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hen Gabriel Brower was born in 1995, there was no baby blue bedroom waiting for him.

But that has only made him stronger.

“Look at where I come from. Not too many people are making something for themselves, why be the same? I am always that person who wants to be different.” To stay strong, he thinks not of himself, but who he is influencing. While technically he only has two biological siblings, after living in six different homes around the Sacramento area there are many more people that look to him as their brother. “Monkey see, monkey do when it comes to brothers and sisters. If they see you succeed, they are going to want to succeed.”

“THIS IS A POWERFUL MOVEMENT. WE ARE DOING BIG THINGS, INFLUENCING LIVES AND CHANGING THEM FOR THE BETTER. IT’S JUST GREAT.”

Gabriel and other youth activists from the Sacramento branch held a video rally on zero tolerance policies with youth in Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Fresno in August 2011. In July 2012, Gabriel attended the Boys and Men of Color Network Summit at UC Davis.

At the summit, Gabriel remembers that a gang prevention counselor spoke of his experience growing up in the hood. His older brother had fell into a gang and ended up in prison. His words help Gabriel find strength to continue working toward his future. “Him saying what he said to me and everybody around me, really changed my perspective and [made me want] to do things for the better.”

Gabriel’s signature was the first on a petition of thousands of youth and adults launched on www.change.org asking the governor to sign seven bills that would improve school discipline.

Gabriel has enlisted in the Army to pay his way through college, but he says, “When I’m done, I would like to come back to Sacramento and help the youth out with trying to going to college.” He believes that arming the youth with proper tools is what can make this world a better place.

And the Boys and Men of Color Network in Sacramento is helping him do just that.

“This is a powerful movement. We are doing big things, influencing lives and changing them for the better.

It’s just great.”

He learned of the Boys and Men of Color Network in Sacramento in March of 2011. The network has helped him gain necessary speaking skills and tools for raising awareness and stirring up political pressure supporting the youth community in Sacramento.

But more importantly, it has brought them together. “We aren’t all from the same schools, but when we come together, we all talk, have fun, make fun of stuff, just laugh and have good conversations. You know, it’s good.”

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

BOYS AND MEN OF COLOR NETWORK Building healthy communities starts with our youth, especially those that are disadvantaged. The Boys and Men of Color Network in Sacramento is a partnership of the California Endowment and other leaders throughout the state, Sacramento’s community-based organizations and school providers to address the problems that contribute to the inequities and crises facing boys and men of color. The network aims to implement system and policy changes that improve the health and success of boys and men of color.

Gabriel Brower speaking to youth at the launch of the Boys and Men of Color Network legislative hearings in 2011.

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uniformly wrong Last week, I attended an event hosted by the local chapter of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. This was a social mixer meant to promote mentorship and also was an opportunity to learn about how the organization shapes lives by teaching girls and teens important leadership and criticalthinking skills. Several of the women I met there had once been Scouts, and as I listened to stories of empowerment and personal change, I wished I could go back in time and join the organization (actually, when I was really young, I was part of a Blue Bird troop—a precursor to Camp Fire Girls—but all I really remember from that time is something about melting crayons between wax paper.

You know, art). I vowed that if I ever had a daughter, I’d most certainly sign her up to wear a uniform. Too bad that my future hypothetical son would have to miss out—there’s no way I’d enroll anyone in an organization that discriminates against gays.

That almost changed this week, however, when the Boy Scouts of America announced that the group is considering ending its longstanding policy of banning gay Scouts and Scout leaders.

Great—it’s about time. Unfortunately, however, this change doesn’t go far enough. According to Deron Smith, a spokesman for the Boy Scouts, the new potential policy would eliminate the ban from the national organization’s guidelines—yet would still allow for local troops to establish rules “consistent with each organization’s mission, principles or religious beliefs.”

Why the distinction? Discrimination based on one’s sexual orientation is wrong. Period.

It’s time for the Boy Scouts to end this ban wholesale. Until then, anything else they offer boys and young men is pointless.

—Rachel Leibrock

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His obsession with SportsCenter. It’s on all day, all night, like every time I turn on the TV it’s on. I’m just tired of hearing the same sports news over and over again. But he likes to memorize it, I guess. …

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Re “Life after the Sacramento Kings” (SN&R Editorial, January 24): Whether or not Mayor Kevin Johnson can convince the NBA to stay in Sacramento remains to be seen. But regardless of how that endeavor turns out, the city must press forward with development of a new entertainment and sports complex, preferably in place of the deteriorating Downtown Plaza. The article suggests we “rethink” downtown with a return of letter of streetcars and an intermodal-transit station, yet those are the week hardly new ideas. Neither is “more urban housing.” Streetcars to shuttle people past bail bondsman and stoic state office buildings isn’t a recipe for a vibrant downtown. Neither is a spending a couple hundred million dollars on a new transit facility to move people to and from their privatesector jobs and entertainment venues in the Bay Area.

While I’m not against streetcars or an intermodal facility at some point, a new ESC paid for with a public/private partnership will do more to attract urban housing, retail and dining, and it will result in increased light-rail ridership. It will also bolster the number of visitors and conventions downtown.

Denver, Phoenix, Orlando and Charlotte, [N.C.], are just a few examples.

Downtown Sacramento should be the arts, entertainment, dining and cultural destination for this region. Anything less is selling ourselves short at the opportunity for a vibrant city center.

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Re “Sleepless in Sacramento” by Nick Miller (SN&R Frontlines, January 24): Message to Mr. Kevin Johnson: Let it go. The Sacramento Kings are finished.

No one wants a new stadium. No one cares except the contractors that have you firmly wedged in their back pockets.

Move on.

Jack Chandler West Sacramento

Re “We’re not all Jenny McCarthy’s sheep” by Eve Dias, (SN&R Letters, January 24): SN&R did Eve Dias no favors by publishing her foolish anti-vaccination letter. It will undoubtedly expose her to well-deserved ridicule, especially for saying “polio is a lot easier to live with and causes way fewer problems than autism.” Apparently, Jonas Salk and Albert Bruce Sabin labored in vain, and we should open our minds to the delightful resurgence of crutches, leg braces, kid-sized wheelchairs and iron lungs. Iron lungs are so convenient.

Way better than polio vaccines! Dias thinks she is making some kind of point here, although polio vaccines are in no way related to autism-spectrum disorders (nor is any other vaccine, Jenny McCarthy and her fellow travelers notwithstanding).

Dias styles herself as a “holistichealth practitioner” (that is, not really a medical doctor). For keeping kids healthy, she cites “homeopathic medicine.” Anyone who accepts the efficacy of remedies with many iterated trillions of dilutions has crippled her reason with magical thinking. The sensible consumer can reliably take the label “homeopathic” as “don’t waste your money.”

The clusters of otherwise educated parents who refuse to vaccinate their children and enroll them in certain private schools generate a selfreinforcing groupthink, reassuring each other that they are doing the right thing by denying modern medicine to their

Kings good, SN&R bad Re “‘Maloofed’” by Nick Miller (SN&R Editor’s Note, January 24): It’s a miracle you don’t work for a bigger newspaper. Are you even from Sacramento? Your editorial is so off base. Measures Q and R were ridiculous. And I guess streetcars, light rail and K Street are going to revitalize downtown. Way to go. Why don’t you move to Seattle? All the articles you guys have put out are negative.

The Sacramento Kings are good for Sacramento and you obviously are not.

Find something better to write about, because you know nothing about what you are talking about.

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children. They are the easy riders on the back of herd immunity, whether Dias recognizes it or not.

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Munchkin army?

Re “Trade all guns … for muskets?” by William Doonan (SN&R Feature Story, Letters to Obama, January 17): The gun industry and its progeny, the National Rifle Association, want to arm everybody and arm all the teachers in the schools. Arming every teacher in America would be expensive and intrusive. Arm the students.

Consider: A gunman enters a firstgrade classroom and is met with a hail of .22 hollow points fired conveniently at the groin level, effectively taking him out. And I bet the kids of today are good shots after playing all those video games.

Such a plan meets NRA’s gunslinger-in-chief Wayne LaPierre’s axiom of bad man with a gun is met by a good man (in this case, a good munchkin) with a gun—15 of them.

What a wonderful surprise: A win-win for everybody except the “harvested” (gun) terrorist.

Ron Lowe Nevada City

Let’s hear from the ladies Re “Roe v. Wade at 40” (SN&R Editorial, January 17): You stated “Abortion will always be a painful and difficult personal matter.

And it will always be controversial.” For many women, abortion is a relief. Pain is not the primary emotion. For many, it’s not the disaster-driven affair the antichoice camps have painted it as. Nearly one in three women have an abortion in their lives. I would like to see SN&R feature a story about what it’s actually like to have an abortion in Sacramento, from various women’s perspectives, and from their male partners. Too often, we editorialize the experience. Let’s hear about abortion in a woman’s own words.

Emily Loen Sacramento

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Teachers financing guns CalSTRS hopes to divest itself from a company that manufactures assault weapons like the one used at Sandy Hook.

But even if it does, it still won’t be out of the gun business.

After Adam Lanza slaughtered 20 first graders and six adults last month in Newtown, Conn., by teachers’ unions across the nation emerged Darwin as some of the most vocal advocates for BondGraham stricter gun-control laws. But not long after the mass shooting, it also was revealed that the California teachers’ retirement system likely helped finance the production of the assault weapon that Lanza used at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The California State Teachers’ Retirement System, or CalSTRS, is a major investor in Cerberus Capital Management, a private-equity firm that controls Freedom Group, the manufacturer of the Bushmaster XM-15 assault rifle—the weapon that made Lanza’s rampage at Sandy Hook so swift and deadly.

CalSTRS is now demanding that Cerberus sell Freedom Group, but even if it’s successful, the pension fund likely will still be in the gun business. In fact, extracting itself completely promises to be a herculean task.

Cerberus is the world’s 14th-largest private-equity firm and manages $25 billion in investments. In Greek mythology, Cerberus is the three-headed wolfhound that guards the gateway to the underworld of Hades. Hercules’ final and most dangerous task is to capture Cerberus alive. Befitting its mythological namesake, Cerberus Capital Management invests in companies intimately involved in war and death.

The Freedom Group “family of companies,” as the gunmaker calls its holdings, was assembled by Cerberus in the late 2000s as a result of 15 strategic mergers and acquisitions. In just a few years, Cerberus became one of the largest gun profiteers in the world. In addition to Bushmaster, Freedom Group brands include well-known gunmakers, such as Remington and Marlin Firearms, along with several ammunition producers. Freedom Group also owns TAPCO, a tactical weapons gear company that sells 30-round, BEFORE

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high-capacity magazines for assault rifles like the Bushmaster XM-15. Freedom Group sells its weapons in the massive U.S. civilian market through licensed dealers, but its guns trade by the millions on the less-regulated secondary markets of gun shows, personal sales and black markets.

CalSTRS is one of Cerberus’ biggest limited partners. As such, the ultimate owners of the arms-manufacturing company that made the rifle used in Sandy Hook are California’s K-12 and community-college teachers.

Management LP. This private-equity fund was then used to buy out Freedom Group and other gun and ammo makers over the next several years. In 2007 and 2008, CalSTRS placed another $650 million with Cerberus as it continued to gobble up gun companies, among other investments.

Today, CalSTRS claims these were more or less innocent investments that just happened to get funneled into the small-arms industry. But Cerberus didn’t just “happen” to buy up gun companies because they were profitable. Rather,

CalSTRS investments in United States, European and Israeli weapons makers total at least $900 million.

But divestment isn’t an easy process.

It’ll take time for Cerberus to sell Freedom Group, and that gun company is hardly the only weapons maker in Cerberus’ portfolio—or in CalSTRS’ for that matter. Weapons manufacturing is big business. Numerous pension funds, mutual funds and foundations, many of which claim to follow socially and environmentally responsible guidelines when investing money, hold big stakes in companies that make and sell everything from pistols to missiles.

CalSTRS’ partnership with Wall Street’s hound of hell began in 2003 when the pension’s board voted to invest $100 million in Cerberus Capital

weapons have been a core business area for Cerberus since its founding.

Cerberus, based in New York, was established in 1992 by a clique of wealthy and politically connected investors, most notably former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle. They dove into weapons manufacturing about 10 years ago with a focus on firearms and set about methodically assembling Freedom Group. Cerberus hired NRA-affiliated gun lobbyist George K. Kollitides II in 2003 to lead its “defense and firearms” portfolio, according to a 2011 Freedom Group press release.

“Kollitides was the principal architect of the investments in [Freedom Group] for Cerberus,” the company explained. In

addition to building up Cerberus’ weapons companies, “[Kollitides] led a successful campaign to combat anti-gun legislation in New York,” stated Cerberus’ press brief.

Perhaps the CalSTRS board wasn’t paying attention to what Cerberus was doing with some of the teachers’ $750 million in cash. To be fair, CalSTRS has $38 billion in teacherretirement savings parked with about 260 different private-equity funds.

After Sandy Hook, the realization of what Cerberus had done with CalSTRS’ money led State Treasurer Bill Lockyer and the pension board to issue a call for Cerberus to fully divest from Freedom Group, especially because the Bushmaster XM-15 rifle is illegal in California.

CalSTRS spokesman Ricardo Duran said the pension’s effort to divest from makers of illegal weapons doesn’t stop with Cerberus. “We are reviewing our entire portfolio, and we’ve identified two other companies in the public-equity sphere in which we own stake,” said Duran.

CalSTRS owns a combined $6 million in Smith & Wesson, and Sturm, Ruger & Co. stock. Both companies make guns that cannot be sold in California.

“They’re the result of automatic purchases, basically,” said Duran, describing CalSTRS’ vast stock holdings. “We’re now going through the divestment process.”

Prompted by CalSTRS, Cerberus has agreed to sell Freedom Group, fearing a loss of access to the pension fund’s money

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Despite increased interest and enthusiasm on the part of Sacramento Steps Forward, the mayor’s public-private initiative that works on homeless issues, no new methods were put into place for identifying homeless youth on January 24, the night of the count.

“Tonight, there are no special strategies for counting homeless youth,” admitted Michele Watts, interim director of programs at Steps Forward.

“What we know here [in Sacramento] is that we don’t do a great job as a community in meeting the needs of the homeless youth.”

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Homeless youth not accompanied by adults are extremely difficult to find. They tend to avoid adult shelters for safety reasons and try to stay under the radar of many outreach efforts for fear of ending up in the “system”—foster care or adoption services. Often, they couch surf with friends or extended family to stay out of the elements at night.

Here in Sacramento, homeless-youth numbers have run far across the spectrum.

The last point-in-time count in 2011 tallied a mere 27 homeless children in Sacramento County, but a report by county school districts that same year counted 11,354 children in the county living in homeless situations. And this number doesn’t even take into account homeless youth between the ages of 18 and 24.

Just before the last count was set to take place across the nation in January 2011, the California Homeless Youth Project released a startling and damning report: Almost twothirds of all California counties had no services specifically designed for homeless youth.

Sacramento County stood among the few providing youth services, but the area’s three youth-oriented shelters provided just 32 beds in all on any given night.

“What we know here [in Sacramento] is that we don’t do a great job as a community in meeting the needs of the homeless youth,” said Watts,

who was the lead staffer for last week’s count.

“We don’t know much about them, and that’s the first step in addressing their needs better.”

The National Alliance to End Homelessness estimates that some 110,000 youth currently live in the streets in the United States at any given time. Half of them are believed to be between the ages of 12 and 17, and half between 18 and 24.

Shahera Hyatt of the California Homeless Youth Project, which operates under the California Research Bureau, explained that while the homeless between the ages of 18 and 24 are technically adults, they are still classified as youth because they tend to have similar needs and habits as younger unaccompanied youth. Like the younger demographic, many of them also steer clear of services meant for adults for safety reasons, and they are often in need of educational services.

“Since that 18 to 24 group isn’t served well by a lot of the programs for chronically homeless adults, it’s important for us to know how many there are in our community that require services,” said Hyatt.

Last summer, the Homeless Youth Project released tool kits for communities across the state, which outlined some of the best practices—such as the point-in-time count—for finding and counting homeless youth in surveys. While some of the cities most responsive to homeless youth, such as Los Angeles and San Jose, responded well to the tool kit, most communities across the state did not pay as much attention as the Homeless Youth Project had hoped in the buildup for the count—Sacramento included.

Nevertheless, the area’s homeless-youth advocates have begun to come together in recent months. Watts has enthusiastically announced Steps Forward’s plans this year to unveil a homeless-youth initiative, though the size and scope of it is yet to be determined.

And last November, area homeless-youth workers met at Wind Youth Services in north Sacramento to discuss future initiatives in helping the homeless youth. This meeting included a representative of Community Link, the group responsible for the point-in-time count’s methodology, as well as representatives from local youth shelters, homeless-youth advocates in the county’s school system and HYP’s Hyatt.

Even so, there is more work to be done.

This week, in fact, the same advocates from November’s meeting met once more at Wind to solidify plans for dealing with the county’s homeless-youth problems.

And, for Steps Forward’s part, Watts hopes to see the nascent youth initiative making strides this year. Ω

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more than the loss of the gunmaker’s profits. In a press release following the Sandy Hook shooting, Cerberus attempted to downplay its holdings in weapons makers and its extensive political meddling in gun control and weapons laws.

“As a Firm, we are investors, not statesmen or policy makers,” the company’s statement read. “It is not our role to take positions, or attempt to shape or influence the gun control policy debate.”

However, Cerberus does, in fact, attempt to shape and influence federal and state legislators. Since 2003, Cerberus has spent more than $16 million lobbying Congress.

Much of this influence peddling was focused on matters related to the taxpayer bailout of Chrysler and its financial subsidiaries that Cerberus once owned, but a significant share of lobbying firepower was directed at gun laws and regulations.

According to Senate lobbying disclosure records, Cerberus hired several Washington, D.C., firms to influence House and Senate members on topics related to “small arms sales to the Department of Defense and foreign military sales of small arms under Department of Defense contracts” and “small arms industrial base reform.” The former issue pertains to Freedom Group’s lucrative weapons sales to foreign nations such as Colombia, the Republic of Georgia and Oman, in addition to gun sales to the U.S. military. The latter lobbying issue refers to federal subsidies intended to support U.S. gun manufacturers.

Cerberus is also a registered employer of lobbyists in California, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania— states where the firm also collects public pension investments.

Subsidiaries of Freedom Group such as Remington Arms Company and Bushmaster Firearms International have funneled thousands of dollars into state campaigns in New York, South Carolina and Maine in recent years, according to data compiled by the National Institute on Money in State Politics.

Since 2007, Cerberus’ managers have made more than $1 million in federal campaign contributions, most of it to the Republican Party and its candidates. A big chunk of Cerberus’ federal contributions last year went into an unsuccessful attempt to re-elect Ben Quayle to the U.S. House of Representatives. Former

vice president and Cerberus Capital chairman Dan Quayle is Ben’s father, and both Quayles, in and out of office, have promoted zero-regulation gun policies that have been highly profitable for Cerberus.

After the Aurora, Colo., theater slayings in July 2012, in which a deranged gunman used a Remington shotgun (one of Freedom Group’s weapons) to kill 12 people, Ben, then still a Congressman, was outspoken in his opposition to any gun-control legislation. “You can’t regulate evil,” he told The Daily Caller.

As such, CalSTRS will continue to be a financial partner with a company that pays money to and employs politicians and lobbyists who oppose stricter gun-control laws—regardless of whether that company finds a buyer for Freedom Group. Moreover, Cerberus will still be invested in companies profiting from weapons and war. For example, with part of the half-billion-dollar investment made by CalSTRS in 2007, Cerberus bought DynCorp International, a military contractor that supplies armed private soldiers to war zones around the world.

“We are reviewing our entire portfolio.”

Ricardo Duran spokesman California State Teachers’ Retirement System As for CalSTRS, it has directly invested in dozens of companies that manufacture controversial weaponry for both civilian and military markets, including Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Taser, United Technologies and Alliant Techsystems Inc. CalSTRS investments in United States, European and Israeli weapons makers total at least $900 million, according to the pension’s most recent portfolio report. Like its private-equity partner Cerberus, some of CalSTRS’ direct weapons investments have appropriately bellicose names. One military contractor in which CalSTRS holds a half-million-dollar stake, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc., is named after the Greek winged demigod of war. Ω

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Legalize it, ban it The city’s weed policy continues its Nancy Reagan dance, police funding still back burnered Hey, Sacramento City Council, news flash: Marijuana is kinda legal now.

And it’s not just Colorado and Washington; governments are aggressively regulating and decriminalizing “the weed” like never before.

So why, then, does Sacramento apparently want to pull a rewind and return to the Nancy Reagan “Just Say No” days?

This week, the council r Le by niCk MiL is poised to dump more marijuana into the underground ni c k a m @ne w s re v i e w . c o m economy: An amendment to the city’s medical-marijuana-club ordinance, which was scheduled for vote this past Tuesday (the same time this paper went to print), aimed to increase the distance requirements for pot clubs, requiring that they be located from 600 to 1,000 feet from public parks and schools.

Let’s stop moving backward and actually deal with marijuana— because even if it goes underground, it’s here to stay.

City leaders say this new rule won’t apply to existing clubs. But the catch is that each and every dispensary in the city must still apply for a special business permit. And, as the new ordinance reads, a “hearing body can take the sensitive uses”—such as distance from schools or parks—“into consideration when deciding whether or not to approve, conditionally approve, or deny a special permit” to clubs.

So, basically, existing clubs located within 1,000 feet of a principal’s office or swing set could soon be closing.

There was a time not long ago when nearly 40 registered pot clubs called the city of Sacramento home, some two dozen in the central city alone. And the city was set to rake in at least $1.5 million from a newly implemented weed tax during its inaugural year.

Today, however, there are only six clubs registered with the city on the grid, only 16 in total remain—and now at least five more could shutter due to the city’s rule switcheroo.

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sensitive uses, which is all part of the Department of Justice’s campaign to curb the flowering marijuana economy in the Golden State.

What makes little sense is why Sacramento’s leaders would toe the fed line and send marijuana sales to the underground economy instead of being proactive and progressive about regulating its own pot industry. First, the city froze its permitting process.

Then, it banned outdoor cultivation of weed. Now, it’s putting local taxpayers out of work by potentially making it harder for dispensaries to open for business.

Let’s stop moving backward and actually deal with marijuana—because even if it goes underground, it’s here to stay.

Midtown crime update: Since my last column two weeks ago, there have been six robberies, 35 breaking and enterings, 54 thefts, nine assaults and 14 property crimes in the central city.

But these numbers—and the recent uptick in muggings in Midtown—apparently weren’t enough for city staff to recommend an increase in police funding for its midyear budget adjustments.

City council was scheduled to give more than $4 million to its rainy-day fund during these annual adjustments, but won’t add additional patrols in Midtown or downtown until Measure U funding kicks in later this year.

Worried about crime on the grid?

Save your complaints for a rainy day, I guess.

City council isn’t always blowing smoke: Next month, a plan to ban plastic bags at Sacramento’s major grocery chains will finally be heard in committee. City leaders should greenlight this eco-friendly law ASAP. And, while they’re at it, there’s one other ban City Hall should fasttrack: making it illegal to have a stereo on a bike.

I know, the idea sounds like a jerk move, but really, the only people with stereos on their cruisers seem to be random dudes right in front of my apartment at 7 a.m. blaring Sublime or Jethro Tull.

I’m not one for reckless prohibition, but banning things like bike stereos and leaf blowers will make life on the grid just a little less awful. Ω

Whale bites Will the mayor’s billionaires club save us or eat us? And are the old rules enough for K.J.’s new kind of political fundraising?

Upon hearing news that hedge-fund manager Chris Hansen would buy the Sacramento Kings and move them to Seattle, Mayor Kevin Johnson’s first reaction was to do a little branding.

The mayor’s not just trying again to keep a professional sports team in town, he’s also “Playing to Win.” Four years, the man has not found a problem that he can’t throw a catchy slogan at.

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by CoSM several “whales”—billionaires who will cosmog@ n ewsrev iew.c om save Sacramento by beating Hansen’s offer. These whales have always been ready, willing and able to buy out the Maloofs; they’ve just been waiting for an invitation from the mayor and an appropriately catchy slogan to go for it.

The local daily obliged the mayor with an above-the-fold headline, “City whales play to win.” Oh, the Bee. Google The Seattle Times headline, “Telling the NBA off was just smart business.” Even in Seattle they are asking, “What the fuck is Marcos Breton talking about?”

Anyway, whales play to win. In everything, even love. Whale Ron Burkle used his oversized political influence (and campaign donations) a few years back to get state legislators to write a law to help keep divorce records of rich guys like himself secret. (He was involved in a nasty split at the time.) Courts threw the law out, but it’s good to know that Sacramento might get into bed with someone so resourceful in getting their way.

Speaking of which: What exactly is the mayor promising these whales who play to win? He has talked about borrowing a page from the “San Francisco playbook,” referring to the time when one group of whales got together to fend off another set of whales who wanted to take the San Francisco Giants to Tampa Bay, Fla. What’s left out of that analogy is that the S.F. whales of the 1990s didn’t stick taxpayers with two-thirds of the costs of a stadium. That’s what the mayor and council offered the Maloofs last spring—though the details were damn sketchy beyond that. The whales will want an arena deal at least that generous, on the off-off off (off) chance the NBA rejects Hansen’s bid. Bites just wonders: Will these whales save us or eat us?

Last month, Johnson told SN&R that public concerns about the money flowing into his network of nonprofits were overblown.

Sure, some money wasn’t reported when it should have been, leading to fines from the California Fair Political Practices Commission. Not a problem. “We didn’t cross a T,” the mayor

explained in a recent interview with SN&R’s Nick Miller.

In the end, it turned out to be about $6.5 million worth of T’s. That’s how much in “behested payments” Johnson reported in 2012, most of into nonprofits that he controls or is closely associated with.

The flood of money put to shame the $3.5 million raised in behests last year by California Gov. Jerry Brown. Who is the governor. Of the entire state of California.

Bites brings this up because it’s a new year, a new council and time to close the giant loophole Johnson has blasted into the city’s political-fundraising rules. Behests have been used by council members for years, but not like this. The law was written to regulate charitable contributions. But these are also political contributions—from companies with business before the city, people who want curry favor with elected officials, interest groups advocating certain policies.

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And when the mayor uses his office to funnel millions into a controversial and ideologically driven education-reform movement—that’s not what the laws were set up for.

This is no longer just your local council member raising a few bucks to put on a neighborhood concert or to fund pools and youth sports. The council ought to be asking whether the old rules are adequate for this powerful new kind of political fundraising. Bites suspects many of them would rather figure out how to get in on the action. Ω

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Unvaccinated students Forty-four percent of kindergarteners at Camellia Waldorf School exempted There are increasing numbers of California kindergartners whose parents have filed “personal beliefs” exemptions, allowing them to avoid state-required immunizations. In the 2011-12 school year, 70 percent of Camellia Waldorf School parents filed for these exemptions. In a column two weeks ago (see “Children at risk,” SN&R Greenlight, January 17), I asked these parents a simple question: “Are you out of your goddamned minds?”

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by Jeff VonKaene “I am not sure where you are pulling these figures from, but they are inaccurate. I have attached the report j e ffv @n e wsr e v ie w.c o m that we have filed with the California Department of Public Health, and as you can see, they do not support your claim. 14 of the 32 (44%) ... students currently have signed exemptions. In addition, I have attached the copy of our 7th Grade Tdap report, which as you can see puts us at 100% compliant. Having said that, we support our parent’s right to choose, whether that be in their choice of education, We are out of our minds or their legal right to determine health options for their children. if we allow whooping … I would appreciate you cough, measles and printing a retraction of your facts, in the same bold manner tuberculosis to make you have previously stated the a comeback. misinformation.”

Normally, we would run a clarification, explaining that the figure we had cited was for the 2011-12 school year. The current year’s figure, not yet posted on the Department of Public Health website, is 44 percent. But Murray asked for a “retraction of your facts, in the same bold manner you have To learn how many students have previously stated the misinformation.”

Therefore, first, let me say that I am not against private exemptions at local schools, go or charter schools. About 20 years ago, my wife and to the California I toured the Camellia Waldorf School and considered Department of Public Health’s having our son attend.

And secondly, while I am delighted that a higher percentwebsite at www.cdph.ca.gov, age of this year’s Camellia Waldorf kindergarten parents have and search for had their kids immunized, this does not change the basic fact “immunization levels.” To learn that the school is still a potential public-health disaster.

Case in point: Desert Marigold School, a charter school in more about vaccination safety, Phoenix, where there were at least eight cases of whooping go to www.why cough last year. According to the Arizona Daily Star, “less ichoose.org. than 30 percent of its kindergarteners” were immunized in the 2010-11 school year.

These unvaccinated children are perfect re-entry vehicles for serious diseases such as whooping cough. California had Jeff vonKaenel more cases of whooping cough in 2010 than any other year in is the president, the previous 60 years.

CEO and The decision not to vaccinate not only endangers unvacmajority owner of cinated children, but it also endangers others in the community, the News & Review newspapers in particularly babies too young to be vaccinated. California Sacramento, should join the other 31 states without personal-beliefs exempChico and Reno. tions. We are out of our minds if we allow whooping cough, measles and tuberculosis to make a comeback. Ω

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Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of plastic! At last, a ban on the ubiquitous, indestructible single-use bags (the ones with handles) is on the table for the city.

Thanks to Sacramento City Councilmen Steve Cohn and Kevin McCarty, the city will soon be considering how to do what 50 other cities and counties in California have already done: Prohibit the use of those plastic bags by major retailers.

Sacramento: Let’s do this thing.

First of all, the bags are terrible. The nonbiodegradable sacks are as light as air and float around the spaces of Sacramento, bunching up around our rivers, parkways, freeways, parking garages—you know because you’ve seen them. The things create local litter mania and cost plenty to clean up after.

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Finally, there’s the rationale finally get onboard that has to do with the climate crisis. Remember: It takes energy the movement to ban (and the emission of plenty of plastic grocery bags. greenhouse gases) to manufacture and dispose of all those bags. We’re talking 19 billion bags a year in our state and 115 billion bags in the United States.

Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) just introduced Assembly Bill 158, which would ban the bags at large stores in California starting in 2015. But up ’til now, the state has basically bowed to pressure from the plastics industry on this issue. That’s why local governments have taken the matter into their own hands, enacting plastic-bag bans for themselves, while placing a fee For more information on paper bags. The plastics industry has, of course, put on a potential ordiup a fight against this. Groups with names like Save the nance to ban plastic bags in Sacramento, Plastic Bag Coalition have threatened lawsuits and filed petitions to delay or disarm local ordinances. Thankfully, read Christopher Arn’s news feature cities and counties have prevailed in the courts so far. “Will Sacto finally Meanwhile, groups like the California Grocers ban plastic bags?� at http://tinyurl.com/ Association—who represent Sacramento’s major sactoplasticbags. grocery stores, such as Safeway, Raley’s and Save Mart For news from Supermarkets—now say they would prefer a uniform Californians Against statewide ban to the city-by-city ordinances. We’ll find Waste about the out soon if the CGA will be true to its word and support 50-plus California Levine’s bill. cities and counties Now. Finally. Shoppers. Some of you fear that a ban that have adopted plastic-bag banning will make for an extra hassle at the grocery store, right? ordinances, go to Please let this go. As those who’ve already made the www.cawrecycles.org transition know, bringing your own bags to the grocery and search for store is an easy no-brainer habit to develop—one that “plastic bag.� makes you feel good about your shopping, yourself and the planet. (Besides, if you forget, you can always pay a small fee for paper bags.) If the people of Los Angeles and San Francisco can make this work, so can we.

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Sacramento haS taught mark JackSon how to take a punch.

The veteran cab driver, currently with Yellow Cab Co. of Sacramento, the largest local outfit, has been hocking a leased taxi in one town or another for a cumulative span of a decade. He’s worked for 13 different cab companies

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in various cities—mostly San Francisco and mostly after midnight—and never came too close to danger.

But in the short eight months he’s been cabbing the late, late shift around Sacramento, Jackson has been slugged in the face three times.

The cabbie is learning: This city plays rough.

That’s why I’m riding shotgun in Jackson’s nicotine-stained hack on an unholy Tuesday night. I want to see what makes the capital city tick when the sun recedes and the night crawlers come out to play. Before my own late shift is over, I will split tours with the lap dancers and drunks, cabbies and paramedics, scrappers and wanderers who prop up this city’s eventide economy and keep Sacramento company when she’s at her most lost and vulnerable.

And dangerous.

A week earlier, Jackson got called out to Land Park around 11 p.m., where “a big black guy” waited outside a church. Jackson was suspicious. The information from dispatch said this would be a residential address. The man’s request to be taken to Oak Park and then on to North Highlands gave the cabbie further pause.

It was outside a North Highlands apartment complex that a fellow Yellow Cab driver was shot dead during a predawn robbery in October 2010. The three suspects in the case are currently being prosecuted in Sacramento Superior Court.

“You got money for the ride?”

Jackson asked.

“I got a card,” the man replied.

“Well, how do I even know if that card’s gonna work?” Jackson challenged. “If you don’t have cash, I can’t take you.”

His fare grumbled that he was a regular customer.

“I don’t care,” Jackson said. “Please leave.”

Jackson pauses before sharing what came next: “And then he smashed me in the face.”

Jackson called the police, but was told he needed to come to the station to file a report.

The punchy customer, meanwhile, lingered on the corner for an additional 15 minutes, trying to arrange another taxi. Jackson shrugged and went searching for his next fare.

It was yet another moonlit lesson in Sacramento’s twilight personality: Like a shark in water, the Sacto night never stops moving.

U niv e r s i t y o f yel lo w Cab Cab ride, Wednesday, January 16; after midnight Our first pickup happens somewhere in Midtown. A couple of tipsy girlfriends are heading out to celebrate a friend’s birthday at TownHouse Lounge, one of the few spots on the grid that has live music this time of week.

After learning I’m a journalist, they joke that they should be on SN&R’s next cover.

“We’re both 5-[foot]-10, so we’re like models,” one says.

“But we’re not as skinny,” her friend clarifies.

After they slide out, Jackson grins. He likes interacting with drunk customers, he says. Hell, he likes interacting with everyone.

He’s naturally inquisitive, peppering me with questions about my profession and long-term career goals. He boasts that he picked up a foreign diplomat the previous night, and says his cab is like a college attended by every kind of person imaginable.

There are no areas in the county Jackson refuses to take his cab. Even last week’s

sucker-punch encounter hasn’t put him off Oak Park or North Highlands.

“I wouldn’t be worth my salt as a cab driver if I were to discriminate like that,” Jackson says, pausing. “But I try to avoid Walmart. I hate Walmart. That’s not to say all Walmart people are bad. But most of them.”

Jackson’s next fare takes us to a house off 27th Street and Broadway for a run-in with a minor celebrity. It’s 12:39 a.m., and Terry Robinson and his girlfriend, Eliza, are heading to TownHouse as well. The energetic Robinson spits out his résumé in record time: backup dancer who toured with MC Hammer in 1991, got fired by Johnny Gill, closed out his professional-dancing career with Tony!

Toni! Toné!, and now represents Bay Area rapper YC Lopez.

Eliza says she used to date Deftones singer Chino Moreno. Both she and Robinson are Sacramento natives, but escaped for long stretches before reluctantly returning. Eliza doesn’t want to tell that particular story; she says it’s full of pain and heartbreak. Instead, she and Robinson talk about trying to take the local music scene to the next level.

“Sacramento has a lot of potential for that,” Eliza says. “I think people are tired of all these bands coming from cities like L.A. and New York.”

Jackson muses on the subject later, saying the lack of a robust live-music scene translates into a citywide inferiority complex.

“I wish Sacramento had a better image of itself,” he says, cupping the point of a smoldering cigarette in his palm. “This is a major city. Where’s the music?”

The cabbie is one of more than 90 taxi drivers working for Yellow Cab. But on this night at this time, he’s probably one of only 10 drivers combing the streets for fares, says company president Fred Pleines. While the company doesn’t tabulate how many customers it serves, Pleines estimates an average of 1,200 dispatched calls a day.

“Most of the drivers work daylight hours,” he says.

There’s a reason for that: On a late summer night this past July, a cabbie waiting on a fare outside the downtown Amtrak station got a knife plunged into his chest several times by a stranger.

At 1 a.m., we’re parked in front of a home on Third Avenue. Jackson rings up the residence on his cellphone. A woman slides into the back on the driver’s side. Behind me, standing on the curb, there’s a towering presence.

“You the guy,” the faceless customer starts to say. He turns to his girlfriend. “This cabbie’s hella racist.”

Something clicks in Jackson’s eyes. “Are you the guy who punched me in the face?” he asks.

“Hell yeah,” the man declares unapologetically.

The face puncher backs away, but not before challenging Jackson to another round.

“No, come on,” his girlfriend says wearily, walking toward the house. Her boyfriend dutifully follows.

Jackson doesn’t bother calling it in. Yellow Cab doesn’t have any kind of system for red-flagging problem customers. The cabbie merely shakes his head.

“I’m a racist,” he scoffs.

Mark Jackson has driven cabs in more than a dozen cities over his decade-long career. During his eight months in Sacramento, he says he’s been punched in the face three times.

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Suddenly, Jackson’s computer is pinging with requests from East Sacramento, Freeport Boulevard and Roseville. He wants to scoop up as many as he can, so he drops me off near K and 10th streets. I’m left to wonder whether he’ll survive the night.

N i Ner s - r av eNs br aw l Downtown bar, Saturday, January 12; just before midnight Some sports fans just can’t handle victory.

A few hours after the San Francisco 49ers outgunned the Green Bay Packers to earn a trip to the National Football Conference championship game, one red-shirted reveler has let success—and too much beer—go to his head.

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Sacramento can be cruel like that.

As the laughed-at madam picks herself off the mat, the Ravens fan appears and tries to corral the bachelors toward the exit. It’s time to go. A squinty-eyed drunk hugging the bar perks up at the mention of our next destination.

“Where ya goin’?” he asks hopefully.

“Uh, I don’t know,” the fan replies.

It’s a white lie. Turning back to his emptied beer mug, the old man resumes being ignored by an entire generation that considers him creepy.

But on this night, creepy is a relative term.

l a p sta Nce Strip club, Sunday, January 13; 2 a.m.

It’s bizarre having a conversation with a stranger who’s sitting in your lap. I don’t know how Santa Claus manages. Then again, this isn’t the North Pole.

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A rough shoulder shove from the Niners fan beckons cooler heads in from both sides to quash the silliness. It takes a few of the home team’s stoutest fans to pull the aggressor, an ex-Marine fresh off two lengthy tours in Iraq, outside the bar.

It’s inching toward midnight on this face-numbingly frigid Saturday. A motley crew wanders into this downtown saloon; I’m tagging along to celebrate a buddy’s upcoming nuptials, but this hoariest of premarriage male rituals—punish the liver, muddy the soul, dog some chicks—has provided a golden opportunity to crack my latest assignment: Who is Sacramento when the moon comes up?

Much like the inebriated, mid-40s woman now struggling onto a mechanical bull’s back, Sacramento at nightfall is kind of funny, a little bit tragic and all kinds of random.

This woman—dressed scantily and caked in melting face paint—wants her turn in the spotlight to be seductive, but the bull is having none of that. A tall, black cowboy in the corner twists some knobs and awakens the legless bovine to

Sure, there are poles aplenty inside the Day-Glo warehouse of the county’s most prestigious gentlemen’s club. But being the most prestigious strip club is like being the soberest alcoholic.

There are also plenty of those here at Gold Club Centerfolds, planted on an isolated commercial strip in Rancho Cordova. A surprising number of co-ed groupings scatter around two large stages, on which a couple of girls, who look too young to vote, dip and writhe.

This place is like a female version of Logan’s Run: No one makes it past the ripe old age of 28.

To keep up the mystique, each performer is drenched in colored lights; the audience is cloaked in anonymous darkness.

The business’ website tells its employees to smile and make eye contact, to make each mark (my term) feel like he’s the only guy in the room. It tells girls the minimum height for their heels should be 3 inches—“anything shorter and your gut will stick out and your legs will look like tree trunks.” Body fat,

Twelve-year veteran Brian Davis (left) and ninemonth newbie Eric Green, both Sacramento firefighter paramedics, ride the Medic 2 ambulance unit.

vulval grooming and educational pursuits are also helpfully covered.

Maybe this is why I’m struggling to formulate an initial question to the dancer in my lap.

I tell the girl, whose name sounds like “Kahlúa,” that I’m researching a story on Sacramento after hours. It sounds like a line.

I offer to give her my business card. This also sounds like a line. She’s been warned against customers who use their jobs to grift personal information. I’m just another perv in the perv parade.

At Centerfolds, Kahlúa and her fellow dancers have to fork over $60 a pop nightly just for the right to work. Whatever they make on top of that is their take. This includes the wrinkled dollars tossed at them onstage and the 20s they get for private dances. The previous weekend, Kahlúa made 40 bucks. A crappy economy is hell even on exotic dancers.

As we talk, the deejay announces two-forone private dances that come with a free porn DVD. The bargain hunters in the crowd pick their ladies and stumble toward a scarlet curtain.

To make up for leaner times, some girls subsidize their incomes by performing illicit sextras, Kahlúa says nonchalantly. These deals complicate her job, in that some customers now expect her to make with the hanky-panky if they name the right price. As a result, she instructs each customer exactly what they’re in for (and what they most certainly are not) before any business is transacted.

“It saves them the embarrassment,” she smiles.

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A grease-pated lecher with a trembling mouth bellies up to a stage to ogle a young blonde. He rises from his seat and cups a wad of bills over his face, crumbling them down his leathery neck and paunchy stomach. The gesture momentarily freezes the blonde, but then she starts crawling toward him. I turn away, not wanting that image seared into my brain.

I locate a seat close to the door and wait for my cab. I shoo away three dancers looking to recoup their $60 deposit. They’re persistent.

When I tell one I have no money, she replies, “We take cards now.”

Jesus.

I extend my leg onto the chair in front of me.

A dancer who calls herself Talia saunters over.

“You also put your feet on your mother’s furniture?” she asks with a hiked eyebrow.

“No,” I say, “but I’m pretty sure my mother’s furniture doesn’t have semen all over it.”

T i n n y dan cer K Street Mall, Wednesday, January 16; just before midnight I’ve done away with the entourages and found the only place on K Street with a pulse at this hour.

Inside Dive Bar, a mopey deejay works to approximate the vibe of a David Lynch film. I wander halfway down the popular nightspot’s narrow esophagus and seat myself at the plywood bar, a narrow stage propping up the elbows of several actors tonight. A single |

recessed bulb finds each one like a theater spotlight.

A tipsy woman on the left confesses her feelings for an aloof, married coworker to her bearded buddy. To the right, a squealing trio takes turns giving each other unsteady lap dances following a second round of fireball shots.

A black-tied bartender does laps beneath a notably empty aquarium. The mermaids have the night off.

The local economy slows to a crawl between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. Once the bars and clubs empty out, there are even fewer places generating sales-tax revenue, says Elizabeth Studebaker, executive director of the Midtown Business Association.

“It’s really that hospitality piece and a very small percentage of that overall hospitality piece,” she says.

Outside of a few all-night restaurants, the kind of business that gets transacted this late belongs to the underground economy.

Around 12:30 a.m., for instance, cops will stop a car at Havenside Drive and Riverside Boulevard in the south district.

A parolee-at-large will jump out of the passenger seat and make a run for it, but officers will snatch him up and find drugs on both him and the driver. Just after 1 a.m., it’s reported prostitution activity that draws police to the 7800 block of College Town Drive. Officers will talk to a couple of folks and file a report, but no arrests will be made.

“When you go to sleep, when I go to sleep, there are a lot of people who aren’t asleep who want to commit crimes,” says Officer Doug Morse, a spokesman for the Sacramento Police Department. During the graveyard shift, the department is a stripped-down version of itself—gone for the day are the administrativesupport workers, problem-oriented policing officers and bicycle cops—which means one homicide could upend the whole night.

“All it takes is that one big case,” Morse observes.

At the bar, I bury my drink and shamble outside into the cold. A street performer on 10th and K streets is slathered head-to-toe in silver paint. He looks like an LSD-fueled hallucination, so I tiptoe closer to make sure the whiskey wasn’t spiked. The tin-colored man dances with his reflection in a darkened storefront window. A small boom box (painted silver; he’s consistent) squawks a generic R&B song from the ’80s.

“I’m here just about every night,” he says quietly, “but I’m not interested in being interviewed.”

He grudgingly accepts my business card, then goes back to making robot moves at the window. A crude container sits by his feet, showing few donations to his cause. A

young guy headed for Dive Bar drops a buck, telling the dancer he’s from the Bay Area where street performers are more prolific. His donation is an act of solidarity.

When I roll by again in a couple hours, the silver man will still be there, dancing with himself.

The B shi f T Fire station, Wednesday, January 16; 3 a.m.

Waiting for tragedy to trip up an unsuspecting stranger’s life is an awfully morbid way to wile away the graveyard shift. But that’s exactly what goes down at the Sacramento Fire Department’s Station 2, which houses one of the city’s busiest ambulance units, on I and 13th streets.

Station 2 averages more than 4,000 annual calls, representing nearly 6 percent of the 70,000 the department handles overall.

During this night’s graveyard shift, the station will respond to three emergencies.

Battalion Chief Scott Williams leads me through a cavernous garage into the first level of the station’s darkened living quarters, where banks of comfy recliners face a sweet entertainment center.

The chief just returned from one of those emergencies—a small garage fire in Northgate. It looks like it might have been caused by a couple of smoldering cigarettes.

The woman who lives there lights her smokes with a toaster, Williams notes wryly.

He whispers so as not wake up the 10 men on duty upstairs. The crew is on the first night of a two-day shift. “They call this your second family, but in reality, this is your first family, because you’re spending 48 hours together,” Williams observes.

His men cook, clean and socialize together.

They razz each other with inside jokes and pitch money into communal funds for groceries, cable and coffee. For some guys, this schedule is hard on families and relationships.

Williams likes it.

I slump into one of the recliners as the chief turns on the flat screen and fiddles with the settings. The screen flickers awake to some bizarre survivalist program on the Discovery Channel. Williams is dog-tired and can’t stop yawning, but he dutifully keeps me company.

While these graveyard shifts are unpredictable, colder nights typically mean an influx of calls involving homeless people wanting to get off the streets and into a hospital waiting room for a few hours. Williams says the department is also getting more calls from young adults who don’t have health insurance.

“The bulk of our calls are medical, and those can be anything,” he explains.

But sometimes there’s just something in the air. The day before the Newtown, Conn., massacre, for instance, Williams says his unit responded to nothing but 5150s, which is code for involuntary psychiatric holds.

The television screen snatches our attention. On an arid, cracked-earth plain, one of the show’s obnoxious hosts uses a machete to hack away at a maggot-invested bull and retches into his handkerchief. Despite all that

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n now a M o w s d-40 i M , d k, e c t a a i b r s b ’ e l n l bul the i a e c i k i n l a h h ny, ec n M u Muc f a f o o t n kind ng o i s i l M. g l o g l d u a n r f a t r st h g f ds o at ni n i o k t n l e l M a and sacra c i g a r t bit a little Williams has seen during his two decades with the department, this is a bridge too far.

“That’s grossing me out. I’m a city boy!” he chuckles. “That makes me want to throw up.”

No matter how long you do this job, there’s always something you haven’t seen.

A piercing alarm startles us. For a second, I think aliens are invading, but its the notification for the ambulance crew. We hustle out to the garage where two bleary-eyed men in boxers yank rubbery trousers to their waists. We exchange quick nods and jump into their boxy, red ambulance.

Time to go to work.

D r u n k s h u t tle Paramedic ambulance, Wednesday, January 16; 4 a.m.

As a shadowy ambulance rumbles toward Old Sacramento, rotating siren lights glitter through the hull, but there’s no wailing scream to accompany the light show. A black computer screen smudged with analog text shorthands the reason for this twilight journey: a 38-year-old male respiratory call.

When we arrive, two fire engines wedge near an otherwise deserted stretch of old town, which looks like an abandoned movie set this time of night. A small man shivers on a bench. Beside him is his girlfriend; both are bundled in multiple layers, but their blue fingers and faces betray the toll of a relentlessly gelid night. Big men in baggy “Sacramento FD” coats gather over them like a cloud. The tallest one walks over to me.

This very couple called 911 earlier today, explains Capt. Michael Walter. They arrived today by bus from Reno, Nev., without much of a plan for what came next or the money to improvise. The man, Travis, was hoping to detox here for his alcoholism, but the cops wouldn’t take him in because he didn’t have three weeks worth of seizure meds. The captain jots something down on a clipboard.

“In 15 hours he managed to move one block and get drunk,” he observes.

There’s no judgment in Walter’s voice. This is the job.

Two paramedics take over. The men work in dazed autopilot, but gently escort the sozzled, unsteady Travis onto a wheeled gurney before loading him onto their rig. Travis’ girlfriend stays planted on the planked walkway; she seems to know she’s not allowed on the ambulance. The girlfriend will have to hoof the 28 icy blocks to Sutter General Hospital on L Street on her own.

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In the ambo, Travis complains of back pain, gastrointestinal problems and body aches.

“I’ve been traveling a long time,” he slurs.

“I’ve been drinking a lot, too.”

The younger paramedic, Eric Green, dutifully jots down the menu of symptoms, takes Travis’ blood pressure and radios Sutter’s emergency department to let them know we’re coming.

He looks half-asleep. I ask him whether he’s adjusted to his fitful schedule. Green smiles wanly.

“It’s exhausting,” he says.

When we arrive at the hospital, Green and his partner Brian Davis wheel their package into the ER. A chipper intake nurse takes one look at Travis’ Denver Broncos snowcap.

“He can come in, but he has to take that beanie off,” he deadpans.

“They lost anyway,” Davis challenges.

Within moments, Travis disappears to a small white room, and we’re back on the rig, rolling home. Davis, strapping and goodhumored, is a 12-year veteran. Some nights he feels more like a taxi hack than a licensed paramedic, shuttling drunks from bar stoops to hospital ERs. “Sacramento doesn’t take care of itself,” he shrugs.

That seems to be the night’s consensus.

Back at the silent station, Green and Davis drop trou and step out of their gear, leaving them on the garage floor in case they have to jump back in again. Green pauses before going upstairs. Even in his daze, he’s a good host.

“You know where the bathrooms are?” he asks.

“In the sink, right?” I crack.

Green’s too tired for my limp joke to register.

“No. Lemme show you,” he mumbles, following me into the station house and pointing out a door in the hallway.

After he retires, I wander around the empty quarters, listening to the ticking second hand of a wall clock. The city is dead quiet, but I’m sure somewhere there’s some restless drama cracking its head through the Sacramento night.

Standing in the dank, petrol-stained garage, I spot a handwritten sign hanging over a cluttered workbench.

“If you’re not having fun,” it reads, “then why are you here?”

I heed its words and slip out a side door.

My footfalls trigger a flock of black birds to explode out of a nearby tree. Dry white blots spackle my car.

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Peter Stegall’s small color-block pieces are created on Masonite with glossy enamel paint.

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also taught art at the University of Nevada, Reno for 10 years. In 1989, he returned to Sacramento and reintegrated into the local art world, where he still works today.

Throughout it all, one thread remained constant: Stegall’s prolific output of art, some of which is on display this month in the exhibit Color & Shape at Bows & Arrows in Midtown.

Renny Pritikin, former director of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery at UC Davis, who has included Stegall’s work in group

shows numerous times, finds Stegall’s place in the larger picture one that transcends fad and novelty.

“Peter is the least trendy artist I know of. If the art world is resolutely against certainty, craft, formal studies and nonreferential abstraction, then [he] is the most resolute practitioner of nontrendy art we have,” Pritikin says.

“But it’s not enough to just go against the tide, as any difficult person can do,” Pritikin adds. “It’s about doing it for a reason

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The artist’s life and home reflects this aesthetic.

As Stegall opens the door to his compact, bright, cozy apartment in Oak Park one recent winter day, he sports white Adidas, khaki pants and a blazer over a sweater vest.

His gray hair is neatly slicked back, and a small, jaunty bandana is tied at his throat.

His apartment serves as a de facto art gallery for his work. One wall along a narrow hallway is hung with a grid of his small color-block paintings that have served as his bread and butter for 30 years. Throughout the rooms, the old and the new mesh, as in the juxtaposition of his contemporary paintings and the rows of pristine vintage cowboy hats displayed above.

The pieces in the color-block series are done on Masonite with glossy enamel paint, which gives the work “bounce,” he says. Although it is not figurative, Stegall says he doesn’t consider his work abstract—for him it’s all about the relationship of the colors and their interaction with shape.

Rather, Stegall speaks of his work as always having a “hard edge,” which stems from his early interest in cartooning and comics. Translated: There is no overlapping, no blending of shades in his work, ever.

As he continues his tour around the apartment, he picks up two small works he created at Sac State during the late ’60s that are leaning against a wall. Stegall points out the small figures embedded within the intricate patterns of triangles. It’s an abstract family portrait, depicting Stegall, his then-wife and his three children; a tiny tableau that becomes even more touching as he notes, wistfully, that she died in May. Two pieces from this phase in his work have another layer of meaning for him as well.

“My favorite year was Stockton when I was 7. We lived a block from The Haggin Museum, which had a wonderful Egyptian collection,” he says. “We’d go there every day and play, and there was a mummy. Fast-forward to Sac State in the early ’70s—[and] a bunch of [my work] got into a [Wayne] Thiebaud juried show at that museum. …

These were in that show, and they were hung right around the corner from that mummy that we used to go see back in the ’40s.”

As he recounts the progression of his artistic style, Stegall digs a cardboard box out of the closet and starts to pull out hundreds of pen-and-ink drawings, each covered with patterns: crosses, diagonals and right angles.

In the early ’70s, he was making up to 50 of these a day, reducing everything to line and pattern. In the course of making a 1,000 or so of these drawings in an unconscious, almost automatic, fashion, the lines began to connect. This led to the creation of shapes that could be filled in, and hence, his obsessive exploration of color, which continues to inform his art to this day.

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Greyhound buses. Chinatown buses. Ecuadorian cockroach buses. Lotta buses, man. None of ’em good.

So as I walk past the state Capitol this past brisk Saturday morning on my way to Old Sacramento, coffee in hand, to catch the 8 a.m. Megabus to San Francisco, I look back to all the buses I’ve known.

I’ve seen some things. Boy, have I been on some buses.

Down in South America, the drivers try to freeze you.

I swear it. And then they stop in these little pueblos and let old men and sun-dried ladies and little girls onboard to hawk sweets and water and empanadas.

These girls, they alight before you take your first bite of the empanada, of course, and you realize, after nearly choking to death on a chicken bone, that litigation was never really an option here. You’ve done this to yourself.

But this Megabus? It’s not so bad, I decide, as I hop onboard and climb to the upper deck, taking a seat in the second row and listening to the pretty woman give safety tips on the TV up front.

This is a nice bus. The seats are stiff, sure, but the interior is blue and clean and most of all warm, and I decide that this may not be as bad as the others.

The others, man.

When you take the creaky, lurching red-eye in Peru from Cusco to Lima, you worry about being robbed by the Shining Path.

You think about this until your Australian friend with a hernia hands you a pill to help you relax. And you just take it. You just take the pill. You don’t ask what it is, so you probably shouldn’t be surprised when you wake up three hours later, in the dead of the night, unable to stand or shift or scream. You shouldn’t be surprised by this. But you are.

But this is nice. The ride to the coast is scenic. Undulating hills and all that. My fellow passengers are quiet and courteous and mindful of the hour. This is nothing like the other buses. Those other buses, man.

Try the Greyhound from Denver to Phoenix. Just try it once. But don’t expect to sleep. Your fellow passengers will be talkers. They’ll have a lot to say. Many of them will use cellphones. They will be loud.

And as the bus nears Albuquerque, N.M, for your transfer, the driver will speak to the passengers in Spanish. Which is fine, until a 15-year-old boy up front stands up and says, “Would you mind repeating that in American?”

The driver will not repeat it in American. But the boy will be propositioned by a dusty old man at the Albuquerque transfer stop to come with him to a hotel room and watch pornography.

But none of this happens on the Megabus to San Francisco. The Megabus is uneventful and quiet. It is a short trip. It is cheap (prices start at $1 for a one-way ticket).

It is a smooth, clean and easy ride, and as I climb off the bus and wend my way north toward Chinatown, I call up my friend in the Presidio to tell him I’ve arrived early.

That is how nice this Megabus is.

says he was “blown away” upon viewing the artist’s work for the first time.

While Stegall’s work may look simple, White says, “there’s a sophistication and a nuance in the color relationships and composition; his color work is masterful.”

Back at Stegall’s apartment, Bows & Arrows co-owners Trisha Rhomberg and Olivia Coelho are visiting to pick out art for the exhibit. All three bubble with enthusiasm, their words overlapping, as he leads them from room to room and back again, and they begin to place tape on works they want to hang in the gallery.

Stegall’s time at Sac State, where he earned both his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts, was clearly formative. Some of the instructors he had at that time are well-known today, including Jim Nutt and his wife Gladys Nilsson, both founding members of the Chicago Imagists art movement.

“There was a lot of unrest in ’67, demonstrations on campus. People were going to the draft board and burning their [draft] cards and coming back with cuts, giving fiery speeches. It was very unsettling—a lot of crazy energy,” Stegall says.

“It was going nuts over at the art department. We discovered old clothes and thrift stores—you had the hip look and the straight hair and all of that on the other students, and we’re over there tripping out on the ’30s and ’40s, girls are wearing high heels. We had a fabulous time.”

One piece that Rhomberg particularly enthuses over shows Stegall’s early Modernist influence, particularly the work of Paul Klee. It’s painted in chunky oils, with an abstract human figure. Stegall says the painting is at least 50 years old; he agrees to include it in the show, but not to sell it.

He can trace the Modernist influence back to a community-college teacher in Fresno in the early ’60s. This professor introduced him to the Modernists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, and took his early interest in cartooning into an avid interest in fine art.

Soon, almost every piece of art in the apartment has a piece of tape on it, including some atypically large-scale ’80s-era paintings. Then, Stegall excavates some smaller enameled works out of the closet and points out a painting that was inspired by a piece from contemporary art star Olafur Eliasson’s show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Despite this hint that he stays somewhat abreast with the art world, Stegall said that there is not a lot that interests him currently in the Sacramento art scene.

“I’m just looking for some good pure painting,” he says.

When asked where his art will go next, Stegall confesses that he isn’t quite sure.

“I just feel that my work has been taking me in the right direction,” he says. “I’m knowing less as I go along, rather than more.”

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NIGHT&DAY 31THURS DON’T MISS! BLIND WINE-TASTING EVENT:

Eight selected wines will be paired off and tasted blind for all to compare and enjoy. Each wine pair is crafted from identical grapes but grown in different parts of the world.

Enjoy contrasting chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon and zinfandel, as well as one mystery grape that will be revealed on the evening of the class. Th, 1/31, 6:30-8:30pm. $25. Total Wine & More, 2765 E Bidwell St. in Folsom; (916) 921-5328; www.totalwine.com.

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Special Events KICKSTART YOUR HEALTH: Join Food for Life instructor Bethany Davis in exploring how a diet rich in vegetables, fruits, grains and legumes can enhance your health and support your wellness goals. Learn the latest nutrition information. Enjoy cooking demonstrations and taste healthy, delicious dishes at each class. Th, 1/31, 7-8:30pm. $80 for five classes. The Plum Cafe, 2315 K St.; (916) 706-3302; http://plumcafebakery.com.

Film SOUND CITY: Deep in the San Fernando Valley, amid rows of dilapidated warehouses, was rock ’n’ roll’s best kept secret, Sound City. Directed by Dave Grohl, this documentary highlights America’s greatest unsung recording studio. As its legend grew, seminal bands and artists such as Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Rick Springfield, Tom Petty, Metallica and Nirvana all came out to put magic to tape.

Th, 1/31, 7 & 9:30pm. $10.

Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.; (916) 442-7378.

Meetings & Groups GREENPRINT SUMMIT: The 2013 Greenprint Summit will focus on demonstrating the connection between public health and the urban forest. The summit provides a forum for sharing current research findings, learning about current regional projects and exploring new innovative partnerships. Th, 1/31, 7:30am-4pm. $45. Citrus Heights Community Center, 6300 Fountain Square Dr. in Citrus Heights; (916) 974-4333; www.sactree.com.

Teens TIPS FOR COLLEGE-ADMISSION ESSAYS: Students will begin by writing a practice essay under timed test-like conditions. They will receive advice to help them recognize what college admission essay graders are looking for, as well as strategies on writing effective essays. Students will receive their graded essays following this 75-minute session.

Th, 1/31, 2:30pm. Free. Fair Oaks Library, 11601 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Fair Oaks; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Concerts AARON ROSS, MARIEE SIOUX, LONESOME LEASH: Some of Nevada City’s best-known singer-songwriters—Aaron

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Haven Underground, 228 Broad St. in Nevada City; (530) 264-6900; www.havenunderground.org.

ACTIVELY LISTENING: Erik James, part of the Bell Boys, presents an acoustic singer-songwriter showcase at Old Soul Co. It features five or six songwriters showcasing original music every week. Th, 1/31, 6pm. Free.

Old Soul Co., 1716 L St.; (916) 443-7685; http://face book.com/activelylistening.

BRANFORD MARSALIS: A three-time Grammy winner from one of the world’s most distinguished musical families, Branford Marsalis is known for his innovative spirit and broad musical scope. He’ll bring his latest group, Branford Marsalis Quartet, to Folsom. Th, 1/31, 7:30pm. $29-$39. Three Stages Peforming Arts Center, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

GEORGE STRAIT: With a career that spans three decades, George Strait’s 33 different platinum or multi-platinum albums account for the most RIAA platinum certifications in country music.

Strait was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006. Th, 1/31, 7:30pm. $72-$92.

Sleep Train Arena, 1 Sports Pkwy.; (916) 649-8497; www.sleeptrainarena.com.

SAMBANDHA: Sambandha is Sanskrit for “the interconnections of all things.” This dynamic world music group will play original compositions inspired by the works in the exhibition Celestial Realms: The Art of Nepal from California Collections, as well as music more than 2000 years old.

Th, 1/31, 7:30pm. $6-$12. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.; (916) 808-7000; www.crockerartmuseum.org.

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DON’T MISS! A NIGHT IN THE ROARING ’20S: Join for an evening of

fun entertainment and prohibition-style cocktails with excerpts from the upcoming premiere of The Great Gatsby. Bring your dancing shoes and get in on the act by learning the Charleston, the scandalous dance sensation of the Roaring ’20s. F, 2/1, 7pm. $25. The Sacramento Ballet Studios, 1631 K St.; (916) 552-5800, ext. 2; www.sacballet.org.

Special Events DAUNTE BURKS’ FUNNY FRIDAY COMEDY SHOW: Nate Jackson, 2010’s winner of the Bay Area Black Comedy Competition makes his way to Sacramento to headline Funny Friday. Joining Jackson will be Kirk McHenry from BET’s Comic View. The show is hosted by Sacramento’s Daunte Burks. F, 2/1, 8-11pm. $10-$15. Sekou’s BBQ, 455 Bercut Dr.; (916) 868-2103; www.burksizm.com.

HAIRITAGE DISCUSSION AND BOOK SIGNING: In celebration of Master Barber & Beauty Shop’s

60th year anniversary, there will be a discussion and book signing for HAIRitage: Celebrating the Legacy of the Barber Shop with Art, Poetry and Jazz. There will be special performances by Mista Malik Saunders, Lil RoRo Brown and more. F, 2/1, 6-8pm. Free.

Underground Books, 2814 35th St.; (916) 457-8708; www.facebook.com/master barberbeautyShop

Comedy FUSION FUN FRIDAY: Check out the comedy of Brad Bonar Jr. Bonar is a double entertainer: a talented close-up magician as well as a comic. He will be bringing some friends with him as well. The comedy is appropriate for ages 16 and older.

Every third F, 8pm through 12/31. $12-$15. Fusion International Arts Center, 501 Arden Way; (916) 538-4008; www.fusioniac.com.

THE SYNDICATE: In the sights of The Syndicate, no subject is safe.

Based out of the Sacramento Comedy Spot, The Syndicate’s goal is to elevate sketch comedy to an art form—a beautiful, dumb art form. Combining high concept and low brow—often simultaneously—The Syndicate produces some of the smartest dumb sketches and the dumbest smart shows you’ll ever see.

F, 2/1, 9pm. $10. Sacramento Comedy Spot, 1050 20th St., Ste. 130; (916) 444-3137; www.saccomedyspot.com.

Literary Events AUTHORS DAHLYNN MCKOWEN & KEN MCKOWEN: California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch presents authors Dahlynn McKowen and Ken McKowen, who will deliver a presentation called “Writing and Submitting Stories for Anthologies.” The two are the owners of Publishing Syndicate and creators of the Not Your Mother’s Book anthology series. F, 2/1, 9-11am. Free. IHOP, 2216 Sunrise Blvd. in Rancho Cordova; (916) 213-0798; www.cwcsacramentowriters.org.

Concerts EMPYREAN ENSEMBLE: Come out and witness a music spectacular with music created by resident composer Lei Liang. Kurt Rohde and Mika Pelo co-direct this event and there will be a preconcert talk as well. F, 2/1, 8pm. $20. Mondavi Center, 9399 Old Davis Rd. in Davis; (530) 754-2787; www.mondaviarts.org.

AN EVENING WITH EMILIE AUTUMN: Victorian-burlesque alternativepop artist Emilie Autumn performs in Sacramento. Her live show blends classical music electronica and rock with burlesque and other theatrics.

This event is all-ages. F, 2/1, 8pm. $20. The Colonial Theatre, 3522 Stockton Blvd.; (916) 869-8954; www.sachorrorfilmfest.com.

TWO NIGHTS OF MARDI GRAS REVELRY: Reunion Nightclub presents Mardi Gras: Two Nights of Revelry, A Hollywood Theatrical Production. For two nights, Reunion will be transformed into Bourbon Street, New Orleans, with beads, drink specials and cajun-themed dinners. F, 2/1, 6pm. $8. Reunion Nightclub, 4370 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 100 in El Dorado Hills; (916) 939-0777.

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DON’T MISS! SACRAMENTO MUSEUM DAY:

Twenty-eight of the 30 museums will offer free admission and two destinations located in residential areas—the Sacramento Zoo and Fairytale Town— will offer half-priced admission to offset parking control and security costs.

Sa, 2/2, 10am-5pm. Call for pricing. Aerospace Museum of California, 3200 Freedom Park Dr. in McClellan Air Force Base; (916) 213-4373; www.sacmuseums.org/ museumday.html.

Special Events SPEAKEASY-STYLE MASQUERADE: Enjoy live swing music, casino gaming, an art auction and a no-host bar featuring craft beers and cocktails. The event is a fundraiser for Sacramento Artists Council, Inc., which aims to keep art and music in public schools. Sa, 2/2, 6-10pm. $45-$55. Antiquite Maison Privee, 2114 P St.; (916) 716-2319; www.sacramentoartcouncil.org.

SACRAMENTO SPORTS HALL OF FAME CELEBRATION: This event is to honor and acknowledge the athletic achievements of Sacramento’s greatest athletes. It is a tribute to athletes who are originally from the Sacramento area and went on to achieve greatness in their respective sports at the amateur, collegiate or professional level. Sa, 2/2, 7pm. $50. Thunder Valley Casino, 1200 Athens Ave. in Lincoln; (916) 408-7777; www.thundervalleyresort.com.

Art Galleries BRICKHOUSE GALLERY & ARTS COMPLEX: Stitch in Time: The Past, Present and Future, a quilt exhibit with demonstrations and a children’s corner in celebration of Black History Month. Sa, 2/2, noon-4pm. Free.

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

ELK GROVE FINE ARTS CENTER: 1st Saturday Art Reception, the art of Jolene Matson with oil paintings, sculpture and other artwork from the community.

Sa, 2/2, 4-7pm. Free. 9080 Elk Grove Blvd. in Elk Grove; (916) 685-5992.

EVOLVE THE GALLERY: 44, an unrestrained visual-art perspective on President Barack Obama.

It’s an eclectic mix of history etched in oil, acrylic, aerosol, pencil, pen, metal, clay and fabric with emotions—good, bad and ugly—documented in every stroke. Th-Sa, 1-6pm through 3/9. Opens 2/2. Free.

2907 35th St.; (916) 572-5123.

Comedy VIJAI NATHAN: Vijai Nathan is a leading Indian-American comedienne making people laugh all over the United States and overseas. Her humor springs from her experiences of growing up as a “foreigner” in America, despite the fact that she was born and raised in a suburb of Washington, D.C. Much of her stand-up comedy is about growing up as an Indian in America, dating, cultural clashes with her parents, and the racism she has dealt

with as a child and continues to deal with. Sa, 2/2, 7:30pm. $30-$35. Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

Sports & Recreation SACRAMENTO INVITATIONAL TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIP: Olympic medalist Terrence Jennings joins hundreds of black belts for competition at the 11th annual Sacramento Invitational TKD Championship.

The trophy event known among martial artists as the “Sac Invite” offers a wide range of tournament action, special demonstrations and guests.

Sa, 2/2, 9am. $15-$20. Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J St.; (916) 264-5181.

Concerts DAVE NACHMANOFF AT SUTTER CREEK THEATRE: Singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Nachmanoff makes his debut in Sutter Creek. He will perform songs from his new CD Step Up, plus fan favorites. Joining Dave for this performance are special guests Bart van der Zeeuw on percussion and Steve O’Neill from Yolo Mambo on bass. Sa, 2/2, 8pm. $16-$18. Sutter Creek Theatre, 44 Main St. in Sutter Creek; (916) 425-0077; www.suttercreektheater.com.

GRISHA GORYACHEV: Guitarist Grisha Goryachev is a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, and began playing guitar at the age of 6, studying first with his father Dmitry, an acknowledged master teacher of the instrument. Leading an extensive career as a child prodigy at 9 years old, Grisha performed regularly before large audiences in the most prestigious concert halls in the Soviet Union. Sa, 2/2, 8pm. $15-$37.

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

04MON Classes

ESSENTIAL SAUCES: Instructor Gigi Warshawsky will teach participants how to create marsala, gravy, vodka sauce and Greek vinaigrette in this class. This class is a combination of hands-on and demonstrationstyle instruction. M, 2/4, 6-8:30pm. $35-$45. Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 1914 Alhambra Blvd.; (916) 868-6399; www.sacfoodcoop.com.

Concerts ELK GROVE COMMUNITY BAND: The Elk Grove Community Concert Band will perform Alfred Reed’s 7th Suite for Band and Samuel Hazo’s “In Flight.” In addition, the band will premier its own arrangement of Frank Zappa’s “Strictly Gentel,” a version of the piece once performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. M, 2/4, 7pm.

Donations accepted. Laguna Town Hall, 3020 Renwick Ave. in Elk Grove; (916) 920-2272.

05TUES Special Events

HIRELIVE SACRAMENTO CAREER FAIR: Join this job fair to find leads on sales, retail and management jobs in Sacramento.

Parking is $1.50 per half-hour.

Tu, 2/5, 9am-12:30pm. Free.

Embassy Suites, 100 Capitol Mall; (916) 326-5000; www.hire live.com/js_sacramento.html.

Art Galleries MINERS FOUNDRY CULTURAL CENTER: Kali Smiles: Meditations in the Age of Kali Yuga, new prints and constructs by Dylan Sherwood McConnell. Tu, 2/5, noon. Free. 325 Spring St. in Nevada City, (530) 265-5040.

03SUN 06WED DON’T MISS! VEGAN SUPER BOWL PARTY:

Join for a vegan Super Bowl viewing party and all-youcan-eat buffet at El Papagayo Restaurant in Carmichael. Co-sponsored by the Sacramento Vegan Challenge, entry price includes the party, buffet and sodas or ice tea. Beer costs extra. Su, 2/3, 2:30-7pm. $25. El Papagayo Restaurant, 5804 Marconi Ave. in Carmichael; (916) 487-7742; http://vegansuper bowlsac.eventbrite.com.

Special Events SUPER BOWL BASH: With a bigscreen TV, raffle prizes, drink specials and traditional fingerfood favorites, enjoy the end-of-season match-up in comfort and style. Space is limited so reserve your spot to ensure seating. Su, 2/3, 3pm. $30. Arden Hills Resort Club & Spa, 1220 Arden Hills Ln.; (916) 482-6111.

Special Events LECTURER TO DISCUSS THE POTENTIAL OF HIV VACCINES: Professor Sir Andrew McMichael of the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford will be the UC Davis School of Medicine’s 2013 Nelson Scientific Lecturer. McMichael’s lecture is titled T-cell immune responses against HIV-1: Can they be harnessed by vaccines?. W, 2/6, noon. Free.

Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility Auditorium, 451 Health Sciences Dr. on the UC Davis campus in Davis; (530) 752-2170.

WINE TRIVIA NIGHT: Brush up on your wine knowledge, enjoy vineyard to table wines, farm to table eats, and great company along with some healthy competition. Prizes will be awarded and good times will be had. First W of every month, 7-9pm through 4/3. Free.

Revolution Wines, 2831 S St.; (916) 444-7711; www.revolution-wines.com.

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Francisco 49ers against John Harbaugh’s Baltimore Ravens. Which means it’s the first time two brothers will be coaching against each other in the Super Bowl.

In other words, it’s time to root for Jim and the 49ers, since it’s the closest team to Sactown.

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unique confluence of events, UC Davis entities— including the Mondavi Center, the Davis Humanities Institute, and the departments of Art Studio, Performance Studies, Music, Theatre and Dance, and Sociology— come together to explore “migration.” The festival’s official name is Worlds of Discovery and Loss: The Art of Migration and it features dance, music and art.

Through 2/12. call for pricing. Mondavi Center, 9399 Old Davis Rd. in Davis; (530) 754-2787; www.mondaviarts.org.

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FEAST on a nacho-

and-taco bar featuring chicken and carnitas at Mix Downtown (1525 L Street).

The 21-and-over event is free, and doors open at 1 p.m. Call (916) 442-8899 or visit www.mixdown town.net for more information.

jazz to this edition of the ongoing Wednesday Nooner series presented by Sacramento State Unique programs. W, 2/6, noon.

Free. Sacramento State Student Union, Redwood Room, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-6997; www.sacstateunique.com.

HARLOW’S

Restaurant & Nightclub (2708 J Street) will broadcast the game on a 30-foot screen on its patio. Its Super Bowl celebration, which begins at noon, will also feature a special menu, raffles and prizes. For more information, call (916) 441-4693 or visit www.harlows.com.

BIG SCREENS!

Special Events TEEN THEATRE FESTIVAL: The Lenaea High School Theatre Festival welcomes 50 West Coast high school theater programs, and offers a venue to provide feedback to student performances of one act plays, monologues, scenes and songs. The festival provides response and workshops from statewide professional theater artists and faculty members to all student participants. F, 2/1,

10am-8pm; Sa, 2/2, 8:30am-10pm; Su, 2/3, 8:30am-8:30pm. $10-$15.

Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

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(1400 Alhambra Boulevard) will host live music during the Super Bowl. Instead of listening to Alicia Keys sing the national anthem and Beyoncé perform (lip-sync?) during the halftime show, listen to local rock bands Black Mackerel (at 3 p.m.) and Kill the Precedent (during halftime); there’s no cover charge. Call (916) 455-3400 or visit www.bluelamp.com for more information.

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Association hosts a Super Bowl Sunday Run, featuring a 10K run and relay. Registration is already over, but for those who missed the deadline, there will be music, tailgating and a special appearance by Detroit Lions running back Jahvid Best. Show up at 9 a.m. for the free event (for spectators, anyway) at Sacramento State University’s Hornet Stadium (6000 J Street). Visit www.superbowlrun.org for more information.

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Each event has a winner, and riders accumulate points towards the ultimate goal, the Professional Bull Riders World Championship.

F, 2/1, 8pm; Sa, 2/2, 8pm. $10-$100.

Sleep Train Arena, 1 Sports Pkwy.; (916) 649-8497; www.pbr.com.

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An inspirational (and often hilarious) live stage performance, designed to educate and celebrate sobriety. This live theater production is presented as if you’re in an old time recovery meeting with the beloved cofounders of Alcoholics Anonymous as the guest speakers. Th, 1/31, 7:30-9pm; F, 2/1, 7:30-9pm. $24.

Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.; (916) 924-4818, ext. 217; http://ncaddsac.org/ncaddsacramento-presents-pass-it-on -live-theater-production.

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SN&R scouts out Sacramento’s best international and ethnic groceries Sacramento boasts some great grocery stores, including numerous locally owned ones, such by as Taylor’s Market and the Nugget Markets, Jonathan Mendick Raley’s and Bel Air chains—all-purpose markets that to cover most of the basics. But j o nathanm@ newsre view.c om what if you’re hankering for fresh tamarind, hand-made tortillas or sushi rice?

Not a problem, either. The following are some of the region’s best places—listed in no particular order—to shop for ethnic and international groceries.

Holding Corti Corti Brothers

Although it’s known for plenty of other things (superb wine selection, fresh sandwiches, organic meat), Corti Brothers is an Itallian grocery store at heart. Its imported selection of pasta and olive oils goes unrivaled locally, and many of the store’s products are handpicked from Italy. 5810 Folsom Boulevard, (916) 736-3814, www.cortibros.biz.

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KP International Market

Oto’s Marketplace

This specialty market sells Japanese groceries, produce, household items, fresh sushi and Japanese takeout. It even has a special section called “A Taste of Daiso,” featuring bargain goods from the popular Japanese dollar store, Daiso (the nearest Daiso stores are in the Bay Area). Pro tip: Try the Harajuku chocolate mochi made by Nippon-ya. 4990 Freeport Boulevard, (916) 424-2398, www.otosmarketplace.com.

Formerly known as Koreana Plaza, the newly remodeled and expanded KP International Market is now even better. Bonus: The store stocks Mexican, Russian and Korean groceries, and there are staff members who speak Spanish, Russian and Korean—and English— to help you find what you need. 10971 Olson Drive in Rancho Cordova, (916) 853-8000, www.kpinternationalmarket.com.

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Kaveri Indian Grocery

Located next door to Kaveri Madras Cuisine, Kaveri Indian Grocery is a good place to shop for ingredients to recreate your favorite chutney, masala or curry. Or if you don’t want to dive into the complex world of Indian spices and sauces, just grab a microwavable dinner and some naan. 1148 Fulton Avenue, Suite D; (916) 489-1558; www.kaveriindiangrocery.com.

Bet the ranch on it

An Armenian-American-owned business, Naroe’s Bakery specializes in breads, such as lavash (Middle Eastern flatbread), challah (Jewish egg bread), baguettes, sourdough, cakes and cookies. It also stocks a huge deli counter with Eastern European meats and cheeses, and grocery items focused on Slavic and Eastern European countries.

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99 Ranch Market

Part of a supermarket chain that started in Orange County, 99 Ranch Market dominates the Southgate Plaza in South Sacramento. It’s basically a giant warehouse full of Chinese and pan-Asian groceries with a hot deli, bakery and guest tenants selling tchotchkes such as tea, pottery and cellphone accessories. It even has a surprisingly large selection of tropical ice cream and sorbet flavors. 4220 Florin Road, (916) 429-8899, www.99ranch.com.

Halal good Babylon City Market

Eat inexpensive falafel sandwiches or beef shawarma from the hot-food section while browsing through aisles of Middle Eastern groceries (spices, canned goods, sauces, etc.). There’s a separate room for meat and another room with a bakery which specializes in samoon, an Iraqi flatbread.

1745 Watt Avenue, (916) 486-7777, http://mediterranean-halal-foodsacramento.com.

Delicious doppelgänger From The V Word test kitchen, here’s a quinoa-and-black-bean burger that’s safe for vegans and the gluten and nut averse.

Cook 1 cup of quinoa, let it cool, and mash it with 16 ounces of canned black beans, a quarter-cup of chopped cilantro, 1 teaspoon of ground cumin, 1 teaspoon of chopped oregano, a quarter-teaspoon of cayenne, a half-teaspoon of onion powder, one pressed clove of garlic and one egg’s equivalent of Ener-G Egg Replacer.

Add salt to taste and form the falafel doppelgänger batter into patties; cook on an oiled skillet until each side is golden brown. Serve on a bun or a bed of lettuce with the condiments of your choosing.

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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.

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 lunchinclined, 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. HHH1⁄2 G.L.

GranGE rEstaurant & Bar You won’t find any “challenging” dishes on this menu—just delicious local and seasonal food such as the Green Curry & Pumpkin Soup, which has a Southeast-Asian flair. A spinach salad features ingredients that could be considered boring elsewhere: blue-cheese dressing, bacon, onion. But here, the sharply cheesy buttermilk dressing and the woodsy pine nuts make it a salad to remember. Grange’s brunch puts other local offerings to shame. The home fries are like marvelously crispy Spanish patatas bravas. A grilled-hamand-Gruyere sandwich is just

buttery enough, and an eggwhite 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. HHHH 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 Sacramento wants: good beer; solid pub grub; and a casual, unpretentious atmosphere. Here, atmosphere. Here, the bar is the centerbar is the centerpiece with a full stock with a full stock of liquor and 60 beers liquor and 60 beers on draught. The menu draught. The menu features savory appetizers—the tortilla soup with poached chicken, poached chicken, avocado and tomato is particularly noteworthy—and a selection of sandwiches and pizzas, including a simple pie a simple pie with fresh mozzarella fresh mozzarella and tomato sauce. tomato sauce. american. 1132 16th 1132 16th St., (916) 446-0888.

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board is more like a groaning board, stocked with abundant regional meats and cheeses.

The pickle plate looks like Peter Rabbit’s dream, all teeny turnips and tangy carrot chunks. Generally excellent, the saloon’s cocktail list veers from the classics with a list of bartender-created drinks with unusual, but wisely considered flavor combinations: cilantro and tequila, blackberry and thyme, and the surprisingly sublime mixture of celery and pineapple. american. 1409 R St., (916) 231-9121. Dinner for one: (916) 231-9121. Dinner $10-$20. HHH1⁄2 B.G. $10-$20. HHH1⁄2

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. HHHH 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 grilledshrimp 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

Gueuze the boss I’m a beer drinker, so my game is luck. Such as: I heard that I’m a beer drinker, taylor’s Market (2900 (2900 Freeport Boulevard), which boasts a thoughtful beer Freeport selection, recently selection, recently had some Cantillon gueuze (pronounced “gooze”) for just 10 bucks. for just 10 bucks. Needless to say, that’s some beaucoup Belgian juju.

Anyway, it’s gone Anyway, it’s gone now, surely, but you’d be almost as lucky this week if you cruise if you cruise by Curtis Park’s Pangaea two Brews cafe (2743 Franklin Boulevard) and Boulevard) and sample the Vicaris tripel Gueuze on draft. Gueuze is a process is a process that involves blending sour, vinuous lambic beers to create an even create an even dryer, more carbonated but similar style. Some call gueuze the call gueuze the real champagne of beers; forget that Miller High Life swill. Vicaris Life swill. Vicaris is a Belgian brewer that’s new to the gueuzerie world, but it world, but it does a pretty solid job at blending. This particular pour is sugary, but the funkiness brings a big pucker to the lips. pour is sugary, Not my favorite Not my favorite interpretation of my favorite style, but a good drinking drinking gueuze between hoppier beers as a palate reset. gueuze

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Beer: Lair of the Bear (barrel-aged Russian stout) Brewer: Mammoth Brewing Company Where: The Davis Beer Shoppe, 211 G Street in Davis; (530) 756-5212 Beer: Freigeist Abraxas (Berliner weiss) Brewer: Gasthaus-Brauerei Braustelle Where: LowBrau, 1050 20th Street; (916) 706-2936; www.lowbrausacramento.com Beer: Saison D’erpe-Mere Brewer: KleinBrouwerij De Glazen Toren Where: Pangaea Two Brews Cafe, 2743 Franklin Boulevard; (916) 454-4942; www.pangaeatwobrews.com

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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. HHH B.G.

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

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

They are warm, soft, taste like corn and barely resemble those cardboard things you get at the store. Mexican. 5701 Franklin Blvd., (916) 428-7844. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH1⁄2 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.

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Dinner for one: $10-$20.

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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. HHH1⁄2 G.L.

Land Park/ Curtis Park PAngAeA two BrewS CAFe Tables, tall and short, are large and communal, fostering that casual camaraderie that should be the goal of any selfrespecting brewpub. There’s a fairly extensive menu, including breakfast items. Not to put too fine a point on it: Pangaea’s offerings are not beers that will be found at a Save Mart Supermarket or even Nugget.

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Among the signature offerings is The Gobbler. Turkey, natch.

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

Brewpub. 2743 Franklin Blvd., (916) 454-4942. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH1⁄2 G.L.

Natomas 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. 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. HHHH G.L.

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Brews and bites If you’re the type of person who sees beer as the sixth food group— accompanying fruits and vegetables, grains, proteins, dairy, and fats and sugars—then you’ll enjoy Friday night’s Art of Beer event at Fusion International Arts Center (501 Arden Way). Tickets—$40 in advance or $50 at the door—include fine food from Tuli Bistro, The Shack, Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co., Blackbird Kitchen & Bar, Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, and Cypress Grove Chevre. Plus, enjoy unlimited 4-ounce tastings of beer from two-dozen California breweries, including locals Track 7 Brewing Co., Rubicon Brewing Company, Two Rivers Cider Company and New Helvetia Brewing Co. There’ll also be 10 brewmasters on hand to answer questions— including UC Davis brewing-science professor and author of Beer Is Proof God Loves Us, Charlie Bamforth—and art curated by Jim Shepherd (a portion of proceeds from art purchased will benefit charities such as Ales for Autism and Stanford Youth Solutions).

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This intelligent analysis of the way our culture views and responds to our own bodies is nothing short of groundbreaking. Abigail C. Saguy, a sociology professor at UCLA, looks at how we talk about fat, obesity and overweight in terms of frame. In What’s Wrong With Fat? (Oxford University Press, $29.95), Saguy challenges several ideas of our understanding of weight and overweight, including those that treat it as a problem to be addressed and those that concentrate BOOK on attractiveness, an already culturally bound perspective. Saguy brings an uncommon amount of intellectual and common sense to a discussion that is fraught with emotion, mixed messages and anxiety.

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Tapigami Hacker glasses kicksTarTer drive Sacramento artist Danny Scheible has long enchanted art lovers with his Tapigami creations—sculptural and sprawling room-sized installations comprising materials such as masking tape, wire hangers, fabric, metal bits, and other pieces found in homes, hardware stores and salvage lots. Scheible, whose works have been featured at The FASHION California Museum downtown and the Exploratorium in San Francisco, also creates smaller-scale works (lamp shades, jewelry, etc.). Now, he’s teamed with Hacker Lab, the Sacramento-based tech incubator, to create an art-glasses prototype featuring white, oversized frames and trippy, colorful lenses that look more like a kaleidoscope wheel than something you can actually see through. The glasses, created using a CAD software program, has been described as a “mash-up between art and technology.”

Want a pair? Can’t get ’em yet, sorry. You can, however, participate in a Kickstarter campaign to turn the prototype into a full-fledged product line that’s scheduled to make its debut later this year. The campaign kicks off on Monday, February 4, and it aims to raise $10,000. There are several price points at which you can contribute. Chip in $5 and get in on the Tapigami newsletter, donate $25 and receive a shirt. Or go big: $100 gets you a dozen Tapigami flowers, and $350 nets you a pair of custom-made Hacker Glasses. Got $5,000 to spare? Scheible will place a 20-by-20 foot Tapigami installation in the location of your choice for three months. http://tinyurl.com/Tapigami.

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Save the drama for your mama My boyfriend broke up with me. My mom sent him a text telling him how upset I’ve been, and that she thought he handled the breakup badly.

I found out after one of his friends texted me about how upset my ex is because of something my mom called him. Then, one of his friends tweeted about my mom’s text. I am furious at my mom, who insists that she did

by Joey ga rcia nothing wrong. She says she was only trying to help so “he a s kj o ey @ n ewsreview.c om could understand the gravity of his actions.” Well, how do I get her to understand the gravity of her actions?

Joey You can’t force your mother’s mind watched the film to open and see from your perspecLes Misérables tive. She is locked into the belief that without a break. interfering in your relationship is a hallmark of loyalty. She finds assurance in this belief, and that shields her from considering anything you might say. What her behavior really does, however, is keep you small.

She remains the parent, and you, the child who must be protected.

The death of a relationship brings grief and its friends: anger, denial, bargaining, depression.

Got a problem?

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

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

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

Your mother may have interfered because she was distraught over your emotional response to the relationship’s end. Her interference is a sign she does not trust your capacity for self-healing. Emotions are a natural expression of the energy we attach to experiences in life.

The death of a relationship brings grief and its friends: anger, denial, bargaining, depression. If we have committed to the awareness that death is a part of life, we eventually shift into acceptance of our new reality. Here is sustenance for that growth spurt: People come and go, emotions come and go. Each of us must acknowledge that we, too, have entered and left the lives of others.

We survived, and so did those we left. Yes, it hurts, and that pain is something we should never inflict thoughtlessly. Yet leaving and being left is a human activity. It is possible that your mother has never learned this truth and is not able to live it or guide you through it.

Shrug off the idea of educating your mother. Understand the current crisis as an invitation into a healthier way to live and love. Evolve beyond her understanding by finding another adult to mentor you through romantic relationships. Choose someone who clearly values emotions, even difficult ones, because each emotion provides us with important information about ourselves. Choose someone who trusts your capacity to hold, process, and release feelings and who can journey with you through that mess without taking it on. Trust in your own ability to grow beyond the drama now present in your life. Do this by seeing the big picture: You are learning how to give and receive love. That is the true work of life.

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I have been treated poorly at work, and the actions against me are likely discriminatory. I confided in a friend who is a longtime employee. I specifically asked her not to tell anyone.

Today, I found out that she told her entire department. People I don’t know are coming up to me to talk about it. Is anyone trustworthy?

Yes. But that’s probably hard to accept right now. Discrimination is a violation of social trust. The announcement of your secret is also a betrayal. Don’t take it personally.

The woman you confided in had a responsibility to tell you that she could not keep the information confidential. Your responsibility is to accept that few people honor privacy or confidentiality. So, if you confided in her hoping to gain support, admit it. After all, the right person to contact if discrimination occurs is the staff person at work in charge of such matters or an attorney. Trust yourself to take greater care in the future. Ω

Meditation of the Week “If you say that getting money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing, which is stupid,” said philosopher Alan Watts. Which day of the week do you love the most?

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Yes, the overall subject matters in The North Plan can be thought-provoking, but mostly it’s audaciously funny with its sharp, daring dialogue and physical comedy presented by a talented cast headlined by Rubin, whose line delivery and expressions are priceless.

The Capital Stage cast is supported by director Peter Mohrmann, who keeps the rhythm flowing throughout, and a stellar backstage crew that designed the creative set, spot-on costumes, and impressive production features.

And one more element should be added to the initial Capital Stage warning: “Regrets may occur if you miss this clever kick-ass comedy.” Ω

The North Plan, 8 p.m.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday; 2 p.m.

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Wednesday; $20-$28.

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who has no filters and can’t complete a sentence without inserting a “motherfucker” somewhere. Tanya, in a knockout performance by the hilarious Katie Rubin (pictured), establishes an unlikely jailhouse alliance with midlevel government bureaucrat Carlton Berg (Cassidy Brown), who is brought in under new Homeland Security measures after the agency takes over the U.S. government.

All action takes place in a small-town Missouri police station, overseen by the goodnatured police chief Swenson (Harry Harris) and young earnest police administrator Shonda (Alexandra Barthel). In the first half, this comedic farce contains hilarious interchanges between the two prisoners and their cautious but sympathetic jailers. The second half brings in two menacing and squabbling Homeland Security officers (William Elsman and Andrew J. Perez) who don’t quite agree with each other or know what to do with their new powers and prisoners.

The play, while clever and comedic, is also topical in a couple aspects, including an

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Over many years with the B Street Theatre, actor David Pierini has specialized in playing guys who haven’t lived up to their potential, like a 30-something-ish unemployed college grad still living with his mom, or a guy who finished law school but never passed the bar exam. Often these characters are loveable losers, presented in a semicomical context.

So Pierini’s role in Carapace is a bit of a switch—here he’s playing an arguably successful longtime sports anchor on a local TV news station. Early on, we sense that this is cautionary tale, not a comedy, with a tragic outcome in store. Pierini seizes the opportunity and mounts one of the best performances we’ve seen him give.

It’s all about alcohol dependency—and stuttering. Pierini’s character is likeable, but he drinks too much. He can hide it from most people, but his family isn’t fooled—they eventually cut him off. And the stress contributes to the sportscaster’s daughter’s terrible struggle with stuttering (an unusual role for versatile actress Stephanie Altholz). The show also includes a worthy turn by Greg Alexander (as a prissy in-law) and good supporting work by acting interns Dan Fagan and James Arakas.

A shattered terrarium and references to the Minneapolis freeway bridge that spectacularly collapsed in 2007 are clearly symbolic, but director Jerry Montoya doesn’t push them too hard; and Montoya doesn’t overdramatize the small, fateful choices that make this story’s ending inevitable.

—Jeff Hudson

Carapace, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday; 2 and 7 p.m. Thursday; 7 p.m. Friday; 8 p.m. Saturday; 1 p.m. Sunday; $23-$35.

B Street Theatre, B3 Stage, 2727 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. Through February 24.

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Jack Gallagher, a Sacramento homeboy who has successfully cobbled together a 30-year-comedy career, has also made a name for himself with his reflective one-man shows.

Previous efforts revolved around a particular person or issue, but Complete and Unfinished meanders through a cornucopia of subject matter. 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. Th, F 8pm; Sa 5 & 9pm; Su 2pm;

Tu 6:30pm; W 2 & 6:30pm. Through 2/24.

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Lois Lowry’s Anastasia Krupnik has some comic episodes, but this show has some dramatic gravity as well, as 10-year-old Anastasia faces transitions such as 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? 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 30something mom. Director Elisabeth Nunziato handles the story deftly. Sa, Su 1 & 4pm.

Through 2/17. $18-$27. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. P.R.

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A sad, beautiful love story, a director who clearly “gets� it, and two fine actors create fascinating theater here. Laura Kaya plays Kayleen, a tortured girl who tries to hold her pain inside; Joshua Glenn Robertson is Doug, an accidentprone kid who never outgrows dangerous mishaps. Careening back and forth over 30 years, the play reveals why these two truly belong together. Fri, Sa 8 pm. Through 2/9. $10-$15. Resurrection Theatre at Wilkerson Theatre, 2509 R Street; (916) 223-9568; www.resurrectiontheatre.com. J.C.

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Though the production is held together with kite string instead of thread, the Actor’s Workshop of Sacramento, helmed by Ed Claudio, manage to score a handful of chuckles with its collection of hit-and-miss one acts. Fri, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 2/24. $15-$17. Actor’s Workshop of Sacramento at the Three Penny Playhouse, 1721 25th Street; (916) 583-4880; www.actinsac.com. M.M.

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be disappointed. That leaves the rest of us wondering how far we ought to keep extending the credit these actors earned in their heyday, which seems long enough ago now that its memory has been almost entirely overwritten by lazy mythology. Stand Up Guys’ most authentic aspect is the unfortunate suggestion that its leads’ best days really are behind them.

Pacino gets out of prison after a long stint that might have been shorter if he’d tattled on his friends; Walken, the best of his pals, now has orders to kill him. Who’d give such illogical orders? Only “the meanest, most vindictive motherfucker outside the devil himself,” a crime boss played by Mark Margolis and introduced through a stale series of angry-goombah phone calls. These leave Walken with an hourand-half in which to look like he’s procrastinating the decision to euthanize a sickly pet.

While we’re supposed to wonder what he’ll do, he takes Pacino out for a night of mischief and sentimental wiseguy reminiscence. Needing “to party,” they go to a brothel. Needing Viagra, they rob a pharmacy. Needing medical attention for a Viagra overdose, they go to the ER, where the habit of demoting actors into dull parodies of their past personas continues, and Julianna Margulies plays a nurse.

It so happens that her father—played by Arkin—is the guys’ former getaway driver, now withering away in an old-folks’ home. They break him out. They go back to the brothel.

They steal a car and find a naked woman in its

trunk, then gallantly abet her brutal revenge on the thugs who put her there. Now and then they pause for steaks and more reminiscence at the allnight diner where a cute young waitress has nothing better to do than be perky and adore them.

She figures into the plot, preposterously, too.

Spoiler alert: One of the guys dies. It’s hard to blame him, given a story not worth sticking around for. We do get that it’s supposed to be a last hurrah anyway, and no amount of unnaturally outrageous pseudo-Tarantino antics can shake off the reflective mood. “Like the old days,” Arkin says. “No, better,” says Pacino. “Yeah,” Arkin says, why?” “Because we can appreciate it,” says Pacino.

Well, if he says so. Pacino still gives off the same frothy babble he’s been good for since whenever he became so depressingly easy to imitate, only now it comes in a lethargic ooze. Arkin obviously has a knack for capering, but here he’s a blur, still gliding down that no-resistance zipline from Little Miss Sunshine all the way to Argo. Walken comes closest to real dignity, but only when not saying anything. Otherwise, his line readings range from characteristically quixotic to just wrong, and there’s the sense that neither screenwriter Noah Haidle nor director Fisher Stevens would’ve dared to correct him.

Stand Up Guys’ most authentic aspect is the unfortunate suggestion that its leads’ best days really are behind them.

And we’re just supposed to be grateful, too, for the privilege of witnessing this particular power trio noodling together at last. It’s as if asking Stand Up Guys to work harder—at honoring what these three actors have meant to us and at wringing real pathos from the innately absurd ravages of time—would be asking too much. Instead of playing out patiently and with real feeling, like one of the fine old soul grooves filling up its soundtrack, it figures just having the soundtrack is enough.

Well, that, plus the requisite Viagra gag, which perhaps couldn’t be avoided, as any suggestion of potency here is grotesquely synthetic.

Stand Up Guys does get us thinking about mortality. Someday, there’ll be no more old-man dick schtick or shots looking up at gangsters from inside a car trunk, and then what’ll the movies do? Ω

by JONATHAN KIeFeR & JIM LANe Bullet to the Head

A New Orleans hit man (Sylvester Stallone) and a Washington, D.C., cop (Sung Kang) form an uneasy alliance when their respective partners are killed by the same gang.

Here, the French graphic novel by Alexis “Matz” Nolent is retooled by writer Alessandro Camon and director Walter Hill as a vehicle for Stallone, more or less indistinguishable from every other movie he’s made for the last, oh, 200 or 300 years. Stallone blew past self-parody years ago, but he’s always had a middling flair for comedy (Oscar and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot) that his audience never warmed to; still, it makes his snarling banter with Kang between gunfights the best parts here. For the rest, it’s business as usual for Stallone to charm yet another generation of fans. Some things never change; it’s almost comforting, in a way. J.L.

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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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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 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

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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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A bohemian artist (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) 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 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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Here, in your nominated live-action shorts collection, is a five-part diagram of Oscar bait. Henry is the tender account of an elderly musician grasping at the fading memories of his youth. Buzkashi Boys has Kabul kids dreaming of glory in the rough-and-tumble Afghan version of polo, played with a dead goat instead of a ball.

Asad, another tale of a kid facing down his fate, is set in a Somali seaside village, and fittingly described in the credits as a tribute to its cast, refugees all, who “lost their country, but not their sense of hope.” The vaguely steampunky

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When the leader of a million-dollar heist (Jason Statham) is double-crossed by his cohorts and left for dead, he trails them incognito to Palm Beach, Florida, where he enlists the unwitting aid of a struggling real-estate agent (Jennifer Lopez). Donald E. Westlake’s anithero makes a good fit for Statham (though it’s a mystery why the star’s hilariously clumsy Texas accent doesn’t blow his cover), and director Taylor Hackford and writer John J. McLaughlin do a creditable enough job with the material. True, Hackford lets the suspense go a little slack while he dawdles over the gorgeous scenery (courtesy of the Florida Film Commission and cinematographer J. Michael Muro), but the action is steady and the cast strong with Michael Chiklis as Statham’s antagonist, Nick Nolte as his mentor, Patti LuPone as Lopez’s soap-opera-addicted mother. J.L.

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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.

If this endorses anything, it’s the opportunism of movies. J.K.

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Taken together, this year’s animated short-form Oscar nominees show how entertaining a movie can be even without spoken dialogue. In less than two minutes, Fresh Guacamole serves up much foodie whimsy from the stop-motion maestro known as PES, who’s long found fun inspiration in resemblances between household objects. In the Disney ditty Paperman, romance takes flight amid an old gray urban bureaucracy. Head Over Heels is the detailed puppet parable of an aging husband and wife who’ve drifted apart— gravitationally. The exquisitely painterly Adam and Dog traces the man’s-bestfriend bond all the way back to the Garden of Eden. Maybe the most richly realized of the lot is The Simpsons: The Longest Daycare, an offshoot of the long-running animated series that’s more dolefully funny and narratively controlled than that series has been in years. All of them do a fine job of showing instead of telling. J.K.

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The variety on the album has much to do with the fact that multiple band members contributed songs to it.

“On Driftwood … Tim contributed a few songs.

[Guitarist] Deren Ney also contributed one or two, and I wrote a few as well,” Bluhm says. “We have different writers for this record, with different feels, but I think it all comes together and coexists really well.”

Whether the tracks are empowering—“Jetplane,” for instance, was written after Bluhm spent two months with some friends in Yosemite National Park and focuses heavily on the transition from being a kid to being a grownup, from being a daughter to a wife—or more downtrodden (“Barbary Blues”), the band’s tracks are infused with genuine passion, soul and emotion.

“Music is the ultimate means of expression,” Bluhm says. “Sometimes it’s too hard to verbalize something, but if you write about something you don’t want to bring up with somebody, at least you can get it out of your system. It’s an expressive, therapeutic process we go through, and that goes for listening to music, too, not just writing. It’s about getting your ultimate emotional fix.”

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Nicki Bluhm, who fronts the San Francisco-based rock and soul band the Gramblers, knows the score, and says she doesn’t mind playing the game— by Brian Palmer not if it means getting her and her band’s name known on a national level.

“We’re a work in progress,” Bluhm says.

“We know we’re still pretty much a baby band, so we’re just working hard.”

That’s an understatement.

Catch Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers at 8 p.m. on Thursday, January 31, at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J Street; $15. See www.nickibluhm.com for more info.

Over the past two years, the band, which features Bluhm with her husband, Mother Hips singer-songwriter Tim Bluhm, has released an album, Driftwood, found new management and then rereleased Driftwood. The band also produced a YouTube viral video of themselves singing the Daryl Hall & John Oates classic “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)” in their van (the clip garnered almost 2 million views in just 10 months), toured heavily up and down the West Coast, completed its first national tour and then embarked on a second one.

Even with all that going on, however, Bluhm says she’s well aware that cultivating an audience takes time.

“It takes a little while to see how it works,” Bluhm says. “Because when you go and tour a place like Birmingham, Alabama, and people like the show well enough to buy the record, then the hope is they’ll like the record enough to want to come back to a show again.

You have to go out a few times and do a few national tours to get a feel for it.”

Driftwood, the album the band’s been touring touring behind, features 11 tracks that run the gamut with country-bluegrass numbers, such as “Stick With Me,” and mid-tempo folk tracks, such as “Carousel.” “Before You Loved Me” exudes a split-personality, musically, with the first half exhibiting a dreamy, doo-wopmeets-Americana sound before it absolutely

“ We know we’re still pretty much a baby band, so we’re just working hard.”

Nicki Bluhm 2013 promises to be just as busy for the band. After its current tour ends in the Pacific Northwest and Vancouver in February, the group will head back out on the road in March to play several showcases at this year’s South

by Southwest festival in Texas before embarking on another cross-country van tour. And somewhere in the middle of all this, the band plans to release a new album.

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Rambler house: There’s something heartwarming about Americana music. Maybe it’s the full-bodied sound of a stand-up bass paired with the weep of a violin. Or perhaps it’s the distinct twang of a pedal steel guitar. Whatever it is, all sounds were present last weekend at downtown’s Shine coffeehouse.

Singer-songwriter Sean Fleming opened the night solo, performing upbeat acoustic tunes with a slight country feel. But it was the Pine Street Ramblers from Auburn who picked up the pace for the evening.

The band warmed up a crowd of more than 50 fans, sending audience members dancing, clapping and singing along to the music. They even covered Bob Dylan’s “You Ain’t Going Nowhere,” adding in mandolin and fiddle. The show was packed with plenty of bluegrass, folk, country and even a bit of blues, and continued on with another set of ramblers—this time the Delta City Ramblers—who kept up the momentum. That band’s vocalist put his own spin to Patsy Cline’s “She’s Got You,” and even their rendition of Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” was on point. As Delta City carried on with its Americana-style originals, one crowd member near the back of the venue picked up a set of spoons and started jamming along on his knee.

Meanwhile, another pair of patrons sipped Session beers as they tapped their toes to the music over a quiet game of chess. At the close of the evening, all the Ramblers in the house plus Fleming paired off on microphones and joined forces for one last song: Old Crow Medicine Show’s “Wagon Wheel.” The song’s old-time charm and catchy lyrics had audience members singing and swaying along. A good olefashioned send-off, indeed.

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For $5, Old I played host to seven local bands that rocked the house and, at times, packed the bar sixdeep. Each group was given one rule for its song selections: It had to be just “one degree of separation” from a Kevin Bacon film. Blossom Rock mule-kicked the lineup off into deep space with an awesome version of “Purple Haze” (I swear, someone on stage was channeling Jimi Hendrix).

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Skratchpad Sacramento is not for kittens. Or for fat dudes who have too much body hair and don’t like to shower. It’s for men and ladies BEATS who can’t get enough of beats— hip-hop, electronic, trap, whatever—but don’t have money to pay for cover charges (zero dollars gets you in here). And, it seems, most Sacramentans don’t embrace paying for shows, so in theory, this night should be wall-to-wall packed with cheap-ass 916ers, right? Anyway, this first Skratchpad of 2013 features Sleeprockers, DJ Los, Luke ScratchRocker (pictured) and others. And, for amateur scratchers, hop on the decks for the “open table Q&A scratch sessions,” whatever that may be. Hmm. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.facebook.com/Skratchpad916.

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A Texas native, singer-songwriter Aly Tadros left her hometown of Laredo at 17 and went on to live in Spain, Turkey and Egypt, picking up both the linguistic and musical currents of the respective countries. Her eclectic, melodic music reflects her globe-trotting experiences, and in tandem with her sweet vocals, the end result is something like Ani DiFranco on a happy day.

Tadros is on a nationwide tour in support of the January release of The Fits, a pleasantly low-fi album that would be an apt SINGER-SONGWRITER accompaniment for some world adventuring of your own.

1400 E Street, www.alytadros.com.

Classically trained violinist Emilie Autumn’s idiosyncratic, rebellious style (corsets and combat boots) proved ill-suited to the straitlaced classical world. Instead, she created her own high-concept glam-cabaret rock act, reminiscent of Rasputina crossed with INDUSTRIAL the Dresden Dolls. In 2006, she released her cult breakthrough Opheliac, which, like her 2009 autobiography, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls, is drawn from her horrific abusive experiences in a mental hospital during her teens. Last year, she released her third album, Fight Like a Girl, which builds on the harrowing tone of Opheliac and leans more toward the broad sweep of a musical than taut rock propulsion. 3522 Stockton Boulevard, www.emilieautumn.com.

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The Bleedin’ Hearts’ songs may be about the devastation of love lost, as in the true country tradition, but even the sadness in “Sea HONKY-TONK of Heartbreak” can’t keep one’s toes from tapping. This self-described high-octane honky-tonk band gets all that octane from the prominent shredding of twangy guitar, and when the swinging music is combined with the vocals of frontman Sean Schroeder, one can’t help but think, “Is this what Social Distortion and Mike Ness would sound like if he hadn’t swallowed a porcupine?” Poor little porcupine. 1001 R Street, www.reverbnation.com/bleedinhearts.

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Sacramento City College, 7:30 p.m., $41.50-$44.50

The world premiere of Concerto for Two Marimbas and Orchestra will be presented as part of the Art of Migration Festival. Under the direction of conductor Christian Baldini, this new piece by composer and festival fellow Laurie San Martin features Mayumi Hama and Chris Froh on marimba. Mysteries of the Macabre, a selection of arias from György Ligeti’s opera, Le Grand Macabre, CLASSICAL will feature soprano Nikki Einfeld, and Sergey Prokofiev’s Selections From Romeo and Juliet will also be performed. This orchestra, now in its 54th year, has performed worldwide and is comprised of strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion. 9399 Old Davis Road in Davis, http://music.ucdavis.edu/ symphony/2012-13-concerts.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Wageni ni

baraka” is a Swahili proverb that means “guests are a blessing.” That’s not always true, of course. Sometimes guests can be a boring inconvenience or a messy burden.

But for you in the coming weeks, Aries, I’m guessing the proverb will be 98 percent correct. The souls who come calling are likely to bestow unusually fine benefits.

They may provide useful clues or missing links you’ve been searching for. They might inspire you to see things about yourself that you really need to know, and they might even give you shiny new playthings.

Open your mind and heart to the unexpected blessings.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I feel my

fate in what I cannot fear,” said Theodore Roethke in his poem “The Waking.” I invite you to try out that perspective, Taurus. In other words, learn more about your destiny by doing what makes you feel brave.

Head in the direction of adventures that clear your mind of its clutter, and mobilize your gutsy brilliance. Put your trust in dreams that inspire you to sweep aside distracting worries.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s the first

ever Blemish Appreciation Week—for Geminis only. One of the best ways to observe this holiday is to not just tolerate the flaws and foibles of other people, but to also understand them and forgive them.

Another excellent way to celebrate is to do the same for your own flaws and foibles: Applaud them for the interesting trouble they’ve caused and the rousing lessons they’ve taught. I may be joking a little about this, but I’m mostly serious. Be creative and uninhibited as you have fun with the human imperfections that normally drive you crazy.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When I turn

my psychic vision in your direction, I see scenes of heavy rain and rising water, maybe even a flood. I’m pretty sure this has a metaphorical rather than literal significance. It probably means you will be inundated with more feelings than you’ve experienced in a while. Not bad or out-ofcontrol feelings, just deep and enigmatic and brimming with nuance. How to respond? First, announce to the universe that you will be glad and grateful to accept this deluge. Second, go with the flow, not against it. Third, promise yourself not to come to premature conclusions about the meaning of these feelings; let them evolve.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I want to know

more about you” may be the most potent sentence you can utter in the coming week.

If spoken with sincere curiosity, it will awaken dormant synergies. It will disarm people who might otherwise become adversaries. It will make you smarter and work as a magic spell that gives you access to useful information you wouldn’t be able to crack open with any other method. To begin the process of imbuing your subconscious mind with its incantatory power, say “I want to know more about you” aloud 10 times right now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My hotel was

nice, but the neighborhood where it was located seemed sketchy. As I returned to my room after a jaunt to the convenience store, I received inquiries from two colorfully dressed hookers whose sales pitches were enticingly lyrical. I also passed a lively man who proposed that I purchase some of his top-grade meth, crack or heroin. I thanked them all for their thoughtful invitations but said I wasn’t in the mood. Then I slipped back into my hotel room to dine on my strawberry smoothie and blueberry muffin as I watched HBO. My experience could have something in common with your immediate future, Virgo. I suspect you may be tempted with offers that seem exotic and adventurous but are not really that good for you. Stick to the healthy basics, please.

quinoa soup by the buffest 50-year-old South African woman I’ve ever met, bowed to a room full of applause, and watched two of my favorite men slow dance together to Josephine Baker singing in French.” I suspect that you Libras will be having days like that in the coming week: packed with poetic adventures. Are you ready to handle more than the usual amount of stimulation and excitement?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Thomas

Jefferson, third President of the United States, called himself a Christian. But he also acknowledged that there weren’t any other Christians like him. He said he belonged to a sect consisting of one person—himself. While he admired the teachings of Jesus Christ, he had no use for the supernatural aspects of the stories told in the New Testament. So he created his own version of the Bible, using only those parts he agreed with. Now would be an excellent time for you to be inspired by Jefferson’s approach, Scorpio. Is there a set of ideas that appeals to you in some ways but not in others? Tailor it to your own special needs. Make it your own.

Become a sect of one.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“Everyone is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day,” said writer Elbert Hubbard. “Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.” Judging from my personal experience, I’d say that five minutes is a lowball figure. My own daily rate is rarely less than half-an-hour. But the good news as far as you’re concerned, Sagittarius, is that in the coming weeks you might have many days when you’re not a damn fool for even five seconds. In fact, you may break your all-time records for levels of wild, pure wisdom. Make constructive use of your enhanced intelligence!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Most

human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted,” said Aldous Huxley. If that’s true, Capricorn, it’s important that you not act like a normal human being in the next few weeks. Taking things for granted would be a laziness you can’t afford to indulge. In fact, I think you should renew your passion for and commitment to all your familiar pleasures and fundamental supports. Are you fully aware of the everyday miracles that allow you to thrive? Express your appreciation for the sources that nourish you so reliably.

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

Jacob Nibengenesabe was a member of the Swampy Cree, a First Nation tribe in Canada. He wrote shamanic poems from the point of view of a magical trickster who could change himself into various creatures. In one poem, the shapeshifter talked about how important it is to be definite about what he wanted. He wrote: “There was a storm once / That’s when I wished myself / into a turtle / but I meant on land! / The one that carries a hard tent / on his back. / I didn’t want to be floating!” By the end of the poem, the shapeshifter concluded, “I’ve got to wish things exactly! / That’s the way it is / from now on.” I hope that will be the way it is from now on for you, too, Aquarius.

Visualize your desires in intricate, exact detail. For example, if you want to be a bird for a while, specify what kind.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): As you sleep, you have at least a thousand dreams every year. But if you’re typical, you may recall only a few of them. Doesn’t that bother you? To be so ignorant of the stories your subconscious mind works so hard to craft?

To be out of touch with what the Iroquois call “the secret wishes of your soul”? Now is an excellent time to develop a stronger relationship with your dreams, Pisces. It’s high time to explore the deeper strata of your life’s big mysteries.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A West Coast

DJ named Shakti Bliss wrote a remarkable status update on her Facebook page. Here’s an edited excerpt: “In the past 24 hours, I did yoga in a bathtub, hauled furniture by myself in the rain, got expert dating advice from an 11-year-old, learned the Lindy Hop, saw a rainbow over the ocean, had thriftstore clothes stolen out of my car by a homeless man, made a magic protection amulet out of a piece of cardboard, was fed

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Blue shield She’s been called a blueberry, a lifesaver and an angel. But when most people in downtown Sacramento see the “lady in the blue jacket” coming, they know she’s there to help the homeless. Teresa Olivas, 39, has worked with different nonprofit organizations in Sacramento for 13 years. Two years ago, she started working with the Navigator Team of the Downtown Sacramento Partnership—known for its distinctive blue uniforms. The program has three advocates that conduct outreach on the streets of downtown Sacramento, identifying the needs of homeless individuals and working closely with other nonprofits to get each person the specific services they need and, ultimately, to find them housing. Olivas recently talked to SN&R about social work, her own struggles with addiction and the organization’s choice in color.

Why the blue jackets?

We wear the blue jackets because it’s easier for our clients to know where we are, and we’re easier to identify when someone is looking for us.

How many people do you work with?

We housed 81 people last year out of 320 clients that we worked with. We’re still in contact with the ones that were not housed, unless they moved out of [the] district or they no longer want[ed] our help.

I think we’re one of the most successful programs in downtown because we’re actually out on the street helping people every day.

What made you want to get into social work?

Well, I started as a guest at the [Volunteers of America] drug and alcohol program.

I grew up in south Sacramento, and I was pretty free to do what I wanted. I struggled for the first 25 years of my life with addiction, but I finally decided I needed help.

I was pushed by my sponsor to get into the program, and I was determined to go back out and use. But after a couple months of living clean and sober, I decided it was what I wanted. After a year, I went back to school, and the VOA asked me to come back to be a counselor. I worked there for four years, and then I moved to be a mental-health outreach worker, because that is where my heart and compassion really is.

Why? It comes from seeing people that no one else was getting to, that need services but weren’t getting them. A lot of the mentally ill are homeless, and if they are sick, they are not going to come to you. … We have to help them be able to find the help they need, and with all the budget cutbacks, sometimes that is not easy.

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How have budget cutbacks at nonprofits affected the services available?

It’s been a lot harder to help them.

Because resources have been cut everywhere, we have less to work with and people have fewer options. Collaborating with other organizations in downtown is the only way to make it work. We reach out to them and help them get to the services they need. That’s where our name comes from—we help people navigate the system.

Have your past experiences with addiction helped you in this job?

It’s taught me to be more patient and to be persistent. This job is about building relationships and gaining trust. Just because you approach someone, it doesn’t mean they are going to be willing to get help right then. But we work seven days a week, and we don’t give up on anyone. God has also been a huge inspiration to me every day and helps guide and direct me.

How did you end up working for the Navigator Team?

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What can someone do to help?

We currently don’t accept referrals, but if you want to help us, help the homeless in downtown, you can donate to the Downtown Sacramento Foundation, which supports the homeless outreach that we do. You can also donate to our key partners, like Francis House [Center], Guest House [Homeless Clinic] and The Effort that enable us to make a difference in people’s lives.

Most gratifying part about your job?

I like being able to help people that need my help. It gives me great comfort every day when I go home, to know that I helped someone who really needed it. When I needed help, there were people that were there for me in my time of need, and I want to give that back.

Hardest part?

When services are not available for the person that I’m trying to help; having to leave them outside for another day until I can try to help them again the next day is hard. Ω Contact the Downtown Sacramento Partnership’s Navigator Team at (916) 442-2200. For more information on how to donate to the Downtown Sacramento Foundation, call (916) 442-8575.

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