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Kings verdict a win or loss for sacto? see Bites, page 13 see scorekeeper, page 10

Rats! and

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Bike Month returns see arts&culture, page 22 see editor’s note, page 3

Midtown’s

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Ride with me Midtown Sacramento wipes the sleep from its eyes and stumbles into the shower. The sun stretches upward.

This morning, the city’s streets are so barren that, if you wanted, you could ride a bike the wrong way down a one-way street. Just like a suburbanite.

I might do this, but today’s voyage is a straight shot through the heart of the neighborhood: down 20th Street for blocks, tree branches shooting overhead like film through a projector. Then a left, then a bump— that’s the railroad track, which I need to cross before catching the American River bike trail.

I often ride to SN&R’s north Sacramento office. Some days, odd bubble-gum smells leak from the Blue Diamond almond factory.

Others, the wind shoves against my chest, or bugs try to sneak up my nose.

I enjoy stopping atop the C Street bridge and, looking west, watching the cars shoot down Highway 160.

It’s awesome when the wind sparks waves in the river—hard to see things like this while speeding by on four wheels.

I once had a car. Spent lifetimes on the busiest freeways in Los Angeles, played the I-80 to Biz 80 to downtown commute game. They say the average American spends 100 hours a year commuting to work. My car was stolen a few years back. Blessing in disguise, as the cliché goes.

So, why not try something different for May, which is Bike Month?

Leave the car at home. Join me on two wheels. (Learn more at www.mayis bikemonth.com.) It’s good for the environment, sure, but let me tell you, not even five cups of coffee compare to the buzz of a bike commute.

My favorite part is going down the hill just after the C Street bridge.

Faster, faster. Then, glide through the parkway. Glazed eyes and tight thighs, a gentle sweat—it’s the best morning show around.

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“It’s the Virgin Mary—Jesus’ momma, of course.”

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Jimmy Trevino

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This tattoo is a cover-up.

When I was younger, I was in a gang and stuff. [I] had the word “bogus” [tattooed on me] because I was bold and I was willing to do anything. As I got older, I got wiser, so now I just have flowers. I turned from a thug to [a] honeybee, so I got a bee and some flowers.

Roy [Reyna] at Cast Iron Tattoo did this tat. I traded him [for] a Honda Rebel 250 that has been chopped up. It’s the Virgin Mary —Jesus’ momma, of course.

It is a traditional tattoo. I was tired of having evil stuff on me. … It is not a cover-up.

I call it my chest piece; it takes up most of my chest.

It means a lot to me.

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It is Japanese writing, and it says “God.” I got it on my side arm, because I have God on my side.

I got it on my 30th birthday.

The reason why I got it is because I kind of looked back on my life and thought of how God has been on my side and got me through so much.

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I want to talk about the one on my back. It is angel wings with Japanese writing on a scroll in the middle of my back. I always wanted to get wings on my back. It took me a year-and-half to find the right design. I went for more realism with the black and gray. I did it one sitting.

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I have been tattooing for about seven years.

My first tattoo … it hurt.

I was still learning to tattoo when I did it. It is suppose to be my wife holding onto a tattoo machine. Behind it [is] a roulette wheel, cards and a Mexican gal, smile-now-and-cry-later [masks], and praying hands.

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o a job seeker, the box on a job application asking about criminal history is just another formality. But for a formerly incarcerated person, this lone box is a barrier that could prevent them from making a positive contribution to the community — and it could even lead them back to a life of crime.

“We knoW tHat if people Have a joB, tHat’S tHe BeSt SourCe of prevention for re-offending. We’ve alSo found tHat aS Soon aS SomeBody indiCateS on a joB appliCation tHat tHey Have Some Sort of Criminal HiStory, tHey get diSCarded from any furtHer ConSideration.”

“We know that if people have a job, that’s the best source of prevention for re-offending. We’ve also found that as soon as somebody indicates on a job application that they have some sort of criminal history, they get discarded from any further consideration,” says Assemblyman

Roger Dickinson (D-Sacramento), who authored Assembly Bill 218, nicknamed the “Ban the Box” bill. It would prohibit requesting criminal background information on the initial employment application for local and state government employees.

If passed, California would join six states and more than 40 cities and counties across the United States that have adopted similar legislation. “What we’ve heard from them is they’ve gotten many, many qualified candidates, and then subsequently employees, who they never would have considered before,” Dickinson says. He adds some even reported it saving them money in the employment process by finding better qualified candidates more quickly.

The bill is supported by 80 organizations and sponsored by the National Employment Law Project, Legal Services for Prisoners With Children, All of Us or None, and PICO California, the parent organization of Sacramento Area Congregations Together (ACT), a grassroots group of more than 40 congregations, schools and neighborhood groups.

Because ACT’s mission is to build safe, healthy and just communities, this bill falls in line with its ongoing efforts, says Alicia Ross, executive director.

“We see this as part of our broader strategy of trying to create more opportunities for folks who are re-entering communities and could potentially stay on a pathway to further

crime versus getting back on a pathway to positive contribution,” Ross says.

Ross understands some employers’ hesitation to hire someone formerly incarcerated, such as those working in child care. AB 218 would not apply to positions working with children, the elderly or disabled, or to law enforcement positions. But it would give people access to the many low-risk jobs that would help these individuals rebuild their lives. And that would, in turn, make entire communities safer and more stable.

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

“Having that box on the initial application is cutting off the small pathway these people have back into becoming productive citizens. We’re interested in folks just getting a chance to get the interview and make the case that they’re changing their lives and why they would be a valuable employee,” Ross says.

“This bill would be removing at least that initial barrier to people getting back on the honest track and being positive contributors to their community.”

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Why care about Deena’s opinion on local music?

Re “If you build it, they will come” by Deena Drewis (SN&R Sound Advice, April 25): I’m surprised SN&R chose to publish Deena Drewis’ rant last week in the Sound Advice column. If the article had ended with the review of her experience at Mondavi Center seeing Metric, I’d have no complaints, but she pressed on to trash talk a venue she hasn’t been to (“how hip can it be?”) and downplay the progress our musical community has letteR of the week made. I don’t recognize her name, and I’ve read Sound Advice every week for years, so maybe I’d like to hear about some of her positive local music experiences, get a little info about her musical taste besides [generalizing] Metric’s great—see some reason I should care at all about her opinion when it comes to the community I live in and respect before hearing her take on “what a venue make.”

Is this article about large concert venues? If so, why mention LowBrau at all if only to slam them as not a real venue? Nothing wrong with criticism, but let’s hear some new ideas, not another take on Sacramento not being San Francisco. I’d rather read a column sharing thoughtful takes on what local venues and bands are doing—actual reviews of shows by artists that could use the attention our local publication can provide. BTW, next time you intend to enjoy a show at the Mondavi Center, this concertgoer suggests the cheap and awesome alcohol alternative: a flask.

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Re “Off pointe” by Raheem F. Hosseini (SN&R News, April 18): I guess it’s an old refrain by now, but reading about the Sacramento Ballet’s cash shortfall once again asks the question: Why so much for the Sacramento Kings while our world-class ballet goes wanting?

William J. Hughes via email

Re “Run-on sentence” by Raheem F. Hosseini (SN&R News, April 25): Aaron Collins is a rare recidivist.

As a Sacramento native and fellow (ex) three striker, Aaron and I met in a maximum-security prison in the throes of our life sentences. Over a decade later, I took great pleasure in attending his hearing as a Proposition 36 recipient. Just like I remembered, Aaron used his platform like a true performer. He’s the only one I know who has the balls to promote his book while being released from prison.

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Look to your right as you loop up to southbound Galleria, toward the mall.

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Fresh, but not easy Despite bad numbers, Sacramento hopes to grow food-stamp spending at farmers markets Xochitl Bautista of J & J Ramos Farms rings up another bag of oranges as her co-workers story and pack up on a sunny Thursday morning photo in the parking lot outside of the Sears by on Florin Road. “Right now, we’ve got Dave Kempa seasonal fruit. Very good, full of vitad a v ek@ mins,” she says in Spanish. Strawberries, news r evie w.c om tomatoes, mandarins. Even dried fruit and walnuts.

“It’s very good, because the people can get fresh fruit that’s better than they’ll find in the stores,” Bautista explains. And she isn’t talking about her average customer; she means CalFresh food-stamp participants, who’ve been able to use their EBT—or Electronic Benefit Transfer—cards at this location for the past two years.

CalFresh has proven to be a welcome addition to seven of the county’s farmers markets, and Sacramento County has worked hard to increase rates of participation in the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Still, only a fraction of a fraction of a percent of county CalFresh dollars make their way to farmers through the region’s markets.

While Sacramento County meted out more than $360 million in CalFresh assistance last year, only about $72,500 Independent of that went to farmers markets—about reporting for this story two-one-hundredths of a percent. is funded by a grant “There’s always room for more,” said from Sacramento Emergency Foodlink. Kerin Gould of Alchemist Community Development Corporation. “We do want to encourage people to come out.”

Alchemist is the nonprofit organization that processes CalFresh EBT dollars at most of the farmers markets in Sacramento and Yolo counties. In recent years, this small operation has worked to address food-access issues in the region, dating back to its first Urban Farm Stand project in downtown’s Alkali Flat and Mansion Flats neighborhoods in 2007.

“I think it’s a myth that low-income families would prefer less healthy food or are lazy about nutrition,” Gould said.

“There are a bunch of things in the way, and one of them is physical access.”

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overweight, and almost one-quarter of the state suffers from obesity. Studies from the Food Research & Action Center find that people experiencing food insecurity are at higher risk of obesity than those who are not, since they are more likely to focus on caloric intake for their families than nutritional value.

Sacramento County meted out more than $360 million in CalFresh assistance last year, but only about $72,500 of that went to farmers markets.

Some poorer communities are referred to as “food deserts,” because they do not provide access to the kinds of stores or markets that sell fresh, healthy food at affordable prices. These areas are instead more likely to have convenience stores or fast-food restaurants as primary food sources. Lower-income families also are less likely to have either the time or the reliable transportation necessary for grocery shopping, so access to

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This is why groups such as Alchemist work to increase access to healthy food for low-income families, providing information on public-transportation routes to farmers markets and encouraging convenience stores in food deserts to carry fresh produce.

One effort that Alchemist has found particularly effective is Market Match.

Now entering its third year, the Market Match program comps CalFresh recipients $5 for every $10 spent at participating farmers markets.

“It’s probably the most effective means at getting CalFresh recipients to come down to the farmers markets,” said Davida Douglas, executive director of Alchemist. “It not only increases number of shoppers, but increases the dollar amount that they’re spending there at the market.”

Market Match is set to begin again this year on May 18, and will last through the summer, or until Alchemist runs out of the funds, which it raised over the winter. Last year, Douglas said Alchemist processed 3,674 Market Match transactions in Sacramento County, issuing some $9,900 matching dollars to more than 1,500 recipients.

Last winter, Sacramento County issued a press release trumpeting that CalFresh participation rates had jumped from 70 percent of residents eligible

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that for every dollar delivered from federal SNAP assistance, $1.79 is generated in the economy.

The accepted logic, then, is that the county’s jump in CalFresh participation should help to spur the region’s economic well-being. Sacramento County estimates that CalFresh revenue in the county rose from about $400 million in 2010 to almost $490 million in 2012.

But the benefits from CalFresh could be magnified at farmers markets.

Renae Best, who along with Dan Best runs almost a dozen farmers markets throughout the county, says that CalFresh and its Market Match program are a twofold boon to the region.

“I’m glad to see that people are cooking and using raw ingredients, and families with children are getting fresh fruit,” said Best, who has been running local farmers markets for more than 30 years.

“Even if the money is coming federally, it is staying in California,” Best said. “It’s keeping our farmland in food production, which is protecting our food supply.”

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SCORE KEEPER Sacramento’s winners and losers—with arbitrary points

More cowbell Kevin Johnson hung his mayorship on the Sacramento Kings issue,  and so—with the NBA’s recommendation this past Monday to  keep the team in Sacramento—it could be the  mayor’s biggest political win perhaps of his  career. Yes, the big thinkers at SN&R still have  problems with the arena deal.   But this week, K.J. gets   the kudos.

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This paper took home five prizes  at the annual California Newspaper Publishers Association awards this past  weekend: two each for Cosmo Garvin  and Nick Miller, plus a first-place win  for the entire arts-and-culture staff.  That’s five points—minus one for  self-promotion.

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You’re causing Sacramento’s rat problem. Knock it off.

As hipsters sipped sweet, cool beverages on the backyard patio of a Midtown restaurant one evening last spring, his by Raheem royal highness made a not-so-grand F. Hosseini entrance.

Plump with wiry gray hair, he r ahe emh@ scampered under sockless loafers newsre view.c om and sandals and around a ragbag of furniture items before vanishing through a gate. The appearance was brief, but that didn’t matter.

City dwellers always rise for the Rat King.

It might be a bit much to say Sacramento has a rat problem, at least in comparison to rattier burgs like San Francisco and New York City. But Sacramentans definitely have a problem with rats. Especially downtown, where sightings are most prolific, the perception is that the troublesome creatures are taking over. Scampering past outdoor diners, chewing through gallery walls, piling near the river and railroad tracks—the city’s ew factor notches upward with every casual encounter.

to the time a hired cleaner misheard her direction to put dry goods in her basement.

“Next thing I knew, I had a basement full of rats snacking on my fresh potatoes, cornmeal and flour,” she said.

Meanwhile, Courtney Sheats says her husband recently “coerced” a rat out of a room in the couple’s home by throwing books. At a drum cymbal.

The book catapulted the rat, which had been perched atop the instrument, against the wall.

And then there’s Brian Fergel, whose dog tried to join the rat race

“People in town are freaked out by it.”

Ramona Saunders deputy agricultural commissioner, Sacramento County

Cute rat—until it’s inside your cupboard, nibbling on your Hot Cheetos and Takis.

But just how big, exactly, is the local rat squad?

Pinnacle Pest Control salesmarketing director Paul Serrano estimates his company averages between 800 and 1,000 rodent calls annually.

A standard complaint involves one to three rodents, meaning customers encounter as many as 3,000 rats a year. And that’s on a slow year, says Serrano.

“Most of these calls are concentrated in the downtown and East Sacramento areas,” he said.

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last year. Fergel was walking his Chihuahua-fox terrier mix along the river near the Crocker Art Museum one evening, when his mutt sprinted after something scurrying by. The rat escaped past the metal barriers down by the river, so Fergel’s 13-year-old dog loped back.

And while those out in the country may not think twice about a floppyeared rat getting down and dirty in their fields, city folk react otherwise.

“People in town are freaked out by it,” said Ramona Saunders, deputy agricultural commissioner for Sacramento County. Urban and suburban residents are the ones who routinely call her office’s Rodent Control Information line for help.

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After posing a few routine questions, she’s usually able to determine the problem is self-generated.

After one caller complained of rats making a home under her shed, for example, Saunders realized there was a host of reasons for the problem: The woman’s home was 100 feet from a stream, the next-door neighbor had ivy brambles growing on his property, and other neighbors fed their pets outside or else had pretty little bird feeders leaving grain on the ground. Case closed.

These are some of the most common draws for the two introduced species of Rattus primarily bedeviling California.

Roof rats—also sometimes called “black rats”—are what you’ll see most downtown, Serrano said. They have long tails and prefer nesting above ground in attics, walls and false ceilings. These agile critters use phone lines like highways and are capable of hopping from tree to tree to roof.

But those details are just incidental to what people really want to know, which is whether the rats are taking over.

At least for now, you’re in luck.

“We haven’t had an overload of rat questions this year,” Saunders said.

In fact, despite common conjecture otherwise, Serrano’s company fielded only five rodent complaints in March and zero through April 11.

Both Saunders and Serrano attribute the drop-off to the weather warming and an overall lack of rain.

But it might also be because the afflicted have begun taking the fight right to the rats themselves.

After all, the experts say most solutions are common-sense DIY ones.

Campbell was able to clear out her basement rats by getting rid of any food that wasn’t sealed. She also was forced to ditch a whole winter season’s worth of stored clothes. The reason? The rats liked the “Apple Mango Tango” scented laundry detergent she used to wash them.

While Campbell is a conscientious neighbor, Saunders and Serrano agree there’s only so much one household can do on its own. If one resident or business owner minds his area, but the folks next door don’t, the rats will reign.

“It takes a village to keep the rat population under control,” Saunders said. Ω

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In a move with lasting implications for how Sacramento spends its criminal-justice dollars, last week the county board of supervisors snatched budgetary authority from a panel whose decisions are under scrutiny.

Supervisors grumbled for two years about having no control over state “realignment” monies. These dollars started flowing in October 2011, when California shifted responsibility for its low-level-offender population to counties.

Since then, Sacramento has received more than $40 million, spending the vast majority on jail space and probation supervision under the authority of a Community Corrections Partnership.

But supervisors’ April 23 decision amounted to a kneecapping of the CCP, which is made up of Sacramento’s top law-enforcement officials.

As the CCP prepares to divvy $30 million, supervisors paused the hearing and asked county counsel John Whisenhunt to return with a resolution handing them the purse strings.

“Most other counties do not see the CCP as having authority over the actual budgeting and appropriation of the money,” Whisenhunt said.

Interim chief probation officer Suzanne Collins, who will be replaced by a permanent chief later this month, didn’t object to the move.

Less reserved was Ascend co-founder Christine Galves: “I don’t have time to kiss county counsel, but God bless you for your comments today.” (Raheem F. Hosseini)

Tent-city showdown Sacramento Safe Ground’s campout, scheduled to begin this past Wednesday, May 1, didn’t come about without a little drama. Activists spent a night in the old City Hall last week, assuring angry landlords and homeowners that their weeklong Stake Down homelessness awareness event, on C and 12th streets, would be nothing to worry about. Safe Ground also took the city to court to try and push its three-night camping permit to seven nights. Nothing doing.

Representatives repeatedly referred to the event as an exercise in First Amendment rights and claimed that if they can keep things safe and sanitary for three days, they could do it for seven. But the judge was reluctant to go anywhere near the city’s camping ordinance. Score one for fussy Alkali Flat residents.

Stake Down campers will only legally be allowed to camp through the night of Saturday, May 3. Their goal is to educate Sacramentans on homeless issues.

Any chance of civil disobedience? Safe Ground lawyers say prolonged camping won’t be an issue, but we’ll keep an eye out for that one. (Dave Kempa)

Laundry humor Not long ago, before texting and tablets, there was Humor Times: a fun little pub you could find for free all over town.

Humor Times was the Sacto rag I’d read after Alive & Kicking, while waiting for my clothes to dry at the laundromat. But then, in 2008, H.T. ended its run as a free paper.

The popular H.T. lives on as a paid-subscription magazine. And, this week, it celebrates 22 years of publication with a party and performance by The Capitol Steps troupe, who does musical-comedy known for its “equal-opportunity bashing” of Democrats and Republicans. The big H.T. celebration goes down Sunday, May 5, at the Clarion Inn Arden Conference Center (1401 Arden Way, 6:30 p.m.; $35 in advance, $40 at the door). Find out more at www.humortimes. com. (Nick Miller)

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This year, for the first time in a decade, California has several unexpected billions in the treasury. Pretty awesome compared to $60 billion in the red just three years ago.

“Extra” money means the annual budget bump-and-grind, which commences this month, will be messy.

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by GREG L revealed within the next week or so when Gov. Jerry Brown unveils caplowdown@newsreview.com his updated budget plan. But, as of today, the Democratic governor and lawmakers appear to have at least $4 billion to play with.

“Appear” being the most important word in that sentence.

Brown’s first two budgets attempted to close $15 billion and $26 billion shortfalls. They were passed on time because Democrats had no choice except to cut. To justify their aye votes, Democrats said: “This sucks on an epic level, totally thrashes lower-income Californians and further hobbles halt and lame oldsters, but, like, what else could we do, bro?”

Democratic legislators are soiling themselves with excitement over spending this money.

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Greg Lucas’ state-politics column Capitol Lowdown appears every-other week in SN&R. He also blogs at www.californias capitol.com.

No sucking in 2013. Happy days have returned to the Capitol. But this brighter day for state policymakers is the result of it being a gloomier year for California taxpayers.

Thanks to voter approval of Proposition 30 last fall, every Californian is paying a quarter-of-acent more in sales tax. Another new $5 billion was expected to show up in April because of the higher income taxes Proposition 30 imposes on the fewer than 550,000 Californians earning $250,000 or more.

The state also received $5 billion more than it expected in income-tax payments in January, not usually a banner month. That created such cushy a cushion that Brown’s Department of Finance reported California began April—its largest revenue collection month of the year—with nearly $5 billion more in the bank than predicted.

All of which would appear to create plenty of the aforementioned messiness.

Democratic legislators are soiling themselves with excitement over spending this money on all manner of worthy programs that were sharply curtailed during the years the treasury was bare. Preventative health care for poor kids and their families. Aid to the blind and disabled. In-home assistance for the elderly infirm. The courts. All very righteous candidates for a cash infusion.

Except even though there’s plenty of Democratic votes in the Legislature to authorize a financial airlift to all of these entities, Brown doesn’t want to go there.

Says H.D. Palmer, finance department spokesman, “We’re channeling our inner Larry David: Curb your enthusiasm. Just because we’re over forecast at this time doesn’t mean that’s free money people can spend however they want.”

While the Initialed One’s remarks represent a pretty harsh buzzkill for Democratic lawmakers, there’s some wisdom to the Brown administration’s hesitancy. State bean counters can’t explain the January revenue spike. Does a January feast this year mean forced fiscal fasting in the next budget year?

Then again, all spending options but one might be eliminated and the whole mess cleaned up because of something voters did 25 years ago.

That’s when Proposition 98 was approved. It requires a minimum annual amount of state investment in public schools—about 40 cents of every buck the state receives. But like so many things in politics, it’s not that simple.

Prop. 98’s formulas say that if there are large spikes in income for the state—like this year—and if the state has been shorting schools—as it surely has—then Sacramento’s fiscal freebooters might need to fork over every penny in unexpected cash to atone for a scintilla or two of past sins.

Boy, what a waste that would be.

Squandering billions on public schools, whose graduates help create a smarter, nimbler workforce that, in turn, increases California’s creativity and productivity, stokes the Golden State’s economic engine and sends more tax revenues to Sacramento that can be spent to help make things a bit more golden for everyone.

How stupid can voters be? Ω

It’s your money Bites clears up misconceptions on the Kings arena, cookie-cutter sprawl and power-grabbing candidates Convinced that Sacramento will likely make good on its promise of a big public subsidy, the NBA board of governors has agreed to let Sacramento keep the Kings.

This is probably a good time to clear up any misconception out there that Bites is somehow opposed a new Kings arena in Sacramento.

Not at all. In fact, Bites is basically ARvIn agnostic about the idea of buildby CoSMo G ing a downtown arena with public cos mog@ n ewsrev iew.c om money. It’s your $250 million (plus), Sacramento. Spend it as you see fit.

After all, it would be an endlessly fascinating project for people interested in urban design and politics. It won’t create new jobs, except for saving the jobs of a few sportswriters. But really, is it likely to screw up downtown any more than 50 years of redevelopment and $1 billion of public money have already done?

Speaking of the magic that $1 billion can do, the “whales” have dangled the promise they will invest half that much in rehabbing the area around the new arena site—a sort of L.A. Live lite. It’s OK, Sacramento, that your big ideas are always reheated versions of whatever was cool somewhere else 10 years ago. But you might want to get that in writing.

The arena plan, however, is a fairly radical departure from the deal City Hall has had with citizens for the last 28 years that pro-basketball has been in town. The deal has always been no direct taxpayer subsidies, no tax money spent to build arenas.

This latest plan proposes something very different: It takes tax money away from the general fund and spends it on building an arena. Given this major shift away from the old policy of not directly subsidizing the profits of billionaires, it’s appropriate for Sacramento voters to weigh in.

If Sacramento city voters decide they agree with this change of direction, that they believe the promised benefits of the project will outweigh the costs, and they are willing to approve a referendum on the arena plan, then Bites says go for it. It’s your money.

By the way, the half-a-billion thing was not meant to imply that developers somehow won’t do what they say they are going to do.

Developers never do what they say they are going to do, that’s a given. The problem is when they get local government to break its promises, too.

Take the big Delta Shores development project in south Sacramento. It’s one of the last big chunks of developable land in the city—an opportunity to learn from past mistakes and put smart-growth principles in action.

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in the city. Seems they want to ensure Delta Shores turns into the same cookie-cutter sprawl you can find anywhere else. Call it Natomas South or Elk Grove North. It’s likely got the votes to do it.

Region Builders has also been pushing for new rules that would prohibit the Sacramento Area Council of Governments—the region’s transportation-planning agency—from standing up for smart growth. SACOG rarely opines on local development projects, but director Mike McKeever was moved to testify against the Cordova Hills project approved by county supervisors earlier this year—an egregious violation of the smart-growth principles in Sacramento Region Blueprint adopted by area governments. Region Builders now wants a gag to keep SACOG staff from speaking out against sprawl.

It’s OK, Sacramento, that your big ideas are always reheated versions of whatever was cool somewhere else 10 years ago.

Speaking of speaking out: Sac city school board member Diana Rodriguez has announced she’ll run as a Democrat for the California Assembly’s 9th District. The 9th’s current occupant, Democrat Richard Pan, is expected to make an up-or-out bid for Darrell Steinberg’s senate seat next year. And we may see a lot of churn down the ballot.

Rodriguez was tenacious in opposing superintendent Jonathan Raymond’s wrongsizing plan to eliminate several neighborhood schools. That may help win her some votes in the south Sacramento part of the district— which sprawls down to Elk Grove and Lodi.

She’s joined in the contest by Tea Party Republican candidate Manuel Martin.

Bites lives in that district and tends to vote Democrat, believe it or not. But Martin would easily get Bites’ votes over sheriff deputy and Democrat Jim Cooper, also getting in to the race. Bites’ past tangles with Cooper, while he was Sacramento jail commander, were freaky and unconstitutional. No doubt about it, some random tea-party guy would be a better lawmaker.

Cooper’s campaign manager is Phil Giarrizzo, same guy who ran Allen Warren’s successful bid to capture the Sacramento City Council’s District 2 seat. Like Warren, Cooper’s got some baggage. Stuff that didn’t help him in his unsuccessful bid for sheriff against Scott Jones. But if Giarrizzo can do for Coop what he did for Warren, baggage is no barrier. Ω

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D.C. not united Sacramento leaders of all stripes converge on nation’s capital—where GOP views stall efforts I was in a mob. A well-dressed Sacramento Metro Chamber mob, which descended on Washington, D.C., for the 43rd annual Capitol-to-Capitol event earlier this month.

We were 300 strong, and our mission was to go door-todoor in this nation’s capital, making the case that Sacramento should get significantly more federal dollars. To do this well, we had to have a plan. We had to be able to explain why our region deserved more aid and how we could do things better than all the other regions vying for federal money.

For months before our descent into D.C., local business, government and nonprofit leaders, among l

by Jeff VonKAene others, met to discuss a wide assortment of issues.

There were committees on agriculture, air quality, j e ffv @n e wsr e v ie w.c o m civic amenities, clean technology, community development, flood protection, health care, homeland security, jobs, land use, transportation, water resources and, finally, workforce development.

Each committee developed position papers and identified priority issues. Some of these priorities were: more funding for flood protection, more support for building a health-care infrastructure and money for roads. Although I’m not very proud our committee members came of what we saw in from all parts of the political spectrum, we were able to Washington, D.C. develop a plan to help our The gridlock is solid and region move forward, with proposals that would result unmovable. It was so in more jobs, better health, incredibly discouraging. cleaner air and a muchimproved community.

Participating in the process, I was reminded of remarks made by President Dwight D. Eisenhower: that the purpose of developing a military plan is not the plan, but the planning. The planning enables Read more about the Sacramento one to adapt correctly to changing circumstances. I am Metro Chamber’s proud of the Cap-to-Cap committee plans. advocacy plans at I thought that some aspects of our plans would please http://metro the Republicans and some would please the Democrats. chamber.org/ I hoped that both parties in Washington could come publicpolicy. together and do what we had done in our Cap-to-Cap committees—develop a plan to move our country forward.

But flood protection, a cleaner environment, improved health care, better transportation, more aid for our most needy—these just didn’t appeal to both sides of the aisle.

The Republican views—that government does not work, Jeff vonKaenel that the rich need more and the poor need less, that we is the president, should increase military spending, and that the market will CEO and naturally solve our problems without regulation—did not majority owner of bode well for our plan for Sacramento. the News & Review Our well-dressed mob was nonpartisan. Sacramento had newspapers in Sacramento, worked together and come up with a plan. We wanted to Chico and Reno. see value on both sides of the aisle and had hoped to work with both sides.

But there was no one to work with on the Republican side.

I’m not very proud of what we saw in Washington. Both Democrats and Republicans have joined together to agree nothing significant will happen. The gridlock is solid and unmovable. It was so incredibly discouraging.

What will it take to change things in Washington? Ω

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by tom tomorrow

The right to look About 90 percent of Americans eat meat, but most of us know next to nothing about where it comes from.

That’s no accident.

The Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, that produce most of our beef, chicken and pork are all too often ghastly places where animals are kept in shockingly cramped and unsanitary conditions, full of growth hormones and antibiotics, and are subjected to inhumane and abusive treatment. The corporations that run these factory farms generally do their best to keep them out of the public eye.

But thanks to smartphone cameras, YouTube and the efforts of animal-welfare activists, shocking video from inside the nation’s slaughterhouses has reached millions of viewers over the past few years. In perhaps the most famous instance, undercover investigators from the Humane Society of the United States released video taken from the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company in Chino, Calif., in which “downer” cows too sick to stand were tortured by workers and slaughtered in violation of federal law. Release of the footage resulted in the recall of millions of pounds of beef and closure of the plant, and covert videos from The simple truth facilities around the country have is that we need to had similar impacts. know more, not less, Another result of these investigations has been the about where our introduction of “ag-gag” bills meat comes from. designed to thwart future inquiry in California and about a dozen other states. Some simply make it illegal to record video or take pictures in facilities where animals are slaughtered, or criminalize gaining entry under false pretenses. Others, such as the California measure, pretend to promote animal welfare by requiring that evidence of abuse be disclosed within days, effectively preventing documentation of much more than a single instance of abuse that could easily be dismissed by facility operators and prosecutors as an isolated incident. Ag-gag bills already have become law in Iowa, Utah and Missouri. The California proposal, Assembly Bill 343, sponsored by Republican Assemblyman Jim Patterson at the behest of the California Cattlemen’s Association, was withdrawn in the face of vocal opposition from animal-welfare and journalist groups, but Patterson has stated his intention to revisit it in the months ahead.

The simple truth is that we need to know more, not less, about where our meat comes from. Government oversight is woefully inadequate, as the covert videos reveal. Rather than shielding animal abuse from the public eye, our legislators should require CAFOs and meatpacking plants to install webcams.

“Sometimes I think that all it would take to clarify our feelings about eating meat, and in the process begin to redeem animal agriculture, would be to simply pass a law requiring … the concrete walls of slaughterhouses, to be replaced by glass,” food activist and author Michael Pollan has written. “If there’s any new right we need to establish, maybe this is the one: the right, I mean, to look.”

Our state and federal lawmakers should give consumers the right to look. The technology is available to open the concrete walls of the slaughterhouses.

Public scrutiny could do much more to promote humane treatment of animals and safe processing of meat than government regulation ever will—if given the chance. Ω

Rhesus pieces Primate Research Center. I’d heard rumors Harvard Medical School announced last week that of questionable things taking place in the come 2015, it will shutter its primary by primate building, and just that year, the lab monkey-research laboratory, citing funding Dave Kempa came under scrutiny over a monkey’s death cuts as the reason for the primate center’s davek@ that took place mid-experiment. closing. But animal-rights groups the world newsre view.c om This is the sort of thing that should make over are clamoring for the credit, claiming all of us think long and hard about how we Harvard’s bad press over four questionable treat these distant cousins of ours in the lab. monkey deaths in a two-year span as the real But let’s not lose sight of the purpose reason the program went under. of these places. Harvard’s primate house, Now, activists have their sights on the now closing, is renowned for its work in seven remaining monkey houses backed by combating AIDS. UC Davis’ the National Institutes of lab works to fight Parkinson’s Health, which includes disease, among other human the California National How do we ailments. Same goes for Primate Research Center define our code Wisconsin’s. at UC Davis.

We must maintain strict And honestly, we of ethics in oversight and ethical standards shouldn’t be surprised. animal testing? for primate facilities, but let’s In March, the remember that they exist to U.S. Department of save human lives. In fact, Agriculture cited some may help us understand just how close the primate center for insufficiencies in we are to our fellow primates. veterinary care in relation to the deaths of Primatologist Frans de Waal, head of 19 rhesus macaque monkeys, which also Georgia’s Yerkes National Primate Research occurred over a two-year span.

Center at Emory University and author of These events have given new life to a The Bonobo and the Atheist, continues to long-dormant debate: How do we define our wow us with findings on things such as the code of ethics in animal testing? Should we prevalence of morality in ape societies. These be conducting animal experiments at all? studies serve as reminders that we aren’t so When I was a sophomore at the different from our fellow opposable-thumbed University of Wisconsin-Madison, I lived beings. Ω two blocks from the Wisconsin National BEFORE

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rowded around a Natomas porch with more than a hundred open-house regulars on a sunny Saturday in April, Chris Raynes waits for his name to be called.

For more than a year now, the first-time buyer has unsuccessfully tried to join the homeownership ranks.

Despite a chunky savings account, devoted real-estate agent and solid lending company, a mysterious crush of cash-fat investors keep elbowing the 43-year-old state worker out of the way. Hundreds of aspiring homeowners can feel his pain.

“I live in Natomas. It was swamped by investors,” he told SN&R. “And the ridiculous part is [many] weren’t from California. They were out of state.”

A lifelong renter, Raynes missed out on the first housing-bubble blockbuster that dropped six years ago.

His mother, who now lives with him after losing her home to the banks, did not. But Raynes has a front-row seat for what may end up being the soul-sucking sequel. And like most sequels, it’s all about maximum commerce and shock-and-awe thrills.

The Sacramento region is one of a number of markets nationwide that “are in danger of some minibubbles,” observed Daren Blomquist, vice president of Californiabased real-estate marketplace website RealtyTrac.

The premise of “Housing Bubble 2” is dualpronged: As investors gobble up cheap real estate—in sometimes shifty fashion—they shunt regular buyers to the side.

And while banks seem to be clearing their foreclosure portfolios at a steady clip, big-money investors buy these properties, hoarding them and artificially boosting home values. This market manipulation makes the inventory appear shallower than it is, creating a bubble that could pop once prices hit an inflection point and sellers flood the market.

After years in the foreclosure graveyard, median home values in Sacramento County streaked to $218,750 last month, an 8 percent improvement over February and a 32 percent high jump from last year. How long before the gamblers cash in their chips?

“I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve never seen a market like this,” said Tom Pool, spokesman for the California Department of Real Estate. “The investor with cash is king.”

In the meantime, people who would buy homes if they could are trapped in increasingly expensive rentals, said Sacramento Housing Authority executive director Bob Erlenbusch. Some lower-income renters get priced out of that market altogether and end up on the streets, he added.

For the first time since maybe the Great Depression, both property and money are cheap, but it’s the rich who benefit, not regular folks like Raynes.

Dirty Deals Done Dirt Cheap The cash-for-homes trend exploded in 2008 and streaked to a 10-year high in December 2012, when cash buyers accounted for nearly 40 percent of Sacramento County’s home sales, according to the Sacramento Association of Realtors. Since then, these buyers, most of whom are investors looking to rent or flip purchases, have continued to rule the market, accounting for 39.5 percent and 36.4 percent of all home sales in February and March, respectively.

“I feel for all the people in the world like me trying to bust into the market,” Raynes said. “It’s hard.”

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And even harder when not everyone operates on the level.

Since 2009, Gordon Cuffe has run www.sacramento wholesalehomes.com A veteran of the real-estate trade, he acts as an intermediary between individual investors and real-estate agents looking to unload single-family homes priced below $150,000. He gets alerts from realty-listing website MetroList the moment such properties are listed in Sacramento and Placer counties. Lately, though, these listings are phantom ones, disappearing almost as quickly as they go up.

That suggests a voracious investor appetite for low-cost real estate, but also something more insidious.

Horror stories abound of agents not listing properties until after they’ve tipped off an investor, several industry insiders told SN&R. It’s a practice known as “pocket listing,” Blomquist said, because it allows the agent to make money off of both listing and sales commissions.

“Several hundred homes never see the light of day,” Pool added.

But why would sellers take the first investor offer they solicit when the market is witnessing such sharp gains?

“It could be a greed, money, back-pocket type of thing,” Cuffe suggested.

It’s also a comfort thing, according to real-estate and banking representatives. Sellers and real-estate agents are more apt to accept cash offers because they dodge the uncertainty that comes with banks or lenders vetting loans that may get scuttled 10 days into escrow.

“These guys have been starving for a long time,” one local bank manager said of the realty crowd. “Now they’re cutting the deal any way they can.”

The manager, who wasn’t authorized by his employer to speak publicly, actually has firsthand experience. Last December, the manager put down the highest bid on a house in Lincoln. But the bank that owned the home accepted a lower cash offer, the manager said, for end-ofthe-year tax purposes.

The manager ended up getting the house, though, when the investor turned around and cut a deal for the higher bid price. Without laying down a single dollar, the investor pocketed 60 grand doing what’s called “double-ending the deal,” said Blomquist.

And while that all may be scummy and downright unfair, none of it is actually illegal, Pool said.

That’s not to say his office isn’t seeing a growing number of complaints.

The California Department of Real Estate is the regulatory agency responsible for licensing real-estate brokers and salespeople. There are 413,000 such licensees in the state, down from a high of 550,000 when home prices peaked.

Even with fewer licensees, however, Pool said the department set a record last year in handing out disciplinary actions, “and we’re either on pace to match or exceed the previous year.”

An unprecedented 1,109 real-estate licenses were suspended, surrendered and revoked in the fiscal year ending June 2012, a 100 percent increase compared to five years earlier, when there were actually more licensees. The department also delivered a record 213 desist-and-refrain orders that same year, a whopping 170 percent increase over 2007.

Through the first three months of this year, the department handed out 198 disciplinary actions in the Sacramento region alone.

Even with the increasing rebukes, Pool’s office is starting to see more applications from people trying to get into the real-estate business. The money is just too good.

Unless you’re an average buyer, of course.

Raynes has submitted a half-dozen offers, including one he compared to “online shopping,” because he rushed to email his bid before a bank’s East Coast deadline. But each time he’s been burned by a faceless investor with a briefcase full of green.

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Charting the shadow The key to whether Sacramento is in for another housing bubble and bust comes down to how large its “shadow inventory” is.

The term refers to the number of bank-owned housing units that have yet to be put on the market, and it’s a difficult figure to track—hence the name.

Since 69 percent of homes that start down the foreclosure road end up being auctioned, sold by the banks or returned to them via short sales, industry watcher RealtyTrac considers all homes going through the foreclosure process as part of the shadow inventory.

SN&R employed a more conservative method, counting only homes that were actually foreclosed. Taking that approach, a shadow does extend over Sacramento, but it’s lighter than in other parts of the nation.

That could change.

Through the end of March, there were 69,000 bankowned properties in California. “That’s a pretty high number still,” Blomquist allowed, but it’s down 28 percent from a year ago and way off the November 2008 high of 245,000.

More telling is this figure: Over the last 10 months, banks are selling off this inventory at a rate of 25,000 homes per quarter.

In the Sacramento area, there were 5,816 bank-owned homes at the end of March. Banks are selling an average of 2,381 such homes a quarter—or roughly every three months—giving the area a bit more than a seven-month supply before that inventory is depleted.

“There doesn’t appear to be a lot of holdback [by the banks],” Blomquist said.

By comparison, Florida has a 19-month shadow inventory, even though the state is turning foreclosures into sales at a speedier clip than either Sacramento or California.

So if the banks are dutifully unloading their supplies, where’s the bust coming from?

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Blomquist said it’s the bulk-buying institutional investors like Blackstone Group LP, which control large swaths of this housing inventory and may be waiting for the right time for a massive sell-off, flooding the market and drowning prices.

“Yes, I do think that’s a possible risk down the road,” Blomquist said. “Hopefully these investors are smart enough to not sell this inventory all at once, but you never know.”

Media outlets earlier this month reported Blackstone’s $200 million acquisition of more than 1,200 homes across the Sacramento region. The company has turned most of these homes into rentals—for the time being.

A sudden Blackstone sell-off would have “a very big impact,” Blomquist said. It could submerge a number of current and new homeowners in negative equity, especially if they benefited from Federal Housing Administration loans that only required 3 percent down payments.

“A group of homeowners may be stretching themselves to buy in this market,” Blomquist said. “There is some risk that the values could dip.”

But this wouldn’t cause a new foreclosure crisis on its own, Blomquist believes, so much as a minibust that’s destined to be part of our volatile recovery.

Ironically, what could make the road ahead even bumpier are new consumer-friendly laws slowing down the foreclosure process.

Right now, it takes California banks an average of 335 days to foreclose on a home, which may seem like a long time, Blomquist said, but is nowhere near the 853-day average of Florida, where the shadow inventory looms largest.

Florida’s shadow inventory is so large because every bank foreclosure has to go through a lengthy court process first. This means there’s a large stash of soon-to-beforeclosed homes that will flood Florida’s market at some point, watering down values.

Frustrated first-time homebuyer Chris Raynes (right) meets with Century 21 real-estate agent Stephen Costello at a Citrus Heights open house. Raynes has put in six offers on homes in Sacramento County, but can’t compete with a bullying crush of cash investors.

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Nevada in October 2011 caused something of a boomerang That’s already starting to happen to a certain degree, the effect, hindering foreclosures that should have probably real-estate agent believes. At the end of the afternoon, 30 entered the market two to three years ago. The delay has offers came in, five of which were for cash. A home Frink the side effect of making it appear there are fewer homes sold around Christmas attracted 17 cash offers. to buy than there otherwise will be, artificially juicing Raynes’ bid was one of the 30. He thought he values. had a pretty decent shot this time around.

RealtyTrac is watching to see whether, He offered $24,000 above the $215,000 now that these delayed foreclosures are asking price—good, but, as it turns out, finally coming to market, values will not good enough. dip with them.

“This last house, I think it “It’s hard to reason against was my best hope,” he reflected the law when you have so many after learning his offer wasn’t examples of lenders foreclosing accepted. on people who shouldn’t have This is Raynes’ first foray been,” Blomquist said, “[but] into the cutthroat real-estate it’s one of the reasons we’re so market. He started bidding last concerned with California.” spring when he felt home prices couldn’t drop any lower. A current Tom Pool spokesman, the California renter in River Park, he’s since department of real estate widened his search beyond established homes and short sales—with all Back around the Natomas porch, their required paperwork, Raynes quipped Raynes gets the one thing that was missing they should be called “long sales”—to include from all his other failed purchase attempts: his new constructions, even though it’ll mean waiting foot in the door. the better part of a year to move in. He’s scoured College On this afternoon, he finds himself at a modest Greens, Elk Grove, West Sacramento and Natomas, one-story residence in a neighborhood hugged by a where he moved to attend Sacramento State in 1990 and community park, perfect for a first-time homebuyer. The has considered his home ever since. The Bay Area native owners are going through that rare real-estate agent who would prefer to stay here in the floodplain capital, but will only consider bidders that actually show up for the knows he can’t be picky. Not in this ruthless climate. one-day open house. On Saturday, April 20, about 140 “It is frustrating because the industry is so offset. There guests signed in and clustered outside to be called in for are so many more buyers than there are homes,” he said. a one-on-one tour. Interested buyers were also required to “It’s all over in Sacramento.” submit personal letters describing their interest, something Raynes has done for every home he’s submitted an offer for. It took three hours and 20 minutes to accommodate “Housing bubble 2” each interested buyer. continued on page 21 continued from page 17

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To level the playing field against rich investors, Frink will only sell homes to those who attend his open houses.

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to muscle their way into the bidder’s bazaar— reverberates through the entire tapestry.

Yank one strand too hard, and the entire fabric snaps, Blomquist says.

Pool thinks there’s enough pent-up demand that when the shadow inventory is released, Ross Hendrickx lives in a home in Del Paso there still won’t be enough to accommodate Heights that’s currently worth less than he paid interested homebuyers. The bubble may flutter, for it. He’s not in danger of losing it, but he is but it won’t bust. waiting for the market to rebound to But no one knows for sure. where he’s no longer underwater While rising home prices and might be able to sell it can’t come fast or furious for close to what he enough for the foreclosureput down. endangered, there is a “It Is frustratIng As a Rosevillerisk that prices, if spikbased title officer ing too rapidly, could because the Industry who deals with arrest the market Is so offset. there are short-sale and before it has time foreclosure properto heal. Prices are so many more buyers than ties, Hendrickx already growing too there are homes. It’s all sees a lot of clients rich for investors, who are worse off.

Frink reminded. over In sacramento.”

They’re just barely “If this clip keeps treading water and up, it could price hoping the banks will first-timers out of the Chris Raynes agree to short sales. market,” he added. prospective homebuyer But because the market is Leaving those like climbing and values are up, Raynes waiting even longer it’s more likely these banks will for their ship to come in. just foreclose, he says.

“I’m 43 years old, and I’m finally “They gamble, and they get foreclosed on trying to get my feet wet,” he told SN&R. “I’m anyway,” Hendrickx said. fortunate I wasn’t ready [to buy a home when It’s a fragile web, the area housing market. the bubble popped].

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Competing fortunes

A tAle of two bubbles A look at Sacramento’s latest housing boom and last decade’s recession-inducing bust

It should be familiar, because it was only six years ago when, in 2007, the subprimemortgage industry Armageddoned as home-foreclosure rates exploded. Wall Street, whose firms were peddling bogus mortgage-backed securities, lost hundreds of billions of dollars. Hello, global recession.

These were dark times.

The bubble that blew the world economy initially went unnoticed. Beginning in the late ’90s and ending in 2006, Sacramento and the rest of the nation witnessed an unprecedented upsurge in home values. Financing was available to anyone and everyone—even if you had no money for a down payment or didn’t have a job. New-home sales doubled in a decade’s time. More families than ever withdrew mortgage equity from their homes.

Then, pop!

Fast-forward to 2013, and this minibubble is slightly different. There’s a dearth of homes on the market, especially options for firsttime buyers. Investors, such as Blackstone Group LP, pay cash to swoop up thousands of local properties, which they’re renting out while waiting for values to climb higher. Banks also have a few thousand local homes in their cache. And new-home construction is slowly, inch by inch, recovering.

As supply dwindles, interest rates hover around 3.5 percent, because the government continues to pump money into treasuries.

Potential buyers urgently want to lock in the good rates. Demand is very high.

The result is that home prices continue to artificially rise. And not just tiny upticks: The median home price in Sacramento surged from $189,000 in October 2012 to nearly $220,000 in March of this year, an increase that more than mirrors the unprecedented growth during last decade’s housing boom.

Enter “Housing Bubble 2”—a miniature, hiccuplike version of last decade’s boom that blew up all over America.

Yes, gone are the days of subprime mortgages—only 6 percent of U.S. loans are zero-down—and more than 40 percent of U.S. sales are now paid in all cash.

But the problem is that as supply remains shallow, home values could unnaturally rise too high. There’s a hunger for some big numbers—real-estate agents itching for paydays, lenders peddling refinancing, sellers emerging from underwater—that surely exacerbates this inflation.

The fear is that when these investors unleash their “shadow inventory” of homes, or builders reignite construction, a deluge of supply will put a new generation of first-time homebuyers underwater. And forestall economic recovery. And so on. All over again.

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as the right pair of shoes or shorts and proper padding wrapped around the handlebars can go a long way when it comes to endurance and comfort.

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CruIse through May Is BIke Month wIth these 10 CyClereaDy tIps May Is BIke Month, an annual cycling campaign, has rolled into Sacramento. The effort, designed to encourage an increase in ridership in the six-county region, means it’s time for everyone parked behind a steering wheel to put away the car keys and get to commuting with pure pedal power.

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Participants can register and track miles online; there are also team and individual challenges, myriad events and prizes. To help you prepare, SN&R chatted with three local experts from whom they culled 10 summer-ready bicycle tips.

Advice covers basics, such as seasonal maintenance, as well as overall safety rules and even some MacGuyver-worthy suggestions on what to do if you suddenly find yourself miles from the nearest repair shop with a busted tire (see tip No. 7).

the 01Maintain drivetrain Debra Banks, owner of Rivet Cycle Works (www.rivetcycleworks.com), a Sacramento-based company specializing in custom leather saddles, enjoys long-distance cycling

and randonneuring-style rides—a high-endurance challenge that recently sent her on a journey of more than 200 miles. With thousands of miles logged, she shares the No. 1 tip to ensure a smooth ride, whatever the distance. “[Keep] your drivetrain clean: your chain, cassette, derailleur and crank set,” she explains. “This will lengthen the life of your bicycle immensely, and it will make your ride so much more comfortable for the long haul.”

some 02 Add padding Spring and summer bring out the short shorts and, sometimes, even the hideous jeans-and-flip-flop combo.

The change in weather also brings out plenty of wheels. The next time the urge to mount a ride with a group of compadres hits, take another comforting tip from the woman responsible for creating those cozy tush seats: “The next most important thing is your contact points with the bicycle: your feet on the pedals, hands on the handlebars and your bottom, of course, on the saddle,” says Banks.

“If you’re having pain in any one of those three areas, it will slow you down, you’ll be miserable and you won’t enjoy the bike ride.” And, she notes, comfortable clothing such

With a keen eye for detail and patience for the craft of building and repairing bicycles, Addison Quarles, owner of Addison’s Bicycle Repairium (2311 S Street, Suite 2), says keeping bicycle chains wellgreased makes for happy gears. “In the summer, use a wet lubricant, like an oil, and it will keep your chain from wearing out and your gears from wearing out,” he says. Meanwhile, Jackie Musick, service manager at The Bicycle Business (3077 Freeport Boulevard) recommends a wax-based lubricant. “A wax-based lubricant will not only lubricate your chain, but coat your chain with a layer of paraffin wax that protects it from the elements.

It works particularly well in wet weather and in dry weather to shed dirt and moisture from the street.”

04 Just say no That famous blue-and-yellow spray can in Dad’s garage might work when it comes to removing gunk from metal or loosening stuck parts, but think twice before squirting WD-40 or another petroleum-based liquid near any part of a bicycle.

“WD-40 and bikes don’t mix,” Quarles says. “It locks in all the bad stuff and wipes out all the good stuff.

It’s like chemotherapy for bicycles.

It will quiet [the bike] down if it’s squeaking, and then it will strip all the lubrication inside of the chain,

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Instead, Quarles recommends the Tri-Flow brand of lube, while Banks uses Chain-L—an all-weather variety—and Musick’s go-to alternatives include the White Lightning or Rock “N” Roll brands.

05 Whatever the weather

the day’s wind reports is also vital, as strong gusts can derail plans for an otherwise sunny day.

How you treat bicycle when it rains vs. when the sun is out is important to its maintenance, Quarles says. As such, he reminds all riders to check and change brake pads at the beginning of spring. “All the water and grit you’ve picked up from the road will wear your brake pads out,” he says. “It’s just visual inspection, like the penny test on your car tire tread. Stick a penny in the tread, and if you can see Abraham Lincoln’s face, then it’s usually time to replace them.”

fix-it 07 The ticket Knowing how to change a tire is, according to all three bicycle enthusiasts, essential—as is having access to the necessary tools needed to get the job done, especially when out on a bike trail. “Never leave home without the ability to change a tire,” Banks says. “Have a new tube, a patch kit, maybe a CO2 cartridge if you use that, or a pump or both.” Another tip: Banks says if a tire is damaged, try inserting a trusty dollar bill, a bit of duct tape or a small piece of punctured inner tube into the inner casing of the tire—this will temporarily keep the new tube secured within the tire casing.

vigate 06 Na wisely Whether it’s Google Maps, MapQuest or a physical map of a bike trail, our experts all agree that knowing what lies ahead when it comes to mileage and the weather is essential to riding long or short distances. “Be prepared, especially if you’re going out for longer rides from town to town, not just urban rides,” says Banks. “Obviously, it’s a great idea to go out with friends, but if you’re going for a little more adventure, doing a little homework is useful.” Banks adds that researching

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With an increase in local bike thefts, properly securing your ride is imperative. Tips from the Repairium include “locking up next to a bike that looks better than yours,” while Musick suggests any strong, U-lock-style device. “If you don’t have a bike to ride, bicycle health is completely pointless. Store your

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the 09 Protect neck After a seven-year stretch living the car-free lifestyle, Musick recently started driving again and immediately noticed how invisible bicyclists really are at night. “Safety is a pretty huge issue. It’s super important to have front and rear lights and wear reflective clothing for the sake of visibility at night. It’s crucial,” he says. Indeed, Musick says he never rides without protective headgear.

“Even if I’m running out to pick up ... lunch three blocks from my shop, I’ll put on my helmet. I just don’t feel safe without it.”

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With chains greased, routes mapped and all precautionary tips taken into consideration, what’s left to do but pedal forward? “Just ride your bike,” says Musick. “That’s not necessarily being esoteric, it’s actually mechanically better for your bike to ride it from time to time rather than to let it sit. Riding your bike is probably one of the best things you can do for it.” Ω |

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Th, 5/2, 10:30-11:45am. Free.

Cosumnes River College, 8401 Center Pkwy.; (916) 691-7344; www.crc.losrios.edu/Events_an d_Culture/One_Book_CRC.htm.

Classes TAMALE PARTY: Just in time for Cinco de Mayo, join Chef Dionoso Esperas for a handson workshop where you’ll learn to make tamales in your home kitchen. The chef will demonstrate one of his favorite Mexican desserts, coconut flan, to round out the class, and each student will take tamales home. Th, 5/2, 6-8:30pm. $40-$49. Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 1914 Alhambra Blvd.; (916) 868-6399; www.sacfoodcoop.com.

Film THE GROCER’S SON: In celebration of the French landscapes of Gregory Kondos, the Sacramento French Film Festival presents an encore screening of its 2008 Audience Award winner, The Grocer’s Son. Featuring gorgeous cinematography of rural France, this comedy-drama is directed

by Eric Guirado. Th, 5/2, 7pm. $5-$8. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.; (916) 808-7000; www.crockerartmuseum.org.

Ronald, co-author of the book Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food, will discuss how we can feed the world’s growing population without further destroying the environment.

An art exhibition by Lisa Reinertson will be on display during the reception. F, 5/3, 7:30pm. Free. Pence Gallery, 212 D St. in Davis; (530) 758-3370; www-sf.ucdavis.edu/say-it.

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fashion show featuring the skateboard clothing brand Fourt33n Minutes Left. It’ll feature boards, clothing and an acoustic set by 1st Place.

Sa, 5/4, 1 & 3pm. Free. Zuhg Life Store, 545 Downtown Plaza, Ste. 2090; (916) 254-1564; www.14minutesleft.com.

CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR: Christopher Taylor is an innovative musician with a diverse array of talents and interests (including a mathematics degree from Harvard University). One of those interests was in rebuilding the only dual-manual Steinway in existence (known as the Steinway-Moór Concert Grand). Built in the late 1920s and housed at the University of Wisconsin, where Taylor is a professor of piano, the restoration was completed by Steinway in 2007. F, 5/3, 8pm. $17.50-$58. Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, 9399 Old Davis Rd. in Davis; (530) 754-2787; www.mondaviarts.org.

SPORTS CARDS, COLLECTIBLES AND EQUIPMENT FAIR: This is a oncea-year swapmeet featuring sports carts, antiques, collectibles, art and equipment from local businesses and the public. Sa, 5/4, noon-4pm. Free.

The Market Place, 1325 Riley St. Commonwealth Shopping Center in Folsom; (916) 984-4220.

SPORTS-THEMED CEMETERY TOUR: Learn about boxers and baseball players from the old days, and how bicyclists helped spur the development of our modern highway system. Free parking is available in the lot at 10th Street and Broadway, across the street from the entrance.

Sa, 5/4, 10am. Free. Old City Cemetery, 1000 Broadway; (916) 448-0811; www.oldcitycemetery.com.

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DON’T MISS! MEXICAN-AMERICAN DIGITAL HISTORY: See an exhibition

and join a discussion presented by the Mexican American Digital History Project. The group is collecting materials on activism in the Sacramento region from 1940 to present day. It will collect, write and post this material so that it is not discarded.

Recordings, news clippings and photos are welcome.

Sa, 5/4, 1:30-3:30pm. Free.

Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.; (916) 832-0916; www.mexicanamerican digitalhistory.org.

UC DAVIS BIKE AUCTION: More than 400 bicycles will be available for sale to the highest bidder. The bicycles may be viewed from 8 to 9 a.m. with bidding starting at 9 a.m. and lasting until all items are sold. The auction takes place inside the West Entry Parking Structure at the intersection of Hutchison Drive and Dairy Road.

Sa, 5/4, 8am-2pm. Free. University of California in Davis, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis; (530) 752-2453; http://taps.ucdavis.edu/bicycle/ auctions.

Comedy DAVID SEDARIS: With sardonic wit

Concerts TINA & HER PONY: Tina & Her Pony, from Taos, New Mexico, is an indie Appalachian folk band with cello, banjo, ukulele, guitar and vocal harmonies. The group is stopping in Sacramento, more than halfway through an 18-month national tour. Th, 5/2, 6-8:30pm.

Free. Dad’s Kitchen, 2968 Freeport Blvd.; (916) 447-3237.

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College 2013 fashion show, featuring 12 designers’ current work. The show theme is “kaleidoscopes,” celebrating the many designers’ views, silhouettes and styles. This show will present designs for women’s, children’s and men’s fashions.

F, 5/3, 11am, 5 & 7:30pm. $15-$20.

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and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. The skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today. Sa, 5/4, 8pm. $48.50. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.; (916) 442-7378.

MIDTOWN FARMERS MARKET:

Hosted by the Midtown Business Association, this free, family-friendly market will take place weekly on Saturdays. The Midtown Farmers Market showcases local agriculture, prepared foods, artisans and crafters, while providing an opportunity for Midtown residents and business owners to discover regionally grown foods. Sa, 8am-1pm through 12/28. Free. Parking lot, 2020 J St.; (916) 442-1500; www.midtownfarmers marketsac.com.

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

Meetings & Groups SIN SACRAMENTO: Strength In Numbers Sacramento is an HIV social program of the Sacramento Gay & Lesbian Center. It’s grown in four years to more than 122 men and women who’ve joined to share experiences, strength and hope. Anyone living with HIV or AIDS—as well as family, friends and supporters—is welcome to join and attend. First Sa of every month, 6pm. Free. Sacramento Gay & Lesbian Center, 1927 L St.; (916) 442-0185.

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comedy show headlined by Kabir “Kabeezy” Singh. Sacramento native Ellis Rodriguez will also be in the house. The show producer, Ric James will also take to the mic with special guests.

Su, 5/5, 7pm. $15. Punch Line Comedy Club, 2100 Arden Way; (916) 925-5500; www.sac.punch linecomedyclub.com.

THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS: View the provocative and funny theatrical adaptation of the C.S. Lewis novel about spiritual warfare from a demon’s point of view. The limited engagement is part of a national tour that kicked off after a hit nine-month run at the Westside Theatre in New York City. Sa, 5/4, 4-5:30pm. $39-$59. Sacramento Community Center Theater, 1301 L St.; (916) 808-5181.

Film INFINITY & CHASHU RAMEN: This is an independent film made by Japanese-Americans about Japanese-Americans and the foibles of their everyday lives in San Francisco’s Japantown. In it, two unseen spirits will wander in and out of the lives of Japantown residents, trying to keep the universe in order. Sometimes they succeed, sometimes they fail. Su, 5/5, 4 & 6:45pm. $10-$12.50. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.; (916) 442-7378; http://infinityandchashu ramen.com.

Concerts CINCO DE MAYO CELEBRATION: Reunion is hosting a Cinco de Mayo celebration with specials on Avion Tequila and deejay dancing. Sa, 5/4, 7pm-2am. $5.

Reunion Nightclub, 4370 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 100 in El Dorado Hills; (916) 939-0777.

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DON’T MISS! THE CAPITOL STEPS: The national touring politicalcomedy troupe, The Capitol Steps, will appear in Sacramento to help celebrate the Humor Times’ 22nd anniversary. The Capitol Steps is renowned for its unique brand of musical political comedy, lampooning all sides in national politics with a nonpartisan, equal-opportunity bashing that leaves no political party unscathed.

Su, 5/5, 6:30pm. $35-$45.

Clarion Inn & Conference Center, 1401 Arden Way, (916) 455-1217; www.humortimes.com.

DON’T MISS! DAYS OF HEAVEN: Director Terrence Malick’s beautifully shot period piece, which won an Oscar for its cinematography, tells the story of Bill (Richard Gere), an early-1900s Chicago steel-mill worker who flees town after accidentally killing a man. In search of a better life, he moves his girlfriend Abby (Brooke Adams) and younger sister to the wheat fields of Texas.

But they run into tragedy when a wealthy farmer (Sam Shepard) falls for Abby. M, 5/6, 7pm. $5-$10. Mondavi Center, 9399 Old Davis Rd. in Davis; (530) 754-2787; www.mondaviarts.org.

Special Events TAPAS AND TUTUS: This fundraising event features a variety of tapas stations, a margarita and tequila bar, a salsa bar, a silent auction, door prizes, a salsa dance lesson, and a chance to meet and mingle with the dancers of the Sacramento Ballet. Su, 5/5, 2-5pm. $60. The Elks Tower, 921 11th St.; (916) 470-7437; www.sacballet.org.

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O’Daly, poet and translator of Pablo Neruda, will be accompanied by jazz pianist, keyboardist and composer Paul Bloom of the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet, and Laila Smith, an accomplished jazz vocalist and composer who performs with Bloom in their duo, Polenta. Bob Stanley, former Poet Laureate of Sacramento, will be the host for the evening and will also perform. Tu, 5/7, 7-9pm. $5. Time Tested Books, 1114 21st St.; (916) 447-5696; http://timetestedbooks.blog spot.com.

Special Events ARTS LECTURE AT ARC: Hear Chris Botta and Gary Dinnen in conversation with American River College Professor Mick Sheldon.

Botta and Dinnen are both visual artists who have worked as installers with the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, as well as numerous galleries and museums throughout the Sacramento Region. Tu, 5/7, 7pm. Free.

American River College, 4700 College Oak Dr.; (916) 484-8399; www.arc.losrios.edu.

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of actors, writers, directors and producers are given just 24 hours to create, rehearse and tech six short original plays, culminating in an off-book performance to a live theater audience. See the result of their work.

W, 5/8, 6:30pm. $15. Miner’s Foundry, 325 Spring St. in Nevada City; (530) 265-5040; www.minersfoundry.org.

City College City Fashion Club presents its first City Fashion Show. The show will present the works of garments and accessories created right by students in the SCC Fashion Department. Eight student designers will also be showcasing their own individual collections for the first time.

W, 5/8, 7pm. $5-$7. Sacramento City College Student Center, 3835 Freeport Blvd.; (916) 558-2111; www.facebook.com/ cityfashion916.

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Hear works by American composers Grundman, Kopetz, Huckeby, and Sousa performed by the winner of the Sacramento Valley Symphonic Band Association’s Annual Youth Artist Competition. M, 5/6, 7:30pm. Free.

Christ Community Church, 5025 Manzanita Ave. in Carmichael; (916) 691-7632; www.cccnow.com.

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crew takes the title. There will also be live music, a beer garden, community information booths and children’s activities. Sa, 5/4, noon-4pm. Free; food costs extra.

The Good Building, 1409 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 923-6200; www.smokeandfirecookoff.com.

Join the May meeting of Sacramento regional electricvehicle owners. Anyone is welcome to attend. Snacks will be served. See the latest EVs in the parking lot. Then get an update on chargers, SMUD’s quick charger and workplace charging. Wed., 5/8, 5-7:30pm.

Free. SMUD Customer Service Center, 6301 S St.; (916) 717-9158; http://sacev.org.

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LowBrau 1050 20th Street, (916) 706-2636, www.lowbrausacramento.com LowBrau recently moved into the space once occupied by the good but poorly planned Lounge on 20 in Midtown’s Lavender Heights district. Here, by Garrett McCord owners Michael Hargis and Clay Nutting have crafted together a low-key urban restaurant that’s open until 2 a.m.

LowBrau specializes in two things: beer and bratwursts. Both are done smashingly.

If you appreciate a good hot link, then don’t miss LowBrau’s. This sausage is wrapped in a tight, snappy skin like a gimp suit, which gets nicely charred by the chefs.

Within it lies a beguilingly spicy and juicy rating: piece of meat. Get it with a pretzel roll for a HHHH truly exciting experience.

On one visit, the special link of the day dinner for one: was a pork kielbasa sitting on a bed of spinach $10 - $15 tucked in a sweet roll and topped with a bacon-and-blue-cheese crumble. There are vegan options, too, which is unexpected for a brat house. The Italian, an eggplant-based brat, has a surprisingly sausagelike texture, though you won’t get that snappy skin or burst of juice. Still, no self-respecting carnivore will turn it down for lack of flavor.

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HHHH authoritative All of the homemade mustards are delightful, but a warning: The spicy mustard is not HHHHH epic chili-pepper spicy, but horseradish spicy. This is a strong, raw mustard flavor, so give it some berth in case it’s not as stable as its papers say and it decides to beat your ass.

The idea behind the Duck Fat Fries is a glorious one—filled with that silky texture and sigh-inducing flavor of well-rendered duck fat, salt and billowing hot potato in a Still hungry? crispy skin. Sadly, however, they fall short.

Search Sn&r’s This isn’t a complaint, mind you. The fries “dining directory” to find local are exceptionally good with all that crispy restaurants by name and billowy goodness. You just expect someor by type of food. thing more when you see the words “duck Sushi, mexican, indian, fat.” In short, they’re just good fries. italian—discover it There are a few sauce options, including all in the “dining” section at the garlic and chive, a demure ranchlike www.news dressing with an allium bite. The green sauce review.com. is—well, it reminds me of my childhood.

In particular, the parts where I hid anything green on my plate from my parents by wrapping it in a napkin and disposing of it later.

A dainty cucumber salad dressed in a yogurt-dill sauce is a refreshing option, and I’ve yet to see a potato salad done as well as LowBrau’s. It boasts a variety of potatoes roasted and tossed with diced peppers and whole-grain mustard. The result is earthy

and chromatic: It’s potato salad made exciting.

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The beer selection is epic and dizzyingly diverse. If you’re lost and confused, the staff will help guide you to the right beer via questionings and encouraged tastings.

Indeed, even a beer novice like myself felt satisfied and left knowing more about hops than when I arrived.

There are also a few beer-based cocktails on the menu. One was a lager mixed with lemonade and elderflower liquor. There’s a good idea in there, but the flavors don’t balance out right.

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The Italian, a vegan eggplant-based bratwurst, has a surprisingly sausagelike texture that no self-respecting carnivore would turn down for lack of flavor.

Service is uneven at best. Sometimes it’s attentive and helpful, with servers on hand to guide diners through the menu and various beers.

Other times it’s absentminded, with the servers seemingly and infuriatingly uninterested in their customers.

Still, the restaurant’s communal tables and open-air minimalist design are inviting, and the setup encourages diners to relax, yell of above the din to their friend, and try that bready rye malt recommended by a co-worker. Indeed, some of the truly best parts of LowBrau are found in its energetic vibe and welcoming openness. Ω

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

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

The home fries are like marvelously crispy Spanish patatas bravas. A grilled-ham-andGruyere sandwich is just buttery enough, and an egg-white

frittata is more than a bone thrown to the cholesterolchallenged; it’s a worthy dish in its own right. American.

926 J St., (916) 492-4450. Dinner for one: $40-$60. HHHH B.G.

Zia’s Delicatessen Zia’s Delicatessen isn’t really about trying every sandwich: It’s about finding your sandwich.

In addition to a large selection of salumi, there’s the worthy eponymous offering, served with a wedge of zucchini frittata, a slice of provolone, romaine lettuce, grainy tomato, and a simple dash of vinegar and oil that adds tang. Order it hot, so that the provolone melts into the bread. Also tasty: the hot meatball sub with small-grained, tender meatballs bathed in a thin, oregano-flecked tomato sauce that soaks into the bread. A tuna sandwich is sturdy, if not exciting. It is just mayonnaisey enough, with tiny, diced bits of celery.

A rosemary panino cotto with mozzarella could benefit from a more flavorful cheese. For a meatier option, try the Milano: mortadella, salami, Muenster; all three flavors in balance.

The turkey Viareggio has a thin spread of pesto mayo, and the smoked mozzarella accents rather than overpowers. American. 1401 O St., Ste. A; (916) 441-3354. $5-$10.

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Midtown 24K Chocolat Cafe This cafe 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 garbanzobean 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 in many of the menu offerings, including a tiny cup of hot Mexican drinking chocolate, and chocolatecherry 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.

Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. The restaurant, by the same owners as Midtown’s The Golden Bear, sports a firefighting theme (a ladder on the ceiling duct work, shiny silver wallpaper with a ratand-hydrant motif, et al) and a bar setup that encourages patrons to talk to each other.

An interesting wine list includes entries from Spain and Israel; there are also draft cocktails and numerous beers on tap.

The brunch menu is heavy on the eggs, prepared in lots of ways. One option is the Croque

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Madame, a ham-and-Gruyere sandwich usually battered with egg. This one had a fried egg and béchamel, with a generous smear of mustard inside. The mountain of potato hash alongside tasted flavorful and not too greasy. The menu also features pizzas and house-made pastas, but one of its highlights includes an excellent smoked-eggplant baba ganoush, which is smoky and garlicky and served with warm flatbread wedges and oil-cured olives. The bananas foster bread pudding is equally transcendent, accompanied by very salty caramel gelato, pecans and slivers of brûléed bananas. American. 1630 S St., (916) 442-4885. Dinner for one: $20-$40. HHH1/2 A.M.R.

with herbs, chilies and lime. At Asian Café, it adds optional offal add-ons—various organ meats, entrails, et al—to three versions of the dish: beef with tripe, chicken with gizzards, or pork with pork skin. The beef salad offers a gentle respite from aggressive flavors, consisting of medium-thick chewy slices of eye of round with red bell pepper, chopped iceberg and hot raw jalapeño. The single best dish here is the nam kao tod, a crispy entree with ground pork that’s baked on the bottom of the pan with rice, then stirred and fried up fresh the next day with dried Thai chilies and scallions. Thai and Lao. 2827 Norwood Ave., (916) 641-5890. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHHH B.G.

Istanbul Bistro Turkish chef Murat Bozkurt and brother Ekrem co-own this paean to their homeland, with Ekrem usually at the front of the house, infusing the space with cheer. Turkish cuisine features aspects of Greek, Moroccan and Middle Eastern flavors. The appetizer combo plate offers an impressive sampling. Acili ezme is a chopped, slightly spicy mixture of tomatoes, cucumber and walnuts that’s delicious paired with accompanying flatbread wedges. For entrees, try the borani, a lamb stew with garbanzos, carrots, potatoes and currants. The meat is very tender, while the veggies arrived nicely al dente. Also good is the chicken shish plate (souvlaki), which features two skewers of marinated grilled chicken that’s moist and succulent. There are also quite a few choices for vegetarians, including flatbread topped like pizza, with spinach and feta or mozzarella and egg.

Turkish. $15-$20. 3260-B J St., (916) 449-8810. HHH1/2 A.M.R.

Shady Lady Saloon So many bars try to do bar snacks, and so many fail. Shady Lady, however, nails it. The fried green tomatoes are punched up with a tarragon rémoulade and the huge charcuterie board is more like a groaning board, stocked with abundant regional meats and cheeses.

Generally excellent, the saloon’s cocktail list veers from the classics with a list of bartender-created drinks with unusual, but wisely considered flavor combinations: cilantro and tequila, blackberry and thyme, and the surprisingly sublime mixture of celery and pineapple. American. 1409 R St., (916) 231-9121. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH1⁄2 B.G.

South Sac Blue Moon Cafe and Karaoke In Sac, most people equate Hong Kong-style cuisine with dim sum, but this restaurant, which also features private karaoke rooms, serves up tasty, familiar food by way of rice plates, sandwiches, noodle bowls, soups and stirfries. 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

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

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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 are rubbed with earthy Mexican spices and then slowcooked in a smoker for hours.

The restaurant’s signature dish is barbecue chicken, and customers can purchase wings, breasts, drumsticks and thighs in a variety of amounts. 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 momand-pop joint. 4717 Whitney Ave., Carmichael; (916) 485-4446.

Mexican. Dinner for one: $5-$15.

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Skip’s Kitchen You know you’re at an American restaurant when a cheeseburger is one of the healthiest items on the menu.

Sure enough, Skip’s Kitchen features a lot of calorie-rich items, such as fried macaroniand-cheese balls, ravioli, chicken strips, chicken wings and shrimp, plus creamy Oreo milkshakes. There are salads,

restaurant’s biggest pulls is its choice of meats. The chorizo is red, crispy and greasy in all the best ways. The lengua (tongue) is soft and dreamily reminiscent of only the most ethereal bits of beef. The fish is fine and flaky and the cabeza and pork are herculean in flavor options worthy of note, too. Tacos are small and served on two tiny tortillas (flour or corn, your call) with a bit of house salsa that has all the kick of a pissed off Girl Scout who’s just tall enough to nail you right under the kneecap. Or, feel free to customize, too, courtesy of the fully loaded salsa bar. Be sure to pick up a glass of the homemade horchata, which is sweet and milky with seductive whispers of cinnamon. You will want seconds. Mexican. 1841 Howe Ave., (916) 924-0108. Dinner for one: $8-$10. HHH G.M.

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

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

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

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

The Hideaway Bar & Grill This bar fills a niche Sacramento might not have known it lacked with its vague rockabilly vibe, lots of greased hair on the men, brightly dyed hair in retro styles and cat-eye glasses on the ladies, and an abundance of black clothes and tattoo sleeves for all. The liquor selection is basic (no craft cocktails here). The menu’s heavy on fried appetizers, salads, sandwiches and burgers, the latter of which are architectural, towering assemblages. Happily, the fluffy charred buns are sturdy enough to hold up when the tower is squeezed to a more realistic height. A meaty veggie burger (one of three veggie sandwich options) gets crunch from fried pickles and sweet heat from barbecue sauce. Overall, the Hideaway offers cheap beer, adequate bar food and a comfortable place to hang with out friends.

American. 2565 Franklin Blvd., (916) 455-1331. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHH1/2 B.G.

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too, but the best dish on the menu is the burger. All five styles (original, mushroom and Swiss, bacon and cheddar, three-cheese, and Western) are served on a brioche bun and cooked “medium,” unless otherwise specified. The kitchen offers a house-made veggie burger as well. If there’s such a thing as a “gourmet” burger that can rightfully sell for $10, this is probably it. American.

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pig ear with soy sauce and peanuts. Asian. 5000 Freeport Blvd., Ste. A; (916) 706-2995.

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

Chinese. 129 E St., #1D in Davis; (530) 757-2618. $8-$12. HHH G.M.

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

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Produce party It’s farmers-market time. And although the city has yet to create a centralized 24-seven farmers market, the capital city is clearly crazy about fresh produce. Last Saturday, the new Midtown Farmers Market Sacramento—hosted by the Midtown Business Association—opened in the parking lot at 2020 J Street (www.midtownfarmersmarketsac.com).

Offering produce, prepared foods and crafts, the market is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday, year-round. Sacramento’s six seasonal Certified Farmers’ Markets (www.california-grown.com), which happen weekly from May to September (or October, in a few cases), also started up this month. They’ll join five year-round Certified Farmers’ Markets already happening every week. That’s a dozen—and that number doesn’t even include neighborhood farmers markets, like the yearround one at Carmichael Park on Sundays, Denio’s Farmers Market & Swap Meet in Roseville (www.deniosmarket.com), or the copious private and street-corner farm stands dotting the entire Sacramento Valley.

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The zombie-apocalypse trend shows no sign of letting up, and we’ve been getting the version of the “walking dead” that’s composed of the mindless revenant: the decomposing, shambling, personality-deficient GRAPHIC NOVEL brain eaters. But what if the risen dead aren’t like that at all? That’s the premise of Revival, Vol. 1: You’re Among Friends (Image Comics, $12.99). Set in a small Wisconsin town that’s had a recent epidemic of revivals, these not-zombies are very recently dead—and mostly very much themselves. Written by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton, this original take on the typical horror-resurrection theme features a singlemother cop, her irresponsible younger sister and her chief-of-police father, as well as some things that are even stranger than one might expect from the recently departed and revived.

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They paved paradise Sacramento then and now If you’re already a fan of the awesome Vintage Sacramento page on Facebook (www.facebook.com/ VintageSacramento?fref=ts), then the next obvious step down local memory lane is a trip through to the equally great Sacramento Then and Now blog, run by Sacramento real-estate agent Scott WEBSITE Williams.

Here, images of the city old and new shed historical perspective on the city’s downtown and Midtown neighborhoods. By juxtaposing old blackand-white photos, postcards and city maps against modern snapshots, Sacramento’s ever-shifting history is laid out in fascinating detail. What was once a stately 1900s-era residential home at 16th and K streets, for example, now sits as a decidedly less elegant rental-car lot. Or take the bright, promotional postcard for the bygone 1950s-era El Mirador Hotel (self-touted for its “Completely Air-conditioned” amenities)—now a senior living facility at 13th and N streets. And then there’s the current parking lot at 13 and P streets which, as a photograph from 1894 reveals, was once home to a towering, three-story Victorian. Today, as Williams’ sleuthing reveals, all that apparently remains is the concrete base of the home’s original fence.

The only complaint about this blog, in fact, is that it serves as too stark of a reminder of just how many gorgeous old structures have given way to places to park all our newfangled motor vehicles. Somewhere in all of this there’s a Joni Mitchell song, right? http://sacramentothenandnow. blogspot.com.

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Your cheatin’ heart My ex and I ended our relationship two years ago, but he recently told me that he still has feelings for me. I am ecstatic that he wants to work things out. I hurt him badly in the past by lying and cheating.

I have been on a spiritual path and learned to forgive myself for my past mistakes. He is still hurt and resentful. He worries that I will hurt him again. I live in Sacramento, and he’s in

by Joey ga Los Angeles. We are tied to rcia our jobs for another year at least. He says he feels good a skj oey @ ne wsreview.c om when we are together, but apart, he struggles with his fears. How do I show him that the Joey person he resents is gone when he only sees me on weekends, without doesn’t answer the the day-to-day me that proves phone after 8 p.m.

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Sharing a daily routine will not prove that you have transformed into a trustworthy partner. The key is your consistent patience, transparency and selflessness over time. Janis Abrahms Spring, psychologist and author of After the Affair, writes that trust “must be earned by the offender through bold, heartfelt, meaningful acts of repair.” Yes, that means you must engage in selfless acts of love for your partner every day. Leave him

If you feel most alive while scaling extreme highs and lows, reconciliation with your man will be difficult. voice mails about what he means to you, comment on the qualities in his personality that you love, answer his inquiries about the affair or people you meet, tuck sweet handwritten notes into the glove box of his car. If contacted by the person(s) you cheated with, let your boyfriend read the text or hear the call. Ask him what you should do, and take that action in his presence.

According to Spring, loss of trust is not the only wound a cheater inflicts. A betrayed partner also struggles with the loss of identity. In other words, your boyfriend may feel that everything he believed about himself, you or the world, is a lie. So, while still

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reeling from the pain of betrayal, he is also wrestling with the question “Who am I?” Hopefully, your healing process taught you why you chose to cheat.

Some cheaters blame the erosion of emotional intimacy in their relationship. A conversation with a stranger who seems to “get” the intimacy-starved partner becomes the excuse for physical intimacy.

Other people are attracted to chaos.

The rush of having a secret, and the possibility of getting caught builds the emotional roller coaster they adore. If you feel most alive while scaling extreme highs and lows, reconciliation with your man will be difficult. Your need for drama will quickly squash the patience and compassion required to heal the rift between you.

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think this is a waltz into the theater of the absurd. Instead, Private Eyes is an intriguing and uncomfortable—if frequently funny—way to look at how we lie to the ones we love as quickly as we lie to the people we hate. Trust is thus a bit of foolishness in which we indulge ourselves. Or is it the only way to keep a grip on sanity when surrounded by deception?

Lisa (Kristine David) and Matthew (Dan Featherston) are the troubled couple; they are actors playing adulterers in the play within a play. Meanwhile, Lisa began an affair with the director, Adrian (Bert Anderson), at the same time the troupe started rehearsals. Matthew knows, but doesn’t want to know—it’s a sentiment with which we can empathize, as he truly loves his wife—and Lisa is drawn to the forbidden while still hoping she won’t hurt her husband.

In short, it’s the same sort of mundane heartbreak that happens every day, except that the structure of Dietz’s play keeps turning corners and throwing out new possibilities, as well as a few surprises. There are times that the play feels a little too slick for its own good, but those moments are transient, thanks in no small part to the entirely honest emotional abilities of the three leads. The chemistry between the

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This original musical—premiering at the Sacramento Theatre Company—is a big project, rivaling STC’s perennial A Christmas Carol in community actors, kids (from STC’s conservatory), period costumes, accents, etc.

Set in London circa 1905, there’s a Scrooge-like headmistress of a boarding school (the icy Deborah Tranelli); a Cockney-ish beggar (David McDaniel), who seemingly wandered in from Oliver!; a maid named Mariette (like a French Mary Poppins); and a stout constable (Jeffrey Lloyd Heatherly) with funny deadpan lines. But primarily, this is a father-daughter tale of riches to rags to riches again, involving perky Sara Crewe (Lauren Metzinger and Alyssa Middleton) and Captain Crewe (Jerry Lee, as living dad and paternal ghost). The plot complications—there are a few too many—include a ne’er-do-well business partner (Josh Powell) who morphs into a repentant-but-flaky hero after deserting the ill-fated Captain in the jungle while seeking diamonds; and a turbaned servant from India (Michael De Souza) spouting mystical wisdom, accompanied by musical flourishes from the hardworking pit band. The songs, largely good, recall other popular shows—composer Eric Rockwell also wrote The Musical of Musicals, and he emulates it frequently here as well.

Consequently, A Little Princess doesn’t have a strong sense of cohesion—the story feints this way and that before settling down, and the character motivations (lots of noble self-sacrifice) almost evaporate. But there’s some good material here, and director Michael Laun creates multiple effective scenes, though they are sometimes more impressive individually than in sequence.

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A Little Princess, 12:30 and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; $15-$38.

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It’s been claimed that comedy is more difficult to pull off than drama, and the Actor’s Workshop of Sacramento’s latest endeavor, Road to Nirvana, is a perfect example of this. The players know their marks, the lines are in their heads ready to come out, but the comedic timing doesn’t match the words. The play, an awesome amalgam of the susceptibility of man and the depths to which he will sink in the pursuit of power and money, is rife with the wrong kind of tension. F, Sa 8pm; Su 7pm. Through 5/5. $15-$17. The Actor’s Workshop of Sacramento at the Wilkerson Theatre in the R25 Arts Complex, 1721 25th St.; (916) 583-4880; www.actinsac.com. M.M.

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A glance at the poster for The Big Wedding and its all-star cast—Robert De Niro, Katherine Heigl, Diane Keaton, Amanda Seyfried, Topher Grace, by Jim Lane Susan Sarandon, Robin Williams—prompts wistful memories of the heyday of Robert Altman, when stars would line up to be in his pictures, willing to risk being in one of his misses for the chance of being, with luck, in one of the bull’s-eyes.

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Justin Zackham. Instead of Altman’s freewheeling, let’s-go-down-this-road-and-see-where-ittakes-us approach, Zackham sticks rigidly with a formula. That doesn’t always work, and when the formula is as tattered and threadbare as this one, it almost never does.

The Big Wedding is based on a Franco-Swiss film titled Mon frère se marie (My Brother’s Getting Married), which never made it over to the United States. In Zackham’s Americanized version, Keaton and De Niro play Ellie and Don, a divorced couple who have remained on good terms, despite the fact that he cheated on her with her best friend Bebe (Sarandon) and is now living with Bebe in their (Don’s and Ellie’s) suburban Connecticut home.

How long ago was this storybook divorce? I don’t think Zackham ever says, but presumably it was long enough ago for Bebe to have a hand in raising Don and Ellie’s now-adult children: Lyla (Heigl), recently separated from her husband over her inability to have children; Jared (Grace), a 29-year-old doctor and virgin who’s saving himself for marriage (no, really!); and Alejandro (Ben Barnes), the Colombian-born adopted son and groom in the upcoming wedding.

As Alejandro and his bride-to-be Missy (Seyfried) sit in a prenup-counseling session with her priest (Williams), he suddenly remembers that his Colombian biological mother Madonna (Patricia Rae), who is coming to the wedding, doesn’t know that his adoptive parents are

divorced; in all his letters home he never got around to telling her because of her strict Catholic upbringing.

Now, to cover for this nincompoop, Bebe has to move out of the house—which is awkward, since she’ll be catering the wedding—Ellie has to move in, and everybody has to pretend that they’re all the same happy family to which Mama Madonna surrendered Alejandro so he could have a better life in America. Also coming with her from Colombia is Alejandro’s sister Nuria (Ana Ayora). Evidently, Mama decided she didn’t deserve a better life in America. Anyhow, whatever the case, Nuria makes the most of her trip, immediately going for a skinny-dip in the lake behind the house and propositioning Jared, thus rattling his virgin resolve.

Does Zackham know this is 2013? That the pretend-we’remarried-because-so-and-sodoesn’t-know-we’re-divorced and don’t-tempt-me-I’m-savingmyself plots haven’t worked since Eisenhower was president?

Does he even know that trying to pass off the English, 31-yearold Barnes as a 20-something Colombian is about like, well, like trying to pass Patricia Rae off as his mother. She looks like she had him when she was about 8.

This is moviemaking by the book, when the book is so out-of-date it should have “Gutenberg” stamped on the spine.

Not to mention that there’s no physical resemblance, which raises the question of why Ben Barnes was cast at all. He’s not that big a star; in the poster among all those other names, his has a definite “who?” quality to it. Besides, if Missy’s parents (Christine Ebersole, David Rasche) are supposed to be such bigots as Zackham’s script makes them out, shouldn’t Alejandro have been played by someone who doesn’t simply look like an Anglo-Saxon with a good tan? Are young Hispanic actors really that hard to find?

The movie is dreary, predictable and unfunny from the first scene, when Ellie walks in on Don and Bebe having oral sex in their kitchen. This is moviemaking by the book, when the book is so out-of-date it should have “Gutenberg” stamped on the spine.

The Big Wedding has a great cast, but it’s a mystery what drew them to Zackham’s script when Zackham himself has no real track record.

Maybe it sounded funnier in French. Ω

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Tina Fey plays an ambitious Princeton University admissions officer whose recruitment rounds include an alternative school presided over by Paul Rudd. He has a star pupil he’d really like her to see, played

by Nat Wolff. And what follows is somehow a romantic comedy between two other people about whether or not this kid is Princeton material. There’s more, plotwise, but it’s best not to give it all away. Better just to say it involves family matters, and Lily Tomlin as Fey’s character’s feisty feminist-scholar mom. Director Paul Weitz, most recently of Little Fockers and Being Flynn, doesn’t really go in for satire, but even if he wanted to, Karen Croner’s script, from Jean Hanff Korelitz’s novel, might not allow it. Thus, Rudd and particularly Fey seem a little stranded in a film, which, if we’re really making decisions based on merit here, doesn’t quite deserve them. If Admission teaches us anything, it’s that movies can be like universities: Some are just hard to get into. J.K.

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On an Earth rendered uninhabitable by a nuclear war against alien invaders (we won the war but lost the planet), a patrolman (Tom Cruise) and his mate and partner (Andrea Riseborough) maintain a fleet of drones extracting resources and mopping up surviving aliens—or so they think. Written by director Joseph Kosinski, Karl Gajdusek and Michael Arndt, the story is muddled and murky and, for a script based on a graphic novel, awkwardly dependent on exposition and narration (maybe that’s why the novel, by Kosinski and Arvid

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A carnival motorcycle stunt rider (Ryan Gosling) returns to a small town to see an old flame (Eva Mendes) and learns that he got her pregnant on the last trip; he impulsively settles down and in time, turns to robbing banks to support the son he didn’t know he had—which puts him on a collision course with a rookie cop (Bradley Cooper). Writer-director Derek Cianfrance has a good cast (Ray Liotta, Rose Byrne and Harris Yulin are there, too), and they do their best. Good moments here and there—especially from Cooper and Liotta—contend with an unfocused and scattershot script that undercuts the actors too often. Cianfrance’s story supposedly spans 15 years, but everybody looks the same after all that time except that Gosling and Cooper’s infant sons have grown into teenagers (Dane DeHaan, Emory Cohen). J.L.

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Between October 1994 and June 1995, three Florida bodybuilders (Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie) go on a spree of kidnapping, torture, extortion, murder and dismemberment. It’s a more-orless true story that director Michael Bay, with his usual sensitive artistry, decided was just the material he needed for a rollicking comedy in the style of The Hangover. The story wasn’t funny, and neither is the movie—besides, comedy is hardly Bay’s forte (is anything?). Other actors trapped in the mess include Ed Harris, Tony Shalhoub and Rob Corddry. Writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (adapting magazine articles by Pete Collins) change many names, but not those of murder victims Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton, whose families are reportedly offended by the movie. It’s hard to blame them. J.L.

Two Arkansas teenagers (Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland) discover on a small island in the Mississippi River a boat stranded in a tree by some flood—and living in it, a scruffy character (Matthew McConaughey), who appears to be on the run, with a backstory that they boys are irresistibly drawn into.

Writer-director Jeff Nichols’ movie has a story that doesn’t always persuade, yet there’s something oddly compelling, even haunting about it. Despite an almost sluggish pace, Nichols nevertheless finds the rhythm of Southern rural village life with its wary think-hardbefore-you-speak watchfulness. Performances are excellent, especially by the two boys; others include Ray McKinnon and Sarah Paulson as Sheridan’s parents, Michael Shannon as Lofland’s uncle, and Reese Witherspoon as McConaughey’s damaged girlfriend. J.L.

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Nelson, remained unpublished). What makes it watchable is Kosinski’s (and cinematographer Claudio Miranda’s) gift for breathtaking pictorial images—plus, of course, Cruise’s undiluted star power. Supporting work from Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau doesn’t hurt. J.L.

Director Henry Alex Rubin has only helmed documentaries before Disconnect, so it seems fair to cut him some slack for dramatic creakiness. Some. Rather late to the table with its hand-wringing about the way we live now, Rubin’s film, from a didactic script

by Andrew Stern, wrangles Facebook bullying, credit fraud and underage porn into an issuedriven patchwork of lives at once frayed and braided. A distracted dad (Jason Bateman) strikes up a yearning instant-message rapport with the stealth tormentor (Colin Ford) of his loner son (Jonah Bobo); a young husband and wife (Paula Patton, Alexander Skarsgard) fail to cope with losing both their child and their financial security; a TV reporter (Andrea Riseborough) gets too deep into her story about an online rent boy (Max Thieriot). Too diluted by its fussy, phony comprehensiveness, the case being made here just doesn’t seem credible: How can a movie about what the Internet does to us be so devoid of spontaneity? J.K.

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In writer-director Sally Potter’s British coming-of-age drama, the eponymous teenagers find their friendship tested by a Cold War adolescence, with parent troubles mounting, and life paths diverging into prayers and protests. Rosa is played by Jane Campion’s daughter, Alice Englert, who supplies a distinctly youthful art-house-lady cred, but the movie’s emotional power comes from a great and vigorous central performance by Elle Fanning as Ginger. After clashing with her ruefully domesticated mom (Christina Hendricks) and bohemian narcissist dad (Allesandro Nivola), she takes up with a supportive gay couple (Timothy Spall and Oliver Platt) and their American writer friend (Annette Bening), only to endure a falling-out with Rosa of approximate equal enormity to the Cuban missile crisis. Potter’s shabby-chic aesthetic seems sometimes more eloquent than her dialogue, but Fanning is obviously an inspiration to her, and very much at home in this heady atmosphere of Brubeck and turtlenecks and pre-adult tribulations. J.K.

A Florida man (Colin Firth) fakes his suicide and hits the road with a new identity to start a new life. He teams up with a woman who’s also fleeing from her past (Emily Blunt), and they embark on a spree of breaking into people’s homes, dressing in their clothes and having sex in their beds. Becky Johnston’s script tries for a kind of Harold and Maude vibe, but director Dante Ariola can’t quite summon the iconoclastic style such an approach would require, and the movie just kind of lies there in a drab, schlubby puddle. The stars do what they can with their roles—which, under the right circumstances, can be considerable— but the material defeats them. Anne Heche, as Firth’s abandoned girlfriend, and Lucas Hedges, as the son who hates him, contribute nice cameos that feel like side trips to a different movie. J.L.

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In the Australian outback of the 1960s, four singing Aborigines (Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Miranda Tapsell, Shari Sebbens) form a girl group to tour Vietnam entertaining the troops, with a down-on-hisluck musician (Chris O’Dowd) as their manager.

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Directed by Wayne Blair and written by Tony Briggs and Keith Thompson (loosely based on the experiences of Briggs’ mother and her sister and cousins), here’s another one of those lovely, unexpected surprises that sail north out of Australia every now and then. The movie tends to slide into clichés whenever the music stops, but fortunately, the music never stops for long, and it’s just about irresistible. Meanwhile, the clichés are rendered painless by excellent performances from the five principles, with O’Dowd and Mailman particularly standing out. J.L.

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A London auction-house employee (James McAvoy) is the inside man in the theft of a multi-million-pound painting, but a blow on the head makes him forget what he did with it, so his partner in crime (Vincent Cassel) takes him to a hypnotist (Rosario Dawson) to try to jog his memory—and she quickly realizes there’s more at stake here than a lost set of keys. With a script by Joe Ahearne and John Hodge, adventurous director Danny Boyle barges into Christopher Nolan territory, fashioning a convoluted Chinese box mystery with overtones of two Nolan classics, the where-have-I-been riddle-fest Memento and the dream worlds of Inception. It’s a wellcrafted puzzle, more teasing than tantalizing, more pat than satisfying. It even ends with an unanswered question like Inception, albeit without the same resonance. J.L.

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“Spooky action at a distance” was Albert Einstein’s skeptical phrase for quantum entanglement, and as good a summary as any for the mysteries at play in Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color. It’s the sort of darkly gleaming sci-fi maze that leaves a critic feeling inadequate and sheepishly quoting the official synopsis: “A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.” Such is Carruth’s gift that the audience, too, struggles with that assembly. For some, it amounts to an hour-and-a-half of “Huh?” Others will be in hog heaven (actual pigs figure into the story, too).

This is only Carruth’s second film, after the microbudget 2004 indie puzzle Primer, and his resourcefulness continues apace: The new film, an assured and artfully ragged mosaic of glassy nonlinearity, stars fellow filmmaker Amy Seimetz as the woman and Carruth himself as the man; he also wrote, produced, shot, co-edited, scored and distributed it. J.K.

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Back in bloom Sacramento band Oleander comes back from hiatus rested, re-energized and ready to take on the new era of social media After Oleander played a farewell show at Empire Events Center in July 2004, lead singer Thomas Flowers had second thoughts about embarking by Jonathan Mendick on what would be a nearly five-year hiatus. “[Following] the experience there, the way j o na t h a nm @ we were treated, the crowd response, the show ne w s re v i e w . c o m overall, we actually left the venue that night scratching our heads going, ‘Geez, are we sure we want to hang it up for a little while right now?’” said Flowers, speaking to SN&R by phone from his home in Orange County just a few weeks before his band is set to take the stage in Sacramento once again with a show at Ace of Spades on Friday, May 3.

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because we really want to, [and] that’s a nice place to be.”

In August 2010, the group got back onstage at The Boardwalk in Orangevale and announced plans to record a new album.

Something Beautiful—which was released in April through Kobalt Music Group and took nearly two years to record—is a testament to the band’s new outlook. Each detail in the crunching hard-rock songs, spacey arenasized anthems and the mellower melodic tunes is carefully planned out. And the lyrics are partly about “really valuing those moments in our everyday lives that give it meaning,” said Flowers.

Now the group is poised to tour the United States at a more leisurely pace, stopping in Sacramento for its CD-release show—at the venue formerly known as Empire, of course.

Technology has also helped the band lighten up its touring schedule. In the old days, Flowers said, touring filled the role of social media. So the band followed a relentless road schedule—playing a gamut of shows, including Woodstock 1999 in New York in front of thousands of people to small venues in Texas.

“We’ve learned in our career, it’s all about quality, not necessarily quantity,” said Flowers. “It’s also about finding a healthy balance between home life and your career.”

These guys are ready to rock out. Again.

Doors open for Oleander’s show on Friday, May 3, at 6:30 p.m. at Ace of Spades, 1417 R Street.

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After that particular mid-2000s show, the Sacramento-born rock group, whose sophomore album February Son topped Billboard’s Heatseekers Albums chart in 1999, still didn’t know what would happen. Its third album, 2001’s Unwind, had failed to live up to the commercial success of February Son, and the group moved from the Universal Music record label to Sanctuary Records for its 2003 release, Joyride. Eventually, the rockers decided they needed some time away from the constant repetition of writing, recording and touring. So Oleander went on hiatus, its members finally finding time to enjoy “normal,” nonrock-bandrelated things, including spending time with friends and raising families. Flowers made the move to Southern California, where he sang with a band called Black Summer Crush.

When Oleander finally did reconvene in the practice room—nearly five years after taking a break—it was completely different. The band had shed the baggage and stress from years on the road and felt a renewed sense of energy.

“The biggest difference is that we’re doing it because we want to do it, not because we have to do it,” said Flowers. “We’re doing this

“ We’re doing it because we want to do it, not because we have to do it.”

Thomas Flowers Oleander Oleander now has a management company that leverages social-media platforms and is planning a tour that will allow the group to slowly stretch its legs out. Basically, the band is now running without stress and with “zero pressure from any outside influence,” Flowers said.

“You’ve got a band … that’s very fired up and is ready to start punching people in the mouth with our live show.” Ω

Dear Chi So, I was reading this big, heavy Jewish book (that sort of start always got your attention). I found this part where some minor prophet or another is ranting about how nothing is an opportunity or a challenge or a journey or a learning experience or a test or a trial—it’s all gifts. All of it. Of all the conversations I wish we’d had, just talking about that one page—that one beautiful, brazen rant—that’s the conversation I wish for most right now. I think you would have agreed.

You loved a tough take on beauty. You were all about the glorious rant.

I think of what Robert Frost wrote: “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.” I think of you wrestling with ideas, wrestling with people you cared for until you were tangled in their limbs and hearts. You stuck with people.

I have no stories about where you are or aren’t. I have no idea what you saw when I was there. I just know what I saw. It was just the same as before that stupid fucking car crash.

Your family and friends circulating—I could never really tell who was blood and who wasn’t, and I didn’t care. I just saw the same gorgeous gathering around you, Chi, Dai, all the names.

We’d all be whispering to you, telling stories, thinking maybe with just the right touch or melody or exciting new treatment we’d find you again, lead you back, refusing to let go. Your mom, sweet sentinel, reminding me where your capability for tenacious, tireless love came from.

I’m not sure we really know what to do now. You gave such a focus to things. How were you so precise and so chaotic all at once? I thought about that so often when watching you play. Through all the furious twirling and screaming, snaggletooth and sweat, dirty dreadlocks stuck to your face, pasted on until they got shaken off. In the center of all that mess, these delicate, thoughtful lines, holding together everything around you.

The guttural, gorgeous

screams; primal, simple words with so much room for interpretation and space. Yours was the voice to make those words mean as much as they ever would. Whether they were intelligible or not, they got in. Incantations.

There’s this other really dense book, The Spell Of The Sensuous, that I know you’d love tearing into and tearing apart. It says something about how in some old language, the word for song is also the word for magic.

So, when I offer my ideas about everything being gifts and trying to have this—your death—occur as a present somehow, I think a lot of people would hate that idea. I don’t think you’d be one of them, though.

I think you’d dig into it the way you loved digging into any number of difficult ideas, finding the fertile bits in the toughest terrain.

I hate that you’re gone. I hate that your son won’t get more time with you. I hated seeing how tired and embattled the faces of all the people that loved you were getting. The truth of your absence is something that will never leave and never stop hurting.

But if you could just see everyone!

I feel the tears coming again—if you could just see everyone talking, singing, hugging, all looking at each other, finally, like we always should be looking at each other, but it’s not until someone like you is missing that we figure out what it is to be found.

Fuck, maybe that’s just me trying to make sense of it, making up stories after all. I don’t need it to be true.

I can just keep remembering how true you were. As permanent in your presence as you are in your absence.

I can’t honestly say that I think that about most of us. I aspire to your effortless acceptance, without even a hint of acquiescence. You were all about the paradox.

This isn’t going to end cleanly. You used your heart as well as I’ve ever seen a heart used. Suddenly, it stopped. Sweet, smart, ferocious Chi. Goodbye.

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CSUS Union Serna Plaza, 5 p.m., no cover The B-Side Players is a nine-piece group that plays world music the right way. The group emerged from San Diego nearly 20 years ago and has recorded seven albums. Its music succeeds because the group doesn’t just WORLD throw in random musical elements for the hell of it. Instead, its members are well-versed in myriad genres, and together they seamlessly blend influences such as jazz, funk, Latin, hip-hop, soul, punk and ska. Think of a jazzier version of Manu Chao and Radio Bemba Sound System (a group that similarly occasionally sings in Spanish). It’s a sound that, because of its diversity, is instantly and universally accessible. Mariachi Los Versatilles opens this Cinco de Mayo party. 6000 J Street, www.thebsideplayers.com.

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What better way to open the 2013 season of Concerts in the Park than with Element of Soul? This high-energy band—nominated for a 2012 Sammie in the reggae category—cites Incubus, Bob Marley, Jason Mraz, Sublime and, in Element of Soul’s words, “everything” as its musical influences. Mix two-parts reggae, one-part each of pop, rock and hip-hop, and you have the makings of EOS. But this group doesn’t fit neatly into any genre. Look for the band to drop REGGAE ROCK its acoustic EP Love & Light this spring, a year after releasing its self-titled debut album. Joining EOS will be Musical Charis, They Went Ghost and DJ Epik.

910 I Street, www.elementofsoul.com.

—Trina L. Drotar

St. John’s Lutheran Church, 7 p.m., $7-$15

Named after Guy Fawkes—the figurehead for a group that attempted to blow up the British parliament in the early 17th century (and who was the inspiration for the V for Vendetta mask)—Guy Fox isn’t the antiestablishment punk-rock band its name INDIE suggests. Rather, the group is a San Francisco transplant from the northeast, and its 2012 EP is vastly eclectic (but promising). Evocative of Delta Spirit and the Walkmen on tracks like “Home,” the recent single “San Francisco” is a softspoken umbrella-drink ode to its West Coast locale à la Kings of Convenience. This show comes just after the release of the band’s second EP, The Wild. 129 E Street in Davis, http://guyfoxband.com.

—Deena Drewis

Since 2006, Sacramento-based women’s choral group Vox Musica has collaborated with the Sacramento Baroque Soloists, Sacramento Taiko Dan and the CHORAL Nada Brahma Music Ensemble.

But this year’s season-closing performances (one on Saturday, May 4, and one on Sunday, May 5) also include puppets and illustrations. In “Replay: Musical Settings of Bedtime Stories,” Vox Musica will create a musical interpretation for stories and poems such as “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod” and E.E. Cummings’ “Maggie and Milly and Molly and May.” Through song and narration and the puppet mastery of guest artist Christopher Carlson, these stories will entertain audiences of all ages. Arrive by 6:15 p.m. for a preshow talk. 1701 L Street, www.voxmusica.net.

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May 23 Relic 45 May 25 Foreverland

TUES 5/7

May 26 Murder By Death The Builders & The Butchers May 29 Big K.R.I.T. May 30 Young Dubliners Jun 01 Bilal Jun 05 Beth Orton Jun 09 Ryan Bingham Jun 11 Girl in a Coma Jun 13 Inner Circle Jun 14 Dean-O-Holics Jun 15 Ann Kelly Jun 29 Pointdexter Jul 3

Boenobo the Klown

Jul 20 Diego’s Umbrella Jul 26 Asleep At The Wheel Jul 27 AgapeSoul

2708 J Street • Sacramento • 916.441.4693 • www.harlows.com

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908 K Street • sac 916.446.4361

THURSDAY 5/2

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DEATHSQUAD COMEDY WITH BRIAN REDBAN, TONY HINCHCLIFFE, SAM TRIPOLI

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Nacho Business

The Infamous Stringdusters

Fox & Goose, 9 p.m., $10

PHoTo by Tom DALy

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Machine Gun Kelly

Ghost Pines

Harlow’s Restraurant & Nightclub, 8 p.m., $18-$20

These past couple years, there’s been a bit of a revival of fun, sunny girl-rock bands.

There is San Francisco’s the She’s, who are getting some serious buzz, as well as Peach Kelli Pop from Ottawa, Canada. Locally, we have Nacho Business (which is technically two-thirds women). Its songs are as cute as they are punk, with a sliver of dissonance and a lot of bright and cheery meloROCK dies. It sounds most like Oakland’s Hot Toddies, who mix in some 1960s garage rock and not just pure 1990s twee pop. Like Hot Toddies, Nacho Business writes seriously fun music that gets stuck in your head for days. 1001 R Street, www.facebook.com/nachobusinessband.

—Aaron Carnes

Progressive bluegrass act the Infamous Stringdusters formed eight years ago after the annual migration of Berklee College of BLUEGRASS Music grads to Nashville, Tenn. That’s how banjo player Chris Pandolfi and since-departed guitarist Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers) met dobro player Andy Hall. Their first two albums explored the confines of lonely, harmony-laden string music, and the third, 2010’s Things That Fly, widened sonically (incorporating organ and viola) and stylistically (covering U2’s “In God’s Country.”). The fourth disc, Silver Sky, blends those initial country inspirations with the pop and rock elements that emerged on the last album, finding a nice balance of hooks and rusticity.

2708 J Street, http://thestringdusters.com.

Ace of Spades, 7 p.m., $25-$39.95

Naked Lounge Downtown, 8 p.m., $5

As a brash, hard-repping white rapper from the Midwest, the Eminem comparisons are inevitable for Machine Gun Kelly— particularly given his bristling rhymes and dark storytelling sensibility. Yet MGK’s a Cleveland boy and is equally inspired by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, whose crisp, biting spitfire flow he emulates. It coils like a cobra, and he’s nearly always hissing.

Sean “Puffy” Combs signed him to Bad Boy Records and assembled an all-star backing lineup—DMX, Waka Flocka Flame, Tech N9ne, Young Jeezy—for last HIP-HOP year’s searing debut, Lace Up. The music features plenty of guitars and spooky metal synths, amplifying MGK’s steely strut and shadowy malevolence.

1417 R Street, www.mgklaceup.com.

—Chris Parker

The first track on Ghost Pines’ self-titled EP starts off as a very sincere indie-folk song that sort of gently slides into a math-rock territory. It, on one hand, makes no sense, yet somehow is quite intuitive. This song is a ROCK great indicator of what to expect from Ghost Pines—in that anything goes with these guys. The band does have a tendency to bounce around between indie folk, math rock, prog rock and sometimes lengthy psychedelic breakdowns, but it really has no formula for when it will do what style and for how long. It’s rare to see a band so proficient at complex instrumental jams and straightforward, heartfelt folk songs.

1111 H Street, www.facebook.com/ghostpines.

—Aaron Carnes

—Chris Parker

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FRIDAY 5/3

ASSEMBLY

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BADLANDS

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 5/6-5/8

Sin Sunday, 8pm, call for cover

Mad Mondays, 9pm M; Tropicana Wednesdays, 10pm W, no cover

Tipsy Thursdays, Top 40 deejay dancing, 9pm, call for cover

Fabulous and Gay Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

Saturday Boom, 9pm, call for cover

BLUE LAMP

APE MACHINE, 9pm, call for cover

EARLY TIMES, BELLY GUNNER, KEVIN SECONDS; 9pm, call for cover

EARLY TIMES, FAT MOLLY’S KITCHEN, HANS EBERBACH; 9pm, call for cover

THE BOARDWALK

ENDS OF THE EARTH, CELL SOMATIC,

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 SHADES OF DEVASTATION; 8pm

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Classical Revolution percussion night, 8pm Tu; Comedy open-mic, 8pm W Community jam, 6:30pm M; COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA, 7:30pm W, $35-$40

RIDERS IN THE SKY, 8pm, $28-$34

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

THE COZMIC CAFÉ

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

JOHNNY MOJO, 8pm, $8

DISTRICT 30

DJ Racer X, 9pm, call for cover

DJ ENFD, 9pm, call for cover

DJ JB, 9pm, call for cover

FOX & GOOSE

JAY SHANER, THE HEY-NOWS!; 8pm, no cover

SPANGLER, KIERAN, KALLY O’MALLY; 9pm, $5

MONDO DECO, NACHO BUSINESS, THE FOUR EYES; 9pm, $10

HARLOW’S

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

OPIO, J ROSS PARRELLI, LIVE MANIKINS, DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS, 8pm, DLRN, TPR; 9pm, $10 $12-$14

LEVEL UP FOOD & LOUNGE

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

2431 J St., (916) 448-8768

HELL OR HIGHWATER, WARNRV, SELF PROCLAIMED; 8pm W, $10-$12

BAD CONNECTION, NEW FANG, SAMANTHA CAYLOR; 8pm, $5

1815 19 St., (916) 822-5668

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

JAVELIN, M, $12; BEAT CONNECTION, Tu, $12; RICH MCCULLEY, W, call for cover

TAPROOT, BOY HITS CAR, FAIR STRUG- THE WRATH OF VESUVIUS, GLE, CLOCKWORK HERO; 7:30pm, $15-$17 INTO THE FLOOD, LORD OF WAR; 7pm

BOWS & ARROWS

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

Hey local bands!

SUNDAY 5/5

2003 K St., (916) 448-8790

1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

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SATURDAY 5/4

GROUP THERAPY, 5:30pm and 9:30pm, no cover

Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu; Northern Soul, 8pm W, no cover THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, 8pm Tu, $18-$20; TODD SNIDER, 7pm W, $25

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

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

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR

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

MARILYN’S ON K

908 K St., (916) 446-4361

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

THE BELL BOYS, ZUHG, JAMES CAVERN, DOUG CASH, HIGHWAY POETS, MUSICAL CHARIS; 8pm, $5 THE FAMILY BANDITS; 9pm, $7

MIDTOWN BARFLY

DJs Whores and Fame Change, 10pm, $5

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

Elevate: electronic, house and dubstep deejay dancing, 9pm-2am, $5

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN

WOLFGANG VEGA, STEVIE NADER, TJ MCNULTY; 8:30pm, $5

DER SPAZM, BABS JOHNSON GANG, BULLETS OR BALLOONS; 8:30pm, $5

THE ABERZOMBIES, ASTRAL CULT, NO BEATINGS FROM HOLLY; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz session, 8pm M, no cover; CAVE WOMEN, POLENTA; 8:30pm W, $5

OLD IRONSIDES

1901 10th St., (916) 442-3504

JENN ROGAR, 5pm, no cover; Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

THE KIMBERLY TRIP, BLAME THE BISHOP, 50 WATT HEAVY; 9pm, $5

Lipstick Weekender w/ DJs Shaun Slaughter and Roger Carpio, 9:30pm, $5

Karaoke w/ Sac City Entertainment, 9pm Tu; Open-mic, 8:30pm W, no cover

ON THE Y

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

KYNTALLAH, GHULHEIM, GREEN CROWN; 9pm, $5

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931

1119 21st St., (916) 549-2779 1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

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

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

RUSHAD EGGLESTON, EMILY ELBERT; 8pm, $15

OLEANDER ALLINADAY - TRACK FIGHTER G.0.D.

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

Open-mic comedy, 9pm, no cover

SHANA MORRISON & CALEDONIA, 8pm, $20

ACE OF SPADES FRIDAY, MAY 3

MRQ, JAY SHANER, ERIN AND THE PROJECT; 8-11pm W, $5 Swing, Lindy Hop, 8pm Tu, $6-$10; Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, 8:30pm W, $5

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover CATIE CURTIS, 8pm W, $20

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

ALL AGES WELCOME!

SATURDAY, MAY 11

BLUE FLAME CONCERT: SACRAMENTO

LOVERANCE CLYDE CARSON - SAGE THE GEMINI PRICELESS DA ROC - KIDD SWAGG

COMING

SOON

05/18 Dillinger Escape Plan 05/19 Mobb Deep

SATURDAY, MAY 4

SOME FEAR NONE

ARE WE HUMAN - MISAMORE VANISHING AFFAIR - EGOSTALL - HIGHWAY 12

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8

MACHINE GUN KELLY PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS

SUNDAY, MAY 12

B-LEGIT & SCORPIO

RAY LUV - ARISTOTLE - ICE DOGG - GUNJI CHOPPA - BALLA BILLION DOLLAR BILL - FHOD TUESDAY, MAY 14

TURQUOISE JEEP

THOM STOCKTON - D-WRECK - N8TIV THURSDAY, MAY 16

THURSDAY, MAY 9

AN EVENING WITH

BNMC - ANGEL’S CUT

BOTH ACOUSTIC & LIVE SETS PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS

PEPPER

REHAB

05/22 Turbonegro 05/25 John Hart 05/26 Twista & Rae Rock 05/31 Capital Cities 06/01 Finch 06/02 Fear Factory 06/04 Logic 06/08 Bret Michaels 06/09 The Maine 06/11 Nekromantix 06/17 We Came As Romans 06/18 Memphis May Fire 07/27 Y&T 07/30 Fitz & The Tantrums

FRIDAY, MAY 10

MUSHROOMHEAD FINAL TRIGGER - DEAD IN SECONDS LYDIA CAN’T BREATHE - CHERNOBOG - IONIA

FRIDAY, MAY 17

TYLER, THE CREATOR & SPECIAL GUEST EARL SWEATSHIRT

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 5/2

FRIDAY 5/3

THE PARK ULTRA LOUNGE 1116 15th St., (916) 442-7222

SATURDAY 5/4

SUNDAY 5/5

DJ Shift, 9pm, call for cover

DJ Peeti V, 9pm-2am, $15

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

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 5/6-5/8

Cinco De Mayo party w/ karaoke, 8pm, no cover

PINE COVE TAVERN

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

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

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

PINS N STRIKES

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

DARLENE TELLIS, ROBERT HEARD, DJ Jazz Master; 8pm, call for cover

DJ Gino, 9pm, $5

SOLSA, 9pm, $10

POWERHOUSE PUB

SANDY NUYTS, 9:30pm, call for cover

WONDERBREAD 5, 10pm, $15

SPAZMATICS, 10pm, $10

THE PRESS CLUB

2030 P St., (916) 444-7914

THE KENNEDY VEIL, TERMINATE, MINENWERFER, SOLITARY PRIAPISM; 8pm, $7

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

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

SAC STORYTELLERS, ONE LEG CHUCK; 5pm, $5; Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

SAMMY’S ROCKIN’ ISLAND

THE REMEDIES, 7pm, no cover

SKID ROSES, 9:30pm, $10

FAST TIMES, 9:30pm, $10

Skip’s Music Weekend Warriors, 4pm, no cover

SHENANIGANS

705 J St., (916) 442-1268

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

DJs Katz, Scottobahn, Felix, Whores, IMF Dred, Vik Rockit; 10pm, $5-$10

SOL COLLECTIVE

Skratch Pad, 9pm, call for cover

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

614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586

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

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

SOPHIA’S THAI KITCHEN 129 E St., Davis; (530) 758-4333

STONEY INN/ROCKIN’ RODEO 1320 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 927-6023

GEORGIA RAIN, 10pm, $5

SWABBIES

5871 Garden Hwy, (916) 920-8088

Country Karaoke, 9pm M, call for cover; DJ Alazzawi, DJ Rigatony, 10pm Tu, $3 THE LEFT HAND, CADAVER DOGS, THE STRANGE PARTY; 8pm W, $5

Mexican American Digital History, 1:30pm; Floortacktiks B-Boy Battle, 4pm, $10

Microphone Mondays, 6pm M, $1-$2; Liberation Permaculture, 6pm Tu

GUY FOX, CITY TRIBE, 9:30pm, $5

ROSE WINDOWS, SEA DRAMAS; 9:30pm, $5

Open-mic, 8pm W, call for cover

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

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

Country dance party, 8pm, no cover

RASH, 6pm, call for cover

SKYNNYN LYNNRD, TRES HOMBRES; 5pm, $13

MOTHER MAYHEM, 3pm, $5 Blues jam, 4pm, no cover; SOLSA, 8pm, $12

TORCH CLUB

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

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

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30pm, no cover; GOOD LUCK THRIFTSTORE, 9pm, $7

MERCY ME!, KEEP ON TRUCKIN; 2-6pm, $15; LARA PRICE, 9pm, $8

TOWNHOUSE LOUNGE

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

X-GVNR, 9pm, no cover

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

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

Battle of the Musicians, 9:30pm Tu; Open-mic, 10pm Tu; Trivia, 9pm W

Cave Women with Polenta 8:30pm Wednesday, $5.

Naked Lounge Downtown Jazz and world

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

LEW FRATIS, Tu, $5; Open-mic, 5:30pm W; PETER PETTY REVIEW, 9pm W, $5 Grimey w/ DJ Whores and guests., 9pm Tu, $5-$10; Open-mic, 9pm M, no cover

All ages, all the time ACE OF SPADES

OLEANDER, ALLINADAY, TRACK FIGHTER, SOME FEAR NONE, ARE WE HUMAN, G.O.D.; 6:30pm, $15 MISAMORE, VANISHING AFFAIR; 6:30pm

1417 R St., (916) 448-3300

CLUB RETRO

FOREVER WAS THE PLAN, DRAWING OUT LIFE, FAILED CREATION; 6:30pm, $10

1529 Eureka Rd., Roseville; (916) 988-6606

DOWNTOWN PLAZA (LOWER LEVEL)

LES RACQUET, 1pm, no cover

547 L St., (916) 822-5185

LUIGI’S SLICE AND FUN GARDEN

SHARK, ELECTRIC JELLYFISH, AZEOTROPES; 8:30pm, $5

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

MISCHIEF BREW, MAD JUDY, C.A.F., JULIE THE BRUCE; 7:30pm W, $8

FREE

LIVE MUSIC EVERY FRI & SAT 9PM

MAY 3

RUNNING ON EMPTY DANCE

Lunch

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thu 5/2 • 8pm • frEE

vocaList darLEnE tELLis dJ Jazz mastEr roBErt hEard fri 5/3 • 9pm • $5

27 OUTLAWS COUNTRY

AUDIOBOXX CLASSIC ROCK

MAY 11

INNER SOUL

Happy Hour Monday -Friday 3 - 6pm Thursday 9pm -close

sat 5/4 • 9pm • $10

soLsa

2nd LEvEL Band

LIVE MUSIC w/ NO COVER OPEN MIC EVERY FRIDAY

r&B soul • funk • hip-hop and jazz from the 70’s to today’s current hits sat 5/11 • 9pm • $10

FULL BAR & LATE NIGHT MENU

sun 5/12 • 8pm • $20

THE INCITERS – MAY 11 The Inciters are a ten piece soul band from Santa Cruz that are sure to get you dancing...hard and sweaty! With three female vocals and three horns to bring you a big sound of original material that sounds straight out of the past. This band tours here and abroad often and has four albums out internationally. Don’t miss out, come shake your hips and stomp your feet to some great soul music!

SAT & SUN BREAKFAST 10am-2pm

fri 5/10 • 9pm • $10

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Folks describe the Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit as trying to make good, honest, insightful music that’s not afraid of a good time and a little fun, that people will move their feet to, and that also goes real well with a straight road and a long drive.

They are a country/Americana band from Oakdale, CA.

NEW W FAST FA FA AST LUNCH L LU UN H MENU UNCH MEN NU

Latest hits

SOPHISTICATED R&B/ SACRAMENTO OLD SCHOOL DANCE BAND

THE GOOD LUCK THRIFT STORE OUTFIT – MAY 03

@ 11:30

Latin rhythms • old school • r&B

MAY 10

FEATURED ARTISTS

Tue-Fri

Jazz

dJ gino

MAY 4

CHRIS ZANARDI & HIS HIGH BEAMZ – MAY 14

4/27 @9pm The Old Screen Door

r&B

Z has been performing all over the west coast from Seattle to San Diego & all the way to Jamaica & Haiti. Z’s last 7 years have been speant touring and recording with Five Eyed Hand who has released 2 albums and hes performed at numerous events including High Sierra Music Festival & Harmony Festival. Currently Z is touring with his band the High Beamz featuring Murph on bass (Izabella), Erin Cassidy on drums (Lonesome Locomotive) & Jefferson Bergey vocals (Freestone Peaches). Lookout for portal busting sonic waves and funky transmissions.

mothEr’s daY comEdY apprEciation show Live music & special guests starring alex thomas from the Jamie fox show INSIDE STRIKES UNLIMITED

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3443 Laguna BLvd • ELk grovE facEBook.com/pinsnstrikEs pinsnstrikEs.com • 916.226.2695

5681 Lonetree Blvd • Rocklin 916.626.3600 STRIKESR OCKLIN.COM

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Count Basie Orchestra with Carmen Bradford 7:30pm Wednesday, $35-$40.

Center for the Arts Big-band jazz

MACHINE GUN KELLY, 7pm W, $25

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Best restaurant

Baagan Hawks La Huaca Restaurant Mikuni Kaizen Paul Martin’s American Grill

Best Breakfast or Brunch

Four Sisters Cafe The Original Pancake House Pacific Street Cafe Venita Rhea’s Waffle Barn

Best Mexican/Latin aMerican

Bravo! Taste of Peru Carmelita’s Restaurant El Azteca Taqueria El Sombrero Taqueria Eva’s Mexican Restaurant La Huaca Restaurant Mas Cocina Mexicana Rudy’s Gourmet Mexican Cuisine Sabores Mexican Cuisine Zocalo

Best spot for asian eats

Golden Dragon Restaurant Khun Suda Thai Cuisine K.T. Noodles Pho Hang Pho Hot Pho Vietnam Noodle Restaurant Rose Garden Chinese Restaurant Roseville Gourmet Ruen Thai Restaurant

Best sushi

Blue Nami Ichiban Sushi Izumi Sushi Kenro’s a Taste of Japan Mikuni Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar Raku Sushi Sushi House Sushi Mon by Sky

Best spot for faMiLy fun

Arena Softball Blue Oaks Century Theatres Century Roseville 14 Golfland Sunsplash John’s Incredible Pizza Company LaserCraze Maidu Regional Park Petroglyph Ceramic Lounge Roller King Skatetown Ice Arena Sky Zone Sacramento Strikes Unlimited United Artist Olympus Pointe Theatre Wacky Tacky

Best pLace to shop

Antique Trove Denio’s Farmer’s Market & Swap Meet Fountains at Roseville Westfield Galleria at Roseville

Best spot for cocktaiLs

Basic Bar & Kitchen The Boxing Donkey Irish Pub Crush 29 The Onyx Club Owl Club The Place Sammy’s Rockin’ Island Bar & Grill Sports Page Restaurant and Bar The Station The Trocadero

Best pLace for a Beer

Boneshaker Public House The Boxing Donkey Irish Pub Final Gravity Taproom & Bottleshop Perfecto Lounge Pete’s Restaurant & Brewhouse Roseville Brewing Company Yard House

Best of folsom SN&R BeSt of the BuRBS NomiNeeS foR the gReateR-folSom aRea

Best restaurant

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The city council voted against the new ordinance, opting instead to revisit an ordinance it passed in 2011.

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In Oakland, the Harborside Health Center case is still a-brewing. It beat its landlord’s eviction attempt, but it’s still fighting a $2.5 million federal tax bill.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you

afraid that you lack a crucial skill or aptitude? Do you have a goal that you’re worried might be impossible to achieve because of this inadequacy? If so, now is a good time to make plans to fill in the gap. If you formulate such an intention, you will attract a benevolent push from the cosmos. Why spend another minute fretting about the consequences of your ignorance when you have more power than usual to correct that ignorance?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Imagine

you’re in a large room full of costumes. It’s like a masquerade store during Halloween, plus a storage area where a theater troupe keeps the apparel its actors use to stage a wide variety of historical plays.

You have free reign here. You can try on different masks and wigs and disguises and getups. You can envision yourself living in different eras as various characters.

If you like, you can even go out into the world wearing your alternate identities.

Try this exercise, Taurus. It’ll stimulate good ideas about some new self-images you might want to play with in real life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Ray

LaMontagne sings these lyrics in his tune “Empty”: “I looked my demons in the eyes.

Laid bare my chest, said, ‘Do your best to destroy me. You see, I’ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.’” I wouldn’t be opposed to you delivering a message like that to your own demons, Gemini—with one caveat: Leave out the “Do your best to destroy me” part. Simply peer into the glazed gaze of those shabby demons and say, “You bore me, and I’m done with you. Bye-bye.” And then walk away from them for good.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I know a

devotee of Tibetan Buddhism who got an unexpected message from her teacher.

He told her she has made such exemplary progress in her quest for enlightenment that she has earned the ultimate reward.

When she dies many years from now, the teacher said, she will enter nirvana! She will have no further karmic obligation to reincarnate into a new body in the future, and will be forever excused from the struggle of living in the material world.

Although her teacher meant this to be good news, she was heartbroken. She wants to keep reincarnating. Her joyous passion is to help relieve the suffering of her fellow humans. Can you guess what sign she is? Yes, a Cancerian. Like her, many of you are flirting with an odd and challenging choice between selfishness and selflessness.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A lawyer named

John Keogh filed an application with the Australian patent office. It was for a “circular transportation facilitation device.” His claim was approved. He thus became the owner of the world’s first and only patent for the wheel. So far, he has not tried to collect royalties from anyone who’s using wheels. I nominate him to be your role model, Leo. May he inspire you to stamp your personal mark on a universal archetype or put your unique spin on something everyone knows and loves.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This may be

the best week in a long time to practice the art of crazy wisdom. And what is crazy wisdom? Here’s how novelist Tom Robbins described it to Shambhala Sun magazine: It’s “a philosophical worldview that recommends swimming against the tide, cheerfully seizing the short end of the stick, embracing insecurity, honoring paradox, courting the unexpected, celebrating the unfamiliar, shunning each and every orthodoxy, volunteering for those tasks nobody else wants or dares to do, and perhaps above all else, breaking taboos in order to destroy their power.

It’s the wisdom of those who turn the tables on despair by lampooning it, and who neither seek authority nor submit to it.” And why should you do any of that weird stuff? Robbins: “To enlarge the soul, light up the brain, and liberate the spirit.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Why should we honor those that die upon the field of battle?” asked Irish poet William Butler Yeats. “A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.” A woman may show similar bravery, of course. In my astrological

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opinion, that’s the noble adventure beckoning to you, Libra: a dive into the depths of your inner workings. I hope that’s the direction you go; I hope you don’t take your stouthearted struggle out into the world around you. All the best action will be happening in that fertile hub known as your “soul.”

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

cal records suggest that ancient Greek philosopher Democritus went blind late in his life. There are different stories about why. According to one account, he intentionally did it to himself by gazing too long into the sun. That was his perverse way of solving a vexing problem: It freed him from the torment of having to look upon gorgeous women who were no longer interested in or available to him because of his advanced age. I hope you won’t do anything like that, Scorpio. In fact, I suggest you take the opposite approach: Keep your attention focused on things that stir your deep attraction, even if you think you can’t have them for your own.

Valuable lessons and unexpected rewards will emerge from such efforts.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Search your memory, Sagittarius, and recall a time when you pushed yourself to your limits as you labored over a task you cared about very much. At that time, you worked with extreme focus and intensity.

You were rarely bored and never resentful about the enormous effort you had to expend. You loved throwing yourself into this test of willpower, which stretched your resourcefulness and compelled you to grow new capacities. What was that epic breakthrough in your past? Once you know, move on to your next exercise: Imagine a new assignment that fits this description, and make plans to bring it into your life in the near future.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Nairobi is Kenya’s capital and home of more than 3 million urbanites. A few minutes’ drive from the city center, there’s a 45-square-mile national park teeming with wildlife. Against a backdrop of skyscrapers, rhinos and giraffes graze. Lions and cheetahs pounce. Wildebeests roam and hyenas skulk. I suggest you borrow the spirit of that arrangement and invoke it in your own life. In other words, be highly civilized and smartly sophisticated part of the time, and be wild and free the rest of the time. And be ready to go back and forth between the two modes with grace and ease.

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

wild, a tiger’s diet consists entirely of meat. The big cat loves to feast on deer and wild boar, and eats a variety of other animals, too. The hunt is always solitary, never done in collaborative groups.

That’s why the creature’s success rate is so low. A tiger snags the prey it’s seeking only about five percent of the time. It sometimes has to wait two weeks between meals. Nevertheless, a tiger rarely starves. When it gets what it’s after, it can devour 75 pounds of food in one sitting. According to my astrological analysis, Aquarius, you’re like a tiger these days. You haven’t had a lot of lucky strikes lately, but I suspect you will soon hit the jackpot.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The French

word flâneur is a meme that refers to a person who strolls around the city at a leisurely pace, exploring whatever captivates her imagination. To the casual observer, the flâneur may seem to be a lazy time waster with nothing important to do. But she is in fact motivated by one of the noblest emotions—pure curiosity—and is engaged in a quest to attract novel experiences, arouse fresh insights and seek new meaning. Sound fun? Well, congratulations, Pisces, because you have been selected as the Flaming Flâneur of the Zodiac for the next two weeks. Get out there and meander!

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Planting for peace Sylvia Villalobos and TJ David met 29 years ago when a water pump fell off Villalobos’ car and David was tasked with fixing it. The two quickly formed a bond, chatting about roses as he fixed her car. In 1984, they teamed up to renovate the Gandhi World Peace Memorial in Pacific Palisades, Calif. This experience eventually led them to co-create the nonprofit International World Peace Rose Gardens in 1988, which has since built and maintained seven World Peace Rose Gardens around the world, including one in Capitol Park. In advance of this garden’s 10-year-anniversary celebration on Sunday, May 5, the pair chatted with SN&R about thorn accidents, their favorite roses and the organization’s mission to engage the world in peaceful activities.

What’s the bestsmelling rose?

Sylvia Villalobos: Ask TJ. Whenever he’s smelling a rose, that’s his favorite. He loves so many of them. It’s like picking your favorite star. They’re all so beautiful, and they all have a certain personality and fragrance. Of course, there are some that are probably more outstanding. But each one has a certain beauty to it, like people.

TJ David: Yeah, each rose is like a friend. It’s really hard to select [one] and say, “This is my really, really best friend.”

We have so many really, really good friends, because each rose in the garden, to me, represents a different religion, a different culture, a different point of view.

It represents diversity. That’s what the garden is, and that’s what society is. And that’s why the World Peace Rose Garden, to me, is so meaningful.

Any bad experiences with thorns?

David: I have … one of those shirts I used to wear in the rose garden. And it’s all pretty much ripped to shreds. And I call it my “business” shirt. [It’s] all full of jaggedy holes. I figure that’s the price you pay if you love America’s official flower.

Villalobos: I’ve had a sore on my finger for about three months. It just really hurt, [and] it got infected. The [thorns] really become a part of you, and they don’t like to come out. After a while, you just work with it, and you just see it as a part of working with roses.

David: Sometimes you don’t [feel the thorns] if you’ve been working with roses.

You take a shower and say, “Hey, where’d that come from?”

Villalobos: Roses are like life. You’ve got the beauty of the rose, and you’ve got the thorn of life. And we just really feel like the rose does represent the best in life and also what to look out for. You have to learn to work around those thorns and just concentrate on the beauty.

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tJ david (left) and sylvia Villalobos in the World Peace Rose Garden in capitol Park.

Favorite examples of peace from your organization’s work?

What’s in store for the 10th-anniversary ceremony?

Villalobos: We have kids involved in writing messages of peace, and they get their messages engraved on plaques. And when they come, and from the depths of their heart they’ve thought of these beautiful concepts about peace, that’s when I feel the connection. … I think our gardens are really connecting youth to the concept of peace in very subtle ways. We do hear from teachers about how kids have improved their behavior in schools after the kids have been in our contests ... and [have] more confidence. So, we feel like we’re affecting youth in ways that we probably don’t even know about.

David: We know of one case in Atlanta, where [a] boy who won the [Inspirational Messages of Peace Contest]—the teacher told us that he was the classroom bully—and after he won, he became a model student. And so, that was interesting to [hear that] the teacher actually saw the difference in the behavior of that student.

It’s like he turned a different switch on. … There [are] different pathways in the garden with different roses at different heights. People can walk through the garden and kind of get lost in it, and find a bench that feels secluded for them, and kind of have a sense that it’s their own little personal sanctuary for a while.

Villalobos: It’s going to be very diverse. We’ll have Hawaiian dancers, Hmong dancers, dancers from the Sikh community, a jazz band … visiting students from Jinan, China, as part of our Sister Cities program ... [and] artwork from Israel, China and Mexico. And we’ll have this beautiful ceremony called the Qualities of Peace Ceremony, where we’ve created 60 different qualities of peace that we think make a person more peaceful. Those words will be put individually on flowers, and kids in the audience will be able to participate in the Qualities of Peace planting. So we have a lot of youth involved in this. … And we have Vietnam [War] veterans [performing a] posting-the-colors [ceremony].

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Ever experiment with cooking or eating roses?

Villalobos: We’ve had rose tea. Actually, when we went to Hiroshima, Japan, and we met with a rose grower, he gave us rose tea from his roses. … We give people the petals so that they can do things with them.

David: I’ve never tried it in salads or things like that, but I imagine there are people that do, though.

Villalobos: [TJ’s] probably eaten them accidentally. He’s got rose petals everywhere, all the time (laughs). Ω The free 10-year-anniversary celebration of the World Peace Rose Garden in Capitol Park (15th and L streets) happens from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 5. For more information, visit www.worldpeacerosegardens.org.

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