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Skip the self-diagnosis It’s become a joke in my household.

Strange tingling in the arm? Per WebMD, it’s most certainly cancer.

Sharp pain in the lower back? Take your pick, WebMD suggests, between ovarian, kidney or spinal cancer.

Splitting headache? WebMD insists—insists!—it’s brain cancer.

You’d think I’d know better. Stop clicking the mouse and just call the doctor already. And eventually I do, because I’m one of the lucky ones with employer-subsidized coverage.

I have many friends, however— some students and artists, some unemployed—who too often find themselves weighing a trip to the doctor against such self-diagnosis.

I wasn’t always so fortunate. There was a time when I cobbled together a living via part-time jobs and didn’t qualify for coverage. Rather, I paid nearly $500 a month for the privilege of being added to my husband’s policy.

I was still lucky, actually. My husband’s plan was comprehensive with low copays, and his employer added me without combing through my health-care records for disqualifying pre-existing conditions.

Come October 1, however, such a plan would likely cost me much less because that’s when, under the Affordable Care Act, Covered California will start selling subsidized insurance policies to millions previously ineligible for employer coverage.

Between copays and package options, tax benefits and penalties, cheaper coverage isn’t necessarily any less confusing, however.

The choices we make about our health care have as much to do with knowledge and resources as they do with money. This week’s Feature Story, “What the health?!?” by Daniel Weintraub (page 17), explains ACA’s impact on millions of Californians— and also decodes some of its more obtuse details.

Because when it comes to serious health-care choices, WebMD should not be a part of the process.

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“Chocolate-chip cookies with chocolate-chip ice cream, with caramel sauce and fudge.”

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What is your guilty eating pleasure?

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It’s terrible. It’s Cheetos.

The regular, old-fashioned ones. And I only allow [myself to eat them] when I’m driving long distance.

It’s the thing that motivates me to drive a long distance.

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I would say chocolate-chip cookies with chocolate-chip ice cream, with caramel sauce and fudge on top. Is that too obvious? When you have had a really bad day, that would probably be it. The chocolate with the chocolate and the chocolate and the caramel. And I’m really into salted-caramel anything right now.

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Invest in prison reform Re “Sick of prison talk” by Danielle Ratkowski (SN&R Letters, September 19): Danielle Ratkowski’s rant on prison screams for response. She suggests that people not look to the government for personal answers to their problems. She simultaneously suggests that schools are the place where children should learn these values. Last time I checked, the schools were part of the government—hello!

She also says she’s used welfare. I presume welfare provided her with a “hand up” when she needed it. Yet she would deny prisoners similar assistance when they need it? She says she has relatives in the system (prison or jail, I assume). Does she have no understandletter of ing or empathy for the week the lack of rehab offered to people incarcerated? Does she not believe that someone is sentenced in order to pay their debt to society, and at the end of that sentence, the debt is repaid?

Judgment must end at some point, and what we have in place now is endless judgment. Felons are automatically screened out for most employment, so what are they to do? You can say you don’t care, but don’t come whining to me about people on welfare and food stamps, or who are homeless and committing crimes. Your judgment is creating this by eliminating them from decent work!

Most ex-cons would choose never to go back to prison if they were afforded a chance to earn a decent living. But for many, they don’t know any way to do that outside of crime. Ask the California system leadership: Juvenile justice is focused on rehab, while adult is focused on punishment.

Our state needs to decide if it likes paying for the revolving door in the prisons or if it can climb down from its self-righteous pedestal long enough to offer alternatives.

You want less homelessness? You want less crime? You want lower taxes related to law enforcement? Fund rehab, training, mentoring, internships, etc., and you will find that 90 percent of the “criminals” will reform and become good neighbors and community members.

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Re “Sick of prison talk” by Danielle Ratkowski (SN&R Letters, September 19): The pain and sorrow that saturate Danielle Ratkowski’s cri de coeur are plain evidence of the morally hazardous fallout radiating from our class-war society and overpressurized prison system.

I get the feeling she’s gotten stuck cleaning up some toxic messes that weren’t hers. But cause and effect are easily confused. There’s no denying that thinking twice is a good way to stay out of trouble—like out of Iraq. And not thinking has many causes, such as lack of education from a young age. I am wondering: How young are the kids who need to know “it isn’t someone else’s responsibility to take care of them”?

The truth is that we all rely on government funding to survive. I’d be toast without my public education in California’s formerly not-underfunded school system.

And there are many other basic things for which we rely on government, like water and other utilities, roads, public health, and so forth.

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The dog that saved California Hustling ballot measures, soothing political stresses, finessing negotiations—the state’s affable first dog is changing Sacramento’s Capitol culture The final weeks of the legislative session are high-stakes, long-hour grinds. The building by brims with lobbyists, staffers and media.

Nick Miller It’s a stressful, possibly hellish time—but then an elongated, beamish canine named ni ck am@ newsr evie w.c om Sutter Brown might bounce into the room.

When Gov. Jerry Brown and first lady Anne Gust’s Pembroke Welsh corgi recently entered a Democratic state senator’s office, for instance, staffers elicited yelps of delight unlike anything I’d ever seen in the building. They grasped for their smartphones, and Sutter made a run for food scraps underneath desks. In no time, everyone was taking photos.

“Can I pick him up?” a woman inquired.

A selfie with Sutter is currency among politicos. A small crowd quickly formed in the office’s lobby. Sutter barked—corgis are herders—and attempted to roust the gathering. This prompted a half-dozen more staffers to poke their heads in the front door. “Is that Sutter?”

So goes the celebrity of California’s first dog, a veritable Justin Bieber-like phenomena.

But with teeth: Recent nationalmedia stories argue that the dog, who turned 10 this week, is the a big part of the secret to the governor’s success.

That Sutter’s disarming charm and surrogate prowess make for an administrative spokesperson unequaled.

BuzzFeed recently christened Sutter a “Force in California Politics.” The New Republic published a feature titled “Meet the Corgi Who Helped California Raise Taxes.” Which is true. Sort of.

“I had this kind of random idea to take him out on the road for [Proposition] 30,” explains Jennifer Fearing, the Sacramentobased California senior state director of the Humane Society of the United States.

Fearing had dog-sat Sutter often, and even escorted him to Los Angeles once for a spay-neuter advocacy event. So last fall, when she wanted the governor’s taxincrease measure to pass, both personally B E F O R E | N E W S | F E AT U R E

Sutter Brown turned 10 this week.

and for her organization, she suggested bringing Sutter into the spotlight.

“I’ve got one trick: Me and that corgi on the road,” she told Brown’s staff.

It worked. Thirty stops in 30 days at Democratic phone-bank offices throughout California. If people made an hour worth of calls, they got their picture taken with Sutter. “It was a total hit,” Fearing says.

Sutter even met with the Los Angeles Times editorial board. The mayor of Chico gave the corgi a key to the city.

President Barack Obama’s Portuguese “Everybody in the Capitol has a water dogs, Bo and Sunny, do the crush, an absolute crush, on Sutter,” media rounds infrequently. Gov. George says Fearing, who co-authored Dogs at Deukmejian owned three beagles, but none Work: A Practical Guide to Creating were a formidable presence inside the Dog-Friendly Workplaces, which chamCapitol’s “horseshoe,” a.k.a. the nickname pions the value of pets at the office. She for the governor’s executive wing. hopes to hold a “Bring Your Dog to the “Whenever the governor and Anne Capitol” day next year. are in Sacto, Sutter is there, too. He’s a Sutter’s magnetism cannot be underfixture,” says Fearing. Insiders say he’s stated. When the governor’s sister and known for rummaging through garbage original Sutter owner, Kathleen Brown, cans for eats, and that no trash bin is safe. returned to reside in the state last month, And that, of Jerry and Anne, he’s more of fears that the dog might leave Sacramento a “mama’s boy.” Some media members caused near-panic. Reporters quickly “Everybody in the even told SN&R of their surprise when contacted Kathleen for comment, to which bumping into the low-riding, chestnutshe assured she would not “disintermediCapitol has a crush, and-white tuxedoed dog in the governor’s ate” Sutter from the governor’s care. an absolute crush, offices, calling it “surreal.” Others say Others commented how reporters, on Sutter.”

Sutter helps the governor with diplomacy often poised to bombard the governor and and negotiation. staff with tough questions, will “melt” Jennifer Fearing “[Brown] can be very cerebral, very when Sutter appears. Media members California senior state director, philosophical about policy and the direcretweeting Sutter’s Twitter posts is a Humane Society of the United States tion where he wants to take the state,” common practice (no one knows who (and regular Sutter Brown dog sitter) explains Roger Salazar, a local political manages the dog’s online presence, and consultant. “I think what Sutter Brown the governor’s office declined to speak Prop. 30’s unanticipated victory revitaldoes, it warms him up a bit. It shows that with SN&R for this story). ized Brown’s governorship. Was Sutter he’s got that warm side.”

Ben Adler, statehouse bureau chief with partly to thank? “It would be a ... stretch to Salazar is no stranger to political pets.

Capital Public Radio, says that while reportsuggest that Sutter was responsible for Prop During a stint at the Clinton White House, ers are human and “everyone loves dogs,” 30’s passage,” Marc Tracy wrote in the he witnessed how the president and first Sutter’s presence “adds another dimension” New Republic. “But Sutter actually did fit lady’s cat changed the culture. “Socks did to the challenges of reporting on Brown. uncannily into the overall strategy.” sort of the same thing for Hillary Clinton” “I’ve definitely seen him used politiCanine as political asset is at once as Sutter does for the governor, he says. cally,” Adler says. an old-dog and new trick. President The corgi is also an ambassador.

On a recent afternoon walk in Capitol Franklin D. Roosevelt used his Scottish One anonymous source told SN&R that Park, SN&R joined Sutter and Fearing to terrier, Fala, in a campaign speech to they bumped into staffers and Sutter witness firsthand the dog’s political charm. describe how Republicans were “not in the elevator earlier this month. The Near the west steps, a group of lobbyists content” simply attacking his family and, group was taking the pooch to visit approach Sutter, cackling with joy as they moreover, were targeting his dog. But another senator, because their boss reach down to rub his scruff. The dog flips Fala never had more than 10,000 likes on was “kind of depressed” and “wanted onto his back, begging for a belly rub.

Facebook, or 5,000-plus Twitter followto spend some time with Sutter as Everyone laughs. ers like Sutter. therapy.”

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Shaquille O’Neal lifts the governor’s wife, Anne Gust, during dinner at Zocalo this Monday night (because her husband won’t sign Senate Bill 743?).

After announcing him as a new minority owner of the basketball team, O’Neal, along with Kings majority owner Vivek Ranadivé and co-owner Mark Mastrov (with whom the NBA star has opened 24 Hour Fitness franchises) met with Brown at the Capitol on Monday afternoon.

Later that evening, the trio joined new Kings front-office member Chris Mullin and Brown’s wife, first lady Anne Gust, and others at Zocalo, a popular Mexican restaurant in Midtown. Kings center DeMarcus Cousins also was in attendance.

By the end of the night, a photo of O’Neal bench-pressing Brown’s wife above his head was making the rounds on Twitter.

Too many margaritas, maybe?

Or perhaps it was strictly business: The Kings bill on the governor’s desk, Senate Bill 743, could make or break the arena’s construction.

Foremost, the bill—ushered through the Capitol by Senate

President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg—would speed up judicial review of any challenges to the arena’s environmental-impact report.

Say then, if a group files a suit against the certification of the EIR, both the superior and appeals courts would have only 270 days to resolve any legal challenges, a significant fasttrack. (Sure, the courts have told the Legislature that it cannot mandate such expeditious proceedings, but the bill includes such language all the same.)

Equally important is that the bill provides injunctive relief for arena construction. This means that, unless there is a serious risk to public health or American Indian artifacts are unearthed, work on the arena will not be interrupted by any environmental suits or challenges.

This timeline is important: A signature-gathering effort to put an initiative on the June 2014 ballot challenging the arena’s public subsidy will probably succeed. If it does, the Kings hope to complete the arena’s environmental-impact report and commence construction before any vote; experts say the EIR might be completed as early as late spring.

The special Kings bill also permits the city of Sacramento to engage eminent-domain proceedings against the owners of the Downtown Plaza Macy’s property, a New York-based real-estate firm. These owners have so far turned down the Kings’ offers for the Downtown Plaza Macy’s Mens & Home Store property. City council gave the green light to use eminent domain this past summer.

The Steinberg bill also streamlines judicial review of all CEQA suits.

When Ranadivé introduced O’Neal as a minority owner this week, turns out he was killing two birds with one stone: O’Neal provided the star power in a private meeting with the governor, and the all-star would hopefully be the key to developing one of the league’s most-promising young talents, Cousins, into an NBA superstar.

Mentoring troublemaker talents like Cousins is typical for retired NBA talents such as O’Neal. But lobbying the governor himself is unconventional—and contentious.

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Republicans pass deep cuts to CalFresh food assistance House Republicans approved nearly $40 billion in cuts to the food-stamps program last Thursday evening in a tight 217-210 by vote. Fifteen Republicans defected Alan Pyke to vote no on the measure, which is projected to kick millions of people off of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates Thursday’s cuts will bump at least 4 million—and up to 6 million—people out of the program, and even the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates 3.8 million would lose benefits next year with an additional 2.8 million losing them each year on average over the decade.

The food-stamps program provides $133 per month in assistance on average and is already scheduled for a significant cut in November as a federal-stimulus provision expires.

Constraining eligibility for CalFresh in Sacramento will mean some hungry people get hungrier: Nearly half of the country’s 50 million individuals who suffer from hunger have pretax incomes high enough to make them ineligible for SNAP without categorical eligibility, according to Feeding America, and nearly a third earn more than 185 percent of the federal poverty level income.

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SNAP is one of the three most effective anti-poverty programs the government has, keeping 4 million people out of poverty last year alone.

The cuts Republicans propose are likely to create greater costs down the road than what they save the government in the near term.

The House and Senate must now reconcile their positions on foodstamp cuts, which the top agricultural policymaker in the Senate has warned will be very difficult on the shortened timeline House leaders have created by waiting until mid-September to act on food assistance. (The House passed the portion that relates more directly to agriculture in July.)

The Senate’s farm bill included a $4 billion cut to SNAP, meaning that cuts in some amount are likely should the two chambers manage to strike a deal.

The House bill includes both a more extreme version of the Senate’s changes to the application process for food stamps and work requirements provisions that doomed the original House farm bill last time.

Prior to this summer, nutrition programs had always been wrapped up with agricultural programs in the farm bill. House leaders effectively doomed the decades-long marriage of agriculture and nutrition policy in June, however, when they endorsed an amendment attaching work requirements to SNAP. The amendment killed Democratic support and also failed to secure enough Republican votes for final passage of the farm bill.

The House cuts amount to about Rather than try to recraft a farm Here in Sacramento, cuts to food 5 percent of the projected 10-year bill that could win majority support, stamps could impact more than cost of SNAP, which currently Speaker John Boehner and Majority 250,000 individuals. serves one in seven Americans as Leader Eric Cantor opted to split the The Nutrition Reform and Work the jobs crisis brought on by the nutrition and agricultural portions into Opportunity Act passed Thursday financial crisis continues. separate legislation. seeks to pare back food-stamp particiSen. Debbie Stabenow, a pation by changing eligibility requireDemocrat who chairs the Committee ments in a few different ways. In Here in Sacramento, on Agriculture in the upper chamber, addition to adding work requirements has warned that the House’s split modeled on the reforms that helped cuts to food stamps approach to the farm bill threatens to cripple the efficacy of welfare, the undermine the whole of American Republican bill ends something called would impact food policy. “categorical eligibility,” whereby more than 250,000 Conservatives argue that tighter people enrolled in other low-income individuals. restrictions are necessary due to safety-net benefits can skip much fraud and waste in food stamps, but of the bureaucracy and paperwork Enrollment in SNAP tracks with food-stamp audits routinely show that involved in applying for food stamps. the program wastes less money and is Proponents say categorical eligibil- the health of the economy, as safetynet programs are designed to do, but less vulnerable to fraud than the crop ity reduces administrative costs in the Republicans have repeatedly insisted insurance system those same conserprogram, but Republicans argue that that there is something untoward about vatives reauthorized in July. it makes federal anti-hunger spending the rapid expansion of the food-stamp Currently, one in seven families— too generous. rolls in the worst economy the country totaling 49 million people, 8 million has seen in about eight decades. of whom are children—face food insecurity. Ω N E W S | F E A T U R E S T O R Y | A R T S & C U L T U R E | A F T E R

House Republicans recently passed a $40 billion cut to food stamps, which would leave millions of Americans without dinner on their plates.

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In June, the grand jury said Mayor Kevin Johnson and his staff missed the deadline to file a ballot argument in opposition to a half-cent sales-tax hike called Measure U, depriving voters the opportunity to weigh both sides of the argument. Sixty-four percent of voters adopted the initiative last November. An initiative to review the city’s charter got walloped by an even wider margin.

The city has implemented timeline reminders to prevent future one-sided ballot arguments, but was less receptive to the investigative body’s other recommendations.

The jury also found that some council members farmed out their ballot-argument-writing duties, and that the city clerk’s office suggested submitting certain arguments just before deadline to delay access by the media and opponents. “Not sure if this matters. Let me know,” the staffer’s email read.

Making sure council members who are tasked with authoring ballot arguments actually do so “requires further analysis,” the city says in its response. So too does a recommendation that elected officials don’t write arguments for and against measures they supported placing on the ballot. “There is nothing in state law that disallows this practice,” says the written response prepared by Johnson’s office, city attorney James C. Sanchez and city clerk Shirley Concolino.

A council committee was supposed to author the response, but a staff report says Councilmen Darrell Fong and Kevin McCarty declined the mayor’s appointments to it.

(Raheem F. Hosseini)

Commission of none An informational report given Tuesday crystallized how stymied Sacramento’s racial-profiling commission is and how unwilling the city council has been to help.

This was the first quarterly update the commission has made since 2011. That’s because the commission can’t actually discuss racial profiling due to its outdated scope, written in 2004.

As a result, the commission has suffered high turnover, with appointees frustrated that they were seated to a donothing board. Due to a lack of agenda items or a quorum, the commission didn’t meet again until January of this year.

Which is basically all the report says. The police department still collects demographic data on most of its traffic stops, but the commission isn’t allowed to examine it. The commission would need a single council member to sponsor an update to the commission’s scope to change all this, but has been unable to find one since issuing a 2008 report that showed troubling racial bias in police stops. (RFH)

Cost of a King This past Tuesday, the Sacramento City Council was set to approve a 5 percent surcharge on all events at the venue formerly known as Arco Arena. The bump in ticket prices will go toward paying off the 1997 loan the city issued to the Kings.

Average ticket cost for an NBA game in Sacramento is $43.32. So, if the Kings sold out every regular season home game next year, the surcharge would contribute a little more than $1.5 million to pay down the loan.

The Kings, however, had the league’s worst attendance record last year under the Maloof ownership at 79.4 percent capacity. (Nick Miller)

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License to deport California’s new driver’s license bill includes very troubling trade-offs for immigrants While Pete Wilson was governor of California 20 years ago, he squeezed anti-immigrant feelings for every drop of political juice he could get. He pushed Proposition 187, denying health care and education and other services to those who immigrated here illegally, and rode its popularity to a second term. The measure was ultimately struck down in the courts, and the real immigrantARvIn bashing action moved on to other states

by CoSmo G like Arizona. cosmog@ n ewsrev iew.c om But some of the nastiness from the Wilson era proved to be awfully longlived. In 1993, the year before Prop. 187, Wilson signed another new law making it illegal for anyone without a Social Security number to get a California driver’s license.

Effectively making it illegal for immigrants to drive a car to work or to school or to the grocery store or to a doctor’s appointment.

And so, for the last two decades, the everyday chores of many people have been fraught with danger of arrest and confiscation of their vehicles. And though the law was meant to punish one group, we all the pay the costs of having more unlicensed drivers on the road.

The law includes language saying law enforcement can’t use the new driver’s licenses to investigate citizenship status.

But it seems naive to think it won’t do just that.

Democratic lawmakers, immigrant-rights and labor groups have been trying to get rid of the wrongheaded law ever since. And this year, they succeeded, though with some very troubling trade-offs.

When, Assemblyman Luis A. Alejo, a Democrat from Watsonville, introduced his Assembly Bill 60 in the spring, the legislation was pretty straightforward. The new bill allowed anyone to get a license without a Social Security number if they had several other pieces of identification, including things like a consular ID and a birth certificate.

That would have given California a license scheme similar to the states of New Mexico and Washington. We could finally say adios to this noxious remainder of Wilson’s legacy, and everybody could go back about their business.

Alas, that’s not good enough for the Department of Homeland Security, which has been trying awfully hard to make states comply with the national Real ID Act. Passed in 2005—following the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission—Real ID requires proof of

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After negotiations with the governor’s office, Alejo included amendments requiring a “recognizable feature” on the front flagging the drivers undocumented status, along with a statement on the back saying the license couldn’t be used as an ID for any federal purpose.

The language was so vague that it could have allowed another Wilson to come along and stamp “UNDOCUMENTED” in big red letters on the new licenses.

“It would have been a license to deport,” said Ronald Coleman, with the California Immigrant Policy Center. Under pressure from immigrant-rights and labor groups, Alejo specified that the licenses should be more subtle, with markings, such as “DP” for “driving privilege” or “DL” for full licenses.

More tasteful, yes, but how is it any less of a scarlet letter? The bill makes it illegal to discriminate against someone with a DP license—even while the markings are an obvious invitation to discriminate. Applicants will also be required to sign an affidavit, “attesting that he or she is both ineligible for a social security account number and unable to submit satisfactory proof that his or her presence in the United States is authorized.” The law includes language saying law enforcement can’t use the licenses to investigate citizenship status. But it seems naive to think it won’t do just that.

“We are worried about the feds coming in and asking to see who signed an affidavit,” said Coleman. And imagine an immigrant with a California driver’s license who travels to work in Arizona, where the letters “DP” would give police all the reasonable suspicion they need to do an immigration check.

And what’s the hurry to comply with Real ID? Most states haven’t, and they keep balking at its costs and at the notion of a national ID. Montana’s former Gov. Brian Schweitzer rejected it, saying, “Montana will not agree to share its citizens’ personal and private information through a national database.”

The bill won’t take effect until January 1, 2015. So undocumented immigrants still can’t apply for licenses for more than a year. Why did California need to rush to comply with the Real ID Act, when it’s not clear DHS is going to be able to enforce it? And would the federal government really make good on threats to bar Californians from entering federal buildings or flying on airplanes?

“No, we don’t believe the [Transportation Security Administration] is going to tell California that all of their driver’s licenses are invalid for travel,” said Coleman. It’s good that Californians can get back on the road and leave this ugly anti-immigrant chapter behind.

But there may be trouble on the road ahead for anyone driving with a DP license. Ω

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It’s Artober.

As every Sacramento art lover knows, October is a glorious month. The summer vacations are over, the new fall art shows have launched. The October weather gods usually skip the 100-degree days and aren’t quite ready to unleash rain, so we can still enjoy outdoor events. While there are great things to do in the other 11 months, October is special. It has Artober.

In this week’s SN&R, you will find a road map to local art adventures, music, theater, festivals, exhibits and more. Take a look at the supplement and start planning your month. l ne Ae nK VO

by Jeff One wonderful free event is the sixth annual SacWorldFest (in Old Sacramento on Saturday, j e ffv @n e wsr e v ie w.c o m October 5, from 6 to 8 p.m.; through Sunday, October 6, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Combining national and local acts on multiple stages, the outdoor festival is a delightful smorgasbord of international talent, such as Grammy Award-nominated West African soloist Youssoupha Sidibe and youth performers thrilled to be onstage.

This year’s Saturday event will focus on Native American art. The Sunday lineup includes music from around the world, with a hip-hop dance-off competition at 4:15 p.m. There is something for everyone, and it’s an easy and enjoyable way to experience Sacramento’s tremendous diversity. I should mention that I am on the board Sacramento art of this event, so I have seen the hard work and dedication groups have created that has gone into putting on a wonderful, vibrant the festival.

I am not on the board of art, music and any of the Sacramento theater but my wife theater scene for companies, and I are longtime B Street us to enjoy. Theatre season subscribers.

In addition, we try to go to any local show that gets an exploding Shakespeare positive review in this paper. These shows have brought so much joy to our lives! In the last two weeks, we saw Other Desert Cities at B Street and Check out Artober, Clybourne Park at Capital Stage. Both were excellent. a guide to art, There is something incredible about live theater, espemusic, theater, cially in small venues where you feel like you are in a tiny dance and more, inside this issue room with the actors. Oh, wait—you are in a tiny room with of SN&R, and the actors. This interaction makes the play more real. look out for the I encourage you to experience local art, music, theater SacWorldFest and festivals during Artober. Sacramento art groups have insert in next week’s paper. done their job. They have created a wonderful, vibrant art, music and theater scene for us to enjoy. There are free events like Second Saturday. There are great museums like Jeff vonKaenel the Crocker and the California State Railroad Museum. is the president, There is the Sacramento Zoo. There is live music at Ace CEO and majority owner of of Spades, Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, and dozens the News & Review of other venues throughout the region. And you can see newspapers in big shows at the Community Center Theater, Sleep Train Sacramento, Arena, the Crest Theatre, the Mondavi Center in Davis and Chico and Reno.

Harris Center for the Arts in Folsom.

The point is, just go. You’ll be supporting local artists and performers, and you will have a wonderful time. Ω

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Breaking ’s American empire business Breaking Bad ’s Walter White, Jesse Pinkman and their Walt decides to cook meth to make enough blue meth have a lot to say about the end of money for his family before cancer kills him. by our red, white and blue American dream.

He’ll do anything to give his children a chance Nick Miller Heading into the AMC drama’s at the American dream. ni c kam@ final episode this Sunday night, former Fifty-some-odd episodes later, and he’s newsreview.c om schoolteacher-turned-drug lord Walt has lost gone numb to the societal impacts of floodeverything. His fortune is nearly gone. His ing the streets with his poison.

Spoilers family hates him. Lung cancer forebodes an It’s an insensitivity America can relate for Breaking Bad are imminent last breath. It’s a dark denouement, to. We love our safe neighborhoods and revealed in this essay. filled with enough bleak character resolutions cheap gasoline. And not only do we have You know the drill. and sinister humor to zero problem brushing off make Sophocles look inequality, brazen imperialism This is why like Nora Ephron. and climate change to sustain Things weren’t this lifestyle—we feel entitled Walt will end up always so grim. For to do so.

Walt, prosperity was This is the worst kind of dead on Sunday. contagious. He even egotism, according to Bad: famously told Jesse that Having the arrogance that he wasn’t cooking meth just to make more you’re doing something for the greater good millions. “I’m in the empire business,” he when, really, you’re rotten. growled.

This is why Walt will end up dead on Now, his empire is in death-rattle mode.

Sunday.

Cue the message: The writers of Breaking Which, surprisingly, might distress a lot of Bad—a postmodern Western set in the final viewers, as so many people—at least accordfrontier flats of Albuquerque, New Mexico— ing to the hundreds of thousands of comments are using the most acclaimed TV show in on Reddit’s Bad forums—remain in Walter America to tell America that it sucks.

White’s corner. And I guess that makes sense, Consider the show’s prevailing complicathe whole cheering for bad-guy Walt thing— tion, and how it mirrors the moral dilemmas despite his social amorality and stoic cruelty. an underemployed victim of this recession If Walt loses, then it’s an American already faces. In the show’s premiere episode, dream denied. Ω BEFORE

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Health care is here As the Affordable Care Act moves closer into implementation this October, it’s worth remembering that “Obamacare” has already saved American consumers more than $1.2 billion simply by limiting the amount that insurance companies can charge for administrative services.

That’s it. Right off the top.

It’s not a perfect system. No system is—even the gold-standard universal single-payer system that we hold as an ideal. Given how entrenched insurance companies have become in our health-care system, though, this is undoubtedly the fastest way to get health care to people who have been excluded from services because they couldn’t afford insurance.

Already, we’re seeing results: young people who can stay on their parents’ insurance until they can afford their own, and people with pre-existing conditions able to purchase health insurance.

But Covered California will spend the next three months enrolling a large number of uninsured Californians into programs. Even those who have health insurance through their employer will benefit in the long run, as having more insured people reduces the number of uninsured patients that must be paid for out of public funds.

Visit the Covered California website at www.coveredca.com. Find out what’s available.

Take advantage of it. It’s taken a great deal of work, but access to health insurance is finally available to everyone. Ω

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While some were upset about the news that sleep-deprived legislative aides pitched pennies into the crown on the Capitol’s statue of Queen Isabella during the last-minute push to wrap up the session—it could damage the marble and is discouraged—there was some good news in the slew of laws sent forward to the governor.

First, the bill allowing driver’s licenses for immigrants living here without legal permission—long overdue—is finally in good shape to become law.

It’s more than a bit naive to think that immigrants in carcentric California aren’t going to drive. Making licensure available regardless of immigration status is a common-sense measure that will improve the safety of the roadways by allowing these drivers access to the same training and licensing as the rest of us.

Raising the minimum wage was also a move in the right direction. While it still lags behind a living wage, there’s no doubt that those workers at the bottom of the pay scale need a break. Too many still think this only affects teenagers, but obviously, those people haven’t been to a fast-food joint lately, where workers come in all ages and certainly work hard. Adding more to their checks will have a ripple effect throughout the economy, given that almost the entire paycheck of minimum-wage workers is spent locally.

Along those same lines, the domestic worker’s bill of rights is also good news. The people who care for our children, our elders and our homes ought to have the same protection under the law. We urge the governor to sign this bill. Ω | A R T S & C U L T U R E | A F T E R | 09.26.13 | SN&R

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As a young Harvard University graduate, Belshé worked for former Gov. Pete Wilson in the 1990s, and the pair tried to instill an ethos of prevention into the state’s sprawling, taxpayer-supported healthcare programs. Spend a little more up front to keep people healthy, they reasoned, and the state could save billions down the road. That tack was unusual for a Republican, and Wilson had some success with it. But it was never enough to fundamentally transform such a massive system.

Fifteen years later, Belshé helped lead an even more ambitious reform for another Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Modeled after a Massachusetts plan signed into law by Gov. Mitt Romney, Schwarzenegger’s proposal would have required everyone to have insurance, required employers to provide it, and slapped strict new regulations on insurance companies. The bill passed the state Assembly but died in the Senate amid personal and partisan backbiting.

Now, Belshé is near the helm of another huge undertaking as a member of the California board that will implement much of the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s top-to-bottom transformation of the nation’s health-insurance system. In October, that agency, known as Covered California, will begin selling subsidized insurance policies to millions of Californians who don’t get affordable coverage through their employer.

And the success or the failure of the initiative might well rise or fall on a question that Belshé has been pursuing for a decade: Can the government, working with community groups and civic institutions, instill a “culture of coverage” in society so that everyone expects to have health insurance and buys it, even if they are young, healthy and figure that they probably won’t need the coverage?

“In my mind, the ‘culture of coverage’ reflects this guiding principle of shared responsibility,” Belshé said, “this idea that in order to make meaningful progress, it requires something of all of us.”

That sums up the central idea at the heart of “Obamacare,” as the law is widely known. Everyone will be required to buy insurance, and if they can’t afford it, they will get tax credits to make it cheaper or will be eligible for free care from the state. Large employers will be required to offer affordable coverage to their full-time employees, or else pay a fine.

Taxpayers will pay more to finance the subsidies for those who can’t afford coverage. And insurance companies will have to play by a new set of rules that will control almost everything they do.

“The Affordable Care Act is transformative,” said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a statewide health-care consumer advocacy group. “It’s the biggest thing Congress has ever done in health care.”

It is also arguably the most controversial thing Congress has done in any area of public policy in at least a generation.

Obamacare arrives in Sacramento this week.

Here’s everything you need to know. b y D anie l We inT rau b Daniel Weintraub is editor of the California Health Report. Callie Shanafelt, Leslie Griffy, Lynn Graebner and Leah Bartos of the California Health Report also contributed to this article.

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And the plans will be classified into four categories—platinum, gold, silver and bronze— depending on how much of the cost of care is covered by the insurance company.

“Consumers will be able to make apples-toapples decisions that they have not been able to make in the past,” said Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California. “We are changing the focus of health insurance from being a shell game, hiding from consumers what’s covered and not covered … to providing the best care possible to [help consumers] stay healthy and get care when they need it.”

The platinum plans will have the highest monthly premiums, and they will cover 90 percent of the cost of a consumer’s care. The cheapest plans will be bronze, but they will cover only 60 percent of the cost of a person’s care. Within each category, all the plan details

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“In the short term, I would not be surprised if people have trouble getting to health care, a physician or another provider,” said Assemblyman Richard Pan, a Democrat from Sacramento and a practicing pediatrician. “There will probably be backups and waits and so forth.”

But Pan said he thinks the backlogs will clear once the surge of new patients settles in and people get treatment for problems they have been neglecting because they could not afford to pay for care.

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While the ACA is sprawling and, at times, maddeningly complex, it is easier to understand if you think of it as doing three basic things: It will expand free public health insurance to more than a million low-income Californians, mostly childless adults, who until now have had little or no access to health care.

It will offer subsidized coverage to those who can’t get affordable policies elsewhere in a new, simplified online marketplace designed to allow consumers to compare coverage on an apples-toapples basis with no hidden trap doors.

It will completely change the way insurance companies operate. Instead of spending their time and resources weeding out risky customers, insurers will now be forced to compete on price and customer service. And while their rates won’t be regulated—yet—almost everything else they do will be, turning the industry into something almost resembling a public utility.

There is much, much more, but almost everything the law does is built around one of those three goals.

The Supreme Court, in its controversial decision upholding Obama’s health-care law, also ruled that states could opt out of expanding their public-health programs for the poor, which was a key part. Many states with Republican governors have since decided not to expand those programs, even though the federal government is promising to pay most of the cost.

But California’s Legislature and two governors—first Schwarzenegger and now Jerry Brown—have embraced the law with enthusiasm and implemented it aggressively. That’s given California a head start that many other states have lacked.

A big example was the early creation of a new public program run by the counties for lowincome people who did not qualify for Medi-Cal. This change provided coverage to more than 700,000 people, and now, most of them—and many more—will be rolled into the Medi-Cal program beginning on January 1, 2014. By the time the change is fully implemented, California could have 9 million people in Medi-Cal, or nearly one in every four residents of the state.

Beginning January 1, nearly every Californian will be required to have health insurance, or else pay a penalty on their taxes. But many of those who do not get insurance at work and are not eligible for Medi-Cal will be able to get subsidies from the federal government to make their coverage more affordable.

The subsidies, in the form of tax credits paid in advance on the consumer’s behalf directly to an insurance company, will be available through Covered California. This new online marketplace managed by the state has contracted with 13 health insurers to offer coverage in 19 regions around the state.

Every plan will offer the same 10 essential benefits: coverage that will be, in most cases, more comprehensive than is generally available today.

will be identical. The insurance companies will compete by trying to offer better networks of doctors and hospitals and better service.

A crucial change: Consumers will be able to choose any of these plans regardless of their health history. They can’t be denied coverage or charged more if they have been sick. Rates will vary based on geography to reflect the cost of care in different parts of the state. And older people will have to pay more than younger people, though they cannot be charged more than three times as much for the same plan.

Today, it is common for older people to pay five times more than younger people, if they can get coverage at all.

As an example, a 32-year-old single person living in Sacramento County with an annual income of $30,000 a year will have choices ranging from $197 a month to $445 a month, after taking the subsidies into account.

A couple in their 40s earning $50,000 would pay between $215 and $776 a month, depending on what level of reimbursement they wanted the insurance to provide.

A crucial question is whether healthy people will enroll or pay the penalty, which in many cases, will be far less expensive than the monthly premiums. If too many healthy people opt out, the system will be top-heavy with sicker patients that are more expensive cases.

That could force insurers to increase rates in the second year, leading even more healthy people to leave the system and starting a spiral from which the program might not be able to recover.

Critics point out that the law’s provisions, by putting everyone into one big insurance pool, will increase costs on the young and the healthy, while making insurance more accessible to older people and the sick. The tax-credit subsidies available to low-income people will relieve part of that cost shift for many young, healthy people, but not for all of them.

To overcome potential resistance, Covered California is planning a massive media blitz in the coming weeks to promote the new insurance exchange. The agency will spend millions while enlisting celebrities, churches, community groups and civic organizations to encourage people to enroll.

The biggest target will be young adults, dubbed “young invincibles,” because of their tendency to think they won’t get sick and need health care.

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The federal government paid for the early expansion, and it will pay for 100 percent of the cost of the newly expanded Medi-Cal program for the first three years. By 2020, the state expects Californians to be receiving about $6 billion worth of additional care a year, at a cost to state taxpayers of $600 million.

The expansion will open Medi-Cal’s rolls to anyone with an income below 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or about $16,000 for an individual and $32,500 for a family of four.

Low-income people with no children will be eligible for free care for the first time.

Thanks to the Bridge to Reform, the early adopter program run by the counties, the MediCal expansion figures to be the simplest of the various parts of the Affordable Care Act to implement here. In most counties, the infrastructure is already in place and for many patients, it will just be a matter of transferring their enrollment from one public program to another.

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While the Affordable Care Act is supposed to provide nearly universal health coverage, 3 million to 4 million Californians will likely be left behind.

Many of these will be people who have immigranted here illegally, who will be excluded by law from buying coverage in the exchange, even with their own money. Others will be people exempted from the insurance mandate because the cost of coverage exceeds 8 percent of their income, people who opt out and pay the fines, and people who are simply disconnected from civic society and aren’t reached or persuaded by the marketing campaign.

The funds will be redirected to local humanservices programs, offsetting state general-fund costs in the CalWORKs welfare program.

The community clinics that undergird the health-care safety net in much of the state will also be in a bind. On the one hand, many are preparing to compete for paying patients for the first time as part of the provider networks consumers can access with insurance through Covered California. On the other hand, the clinics are likely to experience a drop in funding because they will be treating fewer uninsured patients on behalf of the counties.

“These are essential institutions that need to survive and thrive in the post-reform world,” said Wright of Health Access. “We need their capacity, both for the remaining uninsured and for the newly insured.

“It means that they, as well as the system as a whole, have to agree to do things in a different way,” Wright said.

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A 32-year-old single person living in Sacramento County with an annual income of $30,000 a year will have choices ranging from $197 a month to $445 a month, after taking the subsidies into account.

One such institution adapting to the new environment, the Mendocino Coast Clinics, has been operating its nonprofit health center in Northern California for nearly 20 years. Based in Fort Bragg, the three clinics treat patients living along 50 miles of the remote California coastline. The clinics are the only provider in town offering a sliding-fee discount to qualifying patients, offering everything from primary care, pediatrics, reproductive health, dental and behavioral health care.

Paula Cohen, executive director of the Mendocino Coast Clinics, says while the clinics are facing a great deal of change and uncertainty under the coming health reform, they are far from becoming obsolete.

“It’s a word of caution, this is not going to be the end of any discussion for any need for safetynet providers,” Cohen said.

To address that need Assemblyman V. Manuel Pérez has called for the establishment of a trust fund paid for by employers, private donors and philanthropic organizations to provide comprehensive health-insurance coverage to workers who are not covered by the ACA or the expansion of Medi-Cal. The California Department of Health Care Services would administer the fund, and nonprofit community health centers would apply to the trust for money to serve the number of uncovered workers coming to their clinic for the time those workers are employed by the employers contributing to the fund. The trust would serve employees of small businesses, agriculture, restaurants, sales and service industries, primarily people who don’t receive health insurance through their jobs and who can’t afford to buy it on their own.

“The ACA is historical for us,” Pérez said.

“But it doesn’t go far enough.”

Sacramento’s Assemblyman Pan said he sees the Affordable Care Act as a turning point in the history of American health care.

“Is it as grand a transition as some people would prefer? No,” he said. “But the insurance reforms, combined with the expansion of coverage, provide an opportunity for the health-care community to say, ‘Look, let’s see if we can do a better job taking care of people than we do now, particularly people with chronic conditions.’

“Ultimately, that is going to be the measure of success: Do we change the health-care system in a way that makes it make more sense for our population?” Ω

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Another big question for the law is how employers will react. America’s health-insurance system is built around the concept of employers providing coverage for their workers, but that custom evolved by accident. The method got its start during World War II, when wage controls forced employers to try other ways to compete for labor. One solution: They started paying for health benefits as a substitute for higher wages.

Many economists and health-care experts question whether this is the smartest way to pay for health care, but the Affordable Care Act builds on the tradition by requiring employers of 50 or more full-time workers to provide coverage or pay a penalty. But just like the individual mandate, the penalties on employers will likely be less expensive than the cost of providing coverage, so some employers may opt to not offer benefits and send their workers into the health exchange. Obama waived the fines altogether for the first year of the program, which might make it even easier for companies to stop providing benefits to their employees.

One major example of that trend surfaced this month: Trader Joe’s, the popular supermarket chain, told employees that the firm will no longer provide coverage to its part-time workers.

Instead, it will give them a stipend of $500 a year to use toward buying coverage in the health exchange. Because most of those workers are low-income earners, they might be better off with this deal once they collect the subsidies offered by the federal government. But the change will be disruptive, and if it is repeated throughout the workforce, it could drive the cost of those subsidies far higher than the Obama administration or Congress anticipated.

Meanwhile, the rule requiring insurance companies to sell to anyone regardless of their health history—and not charge them more—is

For these people, the counties will maintain a scaled-back safety net that will be the health-care provider of last resort. But because many of the people the counties have been caring for will now have insurance, the state wants to reduce the amount it has been paying the counties to care for the indigent.

“On paper, you’d think there would be savings,” said David Luchini, assistant director of the Fresno County Department of Public Health.

But Luchini and other county officials say it is too early to know how much those savings will amount to. And if the state pulls back too much too soon, it could leave the safety net in shreds. This year’s state budget calls for a shift of $300 million next year from the counties to the state, of the $1.3 billion the state has been supplying for this population.

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just one of many major changes the ACA will make to the way the industry does business.

The law has already forced insurers to phase out their caps on annual and lifetime reimbursements—limits on coverage that once forced seriously ill people to give up their benefits just when they needed them most.

The companies have also had to let young adults remain on their parents’ policies until age 26, even if they were married with families of their own. That rule change has helped an estimated 400,000 young Californians get or keep insurance coverage.

The new law will also set strict new rules on how insurance companies spend the money they collect from consumers. They will have to spend at least 80 percent of the premiums they collect on medical care, leaving no more than 20 percent for administration, marketing and profits.

If they exceed that threshold, they will have to issue rebates to their customers.

And while insurance companies’ rates won’t be regulated directly, they will have to give public notice of any rate hikes and seek to justify them with data showing why the increases are necessary. State regulators will issue a public notice declaring whether the increases are justified or not. The scrutiny is expected to pressure insurance companies to minimize their price increases.

If it doesn’t work, consumer advocates have a backup plan: A measure has already qualified for California’s November 2014 ballot that would subject health-insurance rates to direct regulation by the state.

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“For this to be successful, it requires a community norm in which insurance is valued, expected and accessible,” she said.

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The other Steve Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on privacy, the digital divide and the real Steve Jobs

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These days, the 63-year-old college dropout (and inventor of the first Apple computer) still receives a stipend from the company he left in 1987.

His time, however, is focused largely on philanthropical, educational and entrepreneurial efforts. Wozniak, who kicks off the Sacramento Speakers Series on Tuesday, October 1, recently chatted with SN&R about Jobs, wearable technology and what, exactly, he has in common with Brad Pitt.

What can people expect from a night with Steve Wozniak?

It’s to going to be [like] minispeeches with questions and very off-the-cuff answers. Generally, there is a moderator to keep the questions flowing, to [make sure the] questions are important and noteworthy. We may take some of the questions from tweets.

Some of those questions will likely revolve around Steve Jobs. You’ve already said you weren’t a fan of the Jobs biopic.

Yes, and I’d get into some specifics about the ways in which it was inaccurate—from the way it presented his mannerisms to what was going on in the company. … He kept trying to have success at Apple, but he kept having failures instead: the Apple III, the Lisa, the Macintosh. He had the vision of the future, but he was too anxious and not patient enough.

The film glorified him for his artistic vision above it all, and his artistic way of thinking. That’s what he had as the company runner, as the face of the company: He had the ability to execute and operate as a CEO when he returned to Apple [in 1997] and kept the company in good shape, but the movie presented him as the leader at every stage when, really, he was really the learner. And it left out [the] people like me … who were [creating and innovating]. It left all that out.

Worse than that, it wasn’t interesting.

OK, back to you. You once taught free computer classes to elementary schoolchildren in Los Gatos, California; was this an effort to bridge the digital divide for those who normally might not have access to such classes?

I taught for eight years, [but] it wasn’t because I wanted to bridge the digital divide. I just wanted to teach.

What did you learn by teaching?

I learned that class size is very critical to keeping students’ attention. I learned that California is 50th in [the] nation in class size. I started thinking,

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when we had elections in cities, we want to pay more for education. I spent $10,000 to mail postcards to everyone in Cupertino [where I lived] to get them to vote to [pay more taxes] for education, but it failed because it only got 50 percent of the vote, and thanks to [Proposition 13], you need a two-thirds vote. It did pass, eventually, in Los Gatos.

But you didn’t start teaching because you thought students lacked access to technology?

I don’t think the digital divide is that strong of an issue. People who are down and out economically—the computer doesn’t mean as much to their lives and success and where they’re at in their station in life. I’m more interested in improving education, and computers haven’t done well when it comes to that.

Why do you say that?

They’ve changed how we learn and what we use to learn, but we need to change the education paradigm that has everyone learning the same thing at same time and then getting tested on it at the same time. That doesn’t work; it doesn’t allow someone to go off on their own like I did. School limits you. How can we choose our own courses? In a class of 30, you can’t have students learning different things, going at different speeds.

[But] if you have a teacher who cares, you cannot fail. [That teacher] can make things interesting. We need a computer that’s more like a human being and makes things interesting, not a computer that’s like a computer.

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know you like a human: know your interests, know what makes you you.

From what I understand, we’re not there yet [with technology], and we may not be there for another 30 to 40 years. And thanks to politics, we may not be there for another 200 years.

What are some of the current challenges of technology from a consumer standpoint?

The computer market has always been one of upgrades—we replace older stuff with more stuff. We can make much more stuff with chips of silicon than we did the year before.

It’s [like] Moore’s law: We manage to make each product a little smaller, a little closer to the body. We’re on the verge of a wearable revolution. … I’m hoping that Apple is one that thinks outside the box.

You’ve said you want the next smartphone to be a watch.

I wear an iPod on my wrist for music. It’s simple. I want my computer there. I want my whole phone to have a little more information.

So, iPhone or Android?

My preference has been iPhone, since I’m Apple, but I’m interested in Google Glass. Google Glass seems like a lot of fun, but I’m afraid that people—it’s like Bluetooth: You show it off for a while, and it’s the coolest thing, but then after a period of time, it’s not really a critical piece of your life. [But] I think it’s going to be worth watching, I want one [because] you can hear it speaking to you. I want to be able to ask it questions all day

long and get an answer back in my ear. I look forward to a phone that tells me who someone is based on what I’m near. I have that same affliction that Brad Pitt has in that I don’t recognize faces of people I’ve met before.

What’s your take on companies such as Google and Facebook that constantly raise privacy concerns— or the users who willingly give up privacy in exchange for the product or service?

Everybody is willing to give up some privacy. I’m used to having a camera follow me 24-seven. I don’t care about my privacy—but I fight for others’ privacy. No company that comes out [with a product or service] will absolutely guarantee privacy [or] to not use data outside of our own needs. … I decided a long time ago, when I was 20, I was going to be very open with the world—it keeps you from doing bad things, so I’m the wrong person to ask [about privacy], because I’m just too open. But let me say this, if I send you a letter or have a phone call with you, I have a reasonable expectation that it should be kept between you and I. That’s very wrong, [to have] constantly changing levels of encryption, creating back doors [that make it easier for others to access information]. This is very sad. It’s making people think that the technology is winning. The technology is controlling us, but the humans should always win. Ω See Steve Wozniak on Tuesday, October 1, at the Community Center Theater at 1301 L Street.

Tickets are available with a Sacramento Speakers Series subscription only for $210-$450. More information is at www.sacramentospeakers.com.

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Here’s the beef Carnivores flocked en masse to Raley Field on the night of September 18, hungry for the meaty offerings of 15 Sacramento restaurants, all competing for the title of best burger at the 2013 Sacramento Burger Battle.

A vegetarian’s nightmare, the air smelled of backyard barbecues as chefs cooked enough dead-cow flesh to feed a small army. Ticket holders moseyed from tent to tent, nabbing quartered burgers topped with the likes of blue cheese, pickled peppers, pork belly and crispy onion strings, and then stuffed them, one by one, into their gaping mouths, eager to pass judgment.

Americans have such a special relationship with the hamburger. For years, ground beef sandwiched between two sides of a soft bun with lettuce, tomato, pickles and onion has been a standby comfort food that even the most committed health nut sometimes can’t resist. Tailgate parties and barbecues have long showcased burgers as the central entree, easy to cook and easy to eat.

Even when health experts started to naysay America’s favorite meat pocket, claiming that red meat contributes to high cholesterol and heart disease, people got creative, skirting the health issues by experimenting with chicken, turkey and salmon patties. We even found ways to include the vegetarians with black-bean burgers and tofu patties.

We would never abandon the burger!

But tonight was about the beef. And the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America, the recipient for the event’s proceeds, of course. But mostly the beef.

Throughout the evening, some chefs got creative, producing finger-licking burgers bursting with flavor. Others kept it simple, letting the tenderness of the meat speak for itself.

Some stood out as I made my rounds. De Vere’s Irish Pub slid out a burger slathered with a bacon-bourbon barbecue sauce on a pretzel bun that was messy and tasty. Formoli’s kept it simple with a perfectly cooked patty on a soft bun with a type of balsamic reduction that complemented the meat. Bacon and Butter made a breakfast burger, using pork belly as a topping and sandwiching all the meat between two buttermilk biscuits. All that was missing was the over-easy egg, oozing yolk with that first bite.

Roaming meat-munchers guzzled beer and wine out of small mason jars. Representatives from breweries such as Lagunitas Brewing Company, Crispin Cider and Ruhstaller poured libations freely, easing those burgers down as stomachs filled.

There were many laughs as well. Folks posed in photo booths, and a live band set the mood with its bluesy overtones as people swayed to the music, unable to do much more after chowing down on the smorgasbord.

After deliberation by the judges, which included local chefs Randall Selland and Patrick Mulvaney, Ettore’s European Bakery and Restaurant took home the coveted championship belt with its tangy concoction served on a house-made jalapeño-cheddar-scallion bun. West Sacramento’s Broderick Roadhouse was voted people’s favorite with a messy face-stuffer, topped with smoked cheddar, barbecue sauce and pickled peppers. They did not provide Wet-naps.

As the last stragglers made their way up the stadium stairs, stuffed to the hilt, the cool night air seemed to take the residual smells of grilled meat up and away along with the fading remains of summer. Well, until next year, anyway, when those grills fire up and Sacramento chefs once again compete for the title of reigning burger champ.

I wonder if McDonald’s will be there.

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utumn in Sacramento: It’s probably the name of a local painting or two, maybe a song, or even a short story.

Now that it’s arrived, let’s enjoy it—because it’s one of the nicest seasons and most beautiful times of the year here. We’ve got falling leaves, temperatures that usually range between 50 and 80 degrees, and natch, plenty of happenings that go along with the changing season. Check out the following three events this week that SN&R believes, in a way, capture the essence of the season.

Beer might taste sweeter in the summer, but in autumn come Oktoberfest lagers, and all sorts of spiced ales (including pumpkin-flavored ones). Total Wine & More (locations in Sacramento, Folsom and Roseville) hosts its Autumn Brewfest, featuring a beer class that will help you get familiar with newly released seasonal brews. It happens on Thursday, September 26, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., and tickets cost $15. Visit www.total wine.com for more details.

The Seafarer’s Pirates & Pumpkins Festival on Saturday, September 28, is basically for people who already want to

start the Halloween party season early. This family friendly celebration pairing the seemingly disparate worlds of gourds and sea plundering will feature live music (by Skip Henderson, John Blakemore, the Mad Maggies and the Black Irish Band), cannon battles, kids’ activities, belly dancers, a pumpkin patch and lots of people dressed as pirates (costumes are recommended). Gates open at 11 a.m. at the Rio Ramaza Marina, RV & Event Park, (10000 Garden Highway), and the party ends well after dark. Admission costs $7, and food and drink are extra.

Visit www.louisianasue.com for more information.

Cool Patch Pumpkins (6585 Milk Farm Road in Dixon) is now open for fall. It houses a huge corn maze (through November 5), and also offers a pumpkin patch, food, hay rides, a “kid zone” and scarecrow contests. To add a bit of awesome, sometime during the last week of opening, the patch hoists a huge pumpkin with a crane and smashes a car with it.

Billy Corgan would be proud. Call (530) 304-0163 or visit www.coolpatchpumpkins.com for more information.

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KVMR Celtic Festival & Marketplace Friday, September 27, through Sunday, September 29 Although it features headliners such as Molly’s Revenge, Manran and Bridge Crossing, this festival is about more than just music.

FESTIVAL It’ll also feature dancing, animals, and dozens of food, drink and clothing vendors. Head to Grass Valley for a craic time, boyo. $10-$50 per day, or $16-$65 for a Saturday and Sunday pass, camping costs extra; Nevada County Fairgrounds, 11228 McCourtney Road in Grass Valley; www.kvmrcelticfestival.com.

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Brews and Balls Festival Saturday, September 28 A morning of ball-related sports like kickball, dodgeball and cornhole, followed by three hours of drinking as much beer as you can (or until they run out)—has there ever been a more Roseville-esque event? Hotel specials are available for BEER those planning to go, er, balls to the wall on those kegs. $30, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Placer County Fairgrounds, 800 All America City Boulevard in Roseville; http://radiisports.com/brewsnballs.

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World Rabies Day Saturday, September 28 Titling an event “World Rabies Day” rather than “World Rabies Prevention Day” seems like a bit of a marketing misstep, but the intentions are good: Attendees can get their animal companPETS ions free rabies vaccinations, pet licenses and microchips. Do this favor for Fido—no one wants things to end like Old Yeller. Free, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., various locations, http://svvma.com.

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Sacramento Reptile Show Saturday, September 28, through Sunday, September 29 Visit scaled friends at the Sacramento Reptile Show.

Just don’t get too close to a 10-foot alligator or one of the 45 venomous species of snakes. The show is ANIMALS designed to spur a “passion for reptiles,” according to its website, and you can also take home a pet. $8-$18; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Sacramento Convention Center, 1400 J Street; (916) 691-7387; www.upsaclereptiles.com.

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Sasha Abramsky Sunday, September 29 UC Davis professor, freelance journalist and author Sasha Abramsky will sign copies of and talk about his latest book, The American Way of LITERARy Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives (Nation Books, $26.99). He’s a great writer, with an even better English accent. Oh, and full disclosure: He’s also an SN&R contributor. Free, 2 p.m. at the Avid Reader at Tower, 1600 Broadway; (916) 441-4400; www.avidreadertower.com.

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A cafe inside some other type of business, like a weird market or a church?

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I have a friend who is obsessed with this Rating: type of food hunting, and he clues me in to HH 1/2 good places. I would argue he takes it too far—he often seems to rate the restaurant Dinner for one: higher if he’s the first among his friends $10 - $15 to find it. So, we sometimes have to agree to disagree. Just because everyone knows that Lalo’s Restaurant is the best Mexican eatery, including some 180 Yelpers, doesn’t mean that it’s not true.

I asked him for his latest find, and he told me about 3N1 Barbecue, a place that hits all the requisite requirements: limited hours (Friday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.); weird, barely Googable name; no H Yelp reviews; and located in the back of a flaweD convenience store deep in Del Paso Heights.

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The menu here is limited, so it was easy to try almost everything. The four meats Still hungry? offered are pulled pork, chicken, ribs and hot search sN&R’s links (no lamb on this day, despite the sign).

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Next, is the East Bay’s Plant-Powered Health & Fitness Expo, which SN&R would like to imagine will be chock-full of ripped vegans sippin’ kale smoothies. So, despite its name, it might look like a meat market on the inside. There’s only one way to find out: It’s on Saturday, October 5, at Kaiser Center in Oakland (300 Lakeside Drive). Details are at www.purplepass.com/#1985.

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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.

Midtown Capital Dime Sacramento foodies can finally eat chef Noah Zonca’s food without having to cough up rent money. The menu is split up into “Dime plates,” “rabbit food,” sandwiches and “plates.” The dime plates and rabbit food both go for $10. This, and the idea that every dish is supposed to be a “perfect 10” is the idea behind the restaurant’s name. One simple dish, the clams chorizo, is something you’d stab your mother with a seafood fork over, should she attempt to pluck one of its

delightful bivalves from your plate. Here, seared chorizo is drowned in white wine and garlic, creating a silky palominocolored broth in which the teeniest clams ever are cooked.

The kalua-pork slider is also a thing of beauty, with flavorful pulled pork tender as a bruise.

The fries are fried in rice oil with their skins on—which always means more flavor. Delicate, crisp and fantastic to munch on. American. 1801 L St., Ste. 50; (916) 443-1010. Dinner for one: $15-$25. HHH1/2 G.M.

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-andhydrant 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 ham-and-Gruyere sandwich usually battered with egg. This one had a fried egg and béchamel, with a generous smear of mustard inside. The mountain of potato hash alongside tasted flavorful and not too greasy.

Another highlight includes an excellent smoked-eggplant baba ganoush, which is smoky and garlicky and served with warm flatbread wedges and oil-cured olives. 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.

The Rind This is a fromage fanatic’s delight with a menu that changes frequently. A chalkboard by the bar lists the daily suggested trios for cheese boards, but order the Diving Board to choose your own combo. Each arrives with six crisp toasts and two sides, like dried fruit and honey. The rations are small, but reasonable for two people. Buy any of the cheeses by the pound. Ask for the list at the bar. There are also many grilled-cheese sandwich choices and several versions of mac ’n’ cheese, including Not Your Mom’s Mac with Parmesan,

Gruyere and cheddar. It’s silky smooth, without any excess oil.

A richer version includes blue cheese and prosciutto for overthe-top indulgence. American.

1801 L St., Ste. 40; (916) 441-7463.

Dinner for one: $10-$15.

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East Sac Español Italian Restaurant This confusingly monikered restaurant is an old-timey Italian joint. Order à la carte or “dinner” style from a list of daily specials (chicken cacciatore, for example) and a short children’s menu. There are many pasta sauce options and styles, and also some meaty standards, such as chicken Parmesan, veal cutlets Milanese, and fried chicken “à la Luigi” with garlic.

Try the pork-chop plate, which features two large, tender, pan-fried chops served with applesauce and perfectly al dente fresh vegetables. The real revelation here, however, is the marinara sauce. Made on-site, it’s a fresh, chunky blend of ripe tomatoes and herbs. Every entree comes with a plate of nicely cooked pasta bathed in this ambrosial sauce. A dish of ravioli is OK on its own, but topped with the house-made marinara, it invites plate licking.

Italian. 5723 Folsom Blvd., (916) 457-1936. Dinner for one: $15-$20. HHH A.M.R.

Istanbul Bistro Turkish chef Murat Bozkurt and brother Ekrem co-own this paean to their homeland, with Ekrem usually at the front of the house, infusing

the space with cheer. Turkish cuisine features aspects of Greek, Moroccan and Middle Eastern flavors. The appetizer combo plate offers an impressive sampling. Acili ezme is a chopped, slightly spicy mixture of tomatoes, cucumber and walnuts that’s delicious paired with accompanying flatbread wedges. For entrees, try the borani, a lamb stew with garbanzos, carrots, potatoes and currants. The meat is very tender, while the veggies arrived nicely al dente. Also good is the chicken shish plate (souvlaki), which features two skewers of marinated grilled chicken that’s moist and succulent. There are also quite a few choices for vegetarians, including flatbread topped like pizza, with spinach and feta or mozzarella and egg. Turkish. 3260 B J St., (916) 449-8810. Dinner for one: $15-$20. HHH1⁄2 A.M.R.

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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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South Sac Blue Moon Cafe and Karaoke In Sac, most people equate Hong Kong-style cuisine with dim sum, but this restaurant, which also features private karaoke rooms, serves up tasty, familiar food by way of rice plates, sandwiches, noodle bowls, soups and stirfries. A few random Japanese (ramen, fried udon), French (sweet or savory crepes), Russian (borscht), Korean (beef and kimchi hot pot) and Italian (various pastas) foods add to the feeling that whatever your cultural background, you’ll find a comfort dish from your childhood to wrap its arms

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.

Mexican. 1841 Howe Ave., (916) 924-0108. Dinner for one: $8-$10. HHH G.M.

Land Park/ Curtis Park 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.

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Fair Oaks Mighty Tavern Part tavern, part restaurant, this spot offers good food highlighting local ingredients. There’s both a bar menu and a regular dinner menu. The burger, from the dinner menu, arrives perfectly cooked (a little pink on the inside), but the fries aren’t particularly inventive.

The best dish here is the scallops, which—sitting atop a bed of pancetta, leeks, corn and tomato beurre blanc—achieves a nice balance of salty, sweet and creamy that makes it worth every penny of the $23 price tag.

Want to order from the happyhour menu? Try the steamed mussels, which arrive piled high with a handful of french fries, lemons and bacon. This is fancier than normal pub food, and the garlic-and-white wine sauce it’s cooked in make it perfect for dipping the fries and any spare bread. American. 9634 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Fair Oaks, (916) 241-9444.

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plate arrives with four types of toppings, two of each: goat cheese, avocado, caramelized onion and tomato. They don’t suck, but they aren’t great. A rib-eye steak with a basil-andtomato compound butter is served cooked to perfection.

But the chocolate soufflé is like having a hot date and then finding out he’s a terrible kisser: greatly disappointing. In the end, a little refinery needs to happen to make the food at Back unique enough for the average Sacramento diner to find it worth the trip. Still, the wine selection is strong, and pairing recommendations are practical. American. 25075 Blue Ravine Rd., Ste. 150 in Folsom; (916) 986-9100. Dinner for one: $25-$50. HHH1/2 G.M.

La Huaca This Peruvian eatery offers an experience decidedly upscale in every way: décor, art, lighting, presentation, price and—most importantly—taste.

Peru’s national dish is ceviche, seafood cured in lime, salt and chili, and it’s a must-have starter. Try the mixto version, which features fish, shrimp, octopus and calamari, or sample the spicier ceviche de aji amarillo—both are exceptionally piquant and hearty. Entree recommendations include the arroz chaufa, a dish that resulted from the Chinese immigrants’ influence on Peruvian cuisine.

Here, it’s served with shrimp and crispy fried pork. The lomo saltado oozes with an incredibly smoky flavor—apparently, the result of cooking the beef in pisco, a type of brandy popular in Peru. The star of the arroz con pato isn’t the duck or the rice, but rather a house-made salsa criolla, consisting of pickled onion and cilantro. Whatever you order, La Huaca’s attention to detail makes it the ideal place to be introduced to the complexities found in this regional cuisine.

Peruvian. 9213 Sierra College Blvd., Ste. 140 in Roseville; (916) 771-2558. Dinner for one: $20-$40. HHHH1/2 J.M.

goodness. This is the kind of tofu that could almost make one give up meat. Chinese. 199 Blue Ravine Rd., Ste. 100 in Folsom; (916) 351-9278. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHHH A.M.R.

Davis The Hotdogger This is not your typical schlong shack. All the hot dogs are sourced from Fairfield’s Schwarz Fine Sausage and use American beef. The rolls are baked daily from Davis’ Village Bakery. No matter what mood you’re in, there’s a mustard to match it.

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Customers can customize their dogs, or choose from preset options, like the Louisiana Hot Link: fire-engine red and sure to send lava coursing through your tender insides. The Gut Bomb! is an accurate name for a hot link buried in spicy salsa and peppers, house-made chili, cheese, diced onions, and tomatoes. For the vegetarian who gets dragged to a meat joint, there is also a tofu dog. Served on a sprouted-wheat roll, the “sausage” is juicy, with plenty of meaty flavor that takes well to pickles and pineapple mustard.

The staff members manning this tiny, 163-square feet restaurant are fun, knowledgeable and can crack jokes about anything.

American. 129 E Street, Suite A-1 in Davis; (530) 753-6291. Dinner for one: $5-$10. HHHH G.M.

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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.

nized with sections such as “Our Most Popular Dishes,” “If You’re Feeling Adventurous” and the “Chef’s Special” tasting list, which offers dishes less familiar to American diners.

Worthy options include the fried-milk appetizer, which is made of sweetened milk that’s been battered and fried and tastes like pillows of the lightest cheesecake. Pair it with the sweet-and-sour sauce, or top it with powdered sugar for a dessert. The salted egg with pumpkin arrives as lightly battered, fried half-moons topped with hard-boiled egg. With classic sweet and salty complements, the flavor is even better with a drizzle of hot chili sauce. The fried tofu with salt and pepper is exceptional. Cubes of fried, silky tofu taste like custardy

Comida y cantos Perhaps it’s because of the abundance of Latin-American restaurants in the area, but it seems like there are times when nothing’s more comforting than eating paella while listening to flamenco. Or noshing on a cubano sandwich while hearing Afro-Cuban jazz. Or pairing some fish tacos with mariachi music. Luckily, there’s the Latin Food & Music Festival on Sunday, September 29, to bring authentic Latino food, music and dance together. Organized by the Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and happening from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Southside Park (2115 Sixth Street), the lineup includes Mexican folk dance from Instituto Mazatlan Bellas Artes de Sacramento and Peruvian dance from Club Perú de Sacramento; music by Pepe y su Orquesta and Conjunto Alegre; and food vendors representing some of the more-than-20 Latino countries in the Spanish- and Portuguesespeaking world. For more information and updates on the diverse food and music lineup, visit http://latinfoodandmusicfestival.com.

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In 1982, the California condor population was down to only 22 birds— on the entire planet. By 1987, the species, the largest land bird in North America, was considered extinct in the wild.

In the years since, the bird’s slowly been reintroduced into the wild in parts of California, northern Arizona and southern Utah. Now, a new documentary, The Condor’s Shadow, examines the endangered FILM species’s enduring plight.

Filmed in Southern California, the film chronicles one bird in particular—a condor named Pitahsi—and the efforts of biologists, zookeepers and scientists to save him and the rest of the population.

With breathtaking imagery—gorgeous canyons, desert landscapes and vibrant blue skies—the documentary follows the raptors’ flight path to recovery. Happily, it also includes some squealworthy shots of baby condors. Because there’s nothing like pictures of wee chicks to warm even the coldest of hearts.

The Condor’s Shadow will screen on Saturday, September 28, at UC Davis’ Sciences Lab Building Lecture Hall, room 123.

The screening is a benefit for the California Raptor Center, part of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. In addition, there will be a post-screening question-andanswer session with filmmaker Jeff McLoughlin as well as Joseph Brandt, one of the biologists featured in the documentary.

A special wine-and-cheese reception and raffle starts at 4 p.m. and costs $50 (which includes admission to the film; tickets must be purchased in advance). Admission to the film and subsequent question-and-answer session is $10. 1 Shields Avenue, www.thecondorsshadow.com.

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State of denial My sister-in-law moved my brother to Wisconsin, then moved my mom there. At the time, my mom and I were grieving my sister’s death from cancer. I was in no state to object. I visited once to help Mom move into assisted living. She was withdrawn and 30 pounds heavier.

By my second visit, Mom was in a nursing home, unable to walk. She had no short-term memory, partly due to taking

by Joey ga eight medications. My dad rcia visited my mom (my parents are divorced but friendly), a skj oey @ ne wsreview.c om while my sister-in-law was at yoga. She had a fit that he didn’t wait for the scheduled family Joey day. My dad got drunk and argued with her. She broadcast that fight is reading on Facebook. I was sympathetic, Willa Cather’s My Ántonia. because Dad is difficult. But then I unloaded years of resentment at her for taking my brother and mom away. I don’t know how to make peace without letting her have her way. No one stands up to her narcissism. Both my parents are narcissistic, so my brother has been trained since birth to put up with it.

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Narcissism is so common in the United States that a controversy erupted in 2011 about whether it belongs in the diagnostic manual used by our mental-health professionals. That said, from the description you provided, your sister-in-law is not a narcissist. Like most Americans, she may sometimes exude narcissistic attitudes or behaviors. But a true narcissist is rooted in grandiose fantasies of greatness while seriously miscalculating his or her abilities and potential.

Narcissists also long for approval and automatically expect their superiority will be noticed and reflected back by others. When it is not, a narcissist often resorts to aggressive actions calculated to ensure the Got a problem? outcome they desire.

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Why are you competing for him against your sister-in-law? At some point, you must trust your brother to take care of himself. You must also trust your sister-in-law and brother to care for your mother.

Anger often fuels poor decisions, like your sister-in-law trying to shame your dad on Facebook.

Or like you taking her side in that drama. I think you shimmied over to her team because you yearn for her approval. But ultimately, you are, once again, strategizing to form alliances against an imagined enemy.

This behavior might have been a necessary defense mechanism in a tumultuous childhood. You’re an adult now, or should be. Let go.

You must stop seeing your brother as the victim of his wife. They are partners. She didn’t take him away from you or your family.

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My Name Is Asher Lev Chaim Potok’s 1972 novel My Name Is Asher Lev is a fascinating story of a Hasidic Jewish boy in the 1950s whose emerging need to express by Patti Roberts himself artistically bumps into his faith-based fundamentalist family and community. Though he strives to be the son his religiously active father Aryeh and mother Rivkeh want him to be, Asher’s inner need to develop his art through the secular world creates fractions and tensions.

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My Name Is Asher Lev, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday; 8 p.m. Saturday; select performances 2 p.m. Thursday and 1 p.m. Sunday; $25-$35. B3 Stage at B Street Theatre, 2727 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreet theatre.org.

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Though the play is meant to show Asher’s struggles with his unbending parents and with his closed community, they all come across as surprisingly supportive and understanding.

The book was better able to capture Asher’s confusion and struggles, while the play and the current B Street Theatre production at times make Asher come across as obstinate rather than artistically conflicted.

However, the story is still captivating—an adult Asher looking back at his younger self living in an insular world while intrigued by the surrounding modern society. Max Rosenak adeptly portrays both the man and the child: In the first act he is both the narrator as well as the boy, from 6 years old through his teens, while the second half he is emerging as a developing artist.

Joel Polis plays a variety of roles, mainly the father, but also an artist mentor and other male characters, breathing life and sympathy into his roles. Julie Voshell plays the mother, as well as other female characters; she does a good job, but is hampered by the less-defined roles.

Tragedies tend to feed feuds, not end them; grief sends reverberations through the lives it touches and makes people cry for vengeance.

This is the theme of Sharman Macdonald’s After Juliet, which suggests that the prince’s enforced truce at the end of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tenuous one at best.

City Theatre’s production of After Juliet, directed by Lori Ann DeLappe-Grondin, invokes a semi-apocalyptic steampunk feel, with goggles and wonderfully detailed costumes designed by Theresa Vann-Stribling and Lenore Justman, and a geared metalwork set, provided by Kevin Miller of Miller Design & Assembly. It’s a dark, postindustrial setting for an equally dark, violent and rusty rage.

Romeo and Juliet lie recently entombed, while elsewhere in the city those who aided their plan—the nurse, a Capulet servant, the friar and the apothecary—are on trial for their part in the disruption to the prince’s prized civic order. Capulet and Montague weapons have been collected and the truce is being enforced, but law cannot control emotion as the youth of the two families try to cope with what has happened.

Rosaline (Julianna Camille Hess), Juliet’s cousin and the abandoned focus of Romeo’s first passion, seeks vengeance. Meanwhile, Benvolio (Anthony M. Person), Romeo’s cousin, has fallen in love with her. Other youths from the warring clans—notably Lorenzo (Maggie Trevor), a Capulet; and Valentine (Nathan Cline), the dead Mercutio’s brother—chafe under the enforced truce and look for ways to spur the fight anew.

While Macdonald’s blank verse eschews Shakespearean flourish, it can be a bit hard to follow. It’s the earnest performances and glorious staging which make this epilogue a worthy examination of the aftermath of tragedy.

—Kel Munger

After Juliet, 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, October 12; $10-$15. City Theatre in the Art Court Theatre at Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Boulevard; (916) 558-2228; www.citytheatre.net. Through October 13.

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Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? is a postmodern takedown of the classical Greek tragedy, where deep, dark drama lies beneath seemingly everyday dynamics. Martin (Jes Gonzales) and Stevie (Lee Marie Kelly) are a long-married, seemingly content couple, playfully sparring with familiar banter. Until Stevie learns that Martin’s been having an affair with a goat. The reveal begins a theater of the absurd that keeps us amused in the first half. The humor is a bit sardonic, and through both the dialogue and the remarkable performances and chemistry, Resurrection Theatre makes the improbable plausible. F, Sa 8pm.

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Manuel J. Pickett directs, with excellent performances by Jose Perales and Ruben Oriol-Rivera as the leads. Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm.

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Self-righteous Brooke Wyeth (Dana Brooke), carts her tell-all memoir to her parents’ home in Palm Springs, hoping for a blessing from them, but gets a blasting instead. The play combines conflicting family dynamics with blunt sarcastic humor, which puts some fun in dysfunctional. Talented cast, including Brooke and Joan Grant, who create caustic chemistry as mother and daughter. Th, F, 8pm; Sa 5 & 9pm; Su 2pm. Through 9/29. $25-$35. B Street Theatre, 2711 B St.; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. P.R.

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Friday, Saturday and Sunday, at 7:30 p.m.; $15-$20. Fair Oaks Theatre Festival at the Veterans Memorial Amphitheatre, 7991 California Avenue in Fair Oaks; (916) 296-6311; www.bestofbroadway.org.

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Take Bryan Cranston—this Sunday night wraps up arguably the single greatest performance in 21st-century media, but no matter what, he will always be Walter White. I’m rooting for the guy, but it’s hard to imagine his post-Breaking Bad movie career amounting to much more than a Kyle Chandler-esque pile of dads and bureaucrats.

Against all odds, writer-director Nicole Holofcener’s witty and observant Enough Said successfully reinvents a couple of successful TV stars who never quite connected on the big screen. Seinfeld ensemble member Julia LouisDreyfus plays Eva, a divorcée massage therapist whose only daughter is about to depart for college. In one of his final roles, The Sopranos legend James Gandolfini co-stars as Albert, also divorced, unmarried and facing an empty nest for the first time.

As the film opens, Eva and Albert meet and begin a tentative courtship. Neither person made any serious attempt to find love after divorce, instead focusing on their children, so they are both entering new territory. There’s an awkward but electric tension between them, stuck somewhere between the thrill of romantic discovery and the fear that it’s not worth the trouble.

Of course, it’s bittersweet watching the recently deceased Gandolfini on screen again (the film is lovingly dedicated to him with

the discreet end credit), especially when he’s so good in a role that is the polar opposite of Tony Soprano. With his salt-and-pepper beard, shy smile, and juvenile bad habits, Gandolfini’s Albert is an overgrown teddy bear, predisposed to heartbreak and selfdeprecation rather than violent outbursts.

As wonderful as Gandolfini is here, Louis-Dreyfus is a revelation as the motherly yet self-denying Eva. In her first four films, Holofcener employed Catherine Keener as her muse, but after their strong first two collaborations Walking and Talking and Lovely and Amazing, the partnership seemed to stale with the less inspired Friends With Money and Please Give.

Keener is also in Enough Said, and she’s good in the smaller part of Eva’s client and confidante, but Louis-Dreyfus brings an undeniable spark to the lead role. Louis-Dreyfus is authentic in the scenes with her emotionally distant daughter, and charmingly clumsy in her scenes with Gandolfini. Louis-Dreyfus and Gandolfini have genuine chemistry, and their self-effacing flirtation and stumbling sexual exploration ground the film in reality without sacrificing the humor.

Louis-Dreyfus also gets the opportunity to show off her physical comedy skills, as in a running joke about Eva dragging her massive massage table up a flight of stairs while her oblivious client sips coffee. The thrill of a Holofcener joint is always in the writing, especially the intelligent dialogue and the cutting humor that inspires as many winces as guffaws.

As wonderful as James Gandolfini is here, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a revelation as the motherly yet self-denying Eva. While Enough Said delivers in those departments, the script eventually forces Eva into a silly deception that would have been more at home in Holofcener’s own TV work (she has directed episodes of Parks and Recreation and Sex in the City, among others).

It only gets dumber the longer Eva has to keep up the ruse, and it’s not clear why Holofcener chose to bury the conflict in sitcom artifice.

This is where Enough Said should have crumbled to pieces, but our investment in the characters is strong enough to withstand the shakiness of the plot. At the center of that investment are the exceptional Louis-Dreyfus and Gandolfini, their performances offering proof of the infinite possibilities of reinvention, even beyond this mortal coil. Ω

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Austenland is the movie equivalent of a beach read, a digestible distraction that demands little effort and puts forth even less.

It’s a film that should only be watched while engaging in a secondary activity, like folding laundry or untangling Christmas lights. An undeniably adorable Keri Russell stars as Jane, a movie-messy bachelorette obsessed with all things Jane Austen, especially the aloof and sensitive Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice.

After getting dumped by the latest in a series of disinterested boyfriends, Jane cashes in her life savings for a vacation to Austenland, an all-inclusive resort where guests and staff roleplay as Austen-esque characters in full costume.

The adult theme-park conceit of Austenland is a lot like that of Westworld, except with corsets instead of cowboy boots, human actors instead of robots, and only brain cells getting brutally murdered. D.B.

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The affable In a World … is the first feature written and directed by actress Lake Bell, who also stars as a voice-over artist struggling to break into an industry dominated by men, including her legendary father. Although In a World … won Bell a screenwriting award at the Sundance Film Festival, what’s more compelling is how well this low-key comedy exhibits her charms as an actress. Heretofore stuck in character roles, Bell proves that she is a viable and appealing lead, salty and sullen, yet utterly likable. Still, the film’s unsteady tone and meandering narrative are telltale signs of a first-time filmmaker’s learning curve, and the stakes in the third-act payoff are excessively low. D.B.

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A former mafioso (Robert De Niro), his wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) and their teenage children (Dianna Agron, John D’Leo) are ensconced in the witness-protection program in a small French village, but their inability to keep a low profile exasperates their FBI minder (Tommy Lee Jones). Writer-director Luc Besson may be off the wall much of the time, but at least he’s never boring. Here, working with co-writer Michael Caleo from a novel by Tonino Benacquista, he concocts not a movie about gangsters, but a movie about gangster movies—as witness the three stars recycling performances they’ve given before (De Niro, several times). It’s fun to watch them (and Agron and D’Leo) go through the deadpan motions of Besson and Caleo’s black-comedy script—as long as we don’t take it any more seriously than they do. J.L.

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The improvement of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 over its 2009 animated antecedent is easy to explain—the concept of food-as-animals presents more potential for visual imagination than the concept of foodas-weather. It doesn’t even matter that it’s no longer technically cloudy, and that the chance of meatballs is next to none. As the film opens, aspiring scientist Flint Lockwood has stopped the food storm that threatened his island town of Swallow Falls. Soon enough, his rogue invention starts transforming the leftovers into a cradle of life, creating new species of “food-imals” like snarling taco-diles and screeching shrimpanzees (the invisible hand of natural selection apparently has a thing for puns). Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 doesn’t stray too far from the mold, but the screen practically spills over with visual marvels, and there’s a kid-friendly self-awareness to the humor. D.B.

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The Short Term 12 facility is not technically a detention center, so Grace and her co-workers have to be part big brother/sister, part dormitory resident adviser and part prison guard.

Although Grace is fair and level-headed in a job with nebulous boundaries, her own troubled childhood still defines her messy personal life, including an unplanned pregnancy that she may not carry to term. Short Term 12 is based on Cretton’s own experiences working at a similar facility, and although that causes him to compassionately offer oversimplified solutions to his characters’ realistic problems, it also results in some very raw and honest performances. D.B.

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Still, there’s much good stuff here, even if the picture leaves us with the feeling that it should be a lot more satisfying than it is. Performances are strong, although the storyline involving Gad and Alecia “Pink” Moore (as yet another sex addict) is more interesting than the other two and maybe should have played the center ring. J.L.

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Xochitl was 18 when she decided it was time to finally dip her feet into songwriting. She’d been playing music since she was 6, and her ear for by Aaron Carnes notes was already so good she could sit down at just about any instrument (although she preferred guitar for its portability) and play just about any song she heard on the radio.

In that first batch she wrote, there was one called “The Chico Song.” It took her all of five minutes to write, but the response from others, she says, was huge.

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Since that initial rush of songs, Xochitl, now 21, slowed down and crafted many more, mixing elements of folk, jazz, blues and pop.

Some of them are cute and funny, like those early ones, but many are more serious and heartfelt. “[Songwriting] is my only form of expression. It’s the one thing I’m good at. So when I feel all these emotions take control, I just write them down, and I’m like, ‘Oh, I can make a song out of this,’” Xochitl said.

It also makes for good communication, she says.

“I wish I could carry my guitar, so when people [ask], ‘What do you think about this?’ I can play a little song,” she said. “I don’t know how to use my words in real life. I’m a very socially awkward hermit.”

Still, Xochitl didn’t let potential stage fright or feeling ill at ease stop her from performing. Once she had several original songs ready, the singer hit the open-mic circuit and then eventually graduated to booking full sets. For a brief period, she even used a backing band.

“It changed my sound completely.

I’m really glad I had them. I write a lot bigger now,” Xochitl said.

These days, she’s back to playing solo, working on new material and planning an October visit to the East Coast to play a few shows.

Currently, she’s not quite ready to write a full-length record—though that might not be too far off in the future, she said. Instead, Xochitl is sticking to releasing singles and updating her YouTube channel with performance clips—some recorded at home.

Careful, or Xochitl might write a song about you. Then again, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Catch Xochitl on Friday, September 27, at 8:30 p.m. at Luna’s Café & Juice Bar, at 1414 16th Street. Cover is $5; for more info, visit www.facebook.com/ xochitlofficial.

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The track is a cute, whimsical, straightforward folk song written for her dog, Chico, with lyrics such as, “Getting kind of sleepy / You peek inside my room … Turn on the TV / You get real close to me / Watch a little Glee / And then we fall asleep.”

Goofy? Perhaps—at first, Xochitl (pronounced “so-chee”) says she felt nervous sharing it.

Nonetheless, it struck a chord with people because so many could relate.

“Who doesn’t sing to small animals? That’s not just me. Other people do that too, as I’m totally learning,” Xochitl said. “I still feel weird, but I’m just more socially acceptable now.”

“The Chico Song” wasn’t the only song that resonated with others.

The singer-songwriter also penned one called “Game Over,” in which she lamented her boyfriend’s preoccupation with video games instead of her.

As with the song about her dog, once Xochitl started playing it for people, she says she realized she wasn’t the only one with this dilemma.

“There’s girls that come up to me after the show, and they’re like, ‘Thank you so much.

That song is my world.’ I’m like, ‘Dude, you’re welcome. I feel your pain,’” she said.

“ I wish I could carry my guitar, so when people [ask], ‘What do you think about this?’ I can play a little song. I don’t know how to use my words in real life.”

Xochitl She considers the video feed something of a personal challenge.

“Electronics are not my thing. Finally, I was like, ‘Just do this, get a camera.’ So I have a camera, and I’m trying to tape myself everywhere,” Xochitl said.

“I just want people to be able to see me, like my fans. I’m not hoping to be the next Justin Bieber.” Ω

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Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 8 p.m., $20-$25 Hello, ’90s nostalgia. It’s been 21 years since the Lemonheads fully infiltrated mainstream music with its cover of the Simon & Garfunkel classic “Mrs. Robinson.” It was a good choice for the Boston band, touching on many of its own regular themes: sex, drugs and ennui. The band’s lengthy catalog includes grunge-era classics such as “My Drug Buddy,” “Alison’s Starting to Happen” and “It’s a Shame About Ray.” Singer-songwriter Evan Dando’s talent for writing killer hooks didn’t survive the early aughts, but the band returned in 2006 with a new disc and has since been tourROCK ing with a lineup that’s included members of the Descendents, Dinosaur Jr. and Taking Back Sunday. 2708 J Street, www.thelemonheads.net.

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I can’t claim to know who’s in Dance Gavin Dance at the moment. Known for its frequent lineup changes, the Sacramento ROCK rock group’s only steady members since it formed in 2005 have been guitarist Will Swan and prolific drummer Matt Mingus (who has also played in various local reggae bands throughout the years).

Anyway, these two guys rock, and they’re the soul of a high-energy sound that’s equal parts screamo, hardcore and funk. Despite all the lineup shifts over the years, the band’s retained a passionate high-school and college-age fan base, toured Europe and even recorded with Deftones singer Chino Moreno.

DGD’s sixth album, Acceptence Speech, drops October 7. 1417 R Street, www.facebook.com/ dancegavindance.

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At first glance, the Neighbors look like an oldfashioned, authentic, mountain folk band. The Sacramento quartet sports a guitar, banjo, bass and violin—and its members have an obvious sense of their instruments’ heritage.

But it’s not bluegrass they’re playing, but more of a 1990s alternative-rock sound filtered through an old-timey Americana lens.

The juxtaposition between ’90s-rock songwriting and folk instruments ROCK creates a weird in between sound. The group is too loud and too driving to be a folk band, but too intimate to be a rock band. Even “folk-rock” doesn’t quite fit.

The group’s usage of electric guitars juxtaposed with the acoustic violin and banjo only adds to this bizarre dichotomy. 1001 R Street, www.facebook.com/thnghbrs.

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Piatti Ristorante & Bar, 6:30 p.m., no cover Jazz guitarist and composer Arlyn Anderson opened September with the release of his namesake quartet’s first album, Try for Truth, and he’ll close the month performing with the Knockouts, a trio led by vocalist Natalie Klempau and featuring Paul Klempau on bass. Joining the trio for this concert will be drummer Ty Smith. Grab a bite to eat, something cool to drink and head to JAZZ the patio to hear something from the group’s repertoire, such as the jazz standard “Pennies From Heaven,” or pop and country songs from the band’s eclectic playlist. Usually on guitar, Anderson has also been known to take up the banjo on some tunes. Reservations are recommended.

571 Pavilions Lane, www.theknockouts.com.

—Trina L. Drotar

Sacramento State University Union Serna Plaza, noon, no cover

Mondavi Center, 8 p.m., $35 I saw Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell for the first time seated on the carpet of a fluorescent-lit conference room in the Austin Convention Center back in March. Despite the drab environment, Harris’ iconic voice, AMERICANA accompanied by Crowell and his guitar, was wholly transporting; one can only assume that the well-planned acoustics of the Mondavi Center will result is some serious sonic magic.

The duo is touring in support of Old Yellow Moon, released in February—a good reminder of what Americana is in the wake of all these suspender-wearing youngsters picking banjos and playing the washboard. 9399 Old Davis Road in Davis, www.emmylouharris.com.

—Deena Drewis

If there’s a band that’s found the missing link between late-1980s Sunset Strip glam-rock bands and Coldplay, it’s Folsom’s PointDexter.

The five-piece creates amphitheater-sized altrock songs, rich with keyboards and largerthan-life classic-rock licks, but it does so with a tongue-in-cheek swagger. The funk and dance beats further confuse the concoction.

By just listening to these guys play, it is impossible to identify what time and space they come from: It could be anywhere from 1982 to 2012 (though, in reality, the group formed in 2008). Check out PointDexter ROCK for free at the Sacramento State University Union’s Serna Plaza for a lunchtime concert. 6000 J Street, www.facebook.com/ pointdextermusic.

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EXPERIMENTAL Basu is known for mixing electronic effects, manipulating a keyboard and even experimenting with sounds, courtesy of a Nintendo DS. The weekend continues with bands from New York and Washington, and eventually closes with longtime NoiseFest veteran Instagon (pictured), sure to rattle the windows of Bows & Arrows.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Would you

be willing to go to extraordinary lengths to transform aspects of your life that you have felt are hard to transform? Now would be a good time to do that. Luck will flow your way if you work on healing your No. 1 wound. Unexpected help and inspiration will appear if you administer tough love to any part of you that’s addicted, immature or unconscious. Barriers will crumple if you brainstorm about new ways to satisfy your frustrated yearnings.

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normal paranoia levels will decline in the coming weeks. Fears you take for granted won’t make nearly as much sense as they usually seem to. As a result, you’ll be tempted to wriggle free from your defense mechanisms. Useful ideas that your mind has been closed to may suddenly tantalize your curiosity. I won’t be surprised if you start tuning into catalysts that had previously been invisible to you. But here are my questions: Can you deal with losing the motivational force that fear gives you?

Will you be able to get inspired by grace and pleasure rather than anxiety and agitation? I advise you to work hard on raising your trust levels.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Some-

times people have nothing to say because they’re too empty,” writes author Yasmin Mogahed. “And sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too full.”

By my reckoning, Cancerian, you will soon be in the latter category. A big silence is settling over you as new amusements and amazements rise up within you. It will be understandable if you feel reluctant to blab about them. They need more time to ripen. You should trust your impulse to remain a secret and a mystery for a while.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Insight is not a

light bulb that goes off inside our heads,” says author Malcolm Gladwell. “It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.” Take that as a constructive warning, Leo. On the one hand, I believe you will soon glimpse quite a few new understandings of how the world works and what you could do to make it serve you better.

On the other hand, you’ve got to be extra alert for these new understandings and committed to capturing them the moment they pop up. Articulate them immediately.

If you’re alone, talk to yourself about them. Maybe even write them down. Don’t just assume you will be able to remember them perfectly later when it’s more convenient.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): After a

storm, British wildlife lover Gary Zammit found a baby heron cowering in a broken nest. Its parents were dead. Zammit took the orphan under his wing. He named it Dude, and cared for it as it grew. Eventually, he realized that Dude was never going to learn to fly unless he intervened. Filling his pockets full of the food that Dude loved, Zammit launched a series of flying lessons—waving his arms and squawking as he ran along a flat meadow that served as a runway. Dude imitated his human dad, and soon mastered the art of flight.

Can you see ways in which this story might have metaphorical resemblances to your own life, Virgo? I think it does. It’s time for your mind to teach your body an instinctual skill or self-care habit that it has never quite gotten right.

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The reward for doing so will be a great liberation.

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21): Just for a few days, would you be willing to put your attention on the needs of others more than on your own? The weird thing is, your selfish interests will be best served by being as unselfish and empathetic and compassionate as you can stand to be. I don’t mean that you should allow yourself to be abused or taken advantage of. Your task is to express an abundance of creative generosity as you bestow your unique blessings in ways that make you feel powerful. In the words of theologian Frederick Buechner, you should go “to the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Imagine a scenario like this: The CEOs of five crazily rich U.S. corporations, including a major defense contractor, stage a press conference to announce that in the future they will turn down the massive welfare benefits and tax breaks the federal government has been doling out to them all these years. Now, picture this: The pope issues a statement declaring that since Jesus Christ never had a single bad word to say about homosexuals, the Catholic Church is withdrawing its resistance to gay rights. I am envisioning a comparable reversal in your life, Capricorn—a flip-flop that seems equally improbable. But unlike the two I named, yours will actually unfold in the course of the next eight months. If it hasn’t already started yet, it will soon.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The cosmos is granting you a poetic license to practice the art of apodyopsis with great relish.

You know what apodyopsis is, right? It refers to the act of envisioning people naked—mentally undressing them so as to picture them in their raw state. So, yes, by all means, Pisces, enjoy this creative use of your imagination without apology.

It should generate many fine ramifications. For instance, it will prime you to penetrate beneath the surface of things.

It will encourage you to see through everyone’s social masks and tune in to what’s really going on in their depths. You need to do that right now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For four days

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People celebrate the Jindo Sea-Parting Festival by strolling back and forth along the temporary path. The phenomenon has been called the “Korean version of Moses’ miracle,” although it’s more reasonably

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Someday, bloody someday Roseville-native turned indie-filmmaker Matt Thompson credits the “school of hard knocks” for his stage and screen education. Certainly, he’s paid his dues locally—in 2009, the 29-year-old self-taught writer, actor and director delivered a standout performance as Stanley Kowalski in the Big Idea Theatre’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Now, his horror-thriller flick Bloodline (from a script that took Thompson 10 years to finish) finally reaches movie theaters on Friday, September 27. A DVD release will follow in January. The movie, filmed in the Eldorado National Forest in 2009 and 2010, follows a seminary student who visits a cabin he recently inherited— only to discover a Native American curse that’s followed his family’s bloodline through an heirloom necklace. Thompson talked to SN&R about shady acting schools, hypothermia and the art of self-directing.

Tell me about your film education.

When I was trying to become an actor, I realized very quickly that you’ve got to have something to get something, you have to get something to have something. I talked to a producer, who [advised me to] write something, study it [and] put [myself] in it. I wrote a [2005] film called Fallen Soldier, and I ended up producing the whole thing myself on a Doritos and pizza budget. Once it was done, people encouraged me to explore that directorial side of things.

How did you figure out filmmaking on your own?

Instantly, I got screwed by [one of those] acting schools that supposedly get you straight to the top immediately. I then settled into this [[[[other?]]]] school, which, at the time, had Tina Cole from My Three Sons as one of my teachers, and she was in that first film with me. She took me under her wing, taught me about the industry. So, I just went to Borders and loaded my cart full of books like From Reel to Deal [by Dov S-S Simens], Save the Cat! [by Blake Snyder]—those kinds of how-to-make-amovie, how-to-produce books. I think that if you’re passionate about something, you will seek out the materials.

The Bloodline script took 10 years?

Yes. I started it when I was 19, pretty much just out of high school. [The script’s] gone through 14 different drafts [and] full rewrites.

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going to sell. It’s going to be commercially viable.” The great thing about horror is a lot of people can start out there, make a lot of mistakes, and it still goes out. There’s less judgment. It’s really cool to have the opportunity to watch yourself grow in one project.

I can go back to the original draft and say, “Oh my God, I wrote that?”

What obstacles did you encounter shooting in the Eldorado National Forest?

For one, it does snow in May. The movie is supposed to take place in summertime, so we figured we’ll make it in May, when it’s spring; it’ll be warm enough. We’re in front of the camera in shorts and T-shirts, then cut, we’re all huddled around the heater getting warm. We got 3 or 4 inches of snow. You can’t shoot a summer movie in snow, so we lost a few days, we had to make them up.

The last night of filming the grand-finale scene had us in the lake, but the water was freezing. We had little wetsuits on underneath our clothes, but that doesn’t really help. I not only had to be in a really great emotional state to pull off this huge grand-finale scene, but I had to dive into this icy cold water at 3 a.m. I got hypothermia, so they put me in a tent to warm me up, and then threw me back into the water. It was intense.

What was the most challenging aspect of directing yourself?

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Which films and directors influenced you?

I studied M. Night Shyamalan’s structure in his early films, The Sixth Sense and Signs.

I learned how to write screenplays based off Signs. I love [Steven] Spielberg for his visual sense to a convey story and keep you in it. I love [Martin] Scorsese: Nobody can direct actors like that man can. Of course, I love [George] Lucas for his innovations in the industry. The Departed and Blow, those crime-drama movies really get me.

Favorite horrorthriller movies?

Jaws is one. It was totally original, out of the box. [Spielberg] took something that people were naturally afraid of and put it into an awesome story.

What’s next?

Next up on my slate is a movie called Split, where I play a cop who goes undercover in a multimillion-dollar drug ring and becomes corrupt in the process, starts living a double life. I co-wrote that with the person it happened to; it’s all based on a true story. Ω

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Or drive down Del Paso Boulevard to witness what happens when poets pair with painters. There’s also local storytelling sessions and live music, as well as myriad festivals and even an all-star Halloween-themed punk bill. It’s not all paintings and poets and songs, however. Artober also boasts zombie trains, corn mazes and, for the adults, plenty of beer and wine celebrations. Art isn’t just a medium, after all, it’s anything you want it to be—limited only by your imagination.

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www.artobersac.com Dear Sacramento community, October is “ARTober” a month long celebration of the arts. As part of National Arts and Humanities month, Mayor Kevin Johnson’s For Arts Sake initiative, the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, the Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau, Sacramento365.com, and dozens of local arts organizations are collaborating to spotlight 150 events in the Sacramento region in October.

Throughout the month the public can experience and participate in arts events, performances and free activities including exhibitions, temporary public artworks, art festivals, concerts, musicals, live poetry, a street food and design market, and theater.

ARTober will kick off with a performance by the Sacramento Opera at the Sacramento City Council meeting at 6 pm on October 1st. This will be followed by the unveiling of a major temporary public art project, titled, “Words and Walls,” on Del Paso Boulevard at 5 pm on October 12th. Five local poets have written poems for and about the boulevard and local graphic designers have turned this prose into monumental temporary works on the exteriors of the buildings on Del Paso Boulevard.

Another ARTober highlight is the 3rd Annual Midtown Arts Festival, to be held on Oct. 19th from 12-5. A family friendly event, it will feature live music and performances from local arts organizations. Attendees will also have a chance to explore a variety of innovative art processes.

On any given day, Sacramento will be alive with concerts, theater and dance performances, art shows and museum days. For details, log on to www.ARTobersac.com.

The arts inspire us, provoke us, amuse us, enlighten us, and humanize us. Enrich yourself by experiencing Sacramento’s vibrant arts community and taking advantage of all that ARTober has to offer.

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When two nonprofits team up for a single fundraiser, it’s bound to be greater than just the sum of its parts. Such is the case with La Raza Galeria Posada and the Sacramento Police Mounted Association’s Saddle Up & Paint event on Saturday, October 5. It’ll offer Dia de los Muertos sugarskull and mask-painting workshops for the kids, the presentation of two new saddles to the SPMA, barbecue, and live music with the Josh Macrae Band and the College Fund Band. Have fun, help raise funds for Sacramento police horses and scholarships for children’s arts-education programs. Noon to 4 p.m.; $10 suggested donation, free for kids ages 12 and younger. La Raza Galeria Posada, 2700 Front Street; (916) 446-5133; www.lrgp.org. J.M.

Featured artist Birgitta FranzenMcCarthy, who signs her work under the name “Bittan,” works mostly from nature and scenes outdoors. Lose yourself in her “action paintings,” and feel the branches swaying in the wind.

A new exhibit at the Axis Gallery, Loose Ends, highlights her work, including the abstract pieces that Franzen-McCarthy says were inspired by observing the fluid changes of her natural subjects.

Loose Ends opens on Saturday, October 5, and runs through Sunday, October 27. The Second Saturday reception happens on October 12, from 6 to 9 p.m.

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Following in their family’s acclaimed footsteps, Lucia Eames and Llisa Demetrios, daughter and granddaughter of legendary California designers Charles and Ray Eames, have forged their own path in the art community.

Now The California Museum has honored them with an exhibition, the aptly titled Eames Generations: A Legacy of California Design, which runs through December 1.

Staying true to their California roots, Eames, who created the 92-foot-tall “Wind Harp” in South San Francisco, designs functional indoor and outdoor pieces laser-cut in metal, and Demetrios, who creates large-scale sculptures out of bronze, hammers out her creations in their shared studio space in Sonoma County. Admission is $6-$8.50, free for children 5 and under. The California Museum, 1020 O Street; (916) 653-7524; www.californiamuseum.org. L.H.

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Julie HeffeRnan is obsessed witH HeRself.

Not in a bad way. Rather, the artist creates fantastical paintings full of darkness and light, life and death.

Heffernan—whose works go on display beginning on Sunday, October 20, at the Crocker Art Museum in an exhibit titled Sky Is Falling: Paintings by Julie Heffernan—also embeds contemporary messages in rich palettes of muted colors and intricate detail, reminiscent of Baroque and Renaissance art, but with a more modern, surrealist feel. Sensual and provocative, she invites the viewer to examine larger worldly messages through her constant self-examination.

In her “Self-Portrait as Animal Skirt,” a pale, nude female dons a headdress of multicolored flowers, and her

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arms rest on a large flowing skirt of animal carcasses. The figure’s pose is graceful and elegant, like that of European royalty, but the bright blue background and nature-infused coverings suggest an otherworldly setting.

Heffernan employs classic technique to create vast, dreamlike stories with incredible detail. She draws viewers in with strange occurrences in naturalistic settings, or realistic still lifes in invented backgrounds. The eye may focus on the beautiful woman draped on stones in the forest in the foreground of a painting, but an explosion in the background of the painting pulls the eye and lures the viewer into Heffernan’s grand, twisted worlds.

Though she now lives and creates art in Brooklyn, New York, Heffernan remains tied to her Northern California roots. She earned her bachelor’s degree in fine arts from UC Santa Cruz and is currently represented by the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco as well as the Mark Moore Gallery in Culver City.

The Crocker exhibit will feature some of Heffernan’s self-portraits along with other modern surrealistic oil paintings. The exhibit is organized by the Palo Alto Art Center, the paintings borrowed from various Northern California collections. Sunday, October 20, through Sunday, January 26, 2014; $5-$10. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; (916) 808-7000; www.crockerartmuseum.org. Ω

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Get ready to feel like you’re on psychedelics when you peep this show, because Jose Di Gregorio and Jared Tharp aim to stimulate your visual system and trip you out.

With Night on display this month at Bows & Arrows, Di Gregorio (whose work is pictured above, top right) continues his Sacred Geometry series of rainbow-hued combos of outer space and precise line work. Tharp also works the optical-geometry vein, but takes inspiration from more Earthbound sources: 1980s skate graphics and animation. Tharp says that he and Di Gregorio are aiming for an “overall hypnotic and visceral effect.” The opening reception is on Friday, October 4, from 6 to 9 p.m.; show ends Thursday, October 31.

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Laura Edmisten-Matranga and poet Danny Romero teamed up for this work, part of the Del Paso Words & Walls Project, that is at 2138 Del Paso Boulevard.

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ART IN PUbLIC PLACES. The concept seems really simple: A graceful metaland-wood sculpture placed squarely in a library.

A vibrant mural painted on the side of a shop’s wall. A bronze statue looming over travelers at an airport.

But that’s not all public art can be, and that’s something that Shelly Willis, director for the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission considered when her organization teamed with the Del Paso Boulevard Partnership in an effort to bring more visual art to the north Sacramento neighborhood.

The idea, Willis knew, had to go beyond simply tacking up some pictures around the boulevard.

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Davis Jazz and Beat Festival

Cheers to that

Hit the road, and saunter across the Yolo Causeway for the seventh annual Davis Jazz and Beat Festival, October 4-5, at the John Natsoulas Center for the Arts. The free event, a celebration honoring the freewheeling ideals of the Beat Generation, promises two days of poetry readings and painting demonstrations set to rhapsodic live jazz performances. There’ll also be a Jack Kerouac poetry contest, as well as music and spoken word. This is a chance to delve into the artistic world that celebrated nonconformity and impetuous creativity. A concurrent exhibition, Beat Generation and Beyond; Lyrical Vision: the Figure, will feature works by notable artists of the era. Beret and sunglasses not required. 521 First Street in Davis, (530) 756-3938, www.natsoulas.com. L.H.

Frosty cold and carb-loaded, amateur pollsters say beer is what the body craves after doing something it doesn’t want to do—namely, running. That’s what makes the Oktobrewfest run such an appealing idea. It combines both. Lace up those lederhosen, pick either the 5k or 10k option and get rewarded with a free “recovery” beer at the finish line. There’s also a half-mile kids run—but we’re guessing the little ones are served apple juice, not brews.

The event benefits the A Change of Pace Foundation, a Davisbased nonprofit that aims to promote community education, family-oriented events, youth exercise programs, triathlons and camps. The run, scheduled to start at 6 p.m., October 12, at Davis Community Park, will lead runners through the city streets and bike paths of Davis.

The $25-$45 registration fee includes a bib number, custom bottle opener finisher’s medal, race shirt and post-race libation.

Prost! http://changeofpace.com/ oktobrewfest. J.B.

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“I’m interested in finding ways that artists in other disciplines can bring their work into the public realm,” she says.

And so, the Del Paso Words & Walls Project was born, and in January, SMAC and the DPBP invited Sacramento poets to submit works for consideration on the subject of Del Paso Boulevard—poems inspired by their perspectives, impressions and memories of the street.

The chosen poems would then, in turn, be translated by graphic artists into visual pieces.

The resulting exhibit, the Del Paso Words & Walls Project, will feature five “monumental and site-specific” public artworks on buildings located along Del Paso Boulevard, between Arden Way and El Camino Avenue.

The project’s participating poets are Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Danny Romero, Paco Marquez, Tim Kahl and Catherine French. The graphic designers are Laura Edmisten-Matranga, Benjamin DellaRosa, Hans Bennewitz, William Leung and Barb Hennelly.

The project, currently still in its final stages of completion, will be unveiled Saturday, October 12, at the Sacramento Temporary Contemporary gallery, and while it’s currently planned as a temporary installation, Willis says that ideally it will evolve into a permanent collection.

“I hope the Del Paso businesses like [the art] so much that they’ll keep them up,” she says.

Reception is on Saturday, October 12, from 5 to 7 p.m. 1616 Del Paso Boulevard, www.sacmetro arts.org/poetwall.html Ω

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Among the myriad costume balls during the Halloween season, the 32nd annual Carnivale Black Tie Masquerade Ball, which takes place Saturday, October 19, at the Elks Tower, offers a chance to dress in black-tie attire, don a glittery mask and play casino games such as blackjack and roulette—all for charity. The event is hosted by the Active 20-30 Club of Greater Sacramento, a group of women that volunteers its time to various local children’s charities. The masquerade ball will benefit KidsFirst, Gravity and Next Move. In addition to the casino hijinks, the evening will also include the Virginia Lights Band’s sultry vocal stylings, food, drinks and overall merriment.

7 to 11 p.m.; $45 advance tickets, $55 at the door.

921 11th Street, (916) 658-9830, www.sacwomens2030.org. J.R.

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Or two. Anything to help you forget that Monday’s just around the corner. But you’re also not some rube—you demand culture, sophistication, class. It’s time, then, for the Delta Wine & Art Faire, which takes place Sunday, October 6, at the Old Sugar Mill. The event promises the key essentials to a relaxing yet not completely throwaway weekend afternoon. In addition to works by local artists, there’ll be live music, food vendors and a silent auction that will raise funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. See, you already feel better about that bottle of pinot you’re planning to put away, don’t you? 1 to 7 p.m.; $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

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My Own Stranger, directed by Kelley Ogden, is a site-specific performance that tells a semichronological story of the Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Anne Sexton, using her poems, letters and quotes from interviews. This KOLT Run Creations production stars Kellie Yvonne Raines, Ruby Sketchley and Lisa Thew, each depicting a different aspect of Sexton’s personality—Ichi, the child who needs to fit in; Dvah, the self-loathing adult; and Mercy, the one who self-medicates. Adapted by Marilyn Campbell and Linda Laundra, performances are scheduled to take place at various locations, and each venue will distinctly inform the play’s vibe. Scheduled venues include the Alex Bult Gallery; Gallery 2110; Sol Collective; Crocker Art Museum; and, on Monday, October 7, the Sacramento Poetry Center. $20, www.koltruncreations.com. t.d.

Jane Austen’s timeless tale of miscommunication gets adapted for the Sacramento Theatre Company’s main stage in a production that runs October 2-27. Pride and Prejudice revolves around the story of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, one of literature’s most beloved couples, as they endure a rocky start to bicker and banter their way to eventual love and matrimony.

Think of it as the original rom-com. But it’s more than just lighthearted fun; this classic romance explores expectations of marriage in the early 19th century, especially for women, and whether matrimonial unions should be made for love or money. Skip the dinner-and-a-movie date, and watch these characters stumble their way to true love. 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays; 12:30 and 6:30 p.m Thursdays; 8 p.m. Fridays; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays; $12-$37. 1419 H Street, (916) 443-6722, www.sactheatre.org. J.r.

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The show is over until next summer, and the tour is only coming as close as San Francisco and San Jose, which means Sacramento fans will be in a serious drought of gnarly Nappytabs or depression-inducing (in a good way!) Mia Michaels routines for a while.

Luckily, New York-based Ballet Hispanico is set to come through Davis on Friday, October 11, as part of its 2013 North American tour. The company’s style is pretty much

exactly what it sounds like: classical ballet and contemporary dance, melded with traditional and modern Latino forms. As you might imagine, this makes for a diverse repertoire—tangolaced pas de deux; pirouettes in a paso doble; slow, controlled développés followed by some serious hip work.

Formed in 1970 by Tina Ramirez, the troupe, now directed by Eduardo Vilaro, aims to preserve culture and promote education with pieces like “A Vueltas con los Ochenta,” which evokes the post-Franco, 1980s Madrid when culture in Spain was experiencing new freedom in the wake of its former dictator; and “Mad’Moiselle,” a contemporary piece that is both playful and somber, and serves as a dialogue-in-motion about gender identity within Latino culture.

The show is highly accessible and aimed at fostering a vital art form that is increasingly underfunded nowadays. The way I’d recommend it to friends that aren’t into dance: It’s kind of like the Sharks’ routines from West Side Story plus Black Swan, with a little bit of Dirty Dancing thrown in the mix. Who wouldn’t want to see that? 8 p.m., $25-$49. Mondavi Center, 9399 Old Davis Road in Davis; (530) 754-5000; www.mondaviarts.org. Ω

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When Igor Stravinsky premiered his new ballet The Rite of Spring on May 29, 1913, the flamboyant, avant-garde performance choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky so shocked the Paris elite in attendance that they broke out into a frenzy that ultimately spilled from the stage at the Champs-Elysées Theatre and onto the streets. Indeed, something as seemingly refined as ballet caused a near riot.

Now, a century later on Saturday, October 12, the Sacramento Ballet’s artistic director Ron Cunningham will reinterpret Stravinsky’s showy, influential production with a show that will also include a preview of sorts of two other upcoming Sac Ballet presentations, The Firebird and Rubies. 7 p.m., $25. Sacramento Ballet, 1631 K Street; (916) 552-5800; www.sacballet.org. L.H.

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Capital Stage performs mostly cutting-edge plays or premieres locally written works, but its take on the oft-performed Shakespeare classic Macbeth, being staged from Wednesday, October 23 to Sunday, November 24, promises to be no less interesting. The theater company will present an original adaption of this tragedy, condensing its usual five acts into two. There are some radical departures: According to director Stephanie Gularte, this adaptation is set “in a not-too-distant post-apocalyptic future … where guerrilla warfare rules the land.” There will even be some gender-bending involved.

This particular interpretation centers on the “perverse” marital bond between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The timeless play is as dark as any horror movie and makes for the a perfect night out in the lead up to Halloween. There will be blood. Visit Cap Stage’s website for showtimes. $18-$36. 2215 J Street, (916) 995-5464, www.capstage.org. b.G. 09.26.13

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EvEN ThOUgh hE’S PRObAbLy OLdER ThAN ThE AvERAgE SN&R REAdER, LEON RUSSELL ISN’T ONE Of ThOSE AgINg ROCk ’N’ ROLL hALL Of fAMERS wE ShOULd ALL jUST fORgET AbOUT ALREAdy. First of all, he looks like a friggin’ wizard—Gandalf, to be exact. And musically, the bearded Oklahoma-born pianist and songwriter, who moved to Los Angeles in the early ’60s, has penned such classics as “A Song for You,” “Tight Rope” and “Lady Blue.”

Over the course of a nearly 60-year musical career, Russell (pictured, right), who performs on Friday, October 20, at Assembly, has also explored and blended blues, country, rock and soul to create a signature sound that’s often now called the “Tulsa Sound.”

But Russell’s finest moment just may have been his energetic performance in the George Harrison-organized Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden in 1971.

Though he shared the stage with two Beatles, Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan, Russell managed to steal the show with a spirited rendition of the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.” Afterward, he retreated into the shadows—literally—switching to bass guitar and backup vocals on a few folk songs as the spotlight turned to Dylan.

Fast-forward to more recent times.

Two significant events happened in 2010 for Russell: First, he spent some time in the hospital recovering from a brain-fluid leak, pneumonia and heart failure. And shortly after that, he recorded an album with Elton John called The Union, his most commercially successful record in 30 years.

Clearly, the wizard of the Tulsa Sound is still taking advantage of the time given to him by continuing to play awesome music. Sunday, October 20, 7 p.m.; $40.

1000 K Street, Suite 100; (916) 341-0176; www.leonrussellrecords.com. Ω

InspIratIon meets ImprovIsatIon Ross Hammond’s The Humanity Suite

Ross Hammond, founder of the In the Flow Festival and the weekly Nebraska Mondays series at Luna’s Café & Juice Bar, often works with musicians and poets, but for his latest project, he takes the concept of collaboration even further.

A new Crocker Art Museum exhibit, Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power, features the African-American artist’s striking black silhouettes which explore both historical

and modern issues of race. As part of the exhibit, Hammond composed The Humanity Suite, a set inspired by three of Walker’s silhouettes. And just as Walker tells stories through art, Hammond tells stories through jazz, some of it improvised. For the project, Hammond will perform live on Thursday, October 3, with Vinny Golia (saxophone, bass clarinet), Catherine Sikora (saxophone), Clifford Childers (trombone, bass trumpet, euphonium), Kerry Kashiwagi (bass) and Dax Compise (drums).

7 p.m., $6-$12. 216 O Street, (916) 808-7000, http://crocker artmuseum.org. t.D.

Boo, yeah

trIp out Cave

The Chicago-based Cave visits Bows & Arrows on Tuesday, October 15, for a night of minimalist jazz-funk-noise whatever. And by “whatever,” we mean whatever fantastic sounds this ensemble coaxes out of its guitars, keyboards, etc. The quartet will also release its third album, Threace, that same day.

Like its live sets, the music here drones, heavy on the grooves with meandering, psychedelic and trip-inducing melodies, no drugs needed. 8 p.m., $6. 1815 19th Street, www.dragcity.com/artists/ cave. r.l.

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Halloween Hootenanny Festival Mark your calendars for the 10th annual Halloween Hootenanny Festival. The music event takes place this year at Old Ironsides from October 24-26, and features way too many punk, Americana and rockabilly bands to list here.

Some highlights: the Rocketz, the Nickel Slots, the Vintage Vandals and Rebel Punk. There’ll also be food trucks, a zombie-pinup contest and something billed as, um, a “bloody wet tee shirt contest.” Scary, indeed. 8 p.m.

Thursday, 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday; $12-$15. 1901 10th Street, http://tinyurl.com/ hootenannyfestival. r.l.

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Orange Shandy is here.

Saturday November 9th 4:30 - 8:30pm Downtown Sutter Creek Stroll Main Street Sutter Creek Taste Amador County Wines Enjoy Music, Local Cuisine, Silent Auction, Art & More Tickets $25 in Advance or $30 at the Door For Tickets and Information: www.amadorarts.org or 209 267 9038 Go to www.touramador.com to build your custom Winefest Weekend

Join us out here Please drink responsibly.

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THE GHOSTS ARE REAL

2013

RiDe with the unDeaD

by JULIANNA bOggS

Zombie Train AMTRAk NEEdS TO STEP UP ITS gAME.

Sacramento Horror Film Festival The Sacramento Horror Film Festival should get everyone’s heart racing—think of it as a warm-up to the scariest night of them all. This year’s fest, which takes place Friday, October 11, to Sunday, October 13, at the Colonial Theatre, includes a screening of the 2006 cult classic Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon and—bonus!—the film’s star Nathan Baesel will also be in attendance. Also on the bill: the 1976 timeless favorite, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Yes, it’s time for fans and virgins to do the time warp yet again.

Costumes, of course, strongly encouraged.

There’ll also be short films and an awards ceremony. $30-$40 for a three-day pass, single day tickets are $15-$25. 3522 Stockton Boulevard, www.sachorrorfilmfest.com. C.D.

the ghosts oF sacramento past The Haunted Fort

It’s Sacramento’s oldest structure, so it’s not too surprising that there are a lot of ghost stories involving Sutter’s Fort. On October 25 and 26, tour docents dressed as the spirits of early Sacramento pioneers will lead The Haunted Fort evening tour program, sharing

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon screens this year at the Sacramento Horror Film Festival.

stories of their lives—and deaths. It’s a great chance to explore the fort when it would otherwise be closed. Tours start every 10 minutes; ghost hunting with electromagnetic field probes and night-vision cameras optional.

6:30 to 9 p.m., $6-$8. 2701 L Street, (916) 445-4422, www.suttersfort.org. J.M.

american horror story live Callson Manor

Remember the 1979 film The Amityville Horror? You only wish these haunted houses were that cheery. Located in Roseville at the Placer County Fairgrounds, Callson Manor is freaking scary—better-bring-your-heart-meds scary. This year, get spooked every Friday through Sunday (and a few Thursdays, too) between October 4 and October 31. Owned and operated by a professional animatronicsprop designer, the Manor employs professional set designers and movieworthy special-effects and makeup artists. There are three haunted houses in all, as well as a courtyard featuring Zombie Paintball, a tarot card reader and some nightmare-inducing thing called “Chainsaw Alley.” Gulp. 7:30 to 10 p.m., $26-$60.

800 All America City Boulevard in Roseville, www.callsonmanor.com. R.L.

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Fright nights

Need more excitement? Purchase a ticket upgrade in exchange for a laser rifle and membership in the Zombie Train Militia.

Described as “one part passenger train, one part zombie killing machine,” the show lasts 75 minutes, leaving plenty of time to unwind and enjoy a victorious return ride home among the survivors. Various times on select dates, through November 1; $35-$50; www.sacramentorivertrain.com. Ω

photo courtesy of sacramento horror film festival

While the Sacramento RiverTrain can’t get you much farther than Woodland, its selection of services makes for an experience outside the norm when it comes to one of America’s oldest forms of mass transit.

The RiverTrain coaches, representing a handful of eras in rail history, carry passengers over 16 miles of track, from West Sacramento to Woodland and back.

The locomotive hosts a variety of offerings through the year, including brunch rides and sunset dining, but come October, it’s time for something more in step with the season: zombie killing and beer.

Not at the same time, of course. That would be reckless. But no one’s saying you can’t try both.

The Zombie Train bills itself as a two-hour ride and show during which passengers can relax and take in the sites of the undead, all while traveling on long wooden trestle bridges, past the Sacramento riverfront, and through miles of open valley farmland.

and so is the fun!

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Ace of SpAdeS Friday, September 27

Saturday, September 28

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

All Ages Welcome!

Tuesday, OcTOber 1

Thursday, OcTOber 3

TWIZTID

FRIGHTENED RABBIT

plus special guests

maDchilD - blaze ya DeaD homie aqualeo - brutha smith

plus special guests Friday, OctOber 4

senses fail for the fallen Dreams - expire being as an ocean

wednesday, OctOber 16

saturday, OctOber 5

Joshua Radin plus special guests

Friday, OctOber 18

Friday, OctOber 11

saturday, OctOber 12

andre nickatina & krazie bone

arden park roots

babnit

one Drop - street urchinz riotmaker (feat. Jeffry of shakeDown) - kayasun

saturday, OctOber 19

cOMiNg sOON

(of bone thugs-n-harmony)

09/26 10/17 10/20 10/22 10/25 10/26 11/05 11/11 11/12 11/14 11/16 11/17

The Used william control

11/23 11/30 12/08 12/11

Matt Nathanson Story Of The Year Attila Streelight Manifesto Parmalee Jonny Craig AB-Soul & Joey Badass Clutch Mayday Parade Misfits E-40 Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Mellowhigh Great White Metalachi Blood On The Dance Floor

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