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Into the great wide open It’s commencement season for high-school and college seniors—that time of year when young graduates toss their caps into the air in a move that symbolizes both throwing off the confines of school and making a leap into the great wide open.

The sight of those caps always makes me feel a little bittersweet. It’s not necessarily that I want to be there again, at such a literal and metaphorical crossroads, one fraught with the kinds of questions and decisions that come with major life choices. Rather, though I’m not typically prone to such regrets, I find myself wishing for another chance. Another opportunity to heed instinct, to make bold choices.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy with the life I’ve landed. Every regret holds a lesson, a pause for reflection.

And yet there’s a lingering “What if?” What if I’d ignored the fears? Told that nagging voice of reason to just shut the hell up already? Purposefully taken more of the wildest, most unmapped paths?

What if? What if? What if?

If I could give any one piece of advice to this year’s crop of graduates, it would be to consider those future “what ifs.” Take the uncharted road.

Embrace the unknown. Be afraid. Be uncomfortable. Push at boundaries, physical or otherwise. Travel. Apply for weird jobs. Strike up conversations with strangers.

Recently, SN&R staff combed through essays for the paper’s annual College Essay Contest (see “The write stuff,” SN&R Feature Story, page 17).

As we narrowed down the winning contenders, I was struck not just by the diversity of stories, but also by a shared spirit of daring.

These are kids who don’t really need advice. Most are already smart, gutsy and confident beyond their years. Most of them know to take the leap, fearlessly.

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Re “Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to ‘fix’ Delta a classic water grab” (SN&R Editorial, May 16): Jerry Brown, Pat Mulroy (Southern Nevada Water Authority) and William Mulholland are in the same mindset that massive water transfers solve water problems. Water is not the problem— neolithic-thinking letter of water managers the week are. The box they are/were in proffer water as an endless resource taken from anywhere it runs.

[They] limit the stakeholders to those who agree with them, misstate their intentions and project impacts, and cannot be trusted to live within their agreements, as they have much money to throw around to exhaust their opponents. This is not a prescription for solutions, but a worsening struggle for solutions and an enrichment program for attorneys. The water train needs new engineers.

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Re “Sacramento should keep its big-box ban” (SN&R Editorial, May 9): I’d like to set the record straight on behalf of Walmart on local sourcing of products, including fresh groceries. We are proud of our 20-year history in the Sacramento Valley, and we want SN&R readers to have the facts, including the fact that Walmart is the largest purchaser of locally grown produce in the country, and we have made great strides to boost our work with small and midsized farmers through our Heritage Agriculture program.

Last year in California, we spent nearly $21.5 billion for merchandise and services with thousands of suppliers, including regional businesses such as Lundberg Family Farms, Blue Diamond Growers and others. Additionally, this year we announced our commitment to purchase an additional $50 billion in U.S. products over the next 10 years. We will grow U.S. manufacturing on two fronts: by increasing what we already buy here—in categories like sporting goods, apparel basics, storage products, games, and paper products, and by helping to onshore U.S. production in high-potential areas like textiles, furniture and higherend appliances.

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Students link UC, CalPERS, pensions to climate change A movement is afoot to divest city pension funds and university endowments from fossil-fuel by companies.

Darwin Organizers of the campaign, including BondGraham local students and climate-change activists with 350.org, hope to tarnish the brands of oil, gas and coal companies. Ultimately, their goal is to move hundreds of billions of dollars from economic activities that cause climate change toward renewable, low-carbon investments.

California and Sacramento will be major battlegrounds.

Divestment activists are targeting California’s state pension systems, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or CalPERS, and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, CalSTRS. Both have enormous holdings of fossil-fuel company stocks and bonds.

The University of California, which administers its own giant endowment and multiple pension funds, is also being pressed to ditch oil, gas and coal securities.

Last Thursday, students converged on the Regents governing board meeting at the Sacramento Convention Center.

“We’re hoping to convince the Regents to divest the UC system from the 200 largest publicly traded fossil-fuel companies,” said Ophir Bruck, a third-year UC Berkeley student who helped organize the action. “We’re not going to bankrupt these companies. It’s largely about hitting their Read the online reputation. ... version of this story “We want folks to associate their brand for the author’s with the destruction of the Earth’s climate original analysis of CalPERS’ equity and system.”

Does your pension cause climate change?

Demonstrators at last week’s Regents of the University of California meeting in Sacramento think so.

emissions and invest in new technologies CalPERS, the nation’s largest pension mountain snow, California’s cities and to reduce demand, then the value of these system, owns shares in at least 292 differagriculture will dry up, according to UC’s stocks could plummet, sticking investors ent companies involved in oil, gas and scientists. with big losses. coal exploration, production, refining and Sacramento would become an uninhabActivists say, however, that dumping transport. About 10 percent of the market itable desert. dirty-energy stocks should only be the start value of CalPERS’ stock portfolio is fossilfor cities. fuel investments. The pension’s largest Sabrina Fang, a spokeswoman for the “I hope that in the end reinvestment fossil-fuel stock picks are U.S. corporations American Petroleum Institute, said will become an even bigger movement Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and divestment by university endowments is than divestment,” said Jamie Henn, a Schlumberger. misguided. spokesperson for 350.org. “There are these CalPERS also owns about $1.4 billion in “The development of oil and natural huge pools of money sitting in college oil, gas and coal company bonds. Through gas in America has done more to create endowments and state pension funds that the bond market, CalPERS has financed jobs and generate revenue than any other could be invested in ways that both deliver the activities of companies like Nexen Inc., industry,” she said. one of the largest exploiters of Canada’s Fang pointed to a December 2012 study, a good return and help the environment and community in the process.” massive oil sands. commissioned by API, that showed oil and California’s massive pools of pension CalPERS also owns tens of millions in gas company investments as producing big and university endowment wealth also have company bonds financing TransCanada, returns for universities. global reach. CalPERS money is invested which has battled environmentalists, She called the current oil and gas boom in Russian energy giants like Gazprom landowners and scientists for a decade over in the United States an “unstoppable revoand Lukoil and Brazil’s state oil company its proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which lution ... helping economic recovery.”

Petrobras. UC pension funds are tied up would transport oil-sands extracts to Texas Climate activists have countered with bond holdings in with European and Chinese oil and gas for global export. their own research.

A recent report by the fossil-fuel companies Sacramento-headquartered CalPERS companies.

The oil sands, thick deposits of bitumen Aperio Group, an investment-management at www.news manages the retirement investments for review.com.

Neither CalPERS nor CalSTRS have and dirt from which oil can be extracted, company, urges endowments and pensions most of the Golden State’s city, county and taken up the issue of a possible move to can be refined into 168 billion barrels of to “do the investment math” when it comes state employees and has approximately divest from carbon-intensive-energy holdoil. By comparison, Saudi Arabia has 264 to the question of whether dumping fossil$265 billion in assets under manageings. Bruck said he’s hoping his coalition billion barrels of reserves buried beneath it. fuel stocks negatively impacts earnings. ment. CalSTRS, also headquartered in can press the UC Regents to take up the The scientific consensus is that if such Aperio’s analysts conclude that “the Sacramento, has $164 billion invested. issue in the fall and perhaps vote sometime vast reservoirs of oil are tapped and burned, impact may be far less significant than Another group taking up the cause, next year. climate change will very likely destroy the presumed,” and that exclusion of oil, gas California Teachers for Fossil Fuel Already seven UC campus student conditions for life on Earth, causing spikes and coal stocks is likely to change overall Divestment, plans to press the CalPERS governments and the faculty Senate of in temperatures, massive droughts, wildinvestment returns by only half-of-oneand CalSTRS boards to dump carbonUC Santa Barbara have voted in favor of fires, rising sea levels and other catastrophic hudredth of a percent. energy company securities. divesting UC’s $71 billion in pension and transformations of the biosphere.

Another report, circulated by activists “This will not be easy,” said Gary endowment investments from fossil-fuel During last week’s Regents meeting, the and written by the HSBC bank, says stickWaayers, a biology teacher from San companies. university’s leaders received a presentation ing with carbon-energy stocks is risky.

Diego who founded California Teachers for from UC researchers about climate change.

The total endowment holdings for the HSBC’s analysts note that much of the Fossil Fuel Divestment. “Fossil fuels are a nation’s 831 largest colleges and universiUnder a business-as-usual scenario, in value of oil-, gas- and coal-company stocks major part of the net worth of the planet, which carbon reductions are not made, is based on the presumption that these firms ties is estimated to be $406 billion as of so divestment means divesting from a last year. Exxon Mobil alone has a market California’s Sierra Nevada snowpack will tap and burn their proven reserves. If, significant sector of the economy.” capitalization of $401 billion. Ω will entirely disappear by 2050. Without however, governments act to reduce CO2 B E F O R E | N E W S | F E A T U R E S T O R Y | A R T S & C U L T U R E | A F T E R | 05.23.13 | SN&R | 9

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RSVP at smud.org/etc, A ballot initiative challenging all the arena subsidies also kick-started last week. The group, Taxpayers for email etcmail@smud.org Safer Neighborhoods, has some money in the bank or call 916-732-6738 (according to the secretary of state’s Cal-Access publicKeep up with SN&R’s Sacramento finance filings website) and insists that the arena subsidy Kings coverage at is a waste of public funds. www.newsreview.com/ Taxpayers for Safer Neighborhoods, based out of pageburner.

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New report forces Sacramento leaders to account for endangered minority youth Phil Serna was astounded.

Black children die at twice the rate of other Sacramento County youths, by and have been for at least 20 years.

Raheem F. Hosseini The first-term supervisor looked around the room and didn’t see his raheemh@ own shock reflected in his fellow newsreview.c om political leaders’ eyes.

“I let it affect me,” Serna admitted.

The poorly kept secret is now affecting others.

A number of those working in Sacramento’s black communities told supervisors during an emotional hearing on May 7 that they’ve been waiting for someone to pay attention.

“It breaks my heart to be here today, talking about something that we’ve dealt with for so long,” said Tina Roberts, who runs a north Sacramento after-school program.

“But I’m grateful for the opportunity, and I look forward to us doing something different.”

The blue-ribbon Caucasian: 1,592 commission could be Other/ that something. First unknown: 118 5 executive director Toni J. Moore said 43.8% a similarly damning report to county officials several years back 22.5% went nowhere. But, Hispanic: 575 Black: 816 after being confronted with the child-death 15.8% report in 2011, Serna formed the commission to delve into why local TOTAL: 11% black kids are consis3.6% 3,633 tently dying at twice the rate of other kids.

Asian: 402 Multiracial: 130 Serna downplayed his role, but allowed that he brought fresh eyes to what had (1999-2009) become a muffled epidemic.

“I can’t fathom another disgusting statistic like we’ve been seeing,” he told SN&R. “To take the information and Black children make Between 1990 and 2009, 3,633 up only 12 percent of children died in the county. Twentydo nothing with it would be tragic.”

Sacramento County’s Buoyed by Serna’s political two percent of those kids, or 816, were under-18 population backing, the panel spent the ensuing black, even though they make up only but 22 percent of 18 months creating a database that all deaths. 12 percent of the county’s under-18 examines each child death in the population. county, detailing both direct and While the rate of all child deaths indirect causes. declined over time, black children The No. 1 cause of death for black continue to perish at a significantly youth is third-party homicides: 44 higher rate from preventable causes. were murdered in the reported time “For two decades, known data has period. Most were between the ages of been reported that African-American 15 and 17, and most died from gunshot children in Sacramento County wounds. die at disproportionately high rates This past Tuesday, the Sacramento when compared to other children,” a City Council was scheduled to blue-ribbon commission told county consider using about $600,000 in supervisors earlier this month. “In effect, a full generation of children has Measure U money to reduce gangand youth-violence, create programs grown up, or has not been able to.” for at-risk youth, and implement a First 5 Sacramento Commission received $100,000 in seed money from “cease fire” program in an undetermined neighborhood. supervisors to help coordinate the The Sacramento City Unified blue-ribbon panel’s recommendations.

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in reported gang involvement among sixth- and seventh-graders between 2010 and 2011, district officials said last week.

Those separate but related efforts, Moore said, “are what we want to hitch onto.”

Other big issues affecting black children are high rates of abuse and neglect, pre- and post-natal health conditions and infant sleep deaths.

The latter could be reversed through education measures—babies should sleep alone on their backs in proper cribs—that lost funding in recent years, commission members said. Abuse and perinatal deaths will be knottier issues to untangle, and reflect deeply ingrained institutional forces afflicting black America.

“I can’t fathom another disgusting statistic like we’ve been seeing. To take the information and do nothing with it would be tragic.”

Phil Serna Sacramento County Supervisor “We now have data to support the fact that African-American women are experiencing the loss of their babies and their children on issues related to the stress of simply being AfricanAmerican in America,” California Black Health Network executive director Brenda Darcel Lee told supervisors. “We are not saying this is the only cause, but this is a primary cause.”

Most of the deaths are concentrated in poor, neglected neighborhoods like Meadowview, Valley Hi, Del Paso Heights, North Highlands, Arden Arcade, Oak Park and Fruitridge Manor. These are also the neighborhoods where school closures hit hardest in recent years.

Alcohol, drugs and violent crime also recur as risk factors in each of the four main causes of death.

“By the time these cases come to our office, it’s too late,” said special Deputy District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, who leads her office’s childabuse unit. “It’s too late to save them anymore.” Ω

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Sacramento-based U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner drives a minivan.

This may seem like a strange choice for the region’s top federal prosecutor, handpicked by President Barack Obama to be the scourge of financial fraudsters and marijuana growers alike, but Wagner is nothing if not practical.

Defending his office’s enforcement of federal marijuana laws during a speaking engagement last week, the Eastern District of California attorney said “loosely described” dispensary operators make up 100 out of every 3,000 indictments in his office. Washington and Colorado, which recently approved recreational use of marijuana, face less federal intervention because their laws are written better, Wagner added, whereas it’s a poorly regulated “free-for-all in California.”

A Trinity County man with a large cultivation operation was the most recent to be successfully prosecuted by Wagner’s office for marijuana-related crimes. He was sentenced in March to five years in prison.

The office has announced more methamphetaminerelated drug cases in recent months.

“The [Drug Enforcement Administration] is one of our biggest customers,” Wagner acknowledged.

Still, his office continues to make the most hay with financial prosecutions. The office collected a record $91 million in civil settlements and fines last year. A civil fraud settlement with Tenet’s Redding Medical Center netted $54 million.

(Raheem F. Hosseini)

Moving on The Sacramento Area Emergency Housing Center slashed 13 syllables from its name this week after 40 years with that old monstrosity of a moniker.

Now called Next Move, the rebranded nonprofit is kicking off its new image with plans to expand its Oak Park shelter to support 30 more family shelter beds.

“The new name reflects the growing nature of our agency,” said Next Move’s Joe Ramos. “We’re not just a shelter anymore, so we’re very happy to have something that reflects a little more what we do.”

Next Move. Steps Forward. In name, at least, area homeless advocates sound a lot like they’re ready to evolve in the battle against homelessness. Now all we need is some progress.

Perhaps it’s coming.

Last April, Next Move launched a program called Home at Last, dedicated to finding permanent housing for homeless seniors. Meanwhile, winter motel-voucher program representatives are responding this off-season to complaints over the quality of some of the motels they’d been sending homeless families to over the winter. Even city officials seem to be playing nice, with rumblings that Safe Ground Sacramento is ever so close to securing its first community locale. (Dave Kempa)

Nightmare in south Sac Cedric Lain Holland might be a parent’s worst nightmare.

On May 11, Holland allegedly drove up beside a mother and her 7-year-old daughter in south Sacramento, snatched the girl and forced her into his trunk. The victim was able to escape when the trunk opened.

Sheriff’s detectives arrested Holland six days later at his home. But the broad-daylight kidnapping, which authorities rightly called “brazen,” may have already ruined every Sacramento kid’s summer and sparked a rush on kid keepers and toddler tethers. While a convicted sex offender may have done the crime, it’s the kids who will be doing the time—indoors. (R.H.)

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THE SACRAMENTO COUNTY COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS PARTNERSHIP INVITES PUBLIC INPUT ON LOCAL PUBLIC SAFETY

Vallejo innovates while Sacramento plays out like a slightly cliché heist movie Congratulations, city of Vallejo, which has come through municipal bankruptcy and is now embarking on a cool experiment in people power. Last year, citizens passed a whopping 1-cent sales tax to improve services, and as part of the deal, the people get to decide directly on how to spend a chunk of the money. It’s called participatory budgeting, and last weekend, about 4,000 residents voted for worthy civic aRVin causes from a long list nominated by their

by CoSmo G fellow citizens. It was the first citywide cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om participatory-budgeting project in the country, with a total allocation of $3.2 million.

Potholes and street repairs, lights, parks, and school libraries topped the list of approved projects. School counselors, spaying-and-neutering programs, and street cameras got funded, too.

It’s just a small part of the city’s budget, but there are lots of interesting things going on here, if you’re into policy. The bottom-up approach to setting priorities, the fact that residents as young as 16 get to vote, breaking down the usual silos separating school and city.

Bites mentioned the Vallejo experiment to a couple Sacramento City Council members earlier in the year. No particular interest. Then again, this council doesn’t even like citizens to talk for more than two minutes at council meetings.

Giving them a direct say in spending might be asking a bit much.

Plus, don’t the whales already have first dibs on Sacramento’s money? Sometimes Bites worries about sounding like a broken record on this score. “Be careful.” “Don’t believe everything in the sales pitch.” “The numbers don’t really add up.” Blah, blah, blah. Too much? Then again, for every column inch Bites writes urging skepticism, The Sacramento Bee spools out a yard of boosterism.

In the same Sunday edition last week, Bee sports columnist Ailene Voisin wondered whether we should nominate NBA Commissioner David Stern for sainthood or just name a street after him; Marcos Breton wrote his 549th mash note to Mayor K.J., and the news guys did a story about how many pull-ups Vivek Ranadivé can do.

You know, it’s funny. Team Scoopy has scrutinized the construction of the new Bay Bridge in minute detail, literally down to the individual bolt and strand of steel cable. But the rickety arena deal, held together with spit and solder and what Neil deMause calls some “handwavy math,” goes mostly uninvestigated.

And Stern is a saint? More like the leader of a kidnapping ring. “If you want to see your team again, put the money in a bag and do exactly as we say.”

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collective mind and refused to pay the ransom.

By the time of the NBA board of governors meeting, it felt like Bites was watching a slightly cliché heist movie. You know that montage near the end? When the mark starts flashing back to key plot points and realizing how cleverly he’s been played? Cut then to Stern and K.J. stepping out of their SUVs, meeting in some airplane hangar or warehouse somewhere. They were in on it together the whole time.

Speaking of the long con, back in February, Bites sent a Public Records Act request in to the Sacramento City Unified School District.

The idea is to try and better understand how the Sac city school board, superintendent and staff arrived at the decision to close seven schools.

It seems pretty obvious that much of the thinking and planning leading up to the decision to close the schools had happened out of public view. So Bites asked for relevant memos, emails and the like to shed a little more light.

Were the Kings ever really going to Seattle?

Only in the event that Sacramento lost its collective mind and refused to pay the ransom.

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No funding proposals will be accepted or heard at this meeting; it is for public input and education of the CCP members only. Public input is requested in the following areas:

• Has the CCP identified the correct gaps?

• Should other gaps be added?

• What priority should be given to the identified gaps?

The public meeting is scheduled for Thursday, June 6, 2013 from 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. in the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors Chamber, 700 H Street, 1st floor. There will be a time limit of 3 minutes per speaker.

For more information on the local public safety realignment plan programs and identified gaps please go to the CCP website at: www.probation.saccounty.net/Admin-DepartmentInfo/Pages/CommCorrectionsPartner.aspx Accommodations are available and can be provided through the CCP staff by calling (916) 874-9844 no later than three (3) working days before the meeting.

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So far, the district has disclosed next to nothing aside from some boilerplate stuff from the district website. Although the California Public Records Act requires the district to provide an estimate of when it will begin to disclose documents, the district has refused. When the district does get around to it, Bites gets the feeling there won’t be much there. It takes a lot longer to think up reasons to withhold stuff than it does to just turn it over.

Other parents and community members have made similar requests; all of these were made about three months ago. That’s now more than twice as long as entire public process that went before the decision to close the seven neighborhood schools.

Would any reasonable person think it takes more than three months to review and redact and largely refuse to turn over some records to a reporter, when it takes just six weeks to decide on a major restructuring of the school system, displacing thousands of students? No, of course not. What the district thinks is reasonable is another matter. Ω

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The Sacramento County Community Corrections Partnership (CCP) is holding a public hearing to gather input from community and faith based organizations, substance abuse and mental health treatment providers, education and training providers, businesses, advisory boards and members of the public on the local public safety realignment plan to identify gaps and priorities.

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Imagine arguing curfew with these  guys. Last April, Keenan Harris  and John Spurlock of C.K. McClatchy High School emerged victorious in  the 42nd National Tournament  of Champions—the high-school  debate version of the NCAA  basketball tournament.

The Kings are staying.  Sacramento’s wallet is some   $300 million lighter. Kevin  Johnson “delivered�—but what  about the  Monarchs? During  the mayor’s State of the City  spectacle earlier this year, he  promised the WNBA’s return if  the Kings stayed. Fast-forward to  today: crickets. So, will the city’s  only professional-basketball  champions resurrect? Hmm.

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Welcome to America (you can’t leave) During a naturalization ceremony  last week at Raley Field, 888  new Americans were prevented  from leaving their seats after  taking oaths to this nation. The  U.S. Immigration and Customs  Enforcement branch of Homeland  Security made the mistake of  holding the swearing-in first, then  making all those naturalized citizens wait under the hot sun while  cultural dance troupes boogied and  local politicians blah-blahed for  their viewing displeasure.  When a few folks stood to  use the bathroom, immigration officials blocked the  exits. “You can’t leave. Stay  in your seats,� one ordered.  Congratulations, new citizens. Welcome to the United  States of Sit the Hell Down.

- 338 million Almost, uh, there C’mon, Sacramento two-wheelers!  May is Bike Month set a 2 million  mile goal for the month, but local  bicyclists had only covered 982,916  miles as of Tuesday, May 21. Flat  tire? Stylish biking shorts in the  wash? Whatever the excuse, get  with it. (That said, we all know that  it’s not miles traveled, but overall  trips, that really matter.)

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- 888 points School spending fail

More cops

Our great state ranked 36th nationally in a U.S. Census Bureau  report this month on the amount  of money spent per student  in elementary and secondary  public schools, putting us snugly  between Georgia and New  Mexico. You read that right.  Actually, if you went to school  here, maybe you didn’t.

City council was set to approve  Measure U sales-tax allocations  this past Tuesday, and some of  the approximately $27 million will  go toward 51 new police officers,  in addition to shoring up the fire  department, parks and rec, and  libraries. Some people complain  about “the fuzz�—but hopefully  more eyes on the streets will  mean less neighborhood crime.

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I love these kids Who are you? And what are you going to do with the rest of your life? These are tough questions for anyone, but they are particularly tough for a high-school senior when their answers may significantly impact the course of his or her future.

Welcome to SN&R’s 2013 College Essay Contest.

After receiving hundreds of submissions, we selected a l

by Jeff VoNKAeNe few for awards, a few more for j e ffv @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m publication and we’re printing even more of them online. As you can see, they are remarkable (see page 17).

The idea for this contest came to me after reading my two teenagers’ college application essays. I do not recall putting any effort into my own application essays, but that was 44 years ago. Back then, if you had a 3.0 grade-point average, you were It is a total joy guaranteed a position at any for me to see University of California campus, nearly tuition-free. It is much the world from different now. And therefore, so are the essays. a 17-year-old’s I was flabbergasted by how perspective. hard my kids worked on their essays and how good they turned out. There was a depth to their experiences and an optimism about the future that somehow I had never noticed at home. I loved their essays. And I wanted to read more like them.

I figured if my kids could write great essays, then so read the winners to could a lot of other kids. Their college essays, already sn&r’s 2013 College essay Contest on completed, would be a treasure chest of young-adult page 17. Check out writing. www.newsreview.com So I proposed that we have a college essay to read addtional contest. Our editor, Melinda Welsh, loved the idea, as submissions and the last three years’ did Kel Munger, who did most of the work in prior winning essays. years coordinating the contest. This year, editors of the contest Deena Drewis, Rachel Leibrock and Nick Miller are in charge. And they are pumped about the entries.

Over the last three contests, I have been struck by how much turmoil our younger citizens have been through. This latest round of entries revealed similar hard times. There’s the essay, for example, from the young woman who managed to make the honor roll, even as she and her family lived in cars and motels.

Or the Mexican-American teen who fears deportation Jeff vonKaenel is the president, for himself and his family. And then there’s the Ceo and majority young man who realizes that forgoing alcohol is just owner of the news the first step in facing his addictions. And despite it & review newspapers in sacramento, all, there is a sense of excitement about the future— Chico and reno. our country’s future and their own future. There is a belief that things can change and will change. They will be the people doing the changing. I love the sense of hope in the essays.

Being young, they clearly do not know how the world works. It is so much easier for a 17-year-old to believe that we can end racial prejudice, that gays will be accepted and that the world can come together to solve global warming. It is a total joy for me to see the world from a 17-year-old’s perspective.

The college essays are a treasure. And so are our youth. We at SN&R are honored to shine a spotlight on them. Happy reading. Ω

Congrats, Kings fans—now, the bill spots and digital billboards to the developers and It’s over. The Kings will stay. SN&R enjoys pro basketball investors). City leaders say ticket surcharges, and understands the value of keeping the NBA revenue sharing and other taxes will make up in town, so we congratulate everyone who saved the approximately $9 million in lost parking the team: fans, the mayor and city manager, revenue. investors.

In exchange, downtown gets a $1 billion Congrats—now, let’s take a look at the bill. makeover.

The arena subsidy was no doubt the most SN&R waved many red flags about this plan. critical piece when it came to persuading NBA owners to vote against the team’s relocation. The We still have concerns.

To begin, City Hall must provide specifics city says its cost will be $258 million; critics who’ve filed a suit against City Hall pin its value and answer questions. How much is the total subsidy amount? Will the city at $338 million. Either meet the estimated $15 million way, it is a component of debt obligation for the parking the largest redevelopment This will only loan without tapping into the project in Sacramento succeed if it general fund each year? history. improves downtown Also, we need more It’s happening. guarantees that the additional So, let’s ensure that for everyone, not $500 million in downtown it succeeds. That the Follow sn&r’s just NBA fans.

Kings coverage redevelopment will actually process is transparent, at www.news occur. What’s the timeline? that the development is review.com/ Will this development be houssmart growth and that pageburner. ing or retail shops, hotels or parking garages? Is dollars are spent on local businesses. there a quota for spending construction dollars A refresher on the plan: The city will pitch in with local businesses? Will the project be anywhere from 57 percent to 75 percent of the green-friendly? costs to build a new arena, which it will own.

There are so many other questions, so it’s The footprint will be at the current Downtown imperative to keep the arena process transparent, Plaza mall, at L and Seventh streets, and the aim is to cut ribbon in time for the 2016 NBA season. local, green and smart—something it hasn’t been Sacramento will take out a loan against future thus far.

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t’s become tradition: every spring, sn&r holds a college essay contest, combing through hundreds to find the best.

But that’s where predictability ends. Each year we receive entries that speak uniquely to what it means to be a teenager; no two stories are alike. This year proved to be no exception, with tales of homelessness, family illness and addiction.

All that and a chemistry final, too?

As we read through entries, it felt like today’s teens carry the weight of the world on their young shoulders.

And yet, it’s not all a bummer. These kids are whip smart and articulate, funny and refreshingly optimistic. Which, of course, just made it all the more difficult to pick our first-, second- and third-place essays.

But, finally, we did. The winners will receive money— $2,013 for first place, $750 for second place and $250 for third place from SN&R and our sponsors, InterWest Insurance Services, Inc. and Sacramento Credit Union.

Read on for SN&R’s 2013 College Essay Contest winners, as well as excerpts from three honorable-mention essays.

read all of sn&r’s 2013 College essay Contest’s winning entries, including honorable mentions and finalists, in their entirety online at www.newsreview.com/sacramento. thank you to our second- and third-place sponsors, InterWest Insurance services Inc. and sacramento Credit union.

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FIRst place Name:

Keiera Bradley Now atteNdiNg:

Rosemont High School College she’ll atteNd:

UC Santa Cruz PlaNs to study:

Psychology PersoNal motto:

“What you think, you become.”

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had grown used to waking up in uncomfortable situations

in uncomfortable places, so I ignored the fact that my arm was numb from sleeping in the backseat of the car with my younger brother and sister. I knew that my mom had driven around all night, because we didn’t have anywhere to go. I buried my head deep inside my crew neck and said a prayer for the better. We were homeless—again.

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really knew. As I got older, about fifth grade, it got worse, and that’s when the moving started.

We moved from place to place, city to city, every one or two years. I once went to a school in Fresno for two days and lived there only a week. My mom never had enough money to stay in these places because of reasons like high rent, child care and transportation. And her solution was to relocate.

Imagine being in middle school and having to start over every time you got comfortable.

Every school I went to, I was asked the same exact questions about why I moved from my old school and if I was going to stay in that location this time. Soon, my siblings and I just got numb to the whole process. But my mom became more stressed, and her moods would alter daily. When she aimed her anger toward us, our relationship quickly crumbled.

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I always felt like I had it worse in life. We were always staying at my mom’s friends’ houses or sleeping in the car at my mom’s job while she worked a night shift. Every time we moved, it was just another risk of being homeless again and far away from family that could possibly be of help. We endured more nights in the car, on a couch and more showers at motels.

I quickly became stoic and less aware of the things going on around me. My nonchalant attitude became a part of my regime. My mom instructed us to not share where we were or what we were going through with close family members when we spoke to them. Outsiders, outside us four, were not allowed in on the struggle we went through. “Handouts,” as my mom called them, were not what she wanted.

At the age of 12, I learned how to go around the truth. I quickly stopped trying to make connections with other people.

Despite all the change we were going through, we were continuously pushed to bring home all A’s. Even when I gave up on everything, my ambition and drive only grew.

I pushed for honors all through middle school, and when I got to high school, that was the same motivation that drove me to make the Principal’s Honor Roll. Doing good in school became something that I knew could be permanent no matter where I lived. I discovered that by aiming for high GPAs and getting admitted to a four-year university, I would receive a strong education, and I would never have to go through the same adversities my mom had. School became an outlet for me to not only get away from family problems, but to secretly prove to myself that my whole life wasn’t a fail.

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Through the struggles, I’ve discovered that everyone has their own demons to face. Some people, like myself, hide their disabilities and use them to strive for something better, while others let their problems control their life and dictate where they end up. Faith has been stronger than any problem that I’ve came across. By faith, I simply mean that by believing in anything, even if it’s not visual at the time, anyone can reach whatever it is they imagine.

Once you’ve reached your lowest point in life, you can be sure that the only place you’ve got to go is up. I’m sure there are more difficulties in life I’ll go through, but I’ll definitely be equipped to handle them. Every time I think I have it bad, I can assure myself that someone somewhere has it worse.

Today, as a senior in high school, I reside in Sacramento. Living here, I’m closer to most of the top schools of my choice. The only move I plan on making next is the one to college. But even now, sharing an air mattress in the middle of my cousin’s living room with my mom and sister, I’m still the same girl making honor roll in school. I am a true example of determination.

There is no limit to where I am going. Those potent, broken memories of homelessness and hunger will forever be my push. I thank God for my struggle, for without it, I don’t think I could appreciate all the success. I’ll continue to push myself as far as I have to go in order to achieve the comfortable life that I’ve always known I should have. Ω

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’ve done a lot of growing up in hospital waiting rooms.

I don’t mean literally—they’ve only been a fixture of my life for the past two years or so—but to me, Ensure brand mealreplacement shakes smell like dinnertime, and antiseptic fumes remind me of home.

I got sick first. It began as a stomach bug that refused to go away and was eventually labeled as gastroparesis—paralysis of the GI tract. I embarked on a diagnostic goose chase that would cost me years, thousands of dollars and what optimism I’d managed to hang on to through a typically

awkward (if healthy) adolescence. Every few months, a new doctor would offer me a cure, to no avail.

It wasn’t hard to live that way at first; it would take another year for my strength to really deteriorate. I was too nauseous to eat much, but I still went to concerts, attended feminist rallies—did the things I loved to do.

When my father’s colon cancer was diagnosed, though, suddenly I was no longer the sick child to be doted upon. I was an adult on whom he depended. An adult who still wore Pokémon T-shirts.

He had his chemotherapy and surgery during my junior year, when I was 17. Out of respect for him, and for my mother (a breast cancer survivor herself), I kept our family’s misfortunes to myself. And as my own health worsened, I tried to maintain some veneer of normalcy. So long as I could finish my essays on time, I figured, who cared if I wrote them at home or on a hospital suite’s couch?

My father’s procedures gave way to secondary infections, which meant periodic emergency-room visits and months of recovery. I started getting weaker, too.

But when I was designated as a speaker at the 2011 National High School Journalism association conference in Seattle, we both knew I had to go. So I prepared. It was a

surreal image—me, hooked up to a portable heart monitor, practicing my presentation for my IV-needled, bedridden dad, a nurse interrupting me every so often to check on his vitals. But I went. And when I gave that same spiel to a packed roomful of high-school journalists, I was greeted with cheers.

My world has shrunk somewhat since then; my father developed another cancer, and I remain untreated. I tire so easily and can stand to eat so little, I don’t have the energy for everything I’d like to do. But I don’t tell you this—any of it—in the hopes of gaining your sympathy or bringing a melodramatic tear to your eye. That’s just it. I have kept up with my AP classes, my responsibilities as student newspaper co-editor-in-chief and my hobbies—maybe not as well as one of my healthier peers, but as well as I could have.

My life is not a sob story. I am not a list of symptoms, however unpleasant or persistent they may be; they merely define the parameters of my world. I am a person, a person who obstinately refuses to let her dysfunctional organs turn her into a sack of potatoes on a couch. My illness may be out of my control, but it will never control me, and, if you let me, I’m ready to prove it. Ω

second place Name: Haley Massara Now atteNdiNg: Granite

Bay High School College she’ll atteNd:

UC Berkeley PlaNs to major iN:

Japanese PersoNal motto: “I believe

in the butterfly effect—that is, that there’s no higher order to life, and everything we experience is the result of an unpredictable and largely uncontrollable series of coincidences. Don’t waste time trying to find something to blame for unfortunate circumstances—just enjoy what good you can find.”

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in a country that I have lived in and called my home for as long as I can remember. I have experienced being Mexican-American during an era plagued with immigration debate, but I don’t consider my background a burden.

I consider it my motivation to work in the world I am in.

I didn’t have the luxury of a completely carefree and joyful childhood. Even now, no matter how happy I am around family and friends, the thought of losing them and being deported haunts me. I am undocumented, and any day in America could be my last. I feel like that day may be creeping closer, and at any instant the life I know may disappear.

I have seen family friends get deported and discriminated, and feel that their despair may soon be mine.

Despite the discrimination, my parents are willing to stay here in America for me to have a college education. How long their patience may last, I do not know. I know they want to leave, I can see it in their faces. Their enthusiasm and joy are decaying slowly. But every so often, when they talk to family from Mexico over the phone, I can see their delight unchained, glowing brightly for hours at a time as they exchange friendly stories. It brings a smile to my face.

I want my parents to return to Mexico safely one day.

That is a life goal of mine, and I know a college education will help me. After venturing for America, my parents left almost everyone they cared for behind. Recently, that is why it was especially difficult, when a close uncle died across the border, and we could not be present at his funeral. Within a week of the tragedy, my grandmother

Name: Alejandro Gonzalez Now atteNdiNg: Delta High School College he’ll atteNd: California Polytechnic

State University, San Luis Obispo PlaNs to study: Mechanical engineering PersoNal motto: “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”

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i wasn’t always the longE l b haired boy rA N O N O O I H ENT carrying a m six-string and a harmonica,

Name: Julian Sander Now atteNdiNg: Del Oro High

School College he’ll atteNd: University of

Nevada, Reno PlaNs to study: Political science PersoNal motto: “You say ‘Jump,’

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which is what you’d see today if I passed you on the street. I was once society’s polar opposite: a starting middle linebacker and fullback for a prestigious high-school football team.

I’d played for seven seasons, since grade school. At my peak, I only stood 5 foot 4 from my cleats; I had to find a weapon other than size to compete.

My weapon of choice was fearlessness, with no second thoughts. Frequently, I would lead with my head without slowing down. And when my sight went black and the cheering of the crowd turned to a STORY

passed away. It was overwhelming. My father cried, and my mother tried to appease him, but nothing could have soothed the pain of not having held her hand as she took her last breaths.

Some of today’s immigration laws still deny freedoms, and I feel ridiculed. My differences compared to naturalborn Americans aren’t much, but they are enough to make me feel like I’m on another planet. I speak the language, dress more or less the same, go to school like any other kid, hang out with friends and occasionally go to the movies, so I’m definitely a part of the American culture.

However, I lack basic American rights. I cannot get a license, a job, or any government benefits or rights, such as voting.

What hurts me the most is that I know I am smart, I know that if given the opportunity, I can fit in, abide by the laws, and even contribute to society. But no matter how other Americans feel, I cannot be treated like one.

It’s the law, it’s a part of my life, and I hate it. But I am patient and know I will succeed in college. I know that, as time goes on, these kinds of laws will change for the better. I’m confident that one day I will gain those rights.

Yet, it is difficult to be patient while others enjoy the rights I don’t have.

Even within my own family, I am considered different.

Not different in the eyes of my parents, but different in the eyes of the law. My little sisters have had more rights than me because they were born American. When they come of age, they are free to get a license and job without any hassle. They are free to travel to and from Mexico. I was 12 years old when I wondered why my sisters could visit our aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents in Mexico, but not me. It was difficult not to get jealous. I still get the stinging sensation, like a splinter in my heart, which reminded me I did not belong. It was the first time I realized I was different.

In short, the apparent rejection by the laws of a country I consider my own has not deflated me. I remain hopeful that one day I will have the peace of mind of not imagining myself on a one-way ticket to Mexico the hard way. I want a round-trip to Mexico the legal way, with my willingness, as an American citizen. Being a Mexican-American in this country shouldn’t worry me, but it does. Many people in my position have returned to their native country to avoid discrimination, but not me. I embrace the challenge and opportunity of being American, and I am proud to continue fighting for my American identity. Ω

white-noise ring, I would only think about how the other player was feeling.

After seven seasons of this, however, my head had had enough. The room would begin to spin, my perception would flicker, my peripherals were reduced to a fraction, and my short-term memory faded to a blur of confusion. The simplest lectures became impossible to follow, and vertigo made select moments terrifying.

Turns out that every mind-altering collision I’d had on the field was actually a minor to major concussion.

Never once did I voluntarily take myself out of the game, until I decided to quit for good.

It was a scary time in life. Doctors offered little advice, or hope for that matter, only appointments. I needed to do something, and I needed to do it on my own. I had always had an interest in music, but it was as a listener, not a creator. I remembered hearing somewhere that music opened up new portions of the brain, something I desperately needed, since it seemed like I’d damaged some

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of the portions I’d already been using. It also worked as a memory enhancer. I had nothing to lose, and went out and bought a Fender acoustic.

I fell in love with that guitar, a deeper love than I had ever felt on the field.

Football was something that was bigger than me, but guitar was something that was me. I played for hours, until my fingers drew blood and the house could no longer tolerate the muffled chords. A few months later, I was so deeply interested in music, I sought out a ukulele. After that, a mandolin. Then came the violin, the piano, the harmonica, the jaw harp and the steel drums. I even ended up with a didgeridoo.

I am happy to report my mind is back to the healthy one I once had, and it is here to stay. In a search for help, I found the knowledge that there is always room for new growth. Ω

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IMynever belIeved In my famIly curse. father told me how he had struggled with alcohol-

ism, and his father before him, but these warnings always sounded to me like Aesop’s fables, too antiquated to affect me. I always thought I was different.

The day I woke up in a hospital, I knew my mindset had to change.

I never thought of myself as my own Judas, but the tubes and dials and drips whirring around me hummed otherwise. I never wanted this rude awakening, but my reluctance could not shake the IV drips that lined my arms.

My most troubling thought during this time was that I had no inkling why I had come so close to losing everything; I knew that I abused alcohol, but I had no idea where this weakness came from. Despite countless hours of introspection, I came no closer to interpreting the reasons for my fall. Failing to find answers by looking inward, I scoured the words of others. I read Camus, Kerouac, Vonnegut and Vernes until dawn shattered and my eyes stung with dead words. Their books taught me much about their ideal nature of man, but I still had no insight into the root of my problems.

I remained at an impasse for several weeks before I saw I had an inherent lack of moderation in everything I did. I realized the same principle that led me to

Name: Vincent Powell Now atteNdiNg: C.K. McClatchy

High School College he’ll atteNd: UC Berkeley PlaNs to major iN: Undecided PersoNal motto: “Stay based.”

Name: Daniel Ming-Xue Li Now atteNdiNg: John F. Kennedy

GRandma

High School College he’ll atteNd:

UC Berkeley PlaNs to major iN: Environmental

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denIal. anger. bargaInIng. depressIOn. acceptance.

a higher level you can reach for.”

My grandmother would patiently tell me how to fix my constant mistakes.

At the time, I did not see the point.

They were not for me; they were for the neighbors. But as I grew older, I recognized the sacrifice in getting up early to give to the community.

She has a genuine love for the community. My aspirations for the future were born in that 64-squarefoot plot. I know that wherever I go and whatever I specialize in, I will continue to give to the community.

Now, Grandma cannot garden, and I make the dumplings. She sits beside me, still giving me advice on dumplings and life. And the dumplings still go to the neighbors.

Grandma taught me that working diligently for other people is rewarding because it strengthens my connection with the community. Ω

The five stages of grief can take years to go through. Yet when the woman so meaningful in my life completely forgot who I was, all of these hit me in a single moment.

I am preparing to leave home as the last of three children going off to college. I desire to honor not only my parents, but the strongest motivator in my life.

I remember before I even started school, my grandma woke my brothers and me up before the sun rose to teach us how to till our tiny 8-by-8 garden. Using the fruit of this patch, we would spend our afternoons crafting dumplings or Chinese buns.

Mine were consistently mutilated.

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Name: Alexandra Magnani Now atteNdiNg: Vista del

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synchronous pair. Just as a well developed symphony executes a sophisticated melody and harmony, an experienced team of horse and rider works harmoniously.

An entire year passed as we struggled to find a balance. I would leave competitions defeated.

But it was worth it. For two years Lucas taught me the importance of patience and communication.

Before owning Lucas, I lacked patience, but I now understand that patience is a necessity. I take pride in knowing that I trained Lucas and he trained me. Through my experience I have become more attentive and determined. My time dedicated to Lucas lent me the patience and attention needed within every aspect of my life, in turn, creating the perfect composition. Ω

The rhythm holds constant in my head. If the rhythm fluctuates, my chances of winning disappear.

There must be a balance. I have noticed that my two passions— classical music and equestrian jumping—share many commonalities. Five days a week I train and compete in English show jumping, and although I have always recognized the immense amount of effort needed to succeed within the sport, I never truly understood what that meant until I purchased Lucas.

Lucas possessed the demeanor of a child, and being only six years old, he reserved the right to behave like one. Unlike the majority of my teammates’ horses, Lucas did not cost $100,000—he was a project. We were a naive duo, which resulted in many losses and constant frustration. A horse and rider are only successful as a | A R T S & C U L T U R E

excessive drinking also made me listen to only Led Zeppelin for a whole week straight, or race myself into exhaustion against my brother, the track star. I knew that since my natural excess molded my drinking, sobriety would only solve one symptom; I would need to apply my lack of moderation safely in order to prevent extreme indulgence.

I made the obvious choice. I am now proudly sober for the longest time in my high-school experience, and relocating my lack of moderation allowed me to accomplish things I never would have thought possible.

I started writing a book and learning how to play guitar in the spare time between juggling four AP classes and performing as the lead villain in the school play. While I’ve invested in myself, I hope to continue exercising my commitment for improving the lives of others. I don’t know whether I want to do this through politics or science, but I do know I will devote myself to my passion no matter the path I choose, while at the same time preserving my own body from the fierce drive my success would be impossible without. Ω

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Is it racist for white musicians to appropriate Jamaican culture— or does the spirit of reggae rock transcend skin color?

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s someone who often found himself described with the pejorative term “mixedrace,” Bob Marley decried racism.

Moreover, the son of a white Jamaican father of English descent and a black Jamaican mother of West African descent spoke of how even the mere idea of “race” should be destroyed, expressed in his first-ever recording, “Judge Not,” and his use of a Haile Selassie quote in the song “War”:

“Until ... basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race … the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship and the rule of international

morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.”

Marley’s “Judge Not” ethos echoed through my brain while Volkswagen’s “Get Happy” commercial aired during Super Bowl XLVII earlier this year.

The ad depicted a white Minnesotan speaking in a Jamaican accent. Media commentators, including a New York Times columnist, quickly denounced the advertisement as “racist.”

If that were the case, then it would seem strange that from June 7, to June 9, Sacramento-area reggae-rock bands, including Arden Park Roots, Element of Soul and Massive Delicious are set to share the stage with bona fide Jamaican reggae artists Capleton, Ky-Mani Marley and Inner Circle at the Reggae in the Hills music festival.

Indeed, the diverseness of this lineup suggests a certain level of international and cross-cultural camaraderie within reggae. But, still: Is The New York Times columnist right? Are Sacramento’s reggae musicians—with their culturally co-opted dreadlocks; red, green and yellow wristbands; and references to Babylon—racist?

I decided to investigate. And to determine if these reggae rockers fit the Sublime-, marijuana- and skateboardloving stereotype.

It turns out, some of them are uncomfortable with borrowing Jamaican culture themselves.

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words and lyrics into a sort of reggae style,” says Crawford. “It’s just a matter of trying to stay true to yourself and put your own perspective into it.”

“There are a lot of [musicians] who Many others around the globe have aren’t—outside of their band—into also put their own spin on it.

Rastafarianism, but when they get on stage, It’s particularly popular on islands they speak in [Jamaican] patois ... and talk like Hawaii (the Green, Anuhea), New about Jah, Babylon, burnin’ ’em down,” Zealand (Katchafire), Bermuda (Collie says Dylan Crawford of Sacramento Buddz), and even England (Steel Pulse, reggae-funk band Massive Delicious. “I Maxi Priest). But reggae has long don’t know how I feel about that, dude.” influenced popular American music and Crawford, whose dark-blond dreadblended with genres such as hip-hop locks hide under a knit cap, has invited (Matisyahu), R&B (Rihanna, Bruno me into his Rosemont-area home on a Mars), and punk (Fishbone, Bad Brains). recent weekday afternoon. He hands me Sacramento’s reggae scene itself is a cup of tea and a list of local reggaealso genre bending. In addition to homeinfluenced bands he currently listens town groups such as UrbanFire, Street to: Element of Soul, Storytellers, Zuhg, Urchinz and Eazy Dub, Jamaican expats Jamhead, Arden Park Roots, Island of like King Hopeton, Ras D and DJ Hype Black and White, and Dogfood. add an urban Jamaican-dancehall style After growing up in Southern into the mix.

California and Idaho, Crawford relocated Reggae in the Hills music producer to Boston to study jazz and funk guitar at and Arden Park Roots tour manager Berklee College of Music. There, Josh Dickel—who’s spent the last he started Massive Delicious with a several years promoting reggae pair of classmates. The trio moved rock and trying to increase its live “There are a lot of [musicians] who to Sacramento in 2011, and that’s audience—describes the scene as when they soon realized how much aren’t—outside of their band—into somewhat of a clichéd melting pot. less competitive and more friendly “I think that they all embrace Rastafarianism, but when they get on the music scene is in Sacramento it,” says Dickel, of the California than Boston, he says. stage, they ... talk about Jah, Babylon, reggae scene’s diversity. “I work That’s a sentiment many of with a lot of Polynesian promoburnin’ ’em down. I don’t know how Sacramento’s reggae-rock tional groups and island groups musicians share.

I feel about that, dude.” from Hawaii, and we know people “A lot of bands kind of came up in Guam, so my network is multiDylan Crawford at the same time, and we’ve all kind cultural. Because reggae rock is massive Delicious of tried to stick together and help so big here, all the [international] each other out,” says Arden Park rootsy [reggae] artists want to play in [but] we’ve really taken it and almost Roots’ lead singer Tyler Campbell.

California.” corrupted it to the point where it’s This attitude and desire to help the But what does an actual Jamaican getting, like, poppy and mainstream and scene succeed—along with constant think of California’s reggae rockers? some shit,” he says.

“There’s plenty of networking and numerous gigs at music “I am always happy that reggae music room for all these reggae-rock bands festivals with other California reggae-rock itself is going to the four corners of the sprouting up in California.” bands—has helped propel Arden Park world,” says DJ Hype, who was born Roots’ success (its latest album Pipe in Kingston, Jamaica, and moved to Dreams reached No. 2 on the iTunes Color theory Sacramento about 10 years ago. “At the reggae chart). In addition to Reggae in the end of the day, reggae and dancehall—a Perhaps there really is room for everyone, Hills next month, the group performs this place where people link up for good especially when these musicians believe weekend at the California Roots Music vibes—is a culture.” that the essence of reggae isn’t really & Arts Festival in Monterey (featuring about skin color, slang or precise musical headliners Rebelution, Matisyahu and tradition, but a vibe.

Slightly Stoopid). reggae in the hills happens on friday, June 7, “For me, I just like writing the same Campbell admits that he too would be through sunday, June 9, at the calaveras county tunes I always did, but just putting those irked by American reggae rockers if he fairgrounds, 101 frogtown road in Angels camp. were Jamaican. Still, he says, response to his band has been largely positive.

“I’ve experienced a band from Jamaica before [that has] not been real cool with [us], like, ‘What are these white boys doing playing this reggae music? This is bullshit. This is [supposed to be] from Jamaica,’” says Campbell. “I’ve encountered that one time ever.”

On the other hand, Campbell has performed with and then hosted Alex Marley, cousin of the late Bob Marley, for a week in his Sacramento home last summer. Although Marley has already spent a significant amount of time in the United States, Campbell says the two discussed at length the differences between their respective cultures. Campbell is quick to make the distinction that reggae rockers play a completely different genre of music than the traditional Jamaican reggae style made popular by Bob Marley.

“Ours draws a lot of inspiration and mannerisms from that style of music,

An army of mini Tyler, the Creators flowed into the soldout Tyler, the Creator and Earl Sweatshirt show at Ace of Spaces on May 17, and the excitement in the building was palpable. Skinny suburban kids sported baseball hats and shirts with kittens on them—with the boys outnumbering the girls by at least 8-to-1.

Before the first beat ever played, the crowd jostled and pushed up against the barrier at the front by the stage.

Security then flipped on the lights, and the alpha security guard entreated the surging mass to yield a few feet so they could move the barrier back. He singled out a particular dude, commanding, “Yo, big dawg, four eyes, back the fuck up!” to a collective, “Dayum!!” from the crowd.

Eventually, security walked back the barrier and the crush resumed. A couple girls were pulled out by security right away. I’ve probably been to 700 shows in my life, and the level of adoration at early ’90s-era Morrissey performances is the closest it compares to.

Finally, Taco, a loosely affiliated member of the Odd Future gang, started to circle around the stage and deejay some songs. Taco looks exactly like a wacky sitcom character from the ’90s, complete with cheesy mustache. The kids went crazy and sang along to all the songs—tracks by M.I.A. and that meathead Chief Keef got them the most riled up.

Then, Taco did a backflip stage dive and promptly started punching someone in the crowd for an unknown reason. At that point, it seemed like the headlining portion of the show might be canceled before it even started, but luckily, everyone chilled out.

Finally, Tyler and Earl came out, and the crowd roared.

I’m used to phoned-in rap performances; often the preshow deejaying is the most hyphy part. Not so here. They played for Move over, Oprah. a sweat-soaked two hours. In between hits such as “Yonkers,” Tyler displayed his easy wit: This guy was made to be on TV—somebody give him his own talk show, please.

He revealed that he once attended Elk Grove High School for two weeks, and “They didn’t like me there.” He also praised the show’s multicultural makeup and said he loves playing small venues such as Ace of Spades.

I’m used to Sac being considered the lamest stop on any band’s tour, so hearing that was music to my ears.

Unfortunately, the actual music sounded muddy with uncreative and monotonous beats. I’ve listened to Tyler’s new album Wolf quite a few times, and not a single song stands out. Obviously, I was in the minority at this show. The kids sang along to every word.

The most incredible part of the show, which I watched from the balcony (Tyler accurately called out balcony peeps as “old”), occurred when Tyler told the crowd to make a circle in the middle, presumably for moshing. They complied, and he told them to keep widening it until he was satisfied.

Tyler then launched into “Sandwitches,” and it became uncomfortable for the audiencew as the circle stayed empty.

When the chorus kicked in, however, the crowd absolutely flooded the circle in unison, as if they had practiced for it.

At that moment, I felt that if Tyler had looked up at me in the balcony and directed this mass to kill me, they would’ve probably done it without hesitation. That’s power. I still don’t like his music, but it was an exhilarating show, and I don’t think he’s going to be playing many venues this small in the future.

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isn’t technically the star t of summer, but it def initely feels like it: The weather is already way too warm, bands are hitting the stage on their summer tours and cold drinks are a daily necessity. Additionally, Sacramento seems to be gearing up with a week full of cool events. Here are a few festivals (and one fair) that SN&R recommends to help you get into the summer state of mind.

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23THURS DON’T MISS! UC DAVIS FILM FEST:

Produced by the Theater and Dance; Cinema and TCS; and Art Studio departments, the 2013 University of California, Davis Film Festival showcases undergraduates’ best short films.

Th, 5/23, 6-9pm. $7 per night, or $10 for both. Varsity Theatre, 616 Second St. in Davis; (530) 758-5284; www.facebook.com/ UCDavisFilmFestival.

Special Events BIG NAMES, SMALL ART: Art auction season at the Crocker kicks off with a silent auction party.

Bid on small art (12 by 2 inches or less) by big-name regional artists at this party. Bids start at $25, so everyone can begin or add to their art collection. Also,

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enjoy music, a no-host bar, art demonstrations and docent-led tours of the art auction galleries. Th, 5/23, 6pm. $8-$15.

Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.; (916) 808-7000; www.crockerartmuseum.org.

Poetry POETRY READING WITH SHAWN AVENINGO: Shawn Aveningo is an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in dozens of publications. She was also voted Sacramento’s Best Female Poet in the 2009 SN&R Reader Poll. Th, 5/23, 7pm. Free.

Time Tested Books, 1114 21st St.; (916) 447-5696.

Now Playing KINGDOM OF EARTH: View a play by Tennessee Williams about loss and alternative lifestyles in the post-integration Mississipi delta. Th, 7:30pm through 5/30. $15. The Stonehouse Old Brewery, 107 Sacramento St. in Nevada City; (530) 913-2810; www.syntheticunlimited.org.

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DON’T MISS! GODAI: Celebrating its fifth

anniversary season, the Vocal Art Ensemble summons a musical invocation of the Japanese Godai, the “five great elements” that create our world: earth, water, fire, wind, void. Step into the tide of elemental forces expressed in music, dance and word. F, 5/24, 7:30pm. $6-$20. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 2620 Capitol Ave.; (530) 757-2396; www.vae.trug.com.

Special Events ONCE IN A BLUE MOON 2013: This multiday event celebrates the the Harvey Milk Foundation and raises money for Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center and Wind Youth Services. F, 5/24, 7pm-2am. Call

for pricing. Sidetrax, 2007 K St.; (916) 517-0076.

RIBBON CUTTING AND GRAND OPENING: Join for a ribbon cutting and the grand opening of Agee Fashion Institute.

AFI is a post-secondary art school established for the study of fashion design, fashion merchandising and entreprenuership. Light refreshments will be served.

F, 5/24, 4:30pm. Free.

Agee Fashion Institute, 11275 Sunrise Gold Cir., Ste. A in Rancho Cordova.

Concerts MARK TORTORICI & THE HOLLYWOOD COMBO: Midtown Stomp brings Mark Tortorici & the Hollywood Combo back to the stage. The Hollywood Combo is a goodtime rockin’ R&B band that has earned a reputation from the blues, roots, swing, and retrobilly crowd as one of the best around. F, 5/24, 8pm. $10-$12.

Confucius Hall, 915 Fourth St.

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DON’T MISS! TOUR DE CLUCK: Bring a bike, and find art created by some of the region’s best artists, as well as other unique artistic creations. Then, as an art enthusiast or bidder, join in a white tent at the Davis Central Park, and browse a drove of artisan-crafted pieces of art and backyard furnishings available for purchase. Sa, 5/25, 10am. $10-$15. Davis Art Center, 1919 F St. in Davis; (530) 756-4100.

Special Events GUIDED PHOTO WALK: With cameras in hand, volunteer naturalists will await your arrival. Their guided photo walks give visitors the chance

to walk along the Cosumnes River Preserve’s Wetlands Walk, a one-mile-or-so loop trail that takes you through wetlands and riparian forest.

Be sure to bring your camera along. Sa, 5/25, 9am. Free.

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

MIDTOWN FARMERS MARKET: Hosted by the Midtown Business Association, this free, family-friendly market will take place weekly on Saturdays. The Midtown Farmers Market will showcase 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 of 2020 J St.; (916) 442-1500; www.midtown farmersmarketsac.com.

efforts to preserve life on our planet and relive history via this film. Tu, 5/28, 7pm. $5.

Auburn Library, 350 Nevada St. in Auburn; (916) 652-7005; www.motherlode.sierraclub.org/ placer/index.html.

SACRAMENTO COUNTY FAIR This prelude of sorts to the California State Fair happens yearly at Cal Expo and features typical Sacramento activities, such as bull riding, a livestock auction and a demolition derby. There’s also a hypnotist show, clowns, live music and kid-friendly entertainment. Hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. from Thursday, May 23, to Sunday, May 26; and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday, May 27. General admission is $5, and kids under 12 get in free. Cal Expo is located at 1600 Exposition Boulevard. For more information, visit www.sacfair.com.

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mariachi, among others. This year, highlights include Los Lobos, the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, Wanda Jackson and Ben Taylor. It happens Friday, May 24, through Monday, May 27, in venues throughout Old Sacramento. Visit www.sacmusicfest.com to check out multiple ticket options (including day passes and all-event passes).

STREET FAIR: This fair in downtown Roseville features live bands, a farmers market, a children’s zone, a food court and a classic car show. Tu, 5-9pm through 7/30.

Free. Roseville Downtown Tuesday Nights, 311 Vernon St. in Roseville; (916) 787-0101; http://downtowntuesday nights.com.

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DON’T MISS! FARMING BOOK DISCUSSION:

SACRAMENTO ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL This festival kicks off the day after Memorial Day, with the Le Twist event on Tuesday, May 28, at LowBrau at 1050 20th Street (featuring Blue Foundation and Bichi). It continues at Assembly at 1000 K Street (Thursday, May 30, and Friday, May 31) and at a to-be-determined location on Saturday, June 1, that will be announced on Facebook. The lineup for the shows include local standouts Paper Pistols, Tel Cairo, Sister Crayon, D.A.M.B. and many more. Head to http://sacelectronicmusicfest.com for more info and to purchase tickets.

Join in discussing Spring Warren’s book The Quarter Acre Farm (and gardening) at this book club meeting.

Book-to-Action’s programs build on the traditional book club model; but instead of just reading and discussing a book, with this program series, you’ll get a chance to put some of the ideas in the book into practice.

W, 5/29, 1-2pm. Free.

Rancho Cordova Public Library, 9845 Folsom Blvd.

Community Room, in Rancho Cordova; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

The ninth annual installment of this festival, hosted by Russian American Media Inc., offers a magic show, face painting and kids’ performances of many cultural backgrounds. The free event happens in William Land Park at 3800 Land Park Drive, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 25. More information is at www.russianamerican media.com.

NEVADA CITY GOSPEL MUSIC FESTIVAL

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SACRAMENTO MUSIC FESTIVAL A Memorial Day tradition formerly known as the Sacramento Jazz Festival & Jubilee and before that, the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, the Sacramento Music Festival has expanded to include a larger variety of music: rock, bluegrass, jazz and

Classes RAISING CHICKENS IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD: Raising chickens in your yard is educational, fun and rewarding. In addition to fresh eggs, they provide the added benefits of soil fertility and pest control. This class will teach you all you need to know to choose the right breeds, provide proper housing and space, and make sure your chickens are producing the best eggs. Sa, 5/25, 9am-noon. $25-$35. Soil Born Farms American River Ranch, 2140 Chase Dr. in Rancho Cordova; (916) 868-6399; www.sacfoodcoop.com.

Concerts PARTY TIME: Join in on a night of good times and kick-ass music from Nick Russo and Long Beach Rehab, a band featuring members of Sublime and Bad Brains. Sa, 5/25, 5pm-midnight. $20 in advance. LakeHouse, 10091 Mooney Flat Rd. in Smartsville; (530) 432-6430.

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BEGINNING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP: This workshop is open to anyone who would like to acquire fundamental knowledge of the photographic process. The two-hour class covers the essentials of technique, basic aesthetics, composition and lighting.

Students are encouraged to use photography as a way to express themselves and communicate ideas. Su, 5/26, 2-4pm; Su, 6/9, 2-4pm. $59. Caverna 57, 836 57th St.; (415) 583-9079; www.mapurunga.com.

Brewery, 107 Sacramento St. in Nevada City; (530) 913-0604; www.syntheticunlimited.org.

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KINGDOM OF EARTH BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: View a rare and provocative Tennessee Williams play about brotherhood and survival in the post-integration Mississippi delta. Su, 7:30pm

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DON’T MISS! HOLIDAY MONDAY: FAMILY PALOOZA: Enjoy music by

Frankie and the Fabletones, the Hipwaders and Sacramento Philharmonic’s Wolfgang. Learn new dance moves at a Pepper Von production featuring Step 1 Dancers and Corina Bianca.

Pose for a fun family portrait and create your own art at this free Holiday Monday sponsored by Target. M, 5/27, 10am-5pm. Free. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.; (916) 808-7000; www.crockerart museum.org.

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through 5/26. Opens 5/19; F, 5/31, 7:30pm. $15. The Stonehouse Old

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the fun of discovery as you view antiques, collectibles, art, and handmade creations by local businesses and the public.

W, 4-8pm through 10/30. Free.

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

The inaugural Nevada City Gospel Music Festival will happen Saturday, May 25, at the Nevada City United Methodist Church at 433 Broad Street in Nevada City.

Performers at the all-day event include the Gospel Motivators, Karen Westbrooks, Zamar and Scott Hickman. Tickets are $10 to $15, with proceeds “providing fresh water for villages in Zimbabwe.”

Details can be found at www.ncgospelmusic.com.

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Sports & Recreation BUZZ OATES NO EXCUSES 5K: What’s your excuse for not running faster? One excuse you can’t use at the upcoming Buzz Oates No Excuses 5K is “I’m too old.” The unique age-graded formula guarantees everyone an equal chance of winning the overall title. All levels of runners and walkers are encouraged to participate in this. M, 5/27, 7am. $16-$28.

William Land Park, 4000 S. Land Park Dr.; (916) 277-1207.

Hidden beneath the city for nearly 150 years, Old Sacramento’s underground has long been the capital’s best-kept secret. Now in its fourth season, visitors have the opportunity to uncover the facts behind the legends that lie below historic buildings and sidewalks. M-Su, 10:30am-3pm through 12/1. $10-$15. Old Sacramento, 1002 Second St.; (916) 808-7059; www.historicoldsac.org.

DON’T MISS! CAPITAL DECADES: MOTION PICTURES FROM THE 1940S:

The “Capital Decades: 1940s” series concludes on May 28 as local film historian Matias Bombal shares film clips and discusses the movie-going experience of the 1940s.

Tu, 5/28, 6-7:30pm. Free.

Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, 828 I St.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

COLOR ME RAD 5K: Color Me Rad Sacramento benefits the Special Olympics. “Color bombs” start flying at 9 a.m. with waves of runners getting plastered with color every five minutes thereafter. You’ll end up looking like a kindergarten art class gone wrong after this 5K. M, 5/27, 9am. $45. Sacramento Raceway, 5305 Excelsior Rd.; (801) 318-4818; www.colormerad.com/races/ sacramento.html.

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Special Events TRAIN RIDES: Train ride guests

Film A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet is a big-picture exploration of environmental activism over the past five decades—from saving precious places and species to protecting air and water quality. Come learn about early grassroots

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California State Railroad Museum, 111 I St.; (916) 445-6645; www.californiastaterailroad museum.org.

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Always with carrots Trio Restaurant Bakery Market 826 J Street, (916) 444-7454, www.triosac.com Most reviewers hate writing negative reviews—mostly because a restaurant is like someone’s child and is also a means of income. by Garrett McCord That said, I cannot, in good conscience, allow anyone to willingly choose to eat at Trio Restaurant Bakery Market without giving them my two cents, as visits there have disappointed, and at times, left me livid.

To begin, on the most recent visit, by freak circumstance, I ran into a restaurant reviewer from another local publication, who was also there to write a review. You will rating: not be reading a review from this other writer H because “The review was so bad my editors just don’t want to bother running it.” dinner for one: Yep. $35 - $40 As the newest hybrid child of Gönül Blum’s family of restaurants, Trio is part restaurant, part bakery and part high-end food store. The store offers an eclectic selection of items, and the bakery is violently uneven in its offerings: Some items such as the baklava are outstanding, others are unpleasantly doughy.

As for the restaurant, three overarching points about the menu should be addressed: presentation, heat and the use of asterisks.

H Presentation is brown. With carrots. flawed (Always with carrots.) Placed side by side, the HH lamb shank, the stuffed chicken, the moussaka haS momentS and the tagine all looked nearly identical.

HHH Dishes often arrive warm or cold. Almost appealing every table around us sent something back because of this.

HHHH authoritative Asterisks are the other item of note. At the bottom of the menu, an asterisk points HHHHH epic out that “Not all ingredients are listed in the above menus items. We utilize fresh fruit and vegetables to add flavor to many of our dishes.

If you have food allergies, notify the server.”

In addition, some ingredients listed in dishes may just not show up. A brown, lukewarm tagine of lamb arrived without the potatoes, dates, chickpeas or apricots listed on Still hungry? menu. Perhaps a second asterisk is required?

Search Sn&r’s The pita bread is greasy and served “dining directory” to find local with a Dijon-jalapeño-pesto dip that our restaurants by name server—henceforth known as “The Waiter”— or by type of food. described as a “savory baba ghanoush.”

Sushi, mexican, indian, Until corrected, we all thought it was a bland italian—discover it all in the “dining” honey-mustard sauce.

The menu lists the stuffed chicken as a dish section at www.news served packed with preserved lemon, apricots, review.com. shallots, dates, cream cheese and goat cheese.

Droolworthy, I know. Reality, however, was decidedly different: It arrived stuffed, instead, with cream cheese and bananas, i.e., bananacream-pie-stuffed chicken.

A rare high note: The Turkish meatballs of beef and lamb served with glazed carrots (they work well here) over rice and pita are actually exotic in flavor and perfectly executed.

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with a blood-orange sauce, but instead made it to the table topped with strawberry sauce. Sadly, one of our comrades was out of luck: allergic to strawberries. A shame we weren’t informed of the substitution ahead of time.

Actually, we were informed of none of the substitutions in any dish during the course of our meal. Our fault for not recalling the asterisk, I guess.

The worst part of the night, however, was The Waiter who should under no circumstances have been left to mind the shop.

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The Waiter ignored customers because he was too busy texting. In fact, he only noticed the diners after the lone cook yelled at him from across the restaurant. The Waiter also locked the restaurant’s doors 90 minutes early. Customers who came to dine pulled on the door to no avail.

When asked, The Waiter’s response to this turn of events was, “Oh, well. You win some, you lose some. More free time for me.”

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Raw dummies It doesn’t take a genius to know that eating raw plant foods can be quite healthy because nutrients aren’t getting cooked out. But a little education for raw foodists can also be beneficial in order to learn how to keep one’s uncooked diet balanced yet delicious. Husband-and-wife team Dan Ladermann and Cherie Soria, authors of Raw Food for Dummies, will be in the region on a book tour, doing demonstrations and dishing out samples at Whole Foods Market in Sacramento on Thursday, June 13; Baagan in Roseville on Friday, June 14; The Green Boheme in Sacramento on Saturday, June 15; and Coloma Resort in Coloma on Sunday, June 16. Smart people may refer to http://rawfoodchef.com/tour/ index.html# for additional information.

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Where to eat?

Here are a few recent reviews and regional recommendations by Becky Grunewald, Greg Lucas, Ann Martin Rolke, Garrett McCord and Jonathan Mendick, updated regularly.

Check out www.newsreview.com for more dining advice.

tables and light wooden chairs, there’s an airy atmosphere, casual and cozy. Estelle’s offers an espresso bar and a wide assortment of teas and muffins and rolls for the breakfast crowd as well as sweets, including DayGlo macarons. For the lunchinclined, there are soups, salads, sandwiches and meat or meatless quiche. One of the authentic touches is the spare use of condiments. The smoked salmon is enlivened by dill and the flavor of its croissant. Its tomato bisque is thick and richly flavored, and, in a nice touch, a puff pastry floats in the tureen as accompaniment.

There’s a lot to like about Estelle’s—except dinner. Doors close at 6pm. French. 901 K St., (916) 551-1500. Meal for one: $5-$10. HHH1⁄2 G.L.

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

sandwich is just buttery enough, and an egg-white frittata is more than a bone thrown to the cholesterolchallenged; it’s a worthy dish in its own right. American.

926 J St., (916) 492-4450.

Dinner for one: $40-$60.

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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. HHHH B.G.

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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.

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 garbanzo-bean salad is wellflavored 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 chocolate-cherry scones served crisp and hot, studded with big chunks of bittersweet chocolate and tart dried cherries. American. $10-$15. 2331 K St., (916) 476-3754. HHH B.G.

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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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beer and bratwursts. Both are done smashingly. The 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 piece of meat. Get it with a pretzel roll for a truly exciting experience. There are vegan options, too: The Italian, an eggplant-based brat, has a surprisingly sausagelike texture that no self-respecting carnivore will turn it down for lack of flavor. Toppings include sauerkraut, a “Bier Cheese” sauce and caramelized onions.

The idea behind Duck Fat Fries is a glorious one, yet somehow still falls short. You just expect something more when you see the words “duck fat.” The beer selection is epic. If you’re lost and confused, the staff will help guide you to the right

brew via questionings and encouraged tastings. German.

1050 20th St., (916) 706-2636. $10-$15. HHHH G.M.

East Sac 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.

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

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

South Sac Blue Moon Cafe and Karaoke In Sac, most people equate Hong Kongstyle 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.

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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, 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.

4717 El Camino Ave. in Carmichael, (916) 514-0830.

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Taqueria Garibaldi One of this 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.

2600 21st St., (916) 451-6555. $10-$20. HHH1/2 J.M.

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.

Land Park/ Curtis Park Buffalo Pizza & Ice Cream Co. The eatery, which offers take-out only, keeps the menu simple.

Customers can choose from two types of pies: breakfast or lunch. Breakfast pizzas consist of standard pizza dough, on top of which rests a thin layer of egg, cheese and toppings (read: no sauce). One pepperoniand-jalapeños morning pie starts off well, but then the dough disappoints. It doesn’t quite fit in either the “thick” or “thin” category; it’s not yeasty enough and too chewy and firm. A mushroom-and-spinach pie offers better texture. Lunch pizzas here are less unique, but still hit a nice mark via a few standout ingredients. The garlic pizza reaches a nice balance of sweet and salty with a creamy white sauce, mushrooms, onions, pepperoni and sausage.

Buffalo also offers Gunther’s Ice Cream, side salads and fried chicken, but here, it’s breakfast pizza for the win. American.

Winters Preserve Practically every restaurant worth its handgathered fleur de sel is “farm-to-fork” these days. Here, that’s interpreted with an all-day menu of bar snacks, salads, sides, pizzas and sandwiches.

Current favorites include a platter of cured meats and cheeses,

with überlocal Mariani dried fruit and nuts, olives, and Grandma Ogando’s jalapeño jelly. Salads include house-cured salmon with blood oranges and avocado, and beets with farmer cheese and red-onion jam. Individual-sized pizzas arrive with a flavorful fresh tomato sauce and plenty of Parmesan cheese. The slowsmoked brisket sandwich with garlic aioli is deliciously tender and not too fatty. There’s also an unusual vegetarian option with shredded carrots, slivered almonds and Gouda on rye bread. It has an oddly sweet flavor reminiscent of raisins. Some of Grandma O’s jelly would be a better fit. American. 200 Railroad Ave. in Winters, (530) 795-9963. $10-$20. HHH A.M.R.

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

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

Here’s a tasty option for those seeking locally raised meat to throw on the summer barbecue: Lucky Dog Ranch. Located in Dixon and owned by Terri and Ron Gilliland, Lucky Dog Ranch raises cattle “humanely”—allowing them to graze in herds on pastures—and without hormones, stimulants or steroids. The beef is dry-aged and vacuum sealed before being sold in local markets (including Taylor’s Market and Elliott’s Natural Foods) and at farmers markets (Saturday at Country Club Plaza and Sunday at Eighth and W streets). If you want to sample before buying, head to Roxy Restaurant & Bar or Lucca Restaurant & Bar—owned by the Gillilands—which both offer Lucky Dog Ranch beef burgers as well as a few other options featuring the ranch’s meat. And for foodies who only serve organic meat to their dogs, the business also offers a few treats specifically for canines.

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Gaming the system Broken age Kickstarter has aided many artists and entrepreneurs in launching ideas. The makers for the video game Broken Age (formerly known as VIDEO GAME Double Fine Adventure) raised a whopping $3,336,372. The concept is quite simple, harkening back to old-school point-and-click adventures.

The storyline follows two parallel lives. In one, a girl fights fellow villagers who are trying to sacrifice her to a monster. In the other, a boy is trapped in a computer-run spaceship and is trying to escape. The game is available for preorder for $15 or $30, depending on the package. www.brokenagegame.com.

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Noodling around with history The MeMory Palace Toss the noodle. If it’s fully cooked, it’ll stick to the wall.

History lessons, sadly, however, are like uncooked linguine pinging off the cranial wall. That’s not the case with Nate DiMeo’s telling of historical events on his podcast, The Memory Palace, though.

He selects stories that may have slipped through the cracks of boring textbooks and tells them as eloPODCAST quently and poetically as the accompanying soundtrack by artists such as Yo La Tengo, Brian Eno and Jon Brion. With vivid details that make it easy to empathize with the lives of strangers from long ago—such as “Picture a Box,” an account of a slave who was shipped in a small pine box to his freedom—Palace tales are palatable bites of history that are easy to sink one’s teeth into. http://thememorypalace.us.

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JerusaleM: a FaMily PorTraiT Filmmaker Boaz Yakin has teamed with Nick Bertozzi for Jerusalem: A Family Portrait, (First Second, $24.99) a sprawling family drama told as a graphic novel and set in a post-World War II period. Two estranged brothers and their children battle each other, the British and invading Arab nations. It’s a sweepBOOK ing tale, but Bertozzi’s black-and-white drawings can sometimes make it difficult to tell the young men apart, which made some parts of the story confusing. Nonetheless, Jerusalem (a fictionalized version of Yakin’s family history) is full of conflict, moral courage and compelling, all-too-human cowardice.

—Kel Munger

Moving sTills Photographer Allyson Seconds initially majored in ceramic sculpture at UC Davis, and in the process of chronicling her progress with a camera, discovered a new obsession. Over the years, Seconds, a well-known local musician and former True Love Coffeehouse proprietor, earned a reputation for taking PHOTOGRAPHY eyecatching, whimsical photos of bands. More recently, she’s taken to carrying an iPhone and using its camera to document everyday habits: walks along the river, strolls through Midtown, animal encounters, et al. Most are hued with a bluish-green tint and all convey a sensibility that’s at once universal but also self-reflective. Seconds pays close attention to detail, whether focusing on a plant’s delicate membranes, zooming in on a dog’s mournful expression or snapping shots of her feet as they meet up with heartshaped leaves, turtles and other random bits of nature.

Now, Moving Stills, a collection of Seconds’ iPhone images, is currently on display at Bows & Arrows through June 7, as part of the cafe/ boutique’s “bathroom art series.”

The show’s title is a nod to friends who observed that Seconds’ work conveys “a sense of stillness no matter the amount of action in the image,” and all of the images on exhibit were culled from the photographer’s Pic O’day project, an ongoing Facebook “visual diary.”

Seconds says it was tough to narrow down her selection. “I am such a compulsive picture taker that I have thousands and thousands of images.” 1815 19th Street, www.bowscollective.com.

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Bad husbands and wives My husband has been exchanging inappropriate texts with one of his co-workers. I discovered this after two years of struggle in our marriage.

I thought we had come to terms with our issues and agreed to put the marriage first. I believed we were moving forward and finding true happiness until this devastating blow. I feel duped.

We saw a marriage counselor who told us that he had proby Joey ga vided all the therapy he could rcia offer for our marriage. I continued to see this therapist a s kj oey @ ne wsreview.c om while I worked on myself.

My husband found his own therapist. My husband now says Joey his affair was a huge mistake, and he ended it. He won’t discuss any wishes she had intimate details because he thinks frogs in her backyard. it will be painful for me. I don’t want to make rash decisions. Does it make sense to seek out a new counselor?

Yes, but first ask your current therapist why he gave up. If his skills are limited, be grateful for his honesty. If he believed that your husband was not ready or willing to change, you need to hear that assessment. For a therapist and a client to work together successfully, the therapist must work from his strengths, admit his limitations and offer referrals for clients who are not a good fit.

If you want a healthy home life, stop being afraid of your wife.

Your quest for a new therapist should begin with an investigation into the therapist’s professional training. There are different philosophies within psychology and those orientations determine how your therapist works with you. For marriage repair and nurturing, I prefer the methodologies designed

by John and Julie Gottman, whose original research has invigorated marital counseling. For spiritual and emotional-intimacy issues in marriage, I recommend the work of David Richo, who draws deeply from Jungian psychology and world religions. If you cannot find a therapist grounded in these areas, take a course yourself from these transformational leaders. Ask your husband to join you. But be aware that couples therapy is useless

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Yes, he may have said that his affair was a mistake and told you that he ended it, but many cheaters say that after the other woman or man refuses to continue the affair.

So for your marriage to mend, your man must be receptive to change, ready to edit his adaptive behaviors that are no longer useful and to grow in trustworthiness.

He must respect and embody the marriage vows as a way of life, not a one-time speech. Otherwise, you are better off being single.

I have had to separate my hottempered wife from her friends on more than one occasion. She’s come after me, too. The problem is that our daughter, 23, and son, 27, moved back into our house. My daughter was in an abusive relationship, left the guy and needed a safe place to stay. My son lost his job. My wife is in violent hysterics about everything. The kids are already down and can’t take it.

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Your wife’s failure to manage her anger is not a bad habit; it’s a symptom of her addiction to power. She needs help to stop bullying her friends, you and your children. Stop pretending that you can handle her anger. Your willingness to absorb her fits has normalized your wife’s unacceptable behavior. That’s why your daughter found it easy to become intimate with an abuser. If you want a healthy home life, stop being afraid of your wife. Insist that she attend anger-management classes or group therapy. And be forewarned: Your wife may be suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome or another condition. While in classes or counseling, she may get worse before making a true turnaround. Ω

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And that’s just what happens when Janis Stevens directs Stephanie Gularte in Capital Stage’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. As expected in a collaboration of these two theater talents, this adaptation presents central character Hedda in a whole new light.

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Ibsen is considered one of the pioneer playwrights of modern realism, presenting flawed, layered, compelling characters that successfully and unsuccessfully deal with complex personal and societal issues. And in Hedda Gabler, because his main character is an enigmatic woman whose actions and motives are questionable, Hedda is presented as a complex woman. Depending on the moment, she’s a victim, a villain, a tragic heroine or a mentally unstable woman.

Here, Capital Stage has masterfully layered a sinister undertone to the play and most its characters, painting Hedda as pistol-packing psychopath. And Gularte, in a swan-song winning performance before she steps down from her position as artistic director of Capital Stage, gives us a totally captivating drama-queen diva.

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Ibsen explores the plight of women bound financially to marriage both in Hedda and another villager Thea (Jessica Chisum in a subtle yet multifaceted performance). The other main characters—the tortured artist (Jonathan Rhys Williams), the ne’er-do-well judge (Peter Mohrmann) and the put-upon Aunt Julia (Vada Russell)—all are also colored with subtle shades of manipulation and self-absorption, resulting in a unique, enthralling adaptation. Ω

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Neil Simon has never been known to pull punches with his writing. His characters are imbued with a reality and truth that make them not only relatable, but also sympathetic, concerning their problems.

New Helvetia Theatre presents The Gingerbread Lady, Simon’s 1970 play about an ex-lounge singer dealing with her recovery from alcoholism, a relationship with her daughter and two enabling friends who have their own worlds pressing down on them. Natasha Burr directs.

It’s been years since Evy Meara (Jamie Jones) has had a singing gig. The bills are piling up, and she’s only just dried out. Her friends Jimmy (Matt K. Miller) and Toby (Shannon Mahoney) try to keep her on her feet, but when their own lives go through hiccups, it will test the friends’ resolve.

Jones hits the audience hard with her portrayal of Evy. The character is given a fierce tongue that only gets her into more trouble and shows Neil Simon to be a genius at dealing with how life can be hilarious and dark simultaneously. Miller plays a fantastic early ’70s queen.

The set is gorgeous and makes a perfect apartment for the time, courtesy of artistic director Connor Mickiewicz and director Burr.

The play’s lukewarm reception in 1970 could be attributed to its examination of normally offlimits topics, but today, the things that show the unseemly, the socially contrary or the awkward usually prove to depict the most authentic slices of reality. So it is with this production.

—Maxwell McKee

The Gingerbread Lady, 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday, Sunday; $30. New Helvetia Theatre, 1028 R Street; (916) 469-9850; www.newhelvetia.org. Through May 26.

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This thoughtful assemblage of war-related scenes from Shakespeare’s British history plays focuses on ordinary folks swept up in the long struggle for the crown known as the Wars of the Roses. Included is rarely staged material from the Henry VI plays, including Shakespeare’s negative take on Joan of Arc (remember, the Bard was a Brit, and Joan embarrassed them in battle; Shakespeare presents her as a witch, not a saint). Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 5/26. $5 suggested donation. UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance, Wyatt Pavilion Theatre; 1 Shields Ave. in Davis; (530) 752-5863; http://theatre dance.ucdavis.edu. J.H.

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Idris Goodwin’s play about 1980s-era aspiring urban rappers doesn’t depict a hardedged scene but rather a peaceable saga.

Directed here by Buck Busfield, it works nicely as a slice of life that illuminates a particular place and time, with some appealing young characters in the process of finding themselves. Th, F 8pm; Sa 5 & 9pm; Su 2pm; T 6:30pm; W 2 & 6:30pm. Through 6/23. $5-$35.

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Geoffrey Nauffts’ play about a gay couple—one’s an evangelical Christian, the other is agnostic—and their struggles with what that difference means takes on great import when one is faced with a lifethreatening injury. Benjamin T. Ismail directs, with Rob August and Jon Jackson as the lovers who are truly an “odd” couple. F, Sa 8pm; Th 5/23 8pm. Through 5/24. $15-$20. Resurrection Theatre at the Three Penny Theatre, 1723 25th St.; (916) 223-9568; www.resurrectiontheatre.com. K.M.

This comedy about the emotional twists of infidelity and deception by Steven Dietz relies on some neat narrative tricks—and a fantastic trio of actors (Bert Anderson, Kristine David and Dan Featherston) to keep the audience guessing and laughing. Jouni Kirjola directs, with strong supporting work from Nina Collins and Gregory Smith. Th, F, Sa 8pm.

Through 5/25. $10-$16. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.com. K.M.

Everyone’s favorite rapierwielding protectors of France get a fresh makeover in this adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ classic.

Dana Friedman’s adaptation, directed by Buck Busfield, is fit for adults and kids with family-friendly gags and great grown-up jokes. There are also wonderfully colorful sets and costumes, all which make the characters even brighter. Sa, Su 1 & 4pm. $18-$27.

Through 6/2. The B Street Theatre at the B3 Stage, 2727 B St.; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. M.M.

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Transported Star Trek Into Darkness It’s official: Director J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot of the Star Trek franchise was no fluke. Star Trek Into Darkness extends the altered universe by Jim Lane that Abrams’ Star Trek created, with the confidence of a mature talent that knows where it’s going. Actually, giving due credit, there are several talents at work here: Abrams is joined again by writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, with Abrams’ Lost colleague Damon Lindelof along for good measure. The result is a seamless entertainment that’s about as good as space opera gets.

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The seamlessness extends to the casting, of course; all the stars from the last movie are back, plus new additions that are just as perfectly matched to their roles. Chris Pine is again Captain James T. Kirk, and he seems to be growing into the role in a way that William Shatner never did (Shatner—heresy!

Heresy!—just got hammier). Zachary Quinto’s Spock was already so full-formed back in 2009 that he could naturally share the screen with Leonard Nimoy as his “original” self, a relic from before the skewing of the universe that opened the earlier movie. (Nimoy makes another cameo appearance this time, at just the right climactic moment.) Karl Urban as Dr. Leonard McCoy again barks, “I’m a doctor, damnit, not a [fill in the blank]!” to the delighted chortles of an indulgent audience.

(Will this be a permanent feature of every Star Trek from now on, like Alfred Hitchcock’s cameos in his own movies?)

Others in the ensemble cast—Nyota Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Hikaru Sulu (John Cho) and Pavel Chekhov (Anton Yelchin) and Montgomery “Scotty” Scott (Simon Pegg)—all have their moments to shine. It’s a sign of the care that’s gone into the script, ensuring that they all contribute to the success of the Starship Enterprise’s latest mission beyond mere background support for the triumvirate of Kirk, Spock and McCoy. This crew is a unit; all these people belong together.

New this time is Alice Eve as Carol Marcus—ardent Trekkers will remember her and anticipate her and Kirk’s future. She first boards the Enterprise under an alias, but Spock quickly sees through that ruse, rightly deducing that she’s the daughter of Starfleet Admiral Marcus (Peter Weller), who has dispatched Kirk and the Enterprise on their latest mission.

The mission involves a Starfleet agent named John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch), who has turned rogue, destroying a Starfleet weapons lab in London and ambushing a meeting of top Starfleet brass in San Francisco with appalling loss of life. Harrison has fled to a remote region of the Klingon home planet, just as relations between the Klingons and the Federation are about to melt down into hot war.

Marcus assigns Kirk to sneak into Klingon space and destroy Harrison with a barrage of the latest photon torpedoes. At the urging of Spock, however, Kirk decides to capture Harrison alive and return him to Earth to stand trial.

When Harrison is found, he surprises Kirk by immediately surrendering. Back aboard the Enterprise, Kirk and Spock both sense something fishy. Harrison reinforces this feeling, craftily disclosing information that doesn’t fit the picture Admiral Marcus gave Kirk of his mission—for example, the fact that his name isn’t really John Harrison.

That’s as far as I should go with Into Darkness’s plot, even though its surprises may have been spoiled by this time. Suffice it to say Benedict Cumberbatch makes a classic villain for this new Star Trek franchise, echoing (as so much does) the underpinnings of the original series, yet giving them a new spin that rejuvenates even as it invokes them.

Chris Pine is again Captain James T. Kirk, and he seems to be growing into the role in a way that William Shatner never did.

Must I nitpick? Very well: The retrofitted 3-D was a mistake. It adds nothing, while fuzzying up a picture that should be razor-sharp.

Cinematographer Dan Mindel overdoes the lens flares, turning them into a kind of fetish. And as with Star Trek, director Abrams tends to place his camera too close to his actors—a holdover, perhaps, from his TV experience.

But never mind all that—as I said, nitpicks.

Star Trek Into Darkness is fast, fun, dramatically sound and emotionally right, reviving our affection for the original series, making the old and familiar new and surprising again. Ω

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In what might seem from the outset like a Hollywood-lite look at the Bowman v.

Monsanto case recently heard by the Supreme Court, director Ramin Bahrani’s awkward but at least absorbing drama gives Dennis Quaid some good scenery to chew as a heartland seed salesman losing control of both his family and his farm. His grounded wife (Kim Dickens), plainly aware of his harpy ex-cheerleader mistress (Heather Graham), understandably wonders why this man can’t be happy with what he has. But then, his rebellious son (Zac Efron) would rather drive race cars than inherit the family business, which, under dad’s dubious stewardship, already has run afoul of a litigious genetically modified organism company. It is safe to say the situation deteriorates. Coscripting with Hallie Newton, Bahrani reaches beyond the intimate simplicity of his previous feature, Goodbye Solo, and seems to be grasping for grand American tragedy. Solemnity prevails, but subplots don’t fully cohere, and the filmmaker’s ambition ultimately gets the best of him. J.K.

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The Big Wedding

A divorced couple (Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro) has to pretend to still be married because their adopted son (Ben Barnes) has invited his birth mother (Patricia Rae) to his wedding, and she doesn’t know about the divorce. With a cast like this (including Katherine Heigl, Amanda Seyfried, Susan Sarandon, Topher Grace, Robin Williams, Christine Ebersole, David Rasche), someone like Robert Altman might have done something—in fact, he did, in A Wedding (1978)—but writer-director Justin Zackham (adapting an obscure Franco-Swiss picture) doesn’t seem to know it’s 2013, and his mosscovered plot hasn’t worked since Eisenhower was president. Zackham fritters away a great cast on a dreary, predictable, unfunny comedy. It’s by-the-book moviemaking when the book is so out-of-date it should have “Gutenberg” stamped on the spine. J.L.

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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 issue-driven patchwork of lives at once frayed and braided. A distracted dad (Jason Bateman) strikes up a yearning instantmessage 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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A teenage girl (voice by Amanda Seyfried) goes to live in the woods with her eccentric father (Dan Green), who believes that tiny people protect the forest. When she magically shrinks to insect size, she finds out Dad was right, and joins forces with two “Leaf Men” (Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson) to defeat Mandrake (Christoph Waltz), king of a creeping rot that threatens the forest. It’s a bland knockoff of A Bug’s Life without the humor, suspense or vivid characters, but somehow it took five writers to concoct (including William Joyce, whose kids’ book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs provided a loose inspiration).

Director Chris Wedge executes the thin story studiously but flatly; the animation is inspired, but the story isn’t, and lackluster voice work doesn’t help. It’s in 3-D, which adds little. J.L.

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Its title and the gentle stress on Chris Evans in a supporting role notwithstanding, The Iceman is in no way another comic-book spin-off, but maybe it should have been? Instead, it’s a merely adequate mob thriller, adapted by director Ariel Vromen and co-writer Morgan Land from the life story of actual mafia-affiliated serial killer Richard Kuklinski, here played as an acting exercise for the towering, unchallenged Michael Shannon.

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In 1947, Norwegian ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl pulled off one of the most spectacular stunts of the 20th century by sailing a primitive raft from Peru to Polynesia to support his theory that the South Pacific was colonized by ancient South Americans. His theory remains widely discounted, but his exploit fascinated the world, giving him a bestselling book, a 1951 documentary Oscar, and a long life of similar adventures. Directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg have dramatized Heyerdahl’s voyage in a gleaming production (shot simultaneously in Norwegian and English). Characters are sketchily drawn except for Heyerdahl himself (well-played by Pål Sverre Hagen), but the menagainst-the-sea story, gorgeous photography (by Geir Hartly Andreassen), and knowing it’s all true make the movie a real pleasure. J.L. One reason for the title is Kuklinski’s habit of freezing his victims’ corpses to obscure their times of death. Otherwise, he was a family man, with a wife (Winona Ryder), two daughters and a lush patch of fashionably modulating facial hair, in suburban 1970s New Jersey. The rest is straight-goombah movie stuff: tense loyalty tests, loose ends in need of ruthless tying up, escalating threats to family, etc. At least Shannon will get to play a proper comic-book villain in Man of Steel later this summer. J.K.

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Iron Man 3

Billionaire superhero Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) contends with two villains: a terrorist called The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) and an urbane think-tank tycoon (Guy Pearce), who may be working with the terrorist. Director and co-writer (with Drew Pearce) Shane Black takes over from Jon Favreau (now playing Stark’s head of security), and his movie, while less memorable than the first Iron Man, is at least less instantly forgettable than its sequel. The action set pieces become enervating after a while, so patently CGI that nothing’s really ever at stake. The movie works mainly due to its acting: Downey, of course; Gwyneth Paltrow as gal Friday/sweetheart Pepper Potts; Don Cheadle as Stark’s military pal; and Kingsley. The most pleasant (and only) surprise is a sprightly youngster, Ty Simpkins, as a whiz kid who helps Stark. J.L.

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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 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.

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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

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A self-styled children’s therapist (Craig Robinson), frustrated that his girlfriend (Kerry Washington) won’t introduce him to her family, crashes a reunion on their Long Island estate, where he runs afoul of her father (David Alan Grier). Writer-director Tina Gordon Chism studiously avoids any trace of originality or cleverness in this leaden, obvious, maladroit comedy. Robinson has a basic sincerity and ease before the camera that fitfully overcomes his surroundings, and Law and Order’s S. Epatha Merkerson, as Washington’s tipsy mother, does a rare comedy turn with clear relish.

Others in the cast have more difficulty with the contrived situations, awkward dialogue and Chism’s flailing, arrythmic direction.

Washington is particularly ill-served by Alexander Gruszynski’s flat, unflattering cinematography. J.L.

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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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gearhead,” thanks to his own customized rig, which includes a washboard and two cowbells.

But, despite a connection to old jazz, music isn’t the biggest inspiration behind FreeBadge Serenaders. Rather, the pair says it’s more inspired by the classic comedian-musicians, such as the Smothers Brothers and Tom Lehrer. Like these players, FreeBadge writes humorous songs such as “Sacramento, CA USA,” notable for its self-deprecating approach: “You’re always only two hours from where you’d rather be.”

The band’s original goal was to play as many Dixieland festivals as possible and, effectively, get into them for free. The band’s name references this intention.

“The whole point was we’d play for a free badge,” Sabin jokes. “We know that we’re not really a serious band that people would really voluntarily pay to see.”

Of course, they’ve gotten plenty of paying gigs over the years, and when they do play jazz festivals, they’re more likely to play some traditional old-timey tunes, and crack family-friendly jokes. At a bar show, however, it’s a different act.

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While most 16-year-old musicians were out banging drums and thrashing on distorted guitars, Greg Sabin and Patrick Skiffington kept busy by Aaron Carnes performing Dixieland music in the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Youth Band Festival, playing banjo and bass guitar, respectively.

So when nearly 20 years later, the pair decided to start a band, it seemed like a natural fit to return to their roots.

Still, the resulting band, FreeBadge Serenaders, which will perform several shows at the upcoming Sacramento Music Festival ( previously known as the Sacramento Jazz Festival & Jubilee), isn’t exactly typical Dixieland. For starters, there are only the two members (Sabin on banjo and vocals, and Skiffington on washboard and vocals). The band’s also admittedly silly: It’s dubbed its sound as “discount jazz” and “irreverent jug jazz,” with funny lyrics and the occasional slide whistle or kazoo solo.

But really, both members insist, they have utmost respect for the genre.

“We absolutely, 100 percent in our hearts, love this music. Patrick’s got a [jazz] LP and 78 collection that would rival a lot of guys,” Sabin says.

If anything, Sabin adds, the band has simply made the most of its limitations.

“We kind of needed another hook, and we’re both funny guys. So we decided to write funny music,” he says.

When they started the group four years ago, Sabin had already been playing banjo for a while, but Skiffington needed a new instrument, so he chose the washboard—it seemed like an easy enough thing to play while drinking, he reasoned.

These days, Skiffington is more serious about it. In fact, he calls himself a “washboard

“ We’re not playing it really old-timey [or] straitlaced—everybody’s in on the joke.”

Greg Sabin FreeBadge Serenaders “It’s about connecting with people, having some drinks, having some fun, not being afraid to use profanity,” Sabin says. “We’re not playing it really old-timey [or] straitlaced—everybody’s in on the joke.”

And although it has myriad classic jazz songs in its repertoire, FreeBadge has also been known to whip out something more modern, such as a Cars or a Nirvana cover song.

“The nice thing ... if you’re doing a kind-ofjokey act [is] that if you do something musically really well, you get just a ton of respect,” Sabin says. “People don’t expect you to actually know how to be a musician on top of being a comedian.” Ω

Alone but not lonely: The foothills are home to many hermetic weirdo musicians. Hearing of new sounds from near the Sierra Nevada often feels like receiving postcards from a foreign beyond. Take Daniel Trudeau’s Pregnant project, a delightfully strange marriage of electronica and freak folk. Pottery Mill, his new album out on Mush Records, plucks from the charm of a creator’s isolation. In fact, all his records uniformly sound as though they would not be possible without the backwoods of Placerville and the modern world of Midtown within an hour’s reach. With no one around, Trudeau warps found sounds from the wilderness into the strum of his guitar; glitch meets organic to create something not far from pastoral electronica.

Now, he’s headed East for a string of dates—a tour that could use some friendly funding assistance. As it happens, Pregnant’s Bandcamp merch page (http://pregnant. bandcamp.com/merch/your-song) currently features a “Your Song” option, wherein Trudeau promises to pen a song in exchange for a mere $5. All you need is a name for the track and a PayPal account. Current donors include Liz, whose song includes the refrain “Hey, Liz. We love your Tumblr so much … Are you going to the frog convention?”

Then, there’s someone named Jeanie who’s requested a song with the lyrics “a power exists in me that I got from Jeanie.” Five dollars is a small price to pay for a theme song.

Deerhunter’s Monomania won’t likely compete for a Grammy or earn Cox a seat on The Voice, but its critical accolades and the promise of potential stage antics should be just the oomph needed to convince fans to hit the presale outlets months in advance.

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Ally Sheedy is my spirit animal: This one’s not until Friday, June 7, but you need time to plan an outfit for the John Hughes Soundtracks Show scheduled to take place at Old Ironsides (1901 10th Street).

For someone who spent much of her 16th year trying to perfect Ally Sheedy’s moroseness in The Breakfast Club, this is a big deal.

Local artists, including 50-Watt Heavy, Desario and Harley White Jr., will converge to pay tribute to the late filmmaker and the songs that made many of his greatest films so iconic. You know: the Psychedelic Furs, Simple Minds, Flesh for Lulu and General Public.

(Fun fact: Hughes refused to release a soundtrack for the 1986 Matthew Broderick comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, believing fans wouldn’t want a record featuring both the Beatles and Wayne Newton. Go figure.)

The show starts at 9 p.m. and costs $5 at the door; everyone attending is encouraged to dress up like their favorite Hughes character. Who’s calling dibs on Curly Sue?

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It’s time to talk about your vinyl habit: True vinyl addicts don’t bother with Record Store Day. They patronize stores year-round and browse the classifieds for yard and estate sales as part of an ongoing quest to mine for analog discs.

Buyers whose conditions can only be described as terminal suffer lungs dusted from thumbing through old records at swap meets, such as the one taking place in Davis on Sunday, June 2. The Armadillo Music & KDVS 90.3 FM Vinyl & Music Fair is free to the public, although for a mere $5 early birds can check in at 8:30 a.m.—a half-hour before its official start. The fair goes until 4:30 p.m. and features tables from local vendors and collectors looking to shop rare finds. Take your deep pockets to the Davis Senior Center at 646 A Street in Davis.

Better than angels: On the eponymous track to Deerhunter’s sixth studio album Monomania, frontman Bradford Cox requests, “Send me an angel / If you can’t send me an angel / send me something else instead.”

In August, Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub is guaranteed a show in the “something else” category. It could be Deerhunter fronted by a gangly Cox in a dress, as depicted in the band’s most recent press photo. It could be Cox donning a Joey Ramone wig like he did on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

Hell, it could be an hour-long cover of “My Sharona,” a stunt he once pulled on an unruly Minneapolis crowd.

Known to obsess over ’70s New York counterculture, Cox exists somewhere between Patti Smith and Richard Hell when it comes to stage presence.

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James Cavern’s EP is appropriately titled The Pilot. This transplanted Englishman has piloted his career from INDIE/SOUL his first encounter with a trombone to a 2012 Sammie award in the R&B/Soul category. A songwriter and guitarist, Cavern is inspired by artists such as the Beatles, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, citing Ray Charles as his primary inspiration.

Studying in England meant taking a music class in school every year, and that study has certainly paid off for Cavern, who was also nominated for a 2012 RAWards Indie Arts Award. Joining Cavern for the next Concerts in the Park show are Iconoclast Robot, DLRN, Heartworm and DJ Nate D. 910 I Street, www.facebook.com/jamescavernmusic.

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It’s hard to pin down not only the musical influences of local band EGG, but also the time period it came from. It could have just as easily been a radio-friendly 1970s jazzfusion group or a band associated with the 1990s funk-rock movement (albeit a more eclectic version of that sound). For the record, it’s a relatively new band. Its melting pot of sounds includes elements of jazz, punk and psychedelic rock—to the point that these individual styles are practically unrecognizable. The singer JAZZ/FUNK occasionally pulls out a trumpet, too. How cool is that? Plus, the group’s Facebook page is fertile with egg references and puns. 228 G Street in Davis, http://eggeth.com.

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The Ghosts’ Facebook photos suggest they might’ve watched Almost Famous one too many times, but regardless, the live show promises to provide an electric jolt to a Saturday night in Davis. 129 E. Street in Davis, www.thegoldenghosts.com.

Brothers Andrew and Daniel Aged started making music in 2010 under the name Teen, Inc. Eventually, they dropped the R&B youthful descriptor—and that’s a good thing, because their sound is decidedly grown-up. The Los Angeles-based duo crafts R&B jams that skirt tradition with spooky punk and goth touches—think Beck at his funkiest, or Prince at his most subversively suave. Their 2013 record No World marries a classically smooth and sinewy approach with a dance-floor vibe—and then coats it all with an ethereal sheen.

It’s fitting, really, for a band that’s found a home on the legendary indie record label 4AD. 1000 K Street, www.official-inc.com.

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JUST ANNOUNCED – June 26 • 8pm • 10adv –

TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN COMING SOON

- May 23 -

RELIC 45

- May 28 -

CHUCK FENDA

THE THREE WAY, MARK SEXTON BAND 8pm • $10 adv

8pm • $30 adv

May 31

Madhouse

Jun 01

Bilal

June 02 Moksha June 07 The Americans

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Jun 09

Ryan Bingham

80’S DANCE PARTY WITH

Jun 11

Girl in a Coma

Jun 13

Inner Circle

Jun 14

Dean-O-Holics

Jun 14

Indigenous

REBEL YELL

- May 29 -

9pm • $5 adv

- May 25 -

FOREVERLAND

BIG K.R.I.T.

6pm • $21.50 adv

- May 26 -

MURDER BY DEATH THE BUILDERS AND THE BUTCHERS 7pm • $15 adv

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Ann Kelly

June 16

Shannon Curtis

June 28 Samba Da June 29 Pointdexter

14-PIECE MICHAEL JACKSON TRIBUTE

9pm • $15 adv

Jun 15

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YOUNG DUBLINERS DINNER SHOW

5:30pm • $15 adv

FOLLOW US HARLOWSNITECLUB HARLOWSNIGHTCLUB HARLOWSNIGHTCLUB

25SAT

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30THURS

Torch Fest

Murder by Death

Tele Novella

Avi Buffalo

Torch Club, 4 p.m., $15

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

Here’s a way to see a bunch of local bands on  the cheap: Head to this weekend’s Torch Fest  at, appropriately, Torch Club. Now in its second year, the festival kicks off Saturday at  4 p.m. with nine bands—including Delta City  Ramblers, Dippin’ Sauce and A.C. Myles— playing music spanning the genres of blues,  Americana, folk and soul. It continues Sunday  at noon with an all-day all-acoustic lineup of  FESTIVAL 12 artists, including Island  of Black and White (pictured), the Lurk, and Sandra Dolores. If you  attend both days, with each day costing $15,  you’ll leave the venue having seen 21 artists  for $30. That’s a hella good deal. 904 15th  Street, www.torchclub.net. 

—Jonathan Mendick

Murder by Death’s moody, atmospheric  song “I’m Comin’ Home� was featured  on both an episode of Sons of Anarchy  INDIE and the trailer for Inglourious  Basterds. The five-piece band  from Bloomington, Indiana, has a manner  of playing that takes one to dark places  with a cheeky grin. Guitarist and vocalist  Adam Turla—who, on some tracks, has a  deep, quavery Johnny Cash growl—writes  lyrics that could have been penned on a  barroom napkin. Cellist Sarah Balliet adds  another dimension to the band with her  bowing—sometimes subtlly, other times with  fierce authority. Six albums into a career  that began at the turn of the century, this  group’s not slowing down. 2708 J Street,  www.murderbydeath.com. 

Bows & Arrows, 8 p.m., $10

Blue Lamp, 7:30 p.m., $10-$12

This Tuesday, Sacramento rejoices. Natalie  Ribbons returns to Sacramento with her new  band Tele Novella. For anyone who’s lived in  a cave the past decade, she was the singer  for the much-loved, local cabaret-pop duo  Agent Ribbons. A little while back, the band  relocated to Austin, Texas. Now she’s formed  a new group which is a psychedelic-pop  quartet. Ribbons’ clever songwriting is still  present, but the package is a sunnier and  catchier one. It’s only released  INDIE two songs so far, and already  it’s getting some buzz on music blogs—partially because it’s Ribbons’ new project, but  also because it is just damn good. Get there  early. This show will sell out. 1815 19th Street,  www.twitter.com/tele_novella. 

It’s been three yeas since Avigdor ZahnerIsenberg (a.k.a. Avi Buffalo) beguiled fans and  critics alike with his self-titled debut’s hazy,  summery blend of Laurel Canyon folk and  prog-jazzy guitar whorls. His tender tenor  dances with twee ebullience lost in “Summer  FOLK/JAZZ Cum� and echoes the  Shins’ existential melancholia on tracks like “What’s in it For?�  The album’s quirky dose of innocence and  soft abandon is a tough act to follow, and  Zahner-Isenberg has taken his time, which  has been complicated by a steady diet of  touring. But he’s been in the studio recently,  finishing a second album, which is expected  out later this year. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard,  www.facebook.com/avibuffalomusic. 

—Aaron Carnes

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—Paul Piazza

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NIGHTBEAT

THURSDAY 5/23

FRIDAY 5/24

SATURDAY 5/25

SUNDAY 5/26

B Street: Live!, 7pm, $15

B Street: Live!, 7pm, $15

B Street: Live!, 7pm, $15; INC., 10pm, $12

LADY RIZO, 7pm, $20

BADLANDS

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

Fabulous and Gay Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

Sacramento Blue Ball, 7pm-2am, call for cover

Sin Sunday, 8pm, call for cover

BLUE LAMP

PENNY, TASK1NE, CALIFORNIA BEAR GANG, TAI ONE THREE; 9pm

RIOT MAKER, B&B MUSIC FACTORY, DJ R-O; 9pm, call for cover

JULIET COMPANY, STILLWOOD SAGES, THE OTHER BRITTANY; 8:30pm

D-LO, TAJ HE SPITZ, PLAYAH K, REIGN; 8pm, call for cover

VOLUMES, GLASS CLOUD, BEYOND THE SHORE, OUTSIDERS; 7pm, $12-$14

NOAH CLARK’S SHARP DRESSED MEN, PERPETUAL DRIFTERS; 8pm

SPENCER BORUP, THE WESTWARDS, BROLLY; 8pm, $5

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2003 K St., (916) 448-8790 1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

THE BOARDWALK

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247

BOWS & ARROWS

1815 19 St., (916) 822-5668

CENTER FOR THE ARTS THE COZMIC CAFÉ

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

DISTRICT 30

DONALD GLAUDE, 9pm, call for cover

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

DJ Billy Lane, DJ Benji, 9pm, call for cover

Deejay dancing, 9pm-1:30am, no cover before 11pm, $5 after

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

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

FOX & GOOSE

THE MIKE JUSTIS BAND, 8-11pm, no cover

CHRISTOPHER FAIRMAN, RICHFIELD, PUNCH-OUT; 9pm, $5

VINTAGE VANDALS, CASH PROPHETS; 9pm, $5

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

Hey local bands!

THE JOYFUL WARRIOR, SPIRITRIBE; 6-8pm, call for cover

FACES

2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

G STREET WUNDERBAR 2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

MISS JACKSON, 9pm W, $5 Black and Blue Festival, 7pm-2am, call for cover

Queer Idol, 9pm M, no cover; Latin night, 9pm Tu, $5; DJ Alazzawi, 9pm W, $3 Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu; Northern Soul, 8pm W, no cover

ISLAND OF BLACK AND WHITE, EGG; 10pm-1:15am, no cover

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

HARLOW’S

Mad Mondays, 9pm M; Latin videos and Wii bowling, Tu; Trapacana, 10pm W

MARCIA BALL, 8pm, $25-$30

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

1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

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MR. P CHILL, PHIL A, OSO NEGRO, TWO4ONE; 8pm, $5

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 5/27-5/29

RELIC 45, THE THREE WAY, MARK SEXTON BAND; 8pm, call for cover

FOREVERLAND, 10pm, call for cover

LOWBRAU

1050 20th St., (916) 706-2636

MURDER BY DEATH, THE BUILDERS AND CHUCK FENDA, 9pm Tu; BIG KRIT, THE BUTCHERS; 8pm, $15-$18 SMOKE DZA; 7pm W, call for cover

Wunderbar w/ Adam J., Shaun Slaughter, 10pm, no cover

TOBIAS WILNER, BICHI JONES; 9pm Tu; Roger Carpio spinning vinyl, 5pm W

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR

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

JULIE MEYERS, THE SIGNIFIERS; 8:30pm, $6

DAVID HOUSTON & STRING THEORY, SAL VALENTINO; 9pm, $6

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

MARILYN’S ON K

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

THE BUMPTET, 9pm, $10

THE NEW ORLEANS SWAMP DONKEYS JAZZ BAND; 8pm, $7

STITCHED UP HEART, 8pm W, $7

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

LUCKY LASKOWSKI, MARK BADOVINAC, IAN MCGLONE; 8:30pm, $5

NATHAN DALE, TREVOR MENESES; 8:30pm, $5

FAMILY PHOTO, EVERYONE IS DIRTY, JEFFRIES; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz, 8pm M; JON HATAMIYA QUINTET, DEREK THOMAS; 8:30pm W, $5

OLD IRONSIDES

JENN ROGAR, 5pm, no cover

WILLIAM MYLAR, 5pm; DER SPAZM, SUN VALLEY GUN CLUB; 9pm, $5

THE SILENT GAME, INFERNO OF JOY, CROW CANYON; 9pm, $5

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

ON THE Y

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

DESCENDANT, BYPASSING OBLIVION, AFTER THE FLESH, DEFYANT CIRCLE; 9pm

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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

1901 10th St., (916) 442-3504 670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731

Open-mic comedy, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover

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THURSDAYS

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ROCK ON LIVE BAND KAR AOKE

AMANDA GRAY AND WHISKEY SAVAGE Friday, 5/24 - 6-10pm - $5

Brian Todd

AUTO REPLAY Saturday, 5/25 - 4:30-8:30pm -

& highway 49

CINEMA 7

jay duell Band

$5

with DEPARTURE: A TRIBUTE TO JOURNEY “Unplugged”

Sunday, 5/26 - 4-10pm - $5

FOUR BARREL Monday, 5/27 - 3-7pm $5

5/31 & 6/1 - Shannapalooza Funk Rock Music Festival 6/2 - Roots Americana Rockabilly Festival - 8 Bands

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THE NEW ORLEANS SWAMP DONKEY JAZZ BAND TRADITIONAL NOLA JAZZ // 8PM // $7 SUN 5/26

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THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD WITH JOEY GUILA

FRIDAY 5/24 - SATURDAY 5/25 • 10PM

SAM BAM’S COMEDY JAM

FRIDAY 5/31- SUNDAY 6/2 HOST OF DISCOVERY’S “CASH CAB”!

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STITCHED UP HEART HARD ROCK // METAL // 9PM // $7

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THURSDAY 5/23

FRIDAY 5/24

SATURDAY 5/25

SUNDAY 5/26

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 5/27-5/29

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

ANNE MCCUE, DAVID OLNEY & SERGIO WEBB; 8pm W, $20

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

PINE COVE TAVERN

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

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

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

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

PINS N STRIKES

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

MIDNIGHT PLAYERS, 9pm, $10

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

POWERHOUSE PUB

OIL & SMOKE, MAC RUSS & THE LAWN TROLLS; 8pm, no cover

MAD KARMA, 10pm, $10

APPLE Z, 10pm, $10

LARA PRICE, 3pm, $10

Karaoke, M; DJ Alazzawi, DJ Rigatony, Tu; RESTRAYNED, PRYLOSIS; W, $5

THE PRESS CLUB

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

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

NA’AN STOP, MASSIVE DELICIOUS, NORTH BOUND TRAIN; 6pm, $5

THE DAD, CHARLES ALBRIGHT, G. GREEN; 9pm W, $5

SAMMY’S ROCKIN’ ISLAND

MAD HOUSE, 9:30pm, $10

THE WABOS, 9:30pm, $15

WHISKEY DAWN, 9pm, $15

614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586 2030 P St., (916) 444-7914 238 Vernon St., Roseville; (916) 773-7625

SHENANIGANS

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

705 J St., (916) 442-1268

Fantasy Friday Mixer with DJ Black Ice, 8pm, $10 for men, no cover for women

SOL COLLECTIVE

Karaoke, 8:30pm W, no cover SINCE DAY ONE, BRI, BATHYSPHERE, JEANETTE HAWKINS; 6:30pm, $11-$13

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

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

RADIATION CITY, TRAILS & WAYS; 9:30pm, $7

THE GOLDEN GHOSTS, OCEANOGRAPHY; 9:30pm, $5

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

STONEY INN/ROCKIN’ RODEO

GEORGIA RAIN, 10pm, $5

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

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

Country dance party, 8pm, no cover; WHISKEY DAWN, 9pm, $10-$15

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

SWABBIES

KDOG, 6:30pm, no cover

AMANDA GRAY, WHISKEY SAVAGE; 6pm, $5

AUTOREPLAY, 4:30pm, $5

CINEMA 7, 4pm, $5

FOUR BARREL, 3pm M, $5

TORCH CLUB

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

X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; LONESOME LOCOMOTIVE, 9pm, $5

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm, no cover; MIND X, 9pm, $8

AC MYLES, NOAH & THE MEGAFAUNA, JEFF JONES, SANDRA DOLORES, TESS PETER PETTY & DOUBLE P REVIEW; 4pm MARIE & THE POOR MAN BAND; noon

ISLAND OF BLACK & WHITE, 9pm Tu, $5; TESS MARIE & POOR MAN BAND, W, $5

TOWNHOUSE LOUNGE

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

DJ Shaun Slaughter playing dance tracks, 9pm, $5

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

Open-mic, M; Fame-Change, DJ Whores, 9pm Tu, $5; DJ Crescendo, 9pm W

1320 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 927-6023 5871 Garden Hwy, (916) 920-8088

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

Lauren Cole Norton with the Tailor and Riddley Walker 8:30pm Thursday, call for cover.

Luigi’s Slice and Fun Garden Folk and Americana

THE INTERNATIONAL SWINGERS, 8pm W, $15

All ages, all the time ACE OF SPADES

JONN HART, MARK SNIPES, CALIFORNIA TWISTA, RAE ROCK, X-QUISYTE, JAY BEAR GANG, SUAVE DEBONAIRE; 6:30pm SICKLES, G-DYNASTY; 6:30-11pm, $25

1417 R St., (916) 448-3300

CLUB RETRO

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

DOWNTOWN PLAZA (LOWER LEVEL)

THE BELL BOYS, 6pm, no cover

LUIGI’S SLICE AND FUN GARDEN

LAUREN COLE NORTON, THE TAILOR, BOAT, DARLING CHEMICALIA; 8:30pm, RIDDLEY WALKER; 8:30pm, call for cover call for cover

547 L St., (916) 822-5185

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

Twista with Rae Rock, X-Quisite, Jay Sickles and G-Dynasty 6:30pm Sunday, $25.

Ace of Spades Hip-hop

KALIMA, CELLSOMATIC, SOUNDSCAPES, SWEET ADDICTION, ERIN JARVIS, ONCE AN EMPIRE; 6:30pm, $8-$10 RACHAEL LYNN; 5pm, $5-$8

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I’m still

learning,” said Michelangelo when he was 87 years old. For now, he’s your patron saint. With his unflagging curiosity as your inspiration, maybe your hunger for new teachings will bloom. You will register the fact that you don’t already know everything there is to know—you have not yet acquired all the skills you were born to master—you’re still in the early stages of exploring whole swaths of experience that will be important to you as you become the person you want to be. Even if you’re not enrolled in a formal school, it’s time to take your education to the next level.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Nobel

Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman admitted that physicists can’t really define “energy,” let alone understand it.

“We have no knowledge of what energy is,” he said. “We do not have a picture that energy comes in little blobs of a definite amount.” While it’s unlikely that in the coming weeks you Tauruses will advance the scientific understanding of energy, you will almost certainly boost your natural grasp of what energy feels like both inside and outside of your body. You will develop a more intuitive knack for how it ebbs and flows. You will discover useful tips about how to make it work for you rather than against you. You’re already a pretty smart animal, but soon you’ll get even smarter.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Giant se-

quoias are the biggest trees on the planet.

Many are more than 300 feet tall and 30 feet wide. Their longevity is legendary, too. They can live for 2,000 years. And yet their seeds are tiny. If you had a bag of 91,000 seeds, it would weigh 1 pound. I suspect there’s currently a resemblance between you and the giant sequoia, Gemini. You’re close to acquiring a small kernel that has the potential to grow into a strong and enduring creation. Do you know what I’m talking about? Identify it.

Start nurturing it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t take

yourself too seriously. The more willing you are to make fun of your problems, the greater the likelihood is that you will actually solve them. If you’re blithe and breezy and buoyant, you will be less of a magnet for suffering. To this end, say the following affirmations out loud: 1. “I’m willing to make the mistakes if someone else is willing to learn from them.” 2. “I’m sorry, but I’m not apologizing any more.” 3. “Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. I’d rather travel.” 4. “My commitment is to truth, not consistency.” 5. “The hell with enlightenment, I want to have a tantrum.” 6. “I stopped fighting my inner demons. We’re on the same side now.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Would you buy a

stuffed bunny or a baby blanket that was handcrafted by a prisoner on death row?

Would you go to a cafe and eat a sandwich that was made by an employee who was screaming angrily at another employee while he made your food? Would you wear a shirt that was sewn by a 10-year-old Bangladeshi girl who works 12 hours every day with a machine that could cut off her fingers if she makes one wrong move?

Questions like these will be good for you to ask yourself, Leo. It’s important for you to evaluate the origins of all the things you welcome into your life—and to make sure they are in alignment with your highest values and supportive of your well-being.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Having good

posture tends to make you look alert and vigorous. More than that, it lowers stress levels in your tissues and facilitates the circulation of your bodily fluids. You can breathe better, too. In the coming weeks, I urge you to give yourself this blessing: the gift of good posture. I encourage you to bestow a host of other favors, too.

Specialize in treating yourself with extra sweetness and compassion. Explore different ways to get excited, awaken your sense of wonder and be in love with your life. If anyone calls you a self-involved narcissist, tell them you’re just doing what your astrologer prescribed.

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

word “Fernweh” can be translated as “wanderlust.” Its literal meaning is “farsickness” or “an ache for the distance.”

Another German word, “Wandertrieb,” may be rendered as “migratory instinct” or “passion to travel.” I suspect urges like these may be welling up in you right now.

You could use a break from your familiar pleasures and the comforts you’ve been taking for granted. Moreover, you would attract an unexpected healing into your life by rambling off into the unknown.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): We call

it “longing,” says poet Robert Hass, “because desire is full of endless distances.”

In other words, you and the object of your yearning may be worlds apart even though you are right next to each other.

For that matter, there may be a vast expanse between you and a person you consider an intimate ally; your secret life and his or her secret life might be mysteries to each other. That’s the bad news, Scorpio. The good news is that you’re in a phase when you have extraordinary power to shrink the distances. Get closer!

Call on your ingenuity and courage to do so.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Are you ready to go deeper, Sagittarius?

In fact, would you be willing to go deeper and deeper and deeper? I foresee the possibility that you might benefit from diving in over your head. I suspect that the fear you feel as you dare to descend will be an acceptable trade-off for the educational thrills you will experience once you’re way down below. The darkness you encounter will be fertile, not evil. It will energize you, not deplete you. And if you’re worried that such a foray might feel claustrophobic, hear my prediction: In the long run it will enhance your freedom.

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

the course of his 91 years on the planet, artist Pablo Picasso lived in many different houses, some of them rentals.

When inspired by the sudden eruption of creative urges, he had no inhibitions about drawing and doodling on the white walls of those temporary dwellings. On one occasion, his landlord got upset. He ordered Picasso to pay him a penalty fee so that he could have the sketches painted over. Given the fact that Picasso ultimately became the best-selling artist of all time, that landlord may have wished he’d left the squiggles intact. In every way you can imagine, Capricorn, don’t be like that landlord in the coming week.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I was

often in love with something or someone,” wrote Polish poet Czesław Miłosz. “I would fall in love with a monkey made of rags.

With a plywood squirrel. With a botanical atlas. With an oriole. With a ferret. ... With the forest one sees to the right when riding in a cart. … With human beings whose names still move me.” Your task, Aquarius, is to experiment with his approach to love. Make it a fun game: See how often you can feel adoration for unexpected characters and creatures. Be infatuated with curious objects, with snarky Internet memes, with fleeting phenomena like storms and swirling flocks of birds and candy spilled on the floor. Your mission is to supercharge your lust for life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Scientists

in Brazil discovered a huge new body of water 13,000 feet beneath the Amazon River. It’s completely underground.

Named the Hamza River, it moves quite slowly, and is technically more of an aquifer than a river. It’s almost as long as the Amazon, and much wider. In accordance with the astrological omens, Pisces, I’m making the Hamza River your symbol of the week. Use it to inspire you as you uncover hidden resources. Meditate on the possibility that you have within you a secret reservoir of vitality that lies beneath your well-known sources. See if you can tap into deep feelings that are so deep you’ve been barely conscious of them.

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Coffee-geek refinement Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, and high-quality “third wave” brews have certainly been popular in Sacramento. For the past six years, admitted coffee geek Nick Minton has tamped some of Temple Coffee’s finest cups; now he and Ilah Rose Cookston, his girlfriend and partner, are bringing the brews to the people with their on-site barista service, The Mill, at events and places such as the Midtown Farmers Market Sacramento. Despite making impressive drinks, Minton says he still doesn’t feel like Tom Cruise behind his custom-made counter.

Where did you come up with the idea for The Mill?

Nick Minton: It’s an idea that we came up with together. The idea took a lot of forms before it became The Mill.

Ilah Rose Cookston: It really began with you, because you’re in coffee, and we were looking for a kind of livelihood that wasn’t too narrow and that we enjoyed doing, and we set out for the most recognizable choice, which was the coffee shop. That led to a pretty serious wild goose chase further and further away from our lifestyle, and we kind of ended up realizing that we don’t usually stay in one place for very long, and so why should our coffee stay in a one place very long?

How often are you on the move?

Minton: I guess the last couple of years we have done a lot of moving around. I think that it’s more like that we don’t necessarily want do business just for the sake of doing business.

Cookston: We move a lot! (Laughs.)

Maybe not like out of Sacramento, but in Sacramento we’ve moved a lot. ... I think, more importantly, not that it’s the focal point, but there’s a lot of other places that we want to explore, and we aren’t able to do that maybe right now, but as soon as we looked at finding a location, we found that do we want to live in Sacramento for the length of time it would be to own a business here?

Or do we want to live in Oakland? … Maybe we could just do everything that a cafe does on site?

So that’s what The Mill does?

Minton: We make pretty awesome coffee wherever. Our target is to do events like weddings; to be a service. Right now, we’re ... doing things like markets and public events. We’re making espresso drinks at a cafe standard in places that are not cafes.

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Cookston: Even the espresso bar that he just created, I think you can say something to that: It’s not a mobile cart, it’s actually the whole ambience you are literally creating when you’re there.

beautiful wood is, how surprising it can be and different the material can be. As far as how I got into it … it’s something I’ve been around all my life, but I don’t pretend to be good at it. I just enjoy doing it and learning—

Minton: A great interest of mine and job, at least in a part-time way, has been doing woodwork. … I’ve worked with one [lumber mill] in particular here in Sacramento, New Helvetia Hardwoods … [and] The Mill is kind of a merging of my great interest and passions. It represents those two things in one space.

Cookston: Yeah, right. ... He’s really an excellent craftsman.

Can you describe The Mill’s setup at an event?

Minton: Well, the cabinet that we serve on and actually set our service on is a cabinet that I custom built for us out of a really beautiful olive wood from an olive orchard in the Central Valley that a family member of mine personally saved from becoming firewood, had milled and turned into just the most beautiful material. … Depending on where we are, we’re really exicited to play with the space, and consider what might be interesting to do ... and change things up and explore.

What got you into woodworking?

Minton: My grandpa was a carpenter, and my stepdad was always remodeling something. [Growing up,] I was always in a construction zone, and I think I was just pretty interested in how things are made.

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Minton: I really enjoy the history and lineage of it. My interest is in the wood-joinery tradition of woodworking. It’s really fun to explore that. ... I think it’s really interesting, all of the parallels: A mill takes a raw material and refines it in some way, and I think that, whether that’s a tree getting turned into material that can be turned into something usable and beautiful, or it’s turning some coffee beans into a delicious drink, I think that there is a refinement there that’s taking something and that’s what we do, and that is what connects us to that idea.

How was it at the Midtown Farmers Market? Did you feel like Tom Cruise in Cocktail behind the counter?

Minton: It went well. … [We’ll] probably pick up the Sunday market in Carmichael Park Ω soon, too. Cocktail? Never seen it.

Check out The Mill at http://the-mill.co or at the Midtown Farmers Market Sacramento on Saturdays, at 2020 J Street, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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