaped platter and is served shatteringly crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. Bánh Xèo also offers nem nuong, or grilled pork sausages on skewers, and chao tom, a grilled-shrimp dish that arrives as a flamingo-pink paste melded into a sausage shape around juicy sugarcane. The staff is friendly and and a flat-screen TV emits a constant stream of saccharine Vietnamese love songs.

Vietnamese. 7837 Stockton Blvd., Ste. 700; (916) 476-4895. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★★1⁄2 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

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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-ham-and-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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There is a lot of potential in New Helvetia Brewing Company’s tasting room at the corner of Broadway and 18th Street, even with its limited hours. A long-delayed project, New Helvetia is an attempt to revive Sacramento’s old Buffalo Brewery beer brand, and extensive time has been spent remodeling a vacant tortilla factory into this brew space. The centerpiece of the tasting room is a long, wooden bar that stretches around the building, and the subdued lighting, large windows, barrel tables and old signage make for a convivial urban atmosphere. There’s a limited selection of beers: only a decent Fresh Hop IPA and a delectable Fresh Hop Steam Lager, but there are plans to expand the lineup along with the hours.

1730 Broadway, www.newhelvetiabrew.com; Thursdays through Saturdays, 5 to 8 p.m.

Beer: Lagunitas Sucks Brown Shugga Substitute Ale (Imperial IPA) Brewer: Lagunitas Brewing Company Where: LowBrau, 1050 20th Street; (916) 706-2636; www.lowbrausacramento.com Beer: Labyrinth Black Ale (imperial stout) Brewer: Uinta Brewing Company Where: BevMo!, 3106 Arden Way;

(916) 481-8657; 3678 N. Freeway Boulevard, (916) 419-6808; www.bevmo.com

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

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

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

Arden/ Carmichael

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.

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

Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★★ B.G.

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, spicy-and-sweet zucchini, and thin-sliced 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 lipsmacking, 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.

offered by the region’s northern neighbor, China. Pleasantly provocative is the avocado curry— a panang curry featuring myriad slices of avocado. Portions are large here: The beef salad is enough for two and does have some heated heft. Another salad worth consideration is one featuring a sweet, chewy sausage with plenty of cucumbers, red onion and mint. Refreshing, particularly on a hot Sacramento day. Thai.

4310 Marconi Ave., (916) 482-5019.

Dinner for one: $10-$15. ★★★1⁄2 G.L.

Davis

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

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

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

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

Nevada City

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

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

American. 16898 State Hwy. 49 in Nevada City, (530) 265-9902. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★★★ B.G.

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If the employee-review process is calendared for late in the year, create a one-sheet self-evaluation form.

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Midlife calls us to examine the choices we have made, and many people—men and women—realize they are not living fully. Instead of launching into the transformation necessary to be grounded in passion and purpose, many slog through their days, praying for retirement, and finding tidbits of what they call happiness by shopping, overeating and emotionally investing in the lives of characters on television shows. Other people struggle with painful health issues and feel cranky.

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David Ivesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; masterwork New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656, directed by Shannon Mahoney, is a stunning piece about ideas that break convention in a religiously oppressive society.

Harrower plays Spinoza as an ebullient schoolboy who hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lost his faith, but has definitely found a new way in which to celebrate it. He plays well with his friend Simon de Vries (Casey Worthington) and rabbi (Patrick Murphy).

The cast holds the court drama together well, especially with great timing from Murphy, Harrower and Eric Baldwin as Christian prosecutor Abraham Van Valkenburgh.

Despite some heavy-hitters in the cast, the nettlesome interruptions of Spinozaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s halfsister tend to slow the play significantly.

If you look carefully, you can see God in her ear.

New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656; 8 p.m.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday; $10-$20.

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too easy to say Sacramento Theatre Company has gone to the dogs. Rather, how about STCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bark! The Musical is Cats for canine lovers. And I mean that in the kindest way.

Like Cats, Bark! attributes humanlike inner lives and personalities to animals who then sing songs that reveal their selves to us. But Bark! has neither T.S. Eliotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Old Possumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Book of Practical Cats as basis, nor Andrew Lloyd Webberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songs. Mark Winkler and Gavin Geoffrey Dillard wrote the book and collaborated on the lyrics with Robert Schrock (with additional lyrics by Jonathan Heath and Danny Lukic) to music by David Troy Francisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a big team for such a slight, though entertaining, production.

A cast of six portrays the half-dozen dogs at day care and in the dog park: King, the Labrador retriever (Armond Edward Dorsey); Boo, the cocker spaniel (Jessica Goldman); Golde, the bull dog (Miranda D. Lawson); Sam, the pit bull mutt (Sean Patrick Nill); Chanel, the French poodle (Tyler Wipfli); and Rocks, the Jack Russell terrier pup (Scottie Woodard). Goldman missed opening-weekend performances because of severe muscle strain, but is expected to return this weekend. She was replaced by 14-year-old understudy Meghan Greene, who performed gamely but with less personality and presence than Goldman routinely brings to performances.

Among the cast, Lawson and Nill stand out.

Nillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rapid-fire â&#x20AC;&#x153;M-U-T-T Rapâ&#x20AC;? and Lawsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Howling Just to Scare Away the Bluesâ&#x20AC;? are highlights.

Songs such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whizzinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on Stuffâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bark!â&#x20AC;? celebrate the joy of dogness and of finding oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice, and temper the sadness of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Pound Song,â&#x20AC;? which laments a young motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forced separation from her â&#x20AC;&#x153;children.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Siren Symphonyâ&#x20AC;? rates a howl-elujah.

A three-piece band led by Samuel Clein provides live accompaniment. Michael Launâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; who saw the show at its 2004 premiere in Los Angeles and brought it STCâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;directs, emphasizing equal parts playfulness and poignancy.

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The set is Spartan, with the layout of the synagogue surrounded by a somber black background.

The message is clear and the imagery is powerful.

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The battle between the true believers and atheism has been brewing for as long as there has been someone to make up religion, and the manic struggle by Maxwell McKee for power continues even in these most modern and enlightened times. It was always thus.

The 17th-century city of Amsterdam was divided but at â&#x20AC;&#x153;peace.â&#x20AC;? The Christians maintained power while the Jews prayed in silence; followers of both faiths, however, came together to stifle the perceived-atheistic murmurings of Jewish philosopher Baruch de Spinoza (Brian Harrower).

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This is that fallow time of year during which Hollywood dumps the movies they have no special hopes for, either award- or box-officewise. And the first movie I get to review in 2013 is A Haunted House.

Movies like A Haunted House are a reviewer’s nightmare: not good, but not bad enough to be fun to write about. Go too hard on it and you feel like a neighborhood bully beating up on the kid down the street with muscular dystrophy; go too easy and you sound like you’ve given up hope of getting anything better out of a trip to the movies.

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A Haunted House is largely the work of Marlon Wayans, who serves as star, co-writer (with Rick Alvarez) and co-producer (with Alvarez, director Michael Tiddes and six other individuals). Why a parody of found-video horror movies like Paranormal Activity requires nine producers is anybody’s guess, but it underlines the inflation—and devaluing—of producer credits in Hollywood. Who all these producers are and what they contributed to A Haunted House is unclear, but we can pretty well guess what they didn’t. There are four words that were probably never heard anywhere in production meetings or on the set during shooting, but which sorely needed to be said: “Marlon, that’s not funny.”

Wayans plays Malcolm Johnson, and as the movie begins he’s chattering excitedly into his new camcorder about his girlfriend Kisha (the charmingly named Essence Atkins) moving into his upscale suburban Los Angeles home.

His buddies warned him he’d only be “puttin’ his dick in jail,” he says, but he’s still stoked.

Things get off to a bad start when Kisha pulls into the driveway and—oops!—runs over and kills Malcolm’s dog. Malcolm wails over the canine corpse, desperately trying CPR (including mouth-to-mouth); then when that fails he grovels

sobbing at the dog’s grave for what seems like five minutes. Marlon, that’s not funny.

That night, as Malcolm waits for Kisha to come to bed, he demonstrates his plans for her on a succession of stuffed animals. This time it seems like 20 minutes. Marlon, that’s not funny.

When Kisha finds her keys on the floor, she immediately leaps to the only possible conclusion: The house has a ghost.

So Malcolm brings in security consultant Dan (David Koechner) to install surveillance cameras. Malcolm himself rigs a camera on the base of an oscillating fan, where the cam pans back and forth, showing us the activities Malcolm’s housekeeper Rosa (Marlene Forte) gets up to when Malcolm and Kisha are away.

OK, Marlon, you win; this part’s pretty funny.

Malcolm and Kisha bring in a psychic, Chip (Nick Swardson), a simpering gay stereotype more interested in Malcolm than the negative energy in the house. Then they bring in Father Williams (Cedric the Entertainer), an ex-con fake-quoting scripture that turns out to be cribbed from Samuel L. Jackson’s dialogue in Pulp Fiction. (OK, Marlon, you win another round: Cedric is pretty funny. But not Nick Swardson; Chip’s scenes are borderline creepy, and frankly, if somebody wants to call him homophobic, I won’t be leaping to his defense.)

In the last third of the movie, things come to a head as Malcolm, the security guy, Chip and Father Williams all try to exorcise the demon out of Kisha after she confesses to selling her soul to the devil for some Louis Vuitton shoes. And it all winds up with a final twist that, so help me, is not half bad—and would have been even better with sharper, clearer writing, or if Michael Tiddes had been even a mediocre director.

There are four words that were probably never heard anywhere in production meetings or on the set during shooting, but which sorely needed to be said: “Marlon, that’s not funny.”

The truth is that my expectations going in to see A Haunted House were as low as they could get, and lo and behold, the movie turned out to be not quite as bad as I expected. Cedric is funny, Essence Atkins has a nice comic edge and Marlon Wayans’ talent will show up better when he finds people he can trust to say no to him when he’s got it coming.

Not utter garbage; how’s that for a ringing endorsement? Ω

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Django Unchained

Just know it’s the sort of movie whose premiere gets postponed in the wake of school shootings and whose dialogue contains so many N-bombs that people have glumly gotten down to counting them. Sure, the word was common enough in the 1850s, but Quentin Tarantino is not exactly a paragon of historical verisimilitude. Here, again, the audacious everadolescent revisionist just wants us to know how, like, awesome our history would’ve been as one big bloody badass overlong Westernblaxploitation whatsit. Christoph Waltz plays a voluble and worldly bounty hunter who frees the eponymous hero, played by Jamie Foxx, to rescue his wife, played by Kerry Washington, from a brutal plantation lord played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Gangsta vengeance and tedium ensues. All told, good taste might have been more offensive. Waltz is wonderful, Foxx is deliberately less a character than a trope, and DiCaprio a bit of a bore, except in that he seems to enjoy acting again. Maybe the real revelation is Samuel L. Jackson in a career-capping turn as the slaveholder’s elderly houseman, a sort of terrible and riveting Tarantino apotheosis, or at least an antithesis of the actor’s role as Spike Lee’s Mister Señor Love Daddy. J.K.

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Gangster Squad

Director Ruben Fleischer and writer Will Beall (taking off from Paul Lieberman’s book) recount the efforts of Los Angeles police in 1949 to bring down mobster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn, succulently hammy) with a handpicked detail of maverick cops (led by an iron-jawed Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling, cranking the charm factor up to 11). The movie is largely fictitious, but golly gee, what swell fiction it is! A smart, snappy script, nonstop gun-blazing action, and a powerhouse cast (Nick Nolte, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick, Michael Peña, plus Emma Stone for glamour) all add up to an exciting throwback to the Warner Bros. gangster movies of the early sound era, punched over with grit, wit and the glowing retro sheen of L.A. Confidential (cinematographer Dion Beebe really outdoes himself). 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. J.K.

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Having done all right with his Lord of the Rings, director Peter Jackson returns to the fantasy fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien and another planned nine-hour trilogy, beginning with this overlong but eventually appealing first installment. As the eponymous diminutive, Martin Freeman excels at comporting himself with kooky company, particularly by means of self-effacement. Obediently, the movie also provides not just the requisite CGI spectacles but 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. Mercifully, it’s less like watching someone else play a video game (albeit in unprecedented high definition) than it might have been—Jackson’s enhanced digital imagery has a vaguely fluorescent chill, but at least the film it’s in seems like a promising warm-up. J.K.

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Zero Dark Thirty

Unavoidably the movie of the year, Kathryn Bigelow’s controversial quasi-journalistic thriller, dramatized from original reporting by screenwriter Mark Boal, surveys the decade-long quest to bring down Osama bin Laden. A taut procedural spun from the point of view of Jessica Chastain’s lone wolf CIA analyst, the film seems temperamentally more tenacious than triumphalist, and maybe therefore also as lucid an elaboration of the “war on terror” as we can ever hope to get from Hollywood. But has anyone asked why we should ever hope to get such a thing from Hollywood? Neither the Obama re-election commercial nor the torture apologia some blowhards feared it would be, Zero Dark Thirty certainly captures the cultural legacy of 9/11 and reveals the euphemized brutalities of recent American foreign policy. It’s also a superb example of contemporary political-thriller vernacular, all the way through to its methodical and disturbingly amazing night-vision climax. If this endorses anything, it’s the opportunism of movies. J.K. Thailand who were so separated and thoroughly battered but reunited against odds so long that the film’s title is only a slight exaggeration. It’s not made up, but it’s anglicized; screenwriter Sergio G. Sanchez and director Antonio Bayona, Spaniards themselves, have cast a thoroughly English family (Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts as the parents). We wait for the big wave, then we watch it, then we’re wading through the aftermath. There’s great technical skill in the scenes of devastation, and McGregor and Watts are fine, while young Tom Holland makes an elegant display of coming-of-age as their eldest son. Yes, The Impossible may make you want to hug your kids, but it’s also the kind of movie that allows the perverse pleasure of sitting through a terrible event from a safe distance. Better to donate to disaster relief. J.K.

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Jack Reacher

An ex-military cop (Tom Cruise) pops in to investigate the case against a killer sniper and finds things are not quite as open-and-shut as they seem. Lee Child’s series of novels (in this case, One Shot) makes a surprisingly good fit for Cruise, even though the books’ Reacher is bigger and blonder. But if this turns into a franchise (is Cruise getting tired of Mission: Impossible?), writer-director Christopher McQuarrie (or whoever comes after) would be wise to pick up the pace on the next picture: At 130 minutes, this one threatens to wear out its welcome.

Fortunately, Cruise’s movie-star charisma is well-deployed, the plot is engaging and the action scenes smoothly mounted. Rosamund Pike plays the accused killer’s lawyer, Richard Jenkins plays her district-attorney father, and David Oyelowo plays the lead cop on the case. J.L.

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Les Misérables

The opera-lite smash from Victor Hugo’s novel comes to the screen, with ex-con Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), his dogged pursuer Javert (Russell Crowe), the doomed Fantine (Anne Hathaway), her daughter Cosette (Amanda Seyfried) et al, under the direction of Tom Hooper. There is much to respect in the movie, and the show’s fans will no doubt be satisfied. But they may find it less stirring here than on the stage as Hooper does make an occasional hash of things: unimaginative staging, often sloppy editing and the much-vaunted live singing on the set is at best a mixed blessing. Still, the production is lavish, the casting (including Eddie Redmayne as Marius and Samantha Barks as Éponine) is spot-on. The highlight comes early on, with Hathaway’s searing rendition of the show’s most famous song, “I Dreamed a Dream.” J.L.

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Under the influence of the Beatlesand-Stones-led British Invasion, four suburban New Jersey teenagers decide to start a band. Writer-director David Chase’s semiautobiographical movie skims the 1960s like a flat stone over water—Kennedy (skip!), King (skip!), Vietnam (skip!)—with an air of studious authenticity. Trouble is, he tells us right off that the band is a gaggle of third-rate schlubs, then goes on to prove it: Their music is unoriginal and so are their personalities, and the low-watt cast of relative newcomers (John Magaro, Jack Huston, Will Brill) fails to make them interesting. Meanwhile, seasoned pros like Christopher McDonald, Rebecca Luker and Brad Garrett are shunted off into thankless cameos; only James Gandolfini as Magaro’s flinty Archie Bunker-ish father manages to strike a few sparks. J.L.

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Two salespeople for a natural-gas conglomerate (Matt Damon, Frances McDormand) descend on a small farm town to sew up the local fracking rights, only to be confronted by an environmental activist (John Krasinski) with horror stories of dying livestock and flaming water supplies. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Damon and Krasinski (from a story by Dave Eggers), the movie radiates nostalgia for the agitprop movies of a bygone era; it’s like Billy Jack without the karate. Damon and Krasinski provide nice set pieces for themselves that dovetail with their respective screen personae, and McDormand is always welcome, but Van Sant offers only a sluggish pace trying to pass for rural, laid-back sensibility. Hal Holbrook and Rosemarie DeWitt round out the name cast; others slip snugly into the stereotypes they play. J.L.

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A man down on his luck (Matthias Schoenaerts) living in Antibes, France, with his sister, gets spot-work as a bar bouncer, where he meets a Marineland orca trainer (Marion Cotillard), then befriends the woman when she loses her legs in an attack by one of her whales. Directed by Jacques Audiard and co-written with Thomas Bidegain (from stories

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Up the rabbit hole MindFlowers takes its name from a 1960s psych-rock song, but the band’s music favors real life over mind trips With a name like MindFlowers, it should come as no surprise that this group of local musicians plays songs that are very much inspired by 1960s by Aaron Carnes psychedelic rock ’n’ roll. The name alone, of course, conjures up surreal imagery from the Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.” In fact, it actually derives from a 1968 song by the same name recorded by an obscure psychedelic group, Ultimate Spinach. The 10-minute song’s acid-drenched guitars and lyrics about “traveling to the center of your mind” makes the aforementioned Beatles song seem like a Monkees pop tune in comparison, actually.

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Recently, Billington’s also strived to push his music forward in time, listening to more modern indie bands such as Dr. Dog, Ty Segall, Tame Impala and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. OK, yes, these are all bands influenced by the ’60s, but they’ve still served to broaden his musical palette.

“I don’t think we stick to any one genre [now],” Billington said. “I don’t really try to sound like anything. … All my influences are just floating around in my head, and it’s just how I play it.”

Some of those influences are rooted deeper than others. Billington started playing the guitar when he was 11 and discovered psychedelic rock by way of his grandmother.

“My grandmother was kind of a psychedelic collector,” Billington said. “I used to listen to music with her all the time.”

Some of Billington’s favorite music then was the 1998 Nuggets box set, a series of albums compiling obscure psychedelic tracks from 1965-1968. Indeed, before Billington started MindFlowers, he said he made Nuggets-inspired home recordings. By mid-2012 he formed a full band to back him up and play the songs he’d been, until then, recording on his own.

Now, even accompanied by a band, Billington still writes a lot of music in the same way—making demos first and later giving it to the band to learn.

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But while the MindFlowers have retained some of the aesthetics of such late ’60s experimental rock music, lead singer Chris Billington keeps his lyrics very personal and honest, forsaking the typical trip down the drug-induced and over-the-top rabbit hole.

“I never really tried to write about a made-up fictional story. I don’t overthink it too much,” Billington said. “I usually write about things going on in my life, stuff happening around me.”

The song “Shells,” for instance, is a straightforward, unpretentious love song Billington wrote about his girlfriend. (“Spending all my time with you. / I think I’ll spend my life with you. / Together we’re walking hand in hand.”)

Musically, he’s also trimmed away all the novelty aspects one often associates with ’60sera psychedelic rock. Instead, he’s distilled the music to its bare essences: guitars, bass, drums, and creative and emotional lyrics. While the music exhibits a prominent rock edge, it’s also gentle and sounds very much like a throwback to the lighter-than-air backbeat shuffle and moody tones of easier-to-digest mainstream psychedelicpop bands such as the Zombies and Pet Soundsera Beach Boys.

“ All my influences are just floating around in my head, and it’s just how I play it.”

Chris Billington MindFlowers “I’ll have pretty much everything worked out. We usually stick with that, unless it’s a song we all jammed and made together,” Billington said.

Live, the music doesn’t deviate much from the recordings—but that’s OK. On album, the songs here exude a pervasive gentleness that reveals a vulnerability in Billington that’s less apparent at shows.

“It’s an outlet for my feelings, my heart, all that cheesy stuff,” Billington said. “It all comes out through my music.” Ω

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Reggie Ginn started off performing in tiny cafes and coffee shops, belting out covers, such as the Cranberries’ “Zombie” and even INDIE a handful of her originals, including the song “Smile.” Now, the singer-songwriter and seasoned keyboardist entertains music lovers with her melancholy ballads in venues from Sacramento to Los Angeles. She released her latest album in November 2011, Passion in Perspective, which is available on iTunes and Amazon.com. If curiosity has you struck, Ginn’s voice ranges from the softer notes of Sarah McLachlan balanced with the angst of Dolores O’Riordan. Lindsey Pavao, former contestant on The Voice, and Moot’s Brian Biehle will also perform. 1111 H Street, www.reggieginn.com.

Rain is arguably the best Beatles cover band around. This stage group puts on a touring musical-theater production called Rain—A Tribute to the Beatles, which takes Beatles music and adds historical video, intricate costumes and elaborate set design. The band itself features a revolving cast of musicians playing the parts and performing the music of John, Paul, George and Ringo—but no matter what, their musicianship remains of a high caliber, and they precisely mimic Beatles recordings. In addition to the Friday POP show, you can catch performances on Saturday, January 19 (2 and 7:30 p.m.), and Sunday, January 20 (2 and 7 p.m.), as well. 10 College Parkway in Folsom, www.raintribute.com.

—Steph Rodriguez

The Palms Playhouse, 8 p.m., $15 Lily Henley is a triple threat: As a singer, songwriter and fiddler, she gets your attention in a number of ways and holds you in her sway. Whether it’s the way “Dark Girl” comes at you in Spanish or the fact that it is brought to your ears via a WORLD blitzkrieg fiddle attack, you cannot help but tap your toes and bop to the beat. The bird’s-eye view of life portrayed in “Two Birds” is picturesque; and one of her newer tracks, “Only Once,” features Henley at her best vocally, as she uses her voice to lead the charge on this dizzying track. 13 Main Street in Winters, www.lilyhenley.com.

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TownHouse Lounge, 9 p.m., $6 Exquisite Corps is known for its alternative twist to chamber music, implementing rock with orchestral elements. On top of the group’s ability to forcefully perform behind delicate strings, vocalist Bryan Valenzuela adds dark melodies that dramatically peak as the band builds momentum. Now, the troupe must say farewell to violinist Reylynn Goessling, but not before performing one last show with her. But fret not: The band isn’t going anywhere, it’s just bidding Goessling one last adieu before she pursues a life of selfdescribed “homebound leisure.” Join Exquisite Corps with Sacramento duo Blue Oaks and Nevada City’s CHAMBER ROCK Ghost Pines for rockin’ strings, blues and math rock. 1517 21st Street, www.facebook.com/excorpsmusic.

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Davis Bike Collective, 8 p.m., $5 There is rage, and then there is uncomfortable rage. Local group Crude Studs falls into the latter category. Its take on Black Flagera hardcore isn’t just a primal scream of emotions, it’s a whirlwind of nervous, spastic anger. It’s a dissonant outburst of madness. Lead singer Sophia Flores howls and rants with unhinged mania. She’s like a cross between Siouxsie Sioux and David Byrne.

Crude Studs’ music consists of chaotic bursts of distorted chords. It’s unrelenting and angry. It may not ease your woes or HARDCORe make you tap your feet, but it will get under your skin and remind you that you are alive.

1221 1/2 Fourth Street in Davis, www.facebook.com/crudestuds.

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G Street Wunderbar, 8 p.m., no cover It describes itself as the “loudest band in Davis”—a bold statement considering the number of thrash groups in the region.

MeTAL Sure, its take on the genre is obviously aggressive and does tip the hat quite generously to old-school ’80s metal played with a lot of technique, precision and punch. But is Glug that loud?

Well, with a singer whose voice is mean and gut-wrenchingly harsh, the answer would have to be yes. It isn’t afraid to offend, either. In fact, it hopes to. But underneath the obscenities, there are actually some honest, personal songs—they’re just delivered to you in your face. 228 G Street in Davis, www.myspace.com/glugrocks.

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24THURS Gojira

Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 9 p.m., $20 Pinback is akin to Modest Mouse and Built to Spill. Like the aforementioned groups, the San Diego act fashions knotty and sumptuously textured indie pop like Snuggie-clad mathematical lullabies. Sidewinding melodies skate across post-punk guitars whose angularity is clothed in shimmery tonalities, softening the edges with echoing reverb and hypnotic rhythms. Longtime S.D. scene fixtures Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Rob INDIe ROCK Crow conceived Pinback as a trio in ’98, employing a variety of collaborators over the years.

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Ace of Spades, 6:30 p.m., $18 Gojira is a metal band from France. In a world of flavorless 5-hour Energy shots, Gojira enthralls the listener with all the full-flavored complexity of a French press brew. Crossing elements of early Celtic Frost MeTAL and Sepultura with progressive elements of its own, the band has carved out a severely technical yet eco-friendly groove in the new world of heavy. It’s exceptional 2012 album, L’Enfant Sauvage, was hailed worldwide as one of the best releases of the genre. Led by the talented brothers Duplantier—Joe on guitars and vocals and Mario on drums—the group has created a sound that may help us to evolve rather than succumb to existential ennui.

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—Becky Thank you for your words. Your comments make a lot of sense. Perhaps you could mention to your neighbor that their pot smoke is hella loud, and ask if there was some way to minimize the smell. Maybe you could just hand him a cardboard tube (like the kind used to hold paper towels) filled with dryer sheets. He can exhale his smoke into the tube, and that should cut down on the smell. And, an added bonus, the I would love for there as hallway will smell like to be some sort of fresh laundry.

I would love for there cannabis social club to be some sort of cannabis where people could sit social club where people could sit around and use around and use weed weed and socialize. A movie theater and socialize. 420-friendly would be even cooler.

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FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 17, 2013

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “If you would

hit the mark, you must aim a little above it,” wrote 19th-century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. “Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of the earth.” This is good counsel for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks, Aries. I suspect you will have a good, clear shot at a target you’ve been trying to get close to for a long time. Make sure you adjust your trajectory to account for the attraction of the earth.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you learn

a novel idea or a crucial new lesson while you are tipsy or outright blitzed, you will probably forget it when you sober up. And it will remain forgotten as long as you abstain. But there’s a good chance you will recall the vanished information the next time you get loopy. I’m telling you this, Taurus, because even if you haven’t been inebriated lately, you have definitely been in an altered and expanded state of consciousness. I’m afraid that when you come back down to Earth in a few days, you might lose some of the luminous insights you’ve been adding to your repertoire. Is there anything you can do to ensure you will retain these treasures? It would be a shame to lose track of them until the next time your mind gets thoroughly blown open.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Studying the

movements of the planets is my main way of discerning the hidden currents of fate. I sometimes supplement my investigations by reading tarot cards and the Chinese Book of Changes, also known as the I Ching.

To arrive at your horoscope this week, I used all of the above as well as the following forms of prognostication: catoptromancy, which is divination by gazing into a mirror underwater; cyclomancy, divination by watching a wheel that’s turning; geloscopy, divination by listening to random laughter; and margaritomancy, divination by observing bouncing pearls. Here’s what I found, Gemini: You now have the power to discern previously unfathomable patterns in a puzzling mystery you’ve been monitoring. You also have the ability to correctly surmise the covert agendas of allies and adversaries alike. Maybe best of all, you can discover certain secrets you’ve been concealing from yourself.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “To be

reborn is a constantly recurring human need,” said drama critic Henry Hewes. I agree. We all need to periodically reinvent ourselves—to allow the old ways to die so that we can resurrect ourselves in unforeseen new forms. According to my analysis, Cancerian, your next scheduled rebirth is drawing near. For best results, don’t cling to the past; don’t imitate what has always worked before. Instead, have faith that surrendering to the future will bring you the exact transformation you need.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): My readers Paul and Sophie wrote to let me know they have patched together three Latin words to invent a term for a new concept: vomfiabone. They say it means “a curse that becomes a blessing.” Here’s an example of the phenomenon at work in their lives: While driving home from work together, they experienced car trouble and had to pull over to the shoulder of the road, where they called a tow truck. Later, they discovered that this annoying delay prevented them from getting caught in the middle of an accident just up ahead. Extrapolating from the current astrological omens, I’m guessing that you will experience at least one vomfiabone in the coming week, Leo.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I bet that in the

next five months you will be obliged to carry more responsibility than you have in the past. You will find it hard to get away with being lazy or careless. I suspect that during this time you will also have the privilege of wielding more influence. The effect you have on people will be more pronounced and enduring. In short, Virgo, your workload will be greater than usual—and so will your rewards. To the degree that you serve the greater good, you will be a major player. As for next few weeks, you should concentrate on the work and service and responsibility part of this equation.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Do you know

what a “binky” is? It’s what a rabbit does when it gets so crazily happy that it exuberantly leaps up into the air, stretching and twisting its body as it flicks and flops its feet. I’m not sure if lexicographers would allow us to apply this term to humans. But assuming they might, I’m going to predict that you’ll soon be having some binky-inducing experiences. You’re entering the Joy and Pleasure Season, Libra—a time when abundant levels of fun and well-being might be quite normal.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You know

that area on your back that you can’t quite reach if you want to scratch it? It’s called your acnestis. I propose that we make it your featured metaphor of the week. Why? Because I suspect you will have to deal with a couple of itchy situations that are just beyond your ability to relieve. Yes, this may be frustrating in the short run. But it will ultimately make you even more resourceful than you already are. By this time next week, you will have figured out alternative solutions that you haven’t even imagined yet.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“We need new friends,” said essayist Logan Pearsall Smith. “Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.” Smith could have been talking about you Sagittarians in early 2013.

According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, you need some fresh alliances. Their influence will activate certain potentials that you haven’t been able to access or fully express with the help of your current circle.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A San

Francisco writer named Maneesh Sethi decided he was wasting too much time on the Internet. His productivity was suffering.

So he hired a woman to sit next to him as he worked and yell at him or slap his face every time his attention wandered off in the direction of Facebook or a funny video.

It worked. He got a lot more done. While I would like to see you try some inventive approaches to pumping up your own efficiency, Capricorn, I don’t necessarily endorse Sethi’s rather gimmicky technique.

Start brainstorming about some interesting yet practical new ways to enhance your self-discipline, please.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

“Ronnyjohnson618” is a guy who posts his opinions on a wide variety of YouTube videos. Many times, he claims to be an expert in the field he’s commenting on.

Responding to a live-music performance, he says he’s a conductor for an orchestra. Offering his opinion about a mimosa plant, he asserts that he is a botanist.

Beneath other YouTube videos, he declares he is a meteorologist, chemist, psychologist, soldier and geometry teacher. I love this guy’s blithe swagger; I’m entertained by the brazen fun he’s having. As you express yourself in the coming week, I recommend that you borrow some of his over-the-top audacity. Create a mythic persona. Imagine your life as an epic story. Play the part of a hero.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The earliest

performance artist on record was the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. In one of his notorious stunts, he wandered around Athens with a lit lantern during the daytime, claiming to be looking for an authentic human being. I recommend that you undertake a similar search in the coming days, Pisces. You don’t have to be as theatrical about it. In fact, it might be better to be quite discreet. But I think it’s important for you to locate and interact with people who are living their lives to the fullest—devoted to their brightest dreams, committed to their highest values and sworn to express their highest integrity.

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A taste of reality Chef Adam Pechal grew up in Sacramento and attended The Culinary Institute of America in New York. After working with renowned chefs Mark Miller and Thomas Keller, he returned to his hometown to open the Tuli Restaurant Group, which includes Tuli Bistro, Tuli Catering and Restaurant Thir13en—all of which specialize in farm-to-table cuisine.

In September 2012, he participated in ABC’s new reality show, The Taste, featuring chefs Anthony Bourdain and Nigella Lawson as judges. The show premiers on the network on Tuesday, January 22, at 8 p.m. Pechal chatted with SN&R about his experience on the show (at least as much as he’s legally allowed to reveal), as well as Yelp and food vacations.

Was this your first taste of reality television?

Being involved in [it]? Yes, absolutely. I have to admit that I get sucked into [watching] reality TV of many varieties—mostly cooking shows and that sort of thing. [But also, my] girlfriend will get me sucked into some of this reality drama stuff. I’m glad, because going into that sort of experience, you’ve got to know what you’re getting into. I think I was pretty prepared for what TV was.

Do you want to be the next Guy Fieri? Or do you have a different favorite TV food personality?

Bourdain would absolutely be it. Really, as a chef, there’s a lot of ways you can take your career. I really admire where he’s gone, and it’s a road that I would similarly like to follow, as opposed to Guy Fieri. I just [think] Guy Fieri’s road is not mine. I would much sooner see myself follow in Bourdain’s footsteps.

I like to check out famous chefs’ restaurants, like Morimoto in Napa, for example. Do you have a place to go to for food vacations to get inspired about food?

Are you allowed to say anything about what happens on the show?

It’s hard to just [name] one place, but [yes], that’s all I do. The more the merrier. I don’t go back to places because there’s just so many. I was just in Napa and Yountville not too long ago for a little weekend. And [we] did some amazing wine tasting. We went to Ad Hoc and Redd Wood, two of the [more well-known] places there. … Going back to the very beginning, what I claim has made me good [in] this industry is my love of food and my love to eat. I’m kind of an addict. I love food, and I love eating, and that’s basically what my vacations revolve around. …

Food vacations are what I live for.

Not a whole lot. I enjoyed the experience. It was different. It was fun to go down there and be a part of the whole process.

The concept of the show is that each chef makes a dish for judges that can be consumed in one bite—during a blind taste test. What was that like?

That was definitely one of the [challenging] things about that show. That’s the thing that makes the show very interesting, the one-bite concept. The whole blind-tasting thing is a big factor [also], but I think more so the one-bite … [on a] spoon challenge. You’ve got talented chefs all competing and so, of course, you want to get as much as you can onto the spoon. … It was challenging. It was definitely a new way to look at food. It was fun.

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spots. It’s from a different angle. He and I, I think are fairly like-minded as far as our tastes. And so most of the cool, funky places he’s into are right up my alley. He’s definitely the chef’s TV host. … The chefs really follow him. I mean, he’s a “chef’s chef,” if you will.

And, you know, Yelp is one of my favorite things and one of my least favorite things from a restaurant perspective. … A lot of chefs and restaurateurs get pissed off at Yelp and think it’s a bunch of bullshit. … I’ve had to deal with frustrating reviews that are totally inaccurate that take a dig at my business and are totally out of place. At the same time, we’ve had great support, and when you’re good, those things do come through.

For me, personally, when I’m traveling, I’m on Yelp. And I rarely go to anything that’s under four stars. But again, I do my homework, [and] I’m not going to waive off a three-star restaurant or three-and-a-halfstar restaurant. I’ll dig in there and read some reviews, and as long as people can use it that way, it can be a great tool. It’s just unfortunate that people take out their aggressions and their bad days on restaurants sometimes. Ω Celebrate the premier of The Taste with Restaurant Thir13en on Tuesday, January 22, at 6:30 p.m. A $25 ticket to the event includes appetizers, a drink ticket and a “special surprise,” in addition to a viewing of the show at 8 p.m.

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