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Cool was the rule Huey Lewis & the News will be performing their Sports album, in its entirety, this Saturday at Thunder Valley Casino Resort. My mom is stoked.

During the heart and soul of summer three decades ago, that album—a start-to-finish homage to rock ’n’ roll with an ’80s-pop twist—was the official soundtrack of suburban America. I have this vivid memory of my uncle, probably sauced on Budweiser, singing the “Th-th-th-th” part from the record’s opener, “The Heart of Rock & Roll,” while manning the barbecue. He was so damn awesome.

Then, a year later, when Back to the Future came out, my younger brother and I would jam Huey, bust out the skateboards and grip on to the back of our parent’s station wagon. While it was parked in the driveway.

Quickly, though, Huey no longer was the thing in suburban Sacramento. It was Guns N’ Roses. Or LL Cool J or—if you were disaffected—Pixies.

Friends mocked my Sports cassette; it got garage sold or traded in at Dimple Records.

Now, some 30 years later, Sports has escaped its ironic-cool, countyfair purgatory and once again is just plain cool. Which got me thinking about today’s top albums in America, and whether they’ll persevere.

Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience? Bruno Mars, Blake Shelton, Imagine Dragons, Macklemore?

I’m not here to play old guy, but this Class of 2013 fails when compared to 1984’s chart toppers: Michael Jackson’s Thriller (still), Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. and Prince’s Purple Rain soundtrack. And Sports.

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So, while this is still an amazing time for mainstream music—just check out the latest Kendrick Lamar or Disclosure records for proof—cool is no longer the rule.

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Re “Sactopia” by SN&R staff (SN&R Feature Story, July 3) and “Passed over”

by Dave Kempa (SN&R News, July 3): I truly enjoyed this tongue-in-cheek article. It was a great piece highlighting the kumbaya spirit that makes up what is seen as the “real” Sacramento by the editors and staff of this newspaper, as opposed to the harsh realities faced by most of its citizens. This spirit was further highlighted by the story in the same edition’s news section, “Passed over” (by Dave Kempa).

Instead of reporting with cold facts, the writer and us readers would be better served if the letter of writer had taken the week a few days and “walked the walk” instead of just “talking the talk.” That is, live as a homeless person would and provide a firsthand account.

Also, it would be great if SN&R would dedicate an edition to talking about solutions to the problems: homelessness, gang violence, drug abuse, etc., and getting those possible solutions put into effect instead of merely just talking about how terrible the problems are.

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Re “Playing to vote” by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Bites, July 3): I was happy to find in Bites’ column a place (Kmart on Stockton Boulevard) where I could sign the petition to place a measure on arena funding on the ballot. I had hoped to be advised by [Sacramento Taxpayers Opposed to Pork] of all the places where they planned to collect signatures, but the first I heard of signature gatherers anywhere was in this morning’s [Sacramento Bee], which said they had been but were no longer at Safeway stores.

I was not surprised to find nothing in the Bee article about where petitions could be signed; after all, one of their more [Mayor Kevin Johnson]-smitten columnists recently termed the strategy of preventing us from being able to vote on spending city money on the arena project as “brilliant.”

As it turned out, I did not have to make a special trip to Kmart, because I happened upon signature gatherers outside Save Mart Supermarket on Folsom Boulevard (after having earlier looked in vain at the Sacramento Downtown Plaza, which seemed to me the ideal place to sign). I wish them success in reaching their goal.

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Re “Don’t demonize smokers” by Brian Moist (SN&R Letters, June 27): Brian Moist’s letter misses the point entirely. Moist talks about his right to make his own life choices, even if they are unhealthy. What he fails to address is that smoking is the one bad habit that affects not only the smoker, but everyone in the vicinity.

If people near me are drinking alcohol, or for that matter, even if they are shooting up heroin, the poisons they are using go into their own bodies, not mine. If they are smoking, their smoke goes right into my lungs as well. And it lingers for hours afterward, trapped in my hair, in my clothing and on my very skin. The effects of that sidestream smoke are well-documented as contributing to lung cancer, asthma, emphysema, heart disease and a host of other serious medical problems.

So, no, Brian, those of us who support anti-smoking ordinances are not just meddlesome busybodies trying to tell you what’s best for you. The health we are seeking to protect is not yours, but our own. The day they invent a cigarette that produces no sidestream smoke is the day it will make sense to repeal all the antismoking regulations.

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- Terry preston, Complete Streets Coordinator of walk Sacramento “That tragic death really showed that this was an area that needed to be looked at,” says Terry Preston, the Complete Streets Coordinator of Walk Sacramento. Walk Sacramento organized a “walk audit” of the intersection to see how pedestrians and drivers interact at this intersection, and while they were there, Preston says he observed many near accidents. “I’m sad to say that it was not surprising that someone

eventually was killed,” he says.

With funding help from the California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities grant, Walk Sacramento is working to make this intersection safer. But to do that the city would need to put in a traffic signal, and it has been hard to get the city on board. Preston says, “These things are expensive. They can get up to $250,000 to $500,000.” He explains that the city’s policy is to put in one traffic signal per year, and “despite the fatality a year ago, this intersection is ranked about 10th or so on the list.”

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Preston is disappointed about the way the city allocates funding for roads. “I think it’s sad that we spend so much of our money on expanding roads when we should be spending it on how to make our current roads as safe as we can,” he says. He hopes that his work to make this intersection safer will ensure that Michelle Murigi did not die in vain.

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

But they have made some headway. Preston is happy to say that the city put up a sign warning pedestrians that the traffic does not stop and repainted the crosswalk, but he says the work is not over. After Walk Sacramento, friends and family of Michelle Murigi made comments at the May 21 City Council meeting, councilmembers expressed interest in installing a traffic light, if given some help. “They’re happy to consider installing a traffic signal, as long as additional funding can be found to offset the cost. And so we are working with the school districts right now to urge them to come up with some of the funding,” he says.

There are five schools in the area, and kids have to cross this street every day to get to and from school. Preston urges residents that live in the Sacramento City Unified

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Realignment repeat Despite need elsewhere, California pays for local police to do the same job as probation officers When something isn’t working, do more of it.

That seems to be California’s by $24 million solution to a problem Raheem of dubious dimensions: A new F. Hosseini state-funded campaign is tasking Sacramento-area cops with doing a job ra h e emh@ newsr evie w.c om that’s already being done by probation officers.

The funding represents a handout to city police agencies that were largely jilted when California enacted its prison-realignment plan in 2011.

In return for their $1 million portion in new state money, six Sacramento County police departments will share a mission that’s surprisingly similar to the county probation department’s.

The departments are collaborating on a new “frontline intervention” team to monitor and closely supervise offenders with a high probability of recidivism, according to a city of Sacramento staff report from May. But the probation department already has the same mission—and supposedly state funding to accomplish the task.

Since realignment went into effect 21 months ago, probation has inherited 1,800 “post-release custody status” offenders from state prison institutions.

Probation’s intensive-supervision units monitor 67 percent of this new population—the ones deemed moderate-to-high risk of committing new crimes—with other programs and services covering the rest.

Additionally, Chief Probation Officer Lee Seale said his officers already work with the Sacramento Police Department to monitor low-level prison inmates released to local supervision rather than state parole.

“I can’t say that we have it covered—there’s always more that we’d like to do,” Seale told SN&R. “But I do think that there is a significant need for supervision and treatment for the ‘nonrealigned’ population of traditional probationers.”

By “nonrealigned,” Seale means the approximately 25,000 probationers in Sacramento County who were sentenced to local institutions or programs for their crimes.

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While realignment legislation provides resources to monitor those redirected from the state, probation has steadily lost funding since 2008. It currently supervises only 12 percent of nonrealigned offenders.

“I certainly would like to see more resources directed to serving the approximately 25,000 probationers in the community, especially those who are high risk and have unmet treatment needs,” Seale said.

Probationers and those still under state parole make up 30 percent of all local arrests.

But instead of helping supervise the vast majority of probationers, the new state-funded task forces are charged with monitoring a group that’s already being monitored—even as research data points out the shortcomings of “traditional, intensive supervision programs.”

In March, a Sacramento State University research proposal to study rehabilitation efforts locally stated that supervision programs “may even increase recidivism” when applied exclusively.

So, why is the state giving police departments money to perform a redundant, arguably counterproductive job?

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Local police officials can only say how they’re planning to administer their new charge. Citrus Heights Police Department’s Lt. Gina L. Anderson said the multi-agency squad will “basically augment” probation’s efforts to keep a new population of convicted felons in line.

The Sacramento Police Department, which is receiving more than half of the $1 million grant, will dedicate a sergeant and three officers to the task force. “It will be run with the intention of making sure these [post-custody] folks are in compliance,” said Officer Doug Morse, a Sacramento police spokesman.

Anderson’s agency will hold the grant-money purse strings. Citrus Heights got the job because its police chief, Christopher Boyd, worked on realignment as the vice president of the California Police Chiefs Association.

His fellow chiefs in Sacramento, Elk Grove, Folsom, Galt and Rancho Cordova “essentially” voted him in, Anderson told SN&R. The task force could end up being similar to a “parole intervention team” Sacramento police operated before budget cuts hit in 2008. It was a highly active squad that functioned as a liaison between cops and parole officers. “The PIT team of old worked with parole agents, hand in hand,” Morse said.

“This seems very similar.”

It was also a highly coveted assignment for police officers.

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Meanwhile, probation is figuring out how to juggle the underserved population that was always here with the new, realigned offenders receiving double coverage.

In budget materials and presentations, the department acknowledged that supervision alone isn’t effective without programs and services both during and after incarceration.

Seale actually pitched a drugtreatment plan for high-risk drug offenders to the board of supervisors last month. But rather than granting the budget request, the board instead gave $750,000 of Seale’s realignment money to the sheriff’s department for personnel costs.

Sacramento County’s haul from realignment will surpass $77 million this fiscal year, all of which has been steered to local agencies, primarily the sheriff’s department, which runs the county jails. No community treatment programs have received direct funding.

In Sacramento, people under supervision were twice as likely to be arrested for simple drug possession than violent or property crimes, according to a January study by the Council of State Governments Justice Center.

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A 47-year-old woman got a charge out of waving around a pocket knife aboard a light-rail train near Rosemont last Saturday—literally.

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Activists explain legal action against Gov. Jerry Brown’s Delta plan A plan adopted earlier this year to manage the beleaguered Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta could have by cataclysmic consequences on the Ken Smith local environment, according to ken s@ water-watchdog group AquAlliance, newsreview.c om which joined a legal effort last month to halt Gov. Jerry Brown’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan.

AquAlliance, formed to “challenge threats to the hydrologic health of the northern Sacramento River watershed,” according to its website, www.aqualliance.net,

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[which is] the adoption of an effective strategy for distribution of water and preservation of the Delta,” said Carolee Krieger, executive director of the statewide California Water Impact Network.

In addition to C-WIN and AquAlliance, the plaintiffs include the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, Restore the Delta, Friends of the River and the Center for Biological Diversity.

“The Delta Reform Act of 2009 provided the council with the historic PHOTO COURTESY OF SACRAMENTORIVERDELTA.NET

connected with a handful of other groups to demand the Delta plan be “vacated” in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court on June 14.

The BDCP was created by the Delta Stewardship Council—a state agency formed by the Delta Reform Act of 2009—and adopted May 16.

Its stated goals are to provide reliable water supplies for California agriculture and drinking water, as well as protecting, restoring and strengthening the Delta’s ecosystem, by means of such things as habitat restoration.

More than 25 million residents and 3 million acres of farmland are dependent upon water sent south from the Delta.

AquAlliance and its co-plaintiffs contend the plan fails to meet California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, regulations; that preliminary environmental-impact reports were inadequate, and that the plan allows for too much water to be diverted from the Delta.

“The Delta Stewardship Council has refused to honor its own mandate,

An aerial view of the Sacramento-San Joaquin river Delta.

Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan would build two 35-mile-long tunnels, taking water from the Sacramento River for Central and Southern California farmers and cities.

Read Alastair Bland’s cover story on the battle over Gov. Jerry Brown’s Delta plan, “Water fight,” at http://tinyurl.com/ DeltaWater.

This story originally appeared in Chico News & Review.

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groundwater resources. The agency has publicly acknowledged at least 11 basins across the state have been overdrafted since the early 1980s.

A good deal of the controversy around the Delta concerns the proposed construction of two enormous tunnels—each 40 feet in diameter and 35 miles long—planted 150 feet beneath the Delta to replace the current pumping system and enable more water to be funneled south.

Though being developed separately, the $14 billion tunnel project will be folded into the Delta plan once it is approved and permitted.

“If they build them,” Vlamis said, “we might as well start adjusting to life in the desert, because that’s what it will become here.”

She said too few people understand the impact that taking water from one place can have on another.

“When you consider water in the Delta, you also have to consider the source,” she said, noting that serious threats come from what she calls “double-dipping.” Once surface water is diverted to other uses, she explained, more groundwater is extracted to compensate for the loss.

Vlamis said she believes the Delta Stewardship Council didn’t take into account prevailing science and simple math that proves the plan is unsustainable, and said the proper information

opportunity to remedy the waterpolicy failures of the past 40 years,” “They decided Krieger said. “Instead of seizing to follow the this golden moment and acting with lamentable dispatch and integrity, they decided to follow the lamentable precedent precedent of of caving [in] to powerful corporate caving to powerful interests.”

Criticisms of the plan, as well corporate as legal challenges, haven’t been interests.” heard from only environmentalists and water warriors. The case filed by Carolee Krieger AquAlliance and cohorts is one of executive director seven filed as of June 18, several of California Water Impact Network which come from water contractors who claim that it doesn’t allow for enough water to be transferred. was always at the panel’s disposal.

“The only people this plan serves For one, she said the Environmental at all are those who have an interest Water Caucus, a coalition of more in maintaining the status quo,” said than two-dozen environmental groups Barbara Vlamis, executive director of (including AquAlliance), fishing AquAlliance, in a follow-up interview organizations, environmental-justice to the press conference. “The real groups and Native American tribes, problem with that is the status quo is presented the council with several already unsustainable.” reports that could have contributed to Vlamis said the California a better plan. Ω Department of Water Resources has “failed terribly” to protect its 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

Don’t bring a firecracker to a gunfight.

A group of friends celebrating the Fourth of July learned that hard lesson shortly before 11 p.m. on the 1200 block of D Street. Gathered in front of a downtown Sacramento residence in a neighborhood north of Mansion Flats, one of the friends tossed a lit firecracker into the street. It landed in front of a passing car. Apparently, the driver was none too amused—or else hates America—because he pulled over and fired one round from a handgun at the revelers before driving off.

No one was injured, and police recovered a shell casing at the scene.

America’s birthday took a retro turn less than an hour later for police, who arrested 59-year-old Michael Robinson on suspicion of assaulting someone with a sword during a domestic dispute. The attack took place near the Dollar Tree on Stockton Boulevard, logs show. The victim was treated for a non-life-threatening injury at a nearby hospital.

Earlier that Thursday, police also busted a group of juveniles for possessing stolen beer and illegal fireworks. One of the youths was booked into juvenile hall, while the rest were released to their parents. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

No homeless parking Unless you live in your car, you probably haven’t noticed the city’s parking changes to Third Street between W and X streets.

This is the stretch of pavement, shaded by freeways, where area homeless used to live when indefinite parking was still legal.

Last winter, however, the Sacramento Police Department sent the city a request to put up two-hour parking signs on that stretch, claiming to have “received multiple complaints of homeless subjects living in their vehicles and creating an unsafe environment.”

The recommendation passed without a peep of dissent in January, but homeless advocates started grumbling soon after, hinting that the city was just trying to shove homeless folks from one of their go-to shelters.

According to operations general supervisor Matt Winkler, the city tends to err on the side of the cops. “We will support the police department when they come up with safety issues such as this,” he said.

Advocates are skeptical of the police’s motives, however, and have begun poring over the reported safety complaints.

No word yet on their findings, but we’re willing to bet it won’t get any vehicle residents back near the grid anytime soon.

(Dave Kempa)

Degrees, separation The term “super seniors” doesn’t refer to a league of heroes past their prime. It’s a pet name for the hundreds of students beyond their fourth year at Sacramento State University who have accumulated the necessary 120 units to graduate, but still don’t have a degree to show for it.

According to a spring 2013 survey of nongraduating seniors administered by Sac State’s Office of Institutional Research, the biggest roadblocks to pomp and circumstance are limited class availability, poor advising and nontransferable units.

Impacted majors and classes played a part, too. Courses required for students’ majors fill up quickly, so students often have to wait a semester—or another year—to fulfill requirements, enrolling in “burning classes” to maintain full-time status and qualify for financial aid, but they get nowhere closer to their degrees, according to the survey.

In addition, many students didn’t even know what classes they needed to graduate. According to the report, students say a complicated process and the limited availability of required courses is why graduating in six years is the new norm for a bachelor’s degree. (Jessica Rine)

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You’re not funny On Capitol hazing rituals and legislative grab-ass

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Because of its insular focus and select membership, the California Legislature often has been likened to a fraternity. Like other fraternities, new members of the Legislature are subjected to hazing.

Mercifully, there’s no public nudity, binge drinking or involuntary debasement. If the bras of female lawmakers are frozen, no one’s talking.

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by GREG L are razzed when they present their first piece of legislation to the caplowdown@newsreview.com full Assembly.

This hazing is a longstanding tradition that, like a number of other legislative traditions, has diminished over time. Partly because of term limits.

One thing hasn’t changed: Lawmakers think they’re redefining comic genius, but the gibes are just as unfunny today as they were back in the sepia-tinged glory of yesteryear.

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Then again, the absence of term limits meant less legislative turnover, so such failed attempts at humor by lawmakers were less frequent, sharply reducing the torment inflicted on witnesses.

Here’s cruel and unusual punishment: Thirty-nine blunt stabs at levity are required this year to ensure each of the 80-member house’s new members are properly chided.

Consider Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian, a Sherman Oaks Democrat, and his bill lengthening by one second the minimum time between when a yellow light turns to red.

Nazarian was accused of using the bill to “work out childhood issues.” (Tee-hee.) Did he mind being known as “One-Second Nazarian”?

(Hardy-har-har.)

His education at UCLA was mocked. He was worsening global warming by leaving the yellow light on longer. Positively knee-slapping.

After 10 minutes of ribbing, Nazarian thanked his colleagues for “a lively conversation.”

Aside from being puerile, this hazing is puzzling on several levels.

Lawmakers employ, at taxpayers’ or campaign-contributors’ expense, persons whose job it is to make the

public believe their elected official boss is a smart, happening, actionoriented problem solver with a heart as big as Half Dome.

If these silly exchanges are going to occur 39 times, how come those staffers don’t arm would-be legislative comics with a couple zingers?

More fundamentally, why does Speaker of the Assembly John A. Pérez allow these unchoreographed embarrassments? He even participates, skewering Nazarian over the number of seconds he devoted to crafting his “preposterous” bill.

This from the same speaker who professes such deep concern for comportment in the Imperial Assembly that he has limited media access, banned interviews and conversation at the back of the chamber and armed sergeants-atarms so they can fire warning shots into the foreheads of anyone violating his supercilious edicts.

Yet Pérez allows himself and the members of his house to repeatedly strut their inner buffoon across the stage of public scrutiny, effectively shredding the thin veneer he has tried to create of presiding over purposeful policymakers toiling 24-seven to build a brighter future for all Californians.

That’s the chief issue. The 21st-century audience of school kids, retirees, interested parties and insomniacs watching or listening expects their elected representatives to actually be building that brighter future.

This audience must be either mystified or miffed—or both—at the apparent priorities of their representatives.

In fairness, even a few legislators seem chagrined.

California’s 40 senators and 80 assembly members represent 38 million residents of a state grappling with plenty of vexing issues.

And they’re joshing around, having a few yuks. On the taxpayers’ dime.

The budget was passed on time, and lots of legislation has been volleyed from one house to the other, but spending even 30 seconds on tweaking some freshman legislator seems at once juvenile, forced, trivial and irresponsible.

Sadly, while such legislative grab-ass might make Californians grumpy if they witness it, such behavior only reinforces their preconceived notions—expressed in numerous public-opinion polls—that it’s just business as usual. Ω

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Health-care holdup July 1 marked the beginning of the new fiscal year.

But there were no parties and no champagne. The most noteworthy event of this special day for our business, and many other businesses, is our new health-insurance bill. And it is quite a bill.

This year’s bill for the News & Review will be around $325,000. Our l employees will be paying their

by JeFF VonKaene share of these costs, ranging j e ffv @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m from about $9 to $160 a month, plus co-pays whenever they receive treatment. It is painful for all of us to write those health-care checks.

Frankly, I have a problem writing any kind of check. When I go to a Sacramento River Cats ball game, I park my car on a residential street in Sacramento and walk I have a over to West Sacramento so I do not have to pay for parking. My sensitive back: favorite cuisine is two-for-one. I Any hotel bed have a sensitive back: Any hotel bed that costs more than $100 that costs more causes spasms.

So, it really is torture to write than $100 the health-insurance check, and causes spasms. even more so because I believe so much of this money is wasted.

I was a sociology major in college and only took one biology class, but still, I am fairly certain that European and Asian bodies are very similar to North American bodies. But we Americans are paying significantly more for less coverage. It is a disgrace.

Why should our specialists make such obscenely high salaries? They don’t in Europe. Why can’t the government negotiate with pharmaceutical companies for better rates? They do in Europe. Why do we allow doctors to set up surgical centers for the primary purpose of maximizing their own income?

They don’t allow this in Europe. Why do we have health-insurance companies that are set up for the sole purpose of making a profit from health care?

Why? Why? Why? The list goes on and on.

It is a holdup. And it needs to change. I pay all this money to the insurance companies—why don’t they help me eliminate wasteful expenditures?

The government regulates the pharmaceutical industry—why can’t it provide me with information to counter the false claims about new drugs? I’d like to be warned in advance about medical procedures that have little or no value. Before I have my spine fused, I should be able to get information about the costs and benefits of the different options available to me. Someone should tell me that a walk around the block might be better medicine than the statins Jeff vonKaenel prescribed for a heart condition. is the president, Ceo and majority In most other aspects of our business and owner of the news personal lives, we are able to gather information & review newspapers that helps us choose better services and save money. in sacramento, With better information, my employees could not Chico and reno. only reduce their health-care bills, they would also be healthier. That is one of the potential benefits of health-care reform. Changes like this would make the new fiscal year worth celebrating. Ω

Ignoring the smoking gun Chastened last month by the Sacramento County Grand incidents by its lonesome in 2012, more than Jury, District Attorney Jan Scully said on double the previous year. by June 28, that her office would jump-start its Correlation doesn’t necessarily mean Raheem probes of officer-involved shootings followcausation.

Several factors could explain the F. Hosseini ing a two-year hiatus. troubling escalation, including an ever-deepBut the announcement was really just a ening lack of mental-health resources and smokescreen, since the district attorney’s random, shitty luck. Neither the sheriff’s office isn’t changing policies adopted in July nor Sacramento police departments have 2011, when Scully claimed budget cuts forced recorded a single officer-involved shooting her to stop reviewing every instance of a cop this year so far, for instance. discharging his or her The grand-jury report weapon. couldn’t identify any patterns Scrap any hopes Instead, Scully’s linking the 13 deputy shootoffice will continue its ings from last year, but did of real third-party practice of assigning note “issues of tactics and oversight. investigators only if there policy” that could benefit are “extenuating circumfrom expanded and continustances” and will base any analysis “solely” on ing training, as well as a review of common the work of the investigating agency, which is practices. It further noted that the county’s only almost always the officer’s own department. other oversight agency, the Office of Inspector That’s like writing a book review from the General, which is tasked with examining each publisher’s marketing materials, so scrap any deputy shooting, did little more than summarize email raheem sheriffs’ press releases in its own annual report, F. hosseini hopes of real third-party oversight.

In reality, the DA wasn’t all that scrutinizreleased in January. at raheemh@ newsreview.com. ing even before the cuts. In more than 30 years With the OIG already providing such of supposed oversight, the office took issue weak-tea analysis, it’s imperative that the with only two law-enforcement shootings. public isn’t manipulated into a false sense of But when the DA pulled its phantom goalie security. Which is what makes the DA’s bogus two Julys ago, incidents of cops discharging announcement so troubling. By the office’s firearms took a sharp uptick. The Sacramento own admission, it isn’t resuming its review so County Sheriff’s Department tallied 13 such much as prolonging its current lack of it.

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THIS IS YOUR AMERICAN DREAM

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The counTry is on The road To economic recovery—buT Thousands of formerly middle-class sacramenTans have been lefT behind

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yla vai vai siTs behind the front desk of the CalWORKs office at Sacramento City College and fields questions from students looking for help in accessing financial aid. She is 45 years old, but looks much younger, in blue jeans, sneakers, a turquoise blouse and glasses, her thick, long, dark hair cascading over her shoulders.

Nyla has been through a litany of horrors in recent years, beginning with the loss of her job at the Oak Park Community Center and the collapse of her income, down from nearly $2,800 a month in take-home pay to about $500— not even close to enough to cover her $900 a month rent.

Then, last autumn, her 19-year-old son committed suicide. She has a green tattoo of his name, Tommy, etched into her left forearm.

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Nyla Vai Vai, 45, lost her job and then her son. Now she advises students on financial aid at Sacramento City College and says she hopes to eventually complete her own college degree. “You have to be optimistic,” she says. “Or else, you’ll eventually lose it.”

Somehow, Nyla, who has three more children, presents a buoyant persona. She says that she enjoys working with the students, though would like to be paid a decent salary, and her own studies are going well. She hopes to graduate from the college with an associate degree in community studies and health by the fall of 2014, and then enroll at a University of California campus.

“You have to be optimistic,” she explains, “otherwise, you’ll seriously lose it. I lost my son last semester; I had to drop out. Just one semester. I came back in February. I could have stayed home and wailed in my bed, but that wasn’t doing anything for me. The kids needed to eat, and bills needed to be paid.”

Nyla is one of Sacramento’s forgotten ones: people who hit the skids as the economic recession worsened and who have been unable to rise back up the economic ladder as the broader economy has started to recover.

The stock market has risen significantly over the past couple years. And, in California, the state budget finally has stopped being the nation’s laughing stock. But that doesn’t mean all’s well for people like Nyla.

In fact, dig below the headlines, and one quickly encounters a stubborn well of longterm unemployment, poverty, hunger and general economic vulnerability in Sacramento and throughout the state.

California unemployment numbers are still well above the national average, with 9 percent of the workforce out of work, and one in five children living below the official poverty line.

This means that since the most populous coastal areas are doing well, the less densely populated inland counties must be doing awfully. There’s simply no other way to square the data.

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And while Sacramento’s unemployment rate is now down to 8.8 percent, its poorer neighborhoods boast some of the highest poverty rates in the nation.

In south Sacramento, more than 36 percent of families with kids live below the poverty line. According to Zip Atlas, three city ZIP codes—95824, 95832 and 95814—all have unemployment rates of above 12.5 percent.

A fourth, 95815, has an 11.5 percent rate.

Poverty continues to trap not only those who have long been poor, but also the newer poor, the people left downwardly mobile by years of recession.

Starting over In 1996, Nyla, her then-husband and their kids visited Sacramento on the way to Lake Tahoe.

Later, they looked at a real-estate brochure that was lying around the Denny’s where they were eating lunch and realized how much cheaper housing was here. The family decided to move from the Bay Area to Sacramento.

“We were floored. And three months later, we were in Sacramento. The grand idea of being homeowners and having a driveway and a front yard and a backyard.”

Her ebullient personality served her well, and she quickly found her feet in Sacramento’s job market. Nyla’s first job in town was for the city, working at the after-school program at the Susan B. Anthony Elementary School on Detroit Boulevard. Over the course of 14 years, she worked a string of city jobs. For a while, until she and her husband split, she lived the American Dream, owning a home, earning more than enough to survive. Even after the

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divorce and after she moved back into a rental apartment, things still looked up.

But as government cuts deepened in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, Nyla’s hours were reduced from 40 per week to 10, and her benefits were canceled, as she was reduced to part-time status.

Doing whatever they could to make ends meet, Nyla’s family began frequenting food banks, and with their income heading south toward the poverty line, they managed to enroll in the CalFresh program, California’s version of food stamps. They got $400 a month in food assistance—until Tommy turned 18, at which point the family’s food stamps were reduced to about $300.

“I had to pull my retirement,” she says.

“I couldn’t get on welfare till my retirement was spent up. I couldn’t have more than $1,000 in my account.”

She also couldn’t get on cash assistance, or on Medi-Cal, while working part time. So, eventually in 2010, she had to forfeit her 10 hours a week of work; it made no sense to continue on in that situation.

Destitute and on welfare, Nyla began an endless round of job searches. But everywhere she went, she ran into the same problem: She had built up a successful career for herself without a college education; now, when she applied for the sorts of jobs that she had previously held, employers wanted to see evidence that she had a degree.

And so, finally, in the fall of 2011, Nyla enrolled at Sac City College, and began working part time in the CalWORKs office there as a student-services adviser, so as to remain eligible for cash assistance.

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“I was pissed, having to start over,” she remembers. But, she quickly adds, flashing a smile, she likes her interactions with the students. “It’s a field I love doing, helping out the community.”

Of course, it wouldn’t go amiss if she earned more, about three or four times more by her calculations; after all, currently, for her 25 hours a week of work, Nyla brings in about $700 a month.

Her story speaks to a larger problem.

Post-recessionary California has, essentially, become two entirely distinct economies.

tale of t wo C aliforniaS California’s coastal cities, and in particular its technology hubs, have been enjoying something of a spectacular recovery recently, with their real estate booming again, and their unemployment numbers lower than the national average, which has been hovering at about 7.5 percent in recent months.

In San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont area, the unemployment rate was down to 6.2 percent in April, according to the most recent data compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In the San Diego area, it’s 7 percent. In San Jose, 6.6 percent. Los Angeles’ unemployment rate is still high—roughly comparable to Sacramento’s at 8.4 percent—but in the megalopolis, the trends are heading in the right direction. The metro area added more than 103,000 jobs in the 12 months leading up to April. Meanwhile, from April 2012 to April 2013, Napa County registered an astounding 6 percent increase in its employment rate.

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Yet all is not well in California as a whole, with inland areas falling ever further behind economically.

“There’s the increasing gap in wages,” says California Budget Project executive director Chris Hoene. “But there’s factors beyond that that have to do with divergent skill sets. You’re really getting two Californias. There’s Silicon Valley, technology around the entertainment industry in Southern California—high-skill, high-wages jobs. And, at the other level, lower and middle skills. California’s not developing a lot of jobs for those individuals.”

In Sacramento, for example, some major employers continue to shed jobs. Over the spring, Campbell Soup Company phased out employment at its south Sacramento plant, leading to more than 700 workers losing their jobs. Data from the Center for Strategic Economic Research shows that the Sacramento region lost several thousand construction and information jobs in the past year as well.

And despite the rebound of central-city housing prices, the suburbs are still hurting—and the construction industry in those burbs is still coming off of the lows it hit during the dog days of the bust.

Sheila Truso, 60, lost her job in 2011. It took more than two years to find new employment—a situation that forced her to live in her car and eventually seek emergency shelter.

Now she works an hourly job with no benefits.

retirement accounts, and have struggled to get employment that provides anywhere near the income that they are used to and that their financial commitments—mortgages, kids’ college education and so on—necessitate.

Sometimes, the initial job loss was directly related to the recession. Other times, as with south Sacramento resident Sheila Truso, who lost her job working for a nonprofit company in 2011 that liaised with low-income PG&E clients to link them up with weatherization programs for their homes, it wasn’t recession-related. But the broader economic unease and the huge numbers of people competing for scarce jobs made it that much harder for her to then find new employment.

“I have been looking for work nonstop since I lost my job,” says Truso, 60. “I went back to school to be recertified as a forklift operator, and I still couldn’t find work. I was either overqualified or underqualified and never in the middle. It’s the longest I’ve ever been out of work.

“Many nights, I’d just cry. At this time in my life, I should be retired and not having to go out and find work in order to survive. It really hurts.”

SACRAMENto’S pooRER NEIghboRhooDS boASt SoME of thE hIghESt povERty RAtES IN thE NAtIoN. Government agencies, too—traditionally a major source of employment in the region and a backstop during times of economic malaise—continue to struggle with years of state and federal cuts.

In April, Sam Stein and Amanda Terkel reported in The Huffington Post that because of the federal sequestration cuts, “The Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency is preparing to lose $13.9 million in funds that it uses to help poor families pay rent.” Other services at risk include specialeducation teacher training. Child-care workers have also suffered disproportionately in the recession and its aftermath.

“It really hit the folks in the inland areas quite hard,” Hoene says of the cascading job losses triggered by the bust. “There isn’t a lot in the middle in these regions.”

By some measures, taking into account the state’s higher cost of living, California now has a higher poverty rate than any other state in the country.

Disproportionately, that poverty is concentrated in immigrant communities and in inland cities and counties.

Th e en dle s s job hunT Employment counselors at organizations such as Sacramento Works and the Area 4 Agency on Aging have found that the recession has left its mark particularly on middle-aged professionals, men and women in their 40s, 50s and 60s who had jobs, lost them, used up their savings, drained their BEFORE

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It’s almost like speed dating, but with people’s livelihoods on the line.

The longer a person is out of work, the more the deck is stacked against them in these settings. “They’re treated like they haven’t done anything in their life, like their work ethic is gone. Sticking to a company for 20 to 30 years means nothing,” says Beth Doran, who counsels clients at the large, brown brick Sacramento Works office on Old Placerville Road, one of 11 such centers dotted throughout the county.

Doran doesn’t mince words with her clients. Some of the people she’s helped, in particular out-of-work truckers, have found new jobs quickly. But for others, such as licensed vocational nurses, medical assistants and construction workers, she and her colleagues have found the job pickings are slim.

“It might take six more months out of training to get their foot in the door, and that’s diligently looking,” Doran explains.

Their clients include a former airline mechanic, who has been out of work for more than three years; laid-off middle-aged

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accountants, who have been told their skills are out-of-date because they got their degrees 20 years ago. They mention men and women in their 50s who are being asked by employers to take internships, as if they were recently graduated 20-somethings.

Some of their clients are told they are underqualified, because they don’t have degrees. Others are being informed that they are overqualified, because they do have degrees, and employers fear that if they offer them lowpaying entry-level jobs, they will jump ship once the labor market improves. They are, essentially, on the scrap heap.

When Sheila lost her job, she quickly ran through her savings. And after that, she avers, she ended up living off $183.58 a month in back child support paid by the father of her grown daughter. She could afford cereal, bought at local dollar discount stores, but not

nonprofit. She is living now in a subsidized south Sacramento apartment owned by the shelter.

In some ways, she has come full circle. But Sheila is still a long way from being where she was before the recession: Her savings are gone, her prospects for retirement, too. And she anticipates having to work for many, many years to come.

“I deal with people from blue collar all the way up to attorneys, CEOs, Ph.D.s,” says JoAnne Mahaney-Buehler, a program manager at the Area 4 Agency on Aging. She’s been counseling upward of 300 clients a year since the recession began; Sheila is one of them.

“It’s amazing. This recession has touched everyone. A lot of the professionals I meet here say, ‘I never thought I’d be here.’ Their mindset is so negative,” she explains. “I’m the one who says, ‘You can’t give up. [If] you give up, what’s the alternative?’”

left, she buys clothing for her youngest daughters, who still live with her. “It’s a tap dance.

I need that extra money. I buy toilet paper to last a month—I shop a lot at the dollar store.”

She used to take her kids to restaurants on payday; now, she never goes out to eat. She used to go on driving expeditions to corners of the state she was unfamiliar with, just to educate herself; now, the idea of burning gas needlessly fills her with horror.

Knowing that she’ll be nearly 50 by the time she gets her degree, the onetime community-center employee wants nothing more than to find a decent-paying job working with Sacramentans once again.

“I got all this damn experience. I’ve got great references,” she says.

For Nyla, for Sheila, for the clients at Sacramento Works and Area 4 Agency on Aging, the much-touted economic turnaround isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.

“There’s The increasing gap in wages. … You’re reallY geTTing Two californias.”

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much more than that. At that time, in her late 50s, she moved in with her daughter.

And, after that, she spent the better part of a year sleeping in the frontseat of her gold, four-door 2004 Hyundai Sonata, her possessions crammed into the backseat and the trunk. She would sleep in Walmart and Denny’s parking lots, where, she hoped, the security and 24-seven lighting would provide her some safety.

And she’d wash up, as best she could, in their restrooms.

What little money she had “went into my gas tank,” so that she could drive around the region looking for employment.

The quest didn’t bear fruit.

For more than two years, she remained without work.

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Mahaney-Buehler tells them which food banks they can go to for free food and helps them research what employers they can approach looking for work.

“They have been hit so hard,” she says. “It’s been such an altering experience for them. A lot of them have lost their homes; they’re looking at low-income housing to live.

Some of these people have just given up.”

S o m eo n e’ S a lwayS got i t wo r S e Nyla routinely has to juggle her bills. “I call SMUD. My bill’s $120. I phone, say, ‘Can I pay $50?’” With the money that’s

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“Is it really true? And you wait for the jobs to appear.

When they say the jobs are coming back, it’s not the jobs that were there before. Lower pay. But they are getting jobs.

They are.”

She stops, then shrugs. Her colleague, Doran, jumps in: “You’re going to do a lot more on the job for a lot less.

And either you take it, or you leave it.”

Nyla has decided that she won’t be broken—neither by unemployment nor by the personal tragedies that have crashed against her family in recent years. “You make the best of it,” she argues. “You don’t want to drown.

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sacramento deejay crew sleeprockers tapped Into socIal medIa to work on a new album wIth oakland rappers hIeroglyphIcs For more information on Sleeprockers, including upcoming shows, visit www.facebook.com/sleeprockers.

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t sounds lIke a joke, but thIs hIp-hop story begIns wIth twItter:

In the summer of 2011, Tajai—a rapper in Oakland’s hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics and CEO of the Hieroglyphics Imperium Recordings music label—tweets that he’s looking for a deejay for his next project. A few days later, Christopher Jaime—a.k.a. DJ Nocturnal, part of the five-man Sacramento deejay crew the Sleeprockers—replies.

“Within the next day or two, we go to Oakland, and we all just hit it off with [Hieroglyphics] right out of the gate,” said Nocturnal, who joined the rest of his group to chat with SN&R, moments before leaving to perform a weeknight deejay gig at a Midtown bar. “It still trips me out why they chose Sleeprockers, [but] there’s a creative aspect to that: You’ve got five dudes who come from different backgrounds.”

Now, about two years after the chance social-media fueled pairing, Hieroglyphics is ready to release its third full-length

studio album, The Kitchen—featuring scratches, cuts and samples from the Sleeprockers—on July 16.

Networking has long been in the DNA of Nocturnal, Ron Florente (DJ Rated R), Raphael Hubilla (DJ Mr. Vibe), Jesse Alfaro (Kwes the Bess) and Shinya Fukuta (DJ Wanted), who formed the Sleeprockers in 2010. After being on so many show bills together, people kept on telling the guys they should start a crew.

They eventually listened.

“At the time, a lot of us were doing a lot of shows on our own, and that’s why people started throwing the whole ‘supercrew’ word around,” said Nocturnal.

“Because we all come from established backgrounds.”

Rated R and Nocturnal were the first to pair up and came up with the name Sleeprockers. They soon brought in mutual friends Mr. Vibe, Kwes the Bess and Wanted. Together, the five utilize turntables, knobs, buttons, guitar pedals and other electronic instruments to create a unique live show that blends each of the artists’ musical tastes.

Since forming, members of the Sleeprockers have continued to remain active in their solo careers as well:

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DJ Wanted is still a battle deejay; Kwes several retreats to Visilia, [Calif.], set up the Bess is a producer; and Nocturnal, at my parent’s house and stay up until, Rated R and Mr. Vibe are all welllike, 3 or 4 in the morning sometimes.” rounded deejays who battle and produce While working on the album as records for local emcees. They also a five-man group over the span of a perform together, and, as a group, they year, the Sleeprockers would drive out have collaborated with Sacramentoto Oakland to visit the Hieroglyphics’ based hip-hop artists Mahtie Bush, place every few months to show off Rasar (formerly Random Abiladeze), their newly completed work.

Live Manikins and Another Rap Group.

But since meeting Tajai and the other seven members of the Hieroglyphics crew, the group has It stIll trIps been busier than ever. me out why “Initially, they wanted us to do The Kitchen first, so we started [hIeroglyphIcs] chose working on The Kitchen, and sleeprockers, [but] then Tajai was like, ‘I got there’s a creatIve this project that I want you to do first,’” said Mr. Vibe, of aspect to that: you’ve Tajai’s 2012 mixtape Machine got fIve dudes who Language. “We smashed that c ome from dIfferent in, like, two nights, on top of working on The Kitchen.” backgrounds.

Hieroglyphics had almost DJ Nocturnal completed the album by the Sleeprockers time they handed The Kitchen over to the Sleeprockers in mid-2011.

The Sleeprockers were then given the creative liberty to add additional touches to tracks, some of which And that’s when things got even were incomplete and missing verses more complicated. or choruses. With eight emcees in Most members of the Hieroglyphics Hieroglyphics and five deejays in crew have their own solo careers: Del Sleeprockers, the album was never the Funky Homosapien is a solo artist short on ideas. also famous for his Deltron 3030 project Logistics, however, were difficult. with Dan the Automator and numerous “It was a task trying to get everycollaborations with Gorillaz; A-Plus, body to focus on recording this,” said Phesto, Opio and Tajai perform as Souls Rated R. “[The Sleeprockers] had to do of Mischief; and Casual, Pep Love and BEFORE

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So, each time the Sleeprockers showed up to Hiero H.Q., not everyone was always around to work on The Kitchen. Nevertheless, this disjointed studio time seems to have worked to the album’s creative advantage.

“I think the whole philosophy of when you’re in a kitchen—you’re choppin’ shit up, you’re choppin’ vegetables and you’re cookin’—that was kind of like what we were doing to it,” said Kwes the Bess. “They gave us the ingredients, and we cooked it.”

Group members describe the project as a dream scenario, despite currently working for free (royalties may come later). They did it just to be collaborating with an influential hip-hop group.

“We kind of made it like a movie, almost,” said Mr. Vibe. “Songs match what the next song is, and you can put it on and drive to San Francsico, and you get the whole story.”

The album’s first single, “Gun Fever,” was released in April and received praise from hip-hop blogs such as BallerStatus.com and Rap Genius. As a result, Sleeprockers have been earning some accolades from the hip-hop deejay community.

“It’s cool, because a lot of the pioneers and legends are recognizing Sleeprockers,” Nocturnal said.

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The room at the Coloma Community Center on T and 46th streets is laid out as a vast, open floor space. As a newcomer, I am encouraged and welcomed by the sight of veterans of this weekly practice. Already, there are people around the room, moving rhythmically to the soft music. More people shuffle in, exchange greetings, shuck their shoes and baggage of the day, and ready themselves to dance.

Gabrielle Roth developed the 5Rhythms Dance workshops as a form of movement meditation. The five rhythms— flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness—are dictated by the music. There are no boundaries, no rules for the dance. Everyone is instructed to listen to the self and express what lies within. Much like yoga, it is a way to center the breath, exercise the body and free the mind.

In Sacramento, physical therapist Bella Dreizler shares the 5Rhythms practice in this space. She leads the Thursday-evening practices as more of a guided dance meditation, but the Sunday morning “Sweat Your Prayers” sessions are two hours of purely uninhibited dance. No rules, no guidance, just flow.

I attended on a warm Thursday night to find out what it was all about. I arrived unsure of my own body. I hadn’t danced like this in years, but from a dancer’s standpoint, I was ready to let the music move me. From a skeptic’s standpoint, however, I was like, “Really?”

Then, the music started, and Dreizler talked us through the motions. I was expecting Enya-type New Age music—a little cowbell or maybe some didgeridoo—but instead, she played myriad sounds, including instrumental jazz flute, big-band swing and salsa.

I closed my eyes and listened. I couldn’t help it.

My body began to move.

My feet tapped, my hips swayed, my arms flailed.

I’m sure I hit someone.

But no one cared.

Everyone else was doing their own thing, and I really mean their own thing.

Hearing the music in our own ways—honestly, I wasn’t sure if we were all hearing the same tunes—there was an understood acceptance of everyone’s movements. While I was twerkin’ my robot arms to Latin jazz, others shook, leapt and rolled to the music.

Through the haze of my sweat-drenched hair, I could only make out the shapes of the other dancers. My heart was pounding to the beat of the music. There were no thoughts in my head other than, “Move.” I wasn’t thinking of anyone else in the room or anything in my life outside the room. All I heard was the music, and it fed my body like a burger after a long workout.

As we sat in a circle at the end of class, all breathing heavily on each other, I figured out why people are drawn to meditation practices like this. This is probably about the closest we middle-class yuppies striving for a sense of community and spiritual connection are ever going to get to tribal dancing.

Or maybe people just like to get down, get funky and let it all out. No judgment.

My feet tapped, my hips swayed, my arms flailed.

I’m sure I hit someone.

—Jessica Rine The drop-in rate for a 5Rhythms Dance workshop is $20, or $15 for students with ID. For more information, visit www.bodyjoy.net.

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“Above the Rain” by Micah Crandall-Bear, acrylic and modified oil on panel.

Trip to dreamland You open your eyes from the passenger seat on a cross-country road trip, and for a split second, the landscape still looks blurred before your vision wakes up with you. Micah CrandallBear has captured that soft-focus moment in paint in his new series, New Horizons. Though his pieces are recognizable as landscapes, they are abstracted, and some have bold

ribbons of sunset orange or pink blazing across the canvas, while others have a mottled, graded sky with a gentle vignette, and going from one painting to the next is like taking a drowsy trip toward dreamland.

Where: Elliott Fouts Gallery, 1831 P Street; (916) 736-1429; www.efgallery.com.

Second Saturday reception: July 13, 6 to 9 p.m.

Through August 1.

Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monsters in the forest “Anatomy of Human Heart (Strings)” by Bryan Valenzuela; ink, acrylic, thread and Indian coins on canvas; 2008.

Right brain Bryan Valenzuela’s right brain dominates. He’s probably better known in Sacramento as the frontman of chamber-pop band Exquisite Corps, but he’s a creator of visual art, too. Though he’s working with different mediums, his output has some striking similarities.

Valenzuela incorporates classical instruments as staples in his ensemble—violins—but he is creating pop songs. They’re moody, dark and ethereal, but pop songs nonetheless.

With his artwork, he uses a classic shading technique—crosshatching—that achieves an Old World look, but instead of simple, straight lines, he writes minuscule words. As Valenzuela puts

it, he makes “big pictures out of tiny words.” And he combines other media, such as string stitched onto his canvas. The result is both poetic and lovely. Not unlike his music.

Of course, his band’s name is a play on the surrealist technique of creating one work of art by multiple people who make their contribution to the canvas without seeing anyone else’s drawing. It’s definitely a right-brain name.

Where: Shimo Center for the Arts, 2117 28th Street; (916) 706-1162; www.shimogallery.com.

Second Saturday reception: July 13, 6 to 9 p.m. Through July 10.

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m.

“Portrait of a Bunny” by Susan J. Silvester, oil on canvas.

Where: Gallery21Ten, 2110 K Street;

(916) 476-5500; www.gallery2110.com.

Second Saturday reception:

July 13, 6 to 9 p.m. Through August 3.

Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 11 to 5 p.m.

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A child appears alone, enveloped in a bunny suit in a wintry, barebranched forest, the long, erect ears on her hood mimicking that of the stuffed rabbit in her clutch—or the live one nearby on the forest floor. The paintings and digital drawings of Susan J. Silvester’s (a local artist, graphic designer and lecturer at the Art Institute of California— Sacramento) lagomorph-clad kids capture a sense of mystery and innocence and are a bit evocative of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. The wilderness can be a scary place, but in Silvester’s pieces, the young human masquerading as another animal might be the closest thing to a monster in the forest. |

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8 CAPITAL ARTWORKS 1215 21st St., Ste. B; (916) 207-3787; www.capital-artworks.com

9 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, SACRAMENTO 1519 19th St., (916) 498-9811, www.ccasac.org

10 CUFFS 2523 J St., (916) 443-2881, www.shopcuffs.com

11 ELLIOTT FOUTS GALLERY 1831 P St., (916) 446-1786, www.efgallery.com

12 GALLERY 2110 2110 K St., (916) 476-5500, www.gallery2110.com

13 INTEGRATE SACRAMENTO 2220 J St., (916) 541-4294, http://integrateservices sacramento.blogspot.com

14 KENNEDY GALLERY 1931 L St., (916) 716-7050, www.kennedygallerysac.com

15 LITTLE RELICS 908 21st St., (916) 716-2319, www.littlerelics.com

16 MIDTOWN FRAMING & GALLERY 1005 22nd St., (916) 447-7558, www.midtownframing.com

17 OLD SOUL CO. 1716 L St., (916) 443-7685, www.oldsoulco.com

18 RED DOT GALLERY 2231 J St., Ste. 101; www.reddotgalleryonj.com

19 SACRAMENTO ART COMPLEX 2110 K St., Ste. 4; (916) 476-5500; www.sacramentoartcomplex.com

20 SACRAMENTO GAY & LESBIAN CENTER 1927 L St., (916) 442-0185, http://saccenter.org

21 SHIMO CENTER FOR THE ARTS 2117 28th St., (916) 706-1162, www.shimogallery.com

22 TIM COLLOM GALLERY 915 20th St., (916) 247-8048, www.timcollomgallery.com

23 UNION HALL GALLERY 2126 K St., (916) 448-2452

24 UNIVERSITY ART 2601 J St., (916) 443-5721, www.universityart.com

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35 SMITH GALLERY 1020 11th St.,

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26 VIEWPOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC ART CENTER

III THE BRICKHOUSE ART GALLERY 2837 36th St., (916) 457-1240, www.thebrickhousegalleryoakpark.com

Ste. 100; (916) 446-4444; www.smithgallery.com

2015 J St., (916) 441-2341, www.viewpointgallery.org

36 TEMPLE COFFEE 1010 Ninth St.,

27 ZANZIBAR GALLERY 1731 L St.,

37 VOX SACRAMENTO 1818 11th St.,

IV DEL PASO WORKS BUILDING GALLERIES

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V EVOLVE THE GALLERY 2907 35th St.,

(916) 572-5123, www.evolvethegallery.com

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VI KNOWLTON GALLERY 115 S. School St.,

DOWNTOWN/OLD SAC EAST SAC 28 ADAMSON GALLERY 1021 R St., (916)

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29 APPEL GALLERY 931 T St., (916) 442-6014, www.appelgallery.com

30 ARTHOUSE UPSTAIRS 1021 R St., second floor; (916) 672-1098; www.arthouse-sacramento.com

31 ARTISTS’ COLLABORATIVE GALLERY 129 K St., (916) 444-7125, www.artcollab.com

32 CROCKER ART MUSEUM 216 O St., (916) 808-7000, www.crockerartmuseum.org

33 E STREET GALLERY AND STUDIOS 1115 E St., (916) 505-7264

38 ARCHIVAL FRAMING 3223 Folsom Blvd.,

VII PATRIS STUDIO AND ART GALLERY 3460 Second Ave., (916) 397-8958, http://artist-patris.com

(916) 923-6204, www.archivalframe.com

39 FE GALLERY & IRON ART STUDIO 1100 65th St., (916) 456-4455, www.fegallery.com

VIII RECLAMARE GALLERY & CUSTOM TATTOO 2737 Riverside Blvd., (916) 760-7461, www.reclamareart.com

40 GALLERY 14 3960 60th St.,

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41 JAYJAY 5520 Elvas Ave.,

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XI GALLERY 1855 820 Pole Line Rd. in Davis, (530) 756-7807, www.daviscemetery.org

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It’s easy to vote this year (you can do it via Facebook), and all the nominees are local (no Taco Bell, sorry).

Anyway, kudos, huzzahs, right on, way to be—you earned it!

Nightlife & Entertainment Best comedy club ComedySportz Arena Laughs Unlimited Punch Line Comedy Club Sacramento Comedy Spot Tommy T’s Comedy & Dinner Theatre

Best gay club Badlands Faces The Bolt The Depot Video Bar Mercantile Saloon

Best place to go dancing Badlands District 30 Faces Mix Downtown PowerHouse Pub Social Nightclub The Park Ultra Lounge The Press Club Splash Nightclub & Bar

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Natomas Racquet Club Results the 24 Hour Gym Rocklin Crossfit Sacramento Pipeworks Climbing and Fitness YMCA

Best place to see live music Ace of Spades Assembly Blue Lamp Bows & Arrows Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub Luigi’s Fun Garden Marilyn’s on K Old Ironsides The Boardwalk Torch Club

Best trivia night Alley Katz Bonn Lair de Vere’s Irish Pub The Kilt Streets of London Pub The Depot Video Bar The Shack

Travel & Sports Best gym American River Crossfit BodyTribe Fitness Capital Athletic Club Figure 8 Women’s Workout Fliptastic

DeMarcus Cousins Isaiah Thomas Jimmer Fredette Jason Thompson Marcus Thornton Tyreke Evans

Best TV sportscaster Brian May, News10 Del Rodgers, KCRA 3 Jim Crandell, Fox 40 Ryan Yamamoto, News10

People & Personalities Best comedian Ngaio Bealum Michael Calvin Jr. Steve Ferris Jack Gallagher Chazz Hawkins Keith Lowell Jensen Ray Molina Carlos Rodriguez Johnny Taylor Tapan Trivedi

Best local morning radio show Rob, Arnie & Dawn in the Morning, KRXQ 98 Rock The Armstrong & Getty Show, Talk 650 KSTE The Don Geronimo Show, KHTK 1140 The Fan

Best local media personality to have a beer with Nick Brunner, Capital Public Radio

Bethany Crouch, Fox 40 Isaac Gonzalez, Ransackedmedia.com Walt Gray, 96.9 The Eagle Heckasac Edie Lambert, KCRA 3 Kurtis Ming, CBS 13 Grant Napear, Sports 1140 The Fan Blair Anthony Robertson, The Sacramento Bee Dale Schornack, News10

Best seductive radio voice Ashley Nickels, 107.9 The End Monica Lowe, Star 106.5 Kitty O’Neal, 92.5 FM and 1530 AM KFBK Alan Ray, Capitol Public Radio Devin Yamanaka, Capitol Public Radio

Food & Drink Best dive bar Back Door Lounge Brownie’s Lounge Club Raven Club 2 Me Cheater’s Sports Bar Flame Club Henry’s Lounge The Hideaway Bar & Grill Hilltop Tavern Mushroom Lounge Pre-Flite Lounge Round Corner Tavern Swiss Buda The Stag Bar

Best food truck Bacon Mania Cajun Wagon Coast to Coast Sandwiches Chando’s Tacos Drewski’s Hot Rod Kitchen Krush Burger La Mex Taqueria Mama Kim Cooks

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Blackbird Kitchen & Bar Bows & Arrows Cafeteria 15L Hideaway Bar & Grill Kasbah Lounge Lucca Restaurant and Bar R15 Riverside Clubhouse The Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar Shady Lady Saloon

Best Italian Anthony’s Italian Cuisine Biba Restaurant Espanol Restaurant La Trattoria Bohemia Lucca Restaurant and Bar Michelangelo’s Italian Restaurant Paesano’s Palermo Ristorante Vince’s Ristorante

Best Mexican food Caballo Blanco Restaurante Chando’s Tacos El Novillero El Papagayo Restaurant La Flor De Michoacan Lalo’s Restaurant Nopalitos Southwestern Cafe Mayahuel Tequila Museo Tres Hermanas Zocalo

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Best brewer Auburn Alehouse Brewery and Restaurant Berryessa Brewing Company Hoppy Brewing Company Knee Deep Brewing Loomis Basin Brewing Company New Helvetia Brewing Co. River City Brewing Company Rubicon Brewing Company Ruhstaller Brewing Co. Track 7 Brewing Co.

Best restaurant to impress your date Biba Restaurant Ella Dining Room & Bar Enotria Restaurant Wine Bar The Firehouse Restaurant Grange Restaurant & Bar Hawks Restaurant Land Ocean New American Grille Moxie Restaurant Mulvaney’s Building & Loan The Press Sienna The Waterboy BEFORE

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Best place to stock your bookshelves Beers Books The Avid Reader at the Tower The Avid Reader, Davis The Book Collector Time Tested Books

Best professionaltheater company B Street Theatre California Musical Theater Capital Stage New Helvetia Theatre Sacramento Theatre Company

Best burrito Chando’s Tacos Dos Coyotes La Esperanza Mexican Food Products La Favorita Taqueria La Flor De Michoacan La Soga Taqueria Lalo’s Restaurant Nopalitos Southwestern Cafe Tres Hermanos Taco Truck

Best comedy night Open-mic comedy on Tuesday at Bows & Arrows Open-mic scramble at the Sacramento Comedy Spot Laughs Unlimited Wednesday night stand-up with Keith Lowell Jensen at Luna’s Café & Juice Bar Punch Line Comedy Club Jokes on J Thursday at Shenanigan’s Nutty Mondays with Tristan Johnson at The Stoney Inn Scott’s Comedy Club, Thursday at Zigato’s Bar & Grill

Best Thai Asian Cafe Bangkok @ 12 Thai Restaurant Bangkok Garden Chada Thai Cuisine Pattaya Cafe Thai Cuisine Siam Restaurant Taste of Thai Thai Basil Thai Hut Thai Thai Express Vientiane Restaurant

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Separation of Oil & State ThurSday, July 11 Want a perfect afternoon buzzkill? Grab your black hat and be at the California state Capitol’s north steps by high noon on Thursday, July 11, to make a STATEMENT against BIG OIL. (Yes, this is all-caps important.) The one-hour Separation of Oil & State wants to expose the dirty POLITICAL RALLY dealings between oil lobbyists and politicians by having black-clad marchers represent “a human oil slick.” It’s free and for a good, angry cause. Call (916) 541-1373 for more information.

—Raheem F. Hosseini It bills itself as “big fun,” but I’d say there’s just a medium amount of it at the California State Fair. Sure, there’s some good craft beer, wine, music, rides, and several gigantic warehouses full of kitchen utensils, homeimprovement goods and other interesting but otherwise useless junk; but then, there’s the not-so-fun stuff: sunburned bros in wifebeaters puking up fried food on the Ferris wheel, boring dioramas of California farms and the same hypnotist that makes some poor girl sing Shania Twain every year.

For food, there’s plenty of barbecue and deepfried junk food (artichoke hearts, cheesy bacon bombs, burgers, mac ’n’ cheese), so, if you’re health-conscious at all, eating ahead of attending is definitely recommended. Alternately, there’s a farmers market at the fair this year, so vegans at least have some refuge from the ubiquitous friedmeat smell. If you’re a picky drinker, there’s a

wine garden and a brew festival on July 20.

Here’s what you need to know musicwise: You can rock out with your dad while listening to cover bands Apple Z, Set in Stone and True 2 Crue.

Or watch aging artists (the Four Tops, En Vogue, Hoobastank, LeAnn Rimes) trying to rekindle the creative flame and stay relevant. There will also be a few local bands and deejays on one of several stages throughout the day.

Make sure not to miss the somewhat random collection of other entertainment: a Chinese orchestra, freestyle motocross, horse racing, a gospel festival, a cheerleading demonstration, belly dancers, carnival rides and a Japanese-drumming group. Check out a program if you want to make some sense of the madness, or, for a better time, just pound a few beers and stroll through the fairgrounds aimlessly until you find something cool.

Tripel Dipper release party Friday, July 12 Triple dip in some local art, beer and good vibes. Trisha Rhomberg, co-owner of Bows & Arrows, has brought Ruhstaller Beer and local artist Melissa BEER/ART Arendt together for a collaborative project. Ruhstaller will unveil its new beer Tripel Dipper as the first in a series of three beers displaying Arendt’s label designs on the bottles. No cover, 6 p.m. at Bows & Arrows, 1815 19th Street; www.bowscollective.com.

—Jessica Rine

Dachshund Derby Sunday, July 14 Still bummed about the Pug Races getting canceled at last month’s Sacramento Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Doggy Dash? Don’t be. The California State Fair brings with it ample opportunity to overload on ridiculous cuteness via the 13th annual Dachshund Derby. Eight eliminaDOG RACES tion races will yield a champ that takes home a purse of $500. The races begin at 3 p.m. Visit the website for details on the race and how to enter you own weenie as a contender. www.bigfun.org/events/ dachshund-derby.

—Deena Drewis

Sacramento Bastille Day

The California State Fair begins Friday, July 12, and goes through Sunday, July 28, at Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Boulevard; www.bigfun.org.

Sunday, July 14

—Jonathan Mendick

Maybe it’s the beret talking, but we can’t think of a better way to spend an afternoon than donning a thin mustache and shouting “Vive la France!” into a frightened mime’s face. Go down to the Handle District HOLIDAY PARTY (L Street between 18th and 19th streets) this Sunday to join in on the festivities, which will include a waiters’ race, live music, food and drinks, face painting, balloon animals, and—you guessed it—a mime. Is that a baguette in your pocket, or are you as excited as we are?

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Sac Soccer Day ThurSday, July 18 This event will feature the first-ever appearance by an English Premier League soccer team in Sacramento. See striker Grant Holt of Norwich City Football Club destroy the Dorados de Sinaloa of Mexico, who won’t really stand much of a chance after losing its star Cuauhtémoc Blanco to SPORTS another Mexican team in the off-season. Also, Sacramento Professional Soccer will unveil the name for Sacramento’s team in the third-tier United Soccer League Pro. $20-$35, 5 p.m. at Raley Field, 400 Ballpark Drive in West Sacramento; www.sacprosoccer.com.

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Estelle’s Patisserie is a charming, warmly lit French-style bakery and espresso bar in the heart of Sacramento, dedicated to quality and our community.

Using fresh, local ingredients to make our pastries and desserts from scratch every day, Estelle’s also offers breakfast and lunch items.

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A fromage fanatic’s delight The Rind 1801 L Street, Suite 40; (916) 441-7463; www.therindsacramento.com It was supposed to have opened last fall, but, like any good cheese, The Rind needed to ripen before it was ready. Now it’s been open for less than by Ann Martin Rolke two months, and it’s quickly proven itself to be the perfect complement to the rapidly maturing “gourmet grid.”

Snuggled in a former retail space between Buckhorn Grill and the future Capital Dime, The Rind is a fromage fanatic’s delight. Rows of refrigerated cases behind the bar display a muted rainbow of cheese. Modern light fixtures and a spare design define the lofty interior. rating: The Rind doesn’t take reservations, so arrive HHHH early or opt for lunch if you don’t want the wait. Sitting at the bar is nice for chatting with the cheesemongers. You can watch them weigh dinner for one: wedges with precision on a digital scale and use $10 - $15 a plane to make fancy edible blooms.

The menu is a work in progress, changing frequently. A recent addition is polenta bruschetta, which has slices of fine-grained polenta fried crisp in butter and Fiscalini Farmstead cheddar, then topped with a summer ambrosia of corn, tomatoes and basil. It’s an inspired combination. A special salad of diced cantaloupe with feta, mint and chili oil was H lively, but could have used a bit more zing from fLawed the chilies.

HH A chalkboard by the bar lists the daily haS momentS suggested trios for cheese boards, but you HHH can order the Diving Board and choose your appeaLing own combo. Each board arrives with six very crisp toasts and two sides, like dried fruit and HHHH authoritative honey. The rations are small, but reasonable for two people. I’ve never met a cheese plate HHHHH epic that had enough bread, but a fork of robbiola dipped in honey was a revelation in the absence of more toast.

If you love the samples or want to make your own plate at home, you can buy any of the Still hungry?

Search Sn&r’s cheeses by the pound. Ask for the list at the bar.

The many grilled-cheese choices come “dining directory” to find local with a side of mixed greens in a light, lemony restaurants by name dressing flavored with Parmesan. The caprese or by type of food. salad featured perfect red tomatoes with melting Sushi, mexican, indian, italian—discover it burrata and Italian basil. A drizzle of balsamic all in the “dining” vinegar added a nice zip. The Mediterranean section at salad arrived layered with smoked pork, Comté www.news cheese and romesco sauce on focaccia. The review.com. flavors were well-balanced, and the yielding bread held up nicely. Order a cup of the herbal roasted tomato soup on the side for a grown-up version of your favorite childhood lunch.

The Rind also offers several versions of mac and cheese. It seems that people have strong feelings for the type they grew up with, so if you like creamy and rich, this is your place. Not Your Mom’s Mac, with Parmesan, Gruyere and cheddar, is silky smooth, without any excess oil. It offers a bit of crunch from bread crumbs, BEFORE

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but even more would add a great contrast. A richer version includes blue cheese and prosciutto for over-the-top indulgence.

There are lots of fun sides and drinks to pair with all those cheeses. Try the Bundaberg lemonlime soda with bitters, or La Fin du Monde beer with an aromatic clove finish. You could make a meal out of just pairing several choices with cheeses and learning about the combinations. It would be a great help if the drinks menu recommended cheeses with an affinity for the different quaffs. Or maybe a chart of suggested pairings?

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It’s a young operation, and there are a few kinks to straighten. The noise can be overwhelming when it’s busy, and cloth napkins would hold up better than paper. More creativity in the dessert area (cheesecake? Gorgonzola and honey?) would make it feel less of an afterthought. The cheese and chocolate board is a fantastic start, however.

The Rind is a great addition to the dining scene. Give it time to fully bloom, and Sacramento will have a celestial cheesery. Ω

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Peaches and dream Bite into a sun-ripened peach just picked from a tree, and a liquid ribbon of sweetness wraps around your tongue—and sometimes escapes to run down your chin, too. Now, multiply that by 10 pounds: That’s what I’ve got waiting for me at home, thanks to the generous branches of a friend’s tree. What to do with the bounty?

I’m freezing slices of it for future perfectconsistency smoothies, dehydrating some to enjoy in the fall and making peach cobbler with the rest. For the dreamiest cobbler, try combining 1 cup of flour, half-a-cup of sugar, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, halfa-teaspoon of salt, 1 stick of vegan butter and half-a-cup of boiling water. Pour the batter over four or five sliced peaches and bake at 350 degrees until golden brown. It’s just peachy.

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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.

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

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

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

In addition to a large selection of salumi, there’s the worthy eponymous offering, served with a wedge of zucchini frittata, a slice of provolone, romaine lettuce, grainy tomato, and a simple dash of vinegar and oil that adds tang. Order it hot, so that the provolone melts into the bread. Also tasty: the hot meatball sub with small-grained, tender meatballs bathed in a thin, oregano-flecked tomato sauce that soaks into the bread. A tuna sandwich

is sturdy, if not exciting. It is just mayonnaisey enough, with tiny, diced bits of celery.

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

The turkey Viareggio has a thin spread of pesto mayo, and the smoked mozzarella accents rather than overpowers.

American. 1401 O St., Ste. A; (916) 441-3354. Meal for one: $5-$10. HHHH B.G.

Midtown 24K Chocolat Cafe This cafe serves a solid, if very limited, brunch and lunch menu. One offering is a firm wedge of frittata with a strong tang of sharp cheddar that almost but doesn’t quite jibe with the slightly spicy mole sauce on the plate.The spinach curry, made creamy by coconut milk rather than dairy, comes topped with cubes of tofu and tiny diced scallion and red bell pepper and rests atop a smooth potato cake. A side of garbanzobean salad is well-flavored with the surprising combination of mint and apricot. The place, located inside Ancient Future, has “chocolat” in the name, and chocolate is in many of the menu offerings, including a tiny cup of hot Mexican drinking chocolate, and chocolatecherry scones served crisp and hot, studded with big chunks of bittersweet chocolate and tart dried cherries. American.

2331 K St., (916) 476-3754.

Meal for one: $10-$15. HHH B.G.

Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. The restaurant, by the same owners as Midtown’s The Golden Bear, sports a firefighting theme (a ladder on the ceiling duct work, shiny silver wallpaper with a rat-and-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 Madame, a hamand-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.

LowBrau This place specializes in 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. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHHH G.M.

East Sac Hot City Pizza This East Sacramento eatery is probably better known for its beer than its food, but its pizza is pretty darn good. Each slice is made with a unique multigrain crust that’s soft, airy and helps soak up a belly full of beer. There are also interesting topping combinations, notably a section full of chicken-topped pizza, plenty of vegetarian options and handful of Pacific Islander-themed pies, such as the Hawaii on Fire, which comes topped with sweet Thai chili sauce, Canadian bacon, pepperoni, green peppers, pineapple, jalapeño and mozzarella cheese.

Of course, beer is the real draw here, and Hot City gets an extra

star for its fine selection. With so many choices—there are several fridges full of bottled beer and a handful of rotating taps—selecting a brew can be a tremendously difficult but worthwhile undertaking. Pizza.

5642 J St., (916) 731-8888. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHHH J.M.

Istanbul Bistro Turkish chef Murat Bozkurt and brother Ekrem coown 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. 3260 B J St., (916) 449-8810. Dinner for one: $15-$20. 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 Kong-style cuisine with dim sum, but this restaurant, which also features private karaoke rooms, serves up tasty, familiar food by way of rice plates, sandwiches, noodle bowls, soups and stir-fries.

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

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

Dinner for one: $10-$20.

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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.

Burgess Brothers’ Burgers This burger joint’s motto is “Committed to Service,” and that’s evidenced in its outstanding customer service. The food is also exceptional. There are plenty of burgers on the menu— all smoked before they’re grilled.

The one-third pound Tactical Blue Burger is served with blue cheese, tomato, lettuce and fried onions. With a generous slathering of the “Patrol” sauce, it’s full of flavor but not too smoky.

Don’t miss the barbecue, though.

The pulled-pork sandwich is nicely smoked and shredded, piled on a garlic roll. There are also kid-sized sliders and the Code 4 vegetarian burger, made with a portobello mushroom.

Barbecue. 2114 Sutterville Rd., (916) 209-0277. Dinner for one: $5-$10. HHH1⁄2 A.M.R.

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,

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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.

onions, pepperoni and sausage.

Buffalo also offers Gunther’s Ice Cream, side salads, fried chicken and canned sodas, but here, it’s breakfast pizza for the win. American. 2600 21st St., (916) 451-6555. Meal for one: $10-$20. HHH1⁄2 J.M.

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you’ll find a comfort dish from your childhood to wrap its arms around you and give you a hug. Cultural diversity aside, one of Blue Moon’s best dishes is the braised pig ear with soy sauce and peanuts. Asian.

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

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not work for those still following the Atkins diet—100 percent of its savory dishes contain or are almost wholly composed of some starchy ingredient. But every dish on the menu here is also vegetarian, and many are vegan.

There’s much to like here: Try the dosas, ultrathin crepes with a savory filling. Mylapore also serves unusual pakoras.

Here, they’re very lightly coated in flour, well-salted and extremely greasy in a satisfying way. The sambar, a thick lentil soup, is worth ordering as a bowl on its own.

It’s creamy and comforting, and within it floats cubed turnips and carrots—miles away from a pedestrian dal. Indian.

1760 Prairie City Rd., Ste. 160 in Folsom; (916) 985-3500.

Dinner for one: $10-$20.

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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

San Francisco has clam chowder in a bread bowl, and Philadelphia has the cheesesteak. But what does Sacramento have? It’s hard to say, really. Perhaps Merlino’s Orange Freeze or Frank Fat’s banana cream pie, suggest Maryellen and Keith Burns in their new book Lost Restaurants of Sacramento and Their Recipes ($19.99; American Palate, part of The History Press). The book explores the capital city’s historic dining hot spots and tries to figure out if there really is—or ever was—a signature Sacramento dish. To research the book, the pair spent many hours eating at various restaurants, including one that is 100 years old; digging through archives; and speaking with restaurant owners, chefs and historians. Head to Time Tested Books (1114 21st Street) on Wednesday, July 17, at 7 p.m. for an official book launch. Pick up a copy and see if there really is a historic dish that’s synonymous with Sacramento.

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Make a splash ymCa OF superiOr CaliFOrnia COmmuniTy-pOOl renTals If right about now is the time of year when you start acting extra nice to all of your friends lucky enough to have a pool, ease up on the fake smiles—there’s an alternative. This summer, RECREATION several Sacramento-area public pools are available to rent every Friday and Saturday night, from 6 to 10 p.m. Participating pools include Southside Pool (2115 Sixth Street) and Tahoe Pool (3501 59th Street), and the cost is $80 an hour, with a two-hour minimum and 50-people maximum.

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Unfortunately, his obsession with her—and with looking into her eyes every afternoon—makes him come off as a creepy stalker guy, which is what he seems to be becoming. Insomnia features an honest, youthful voice with an edge of desperation.

—Kel Munger

Clearly cool ZOOmies If you don’t want to carry a pair of binoculars around because of their weight or because you’re afraid you’ll lose them or they’ll get broken, it’s time to check out Zoomies.

GADGET Wear these compact, hands-free binoculars as you would sunglasses. They provide up to 300-percent magnification and come with a matching case. Buy two pairs for $10, and stick a pair in your bag when you head to the game, concert or the hiking trail. www.buyzoomies.com.

—Trina L. Drotar

Blood, sleaze and surprises Trash Film Orgy Midnight movies are supposed to be lots of cheap fun, yet few hosts go all-out quite like the folks behind the Trash Film Orgy. Now in its 13th year, TFO, “the world’s most amazing midnight movie show,” presents some FILM of the bloodiest, sleaziest, trashiest films ever made on Saturday nights at the Crest Theatre through the summer. In addition to the flicks, TFO also puts on premovie games in the lobby, has stage-show performances and always adds in a few crazy surprises. And, of course, audience members are encouraged to attend in zombie gear.

The event kicks off this year with the British zombie comedy film Shaun of the Dead on Saturday, July 13. Before the movie, there will be the customary TFO zombie walk—the oldest organized large-scale zombie walk in the world.

Other scheduled films include Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! on July 20. The evening will feature a “hot girl, hot rod race in the Arena of Doom” staged in the lobby before the show.

On August 3, The Road Warrior will be screened, and on August 10, check out Escape From New York. Then, on August 17, TFO celebrates its 100th show with a special double-feature screening of Blood Feast and Two Thousand Maniacs! Doors open at 11 p.m. for all shows, and the events are for those 18 and over only. Tickets are $10 for general admission—but only $9 for zombies.

Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street; www.trashfilmorgy.com.

—Aaron Carnes

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The secret life of secrets My boyfriend and I opened up completely, sharing all of our secrets, and it was a mistake. I learned that in college he had a brief relationship with another guy. I have no weird feelings about gays, but I don’t want to be involved with a guy who might turn gay again. We have been together for two years. I really love him, but I am afraid and have been avoiding him. I’m sure he realizes this, but I don’t know what

by Joey ga to do. Please help. rcia You are afraid, and that’s understandable. It’s your way a s kj o ey @ n ewsreview.c om of trying to shield yourself from an imagined relationship rupture. But fear also inhibits smart Joey decisions and the ability to see enjoys having lunch reality. Let’s try another direction: at the Crest Cafe.

If you love your boyfriend and the relationship, talk to him. One of the reasons people keep secrets is the potential fallout from those they care most about. Don’t let your insecurities rule your love life. If your boyfriend had a brief relationship with another man, it does not mean that he is homosexual. If he is sexually and emotionally attracted to men only, then, yes, he’s gay.

But he gets to choose how to define himself—or not to define himself at all. Your job is to understand that

One of the reasons people keep secrets is the potential fallout from those they care most about. you cannot ever be certain what will happen in any relationship. Your worry that he will “turn gay” is really a fear that you cannot control what will happen in the future.

That’s true. You don’t have total power over the outcome of your relationship (or anything else, for that matter). The question is: Do you value what you have? If so, continue working with your boyfriend to build strong and open communication, nourish your friendship and enjoy the chemistry between you. Be grateful for the trust you share.

When your heart is bursting with happiness for the goodness of your relationship, talk to him. You both deserve to hear each other out.

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I drunk dialed my boss, who is gorgeous and very married. I’ve always had kind of a crush on him but never let on, of course.

He hasn’t said anything about the phone call. I know I would feel better if I apologized. Should I bring it up?

Yes, but only in conversations between you and yourself. The next time you think about drinking beyond your limit, remember that aspirin and bed rest can’t cure career hangovers. And, although I’m an advocate of honesty and transparency, don’t bring up your dialing dilemma with your boss.

Follow his lead by ignoring it. Move forward in a respectful and courteous manner. That means you should also stop your brain from obsessing about how good-looking he is.

Daydreaming about him is not an act of recognizing his attractiveness. It’s pouring energy into a fantasy that distracts you from whatever it is that really needs your attention.

I’ve been divorced for 15 years and remarried five years ago. My wife manages to work some criticism about my ex-wife into a conversation every day. I have no children with my ex and haven’t talked to her in 14 years. I don’t give a whit about her. My wife flips out when I point out that she is fixated on my ex. I’m sick of these arguments.

Any advice?

Accept that you have married a profoundly insecure woman who criticizes your ex-wife in an attempt to appear more attractive to you.

When she belittles your ex-wife, she imagines herself as loyal to you.

When you refuse to bond with her against your ex, she assumes that you’re not over your former partner.

Your wife needs psychotherapy to understand that by breathing life into the past, she is ruining the present and threatening your future together. Ω

Meditation of the Week “We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours,” wrote the Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, who served as secretary general of the United Nations. Have you created yourself as an original?

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3Julius Caesar Julius Caesar, Shakespeare’s morality play about the futility of regicide—no doubt much beloved by rulers everywhere—takes a Victorian turn with a rather matronly Caesar in the formidable Sara Lorraine Hanson. She’s got gravitas, all right, but she also seems benevolent and harmless, a duality that no doubt followed the great empire builder of Britain, Queen Victoria. That’s an intriguing choice by director Luther Hanson, and full of possibilities, but one that isn’t fully realized.

And Hanson’s sedate Caesar makes the plotting and concern for the republic of her assassins—Cassius (Matt Canty), Brutus (Michael Sicilia), Casca (Shelley Russell Riley), Cinna (Kathleen Poe), Decius Brutus (Alejandro Padilla) and Cimber (Tim Raposa)—even less righteous. Her fatal flaw—ambition—seems far less obvious in this version, and the concerns of her assassins thus seem petty.

What the late-19th-century garb—and it is beautiful, especially the silken dresses—does accomplish is bringing a bit of color to a production that relies on one speech after another to move things along. The action is, unfortunately, brief, here: It requires a true Shakespeare fan to stay engaged. Other than the murder itself and the battle scenes near the end of the play, there’s nothing to keep the younger set interested.

And, unfortunately, the battle scenes don’t have enough sabers to go around, leaving the actors to go up against each other with long daggers—it’s not the best use of sword time onstage.

Overall, it’s a beautiful but static production, enhanced by onstage music (Sinead Kennedy, Daniel Radu and David Riggs) and a soothsayer (Carley Niell), who adds some beautiful opera singing to the mix.

—Kel Munger

Julius Caesar, 8 p.m. July 11, 13, 19 and 26; 6 p.m. July 21 and 28; $15-$18. Sacramento Shakespeare Festival in the William A. Carroll Amphitheatre in Land Park, Land Park Drive and 15th Avenue; (916) 558-2228; www.sacramentoshakespeare.net.

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A nostalgic, outdoor version of the Mark Twain classic as Tom (Colin Choate) romances Becky (Carissa Meagher), pals around with Huck (Matthew Taul) and thwarts Injun Joe (Ernesto Bustos).

Directed by Susan McCandless.

Gates open at 6:30 p.m. for picnicking; bring low-back lawn chairs and a sweater, as it becomes quite cool in the evenings. F, Sa 8pm. Through 7/30. $12-$17.50, with $49 family four-pack. Main Street Theatre Works in the Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre, 1105 N. Main St. in Jackson; (209) 267-5680; www.mstw.org. K.M.

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The Fair Oaks Theatre Festival opens with an old favorite, the 1954 romantic, The Pajama Game. Director Bob Irvin plays it straight with this popular, somewhat dated musical comedy about romance and a strike for a 7.5-cent-per-hour raise among workers at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory. Musical highlights include “Hey There,” “Steam Heat” and “Hernando’s Hideaway.” F, Sa, Su 8:30pm. Through 7/21. $5-$15.

Veterans Memorial Amphitheatre, 7991 California Ave. in Fair Oaks; (916) 966-3683; www.fairoaks theatrefestival.com. J.C.

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The Sacramento Shakespeare Festival kicks off with a hustling start to the season as Matt K. Miller’s disco-flavored version of the classic woman-in-disguise story turns a mirror ball, some jive talkin’ and Qiana shirts into a giggle fest. Kelley Ogden fills her

John Travolta-style white suit with physical comedy as Viola; Greg Hanson brings the bro to Sir Toby Belch; and Anthony M. Person’s Fool Feste lights up the dance floor. Good nostalgic fun. 8pm on 7/12, 7/20, 7/25, 7/27; 6pm on 7/7, 7/14. Through 7/27. $15-$18. Sacramento Shakespeare Festival, William A. Carroll Amphitheatre in William Land Park, 3901 Land Park Dr.; (916) 558-2173; www.sacramento shakespeare.net. K.M.

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Playwright David Ives springs plenty of surprises in this masochistic comedy of dark intent in which a weary writer-director is coming off a long, fruitless day of auditions, about to head home. In comes a breathless actress, begging for a chance at the part. She says her name is the same as the character in writerdirector’s script, and she seems eerily right for the role. And she knows more about the source material (a tale of domination, submission and desire) than she initially lets on. Disclosing more might spoil the spooky and kinky fun. Actress Dana Brooke shines, and newcomer Tyler Pierce is also excellent. Tracy Prybyla’s costumes gradually shift to black leather and studs. Director Buck Busfield raises the heat gradually—the story unfolds in linear time, with growing momentum.

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Fans of the long-running public-radio show A Prairie Home Companion won’t want to miss its Radio Romance Tour 2013. The St. Paul, Minn.-based crew arrives Thursday, July 11, at the Community Center Theater as part of a nationwide summer road trip. Starring the inimitable, venerable host and writer Garrison Keillor (pictured), the cast also features the likes of singer Aoife O’Donovan, comedian Fred Newman and the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band. The latter features guitarist Pat Donohue and fiddle player and mandolinist Richard Kriehn.

What to expect? Imagine if the show’s weekly radio broadcast—set to celebrate its 40th year in 2014—came to life and its players stepped out into your living room for a two-hour show. In short, this will be a sophisticated yet irreverent mix of song, off-the-cuff dialogue and jokes, poetry, storytelling, “news” from Lake Wobegon and general tomfoolery. Tickets are $35-$74.50. Thursday, July 11, 7:30 p.m. at the Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street; (916) 808-5181; http://prairiehome.publicradio.org; www.sacramentoconventioncenter.com.

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Ah, well, not every kid wants to grow up to be Mother Teresa. Some kids just want to grow up to make Godzilla movies.

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Two such kids are director Guillermo del Toro and his co-writer Travis Beacham. Neither was born nor raised in Japan, so they probably never tuned in to the cultural undercurrents Godzilla and his ilk (Rodan, Mothra, Gamera, etc.) carried for the Japanese of the 1950s and ’60s—the only generation to have actually suffered from atomic destruction. For del Toro and Beacham, as for millions of other North American kids seeing those movies as they came east over the Pacific, the kick would have been more primal and childlike: the vicarious thrill of dressing up in a monster costume and kicking the bejesus out of an elaborate scale-model city.

That’s the thrill del Toro and Beacham offer us in Pacific Rim, and they construct quite a backstory to justify it. In a prologue narrated by our hero Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam), we learn that when “the alien invasion” came, it came not from the stars but from under the sea, by way of a rift between two of Earth’s tectonic plates that serves as a bridge to another dimension.

Across this bridge first came a single monster, so huge that tiny humans could make out only bits and pieces of it: a head like a shark’s, but 100-yards long; feet that crushed a dozen cars with each step; forepaws that ripped through the Golden Gate Bridge like cobwebs. Tanks and missiles eventually brought it down, but others came along, each one closer in time than the last. The creatures

became known as kaiju, Japanese for “strange beast” or “monster.”

The United Nations, galvanized into action, developed monsters to fight the monsters. These were colossal robots, 100-feet tall or more, called “jaegers” (from the German word for “hunter”), each operated by a two-person team telepathically linked, since the job was too much for one person. The jaegers worked for a while, but the kaiju kept coming, learning from experience, growing stronger. Eventually, the jaegers began losing ground, the U.N. lost faith in them and began exploring other defense options, all equally futile. Now, after 12 years of sporadic warfare and with funding for the jaeger program drying up, humankind seems headed for a last stand.

So much for plot. Now for what we shall generously call characters. There’s ex-jaeger pilot Raleigh, who dropped out when a kaiju killed his brother and partner in a battle that Raleigh himself barely survived. He gets drawn back by Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba), head of the jaeger program, and teamed with Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi), a young Japanese woman adopted by Pentecost as a child when her family was wiped out by a kaiju. There’s an Australian father-andson (Max Martini and Robert Kazinsky) team of pilots. The son regards Raleigh as a has-been and quitter, but, of course, we know he’s destined to change his tune.

Finally, there’s a pair of scientists, Geiszler (Charlie Day) and Gottlieb (Burn Gorman) researching kaiju physiology and psychology.

These two are played in such a way that they could be viewed as a gay couple, but they really are sexless dweebs—someone for the movie’s target demographic to identify with.

Pacific Rim has a CGI grandeur that 1960s Japanese filmmakers could only dream of.

So much for character. All this is just the setup for what Pacific Rim is really about, the hand-to-hand combat between kaiju and jaeger.

It’s just like the fights in King Kong vs. Godzilla and Godzilla vs. Megalon, but with a CGI grandeur that those 1960s Japanese filmmakers could only dream of.

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Director Richard Linklater returns to the story he began with 1995’s Before Sunrise and continued in 2004’s Before Sunset. Another nine years, and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) have 7-year-old twin daughters. In the first movie, the two walked around Vienna talking; in the second, Paris; now, Crete, Greece. As before, their conversation is uneventful but fascinating; they’re both intelligent and interesting, and we hang on every word, even as nothing really “happens.� (Well, not nothing, exactly: A crisis brews, but somehow, we sense it’ll pass.) It’s amazing to think Linklater, Hawke and Delpy (who all co-wrote the script) have sustained this talk-fest for three whole movies, but it’s true, and the pleasure of their company is as keen as ever.

We can hardly wait nine years to see them again. J.L

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Krypton they dispatch their son to even uglier Earth, where he suffers through a miserable, friendless childhood to grow into a sullen, misfit Clark Kent (Henry Cavill, as drab and colorless as the movie around him), who spends more time fighting Earthling bigotry than the Kryptonian General Zod (Michael Shannon). If this dingy, joyless movie is the only way to make Superman work these days, maybe the character really has outlived his time. J.L.

The Internship

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Radio and TV’s daring “masked rider of the plains� takes a vicious beating at the hands of producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, flushed and overconfident with their Pirates of the Caribbean success. They signal their intentions early on, when Tonto (Johnny Depp) drags the Ranger (Armie Hammer) through a pile of steaming horseshit. And that’s precisely what Bruckheimer and Verbinski proceed to do for two-and-a-half endless, leaden hours.

The movie is an eye-glazing parade of frontier grunge, lame comedy and Rube Goldberg CGI action scenes devoid of excitement.

The original radio and TV versions found their audience in hero-worshipping kids; this one caters to sneering baby boomers embarrassed that they ever liked it. Written (poorly) by Justin Haythe, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. J.L.

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Superman gets a makeover from writer David S. Goyer and producer Christopher Nolan. This isn’t your father’s Superman—or your great-grandfather’s, for that matter. Nolan and Goyer twist him to fit their Dark Knight template: The planet Krypton is a decrepit, grimy place, and the infant Kal-El’s parents (Russell Crowe, Ayelet Zurer) could both use a shower. From ugly

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Visiting from the Canadian motherland, Jay Baruchel meets up with his pal and countryman Seth Rogen in Los Angeles, where they try to get past postRogen-sellout estrangement through partying at James Franco’s place. It’s not really Baruchel’s scene, but the apocalypse begins just as he’s about to bail. That means holing up with Rogen, Franco, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson and Jonah Hill—and all playing (with) themselves—and for the desperate stoner-raunch survivalism of roughing out a lo-fi sequel to Pineapple Express, dodging violent death and bucking for redemption. As proof of concept for a reality series about crudely dueling Judd Apatow alumni, this might work. As a summer movie? Well, fine, whatever. A lark for Rogen and his co-writer and co-director Evan Goldberg, it is at least

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In 2022 America, the “New Founding Fathers� have decreed 12 hours every year when no crime will be punished, including murder. When the time comes, the welloff either hunker down behind their security systems or form hunting parties to stalk and exterminate the homeless and other social undesirables. This night, a suburban couple (Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey) and their two kids see things go horribly wrong. Writerdirector James DeMonaco’s cockamamie premise tries to lend things an aura of wry social satire, but it’s just gaudy lipstick on an old whore; the movie is nothing more than a standard home-invasion slasher flick, and a lousy one at that. DeMonaco poses and answers an ironic question: Does the Purge really “make America a better place�? But he raises a more pertinent one: Do movies like this? J.L.

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Morgan Neville’s soulfully doting documentary pays tribute to the background singers who’ve been so essential, albeit anonymously, to rock ’n’ roll history. Aside from their stunning and spine-tingling talents, these great ladies—including Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Claudia Lennear, Darlene Love and TĂĄta Vega, among many others—seem impressively magnanimous about it being very much a history of white men wanting their sound to seem periodically more female and more black. Neville whips up a terrific medley of performance footage and generous interviews in which some of the women discuss the deeper role of music in their lives and the vicissitudes of their attempts at solo careers. (Some of the men weigh in, too.) Meanwhile, the music speaks for itself. One of many excellent examples explored here: the long-running cultural current of the great ghostly hook in the Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter,â€? without which that song would be unthinkable. J.K.

Two salesmen with no skills but the gift of gab (Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson) find themselves out of work when their company goes belly-up, so in desperation, they go for a summer internship at Google, where their co-workers are half their age with twice their IQs. The script by Vaughn and Jared Stern is silly and far-fetched, and the sucking up to Google throughout is just a tad unseemly. Still, the movie has charms in spite of itself; it’s pretty funny and rather sweet. Vaughn and Wilson’s comic rapport is as strong as it ever was, and the supporting cast is a big help: Rose Byrne as Wilson’s romantic interest, Aasif Mandvi as the men’s doubtful supervisor, and Josh Brener, Dylan O’Brien, Tiya Sircar and Tobit Raphael as their geeky teammates. Shawn Levy’s direction is uninspired but unobtrusive. J.L.

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Less inspired than its predecessor, 2010’s Despicable Me, this madcap caper showcases reformed Euro-supervillain Gru (Steve Carell) who has retired to rear his three adopted daughters. His resident gadgeteer, Dr. Nefario (Russell Brand), has had a better offer—“more evil, full dental�—and Gru can’t begrudge the doctor’s departure, for the shared glory days of grand malfeasance seem by now long behind them. Then, Gru finds himself recruited by a spazzy special agent (Kristen Wiig) to thwart an incognito rival. As it happens, this heretofore unknown opponent’s dastardly scheme involves, among other nutso ideas, morphing Gru’s multitude of cute yellow minions into pernicious purple monsters. The minions should already be quite familiar, if only from this movie’s relentless merchandising.

Broad, brightly colored slapstick ensues, with some favorably Muppet-ish mayhem.

The most logical thing about this film is its use of 3-D as an extension of cartoonishly exaggerated proportions. J.K

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on preposterousness par with celebritystuffed disaster-movie precedents. And it does make the most both of Baruchel’s natural appeal and of a solicitously slumming Emma Watson cameo. The joke of Hollywood self-indulgence as the last straw for a vengeful God is not entirely unfunny. J.K.

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A paramilitary gang led by a traitorous Secret Service agent (James Woods) storms the White House, killing and taking hostages, leaving only the president (Jamie Foxx) and a feckless Capitol police officer (Channing Tatum) to save the last best hope of Earth. Writer James Vanderbilt and director Roland Emmerich follow Marx’s principle on history repeating itself—first time as tragedy, second time as farce—by turning September 11, 2001, into a rolicking action comedy, with odd couple Tatum and Foxx as the buddy-heroes at the center of all the fun. Since this is not a terrorist strike but an inside job, the movie also evokes distant memories of 1964’s Seven Days in May and its attempted bloodless coup—this time, of course, there’s a lot more blood. Shame on you if you can’t guess who’s behind it all. J.L.

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by Marc Forster, the movie’s too-manycooks roster of writers (Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, Damon Lindelof and J. Michael Straczynski) gives testimony to production problems and frantic reshoots that ballooned the budget from $125 million to $200 million. The end result is a mixed bag; Pitt makes a deft thinking-man’s action hero and Forster stages some effective scenes, but too often—especially in the hasty, anticlimactic ending—the movie stumbles into unintentional comedy. J.L.

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Intergalactic planetary rock Sonny & the Sunsets’ quirky mix of darkness and light rocks the universe Sonny & the Sunsets’ songs are populated by aliens, threatening teenage thugs, two-headed women, and a mysterious “death cream” that is either by Becky Grunewald sexual or deadly or possibly both. The songs are evocative and quirky, somehow both light and dark at the same time. If you’re not the type to pay attention to the lyrics, then you might experience the group as just a rockin’ good band. Which is good, because they will be playing outdoors on Saturday, July 13, in

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stand out, and then there [are lots of] people that are kinda just passin’ through, like passing an interesting booth at a fair or something— which is fine. Then, once I was picking up my kid from camp and this other kid appeared to be a raging fan, somehow, which is weird, as I don’t think my music is out there so much as that. He was 7 or so, but he was treating me like, I don’t know, a huge star. And my own son was looking at him with this look on his face, like, “Why do you like my dad? He’s a total dork.”

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Catch Sonny & the Sunsets at the This block party in Midtown on Saturday, July 13; no cover. The festival starts at 4 p.m.; the band is scheduled to perform at 7 p.m. Visit www.sonnysmith.com for more information.

front of the MARRS building as part of the This block party series in Midtown, along with Kisses, Brown Shoe and Extra Classic.

Frontman Sonny Smith is the band’s only permanent member, although the lineup has been consistent recently. The San Franciscobased musician is also an artist, writer and playwright; on his 2010 100 Records project, he invited artists to create album covers for fictional bands and then wrote and recorded 100 songs to go along with the visual art.

Sonny & the Sunsets are currently on tour in support of their fourth album, Antenna to the Afterworld. In a recent email interview with SN&R, Smith discussed fans, making art and the possibility of life on other planets.

What’s it like when you really feel a connection to an audience? When you don’t?

When you have a good night, you feel good about what you are doing with your life, and when you don’t, you wonder what you are doing with your life.

Do you ever find that you have sort of atypical fans, like maybe an older person or a really young person?

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I noticed Rusty Miller is on your record, and he’s in a Sacramento band, Jackpot. Is he going to be playing with you?

Not on this particular show, but he is a genius.

Do you make some kind of art every day?

Nah, I have lots of days I don’t do anything creative. I am slowly working on a movie idea. But who knows what it will be if it really grows.

You’re really into supernatural stuff, and you have a lot of alien themes. Ever experienced anything supernatural or seen a UFO? I thought I saw a UFO once; me and my friend both saw it—an undulating triangle in the sky, phosphorescent. And we were pretty sure it was the real thing. We both fell asleep watching it. We were on Mount [Tamalpais]

“ I meet [people] that seem real connected to the songs … and then there [are lots of] people that are kinda just passin’ through.”

Sonny Smith Sonny & the Sunsets near Stinson Beach, far away from people, late at night, and we were pretty sure that when we got back to town there would be chaos in the streets. But when we did, nothing had changed. We’ll never know what we saw.

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Rebirth of a scene: The following is not a dig at musicians to better utilize their station, but a polite proposal based on my travels and explorations of the nationwide DIY community.

I’m no community organizer, nor am I motivated by altruism. Of the few beliefs I regard, one is to respectfully offer opinions and ideas when a platform is available or encouraged. If my services are needed to take these ideas further, I’m willing to volunteer. If no fuse is lit or light bulb illuminated, I can live with that.

Whether you call it a scene or community, it consists of a large body. Within that body exists a multitude of interests beyond effects pedals, Beatles vs. the Kinks arguments and tour riders. It happens in Portland, Ore.; in Chicago; in Milwaukee; in Chicago; hell, even in Missoula, Mont. Musicians are hanging out beyond the house shows, studio sessions and venue greenrooms. Not just hanging out, but curating creative events, like band-lottery showcases and the Rigsketball tournament in Portland, wherein artists challenge themselves as both musicians and athletes.

In Illinois, there’s the Chicago Sonic Coalition, and in Cleveland, it’s the Lottery League, but the conceit is the same: Names go into a hat, and from those names, new bands are born. All that’s needed is to gather at a house for a potluck or a bar for happy hour. With each name drawn, a new band is formed with one requirement: In two weeks’ time, they must perform a cover. Did your band end up with two saxophonists and a fiddler?

Awesome! Embrace the challenge.

Sure, it’s a little like those annoying and kitschy first-day-of-class exercises in which the teacher assigns you to little groups to get to know one another—it’s not a perfect idea.

But for one night, you’ll perform as a new band with a new name, with no commitment to play with those two saxophonists ever again.

Whether it rips or goes horribly wrong, the other performers had the same experience, shaken and challenged.

Too challenging? How about basketball? Portland band And And And attached a basketball hoop to its tour van and called it Rigsketball (http://rigsketball.tumblr. com). It began as a three-on-three challenge with other bands in the

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Begin again venue parking lot before gigs and eventually grew into the yearly band vs. band tournament, which now includes prizes, merch, cassette compilations by the competing bands and an after-party show.

Shake things up, Sacramento.

It doesn’t have to be a lottery or a basketball tournament. Maybe it’s softball, chess, Quidditch, or LARPing, but make it something.

Get together. Get creative. Not because it’s what other cities are doing, not because it’s DIY cool, but because it’s what a community does.

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Life’s cheap, little discoveries: The music shop known simply as Records is still wonderfully in business down on Broadway, right there next to Dimple Records, both of which must be protected by the ghost of the Tower Records empire that existed on the same spot years ago. Browsing through the discount bins this past week, I picked up an album called Make Some Noiz by a group I’d never heard of. My overeager expectation was that I’d found some wild, forgotten Zach Hill shit, but, as the in-store turntable revealed, it was a late-1970s funk single with some identical sounding remixes and a humorous but tiring reprise that made up of the single’s title. Luckily, Records is still around to afford us these little discoveries, so dry your Midtown Beat-bereaved eyes and get to browsing. Just remember to keep your vinyl out of the hot sun on the trek home, or you’ll have a whole new reason to weep.

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Harlow’s

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Shuggie Otis (R&B Great)

Harlow’s

—Julianna Boggs

Sun Aug 4

Wang Chung

Don’t call it a comeback: Sacramento’s record-store scene has suffered a couple major hits in the last few months. Now, however, there’s a spark of sonic hope: Phono Select owner Dal Basi is currently putting the finishing touches on a new Curtis Park warehouse space that is, mathematically speaking, about a gazillion-times bigger than his old Midtown shop. The store, currently scheduled to open by the end of July, will will operate on a limited schedule and by appointment. For updates and further details, check out www.phonoselect.com.

(’80s Fun!)

Assembly Mon Aug 19

Keiko Matsui (Jazz Fusion)

Harlow’s Wed Aug 21

Willie Nelson & Family (Country Legend)

Community Center Theater

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The Hey-Nows!

Under the Sun 2013 tour

Too $hort

Delbert Bump Jazz Band

Fox & Goose, 9 p.m., $5

Thunder Valley Casino Resort, 6:30 p.m., $34.50-$77.50

Despite the exclamation point in its name, the Hey-Nows! tread softly, and the band What do you do when your band hasn’t been doesn’t make a puzzle of itself. Its 1960srelevant since the Clinton administration? era pop-art logo distinctly resembles the Well, you start a summer tour with other branding for the iconic Beatles film A Hard bands that are in the same boat as you, of course! Sugar Ray is joining Gin Blossoms, Day’s Night, and, naturally, the Fab Four is Smash Mouth, Vertical Horizon and Fastball listed among its influences. Others include (pictured) for a who’s who of 1990s alternathe Byrds, Elliott Smith, Whiskeytown and tive-rock bands. While Vertical Crowded House, the musical proclivities ROCK Horizon and Gin Blossoms made of whom have been incorporated into the music that tended toward the serious Hey-Nows! like ingredients in a pie. The and overbearing, the other bands were Yolo County-based band is led by veteran synonymous with upbeat tracks that were musicians Lee Milhous and POP ROCK SACRAMENTO NEWS AND REVIEW great for spring and summertime listening.

Roger Trott, who, after Will this tour temporarily help these bands all these years, still demonstrate revercrop ad to 4.9 X 5.67 recapture their glory days? Only time will ence for the greats in pop that came before tell. 1200 Athens Avenue in Lincoln, them. 1001 R Street, www.facebook.com/ theheynows. www.underthesuntour.com.

—Deena Drewis

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

KetMoRee Thai Restaurant & Bar, 6 p.m., no cover

Known for hip-hop bangers like “Blow the Whistle,” “The Ghetto” and “Freaky Tales,” Too $hort’s credibility as a West Coast hip-hop pioneer stems from early-’80s HIP-HOP collaborations with the likes of Scarface, 2pac and the Notorious B.I.G. Still, the 47-year-old rapper continues to release new material, and his more recent work includes collaborations with E-40 and Mac Dre. He was even nice enough to stop by Dimple Records last year to greet fans and promote his latest album, No Trespassing. The rapper will likely perform a variety of familiar hits, but hopefully, his newer single “Playa Fo Life” will also be considered. Supporting performances include Lil Bit and Suave Debonaire.

1417 R Street, www.facebook.com/tooshort.

—Steph Rodriguez

Jazz organ trio tradition, contemporary compositions and genre-melting improvisation are the sonic entrees du jour as Hammond organist and electric keyboardist Delbert Bump returns to the Sunday-evening jazz series at KetMoRee Thai Restaurant JAZZ & Bar. Bump’s conspirators for this outing include guitarist Steve Homan (accompanist for the late Hammond icon Jimmy Smith) and drummer Colin Gordon. Bump and Homan (university jazz educators who are both featured on Headhunters drummer Mike Clark’s 2010 Carnival of Soul) will be embellishing a lengthy history of live and recorded collaborations that range from swingin’, bluesy, moody and ethereal to infectiously kinetic and explosive. 238 G Street in Davis, www.ketmoree.com.

—Brian Palmer

—Mark Halverson

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‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

The Mike Dillon Band

Creative Confluence Open Mic

Musical Charis

California State Fair, 8 p.m., $8-$20

Blue Lamp, 8:30 p.m., $10

Dismissed as a novelty, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s 30-year career testifies to his enduring talent.

Songs like “Another One Rides the Bus,” “Like a Surgeon” and “White & Nerdy” not only reprise familiar melodies culturally ingrained by heavy rotation, but COMEDY/POP cleverly construct their own parallel universe extending a theme from the song. Even as pop’s ubiquity narrows in accordance with the statistical long tail, Yankovic’s proven capable of tapping the zeitgeist—note recent covers of Lady Gaga (“Polka Face,” “Perform This Way”) and Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me” (“TMZ”). Yankovic’s humor is sometimes goofy, but almost never small or mean-hearted—an admirable trait in a cynical age. 1600 Exposition Boulevard, www.weirdal.com.

Bows & Arrows, 8 p.m., no cover

Mike Dillon is held in high regard in many music circles. The hyperkinetic percussionist and vibraphonist has plied his trade as a sideman with artists FOLK PUNK like Les Claypool and Ani DiFranco, while also being part of mind-blowing collectives like Garage a Trois and Critters Buggin’. Last weekend, his four-member band enthralled festivalgoers at the High Sierra Music Festival with its shenanigans. Dillon, who sometimes morphs into MC Silver Ice, takes the listener on a wild ride that weaves from punk and funk to jazz and metal. Trombonist Carly Meyers is also a prime protagonist in the fun, usually dancing into the audience during the festivities. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.facebook.com/themikedillonband.

Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 9 p.m., $6

The Creative Confluence Open Mic Night aims to be open to all sorts of performance art: poetry, jokes, stories, dance routines, magic tricks, music and “interdisciplinary expressive performances”—whatever that means.

What it sounds like is a night of drinking some of Bows & Arrows’ brews on tap, eating a Fat Face popsicle and mingling OPEN-MIC with some people in the local arts com-munity. According to its Facebook page, the organizers want to create some sort of unity in that scene, cure artists’ loneliness and inspire others. Sign-ups begin at 7:30 p.m., and there’s no cover, so make sure to grab a drink to support the venue. 1815 19th Street, www.bowscollective.com.

—Jonathan Mendick

—Paul Piazza

Whether you want to call it indie folk, chamber pop, retro rock or jangle punk, it doesn’t matter: All these labels fit just fine. It’s even better when they’re combined into indiejangle-chamber-folk-retro-punk pop, or something like that. Musical Charis is a muchloved Sacramento-based ensemble not unlike Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, mixing diverse styles, instrumentation and multiple INDIE-FOLK singers into one big festive jamboree—but without the pretentious heavy-handed spirituality.

Musical Charis seems to have but one goal: spreading joy—and dancing—wherever it travels. This is the release party for its latest album, Cherish the Charis, a sentiment already felt by plenty of Sacramentans. 2708 J Street, www.musicalcharis.com.

—Chris Parker

—Aaron Carnes

just announced

2708 J Street Sacramento, CA 916.441.4693 www.harlows.com

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goapele

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tj Mcnulty

- July 19 -

tainted love

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hrvrd silver snakes

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9pm • $15 adv

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pickwick the sandy’s

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SUNDAY 7/14

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 7/15-7/17

2003 K St., (916) 448-8790

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

Fabulous and Gay Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

Saturday Boom, 9pm, call for cover

Sin Sunday,8pm, call for cover

Mad Mondays, 9pm M; Latin video flair, Wii bowling, 7pm Tu; Trapacana, 10pm

BAR 101

Karaoke, 7:30pm, no cover

PILOT LITE TRIO, 9:30pm, no cover

PILOT LITE TRIO, 9:30pm, no cover

BLUE LAMP

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

TASK1NE, THOM STOCKTON, SPENDS QUALITY; 9pm, call for cover

SCORPION CHILD, HORSENECK, THIS CHARMING BAND, 9pm, ARMED FOR THE APOCALYPSE; 8pm, $8 call for cover

MIKE DILLON BAND, ISSAC BEAR; 8pm M, $10

THE BOARDWALK

ADVENT STATIM, PILGRIM, GALVANIZED,

APPARITIONS, MOUTH OF THE SERPENT, BETWEEN REALMS, FALLUJAH; 7pm, $12

M.I.C., DYLAN PHILLIP, WHO RIDE, JEAN-LUC, PENNY; 8pm, call for cover

MOBILE DEATH CAMP, HOLLYWOOD JESUS, MOMENT OF CLARITY, 7pm Tu

BOWS & ARROWS

1815 19 St., (916) 822-5668

CLASSICAL REVOLUTION SACRAMENTO, AFTERNOON TEACUP COLLECTION; 8pm

THE COZMIC CAFÉ

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

TRACORUM, 9pm, $10

BILLY BUCKMAN, WILL MOREBECK, PATRICE WEBB; 7:30pm, $8

SK KAKRABA, BIOSEXUAL, FLANNEL; 8pm, call for cover

DISTRICT 30

DJ Mak J, 9pm, call for cover

INKDUP, DJ Oasis; 9pm, call for cover

DJ Billy Lane, 9pm, call for cover

JURTS, 9pm, call for cover

DJ Elements, 9pm W, call for cover

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

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

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

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

SLY PARK, BATHTUB GINS, THE HEY-NOWS!; 9pm, $5

DOGTOWN SERENADERS, AKRON ENGINE; 9pm, $5

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101 Main St., Roseville; (916) 774-0505

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 GRAVE SHADOW, EMPIRE OF DIRT; 8pm

594 Main St., Placerville; (530) 642-8481 1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

FACES

2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

FOX & GOOSE

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

EMILY O’NEIL, BOSCOE’S BROOD, ANDREW CASTRO; 8pm, no cover

G STREET WUNDERBAR Hey local bands!

HALFTIME BAR & GRILL

MACH 5, 9pm-midnight, no cover

5681 Lonetree Blvd., Rocklin; (916) 632-8200

HARLOW’S

FORTH WORLD, HEARTS+HORSES; 8:30pm, $6

AWKWARD LEMON, COLLEEN LLOY; 8:30pm, $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 CHARLEEE TRIO, KAMIKAZE, JESI NAOMI; 9:30pm, $7

SWAHILI PASSION, THE OTHER BRITTANY, FEATHER WEIGHT; 9pm, $5

Beer pong, M; SHINING STAR, Tu; ACOUSTIC ECLECTIC JAM BAND, 8pm W

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

Phuture Global Discotheque w/ DAMB, Funktion and Jon Maestro, 10pm, $3-$5

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

Swing, Lindy Hop, 8pm Tu, $6-$10; Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, 8:30pm W, $5

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN

ROB BRUNDAGE, JULIANA ZACHARIOU, DEREK THOMAS; 8:30pm, $5

NO ASTRO, SILHOUETTE OF MIRRORS, TRIKOME; 8:30pm, $5

MIKE JAMES’ HIPPIEFOLK, ANDREW CASTRO, MARK TENNIS; 8:30pm, $3

Jazz session, 8pm M; JULIET COMPANY, DEVIN WRIGHT, BIDLOVE; 8:30pm W, $5

OLD IRONSIDES

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

JENN ROGAR, 5pm, no cover; MUSIC BOX, 9pm, $3

THE GREAT PACIFIC, BRUBAKER, JET BLACK POPES; 9pm, $7

Fascination: ‘80s new-wave dancing, 9:30pm, $5

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

ON THE Y

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

ROCK2000, 9pm, $5

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731

FEATURED ARTISTS TRACORUM – JULY 13 An original Rock ‘n Soul/Rhythm ‘n Blues band from San Francisco. Serving as a touring & studio vehicle for the music of songwriter/pianist, Fletcher Nielson, epic live shows & original music are at the heart of this soul quenching, eclectic Bay Area talent. Steeped in traditional roots music the band has continues to create a positive, unique sound that is the vast umbrella known as Tracorum.

TJ KONG AND THE ATOMIC BOMB – JULY 23 A band who sound like Bob Seger high on cocaine in the bathtub watching Werner Herzog movies. Amongst other things they have been called, “A cross between the Mountain Goats, Tom Waits and the ghost of Captain Beefheart serenading the crowd at a drunken rodeo”. They play loud blue music.

monday

trivia @ 6:30pm tuesday

taco tues $1 tacos, $2 coronas, $4 margaritas wednesday

open mic

sign-ups at 7:30pm thursday

KaraoKe @ 7:30pm

THE STRANGE – JULY 25 Born of blood, sweat and tears, they are the culmination of many lives who have influenced what would become one of the Southwest’s most creative and hard-working true rock acts. Justin Lindsey’s honest songwriting accented by the powerful and soulful sound that Daniel Murphy, Andy Diekmann and Brandon Anderson provide create a familiar, yet exciting new rock experience.

904 15th St.

Btwn I & J Downtown Sac (Across from Memorial Auditorium)

916.443.2797 | www.torchclub.net 07.11.13

Open-mic comedy, 9pm, no cover

friday + saturday

both nights

LIVE MUSIC E V E RY FRI & S AT 9 P M

JULY 12

MACH 5

ROCK COVER BANDS

JULY 13

RASH

RUSH TRIBUTE BAND

JULY 19

APPLE Z

ROCK / DANCE / GROOVE

MOTHER MAYHEM TOP PARTY, COVER BAND WITH HITS FROM THE 70’S, 80’S, 90’S AND BEYOND

happy hour mon-fri 3pm-7pm

facebook.com/bar101roseville 101 main street, roseville • 916-774-0505

EVERY SAT at 5PM MAY – OCT U P C O M I N G F R E E S H OW S July 13

Unlicensed Therapy

July 20

Double Shots

Aug 3

Tri-Tones

Aug 10

Uncommon Ground

Aug 31

Spotted Dog Blues Review

Sept 7

The Island of Black and White

T I C K E T E D S H OW S * July 27

Bump City

Aug 17

Laurie Morvan

Aug 24

Ronnie Montrose Band Remembered

Sept 21

Renegades – A Tribute to Styx

* Single Tickets - $10, VIP Tickets $20 (Includes admission, a beer & a burger)

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Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover

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HRVRD, SILVER SNAKES; 8pm Tu, $10; PICKWICK, THE SANDY’S; 8pm W, $12

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

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

1119 21st St., (916) 549-2779

SN&R

Trivia night, 7:30-9pm Tu, no cover

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR

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ANTSY MCCLAIN AND THE TRAILER PARK TROUBADOURS, 8pm, $30-$35

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

908 K St., (916) 446-4361

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Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu; Northern Soul, 8pm W, no cover

SPANGLER, YELLOW JACKET MOTEL, SORTA LIKE HEAVEN; 8pm, call for cover

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

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Trivia, 6:30pm M, no cover; Open-mic, 7:30pm W, no cover

I N S I D E S T RI K ES U NL I MI T ED 5681 Lon e tre e Blvd • R ocklin 9 1 6 .6 2 6 .3 6 0 0 S T RIKE SR OCKL IN.COM

Premium Gold Country Wines 3550 Carson Rd., Camino, CA 95709 CrystalBasin.com

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

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

THURSDAY 7/11

FRIDAY 7/12

SATURDAY 7/13

BRIGA, 8pm, $15

KEITH LITTLE AND THE LITTLEBAND, 8pm, $20

JAMES GARNER, 8pm, $20

THE PARK ULTRA LOUNGE

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

1116 15th St., (916) 442-7222

PARLARE EURO LOUNGE

Top 40, 9pm, no cover

Top 40, Mashups, 9pm, no cover

DJ Club mixes, 10pm, no cover

PINE COVE TAVERN

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

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

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

SAXUAL CHOCOLATE, 9pm, $10

CHICO DEBARGE, MERCY ME; 8:30pm, $25-$30

1009 10th St., (916) 448-8960 502 29th St., (916) 446-3624

PINS N STRIKES

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

POWERHOUSE PUB

WHISKEY ROW, 10pm, call for cover

THE PRESS CLUB

2030 P St., (916) 444-7914

URBAN WASTE, OUT OF TUNE, THE LIGHT, RAT DAMAGE; 8pm, $10

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

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

SAMMY’S ROCKIN’ ISLAND

MILES SCHON BAND, 8pm, $5

AXIS, 10pm, $5

THE FUNK ROCKERS, 10pm, $5

FPODBPOD, SUGAR CANDY MOUNTAIN; 9:30pm, $5

FROZEN FOLK, CASH PONY, KIL FÜLS DED; 9pm-midnight, $5

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

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

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

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

STONEY INN/ROCKIN’ RODEO

CHAD BUSHNELL, GEORGIA RAIN; 9pm, $5

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

SWABBIES

5871 Garden Hwy, (916) 920-8088

TORCH CLUB

X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; CAMPFIRE CROONERS, 9pm, $5

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

SUNDAY 7/14

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 7/15-7/17

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

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

VOLKER STRIFLER, 3pm, call for cover

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

DEAD DADS, KNOW YOUR SAINTS, NOT HALF BAD, THE HARBOR; 5pm, $5

BAR FLY EFFECT, WAYWARDS, REBEL RADIO; THE O’MULLIGANS, 8pm W, $5

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

Country dance party, 8pm, no cover

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

MR. DECEMBER, 6pm, $5

RIFF RAFF, SET IN STONE; 3pm, $5

MUMBO GUMBO, MIKE BLANCHARD AND THE CALIFORNIOS; 3pm, $10

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm, no cover; MOFO PARTY BAND, 9pm, $8

JOHNNY KNOX, 5pm, no cover; TRACORUM, 9pm, $8

Blues jam, 4pm, no cover; THE DIVA KINGS, 8pm, $5

Emmie Jones 9pm Tuesday, $5.

Torch Club Blues and rock

EMMIE JONES, 9pm Tu, $5; Acoustic open-mic, 5:30pm W, no cover

All ages, all the time ACE OF SPADES

CELLY CEL, THA REAL MCCOY, WRITERS BLOCK, NEF; 7pm, $15

CLUB RETRO

TAYLOR CULLEN, TAYLOR WONG, ATLAS & ARROWS, NIKKI PEREZ; 6:30pm, $10

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

TOO SHORT, LIL BIT, SUAVE DEBONAIRE, BABNIT, WHO RIDE; 6:30pm, $25

Task1ne with Thom Stockton and Spends Quality 9pm Thursday, call for cover.

Blue Lamp Hip-hop

DOWNTOWN PLAZA (LOWER LEVEL) MACHIN’, 6pm, no cover 547 L St., (916) 822-5185

LUIGI’S SLICE AND FUN GARDEN

RASAR, ICONOCLAST ROBOT, BRIAN ROGERS; 8pm, $8

SHINE

THE AFTER DEATH, BOSCOE’S BROOD, THE ALCOHOL PLAGUE; 8pm, $5

1050 20th St., (916) 552-0317 1400 E St., (916) 551-1400

CLOSER, UGLY BUNNY, WALES; 8pm Tu, $5 JESI NAOMI, NORTH BOUND TRAIN, ADRIAN BELLUE; 8:30pm, $5

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

RESTAURANT ss BAR BAR CLUB ss RESTAURANT COMEDY COMEDY CLUB

VOTED BEST COMEDY CLUB BY THE SACRAMENTO NEWS & REVIEW!

thursdays

rock on live band kar aoke

THURSDAY 7/11 - SUNDAY 7/14 CO-HOST OF GABRIEL IGLESIAS’S STAND-UP REVOLUTION!

rock-n-roll // 9pm // FrEE

MARTIN MORENO

Fri 7/12

zuhg side projects: the charleee trio, kamikaze, jesi naomi

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Space

Needle is a tourist attraction in Seattle.

It’s taller than the Washington Monument but shorter than the Eiffel Tower. Near the top of the structure is a circular restaurant that rotates slowly, making one complete turn every 47 minutes. The motor that moves this 125-ton mass is small: only 1.5 horsepower. In the coming days, Aries, I foresee you having a metaphorically similar ability. You will be able to wield a great deal of force with a seemingly small and compact “engine.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “How

many years can some people exist / Before they’re allowed to be free?” asked Bob Dylan in one of his most famous songs, written in 1962. “The answer is blowin’ in the wind,” he concluded. Many people hailed the tune as a civil-rights anthem.

Thirteen years later, a hippie cowboy named Jerry Jeff Walker released “Pissin’ in the Wind,” a rowdy song that included the line, “The answer my friend is pissin’ in the wind.” It was decidedly less serious than the tune it paid homage to, with Walker suggesting that certain events in his life resembled the act described in the title. “Makin’ the same mistakes, we swore we’d never make again,” he crooned. All of this is my way of letting you know, Taurus, that you’re at a fork. In one direction is a profound, even noble, “blowin’ in the wind” experience. In the other, it would be like “pissin’ in the wind.” Which do you prefer?

It’s up to you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Italian

artist Duccio di Buoninsegna painted his Madonna and Child sometime around the year 1300. It’s a compact piece of art—just 11 inches high and 8 inches wide. Nevertheless, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art paid $45 million for the pleasure of owning it. I propose that we choose this diminutive treasure as your lucky symbol for the next eight to 10 months, Gemini.

May it inspire you as you work hard to create a small thing of great value.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When the

comic-book hero Superman first appeared on the scene in 1938, he had the power to jump over tall buildings, but he couldn’t fly. By 1941, he was hovering in midair, sometimes moving around while floating.

Eventually, he attained the ability to soar long distances, even between stars. Your own destiny may have parallels to Superman’s in the coming months, Cancerian.

It’s possible you will graduate, metaphorically speaking, from taking big leaps to hovering in midair. And if you work your butt off to increase your skill, you might progress to the next level—the equivalent of full-out flight—by March 2014.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “It is never too

late to be what you might have been,” said novelist George Eliot. I’d like you to keep that thought in mind throughout the rest of 2013 and beyond, Leo. I trust you will allow its sly encouragement to work its way down into your darkest depths, where it will revive your discouraged hopes and wake up your sleeping powers. Here are the potential facts as I see them: In the next 10 months, you will be in prime time to reclaim the momentum you lost once upon a time ... to dive back into a beloved project you gave up on—and maybe even resuscitate a dream that made your eyes shine when you were younger and more innocent.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When I first

arrived in Santa Cruz some years ago, I helped start a new-wave-punk band called Mystery Spot. Our first drummer was a guy named Lucky Lehrer. After a few months, our manager decided Lucky wasn’t good enough and kicked him out of the band. Lucky took it hard, but didn’t give up. He joined the seminal punk band the Circle Jerks, and went on to have a long and successful career. Flipside magazine even named him the best punk drummer of all time. I suspect, Virgo, that in the next 10 to 12 months, you will have a chance to achieve the beginning of some Lucky Lehrer-type redemption.

In what area of your life would you like to experience it?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to

my reading of the astrological omens, the next 12 months will be a time when you will have more power than usual to turn

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your dreams into realities. You’ll have extra skill at translating your ideals into practical action. To help make sure you capitalize on this potential, I suggest you adopt this Latin phrase as your motto: a posse ad esse. It means “from being possible to being actual.” So, why not simply make your motto “from being possible to being actual”’? Why bother with the Latin version? Because I think your motto should be exotic and mysterious—a kind of magical incantation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 2010,

two economics professors from Harvard University wrote a paper that became a crucial piece of evidence for the global austerity movement. Politicians used it to justify their assertion that the best way to cure our long-running financial ills is for governments to spend less money. Oddly, no one actually studied the paper to see if it was based on accurate data until April 2013. Then, Thomas Herndon, a 28-yearold Ph.D. student at the University of Massachusetts, dived in and discovered fundamental mistakes that largely discredited the professors’ conclusions. I believe you have a similar mojo going for you, Scorpio. Through clear thinking and honest inquiry, you have the power to get at truths everyone else has missed.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Breakthrough will probably not arrive wrapped in sweetness and a warm glow, nor is it likely to be catalyzed by a handsome prince or pretty princess.

No, Sagittarius. When the breakthrough barges into your life, it may be a bit dingy and dank, and it may be triggered by questionable decisions or weird karma. So, in other words, the breakthrough may have resemblances to a breakdown, at least in the beginning. This would actually be a good omen—a sign that your deliverance is nothing like you imagined it would be, and probably much more interesting.

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

wheat field, a rose is a weed—even if that rose is voluptuous and vibrant. I want you to promise me that you will work hard to avoid a fate like that in the coming months, Capricorn. Everything depends on you being in the right place at the right time. It’s your sacred duty to identify the contexts in which you can thrive and then put yourself in those contexts. Please note: The ambience that’s most likely to bring out the best in you is not necessarily located in a high-status situation where everyone’s ambition is amped to the max.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Is your

soul feeling parched? In your inner world, are you experiencing the equivalent of a drought? If so, maybe you will consider performing a magic ritual that could help get you on track for a cure. Try this: Go outside when it’s raining or misting. If your area is going through a dry spell, find a waterfall or high-spouting fountain, and put yourself in close proximity. Then stand with your legs apart and spread your arms upwards in a gesture of welcome.

Turn your face toward the heavens, open up your mouth and drink in the wetness for as long as it takes for your soul to be hydrated again. (In an emergency, frolicking under a sprinkler might also work.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Igor

Stravinsky was a 20th-century composer who experimented with many styles of music, including the avant-garde work “The Rite of Spring.” “My music is best understood by children and animals,” he said. In my vision of your ideal life, Pisces, that will also be true about you in the coming week: You will be best understood by children and animals. Why? Because I think you will achieve your highest potential if you’re as wild and free as you dare. You will be fueled by spontaneity and innocence, and care little about what people think of you. Play a lot, Pisces! Be amazingly, blazingly uninhibited.

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A part of history Khalid Farhoud, the owner and manager of Sammy’s Restaurant in north Sacramento (2021 Del Paso Boulevard), takes care of his patrons.

On any day not beginning with “Fri,” you’ll see him around the joint—topping off coffees, busing tables or chatting up the regulars. And we use the word “regular” loosely. On your first visit, you’ll be charmed by Khalid and his restaurant’s old-school feel.

On the second, he’ll recognize your face, ask your name. By your third visit, he’ll be calling you by name and checking up on your table to make sure everything’s perfect. If you want the whole experience, invite Farhoud to take a seat. Prod him a little on his own life, and he may just share with you the unique history of a man with no country.

How many hours per week do you spend at Sammy’s?

It depends. I have to be here as long as it takes. Sometimes I’m here at 5:30 a.m., yesterday I left at 6 in the evening. I used to work 15- to 16-hour days until I established a routine: who fits here, who fits there.

What kind of Palestinian meals do you offer?

We have, sometimes, kafta, bean soup. ...

We have rice soup, we have shish kebab sometimes, chicken kebab, hummus, baba ganoush … depends on the season. Lots of times we make vegetarian dishes, like zucchini and tomatoes over rice.

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people, they ask, “Are you going to change the name? Are you going to change the name?” I say, “No. We bought the name.”

Because, 1944, that’s a legacy.

You’re very social with the patrons.

That’s why I love this business, because you know people by their first names. You have to be social, otherwise, you’d be in the wrong business.

But you’re not like most restaurant owners in that regard.

You sit down and talk with their children.

I have lots of people who came in as kids who have kids now. They come in with a goatee, or I don’t know what—mustache. I’m serious!

They come with a mustache and a girl, and I say, “Who the hell is that? Is that you, Joe?” They say, “Yeah, you didn’t recognize me?”

And they’ve been here since they were little?

Yeah. Their parents were here since they were little kids. A guy was sitting here, about a year ago, and said, “Believe it or not, this place is a part of history. It has lots of history.” I said, “What do you mean, history?”

He said, “I met my wife here, and my daughters met their husbands here.”

You’ve lived an interesting life yourself. You’re Palestinian, but you’ve never lived in Palestine.

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[My parents are] still there, since 1948. They were kids when they first got there: My mom was born in ’43, and my dad was born in ’39. … I [still] talk with them every week. Rain or shine! I call them every Thursday night here, which is Friday morning there.

Do they think about going back to Palestine?

They dream of Palestine, but nobody would allow it. That’s a dream. The right to return—that’s the dream of every Palestinian. Here, in the [United States], if you have refugees from Vietnam or Iraq, they consider them the new immigrants. In Lebanon, they keep their refugee status.

The Palestinians have been “refugees” for 65 years. I was born there, and I’m considered a refugee. They give others citizenship, but not us, because they want us to go back to our own country. We’re stuck between a rock and a hard place.

What do you think of Sacramento?

This is home. When I go back to Lebanon, the first week is good, the second week is OK, then I start counting down my return. ... You know, your life is here, your work is here, everything is here.

And it seems you’re very much a part of the community here.

No, I lived in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, called Ain el-Hilweh. It’s 1 square kilometer. There’s about 80,000 to 100,000 people who live in it.

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How long were your parents there?

I think so. America’s given me a chance, given me the opportunity to become a citizen here. I never had a passport in my life. What I had in Lebanon was a number: “Palestinian Refugee so-and-so.” America gave me the chance to become a citizen, to give my life a meaning. Ω

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