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March Madness (IN MIDTOWN) see Midtown&Down, page 10

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The road, the reality In high school, one of my best friends lived in a pocket of pretty, tidy houses just south of Florin Road. On hot summer afternoons, we spent hours traversing this solidly working-class neighborhood by foot, browsing through the department stores at Florin Mall and hanging out at Tower Records. Back then, the area felt vibrant, bustling with commerce—certainly, it seemed as though there was more happening on that strip than in my own sleepy College Greens neighborhood. Fast-forward two decades, however, and the scene is decidedly different. The pockets of pretty, tidy houses are still there, but these days, the stretch of Florin Road between Franklin Boulevard and Power Inn Road is largely populated with myriad corner markets, fastfood joints and auto-body shops. The now-defunct Tower franchise is long gone, and Florin Mall has been replaced by a hodgepodge of shops. As a whole, the area appears largely downtrodden. And it is. With an annual median income less than $25,000—at least one in four families here live beneath the poverty level—this is one of Sacramento’s most impoverished communities. Still, that number hardly tells the whole story. The area is also one of Sacramento’s most diverse, rich in tradition, culture and history—qualities that reporter Dave Kempa captures this week (see “Hustle and Florin,” SN&R Feature Story, page 15). Here, Kempa gives voices to the area’s residents, highlighting not just their troubles with poverty and crime, but also their efforts at improvement. It’s a story of struggles past and present, but also one of opportunity and, enduringly, optimism. —Rachel Leibrock

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“People were running around naked and jumping over us.”

Asked at Sacramento City College:

What’s your most memorable drunken hookup?

Daniel Warner electronics major

It was our first date, and I wasn’t expecting it to go anywhere, but we ended up hooking up, and I am still with her. We were leaving, and I went to shake her hand; she laughed, and then she gave [me] a hug and kissed me. So I think it was memorable. … That is what sealed the deal for her.

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Silverboy music major

At a party in Fairfield, a girl and me end up in the back room. She’s drunk, and we are talking. We are having a wonderful time; two weeks later, she ends up pregnant with my baby. It turned out all right. It was memorable. My daughter’s in the Army, and she’s doing real good. It helped me out, made me want to be focused.

Dominique Derouen undeclared major

With my girlfriend at the park, and things happened on the grass when we got there. People were running around naked and jumping over us while those things were happening. At the park! That was my most memorable.

Brennan Calhoun business major

The time I had my first drunken experience, which changed my drinking. That night I drank too much too fast. It was at a bonfire, and we [were] in this forestlike setting. My friend said he checked on me—one second, I was fine, and 20 seconds later, I am getting a lap dance [and] I am cheering really loudly.

Tayler Nelson nursing and psychology major

My boyfriend and me start making out, and the next thing I know, I hear my boyfriend’s best friend and this girl hooking up, but he says my name and not hers. We were at a bonfire.

Veronica Perez law major

We locked [eyes]. He asked me if I knew what the tradition was at midnight. He turns my head, kisses me very passionately. [We] end up going to his car [and having] sex in the backseat; we broke his chair. We came back to the house, and then [had] sex on the bed, sex in the bathroom. ... Then, there was a shower.

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Re Facebook and Twitter comments (SN&R Online Buzz, March 7): Did I miss something in a previous issue regarding a change in the letters to the editor? After looking through the current issue several times, I found a page called Letters, which consisted of a political cartoon and an item called Online Buzz. I do not consider sound bites letteR of without substance on social networks a letter. Also, pothe week litical cartoons certainly are not letters. You certainly have the right to terminate your letters to the editor section, but what you now call “Letters” are not letters in any sense of the word. As a sidebar: There are four persons who are part of our Quaker meeting who periodically have had letters published in your paper. Two are not on Facebook and do not Twitter. Two, I think, have Facebook, but do not Twitter. You are, apparently, uninterested in communications from mature adults who have no interest in social networking. James G. Updegraff

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Where’s the help for the noncriminals? Re “Game changer” by Melinda Welsh (SN&R Feature Story, March 7): I liked reading the story about Chet Hewitt. However, I must ask: Is prison required to be successful these days? I know two or three guys, all management-level employees—and all have committed crimes and spent time in prison. They all make good money. I read in papers about kids who are in gangs, then someone offers a helping hand. Where is the help for a person like myself with no criminal record? Someone who can’t get welfare due to not having kids? It’s like, want to get noticed by someone who cares? Just go to prison, or do something that gets you in trouble. Where are the opportunities? You can tell me that I did it to myself, I deserve it, I don’t want it bad enough or a slew of other catchphrases. I call BS. I commend Mr. Hewitt for his accomplishments. He reminded me of Chris Gardner a bit, from the movie The Pursuit of Happyness. Yet, where is the help for the single male with no criminal record? I am reminded of a pastor from the XXX Church in Las Vegas (on a TV program), who said: “Do you ever notice that someone will spend 10 years asking you why you’re nowhere, but they never offer to help you?” Noah Kameyer via email

Albatross arena Re “Laugh it up” by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Bites, February 28): So, let me get this straight: Several elementary schools in Sacramento are closing due to budget cuts, and there aren’t enough police to foot patrol K Street so that citizens are not routinely harassed by criminals, drug addicts and schizophrenics. Meanwhile, a proposal is being considered to contribute public funding to a giant albatross, or “arena,” to house a mediocre basketball team, even though there already is one perfectly good arena in town. All right, Mr. Mayor, I think I’m beginning to understand. And, FYI, all those contractors that are chomping at the bit for those juicy construction deals to build the albatross—they own you. Jack Chandler West Sacramento

Urban-sprawl double take Re “Flood and basketball” by Jeff vonKaenel (SN&R Greenlight, February 28): Spot-on, Jeff. A greenfield development beyond the urban fringe, sold with the promise (carrot) of a public benefit, but ultimately costing all taxpayers in order to mitigate the problems created, after the developers have pocketed the money and moved on—hmm, seems familiar. Cordova Hills, anyone? Dan Allison Sacramento

Corruption among cockroaches Re “Fail” (SN&R Editorial, February 28): Thank you for continuing to shed a light on Jonathan (Broad Academy) Raymond and his gang of four’s unsavory actions. This is nothing less than a landgrab by the privateers of public education and a total lack of ethics on the part of the district. Like cockroaches scurrying for the shadows when a light is shown, Raymond and his cronies will surely face their own retribution by the people—either through the recall process or the courts. This level of corruption cannot stand if we are to remain a democratic society. Used to be we would tar and feather for less. Jerry Tamburino Sacramento

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Cat and ‘river rat’ game The city’s winter- shelter program ends, and homeless campers return to the American River This week, as spring hits Sacramento, and as the city’s winter-shelter program comes to story and photos an end, campers are again populating the by banks of the American River just north of Dave Kempa downtown, with the rangers driving them out on an almost-daily basis. It’s a game d a v e k@ news r eview.c om of cat and mouse between Sacramento and the “river rats” that’s been going on for years, and homeless advocates argue that it’s still not a solution. Last Thursday, park ranger David Henry stood watching as a dozen or so men in orange vests stalked along the American River’s south bank, cleaning up debris next to the Highway 160 overpass. Nearby, a woman in her 30s shuffled around inside a tent, preparing to take down her camp; Henry and his colleague had just notified her that she needed to move along or face a fine. “I don’t really feel bad for most of them,” said Henry, adding that homeless campers have plenty of services provided Independent to them by shelters and churches. And reporting for this that, for many living in tents and under story is funded bridges along the river, their lifestyle is by a grant from Sacramento a choice. It’s a popular choice lately. On Emergency Foodlink. the river’s south bank underneath the Highway 160 bridge, a five-tent homeless camp popped up recently. On this day, it sat unattended. Plastic bags, empty soda cans, food wrappers and gutted Christmas advent calendars lay scattered amid the steep hill’s jagged rocks. Stacked near the tents, one could find all kinds of bicycle parts. Piles of tire tubing, bike tires and a lone mountain-bike frame. A dusty, old motorboat bobbed down on the waterline, anchored to the nearby shore. Back above the banks, a bearded man with a neck tattoo and a backward baseball hat pedaled by on his bicycle, then stopped to survey the men carrying on with the river cleanup. He scoffed at the term “river cleanup.” He’d call it something else. “Stealing,” he said. “Taking people’s lives.” The man calls himself Squirrel. A self-proclaimed “river rat,” he’s been camping along the American River for

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Squirrel (top right) says he’s been camping along the American River for nearly three years. The number of homeless campers in the area is on the rise.

two-and-a-half years with his bulldog mix, Porkchop, acting as companion and guard. This sort of thing happens almost daily, according to Squirrel. The park rangers sweep through, find the homeless men and women, alert them that they have 48 hours to move or else face a citation, and push along on their way.

“Just about every day we meet up down there with our things while the rangers come through,” he said. They call it “homeless happy hour.” While the rangers scour the area along the American River, Squirrel said that he and others meet up at the underpass to socialize. Some people might pass around

“ The cat-and-mouse game they’re playing right now does not allow for any larger encampments. It keeps them scattered, and by not having a common place, there’s a loss in safety, and a huge loss for them to maintain any system of sanitation.” Steve Watters Safe Ground Sacramento According to Steve Watters of Safe Ground Sacramento, a group committed to work with the city to find a sanctioned location for homeless people to live, this isn’t accomplishing anything. “The cat-and-mouse game they’re playing right now does not allow for any larger encampments,” said Watters. “It keeps them scattered, and by not having a common place, there’s a loss in safety, and a huge loss for them to maintain any system of sanitation.” Back on the river, Squirrel pointed north to the underpass where the bike path crosses Highway 160.

a joint, others bring heavier drugs, and they hang out there between about 1:30 p.m. and sunset before going back to the river’s edge and setting up camp again. The next day, the cycle starts anew. Henry and the other rangers didn’t deny the cycle. It’s the same on American River Parkway as it is at Cal Expo and Discovery Park: find a camp, tell them they have 48 hours move. If they don’t move, cite them. Most often, the homeless can’t pay their citations and will likely not attend their hearings, so many of those cited end up with warrants.

On the occasion that the park rangers check homeless campers for outstanding warrants, they’ll bring them down to the jail and put their belongings into storage. Interestingly, there are often no hard feelings between the rangers and the river rats. Squirrel conceded that he could not be too mad at the rangers working on the ground for doing their jobs. Henry was respectful to the men and women camping on the river, and told SN&R that his favorite thing about his work was the job security. There was a time, not long ago, when the rangers would try and offer options to the homeless men and women as to where they could move their camps. But today, it’s turned into a stale process, offering few answers to an issue that won’t go away. Henry and his colleagues will, on any given day, come across some 125 homeless men and women camped around the American River Parkway. As things get warmer and as programs such as homeless-services nonprofit Sacramento Steps Forward’s winter-shelter program, which provides extra beds for the cold months, come to a close, commuters crossing the river recently have noticed an increase in the encampments. Illegal campers say what they always say: “They tell us to leave, but where do we go?” said Squirrel. Sacramento isn’t quite sure yet. Ω

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A trivial pursuit The city spends too much energy cracking down on musicians? It wouldn’t be winter masquerading as summer without a flare up in the perennial Midtown neighbors-vs.-bars saga. BarWest, Sacramento’s preferred destination for flabongos (look it up), recently applied for an entertainment permit. Nearby residents, however, say BarWest’s founders—Trevor Shults, Randy Paragary, other usual suspects—took a blood oath and “promised” to never apply for one when it first LEr by NIck MIL opened nearly two years ago. Now, it’s up to the city to ni c k a m @ne w s re v i e w . c o m decide whether to trust BarWest, who insists it just needs the permit to bring back a popular trivia night, or the neighbors, who say the bar is up to no good. This recent drama’s been so time-consuming for BarWest owner Shults that he actually hired a spokeswoman, popular local blogger Natalie Paulsen, to handle all his media calls.

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Paulsen repeated BarWest’s claim that the application isn’t about raging parties. “The permit isn’t intended to turn BarWest into some crazy dance club on J Street,” she told SN&R last week, adding that when the city shut down its popular Tuesday trivia night after a year of success, the bar lost $250,000 in annual profits. Which got me thinking: Trivia nights are a quarter-million-dollar industry? Paulsen was also quick to point out that BarWest and the adjacent businesses that constitute the Sutter District will fork over $62,000 this year to pay for police services to make the area safer. That’s a good chunk of the district’s budget. But off-duty cops earn upward of $30 an hour sometimes, so 60 grand doesn’t go far. Residents with the Marshall School/ New Era Park Neighborhood Association

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aren’t buying the explanation. Its members say the bar is an epicenter for extreme drunkenness, fights and other problems—and fear an entertainment permit will exacerbate the

shenanigans. They want to see more security, more police and less Wild West. “Now Trevor Shults [has] gone back on his word,” argued resident Julie Murphy, who added that he “did not offer the common courtesy” of telling neighbors that he was applying for an entertainment permit. “We could have worked together to find some middle ground on the issue,” she insisted. Sure, BarWest probably should have explained things to its neighbors before going forward with the application. That was probably the right thing to do. But they’re not required to. And there’s certainly no harm in wanting to host a trivia night—or even a deejay or karaoke night. BarWest should be allowed an entertainment permit. The real culprit here is, of course, the city: Why the hell does Sacramento require an entertainment permit to host a trivia night? For those not up to speed: The city’s entertainment permit isn’t cheap. Businesses must cough up more than $1,800—plus pay for fingerprinting and file an epic five-part application with the city and police departments, etc. A venue like BarWest can obviously afford all this and is willing to pay. Other monied outfits—churches, political fundraising parties, etc.—are exempt from the city permit. Local musicians, oftentimes brokerthan-Jesus yet still hopeful to make this city’s music scene exciting, for years have had a difficult time nurturing a grassroots scene because of the cost-prohibitive permit. Bands moonlighting at a cafe? Better get one. Touring acts stopping by at a warehouse space? Forbidden. Even venues that can afford the permit sometimes can’t escape its red tape, what with regulations on hours of operation and requirements for costly security officers. Meanwhile, the local trivia-night operator or deejay or band loses out on making money. This year, will the city—police, rule makers inside City Hall and newbies like Councilman Steve Hansen—spend less time and resources regulating musicians? Or will 2013 be the same ol’ song and dance? Ω

Haven’t we been here before? The mayor and city manager want the Sacramento City Council to approve a deal to subsidize building a new Sacramento Kings basketball arena on March 26. But the details of the deal won’t even be made public until around March 22, if then. It sounds familiar because it’s basically the same drill that Mayor Kevin Johnson and City Manager John Shirey, along with the Assistant City Manager John Dangberg, put ARvin by CoSMo G us through last year. Lots of drama, a bare minimum of information. Roll out an arena term sheet that will cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om profoundly affect the city’s finances for a generation or so, but allow no time for meaningful public review. City officials say there just isn’t time for transparency, because of the NBA’s deadlines, and because it takes until the last possible minute to hammer out a deal like this. Bites didn’t believe it last year, either. Don’t worry, though. Representatives from investmentbanking giants Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are in that back room with the local boys, guiding and advising and assessing the meatiness of Sacramento’s public-parking system—the main revenue generator for this plan. These are the same folks who (Bites never tires of recalling) were dubbed by Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” So, obviously we’re in good hands, or tentacles, or City officials say there whatever. And the bankers are just isn’t time for probably pretty helpful, too.

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Congratulations to teacher Sarah Kirby-Gonzalez, who won a seat on the Washington Unified School District board in West Sacramento. KirbyGonzalez beat her closest rival Francisco Castillo 51 to 26 percent. Castillo is press secretary at StudentsFirst—the anti-teacher-union lobbying group started by Michelle Rhee and headquartered in downtown Sacramento. So, naturally, the contest got framed as “teachers vs. the Rhee-formers,” and drew money and interest from outside the district. Castillo took $15,000 from StudentsFirst, and $10,000 from the California Charter Schools Association. Kirby-Gonzalez got $10,000 from the local teachers union, but also $5,500 from the Sacramento City Teachers Association. Rhee’s just getting started trying to influence local races. She didn’t do so hot in Los Angeles school-board contests, either, where StudentsFirst candidates lost one race, won another and face a runoff in a third. Bites asked West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon if he thought the StudentsFirst association was a drag on Castillo, whom he backed. He said no, that special vote-by-mail elections like this one “tend to reflect support for candidates, not anti-candidate messages. [Kirby-Gonzalez was a] great candidate with solid get-out-the-vote,” he added. Still, it’s hard not to notice the big money Rhee plowed in that little local race. And it’s hard to think we won’t be Please drink responsibly. seeing more. Ω B E F O R E | F R O N T L I N E S | F E A T U R E S T O R Y | A R T S & C U L T U R E | A F T E R | 03.14.13

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No one should go hungry CalFresh participation increases in Sacramento County There are many issues to disagree about. Taxes, schools, abortion, defense spending. But I would hope that all of us can agree that no member of our community should have to go to bed hungry. No neighbor of ours should have to chose between food and medicine. No mother should have to feed her children unhealthy, vitamin-deficient, calorieenhanced food because it is all she can afford. No child should pay more attention to his or her empty stomach than the blackboard. l by Jeff VoNKaeNe We should, we must end hunger in Sacramento. And we have some good news. Or, to be more j e ffv @n e wsr e v ie w.c o m exact, Sacramento County Supervisor Phil Serna had some good news recently. With a proud look, like a young lad who finally had an excellent report card, Phil pulled out a report from California Food Policy Advocates documenting the fact that Sacramento County had dramatically increased enrollment in CalFresh (formerly known as food stamps) recipients in 2011. According to the CFPA folks, from 2008 to 2011, No child should pay Sacramento reduced the of residents who more attention to number were eligible for CalFresh his or her empty benefits but not receiving them from 45,338 to 19,588. This stomach than the increased level of participation only means fewer hungry blackboard. not people, but it has also helped our local economy by bringing more federally funded aid into our state. This trend has also reduced the pressure on our overwhelmed food banks. Recognizing that increasing CalFresh participation is by far the most effective way to reduce hunger, Serna has To apply for worked diligently to encourage outreach efforts and work Medi-Cal, County Medical Services with county staff members to improve and streamline Program, the procedures. CalFresh program “I am very encouraged that we could have such a dramatic (formerly known increase in such a short period of time. We have been able as food stamps) and California Work to go from only around 70 percent participation to over 90 Opportunity and percent. Of California’s 58 counties, we have the fourth-best Responsibility to Kids participation rate, and the second-best of large counties,” said (a.k.a. CalWORKs) Serna. He went on to praise the work of the County Welfare benefits in California, go to Department, which has been key in making these changes. There is still much that needs to be done. In Sacramento www.benefitscal.org. County, there are still nearly 20,000 individuals who would benefit from CalFresh. And there are more hungry people in the surrounding counties. In 2011, CFPA listed the CalFresh participation rates: Sacramento County, 91 percent; El Dorado County, 66 percent; Nevada County, 55 percent; Placer County, 62 percent; Sutter County, 68 percent; and Yolo County, 41 percent. Yolo County was ranked 56th out of 58 counties. Jeff vonKaenel These CFPA figures translate into nearly 70,000 people is the president, CEO and who should be receiving aid but are not. And just as we majority owner of would be outraged if 70,000 of our neighbors qualifying for the News & Review Social Security were not able to get their checks, we should newspapers in be outraged that some of our neighbors are not receiving Sacramento, Chico and Reno. food assistance that they are eligible for. Help Phil Serna send the message: No one who is eligible for assistance should go hungry. Ω

“The past is never dead,” the great Southern novelist William Faulkner once wrote. “It’s not even past.” Those words rang true recently as the U.S. Supreme Court heard an Alabama county’s challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. If successful, it could turn back the clock on voting rights to the dark days of the Jim Crow South. The Shelby County v. Holder case concerns Section 5 of the act, which ended generations of legalized voter discrimination by outlawing literacy tests, poll taxes and other measures used by states, mostly in the South, to disenfranchise nonwhite voters. Section 5 requires certain states—those with histories of discriminatory voter requirements—to receive preclearance from the Justice Department before enacting new laws that may impact voter access. The section is being challenged by officials Voting is not an from Shelby County, Alabama, who claim it is a relic of a bygone entitlement to be era of racial discrimination, an granted or restricted infringement of state sovereignty, by states at their and an unfair and unequal burden on the affected jurisdictions. whim. It is a right It would be nice to think that must be ensured that voter discrimination was a thing of the past, but the facts and protected by the say otherwise. The Justice federal government. Department invoked Section 5 to stop potentially discriminatory new laws more than 1,000 times between 1982 and 2006, the year it was reauthorized by unanimous vote of the Senate and a 390-33 count in Congress. In the run-up to the 2012 election, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Georgia and Florida all passed new restrictions on voting, including photo ID requirements and citizenship checks, that were struck down under Section 5. Moreover, there is no question of state sovereignty involved. The Constitution expressly grants Congress broad authority over states to regulate federal elections. (Don’t take our word for it: Read Article 1, Section 4, and the 14th and 15th amendments.) And there is nothing in the Constitution requiring Congress to treat all states equally in this regard—in fact, the 15th Amendment describes ways in which the former Confederate states were to be treated differently. Case closed, right? Unfortunately not. As we know from recent decisions on issues including corporate campaign-contribution limits and gun control, the Republican-appointed justices have been only too willing to use their slim majority to overrule constitutional precedent—especially when it serves Republican priorities. Justice Antonin Scalia may have provided a chilling preview of where things are headed during oral arguments when he astonished observers by referring to the reauthorization of Section 5 by Congress as a “perpetuation of racial entitlement.” Voting is not an entitlement to be granted or restricted by states at their whim. It is a right that must be ensured and protected by the federal government. Overturning Section 5, the principal means by which the Justice Department can enforce the Voting Rights Act, would be a disaster for the country, opening the door to rampant voter suppression and seriously undermining public faith in the Supreme Court’s ability to act in an unbiased, nonpartisan manner. We urge the justices to rise to the historical occasion, preserve the Voting Rights Act and help make voter discrimination truly a thing of the past. Ω

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dolescents and law enforcement officers have something significant in common. Both are frequently misperceived by others — including each other. But the nonprofit Strategies For Youth (SFY) hopes to change this by training law enforcement officers in the science of child and youth development and mental health. Such training, referred to as developmental competence, provides officers with an understanding that children’s and adolescents’ perceptions and behaviors are influenced by biological and psychological factors related to their developmental stage.

It’S a remInder tHat we’re not on oppoSIng teamS.” –Lt. Lisa Hinz “For some kids there is a reason we have to repeat things,” says Lisa Thurau, founder and executive director of SFY. “We want officers to recognize, for example, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety disorders and to understand that a youth with these disorders isn’t behaving in an intentional way. They’re behaving as a consequence of their functional capacity.” Training in developmental competence is common, says Thurau, for other juvenile justice professionals like probation officers, attorneys and judges, but police officers do not receive similar training focused on standard youth development or how to recognize and respond to compromised youth and youth with learning disabilities.

“Some officers are using approaches that harm interaction with youth and lead to their criminalization,” says Thurau. “Police, as gatekeepers, need to have this information. Both kids and officers will be helped when police officers understand how kids perceive, process and respond.” Thurau and her team are customizing a training for the Sacramento Police Department and the Sacramento City Unified School District using funding from a grant they received from The California Endowment. The team reviewed statistics from both agencies on suspension, expulsion and arrest rates. They also analyzed school code language and police department policies for working with youth and observed interactions at four of the district’s high schools. Training is set to begin before September.

beings, really no different from one another. It’s a reminder that we’re not on opposing teams.” Tracey Lopez, manager of the Sacramento City Unified School District’s Safe Schools and Security Services, sees the new program as a way to improve relationships between students and law enforcement officers. “Respect is everything,” says Lopez. “This program will go toward helping each side understand what respect means to the other.”

Lt. Lisa Hinz, who oversees the police department’s school resource officer unit at Sacramento City Unified School District, is enthusiastic about the training. “We want to bring this program to all of the Sacramento city schools and other agencies,” says Hinz. “It’s a good reminder to children, teens and officers in our community that we’re all human

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

StrategIeS For YoUtH Strategies for Youth is a national organization focused on improving police and youth interactions, advancing the cause of training public safety officers in the science of child and youth development and mental health, and supporting communities partnering to promote strong police-youth relationships. through the Building Healthy Communities grant, designed to support the development of communities where kids and youth are healthy, safe and ready to learn, the California endowment has provided partial funding for an SFY joint training between the Sacramento police department and Sacramento City Unified School district.

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A slice of reality from one of the most impoverished, dangerous, diverse— and unique— communities in the Sacramento region

Rizaldy Vazquez is looking for work—and, in the meantime, sells his belongings on Craigslist to get by.

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Rizaldy Vazquez was in his liVing Room when he heaRd shots fiRed. It was 1998. He was 18, watching TV alone when a pop, pop, pop took down a young Vietnamese man living two doors away from his south Sacramento home. Vazquez didn’t leave his house at first, but when he did, the police had arrived. Neighbors mulled about, asking one another what had happened, who could have been shot. At one point, officers took young Vazquez aside. They were somewhat suggestive in their line of questioning, according to Vazquez. But when it became clear that he had no idea what had happened, they abated and let him return home. Today, Vazquez cuts an imposing figure. He is broad. Tall. Dressed in black. A flat-brimmed cap over dark eyes and a scarred nose. A deep, resonant voice that imposes itself on the room in spite of the tactful, gentle words it delivers. A first-generation Filipino-American, Vazquez has spent 31 of his 33 years on Hayfield Circle, near the intersection of Power Inn Road and Gerber Avenue in south Sacramento. His story is not unlike that of many others who grew up in perhaps the most diverse area in all of the region. But south Sacramento is not so easily labeled. It will not fit into a box. It’s home to an airfield-turned-mall and a mall-turned-gangland. A place for retirees and a campground for the destitute. And it is open for business—not only for Walmarts and State Farms, but also for tamale vendors and juice-cart operators. Just 50 years ago, the Florin Road-Stockton Boulevard intersection was the frontier of the metropolitan city limits. But once Florin Mall opened in the late 1960s on what was once the Sacramento Sky Ranch airfield, things got rolling. Homes went up. Then, more businesses. By most accounts, this shopping center was a centerpiece of south Sac. Then, Arden Fair mall, north of downtown, was converted into an indoor mall in the 1970s, establishing itself as stiff competition. Crime rose near Vazquez’s neighborhood and businesses closed. During the 1990s, he and his friends used to hang out at the mall, despite its reputation for virulent gang activity, when not attending class at the nearby William Daylor High School, a second-chance classroom created for the area’s at-risk youth. “If you want to talk about the epitome of the hood or ghetto, that was it right there,” says Vazquez of his former classmates. “Some were in gangs. Some were just the hood fellas, I guess.” “I was in between. I knew the gangs, but I didn’t run with them.” His alma mater rests just southwest of the FlorinStockton intersection, located on a unique U.S. Census Bureau tract made up of both residential and public land running south along Highway 99 and then back east over Stockton toward Power Inn Road, which is just a stone’s throw from Vazquez’s home. This is one of the poorest spots in all of Sacramento. According to the American Community Survey, the median O N P A G E household income on this

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1.18-square-mile slice sits just below $25,000 per year. The median home value hovers around $134,500, about 43 percent of the median home value for F R O M PAG E Sacramento. Almost three in 10 adults over the age of 25 have not graduated high school, and at least one in four families lives below the poverty level. This is it. This area is impoverished Sacramento. But it’s not precisely what you’d expect.

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The hookers were coming, and it was up to the elderly to stop them. About five years ago, the residents of Barkley Lindale, a community on the southeast corner of the Florin-Stockton intersection, found themselves under attack by south Sacramento’s thriving prostitution industry. “They would meet their johns and park their cars somewhere in this immediate vicinity, and they would leave their traces,” says Kim Masunaga of the used condoms discarded in the gutters of Barkley Way and Lindale Drive. “When there are young kids around,” she says, “you have to be careful that they’re not touching them willy-nilly.”

rizalDy vazquez estimates that his family of three has about $3,000 to get by on every month. Masunaga sits next to her sister, Masumi, in neighbor Midge Chapin’s living room. Chapin heads the Barkley Lindale Neighborhood Watch, and sits across the table near her neighbor Tom Dunnings. The room is dark and cool on this February afternoon. Old furniture enhances the home’s loved and lived-in feel. Everyone in the room has lived in the neighborhood for decades, and everyone in the room is retired. They are tapped in. They care deeply about the community. They work hard to keep Barkley Lindale clean and safe and take pride in what they have. At first blush, this neighborhood is cleaner than much of the surrounding area, with homeowners, trimmed lawns, and the cheerful barks and howls of neighboring dogs. But as the residents speak of safety, they unexpectedly begin to paint a scene of criminal activity lurking right outside their doors. Chapin recalls an attempted burglary about 10 years ago. How her kids were visiting one day, when suddenly, in broad daylight, someone tried to break in with a gun. “The guys never got in,” Chapin recalls. “Got his rifle stuck in the door, ’cause our son slammed the door.” This story reminds Dunnings of another incident. “Last year, [our neighbor] Josie had that guy at her back door at 2 in the morning. Went to let her dog out, and he was standing there at the back door.” These sorts of things happen once in a while, they say. That’s why they put up lights and have security doors. 16 | SN&R | 03.14.13

Sure, Dunnings has had two cars stolen from him over the past couple years right off his driveway. And so have the Chapins. Ed, up the road, lost his truck. And the Masunagas had three break-ins when they first moved into the neighborhood decades ago. But, again, that’s why they installed lights and locks. The Barkley Lindale area suffers less from violent crime than nearby neighborhoods. According to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s department, victims in the area directly surrounding the Florin-Stockton intersection reported 15 instances of theft, six of which were theft from vehicles, and four instances of breaking and entering last month. Conversely, the area itself experienced just two reports of drugs, four robberies and one property crime. The conversation in Chapin’s living room soon turns to crime in pockets outside their neighborhood. To streets and stores around which they would not spend their time. Blackhawk and Loucretta drives. The shopping center back across Stockton. “You go to Walmart,” says Dunnings, “there’s a lot of young black kids that just sit on the wall there, wandering in and out of their cars, asking for money, intimidating people. All these hoodies.” “Doesn’t matter how warm it is, they got a hoodie on.”

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There were times growing up when Vazquez wished his name was Michael. “My name is Rizaldy. That’s an unusual name,” he says. “And when I was younger, you know, I wanted to be more—I don’t want to sound derogatory—like the white kids. Because when I saw them, I saw all the things that I didn’t have.” Vazquez squints under his black baseball hat and recalls that young person not yet comfortable in his own skin. “I had this ideal in my mind that, ‘Oh, their family is all nice, they have this nice house, nice cars, they sit down at dinners,’ and stuff like that. My family didn’t have that, you know? We really didn’t sit down at dinners. My parents didn’t tell me how to be a good human being.” Vazquez grew up on tough love. His parents perhaps taught him more about respect than affection. He attributes this in part to their military background, and, in part, to how hard his parents had to work as Filipinos in an unfamiliar land to put food on the table every night. This struggle was spared to many of his white classmates and neighbors, and the young Vazquez made this connection. South Sacramento is a veritable melting pot. The area just west of Vazquez’s block, for example, comprises about 30 percent white, 22 percent black, 30 percent Hispanic and 20 percent Asian residents, according to the American Community Survey. (These numbers total more than 100 percent because some people on the survey identified as more than one race.) When looking at state numbers surrounding race and household income, it’s easy to see why the young Vazquez felt the way he did. In California, the median household income for whites is almost $64,000, while that of Hispanics is about $47,000. Black households come in around $44,000 (the overall median income in Sacramento is $50,267). But in south Sacramento’s most hard-hit neighborhoods, it hovers around $25,000. Compound this with the fact that some households are run by immigrants trying to adapt to a new culture, and opportunities to improve one’s quality of life grow even more scarce. On the tract west of Vazquez’s home, for instance, almost 20 percent of the population was born in another country, and

Despite efforts by the Florin Road Partnership to keep the streets clean, abandoned shopping carts and garbage accumulate in nearby fields and lots.

Fruit carts and tamale vendors are a staple along Florin Road.

Florin-Stockton is a high-density homeless area, with some of the destitute congregating outside neighborhood businesses.

Midge Chapin (second from left) and the residents of the Barkley Lindale neighborhood take pride in their fight to keep their streets clean.

more than half of them do not currently have U.S. citizenship. His parents worked hard to give his brother and him a fighting chance. His mother is a U.S. citizen, but both she and his father were born in the Philippines. In Sacramento, Vazquez’s mother found work first with AT&T Inc. and then at UC Davis, and his father worked in the military and later for Hewlett-Packard before suffering a nonfatal stroke in 1998. Around that time, Vazquez graduated from high school and entered the work force, landing a retail job at Old Navy. He later earned a technical degree and a decent-paying gig. But that all disappeared with the recession in 2007. He currently lives with his folks, in the very house he grew up in, off Power Inn and Gerber roads. His mother works full time and his father, ever since his stroke, is on Social Security. All told, Vazquez estimates that the three of them together have about $3,000 of working income to get by every month. To make up for expenses as he looks for work, he sells his possessions on Craigslist. In this start-and-stop economy, it’s extremely difficult for the people of south Sacramento to find work—even those with degrees. In the neighborhood near Vazquez’s home, the unemployment rate for males over 16 years old is 22 percent, with only 52 percent of the males over 16 in the labor force. Vazquez tries to keep positive as he looks for work. “I’m looking for anything and everything.”

The other ne x t economy A short Latino man pokes his head into Barbara Etrick’s State Farm office.

“Tamales!” he calls out. “Tamales?” “No, thank you!” Etrick yells back, and the man waves and takes his leave. “Every day there’s stuff like that that goes on around here,” she says. “Very entrepreneurial. There’s a fruit lady just down the street.” Etrick and her husband opened their branch on the southwest corner of Florin Road and Stockton Boulevard three years ago during the economic downturn. At the time, she had just decided to move industries, from marketing to insurance.

do in this area: Spark the local economy while embracing its multiculturalism. Business hasn’t been easy in recent decades for the old Florin Mall area. The 1980s and ’90s marked a time of economic decline and increased gang violence. More recently, the 2008 financial crisis has not been kind to local residents and businesses alike. Today, residents say things are getting better. But ever so slowly, and not without hiccups. Panhandlers pepper the mall’s parking lot. Petty theft is a problem. And the Walmart, located

This is the sort of thing that gets under the skin of local officials. Larry Carr, head of the Florin Road Partnership, is adamant that such vendors get permits to sell their wares. When he sees them out on the thoroughfare, he says he often alerts the local security company, Paladin Private Security (which the Florin Road Partnership has hired), to kick them out of the parking lots. Etrick, who sits on Florin Road Partnership board, agrees that the vendors need permits, but she doesn’t think the process should be so difficult. And she can’t help but admire their pluck. “These are people who are unstoppable in terms of getting it done. They’ll get it done one way or the other. And you know what? You’ve got to applaud that.”

“these are people who are unstoppable in terms of getting it done. they’ll get it done one way or the other. and you know Homeward, b o u n d what? you’ve got to applaud that.” Barbara Etrick south Sacramento businesswoman Finally, Etrick found this intersection, through which up to 77,000 cars passed every day. Those numbers spelled opportunity to Etrick, and she and her husband bought the office space soon after. This State Farm branch isn’t like other locations. For instance, all four of the agents working under Etrick are at least bilingual, so native Hmong-, Spanish- and Vietnamese-speaking customers can all feel more comfortable. Etrick’s operation is just a microcosm of what a number of local businesses are trying to

in the lot north of Etrick’s offices, is notorious as the location where Juana Reyes, the “tamale lady,” was arrested by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies last summer and nearly deported for selling tamales in the parking lot. Despite Reyes’ brush with the law, however, it’s easy to see that the entrepreneurial spirit has not died on Florin Road. Fruit and snack vendors as well as men selling Valentine’s Day baskets from the trunks of their cars stand along the area’s empty parking lots, clearly enjoying strong business.

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has fallen through. Now he’s $16 short of a ticket home. He edges closer, hand out, hoping for some cash. But it slowly hits him that his cause is a lost one. He stops. Says, “Thanks for your time.” Turns. “Well, shit,” he says, ambling back through the parking lot. While many in Sacramento consider the banks of the American River and downtown as zones most heavily populated by the city’s destitute, the stretch of land just northeast of Florin and Stockton is also home to a number of area homeless. A large tract of the empty lot on the northeast corner of Florin and Stockton is used for festivals throughout the year, such as the Vietnamese Tet celebration. But a few hundred feet to the north, one will find a large field, some abandoned buildings and a number of shrubs turned into beds by the area’s homeless. Refuse is strewn across this forgotten zone. Empty shopping carts lay abandoned in the field. The whole area smells of urine, and one will find moldy, mottled couches and box springs tucked behind trees and bushes, where homeless men come to lay their heads at night. In this year’s homeless point-in-time count, volunteers counted some two dozen homeless people on the Florin-Stockton stretch of land, indicating the harsh realities facing south Sacramento’s needy. “I had a friend who was homeless for a while,” recalls Vazquez. “I let him sleep in my car for a few weeks. Mom wouldn’t let him stay in our house,” he laughs. Funny as that may sound, support from friends and family in south Sacramento can make all the difference. Growing up in this part of town, it’s an everyday occurrence. Vazquez has had friends die from violence, die from drug use and end up in prison. These are the people with whom he attended grade school and high school.

And while his family may have gone through tough times when he was younger, Vazquez says he’s still thankful for when, in his early 20s, he had a roof over his head, when he decided to leave the work force and go back to school, earning his associate degree in electrical engineering from ITT Technical Institute. “Compared to what my parents had, I made it. That was one thing I wanted to show them when I graduated from college. ‘The fact that, you know what, I know your situation wasn’t the best. But I’m thankful for you,’ and this is one way of showing it.” After graduating, Vazquez was hired as a technician with Walgreens, helping to keep stores across Northern California running. Unfortunately, Walgreens laid him off in 2007. He has enjoyed some steady work since then, but, at the moment, he is between jobs. These days, it’s not about economic status or skin color to Vazquez. He’s happy with who he is. He’s happy with the family he has. Thankful for the air in his lungs. He is searching hard for employment, yes, but his work and wages will not be what define him as a person. “When I went to college,” says Vazquez, “I realized … I need to change who I am. Not only for myself, but for my friends and family. So I can be a better person.” “I just want to be a good citizen of the Earth.” Now, standing outside of his house on Hayfield Circle, Vazquez speaks of the neighbors beginning to form a sense of community in the area. He firmly refers to the building behind him as his home, but it is clear that he’s not just talking about the house. “This is where I am,” he says. “This is where I’m going to be for a while.” Ω Independent reporting for this story is funded by a grant from Sacramento Emergency Foodlink.

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t’s the last week of February, and at the meticulously shabby-chic headquarters of HelloXOXO in Midtown, Jessica Pollock, blond hair tucked tidily behind her ears, demonstrates the process of applying a heart stencil to the front of a blank canvas tote bag. Four women have shown up on this unseasonably warm evening for “Tote Bag Glitz”—the first class since the fledgling organization held its official launch party earlier in the month. As the attendees begin to mix red and white paint, Pollock comments on one of the unfortunate byproducts of crafting: “I come home from this place covered in glitter,” she says, laughing. “I joke with my husband that I was at the strip club.” Though the turnout this evening isn’t as strong as co-founders Pollock, 37, and Caroline Winata, 35, expected, the room still hums with excitement. As the attendees decorate bags by dipping a pencil eraser in paint and stamping dots into the shape of a heart, one woman discusses her upcoming nuptials, another compliments the bride-to-be’s craft blog. A bubbly mother of two, donning a

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Glitter, hearts and Pinterest: HelloXOXO gets crafty with women’s empowerment, but is the group’s approach more Betty Draper than Betty Friedan? Learn more about HelloXOXO at www.facebook.com/helloxoxosac.

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blue-and-white striped dress and a matching bow, expresses gratitude for having a reason to ditch her mommy clothes and dress up, “because [I’m] going to be hanging out with a bunch of cute women,” as she puts it. This kind of communal chatter is very much the idea behind HelloXOXO, described by the founders as a “modern-day knitting circle.” The space itself is intended to serve as a “nest” where women of all ages can meet other women and participate in classes covering topics as sundry as makeup techniques, running an Etsy business and coping with divorce. Currently in the process of filing for 501(c)(3) status, the concept has grown up quickly since its inception last summer—much quicker than expected by Pollock, a mother of four and former owner of a weddinginvitation company, and Winata, a well-established wedding photographer who moved from Indonesia to San Francisco for art school and relocated to Sacramento four years ago. The two founders can’t seem to express often enough how thoroughly their expectations have been exceeded in terms of public response, and indeed, the turnout for their launch party on a recent Sunday evening was impressive, both in terms of crowd size and production; the party featured a full open bar,

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passed appetizers of chicken tandoori and samosas, and a lavish pink-hued spread of sweets. At one point in the night, a roster of 16 bloggers was introduced—14 of whom sought out the opportunity unsolicited—in addition to the group board members, among them Beth Hassett, executive director of Women Escaping a Violent Environment, a prominent local nonprofit. The concept for HelloXOXO is more ambitious than one might guess just from walking by the pink-streamered storefront or perusing its website. In addition to craft classes and providing a no-guys-allowed spot to get together, Pollock and Winata are establishing partnerships with area organizations with an aim to provide resources for just about anyone with XX chromosomes—teenage girls, disenfranchised women, low-wage earners (one upcoming class will discuss thrift-store interview-outfit techniques, for example), women escaping abuse, budding entrepreneurs. Winata, in particular, seems emphatic about providing a forum for women’s issues that have been the source of rancorous division in politics and public discussion—issues such as birth-control access, abortion, marriage and divorce, infertility—“These things that women suffer quietly on their own. They don’t have to,” she says. When asked how they will deal with potential belief conflicts among attendees, or with the issue of underage girls coming to them with these issues without their parents’ consent, Pollock and Winata acknowledge that there is still much to be ironed out, and that they will be seeking the help of professional counselors and legal experts. Ambitious, indeed. But is it overly so? The notion of taking on the gamut of issues all the while maintaining an aesthetic that could be interpreted as a little Stepford wife-ish seems potentially incongruous. Last year, Hannah Rosin’s bestselling book The End of Men put BEFORE

forth a compelling argument for women out-evolving their male counterparts in the wake of the Great Recession and their dominant role in a job economy in flux. “In 2009, for the first time in American history, the balance of the workforce tipped toward women, who continue to occupy around half of the nation’s jobs,” Rosin wrote. “Our vast and struggling middle class, where the disparities between men and women are the greatest, is slowly turning into a matriarchy, with men increasingly absent from the workforce and from home, and women making all the decisions.”

It appears that the idea of the domestic goddess wasn’t so swallowed up in the smoke of burning bras after all. This shift has been in the works for a long time, of course, but it’s more apparent than ever that a woman’s domain is no longer limited to meatloaf making and child rearing. Who has time to embroider place mats anymore? And for that matter, who even cares? There are, as it turns out, plenty who still care. Last year, Pinterest, the social-networking and micro-blogging site dedicated by and large to crafts, recipes and pretty things in general, was reported to have more than 10 million users, 80 percent of whom are women; the largest portion of its users fall in the 25-34 yearold range. Pollock and Winata are both enthusiastic participators, the latter spending up to an hour every morning seeking inspiration from projects and images posted by users. The viral popularity of the social-media platform leads one to believe that the idea of the domestic goddess

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wasn’t so swallowed up in the smoke of burning bras after all. But for the founders of HelloXOXO, the resurfaced image of the crafty homemaker poses no conundrum when it comes to women and their status in society. “We want women to know that crafting can be a solid source of income and business, and that it can take [them] out of whatever social or domestic situation they’re in,” Winata says. Do they consider themselves feminists? The answer from both is a decisive no. “It’s become so complicated. … We just want to take out the complication. We’re just women,” Pollock says. As for Winata: “I don’t even think about it, to tell you the truth,” she says. What they spend time thinking about instead is the enormous potential they see in HelloXOXO. The founders plan on expanding to San Francisco next and helping women set up chapters across the country. Interest has come in from as far away as New York City and Boston—women curious to know more about HelloXOXO and how they can get involved. Much of the interest has been in the entrepreneurial-education aspects of the organization, which Pollock and Winata believe has been sorely lacking in Sacramento up to this point. Winata, who is unmarried and spends her sparing free time with her two dogs, Milou and Mayhem, very much comes across as a putyour-money-where-your-mouth-is manifestation of her personal beliefs. “Women entrepreneurs [have been] hiding,” she says. “They’re drowned out by women on a six-year plan that want to go to bars, get a boyfriend, get a husband, have kids and move to Roseville. Which is fine, if that’s what you really want, but there’s plenty of us that don’t want that. Or not only that. There’s a new crop of women that are strong, wanting to get out there.” A new crop of women, sure. Just don’t call them feminists. Ω |

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It’s a strange feeling lying to Republicans. On the one hand, weapons of mass destruction, death panels and birthers make me think they’d appreciate a good whopper. On the other, fibbing is bad. On the other other hand, free alcohol is awesome. That’s the real reason a fellow reporter and I infiltrate a party-faithful mixer on the eve of the California Republican Party Spring Convention 2013—not to study California conservatives in their natural habitat, but to knock back a couple of cold ones. Over the course of a couple days, a fawning assembly of GOP loyalists will turn out to hear Karl Rove dust off Internet potshots at Al Gore (party like it’s 1999, Rovey) and indulge subgroup chatter about how to get gays and immigrants on the elephant bandwagon. But that’s for later. As of now, the Republican Party has already cracked the secret code to this leftist reporter’s heart: complimentary drink tickets. Two welcoming Sacramento County Republican Party reps usher us through the crowded entry of Gallagher’s Irish Pub and hand us more than our fair share of drink tickets. A sepia-tinted visage of Rove is the only thing giving us the stink eye, staring us down from a row of book jacket covers for his autobiography. Our generous hosts are hawking We’re one Trace presigned copies for a discount price of $10 apiece, but Adkins song away the books aren’t moving. from dying in Once inside, we’re swimming in a crush of blandly a line-dancing attractive Reagan babies, and stampede. everyone’s drunk or getting there. It’s like being at a Romney family reunion where someone spiked the sugarfree punch with Red Bull. We’re one Trace Adkins song away from dying in a line-dancing stampede. Despite being dressed in our yuppiest duds and prepared to grumble “Ohhhbama” at any moment, we aren’t the only ones here playing pretend. A Bay Area assembly candidate who describes the party as “decimated” plans to appeal to area immigrants without ever mentioning immigration. He is himself an immigrant, so it might be tough. “We have a terrible brand right now,” he says. “One person says something stupid in Kansas, and we all pay for it.” Ohhhbama. For the most part, however, everyone’s cool, even though we stick out like a pair of blue-collar thumbs. Someone hands my colleague another drink ticket, while others try to help me grab the overwhelmed bartender’s attention. A small, black-haired woman who works for Elizabeth Emken asks me to order her boss a light beer, and I oblige. Even though I have no idea who Elizabeth Emken is. (Apparently, she lost to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, possibly because she supports light beer.) After spilling some bottom-shelf cabernet—living off the Republican dole brings out the wastrel in me—I pop into the restroom. A frumpy GOP groupie in a pale-lemon polo hunches over the urinal, pouring out yellow liquid from a plastic Crystal Geyser bottle. Must have been a long drive from 1988. Noticing me, he gets sheepish and picks up the stuffed tote bag at his feet. His embarrassment disappears, however, upon spotting the clean-cut flak behind me. The suit represents a south Orange County Assembly member. “I don’t have her yet!” the groupie says, snatching a card out of the guy’s hand. Yes, he’s collecting business cards as if they are trading cards. At least inside the big tent of a hotel bar men’s room, the GOP’s appeal is still golden. —Raheem F. Hosseini

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to taste cake from Rick’s Dessert Diner, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Above and Beyond Cakes, and Ettore’s European Bakery and Restaurant. This event supports the efforts of Closing the Gap, whose mission is to help close the achievement gap. Th, 3/14, 5-8pm. $65. CSUS Alumni Center, 6000 J St.; (916) 595-9502; www.closingthegapusa.org.

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Special Events BEER BUST: Sacramento’s top restaurants, businesses and musicians are coming together to support and raise funds for the Downtown Sacramento Foundation, a nonprofit set up to help revitalize and beautify the Kay District. Musical entertainment includes Paper Pistols, Sister Crayon, Tel Cairo, DJ Blackheart and Chris Debol. Th, 3/14, 6pm. $35-$40. Downtown Plaza (lower level), 547 L St.; (415) 652-0802; www.beerbust 314.eventbrite.com.

Classes GLORIOUSLY GREEN: Join for a vegan take on the St. Patrick’s Day feast. Cook hearty vegan Irish stew, colcannon, Irish soda bread and ice cream. Drink an Irish beer to wash it down. Th, 3/14, 6-8:30pm. $35-$45. Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 1914 Alhambra Blvd.; (916) 868-6399; www.sacfoodcoop.com.

SOPRANO ROBIN FISHER: Sacramento State University Professor Robin Fisher, a lyric coloratura soprano, performs in the Music Recital Hall on the college’s campus. The recital includes songs by Richard Hundley, Libby Larsen and Mary Howe. Guest pianist Elvia Puccinelli joins. Fisher has performed with the Sacramento Opera. Th, 3/14, 8pm. $5-$10. Sacramento State Music Recital Hall, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-5191; www.csus.edu/music.

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DON’T MISS! DANA CARVEY: The Center

for the Arts presents Emmy-award winning comedian Dana Carvey. Best known for his role in Saturday Night Live and Wayne’s World, Carvey won an Emmy Award in 1993 for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. Larry “Bubbles” Brown opens. F, 3/15, 8pm. $58-$65. Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, 255 South Auburn St. in Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384 ext. 14; www.thecenterforthe arts.org.

Special Events MIDSUMMER MADNESS: Join for this one-night only, in-studio event featuring excerpts from

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Ron Cunningham’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and George Balanchine’s Western Symphony. Included in the ticket price are wine, soda, water and cheese nibbles. Then, you’ll be invited to join a hoedown dance lesson. F, 3/15, 7pm. $25. The Sacramento Ballet Studios, 1631 K St.; (916) 552-5800 ext. 2; www.sacballet.org.

Film OPERATION SMALL AXE: This flim takes a raw and unflinching look at life under police terrorism in Oakland. Through the stories of Oscar Grant, Lovelle Mixon and Prisoners of Conscience Committee’s Minister of Information, JR Valrey, the film focuses on the occupation of Oakland’s communities of color by militarized and racist police forces. F, 3/15, 7:30pm. Free. Lavender Library, 1414 21st St.; (916) 492-0558.

Concerts CLASSICAL GUITAR ENSEMBLE SERIES: The Davis Art Center’s 4th Annual Classical Guitar Ensemble Series continues with Quarteto Nuevo. This ensemble’s unique style is the product of the musical diversity of its members who are deeply rooted in the worlds of North and South Indian, classical, Mexican and jazz music. F, 3/15,

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$5-$15. Davis Art Center, 1919 F St. in Davis; (530) 756-4100; www.davisartcenter.org.

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DON’T MISS! ST. PATRICK’S DAY PUB CRAWL: Join revelers as

they journey through downtown Sacramento bars for St. Patrick’s Day. Arrive at Blue Cue between 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. to receive a free wristband. Wristbands will earn you drink specials at select bars and free admission to Shenanigan’s. Sa, 3/16, 3pm. Free. Blue Cue, 1004 28th St.; (916) 265-2520; www.5hundy.com.

Special Events DAY FOR WOMEN IN GRASS VALLEY: This all-day conference for Northern California women in Grass Valley includes 20 workshops that will teach everything from how to use electronic tablets to making great deserts. From yoga to interior decorating, there is something for everyone. Networking is planned at lunch along with shopping. Proceeds benefit projects for women and girls in our area and internationally. Sa, 3/16, 8:30am-3:30pm. $45. Grass Valley United Methodist Church, 236 South Church St. in Grass Valley; (530) 271-1188; www.sigv.org.

GUIDED PADDLE: Join Cosumnes River Preserve Volunteer naturalists for a leisurely paddle along the Cosumnes River. Listen for distant calls of songbirds and river otters splashing in the water. Volunteers will be awaiting your arrival at the Cosumnes River Preserve Visitor Center at 8:30 a.m. for a 9 a.m. departure on the water. Sa, 3/16, 8:30am. Free. Cosumnes

River Preserve Visitor Center, 13501 Franklin Blvd. in Galt; (916) 870-4317; www.cosumnes.org.

TEA RETREAT: Take a journey into the relaxing and rejuvenating world of tea. A tea sommelier will take you on an epicurean adventure savoring the teas, food and cultures from the four corners of the earth. Sa, 3/16, 10am-2pm. Free. Ancient Future Urban Sanctuary, 2331 K St.; (209) 295-1224; www.ancientfuturenow.com.

RELIGION AND SCIENCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Join an interfaith forum titled Religion and Science in the 21st Century: Can They Co-exist? It features author, educator and pastor Robin Meyers, biologist Jonathon Brosin and physician Arthur Kelter. Sa, 3/16, 7pm. Free. Congregation B’nai Israel, 3600 Riverside Blvd.; (916) 230-6479; http://under groundchurch.net/events.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY ON A BOAT: Spend St. Patrick’s Day on the River City Queen. This three-hour cruise on the river features beats by DJ Craig G, a full bar, all-you-can-eat hors d’oeuvres and more. Sa, 3/16, 3-6pm. Call for pricing. River City Queen, 3505 S. River Rd. in West Sacramento; (916) 289-3589; www.facebook.com/rivercity queen.

WHAT’S BLOOMING AT THE CEMETERY: Visit the Hamilton Square Garden for a look at early perennials that thrive in the Sacramento Valley. Free parking is available in the lot across the street from the 10th Street entrance. Assemble in the cemetery in the front parking lot. Donations benefit cemetery preservation projects. Sa, 3/16, 10-11:30am. Free. Old City Cemetery, 1000 Broadway, (916) 448-0811; www.oldcitycemetery.com.

Art Galleries ACAI STUDIOS & GALLERY: Ceramics Times Three, an exhibition featuring works by P. Y. Simpson, Anastasia Grindstead and Edeva Sin. Sa, 3/16, 6-9pm. Free. 7425 Winding Way in Fair Oaks; (916) 966-2453.

Literary Events MEET AUTHOR TAJIYE L. ANTWINE: Meet the author of Wristwatch, a book about the Vietnam War told from the African-American perspective. Sa, 3/16, 1pm. Free. California State Military Museum, 1119 Second St.; (916) 854-1904; www.militarymuseum.org.

PANEL PRESENTATION ON RESEARCH & WRITING: California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch presents a panel discussion on research in writing, developing and editing the material, and some tricks of the trade. The subject applies equally to fiction and nonfiction. One wrong detail can put your work and credibility at risk. Learn how to apply a test to research sources before writing. Sa, 3/16, 11am-1pm. $12-$14. Cattlemen’s Restaurant, 12409 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova; (916) 213-0798; www.cwcsacramentowriters.org.

Museums SUTTER’S FORT: Hard Working Women of the Frontier, Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park presents a special event to highlight and honor Women’s History

Month. Fort visitors will have the opportunity to hear from special guest Cheryl Stapp, historian and author of Disaster & Triumph: Sacramento Women, Gold Rush Through the Civil War and Sacramento Chronicles: A Golden Past. Sa, 3/16, 10am-5pm. Free with museum admission. 2701 L St.; (916) 445-4422; www.parks.ca.gov/suttersfort.

Sports & Recreation VERNAL POOL HIKE: Take a sevenmile hike along the Rancho Seco Howard Ranch Trail. Volunteer naturalists will lead the way, answer questions and reveal the intricate details of seasonal wetlands, vernal pool critters and wildflowers. Sa, 3/16, 9am. Free. Rancho Seco Recreational Area, 14440 Twin Cities Rd. in Herald; (916) 870-4317; www.cosumnes.org.

Concerts SOUNDSCAPES: Sacramento State’s three choirs will perform a show called Choral Soundscapes: Music Through the Ages. Pieces include Vivaldi’s “Magnificat,” Holst’s “Choral Hymns of the Rig Veda” with harpist Beverly Hoehn, and the area premiere of Whitacre’s “Alleluia.” Sa, 3/16, 8pm. $5-$10. Sacred Heart Church, 39th and J streets; (916) 278-5191; www.csus.edu/music.

POETRY, ART, AND JAZZ: The Sacramento Fine Arts Center will present a cross-genre concert blending art, poetry and jazz, featuring musicians from the Dave Brubeck Institute. The musicians will compose music, and prominent poets from the Sacramento Poetry Center will compose verse, inspired by SFAC’s Animal House exhibition. Sa, 3/16, 6:30pm. $20. Sacramento Fine Arts Center, 5330 B Gibbons Dr. in Carmichael; (916) 716-5951; www.sacfinearts.org.

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Join a colorful 5K benefiting the Placer County Fair Association. Wear white or your favorite St. Paddy’s Day costume and run through a kaleidoscope of eco-friendly colored powders at color stations. The party continues across the finish line a beer garden where Apple Z will be playing live music and food and drinks will be available for purchase. Su, 3/17, 10am-1pm. $25-$40. Placer County Fair, 800 All American City Blvd. in Roseville; (916) 786-2023; www.placercountyfair.org.

Special Events SALMON FALLS RANCH HIKE: Join ARC staff on a hike of the recently acquired Salmon Falls Ranch located near the Skunk Hollow parking lot in Folsom Lake State Recreation Area. The new parcel features 757 acres of rolling grasslands, oak savannah and seasonal streams. Enjoy sweeping views of the Folsom Lake and the Crystal Basin from hilltops along the way. Su, 3/17,

10am-2pm. Free. Skunk Hollow Bridge, Salmon Falls Rd. in Folsom; (530) 621-1224 ext. 21; www.arconservancy.org.

Dance PAMELA TROKANSKI DANCE THEATER CONCERT: Choreographer Pamela Trokanski and the dancers of the Pamela Trokanski Dance Theatre present “Serendipity,” “Parallel Universes,” and “Opening Pandora’s Box.” Performances are paired with text by Trokanski and a wide range of contemporary music, including pieces by Ingrid Michaelson, the XX, Phillip Phillips, the Mountain Goats and Imagine Dragons. Su,

3/17, 3pm; F, 3/22, 8pm; Sa, 3/23, 8pm. $12. Pamela Trokanski

Dance Workshop Theater, 2720 Del Rio Pl. in Davis; (530) 756-3949; www.trokanski.com.

Kids’ Stuff CHARLOTTE’S WEB: Explore a magical barnyard world where animals talk and miracles happen. This story of courage and friendship, based on E.B. White’s touching novel of a lovable pig named Wilbur and a kind spider named Charlotte, has inspired readers for decades. Su, 3/17, 1, 2:30 & 4pm. $8-$15. Three Stages Peforming Arts Center, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

Concerts FLOATER: Floater is returning to Gold Country for the second annual St. Patrick’s Day rock show at the Miners Foundry. Floater has been playing concerts in Nevada County for the last six years. This year Lonely Kings, Dr. Luna and Downshift will support for a full evening of rock. Su, 3/17, 5pm. $20. Miners Foundry Cultural Center, 325 Spring St. in Nevada City; (530) 265-5040; www.facebook.com/ events/528685807155454.

KIM KASHKASHIAN AND LYDIA ARTYMIW: An acclaimed violist and pianist join together in concert for Sacramento State’s New Millennium Series. Violinist Kim Kashkashian has been a featured soloist with the Berlin, Vienna, and Tokyo symphonies, and has collaborated extensively with YoYo Ma and Gidon Kremer. Pianist Lydia Artymiw is known for her work with the Guarneri Quartet. Su, 3/17, 7:30-9pm. $10-$30. Sacramento State Capistrano Hall, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-4323; www.csus.edu/music/tickets.htm.

MUSICIAN’S CHOICE CONCERT: The Sacramento Symphonic Winds, conducted by Dr. Les Lehr and featuring flute soloist Maquette Kuper, will be performing “Carmen Fantasy” by Georges Bizet. Other selections will include “Overture to Candide” by Leonard Bernstein, and “Abbey Road: A Symphonic Portrait” by Ira Hearshen. Su, 3/17, 2:30-4:15pm. $5-$10. Crowne Plaza Hotel, 5321 Date Ave.; (916) 489-2576; www.sacwinds.org.

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Special Events PROM EXPO: Check out an assortment of gently used dresses and vendors offering tuxedo rentals, limo rentals, floral arrangements, and hair and

makeup servies. Funds raised benefit the Monterey Trail High School Sober Grad Night Celebration. M, 3/18, 3:30-6:30pm. Free. Monterey Trails High School, 8661 Power Inn Rd. in Elk Grove; (916) 834-2839; http://mthssobergradnightorg.doodlekit.com/home.

19TUES Meetings & Groups

SIERRA COLLEGE SUSTAINABILITY FORUM: On March 19th, Environment California will be discussing renewable energy in California as well as updating the group on the Sacramento area Ban the Bag campaign. Tu, 3/19, 5:30-7pm. Free. Sierra College, 5000 Rocklin Rd. in Rocklin; (916) 660-7900.

Concerts A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC: The Sacramento City College Jazz Band will be playing a little Latin jazz, New Orleans jazz, funk, fusion and swing. Tu, 3/19, 8pm. Free. Sacramento City College Little Theatre, 3835 Freeport Blvd.; (916) 558-2515.

SAC STATE SYMPHONY: Sacramento State University’s Symphony Orchestra will perform in the Music Recital Hall. These concerts tend to sell out so advanced tickets are recommended. Tu, 3/19, 8pm. $5-$10. Sacramento State Music Recital Hall, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-5191; www.csus.edu/music.

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DON’T MISS! ACTIVELY LISTENING: Erik James, part of the Bell Boys, presents an acoustic singer-songwriter showcase at Old Soul Co. It features five or six songwriters showcasing original music every week. W, 6pm. Free. Old Soul Co., 1716 L St.; (916) 443-7685; http://face book.com/activelylistening.

Comedy HAROLD NIGHT: The Comedy Spot presents Harold Night, a form of improvised longform comedy popular in Chicago, New York and L.A. See two teams every week in Sacramento’s first Harold show. W, 9pm. $5. Sacramento Comedy Spot, 1050 20th St. Ste. 130; (916) 402-4757; www.saccomedyspot.com.

Sports & Recreation CONQUERING YOUR FIRST CENTURY: Thinking about taking your cycling skills to the next level? Sign up for this introductory session that will address what you can expect and how to plan for a successful 100-mile bike ride. Look at equipment, training and skills as well as nutrition and the right mindset. W, 3/20, 7-8:30pm. Free. REI Sacramento, 1790 Expo Pkwy.; (916) 924-8900; www.rei.com/sacramento.

ST. PARTY’S DAY EVERY YEAR ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY, SACTO LIKES TO GET SLOSHED.

Bros hit the grid in droves to dance, drink too much, act irreverent and party too hard in general. Eventually, someone pukes (party foul!). Needless to say, it can get obnoxious when too many people misbehave in public all at once. Not that there’s anything wrong with getting wasted and puking or anything—check out some local options for that below. But to honor of the true spirit of St. Patrick’s Day— the arrival of Christianity to Ireland—there’s also some puke-free ways to celebrate.

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SAC TOWN HOPPER PARTY AND CRAWL Here’s an innovative party option: The Sac Town Hopper, a party bus, celebrates its one-year anniversary on Saturday, March 16, by offering one free ride to customers. Or purchase a $10 wristband for unlimited rides between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. The Sac Town Hopper also operates a St. Patrick’s Day bus crawl on Sunday, March 17, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. It visits Bulls Restaurant & Bar, Capitol Garage, The Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar, Republic Bar & Grill, de Vere’s Irish Pub, Mix Downtown and Streets of London. This crawl also costs a mere 10 bucks. Just promise not to puke on the bus. For more information, call (916) 267-9431 or visit www.facebook.com/sactownhopper.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY K STREET KRAWL With venues such as Pizza Rock, Social Nightclub and Tequila Museo Mayahuel, K Street might now be considered the de facto party spot for young bros. Not only does Saturday night’s pub crawl hit up theses venues, it also visits Gallagher’s Irish Pub, District 30, Dive Bar, KBAR, Parlare Euro Lounge and Marilyn’s on K. Revelers who have their tickets punched at all nine locations can win a 1 ounce gold nugget worth $1,500. Tickets are $15, which includes a T-shirt and map. The 21-and-over event begins at Dive Bar (1016 K Street) at noon on Saturday, March 16.

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THREE PARTIES, ONE BLOCK You can pretty much spend all day Sunday, March 17, at the “Firestone District” (L Street between 16th and 15th streets) drinking and doing St. Patty’s Day stuff. Catch three parties on one block, with a grand total of 90 beers on tap, 35 bartenders and five bars. De Vere’s Irish Pub offers breakfast at 9 a.m. and serves Irish beer and whiskey all day; Firestone Public House also opens at 9 a.m., offers Irish food all day and hosts a concert by Rebel Yell at 8 p.m.; and Mix Downtown’s party starts at 3 p.m. with corned beef and cabbage meals, and dance music by DJ Gabe Xavier starting at 8 p.m. Call for pricing. Visit http://deverespub.com, www.mixdowntown.net and www.firestonepublichouse.com for more information.

OLD SACRAMENTO PARADE This is the 17th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Old Sacramento. The free, family-friendly event features bagpipers, military regiments, drummers, dancers and cultural organizations marching through the historic district. More than 1,000 marchers and 15,000 spectators will line the streets between noon at 3 p.m., and Old Sacramento will be closed to vehicle traffic during the event. The parade begins near the Crocker Art Museum and ends on Second Street near L Street in Old Sac. For more information, visit http://oldsacramento.com/ special-events/st-patricks-day-parade.

Wait, there’s more! Looking for something to do? Use SN&R’s free calendar to browse hundreds of events online. Art galleries and musems, family events, education classes, film and literary events, church groups, music, sports, volunteer opportunies—all this and more on our free events calendar at www.newsreview.com. Start planning your week!

ST. PATTY’S DAY EXTRAVAGANZA Living Word Entertainment throws a curveball with this gigantic dance party. The all-ages event boasts 10,000 watts of sound, lights, lasers, 24 deejays (playing mostly electronic music), go-go dancers, photographers, vendors and—here’s the curveball—no alcohol. Proceeds from the $15 cover price go to Loaves & Fishes. It happens on Saturday, March 16, from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. at Mullen Event Center, 12351 E. Stockton Boulevard in Galt. Find out more at www.facebook.com/events/156425824509129.

SHREK THE MUSICAL Sure, Shrek technically has a Scottish accent, and St. Patty’s Day is an Irish holiday, but the green ogre and his friends seem like they’d be a good fit for families seeking a change of pace. Instead of heading to an overcrowded event, head for Three Stages at Folsom Lake College (10 College Parkway in Folsom) to see some comedy, hear some tunes, and view elaborate costumes and sets based on the Shrek film franchise. Prices are $45 to $79 for tickets, and the musical has six showtimes from Thursday, March 14, through Sunday, March 17. For more information, visit www.threestages.net.

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tables and light wooden chairs, there’s an airy atmosphere, casual and cozy. Estelle’s offers an espresso bar and a wide assortment of teas and muffins and rolls for the breakfast crowd as well as sweets, including DayGlo macarons. For the lunch-inclined, there are soups, salads, sandwiches and meat or meatless quiche. One of the authentic touches is the spare use of condiments. The smoked salmon is enlivened by dill and the flavor of its croissant. Its tomato bisque is thick and richly flavored, and, in a nice touch, a puff pastry floats in the tureen as accompaniment. There’s a lot to like about Estelle’s—except dinner. Doors close at 6pm. French. 901 K St., (916) 551-1500. Meal for one: $5-$10. HHH1⁄2 G.L.

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

more than a bone thrown to the cholesterol-challenged, it’s a worthy dish in its own right. American. 926 J St., (916) 492-4450. Dinner for one: $40-$60. HHHH B.G.

Midtown 24K 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 chocolate and tart dried cherries. American. $10-$15. 2331 K St., (916) 476-3754. HHH B.G.

Shady Lady Saloon So many bars try to do bar snacks, and so many fail. Shady Lady, however, nails it. The fried green tomatoes are punched up with a tarragon rémoulade and the huge charcuterie board is more like a groaning board, stocked with abundant regional meats and cheeses. The pickle plate looks like Peter Rabbit’s dream, all teeny turnips and tangy carrot chunks. Generally excellent, the saloon’s cocktail list veers from the classics with a list of bartender-created drinks with unusual, but wisely considered 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.

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

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

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into a sausage shape around juicy sugarcane. Vietnamese. 7837 Stockton Blvd., Ste. 700; (916) 476-4895. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHHH1⁄2 B.G.

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named for its signature dish, a Vietnamese egg crepe. Each one completely fills an oval-shaped platter and is served shatteringly crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. Bánh Xèo also offers nem nuong, or grilled pork sausages on skewers, and chao tom, a grilledshrimp dish that arrives as a flamingo-pink paste melded

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

Drink dark, not green Drinking green beer for St. Patrick’s Day is worse than dropping a baby. Just don’t. Stouts, however, should be your beverage of choice this Sunday. Never mind that stouts actually originated in London—that’s close enough to Ireland. Plus, there’s that whole Guinness thing. Drinking Guinness, however, is only acceptable as a gateway to the world of stouts. There’s so much more, for instance: Upright Brewing’s interesting Oyster Stout; Deschutes Brewery’s The Abyss has been available lately and is a solid imperial; Mikkeller’s Beer Geek Breakfast can be found at most specialty bottle shops, such as The Davis Beer Shoppe (211 G Street in Davis). The Bruery’s Chocolate Rain should be out and about this week, any of FiftyFifty Brewing Co.’s Eclipse stouts are worth the 30 bucks, North Coast Brewing Co. still has some barrel-aged Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout floating around, and Oskar Blues Brewing Company’s Ten Fidy is the best American stout in a can. Remember: Drink dark, not green. —Nick Miller

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Tacos & Beer This is one of the area’s best Michoacán restaurants. Of its regional dishes, the enchiladas Apatzingán are unusual, filled with only a smattering of sharp cheese and diced onion, soaked in a vinegary sauce, and smothered in very lightly pickled, shredded cabbage with raw hunks of radish and avocado slices. Another specialty is the morisqueta—the ultimate comfort dish due to the unique texture of the white rice, which is as soft as an angel’s buttock. 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. 1290 Fulton Ave., (916) 483-1700. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHHH B.G.

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.

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

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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 sauce and peanuts. Asian. 5000 Freeport Blvd., Ste. A; (916) 706-2995. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH J.M.

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. 4261 Truxel Rd., (916) 285-6100. Dinner for one: $8-$12. HHHH G.L.

Davis Davis Noodle City What sets this place apart from other joints is the fact that most of its food is not Chinese-American, but true Chinese cuisine. Fried tofu arrives looking like deep-fried marshmallows. Beneath the crispy coating is a sweet, custardy center that billows with steam. The scallion pancakes are bits of naanlike dough packed with slivered scallions. A popular street food in China and Korea, it takes skill to prepare these in a way so they’re light, crispy and not at all greasy. DNC nails it. The Sichuan eggplant is also a delight: The eggplant is velvety and soft, with a sauce that tastes sweet and enticingly sour. Unlike the traditional way of using a fistful of chilies to prepare the dish, this one is intended for an American audience, and as such, is a caged lion, but DNC will take the lock off if you ask. The noodle dishes are gargantuan enough to feed a marathon runner adequately. Chinese. 129 E St., #1D in Davis; (530) 757-2618. $8-$12. HHH G.M.

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

Films for foodies Sacramento is evolving into a city for foodies. With the nascent foodtruck scene and local chef Adam Pechal’s recent reality-show fame, it seems the city’s culinary star is rising. And now, there’s the Sacramento Food Film Festival, which Munchie Musings (www.munchiemusings.net) blogger Catherine Enfield founded last year. This year’s edition, which takes place this weekend at the Guild Theater (2828 35th Street), features films, food tastings, a scavenger hunt and special guest speakers. Film highlights include The Quest for Local Honey, a documentary about honey bees in Nevada City, followed by a honey tasting (Friday, March 15, at 5:30 p.m.); and a screening of Symphony of the Soil, a documentary about soil, with guest speaker and producer Deborah Koons Garcia (Saturday, March 16, at 6:30 p.m.). Prices are $7 per film, $40 for a Friday pass (which includes two films plus discussions, honey and sushi tastings); $25 for a Saturday pass (five films, scavenger hunt and discussions); or $55 for an all-festival pass. Visit www.sacfoodfilmfest.com for more information. —Jonathan Mendick

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Put another record on Greta’S reCordS by alliSon anderS Filmmaker Allison Anders (Gas, Food Lodging; Grace of My Heart) won Greta Garbo’s rock and pop album MUSIC collection on eBay and decided to document her experience listening to each record via a blog. Here, the reclusive actress, who died in 1990, is revealed to have had surprisingly eclectic taste. Among the artists in her collection: the Beatles, Linda Ronstadt, Simon & Garfunkel, and Gene Clark. In fact, Garbo owned a copy of Clark’s 1974 album No Other—the record sleeve for which features an image of the actress. Anders muses on theories as to why Garbo owned it—dismissing the notion that she wanted it because of the photo: “If her wit and irony [are] to be believed … maybe she could have bought it as a little personal in-joke with herself and the world.” http://gretasrecords.tumblr.com. —Rachel Leibrock

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The ever-prolific Joyce Carol Oates hits a nerve with Daddy Love (Mysterious Press, $24), a dark and gritty novel of survival. In some ways evocative of Emma Donoghue’s Room, Daddy Love begins with kidnapping: Robbie, a smart 5-year-old with a nervous temperament is abducted from a mall parking lot; his mother, Dinah, is seriously injured when the kidnapper drives over her with his getaway van. This is not for the sensitive reader, but Daddy Love does map out a certain kind of resilience, especially once Robbie BOOK comes to realize that he’s not the first of his kidnapper’s brutalized “sons,” and that all of them have disappeared not long after they reach his age. —Kel Munger

A dark Magic Kingdom CHoGokin kinG robo miCkey & FriendS Ever imagined what Voltron would be like if it was made entirely of Disney characters? Japanese toy company Bandai makes it reality. While the end result isn’t technically Voltron, the Disney characters, when TOY combined, do form a pretty menacing robot beast called the Chogokin King Robo Mickey & Friends. Even the individual characters are stranger, darker robot versions of their cartoon selves. For example, Donald Duck is rendered as a metal warrior. Also included in the ’bot are Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, Pluto, Goofy, Pluto’s doghouse and (oddly) Steamboat Willie. The entire set is available for preorder for $125.10. www.hlj.com/product/ban973124. —Aaron Carnes

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Will there be Sugar Smacks? CritiCal Hit: a Geek Comedy SHow It seems like everybody’s got a comedy troupe these days—but not everybody, it should be pointed out, has one that features robots, Mars, dramatic Yelp reviews and, perhaps most imporCOMEDY tantly, appropriate morning munchies. The Critical Hit troupe offers all that in its live stage show which mixes sketches, video and improv. The latest effort happens at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 16, when the troupe will help you relive one of the best parts of your childhood with its presentation of Grown-up Saturday Morning Cartoons. Here, cast members will dub over popular kids’ cartoons (the types rife with Teletubbies and Power Rangers) to what we’re sure will be surreal comedic effect. In addition, they’ll perform live “commercials” between each segment. See? It really will be just like you remember. Audience members are encouraged to wear pajamas (may we recommend the flannel, footed kind?), and breakfast cereal will be served. Commence jackedup sugar-high now. The show is part of a weekend-long 48 Hour Comedy Marathon. Other marathon events include a reading of the Empire Strikes Back movie script, weird YouTube video screenings and something called, intriguingly, A. E. Starkey’s Meowtacular Catstravaganza. The comedy marathon starts at 8 p.m. Friday, March 15, and the last event starts at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 17. Tickets to the cartoon show are $5; a marathon pass costs $30. Sacramento Comedy Spot, 1050 20th Street; www.saccomedyspot.com. —Rachel Leibrock

Shut up, brain My husband has always been overly friendly toward women. I knew this when I married him, but attributed it to his 20-year career in sales. He travels a lot, and recently I learned that not all of these business trips have been for work. He has apparently been partying, sometimes with female clients. One of his co-workers clued me in because she has been worried about his excessive drinking. I by Joey ga have noticed that he has been rcia drinking more than usual, but I thought it was stress. How a s kj oe y @ ne wsreview.c om do I confront my husband without compromising his co-workerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s confidence? Joey If your mind tells you a story about your husband and a female client, gave away her golf clubs. (Whew!) put that tale aside. The inner storyteller is sometimes a distraction. Our mind returns to the imagined scenario until we are intoxicated by fear. Instead, focus on your love and concern. If your husband drinks to excess on a regular basis, his health and your marriage are at risk. But is your husband an alcoholic who hides his addiction from you through carefully scheduled absences? You have your suspicions and those of his colleague, but you need more information to decide. Schedule a time to talk to your

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husband when you are each rested, sober and available. Turn the cellphones off. Sit next to him. Tell him that you have noticed a change in his relationship with alcohol. Explain that you think alcohol is causing a change in his relationship with himself (not caring what happens to his health) and your marriage. Avoid accusing, belittling or blaming him. State your feelings. If you are afraid, say so. If you miss him, let him know. Be transparent and vulnerable. Ask him to clue you in to whatever he has been doing. None of this conversation requires you to admit that one of his co-workers provided information. But what you know does demand

that you take action to save your marriage. Invite your husband to see a marriage therapist with you. If he refuses, make an appointment with a psychologist and go alone. Deepen that act of self-love by also attending Al-Anon, the 12-step program for people in a relationship with an alcoholic. With support, you will gain the strength necessary to make smart choices about your future. I love my wife of 10 years, but when I kiss her, I no longer feel the passion that I felt in the past. Is it gone? Will it return? There is a woman at work who is easy to talk to. I find myself fantasizing about her. I wonder if my marriage is over and the universe is presenting me with someone new to love. What do you think? If you have trained yourself to believe that love is based on feelings, you will conclude that your marital passion has died. But mature marital love offers a different thrill: the pure pleasure of familiarity. A coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s knowledge of each other allows both to touch a deep reservoir of intimacy. That intimacy is built on the foundation of their shared history as life partners. Try living in the present moment. Doing so will guide you into appreciating the relational shift into mature love. Allow yourself to surrender into this more profound and enduring union. Mature love is an education in trust and commitment, forces that are far stronger than feelings. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t avoid this spiritual growth by continuing an emotional affair at work. Face yourself. Assess whether you make it easy for your wife to talk to you. If you are passionate about invigorating your marriage, tell your wife daily what you appreciate about her. As you wean your imagination away from your co-worker and back toward your wife, passion will surely follow. ÎŠ

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unrecognizable Kirk Blackinton) to be played as a mentally ill vagrant. The audience laughs a lot throughout the play, but everyone shuts their mouths and nobody dares breathe when this Jaques speaks. They want to hear every word, and for good reason. The set is a love letter to our fair city from designer Brian Watson, complete with a backdrop depicting the Capitol and the tops of the Tower Bridge and some of our most iconic skyscrapers. Hell, even the house music is stuff by Cake and Zuhg. Big Idea Theatre has had triumphs with its takes on Shakespeare in the past, but this adaptation is without a doubt the theater’s strongest effort to date and should not be missed. Ω

Here, Rosalind (Jamie Kale) must flee the court to live a life of banishment in the strange Forest of Arden, where she encounters odd characters that show her a life devoid of time and embellishments. Instead of exiling Rosalind to a literal forest filled with woodland shepherds, however, her new home is in the Sacramento-based Arden Park, where she lives among the destitute. The cast works together to make conscious, bold choices with its actions and reactions. Each actor’s comedic timing is impeccable, and the live music throughout fits the adaptation—just like everything else. Standout performance nods go to Kale for her lead and Mary Katherine Cobb for the devoted cousin, Celia. Casey Worthington brings the fire in his flaming Touchstone, and Matthew Donaldson shows off perfect deadpan timing as the lovelorn Silvius. The most memorable part of the production, however, is the amazing choice for the usually pompous “melancholy gentlemen” Jaques (an

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If you’re looking for eye-candy entertainment and immaculately performed songs, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast won’t disappoint. But the touring production, now playing at the Community Center Theater as part of California Musical Theatre’s Broadway Sacramento season, skimps on substance, intellect and soul. That’s expected, of course: If any title begins with “Disney,” you know you’re in for a kid-pleasing fairy tale. Beauty and the Beast originated from an 18thcentury French fairy tale called La Belle et la Bête; there’ve been numerous other adaptations, of course, but Disney transformed the classic story into film in 1991 and a Broadway musical in 1994. Six of the Oscar-winning songs from the film version are in this musical, as are six originals—all with music by Alan Menken, and lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice. Choreography, set and costumes (all 580 of them) are elaborate and dazzling. One of the show’s standout dances is an ensemble romp set in a tavern and featuring a mug-clanking routine reminiscent of the coconut dance, a Southeast Asian folk tradition. Throughout, singing and acting are near perfect, with Belle (Hilary Maiberger) and Beast (Darick Pead) leading an elite cast. But for all its Disney perfection, there’s still something lacking. Yes, Beauty’s a sweet “happily ever after” type of story: Bookish girl meets cursed prince and needs to fall in love with him to turn him from a beast back into a prince. Hopefully it’ll make new young fans of musical theater. But it’s sort of like giving children candy in lieu of dinner. —Jonathan Mendick

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, 2 p.m. Thursday, Saturday, Sunday; 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday; $19-$86. California Musical Theatre’s Broadway Sacramento at the Community Center Theatre, 1301 L Street; (916) 557-1999; www.broadwaysacramento.com. Through March 17.

FINDING OUR VOICE: SUSAN B. AND THE WOMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

Writer David Pieriniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play for young audiences provides a timely reminder that American women had to protest for decades before they got the right to voteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and it was by no means an easy battle. Acting intern Sarah Clancy plays a determined 20-year-old who takes up the cause, Jamie Jones plays feisty old Susan B. Anthony in her final years. Sa, Su 1 and 4pm. Through 4/14. $18-$27. B Street Theatre, 2711 B St.; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. J.H.

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This well-intentioned dramedy, a new play by Leslie David Perry and directed by Ray Tatar, has a bit of melodrama, yet rests easily on the shoulders of lead actors Gladys Imperio Acosta (Loretta) and Wayne Cook (Henry). In east Los Angeles, a homeless Latina woman flees domestic violence with her two daughters (a pair of young scene-stealers, Alejandra Iskow and Alejandra Montezuma) and is helped by a lonely African-American security guard, all of which offers the opportunity to address issues of housing, immigration, violence and intra-ethnic prejudice. F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 3/24. $12$20. California Stage at the Wilkerson Theatre, 1721 25th St.; (916) 451-5822; www.calstage.org. K.M.

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New York City is the fifth character in this four-person musical about people who come to the city with hopes and dreams, some which are realized, some that are altered along the way. New Helvetia Theatre gathers some of its talented regulars to portray two couplesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one romantic pairing, one a budding friendship, with New York both as a backdrop and as a central theme. Wonderful nuanced performances by Connor Mickiewicz (who also directs), Tristan Rumery, Kiera Anderson and Courney Glass, backed up by the talented pianist Erik Daniels. Th, F, 8pm; Sa 2 & 8pm;. Through 3/30. $30. New Helvetia Theatre, 1028 R St.; (916) 469-9850; www.newhelvetia.org. P.R.

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It is the same sort of theoretically intriguing proposition: As Tim Burton took on Lewis Carroll, so Sam Raimi has a go at L. Frank Baum. Great idea, except for the deadening influence of the Disneyfication. You wouldn’t be wrong in blaming rampant, committeerendered CGI for diluting the director’s singular and playful imagination. But you also know there’s already been an imagination failure when the story is about a guy called Oz who finds himself in a place called Oz. As Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire’s script has it, there’s a prophecy about a wizard due to rescue and rule the place; this guy, played by James Franco, happens to be a Kansas con man with a two-bit carnival magic act. How perfect, thinks everyone who’s sick of Franco’s fame by now. Except, no, it’s not perfect at all. Raimi, cult-horror hero of Evil Dead fame, is also the director whose SpiderMan trilogy seems, in retrospect, like an unfortunate turning point for Franco, the essential thing that happened to him between Freaks and Geeks and hosting the Oscars. Raimi should’ve known that his protagonist needed more than the nonpersonality of a perpetually stoned, spread-thin performance artist. He did know, actually, and that’s why it’s so hard to review this movie without mentioning that Robert Downey Jr. was an early contender for the part. Ah, what might have been.

Oz is a selfish jerk for most of the movie, until its overdetermined plot finally forces him not to be. We see the huckster’s worldview undergo what at first seems like a familiar enlargement, from squared-off black and white to something more vivid and spaciously rectangular. Less familiarly, though, he never quite reaches the conclusion that there’s no place like home. With traveling companions including an orphaned, broken-legged porcelain doll and a servile flying monkey who speaks with the voice of Zach Braff, he must contend with that aforementioned prophecy, and with a trio of variously meddlesome witches. Deeper readers can unpack the possibly problematic implications of Michelle Williams as the good blond one and Rachel Weisz as the scheming Semitic one; most viewers will be watching Mila Kunis as the sweet naive one who, when Oz breaks her heart, becomes the green screechy one. Was that a spoiler? Well, look, the whole plot of this movie is sort of a major spoiler for the big reveal of The Wizard of Oz, isn’t it? An aficionado of smoke and mirrors and tricks of light, and a vaguely ambitious admirer of Thomas Edison, our Oz here is also, naturally, a fan of what would come to be called the movies. And so his tale becomes another of those nostalgic, slightly defensive “ain’t cinema great?” pictures—one whose case is compromised by its own computer-generated bloat, and by evoking the more enduring film of which it reminds us. Sure, cinema was great, once.

As Tim Burton took on Lewis Carroll, so Sam Raimi has a go at L. Frank Baum. Great idea, except for the deadening influence of the Disneyfication. Would scaling down instead of up have been more successful? Ironically, Raimi’s colorless prologue, full of actual people moving through actual space, feels much less drab than the pseudo-Technicolor digital splendors later on. Maybe a better, braver way would have been a full reversal, where somebody from over the rainbow—just some average munchkin, say—finds himself whisked off to turn-of-the century Kansas, where the milkmaid looks an awful lot like some witch he once knew. Oz the Great and Powerful seems mostly like a case of lost perspective. Maybe a near-sequel to the near-prequel would be worth a try. Ω

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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.

Dark Skies

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.

Dead Man Down

The henchman (Colin Farrell) of a New York gangster (Terrence Howard) is really an undercover vigilante planning to bring the man down for killing his family. Meanwhile, he strikes up a halting romance with a neighbor (Noomi Rapace) who wants him to kill the drunk driver who disfigured her in a car crash. Director Niels Arden Oplev and a strong cast (Dominic Cooper, Isabelle Huppert and F. Murray Abraham are also rattling around in there somewhere) contend against the patent absurdity of J.H. Wyman’s over-the-top script. Their efforts are not entirely in vain—Farrell and Rapace have some surprisingly touching moments amid the mayhem, and Oplev establishes an effective (if overfamiliar) gritty texture, and the picture is compulsively, albeit repellently, watchable. French icon Huppert is largely wasted. 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 writer-director 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 Hollywood-liberal 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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Activist Craig Scott Rosebraugh steps into the documentary game with this directorial debut, unfortunately, just another one of those smarmy, quasi-journalistic, signthis-petition spiels. Rosebraugh’s Al Frankenstyle title only highlights his comparative humorlessness, without even elaborating what the movie’s really about, which is the pernicious political influence of moneyed climate-change deniers (and their big-energy benefactors). It’s the usual talking heads and peppy infographics, and it’ll be catnip for viewers already inclined to indignation about the greedy lying bastards who value profits over planet health. But Rosebraugh’s narration seems more smug than sincere—like a borrowed voice, or one synthesized from those of all the similar documentaries whose style he apes. Worse, his appetite for ironic scenes of weather-wrought catastrophe verges on its

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Documentarian Dror Moreh interviews six former chiefs of Shin Bet, the intelligence agency charged with defending Israel against terrorism, espionage and the release of state secrets. The movie begins by telling us they have never been interviewed about their work—leaving us to fill in the implied “until now” ourselves. Moreh largely eschews the agitprop buffoonery of a Michael Moore (though he can’t resist a few swipes at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he plainly despises), modeling his movie on the more subtly persuasive Errol Morris of The Fog of War, a particular favorite of his. Moreh’s thesis, that the Israeli right and the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza both threaten long-term disaster for Israel, is shared by his subjects with unsettling (and maybe even suspicious) unanimity. J.L. own kind of insensitive opportunism. Certainly, the chill of schadenfreude alone won’t be enough to cool global warming down. J.K.

Emperor

As the United States occupies Japan after World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) assigns Gen. Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox) to investigate whether Emperor Hirohito should be prosecuted for war crimes—with a broad hint that he should not. This could have made a good movie, but writers Vera Blasi and David Klass and director Peter Webber largely botch it. The two stars are miscast: The handsome Fox is a poor match for the stolid Fellers, while Jones plays MacArthur the way he played Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln—though his last scene with Hirohito himself (Takatarô Kataoka) has the ring of truth. The movie also gives Fellers a fictional prewar romance with a Japanese woman (Kaori Momoi) and makes his efforts to find her in the ruins of Japan appear more important than the investigation at hand. J.L.

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 gravesituation-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.

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

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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.

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 writer-director 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 could become breakout roles for Hoult and Palmer, after years of wallflower parts—good but unnoticed work in other people’s pictures. 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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Zero Dark Thirty

Unavoidably the movie of the year, Kathryn Bigelow’s controversial quasijournalistic thriller, dramatized from original reporting by screenwriter Mark Boal, surveys the decade-long quest to bring down Osama bin Laden. A taut procedural spun from the point of view of Jessica Chastain’s lone wolf CIA analyst, the film seems temperamentally more tenacious than triumphalist, and maybe therefore also as lucid an elaboration of the “war on terror” as we can ever hope to get from Hollywood. But has anyone asked why we should ever hope to get such a thing from Hollywood? Neither the Obama re-election commercial nor the torture apologia some blowhards feared it would be, Zero Dark Thirty certainly captures the cultural legacy of 9/11 and reveals the euphemized brutalities of recent American foreign policy. It’s also a superb example of contemporary political-thriller vernacular, all the way through to its methodical and disturbingly amazing night-vision climax. If this endorses anything, it’s the opportunism of movies. J.K.

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Of course, this list is going to include Celtic punk greats, the Pogues. Fitting, too, since vocalist Shane MacGowan left the band in ’91 because he liked the sauce a little too much (he did eventually rejoin the group). After a long debate, the decision for the perfect Pogues song was clear for two reasons: The song title refers to a type of stout beer—perfect for St. Paddy’s Day—and the song is also the story of a man returning to the pub where he was born, learning of an old friend’s passing. “So buy me beer and whiskey ’cause I’m going far away.” City of Vain, “Old Tavern”

A song dedicated to the Old Tavern Bar & Grill on 20th Street in Midtown and the variety of characters that repeatedly fill the bar including “pushers, punks and hipster cliques.” All this and a cold Pabst for less than two bucks? Sold. John Lee Hooker, “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”

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Jello Biafra openly admits he’s simply too inebriated for any amount of sexy time in this 1987 jam. Fellas, sometimes it’s best just to sleep it off. “And now I got diarrhea / Too drunk to fuck.” Yikes. The punks in Black Flag tell the short tale of a young man with a mere $35 to his name and, yes, a six-pack. “My girlfriend asked me which one I like better / Six pack! I hope the answer won’t upset her / Six pack!”

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A beer and a shot. These two mind-altering beverages go together better than luck and a four-leaf clover or, perhaps, like a well-stocked bar and a by Steph Rodriguez decent jukebox. Whatever the case, a night out drinking with friends wouldn’t be complete this St. Patrick’s Day without a proper music playlist. And, no, Dropkick Murphys didn’t make the cut. Nor did Flogging Molly. Instead, here are some tunes by which to sip (or pound) those green beers as you contemplate all the colorful debauchery this Irish holiday brings.

Now there’s the George Thorogood & the Destroyers’ version of this classic, but I’d rather go with John Lee Hooker’s rendition. The original song was written by Rudy Toombs, who also wrote songs for Frankie Lymon & the

Johnny Cash, an American country badass until the day he died. Or, until the day he released his version of that emo song “Hurt,” originally written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. But let’s erase that from our memory and admire Cash for classics like this. Murder City Devils, “Rum to Whiskey”

It’s organ-heavy and damn catchy, plus, whoever “he” is within the lyrics of the song is definitely making some good decisions, because “He switched from rum to whiskey.” Snoop Dogg, “Gin and Juice”

I’m not much for smokin’ indo, but I do fancy gin and a variety of juices: carrot, apple, orange. And what good would a drinking playlist be without mentioning the Doggfather himself? Blvd Park, “Swerve on”

They may have packed up and moved to Seattle, but the members of Blvd Park will always be from Sacramento. The song starts off with the “99 Bottles of Beer” chant and then mentions local Sac bars, Downtown James Brown and ending a hard day of work with a few drinks. Bottoms up! Ω

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A dark hue: Speaking of erstwhile Sac bands, Sister Crayon (now of Oakland) just posted a link to a new song on its SoundCloud page (https:// soundcloud.com/sistercrayon/floatingheads). “Floating Heads” is pretty and ethereal, and singer Terra Lopez’s voice is pure sweetness at times, but her flair for the Kate Bush-esque operatics and the track’s staccato beats give the song a decidedly gloomy and barbed edge. Gorgeous. Expect the full EP Cynic on April 16. Follow the band on Twitter (https://twitter.com/SisterCrayon) to get an early heads up on remixes, tour dates, etc. Two from the vaults: I tend not to wallow too much in nostalgia—the good old days were plenty bad at times, you know? That said, news of not one but two particular shows is making me feel a little sentimental for days past. On Saturday, March 30, the Troublemakers will commemorate their 20th anniversary with a set at Old Ironsides (1901 10th Street). The bill includes the Four Eyes—who, incidentally, are also hitting the

20-year mark—and Shark, featuring Charles Albright, Kevin Hinely, Matt K. Shrugg and Scott Soriano. The show starts at 9 p.m. and costs $8 at the door. Then, a few months down the road, members of the Knockoffs are getting the band back together to celebrate their 20th anniversary. Way to make me feel old, guys. That show is scheduled for Saturday, August 24—venue and complete lineup are still TBA. —Rachel Leibrock

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Every day is not like Sunday: Sundays are usually boring for me. Like, really boring. But sometimes, Sundays in Sacramento have live music, like Mariachi El Bronx and Kill the Precedent at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub. As a result, this past weekend, my regular “boring” Sunday turned into something grand. Kill the Precedent is a local hardcore staple—or it should be. The guys do a set that includes a random slideshow on a projection screen, plus, they do a kick-ass cover of the Smith’s “Death of a Disco Dancer.” KTP blend electronic drums that pound against eardrums with grizzly vocals and the guitars keep the band’s pulse strong. For those in the dark about Mariachi El Bronx, I’ll light the way: It’s a six-piece band from Southern California that perform mariachi-style jams in English. Oh, and it has an alter ego: the Bronx, a hardcore-punk band with several albums to its name and a reputation for high-energy shows. Getting the chance to hear trumpets, violins and a soft voice over all those Latin beats really resonated with my Mexican heritage and even with the patrons of Harlow’s, who danced with beers in hand and sang along to the lyrics. All this, and the band sports authentic mariachi attire. For a band that’s mostly made up of gringos, it nailed it all to a T, from the wails of the trumpets to the weeps of the violins.

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Sacramento Comedy Spot, 8 p.m., $5-$30 This has all the makings of one of those quirky annual events that local denizens tend to religiously worship: Sacramento Comedy Spot’s COMEDY 48 Hour Comedy Marathon features 48 hours of literally nonstop stand-up (from locals and touring performers), sketch comedy, workshops, improv, and other comedic, silly and bizarre events. It’s even got an hour-long musical comedy performance featuring Hunter Hill, JR de Guzman and the Freebadge Serenaders (pictured) on Saturday, March 16, at 4 p.m. (tickets are $5). A bunch of the events are free, and some cost a few bucks, but a $30 all-access pass seems like the best value and grants admission to all shows. 1050 20th Street, Suite 130; www.saccomedyspot.com.

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NNaked Lounge Downtown, 8:30 p.m., $5 Sacto’s the O’Mulligans ask important questions in their music. For example: “What ever happened to Dave Coulier?” The group doesn’t just sing about Full House, but also Family Matters, Perfect Strangers and porn. Yes, the band members are goofballs, but they’re fun, and their variety of pop-punk doesn’t suffer from being overly polished and sterile. It’s well-executed, but with a looseness and rawness that keeps it from sounding like a Hot Topic rock band. In the POP-PUNK last decade, I’m guessing they’ve spent roughly five minutes taking themselves seriously. That’s a good thing, because a lot of other musicians spend an inordinate amount of time taking themselves way too seriously. 1111 H Street, www.facebook.com/theomulligans.

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Torch Club, 9 p.m., $8 Former Rowdy Kate frontwoman Keri Carr has found a new place as vocalist for the Keri Carr Band, and this six-piece always encourages dancing during its sets. Formed in 2011, the band performs a mixture of blues, Americana, and ’70s-era country tunes, such LATIN/AMERICANA as Linda Ronstadt’s “Dark End of the Street”—and the band is known to toss in some Latin flavor from time to time. Carr and her band released a selftitled EP at the Sacramento Music Festival last year, available for purchase at any live performance. Fans of Emmylou Harris or Gram Parsons will find these artists have also influenced the band’s music. 904 15th Street, http://tinyurl.com/kericarr.

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Performing Arts Center, 8 p.m., $8-$28 There are new things happening with the Camellia Symphony Orchestra, which closes its 50th-anniversary concert season with a program called American Masters: A Celebration. It has a new performance space at the Sacramento City College Performing Arts Center and a new music director and conductor, Christian Baldini. The event begins at 6 p.m. with a wine tasting followed by a preconcert lecture. The program features Leonard Bernstein’s Candide Overture, Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 2 and George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F by soloist CLASSICAL Natsuki Fukasawa, who received the distinction as a Steinway Artist in 2012. Sacramento City College Performing Arts Center, 3835 Freeport Boulevard; www.camelliasymphony.org.

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As if in some sort of backlash to the staccato blender orchestra that is dubstep, Americana and folk music has been reaching a greater audience recently. In the case of Frank Fairfield, he brings history to life, playing traditional folk tunes that have been circulating for generations. Trust that he’ll claw his banjo, drive the bow across his fiddle’s strings until the hair breaks, and strum his guitar with such stoney-faced conviction that you cannot help but tap your feet and squiggle in your seat until you must rise with FOLK an unprecedented urge to dosi-do—and not feel like a cheesy fraud for doing so. 203 E. 14th Street in Davis, http://frankfairfield.bandcamp.com.

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Creamy electro-psych textures water the musical beds for emcee Onry Ozzborn’s nimble flow. Young producer Alex Zavala is HIP-HOP as influenced by acts such as The Soft Bulletin-era Flaming Lips and Stereolab as James Brown or Parliament. Swelling, trilling keyboards hover above skittering jungle breakbeats narrated in Ozzborn’s grim swagger. Whenever he speaks, it seems like he’s leaning back in dark shades. Ozzborn’s bona fides go back to the mid ’90s when he began rapping under his own name, and then with groups Oldominion and Grayskul. Dark Time Sunshine’s two LPs feature guests including P.O.S., Aesop Rock, Busdriver and Champagne Champagne. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.darktimesunshine.com.

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The bio material for Sacramento band Cove describes the four-piece as a “quiet thing” and a “loud thing.” The band evokes aural memories of Calexico and the Dirty Three—replete with sweeping, ambient instrumentation and melodies that seem to ghost into the ether. But Cove also seems to stick close to its Northern California roots, experimenting with Pavement-esque lyrical structures and a relaxed vibe. It’s INDIE the kind of music you put on for a midnight drive down Highway 1—the kind that makes you think you might never come back. The band is set to release an album this year. It plays Tuesday with Gabriel Mintz and Low Hum. 1815 19th Street, www.covetheband.com.

Murs has had a remarkably varied hip-hop career. From famously teaming up with Grover on the song “24 Hrs. w/a G,” to making dead-serious statements on “Walk Like a Man,” or pairing with 9th Wonder HIP-HOP on many albums, the artist exemplifies a vast repertoire of musical statements. On This Generation, his fine recent album with lyrical collaborator Fashawn, the rapper’s talents are at their peak. Check out the liquid bass lines and easy-going summer feel of “’64 Impala” or the steel-drum hook and heavy guitars that propel “Slash Gordon.” It’s all Good Music, like his classic sophomore album. 2708 J Street, www.mursworld.com.

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thursday, march 28

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04/17 The Selecter & Lee “Scratch” Perry 04/19 The English Beat 04/20 Foals 04/22 Queensryche 04/24 Alex Clare 04/25 Katchafire

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george clinton & parliament funkadelic

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friday, march 31

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05/31 Capital Cities 06/01 Finch 06/08 Bret Michaels 06/18 Memphis May Fire 07/27 Y&T

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THE HORMONES, DEAD HORSES; 8:30pm, call for cover

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DARK TIME SUNSHINE, VOID PEDAL, MR. P CHILL, NICK BIANCO; 8pm M, $5

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JAMES DURBIN, TRIKOME, SHOT OF HONESTY, ONE-EYED KING; 7:45pm W

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CLASSICAL REVOLUTION, 8pm, no cover

Nerd Night w/ Drew Walker, 8pm, no cover

KEVIN MASON HULL, TJ MCNULTY, AWKWARD LEMON; 8pm, $5

COVE, LOW HUMS; 8pm Tu, $5; BLUE SKY BLACK DEATH, 7pm W, $10

DAVID HOLT, BRYAN SUTTON, T. MICHAEL COLEMAN; 8pm, $22-$25

Community music jam, 6:30pm M, no cover

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314 W. Main St., Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384

THE COZMIC CAFÉ

594 Main St., Placerville; (530) 642-8481

DJ Angle, 9pm, call for cover

DJ Elements, 9pm, call for cover

St. Patrick’s Day party, noon, call for cover

Deejay dancing and karaoke, 9pm, $3

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

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

Queer Idol, 9pm M, no cover; Latin night, 9pm Tu, $5; DJ Alazzawi, 9pm W, $3

STEP JAYNE, PROFESSOR GALL; 8pm, no cover

RAILFLOWERS, A THOUSAND YEARS AT SEA, MELODY WALKER; 9pm, $5

SLY PARK, THE FOLLOWERS OF SUNSHINE, STEPPING STONE; 9pm, $5

THE PIKEYS, ONE-EYED REILLY; 6pm-midnight, $2-$10

Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu; ANDY GARCIA, AVI JONES; 8pm W

PABLO CRUISE, 9pm, $22.50

LOVEFOOL, 10pm, call for cover

STEPPING STONE, THE THREE WAY, WHISKEY & STITCHES; 7pm

THE AGGROLITES, THE PINSTRIPES, LA PLEBE; 8pm W, $15-$18

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

DJ Rock Bottom and The Mookie DJ, 9pm, no cover

Mass appeal w/ DJ Epik, 10pm-2am, no cover

Hip-hop and R&B deejay dancing, 9:16pm Tu, no cover

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR

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

CROSSING THE RIVER, XOCHITL; 7:30pm, $6

RED UNION BLUE, THE MIKE JUSTIS BAND; 8:30pm, $10

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

MARILYN’S ON K

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

DJ Tosh, 9pm, $10

THE BELL BOYS, 9pm, $5

Greatest Stories Ever Told, 7:30pm Tu; FONTAINE CLASSIC, OTIS HEAT; 8pm W

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

DJ’s Yung Black Beard, My Cousin VENTI, Chris Rohto, 9pm-2am, $5-$7

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, 7pm, call for cover

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

1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

FACES

2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

FOX & GOOSE

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

HARLOW’S

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

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WIVING, PANDOVAL, JOSIAH GATHING; 8:30pm, $5

INSTAGON, CHOPSTICK, THE O’MULLIGANS; 8:30pm, $5

GOLDEN YOUTH, COLD ESKIMO, BROLLY; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz, M; VANESSA O’CONNELL BAND, MANDY ZEBOSKI; 8:30pm W, $5

WOULD BE TRAIN ROBBERS, THE SOFT BOMBS, DRIVE THRU MYSTICS; 9pm, $5

BRADEN SCOTT, MY DIRTY ADDICTION, STONEBERRY; 9pm, $5

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

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GARY BUSEY AMBER ALERT, THE KENNEDY VEIL, SYMBOLIK; 9pm, $6

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BEAUSOLEIL AVEC MICHAEL DOUCET, 8pm, $25

FISHTANK ENSEMBLE, 8:30pm, $20

ARRAN HARRIS AND THE FARM BAND, BONANZA KING; 8pm, $15

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DOGFOOD, LONELY KINGS, POINT DEXTER; 9pm, $5

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SUN VALLEY GUN CLUB, ELI AND THE SOUND CULT; 8pm, $5

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

STORYTELLERS, MENTAL DEFECTIVE LEAGUE, THE CLUTTER FAMILY; 5pm, $5

CRAZY BALLHEAD, 8:30pm M, $5; THE HARBOR, ALBERT SQUARE; 8pm W, $5

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DEAN SULTANI, NABOR CONTRERAS, NICK CECCHI; 9pm-2am, no cover LAURA MEYER, 8pm, $5

JOHN ELLOTT, BILLY PATTON; 8pm, $5

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

GEORGIA RAIN, MICHAEL BECK; 9pm, $5

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

Country dance party, 8pm, no cover

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

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X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; QUINN HEDGES BAND, 9pm, $5

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JOHNNY KNOX, 5pm, no cover; THE COALITION, 9pm, $8

Blues jam, 4pm, no cover; St. Patty’s Day party, 4pm, $12

WINGNUT ADAMS BAND, 9pm Tu, $5; PETER PETTY REVIEW, 9pm W, $5

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DJs Fame Change and X-GVNR, 9pm, $5

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “If it’s stupid

and it works, it’s not stupid.” That could turn out to be a useful mantra for you in the coming week. Being pragmatic should be near the top of your priority list, whereas being judgmental should be at the bottom. Here’s another mantra that may serve you well: “Those who take history personally are condemned to repeat it.” I hope you invoke that wisdom to help you escape an oppressive part of your past. Do you have room for one more inspirational motto, Aries? Here it is: “I am only as strong as my weakest delusion.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t you

just love to watch the spinning of those wheels within wheels within wheels? Aren’t you grateful for the way the ever-churning plot twists keep you alert and ready to shift your attitude at a moment’s notice? And aren’t you thrilled by those moments when fate reveals that its power is not absolute—that your intelligence and willpower can in fact override the seemingly inexorable imperatives of karma? If you are unfamiliar with the pleasures I’ve just described, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to get deeply acquainted.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It won’t be a

good week to issue unreasonable, illogical and self-centered demands. And please don’t make peanut butter and jelly a part of your sex life, take a vacation in Siberia, or photocopy your butt and deliver it anonymously to your boss. On the other hand, it will be an excellent time to scrawl motivational poetry on your bedroom wall, stage a slow-motion pillow fight, and cultivate your ability to be a deep-feeling free-thinker. Other recommended actions: Give yourself a new nickname like “Highball” or “Root Doctor” or “Climax Master”; write an essay on “The Five Things That the Pursuit of Pleasure Has Taught Me;” and laugh uproariously as you completely bypass the void of sadness and the abyss of fear.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the mid-

19th century, prospectors mined for gold in the mountains of western Nevada. The veins weren’t as rich as those in California, but some men were able to earn a modest living. Their work to extract gold from the terrain was hampered by a gluey blue mud that gummed up their machinery. It was regarded as a major nuisance. But on a hunch, one miner took a load of the blue gunk to be analyzed by an expert. He discovered that it contained rich deposits of silver. So began an explosion of silver mining that made many prospectors very wealthy. I suggest you be on the alert for a metaphorical version of blue mud in your sphere, Cancerian: an “inconvenience” that seems to interfere with the treasure you seek but that is actually quite valuable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When pioneer film-

maker Hal Roach worked on scripts with his team of writers, he sometimes employed an unusual strategy to overcome writer’s block. He’d bring in a “Wildie” to join them at the conference table. A Wildie was either a random drunk they found wandering around the streets or a person who lived in an insane asylum. They’d engage him in conversation about the story they were working on, and he would provide unexpected ideas that opened their minds to new possibilities. I don’t necessarily recommend that you seek the help of a Wildie, Leo, but I hope you will come up with other ways to spur fresh perspectives. Solicit creative disruptions!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Is the term

“unconscious mind” a good name for the foundation of the human psyche? Should we really be implying that the vast, oceanic source of everything we think and feel is merely the opposite of the conscious mind? Dreamworker Jeremy Taylor doesn’t think so. He proposes an alternate phrase to replace “unconscious”: “not-yet-speechripe.” It captures the sense of all the raw material burbling and churning in our deep awareness that is not graspable through language. I bring this up, Virgo, because you’re entering a phase when a lot of notyet-speech-ripe stuff will become speech-ripe. Be alert for it!

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1928, biolo-

gist Alexander Fleming launched a medical revolution. He developed the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin, making it possible to cure a host of maladies caused by hostile bacteria. His discovery was a lucky fluke that happened only because he left his laboratory a mess when he went on vacation. While he was gone, a bacteria culture he’d been working with got contaminated by a mold that turned out to be penicillin. I’m thinking that you could achieve a more modest but quite happy accident sometime soon, Libra. It may depend on you allowing things to be more untidy than usual, though. Are you game?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I am iron

resisting the most enormous Magnet there is,” wrote the Sufi mystic poet Rumi. He was wistfully bemoaning his own stubborn ignorance, which tricked him into refusing a more intimate companionship with the Blessed Source of all life. I think there’s something similar going on in most of us, even atheists. We feel the tremendous pull of our destiny—the glorious, daunting destination that would take all our strength to achieve and fulfill our deepest longings—and yet we are also terrified to surrender to it. What’s your current relationship to your magnet, Scorpio? I say it’s time you allowed it to pull you closer.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

NASA used whale oil to lubricate the Hubble Space Telescope and Voyager spacecrafts. There was a good reason: Whale oil doesn’t freeze at the low temperatures found in outer space. While I certainly don’t approve of killing whales to obtain their oil, I want to use this story to make a point. It’s an excellent time for you, too, to use old-school approaches for solving ultra-new-school problems. Sometimes a tried-and-true method works better, or is cheaper, simpler or more aesthetically pleasing.

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

theory of the “butterfly effect” proposes that a butterfly flapping its wings in China may ultimately impact the weather in New York. Here’s how the writer Richard Bernstein explains it: “Very slight, nearly infinitesimal variations and the enormous multiplicity of interacting variables produce big differences in the end.” That’s why, he says, “the world is just too complicated to be predictable.” I find this a tremendously liberating idea. It suggests that every little thing you do sends out ripples of influence that help shape the kind of world you live in. The coming week will be an excellent time to experiment with how this works in your daily life. Put loving care and intelligent attention into every little thing.

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

football quarterback Joe Ayoob holds the world’s record for throwing a paper airplane the longest distance. After it left his hand, the delicate craft traveled more than 226 feet. I propose we make Ayoob your patron saint and role model for the coming week. From what I can tell, you will have a similar challenge, at least metaphorically: blending power and strength with precision and finesse and control. It’s time to move a fragile thing or process as far as possible.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A source of

fulfillment you will enjoy in the future may seem almost painful when it initially announces its presence. In other words, your next mission may first appear to you as a problem. Your situation has a certain resemblance to that of prolific Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, who produced a wide variety of enduring works, including symphonies, ballets, operas and concertos. When he was a precocious child, he was assailed by the melodies and rhythms that frequently surged through his mind. “This music! This music!” he complained to his mother. “Take it away! It’s here in my head and won’t let me sleep!”

You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785. And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.

FRONTLINES

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Little shop of wonders Fictional characters stumbling upon back-alley stores ripe with treasures—this is the stuff of tales found in books such as the Harry Potter series. A real-life version of such experiences awaits East Sacramento explorers who visit Geographica. The shop, located off a J Street alley, is squeezed between stores hawking children’s clothing and bridal wear. Owner Mark Anderson grew up studying history and following the American space-flight program before living the adventurer’s life in Alaska for 25 years. One step inside Anderson’s eclectic store, which opened in December 2012, gives visitors an instant sense of history. With offerings such as an extensive collection of maps and globes (including a rare lunar one), an apricot-drying rack, a brass telescope and an antique French birdcage, each item comes with a story—something often missing in modern electronic gadgetry. Anderson, who also produces and mounts specialty maps, spoke to SN&R about headlocks, 40-year-old elk horns and what, exactly, is wrong with the world today.

Why did you open Geographica? A few years ago, my wife and I read that there were no high-school students representing Sacramento at the state geography contest sponsored by National Geographic. We thought it was a shame that not more students knew about geography and history and felt this was one way to get people more interested. The store is full of the things I enjoy and think others would enjoy.

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You have an interesting history with your wife that involves time and distance—two common themes in the store. Geography is a huge thing in our relationship. When we were married for the first time in 1973, she lived in Idaho and Washington, D.C., while I was in Alaska. It was so difficult and expensive to really communicate by telephone. Sometimes, I couldn’t even get a line out. And travel between us could take days. Thirty years after our divorce, we remarried, even though by then she had moved to Sacramento, and I [had] transferred to Seattle. Although we had to deal with the same difficult distances, communication was so much easier with the help of the Internet and email. For the first couple of years, I commuted almost weekly.

If you could grab a highschool kid in a headlock and force him to learn something essential, what would it be? Not that I would do such a thing, but I hope they would show a real interest in the world around them and learn to interact with people—really, anything that works to defuse the easy but harmful impression that they aren’t very bright or can’t pay attention.

What’s the weirdest merchandise you have? That’s probably a toss-up between the 40-year-old elk horns and the 100-yearold toboggan. I’d hate to take a ride on either one.

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Your sign in front of the store says “Art Science History Home.” What’s the “Home” part mean? Our house is decorated with these kinds of objects, and we hope other people can see them as home décor as well. The top of our bookcase is decorated with a row of globes [like we have in the store]. The antique books here include many that I remember from my mother’s extensive library.

How has traveling shaped you? I went to community college in Spokane, Washington, but didn’t enjoy it. I had a yen to get out and see the world. So I worked three part-time jobs to make enough money to attend a Mormon college in Hawaii. I learned more there in one year than in my last four just by being exposed to so many students and teachers from all over the Pacific Rim. My dad encouraged me to come to Alaska where there were plenty of jobs. Instead of drifting about, I “found” myself there.

What’s wrong with the world today? All of history and all of man’s experiences can’t just be found on the Internet. You shouldn’t be limited by modern technology, even though it’s useful and fantastic. There’s deep insight in what you can actually hold in your hands. Ω Visit Geographica at 3811 J Street. Store hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Contact the store at (916) 834-8743, or www.geographica.co.

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