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‘maloofed’ It’s insensitive to those losing jobs because of the Sacramento Kings’ likely departure to Seattle, but it needs to be said: The Kings leaving is for the best.

It’s for the best because it’s no secret that a majority of Sacramentans don’t want to use public dollars to pay for a new basketball arena.

Even internal polling by the mayor’s Think Big Sacramento initiative last March revealed that a scant majority, 51 percent, actually wanted to take those first steps down the arenabuilding rabbit hole. Let alone fork over the gold.

But, as we all know, handing over a few hundred-million dollars is what the city would need to do to keep a team in Sacramento.

And that’s an unworthy ransom— Maloofs or Ron Burkle or whoever is running the Kings.

And, in retrospect, nearly giving the Maloofs the keys to a new arena— actually trying to work with those bozos—appears to be Sacramento’s most regrettable moment.

We proved to the NBA that the city could build a palace with public money, but not only did this not matter, it also in some odd way exacerbated the Maloofs’ bad blood for Sacto. Should city leaders have foreseen this during last year’s frustrating and agonizing negotiations? Maybe.

Not like we needed any omens: Sacramento had already given the Maloofs beaucoup chances. City leaders stood behind the brothers while trying to pass Measures Q and R in 2006—only to have the Maloofs stab supporters in the back. Then, there was the near-decade of crappy Kings teams and slumlordism at Arco Arena.

After that, there was Anaheim. Then, last year’s arena handshake “deal” gone sour. Then, Virginia Beach. And now, selling the team without giving Sacto a shot to buy.

Maloof me once, shame on you.

Maloof me twice, thrice, countless times—we should’ve known better.

—Nick Miller

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“My dad lives there, too, so I just want to fight him.”

Asked in Old Town Elk Grove:

California is its own country: Who do we fight?

Toni McMickin retired teacher

We should reach an agreement of peace in order to avoid war at all costs.

Because [if we were] in a situation where people are oppressed ... I would avoid war, but I would engage in some kind of a revolt.

I would like to be at peace.

Wouldn’t that be wonderful?

I think we’ve had enough war in our lifetime.

Chris Henry student

Mayra Naranjo

Michael Dinovadean

restaurant employee

Texas. I don’t know, they just seem stuck-up, and my dad lives there, too, so I just want to fight him.

They think they are better than all the rest of the United States—you know, “Don’t Mess With Texas” or the “Lone Star State.”

I don’t know, it’s just annoying.

artist

China, but that’s too big of a country to fight.

They make our products, [make] our shoes or our clothing. I don’t know, they make a Chinese product, and that’s not right—it’s an American product. Like Gucci: I feel they take it and they try to make a profit off of something that’s not real.

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Carol Wilson

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All environmental laws, because they are just a nuisance. … A friend of mine, he’s got to pay $3,000 a year just to use some kind of small chemicals. But in the Bay Area, I know some people and they have some very dangerous acids to wash chips in the computer parts, and they don’t have any regulation.

I would say [that which threatens] the safety of our country, the new California.

Definitely from people who are trying to create armies in our country. ... We’d have to keep being prosperous and creating new jobs and be a contender. Promote small business ... so that we can stay within our own country and within our own means.

retired

Gosh, I guess I’d say prejudice, racial prejudice or gender prejudice. I think it’s in both directions.

I think we need to think of each other as human beings instead of male or female, black or white, purple or whatever.

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Homeless stereotypes, continued Re “Proof of homeless kidnappers?”

by Christine Craft (SN&R Letters, January 17): The “Megan” of Megan’s Law, the federal legislation that established the public letter of tracking of sex the week offenders, was a 7-year-old girl who was abducted, raped and killed. The child molester in this case wasn’t homeless, but there is nothing that prevents fearsome men from joining the homeless population, far from it. There are certainly some worrisome individuals mixed in with the mostly excellent homeless folk in Sacramento, who might do some very dastardly deeds.

An element in this whole conversation has become ridiculous. Homeless people, including myself, are roughly speaking the lowest 1 percent economically and socially. No one should be fanciful in thinking those who subsist outside could double as attendees at a garden party in the Fabulous 40s. But neither is it the hotbed of thugs and craven child molesters that Marcos Breton imagines. ... Breton’s columns— which started this whole long lettersto-the-editor conversation thing— were outrageous, not because it is totally impossible that some outlier homeless guy might rape a child, but

because his charge was meant to forge an absurd stereotype that homeless people are morally bereft, extremely dangerous and vile, and [that] the metropolis shouldn’t fund or support aid going to the homeless, thus getting the rabble to self-deport.

Homeless Sacramentans are each unique, with the members of the community generally being thoughtful, timid, lost and in need of hope and meaning in their lives. ... Breton’s column also showed that he knows nothing about pedophilia. Earlier letters were right: It’s not “the stranger” that is likely to commit an act of child sexual abuse, but a relative, neighbor, teacher or coach. Child molesters know the kid they target and manipulate him or her to get what they want.

That’s how it works. The Bee should get Breton Internet access so he can easily incorporate some facts into the crap he writes.

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We’re not all Jenny McCarthy’s sheep Re “Children at risk” by Jeff vonKaenel (SN&R Greenlight, January 17): I am a loyal SN&R reader and respect your magazine for its honest journalism. However, I was appalled by your piece on vaccinations. I wonder: Did you ever think why a school with some of the most educated parents would have a

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rate of 70 percent nonvaccination?

It is not just because they blindly followed Jenny McCarthy’s advice or do not know the risks associated with communicable diseases. ... We also know the long list of poisons in vaccinations, and as a holistic-health practitioner, I also know many of my nurse clients are among those that are most opposed to vaccinations. ...

Also, the federal government just paid out millions of dollars to families of vaccine-injured children, so to say that there is no science supporting the risks of vaccinations is very incompetent journalism. I understand you have seen people with polio; so has my friend who is a doctor and will tell you that polio is a lot easier to live with and causes way fewer problems than autism. Have you also not seen the rise in the rates of diseases such as autism and many other autoimmune diseases that have skyrocketed at epic, inexplicable proportions?

Many of the parents who have a personal-belief exemption are the most educated about the risks and benefits of vaccinations, and they are the most proactive parents when it comes to keeping their kids healthy through good nutrition, strong immune systems and homeopathic medicine.

They are not just “relying on the herd” to protect them.

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Sleepless in Sacramento Local NBA fans, K.J. and city millionaires hustle against long odds to block Kings’ sale and move to Seattle Are there any basketball experts outside the Sacramento bubble arguing that this story and photo week’s Kings-to-Seattle deal will fall by apart? SN&R hasn’t found any. Here Nick Miller inside the city limits, however, the prevailing attitude is that there’s still ni ck am@ newsr eview.c om time on the clock for local “activists” (including Kings fans and sports journalists), deep-pocketed millionaires and Mayor Kevin Johnson to make a final last-ditch heave for the winning bucket to keep the NBA in town.

A day after Monday’s announced sale of the Kings, Johnson rallied the troops to outline the next few steps of his effort to block the sale and move.

Kings fans toting anti-Seattle signs and wearing jerseys mingled with millionaires and regional electeds while flanking the mayor during an afternoon press conference.

K.J.’s plan is a four-stepper: find a big-money equity partner to buy the team, lock in a downtown arena deal, demonstrate that Sacramento is a good NBA market and build a local ownership group. On Tuesday, he’d already accomplished this last goal.

“In three days,” the mayor began, “we got 19 people to come in at a million dollars” and make a commitment to pay to keep the Kings. These local millionaires included former arena developer David Taylor, online-gaming maven Mark Otero and developer Ali Youssefi.

The next move for Sacramento will be to lock in a billionaire-club potential buyer; Grant Napear told SN&R on Tuesday that an announcement of such deep pockets is “definitely on the horizon.”

Still, as one city council member pondered at the press conference, “I wonder what the odds are in Vegas [that Sacramento actually keeps the team]?”

National media, for instance, seems to think that Seattle has the Kings in check. As has been widely reported this past week, the Maloofs announced a binding agreement to sell majority ownership of the Kings to a group of

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Emerald City investors lead by billionaire Chris Hansen and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. They’re paying a record price for an NBA franchise and—interestingly—have reportedly agreed to give the Maloofs a $30 million down payment by February 1, which they won’t be able to recoup if the deal falls through.

“There’s just too many things here that don’t make sense. And you’re dealing with the Maloofs.

They’re a pack of charlatans.”

Carmichael Dave sports-radio host and Sacramento Kings activist This unusual, nonrefundable $30 million deposit intrigues. As Tom Ziller of local Kings blog Sactown Royalty noted, “Word is that if Sacramento continues to push for the league to reject the purchase agreement, Hansen could sue” either the NBA or

even the city, because there’s now actually dollars—millions—on the line.

National sports writers are already rumor-mongering: that legendary coach Phil Jackson is itching to come out of retirement to be general manager of the Seattle Supersonics next season, or that U.S. Olympics basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski will leave Duke University to run the team.

At the same time, elite Sacramento players are engaging a full-court press of their own. Even Darrell Steinberg—current state Senate pro tem and onetime Maloof adviser during 2006’s Measure Q and R arena ballot-measure debacle—is presumed to have contacted the state Department of General Services to request information on how much state government spends on Microsoft products.

“I am troubled that a company and a CEO that has for so long enjoyed a prosperous and beneficial working relationship with the State of California and its taxpayers would blatantly engage in activities which are clearly and measurably detrimental to our State’s job and revenue base,” Steinberg wrote earlier this week.

Sports-radio host Carmichael Dave, who founded the Here We Stay movement that kept the Kings from moving to Anaheim in 2011, told SN&R that “there’s just too many things [about the sale] that don’t make sense,” including

the “awfully high valuation for a franchise” and the unique $30 million down payment.

“And you’re dealing with the Maloofs. They’re a pack of charlatans,” he said, adding that NBA owners won’t rubber-stamp a sale or move until late April, and that anything could happen between now and then.

The mayor’s office has stated that Johnson will be allowed to present to NBA owners at this very April meeting, too, in an attempt to persuade owners to allow locals to buy the team.

City council pundits also agree that there are enough votes to approve a new arena project, again. And the Anschutz Entertainment Group, or AEG, who agreed to pitch in tens of millions of dollars on last year’s failed arena deal, told the NBA and Sacramento last week that it’s still game to help pay.

And, even if the Kings do leave town, there still might be more arena drama. Sactown Royalty’s Ziller wrote that the city will “likely pursue building an arena downtown to a) give the city a legitimate major entertainment venue and b) persuade the NBA to send a team Sacramento’s way.”

No rest for the weary—even the arena weary, apparently. Ω

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Leader of the frack Fracking goes Hollywood, California proposes new regulations— and environmentalists still roil the oil and gas industry There’s a telling scene near the beginning of Promised Land, director Gus Van Sant’s new anti-fracking film that by Christopher Arns opened in Sacramento theaters earlier this month. Matt Damon’s character— an energy flack who buys natural-gas rights from Pennsylvania ranchers—splurges for new flannel shirts, because he thinks the folksy threads will make him seem more trustworthy to local yokels. Underneath that plaid, however, the character is planning something else.

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California recently proposed a slate of new fracking regulations, but they still don’t have teeth, environmentalists say.

Jim Leap knows a thing or two about that.

Leap lives in rural Monterey County, a place where people tend chickens and a few crops in their backyard. One day last year, gigantic construction trucks bristling with seismic sensors and huge knobby tires rumbled into his neighborhood. At about the same time, a friendly man appeared and knocked on Leap’s door.

Dressed in warm, outdoorsy clothes like he worked at REI, the stranger was outgoing and chatty, making small talk about local wildlife and the region’s stunning scenery.

He told Leap that the bulky seismic equipment was merely checking for earthquake faults.

“I fell for it hook, line and sinker,” Leap told SN&R during a phone interview last week. “I thought, ‘Wow, that’s really cool. I could get behind that.’”

Only later did Leap realize this chummy out-of-towner was really a “land man,” an advance scout for oil companies hoping to frack roughly

15 billion barrels of oil from vast shale deposits beneath the coastal range in Central California.

And the trucks? Turns out they were mapping oil reserves deep below the velvety green hillsides surrounding Leap’s abode while the land man asked neighbors to sign over oil rights.

“I felt so betrayed afterward when I realized he told a big fat lie,” said Leap.

Fracking opponents say Leap’s experience—and the energy industry’s portrayal in Promised Land—is proof that California should demand more transparency from energy firms. Those companies already frack hundreds of oil wells in this state, but environmentalists say the public knows little about those operations.

That’s why fracking opponents were disappointed last month when the state’s Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources, the California agency responsible for monitoring energy companies, released a first draft of new rules for well operators.

Environmentalists say the regulations give energy firms a green light to frack in California with little oversight. They believe the practice, which involves injecting water and chemicals deep underground to loosen oil or gas deposits, is risky and should have tougher rules.

A few studies have found disturbing evidence that Promised Land may not be all fiction.

“We want fracking regs, but these regs aren’t ready for prime time,” said Bill Allayaud, a spokesman for the Environmental Working Group.

“We’re going to have to see major improvements on them between now and whenever they release the full draft regulations as a discussion draft.”

Perhaps not surprisingly, the state’s energy producers disagree. What’s not to love, they ask?

“The disclosure requirements appear to be consistent with the most

Bill Allayaud Environmental Working Group The oil and gas industry rebuffed any suggestion that the film got it right. “It’s sort of like saying, ‘Was the portrayal of The Postman Always Rings Twice an accurate depiction of the postal service?’” Hull scoffed.

Ouch.

Not so fast, however. A few studies have found disturbing evidence that Promised Land may not be all fiction. Last year, researchers from Cornell University discovered that fracking chemicals probably seeped into underground aquifers in six states, making livestock sick and even killing them.

Could California’s famously happy cows be in danger? It’s doubtful: The Cornell case studies happened in places such as Texas, Louisiana, Colorado and New York, where fracking is more widespread and mostly used for natural-gas drilling.

Pennsylvania, for example, has nearly 9,000 rigs plunging steel fingers deep into the Marcellus Shale, one of the country’s largest gas deposits.

By comparison, California’s disclosed fracking activity takes place on roughly 600 oil wells spread around Bakersfield and other parts of Kern County. And the Golden State doesn’t have any horror stories about dead cows or flammable tap water, another supposed side effect portrayed

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“We want fracking regs, but these regs aren’t ready for prime time.”

in both Promised Land and the 2010 documentary Gasland.

Hull, the oil-and-gas spokesman, argued that Californians shouldn’t expect to hear those stories, because that’s what they are: stories cooked up by the entertainment industry.

Damon’s film “is a very typical Hollywood portrayal of very stark bad guys and good guys,” said Hull, who read the script but hasn’t seen the movie yet. “There’s no particular nuance or intelligent discussion about the issue.”

The state’s new fracking rules are supposed to prevent accidents from happening. According to California’s oil and gas regulators, the proposed regulations would require well operators to follow strict guidelines for building their rigs. Inspectors would check those wells at least once a year to make sure oil and gas companies follow the rules.

At the same time, operators would be forced to notify regulators at least 10 days before they start fracking.

Under these rules, companies would also disclose what type of chemicals are used during the process, although firms wouldn’t have to be specific if they wanted to protect trade secrets.

The state’s lawmakers seem happy with the new rules. This month, they rubber-stamped Gov. Jerry Brown’s pick to head the Department of Conservation, which oversees California’s oil and gas regulators.

Meanwhile, California’s oil and gas officials will begin accepting public comments on the proposed fracking rules starting next month.

They intend to finalize the regulations by year’s end, although division regulators could tweak some of the proposed guidelines before then.

Environmentalists, on the other hand, are not impressed. They’re taking California’s fracking wars to another level.

Anti-fracking outfits, including Allayaud’s Environmental Working Group, had already sued oil and gas officials over fracking last October, before the rules came out. Activists essentially argued that oil and gas regulators are low-level pawns of the energy industry. That case is still going forward, and a court hearing is set for February 28.

Allayaud argued that state regulators should ask more questions each time a company decides to frack wells in California—and release more of that information to the public. From his perspective, the proposed fracking rules are toothless and allow the energy industry to police itself.

“I think that’s the culture of [state regulators] that’s existed for decades and decades, and the new regulations don’t really change that much,” he said. Ω

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stringent disclosure requirements in the country,” said Tupper Hull, a spokesman for the Western States Petroleum Association.

To be fair, Promised Land (which Damon wrote with co-star John Krasinski, who plays an environmentalist in the movie) doesn’t really tackle the most controversial practices of the energy industry. In fact, you could say the film dissects fracking about as thoroughly as Good Will Hunting—another Damon flick—probes the mysteries of advanced math.

At its best, the film is a compelling character study of small-town America. But for some critics, it offers up nothing new about fracking except a few rehashed conspiracy theories— most vividly, the argument that cows can be killed by natural-gas fumes or tainted groundwater.

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First, the numbers are so huge they’re meaningless. Sure, winners on Celebrity Javelin Catching or Dancing With the Wolverines can pocket seven figures. But $1 million isn’t even walking-around money for the federal government, which gets to “solve� its budget issues by printing more money.

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To cover annual deficits the federal government has sold more than $10 trillion in debt. That’s quite the epic wad. Stack 10 trillion $1 bills and it would be 678,660 miles tall.

Lay those $10 trillion in Washingtons end to end, and it’s a little more than 969 million miles. Five round trips to the sun. Using time increments, 10 trillion seconds is roughly Keith Richards’ age: 316,880.

This year, the feds are supposed to make a $1 trillion down payment on their debt. There was talk of minting a $1 trillion platinum coin to cover the nut.

Several visionaries suggested Alfred E. Neuman grace the coin because his “What, me worry?� mantra is a more apropos motto for the United States than “In God We Trust.� But the coin idea got scotched.

Gov. Jerry “Diogenes-With-Charm�

Brown recently laid out his state blueprint for spending $139 billion during the fiscal year beginning July 1, and ending June 30, 2014.

The $139 billion—$99 billion in income, sales and business taxes and the remainder in fees and assessments—is more than $9 billion more than is being spent this year, in which lawmakers closed a $15.7 billion budget gap.

Most of this new money would be given to public schools, community colleges and state universities, who at the same time must become more efficient, says Brown. No epic badness was dumped on the millions of poor who receive health care through the state or financial support from welfare. The dumping has been done previously.

For the first time in nearly a decade, revenues are predicted to cover expenses. But that balance could vanish if a bunch of stuff doesn’t break California’s way, like how the feds deal with their debt ceiling.

Given that uncertainty, Brown says that when it comes to budgeting, lawmakers should behave like most Californians must: with unremitting, even if undesired, tightfistedness.

Democrats want some programs restored that were whacked in past years, such as the Healthy Families Program, which offers state-subsidized medical care to low-income children and their families.

Lawmakers can put the program in their budget plan, but if Brown doesn’t dig something, he’ll just line it out. Will the two-thirds Democratic majority in the Legislature override him? Doubtful. That leaves Brown with the last word, and he says it will most likely be “no.�

But this is the beginning of the annual budget dance, the posturing and postulating waltz. The Legislature’s deadline to complete its work is June 15. While much of the big-ticket spending priorities won’t change, legislative and gubernatorial agendas can morph significantly in five months. The June budget will reflect that—as well as updated revenue estimates.

By the way: 139 billion $1 bills laid end to end would stretch 13.5 million miles, roughly the distance between Barstow and Las Vegas. In terms of time, 139 billion seconds is 4,448 years—the average length of an Assembly debate on California’s annual spending bill. Ί

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Downsizing the district Neighborhood schools to be shuttered, superintendent’s ‘priority schools’ spared Hey, Sac city parents, did you vote for Proposition 30 to save public education? Congratulations. School bonds, too? Good for you! Now, say goodbye to your neighborhood school.

Deficits in the Sacramento City Unified School District are expected to ease somewhat—to a mere $10 million or less in 20132014—but the school board is preparing to close 11 public elementary schools next month. vIn AR G District people are calling this “rightsizing” o SM

by Co the school system, if that sort of corporate cos mog@ newsrev iew.c om mumbo jumbo makes you feel any better.

Each closure is estimated to save about $200,000 to $250,000 a year. That’s about $2.5 million in total annual savings, mostly from shedding the salaries of principals, maintenance and office staff at each site.

The district says the closure list is strictly based on enrollment, and that the process treats all schools equally. But some schools are more equal than others.

Some underenrolled schools are being spared because district officials assume those will see student populations rise when other nearby schools are shuttered. But three of the most underenrolled schools—Oak Ridge, Leataata Floyd and Father Keith B. Kenny—are also being protected because they are among those in Superintendent Jonathan Raymond’s Priority Schools program.

These are schools with low test scores that were singled out for this special pilot program.

Principals at these schools get paid more than at other schools, and they get the support of additional staff, like vice principals. Teachers at these schools can’t be pink-slipped, and the district has invested heavily in special training and technology in each.

Their record of success is mixed. Last year, scores on the all-important Academic Performance The Sacramento City Index rose slightly at Kenny, they dropped a bit Unified School District board will meet at Floyd and they were flat at Oak Ridge. (See on Thursday, “Fail,” SN&R Feature Story; November 17, 2011, February 21, to for more background on the priority-schools consider the closure program.) Nonetheless, district spokesman of 11 neighborhood elementary schools.

Gabe Ross cited the investment of “substantial They are Bret Harte, resources” as part of the reason for keeping Clayton B. Wire, “priority schools” open.

C.P. Huntington, The teachers union is irked by Raymond’s Fruit Ridge, James special treatment of his priority schools—not W. Marshall, Joseph Bonnheim, Maple, surprising, since the program has also played hell Mark Hopkins, Susan with seniority rules and other teacher protections.

B. Anthony, Tahoe and “If it’s a straightforward criteria, it should get Washington elementary applied equally across the district. You shouldn’t schools. get to pick and choose,” said Sacramento City Teachers Association president Scott Smith.

Smith notes the union has argued in favor of school closures in the past. Schools that dip below a certain threshold, he said, don’t really “pay for themselves.”

Bites detects some weirdness in how the district measures school capacity. For example, many of the schools slated for closure had extra “portable” buildings added to their campuses in the boom times, when enrollment BEFORE

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That inflates the capacity of some campuses.

As enrollment dropped, budgets shrank and class sizes grew, that left “extra” capacity— though Bites has never heard a district teacher or principal complain about too much space at their school site.

This would all seem to exaggerate the underenrollment problem on some campuses. But it’s probably best to leave all that figuring to the district’s many highly paid administrators and consultants.

Teachers are also anxious about Raymond’s right-hand man in the school-closure process: his interim chief of staff Ed Manansala. Manansala was, until a few weeks ago, director of strategic partnerships for the St. Hope charter-schools company, and he’s been something of a player in the charter-school movement.

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Earlier this year, Manansala represented St. Hope in negotiating a charter school “compact,” putting in place rules to make it easier to operate charter schools in the district. He left the company in December and is looking for his next long-term gig. In the meantime, he’s filling in for five months while Raymond’s regular chief of staff is on maternity leave.

That means he’ll have a hand in all the big issues facing the district, including school closures.

“It’s putting the fox in the hen house,” said Smith.

Districts have to provide space for cheap to charter operators when it’s available. When the district closed Freeport Elementary School last year, it was quickly snapped up by Capitol Collegiate Academy. And there’s concern that the closure of so many campuses will ultimately amount to a huge transfer of public schools into private hands.

“Is Manansala going to call his charter buddies and say, ‘Hey, look! Free schools!’?”

Smith asked.

Manansala said that scenario is “not a possibility,” and that he would never breach confidentiality with the district. “That’s like asking, ‘Are you a person of integrity?’ I’m a professional with integrity.”

So, there’s that. The integrity of the Sacramento public-school system after all this rightsizing is done, that’s another matter. Ω STORY

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Thank you, Pam Saltenberger I am not a girl, nor have I ever been a Girl Scout. But for a while, I served on the board of the Girl Scouts Heart of Central California at the suggestion of my friend and CEO of the organization, Pam Saltenberger. While serving on the board, I discovered the coolness of the Girl Scouts.

The Girl Scouts Heart of Central California serves nearly 29,000 girls in 18 counties. The organization serves girls from rough urban situations as well as girls from affluent, but l sometimes lonely, suburbs. But most of all, it’s

by Jeff VonKaene about the enthusiastic energy of girls—girls findj e ffv @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m ing themselves and girls becoming stronger.

When I first met Pam in 2004, SN&R was producing two annual high-school music events, the classical Jammies and the contemporary Jammies. We brainstormed about how the Girl Scouts could participate.

The end result was a Jammies badge, and dozens of Girl Scouts came out to see the Jammies Classical Evening I discovered the of Music held at the Mondavi Center at UC Davis. coolness of the A couple years later, Pam was able to secure buses Girl Scouts. to bring girls from the Girl Scouts Heart of Central California Outreach Program to the Jammies. There were quite a few girls from homeless families. The girls were wide-eyed as they walked into the beautiful and imposing Mondavi Center, a world-class music hall.

After fulfilling my duties as a host of the Jammies, To learn more about the Girl I joined the Girl Scouts in the audience. It was a blast.

Scouts Heart of When each local high-school student came out on stage Central California, go to www.girl to perform a piano solo or to sing opera, the young scoutshcc.org. Scouts would collectively say, “Aah.” A fairy-tale-cometrue “aah.”

And they, like the rest of the audience, were amazed by the quality of the performers. As one 8 or 9-year-old girl told me, with some surprise, “I really like this fancy music.”

And we sure liked the Girl Scouts. After the show, we brought them up on stage for a photo. And like our performers, their breath was taken away as they gazed out at that gigantic hall. Thanks to Pam, the girls had a wonderful experience. Pam later told me that on the bus ride from Sacramento to Davis, one of the girls had said, “I did not know that Sacramento had a river.”

Since 1996, Pam has led the Girl Scouts with incredJeff vonKaenel is the president, ible dedication and love for the girls. During her tenure, CEO and the annual budget increased from $2.6 million in 1998 majority owner of the News & Review to $7.6 million in 2013. Believing that Girl Scouts is for newspapers in “every girl everywhere,” Pam has also secured $150,000 Sacramento, a year for financial assistance to help girls in need Chico and Reno. afford memberships, uniforms and such. And now, after 17 years, Pam has decided to retire. Pam deserves our thanks for making such a difference in so many girls’ lives. And I would like to thank her for making a difference in mine. Ω

Dam problem

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Folsom Dam construction is not without tons of pollution, but agencies are finding creative ways to curb emissions Need to build a dam? In Sacramento, those are often fighting words—just mentioning one can send green activists into fits of apoplectic rage. by Christopher Arns The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is trying to change how people view dams.

For the past five years, the federal agency has been upgrading Folsom Dam to improve the region’s infrastructure for flood control. In December, the Corps released an environmental-impact report for one of the project’s final stages, a 1,100-foot channel leading to a new auxiliary spillway to be completed in 2017. The entire project will cost $962 million and help prevent catastrophic floods on the American River.

Essentially, engineers are trying to build a new drain for a very large bathtub.

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“We worked with [Sacramento’s air-quality district] throughout the entire process,” said Jamie LeFevre, an environmental manager with the Corps.

The two agencies looked down south to Los Angeles County for solutions and found contractors using cleaner off-road diesel vehicles, restrictions that disallowed engine idling for more than five minutes and also hybrid vehicles.

Sacto’s air-quality gurus also recommended a few other green-friendly measures, such as the Corps running its concrete plant and rock-crushing machines on electricity created from the dam instead of diesel.

As it turns out, these steps could slash smogforming emissions by roughly 39 percent during the project’s final phase.

“We don’t want to stop projects,” said Huss.

“That’s why our group has been meeting with [the Corps] so much to try and find alternatives that actually work, so the project can get done and get done on schedule, but so the air quality doesn’t suffer as a result.”

It may come from God or a Chilton auto-repair manual or Wine Spectator, but it will be biblical, and it will be yours, and it will be mentioned in hushed speech. Let us bow our heads in prayer and with piety whisper what, to Auntie Ruth, are holy words: Mark Bittman’s Kitchen Express: 404 Inspired Seasonal Dishes You Can Make in 20 Minutes or Less. It is not written by God, but a god named Mark Bittman.

Laugh not at Ruthie’s bible, lest she laugh at yours.

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Engineers are trying to build a new drain for a large bathtub.

There are a few sticky points. Some of the cleaner earth-moving vehicles may not be available, mostly because that equipment is based on fairly new technology. And air quality is still a concern. Construction on the 1,100-foot channel will overlap with other phases of the project, so the combined building activity could still exceed Sacramento’s limit of 85 pounds per day of nitrogen oxide in some years. If that happens, the Corps will have to pay mitigation fees to Sacramento’s air-quality district.

The project will also emit high levels of carbon dioxide—up to 27,000 tons in some years, the equivalent of adding 5,400 passenger cars onto local roads.

But as a greenhouse gas, nitrogen oxide can be 298 times more potent than CO2. If the Corps uses electric power and newer, cleaner construction vehicles, reducing the pesky pollutant by more than one-third could prevent more smog from blanketing the valley.

The environmental-impact report on the dam’s final phase will be open for public comment until Monday, January 28, and the Corps will complete construction plans later this year. Ω

mysteries of chilaquiles and fajitas, but coq au vin is even within her reach—in 20 minutes, thanks be unto her bible. It is as fun to eat chicken paprikash as it is to say “chicken paprikash.” Amen. Prepared in 20 minutes. Let us pray some more.

Gone are dinner parties when guests blanketh their faces and say, “That was really interesting.”

Heretofore unfathomable herb combinations, simple and sublime, now make sense. Ofttimes the direction as to how much spice to add is described in intuitive terms, Twenty minutes and green. not in quarter-teaspoon precision. It fits Auntie Ruth’s penchant for inexactitude perfectly. In 20 minutes.

No, it is not Laurel’s Kitchen, nor doth every page speak of organic farming. While published well before the current locavore rage, it’s well-oriented toward serving food in season.

Bittman, reportedly a writer before he became a chefish gourmand, is rising from his rather considerable platform of The New York Times—where his recipes have held sway for years—into the realm of environmentalism. Along with Michael Pollan, he can safely be described as a leader within the food movement, and his attention to how our dinner table is connected umbilically to everything from the obesity epidemic to climate change to the farm bill might do more than a Kyoto Protocol or two in raising the issue to broader awareness.

Along with challenging Big Food in general and pesticide use in particular, he recently berated Beyoncé for on one hand enthusiastically We bet your aunts aren’t as cool as ours. joining Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign, friend Auntie Ruth which encourages kids to exercise, and on the on facebook other hand bestowing the singer’s endorsement to and let’s hang out.

Pepsi for a cool $50 million deal, effectively “renting her image to a product that may one day be ranked with cigarettes as a killer we were too slow to rein in,” he said in The New York Times.

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Dam operators need another way to release water from the lake during rainy seasons, since floodgates on the current structure are too high above the reservoir surface. Along with scooping out a new spillway, the Corps is also raising several sections of Folsom Dam by 3-and-a-half feet and bulking up a series of dikes around the complex.

During construction, the engineers hope to build a huge dirt wall between the lake and the new channel to keep water from soaking the job site. To scrape out the channel, the Corps will use heavy-duty excavators, hauling trucks and marine-based dredges—you know, beefy-looking earth movers that usually belch black smoke into the air.

Eco-friendly? Not so much.

Corps analysts realized the dam upgrade would exceed federal emission limits of 25 tons per year of nitrogen oxide, which combines with other pollutants to form smog. The agency decided to ask for help.

“They came to us and said, ‘We’re having this problem. What do we do?’” said Karen Huss, a planner with the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District.

Along with meeting federal air-quality rules in the environmental-impact report, the Corps also had to satisfy local pollution regulations. And in Sacramento, those rules are especially tough, requiring even lower levels of smog-producing nitrogen oxide than required by federal standards.

Regional leaders hope to make the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ work at Folsom Dam more eco-friendly.

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Giving trees If you miss having your Christmas tree around—or just want to do something good for the environment this month—you can get up to 10 new trees on the cheap, thanks to the Arbor Day Foundation. For the month of January, as part of the foundation’s Trees for America program, when you join with a $10 membership contribution, you’ll receive 10 assorted flowering trees, 10 redbuds, 10 Arizona cypresses, 10 bald cypresses, 10 river birches or 5 crape myrtles. The trees will be shipped starting in February.

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Sunday dinner A weekly reminder of what we have and who we love It was midweek when I told my friend Mary we were just too busy to come to Sunday dinner. She understood, and I’m sure part of her was relieved to just have the evening by Ginny McReynolds to herself and her kids, to make sure they were dean of humanities organized for the week, to have a chance to regroup and social science in peace and quiet (or at least as much tranquility as at Cosumnes River an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old allow). That’s how I College felt, too—mostly. Still, part of me mourned giving up on the event, even if it was just for one week.

We instituted Sunday dinner a few years ago because both Mary and I have always been the type of people who started dreading the end of the weekend on Friday afternoon. By Sunday, we’d each be in our own self-generated angst, not wanting to give up that sense of openness and autonomy that weekends bring, downright surly with every thought of heading back into the fray. We Both Mary and came up with the idea that gathering an end-of-the-weekend “family I are the type of for meal” would be a good way to hold people who start on to the fun a little longer and remind ourselves of what we have, dreading the end who we love and what’s important.

At first, the participant list was of the weekend small: Mary and her kids, my partner on Friday Jodi and me. But over the years, spontaneously invited lots of afternoon. we’ve others. Sometimes Mary cooks, other nights Jodi and I bring the food, and occasionally we do potluck. Mary and I both enjoy cooking, so more often than not we prepare something that takes lots of time and energy. It’s always fun to use that event to try a new dish.

Still, even while we’re gorging on homemade popovers or a new Ina Garten soup recipe, the food is not the big draw. It’s sitting there at Mary’s long dining-room table, laughing at some joke that my daughter Mary Grace has told, or trying to get my other daughter Isabelle to quit giving food to the dogs.

It’s that parentheses in our lives in which we can all just breathe for a minute and take things a little less seriously than we might in the crush of Monday morning or the tedium of a Wednesday afternoon meeting.

Homework is done, shoes are polished, groceries for the week are purchased, plans are made. This is our chance to relish the moment.

That’s what I want to remember the next time I start to feel overwhelmed midweek and long for an open Sunday evening—or at least a free Sunday afternoon that I don’t have to cram with chores so I’m free for dinner. The point is really not the dinner at all. In fact, maybe we ought to change the name to “Sunday sanity restorer” and just sit around the table and talk and take the chance to reset ourselves in the way that prompted us to do this in the first place. And really, if I actually get too busy to even do that once a week, things are worse than I thought they were. Ω

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Fracking is booming these days, especially in California, home to the second-largest oil-shale formation in the continental United States. So its no wonder that the practice of extracting oil and gas by “hydraulic fracturing”—wherein water and chemicals are injected underground to break up rock formations—is of evergrowing concern to many of us these days.

Why? Carcinogenic and other toxic chemicals are commonly used in fracking. The process has not been adequately studied; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has just begun its first truly independent study on how the process may impact drinking water. Still, it doesn’t take a Ph.D. in toxicology to recognize that the strenuous injection of dangerous chemicals underground is bound to impact the soil and groundwater.

Last month, Gov. Jerry Brown released draft regulations that would require oil companies to disclose the locations where they intend to frack and test the integrity of wells beforehand so as to prevent chemicals from leaking freely into the groundwater. The draft rules would also require drillers to be more forthcoming about what chemicals make up their fracking recipes. It’s a start, but it’s not enough.

That’s because some energy companies would still be allowed to withhold reporting what chemicals they are using by claiming a “trade secret” exemption.

Indeed, we were glad to see the topic of fracking and trade secrets being much discussed locally in a recent Senate hearing on Brown’s pick for the new head of the state Department of Conservation, Mark Nechodom.

When the public’s health is concerned, there should be no secrets. Period. Oil and gas production in California should not go forward unless it is safe and transparent. Ω

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t’s just after 6 p.m. on a damp Tuesday in December, and nearly a dozen people are packed into the ground floor of Steve Hansen’s two-story Alkali Flat home. A “Steve Hansen for City Council” placard hangs on the front door, a welcoming sign for the steady stream of visitors who, over the course of the next half-hour, continue to arrive and enter without knocking.

As the loud disco beats of the Scissor Sisters float downstairs from the second floor, friends, campaign volunteers and neighborhood activists swarm, snapping victory photos and casting anxious glances toward the staircase.

“Where’s Steve?” someone asks.

“Getting ready,” another answers.

Eventually, Hansen makes his way down the staircase, greeted by a hearty round of applause, cheers and wolf whistles. Dressed in a dark suit, he sports a bemused expression as he makes his way outside to the front porch.

Finally, it’s time to leave. “I’ve never done this before,” he says, and then, entourage

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in tow, sets off on the three-block journey to his swearing-in ceremony at City Hall.

Hansen—a relative political newcomer who ran on a platform promising change, fresh ideas and accountability—won because he inspired a rising demographic of urban dwellers, artists, gays and young entrepreneurs. But now Hansen is joining the jaded politicos inside City Hall. Can he stay true, can he deliver?

On this night, Hansen’s walk represents just one of many firsts: He’s the city’s first openly gay council member, the first to represent the newly redefined District 4, the first to live on the Midtown-downtown grid in three decades and the first ever to represent the entire central city as one. The road here was, by all accounts, grueling, with a lengthy campaign that pitted him against an established City Hall veteran in a race so tight, the victory was decided by less than 150 votes.

It represented a first, too, for the 33-year-old, who for more than a year juggled his boots-on-theground drive with a full-time job at a Californiabased biotech company.

Along the way, Hansen drew in scores of enthusiastic supporters, earned important endorsements from—among other organizations—the local firefighters’ union, and raised impressive campaign dollars, much of it through deep-pocket donations but, too, a considerable chunk via social networking.

The pitch: He’d take District 4—an area encompassing Midtown and downtown, Land Park and parts of Natomas—and, in his own words, “rebuild Sacramento’s morale” by making it easier to create innovative, tech-friendly and green jobs.

He vowed to bolster the city’s arts and entertainment scene and explore solutions to crime and homelessness.

Hansen, who plans to continue working his day job, also pledged to donate his $60,000 city council salary to seed a districtwide innovation fund.

Big ideas from a guy who says he’d only recently contemplated life as a politician.

“I always thought I’d just be a behind-thescenes person,” Hansen says. “[But] there were a lot of things I thought Sacramento should be talking about.”

Even as he earned supporters, however, Hansen also attracted criticism that he was politically naive and thin-skinned—the type to bristle at or shy away from the harder questions.

So, who exactly is the real Steve Hansen?

Football, the military and other brutal, life-changing moments Former California Assemblyman Dennis Mangers, now a special adviser to California Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, says Hansen’s the kind of guy who can handle the job—the spotlight, and the accompanying criticism and jabs.

Mangers first met Hansen a decade ago when the younger man sought out the gay politician and businessman as a mentor. Then head of the California Cable and Telecommunications Association, Mangers soon gave Hansen a job at his company.

“It quickly became clear he was one of the brightest people I’d met in a long time,” Mangers

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says. “I found him inordinately mature for his age, and smart and articulate. I also found that there was also a spiritual undertow and a philosophical demeanor.”

Hansen hasn’t had much time to get philosophical lately.

“It’s been such a whirlwind,” he says a few days after the swearing-in ceremony, as he relaxes on an overstuffed couch in his living room. A nearby Christmas tree stands undecorated, and the house, strewn with clothes, books and stray Clif Bars, exhibits a vibe that’s at once cozy and bachelor-on-the-go.

Now, he’s alone, save his tiny black-and-white papillon dog, Oreo, and a reporter. And with the crowds and noise gone, Hansen, a self-described introvert, says he’s ready to take a deep breath and figure things out—simple items like procuring staff parking and getting computers, and bigger issues like hiring a chief of staff and prioritizing meetings and phone calls.

“The last two weeks have been a really fast-spinning merry-go-round,” he says.

“Really great, really exciting—but when you get off, you feel a little woozy.”

There wasn’t much in Hansen’s early life to prepare him for the whirlwind of politics. His parents divorced when he was 3, and for years the St. Paul, Minn., native lived with his older autistic brother and his mother, a nurse’s aid who had difficulty keeping things together.

“She has a big heart,” he says now. “But [then], she didn’t quite know how to connect the responsibility part.”

His father paid child support, but the family still spent time on public assistance, in and out of shelters and soup kitchens. Hansen also watched his mother go through one bad boyfriend after another—relationships fraught with yelling and violence.

Hansen eventually moved in with his grandmother and, later, his father. The elder Hansen was a paper-mill worker who, although able to provide financial stability, Hansen says, couldn’t really manage interpersonal relationships.

“There was lots of instability, and I couldn’t take very much for granted, which meant that I had to rely on myself more, and that made me very independent,” he says.

Certainly, Hansen seemed to foster an almost preternatural sense of can-do and self-reliance early on, joining his highschool football team as a freshman—even though he’d never played a real game before.

Finding that he lacked the “aggressive, kill ’em” personality that football required, Hansen eventually switched to tennis because, well, why not?

“I wasn’t very good at either … [but] I like to try new things.”

Add the military to that list.

He attended basic training in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., and says he found the experience brutal. Brutal and life-changing.

“It was traumatizing but also empowering—I lost weight, people looked at me differently, I had selfconfidence,” he says.

It also brought the 17-year-old a key realization: “It gave me the courage to realize that I was gay, and that if I survived [basic training], I could come out and start that process.”

Hansen’s uncle, John Breon, still remembers that period.

“He was very matter-of-fact about it, very comfortable with it,” says Breon, himself a former St. Paul city council

E verybody wants something, everyone has an agenda, everybody wants this pursuit of something ideological—but there’s nothing ideological about a stop sign.

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member, who credits his nephew’s Catholic school upbringing for his pragmatic approach to life.

After high school, Hansen moved west to Washington and attended Gonzaga University in Spokane, where he initially studied political science and French on a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps scholarship. Along the way, however, he dropped out of the ROTC. “I just realized that the path I was on wasn’t true to me,” he says.

Hansen switched his major to international studies and in 2002, moved to Sacramento after he was accepted into an executive fellowship program at the Capitol. Since, his lengthy résumé includes a stint working for Gov. Gray Davis as part of the California State and Consumer Services Agency, employment as a legislative director for Equality California and his current job at Genentech, where he’s worked since 2006. He also served on the board of directors for the local chapter of the Stonewall Democrats, the Downtown Sacramento Partnership, and the Center for AIDS Research, Education and Services; completed Sacramento’s Planning and City Management academies; and, in 2011, received a law degree from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law. That same year, he was also appointed as one of 15 city residents to serve on the Sacramento Redistricting Citizens Advisory Committee.

It was the events that took place within that organization that proved pivotal.

“That was the point at which I lost my innocence,” Hansen says now.

It’s also the point at which he decided to enter politics.

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The road to politics By now, the controversy over the Sacramento Redistricting Citizens Advisory Committee is well-documented. In 2011, Sacramento City Councilman Jay Schenirer appointed Hansen to a panel comprising local citizens tasked with redrawing city council district boundaries.

The group researched and then submitted four maps for consideration. The trouble started when city council members learned that Hansen had created and submitted one of those four maps—anonymously.

Councilwoman Sandy Sheedy blasted the move. Sacramento labor union leader Bill Camp, whom Sheedy had appointed to the panel, called it a “scam,” and others saw Hansen’s presence on the panel as a calculated move, given that Schenirer had received campaign donations from Genentech.

Ultimately, the city council adopted its own map, one submitted by Councilman Steve Cohn.

But the incident left many questioning, at best, Hansen’s good judgment and political acumen and, at worst, his ethics. While there were no rules stating that a member of the committee could submit a map, anonymously or otherwise, it remains unclear why Hansen chose this route.

For his own part, Hansen claimed he meant no harm.

“If I had to do it again, I would do it differently,” he says. “But nothing precluded an anonymous map submission. I don’t to want cast aspersions on others, but the process wasn’t meant to produce a community-driven map, and that was the frustration that led to that submission. [My] intention was good. … Citizens who engage in the process should look at that and understand that they still made a difference.”

So, what was it—political naiveté or a shrewd, calculated move?

Either way, critics found the move—and Hansen’s reasoning behind it—unsatisfactory.

Sheedy declined to comment on the record for this story, and Camp, currently out of the country, didn’t return phone calls or emails.

Others, however, defend Hansen’s intentions. Maya Wallace, who worked on the panel with Hansen and later as a campaign volunteer, says that they had “honestly and thoughtfully considered all issues.”

“We both thought that the city would take all of us at our word that we thought the maps we presented were the best option,” Wallace says.

For his part, Schenirer blasts the idea that anybody tried anything fishy.

“It’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. There’s absolutely no substance to it,” Schenirer says. “[Hansen] wanted the map to be about the map—and not the person who submitted it.”

Still, even some of Hansen’s staunchest supporters saw the method as less than ideal.

“I think [Hansen] was being a bit naive and, being a law student at the time, he was perhaps thinking that the fine points of the law—he didn’t do anything against the rules—would protect him. He didn’t yet understand, I think, that appearances and perceptions are everything in politics,” says David Watts Barton, former Sacramento Press editor-in-chief and a one-time Hansen roommate.

“I imagine he learned quite a bit from that experience and wouldn’t make the same mistake twice.”

More importantly, Barton adds, Hansen is “very serious about his responsibilities, smart as can be, and really caring and compassionate about other people who are struggling.”

“He knows the names of a number of the homeless people who are his neighbors—and there are quite a few down there—and I’ve seen him bring people food and say hi to them on the street when most people are ignoring them.”

Mangers echoes this sentiment and says Hansen is “nobody’s person but the electorate’s person.”

“Steve has a strong moral compass; he has a strong sense of what’s ethical and a strong sense of what’s right and wrong.”

Carpe council It was the early hours of October 12, 2011, and, as usual, Hansen was still up, reading the local news online, when he came across an article reporting that Sacramento City Councilman Rob Fong had decided not to run for re-election.

Before the sun came up, Hansen, who insists that he’d held no prior political ambitions, had written up a call list and agenda.

“Carpe council,” he says now, wryly. “If I’d truly understood what I was getting into then.”

What he was getting into, of course, was pure politics.

The move, he says, was rooted in the events of the redistricting committee.

“I think it’s trite to say that the city is broken, but a lot of the relationships and the way people handled things—people didn’t treat each other with much dignity, and I just didn’t think that was right,” Hansen says. “[I thought] if I could bend the curve on that, it would be worthwhile, [so] I took a leap of faith.”

Hansen’s bid pitted him against Joe Yee, a longtime Land Park resident whose political résumé includes a 2000 appointment to city council to fill a seat vacated by Jimmie Yee after he was sworn in as mayor following Joe Serna Jr.’s death.

In short, the race turned into a battle between the new kid on the block and the guy who’d been around the block several times already.

To that end, Hansen waged a campaign of change, promising among other things to make it easier for would-be entrepreneurs to launch businesses in Midtown and downtown.

Liz Studebaker, executive director of the Midtown Business Association, liked what she heard during Hansen’s campaign.

“From the beginning, I was excited about the energy and intellectual curiosity that Steve brings,” she says.

Parking, more street lighting and streamlining the new business-permit process—all are key Hansen-agenda items, Studebaker says.

“I’m very confident in what he’ll do,” she says.

Hansen’s accessibility is also crucial, she adds.

“He spends a lot of time [in Midtown and downtown] on a day-to-day basis. He walks the district, he knows a lot of the business owners, he has a direct relationship with the community.”

He didn’t just focus the campaign on the grid, however. His first door-to-door canvassing trip, for example, landed him squarely in Natomas during the primary race.

“I didn’t want it to be overlooked, so it was the first place I started walking in January [2012],” he says.

Controversy continued to dog Hansen throughout the campaign, however.

A flier featuring an image of President Barack Obama seemed to suggest a political endorsement that wasn’t really there. Questions arose regarding the ethics of campaign funding and his ongoing role as a lobbyist for Genentech, particularly in light of donations that the company made to his campaign.

Hansen defends Genentech’s donations as politics as usual—“I can look at Joe Yee or anybody else who runs for office—they all have friends and alliances [who donate money].

There’s no there there.”

Perhaps, but given Hansen’s pledge to rise above politics, to wage an open, transparent campaign, it rings more than a little false.

Too many people use [the council] as a means to run for the Assembly or something else. But right now, this is my calling, to take the city’s untapped potential and make it what it can be.

In an article detailing the impact of crowd funding on campaign finance, news site Mashable noted that Hansen’s Web-savvy strategy was “widely successful because he has a great ‘underdog’ story that people are more apt to like, link and share.”

That “underdog story” netted Hansen more than $80,000 in donations through his personal fundraising page on the Rally website.

Hansen says he earned those campaign dollars by getting out and meeting people.

“When you have 26,000 people voting in the general election, you … need to get out and meet people one on one, make phone calls and knock on doors.”

Thomas Dodson first really got to know Hansen late last spring during a nonprofit fundraiser for a women’s shelter. The two, donating their time in leather pants as backup dancers for

his oath. Without tickets, most were relegated to watch on closed-circuit sets in the lobby as he was sworn in by a group that included Mangers and West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon.

The Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus sang “Go Light Your World.” Parie Wood, a local 17-year-old folk singer-songwriter, played guitar and sang the national anthem. Afterward, Hansen hosted an inaugural party at the nearby Tsakopoulos Library Galleria. Rabbi Mona Alfi delivered an invocation. Mayor Kevin Johnson made an appearance, beer and wine flowed, and a band played well into the night.

But now it’s time to put aside the pomp and circumstance and get down to the business of politics.

These days, certainly, everyone seems to want something from Hansen. One recent

For now, Hansen says it will take at least six months to get acclimated—to get a full staff in place and figure out how the city functions. His four-year goals reflect his campaign platform: a venture fund for new entrepreneurs, jobs, sustainable development; paving the way for more arts and entertainment; making the city more walkable—to-do list items that, he notes, don’t seem particularly glamorous.

“Everybody wants something, everyone has an agenda, everybody wants this pursuit of something ideological—but there’s nothing ideological about a stop sign.”

Hansen believes it was his practical ideas for change that led to his win.

“There was a shift in power and, for the first time, Midtown had more of a voice than it did before,” he says. “I think people just wanted something with more energy.”

Saturday afternoon in January, the new councilman, dressed in a suit even for the weekend, finds himself stopped several times en route from the sidewalk to the counter at a local coffee shop. There’s the woman clutching a tiny dog who works in the business office for a local restaurant and several voters offering wellwishes. An old friend just wants to say hello.

Cabaldon calls Hansen the “voice of the grid”—and the impetus for action.

“His campaign inspired and emboldened an entirely new range of citizens who are now taking action both inside and outside of city government,” Cabaldon says. “[These are] people who don’t care much about the arena; who don’t care about symbolic battles between the labor, council and the Metro Chamber; who couldn’t care less about the petty politics of individual personalities. They care about creating positive change and action.”

Are there plans for political life beyond the council? Asked the question, Hansen lets out a sigh.

“No, and I’d question the sanity of that having done this,” he says.

“There’s a lot of sacrifice involved in [public office], and I’m enjoying the chance to make the city better. ... That’s what you do when you love something—you sacrifice,” he says.

Shrewd politics? Or an unwavering and truthful commitment to the here and now?

Who exactly is the real Steve Hansen?

He insists the answer is found in the latter.

“Too many people use [the council] as a means to run for the Assembly or something else. But right now, this is my calling, to take the city’s untapped potential and make it what it can be.” Ω

Hansen, pictured at his swearing-in ceremony on December 11, 2012, has vowed to bring innovation, jobs and a renewed emphasis on arts and entertainment to Midtown and downtown.

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Craig Powell, president of the local taxpayer watchdog group Eye on Sacramento, says he’s not too concerned about Hansen’s campaign financing, however.

“The rap on Steve—that he used his position at … Genentech to tap into [donors] for his campaign—given the fact that he had had broad-based support, I’m not really concerned about that,” Powell says.

“In politics, you’re in business, you’re making phone calls, you’re asking for money, you’re asking for support from people who you deal with. That’s the financial way,” Powell says. “As long as his bosses [at Genentech] were aware of the scope of his fundraising, we’re not in any position to complain about it.”

It wasn’t just big money that put Hansen in office. He also raised a considerable chunk of change through small, individual donations.

a Lady Gaga impersonator (no, really), found themselves discussing the future of Sacramento.

“He really stressed the importance of arts and diversity in the local economy,” says Dodson, a local social-media producer. “It became clear to me that we shared the same vision.”

Dodson signed on as Hansen’s social-media and communications director and found himself impressed with the candidate’s focus.

“The guy was always the calmest one in the room,” Dodson says. The mood and the tenor of the campaign was always one of positivity and about the improvements we could see for Sacramento.”

Voice of the grid Hansen’s swearing-in was monumental— friends, family members and curious onlookers jammed into City Hall to see Hansen take

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Capitol Garage chef Raphael Kendall takes vegetarian cuisine beyond the lettuce leaf.

oring iceberg lettuce salads, fried potatoes and, if luck was kind enough to strike, an uninspired veggie burger—it used to be these were the top choices offered to vegetarians who dared to dine out in Sacramento. Indeed, once upon a time, vegetarians were seen as the ultimate hippie, eaters of unappetizing green things, at least in the eyes of the meat-eating majority.

These days, however, veg heads are considered mainstream, and vegans and vegetarians can now find comfort when ordering plant-based fare at some of the city’s best restaurants, vegetarian or otherwise. For example, despite their omnivoric diets, more than a dozen chefs brave the annual Sacramento Vegan Chef Challenge each October, taking delight in crafting animal-free eats for patrons. There’s also the Sacramento Vegetarian Society, an organization dating back more than 20 years, which continues to educate the surrounding areas about healthy eating.

And, of course, there’s the Sacramento VegFest. The one-day celebration, which this year takes place on Saturday, January 26, offers vegetarian food tastings, speakers and cooking demos.

SN&R recently chatted with five members of the meat-free community— experts encompassing nutritionists, cooking instructors, organizers and chefs—to measure just how much the capital has grown to love its veggies.

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vEGGIE uNION Just in time for the fourth annual Sacramento VegFest, local experts explain how the city’s meat-free options have evolved beyond lonely iceberg lettuce dinners

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APPETITE FOR CHANGE Whether you forgo cheese and dairy altogether or swore off the moo cow for life, there are still ways to make a veggie diet flavorful and satisfying instead of bland and uninviting. In fact, Emily Webber, a certified nutritionist and cooking instructor with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, has made it her life’s work.

Webber prepares meals that fight chronic diseases, like diabetes and cancer, and she often teaches classes at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op and the Whole Foods Market on Arden Way. Whether she’s demonstrating a creamy sauce, substituting cashews in lieu of dairy for an entree, or blending a green smoothie with spinach and kale, Webber’s techniques prove that meatfree doesn’t equal taste-free.

Webber will also share her knowhow with audiences at this year’s VegFest via a live cooking demo in which she’ll show how to prepare healthy lunches for children.

With myriad celebrities such as former President Bill Clinton and actresses Lea Michele and Alicia Silverstone adopting vegetarian or vegan diets, Webber says she’s seen a “huge upturn in interest in plantbased cooking.”

“My classes are always full, often sold-out, [and] sometimes with a waiting list,” she says.

Raphael Kendall says he’s witnessed change as well.

When he was a sous-chef at Capitol Garage, Kendall remembers a menu with scarce vegetarian options, and when it came to vegan offerings, forget it. Now, with six years spent at the downtown restaurant, Kendall is executive chef and continues to implement more vegan cuisine to the ever-changing menu.

His latest creations include a coconut curry with vegetables and cashews, and a mixed-greens salad with an orange vinaigrette and sesame avocado.

A collective shift in people’s dietary beliefs and eating habits has proved key, he says.

“The demand is increasing, and people like what they’re tasting,” says Kendall. “With all the information that’s out there, people are starting to realize it’s a healthier way of life. … A lot of the flavor comes from the vegetables.”

Since he participated in the first Vegan Chef Challenge in 2011, Kendall, who’s been vegan for 10 years, says he watched his competition cultivate in creativity and in numbers. He also saw Capitol Garage’s animal-free options becoming more popular than his meat dishes.

“In the past, we only used to do like, meat or wine dinners with course pairings,” explains Kendall. “This last year, we stopped doing the meat [dishes], because the vegan ones were selling more.”

Mary Rodgers remembers when Sacramento’s vegetarian dining options were sparse. Rodgers, a veteran member of the Sacramento Vegetarian Society, moved to the city in the late ’70s, and back then, she says, there were only two veggie options.

Flash forward more than 30 years: Dozens of restaurants opened their doors to vegetarian- and vegan-based dishes, making Rodgers feel more “normal.”

“It’s becoming accepted. It’s not a fringe, weird thing anymore,” says Rodgers. “It’s hard to go into a restaurant now where the staff doesn’t know what ‘vegan’ means.”

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“I just felt that it was something worth doing because I live [nearby],” said Destatte. “McDonald’s makes a big deal about healthier options, but healthier compared to what? This is giving kids less access to unhealthy food.”

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Society. Davis, who probably bleeds green, says she’s on a mission to influence the public—and public officials—to try a veggie diet. “[When] Gov. [Jerry] Brown [was] diagnosed with prostate cancer, it’s like, hello, he needs to give up the dairy, man,” she says.

He wouldn’t be alone, she adds.

“There’s is a huge following of vegans and vegetarians throughout Sacramento, and if you look statistically at our ... population, ... 20,000 or so are likely following a vegan diet. That’s a lot of people.”

Still, not everyone fancies leafy greens over a nice cut of meat. And straying from the herd when it comes to a plant-based diet sometimes feels like a lonely venture.

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That’s becoming less the case, however. The Sac VegFest hosts more than a thousand veggie lovers each year, according to Davis. There are also regular Sacramento Vegetarian Society events and meet ups, which, as Webber adds, will help make anyone feel a sense of camaraderie.

“When you’re first making this change, sometimes you feel really alone, especially if your family members and friends aren’t doing it,” says Webber.

“When you go to these events, you can really learn, you can listen to an author, [and] you can go to a potluck and eat everything.”

Even the iceberg lettuce, if you’re so inclined. Ω

The scene of my first conversion to vegetarianism is nothing very original: I was about 8 years old, walking the pungent streets of Chinatown in San Francisco with my mother, when I came across a window display in which several skinned pig carcasses hung, puckered and eyeless. At the time, I was really into Pocahontas, and in great sobs of moral outrage, I declared I would never again touch meat.

The duration of this phase is up for some debate in my family. While my mother contends it lasted mere weeks, I say it stretched out for months before I finally succumbed to the pressures of beef jerky. (By that time, I was really into Annie Oakley, and women of the Wild West ate beef jerky.)

Thus began my vacillations between abstaining from and committing to eating meat. The summer I turned 13, I was sent away to a vegetarian Christian camp for reasons that have never been satisfactorily explained to me. My mother, in what appears in hindsight to be a fit of guilt, went and bought two giant bags of beef jerky just before I was shipped off, and she parceled them out into little foil packets for me to keep under my pillow. And so I survived God camp.

Later that same year, I brought home a duckling from science class under the impression that I was saving it from the slaughterhouse and strong-armed I was ready to attempt my parents into New York steak letting me keep her.

I named her Phoebe, alla Fiorentina, so and she waddled I invited my sister after me wherever I went. Naturally, I over—the person least resolved to never eat likely to hold a grudge duck and for solidarity, goose. if she woke up with I made good on food poisoning. this promise until my last semester of college when I studied abroad in Paris, where one is culturally obligated to consume confit de canard and foie gras. My remorse was remarkably easy going down.

Through the decades of hovering between disgust and obsession, one thing has remained consistent: I’ve never learned to cook meat—not in earnest. I’ve grilled up some sad chicken breasts before, but filet mignon? Beef tenderloin? This is serious stuff, and the prospect of ruining a beautiful, tender, expensive piece of flesh—well, it’s always been more than my sometimes-bleeding heart and literaturedegree salary could bear.

Thus, when I learned that the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op was offering a class called Back to Basics: Meat Basics last week, I figured it would be as good an opportunity as any to enter the world of meat-cooking adults. The instructor, Dionisio Esperas, was charismatic and thorough. As he walked the class—36 of us, about half men and half women— through a grilled pork chop, chicken piccata, petrale sole en papillote and a New York strip steak, I hardly thought at all about my morals. Or E. coli.

Come Saturday night, I was ready to attempt New York steak alla Fiorentina on my own, so I invited my sister over— the person least likely to hold a grudge if she woke up in the middle of the night with food poisoning.

It turned out beautifully. I spent a very long time staring at it, assessing the pinkness of its center; surely, if the cow still had feelings, it’d have been a bit creeped out.

Does it come as any surprise that it didn’t taste as good as I wanted it to? It was a good cut of meat, and I made no mistakes. Maybe it was the blood still pooling on the cutting board in the next room, but there was something in it that tasted just a little bit like guilt.

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of Dance, founded by dance superstar Rasta Thomas (Dance Theater of Harlem, Kirov Ballet). It’s a fresh new dance company that has performed in Carnegie Hall with Sir Elton John and toured 150 cities. Talented, young and versatile, the Bad Boys will bring a night of extraordinary athleticism and individuality. Th, 1/24, 7:30pm. $12-$45. Three Stages Peforming Arts Center, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

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Special Events ART COLLECTING W/ JOHN TURNER: Turner has become an expert in several contemporary artists whose works are often grouped into the category of “outsider” art. He has written on the visionary artist Howard Finster and many of the artists in his collection are renowned selftaught and self-motivated artists often displayed in the same museums that feature works produced by master practitioners of mainstream culture. Th, 1/24, 7pm. $5.

Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, 1519 19th St.; (916) 498-9811; www.ccasac.org.

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DON’T MISS! STORIES ON STAGE 3RD ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION:

Sacramento’s award-winning reading series Stories on Stage will feature work by Erica Lorraine Scheidt, author of the new novel Uses for Boys, and emerging fiction writer Megan Cummins.

Both featured writers are alumni of the graduate program in Creative Writing at UC Davis. F, 1/25, 7:30pm. $5.

Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th St.; (916) 441-7395; http://sacramento poetrycenter.org.

Special Events JOURNEYS TO THE WEST BANK: Sherri Patton, Sacramento City College history professor and Paul Hadweh, SCC student, will speak on their experiences in the West Bank. Professor Patton recently traveled to the West Bank on a SacramentoBethlehem Sister City program.

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Film FORKS OVER KNIVES: Two out of every three people in the United States are overweight.

Cases of diabetes are exploding, especially among our younger population. About half of us are taking at least one prescription drug. Could it be there’s a single solution to all of these problems? Is it eating with forks? F, 1/25, 6:30pm. $10$20. Saha Yoga and Wellness Center, 5931 Stanley Ave., Ste. 7 in Carmichael; (916) 484-7175; http://sahawellness.com/forksover-knives-movie-night.

Kids’ Stuff AUTHOR DAVID SCHWARTZ: Join for a special program with David Schwartz, author of more than 50 fun, engaging children’s books. Schwartz emphasizes the importance of mathematics in everyone’s life, and the many connections between math, science and literacy. F, 1/25, 3:30pm. Free. Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 South Land Park Dr.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

INSIDE THE DIRECTOR’S STUDIO: How do you bring famous literature to life in dance? Ask storyteller and Sacramento Ballet’s artistic director Ron Cunningham as he puts dancers through their paces in his newest choreography based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. F, 1/25, 6pm. $15.

The Sacramento Ballet Studios, 1631 K St.; (916) 552-5800 ext. 2; www.sacballet.org.

Special Events WELLNESS EXPO: Join a healthy living expo that encourages self-wellness by exercising and healthy eating. It features stage exercise and performance demos, free exercise lessons, DJ and live band ballroom dancing, doctor and medication consultation, discounted flu shots, healthy eating tips, and exercise and healthy eating community vendors and booths. Sa, 1/26, 10am-2pm. Free. George Sim Community Center, 6207 Logan St.; (916) 719-5087; www.shineselfwellnessexpo.org.

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AMERICAN VISIONS ART GALLERY:

RAINBOW FAMILY STORYTIME: All

Art and Wine Reception for June Carey, an internationally known local landscape and maritime artist in Northern California will be featured in a reception. The night will include wine, Italian bruschetta and hors d’oeuvres. Sa, 1/26, 4-8pm.

Free. 705 Sutter St. in Folsom; (916) 355-1492.

Comedy THE COLONY: This is a show more creative than its name. A team of improv veterans and friends build something with your suggestions. The team takes the stage every week to ask you some questions. Your answers and your ideas fuel the performance. Sa, 9:15pm through 12/28. $7. Blacktop Comedy, 7311 Galilee Rd. 150 in Roseville; (916) 749-3100; www.blacktop comedy.com/shows/thecolony.

CARS & BIKES FOR A CAUSE: There will be a car and bike show, vendors, music, kids zone, drawings and more at this event, which benefits the American Red Cross’ efforts to help victims of Superstorm Sandy. Sa, 1/26, 10am-4pm. Call for pricing. WyoTechSacramento, 980 Riverside Pkwy. in West Sacramento; (916) 637-9231; www.facebook.com/ carsandbikesforacause.

SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP: This is a

GUIDED PHOTO WALK: With cameras in hand, volunteer naturalists will await your arrival. Their guided photo walks give visitors the chance to walk along the Cosumnes River Preserve’s Wetlands Walk, a one-mile-or-so loop trail that takes you through wetlands and riparian forest. Be sure to bring your camera along.

Sa, 1/26, 9am. Free. Cosumnes River Preserve Visitor Center, 13501 Franklin Blvd. in Galt; (916) 870-4317; www.cosumnes.org.

workshop designed to help you learn how to create a business page and product pages from scratch, beginning to end.

Improve your existing Facebook page and learn how to engage with your likes and subscribers. Sa, 1/26, 12-3pm. $97.

Round Table Pizza, 9500 Greenback Ln., Ste. 1 in Folsom; (916) 989-1133; www.facebook .com/pages/FB4BusinessSocial-Media-WorkshopsSacramento/492625097448233.

are welcome at this monthly storytime sponsored by Sacramento Rainbow Families.

Story time begins at 10 a.m.

Book discussion and crafting for school-age children begins at 11 a.m. This is an opportunity for LGBT parents and families to meet, spend time together and enjoy special activities highlighting Sacramento Rainbow Families. Fourth Sa of

every month, 10am-noon through 9/1. Free. McKinley Library,

601 Alhambra Blvd.; (916) 498-8494; www.saclibrary.org.

STORY WHEEL: A NEW SPIN ON THE CLASSICS: This new improv comedy show is just for kids. It takes well-known stories, but makes fun twists based on audience suggestions. Plus it uses audience volunteers to act out the story. There will be two stories plus a brief intermission, for a total of 60 minutes. Second and fourth Sa of every month, noon. $5.

ComedySportz Theater, 2230 Arden Way; (916) 243-8541; www.comedysportz sacramento.com/storywheel.

Meetings & Groups ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY: The afternoon will be focused on finding a deeper and more personal meaning of the mysteries of the rosary practice and the art of mantra yoga. Explore the traditional rosary and the Aquarian Rosary. Sa, 1/26, 2:30-4:30pm. Free. Arden-Dimick

Library, 891 Watt Ave.; (916) 812-9496; http://radiant-light.org.

MUTUAL UFO NETWORK MEETING: See a Powerpoint slideshow of numerous crop circles from around the world. Speculate on whether or not beings of unknown origin may be the ones who created them and are using them to communicate with us in a symbolic language.

Hear guest speaker, Marien Grace, founder and director of the Bay Area Crop Circle Study Group. Sa, 1/26, noon. Free.

Cocos Family Restaurant, 1830 Arden Way; (916) 922-6741; www.mufonsacramento.org.

Now Playing PERILS OF PAW-LEEN: Litterbox Larry has Paw-leen in his clutches. Boo the villain and cheer the hero, Sheriff Manx. Sa,

12 & 2pm through 2/16. Opens 1/26.

$7. Chautauqua Playhouse, 5325 Engle Rd. in Carmichael; (916) 489-7529; www.cplayhouse.org.

Concerts BAROQUE CELLIST MICHAEL LAWSON: Warm a winter evening with the intimate voice of the cello. Continuo cellist Michael Lawson and harpsichordist Ellen Defner, from the Sacramento Baroque Soloists, perform sonatas from Vivaldi, Defesch, Berteau, and Barriere, as well as Bach’s Cello Suite No. 3. Sa, 1/26, 7:30pm. $25 general, $20 seniors, $10 students. St. Pauls Episcopal Church, 1430 J St.; (916) 212-9913; www.sacramentobaroque.org.

Concerts INTERNATIONAL GUITAR NIGHT: International Guitar Night gathers the world’s finest guitarists and composers on one stage. The world’s foremost exponent of solo jazz guitar, Martin Taylor, will perform.

Joining him are Solorazaf from Madagascar, who mixes voice with foot percussion to form a one-man band; Guinga, one of Brazil’s foremost guitarists; and IGN founder Brian Gore.

F, 1/25, 8pm. $12-$29. Three Stages Peforming Arts Center, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

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offer a sensory evaluation of olive oil including the positive attributes and the most common defects. Learn how to choose good quality olive oil and taste some of the best locally produced oils from the recent harvest. Th, 1/24, 6:30-8:30pm. $30-$39.

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

Paul is a Palestinian American who moved from California to the West Bank when he was 10 years old and is now living in Sacramento. F, 1/25, 7:30pm.

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

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DON’T MISS! SACRAMENTO VEGFEST:

VegFest is a celebration of raw, vegan and vegetarian cuisines with exhibits, tastings, vendors, recipes and speakers. Hosted by the Del Paso Boulevard Partnership, participants include the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op, Sacramento Vegetarian Society and Sacramento Vegan Society. Sa, 1/26, 11am-4pm. $3. Sacramento VegFest, 501 Arden Way; (916) 692-5560; http://face book.com/sacvegfest.

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Sound City, 7 p.m. Thursday, January 31; $10. Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street; (800) 225-2277; www.thecrest.com.

RED MEAT, BOB WOODS, CASH PROPHETS: Red Meat kicks off its 20th anniversary tour with honky-tonk and more. The Cash Prophets will be there with its take on Johnny Cash.

Bob Woods and Swampbilly will be bringing honky-tonk, twang and zydeco fun. Sa, 1/26, 6:30pm. $10-$15. Auburn Event Center, 145 Elm Ave. in Auburn; (530) 823-8310; www.keep smilinpromotions.com.

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DON’T MISS! SHAWN COLVIN: In the 22 years since the release of her debut album, Colvin has won three Grammys, released nine albums, maintained a nonstop national and international touring schedule, appeared on countless television and radio programs, had her songs featured in major motion pictures, and created a remarkable canon of work. Su, 1/27, 7:30pm. $36.50. Sacramento City College Performing Arts Center, 3835 Freeport Blvd.; (916) 558-2551.

and event vendors in Nevada County. Nevada County is blessed with the advantage of celebrating four distinct seasons, offering numerous possibilities when creating a wedding or special event. Su, 1/27, 11am. Free. Miners Foundry Cultural Center, 325 Spring St. in Nevada City; (530) 265-5040; www.minersfoundry.org.

MLK DAY OF SERVICE: In commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy, join the Black United Fund of Sacramento Valley and the Talking Drums Newsletter for its Annual MLK Day of Service. They are seeking donations of unworn winter clothing such as hats, gloves, scarves, sweat shirts and socks— and will assemble packages of new, unworn winter clothing to distribute to local homeless shelters. Su, 1/27, 2-4pm. Free. Black United Fund Office, 4104 44th St.; (916) 484-3750; www.bufsacvalley.org.

PUPPETRY, MUSIC AND STORIES: Join children’s singer and storyteller Francie Dillon and the puppetry of Puppet Art Theater for a lively program filled with songs, stories and lots of humor. Su, 1/27, 2pm.

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

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ANTHROPOPHONIA: Join for an

WEDDING FAIR: The Miners Foundry will be transformed into seasonal rooms showcasing some of the top wedding

afternoon of beautiful human sound. Immerse yourself in a river of harmony, chants,

We already know that he has punk-rock cred as the drummer of seminal grunge band Nirvana, has recording-studio credits with Queens of the Stone Age and Tenacious D, and a closet full of Grammys from his years fronting the Foo Fighters. Then, there was the one time he turned down an offer to be a permanent drummer for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. And that other time a few weeks ago when he jammed with ex-Nirvana members and Paul McCartney at 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief. True story: The rocker is now setting his overachieving hands on movie directing.

His new rock documentary, Sound City—which screens at the Crest Theatre on Thursday, January 31—chronicles one of rock’s most famous recording studios of the same name. First opened in 1969 and located in the San Fernando Valley area in northern Los Angeles, the studio recorded legendary musical acts such as Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Santana, Nirvana, Tom Petty, Rage Against the Machine, Weezer and Metallica.

The list goes on.

M, 1/28, 6-8:30pm. $35-$45.

improvisations and tones both ancient and contemporary. The band features woodwinds, voice, piano, bass and percussion. Su, 1/27, 3pm. $10-$15.

Grass Valley United Methodist Church, 236 South Church St. in Grass Valley; (530) 272-1946.

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

Now Playing artistic direction of Tim Robbins (Bull Durham, The Shawshank Redemption), The Actors’ Gang enters its fourth decade as one of Los Angeles’ most enduring theater ensembles. Molière’s Tartuffe is a tale of envy, hypocracy and deception. Tu, 1/29, 7:30pm. $12-$39.

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

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QADIM ENSEMBLE: Qadim is a word found in both Arabic and Hebrew meaning “ancient” as well as “that which will come.”

The ensemble’s repertoire includes Arabic, Jewish, Turkish Sufi, Hebrew Yemenite, Armenian, Greek, Latino and Moroccan music, celebrating the common musical and spiritual heritage of the region’s cultures, while honoring the great diversity found within them. Su, 1/27, 7-9:30pm. $13$15. Village Homes Community Center, 2661 Portage Bay East in Davis; (530) 867-1032; www.timnatalmusic.com.

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HISTORIC 3D YOSEMITE VALLEY PHOTOS: The Sacramento Public Library invites the public to view numerous stereographs of the Yosemite Valley from the early 1900s in 3D. Participants will don 3-D glasses to view the overlaid stereo photographs projected onto the big screen.

The show will be narrated with tour descriptions from the 1908 stereograph set booklet. Tu, 1/29, 6pm. Free. Sacramento Public Library (Central Branch), 828 I St.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

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HOMEMADE BREADS CLASS: With a

Concerts MUSE: Hear British rock giants Muse with special guests Band of Skulls. The last few times Muse came through town, they gained a reputation for putting on an amazing and rocking show. They’re currently touring in support of their latest album, The 2nd Law. Tu, 1/29, 7pm. $35-$55. Sleep Train Arena, 1 Sports Pkwy.; (916) 649-8497; www.arcoarena.com.

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combination of hands-on and demonstration-style instruction, Dionisio Esperas teaches how to create homemade bread. Learn the basic building blocks for a well-rounded repertoire, and gain the confidence to master the recipes you learn and be inspired to adapt them for seasonality, personal preference and to explore your own creativity.

Rd. in Davis; (530) 754-2787; www.mondaviarts.org.

MOLIÈRES TARTUFFE: Under the

with an insider’s tips on the best places to hike, bike or horseback ride in the Auburn State Recreation Area.

Sponsored by the Sierra Club, local author and hike leader, Sheila Toner, will discuss the trails and gems of this hiker’s haven. Tu, 1/29, 7pm. Free.

Auburn Library, 350 Nevada St. in Auburn; (916) 652-7005; www.mlc.sierraclub/placer.

Ma has built his dazzling career on two bedrocks: consummate musicianship and a personal desire for artistic growth and renewal. A skim through his many artistic collaborators reveals his far-flung musical imagination: Chris Thile, Emanuel Ax, and the Silk Road Project. Here, Ma is in recital with accompanist Kathryn Stott. Tu, 1/29, 8pm. $50-$150. Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, 9399 Old Davis

When Grohl found out that the studio was closing in 2011, he bought Sound City’s one-of-akind mixing board to install in his private studio and began interviewing people for this historical documentary. Sound City is Grohl’s visual ode to the studio, and it features interviews with dozens of rock stars who recorded there. The film, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah earlier this month, will be on screens around the country for one night only and will be released for online download the day after, on Friday, February 1.

As if that weren’t enough, coinciding with the release of the film is an album with new material recorded by the Sound City Players, a supergroup consisting of members of Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Cheap Trick, Rage Against the Machine and, natch, McCartney. They performed at Sundance this month and will play with a different lineup at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on January 31. Warning: If you’re a fan of rock ’n’ roll or music history, you’re at risk of getting a huge nerd boner while watching this film.

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COMEDY KILL: Stand-Up Comedian Johnny Taylor presents Comedy Kill for the first time at the premier comedy club in the greater Sacramento region, the Sacramento Punch Line.

Comedy Kill features some of the best stand-up comedians in Northern California. This month’s show is headlined by Chris Thayer and also features Jesse Fernandez, Ray Molina, Daniel Humbarger and John Ross. W, 1/30, 8pm. $15.

Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th St.; (916) 441-7395; http://sacramentopoetry center.org.

Concerts AXIOM BRASS COMES TO SAC STATE: Sacramento State’s New Millennium Concert Series returns with the Axiom Brass Quintet. With a repertoire ranging from jazz to Latin to string quartet transcriptions, the group has toured Germany, Portugal, Spain, Japan and many other nations. W, 1/30, 7:30pm. $5-$20. Sacramento State Music Recital Hall, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-5191; www.csus.edu/music.

ONGOING DON’T MISS! BACON FEST SACRAMENTO 2:

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 donuts, bacon pizzas, cocktails, coloring contests and secret parties, too. Through 1/27. Visit website for pricing. Various locations in the Sacramento area; www.baconfestsac.com.

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Concerts AN ACOUSTIC EVENING WITH CLINT BLACK: His auspicious country music career started with a bang, really unlike any other.

The debut recording, Killin’ Time, boasted five No. 1 hits, and he has since gone on to sell more than 20 million albums worldwide. Sa, 1/26, 8pm; W, 1/30, 7:30pm. $39-$55. Three Stages Peforming Arts Center, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

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LEGENDARY ROCKERS TRIBUTE: This is the music festival of your dreams. It features an incredible line up tribute bands with good food and vendors to add to the atmosphere. And at the same time you can check out the Fusion International Arts Center, and raise money for their arts education programs.

Sa, 1/26, 3-11pm; Su, 1/27, 3-11pm. $15 per day or $25 for a twoday pass. Fusion International Arts Center, 501 Arden Way; (916) 538-4008; www.fusioniac.com.

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Broderick specializes in Pittsburgh-style sandwiches. This type of sandwich originated at a restaurant called Primanti Bros. in the ’30s and consists of grilled meat, coleslaw and french fries served between two thick, fluffy pieces of Italian bread.

I have not been to Pittsburgh, but if that sandwich fell apart upon first bite as Broderick’s does, I don’t think it would have lasted past the Great Depression. Here, the bread is airy and tastes bland—and it’s no match for the towering fried cod served on this sandwich. I have no Rating: beef with french fries; a good fry can be a thing ★★ of beauty and a joy forever, but its inclusion in this sandwich adds nothing more than another Dinner for one: inch to its height. Broderick’s also serves a $10 - $20 black-bean burger. Making such a burger delicious is a challenge, and here the crisped outside and curried spices of the patty are a good start, but the slab of beans is dry, dry, dry.

I’ll never know if the minuscule smear of sauce it’s served with would have possibly livened things up, because the burger falls apart in my hands immediately, and I ultimately just pick at the patty with my fork.

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Gorgonzola can be an overwhelming flavor, but in this case it adds some funk to the chewy steak, and the grilled mushrooms make it extra savory.

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The cocktails would have passed muster a few years ago, but compared to other current drink lists found in Sacramento, they’re tame and uncreative. The Prospector tastes of bourbon and bitters, with no hint of the promised muddled cherries and oranges. The Hair Trigger is just rye and ginger, fancied up with the addition of pricey Fever-Tree ginger beer; the waitress says they’re out and just brings me a pint glass filled with rye and ginger ale—not exactly an elegant drink. The beer list is well-chosen, but again, the bar seems to be out of a few of the selections at any given time, and the servers seem a bit confused about what they do have.

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

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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,

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.

Midtown

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

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groaning board, stocked with abundant regional meats and cheeses. The pickle plate looks like Peter Rabbit’s dream, all teeny turnips and tangy carrot chunks. Generally excellent, the saloon’s cocktail list veers from the classics with a list of bartender-created drinks with unusual, but wisely considered flavor combinations: cilantro and tequila, blackberry and thyme, and the surprisingly sublime mixture of celery and pineapple.

American. 1409 R St., (916) 2319121. 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.

South Sac

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.

HL Hot Pot HL Hot Pot is the type of place that lends itself to a convivial, communal experience where the food seems secondary. It works like this: Servers take your order and then wheel broth and ingredients over on a silver cart. Broths are served two to a segregated pot and plunked onto the table-side burner. The beef broth is essentially pho, heavy on the star anise. The house broth is hardly subtle, with whole cloves and Chinese dates floating therein. The miso shows a light hand with the dashi and miso paste, and the Thai-style broth exhibits tart lemongrass. The key is that the soup boils down over time and becomes saltier, more concentrated and deeper tasting as the meal progresses. Choose from fish, beef, poultry, vegetable and tofu add-ins—the pleasant, layered, slippery texture of the tofu skin is a revelation. Asian. 6930 65th St., Ste. 117; (916) 706-3299. Dinner for one: $10-$15. ★★★ B.G.

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

Another specialty is the morisqueta—the ultimate comfort dish due to the unique texture of the white rice, which is as soft as an angel’s buttock. Diners also have the option to order hand-shaped, griddled-to-order tortillas. They are warm, soft, taste like corn and barely resemble those cardboard things you get at the store.

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

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.

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 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.

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Pork Belly Grub Shack Pork Belly Grub Shack encourages customers to pig out with menu items that include a catfish po’boy, steak options and several burgers. For vegetarians there’s the Porkless Bella Burger, a portobello mushroom and jack cheese sandwich with tomato and mixed greens. But who the hell wants steak and chicken and big-headed mushrooms at a place that so proudly promotes pork belly? Go whole hog with the Big Piggin. The first bite is salty and sweet with a rich beef patty, barbecue sauce, cheddar, a strong splash of garlic aioli and sliced pork belly. The Hot Mess is similar, sans pork belly burger and served on sourdough with a fried egg. The Stinkin’ Pig features cheddar, pepper jack, barbecue sauce and cured, smoked pork belly with caramelized onions and a sweetish hot chili sauce. This kind of hogwild legerdemain, mixing and matching items found elsewhere on the menu, is what elevates this grub shack to well beyond a simple sandwich place. American.

4261 Truxel Rd., (916) 285-6100.

Dinner for one: $8-$12. ★★★★ G.L.

North Highlands

Las Islitas Scrawled on the front window below Las Islitas is the phrase “de Nayarit.” Nayarit is a state on the western coast of Mexico of which Las Islitas is a coastal town that, one must infer from the menu, goes for seafood in a major way. The shrimp a la cora serves up plenty of grilled, reddusted, exoskeleton-still-attached shrimp sprinkled with chili that set off with tomato and cucumber slices and red onion half moon slivers. Spicy, messy and memorable.

The cazuelitas is a cold seafood stew punctuated with tomato, cucumber, red onion, avocado slices and a lime sauce so intense that bits of tostada are needed to leaven its potentially overpowering impact. It’s a joyful discovery that appears to be complimented, as many of the meals are at other tables, with michelada in foot tall mugs with chili-peppered rims.

Mexican. 3618 A St., North Highlands; (916) 331-4302. Dinner for one: $15-$25. ★★★★ G.L.

Rosemont

Sarang Bang The servers at this Korean restaurant are courteous and friendly, and each meal begins with small dishes of banchan.

There are three types of kimchi, all pretty low on the spice-o-meter, but Sarang Bang’s gul bo sam is the real Korean taco, no food truck required. Lightly steamed napa cabbage serves as a scoop for pork, 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.

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., Davis; (530) 753-0154. Dinner for one: $10-$25. ★★★ 1⁄2 B.G.

Roseville

Yard House Everything about Yard House is big. It’s a big brick building in the big Fountains at Roseville shopping center. The beers are big, even the samplers. Some can be served in those big vase-shaped “yard” glasses. On the menu, there’s a big selection of wines, designer martinis, burgers, pizza, seafood and steak—and even a big selection of garden offerings; and a trademarked soy, wheat-and-so-forth meat substitute. While colossal, the 1,665-calorie barbecue-chicken salad—there’s a reason the calorie count is not on the menu—has disparate ingredients that combine artfully. Yard House is over-the-top, a bit overwhelming and mustn’t be overlooked. American.

1166 Roseville Pkwy., Roseville; (916) 922-6792. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★★★ G.L.

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, Nevada City; (530) 265-9902.

Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★★★ B.G.

Davis

Zen Toro Japanese Bistro & Sushi Bar Zen Toro features a large sushi menu, made up of both the steroidal Americanized rolls and traditional nigiri, but it also changes seasonally and features

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Then red onion, several roma tomato slices, a thicket of green leaf and pepper jack cheese, all shoehorned into a big baguette.

Brewpub. 2743 Franklin Blvd., (916) 454-4942. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★1⁄2 G.L.

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Kitties, sticky fingers and sad, creepy dads I asked a friend to care for my cat while I was on vacation and promised to pay him, since he’s currently unemployed. When I returned home, I noticed several items of sentimental value missing. I called my friend, and he said he came by once with a few friends because they were all headed out for the evening. He admitted that one of them probably took my stuff. I told him to get everything back. He said he would, but now claims he

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Joey Pay him. It’s a frustrating situaenjoyed the film tion, but you don’t really know Lincoln. who stole your tchotchkes. If another friend or a former love interest has a key to your home, he or she might be the one with sticky fingers. So don’t be seduced by assumptions, be smart. Change your locks. And, in the future, hire a cat sitter on the basis of skills and not just his need for cash.

What kind of man would put sizzling pics of his daughter on his profile?

One who is only thinking of himself or not thinking at all.

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You can also file a police report online, but don’t expect officers to locate your belongings. Do it to create a paper trail just in case you find one of your knickknacks for sale on Craigslist. Most of all, be grateful that nothing you truly value was stolen. Gratitude will restore your peace of mind.

My dad is 50 years old, twice divorced and a mess when it comes to women.

I tried to fix him up, but he wasn’t interested. He gets really worked up over someone he sees in a coffee shop for five minutes. Even if he never talks to her, he obsesses and keeps saying that he blew it, because she was probably his soul mate. He actually believes this. How can I get him to see that he acts like such a loser?

Why would you want your dad to feel worse? He berates himself for not risking a chat with an attractive stranger. He accuses himself of ruining opportunities to meet the woman he imagines as his soul mate. He fantasizes that certain physical attributes guarantee compatibility, but fails to invest the time required to create a relationship built on mutual chemistry, friendship, trust and commitment. You don’t have to clue him in. He knows he is lost. That’s why he tries so hard to pretend that he will be saved by the right relationship.

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STAGE The story of the man Complete and Unfinished Welcome to the newest installment of Jack Gallagher’s reality show, the fifth edition: Complete and Unfinished, debuting at the B Street Theatre. by Patti Roberts Gallagher, a Sacramento homeboy who has successfully cobbled together a 30-year comedy career by combining television hosting, stand-up routines, commercials and acting (Curb Your Enthusiasm), has also made a name for himself with his reflective one-man shows, which touch on various aspects of his life.

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Gallagher’s scripted brainstorming includes tossing up index cards in storyboard fashion, with titles that include “Comedian,” “Music,” “Irish Church School,” “College” and “The Trip,” which triggers offshoots and short, very funny anecdotes that includes going to confession, driving a Zamboni, his Irish pride and courting his wife.

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In his previous four shows, Gallagher explored the ups, downs and sideways of his life and career, all while blending comedy with wry reflection. Prior shows, three of which debuted at B Street Theatre, include Letters to Declan, Just the Guy, What He Left and A Different Kind of Cool, and all showcase Gallagher’s unique mixture of sophisticated comedy graced with sweet sentimentality and his savvy, sometimes biting, social commentary.

Complete and Unfinished meanders through a cornucopia of subject matter. The topics in this production run across the board—literally. The set is a home office with a writing desk and a huge bulletin board where Gallagher jots down ideas, titles and names on index cards and tacks them up on the board. In a clever concept, he acts out the writing and creation of a new production by coming up with various ideas and themes, which results in observational storytelling and even some audience participation.

Raging hormones Lois Lowry’s Anastasia Krupnik

Last year, the B Street Theatre Family Series did well with The Giver, a dramatization of Lois Lowry’s dark, dystopian novel for older kids. It didn’t hurt that the book is widely read in schools. The audience enthusiasm was proof that family shows can thrive by offering more than light entertainment.

Now the B Street Family Series features another show drawn from the author’s work, Lois Lowry’s Anastasia Krupnik, based on a long-running series about a plucky 10-year-old girl. It’s set in the present, and it’s sunnier and funnier than The Giver. But even though there are comic episodes, this show has some dramatic gravity as well, as Anastasia faces transitions that many kids experience as they grow up.

Like the unexpected arrival of a baby brother.

Anastasia stares down her parents and blurts out, “Aren’t you too old?” And where’s the baby going to fit in their tiny apartment? Will Anastasia lose her room? And there are raging hormones—both Anastasia’s (a tempestuous preteen) and her mom’s (the latter is pregnant).

Anastasia ultimately allows that she’ll help, but she won’t change poopy diapers.

Anastasia also has mixed feelings about her grandma (a role that’s a real switch for Jamie Jones). Grandma’s senile and so wrinkly and decayed that Anastasia gets the creeps from her.

The fast-changing family dynamics play out believably, with Sara Perry as the energetic and mercurial Anastasia, Kurt Johnson as the 40-something dad, and Brittni Barger as the 30-something mom. Sarah Clancy plays Jennifer, Anastasia’s (very Catholic) friend.

Director Elisabeth Nunziato handles the story deftly. Samantha Reno’s attractive set includes a large central turntable for quick scene changes and a projection screen (for Anastasia’s lists of likes and dislikes).

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Director and co-writer Ursula Meier’s latest movie is playing here as Sister, but its original French title is L’enfant d’en Haut—roughly “the kid by Jim Lane to the top.” A tough title to translate, but more to the point, because the focus of Meier and jiml@ Antoine Jaccoud’s script (“with the participation ne w s re v i e w . c o m of Gilles Taurand”) is on 12-year-old Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) rather than the older sister Louise (Léa Seydoux), with whom he lives.

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changing rooms of the resort for anything he can steal—skis, goggles, gloves, jackets—and sell to the kids down home. This is how Simon and Louise get by, and Simon contributes far more to the household finances than Louise with her spotty work record and casual hookups with men as faceless as her apartment.

Simon isn’t a very clever thief, but he’s lucky. He’s especially lucky when Mike (Martin Compston), the Scottish cook at the resort who catches him red-handed in one of the restaurant’s storerooms, turns out to have a matching tendency toward black-market larceny. Mike becomes an accomplice, helping Simon expand his customer base to the other cooks, instructors and seasonal workers at the resort—men with more money to spend than the neighborhood kids down below. Simon’s new clientele have no illusions about where Simon’s merchandise is coming from, but they’re willing to pay him a hefty commission for stealing stuff they’re too cautious to swipe themselves.

Simon’s relationship with Louise is not a simple one. He’s the family breadwinner — such bread as he manages to win—yet he’s the younger sibling. It’s not easy (at least at first) to say how much younger; Louise looks and acts different ages at different times. She could be anywhere between 16 and 30 (actress Seydoux is in fact 27). One moment she’s rolling on the

floor laughing and wrestling with Simon like a playmate, then the next she’s shuffling from room to room like a haggard hungover ghost, cigarette dangling from her drooping lips.

Louise has a look of perpetual—or stunted— youth that’s like a ticking time bomb. There’s a sense that here’s a girl/woman who will look 17 until she’s 40, then seemingly overnight will suddenly look 55.

Mid-movie, there’s new information added that at first we’re not sure we can believe. We’re not sure because we hear it from Simon himself, and he’s shown himself to be an inveterate liar—in fact, he’s a bit better at it than he is at stealing. He tells Mike that his parents were killed in an automobile accident, although he says it with such casual aplomb that we doubt if even Mike believes it. Another time, with more conviction, he tells Kristin Jansen (Gillian Anderson), a nice lady who befriends him on the slopes, that his parents run a luxury hotel, and that his own name is Julien—which happens to be her son’s name. (In the sort of coincidence that so often crops up in auteur-theory movies, it also happens to be the name of the character young Klein played in another Meier movie, Home).

Louise has a look of perpetual youth that’s like a ticking time bomb.

There’s a sense that here’s a girl/woman who will look 17 until she’s 40, then seemingly overnight will suddenly look 55.

Our view of Simon suddenly alters, and we see him in a less perplexing light. Can it be that he’s looking for more from Mike than simple partnership in crime? Is it like with the Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist, who got more from Fagin than simple instructions for picking pockets? Simon himself becomes a curious mix of the Dodger and Oliver, half wise guy and half wide-eyed kid looking for love. He’s the Dodger with Mike, Oliver with the patrician Ms. Jansen; he chats her up pleasantly, but doesn’t seem to be setting her up as a mark; he never thinks that far ahead. Later, when he does finally steal from her—in a plot turn so subtle it almost goes unnoticed—it’s an impulse, but one perhaps subconsciously calculated to bring more trouble on Louise than it does on himself.

Meier’s last shot is unsubtle, but apt: Simon and Louise pass each other on the tramway, one headed up, the other down—but both somehow going nowhere. 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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A Haunted House

A Los Angeles suburbanite (Marlon Wayans) is thrilled that his girlfriend (Essence Atkins) is moving in with him, but gets more than he bargained for when she appears to bring a ghost along with her. Written

by Wayans and Rick Alvarez and (allegedly) directed by Michael Tiddes, this parody of found-video horror flicks has a few scattered laughs, but it’s missing one essential ingredient: somebody to tell Marlon Wayans when he isn’t being funny. Scenes that might have been good for a chuckle go on and on, as if Tiddes had left the camera running while he stepped out for a smoke. Wayans has real (if undisciplined) talent, and Atkins has a nice comic edge, but the most reliable laugh-getter is Cedric the Entertainer as a phony minister spouting “scripture” cribbed from Samuel L. Jackson’s character in Pulp Fiction. J.L.

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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. J.K.

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The Impossible

The driving engine here is the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and the story follows a Spanish family on Christmas vacation in 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.

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For Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut, Ronald Harwood adapts his own play about an English retirement home for esteemed musicians.

The resulting quasi-farce gathers Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay, Pauline Collins and Maggie Smith in a cozy ensemble display of good acting and deconstructed diva ego. A certain Hoffmanesque warmth and wiliness permeates the proceedings, and an affinity for the vicissitudes of the performer’s life, including the intangibles of grudging backstage whisper gossip, brokenhearted reminiscences, and lamented lost minds and loves. More a comfort than a challenge, the movie has a sort of raggedness that might need some acclimation but also helps offset the canned quality of its getting-the-band-back-together scenario, a tense reunion for the home’s annual revue. If you’re wanting an old-folks film and worried that Michael Haneke’s Amour looks too posh or too heavy, this might be the one to catch instead. J.K.

young Tom Holland makes an elegant display of coming-of-age as their eldest son. J.K.

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The Last Stand

A Mexican drug kingpin breaks out of American federal custody, steals a thousand-horsepower Corvette (he’s also a race-car driver), and makes a run for the border, where sheriff Arnold Schwarzenegger and ragtag deputies await. It’d be fun to report some frisson from the ex-Governator’s return to starring roles, but given this disorderly throwback to the days when creaky action thrillers were at once nostalgic for familyvalues Westerns and indifferent to human life, the honest response is: meh. Although not without aging-hero-deprecation humor of the sort Clint Eastwood has made tedious, The Last Stand also misses opportunities on that front—no one seemed to notice or admit how much Ahnold’s hand shakes when hoisting a .44 Magnum. As to how he’s assimilated his stint in “pollydigs,” consider this one-liner: “You make us immigrants look bad.” Otherwise, director Jee-woon Kim and multiple writers get by on bloody gunfights and a climactic cornfield car chase. Co-stars include Eduardo Noriega, Peter Stormare, Forest Whitaker, Harry Dean Stanton, Luis Guzmán, Jaimie Alexander and Johnny Knoxville. J.K.

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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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Mama

A bohemian artist (Nikolaj CosterWaldau) and his goth-rocker girlfriend (Jessica Chastain) gain custody of his two young nieces when they are found in a remote forest cabin five years after being kidnapped by their suicidal father (also Coster-Waldau)—and

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they also acquire the malevolent presence that kept them safe all that time. A story so removed from reality is bound to be creepy and unsettling—it’s the menace in the commonplace that makes for real horror—and director Andrés Muschietti pulls every cheap trick (including executive producer Guillermo del Toro’s trademark bug fetish) to the usual cheap-scare effect. Chastain nobly carries a script patently unworthy of her; her rise has been so swift that here she is “paying her dues” in junk when she’s already got two Oscar nominations to her credit. 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.

Unavoidably the movie of the year, Kathryn Bigelow’s controversial quasijournalistic 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.

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The wayback machine DLRN’s take on hip-hop is ’80s-retro yet also unmistakably modern Hop into the DeLorean time machine to four years ago, when Sean La Marr was just another up-andcoming hip-hop artist in Sacramento. Shoot the by Vanessa Labi machine back over to present day, and the lyricist can be found hanging out at the Midtown cafe Temple Coffee, discussing his new album with hip-hop group, DLRN (which, yes, is derived from “DeLorean”).

The group, featuring La Marr with producer Jon Reyes, is promoting its new album, Awakenings. Naming the group after a Back to the Future reference, La Marr says, is part of the pair’s attention to detail and symbolism.

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“When we decided to name the group DLRN, I was kind of over [the] boom-bap [style],” La Marr explains. “I was like, ‘Let’s do something different.’ So we started experimenting with darker tones and different kinds of soundscapes, and a lot of it was very synth-heavy. That’s why we named it DLRN: [The sound] is kind of ’80sish, and nothing’s more iconic [of] the ’80s in my mind than Back to the Future.”

Reyes pushes the idea even further.

“This is our third eight-track album,” Reyes adds. “So it’s 88.8, which is the speed needed for time travel.”

Clever, right?

Reyes describes the group’s sound as experimental, likening it to moody electro artists, such as Little Dragon and James Blake, with more traditional hip-hop influences such as the Roots, Mos Def and J Dilla.

“It’s taking really progressive music and making it hip-hop. To create dope stuff, you’ve got to be malleable,” Reyes says.

Watch DLRN’s artsy, minimalist video for its single “Good Company,” which features the pair and vocalist Iman Malika subtly emoting against artistic-yet-clean production effects, and you’ll quickly pick up on the band’s thoughtful aesthetic.

Watch the pair perform the song live, however, and you’ll get treated to an energized, dancey love jam. The group’s ability to be silly, sexy and fun is well-matched by

the depth, wit and thought behind its lyrics and musical disposition.

Their ease of collaboration goes way back.

The two met as teenagers and did time in a band together; after that group disbanded, they stayed in touch.

These days, they say, their collaboration feels easy and natural.

Sure, La Marr is the voice and Reyes is the beat man, but the crossover is vast.

“We collaborate a lot in the studio, whether it be from just the recording process to the post-recording to the way songs are formatted,” La Marr says. “But [sometimes] there comes a point in the [production] language—like when it comes to the real, real mixing—where it’s kind of like beyond me, so I just kind of sit back, like, ‘Yeah, that sounds good. Yeah, I like that.’”

That work ethic reflects the hypertechnological age in which they produce music. With La Marr living in Sacramento and Reyes in San Francisco, the partners are no strangers to working via digital correspondence.

“Being collaborative is part of our Internet generation,” Reyes says. “Our whole process initially was just sending files over the computer, and we still kind of do that.”

The album hardly sounds as if it were stitched together through the Web, though.

Awakenings opens with “Homecoming,” a sparkly track that initially reflects upon the jaded frustration of waiting for dreams “with expiration dates” and lowered expectations, then replaces it with a proposal of resilience. “Drive,” meanwhile, is a cruiseworthy track with a bouncy synth fit for the movie Drive’s ’80s-centric soundtrack.

“ To create dope stuff, you’ve got to be malleable.”

Jon Reyes DLRN On “Fear & Loathing,” nightlife and personal demons meet against a hook (sung by local singer-songwriter Steve Nader) inspired by a Kurt Vonnegut quote: “Everything was beautiful, and nothing ever hurt at all.”

La Marr’s penchant for literary nods is rooted in a desire to keep the music timeless.

“A lot of our references aren’t contemporary.

In hip-hop, we get a lot of punch lines that are very current. But I like to make them about things that have lasted, that will always be relevant because the art or the thing I’m referencing is of importance, not just, ‘This is hot right now,’” he says.

“And that’s kind of the concept behind DLRN. We want to make music that lasts, music that weathers time,” La Marr says. Ω

Bosom buddies No, not that Tom Hanks: The guys from Phono Select Records (2312 K Street) along with deejays Lord Siracha and Dali Baba can always be counted on to provide plenty of punk, thrash, metal, hardcore and myriad genres for patrons every third Thursday. Their music choices seem to be whatever songs their hearts so desire during what they’ve coined as Blackout.

It’s a once-a-month treat with no cover for all those wanting to step away from their iPods and listen to the classic sounds emitted by actual vinyl records. If Bad Brains remains a punk-rock favorite, or Ozzy Osbourne still reigns supreme in your music catalog, then you’ll find there’s a little something for everyone during this event. (The deejays are even known to sneak in some new wave from time to time. Seriously.)

Last Thursday, however, Blackout stopped spinning records and welcomed power-violence band Tom Hanks. Now, the members of this two-piece just formed last November, but Chris Lemos’ deep growls and sludgy guitar chords, paired with Adam Jennings’ aggressively driven strikes on drums, is just what the music scene needs to mix up the punk and Power violence indie shows that is written all dominate venues over this Tom Hanks’ face. around town. A crowd of 30-plus gathered in front of the small stage and heard just how loud Tom Hanks can get with only its two members.

Jennings’ intricate and sporadic percussion skills had dozens in the audience transfixed, as he often would throw his whole body into the music while Lemos’ crazed glares and raw vocal style sent many heads slowly nodding in acceptance. As guitar feedback filled dead space between songs, Jennings’ excitement to perform another could be measured by him bouncing up and down in his seat before beating his crash symbols.

Bear witness to the loud noises of Tom Hanks, joining Rat Damage, So Stressed and Retox on Monday, February 11, at 8:30 p.m. at The Press Club (2030 P Street).

All quiet on the Sacto front: If a Wednesday show at a coffeehouse in Sacramento doesn’t build an artist’s mettle, then I fear nothing will. Jennifer O’Connor and Chris Brokaw likely discovered that careerfortifying truth when they played with Brianna Lea Pruett at the Naked Lounge Downtown on January 16.

Never mind that O’Connor and Brokaw got some killer promotion that morning via an in-studio set with Beth Ruyak on Capitol Public Radio’s Insight show. Never mind that both are esteemed indie artists (O’Connor was a Matador Records darling before departing to start her own label; Brokaw once played with ’90s-era indie bands Come and Codeine); in the end, the show only drew about a dozen fans.

Bummer. Pruett, who opened the night with a handful of acoustic folk songs, gamely rallied the crowd and cheered on the headliners. And, to their credit, both O’Connor and Brokaw played with a glass-half-full attitude. While Brokaw played a quiet set that only hinted at his noisy past—maybe it was the hushed cafe setting?—O’Connor dug deep into her catalog to perform an energetic round featuring tunes from all her albums, including the title track from Here With Me. It’s more than a little disappointing (and an all-too-familiar lament) when Sac fails to show up for a good show, but then again, it’s kind of cool how, when push comes to shove, a tiny caffeine-fueled audience can clap its hands loud enough to sound like a packed venue. Like it’s willing Tinker Bell to live (or play). That, and an extra $20 toward the album (hey, that’s cash in the gas tank) has to count for something, right?

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Still alive, still kicking: Longtime local music promoter Jerry Perry has a new gig—this time on TV. Alive & Kicking TV made its debut earlier this week on Access Sacramento with a performance by Walking Spanish (find it on Comcast and Surewest channel 17, on AT&T U-verse channel 99, or online at www.accesssacramento. org). The show is filmed live (the first episode was shot at The Refuge on L Street) and features performances and interviews with local musicians. Each episode is set to air at 11 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. A dozen are scheduled so far. For more info, visit www.facebook.com/AliveAndKickingTV.

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Legendary Rockers Tribute Music Festival

Hans! and the Hot Mess

Blue Lamp, 9:30 p.m., call for cover

One-third of the all-female countryAmericana group Red Molly, Molly Venter has a reputation as a soulful singer. All you FOLK/SOUL need to do is check out her sultry, jazzy cover of the Otis Blackwell and Eddie Cooley classic “Fever,” and you’ll be hooked. But she can also direct her passion more subtly, as on the bluegrass number “Goodnight Moonshine,” where she sings about how she once professed her love to a man. Her smoky vocals are a treat on slower numbers such as “Love Me Like You Mean It.” On “Happier Now” she sings courageously about moving forward. Venter is a siren you’ll want to listen to. 1001 R Street, www.mollyventer. squarespace.com.

The Tipsy Hustlers hoot and holler with a lot of joy. Their track “Remember the Good Times” has to be the most fun anyone’s ever had playing a rock song. People just don’t make songs this unabashed and excited anymore. The band has that odd combination of feel-good rock ’n’ roll and blues that the Fabulous Thunderbirds made famous in the ’80s with songs like “Tuff Enuff” and “Wrap it Up”—with a bit of Foreigner thrown into the mix. The Tipsy Hustlers is the kind of band that is all too ROCK rare now, mixing funk, soul, blues and hard rock, and making it a party. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, (916) 455-3400, www.facebook.com/ thetipsyhustlers.

—Brian Palmer

—Aaron Carnes

Fusion International Arts Center, 5 p.m., $15-$25 This benefit music festival for the Fusion International Arts Center looks to conjure up some old-time fun. In addition to shopping for food and other goods, you can enjoy a dozen ROCK bands—some of them local—over the course of two days (Saturday, January 26, from 5 p.m. to midnight; and Sunday, January 27, from 3 to 11 p.m.). Tickets are $15 per day or $25 for a whole-festival pass—which will allow you to hear covers of songs by the Pretenders, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Fleetwood Mac, Santana (by the Rhythm Vandals, pictured), Foreigner, AC/DC, Journey, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, ZZ Top, Tom Petty, and the Who. 501 Arden Way, www.legendaryrockerstribute.eventbrite.com.

—Jonathan Mendick

ACE OF SPADES

Blue Lamp, 9 p.m., $8 Hans Eberbach wanted to start a boy band—in his 40s. He searched for a name and rejected several, including Backbeat Boys and Earlusions. He brings his new project, Hans! and the Hot Mess, to the Blue Lamp stage this Saturday. The group was nominated for a Sammie for funk last year, and Eberbach won the 2012 Sammie in the Singer-songwriter category. His solo album, released in 2010, is Up Is the Only Way Out, but he’s working on new material. Eberbach has also recorded with Sweet Vine and the Nibblers. He shares the FUNK ROCK stage at this gig with Sacramento-based band Redleaf and San Francisco singersongwriter Roem Baur. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.hansrocks.com.

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DJ Larry Rodriguez (pictured) recently told me that his end-of-the-week boogie-down in Midtown is kind of like his fountain of youth.

“I thank my lucky stars for still having an appreciative audience,” he said. “Some of them refer to the dance party as ‘church,’ and that cracks me up.” The Sunday Night Dance Party is, as they say, sexy and slummy, what with the hot moves and the just-right cover charge (free). And attendees are, apparently, devoted. “I’m not big on organized religion, but a lot of the music I play is rooted in the musical DANCE tradition of the black church,” Rodriguez explained, “and all those Latin rhythms are straight out of Africa.” See, there’s cultured, intelligent dance music out there. Plus, $1 Jell-O shots. 2030 P Street, www.facebook.com/thepressclub.

The Press Club, 8:30 p.m., no cover

With his 1989 debut album Killin’ Time, singersongwriter Clint Black firmly established himself in the country-music scene with five COUNTRY No. 1 hits on the Billboard Magazine country-singles chart—starting with his first single “A Better Man,” which made him the first country artist since Freddy Fender to score a No. 1 hit with his debut single. Black’s liquor-lacquered, heartbreak-filled songs are influenced by traditional country legends such as Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, and this intimate performance as a trio evokes a country-music era of days past. An appearance by his ubiquitous black cowboy hat is also highly likely. 10 College Parkway in Folsom, www.clintblack.com.

Danny Secretion (the Secretions, pictured), Jordan Wolfe (Urban Wolves), Cory Wiegert (Dead Dads) and Patrick Hills (Bastards of Young) all perform regularly in punk-rock bands around town. But these guys will abandon electric guitars and drum sets for acoustic guitars at the Punk Rock Hootenanny. The Hootenanny happens monthly and encourages musicians to mix it up with other local talent.

In December 2012, a guest appearance by ACOUSTIC PUNK Kevin Seconds set the tone for the evening, and then there was an impromptu performance about “stealing underwear” from Get Shot! vocalist, J.P. Hunter. It’s always an unpredictable affair, so grab a partner and see who shows up this month. 2030 P Street, www.facebook.com/thepressclub.

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Branford splashed onto the jazz radar in 1980 JAZZ touring with bebop godfather Art Blakey and has worked with Herbie Hancock, John Lee Hooker and Sting. He is also a former leader of The Tonight Show Band. His current quartet—featuring pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Justin Faulkner—is a crisp, fluid, straight-ahead affair that brings a signature intensity to even ballads. It’s album, Four MFs Playin’ Tunes was iTunes’ Best Instrumental Jazz Album of 2012. 10 College Parkway in Folsom, www.branfordmarsalis.net.

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BLUE LAMP

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

NOME NOMADD, CENTURY GOT BARS, ROB ROY, MASYAH; 9pm, $5

THE TIPSY HUSTLERS, CRAZY BALLHEAD; 9pm, call for cover

HANS & THE HOT MESS, ROEM BAUR, RED LEAF; 8pm, $8

THE BOARDWALK

PHILTHY RICH, J. STALIN, THE HUMAN

DA PUSHAH, DON DEAZY, MAK, CREEPER, GHOSTEDO, POWDA RICHES; 8pm

WITH WOLVES, HAVENSIDE, SOMA RAS, WITHIN THESE CASKET WALLS; 8pm

BOWS & ARROWS

LIGHT-SKINNED CREOLE, MR. P CHILL, VINCE VICARI, DJ Mike Colossal; 7pm

THE TREES, HONYOCK, BIG LONG NOW; 8pm, $5

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

MARC COHN, REBECCA PIDGEON; 8pm, call for cover

DIRTY FILTHY MUGS, SWINGING UTTERS, 47 MILE, SETTING SONS; 7pm, $15

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 ECHO, RETRO; 8pm, $20-$25 1815 19 St., (916) 822-5668 314 W. Main St., Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384

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Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

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

FOX & GOOSE

JIM RAINES, JIM FUNK; 8-11pm, no cover

WEST OF NEXT, BROLLY, MOLLY VENTER; YELLOW JACKET MOTEL, SPANGLER, 9pm-midnight, $5 RICH DRIVER; 9pm-midnight, $5

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

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

Queer Idol, 9pm M, no cover; Latin night, 9pm Tu, $5; DJ Alazzawi, 9pm W, $3 Northern Soul, 8-11pm W; Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu, no cover

MIDNIGHT RAID, 10pm-1:15am, no cover

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

Hey local bands!

DIANA BLAKESLEE, 9pm W, call for cover

Deejay dancing and karaoke, 9pm, $3

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Rock and Rhyme, live deejay with drummer, 9pm, call for cover

FACES

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

RITA HOSKING, COUSIN JACK; 7pm, $15-$18

ART & LACY LEE, 7pm, no cover

18398 Old River Rd., West Sacramento; (916) 371-2277 2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 1/28-1/30

KYLEEN AUSTIN, ELENA DELACEY; 8pm, $18-$20 DJ JB, 9pm, call for cover

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SUNDAY 1/27

HARLOW’S

LED KAAPANA, 7pm, call for cover

TOM RIGNEY & FLAMBEAU, 7pm; DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS, 9:30pm

JOEL: THE BAND, 7pm; TYLER BRYANT AND THE SHAKEDOWN, 10pm

PAUL THORN, 7pm W, call for cover

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR

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

NATE BIEIR & THE SIGNIFIERS, KILO & PEPPER, JULIE THE BRUCE; 8pm, $6

DAVID HOUSTON & STRING THEORY, ANTON BARBEAU; 8pm, $6

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

MARILYN’S ON K

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

VAL STARR AND THE BLUES ROCKET, 9pm, $7

MIDTOWN BARFLY

CFR, AWKWARD LEMON, IDEATEAM; 8pm, $5

Get Down to the Champion Sound, reggae and dancehall deejays, 10pm, $5

Reverence w/ DJs Panic, Chattnoir and Skarkrow; 9pm, $3-$5

Swing and Lindy Hop, 8pm Tu, $6; Salsa, Bachata and Merengue, 8:30pm W, $5

MIX DOWNTOWN

DJs Eddie Edul and Peeti V, 4pm-2am, $10

DJ Elliott Estes, 8:30pm-2am, $15

DJ Mike Moss, 8pm-2am, $20

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN

MIKE JAMES, BILLY BUCKMAN, JAMES ISREAL AND FRIENDS; 8:30pm, $5

JILT VS JONAH, ANCIENT ASTRONAUT, T.H.I.E.F.; 8:30pm, $5

ISAAC HOWL, GREAT AMERICAN LITERATURE, JESI NAOMI; 8:30pm, $7

Jazz, 8:30pm M; WOULD BE TRAIN ROBBERS, MIND FLOWERS; 8:30pm W, $5

WILLIAM MYLAR, 5pm; 50 WATT HEAVY, JEM & SCOUT, AARON KING; 8pm, $5

WHOOPIE QAT, 9pm, $6

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

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693 1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931 908 K St., (916) 446-4361 1119 21st St., (916) 549-2779 1531 L St., (916) 442-8899 1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

OLD IRONSIDES

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THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

13 Main St., Winters; (530) 795-1825

DJ Gabe Xavier, 8:30pm-2am, $10

DJs Gabe Xavier and Peeti V, 8:30pm2am W, $10

RITA HOSKING & COUSIN JACK, 8pm, $20

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JOEL THE BAND jan 26 10pm $10 adv

TYLEr BrYANT AND THE SHAKEDOWN

jan 30 7pm $25 adv

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Marco Benevento Mr. Friend Martin Luther Steelin’ Dan Polish Ambassador Portland Cello Project Queen Ifrica Close To You Fishtank Ensemble ALO The Growlers Sizzling Sirens Dean-0-Holics Diego’s Umbrella Tyrone Wells Salvador Santana Galactic George Kahumoku The Neighbourhood Tainted Love Bill Champlin Blackalicious G. Love & Special Sauce G-Eazy Anuhea Monophonics Joe Ely Pablo Cruise The Aggrolites Murs / Prof / Fashawn

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DJ Scene, DJ Eddie Edul, 9pm-2am, $15

DJ Peeti V, 9pm, $15

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

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 1/28-1/30

BP AND PRADUH, 8-10pm, no cover

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

Country Karaoke, 9pm M, call for cover; DJ Alazzawi, DJ Rigatony, 10pm Tu, $3

PINE COVE TAVERN

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PJ’S ROADHOUSE

DJ Old Griff, 9pm, no cover

DJ Old Griff, 9pm, no cover

ICE HOUSE BLUES BAND, 8pm, $5

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HIGHWAY 20, 9pm, call for cover

STEEL BREEZE, 10pm, $10

POSTERCHILD, 10pm, $10

BOBBY HENDRICKS’ DRIFTERS, 3pm, $15

THE PRESS CLUB

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

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

Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

SAMMY’S ROCKIN’ ISLAND

COVER ME BADD, 10pm, $5

BRAD WILSON, 10pm, $5

502 29th St., (916) 446-3624 5461 Mother Lode, Placerville; (530) 626-0336 614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586 2030 P St., (916) 444-7914 238 Vernon St., Roseville; (916) 773-7625

SHENANIGANS

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

705 J St., (916) 442-1268

Basement Sessions, house deejay, 10pm, DJ Hype, 9:30pm, call for cover call for cover

SHINE

DELTA CITY RAMBLERS, PINE STREET RAMBLERS, SEAN FLEMING; 8pm, $5

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

DJ Supe, BLAKBOY PAMPER, BROWNIE, JU$T PAID; 6:30pm, $11-$13

GENRENAUT, ATLAS & ARROWS, DUDLEY & THE DOO-RIGHTS; 6:30pm, $11-$13

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

1400 E St., (916) 551-1400

SOL COLLECTIVE

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

Diana Blakeslee 9pm Wednesday, call for cover.

District 30 Electropop and house

STONEY INN/ROCKIN RODEO

JASON BUELL & THE DOUBLE BARREL BAND, 9pm, call for cover

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

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

Hoedown for Newtown w/ DJ Jaimie Lee, 1-5pm and 6-10pm, $20-$45

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

TORCH CLUB

X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; MARK SEXTON, 9pm, $5

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm, no cover; KAREN LOVELY, 9pm, $10

JOHNNY KNOX, 5pm, no cover; ELECTRIC GREASE, 9pm, $7

Blues jam, 4pm, no cover; JEREMY NORRIS, 8pm, $5

BUMPTET, 9pm Tu, $5; Open-mic, 5:30pm W; LONESOME LOCOMOTIVE, 9pm W, $5

1320 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 927-6023 904 15th St., (916) 443-2797

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FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 24, 2013

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The German

government sponsored a scientific study of dowsing, which is a form of magical divination used to locate underground sources of water. After 10 years, the chief researcher testified, “It absolutely works, beyond all doubt. But we have no idea why or how.” An assertion like that might also apply to the mojo you’ll have at your disposal, Aries, as you forge new alliances and bolster your web of connections in the coming weeks. I don’t know how or why you’ll be such an effective networker, but you will be.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The United

States Congress spends an inordinate amount of time on trivial matters. For example, 16 percent of all the laws it passed in the last two years were devoted to renaming post offices. That’s down from the average of the previous eight years, during which time almost 20 percent of its laws had the sole purpose of renaming post offices. In my astrological opinion, you Tauruses can’t afford to indulge in anything close to that level of nonsense during the next four weeks. I urge you to keep timewasting activities down to less than 5 percent of your total. Focus on getting a lot of important stuff done. Be extra thoughtful and responsible as you craft the impact you’re having on the world.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What if your

unconscious mind has dreamed up sparkling answers to your raging questions, but your conscious mind doesn’t know about them yet? Is it possible you are not taking advantage of the sly wisdom that your deeper intelligence has been cooking up? I say it’s time to poke around down there. It’s time to take aggressive measures as you try to smoke out the revelations that your secret self has prepared for you. How? Remember your dreams, of course. Notice hunches that arise out of nowhere. And send a friendly greeting to your unconscious mind, something like, “I adore you, and I’m receptive to you, and I’d love to hear what you have to tell me.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In his book

Our Band Could Be Your Life, Michael Azerrad says that the Cancerian singersongwriter Steve Albini is a “connoisseur of intensity.” That means he’s picky about what he regards as intense. Even the two kinds of music that are often thought of as the embodiment of ferocious emotion don’t make the grade for Albini. Heavy metal is comical, he says, not intense. Hardcore punk is childish, not intense. What’s your definition of intensity, Cancerian? I see the coming weeks as prime time for you to commune with the very best expressions of that state of being. Be a connoisseur of intensity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There’s a butterfly

sanctuary at the Como Park Zoo & Conservatory in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It’s called the Enchanted Garden. As you enter, you see a sign that reads, “Please do not touch the butterflies. Let the butterflies touch you.” In other words, you shouldn’t initiate contact with the delicate creatures.

You shouldn’t pursue them or try to capture them. Instead, make yourself available for them to land on you. Allow them to decide how and when your connection will begin to unfold. In the coming week, Leo, I suggest you adopt a similar approach to any beauty you’d like to know better.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you ever

fantasize about a more perfect version of yourself? Is there, in your imagination, an idealized image of who you might become in the future? That can be a good thing if it motivates you to improve and grow. But it might also lead you to devalue the flawed but beautiful creation you are right now. It may harm your capacity for self-acceptance. Your assignment in the coming week is to temporarily forget about whom you might evolve into at some later date, and instead just love your crazy, mysterious life exactly as it is.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Novelist Jeffrey

Eugenides says he doesn’t have generic emotions that can be described with one word. “Sadness,” “joy” and “regret” don’t happen to him. Instead, he prefers “complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions,” like “the disappointment of sleeping with one’s fantasy” or “the excitement of getting a [hotel] room with a minibar.” He delights in sensing “intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members” and “sadness inspired by failing restaurants.” In the coming days, Libra, I think you should specialize in one-of-a-kind feelings like these. Milk the nuances! Exult in the peculiarities! Celebrate the fact that each new wave of passion has never before arisen in quite the same form.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): After ana-

lyzing your astrological omens for the coming weeks, I decided that the best advice I could give you would be this passage by the English writer G.K. Chesterton: “Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of set rules and set tasks.”

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

general philosophy is that everyone on the planet, including me, is a jerk now and then.

In fact, I’m suspicious of those who are apparently so unfailingly well-behaved that they never act like jerks. On the other hand, some people are jerks far too much of the time and should be avoided. Here’s my rule of thumb: How sizable is each person’s Jerk Quotient? If it’s below 6 percent, I’ll probably give them a chance to be a presence in my life—especially if they’re smart and interesting. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Sagittarius, this gauge may be useful for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks.

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

French painter Cézanne painted images of a lot of fruit in the course of his career. He liked to take his sweet time while engaged in his work. The apples and pears and peaches that served as his models often rotted before he was done capturing their likenesses. That’s the kind of approach I recommend for you in the coming days, Capricorn. Be very deliberate and gradual and leisurely in whatever labor of love you devote yourself to. No rushing allowed! With conscientious tenderness, exult in attending to every last detail of the process.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Nobody

can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.” So said the eccentric, outspoken and hard-partying actress Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968). Can you guess her astrological sign? Aquarius, of course. Her greatest adventure came from trying to keep up with all the unpredictable urges that welled up inside her. She found it challenging and fun to be as unique as she could possibly be. I nominate her to be your role model in the next four weeks. Your assignment is to work extra hard at being yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The

Dardanelles Strait is a channel that connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, separating Europe from Asia. In some places it’s less than a mile wide. But the currents are fierce, so if you try to swim across at those narrow points, you’re pushed around and end up having to travel five or six miles. In light of the current astrological omens, I’m predicting that you will have a comparable challenge in the coming days, Pisces. The task may seem easier or faster than it actually is. Plan accordingly.

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

Customer service (612) 373-9785. And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.

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Crazy good running It takes a special kind of discipline and an unsentimental attachment to one’s big toes’ toenails to be an endurance runner, and it requires even more awareness to be fueled by only plantbased foods. But being a vegan athlete is nothing new (see track-and-field Olympian Carl Lewis and ultramarathoner Scott Jurek, for starters).

Carmichael resident, long-distance runner and co-organizer of the Team Veg of Greater Sacramento Meetup group Jedidiah Soliz adopted a vegetarian diet in 2011 and transitioned to total veganism on his 30th birthday last August, and then ran his first marathon the following December. And Soliz is perfectly at ease with it all—lest anyone thinks he’s a little crazy for it.

Why did you decide to go full vegan?

Because after everything I’ve learned and researched, it’s just the best for everything involved—animals, environment, our health, other people in the world. And it became my passion and inspiration originally from my sister, who back in 2003 went to [a] raw vegan [diet] almost instantly.

Did you choose to ease into it because you felt like you’d be tempted?

Most of my life I ate unhealthy food, a lot of meat and dairy and processed foods and refined sugars and things, so I knew I would probably experience some intense withdrawals. … My sister was able to do it, but she had somebody basically take her out of society for three months to switch her over. … But everybody else I’ve known has who has tried to go right over, it didn’t really work for them.

Is your sister younger or older?

She was younger than me. ... She passed away in 2006.

I’m so sorry to hear that.

She was in a motorcycle accident. She was on the back of somebody [else’s bike, who was] driving, so yeah. So she’s a big part of my inspiration now, of doing what I’m doing. It was her passion to help teach others about it … and I’m going to pass it on. So it’s kind of where I take off trying to make a difference, carrying on her legacy to some extent.

Was the California International Marathon in December 2012 your first marathon?

It [was]. … It went well. It was a very crazy experience, an experience of a lifetime, nothing like I’ve ever done before. All of my shorter races, half-marathons and down, were a completely different kind of race. …

A lot of the training was running 80 to 100 miles a week for a while, but still, on

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marathon day, I still felt almost underprepared. I was prepared enough to … hit my general goal, but the weather that morning was crazy. We had intense headwind and pouring rain, like a hurricane almost, and that affected the race, not only physically but mentally as well, you know, just dealing with those types of conditions.

What’s the difference as a long-distance runner with an omnivoric diet vs. a vegan one?

When I had an omnivoric diet, I wouldn’t recover as fast and got injured a lot. … So that really sparked a reason to find a way to prevent injury, speed up recovery, and that’s where a lot of my research led me to, the vegan diet. An alkaline-rich diet, especially … [a] healthy, whole-food plant-based diet and those types of raw foods. … They’re alkaline rich, and your body and your blood are alkaline, so it keeps that balance. If we eat lots of acidic food, then our body has to compensate for that by drawing vitamins and nutrients out of our bones and joints and into our bloodstream … therefore weakening our bones and making us more prone to stress fractures and injuries.

Some say that to run a marathon on a restrictive diet, you have to be crazy.

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Can you tell me what your diet is like during training?

I’ll try to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables throughout the day. I have a salad almost every day with dark-green leafy veggies … and then I’ll do superfood smoothies in the mornings when I can, especially when I’m training or on race mornings, like a smoothie with kale, blueberries and whatever else I have at hand. And I put superfoods in there … goji berries, chocolate, raw maca, algae, chlorella, stuff like that.

You did the Tough Mudder. That is crazy.

(Laughs.) Yes. ...

There’s nearly 20 obstacles or so. …

What I came to find is that a long-distance runner has just about the best advantage because you need to have a good strengthto-weight ratio for a lot of those, because … you have to pull yourself up with your upperbody strength. … I didn’t have much of a struggle at all. ... I did it in two hours and one minute. ...

You can time yourself and submit your time to see if you can qualify for the World’s Toughest Mudder, which would be a 24-hour straight Tough Mudder ... if you make the top 5 percent. ... And I qualified.

The women’s World’s Toughest Mudder in 2011 was vegan.

That’s pretty cool. Nice to know. … I’d like to do it some day, I know it sounds super crazy, and I probably sound a little crazy to do that, but it’s kind of what I do and who I am. Ω

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