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Holiday Crime I walk my dog almost every morning in Midtown, but I am glad that what I witnessed recently is not common: a small crowd gathered around a memorial for a homicide victim.

Fellow dog-walkers and even bicyclists ceased their routines to stop at the corner of P and 18th streets this past Monday, where photographs had been taped to a lamppost. The pictures depicted a smiling young man, Josiah Humphreys, 28, with friends and family, and flowers and lit candles decorated the sidewalk.

A day earlier, at around 1 a.m. on St. Patrick’s Day, Humphreys was beaten to death by three others.

The intersection at P and 18th streets is just three blocks from my apartment. In fact, I’d passed that very lamppost with my brother after sipping beer on R Street just hours before the murder.

Also this past weekend, after 10 p.m. on St. Patrick’s Day, another man was walking in Midtown on D and 20th streets—the same street I live on—when two 30-something men approached him. One, a black man in a green T-shirt, spat anti-gay slurs at the victim, then the other, a white male, hit him in the groin with a bat.

I walk everywhere, all over town, at all hours, and this holiday weekend was no exception. The people out were young and friendly, if not a special breed of good ol’ fashioned drunk. Many—perhaps too many— were severely intoxicated. But just like in San Diego or San Francisco or any other American city during St. Patrick’s Day, right?

Here in Sacramento, crimes during big holidays continue to shock (let’s not forget New Year’s Eve in Old Sac). Is it the booze? The party? Is it Sacramento? Or is it...

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The Hangover because of the part where you wake up and there is a tiger in your living room, and you are in the bathroom. I know that feeling. I do not remember anything that happened for the last week.

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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, but there are [other] movies I wish my life was like.

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Mamma Mia! because of all of the music in it, all of the energy she has and the fun. To me, that is what life is all about. I have all girls and 15 grandchildren, and three of them are great-grandchildren.

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Re “A trivial pursuit” by Nick Miller (SN&R Midtown&Down, March 14): The Marshall School/New Era Park Neighborhood Association has forged a healthy working relationship with most of the bar and restaurant owners on letter of 28th and J streets. MSNEP Neighborhood Association helped the week forge a compromise to save the sale of Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub. They also worked in good faith with Blue Cue to help them get through the building process to build an outside patio. MSNEP also has had no problems with Centro Cocina Mexicana or The Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar to date.

BarWest (a.k.a. BroWest) has been cited for selling alcohol to minors.

BarWest also decided to host trivia night without seeking the needed city permits. Trevor Shults is an experienced nightclub operator who would presumably know the entertainment-permit regulations and be able to follow them.

Also, Trevor told neighbors and the press that he would never apply for an entertainment permit. Then, BarWest decided to apply for the permit without notifying its neighbors. It seems at BarWest that profit is more important than following the law. All of the other restaurants/bars on 28th and J streets have no problem complying with the law.

The Yelp reviews speak volumes for the problems at BarWest. Poor service and poor food are the common threads found in a lot of reviews. An entertainment permit isn’t going to fix BarWest. Trevor needs to hire more waitstaff and provide better service. Trevor may know how to run a nightclub, but he needs to bring in a quality restaurant professional to fix his woes at BarWest.

Perhaps they should contact chef Robert Irvine of Restaurant: Impossible or chef Gordon Ramsay from Kitchen Nightmares to fix the restaurant. They could also consult with their co-owner Randy Paragary about improving the food and service at BarWest. He knows a thing or two about running a successful restaurant.

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Crafts don’t make you a Stepford wife

Re “Preparing to fail” by Raheem F. Hosseini (SN&R Frontlines, March 14): There are important questions to answer about public education, but calling the other side names will never answer them. Among the questions we need to address are: 1. Why does Michelle Rhee’s movement gain traction? (Poor public-school results and resulting parent dissatisfaction.)

2. How would these closed schools attract students if they reopened as charter schools? (See answer No. 1.) 3. Why can a charter school function in a location where a district school couldn’t afford to? (Bureaucracy and union contracts don’t make it unaffordable?) 4. Why are companies successfully forming charters?

(Academic freedom, elimination of bureaucracy, freedom from unions and profits.) 5. Are there models of education that are more relevant to teaching today’s kids, poor kids, limited-English kids?

(Yes, there are models of success.)

It is wrong to ignore these and many other important questions in order to demonize Michelle Rhee and her backers, even though some feel she deserves it.

Demonization is the last resort of people who’ve run out of arguments; it is the abandonment of discourse. Look up Godwin’s Law. Benjamin Bannister Sacramento

Re “Hello, doily!” by Deena Drewis (SN&R Arts&Culture, March 14): I wanted to give another opinion, as I don’t feel like the author really “gets” the concept of HelloXOXO. While it’s great that you gave this new organization some press, and there are some good points here, overall, the article comes across as condescending. Why can’t people can’t have an appreciation for pretty things without being considered Stepford wifeish? Being into crafts and baking and decorating doesn’t make us old fashioned or trivial. It makes us self-sufficient.

We can create beautiful things ourselves without having to go out and buy them, all while participating in something selffulfilling and therapeutic.

It’s not so much that the new crop of women aren’t feminists—it’s just that the label “feminist” has such a bad connotation. I don’t think mainstream society really knows what it means. We need a better word to describe someone who advocates for women’s issues that isn’t automatically [synonymous] with “man-hater.”

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[For instance], you published that “radio frequencies given off by Smart Meters are small compared to cellphones.” This is factually false and proven so by official SMUD documents that I have.

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Eric Windheim director Sacramento Smart Meter Awareness Editor’s note: Read a longer version of this letter at www.newsreview.com.

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Does Sacramento’s passionate, if motley, cabal of public commenters need more time at city council?

As City Hall deliberates possible changes to the rules for its weekly council meetings, by Mac Worthy—the most loyal, if notoriNick Miller ous, public commenter—probably has something to say. ni ckam@ news r eview.c om That’s because Worthy always gets a word in. He attends nearly every council meeting, often weighing in on multiple agenda items; at a recent one, he spoke on three items for a total of six minutes—but told SN&R he’d “hoped to talk on four for eight.”

He claims to have only missed two meetings over the past couple years, a better attendance record than the mayor.

And it’s also not unusual to spot him at committee hearings, county board of supervisor gatherings, local protests and other city’s council powwows.

Heck, he was even eyed at the California Republican Party convention earlier this month.

Worthy is, on the surface, Nick Miller regularly Sacramento’s model citizen. But regulars updates city council at these meetings and events chide him coverage live on Twitter. Follow him at as the guy who speaks too often, too fast, @NickMiller916. and too incomprehensibly, what with his Southern cadence and occasional rapidfire randomness.

Even a police officer at City Hall, Worthy says, once told him that he “speaks too much.”

The 71-year-old South Carolina native comments so frequently that he’s now Internet famous: Sacramento Kings supporters—de rigueur at council these days as well—recently created a popular online meme: a picture of Worthy standing at the podium with the words “pimping the people” emblazoned in large type across the photo.

Indeed, “pimping the people.” It’s Worthy’s new mantra at Tuesday night council, and he, along with his coterie of fellow commenters, recites it often— perhaps ad nauseam—when lecturing city leaders on their wrongdoings.

Worthy accepts that he has naysayers.

But he points out that he also has fans.

“I have people walk up to me and say, ‘Hey, you are that guy downtown. Keep doing what you’re doing,’” he says.

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So goes the bizarre cult of anti-personality that sometimes plays out live each Tuesday night at city council.

And a new proposal by local activist group Eye on Sacramento would give public commenters like Worthy more time in front of the dais each week.

Craig Powell, executive director of EOS, said that a his group analyzed nearly a decade of council meetings and discovered that during Mayor Kevin Johnson’s tenure, they’re shorter than ever.

“And I think that the current mayor probably does not enjoy those meetings as much as his predecessor,” he added.

Maybe this was why, a few years back, council voted to lower the amount of time the public was allowed to speak from three minutes to two. The goal here was to keep the meetings moving. Yet, according to the EOS study, this trim only saved an average of 21 minutes each meeting.

“And it has really degraded the quality of the public comments,” Powell argued.

“A lot of kids come up to me and say, ‘You got to slow down with your talking, we don’t understand what you’re saying.’

That’s actually why I need more time.”

Mac Worthy on why he needs three minutes instead of two to speak at city council As the report reads: “The average length of city council meetings over the past four years has been 2 [hours], 41 [minutes], down from 5 [hours], 24 [minutes] during the final four years of Heather Fargo’s tenure as mayor, a remarkable 50 [percent] reduction.”

The gatherings are briefer now, Powell explained, because council members tend to talk less among themselves during meetings and more behind the scenes or outside of meetings, and items are often removed from the discussion agenda to the consent calendar (where they are up-down voted on without debate).

The EOS proposal asks that the public be permitted three minutes of comment for most council items—but with the caveat that there’s a cap on the total amount of minutes allowed.

“We call this the ‘Mac Worthy Rule,’” he said.

Worthy himself likes the idea.

“A lot of kids come up to me and say, ‘You got to slow down with your talking, we don’t understand what you’re saying,’” he told SN&R. “That’s actually why I need more time, because I can’t get everything in there. In Roseville, you get five minutes!”

At another recent council meeting, a woman taps Worthy on the shoulder.

“Early bird,” she says. He looks up, smiles, then continues shuffling through a notebook while seated in an aisle seat of the second row. It’s more than a halfhour before the meeting’s start.

Tonight, there are few commenters, likely because there’s but one agenda item, an update on the Sacramento Kings situation. One praises the mayor and even sings, another rants about crack in Oak Park. And then there’s Worthy, blasting council over the prospect of using public money for private development.

That’s right: “Pimping the people.”

“Understand a pimp,” Worthy begins after the meeting, explaining his catchphrase. “What does a pimp do? Wait on his money. And that’s what the political people do. Wait on their money. They’re not doing anything.”

Is this why, ostensibly, there are fewer people interested in making public comments?

Powell, an on-off figure at council meetings for years, concedes that the public is seemingly less engaged with local government. “Yes, I think that’s true.

“But I think part of it is that people get discouraged when they go down to council and they have 120 seconds to make their case.”

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Dressed in a forest-green jumpsuit with his thinning black hair combed forward, Hafed Mohamed Thabet casts a by Raheem F. relaxed gaze through the oily jailhouse Hosseini window. In a few days, the 42-yearold convicted murderer will be ra h e e m h @ deported to his fractious home country ne w s re v i e w . c o m of Yemen—never to set foot back on American soil again—and he couldn’t be happier.

In 1993, Thabet emptied a secondhand revolver into the back of Ahmed Ali Alharsami at a country gas station in Amador County, 50-odd miles east of Sacramento. The broad-daylight crime rocked the wooded hamlet but was a long-time coming for Thabet, who watched Alharsami pump his father full of machine-gun lead when he was just a boy.

At the time he pulled the trigger, the 23-year-old Thabet knew little about the American justice system—hell, he didn’t even speak the language. He just knew the courts back home had sentenced this man to die, and that it was his sacred duty— even 18 years after the fact—to mete out that justice.

Thabet spent nearly 20 years in Mule Creek State Prison before winning a parole date in September 2012. It took four appearances before state parole commissioners to squeeze out that decision, and another five months to learn whether the governor would overturn it. Thabet discovered the answer to that question when he called his niece, Sabah Algazali, in Stockton one Saturday and heard traditional Yemeni wedding music blasting through the prison payphone.

“I asked him if he wanted an arranged marriage or was going to wait for true love,” giggled Algazali.

Thabet’s initial response, she recalls, was one of skepticism: “He said, ‘Are you tripping?’”

Thabet’s home for the past month has been a small cell on the sixth floor of the Sacramento County Main Jail, Read Scott Thomas where he’s floated in limbo with all Anderson and Raheem the other immigration holds of indeF. Hosseini’s feature terminate fate. But unlike those poor, story “Murder in the foothills” at huddled, arrested masses—Mexicans, http://tinyurl.com/ South Americans and at least one murderyemen.

Australian—Thabet knew he was going back. He just wasn’t sure when.

The accommodations have been less than stellar. Unlike that state prison in the bucolic foothills, this cramped tower of pods downtown offers no daylight or programming.

Inmates can receive emails but not

letters, and can send letters but not emails. Evening phone privileges are suspended. But Thabet’s mind is elsewhere.

His pending release has reawakened tensions between two interconnected families. Algazali is the eldest daughter of Alharsami and Thabet’s older sister; she has tried to bring peace to both sides by advocating Thabet’s freedom and putting an end to the 40-year-old feud that has seen at least five casualties.

But members of the Alharsami family have focused their anger on Algazali, who broke with cultural tradition by speaking out about the families’ internecine history.

The 40-year-old grandmother hopes to visit her sickly mother in Yemen some time this summer, and speaks casually about the possibility she might not make it back.

“If this is what God wants, it’s already been set,” she said.

Thabet, meanwhile, worries after the niece who reached out to him during his darkest moment. He has other concerns, too. Thabet was 19 when he left home, and spent his entire adulthood in the California penal system. If the man who is neither American nor fully Yemeni can’t build a home in Yemen, he’s already thinking of where he might try next. Egypt, Syria—the nations he once considered are buried in their own revolutionary chaos.

“The old, historic buildings in Syria are mostly gone now,” Thabet reflected.

He doesn’t know if he has a home yet, but it won’t be long before Thabet finds out.

Early Tuesday morning last week, a couple of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents put Thabet on a plane bound for the Yemen capital of Sana’a. He touched down Wednesday night.

When his mother—who fell from a three-story roof when she learned of her husband’s murder—set eyes on her long-gone son, she fainted. Thabet worried their reunion was too much for her.

“I didn’t think me seeing her would kill her out of happiness,” he told Algazali.

Once his mother regained consciousness, however, the Thabet family—finally intact—celebrated into the dawn. Ω

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People lament over it in the coffee shops, point out its potential while walking K Street and argue over best solutions while drinking beer at Capitol Garage. It’s a question by Dave Kempa every downtown 20- and 30-something central-city dweller has asked: How do we bring downtown davek@ Sacramento to its full potential? How do we make it ours? new sre view.c om Now, a group of young business owners and residents are taking the matter into their own hands.

Turn Downtown Around, an organization started by local designer Demetri Gregorakis and Blackbird Kitchen & Bar chef and owner Carina Lampkin, held its first open forum on this past Monday, March 18, inside Downtown Plaza. The meeting was both an introduction to the people of downtown and also an opportunity for young, socially conscious members of the community to network and exchange ideas.

“We need to build the city today, and not in 2020,” said Lampkin to the gathering of around 75 community members. “That’s what Turn Downtown Around is.”

While in its nascent stage, TDA is already making things happen. Earlier this month, the group held its first fundraiser, “Beer Bust,” from which they managed to raise around $7,500. Lampkin says this money will be going “We need to build the city to fund a mural project: today, and not in 2020.” Local artists will display their talents over the fencing that Carina Lampkin now blocks off what is essenfounder, Turn Downtown Around tially a hole in the ground on the west end of downtown.

The forum consisted of a panel including head of community news outlet Sacramento Press Jared Goyette, and the local historian William Burg, who presented a slideshow of downtown’s history.

One attendee asked the group about how to deal with news outlets that focus less on the community and more on the future of the Sacramento Kings.

“The short answer is: Be your own media,” said Goyette, a response that rang particularly true to this collective, which included members of Hacker Lab (a local technology cooperative) and social-media-fluent millennials.

Asked what he thought the unifying factor for turning downtown around, Burg said, “I don’t think we know what it is yet.” Then he considered. “It’s the energy.”

And the energy was certainly in the room on Monday when artist Danny Scheible stood up to speak at the close of the forum, urging everyone to get out and do their thing. Anything.

“I don’t care what it is,” said the artist, who makes artwork out of tape and calls his style “Tapigami.” “It could be just looking good. … It all makes a difference.”

At the moment, TDA hopes to gain its status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, as well as build a relationship with community members in order to form a unifying front in dealing with local politicians. The group’s next fundraiser is set for June, and it hopes to pull in $75,000 that time around to help improve the quality of life downtown. Ω

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Quality verse Annual brouhaha over CEQA makes mad flow for this writer If CEQA stood for “Challenge Everything, Question Authority” instead of California Environmental Quality Act, there probably wouldn’t be all this political drama. CEQA would be celebrated. Like YOLO. The Lonely Island might even follow up its “YOLO” song with a CEQA number: Don’t take no guff or calcified static.

The system’s insane, got bats in the attic.

Challenge everything! caplowdown@newsreview.com It’s the right way to go.

Question authority!

Don’t be no button-down schmo.

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It’s harder—but not impossible— to build a catchy tune around the California Environmental Quality Act. Apparently, it’s also hard for a legislative session to go by without some major call for CEQA overhaul.

For Republicans and moderate Dems, from the Central Valley and the Inland Em, CEQA’s so unwieldy and so expensive, the delay for projects is too extensive. The more that gets built, more people to employ, add it all together, you get economic joy.

As the head of the Senate, sure, Darrell’s got power. But so far, at least, he’s singing alone in the shower.

“Modernize” is this year’s CEQA revise. Except what modernize means depends on the eyes.

CEQA is supposed to keep the environment strong by examining projects to make sure they aren’t wrong. An impact report scopes the whole situation. If everything’s chill, there’s a negative declaration.

It was a Republican idea back in 1970—even then-Gov. Ronald Reagan believed CEQA was heavenly.

Forty years back, talkin’ hot pants and the first Earth Day, way before several members’ of the Assembly birthdays. Internet was a gleam in Al Gore’s eye; say “Text me” or “Google,” and people’d think you were high.

Over the years, CEQA’s stayed largely the same. But in 2013, California’s got a new game.

Now, CEQA just stomps on the bad, it doesn’t reward the good. Isn’t transit-friendly infill better than paving Muir Woods? Maybe a new project already fits a master plan. Doesn’t that deserve a quick CEQA scan?

“Correct,” says Sen. Tom Berryhill, Modesto GOP. “‘I’ve got a bill’ makes CEQA like ‘one, two and three.’” Do right by the fish and the air and the other laws that protect them, no need to do it again in CEQA, assalamu alaykum.

Quoth Sen. B.: “It’s a job issue for me. My bill’s all about efficiency.”

Gov. Jerry Brown, Berryhill notes, says parts of CEQA need to go, create more “consistent standards” so approval’s not so slow. What exactly’s consistent, Jerry ain’t saying, but he just did a CEQA end run to build some solar arraying.

Berryhill claims his bill makes CEQA more modern. Opponents say he turns logic on its noggin’.

Go the Berryhill route and CEQA’s castrated, knowing a project’s overall impact all but negated.

“I enter this debate at some personal peril. Some call me Steinberg. My first name’s Darrell.

My CEQA riff is the choicest of all. I’m so on track, everything else smokes crack.”

His goal is CEQA modernization, Steinberg says of his bill. But it’s def modernization, not that dub Berryhill.

Steinberg says infill’s the kind, so a CEQA OK should be less of a grind. If there’s a similar project within short memory, no need to get all supplementary. CEQA gets sleek, California goes long—or so says Darrell—if we start singing his song.

As the head of the Senate, sure, Darrell’s got power. But so far, at least, he’s singing alone in the shower.

Enviros dig one part but spew over that. Business groups say bogarting CEQA is phat. Trial lawyers want to sue all parties with ease. If a compromise is found, it can’t Jerry displease.

So what’s to be done, which way will it go? Depends how the wind blows. Too early to know. Ω

Not by the numbers Former teacher falls out of good graces with district over school-closure disagreement Karen Swett is something of a guru when it comes to school budgets, particularly in the Sacramento City Unified School District, where she was once a teacher.

Though retired from the district, she was until a few weeks ago given access to the school district’s online budget data. It’s all public information, but most of us have to go through the district public-information vIN aR G office to get it. Swett got to pull informaO SM

by CO tion for herself, accessing the online cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om system, called Escape, and the ability to generate reports on her own.

She says the access came from Superintendent Jonathan Raymond himself, so that she might help the community better understand school budgets. Swett used her access and her knowledge to work with parents and with the many official school site councils—made up of teachers and parents and principals—who meet to figure out how to make the best of the limited dollars available to each school. She even formed a little nonprofit called Making Cents Work, to help school sites and residents navigate the sometimes bewildering terrain of school finance.

For the most part, Swett kept a pretty low profile, even when she saw things at the district she didn’t agree with. But she couldn’t keep quiet about the district’s mass closure of schools in Sacramento low-income neighborhoods. It didn’t make any sense to her, didn’t save much money, and much more money was being wasted or left on the table in the form of “categorical” funds from the state.

She said so, leading community meetings and working with others who are fighting school closures to come up with an “alternative budget.” She tried to talk some members of the Sac city school board of trustees, hoping to show them just how damaging and unnecessary the school closures were. But those men had already made up their minds long ago.

Jonathan Raymond giveth, Jonathan Raymond taketh away. For wavering from the district’s line, the district cut Swett off from the valuable budget information.

“It has become very clear to me that the information that you are providing to sites and to Board members does not clearly and accurately reflect the actual financial position of the District,” wrote Richard E. Odegaard, the district’s interim financial officer, to Swett.

“Your access will be terminated effective today.”

Swett was getting increasingly vocal about the fact that many of the schools slated for closure consistently have big chunks of restricted or categorical state money left over every year.

You can see that clearly in the financial reports that the district has made public.

The disagreement is merely over how much

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Swett says a lot, the district says none. And it’s pretty clear the district cut Swett off because she was contradicting them.

“There has seemed to be a misunderstanding from some in the community about district budgets and available resources,” said district spokesman Gabe Ross. The “lack of context” around the budget data from the online system, said Ross, “may have contributed to the confusion, hence the timing of the decision.”

A lot of people are still working hard to keep these neighborhood schools open—even as the district tries to shut up its critics and finish the deed. Perhaps that is why district officials are moving to clamp off public information. The new political group Hmong Innovating Politics is still organizing parents at the affected schools. A civil-rights lawsuit is in the works—students of color account for 93 percent of the kids displaced by the decision— as is a grand-jury complaint.

Many displaced students are getting shunted into schools they don’t want to go to.

Some parents are pushing for recall of certain board members. That seems to Bites unlikely to succeed, unless the teachers’ union throw in money and volunteers in hopes of getting a new board and getting rid of Raymond. That would be morally complicated for them, however, since the union has been in favor of school closures in the past and was late in opposing this plan.

It seems more likely that some board members will find it a bit harder to win re-election, or they may get the cold shoulder from some former allies when they reach for higher office—say, county supervisor. Bites figures the old rules still apply, and under the old rules the politicians who voted to close schools likely won’t pay the price for their actions. Poorer communities, the ones that are most hurt by this decision, are still the least likely to come out to the polls.

But people are mad, and the district keeps giving them more reasons to be. Many displaced students are getting shunted into schools they don’t want to go to, even though they were promised “priority” in the openenrollment process. And the more the district does clumsy, autocratic things, like cutting its critics off from information, the madder folks will get. Ω

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Hope for the pope?

A papal conclave can be a bit like World Cup soccer: an exotic spectacle that makes international headlines every few years, full of colorful costumes and unfathomable rules, capable of rousing great passion in certain parts of the world but little more than a curiosity for most Americans. It all can seem archaic, irrelevant and even a bit comical—until you remember what’s at stake in choosing a spiritual leader for the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics.

As leader of the world’s largest Christian denomination, the pope can have significant impact on a variety of issues, including abortion rights, same-sex marriage, population control and climate change. Whether or not you belong to the roughly 25 percent of Americans who identify as Catholic, you are affected by the appointment of a new pope—for better or worse.

The elevation of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now known as Pope Francis, has been greeted with great joy in some quarters, particularly in his native Argentina. He is the papacy’s first Jesuit and the first to hail from Latin America, a region now home to 40 percent of the world’s Catholics. His quick appointment has been viewed as an acknowledgment that the future of the church is in the global south and as a pre-emptive strike against the possible rise of more aggressively reform-minded candidates.

Unfortunately, reform is exactly what the church needs. Around the world, and especially in Europe and the United States, the percentage of Catholics practicing their faith—as measured by attenPope Francis’ dance at mass, number of priests résumé is a ordained and participation in sacraments—is in decline. There disappointment for are undoubtedly many reasons for this, including the Vatican’s everyone hoping for continued insistence on outdated sweeping changes. and unreasonable doctrines, such as its ban on contraception and refusal to ordain women, and the fallout from a sexual-abuse scandal involving more than 6,000 priests in the United States alone and tens of thousands of victims around the world.

Pope Francis’ résumé is a disappointment for everyone hoping for sweeping changes. He is a theological conservative who has vigorously supported church bans on contraception, abortion, the ordination of women and same-sex marriage. And his record with regard to human rights is troubling: During the 1970s, he failed to stand up to his nation’s military dictatorship as it kidnapped, tortured and killed some 30,000 Argentinians. (In fact, there are allegations he secretly aided the regime in some instances.)

But Pope Francis may have little choice but to work for change. The Catholic Church desperately needs to move away from a system of governance modeled on 17th-century monarchies and toward increased transparency, accountability and decentralization of authority.

Without simple, common-sense changes in doctrines banning contraception, prohibiting priests from marrying, and barring women from the priesthood, there will be fewer priests and more empty pews with each passing year.

A more reasonable, responsive and relevant Catholic Church could have an enormously positive influence as issues of gender equality, the rights of gays and lesbians, climate change, and other concerns reach their tipping points in coming years. We hope Pope Francis can rise to the occasion and lead the way to much-needed reforms. Ω

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seems as if California Democrats are unchallengeable now. The Republican Party is in a shambolic state, down to 29 percent of the electorate and falling, while Democrats are ascendant, occupying all statewide offices and having recently won more than two-thirds of the seats in both houses of the state Legislature, plus the California congressional delegation.

They say everything that goes up must come down.

Here are five ways California Democrats could screw up their supermajority.

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However, despite the smashing victory for Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democratic Party last November with Proposition 30—which stands as a rebuke to the anti-tax atmosphere engendered more than 30 years ago by the passage of the Proposition 13 property-tax initiative—things could still go very wrong for Democrats.

In fact, an early warning may have just arrived from heavily Democratic Los Angeles.

In this month’s election, a half-cent sales-tax measure to fund cash-strapped Los Angeles city government went down big, 55 percent to 45 percent, despite backing from the Democratic city council and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

Former Gov. Gray Davis has a sense of how things can go well in politics and how things can go south. He was Brown’s chief of staff for seven years during his first two terms as governor in the 1970s and early 1980s. Davis went on to win two statewide offices before winning two terms of his own as governor, only to be recalled in the midst of a budget crisis and in the aftermath of an electric-power crisis.

“Everything that goes up,” as he noted in a recent discussion, “can also come down.”

The question is: How might that happen? And how soon?

Democratic strategist David Townsend argues that the Republican Party is “too white, too right and too uptight.”

But Townsend does see a major problem on the horizon. “I think,” he says, “that someday, the pension balloon is going to come crashing down and could give a Republican a shot of riding it to the governor’s office. Short of that, the Republicans can’t get out of their own way. I think California is going to stay blue a long time.”

Republicans are sounding pretty modest these days. New California GOP chairman Jim Brulte says he is “dedicated to the nuts and bolts” of reviving his party. He promises little more than a “legitimate” candidate to run against Brown, who has made no announcement but shows every sign of going for a record fourth term as governor.

“I doubt any Dems run against the governor, but I think the GOP should be able to field a legitimate candidate,” says Aaron McLear, who was the chief spokesman for the No on 30 campaign against Brown’s 2012

revenue initiative. Prior to that, he was a Republican National Committee staffer and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s last gubernatorial press secretary.

“The Dems will overreach,” he predicts, “and run a government that continues to serve public-employee unions at the expense of all else. The question is whether and when the GOP can take advantage of that.”

Here are five potential pitfalls for the ascendant Democrats. It might well take a combination of troubles for the Democrats to fall:

1. ShortageS in public penSionS and retiree health care There are lots of estimates of the shortfall in public pensions. But it seems clear that there is a shortfall of $150 billion or more.

Brown signed legislation that raises the retirement age for new state employees, limits annual benefits to $132,120 and requires increased contributions from state workers who aren’t contributing half of their retirement costs. But that’s for the future. An unfunded liability remains.

McLear argues that Democrats have already done the damage to themselves.

“They already did screw it up on pensions,” he states.

“Brown got rolled and agreed to far less than his initial plan, which he said was the ‘minimum’ that needs [to be] done. Now that they’ve checked the box on pensions, they won’t come back to it, which means employee costs will continue to grow and crowd out welfare, higher ed, K-12, parks, transportation and all else.”

The numbers when it comes to shortfalls in retiree health care are not as daunting as the pension numbers.

But they are still big.

In contrast to the pension system, which creates a fund that can generate earnings to cover expenses, the state’s retiree health-care system operates on a payas-you-go basis. But as State Controller John Chiang reported early this year, the state has a more than $60 billion gap over the next 30 years.

How the governing Democrats deal with this over time will prove very interesting. So far, there are few indications.

2. overdelivering to the democratic baSe, underdelivering to the democratic baSe In the latest Field Poll, 57 percent of California voters say Democrats favor “too many big government projects that the state cannot afford right now.”

Democratic constituencies have many agendas, from the social-safety network to the environment and beyond.

There’s always a danger in going too far.

When Davis came in as governor following 16 years of Republican governorships, he was beset by many demands from constituencies that had gone wanting.

While he initially resisted much of the many wish lists he received, he did go along with quite a few things after being weakened in the electric-power crisis.

That, and Republican refusal to raise taxes, helped produce a budget crisis.

But as Davis notes now, Brown does not have quite the same scale of demands today, as Schwarzenegger was more moderate than the two

Republicans, Pete Wilson and George Deukmejian, who preceded the Davis governorship.

Conversely, there is a danger in doing too little.

If nothing happens to change people’s lives for the better, cynicism can set in and Democratic-base enthusiasm can flatten.

3. too many taxeS, a Sour economy The failure of this month’s tax-hike measure in Democratic-friendly Los Angeles was telling, proving again that voters require a serious selling job to approve new revenues, especially coming from themselves and especially when they’re suspicious about how the money’s being spent.

I think that, someday, the pension balloon is going to come crashing down and could give a Republican a shot of riding it to the governor’s office. david townsend Democratic strategist

Los Angeles, like other cities, has a local government that is finding an increasing share of its revenue going to compensation and benefits for current public employees and retirees, while public services continue at the same level or even decline.

Two Democrats will fight it out in the May runoff for mayor; a Republican challenger finished a distant third with a measly 16 percent of the vote, so the tax-hike measure wasn’t trounced by a flood of Republicans.

Democratic prospects in L.A. aren’t hurt in this election cycle by the crunch between spending and revenues.

But in the long run, they may well be. And California as a whole is not nearly so Democratic as Los Angeles.

There is also a lot of debate about where California ranks among the states on the level of taxation. But there is little debate that that level has gone up. We did, after all, just enact Prop. 30, which places a sizable surcharge on high-income taxpayers and a quarter-cent increase in the sales tax.

The Field Poll finds that 52 percent of voters worry about “tax policies that are hurting California’s economy.” That’s a number today.

But prior to Brown’s trip east last month for the National Governors Association conference, a major Washington Post story ran with leading economists debunking conservative claims that Prop. 30 will negatively impact California’s economy.

The question is when the tax burden will have an impact beyond a few professional golfers.

Meanwhile, California is turning around. The economy has improved significantly since the depths of the great global recession.

Unemployment is still 9.8 percent. That’s two percentage points above the national rate. However, the state economy has grown a great deal over the past year.

California’s unemployment rate fell by 1.4 percentage points in 2012. That’s twice as good as the national improvement during the same time period.

But the national economic recovery is anemic, with threats all over.

The federal budget sequester has had little immediate impact, but could weigh on the economy over time. The continuing crisis of the eurozone is a worrying factor, as is economic slowdown in China.

Then there is the possibility of war, with conflict over Iran’s nuclear program always looming on the horizon. A big spike in oil prices would devastate California.

These are mega-factors that no governor or legislative leadership can affect. But as Davis pointed out, “The people in charge get the credit for good times and the blame for bad times. That’s the way it works.”

4. ScandalS and cronieS A governing party can become a ruling party.

As California moves ever closer to becoming a oneparty state, the prospect of scandal becomes greater.

We’ve seen it in neighboring Mexico, where the longruling PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) finally lost power after being engulfed in scandal. (Only to win it back from the new conservative party, but that’s another story.)

And we’ve seen it in Japan, where the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party was also engulfed in scandal and also lost power. Only to win it back in the wake of massive governmental fumbling around the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

Although there have been a few scandals here and there, especially at the level of local government, California has been largely free of political scandal.

But if that were to change, for the party in power at the center, things could become problematic for Democrats.

Also problematic: 47 percent of California voters in the Field Poll say Brown “favors organized labor too much.”

Being seen as the creature of any one powerful constituency is never a good thing in politics. As Republicans are noting with regard to the wealthy.

Put this perception together with other problems, especially dissatisfaction with public services, and Democrats have a significant problem.

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5. No more Jerry BrowN One of the main reasons Prop. 30 passed was due to voter trust in Brown, which is more than 60 percent in the latest Field Poll.

“Brown keeps the Democrats from looking out of control,” opines one leading Republican consultant who doesn’t want to offend now-dominant Democratic legislators.

It would have been difficult for a candidate less established than Brown to have withstood billionaire Republican Meg Whitman’s avalanche of spending in 2010.

While Brown has had a health scare or two—minor skin cancer and successfully treated prostate cancer— he seems good to go for another term.

But then, term limits, enacted after his first governorship of the 1970s and 1980s, go into effect for him, too.

And Democrats, in a post-Brown era, will have to hope that the party is still ahead of the game.

Meanwhile, this year’s election cycle is well underway.

Brown has some very nice polling numbers from the latest Field Poll. His job approval is up to 57 percent, the highest it’s been in this go-round as governor. Only 31 percent disapprove.

And a plurality of California voters now believes the state is heading in the right direction, the highest that

It’s very hard to see how a Republican can beat Brown.

Meanwhile, more numbers from the Field Poll carry more signs of a shift to the left by California voters.

Same-sex marriage is now overwhelmingly favored by California voters, 61 percent to 32 percent, an almost exact turnaround over the past 36 years. In 1977, when Field first polled on gay marriage, it was overwhelmingly opposed, 59 percent to 28 percent.

Same-sex marriage is now supported by all the major groupings in the state—ethnic, geographic, sociological, ideological, partisan, religious—with only three exceptions: conservatives, Republicans and Protestants. Or, put another way, the folks who met at the California Republican Party convention.

Who weren’t at all happy about the Field Poll showing a whopping 90-percent level of voter support for granting longtime illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship, as well as a majority backing drivers licenses for illegal immigrants.

That followed polling showing strong support for California’s landmark climate-change program—70 percent of California voters back this controversial bête noire of the political right and fossil-fuel advocates—and for more stringent gun controls. There

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The Dems will overreach and run a government that continues to serve public-employee unions at the expense of all else. aaron Mclear Republican strategist

number has been since 2007, i.e., before the great global recession.

A big majority, 55 percent to 39 percent, likes the fact that both houses of the Legislature are now in supermajority Democratic control.

Republicans have until next year to come up with a candidate for governor, which they don’t have yet, even though at every state convention at this stage of the process in the past, there was a major candidate or two on hand to do the developmental work that anyone must do to mount a serious campaign.

is even a new Field Poll showing a 54-percent-to-43-percent majority of California voters now support legalizing marijuana. This is the highest, as it were, level ever. In 1969, only 13 percent favored legalization.

After that rendition, the lights of 2014 look bright, indeed, for California Democrats.

But as former Gov. Davis notes, “It’s important for Democrats not to get overconfident.”

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O N T H E E v E O f H I S 9 0 T H B I R T H d A Y, G R E G O R Y K O N d O S d I S C U S S E S A L I f E T I M E O f L A N d S C A P E S , H I S L O v E f O R S A C R A M E N T O ANd WHY HE’S BIG IN CHINA

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ust a few weeks shy of his 90th birthday, Gregory Kondos still displays the intellectual vigor and acuity of a man one-third his age. The old master pulls no punches, displaying the honesty and candor that’s been a highlight of his approach to life.

Consider: “When I was asked to do a major piece of work for Terminal A at the [Sacramento International] Airport years ago, I took the job, even though the money was peanuts,” Kondos says.

And where other artists turned down the job “because of the price,” he adds, “I did it because I owe that to the community. That’ll be my legacy. This is my city.”

Kondos is just as direct when asked, “Why paint?”

“Why live?” he responds. “Painting has been my life for over 60 years. I love it and can’t imagine doing anything else.”

A snapshot of that life is currently on display at the Crocker Art Museum. A Touch of Blue: Landscapes of Gregory Kondos highlights the artist’s famed landscapes.

Kondos, who will discuss his works at the museum on Saturday, March 23, also has works on display at the Blue Line Arts gallery in Roseville; in April, Sacramento City College will feature his black-and-white sketches.

The Crocker exhibition is vast in its scope with 70 of the artist’s signature landscapes—pieces that appear deceptively simple. Here, there are no tricks or gimmicks or scenes meant to shock or titillate, just beautiful images that exude warmth and peace, yet also awaken the senses with the provocative color and composition.

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Kondos’ signature blue paint prominent, he employs bold brush strokes, adding touches of pinks, yellows, reds, purples and greens in unusual ways.

Throughout the landscapes, Kondos’ distinctive trees and mountains are shaped in a style that’s often emulated by a legion of imitators.

Of course, Kondos is not without his own influences.

The artist’s acknowledged reverences for French postimpressionist painter Paul Cézanne and the Dutch abstract impressionist Willem de Kooning weave their way into the viewer’s consciousness.

“If you can get just a piece of Cézanne in your art, you’ve accomplished a great deal,” Kondos says. “I believe I’ve been able to do that, and studying the boldness of de Kooning’s work helped release me from a more conservative style.”

Kondos didn’t always think about being an artist; he didn’t start painting seriously, in fact, until he was 25.

“I was serving in the Navy when I saw a Life magazine artist sketching scenes aboard ship. So, I tried sketching,” Kondos recalls. “He told me I was good. Then the captain noticed me and asked me to sketch him in exchange for beer.

That sounded good to me, and that’s when it all started.”

After his discharge from the Navy, Kondos studied art at Sacramento State University with the approval of his parents.

“My parents weren’t art people and never saw a show of mine. But they always supported me,” he says.

Now, Midtown’s Elliott Fouts Gallery owner Elliott Fouts calls Kondos “a giant.” “[He’s] defined the Sacramento landscape,” Fouts says.

“Through years of devotion to this subject, he’s taken ownership of it,” he adds. “His selfless sharing of his insights through classroom and seminar settings over the last 60 years have ensured that three generations of painters carry on the traditions he established and, at 90, still perfects.”

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“ I d I d I t b e c a u s e I o w e t h a t t o t h e c o m m u n I t y. t h a t ’ l l b e m y l e g a c y. t h I s I s m y c I t y. ” Gregory Kondos on creating artwork for the Sacramento International Airport’s Terminal A

A Touch of Blue: Landscapes of Gregory Kondos is on display at the Crocker Art Museum (216 O Street) through May 19.

Kondos will discuss his work at the museum on Saturday, March 23, at 1 p.m. The event is free with admission, $5-$10. For more info, visit www.crockerartmuseum.org.

Landscape Interpretations by Greg Kondos and Mya Louw is on display through April 13, at Blue Line Arts, 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100 in Roseville; (916) 783-4117; www.rosevillearts.org.

Happy 90th Birthday Gregory Kondos will be on display April 2-26, at the Gregory Kondos Gallery (inside the Fischbacher Fine Arts Building) at Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Boulevard; www.kondosgallery.org.

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“why are you wearing glasses? Are you on drugs?” the gelled-up fella leans over the bar and again barks at the woman sporting an arm tattoo and prescription lenses in 1950s frames. “are you on drugs? because I am.” “big-time,” she says, deadpan, and slides three Irish car bombs to a nearby patron.

It’s 2:30 on sunday afternoon, but Kbar is brimming with cologne-soaked bros and pretty, plastic gals. they’ve come out for the K Street Krawl, a st. Patrick’s day pubcrawl celebration hosted by nine of the struggling city center’s drinking establishments. the Krawl seems like a hit so far. but it’s certainly not my style. It’s pulled in the slurring, sloppy crowd that I’ve been avoiding since junior year in college. you know the scene: the guys’ shirts are a little too tight. the girls’ faces a bit too orange. top 40 songs blasting, oppressive, over the sweaty venue’s sound system. you can’t easily hold a conversation in here, but you can belt out your favorite party calls—“woo.” “yeah.” “Fuck yeah.”—or sing along with taylor swift when the moment calls for it. some bars are more palatable than others. gallagher’s Irish Pub features live music. tequila museo mayahuel, salsa dancing and cheap Mexican beer. district 30 is a nightmare, but it’s an empty nightmare this afternoon, so you can at least sit and reflect in peace under the green disco ball on what brought you to make the decisions you’ve made with your life, and why you do these things to yourself. as the sun goes down, the Warning: This drink may tone of the Krawl takes on turn you into a bro. something of an edge. shit talking in bathroom lines.

Scuffles in the streets. a dark bmw swerving up and down “the Kay,” carrying with it a hint of the pepper spray spewed forth by someone, somewhere, between dive bar and social nightclub. the flavor of the evening is encapsulated for me by a young man named Rich, who stops me as I’m walking through Pizza Rock. “hey, are you an accountant?” no, I’m a journalist. “you’re an accountant. are you a Jew?” nope. “what are you?” atheist, I guess. “no, I mean nationality.” For the sake of simplicity, I answer, Polish. “oh. you’re a Jew.” Oy. I ask Rich if he thinks it’s oK to ask people that kind of thing, and he responds, “what are you going to do about it?” write about it, I say. this is when a large man sidles past us on his way to the bathroom. “you hear that?” says Rich. “he apologized to me.”

I think Rich is trying to make a point, and I think that point is that he is alpha as fuck. but so are all of the other bros here, so I’m having a hard time understanding how this all shuffles out. we can’t all be prom queen, can we? as I’m saying goodbye to Rich and his crew, he recommends that I go to a nearby club, and to tell someone named shorty that he sent me. I nod. thanks, Rich. but if it’s anything like this bro Krawl, I’m going to pass.

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Sacramento fabric artist Merle Axelrad agrees; for her Kondos’ impact reaches far beyond technique.

“Thirteen years ago when I rented a studio on R Street, Greg had a studio just across the hall, and he’d often stop in to comment on my work,” Axelrad says. “His observations were always clear and insightful, with an eye to paring things down to a focused and strong statement. It’s a hallmark of his work that I value.”

Kondos, who taught at Sacramento City College for 27 years, says he sees such mentorships as opportunity.

“My celebration of life is the work that I do. I get a lot of pleasure from helping young people with their painting,” he says.

Kondos’ latest venture is a foray into China, where culture-hungry art patrons have greeted his landscapes with enthusiasm.

Ningbo and Shanghai, in particular, are at the epicenter of Kondos’ new adventure. In 2010, the Ningbo Museum of Art hosted an exposition of Kondos’ work and two of his paintings, “French Irises” and “The Pacific Coast” were added to the museum’s permanent collection. Likewise, the Shanghai Art Museum placed “El Capitan” in its collection of modern traditional pieces and pop art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai added “Half Dome” to its permanent collection.

Kondos’ global reach is vast.

The son of Greek immigrants, Kondos’ first visit to Greece in 1963 was instrumental in establishing the style and tenor of his work, and he has since been back 43 times.

“I never really knew who I was, and in Greece, I began to understand what my beginnings were all about,” Kondos says. “I carried water with villagers from wells to their tiny homes, ate their food and walked with shepherds as they tended to their flocks. I’ve sat alone and sketched the countryside for hundreds of hours. I immersed myself in nature and soaked up the culture of my forebears.”

Crocker Art Museum director Lial Jones says Kondos’ work captures “the spirit of the land.”

“His paintings of the Sacramento Valley and the Delta are as iconic and picturesque as any other places on Earth,” Jones says. “Through his stunningly beautiful painting we learn to better appreciate the abstract and colorful artistry of the world around us.”

Kondos’ own assessment of his work is simpler.

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f you’re vacation starved like most americans, then an hour visiting gregory Kondos’ new crocker art museum exhibit is a vicarious getaway. But it also might make you jealous.

his work welcomes relaxation, via celebrated malibu beaches or dodger-blue lake tahoe waters—soak in some of the golden state’s premier leisure space, the painter invites. or, if you’re up for adventure, visitors can behold the stupendous monoliths of yosemite national park, in some cases, on 6-foot-tall canvases. all of this is part of the mix at the nearly 90-year-old Kondos’ latest local show, a touch of Blue: landscapes by gregory Kondos, which overtakes a large swath of the crocker’s third floor. spend too much time at the sacramento painter’s new exhibit, however, and you may begin to feel miffed about your lack of time off. or your inadequate savings account. locales such as california’s silicon Valley, carmel-by-the-sea and yountville and classic

the magic of gregory K ond os ’ land s cap es exis ts in how they cap ture moments that no longer exis t

scenes of greek beaches and the french countryside are timeless. But also privileged. lush northern california vineyard landscapes and paintings of his wife’s iris gardens in toulouse, france, aren’t everyman scenery. one must pay to play.

But you, nonwary nontraveller, ultimately understand that jealousy gets you nowhere. and that, when it comes to Kondos, the landscapes are vital because they capture moments in nature that oftentimes no longer exist. “it is always high noon on a summer day in greg Kondos’ paintings” is how longtime sacramento Bee art critic Victoria dalkey described his specific brand of magic hour, or the way in which Kondos’ work functions as quintessential snapshots of the earth’s most immortal topography. places now mostly overtaken by humankind. consider Kondos’ 2001 portrait of emerald Bay, arguably lake tahoe’s most memorable cove. the skies are clear, creamy white. the steel-blue waters glow like icing. a lone tree pokes its branches upward in the foreground. and the island—undersized and lacking detail, like a navel lost in an ocean—conveys a sense of privacy, solitude. it’s the perfect moment alone in nature—even though, in the real world, visiting emerald Bay can be the ultimate tourist trap.

so much of Kondos’ work on display now at the crocker seizes this “high noon on a summer day” vibe and preserves popular california iconography in its natural, unaffected state. “half dome,” yosemite’s most legendary rock, glows with blood-orange tears at the crest, as if the sun’s giving the towering formation a rare kiss. its walls glimmer with piercing white and silver. and there’s nary a hiker in sight! even Kondos’ sacramento Valley landscapes— work from his own backyard—are river scenes at their terrence malick best: shadows from tree canopies contrast sharply with luminescent, periwinkle waters. tawny and fern-green brush overtake the shore. latte beaches sparkle. the sacramento river never looked as good as under Kondos’ brush. and there’s no waterskiers, riverboat revelers or beachcombers to be found. indeed, it’s not jealousy because the painter shows us places we only dream of going. or the exclusivity of his landscapes, such as santorini in greece. it’s Kondos’ ability to capture the world’s beauty at its most complete that invites resentment. Because, oftentimes, the landscapes’ moments are, sadly, no longer.

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Many of his paintings reflect his life in the Sacramento region; “Rutherford Vineyard,” oil, 1989.

Inspired by a Life magazine artist working aboard his ship, Kondos started sketching while in the Navy; “Cairo,” black-and-white drawing, 1977.

“ H i s p a i n t i n g s o f t H e s a c r a m e n t o V a l l e y a n d t H e d e l t a a r e a s i c o n i c a n d p i c t u r e s q u e a s a n y otHer places on eartH.” Lial Jones director, Crocker Art Museum

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Although the artist uses a multihued palette, Kondos is most famous for his use of blue paint.

The son of Greek immigrants, Kondos has visited Greece 43 times since 1963; “Kalamata Beach, Greece,” oil on canvas, 2006.

This Kondos landscape “Mont Sainte-Victoire” (oil, 2011) depicts a province in France and is one of the artist’s favorites.

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NIGHT&DAY DON’T MISS! WINE APPRECIATION: Many

locals know there is no need to journey to the Napa Valley to experience distinctive California wines.

If you need a little navigational help, join Certified Specialist of Wine Susan Brown as she introduces you to some enjoyable wine produced locally, including Chenin Blanc and Barbera varietals. Th, 3/21, 6:30-8:30pm. $35-$45.

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

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Comedy MICHAEL MANCINI: Check out a comedy night featuring Michael Mancini, with special guests Tommy Broome and Griffin Daley.

Mancini is a police officer and a stand-up comedian. He earned the title of World Funniest Cop from Jay Leno. This is also a police and firefighter appreciation night, with partial proceeds going go to the Matt Redding Foundation. Th, 3/21, 7pm. $15.

Halftime Bar & Grill, 5681 Lonetree Blvd. in Rocklin; (916) 626-3600, ext. 2; www.strikesrocklin.com.

Classes BEER CLASS: What’s your favorite style of beer? Find out more about different beer styles and categories. Get to know your own tasting preferences while enjoying a beer tasting. Seating is limited, so call for advance reservations.

Th, 3/21, 6:30-8:30pm. $15. Total Wine & More, 2765 E Bidwell St. in Folsom; (916) 984-6923; www.totalwine.com.

Concerts COMMERCIAL MUSIC ENSEMBLE: The Sacramento City College Commercial Music Ensemble will be performing songs of a variety of contemporary pop and commercial styles: jazz-rock fusion, R&B, soul, folk, country, and Latin. Th, 3/21, 7pm. Free.

Sacramento City College Performing Arts Center, 3835 Freeport Blvd.; (916) 558-2243.

JAZZ BY GOODWIN AND MINGUS: Sacramento State’s Jazz Ensemble will play music by Duke Ellington, Gordon Goodwin, Charles Mingus and more. The band has been invited to perform at the prestigious Monterey Jazz Next Generation Festival several years running.

Find out why. Th, 3/21, 8pm. $5-$10. Sacramento State Music Recital Hall, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-5191; www.csus.edu/music.

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FUNDERLAND’S EASTER BASH: Funderland’s Easter Bash will include egg hunts, rides, the Easter Bunny, Happy the Squirrel and craft projects. 3/22 to 3/24, 10am-6pm. Free. Funderland Amusement Park, 1350 17th Ave.; (916) 456-0131; www.funderlandpark.com.

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LEO KOTTKE: Grammy-nominated acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke will return to Sacramento to play a solo concert at the Crest Theatre. This show, presented by UpWest Arts, marks Kottke’s first show in Sacramento in three years. Now 66 years old, Kottke has recorded more than 30 albums that showcase his barnstorming fretwork and quirky songwriting. F, 3/22, 8pm. $25-$35. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.; (800) 225-2277; www.leokottke.com.

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DON’T MISS! MIDTOWN SPRING CLEANUP:

Celebrate the start of spring by cleaning up Midtown. The Midtown Business Association is partnering with local neighborhood associations to host a spring cleanup with support from the Volunteer Center of Sacramento. Volunteers will remove trash, graffiti and help beautify the Midtown community from 16th to 29th streets, between G and O streets.

Sa, 3/23, 9am-noon. Free.

Parking lot at 2020 J Street; (916) 442-1500; www.exploremidtown.org.

Special Events THE BODIL WENNBERG MUSIC FESTIVAL: Witness an uplifting showcase featuring 450 students in eight different orchestras from Davis school orchestra programs. Special guest, 2013 Davis High School Concerto Competition Winner Jacqueline Liu, will perform with the Davis High School Symphony for the finale. Sa, 3/23, 2:30-5pm. $9-$17.

Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, 9399 Old Davis Rd. in Davis; (530) 754-2787; www.mondaviarts.org.

Kids’ Stuff EASTER EGG HUNT FOR DOGS: Bring your furry friend and join Wag Hotels’ fourth annual Easter Egg Hunt for dogs. Enjoy finger foods and live music while your dog sniffs out eggs filled with tasty treats and valuable prizes. There will be photo opportunities with the Easter Bunny and a professional photographer will be on site to snap photos of this fun day. Sa, 3/23, 11am-2pm. $15-$20.

McKinley Park, 601 Alhambra Blvd.; (888) 924-5463; http://wseasteregghunt fordogs.eventbrite.com.

EGG HUNT & CARNIVAL: Celebrate spring at Fulton-El Camino’s Egg-O-Rama. This fun-filled day will include games for all ages, an egg hunt, bounce house, face painting and a special visit from the Easter Bunny. Bring family and friends to enjoy this community event. Sa, 3/23, 9:30am-noon. $4-$9. Howe Avenue Park, 2201 Cottage Way; (916) 927-3802, ext.

125; www.fecrecpark.com.

Concerts ANANDA ORATORIO: This annual performance, featuring a 50-person choir and instrumentalists, marks the beginning of a spiritual Easter. Sa, 3/23, 3-5pm.

Donations accepted. Ananda Sacramento, 10450 Coloma Rd. in

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CLASSICAL HORN MUSIC: The Folsom Symphony’s horn section will perform some of the most magnificent pieces ever written for these instruments.

Schumann’s energetic Konzertstuck is a musical tour de force; Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 is poignant and emotional; Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on a Theme” by Thomas Tallis is a lush exultation of a rich string serenade. Sa, 3/23, 7:30pm. $20-$42. Three Stages Peforming Arts Center, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

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IN THE MOOD: This 1940s musical revue is returning for an encore performance. Don’t miss singers and dancers appearing in the String of Pearls Big Band Orchestra. The music and arrangements are as authentic as it gets. Tu, 3/26. $16.50-$43.50.

Hutchins Street Square, 125 S. Hutchins St. in Lodi; (209) 333-5550; www.hutchinsstreetsquare.com.

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LONG BEACH REHAB: Catch Long Beach Rehab—which features Q-Ball from Sublime, as well as members of Bad Brains and Smashmouth— performing in West Sacramento.

Openers include Some Fear None and tribute band Sublime LBC. Sa, 3/23, 7pm. $15. River’s Edge Bar & Grill, 2125 W. Capitol Ave. in West Sacramento; (916) 374-9155; www.facebook.com/somefearnone.

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PERSONHOOD: Learn how you can get involved in the campaign to end corporate personhood and demand real democracy. David Cobb, a fiery speaker, lifelong activist and 2004 Green Party Presidential Candidate, is touring the country giving his talk “Creating Democracy & Challenging Corporate Rule.” W, 3/27, 7:30-9pm.

Free. Valley Hi-North Laguna Library, 7400 Imagination Pkwy.; (916) 421-1836; https://move toamend.org/events/ sacramento-ca-barnstorming-event-david-cobb.

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He recorded his debut album Songs We Sing in 2005 with the help of No Doubt guitarist Tom Dumont, and rereleased it on Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records in 2006. Costa wrote much of his breakout second album, Unfamiliar Faces, in Sacramento while visiting a girlfriend. Now, he returns to town to play at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub (2708 J Street) on Sunday, March 24, at 8:30 p.m. (tickets cost $18). SN&R chatted on the phone with Costa about his experience in Sacramento, recording his latest album in Scotland with producer Tony Doogan (Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai, Snow Patrol) and John Steinbeck.

H OW ’ D YO U G E T P I C K E D U P BY BRUSHFIRE RECORDS? Through Emmett Malloy. He did surf films, and he wanted to use one of my songs in one of the films. So he did. From there, [Johnson] heard it, and they invited me out to do a tour. … It blew my mind how many people were there. And so, we were on the road then, and halfway through the tour, he asked if we wanted to release the record again through his label.

HOW DID SACRAMENTO T R E AT YO U ?

I liked living in Sacramento. Every time I bring up Sacramento to my wife now, though, she gets bummed out because I went up there for a girl. … So, to her, Sacramento means my ex-girlfriend. It doesn’t mean that I actually just genuinely liked it there. But I did. I lived over off of the Cannery [Business Park] area there. I’d walk down to the river every day. And I’d ride my bike down to the [Sacramento and American river] confluence.

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… I liked picking wild blackberries at the river’s edge. [A song called] “Never Looking Back” … was about when that train bridge burned down. … I was in McKinley Park the day of, and I saw this big black plume of smoke rising in the sky, and I ran back because I thought my house was on fire.

YOU RECORDED WITH YOUR LATEST, A SELFTITLED ALBUM, WITH TONY DOOGAN. WHAT WAS THAT LIKE? [He] introduced me to the Belle & Sebastian folks, and having a number of the guys in that band back up the record was really fantastic. They’re great guys, and we have a lot of similar tastes in music, and I’d been a fan of theirs for a long time as well.

D O YO U H AV E PLANS TO RECORD WITH TOM DUMONT AG A I N ? A R E YO U STILL CLOSE? I talk to him really rarely now, maybe like once or twice a year. I actually owe him … this book that’s been sitting on my

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bookshelf for a while. … He [gave] me Tortilla Flat, this John Steinbeck book. I [subsequently] went through all of [Steinbeck’s] books. I just read [Steinbeck: A Life in Letters] that Steinbeck wrote to everyone: [his] publisher, wife, friends, enemies. I’m looking at it [now] on the bookshelf. I’m going to drop it off on his doorstep, along with returning his copy of Tortilla Flat, which I’ve held on to for 10 years.

D O YO U H AV E A MUSICAL-CAREER HIGHLIGHT? Probably about two years ago or so, I got a call from Donovan.

And I sang “Sunshine Superman” with him onstage.

We opened up the show and sang it together. That was a big moment. Not only being on the stage with him, but just being around him. That’s one of those things—it’s just cosmic.

For ticket information, visit http://mattcosta.com or www.harlows.com.

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Shady Lady Saloon, 1409 R St.; (916) 231-9121; www.blvdpark.info.

Literary Events SUICIDEGIRLS BOOK SIGNING AND PARTY: A few SuicideGirls will be signing a hardcover photo book of tattooed pinup girls called Hard Girls, Soft Light. After the book signing, join local SuicideGirls for an official after-party at Shady Lady Saloon. W, 3/27, 5-6pm. Free.

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Special Events FAMILY CONCERT WITH CAMELLIA SYMPHONY: Enjoy a family concert, instrument petting zoo and crafting with the Camellia Symphony Orchestra. Children will meet musicians and learn how their instruments are played. Kids can also create art related to the musical experience with volunteers. Then, the orchestra will perform a variety of classic music selections from well-known movie scores. Su, 3/24, 1pm. Free.

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

Concerts MARTIN BEAL ALBUM-RELEASE PARTY: Join in celebrating the release of Martin Beal’s new album, Smile.

Get your toes tapping as Beal presents an evening of classic jazz with some Latin standards thrown in for extra spice. Tunes will be provided by Joe Gilman, Matt Robinson, Rick Lotter, Tom Peron and Darius Babazadeh. W, 3/27, 7-9pm. Free. Red Lion Woodlake Hotel, 500 Leisure Ln.; (415) 412-2409; www.martinbeal.com.

Concerts THE SONGS OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER: Revisit Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, Starlight Express, and Broadway’s longest running musical, Phantom of the Opera. All performers in this variety show are Broadway stars. Su, 3/24, 2 & 7pm. $24-$39. Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

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This is a demonstration-style class. M, 3/25, 6:30-8:30pm. $35$45. Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 1914 Alhambra Blvd.; (916) 868-6399; www.sacfoodcoop.com.

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The sure sign that a city boasts a vibrant food culture is if it possesses a wide variety of venues: not by too heavy on the fast food or booming dance Ann Martin Rolke clubs, or even too many solemn, high-end establishments. Until recently, it has been a bit scarce when it comes to restaurants for adults who want to socialize in style in Sacramento.

Fortunately, Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. has come to the rescue.

The restaurant, from the same owners as Midtown’s The Golden Bear, has been open for five-and-a-half months. The chef, Brian Mizner, rating: worked at Hot Italian and L Wine Lounge and HHH 1/2 Urban Kitchen. Here, they’ve redesigned the interior of the former Hangar 17 Quonset hut to dinner for one: include clever nods to the firefighting theme: $20 - $40 a ladder on the ceiling duct work, shiny silver wallpaper with a surprising rat-and-hydrant theme. Wooden pallets on the walls and a fabric-covered ceiling help dampen the noise.

My dining companion and I first sit at the communal table by the bar. This setup encourages patrons to talk to each other and gives the place a community feel. There’s also a similar lounge area with a sofa where patrons can curl up and enjoy a terrific cocktail, like the H weekly “brunch punch” or the nonalcoholic flawed seasonal shrub.

HH The punch I tried had rum, honey, chamhaS momentS pagne and lime juice—a fizzy but light spring HHH drink. The shrub, which is a Colonial-era libaappealing tion of fruit, vinegar and sugar, was surprisingly refreshing. Even more spectacular, though, was HHHH authoritative the West Indies Sour, made with St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram, brandy, lime juice and red wine.

HHHHH epic Hook & Ladder’s interesting wine list includes entries from Spain and Israel; there are also draft cocktails and at least eight beers on tap.

The food follows suit. First, though, pull out your cellphone to light up the menu, which has a faint type and small font. I saw several tables doing just that, despite great light fixtures throughout the space.

Both of our meals started with compliStill hungry? mentary amuse-bouches. Quartered muffins Search Sn&r’s at brunch were tasty but a bit dry. Better was “dining directory” the dinner offering of a crisp square of cheesy to find local potatoes Anna with zesty Calabrian chili aioli. restaurants by name The brunch menu is heavy on the eggs, but or by type of food.

Sushi, mexican, indian, they’re prepared in lots of ways. One option is italian—discover it the Croque Madame, a ham-and-Gruyere sandall in the “dining” wich usually battered with egg. This one had a section at fried egg and béchamel, with a generous smear www.news review.com. of mustard inside. The mountain of potato hash alongside tasted flavorful and not too greasy.

I have very high standards for biscuits, but the biscuits and gravy here are a bit disappointing. They’re supposed to be made with jack cheese and pancetta, but are light on those ingredients and are not flaky enough. Still, the peppery gravy adds good flavor.

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

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.

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.

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

North Sac Asian Café Asian Café

serves both Thai and Lao food, but go for the Lao specialties, which rely on flavoring staples such as fish sauce, lime juice, galangal and lemongrass, lots of herbs, and chilies. One of the most

common dishes in Lao cuisine is larb, a dish of chopped meat laced with herbs, chilies and lime. At Asian Café, it adds optional offal add-ons— various organ meats, entrails, et al—to three versions of the dish: beef with tripe, chicken with gizzards, or pork with pork skin. The beef salad offers a gentle respite from aggressive flavors, consisting of 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

South Sac 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

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

I always taste great new beers and attend fun events during Sacramento Beer Week, but I think I enjoy the weeks following the end of SBW even more.

Bars and restaurants that loaded up on rare beers start selling off their remaining stock, so you can resample some of your SBW favorites without the hoopla and crowds—and often at reduced prices. Pangaea Two Brews Cafe (2743 Franklin Boulevard) was still serving Montreal-based Brasserie Dieu du Ciel’s remarkable barley wine Solstice d’Hiver two weeks after its Shelton Brothers Importers event. New releases like Stone Brewing Co.’s oak-smoked Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine have started showing up on store shelves. Even the usually pedestrian Streets of London Pub (1804 J Street) taps are spruced up with the likes of Ballast Point Brewing Company’s Indian-spiced Indra Kunindra and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s barrel-aged Bigfoot.

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ground pork that’s baked on the bottom of the pan with rice, then stirred and fried up fresh the next day with dried Thai chilies and scallions. Thai and Lao. 2827 Norwood Ave., (916) 641-5890. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHHH B.G.

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

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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.

Famous Kabob It seems like if

Arden/ Carmichael El Pollo Feliz For a restaurant dubbed “the happy chicken,” El Pollo Feliz sure smokes a lot of birds. These chickens get one heck of an afterlife: Their parts

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

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are rubbed with earthy Mexican spices and then slow-cooked in a smoker for hours. Their flesh becomes fall-off-the-bone soft and infused with an aromatic wood-chip flavor. The restaurant’s signature dish is barbecue chicken, and customers can purchase wings, breasts, drumsticks and thighs in a variety of amounts—from as few as two to 12 pieces. An eight-piece combo is basically an entire chicken. You can also order it covered in a chocolatey and peppery mole-poblano sauce; shredded and scattered atop a plate of nachos; on top of a salad; inside a torta-style sandwich; or stuffed into a burrito. There’s a friendly neighborhood vibe here, and much of the cooking happens in the parking lot directly in front of the mom-and-pop joint.

4717 Whitney Ave., Carmichael; (916) 485-4446. Mexican. Dinner for one: $5-$15. HHHH J.M.

bowls, soups and stir-fries. A few random Japanese (ramen, fried udon), French (sweet or savory crepes), Russian (borscht), Korean (beef and kimchi hot pot) and Italian (various pastas) foods add to the feeling that whatever your cultural background, you’ll find a comfort dish from your childhood to wrap its arms around you and give you a hug. Cultural diversity aside, one of Blue Moon’s best dishes is the braised pig ear with soy sauce and peanuts. Asian.

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

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.

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stimulate the taste buds, these are meals that are quietly hearty and nourishing. Persian.

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

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

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

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Join the circus Traces Skateboarding. Dance. Basketball. All involve intense physical movement and, as executed by PERFORMANCE the performers of Traces, all represent a way of trying to answer the question: “If the world ended tomorrow, what traces would you leave behind?”

The Montreal-based troupe 7 Fingers (or Les 7 Doigts de la Main), acclaimed for its blend of theater and dance, attempts to answer that query in Traces. This energetic show takes the Cirque du Soleil model—think almost surrealistic high-flying acrobatics—and places its principals on skateboards. With the action set in an abandoned warehouse in a world that seems set on the edge of the apocalypse, the story here is told through a group of young urban friends who, hunkered down in their grim shelter, design ways to leave their mark on whatever is left of society. The result, which Time magazine declared as one of 2011’s top 10 plays or musicals, is a breathtaking show that’s at once hyperactive and athletic yet also supremely graceful. During the course of the show’s 90 minutes, the performers flip and leap, twirl and twist—all without seemingly breaking a sweat.

The 7 Fingers troupe performs Traces on Monday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m.; and Tuesday, March 26, at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $24.65-$59. Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

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Epic fantasy fail I have phone conversations with a man in Canada who I met dating online.

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Long phone chats? He’s bored and has no better way to occupy time.

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Each call returns him to drama: He doesn’t desire or cherish you but appreciates being desired and cherished by you. And you, darling, are using this situation to polish your sales skills. On each call, you try to close the deal on a relationship.

Like a shopper on a car lot, he is “just looking,” but you continue trying to break him down. Coiled beneath every conversation is the demand that he submit to your will and sign on the dotted line to become your man.

Oh my, those are harsh words, aren’t they? That’s what real friends do: tell us the truth. One of your friends, a straight shooter, said she didn’t understand why you continue talking to your Canadian

phone pal. Your other friend, afraid, perhaps, of your aching need for a man who does not see you as a potential mate, suggests that you enjoy the conversations.

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A friend has had a debilitating illness for a decade. Initially, I drove her to appointments, cooked meals, did errands. Then, I backed off because she doesn’t follow her doctor’s orders. She says I don’t understand her illness. This is true. But I want to be around people who are disciplined in mind and body to face difficult issues and improve. I feel guilty about abandoning her. How do I release guilt and keep boundaries?

Admit that you rushed in to save her, and when you realized that nothing you did would be enough, resentment ensued. Yours. In the future, lend a hand because it brings you joy, not because you expect kindness to be medicine.

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Runaway Stage Productions gets frisky and risky with this raunchy—and inordinately funny and offensive—musical comedy. A talented cast, by Jim Lane the bulk of them first-timers with the company, runs riot with the innuendo, sex jokes and politically incorrect humor in this grown-up version of Sesame Street.

Princeton, a recent college graduate, comes to New York City in hopes of finding his “purpose,” only to discover that his ideas about what life would be like after college were overly optimistic. He rents an apartment in a building on Avenue Q, where Gary Coleman

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Thursday, Friday; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday; $18-$25. Black Box Theatre at the West Sacramento Community Center, 1075 W. Capitol Avenue in West Sacramento; (916) 207-1226; www.runawaystage.com.

Through March 31.

(Helen Ventura) is the building’s super, and residents are represented by a mix of people and people-operated puppets. Brian (Scott Minor) and his live-in, Christmas Eve (Eimi Taormina) portray the people, while the nonpeople characters in the production are operated and voiced by actors who are visible to the audience.

Scott Bolt (in the dual roles of Princeton and closeted investment banker Rod) leads the cast, with Amanda Goldrick (as the virtuous Kate Monster and loose Lucy) and Andy Hyun (as Nikky and Trekkie Monster). All are excellent at differentiating characters as they switch puppets and personalities. Hyun is especially fine performing “If You Were Gay” and (with Ventura) “Schadenfreude.”

But two songs, taken together, present the show’s big problem: While preaching tolerance, acceptance and avoidance of stereotyping (“Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist”), it takes too much joy in making fun of the

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In a home away from Runaway Stage’s usual home in the 24th Street Theatre, director Bob Baxter makes wise use of the Black Box Theatre.

The seating arrangement—the audience sits on three sides—puts the puppets and puppeteers into the open space. The show also features suspended TV screens used for instructional videos, a superior sound system and excellent musical accompaniment provided by a five-piece band led by Deann Golz—all of which make this production of the 2004 Tony-winning musical something truly special. Ω

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Lifeless letters Echoes in the Heart

Sacramentan Susanne Sommer was just a baby when her parents escaped from Germany just before the invasion of Poland in 1939. It took more than three years for her family to get to America, and even then many strings were pulled and numerous favors called in so that the family could make it to the United States.

Echoes in the Heart, written by Sommer and Leo McElroy, chronicles the plight of her family and its exodus from Germany through dramatized readings of actual letters.

The play, in execution, has the audience watching these characters write letters to people on the other side of the stage. The first time this happens, it feels unique and interesting. By the end of the play, however, it’s a wonder anyone has paid attention for this long.

The actors do with the production what they can. Unfortunately, the repetitive nature of the script just features the actors reading out loud as they are writing or standing onstage, silently reacting to letters as they’re read over in narration. A lot.

The product is a biographic litany of injustices large and small committed against Jews in the late 1930s. It also just feels like a laundry list.

The play possesses no arc; indeed, every scene here is just a fresh slice of difficulty from that era. It gives an interesting firsthand account of history, but unfortunately is done in a way that moves slowly, restates the same sentiments over and over again, and just generally lags from watching people reading a letter as it’s being narrated over the sound system.

If history is your bag and you don’t mind hearing a story of hardship that never really resolves, check this one out.

—Maxwell McKee

Echoes in the Heart, 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; $15. Presented at the Geery Theater, 2130 L Street; (916) 447-2137; www.wjgeerytheater.com. Through April 7.

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Writer David Pierini’s play for young audiences provides a timely reminder that American women had to protest for decades before they got the right to vote—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 & 4pm.

Through 4/14. $18-$27. B Street Theatre, 2711 B St.; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. J.H.

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Director Christine Nicholson favors physical humor and constant action in this fast-paced staging, with just nine actors (and a lot of double casting) and American accents. It’s funny and easy to follow, and always played for laughs. Th 12:30 & 6:30pm; F 8pm; Sa 2 & 8pm; Su 2pm, W 6:30pm. Through 3/24. $15-$38.

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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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Director Jac Royce locates moments of darkness in this Irish-themed production of the classic Shakespeare comedy, rather than playing the lovers’ quarrels entirely for laughs. A handsome set by Mike Edwards, a bit of Celtic music and good costumes by Sharon Olson lend added appeal. Th 7pm; F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 3/23. $15-$35.

Sierra Stages Community Theatre at the Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad St., Nevada City; (530) 346-3210; www.sierrastages.org. J.H.

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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 couples—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 Courtney 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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B Street Theatre hosts the world premiere of playwright Michael Elyanow’s look at the unspoken code of honesty and loyalty among girlfriends—when is it appropriate to butt in when friends are making questionable choices in love or life? Three lifelong pals judge and battle with and against each other with biting humor, captured by good performances by all three actresses, Amy Kelly, Elisabeth Nunziato and Melinda Parrett. The problem lies in inconsistencies with the play’s tone and intent. Overthe-top raucous, mean-spirited humor runs rampant. Th, F 8pm; Sa 5 & 9pm; Su 2pm; Tu 6:30pm; W 2 & 6:30pm. Through 4/14. $23-$35. B Street Theatre, 2711 B St.; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. P.R.

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woodsy family estate, the peace of her tranquil town, and the unspoken somberness of her home life are suddenly upended by not only this mysterious accident, but by the sudden arrival of her Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), whom she never knew existed. When Charlie moves in with her and her emotionally unstable mother Evie (Nicole Kidman), India thinks the void left by her father’s death is finally being filled by his closest bloodline. Soon after his arrival, India comes to suspect that this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives. Yet instead of feeling outrage or horror, this friendless young woman becomes increasingly infatuated with him.”

I quote the studio publicity at length because judging from the movie itself, it is wrong in almost every detail.

Let’s take the last point first. Mia Wasikowska is a good actress: I think she could show us infatuation if she wanted to. Her India never appears infatuated with her Uncle Charlie.

On the contrary, she’s suspicious of and hostile to him from the start.

As for the “mysterious, charming” Uncle Charlie, it seems to me that “creepy and charmless” would be closer to the mark.

This may simply be my reaction to Matthew Goode, whom I have seldom found an actor of conspicuous charm. But we can’t hang this one on Goode: Most of Stoker’s problems are the work of director Chan-wook Park, who has never made a movie in English before, and the actor-turned-screenwriter Wentworth Miller,

who has never written a screenplay at all.

When a supposed suspense thriller centers around a teenage girl and her Uncle Charlie, there might as well be a neon billboard flashing “Homage to Alfred Hitchcock” in the lobby. The model is Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943), in which teen Teresa Wright suspects that her adored Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) is a notorious serial killer.

The resemblance ends there. Hitchcock considered Shadow of a Doubt his one picture that would have no problem with “the plausibles”—those who found his plots far-fetched or unconvincing. To be sure, Shadow is all too plausible, but no such burden troubles Stoker. Wentworth Miller peppers his script with implausibilities, most of which can’t be detailed here without arousing the Spoiler Police. But some can. For example, the idea that for India’s birthday every year, somebody gives her a gift of the same pair of ugly saddle shoes, each a size larger than the year before, and each pair is left in a tree in a white box tied with a yellow ribbon. Compounding the implausibility, India has kept every single pair and lies with them around her in a circle when she’s feeling moody— which is most of the time.

Then there’s India’s treatment from a highschool jock, which would get him expelled for sexual harassment anywhere in America. Or her one sympathetic friend (Alden Ehrenreich of Beautiful Creatures), who turns into a rapist when it suits what we’ll laughingly call Stoker’s plot. Or her remaining in that daffy old house even after she finds the first body in the basement freezer. The crowning implausibility is Uncle Charlie’s “secret” when it’s finally revealed.

But why go on? Director Park imbues the movie with the visual folderol that sometimes

Director Chan-wook Park imbues the movie with the visual folderol that sometimes passes for style. passes for style, and was sufficiently brazen in his idiotic Oldboy (2003) to win him an award at Cannes Film Festival. Nobody bothered to tell Mr. Park that there was an even farther-fetched story here than he worked with in Oldboy.

Finally, there’s the question of Nicole Kidman, whose role amounts to little more than a diva cameo. Well, she worked with Wentworth Miller 10 years ago in The Human Stain. Maybe she was doing a favor for an old friend. Now he owes her one. Ω

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A Good Day to Die Hard

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

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

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The Call

A 911 operator (Halle Berry) loses her nerve when she feels responsible for a kidnap and murder; six months later, she fields a call from a victim in a car trunk (Abigail Breslin) who may have fallen into the clutches of the same killer. The artless sadism works for a while, thanks to Berry’s strong performance and support from Roma Maffia as her sympathetic boss and Morris Chestnut as her cop fiancé. Alas, Richard D’Ovidio’s script (from a story by himself, Nicole D’Ovidio and Jon Bokenkamp) runs out of ideas; the killer’s contrived backstory takes over, and the movie degenerates into a low-rent The Silence of the Lambs, turning Berry into a low-rent Jodie Foster. Director Brad Anderson, short on ideas himself, can only tighten the screws on the audience, and the movie becomes more unpleasant by the minute. J.L.

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The Croods

A prehistoric family is forced to face the outside world when their teenage daughter (voiced by Emma Stone) meets a handsome stranger (Ryan Reynolds). It’s recycled Flintstones, only without even the meager inspiration of that oldie-but-not-very-goodie. At least William Hanna and Joseph Barbera ripped off The Honeymooners; writer-directors Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders can only think to rip off some of the worst animated features of all time: Rio, Ice Age, Madagascar—distended shorts that mistake frantic activity for energy and flailing invention for ingenuity. With negligible characters and a threadbare story, there’s nothing to pass the time but identifying the voices. Nicolas Cage is dad, Catherine Keener is mom and Cloris Leachman is grandma. There now, I’ve saved you the trouble of seeing it at all. J.L.

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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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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.

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Revisiting the 1988 plebiscite by which Chile shook off a terrible dictatorship, director Pablo Larraín’s film nicely subdues feel-good instincts in favor of nuanced, stoic insight. It depicts the surreally historic moment when international pressure forced a referendum on the Pinochet regime, and pro and con campaigns sprang up to duke it out on Chilean TV. Gael García Bernal stars as a hotshot ad exec who takes charge of the risky bid to rally fellow citizens against eight more years of official brutality. Told he needs an anthem, he shrewdly insists on a jingle instead—“Chile, happiness is coming!”—and the battle for freedom takes shape as a contest between callow, too-chipper “advertising language” and duplicitous fear-mongering propaganda. Daringly, the whole movie was shot on U-matic video, for that visually parched, late ’80s look. With the TV imagery and the jean jackets looking equally washed out, Larraín’s aesthetic cleverly enlists the audience in yearning for a more beautiful future. It also illuminates a moral intelligence that’s rare among retrospective election movies: something beyond just black and white. J.K.

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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.

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Greedy Lying Bastards

Activist Craig Scott Rosebraugh steps into the documentary game with this directorial debut, unfortunately, just another one of those smarmy, quasi-journalistic, sign-this-petition spiels. Rosebraugh’s Al Franken-style 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 own kind of insensitive opportunism. J.K.

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Oz the Great and Powerful

As Tim Burton took on Lewis Carroll, so Sam Raimi has a go at L. Frank Baum: under the deadening influence of Disneyfication. It’s not Raimi’s fault that never again will any movie have the cultural staying power of The Wizard of Oz, but still his quasi-prequel seems to lack perspective. Before becoming the man behind the curtain, he was James Franco, as a Kansas con man with a two-bit carnival magic act. Good idea, theoretically, but Oz as protagonist needs more than the nonpersonality of a perpetually stoned,

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

The true events from which Phantom jumps off are fewer than its opening titles imply. It would be fine to credit Robinson with an imaginative fabrication, had he used more imagination. But for all its suspense-stoking theatrics, his movie has the lethargy of a lazy mash-up, like every grave-situation-on-a-submarine film of the past 20 years, plus maybe a couple of Star Trek episodes, rolled into one unabashedly corny and somewhat budget-challenged chamber drama.

Sometimes it is solid in a no-nonsense way, like some workmanlike B-movie from a bygone Hollywood. Most times, it’s stilted as hell. J.K.

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. J.K.

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for meaning with lyrics such as, “Where are we going? / What are we doing? … What came of, of goodness? / Of fairness?” Likewise, the swelling rock number “Tendons” is striking with references to tendons stretching and pulling that serve as great metaphors for the stresses all relationships endure. That track in particular, however, has attained an even deeper meaning in recent months due to a broken relationship within the band.

“It’s strange because even though it wasn’t written that long ago it ... almost acts as a premonition now,” Bryan says.

“We wrote it when [Joy Formidable bassist] Rhydian [Dafydd] and I were together, and now we’re not a couple anymore, so it was almost like we were seeing the unraveling of our relationship,” she continues. “When we wrote it, we wanted to celebrate this extraordinary friendship and relationship, how dynamic it is, and how under the strain of everything, we still managed to pull together.”

These days, she says, it’s fraught with new significance.

“It’s definitely taken on a new, heightened level of meaning and emotion.”

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Those who’ve already listened to Wolf’s Law, the latest release from U.K. rock act the Joy Formidable, already know full well how massive this record by Brian Palmer is. Filled with infectious melodies, roaring guitars and thunderous drums, this is the kind of collection that makes you want to air guitar and air drum along to every song. Toss in singer and guitarist Ritzy Bryan’s razor-sharp lyrics and sprightly vocals, and you have the blueprint for one of this year’s most dynamic albums.

Despite such sonic aggressiveness, however, it’s the record’s orchestral flourishes that do most to give the music a grandiose, almost operatic feel. The inspiration behind this choice was largely nostalgic and prompted by tragedy, says Bryan, who’ll make a stop in Sacramento with her band on Saturday, March 23, at Ace of Spades. “[I] lost my grandfather in January 2012 when we were recording in Maine,” says Bryan, “and there was just that sense of wanting to be nostalgic.”

Indulging in that nostalgia meant revisiting old favorites, she says.

“One of the first movies I saw with my grandparents was Snow White [and the Seven Dwarfs], and I remember listening to that soundtrack, by Frank Churchill, by itself without the visuals while we were in Maine, and really admiring it and realizing that this is a masterpiece,” she says. “Not just the masterpiece that Disney created, but on its own it’s absolutely a beautiful soundtrack. It’s very evocative.”

“Evocative” aptly describes Wolf’s Law’s content, tone and themes because it takes the listener on a roller-coaster ride across a variety of emotional landscapes. The album’s first single, “This Ladder Is Ours,” is an uplifting blast of energy as Bryan encourages someone not to let struggles defeat them. On “Cholla,” the crunchy guitars and hypnotic vocals and melodies augment the singer’s internal struggle

“ There’s this sense, on the album, of trying to battle through and reconcile relationships that have broken down.”

Ritzy Bryan The Joy Formidable Certainly, it seems, this trio’s members have no interest in letting its trials defeat them.

“There’s this sense, on the album, of trying to battle through and reconcile relationships that have broken down,” Bryan says. “We wanted to fill the record with that idea of having a spirit of tenacity.”

For Bryan and the rest of the band, there is no sense in dwelling on the past.

“We touch on many things, but that’s one of the sentiments that informed this album,” Bryan says. “That sense of trying to make up for lost time and saying, ‘Let’s move forward and start fresh.’” Ω

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Dawes follows, hawking its sincere tunes to an enthusiastic and mostly sober crowd, which is refreshing in its own way.

That evening, I head over to an indie-rock showcase for Sacto locals Brown Shoe (full disclosure: the band’s guitar player is the Kurt Russell to my Goldie Hawn), and I’m pretending to help load gear when a black Cadillac Escalade rolls up next to us and Warren G pops his head out of the window.

The audience seems to be about 80 percent white male music bloggers.

the hippest person there. I try some impressive vegan queso. Around 9 p.m., instead of trying to see Prince, the Smashing Pumpkins or Justin Timberlake, I forcibly drag some folks to go see Kitty (the artist formerly known as Kitty Pryde). If you don’t know who Kitty is, she’s a former Claire’s accessories employee around the age of 17, who raps about being a girl. On this particular evening, she asks the crowd if they know what “incontinence” means, and asks us not to tell her mom when she starts grinding on the bar. Are her crass verses supposed to melt your heart? Is she an abomination to the hip-hop world?

I have no idea. I don’t have much to contribute other than this: She is brazenly vulnerable, very 17-ish.

The audience seems to be about 80 percent white male music bloggers, whatever that signifies. I’m still trying to puzzle that 30 minutes of my life out.

On Sunday, the city empties out quickly, I stick it out for four or five more Lone Star Beers and one final showcase at the legendary Stubb’s BBQ. I’m glad I did, too, because I got to catch Austin locals the Wheeler Brothers. Watching them, you get the feeling that this alt-country five-piece killing it and the crowd loving it is a standard affair—confirmation that while there may be a lot of annoying packaging to tear through, the old SXSW spirit isn’t so hard to find once you stop making demands of it.

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Everything’s hipper in Texas: It’s been four years since I last braved the overwhelming crush of Sixth Street in Austin for the South by Southwest Music Festival, and among the cacophony of a punk band, an indie band, a honky-tonk trio, a dubstep deejay and a hip-hop collective bearing down on all sides from rooftop bars, freshmen Longhorns vomiting into the nearest trash can in any given direction and the general smell of rot riding the breeze, I’m trying hard to keep my inner killjoy at bay.

I’m trying harder than I normally do, anyway, in spite of the zoo, because I have arrived in Austin, Texas, unwilling to buy into what seems to have been a popular sentiment among media critics leading up to this year’s festival: namely, that South by Southwest, once a scrappy, dirtencrusted dingo, is now Boo the Pomeranian, and this year’s festival is but a soiree for the bourgeoisie during which Justin Timberlake is scheduled for a “secret” show in order to shit on the dreams of all the just-about-to-break singer-songwriters that would’ve otherwise caught their big break, if only everyone had come to their shows at restaurants-turned-venues in east Austin instead of his.

I will give the cynics this much: The corporate folk don’t make it easy to ignore the logofication of everything. The poor pedicabbies have sold their calf space to Tito’s vodka and pedal around town in branded kneesocks; some dumblooking TV show called Hannibal is hawking cannibalism-punned fare from a shiny food truck. But what’s a little commercial deluge in the face of what is still one of the largest music celebrations in the country? To the naysayers I pass on a bit of advice that I gleaned from a T-shirt upon arriving in Austin: “Namaste, y’all.”

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Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 10:30 p.m., $10 The name alone, Destructikonz (which is pronounced like the evil Transformers, HIP-HOP Decepticons), should make it clear: This is a rap crew with a sense of humor. It also straddles an interesting line between underground and mainstream rap. There is a funky rawness and offbeat sensibility to the music that almost makes it fall into the alternative-hip-hop category. Yet the beats are so smooth and the choruses have such infectious hooks, you can almost picture these guys on the radio. Almost. Personally, I like that they don’t quite fit into the radio box. I hope they never lose their offbeat charm and natural creativity. 2708 J Street, www.facebook.com/destructikonz.

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Ace of Spades, 7 p.m., $15 This may open me up to accusations of being a hipster sympathizer, but whatever: When a band like Fort Lean comes to town (opening for the Joy Formidable), I breathe a sigh of relief. Because how many more shitty punk bands and screamo bros can Sacto endure? Sure, the Brooklyn band’s Facebook page photo features lead singer Keenan Mitchell in a denim jacket. And, yeah, he’s got ironic ’80s hair-band hair.

But there are good musicians backing all that up. It’s of-the-moment New York rock ROCK (think the Walkmen) bumping back against ’60s rock (think the Zombies), and it makes for a refreshing change of scene in these parts. 1417 R Street, www.facebook.com/fortlean.

—Deena Drewis

Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 7:30 p.m., $20-$55 Maestro Michael Neumann will conduct the Folsom Symphony through three important pieces in a program called Our Magnificent Horns. Robert Schumann’s “Konzertstück” in F major for Four Horns and Orchestra, op. 86 is CLASSICAL considered a “masterwork for the full quartet” and features the horn throughout, showcasing the instrument family’s range. Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 was composed for the natural horn and features a horn solo. The only 20th-century piece is Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis,” which will be a wonderful counterbalance to Schumann and Brahms because it’s focused on the string section. 10 College Parkway in Folsom, http://folsomsymphony.com.

Shine, 8 p.m., $5 Who would have thought that an instrumental duo with just a keyboardist and a drummer would go into experimental free-form territory? Well, maybe that’s no surprise. But you know what is? The degree to which Tao Jiriki actually makes quite accessible dance music. Jazz is the predominant influence, although there are elements of blues, funk and hip-hop. It sort of weaves in and out of these sounds, locking into hard-hitting grooves, then shifting into some weird, cerebral avant-garde jams—which works out great, because when you’re all worn out from dancing, you can sit down and EXPERIMENTAL be blown away by the duo’s innovative musicianship. 1400 E Street, www.reverbnation.com/taojiriki.

—Trina L. Drotar

—Aaron Carnes

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Ab-Soul

Blue Lamp, 9 p.m., $7

Blue Lamp, 8 p.m., $10-$12

Lo-fi hip-hop duo Tel Cairo has been busy collaborating with a variety of Sacramento musicians for its newest album Voice of Reason, due to be released on April 16. Band members Cameron Others and 7evin called upon the talents of Terra Lopez from Sister Crayon as well as hip-hop artists Tais, Mahtie Bush and members of Tribe of Levi to pack this 11-track concept album full of surprises. Since Tel Cairo’s record-release party isn’t until April 4 (at Midtown BarFly), join the group this Saturday with rock ’n’ HIP-HOP roll three-piece Lonely Kings and Fly High. Who knows, maybe Tel Cairo will perform a song from its upcoming album? 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.telcairo.com.

—Steph Rodriguez

Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 8 p.m., $15

Caveman, a five-piece indie-pop band from New York City’s Brooklyn borough, will release a self-titled album on April 2.

INDIE-POP The first single, “In the City,” is anthemic with four-part harmonies, psychedelic keys and muddled guitars. This song alone illustrates Caveman’s willingness to experiment with different sounds. Still, the group isn’t straying too far from its debut album CoCo Beware, where singles like “Old Friend” with chunky guitar riffs and catchy drum beats gained the band buzz back in 2011. Caveman creates relaxed rock or calming sounds that are easy listening, but not boring or dull. It’s definitely a band for those who enjoy the dreamier qualities of music. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.cavemantheband.comtalics.

Ace of Spades, 8 p.m., $20

The Pimps of Joytime, a Brookyln, New York City-based group with roots in New Orleans and Los Angeles, updates an old-schoolfunk sound by blending it with modern influences. Its latest album, Janxta Funk!, released in 2011 and named after the portmanteau of “gangster” and “janky,” melds a number of genres, including electronic music and hip-hop. Guest appearances by Roy Ayers and Art and Cyril Neville add a FUNK partylike atmosphere to the album. The Pimps extend this vibe into high-energy shows that turn audiences into passionate dancers. Expect to see a group of Midtowners at Harlow’s getting really funky and janky on the dance floor—on a Monday. 2708 J Street, www.thepimpsofjoytime.com.

—Steph Rodriguez

—Jonathan Mendick

ACE OF SPADES

ALL AGES WELCOME!

SATURDAY, MARCH 30

FORT LEAN

PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS

GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC

THE JOY FORMIDABLE ENTER SHIKARI ARCHITECTS - HEARTIST - CROSSFAITH MAID OF THE MIST

04/14 ALT–J 04/17 The Selecter & Lee “Scratch” Perry 04/19 The English Beat

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BROTHA LYNCH HUNG - KRIZZ KALIKO KUTT CALHOUN - CES CRU RITTZ - AMERICAZ MOZT HAUNTED THURSDAY, APRIL 4

PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS

DJ MUSTARD

04/6 Soul Asylum

04/13 The Expendables

TUESDAY, APRIL 2

THURSDAY, MARCH 28

SOON

04/12 Andre Nickatina

SEVENDUST & COAL CHAMBER LACUNA COIL - CANDLELIGHT RED

MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE

COMING 04/11 The Rocket Summer

FRIDAY, MARCH 31

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27

AB-SOUL

—Jonathan Mendick

1417 R Street, Sacramento, 95814 www.aceofspadessac.com

SATURDAY, MARCH 23

SUNDAY, MARCH 24

Don’t worry if you forgot where you heard Ab-Soul’s name before. Spare the Google search and just know that he’s in the Los Angeles-based hip-hop collective Black Hippy with Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock and Schoolboy Q. He’s released two solo albums, a couple mixHIP-HOP tapes and is featured on tons of other Black Hippy releases.

Are these references still too obscure? Well, his underground hip-hop cred extends to appearances on mixtapes and albums with Talib Kweli, Macklemore and Childish Gambino.

Anyway, Ab-Soul, who’s only 26, suffers from a rare skin disorder called Stevens-Johnson syndrome, which may explain why his lyrical material is about overcoming struggle and what some might call “conscious.” 1417 R Street, www.facebook.com/absoulmusic.

04/20 Foals 04/22 Queensryche 04/24 Alex Clare 04/25 Katchafire 04/26 Taj He Spitz 05/04 Some Fear None 05/08 Machine Gun Kelly

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05/18 Dillinger Escape Plan 05/22 Turbonegro 05/31 Capital Cities

FRIDAY, MARCH 29

VALU FA TEKI - FINN THE GROOVAH & UNITED

DISTRICTZ - IRIE LOVE - YB LB - SANGA KINGI & PISTALLION - DJ REEF

06/01 Finch

FRIDAY, APRIL 5

JONNY CRAIG

06/08 Bret Michaels

KURT TRAVIS - HAIL THE SUN THE SEEKING - JAMES CAVERN - VISITING DAYS

06/18 Memphis May Fire 07/27 Y&T

Tickets available at all Dimple Records Locations, The Beat Records, and Armadillo Records, or purchase by phone @ 916.443.9202

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THURSDAY 3/21

FRIDAY 3/22

SATURDAY 3/23

SUNDAY 3/24

BLUE LAMP

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

CHERRY RED, MARVALESS, CENTURY GOT BARS, 9pm, $5-$7

BROWN HUSTLAS, GATHERING OF MINDS, LSC, QBALL, SHOTTY SHOT; 9pm

LONELY KINGS, TEL CAIRO, FLY HIGH; 9:30pm, $8

CAVEMAN, 8:30pm, call for cover

THE BOARDWALK

CALIREP, CHUCK DEEZLE, CITRUS C, LIL

PDP, AGHORI, LEGION’S REQUIEM, JOURNAL, BISPORA; 7:30pm, $10-$12

I WISH WE WERE ROBOTS, MERCHANTS, OUTSIDERS, LIFEFORMS; 6pm, $10-$12

BOWS & ARROWS

Pompsicle: live figure drawing event, 6pm, $10

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

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

The Starz Show: Nevada County dance community showcase, 7pm, $12-$15

The Starz Show: Nevada County dance community showcase, 2pm and 7pm

THE COZMIC CAFÉ

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

RUSTY BUCKETS, SOL BRIDGE, TAMRA GODEY, CIDNEY CUNNINGHAM; 7pm

UNCOMMON GROUND, 8pm, $7

DJ Spindizzy, 8pm, call for cover

DJ Amy Robbins, 9pm, call for cover

Deejay dancing and karaoke, 9pm, $3

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

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

LOW TIDE RIOT, FONTAINE CLASSIC; 8-11pm, no cover

KEVIN SECONDS, NOAH NELSON, BOBBY JORDAN; 9pm-midnight, $5

O STREET DUB, HANS AND THE HOT MESS, SACTO SOUL REBELS; 9pm, $5

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 G, GUERO, C-DUBB; 8pm, call for cover 1815 19 St., (916) 822-5668

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

DISTRICT 30

1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

FACES

2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

FOX & GOOSE

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

GENIUS, SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE, AGOR, DOLDRUMS; 8pm, $5

G STREET WUNDERBAR

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

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

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

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

HARLOW’S

MURS, FASHAWN, PROF; 10:30pm, $16-$19

I LIKE IT, I LOVE IT, 7pm, call for cover; DESTRUCTIKONZ, 10:30pm

MIDNIGHT PLAYERS, 10pm, call for cover

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR

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

MARK LEMAJRE & TWILIGHT, STEPPING STONE, BOB EASTWALL; 8pm, $6

DAN FRECHETTE, LAUREL THOMPSON; 8pm, $6

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

MARILYN’S ON K

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

MATT LARSON, PATRICK WALSH, WOLFHOUSE; 9pm, $5

LUCKY LASKOWSKI, THE SHEETS, 50 WATT HEAVY; 9pm, $7

Live music series, 7:30pm Tu; DOUG CASH, THE OOO LA LAS; 8pm W, $5

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN 1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

REGGIE GINN, LINDSEY PAVAO, AJ JOHNSON; 8:30pm, $5

CHRIS TWOMEY, KENNY REGO AND THE LAW OF ONE BAND; 8:30pm, $5

ZOO HUMAN PROJECT, CRAZY BALLHEAD, NSAA, JENILYNN; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz, M; DELTA CITY RAMBLERS, ISLAND OF BLACK AND WHITE; W, $5

OLD IRONSIDES

DJ Micah J, 7pm, $3

SOUTHLOT, JULIET COMPANY, SWAHILI PASSION, ANMARIE FIELDING; 9pm, $5

GROOVIN’ HIGH, NORTHBOUND TRAIN, RIOT ACT; 9pm, $5

EVENT HORIZON, MONOMYTH INCEPTION; M; Karaoke, Tu; Open-mic, W

ON THE Y

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

CAESIUM, BEERIJUANA, PETE & REPEET; 9pm, $5

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Open-mic comedy, 9pm, no cover

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

LOAFER’S GLORY, 8pm, $25

I SEE HAWKS IN LA, RED MEAT; 8:30pm, $20

ROB WALLER & THE GOSPEL ACCORDION, I SEE HAWKS IN LA; 2pm, $15

THE PARK ULTRA LOUNGE

DJ Eddie Edul, 9pm, call for cover

DJ Peeti V, 9pm, $15

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

Karaoke, 9pm-1:30am, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm-1:30am, no cover

SELF PROCLAIMED, 8pm, no cover

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

Hey local bands!

GREX, PECK THE TOWN CRIER; 7:30pm Tu, $5; GHOST TO FALCO, 8pm W, $5

THE CARLY DUHAIN BAND, SOUTH LOT, THE DIVA KINGS; 8pm, call for cover

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

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 3/25-3/27

1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931 908 K St., (916) 446-4361

1901 10th St., (916) 442-3504 670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731 13 Main St., Winters; (530) 795-1825 1116 15th St., (916) 442-7222

PINE COVE TAVERN

Karaoke, 9pm-1:30am, no cover

502 29th St., (916) 446-3624

MATT COSTA, CARLY RITTER, SAM OUTLAW; 8:30pm, $18

THE PIMPS OF JOYTIME, VOKAB KOMPANY; 8pm M, $15

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover

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

RESTAURANT ss BAR BAR CLUB ss RESTAURANT COMEDY COMEDY CLUB

ThUrSdayS

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MAR 21 9PM $10-20ADV

SIZZLING SIRENS

MAR 21 10:30PM $16ADV THE ROAD TO PAID DUES TOUR

MURS

WITH FASHAWN AND PROF MAR 22 7PM $10ADV

I LIKE IT, I(TIMLOVE IT MCGRAW TRIBUTE)

MAR 22 10PM $10ADV

MAR 24 8:30PM $18ADV

MATT COSTA CARLY RITTER / SAM OUTLAW

MAR 25 8PM $15ADV

PIMPS OF JOYTIME WITH VOKAB KOMPANY MAR 29 6:30PM $25ADV

CRYSTAL BOWERSOX

MAR 29 10PM $15ADV

CHEESEBALLS

DESTRUCTIKONZ HOT BUTTERED RUM MAR 30 10PM $15ADV

MAR 23 10PM $12ADV

MIDNIGHT PLAYERS

MAR 31 8PM $15ADV

HEARTLESS BASTARDS W/ JONNY FRITZ

FrI 03/22

Apr 04 Patterson Hood (Singer of Drive-By Truckers) Apr 05 Lord Huron Apr 06 Conflict Minerals / Dogfood / Allinaday Apr 10 Snarky Puppy / ZuhG Apr 11 Polica / Night Moves Apr 13 Toad The Wet Sprocket Apr 25 Yonder Mountain String Band Apr 26 Built To Spill Apr 27 Tom Rigney Apr 28 Blame Sally May 07 Infamous Stringdusters / The Brothers Comatose May 08 Todd Snider May 10 Petty Theft and Zoo Nation May 11 Steelin’ Dan May 12 Yo La Tengo May 13 Man or Astro Man? May 17 Tainted Love May 22 Atlas Genius May 23 Relic 45 May 25 Foreverland

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THURSDAY 3/21 PINS N STRIKES

3443 Laguna Blvd., Elk Grove; (916) 226-2625

FRIDAY 3/22

SATURDAY 3/23

TORTILLA SOUP, 9pm, $10

THE MAPLETONES, 9pm, $10

SUNDAY 3/24

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 3/25-3/27

PISTOL PETE’S

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

STONE KOLD, 9pm, $5

BIG BAD, POLITICAL PLUM; 9pm, $5

PJ’S ROADHOUSE

DJ Old Griff, 9pm, no cover

ROCKIN DOWN THE HIGHWAY, 9pm, $5

GOOD SAMARITANS, ATLANTIS RISING, ZUHG, ELEMENT OF SOUL; 9pm, $5

POWERHOUSE PUB

CALIFORNIA COWBOYS, 9:30pm, call for cover

TAINTED LOVE, 10pm, $15

SPAZMATICS, 10pm, $10

DENNIS JONES, 3pm, call for cover

THE PRESS CLUB

2030 P St., (916) 444-7914

BLACKOUT, BRAIN RASH, GRIM TIDE; 9pm, no cover

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

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

BLACK MACKEREL, KEY OF SOLOMON, TENDER CINDERS, 9pm M, $5; MOANS, PEACEKILLERS; 4pm, $5; Soul Party, 9pm ENLOWS, STRANGE PARTY; 8pm W, $5

SAMMY’S ROCKIN’ ISLAND

ANT BEE, 7pm, no cover

BOYS OF SUMMER, 9:30pm, $10

SHINE

Shticks, a comedy night, 8pm, $5

TAO JIRIKI, GROOVE HEROES, GROOVINCIBLE; 8pm, $5

CHRIS TRAPPER, 7pm, $12

Open jazz jam, 8pm Tu; Poetry With Legs with Bill Gainer, 7pm W, call for cover

Sacramento Area Youth Speaks slam poetry semifinals, 5pm, $5

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

140 Harrison Ave., Auburn; (530) 885-5093 5461 Mother Lode, Placerville; (530) 626-0336 614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586

238 Vernon St., Roseville; (916) 773-7625 1400 E St., (916) 551-1400

SOL COLLECTIVE

RE-ROC, APRIL FOOLZZ, BAMMER BABI, BLAKBOY PAMPER; 6:30pm, $11-$13

THE ANDROMEDA PROJECT, 6:30pm, $11-$13

SOPHIA’S THAI KITCHEN

IVAN & ALYOSHA, THE HORDE AND THE HAREM; 9:30pm, $7-$10

WILD ONES, CHEERS ELEPHANT; 9:30pm, $5

2574 21st St., (916) 832-0916 129 E St., Davis; (530) 758-4333

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, W, no cover

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

STONEY INN/ROCKIN’ RODEO

THE BUCK FORD BAND, 9pm, $5

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

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

TORCH CLUB

904 15th St., (916) 443-2797

X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; BLACK MARKET III, 9pm, $5

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm, no cover; THE NICKEL SLOTS, 9pm, $8

JOHNNY KNOX, 5pm, no cover; JELLY BREAD, 9pm, $8

Blues jam, 4pm, no cover; OTIS HEAT, 8pm, $5

ISLAND OF BLACK & WHITE, 9pm Tu, $5; Acoustic open-mic, 5:30pm W, no cover

TOWNHOUSE LOUNGE

Wild w/ DJ Billy Lane, 9pm, no cover

Shaun Slaughter, 9pm, call for cover

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

1320 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 927-6023

1517 21st St., (916) 613-7194

Dog Party 8:30pm Friday, $6.

Luigi’s Fun Garden Rock

Open-mic, 9pm M; Grimey: dubstep and bass-heavy music, 9pm Tu, $10

All ages, all the time ACE OF SPADES

THE JOY FORMIDABLE, FORT LEAN; 7pm, $15

CLUB RETRO

INCOMPLETE DENIAL, FRAILED SANITY, EROTICUS, FALL OF MAN; 6:30pm, $10

1417 R St., (916) 448-3300 1529 Eureka Rd., Roseville; (916) 988-6606

DOWNTOWN PLAZA (LOWER LEVEL) THE OTHER BRITTANY, 6pm, no cover DOG PARTY, 8:30pm, $6

1050 20th St., (916) 552-0317

ZUHG LIFE STORE

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Ivan & Alyosha with the Horde and the Harem 9:30pm Friday, $7-$10.

Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Folk-pop

NIGHTCLUB, PETS, UGLY BUNNY; 8pm, $6

STOLAS, THESE COLORS, 7:30pm Tu, $6; PONY VILLAGE, 7:30pm W, $6

GYPSY FISH, KASSIE ORTEGA; 1pm, no cover

545 Downtown Plaza, Ste. 2090, (916) 822-5185

BEFORE

MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE, 6:30pm W, $22.50

BAND OF EGYPT, 1pm, no cover

547 L St., (916) 822-5185

LUIGI’S SLICE AND FUN GARDEN

ENTER SHIKARI, THE ARCHITECTS, HEARTIST, CROSSFAITH; 6:30pm, $13

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FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 21, 2013

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Nourish

beginnings, let us nourish beginnings,” says poet Muriel Rukeyser in her poem “Elegy in Joy.” “Not all things are blest,” she continues, “but the seeds of all things are blest.

The blessing is in the seed.” I urge you to adopt this perspective in the coming weeks, Aries. Be extra sweet and tender and reverent toward anything that is just sprouting, toward anything that is awakening, toward anything that invokes the sacredness of right now. “This moment,” sings Rukeyser, “this seed, this wave of the sea, this look, this instant of love.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As you seek

more insight on your current situation, consider the possibility that the bad guys may not be as bad as they seem. They might simply be so deeply under the spell of their own pain that they can’t see straight. And as for the good guys: I wonder if they are as purely good as they would like you to imagine. It might be the case that they are at least partially serving their own self-interest, while pretending to be utterly altruistic. If there’s any truth to these speculations, Taurus, you’d be wise to stay uncommitted and undecided for now. Don’t get emotionally riled up, don’t get embroiled in conflict and don’t burn any bridges.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s your

mantra: “I get fresher under pressure.”

Say it 10 times right now, and then repeat it in 10-repetition bursts whenever you need a tune-up. What it means is that you stay cool when the contradictions mount and the ambiguities multiply. And more than that: You actually thrive on the commotion.

You get smarter amid the agitation. You become more perceptive and more creative as the shifts swirl faster and harder. Tattoo these words of power on your imagination: “I get fresher under pressure.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Stories

happen to those who tell them,” said the ancient Greek historian Thucydides.

Modern radio journalist Ira Glass goes even further. “Great stories happen to those who can tell them,” he has said. Let’s make this strategy a centerpiece of your life plan in the weeks ahead, Cancerian. I have a suspicion that you will need firsthand experience of novel, interesting stories. They will provide the precise nourishment necessary to inspire the blooming of your most soulful ambitions. One way to help ensure that the best stories will flow your way is to regale receptive people with transformative tales from your past.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Dear Rob: I’m

spreading the word about Beer Week in your town, and I’d love to see you and your beer-loving readers at some of the events.

Any chance you can include some coverage of Beer Week celebrations in your upcoming column? Cheers, Patricia.” Dear Patricia: I don’t do product placement or other forms of secret advertising in my horoscopes. To allow it would violate the sacred trust I have with my readers, who rely on me to translate the meaning of the cosmic signs without injecting any hidden agendas. It is true that Leos might be prone to imbibing great quantities of beer in the coming week, simply because they’d benefit from lowering their inhibitions, getting in touch with their buried feelings, and expanding their consciousness. But to be frank, I’d rather see them do that without the aid of drugs and alcohol.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Hoping to stir

up some fun trouble, I posted the following message on my Facebook page: “Don’t judge someone just because they sin differently than you.” A torrent of readers left comments in response. My favorite was from Sue Sims, who said, “Yeah, they might be better at your kind of sin and you might learn something!” That advice is just the kind of healing mischief you need right now, Virgo. It’s a bit ironic, true, but still: Take it and run with it. Study the people who have mad skills at pulling off the rousing adventures and daring pleasures and interesting “sins” that you’d like to call your own.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The French

verb renverser can be translated as “to turn upside-down” or “to reverse the flow.”

The adjectival form is renversant, which means “stunning” or “astonishing.” I think you may soon have experiences that could be described by those words. There’s a good chance that a dry, impoverished part of your life will get a juicy, fertile infusion. A deficiency you have worried about might get at least half-filled. An inadequacy that makes you feel sad may be bolstered by reinforcements. Alas, there could also be a slight reversal that’s not so gratifying. One of your assets may temporarily become irrelevant. But the trade-off is worth it, Libra. Your gains will outstrip your loss.

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

Martyn Poliakoff creates short YouTube videos to help teach the public about chemistry. In one video, he explains why an explanation he gave in a previous video was completely mistaken. “It’s always good for a scientist to be proved wrong,” he confesses cheerfully. Then, he moves on to speculate about what the right answer might be. I love humility like that! It’s admirable. It’s also the best way to find out the truth about reality. I hope you will summon a similar attitude in the coming weeks, Scorpio: a generous curiosity that makes you eager to learn something new about stuff you thought you had all figured out.

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

the one hand, menopausal women are no longer able to bear children. On the other hand, they often overflow with fresh possibilities and creative ideas. More time is available to them because their children have moved out of the house or don’t require as much care. They can begin new careers, focus on their own development and devote more attention to their personal needs. So, in one way, their fertility dries up; in another way, it may awaken and expand. I suspect that whether or not you are menopausal, you are on the cusp of a comparable shift in your fecundity: one door closing, another door swinging open.

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

reality show Freaky Eaters profiled a woman named Kelly who had eaten nothing but cheesy potatoes for 30 years. Her average intake: 8 pounds of potatoes and 4 cups of cheese per day. “I love cheesy potatoes,” she testified. “They’re stewy, gooey and just yum-yum-yummy. They’re like crack to me.” I’m a bit concerned that you’re flirting with behavior comparable to hers. Not in regards to cheesy potatoes, of course, but to some other fetish. I will ask you to make sure that you’re not starting to overspecialize. It would be wise to avoid obsessing on a single type of anything.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the

17th century, polite people referred to mountains as “warts” and “boils on the Earth’s complexion.” So says Robert Macfarlane in his book Mountains of the Mind. Annie Dillard describes the peculiar behavior of educated European tourists in the 18th century. When they visited the Alps, she writes in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, “they deliberately blindfolded their eyes to shield themselves from the evidence of the earth’s horrid irregularity.” Don’t be anything like those dumb sophisticates, Aquarius. When you spy irregularities in the coming weeks, consider the possibility that they are natural and healthy. This will allow you to perceive their useful beauty.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are not

for sale. Remember? Your scruples and ideals and talents cannot be bought off for any amount of money. You will not be cheated out of your birthright, and you will not allow your dreams to be stolen.

Although it’s true that you may have to temporarily rent your soul from time to time, you will never auction it off for good.

I’m sure you know these things, Pisces, but I suspect it’s time to renew your fiery commitment to them.

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

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

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Beware the asteroid?

It’s always fun to run across a scientist who’s fascinated by the end of the world, and Thomas A. Cahill fits the bill.

He’s a particle physicist at UC Davis, best known for his work on the environmental impact of the 9/11 attacks on World Trade Center. But he’s also a science-fiction writer, and his new book Ark: Asteroid Impact (EditPros LLC, $16.95) depicts what happens when the Earth (and its people) takes a hit from an asteroid. According to Cahill, it’s a likely scenario. The latest asteroids to threaten the planet passed by the Earth last month and in December 2012—without consequence, it should be noted. Cahill talked to SN&R about dangerous space debris, climate change and the possibility of another ice age.

Should we be scared of these close calls with asteroids?

Last December 12, [2012], one went by even closer, and we didn’t know it until it passed.

We had another one that went by outside the moon and was spotted very late, so it was almost missed. … What we’ve learned, in the last 20 years, is that the Earth has been bombarded regularly by asteroids.

The most famous was the K-T event in the Yucatan, which some argue led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

But you don’t study asteroids.

My field of expertise is climate change. We used to talk about nuclear winter, but it occurs to me that it’s much more likely for an asteroid to hit us and cause the sort of climate change we once believed would follow a nuclear war. So I wrote this novel with as much science as I could in it.

I use the 4179 Toutatis as the example—it’s a large asteroid that comes close to the Earth periodically, as it did last December.

It’s always missed us. The scenario in my novel is that it bounces off an unknown small asteroid, which changes its course in the last day or two, and it strikes the Earth with very little notice. This is a worst-case scenario. The heroes of the book are scientists and students from a local university.

They’re torn, because if they’re wrong about the asteroid, they’ll look like idiots.

But if they’re right, they’ll be dead. I wanted to put myself—and the readers—in their shoes [and ask the question]: If the president came on TV tonight and said an asteroid is going to hit the Earth tomorrow, what would happen? How would people react?

What would we experience?

First, there would be tsunamis all around the Earth. This is what happened when the Yucatan asteroid hit. Second, there would be a dust cloud that would most likely cause a new ice age.

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The question is: What would civilization do? Some people get lucky, that’s all. Each small group may have a shot at surviving, and those survivors will have to put together new ecosystems, new cultures. My book is pretty optimistic. The externals are terrible, but they have their wits about them.

They have to deal with 20 meters of snow covering the country from coast to coast, and with 350 million people lost. It’s massive and shocking. But it also leaves this completely new world there to be discovered, and it’s a book of discovery with as much science as I [could] get into it.

Tell me about your areas of research.

One involves global climate change and the effects of airborne particles on both the present climate and the paleoclimate. Right now, we’re studying particles in the ice core in Greenland. These wonderful ice cores in Greenland go back 100,000 years, and there’s dust in them. We’re examining that dust and comparing it to current dust to try and understand what the climate was like in the past.

What else are you working on?

I’m also working on particles in the air near highways. We’re doing a lot of work on highways. It’s not just exhaust that releases |

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And you started by studying nuclear winter?

Yes, I did. But the science behind nuclear winter was not very good. It was good in that it may have helped discourage nuclear war, but in terms of the nuclear blasts, there wasn’t enough aerosol, and it didn’t last very long. It wouldn’t have caused the sort of planetary climate change that we’ve seen from other kinds of dust.

I also worked on the aerosols on the burning oil wells in Kuwait after the first Gulf War. Those aerosols didn’t cause as many problems as we thought they would, because the aerosols stayed low in the atmosphere.

Now, with an asteroid strike, the dust particles will definitely be high in the atmosphere.

How did you get into writing fiction?

This is just recreation. I wrote it to relax, because it was fun to write. It was cheaper than therapy and less damaging than liquor. Ω

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