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20th annual Doggy Dash
I Can Do that! CommunIty arts show Vox Sacramento hosts the I Can Do That! Community Arts Show in association with the I Can Do That! Art ART for All Abilities nonprofit. Each year, ICDT provides area schools with artists-inschool residencies designed to give hands-on education to kids, many of whom have physical, emotional and mental-developmental disabilities. The ICDT festival takes place from 5 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, June 8, and will feature works from Luther Burbank High School students who, during the course of the past school year, worked with area artists such as Greg Polo, Ingrid Royal and UnChu Littlefield. 1818 11th Street, www.facebook.com/voxsac. —Rachel Leibrock
Goodbye, everyone sCatter, aDapt, anD remember Annalee Newitz, a science journalist and maven of the popular science and tech website io9, examines the patterns of mass extinctions through a lens that will make us pay attention: humanity’s impending demise. In Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday; $25.95), Newitz reviews previous mass-extinction events and the ways in which humans have “dodged the bullet” at previous points when extinction might have occurred, and finally, examines some technological advances, which, when combined with prior strategies (the scatter, adapt, remember of the title), might be enough to keep our species from disappearing for BOOK good. Newitz also doesn’t forget to include some purely speculative options: living without bodies or spreading out across the solar system. —Kel Munger
Wordplay Ifontmaker Font aficianados, take note: Here’s a font-making app that’s easy to use and customize. Designed for the iPad, iFontMaker ($6.99) is a hands-on, touchscreendesign tool equipped with an intuitive freehand editor. It’s easy to create a font that mimics your APP handwriting or even uses emoticon-style images to build a new alphabet of sorts. Use your font to create a phrase or word that can be emailed or saved for later use in compatible programs. Whether you’re a sensible Helvetica kind of font nerd or more adventurous (Webdings, maybe?), it’s easy to find just your type. http://2ttf.com. —Rachel Leibrock
34 | SN&R | 06.06.13
It’s Hell Week for my 2-year-old pug, Bernie. First, we did laps around Capitol Park—and even ran the stairs at the parking garage near the Crest Theatre. Twice. But I’m not a slave driver. After that, it was massages, rawhides and some Arrested Development on Netflix. But too much leisure is for the weak, so the next day, we hit the dog park for wind sprints. PETS Twenty-yard dashes, back and forth. You’ve never seen such explosiveness. What a beast, my Lil B. (That’s his nickname. I also call him Burn, Burner, BeeBee, Chooch, Little Buds, Berner Herzog, etc.) It’s all in the name of training. Unfortunately, the 2013 Pug Races at this weekend’s Doggy Dash were canceled (too much heat for brachycephalics, I guess). But that’s OK, because there’s still a 5,000-dog 5K walk (and a 2K for the short-legged ones), doggydisk catching and pet-friendly businesses selling wares. Bernie was pumped for these don’t-miss moments: the seventh annual Pug Races and the Running of the Pugs. Because, when he’s not smelling other dogs’ butts, he smells victory. Sadly, it wasn’t meant to be in 2013. Still there’s a silver lining: It’s rumored that California’s first dog, one Sutter Brown, will make an appearance at Saturday’s Dash. And Bernie may get some one-on-one time with the famous corgi. Maybe they can balance the state budget on time? SPCA’s 2013 Doggy Dash, Saturday, June 8, at William Land Park, 3800 South Land Park Drive. Some events are free, some require registration; find out more at http://sspca.convio.net. —Nick Miller