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Hella questions I didn’t crack the whip, but the writers really got inquisitive this week, anyway: Longstanding political scribe Bill Bradley, for instance, probably spent too much time at this past weekend’s state Republican convention. But he comes away asking a winner: Will Gov. Jerry Brown run unopposed for reelection—because the GOP still hasn’t hit bottom? (See page 11 for insight.)

Exploring deeper terrain, former Sacramento Bee writer Dale Maharidge always wondered about the trauma his father experienced during World War II. So he spent a dozen years tracking down his fellow soldiers; you’ll be surprised by the discoveries (page 20).

Here in Sacramento, Raheem F. Hosseini heard rumors of changes to the county’s affordable-housing ordinance, which mandates that the region’s poor get opportunities for roofs over their heads. Turns out, he was on to something (page 10).

And, like most of us, Cosmo Garvin listened last week as Mayor Kevin Johnson proclaimed that Sacramento should keep the Kings because “we’ve done everything the NBA has ever asked of us. Everything.” But he was one of few to inquire: Is doing everything for the NBA a good thing?

(See page 13.)

I laughed at this week’s Streetalk question (page 5) on the latest fashion faux pas, and at Josh Archer’s 15 Minutes interrogation (page 55) of a street-corner sausage vendor.

There’s more: Greg Lucas asks whether the Capitol’s spree of guncontrol bills will even matter (page 12), Jeff vonKaenel wonders if the tin-foilhat crowd has lost it when it comes to SMUD’s smart meters (page 14), and Melinda Welsh explores whether an attorney in a button-up suit can really make a difference (page 16).

Plus more questions on bike thieves, revolving-door politicians— and those damn Kings.

Shoot us a question at sactoletters@newsreview.com.

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Shawn Kahn clothing-company co-owner

Hands down pink lipstick, bleached-blond hair and Uggs. There’s a lot of Uggs.

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Bike thieves snatched nearly 1,500 bicycles in the city of Sacramento last year, according to police reports. But the kicker is that, as per bike advocates and law enforcement, residents seldom ever report such thefts, so the number of actual stolen bikes could be upward of 10,000.

If Sacramento isn’t Bike Thief Capital, USA, then it’s close.

City leaders want to curb this wave of five-finger discounts when it comes to two-wheelers. So, last week, Midtown and downtown’s new council member, Steven Hansen, announced support for a free city program that allows people to register bikes. The thinking is that if a resident gives over their bike’s serial number, police will have greater odds of coming across it if it’s stolen.

But some local bike advocates say a bike registry is redundant; there’s already a city program for reporting stolen bikes. “I don’t think a registry does any good,” argued Jim Brown, executive director of the Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates, “if you’re not trying to prevent thefts in the first place.”

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Sacramento even used to have one in the 1970s. Back then, residents “used to have to go to the fire station to have their bike registered,” explained Michelle Lazark, one of 10 bike police officers in the city. But over time, the program disappeared.

Recently, fellow Northern California cities such as San Francisco and San Jose launched their own programs.

San Jose charged $3 to register a bike, in a city with an estimated 20,000 two-wheelers, but in the first year, its revenue was a paltry $600.

“Let’s put it this way: The city of San Francisco and the city of San Jose both abandoned their registration programs because they weren’t effective,” Brown said.

Now, Sacramento wants to try things a little differently. Midtown residents first raised the idea of a registry at a recent safety meeting, which piqued the interest of police, who say they could better identify stolen bikes if there was a database.

“I stop people every day, transients on nice bikes, and if the serial number was recorded, I could run it,” explained Lazark. “But people don’t.”

Councilman Hansen says he hopes to entice bike riders to register by making it free, unlike in San Jose, and easy, via the city’s website or 311 mobile app.

“The reason S.F. and San Jose abandoned their programs was due to a lack

The city wants your bike’s serial number. But similar efforts in San Jose and San Francisco failed, and two-wheel advocates say the focus should instead be on safer parking.

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of information relayed to the public,” Hansen explained. “For example, in San Jose, residents were supposed to go to their local fire stations to get their bikes registered, but … most were unaware of the program.”

Costs and logistics for the new program are as-yet unknown, but Lazark told SN&R the registry’s launch could be imminent.

“Registration is sort of figuring out to close the barn door once the horse is out.”

Jim Brown executive director Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates

“We hope to have it out soon,” she said.

Meanwhile, bike advocates like Brown would prefer to put the brakes on a registry and instead see a shift in priorities.

“Registration is sort of figuring out to close the barn door once the horse is out,” he argued, adding that less-thanhalf of stolen bikes ever are recovered, and that registrants would still need to report a bike missing, anyway.

He hopes the city will focus on prevention via improved bike parking, which indeed can be a problem. Some businesses don’t offer any, others an insufficient amount. Seeing dozens of bikes locked to signposts, trees, fences—or unsafely latched to wheels instead of frames—isn’t uncommon on the central-city grid.

The irony is that in October 2012, the city passed a new bike-parking ordinance—one of the most progressive in the country, according to Brown—which sets guidelines for where to park your ride. Yet most businesses aren’t aware that it exists, or that a simple “invertedU” bike rack costs just $70, and that the city will help set it up.

“Our parking department already has a bicycle-parking program. They will even come out and install a rack for you. It’s just a matter of applying for the program,” Hansen explained.

Bike advocates fear that word also won’t get out about a bike registry. Not that this is the city’s fault: Some people just don’t pay as much attention when it comes to bike safety and smarts.

For instance, as Lazark observed, many local riders still use cheap, inadequate locks. “It takes less than a minute to cut through one of those cable locks,” she said. “They’re like butter.” Ω

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House parity Will Sacramento County turn its back on affordable housing?

Affordable housing saved Darren Chastain’s life.

The U.S. Army veteran was spiraling through “a lifelong, progressive by Raheem addiction to meth” that disintegrated F. Hosseini his 20-year marriage and nearly cost him his children before finding Bishop ra h e e m h @ Frances Quinn Cottages, a 60-unit ne w s re v i e w . c o m transitional housing complex in Midtown.

Chastain, forthright with a trim, graying beard, says Quinn helped him maintain sobriety, as well as find and keep a job. He took his last hit three years ago.

“I can tell you that, now, I’m a father to my kids, a father I never thought I could be. And if I hadn’t had that place, I might not have made it,” he told Sacramento County supervisors last Tuesday.

Affordable housing saved Chastain’s life. And now, he and many just like him fear it’s going away.

Chastain was one of more than 20 folks to address the board of supervisors during a housing workshop last week. On the surface, it should have been just another boring government hearing.

The meeting focused on the county’s housing “element,” a dense policy document that explains how Sacramento plans to accommodate projected growth. If the state certifies your “element,” it provides a nice buffer to general plan-related legal challenges and gives an edge when applying for state and federal housingrelated funds. It’s all pretty wonky stuff, and typically only something land-use policy nerds care about.

But the county is considering stripping its Inclusionary Housing Ordinance from its element. And, at the same time, it also wants to simplify its ordinance, in part, by halving affordable-housing targets for the low and very-low income.

“We understand that it needs to be simplified,” said Bob Erlenbusch, executive director of the Sacramento Housing Alliance. But lowering affordable-housing targets from 15 percent to 8 percent, he said, would represent a departure for the county, which is one of only a handful of local jurisdictions that acknowledges its extremely low-income residents.

This type of housing is in high demand. Chris Jensen at Resources for Independent Living, which helps the disabled and poor find housing in Sacramento and Yolo counties, said

280 of his clients are actively searching for housing, while another 60 have given up.

Last week’s discussion comes on the heels of supervisors’ approving Cordova Hills, a massive housing and retail development on nearly 2,700 acres in the northwestern part of the county. Only 2 percent of that area is slated for affordable housing; critics called the January 29 decision a violation of the county’s forward-thinking smart-growth principles.

Erlenbusch and others are now asking if the county turning is its back on affordable housing, too.

“You’re doing a good job of connecting the dots, because we connect them the same way,” Erlenbusch told SN&R after the housing hearing. “I don’t think it’s overt, but I do think there are indicators.”

Dale Jones has been on a housing list since July 2012, but can’t break through in a county where demand outstrips supply. The city’s last-ditch supportive housing structure for the foreseeable future—Mercy Housing’s multistory 7th & H Street Housing Community—requires a monthly income higher than what Jones gets from Social Security to qualify for one of its studios or one-bedroom apartments. In the meantime, he makes his bed on someone’s living-room floor.

Supervisors asked staff to come back later this month with broad language that leaves a place for affordable housing in the county’s housing element. The future of the county’s Inclusionary Housing Ordinance will be a subject for another day.

Regional projections show a need for 13,844 new housing units by 2021, according to Cindy Storelli, a senior planner with Sacramento County. The county’s low and very-low income would need 38.6 percent of that allotment, she added, “which is a little bit higher than what we’ve had to accommodate in prior housing elements.”

There is a small surplus of vacant land zoned for these groups, 37 acres total.

None of this discussion, meanwhile, actually commits the county to actually building any of this housing, noted Supervisor Phil Serna. The state only requires the county to have the land and zoning in place to accommodate its needs.

Which means Jones and others may be waiting a while. Ω

Republican irrelevance

Saturday, May 18 State Capitol, West Steps

Can the California GOP go any lower?

California Republicans have been living on borrowed time for a long time, relying on a series of increasingly desperate by Bill Bradley stunts to try to stay competitive. This past weekend, at their state convention in Sacramento, with the stunts done and Democrats mostly triumphant, they went back to basics with a new “nuts and bolt” state chairman in former state Senate Minority Leader Jim Brulte. But they forgot the most basic thing of all.

Their problem is not one of mechanics or form, but of substance.

California Republicans aren’t down to 29 percent registration, with no one to run against Gov. Jerry Brown, no statewide electeds, and shrinking minorities in the state Legislature and congressional delegation, because they need a better get-out-the-vote operation or more public relations. They’re dead in the water because they’re too extreme and out of touch.

This is like having a 9/11 Truther as the keynote speaker at a Democratic convention.

So, having Brulte, a very competent tactician, come on as chairman is an evasion of the central issue. But at least it’s not another stunt.

The stunts that kept Republicans competitive, to a point, started back in 1994, when incumbent Gov. Pete Wilson seized on illegal immigration and rode the draconian Proposition 187—later thrown out by the courts—to a smashing re-election victory. But this stunt proved to be a pyrrhic victory in the long run, putting Republicans on the wrong side of the rising Latino community.

The next big stunt was global Read a longer version of superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger, this story online at www.newsreview.com. who took Republicans with him on two landslide election wins as governor. But they expressly rejected his moderation.

Then came the stunt of running a billionaire for governor. But Meg Whitman was crushed by Jerry Brown.

The stunts came faster and more desperately after that.

Next, spending millions the party couldn’t afford in a failed attempt to block new state Senate districts drawn by the citizens redistricting commission. Then, ginning up the biggest anonymous political contribution in California history in a backfiring

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So, now it’s down to party mechanics. Or is it?

This past weekend, Brulte brought in Karl Rove, the ex-Bush-Cheney political who honchoed a secretive $300 million-plus super PAC operation last year, for a keynote luncheon talk. But, at least in public, Rove offered a boilerplate message that could have been delivered most anywhere. Worse, he dodged the press throughout, probably fearing questions about that anonymous campaign money funneled into California by a group with ties to him.

There were some entreaties to reach out to Latinos, but the materials I saw spread around the convention looked like those at most any others.

And the relative moderation of Rove—to the extent that anyone outside the far right would regard him as a “moderate”—was more than balanced by other speakers.

The dinner speaker was Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro, a far-right blogger who pushed the false story about new Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel supposedly getting money from the nonexistent “Friends of Hamas.”

This is like having a 9/11 Truther as the keynote speaker at a Democratic convention.

Which is another way of saying that Brulte, while certainly not that extreme, is no moderate. He chaired Steve Poizner’s hard right 2010 gubernatorial primary campaign.

Poizner, once an actual moderate Republican, sensed the internal winds pushing the party further to the right and dropped his moderate Republicanism. In the 2010 gubernatorial primary, with Brulte chairing the effort, Poizner ran very hard right.

Especially on immigration.

As the latest Field Polls show more signs of a shift to the left by California voters—on immigration, same-sex marriage, climate change, gun control and legalizing marijuana—the GOP looks as hard right as ever.

House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, speaking to the Sacramento Press Club just before the convention began, sounded a plaintive note about his party’s California plight: “Look, the most important thing the Republican Party has is, I don’t believe we can get any lower, all right?”

Sure, you can. Ω

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There’s a package of eight bills in California moving through committees to the Senate floor. Backers of the bills say the measures regulate firearms in a smarter way than previous efforts. Two to three times as many gun-related bills have likely been introduced in the Assembly. Among them is legislation by Sacramento’s Roger Dickinson to place a 5-cent tax on every bullet sold. The California State Board of Equalization estimates the tax would raise $49 million annually.

The money would be used to expand mental-health screenings for kindergarteners through third grade. The board says 1.2 billion bullets are sold in California annually.

It’s excellent there’s all this hullabaloo about how well the state’s policy on firearms works, particularly when it centers on making existing programs deliver better.

The Department of Justice’s Armed Prohibited Persons System was established in 2007. There wasn’t enough money or people last year

to take away more than 2,000 of the 38,563 handguns and 1,647 assault

weapons found to be in the hands of 19,770 Californians, who the law says can’t possess them. An emergency bill is scheduled today, March 7, for a vote of the full Senate to beef up the program using $18 million of existing state money. About 30 percent of those 19,770 people aren’t supposed to possess guns because of mental issues.

And some of those folks will still be twitchy wack jobs channeling their inner Chuck Manson even after their guns go bye-bye.

But just as guns don’t kill people, being mentally ill isn’t synonymous with “crazed butcher.� As Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg’s spokesman Rhys Williams says pretty definitively: “Not every killer is mentally ill, and not every mentally ill person is a killer. The vast majority of people suffering mental illness do so in silence. They’ll never commit a crime, let alone commit mass murder.�

So what’s a politician to do who wants to save future generations of children from “such needless tragedies� as being mowed down by rapid-firing weaponry?

In California’s 1989 first-in-thenation “assault weapon� ban, make and model was the criteria for prohibition.

So makers changed model names. In 1999, the ban centered on a weapon’s attributes. Manufacturers changed the attributes. If a semiautomatic firearm with a “smooth bore� was on the ban list, a “rifled bore� was substituted. As a result, the Senate says this time the proposed restrictions focus on “capacity and capability,� which are less easy to circumvent.

Perhaps, but some of the bills in the Senate package illustrates the strategy. One bans possession of a 10-round or more magazine. (Sales were outlawed in 2000 but possession wasn’t.) No fixed magazines for long guns.

Every gun bill that purports to make Californians safer from themselves will pass the Democraticmajority Legislature. So far, Gov. Jerry Brown is publicly silent about what—if anything—he likes in gun-law changes. Without some parameters

by Brown, actions over the next few weeks on gun legislation is pretty much Billy Shakespeare’s tale full of sound and fury. Or, it’s what Woody Allen described as “sex with someone you love.� Ί

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Crime is up, schools are shutting down, and the city barely works for anyone—except maybe the whales. That’s the real “State of the City,” though you wouldn’t get that from Mayor Kevin Johnson’s highly varnished event last week.

Outside, Sacramento city elementary students protested the bewildering actions of a bunch of men who were supposed to help their schools, but decided to close them n Vi AR

by CoSMo G instead. Outside, community activist and crime fighter Dave Jenest and his cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om friends were denied the right to set up a table to show videos and distribute info to passersby about police cuts and rising crime rates. “What would the billionaire backers, purportedly buying the [Sacramento] Kings and subsidized by taxpayers, think?”

Jenest snarked. What indeed, but we’ll get to the billionaires. They were the main attraction, after all.

Inside, for all the choreography, for all the corporate sponsors, for all the Mark S. Allen, the event wasn’t terribly effective propaganda. The mayor listed the city’s big accomplishments of the last year, but it was a weirdly unfocused and uninspiring list.

For example, Johnson said City Hall “addressed the pension crisis” in local government. But he didn’t mention that his staunch allies in the police union torpedoed talks over their pensions—the most generous in the city.

Johnson boasted of “selling Downtown Plaza [and] getting it into the right hands.” Except Johnson had nothing to do with the Westfield Group’s long, long overdue sale to JMA Ventures.

In fact, in 2009, Johnson very publicly told Westfield honchos they needed to invest in the dead mall or get out—and they very promptly ignored him.

The mayor then laid out three big goals for the city, green jobs being the first. He, apparently, hasn’t fired the person who came up with the cringe-inducing tagline “Emerald Valley,” so that’s one opportunity missed in the last year.

His green agenda is more problematic than that, being tangled up with his Greenwise nonprofit. The mayor’s 501(c)(3) groups are not the kind of charities that you donate to if you’re picky about good accounting and transparency. They are great, however, for big companies looking to curry favor with a highprofile politician. The city manager kicked Johnson’s nonprofits out of City Hall last year—seeing as they blurred the line between political branding and public office—but that accomplishment didn’t make it into the big speech this year.

The second priority Johnson outlined at his State of the City event was education. He announced a plan for getting reading glasses to

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Which is a ridiculous thing to say, but no one noticed. They were waiting for the part about the whales.

One more thing about education: Johnson left out the part about how hard he’s been working to promote a certain “radical”—to use his wife Michelle Rhee’s word for it—version of corporate-flavored education reform, one which aims to deprofessionalize and disempower teachers and privatize public-school facilities. He didn’t mention how much time he has spent traveling away from Sacramento on behalf of that cause, or how much money he’s raised for it—leveraging the prominence of his office to do it.

But send in the whales, and the mayor’s last, though anything-but-least priority: shoveling public subsidies at the NBA in hopes of keeping the Kings in town.

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The mayor said that “63 percent of our third graders cannot read.”

Which is a ridiculous thing to say, but no one noticed.

Johnson may occasionally take credit for other people’s accomplishments, but whatever happens with the Kings, good or bad, will be on K.J.’s account.

As Sactown Royalty blogger Tom Ziller put it: “I think it’ll be hard to tell the city—and all small market cities, in the league and not—that the NBA doesn’t value cooperation, partnership and major public subsidies. No one tells a saint to go to Hell.”

And without a doubt, Johnson has been a godsend for the NBA. “We epitomize what the best of the NBA offers,” he crowed last week.

“We are a city that has developed a first-ofits-kind plan to invest just over $250 million of public funding [for an arena], without raising taxes. We never give up!”

The truest thing Johnson said all night.

That, and, “We’ve done everything the NBA has ever asked of us. Everything.”

Not enough of the things that Sacramento’s citizens have asked, to be sure. But the NBA’s wish list? Done and done. And that’s an accomplishment that Johnson will long be remembered for. Ω

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Let public in on arena deal Mayor Kevin Johnson’s fast-break moves to save the Sacramento Kings might work—but city leaders still must slow down and keep the public in the loop.

Last week, at the mayor’s reinvented State of the City event, he revealed the two investors, Mark Mastrov and Ron Burkle, who aim to bid for the Kings and also develop a new arena at the Downtown Plaza site. City council also approved last week a $240,000 expenditure on professional and legal services to assist the city manager with arena negotiations.

City Manager John Shirey has said he wants to bring an arena term sheet to council as early as March 26.

This will leave little time for public input.

What’s more, the mayor also hinted during his address, billionaire Burkle wants to develop additional downtown blocks near the proposed new arena.

A city subsidy upward of $255 million, but possibly more, is on the table as part of these negotiations.

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Rubio’s action comes on the heels of him having a boosted statewide role in a campaign to reform the California Environmental Quality Act. Also, Rubio was a no-show at a recent committee hearing he was meant to co-chair on fracking—the one where there was widespread aggravation about the oil industry’s continued push for lax-to-no regulations and next to no transparency when it comes to fracturing the state’s massive shale oil reserves.

He’d even cast a “no� vote against Sen. Fran Pavley’s Senate Bill 1054, which asked oil companies, simply, to notify residents when fracking was going to take place.

In retrospect, it’s almost as if Rubio had already been in tryouts for the Chevron job.

Elected in 2010, Rubio dropped his plans to run for Congress in 2012, he said, because his second daughter was born with Down syndrome. In the recent move, his daughter provides an excuse once again. This time, it’s “I need to spend more time with my family.� Now, we know real life happens to politicians, too, and we’re cognizant of the struggle parents can face in such circumstances. It’s not beyond belief that this man’s family situation did, in fact, play a role in his choice to leave the Senate.

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It was 1991 when Chet hewItt realIzed what he was born to do wIth hIs lIfe. Then a third-year legal intern at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, Hewitt—an unlikely law student if ever there was one—had been called on to defend Patrick, a man who’d lost his house and job after being diagnosed as HIV-positive. Patrick had made purchases on a credit card he stole, and, knowing a jail term would not solve this man’s problems, Hewitt asked the judge for an alternative sentence.

“Let’s enroll Patrick in Meals on Wheels, get him signed up for General Assistance,” Hewitt asked the judge. The goal: to design a plan to resolve some of the man’s root issues.

The judge approved the proposal, and Hewitt left feeling proud of what he’d accomplished that day.

But as he exited the courtroom, he found a group of attorneys had gathered outside. They congratulated him, but one said, “We only want to tell you one thing—you’re not a social worker.”

The comment deflated Hewitt. He turned and walked the full length of the hallway, his thoughts simmering. At the hallway’s end, he turned and walked the full distance back to address the group.

“I think you have forgotten what this is really all about,” he said. “I thought my job was to help people.”

The incident served as an epiphany for Hewitt, now CEO of Sacramento’s Sierra Health Foundation. Twenty-two years later—operating at the nexus of philanthropy, government, public policy and social justice—Hewitt, 54, has dedicated his life to doing “policy work, systems work … [being] a social worker with legal training.”

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“Chet has a sense of mission, compassion and intelligence.

He understands things in an operations way, a strategic way.”

Sacramento County Supervisor Phil Serna: “He’s a tremendous resource.” Pastor Rick Cole of Capital Christian Center: “[Hewitt] is very disciplined and very much a leader. He’s extremely bright, but that’s balanced with a big heart.”

But only a few know Hewitt’s surprising story.

Born into poverty and raised in public housing in New York City, Hewitt survived a troubled youth, then went on to earn a law degree without having ever attended standard high school or college. He rose to accomplish feats that are legendary in the realm of child welfare in America. Most recently, Hewitt has transformed the Sacramento region’s largest philanthropic organization into a catalyst for mission-driven change.

How grave were the challenges Hewitt had to overcome along the way? For starters, he was deemed a criminal at age 16 and sentenced to a term at Rikers Island, New York City’s main jail in the Bronx.

‘A horrible plAce’ It’s impossible to overrate the impact of a father’s death on a teenager, especially if that child is male, black and living below the poverty line. Psychologists say resentment and emotions related to loss can emerge in disguised forms. Maybe this explains some of what happened to Hewitt when he lost his father, at age 14, to heart disease.

The sixth of eight children growing up in high-density, subsidized housing in West Brighton on Staten Island, Hewitt was identified early on as exceptionally bright. His parents both worked, and “there was a high level of community cohesion” in his neighborhood, he said. But after his

father’s death in 1972, none of that helped. Hewitt started skipping school, getting into trouble.

“I fell off the cliff,” he said.

His mother, suddenly supporting the family on one paycheck, was dismayed to see her son link in with the wrong crowd. He joined a neighborhood street gang of African-American youths who battled with a nearby gang of Italian street thugs.

“It was like West Side Story,” Hewitt remembers.

Then, at age 16, the future CEO was arrested on assault charges after a fight. Sentenced to seven months on Rikers Island, Hewitt speaks today in a measured tone when describing the subtext of violence that was always present in that institution.

“It was a horrible place,” he said. “Some of the violence I saw, I’ll never forget. It was very brutal.”

He remembers inmates finding places where guards couldn’t see them, assaulting each other with razor blades, “locks and socks” (a weapon made by putting a lock in a sock and swinging it) and worse.

“An experience like that could push you into a world of hopelessness and violence that would be very, very difficult to extricate yourself from,” he said.

The only thing Hewitt had going for him was his sisters’ weekend visits and jail school. Set a slight distance away from the main containment facility, the old school— where teachers taught vocational education to incarcerated juveniles—provided him some respite from a daily life otherwise filled with angst.

“School was my refuge,” he said.

At some point, Hewitt took the high-school equivalency exam, and his jailhouse teacher told him he scored “incredibly well.”

Hewitt remembers the teacher looking at him in puzzlement and asking, “Why are you here?”

In 1976, Hewitt was released from jail and returned to a neighborhood that had begun to change. Factories were closing. The Procter & Gamble plant had shut down, so had Nassau Smelting

“you Can learn a lot by seeIng what the experIenCe Is lIke for people. It’s not easy tellIng strangers your lIfe story and the type of help you need.”

& Refining Company. More and more of Hewitt’s neighbors were unemployed, and he said, “People began to lose a sense of hope about the future.”

What were the prospects for Hewitt in that environment at age 17?

“I’m not one to do predictive analytics,” he said, “but … I’m young. I’m black. Guns. Drugs. Crack. I don’t have a lot of skills. And I’ve already been incarcerated once. …

My mother told me her great fear was that she would get a call one day and be asked to come and get my body.”

But, instead, something happened that saved him.

Two men from the neighborhood—a custodian he had worked for on the school janitorial crew and a fellow who ran the local YMCA—knew Hewitt’s history and decided to intervene. They said to him, “We have something we think you really need. … We’re going to give you a job.”

Hewitt took the gig and never looked back. Through a government-sponsored 18-month youth-employment program, he became program director for a neighborhood YMCA satellite. He ran after-school football and softball games, coached basketball, and got kids to broaden their horizons by, for example, taking bus tours of Central Park and the Statue of Liberty.

The opportunity provided him exactly what all kids need in struggling situations, he realized later: a sense of self-efficacy, a sense of hope, and an idea that “despite the challenges you’ve had in your life, you can get back on track and maybe do extraordinary things.”

He turned the lesson into his life’s work.

“That early job was essential to me,” said Hewitt from his third-floor CEO office at the foundation’s riverside complex. “If those two gentlemen hadn’t given me that job? Maybe right now, I’d be in Attica as opposed to my office here.”

‘Can I be a lawyer?’

When his time was up at the YMCA, Hewitt decided to take a leap of faith.

“I took my little suitcase, my brother drove me to the Port Authority, I got on a bus in New York City, and three days later, I got off at Sixth and Market streets in San Francisco.”

He quickly landed a job running an after-school program at a local Catholic school.

Soon, he went to work in a community group home trying to help kids just out of juvenile hall. There, he began to see how flawed the social-welfare system was.

“Kids were being warehoused,” he said. “It became clear to me that positive changes could be made, and I could do that.”

But often his suggestions were dismissed, he said, because he lacked a formal education.

Soon after, he and his first wife, who’d also moved to California from New York, became part of a Therapeutic Foster Parents Initiative program where married couples open up their home for 18 months to foster kids and become their adult guardians with the goal of reuniting them with their biological parents. The couple wound up hosting 10 foster kids, two at a time, over a 12-year period.

Hewitt has stayed in touch with many of them to this day, even giving one of them, Michael, away at his Los Angeles wedding a few years back.

At the time, though, his experiences made him question the way the child-welfare system operated. At one point, Hewitt suggested to higher-ups that his 9-year-old foster son Ronald, who had mental-health issues, was being overmedicated with psychotropic drugs. He was told to back

off by his supervisors and “stay in my lane.” Frustrated at the inability to help his increasingly zombielike foster son, he finally told them, “As Ronald’s advocates, we think this is wrong, and maybe we should sue you.’

Lawyers got involved, and it was an eye-opener.

“As soon as they came in the room, the conversation changed dramatically,” he said. “I was … wow, that’s interesting.” Thanks to Hewitt’s challenge and the involvement of lawyers, it was learned that three-fourths of the African-American males in Ronald’s facility had also been overmedicated. And Ronald, one of the foster sons Hewitt has kept in touch with over the years, “turned out to be quite manageable and quite the athlete and musician.”

Hewitt’s response to it all, simply: “Can I be a lawyer?”

With no college, and nothing but the high-school equivalency certificate he’d earned in jail, Hewitt set his sights on becoming an attorney. He took a two-day Law School Admission Test prep course, then took the LSAT, an exam college graduates usually spend months studying for.

He received a high score and was admitted in the late 1980s to the New College of California School of Law in the San Francisco Civic Center.

Hewitt found studying law tough but exhilarating. In his final years as a law student, he traveled twice to South Africa, right around the time Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years, to help negotiate with the government to repurchase land that had belonged to tribal elders.

Around this time is also when he interned with the public-defender’s office and had his epiphany attempting to help the HIV-positive Patrick. He knew that day in the courthouse hall that he was meant to do systems work that would create opportunities for people who needed them.

At the end of the day, he said, “It only counts if you can change people’s life circumstances in some way.”

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“I’m not naive,” he said. “People need attorneys, but I decided it was not for me; I was going to do policy work. I started thinking, ‘Well, how do you deploy this?

You have these skills and passion to help people. Where do you work? What do you do? What’s the job title for that?’”

‘Powerful associations’ After graduating from law school, Hewitt went to work at the San Francisco Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. A few years later, he was awarded a fellowship with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private charitable organization for disadvantaged children. During the one-year program he learned from powerful mentors and deepened his commitment to systemic change. When the fellowship was done, in the mid-’90s, he formally joined the ranks of philanthropy, going to work at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York.

After a time, Hewitt was sent back to California to help build a strategic alliance between Rockefeller and a huge foundation being created in the West—The California Endowment. His was an environment where people in the world of public policy and philanthropy had begun to more fully understand the connection between jobs and health and crime, e.g., social problems, chronic disease and illness all show up in communities when the jobs go away. And this has a huge impact on health-care costs.

“You start to see these powerful associations,” he said.

By the fall of 2000, Hewitt had begun to feel “a little too distant” from the work “in the trenches.” So he quit the bicoastal life and took a job as tough as they come: deputy director of the large child-welfare department of Alameda County, serving Oakland’s poorest citizens. The first week 18 | SN&R | 03.07.13

there, the agency director—Hewitt’s new boss —announced he was jumping ship. The following week, Hewitt was handed even more alarming news: His new department had been declared the poorest performing child-welfare system in California. He was threatened, literally, with a state takeover.

It was the point of no return. Hewitt called a meeting of his staff at the Oakland Police Department to give a sense of direction for what might happen next. Three hundred people showed up. And fireworks went off.

The audience was boisterous, shouting him down, calling out to each other during the meeting. One man got up in front of the crowd and poked Hewitt in the chest, challenging his authority. Some questioned his credentials to run the department, on the assumption that because he’d come from philanthropy, he had probably gone to private school and had no experience with the realities of poverty. The irony of this was not lost on Hewitt who used to feel judged for being poor and uneducated.

“This thing had flipped completely,” he said.

Still, he knew he could prevail and set a goal to create the most cutting-edge child-welfare system in the nation. He led his team through a full-scale reimagining of how the department provided services.

They figured out ways to prioritize families, use technology to further efficiency and make welfare waiting rooms more dignified. In fact, as director, Hewitt used to dress in jeans and a sweatshirt and go sit in those rooms. “You can learn a lot by seeing what the experience is like for people,” he said. His visits were inspired by a vivid memory of his shame at going to his first welfare office as a teenager in New York City with his mom after his father’s death.

“It’s not easy telling strangers your life story and the type of help you need.”

Congresswoman Doris Matsui (left) works at the federal level with Chet Hewitt on plenty of projects, including the Sacramento Regional Health Care Partnership. “We’re in sync,” she said of Hewitt. “We almost finish each others sentences.”

In the end, he launched one of the fastest child-welfare-department improvement campaigns in the history of California. “It was an amazing turnaround,” said Carol Collins, then-assistant agency director for the state Department of Children & Family Services. Within a year, Hewitt was dubbed a miracle worker and named director of Alameda County Social Services Agency with its 2,400 employees and $600 million budget. He was the first African-American in history to head the department, but it’s a fact he doesn’t much dwell on.

“It’s not about race,” he said, “it’s about what you do.”

By 2003, the state-takeover threat was formally rescinded. In just two years, Hewitt and his team had reversed a downward spiral of 15 years.

But the crusade wasn’t over yet.

Alameda County was “parent” to 5,000 foster-care children when Hewitt first came to work there. The long-term outlook for kids in foster care is terrible, with 50 percent of them becoming homeless after “aging out” of the system at age 18, and startling numbers of them becoming pregnant or serving jail time.

But the goal to bring fewer children into foster care meant rethinking programs that incentivize agencies to put more children into foster care. In 2005, Hewitt’s team found a fix for this problem. They would request a waiver to allow federal funds to be used to help children who were not in foster care. “We took the biggest gamble we had taken yet by applying for that waiver,” said Hewitt. Basically, the agency bargained away unlimited amounts of federal money in order to retain flexibility to fund programs that kept children with family members whenever possible.

Hewitt was challenged on this from every corner by former allies and advocates who defended the status quo.

“It was tough,” he said, “But you have to stick with your core values. You have to do what you know to be right.” Today, 30 states across the country have adopted this strategy.

Hewitt had been on an aggressive push for change for seven years—and that had taken a toll. He’d been divorced and married his second wife Laura (she worked in the office of Oakland’s then-mayor Jerry Brown) and had become a first-time biological father when Chet “the second” was born in 2004. (The couple would have another son, Stephan, in 2007.) Hewitt started thinking it might be time to find a way to continue his life’s work from a different stage while spending more time with his family. When the Sacramento-based Sierra Health Foundation’s board of directors convinced him that they were looking for a non-status-quo-type CEO who wanted to make a difference, Hewitt snatched the opportunity.

‘Have an imPact’ Drive east along the Garden Highway just past Chevys Fresh Mex and find an unexpected office complex of pale stone and dark wood nestled up against the Sacramento River. Perhaps this elegant headquarters, with its spectacular view of the downtown skyline, is ground zero for wealthy lawyers or high-rolling political lobbyists?

Well, no. It’s the campus of the nonprofit Sierra Health Foundation, with its conference center available to all and a second building that holds 16 nonprofit tenants who pay affordable rent for their riverfront views.

Hewitt’s corner office on the campus is expansive, with piles of work stacked high, comfortable couches for conversation, and that lovely river view. A framed note from

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Specifically, the goals are to reduce tobacco use, obesity and heart disease indicators by 5 percent each.

Here are a handful of the priority projects at the Sierra Health Foundation:

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Change Sacramento Regional Health Care Partnership: Launched in

October 2011, in league with The California Endowment and the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, this program seeks a comprehensive regional approach to the rollout of the Affordable Care Act in the region. The goal is to improve flaws in the existing primary-care safety net and bolster the preparedness of community clinics.

Healthy Sacramento Coalition: Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this project is a coalition of 62 local health organizations working to reduce chronic disease, promote healthy lifestyles and reduce health disparities in Sacramento County.

Hewitt, seen here in the main building of the Sierra Health Foundation campus located on Garden Highway, has dedicated his life to helping children and families who lack opportunities.

with Sacramento County, the foundation is administering an $8.3 million grant from the Mental Health Services Administration Innovation Fund to develop a respite program for patients with mental-health issues.

Positive Youth Justice Initiative: The goal of this integrative program is to improve health, academic and social outcomes for local teenagers involved in the child welfare, foster-care or juvenilejustice systems.

Responsive Grants Program: In 2013, a total of $500,000 will be made available to the 26-county greaterSacramento region in $15,000 increments to help respond to local health needs.

Hewitt’s eldest son hangs on the south-facing wall. “My dad is a hero,” the handwritten memo reads. “He gives money to poor people. He goes to lots of meetings.”

The part about the meetings should not be underestimated.

Shadow Hewitt around on an average workday—even with his athletic inclination still hobbled from the ankle-tendon-repair surgery he underwent in recent months—and a reporter finds herself crossing from one meeting to the next to the next, regarding topics such as homelessness, food access and social determinants of health. Hewitt arrives at each with an iPad, due preparation, his trademark focus and a measure of patience … but not too much. Meetings are necessary, he says, “But the goal is to get to an action orientation as soon as possible.”

“We’re not just seated here because we’re great, nice, incredible people. We’re here to make a difference.”

At a February convening of the SHF’s Healthy Sacramento Coalition’s leadership team—area notables like Sacramento County Supervisor Phil Serna, Sacramento Area Council of Governments executive director Mike McKeever, Sacramento County public-health officer Dr. Olivia Kasirye and Sacramento City Unified School District Superintendent Jonathan Raymond—assembled around the table with Hewitt. The purpose of the meeting was to strategize how to invest in programs that acknowledge a broader view of what constitutes health.

“A lot goes into health care that rests outside of the simple ‘clinical-health’ realm,” Hewitt reminded the group. In fact, “you can tell in this country how long you will live by your ZIP code.”

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Earlier that same day, Hewitt attended a board of directors meeting of Sacramento Steps Forward, a nonprofit birthed in league with Mayor Kevin Johnson after Oprah Winfrey turned her gaze on local tent cities. Hewitt reminded the group of its ultimate goal: to provide homeless people access to permanent affordable housing.

Sister Libby Fernandez, director of Loaves & Fishes, is a big fan of Hewitt’s leadership on this score: “[He] is a wonderful advocate for our homeless,” she said. “He sees the big picture.”

owned by the foundation didn’t help. Despite the falling net worth, Hewitt and his board continued the commitment to awarding grants, especially to food banks and job programs, and today, the foundation’s assets are back up around $118 million.

In 2011, after health-care reform passed, the institution embarked on the Sacramento Regional Health Care Partnership—a program to improve Sacramento’s flawed safety net in conjunction with the rollout of the changes coming in 2014. Formed in league with other

“Chet has a sense of mission, Compassion and intelligenCe. he understands things in an operations way, a strategiC way.”

Congresswoman Doris Matsui

His impact is quantifiable.

In total, the Sierra Health Foundation has given nearly $22 million in regional grants since Hewitt arrived in 2007. Launched in 1984 when the Sacramento-based Foundation Health Plan converted to a for-profit, the philanthropy began with total assets of $77 million. That number grew to $130 million before the Great Recession of 2007, but the crashing economy sent it plummeting. Plunging property values at properties

philanthropic organizations, the SRHCP is a good example of the foundation’s new focus on the creation of public/private partnerships that help leverage assets on behalf of the region (see “Top five for change,” above).

In the quest for further such partnerships, Hewitt and his foundation have developed strategies that involve what he calls the “aggressive pursuit” of altruistic and government monies that otherwise might not end up in Sacramento. He

has built up his staff—from 14 to 25 people—so as to strengthen internal systems necessary in this pursuit. There are already signs of success—last month, a collaboration of eight of the nation’s leading funders awarded the foundation $200,000 for guiding health initiatives in the region’s most marginalized communities.

How many foundations of Sierra Health’s size emphasize partnerships in this way? “We don’t know of any,” said Hewitt. “We believe that our region … can perhaps become a model in terms of how to think strategically and creatively about these issues and have an impact.”

Two years ago, Hewitt was invited to return to his old neighborhood on Staten Island to receive an award from a group of young men he’d worked with at the YMCA after his release from Rikers Island. The plaque in his honor reads: “Thank you for planting an altruistic seed that continues to grow.” Several hundred people came from all over the county to attend the picnic and reconnect across the years—to recall the past, consider the present and imagine the future.

Hewitt’s voice halted with emotion when describing his return to the place where he’d spent those formative years. The community sought to thank him, but it was he who was filled with gratitude—for a mom who taught him the value of hard work, for his loyal sisters who visited him in jail, for the many mentors along his path, for the two neighborhood gentlemen who offered him that first crucial job.

“People didn’t give up on me,” he said simply, with awareness that his life story stands as testament to the many, many kids out there that might also go on to live extraordinary lives if presented an opportunity when it’s needed most. Ω

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Herman Walter Mulligan (left) and Steve Maharidge in Guadalcanal, 1944.

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the fall of 1985, I went to the Philippines to report on the revolution against the dictator Ferdinand Marcos for The Sacramento Bee. Back then, the paper sometimes covered those kinds of stories. As the jetliner headed south from Tokyo, the pilot announced that Okinawa, Japan, was below. I pressed my face to the window and stared raptly at the narrow 67-mile-long island.

Forty years earlier, my father Steve Maharidge had landed on its shores as a United States Marine for the last big battle of World War II. He’d told me fragments about it. Something very bad happened there. What was it? My father had serious issues from that war that he never truly discussed. Much remained a mystery.

Okinawa, Carmichael and life after war I’d find answers after my father died in 2000, when I spent 12 years tracking down 29 guys who served with him in the Marines—a quest that I document in Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War, my latest book, which is being published this month.

But back then, I didn’t know what happened to Dad more than 20,000 feet beneath me. As Okinawa receded in the Pacific Ocean mist that day in 1985, I thought about my parents freshly retired in suburban Carmichael.

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enough for their tastes, yet it had palm trees and lacked snow. So they’d sold their house in Ohio and came west.

Retirement in the Sunbelt was their last chapter in a story of ours being a prototypical postwar American family.

For my father, the story went like this: A son of Russian immigrants grows up in poverty during the Great Depression on Cleveland’s rough south side. He goes off to fight in World War II. Upon his return, an old Russian peasant woman spits at his feet and bitterly tells him the good local boys died over there. He stays drunk for four years, then buckles down and marries Joan.

They build a house in the suburbs. He takes a factory job grinding steel. He hates that work, but it propels him into the middle class; his three kids are guaranteed to do better.

And along with hundreds of thousands of other veterans-turned-fathers, Dad was supposed to forget the war, embracing, like Mad Men’s Don Draper, a mantra of denial: It. Never.

Happened. But the illusion of “normal” was interrupted by Dad’s sporadic screaming fits of rage. Anything and nothing could trigger them.

Most of the time, he was a great father. And then, he could, for a time, become the worst. Early on, I wondered if this was related to the war.

As a child, I lived in fear of his outbursts. That’s why it was surprising, decades later, to watch him grow increasingly mellow as he settled into life on a cul-de-sac off Winding Way. At the time, I attributed it to his retirement and the end-of-work stress. Dad focused inward. He tended to six citrus trees, kept an exact tally of how many grapefruit, tangelos and oranges came off each; he spent days observing the behavior of ants; he hand-watered the lawn for hours.

After I left the Bee in 1991, I taught at Stanford University. I often came back to town to visit my parents. We’d make predinner highballs and chat. As the years wore on, I began to notice Dad repeating things, and he lost track of conversations. I figured this growing feebleness came from his having such a sheltered Zenlike life. He had no friends. But I was happy that Dad no longer had those angry fits.

In 2000, Dad drove me to Sacramento International Airport.

I was going to work on an electionrelated story for a national magazine with former Bee photographer Michael S. Williamson, my collaborator on

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many books. Dad and I had a short goodbye—he was from a generation that didn’t hug or show emotion.

In the middle of that assignment, Dad was diagnosed with advanced cancer.

He went down fast. I arrived three days before he died on June 30, 2000.

The power of the blast Two days later, I began the quest to learn about what happened to Dad in the war.

I learned from the several dozen Marines who were there with him that my father had endured at least two incidents of blast concussion—in those days, it was termed “shell shock” or sometimes “cracking up.” Today, we call it traumatic brain injury, or TBI. Dad’s first TBI occurred at Sugar Loaf Hill. The unit was hit with heavy Japanese artillery there on May 16, 1945.

“There was a lot of guys who cracked up on that damn hill,” Jim Laughridge, from my father’s Marine unit, told me.

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Injury and Repair at the University of Pennsylvania. He told me that axons, which extend from brain cells and transmit electrical current, break during a concussion.

“Once an axon disconnects, it cannot grow back together. The brain is diminished,” Smith said. “It’s the kind of injury that keeps on taking. It initiates long-term nerve degeneration.”

Damaged nerve fibers also appear to secrete molecules of “gooey stuff,” which form plaques that may in later life cause Alzheimer’s disease. I explained about my father’s sometimes raging outbursts.

“For absolute certain, like with your father, TBI can do that,” he said.

For some people who sustain a severe brain injury, he added, “It can make them very combative. It can almost manifest as emotional instability, an inappropriate emotional response. … As Alzheimer’s develops, some become more aggressive, others more passive.”

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Author Dale Maharidge’s father, Steve Maharidge, in the jungle of Guadalcanal near the U.S. Marine encampment in 1944.

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Two weeks after Sugar Loaf, my father’s buddy Herman Mulligan threw a grenade into a tomb that concealed 1 ton of Japanese munitions. It went up like a “volcano,” I was told. The power of the blast was stunning.

What did this mean? To find out, I talked with Dr. Douglas Smith, director of the Center for Brain

I’ll never know for absolute certain about my father’s brain. There was no autopsy. But I felt I had an answer that explained a lot of things—how his life after the war had been defined by those blast concussions, not to mention the post-traumatic stress disorder from the horror he’d witnessed.

For Steve Maharidge and many other guys, World War II continued and didn’t end until they died. Ω Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for And Their Children After Them. His latest book, Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War, is available on March 12 (PublicAffairs Books, $26.99). He currently teaches journalism at Columbia University in New York.

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“Gerle Creek II” by Ken Waterstreet, oil, 2013.

Liquid silver The ripples in Ken Waterstreet’s paintings are chilling yet electrifying. The cold temperature of the water and kinetic energy of the constant current are nearly palpable. Every dizzying stacked reflection on the water’s surface is depicted, turning the canvas into a tableau of liquid silver. This photo-realist painter has long been an influential member of the Sacramento

art community, both as an exhibiting artist and a (now-retired) art teacher at Mira Loma High School.

And with his aquatic-avenue surname, his penchant for painting streams seems wholly appropriate.

Where: Alex Bult Gallery, 1114 21st Street, Suite B; (916) 476-5540; http://alexbultgallery.com.

Second Saturday reception: March 9, 6 to 9 p.m. Through April 6.

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

“Discomfort” by Sam Lyman, found object and plaster, 2012.

Uneasy sitting Is Sam Lyman experiencing any discomfort, as her sculpture of the same name (pictured), with shocking-white triangular shards of plaster shooting up from the seat of an overworn vintage wooden chair might suggest?

“Oh, totally,” the young artist said.

“I’m 23, I’m still in Sacramento, most of my friends have moved on to other things. … It’s a little uncomfortable.”

Lyman, whose father runs Fe Gallery and does metalwork there, has recently ventured away from her standby medium of acrylic painting into the world of sculpture.

“It’s fair to say I’ve been inspired by my dad. It kind of boggles my mind [what he creates],” Lyman said.

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Lyman plans on transferring to art school in Chicago “in a year or two,” but “Saint Michel” by Jeffrey DeVore, gouache on cardboard, 2012. for now, she’s pairing beat-up objects with repetitive plaster spikes in a way that is not so uncomfortable for the Artists Jeffrey DeVore and Cherie Hacker ventured viewer to observe. off for a monthlong tour of Europe in October 2012.

DeVore spent some of his formative years on that side of the Atlantic, and Hacker’s family tree traces Where: Fe Gallery, 1100 65th Street; (916) 456-4455; www.fegallery.com. back to countries on the continent, so away they Second Saturday reception: March 9, 6 to 9 p.m. went to explore. They documented their trip along Through March 31. the way, painting grand cityscapes from the Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Renaissance era on found objects, such as pieces of Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Where: E Street Gallery, 1115 E Street; (916) 704-2909.

Preview reception: Thursday, March 7; 6 to 9 p.m.

Second Saturday reception: March 9, 6 to 9 p.m. Through March 31.

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13 ELLIOTT FOUTS GALLERY 1831 P St., (916) 446-1786, www.efgallery.com

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3 ARTFOX GALLERY 2213 N St., Ste. B; (916) 835-1718; www.artfox.us

4 AXIS GALLERY 1517 19th St., (916) 443-9900, www.axisgallery.org

5 B. SAKATA GARO 923 20th St., (916) 447-4276, www.bsakatagaro.com

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10 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, SACRAMENTO 1519 19th St., (916) 498-9811, www.ccasac.org

11 CUFFS 2523 J St., (916) 443-2881, www.shopcuffs.com

12 DEEP ART AND YOGA 2030 H St., (916) 470-9959, www.deepartandyoga.com

18 MIDTOWN FRAMING & GALLERY 1005 22nd St., (916) 447-7558, www.midtownframing.com

19 OLD SOUL CO. 1716 L St., (916) 443-7685, www.oldsoulco.com

20 PHONO SELECT 2312 K St., (916) 400-3164, www.phonoselect.com

21 RED DOT GALLERY 2231 J St., Ste. 101; www.reddotgalleryonj.com

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36 CROCKER ART MUSEUM 216 O St., (916) 808-7000, www.crockerartmuseum.org

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28 UNIVERSITY ART 2601 J St., (916) 443-5721, www.universityart.com

29 THE URBAN HIVE 1931 H St., (916) 585-4483, www.theurbanhive.com

30 VIEWPOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC ART CENTER 2015 J St., (916) 441-2341, www.viewpointgallery.org

39 SMITH GALLERY 1020 11th St., Ste. 100; (916) 446-4444; www.smithgallery.com

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(916) 923-6204, www.archivalframe.com

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42 ARCHIVAL FRAMING 3223 Folsom Blvd.,

33 ART FOUNDRY GALLERY 1025 R St.,

March 7, 9 and 10, 2013

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1001 Del Paso Blvd.

DOWNTOWN/OLD SAC EAST SAC (916) 442-6014, www.appelgallery.com

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46 JAYJAY 5520 Elvas Ave.,

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(916) 443-5601, www.zanzibartrading.com

32 APPEL GALLERY 931 T St.,

45 GALLERY 14 3960 60th St.,

43 COFFEE WORKS 3418 Folsom Blvd., (916) 452-1086, www.coffeeworks.com

44 FE GALLERY & IRON ART STUDIO 1100 65th

PATRIS STUDIO AND ART GALLERY

3460 Second Ave., (916) 397-8958, http://artist-patris.com

SACRAMENTO TEMPORARY CONTEMPORARY 1616 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 921-1224, http://stcgallery.webs.com

St., (916) 456-4455, www.fegallery.com

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NIGHT&DAY 07THURS DON’T MISS! ANA MOURA: The 32-year-

old singer has become a leading exponent of fado, the poetic, deeply expressive musical style which personifies the Portuguese psyche. As with blues and country music in the United States, tango in Argentina, or samba in Brazil, fado has evolved from simple origins to win broad appeal. Th, 3/7, 7:30pm. $12-$29. Three Stages Peforming Arts Center, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

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Special Events LITERARY LECTURE: ROBERT DUNCAN: Poet Laureate Julia Connor talks about the famous beat poet in this lecture, part of the Sacramento Poetry Center’s Literary Lecture series. Connor began study at the Poetics Program of New College of California in San Francisco at the age of 40.

There, from 1981 to 1987, she studied with Robert Duncan, Diane di Prima and David Meltzer. Th, 3/7, 7:30pm. $10.

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

Comedy JEN KOBER: In honor of Women’s HerStory Month, Sacramento State University’s Unique Programs presents a comedy show featuring Jen Kober of F/X’s Anger Management which also stars Charlie Sheen. Th, 3/7, 7:30pm. Free. Sacramento State University Union Ballroom, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-6997; www.sacstateunique.com.

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DON’T MISS! CRITICAL HIT: A GEEK COMEDY SHOW: Critical Hit,

Sacramento’s geek comedy troupe, takes over the Sacramento Comedy Spot with its unique blend of sketch, stand-up, video and improv comedy. Meet the star astronauts of a new Mars-based reality show, salute GI Joe’s military stand-up, and emotionally connect with dramatic Yelp reviews. F, 3/8, 9pm. $10.

Sacramento Comedy Spot, 1050 20th St., Ste. 130; (916) 444-3137; www.saccomedyspot.com.

Special Events ART ABOUT: Head down to enjoy art and refreshments at several local businesses. As part of Davis’ Second Friday Art About, Whole Foods Market will have live music and beer tasting.

Beer tasting costs $2. F, 3/8, 5-7pm. Free. Whole Foods Market Davis, 500 First St. 1 Davis Commons in Davis; (530) 750-2266; www.whole foodsmarket.com.

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Kids’ Stuff INSIDE THE DIRECTORS STUDIO: At this event, The Art of the Laugh: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Bloopers, you’re invited to laugh at the antics of crazy mixed-up lovers, mischievous sprites, ardent donkeys and, as a special bonus, hear the Sacramento Ballet dancers share their favorite “bloopers.”

F, 3/8, 6pm. $15. The Sacramento Ballet Studios, 1631 K St.; (916) 552-5800, ext. 2; www.sacballet.org.

Concerts CASH TRIBUTE FEATURING JAMES GARNER: While James Garner is not a Johnny Cash impersonator, he is a Johnny Cash fan (a really big one). Garner became hooked on Cash’s music at an early age, getting his hands on everything Cash. Garner presents the Man in Black’s music, respectfully playing music for legions of other Cash fans while paying tribute to his boyhood hero. F, 3/8, 7-9:30pm. $18-$20.

Cameron Park Community Center, 2502 Country Club Dr. in Cameron Park; (530) 677-2231; www.cameronpark.org.

AN IRISH HOOLEY: From the producer of An Irish Christmas comes this Irish hooley (a boisterous party) featuring bagpipes, flutes, harp, fiddle, bodhrans, dancing, singing, and storytelling. It features the eight-piece band Slugger O’Toole and the Kerry Dancers.

F, 3/8, 7:30pm. $12-$29. Three Stages Peforming Arts Center, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

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DON’T MISS! CONNECTING WITH OUR WORLD SPEAKER SERIES:

David LaMotte’s works include folk music, children’s books, music and lectures.

His latest book, White Flour, is inspired by the true story of a whimsical and effective counter-protest rally by a group called the Coup Clutz Clowns. Sa, 3/9, 7pm. Free.

Carmichael Presbyterian Church, 5645 Marconi Ave. in Carmichael; (916) 486-9081; www.carmichaelpres.org.

Special Events BILL EVANS’ BANJO IN AMERICA: Bill Evans is well-known within the bluegrass music community not only as a musician, but also as a teacher, writer and scholar. The Banjo in America concert brings together these interests in a unique presentation designed for the concert stage. Sa, 3/9, 7:30pm. $15-$20. North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center, 179894 Tyler Foote Rd. in Nevada City; (530) 265-2826; www.north columbiaschoolhouse.org.

CELEBRATE ART: Join this celebration of art in schools. Free activities include “make-andtake” art activities, student music and drama performances. Food will be available to purchase from SactoMoFo’s food truck chefs. Bring the family for delicious dinner, create your own art work, listen to music and celebrate the artistic student achievements submitted by public,

private and home-school teachers throughout the Sacramento County. Sa, 3/9, 5-8pm. Free. George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science, 10101 Systems Pkwy.; (916) 228-5751; www.carverarts andscience.org.

ARTISAN EXPO: Fusion International Arts Center’s monthly Artisan Expo features gifts, handmade items, and crafts. Browse from 40 local vendors, hear live music and participate in art workshops.

Second Sa of every month, 11am-6pm. Free. Fusion

International Arts Center, 501 Arden Way; (916) 538-4008; www.fusioniac.com.

WAKAMATSU HISTORICAL TOURS: Join American River Collegetrained docents for a historical tour of property recently acquired by ARC. Ranch ponds and the small lake are a draw for wildlife, particularly migratory waterfowl during the winter and early spring. Along with enjoying its beauty, learn about the rich history of the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm, the first Japanese colony site established in America in 1869.

Sa, 3/9, 10am-2pm. $5-$10.

Wakamatsu Colony Farm, 941 Cold Springs Rd. in Placerville; (530) 621-1224; www.arconservancy.org.

Art Galleries ALEX BULT GALLERY: Waterworks, Ken Waterstreet’s latest collection of water-related paintings.

Representing nearly a decade of work, the pieces explore the ambiguous place between abstraction and reality in the wide, wet world of water. Sa, 3/9, 6-9pm. Free. 1114 21st St., Ste. B in Sacramento; (916) 476-5540.

AMERICAN VISIONS ART GALLERY: Wine Tasting and Reception, see the works of Stella Stevens, an artist inspired by nature and her love for animals. Sa, 3/9, noon. Free. 705 Sutter St. in Folsom, (916) 355-1492.

ARTHOUSE UPSTAIRS: Shades of Gray, 18 artists of ARTHOUSE exhibit new work in black, white and shades of gray. The exhibition features drawings, paintings, sculpture, photography, fiber art and more. Sa, 3/9, 6-9pm. Free. http://arthouse sacramento.com.

ATELIER 20: Second Saturday, Atelier 20 is now the Sacramento showroom for the Leavitt-Weaver Design firm.

There will be new LeavittWeaver designs on floor as well as their catalog. Sa, 3/9. Free.

915 20th St., (209) 988-3630.

CLUBHOUSE 24: Second Saturday Art & Music Showcase, a showcase that features multiple artists’ works for sale, live music and refreshments.

Sa, 3/9, 5-10pm. 920 24th St., (916) 666-1134.

pencil, pen, metal, clay and fabric with emotions—good, bad and ugly—documented in every stroke. Th-Sa, 1-6pm through 3/30. Free. 2907 35th St., (916) 572-5123.

KNOWLTON GALLERY: Dawn to Dusk, an exhibition of artists enamored with capturing light in all its moods. There will be approximately 40 paintings in the show. Artists include John Cosby, Charles Muench and Kathleen Dunphy. Sa, 3/9, 1-4pm.

Free. 115 S. School St., Ste. 14 in Lodi; (209) 368-5123.

PATRIS STUDIO AND ART GALLERY: 2nd Saturday Art Walk and Art in Action, draw, paint or sculpt from a live model from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. or observe artists in action. Enjoy live music and an artist reception from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Second Sa of every month, 3-10pm. Free. 3460 Second Ave., (916) 397-8958, http://patris studiogallery.blogspot.com.

SMITH GALLERY: Contemporary Photography, the work of Wei Liu captures rare and soft memorable moments with interesting landscape compositions. Sa, 3/9, 6-9pm. Free. 1020 11th St., Ste. 100; (916) 446-4444.

THREE WOMEN AND AN ARMOIRE: Art EXTRAVAGANZA, art from Beth Bjorklund. Barbecued hot dogs and refreshments will be served starting at 4 p.m. Sa, 3/9, 10am-10pm. Free. 304 North 12th St., Ste. A; (916) 447-2168.

TIM COLLOM GALLERY: The Resurfacing Project, a solo exhibition of Kyle Lawson’s works. Plus works by Tim Collom and Brooke WalkerKnoblich in the loft. Sa, 3/9.

Free. 915 20th St., (916) 247-8048.

UNION HALL GALLERY: Wanderlust, oil paintings from trips around the world by Victoria Brooks.

Sa, 3/9, 6-9pm. Free. 2126 K St., (916) 448-2452.

YOUR ALLEY ART GALLERY: Second Saturday, see or purchase original art works by some of the finest local artists in Sacramento. Hear music and enjoy refreshments. Second Sa of every month, 4-9pm. Free.

3431 Fourth Ave., (916) 201-1404.

Meetings & Groups ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY - AQUARIAN ROSARY: The afternoon will be focused on finding a deeper and more personal meaning of the mysteries of the rosary practice and the art of mantra yoga.

Explore the traditional rosary and the Aquarian Rosary.

Sa, 3/9, 2:30-4:30pm. Free.

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

Concerts LOS LONELY BOYS: This group’s new

Saturday, enjoy a handbuilt ceramic sclupture gallery and ceramic artist studio featuring member art. Join a clay studio group, which meets weekly on Wednesday. Second Sa of every month, 6-9pm. Free. 1001 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 333-4833.

album, Rockpango, is the band’s fourth studio album. Los Lonely Boys continues to draw from and meld blues, rock and soul, hip-hop, jazz and more. The acoustic show will pull from all its work. Sa, 3/9, 8pm. $30-$39.

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

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RASHAAD: Join Rashaad for a night

strained visual art perspective on President Barack Obama.

It’s an eclectic mix of history etched in oil, acrylic, aerosol,

of silky soulful sounds. The performance features Arameya Scott, D’Vine Konnections, Shawn Raiford and other guest

DEL PASO WORKS BUILDING: Second

musicians. Sa, 3/9, 8pm. $10.

Boston’s Lounge, 9777 Lincoln Village Dr.; (916) 366-6667; www.bostonslounge.com.

SACRAMENTO WOMEN’S CHORUS: Catch Sacramento Women’s Chorus’ 25th-anniversary concert with special guests the Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus.

Hear SWC’s songbirds do showtunes, tender ballads, hot jazz, oldies, and the special world premiere of “A Woman’s Voice,” written for Barbara Boxer’s campaign in 2012. Sa, 3/9, 2 & 7pm. $12-$20. Sacramento Waldorf School, 3750 Bannister Rd. in Fair Oaks; (916) 439-2766; www.sacramentowomens chorus.org.

JEFF MINNIEWEATHER QUARTET: Davis drummer Jeff Minnieweather is one of the artists featured in a new jazz series at the Lakeside Room of Sacramento’s Red Lion Hotel Woodlake. The veteran sideman, well-known in Sacramento jazz circles for his stellar musicianship and groove-oriented style, is stepping back into a bandleader role with a new band, Jeff Minnieweather Quartet.

Sa, 3/9, 7-10pm. Call for pricing.

Red Lion Hotel Lakeside Room, 500 Leisure Ln.; (916) 922-2020, ext. 7348; www.reverbnation.com/venue/ lakesideroom.

THE LICK: The Scramento Gay & Lesbian Center presents the Lick, a party produced by women for women. Enjoy of a night of drinking, dancing and all-around fun. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center. Sa, 3/9, 7:30pm. Free before 9 p.m., $5 after.

Shenanigans, 705 J St.; (916) 442-1268; http://shenanigans sacramento.com.

SOPRANO JENNIFER TROST: Soprano Jennifer Trost will perform at Sacramento State University.

Now with the faculty at Penn State School of Music, Trost had a 15-year career as an opera singer, including time with the Los Angeles Opera, and the Wuppertal and Bavarian State operas in Germany. Sa, 3/9, 7pm. $5-$10. Sacramento State Music Recital Hall, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-5191; www.csus.edu/music.

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DON’T MISS! CAMELLIA FESTIVAL FOLK DANCE CONCERT: Catch a

beautiful and exciting concert featuring folk dance groups from Sacramento and the Bay Area doing dances from around the world. Hear great music and see colorful costumes. After the concert, there will be an opportunity for nondancers to try out some easy dances on the stage.

This is the 57th year this concert has been presented.

Su, 3/10, 1-3pm. $10; free for CSUS students and minors.

CSUS Union Ballroom, 6000 J St. 2777 Regina Way; (916) 923-1555; www.folkdancesac.org.

Special Events PRESEASON PARTY: The Round Table Pizza Ticket Office at Raley Field will open for the season on Sunday, March 10,

and the River Cats are celebrating with a preseason party presented by Raley’s and Bel Air, featuring free food, a live band, two photo booths, free stadium tours and balloon artists for children. Su, 3/10, noon. Free. Raley Field, 400 Ballpark Dr. in West Sacramento; (916) 376-4676.

Art Galleries GALLERY 1855: Tiny Tableaus, Judith Monroe’s exhibition, contains multiple physical layers, each of which represents layers of meaning. Black and white photographs represent the physical world, while papers, found objects, color and text add in the spiritual. Su, 3/10, 1-4pm. Free. 820 Pole Line Rd. Davis Cemetery District Office in Davis; (530) 756-7807; www.daviscemetery.org.

Film WILD & SCENIC FILMS: The Wild & Scenic Film Festival is screening three of 2013’s award-winning films. Watch a triple screening of Cape Spin, How the Kids Saved the Parks and Out Living It, and help raise funds for the South Yuba River Citizen’s League. Su, 3/10, 7:30pm. $10.

Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad St. in Nevada City; (530) 265-6161; www.nevadatheatre.com.

Sports & Recreation DOG ‘N’ JOG: Fitness-minded dogs and their two-legged running buddies will team up for the 6th Annual UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine’s Dog ‘n’ Jog race. This year’s event follows the theme of “Taking Strides Towards Vector-Borne Disease Control Awareness.”

Runners may participate with or without dogs. Su, 3/10, 8am-noon. $15-$30. UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, One Shields Ave. in Davis; http://sites.google.com/site/ dognjog2013.

Concerts JEREMY DENK: Classical pianist Jeremy Denk performs as part of Sacramento State’s Piano Series. Denk has soloed with orchestras that include the Atlanta, Dallas, St. Louis and San Francisco symphonies.

Reviewers have praised the freshness and originality of his interpretations. Su, 3/10, 3pm. $15-$20. Sacramento State Music Recital Hall, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-5191; www.csus.edu/music.

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GLUTEN-FREE TARTS: Many people are discovering the benefits of minimizing gluten in their diets, but baking gluten-free can seem a little daunting. Chef Ame Harrington sheds light on how to use gluten-free flours such as millet, amaranth, buckwheat and brown rice flour in tasty seasonal tarts.

M, 3/11, 6:30-8:30pm. $35-$45.

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

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fundraiser for All About Equine Animal Rescue in El Dorado Hills. There will be live music by the Brazen Hussies and the Bad Boyz as well as a raffle.

M, 3/11, 11:30am-11:30pm. Call for pricing. El Dorado Saloon, 879 Embarcadero Dr. in El Dorado Hills; (916) 941-3600.

DAVIS MADRIGALS GOLF TOURNAMENT: The Davis High Madrigal Singers host a benefit golf tournament and silent auction to support their historic tour of Italy this spring.

This event features Phil Mickelson Sr.—father of the world-ranked golfer—who will hold a golf clinic following play.

M, 3/11, 11am. $25-$125.

El Macero Country Club, 44571 Country Club Dr. in El Macero; (530) 753-3363; www.davismadrigals.com.

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HATS OFF TO RESCUE: The El Dorado Saloon is sponsoring a

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clean your body with natural and delicious fermented detox elixirs such as healing ginger beer, homemade kombucha and anti-oxidant, protein-rich sparkling hibiscus ale made with kefir whey. Learn about the healing power of these beverages, and take home your own kombucha mother culture and kefir grains. W, 3/13, 6:30-8:30pm. $20-$25. Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 1914 Alhambra Blvd.; (916) 868-6399;www.sacfoodcoop.com.

Join the March meeting of Sacramento regional electric vehicle owners. Anyone is welcome to attend. Snacks will be served. See the latest EVs in the parking lot. Then get an update on chargers, SMUD’s quick charger and workplace charging. W, 5-7:30pm. Free. SMUD

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like to become a better climber, paddler, backpacker, skier or snowboarder? Join The Yoga Seed Collective, a local nonprofit yoga studio, to learn yoga basics and develop balance, endurance and strength (inner and physical). W, 3/13, 7-8:30pm. Free. REI Sacramento, 1790 Expo Pkwy.; (916) 924-8900; http://rei.com/sacramento.

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Tu, 3/12, 6:30-8:30pm. $20-$40.

REI Sacramento, 1790 Expo Pkwy.; (916) 924-8900; www.rei.com/sacramento.

Teens WEB CHARADES: Come celebrate

where opposing teams act out website keywords. W, 3/13, 4pm.

Free. Franklin Community Library, 10055 Franklin High Rd. in Elk Grove; (916) 264-2700.

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

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

Teen Tech Week. Can you act?

How well do you know the World Wide Web? Come and play a game of web charades

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But that shouldn’t deter anyone from enjoying good writing. Hear others wax poetic about literature and poetry at the Sacramento Poetry Center’s spring series, Literary Lectures: Beat to Beatnik. The series, which lasts six consecutive Thursday nights at 7:30 p.m., kicked off last week with a discussion about the globalization of hip-hop, led by UC Davis professor Halifu Osumare.

The next installment on Thursday, March 7, features a lecture about Robert Duncan by Sacramento’s former poet laureate, Julia Connor. The series continues on March 14, with “The Poet in the World: Creativity, Influences, and the World of Ten Thousand Poems,” a lecture featuring Poetry Boot Camp’s Molly Fisk and UC Davis’ Susan Kelly-DeWitt.

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UC Davis African- and AfricanAmerican studies professor Moradewun Adejunmobi delivers a lecture called “Poetry in Africa: History, Trends, Debates” on March 28, and the series-closing lecture on April 4 is “The Silence That Is Great Within Us: The Many Voices of Our Poetry,” which will be delivered by Pablo Neruda translator William O’Daly. Various hosts and assistants—including another former Sacramento poet laureate, Bob Stanley—will add to the literary fun throughout the series. In other words, it’s six weeks filled with Sacramento’s best wordsmiths talking about some of the best folks to ever turn a phrase.

Check it out on Thursdays through April 4, at 7:30 p.m. ($10 suggested donation) at the Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street; (916) 240-1897; www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com or http://tinyurl.com/saclitlectures.

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I learned to stir-fry from little Chinese mothby ers and how to braise chilies in a kitchen in Garrett McCord Chengdu, China. I like to think I know what authentic Chinese food is.

Surprisingly, truly authentic Chinese food can be found in a tiny, unassuming restaurant in Davis.

Davis Noodle City doesn’t look like much.

It’s small, rustic and simple. The chairs and booths are rigid and not at all built for comfort— if you have back problems, you’re forewarned. rating: However, the service is quick, polite and always HHHH happy to teach diners about the food.

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The noodle dishes are gargantuan and will be enough to feed a marathon runner adequately. The Five Spice Beef Noodle Soup features boulders of braised beef that fall apart in your mouth; the vegetables are toothsome and al dente.

The mustard-greens-noodle dish is a veritable salad for two of finely cut mustard greens posing as soup. The rafts of chicken are cooked to perfection and are softer than a kiss on the cheek. The broth comes off clean—tasting like the kind of comfort no common cold could stand up to.

Traditionalists may be a bit disappointed in the dan dan noodles. The original recipe has minced pork, Sichuan peppercorns and a heavy hand of chili oil. This is the American version of dan dan and has none of those touches. Instead, it’s heavy on the peanuts and the peanut sauce (possibly due to the addition of peanut butter).

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Still, it’s addicting, though you may want nuke it with an overeager squeeze of Sriracha sauce.

Oh, and the pork-chop-noodle soup—a big bowl of lightly spiced pork broth and noodles served with a deep-fried, slivered and seasoned pork cutlet. Crispy. Meaty. Satisfying. Yes. Overall, DNC is the kind of food that takes me to days in those little kitchens in Beijing.

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Get outta town Sometimes, you just gotta get outta town.

But if you find yourself near Oakland, herbivores and omnivores alike would be remiss to pass up the opportunity to sample Souley Vegan’s fare. Yeah, it’s soul food, and it’s totally vegan, but holy Mother Nature, has it got some funk—only the good kind, though. Hearty options, such as the mesmerizing nutritional-yeast-based mac ’n’ cheese; savory gravy-and-onion smothered fried tofu; and the zingy, well-balanced potato salad will make the trek worth it. The cayenne lemonade and cucumber-infused water are perfect sipping complements.

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

Midtown 24 Chocolat Cafe This cafe, located in a labyrinthine Spanishcolonial-style structure that also houses meditation classes, a gift shop heavy on the crystals and clowning workshops, serves a solid, if very limited, brunch and lunch menu. One offering is a firm wedge of frittata with a strong tang of sharp cheddar that almost but doesn’t quite jibe with the slightly spicy mole sauce on the plate.The spinach curry, made creamy by coconut milk rather than dairy, comes topped with cubes of tofu and tiny diced scallion and red bell pepper and rests atop a smooth potato cake. A side of garbanzo-bean salad is well-flavored with the surprising combination of mint and apricot. The place, located inside Ancient Future, has “chocolat” in the name, and chocolate is everywhere: for sale, along with tea and coffee in the small boutique area, and in the form of truffles plated on a side table.

It’s also in many of the menu offerings, including a tiny cup of hot Mexican drinking chocolate, and chocolate-cherry scones served crisp and hot, studded with big chunks of bittersweet

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

A grilled-ham-and-Gruyere sandwich is just buttery enough, and an egg-white frittata is

Firestone Public House A sports bar with a focus on craft beer isn’t exactly a groundbreaking concept, but two local and prominent restaurant families, the Wongs and the DeVere Whites, know what Sacramento wants: good beer; solid pub grub; and a casual, unpretentious atmosphere.

Here, the bar is the centerpiece with a full stock of liquor and 60 beers on draught. The menu features savory appetizers—the tortilla soup with poached chicken, avocado and tomato is particularly noteworthy—and a selection of sandwiches and pizzas, including a simple pie with fresh mozzarella and tomato sauce. American.

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

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Sacramento Beer Week is over, and yet you still want a brew (because you’re awesome). But you want something mellow—not an eye-itching, hop-till-the-last-drop double IPA, or a booming Belgian quad or American barley wine. No, you want a chill sipper. Recommendations abound: My go-to chill beers are bière de gardes (medium-bodied, slightly sweet and hopped golden beers, done very well in northern France) and farmhouse ales (fruity, yeasty, dry and spicy, normally popular during the summer, but, hey, it feels summery here now). Blonde ales and saisons abound, even in the winter and at neighborhood spots, such as Taylor’s Market (2900 Freeport Boulevard) and Corti Brothers (5810 Folsom Boulevard), who both boast increasingly thoughtful beer selections.

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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: $10-$20. HHH1⁄2 B.G.

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Vietnamese. 7837 Stockton Blvd., Ste. 700; (916) 476-4895. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHHH1⁄2 B.G.

Blue Moon Cafe and Karaoke In Sac, most people equate Hong Kong-style cuisine with dim sum, but this restaurant, which also features private karaoke rooms, serves up tasty, familiar food by way of rice plates, sandwiches, noodle bowls, soups and stir-fries. A few random Japanese (ramen, fried udon), French (sweet or savory crepes), Russian (borscht), Korean (beef and kimchi hot pot) and Italian (various pastas) foods add to the feeling that whatever your cultural background, you’ll find a comfort dish from your childhood to wrap its arms around you and give you a hug. Cultural diversity aside, one of Blue Moon’s best dishes is the braised pig ear with soy

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.

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.

artisanship. In some cases, for hundreds of years. There’s the usual panoply of French dip, hot pastrami, Reuben and so on.

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.

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Jin Men The restaurant bills its itself as Chinese, but it actually specializes in Korean-Chinese food. The most popular Korean specialty dish is its ja jang myun, based on the Chinese dish zhajiangmian (fried noodles with sauce). Jin Men’s rendition is made with little squares of chewy pork and tiny shrimp mixed with lots of sweet sautéed onions and slightly salty blackbean paste. This addictive dish is served in a bowl just the right size to keep all to yourself. The jambong is a spicy seafood soup nicely spiked with chili and perfect for curing a cold. Chinesestyle offerings include mu shu chicken and a ho-hum vegetable fried rice. Much better was the Hot Spicy Bean Curd—a large portion of silky tofu in a zingy sauce with peas and carrots.

Asian. 3212 Fulton Ave., (916) 779-3353. Dinner for one: $5-$10. HHH A.M.R.

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 hog-wild legerdemain, mixing and matching items found elsewhere on the menu, is what elevates this grub shack to well beyond a simple sandwich place. American.

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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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Sacramentans can learn more about the traditional Japanese tea ceremony at the Sokiku Nakatani Tea Room and Garden at Sacramento State University’s library (6000 J Street).

These ceremonies, called chado, are free and open to the public. Each chado presentation lasts 75 minutes and comes with a bowl of green tea. Some attendees will be chosen to sit on traditional mats and participate in the ceremony. Visit http://apps.lib.csus.edu/tearoom for more information.

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I am secretly dating my friend’s ex-boyfriend and freaking out. Her parents own the condo we share, and I only pay utilities to live in a really nice gated community. I could never afford this place, but it’s worth losing it to keep my boyfriend. Do you think I should just pack up and move out? Or tell her and see what happens? He broke up with her two years ago.

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They may have started with the same script and opened competing productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the same weekend, but the by Jeff Hudson Sacramento Theatre Company and Nevada County’s Sierra Stages Community Theatre came up with two very different shows.

STC’s easy-to-enjoy version utilizes a cast of nine, with double and triple casting and quick costume changes. Here, director Christine Nicholson favors a “fast and physical” approach,

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 12:30 and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday; 8 p.m.

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interpreting the scenes between dizzy lovers and competing suitors in humorously absurd and often acrobatic terms. Instead of swords, men draw skinny sticks of kindling wood.

Throughout, Nicholson employs the nimble style she’s developed staging British pantos at Sacramento City College’s City Theatre in recent years.

STC’s show benefits from several Shakespeare veterans. Lanky Carolyn Howarth is hilarious as fairy queen Titania, and Michael R.J. Campbell stands out in several small roles. Above all, Matt K. Miller has a field day playing Bottom (the hammy would-be actor who gets a donkey head in a fairy prank). Still, Bottom’s costume at STC is a bit disappointing—his donkey head is little more than bunny ears, undercutting what should be a shocking transformation.

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It takes a lot to be able to slit your own wrists and enjoy it. That’s the premise of Ben Moroski’s autobiographical account of his long struggle as a self-harming cutter. KOLT Run Creations produced Moroski’s intimate one-man show This Vicious Minute, which tackles the issue with incredible candor.

Moroski speaks from years of experience.

His tale is not uncommon, it is just rarely told. He uses anecdotes to tell his history, including stories of an abusive relationship with God and vivid, flashing glimpses at life inside a psychiatric ward.

Onstage, he commands the audience with little effort as he plays raconteur, flowing easily from joke to dramatic observation to horrific reality check and never losing the crowd along the way. Like clockwork, laughs turn to wide-eyed silence as Moroski depicts his own vicious minutes.

It would be easy for a one-man show like this to revel in the horror of the actions described, but Moroski’s intense script is more important than that. It depicts a point of view that not many people consider, and that is what makes it hit home so hard.

Moroski does not seem like a quiet, closeted person who shies away from society.

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This is not a play for everyone. Those who easily get squeamish should stay home; for everyone else, this multiple Hollywood Fringe Festival Award winner definitely deserves your buck.

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This Vicious Minute, 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday; $15-$20.

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Finally, as ominous-sounding music thrums in our ears, we read that those Shin Bet leaders “have never been interviewed about their work.”

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Moreh forbears to actually say “until now,” and the pose of modesty paradoxically underscores an implied boast. No sooner do those words fade from the screen than the first of a succession of Shin Bet chiefs begins unburdening himself. (This one is Yuval Diskin, head of the agency from 2005 to 2011.) All this—the solemnly sinister music, the voice of Diskin talking about politicians who want black-andwhite options when all he ever saw were shades of gray, the footage of satellite surveillance tracking an automobile through city streets until it meets with an incoming missile—makes The Gatekeepers an unsettling movie.

It’s doubly so, in fact—unsettling in the story it tells, but also unsettling in the way it tells it. Is the satellite footage we see the real thing, or is it a clever CGI mock-up—albeit one portraying an actual drone strike? If it is, in fact, a simulation—representing history rather than presenting it—what does that suggest about the words Moreh shares, in his 102-minute movie, out of the reported 70 hours of interviews he conducted?

To be sure, the six former Shin Bet chiefs seem to stand behind the movie, with no suggestion that their frank and revealing remarks are taken out of context. Moreh eschews the more obvious agitprop buffoonery of Michael Moore, but he has an agenda. The Israeli right, he suggests, is the greatest threat to peace in the Middle East, and he juxtaposes images so that Benjamin Netanyahu (whom he plainly despises) is visually implicated in the 1995 assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (whom Moreh regarded as Israel’s last best hope) by a Jewish right-wing radical.

Such touches, though, are rare. Moreh’s model is the more subtly persuasive Errol Morris of The Fog of War, a particular favorite of his. Not incidentally, it’s also greatly admired

by Ami Ayalon, the first of Shin Bet’s former heads to sit for Moreh’s cameras (Ayalon then helped the director secure interviews with his other colleagues).

The Gatekeepers’ thesis, simply put, is that the extended occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, in place since Israel’s lightning victory in the Six-Day War of 1967, is a quagmire threatening long-term disaster for Israel. All of the Shin Bet heads interviewed, like Moreh himself, favor Israel’s engagement with the Palestinians and the establishment of a two-state solution.

Their attitude toward Israel’s political past leadership ranges from respect to disdain, always tinged with a rueful awareness that their own heads would roll if any scandal arose.

One head that rolled belonged to Avraham Shalom.

During his Shin Bet tenure (1980-86), Shalom had a fearsome reputation, though now he looks almost grandfatherly. He resigned over an incident where he ordered the execution of two accused terrorists in custody, an act he now says was tacitly sanctioned by Prime Minister Shimon Peres. When that one hit the fan, Shalom was out while Peres stayed in.

Now, when Shalom says that Israel’s approach to the West Bank and Gaza occupation has “no strategy, just tactics,” it carries weight.

Director Dror Moreh eschews the more obvious agitprop buffoonery of Michael Moore, but he has an agenda.

It also carries weight when Shalom compares the occupation with the actions of Germany during World War II, a remark seized upon in reactions to Moreh’s documentary.

Moreh himself, in interviews, is quick to deny that the Palestinians have been innocent victims of Israeli aggression—he cites Abba Eban’s famous remark that the Palestinians “never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity,” adding that the same is true of Israel in the ongoing conflict. Nevertheless, that sense of Israeli oppression is exactly the impression left

by The Gatekeepers, a stance of righteous selfcriticism sure to play well in the world at large.

Whatever the provocation, the movie suggests, Israel’s reaction to it has been wrong in morality—and worse, self-defeating in practice. Ω

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A Good Day to Die Hard

Tough cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) flies to Russia to check up on his son (Jai Courtney) who has landed in jail—only to learn that Junior is really CIA, and it’s all part of his mission to spirit a political prisoner (Sebastian Koch) out of the country. Now Daddy is in the middle of things and about to either ruin everything or save the day—or both. This series ran out of gas with the first sequel and has been on life support ever since; writer Skip Woods and director John Moore fail to revive it here, but they cram in all they can think of, with Willis and Courtney surviving concussions, broken bones, explosions and outrunning machine-gun bullets. Is Courtney being groomed to take over when Willis finally has enough?

What’s next? Never Say Die Hard? Do or Die Hard? Who cares? Die hard, already! J.L.

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Phantom

In writer-director Todd Robinson’s waterlogged thriller of Cold War brinksmanship, Ed Harris plays a Russian submarine captain with an unexpected chance to save the world. All that stands in his way is a fellow Russian played by David Duchovny. Weird, right?

The true events from which Phantom jumps off are fewer than its opening titles imply. It would be fine to credit Robinson with an imaginative fabrication, had he used more imagination. But for all its suspense-stoking theatrics, his movie has the lethargy of a lazy mash-up, like every grave-situation-on-a-submarine film of the past 20 years, plus maybe a couple of Star Trek episodes, rolled into one unabashedly corny and somewhat budget-challenged chamber drama. Sometimes it is solid in a no-nonsense way, like some workmanlike B-movie from a bygone Hollywood. Most times, it’s stilted as hell. Harris maintains his dignity, and he has a nice manly rapport with his loyal first officer, played by William Fichtner. J.K.

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Les Misérables

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

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In rural New Mexico 1944, a small boy (Luke Ganalon) is taken under the wing of an old curandera, or healer (Miriam Colon in a wise performance), and through her, he learns to see the mysteries of the world and the struggle of good and evil lurking under the surface of things. Rudolfo Anaya’s 1972 novel, an acknowledged modern classic, gets a strong filming by writerdirector Carl Franklin. The cast is largely experienced unknowns (unseen narrator Alfred Molina is the closest thing to a star), but many faces are nevertheless familiar, conferring their familiarity on the movie and giving it the resonace of a folk tale. Even the occasional stiffness among the children underscores this resonance, as if they’re delivering their recitations in a pageant presented by the curandera’s open-air Sunday school. J.L.

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A suburban couple (Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton) and their two sons (Dakota Goya, Kadan Rockett) experience a series of strange and unsettling events. Are they the victims of haunting, demonic possession or alien invasion? Despite the overfamiliar trappings, writer-director Scott Stewart assembles some pretty effective moments—scenes of protracted suspense and several delicious chills—and he gets good performances from his cast, especially the underrated Russell. But the movie lists 11 credited producers (executive, line, associate and co-), and at least one of them should have noticed that Stewart didn’t have an ending. The muddy, unsatisfactory fadeout spoils everything that went before; without a dramatic payoff, despite its good moments, the movie dissipates in the memory almost immediately. J.L.

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Beautiful Creatures

A small-town teenager (Alden Ehrenreich) falls for the new girl in town (Alice Englert), even though the local Jesus freaks say she’s from a family of witches—and even though they’re right. It’s the Twilight legacy in action, but at least Ehrenreich and Englert are more interesting than the what’s-their-names in that other series; and at least writerdirector Richard LaGravenese whips up the supernatural soufflé with some style; and at least he brings along a pedigreed supporting cast to sell it: Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Viola Davis, Eileen Atkins, Emmy Rossum. Of course, the movie sports the usual Hollywoodliberal clueless contempt for the Deep South, but that may be inherent in Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s original novel. There are four such novels (so far), so we may be in for a series. Sigh. J.L.

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Side Effects

Drawing plot parallels between insider trading and drug-company greed, this tale of comfortable yet variously depressed Manhattanites seems at first to lean toward deadpan satire. Then come the shades of retro thriller noir, and the mind games between a well-meaning dupe and a foxy femme fatale.

As to the who’s who and what’s what, that’s best revealed by the movie itself, but it may help to know that key players include Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Also, the director is Steven Soderbergh at his coolly mercurial best and in that exciting middle ground between experiment and entertainment, where formal playfulness goes very well with great faces. Ultimately, this could be a movie that’s really only about the lethal dreamy beauty of its stars. Soderbergh says he’s quitting film after this, but he’s made similar threats before. Maybe he’s just depressed or hiding something. J.K.

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21 & Over

Two buddies (Miles Teller, Skylar Astin) show up at the college apartment of a third pal (Justin Chon) to get him good and drunk to celebrate his 21st birthday—even though he has a crucial interview for med school at 8 the next morning. This is where a press release would say something like “hilarity ensues”—except, of course, that it doesn’t. There’s not a laugh or an unexpected turn anywhere in Jon Lucas and Scott Moore’s script, and their joint direction is equally unimaginative. On the plus side—although it’s heavily outweighed—things never get as mean or ugly as they did in the pair’s script for The Hangover; Teller and Astin do establish a modicum of rapport (both have shown talent in better movies than this); and Sarah Wright, as a coed flirting with Astin, offers a pleasing presence. J.L

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Warm Bodies

In a not-too-distant future, a zombie plague destroys civilization and divides humanity into the living and the undead. In this bleak world, zombie boy (Nicholas Hoult) meets human girl (Teresa Palmer). Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet gets reimagined by writerdirector Jonathan Levine (adapting Isaac Marion’s novel) in a landscape out of countless trashy movies, with generous dollops of Beauty and the Beast thrown in for good measure.

Levine maintains the novel’s delicate balance of horror, comedy and romance (with more comedy than Marion wrote), and he provides what

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The movie is ultimately a guilty pleasure, but enough of a pleasure that we needn’t feel all that guilty. J.L.

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An account of justice delayed, denied and thoroughly disfigured, Amy Berg’s documentary reinvestigates the increasingly unwieldy story of the West Memphis Three, that trio of misfit Arkansas teenagers wrongly convicted of murdering three little boys in 1993. We see again how their case became what one participant calls “the first crowdsourced criminal investigation in history,” with celebrity support from the likes of Eddie Vedder and Henry Rollins, plus Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson in loyal service to Berg as both crusaders and producers. Acknowledging multiple previous documentaries about the same case, Berg’s film mounts its own prosecution, first sifting through all the attendant media hysteria, police misconduct and political maneuvering, then pointing an angry finger at one victim’s stepfather and calling him the killer.

It’s compelling evidence, but also deeply unsettling after so thorough a condemnation of false accusations. Giving off the queasy feeling that we’ll be awash in bogus-justice documentaries for years to come, this film is an endurance test, but as another participant says, so was the ordeal it depicts. J.K.

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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.

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The lone ranger Singer-songwriter Joe Pug may play with a full band, but this is still a one-man show If the modern music industry can be compared to the frontier West—rough, uncharted but full of promise—then, surely, Joe Pug is its Lone by Rachel Leibrock Ranger.

In fact, although Pug employed a full band rachell@ on his latest album, The Great Despiser—a newsreview.com departure from previous, stripped-down acoustic efforts—this remains, arguably, a one-man show.

A few years back, Pug, who opens for Joe Ely at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub on Wednesday, relocated from Chicago to Austin, Texas, but not so he could hobnob in one of the country’s most well-known music cities.

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And so living alone in Chicago, he turned to songwriting.

“You can’t do a play by yourself, you can’t do a movie by yourself, but you can sit down and write an album alone,” he says.

That was in the mid-2000s, and in the years since, Pug’s also quit his day job as a carpenter to devote himself to music. In 2010, he signed to the indie label Lightning Rod Records, which released his debut album The Messenger in 2010.

The evolution from that disc to his latest, Pug says, is subtle.

“I’ve gotten better at being able to channel melodies and [song] meters from a place that’s a little more unconscious, a little less premeditated,” he says. “I’ve become better at being able to get myself out of the way.”

He’s also logged numerous touring miles, headlining intimate venues as well as opening on larger stages for the likes of John Hiatt.

It’s those smaller shows however, that best epitomize Pug’s independent streak. On one solo tour, for example, the singer circumvented traditional methods by offering fans direct ticket-purchasing options with no or low-cost service fees.

“I got tired of going to shows myself and having them tell me it was a $20 ticket only to have $26 show up on my credit card,” he says. “It’s bullshit.”

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Alone but not lonely.

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“I spend most of my time on the road, and when I’m not, I’m usually at my house, writing—I’m not really a part of the Austin scene,” he says.

That’s intentional, he says.

“I don’t need to be inspired [by other musicians]—I get inspirations from albums and books,” he says. “I just need a quiet house where I can get my thoughts together.”

Still, Pug fits in nicely in the Live Music Capital of the World with music that falls squarely into the Americana vein, echoing the sounds and themes of iconic artists such as Bob Dylan, John Prine and Steve Earle. These are guitar-based songs that rely as much on Pug’s throaty, despondent voice and introspective lyrics as they do on his deceptively simple song structures.

Pug first picked up a guitar as a teen, but eventually, music gave way to an interest in theater—which he studied in college before dropping out the day before he was set to start his senior year.

College, he says, just didn’t feel necessary anymore.

“Nothing against the people who teach, but I wanted to be a writer who was writing from my own point of view and telling my own story,” he says. “No one can teach you that, you just have to go ahead and do it.”

“I wanted to be a writer who was writing from my own point of view and telling my own story. No one can teach you that.”

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“You hear a lot of artists and record labels piss and moan about the state of the music business, but I feel lucky to be a part of it,” he says.

And with various digital platforms serving to democratize the process, he adds, now is the time to take advantage of the freedoms that the medium still provides.

“It’s like the wild Wild West, [but] 10 years from now, the Internet is going to be … more codified,” he says. “To be here now in this historical transition allows artists to get their hands on the reins before it changes and those doors are closed to us.” Ω

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But the Camellia International Dance Festival DANCE offers more than just viral YouTube video moves. Here, folk dances have a deeper cultural significance.

Moreover, they celebrate the diversity of culture in Sacramento with Argentine, Chinese, Egyptian, German, Indian, Israeli, Serbian and Ukrainian folk dances. The festival also offers a chance to learn a few new moves. It happens Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with various prices for different events. Friday’s opening party—featuring contra and English country dance—costs just $7. 6000 J Street, www.folkdancesac.org.

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Delicate tones layered with soft piano notes and electronic beats are just a few distinct characteristics defining Hearts + Horses.

This three-piece consists of vocalist and pianist Jeannette “Juju” Faith, her husband Wes Steed and drummer Tom Monson. Those with an appreciation for experimental Icelandic band Múm will definitely dig the way Hearts + Horses crafts its music. Its debut album The Hearts+Horses Method grabs every ambient sound imaginable to create calm and trancelike moments. From the soft voice of Faith, ELECTRONIC spoken-word snippets or the jazz-oriented percussion, the album blends from one track into another. Also performing are Electro Group and Arts & Leisure. 1815 19th Street, www.heartshorses.com.

Christine Shields is the kind of folk singer that brings a lot of heart and beauty to everything she plays. But she also adds a ton of interesting textures to her songs with her backing band and unusual arrangements. It’s a sort of psychedelic FOLK indie-folk sound that will evoke a reflective, somber feeling while stirring up some weird nostalgic memories.

She also does some really cool surreal paintings: They look kind of like offbeat kids’ paintings, but are just too bizarre and emotional to have been done by any kid in his or her right mind. 1114 21st Street, http://tinyurl.com/christineshields.

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Also on the bill: Adrian Bellue and CAVE Women, an all-girl five-piece that boasts impressive vocal harmonies and a singular assembly of accordion, flute, jazz guitar and mbira; its jazzy, folksy, bossa nova sound is unlike any other local SINGER-SONGWRITER ensemble. 2708 J Street, www.facebook.com/ SandraDoloresMusic.

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Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 8 p.m., $30-$49 While they’ve retained their name, Los Lonely Boys have become men since their first selftitled album dropped. But they haven’t lost any of what got them noticed and won them a Grammy Award. In fact, their latest album, Rockpango, continues their exploration and interweaving of rock, soul, Latin, hip-hop, jazz and, fittingly for this special show, blues.

The Sacramento Blues Society’s Blues in the Schools program will benefit from this acoustic performance featuring Henry, JoJo and Ringo Garza, who have recorded with LATIN Carlos Santana and covered songs by the Doors, the Beatles and Tony Joe White on 1969, a 2009 tribute EP. 10 College Parkway in Folsom, www.loslonelyboys.com.

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Christian music has come a long way the past few decades. Michael W. Smith and Amy Grant are no longer the cream of the CHRISTIAN ROCK Christian crop, and groups such as Skillet, P.O.D., Switchfoot, Flyleaf and Mute Math have gone mainstream.

Consider this: All it took was someone calling a popular radio station in Texas to request MercyMe’s “I Can Only Imagine” some years back for that song—and the band—to blow up. MercyMe (pictured) is one of seven bands making up The Rock and Worship Roadshow, and it’s perfect for this tour because the group has successfully been combining rock and worship for more than a decade. 1 Sports Parkway, http://therockandworshiproadshow.com.

Los Angeles punks the Bronx answered a call for an acoustic performance in 2006 by transforming into newfound Latin alter ego Mariachi El Bronx. (Phone booth optional.) No mere dilettantes, these gringos embraced their second identity with fervor, which is apparent in their energetic stage show.

They’ve released two albums under the persona, the latest one coming two years ago. From trilling horns to the clomping block rhythms MARIACHI and Southwestern guitar swoon, El Bronx inhabits the sound. It furnishes it with an intoxicating mix of styles and tempos—including the stomping squeezebox-driven “Norteño Lights,” the anxious tango of “Poverty’s King” and the flamenco delicacy of “Everything Dies.”

2708 J Street, www.mariachielbronx.com.

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Sacramento Downtown Plaza, 6 p.m., $35-$40 Sigh. Just when you thought it was safe to order a whiskey shot, beer gets all up in your business again. Kidding—we love beer, obviously! Beer Bust is a fundraiser for the Downtown Sacramento Foundation, a ELECTRONIC nonprofit set up by the Downtown Sacramento Partnership to help revitalize “The Kay” district (that’s the old K Street Mall to you and me). While the cost of admission might pinch the wallet, the price includes food, drink and a four-hour parking validation. On hand: Bites and drinks from Broadacre Coffee, Pizza Rock, Shady Lady Saloon and more. There’s also music from Paper Pistols and deejay sets from Sister Crayon (pictured) and DJ Blackheart.

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Electronic dance music, 9pm, call for cover

Deejay dancing and karaoke, 9pm, $3

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

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Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

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MARIACHI EL BRONX, KILL THE PRECEDENT; 8pm, $15

SKERIK’S BANDALABRA, 8pm M; JOE ELY, JOE PUG; 7pm W, $25-$30

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

JOSEF & KIM ANGELIS, 8pm, $10

PUSHTONAWANDA, 8:30pm, $6

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

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WHISKEY AND STITCHES, HA’PENNY BRIDGE; 8-11:30pm, $5

DIAMOND DEZ, MARYANN, LINDSEY PAVAO, CENTURY GOT BARS; 9pm, $10

Greatest Stories Ever Told, Tu; SONG SPARROW RESEARCH, 8pm W, $5

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

Phuture Global Discotheque w/ DAMB., Funktion and Jon Maestro, 10pm, $3-$5

Gothic, Industrial, Darkwave, EBM, Retro, 9:30pm-2am, $5

Swing, Lindy Hop, 8pm Tu, $6-$10; Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, 8:30pm W, $5

DJ Gabe Xavier, 8:30pm, call for cover

DJs Gabe Xavier and DJ Peeti-V, 9pm W, call for cover

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WILLIAM MYLAR, 5pm, no cover; FUNK DEFIED, DRIVING WITH THEM; 9pm, $5

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

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PEACH KELLI POP, FINE STEPS, THE CROISSANTS; 9pm, $5

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

Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

THE BALLANTYNES, MISS MADDY’S F STREET STOMPERS; 9pm M, $5

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X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; RED’S BLUES, 9pm, $5

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FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 7, 2013

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Maybe you’re

not literally in exile. You haven’t been forced to abandon your home, and you haven’t been driven from your power spot against your will. But you may, nevertheless, be feeling banished or displaced. It could be due to one of the conditions that storyteller Michael Meade names: “We may experience exile as a lack of recognition, a period of transition, an identity crisis, a place of stuckness, or else having a gift and no place to give it.” Do any of those describe your current predicament, Aries?

The good news, Meade says, is that exile can shock you awake to the truth about where you belong. It can rouse your irrepressible motivation to get back to your rightful place.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do you have

a recurring nightmare that has plagued you? If so, I suspect it will recur again soon.

Only this time, Taurus, you will beat it. You will trick or escape or defeat the monster that’s chasing you. Or else you will outrun the molten lava or disperse the tornado or fly up off the ground until the earth stops shaking. Congratulations on this epic shift, Taurus. Forever after you will have more power over the scary thing that has had so much power over you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The following

request for advice appeared on Reddit: “My identical twin is stuck in an alternate dimension and she can only communicate with me by appearing as my own reflection in mirrors and windows. How can I tell her I don’t like what she’s done to her hair?” This question is a variant of a type of dilemma that many of you Geminis are experiencing right now, so I’ll respond to it here. I’m happy to say that you will soon get an unprecedented chance to commune directly with your alter egos. Your evil twin will be more available than usual to engage in meaningful dialogue. So will your doppelgänger, your shadow, your mirror self and your stunt person.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Usually I

advise Cancerians to draw up precise borders and maintain clear boundaries. As a crab myself, I know how important it is for our well-being that we neither leak our life force all over everything nor allow others to leak their life force all over us. We thrive on making definitive choices and strong commitments. We get into trouble when we’re wishy-washy about what we want.

OK, having said all that fatherly stuff, I now want to grant you a partial and temporary license to get a little wild and fuzzy. Don’t overdo it, of course, but explore the smart fun you can have by breaking some of your own rules and transgressing some of the usual limits.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the course of formulating his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin read many books. He developed a rather ruthless approach to getting what he needed out of them. If there was a particular part of a book that he didn’t find useful, he simply tore it out, cast it aside and kept the rest. I recommend this as a general strategy for you in the coming week, Leo. In every situation you’re in, figure out what’s most valuable to you and hone in on that. For now, forget the irrelevant and extraneous stuff.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here’s a pas-

sage from Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations: “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” Judging from the astrological omens, Virgo, I suspect your life may be like that in the coming days. The emotional tone could be sharply mixed with high contrasts between vivid sensations.

The nature of your opportunities may seem warm and bright one moment, cool and dark the next. If you regard this as interesting rather than difficult, it won’t be a problem, but rather an adventure.

people. His response: ‘Flaws. Our flaws are what make us interesting, special, and exotic. They define us.’” My challenge to you, Libra, is to meditate on how your supposed imperfections and oddities are essential to your unique beauty. It’s a perfect moment to celebrate—and make good use of—your idiosyncrasies.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The genius

of Leonardo da Vinci was in part fueled by his buoyant curiosity. In his work as an artist, musician, inventor, engineer and writer, he drew inspiration from pretty much everything. He’s your role model for the coming week, Scorpio. Just assume that you will find useful cues and clues wherever you go. Act as if the world is full of teachers who have revelations and guidance specifically meant for you. Here’s some advice from da Vinci himself: “It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which, if you consider them well, you may find really marvelous ideas.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Ready for a reality check? It’s time to assess how well you know the fundamental facts about where you are located. So, let me ask you: Do you know which direction north is? Where does the water you drink come from? What phase of the moon is it today? What was the indigenous culture that once lived where you live now? Where is the power plant that generates the electricity you use? Can you name any constellations that are currently in the night sky? What species of trees do you see every day? Use these questions as a starting point as you deepen your connection with your specific neighborhood on planet Earth. Get yourself grounded!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

There’s a writer I know whose work is brilliant. Her ideas are fascinating. She’s a champion of political issues I hold dear.

She’s well-read and smarter than me. Yet her speech is careless and sloppy. She rambles and interrupts herself. She says “uh,” “you know” and “I mean” so frequently, that I find it hard to listen, even when she’s saying things I admire. I considered telling her about this, but decided against it. She’s an acquaintance, not a friend. Instead, I resolved to clean up my own speech—to make sure I don’t do anything close to what she does. This is a strategy I suggest for you, Capricorn: Identify interesting people who are not fully living up to their potential, and change yourself in the exact ways you wish they would change.

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

German word Verschlimmbesserung refers to an attempted improvement that actually makes things worse. Be on guard against this, Aquarius. I fear that as you tinker, you may try too hard. I’m worried you’ll be led astray by neurotic perfectionism. To make sure that your enhancements and enrichments will indeed be successful, keep these guidelines in mind: 1. Think about how to make things work better, not how to make things look better. 2. Be humble and relaxed. Don’t worry about saving face, and don’t overwork yourself. 3. Forget about short-term fixes; serve long-range goals.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Telling

someone your goal makes it less likely to happen,” says musician and businessman Derek Sivers. Numerous studies demonstrate that when you talk about your great new idea before you actually do it, your brain chemistry does an unexpected thing.

It gives you the feeling that you have already accomplished the great new idea— thereby sapping your willpower to make the effort necessary to accomplish it! The moral of the story: Don’t brag about what you’re going to do someday. Don’t entertain people at parties with your fabulous plans.

Shut up and get to work. This is especially important advice for you right now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I worked as a

hair stylist in Chicago’s Gold Coast for 20 years with some of the most gorgeous women and men in the world,” writes sculptor Rich Thomson. “Once I asked a photographer who shot for the big magazines how he picked out the very best models from among all these great-looking

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

‘How big is your sausage?’

Does Ronnie Cline live the life or what?

At age 32, he quit his corporate day job and started his own business— making hot dogs and sausages. Going on five months, you can find him grinning behind the polished chrome cart of State Bear Sausages and Dogs on the corner of Eighth and O streets downtown. Recently, Cline sat down with SN&R to discuss neglected condiments, the perfect dog (in theory) and bad sausage jokes.

Tell me the craziest thing that’s happened to you while selling sausages.

A couple women came up, and they were, you know, making sausage jokes. “How big is your sausage?” One thing led to another, and then they ended up asking me to strip for a tip. They didn’t buy anything, but I ended up unbuttoning the top few buttons of my shirt, and they left me a $10 tip.

What is the most underappreciated condiment and why?

Onions. Because whenever anybody asks me, “What should I put on it?” I’m kind of a purist. And I cut my onions fresh every morning. To put onions on something makes the flavor so much better. You get texture, you get flavor, and it’s kind of underappreciated because everyone puts it on, but they don’t realize what it does for you.

Describe the perfect sausage.

I attempted, earlier on in my sausage-making days, a macaroni-and-cheese sausage.

I made the macaroni and cheese, and I [packed it] into a sausage casing, and it, well, it was an utter failure. It stuffed fine and it looked good, and I was pretty excited for what happened—until I bit into it. It’s pasta, so it was starch all the way through and no protein. You’re eating paste at that point.

Do you recall your first time eating a hot dog?

It would probably be my first [Oakland Athletics] game. That kind of thing, your first hot dog at a baseball game, it’s very memorable.

How do you feel about vegetarians and vegans?

I actually wish I could carry a vegetarian and vegan option. It’s kind of hard for hotdog carts. I know a lot of them do carry a vegetarian and vegan option. I’ve tried them, but I’ve found that I haven’t been satisfied with them, so my theory is that if you’re going to carry something like that, you’ve got to carry the best, something that I would eat.

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If sausages could speak, what do you think they would say?

The only thing I can think of is, “Eat me.”

When I look at a sausage, I think it would say, “I’m delicious. You would be wrong not to eat me.”

Of all things, how did you end up opening a sausage cart on a downtown street corner?

I’ve always wanted to make sausage for a living and run a hot-dog and sausage cart. It probably started when I first went to Rosamunde [Sausage Grill] in San Francisco. … The first one I ever tried [making] was the bacon-bourbon sausage. I started making them for my friends and getting lots of feedback. …

Then, I just got addicted to it.

If good cheese comes from happy cows, do good sausages come from happy pigs?

small, family-owned company in East Sac right now, and that’s where I get my pork from. … They do an awesome job, they have everything [made] to order, and they don’t have anything prepackaged or premade.

Do you have regulars?

I do. It’s kind of like a bar, like Cheers.

Where do you see yourself in five years?

In these past three-and-a-half months, I’ve seen so many avenues that I could take.

One of them could be to own multiple hotdog carts. One of them could be moving into a brick-and-mortar downtown or in Midtown. One of them could be making sausage for other restaurants in Sacramento. … I know that five years from now, I’ll be doing something more than just owning one hot-dog cart on the corner. Ω Find out more about State Bear Sausages and Dogs at www.facebook.com/statebear.

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