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Tipping the balance Recently, I was asked to fill out a research survey on gender equality in the workplace. Sure, why not?

After all, I’ve read Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg’s divisive look at what it means to be both female and career-oriented.

Even as many embraced Sandberg’s advice to mentor co-workers, her book also rankled with assertions that women should reject the urge to hold themselves back in fear of tipping the work-life balance.

Easy enough to say when you’re the chief operating officer of Facebook, right?

The reality’s far more complex.

I don’t even have children and find myself challenged by the notion.

A close friend, a new mother, recently decided to quit her job. Living on just one paycheck, she said, would be less stressful than trying to juggle office life with quality parenting. I nodded in sympathy. After all, my cats have practically figured out how to feed themselves, as I can barely find time to clean the house or cook, much less take care of tiny, dependent beings. And I’m one of the lucky ones. Without a supportive husband, I’m sure you’d find me buried alive by piles of dirty laundry.

Now, as I read the survey, it confirmed how out-of-touch notions of a work-life balance really are. Sample question: “Which of the below stop ... women from reaching the top in an organization?”

Possible answers (choose just one!) included “Because they are not ambitious enough” and “because they are trapped in household activities.”

The problem isn’t singular—it’s multifaceted and fuzzy: lack of government support, antiquated notions about gender roles, and companies that, in their resistance to flexible hours or job-sharing, perpetuate the cycle.

“Lean in”? Let’s just try to remain standing.

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A lot of sports guys do that once they retire. It’s funny.

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I think I’m still a little confused. He put us down so many times when we were rivals with him. We’re the “cow town,” according to Shaq. And now, all of a sudden, you want to put Sacramento on the map because you’re here? I don’t quite get him yet.

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It’s truly sad how the sequester, government shutdown and all the absurd dysfunction are making people—especially young voters—even more cynical and callous about civic participation. At a time when we should be rising up in the streets, demanding that our government work better for the people, the champions for the poor and the innovators for better government have been marginalized and buried under the incessant onslaught of manipulative misinformation and caustic partisanship. All the while, Democratic and Republican candidates and operatives

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I am constantly amazed that, when it comes to education, The Sacramento Bee is not covering what is actually happening. I am a public-school teacher, and I know that we educators are doing a great job. My peers are the education experts that should be involved in setting education policy.

Sadly, this is not the case, and we are constantly told what and how to teach by those with no background in education.

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few years ago, teachers, administrators, psychologists, or anyone concerned about a student in the Sacramento City Unified School District often didn’t know where exactly to go for help.

For example, a foster child in special education with health problems suddenly had a change in behavior. His teacher might wonder, “Should I call Foster Youth Services, the Special Education Department, Health Services or someone else?”

“What would end up happening is people would call all these different departments, and they’d be put on hold, sent to voice mails, people wouldn’t return their calls and meanwhile this child and his family’s needs were not being met,” explains Nichole C. Wofford, a marriage and family therapist and social worker with the school district.

It became clear there needed to be a centralized gateway for resources that could be used by students, parents, administrators and teachers.

A SCUSD mental health collaborative looking to expand mental health services within the district began working on a solution.

The result was the Connect Center, which opened in January 2011 at the SCUSD office.

It connects people to both in-district services and a wide variety of community partners, such as Legal Services of Northern California, Sacramento County Children’s Mental Health, several health insurance companies and more.

“So there’s one phone call (or email or walk-in

visit),” says Wofford, the center’s manager.

“We will actually case manage and walk you through the process of getting this family the support they need.”

Wofford runs the center with a social worker, two family advocates (case managers) and usually one to three Sacramento State social-work interns. As of September 2013, they had opened 2,140 cases,

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the child is the emergency room — or they’re undocumented and are fearful of coming forth because they’re afraid of being deported,” Wofford says. A bilingual family advocate walks them through how to get enrolled and how to use the insurance.

The other family advocate heads the LGBT services. “This population has been identified as being extremely vulnerable and at risk of challenges at school such as poor grades, poor attendance, bullying, depression, suicidality, homelessness, and substance abuse, so we have a dedicated person who works with the schools and does mentoring for the LGBT youth so they have someone to talk to,” Wofford says. “We have gotten letters from principals that have said, ‘I am convinced that your support saved this student’s life.’”

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Sacramento City unified School district Connect Center manager nichole C. Wofford says the center serves as a centralized gateway for resources in the district. photo by laura anthony

an average of about 800 per year.

Case management, the center’s primary umbrella service, involves working with students and families who have problems that run the gamut: mental health or behavior issues; lack of food, clothing, shelter or furniture in the home; legal problems; tutoring needs; a death, illness or job loss in the family; etc. This can also include crisis intervention, such as suicide assessment and referral.

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Spectacle of grief Does nonprofit Garden of Innocence honor abandoned children— or secretly conduct extravagant funerals for stillborn fetuses in Sacramento?

During an overcast September morning on a grassy mortuary plot in Citrus Heights, more than a hundred mourners observed the final by Raheem dedication for 20 “abandoned” children.

F. Hosseini Backdropped by small caskets on a rain-dappled lawn, the crowd handed tiny ra h e emh@ newsr evie w.c om wooden urns around their solemn circle, offering personal blessings, reciting poems and loosing butterflies into the gray sky.

Whenever someone wondered aloud what sort of parent would abandon their dead son or daughter, the man responsible scuttled the topic.

“We can’t stop what a parent would do,” Victor Hipolito Jr. told gatherers. “It doesn’t matter. Thank you for stepping forward while others turned their backs.”

This is the creed of Garden of Innocence National, an expanding nonprofit that claims to provide “dignified burial services for abandoned and unidentified children.”

Problem is, the souls being interred this gloomy September morning aren’t abandoned children at all. They’re stillborn fetuses recovered from hospitals, under a contractual blessing from Sacramento County. And the parents who suffered these miscarriages may not know what’s being done with the fruits of their grief.

Formed nine months ago in San Diego by founder Elissa Davey, Garden of Innocence recently landed in Sacramento, where it secured a written contract with the county to bury every child 8 years and younger that isn’t claimed within 30 days of his or her death. The mission sounds saintly, right down to the nonprofit’s Edenic name. Garden of Innocence has 17 chapters scattered mostly throughout California and include some far-flung ones in Alaska and Poland.

“It’s all for the babies,” Hipolito, area manager of the new GOI Sierra chapter, told SN&R. But the perception that the group cares for discarded children is different from the reality. Sacramento hasn’t suffered an outbreak of abandoned, dead children.

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be the same in each of the counties where Garden of Innocence operates.

Instead, the organization has commandeered a more taboo market—conducting extravagant burial rites for stillborn infants, while raising thorny questions about the prohibitive costs of grief, as well as the difference between dignifying a loss and exploiting it.

According to Wyatt, “99 percent” of the children Garden of Innocence recovers are stillborn fetuses delivered in local hospitals and not taken home by their parents. “They’re not what you think,” he told SN&R.

reclaiming their children’s remains, but said may benefit financially from the perception such overtures are rejected. that it’s conducting funeral rites for aban“They’re already abandoned at that doned, full-term infants or young children, point,” said the part-time airport employee. rather than miscarried fetuses.

“We don’t share those stories, because it “Abandoned children and babies, they doesn’t really matter.” about never happen,” he added.

“What dignifies the child is they’re At least locally, it remains to be seen getting a burial. Garden of Innocence is whether the grieving parents knew their honoring the child by giving them a name.” “abandoned” fetuses went to a group It might matter to some, including that provided them names and multifaith donors who assume they’re supporting funeral services. funerals for abandoned children. And to the “I can’t tell you,” said Diane Galati, parents whose private losses actually fuel senior director of Mercy San Juan Medical this spectacle of grief.

Center. “Personally, I can’t see my parents At the September 21 ceremony at wanting to do that.”

Sierra Hills Memorial Park & East Galati stressed that spontaneous miscarLawn Mortuary, members of Catholic riages are rare at her hospital and that when “Abandoned children organization Knights of Columbus escorted they do happen, “our parents take their and babies, they about 20 handcrafted urns into the circle of babies.” mourners. Hipolito spoke, as did a police Many others may not have that choice. never happen.” chaplain, Christian reverend and nondeAccording to a 2012 national survey Gregory Wyatt nominational minister. Two people sang, conducted by online resource eFuneral, Sacramento County coroner and doves were released at the end of the average funeral costs exceeded $8,500 for 90-minute ceremony. Hipolito described it burial services and notched just a bit more Hospitals are required to file death as “beautiful.” than $3,700 for cremation. certificates on all stillbirths that have SN&R contacted a half-dozen child and “I’ve certainly run across where reached at least 20 weeks of gestation. If medical professionals for this story. No one [parents] couldn’t afford to pay,” said parents don’t claim these fetuses within 30 was aware of the county’s contract with Sacramento therapist Jeanette Maria days, the hospitals turn them over to the Garden of Innocence, but most expressed Salinas, who specializes in grief and coroner’s office. discomfort with the group’s modus loss counseling.

Before Garden of Innocence came operandi.

Some mortuary homes will waive fees along, the coroner facilitated the cremation “That does not sound like what we for low-income families, said Galati, and and interment of these bodies for a mass contract for,” said one birthing-center direcThe Child Abuse Prevention Center has a burial. The process was slow and cost tor, who didn’t speak for attribution. fund to help such parents. taxpayer money.

Sheila Boxley, president and CEO of For everyone else, Garden of Innocence The coroner credits the nonprofit with the Child Abuse Prevention Center, hadn’t will mourn their children for them. freeing up his office’s resources and providheard of Garden of Innocence, but said the Whether this is an act of grace or ing individualized attention to each stillborn presumptuousness could depend on the organization’s mission “raises all kinds of fetus. The all-volunteer organization names questions.” individual. Online discussion forums for each “child” and writes poems for him or Founder Davey didn’t return a request parents who miscarried reveal a community her. It also pays about $700 per fetus for for comment, but her organization has that grieves mostly in private, choosing death certificates, cremation and interment. another local funeral scheduled for not to tell family members they were ever It also buys each infant an obituary, a grave October 19, at East Lawn. Hipolito said pregnant, much less that they suffered a marker and a toy they’ll never play with. the nonprofit already has nine “abandoned devastating loss.

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Low-income Sacramentans still have a hard time getting dental care Clean and sober since January 2012, Heather Mostajo was eager to enter the workforce. But there was a problem: Her by Dave Kempa teeth were in terrible condition.

“That was my biggest hang-up dave k@ with my self-esteem about being able newsreview.c om to attend an interview,” says Mostajo, 38. “Your appearance, your smile.

They look at that.”

This was not a new problem for her. She spent years too embarrassed even to smile. Fighting back tears, she remembers her choice last year to not join her three kids and three stepchildren in their Christmas family portrait.

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For residents without insurance, oral-care options remain tenuous. The rollout for Covered California will not include dental care, as that is no longer a part of the Affordable Care Act. Denti-Cal, the state’s oral extension of Medicaid that was cut in 2009 due to budget woes, will again be available in 2014, but with a 10 percent drop in reimbursement to dentists providing the services.

In the meantime, working-class and poor adults often must rely on volunteer efforts from the dental community. One effort to increase smiles across the state is CDA PHOTO BY WES DAVIS

The California Dental Association says that some 10 million residents experience barriers to dental care.

While recent laws and concerted efforts by California’s dentists have helped to ameliorate the problem, there remain serious gaps in care for less-affluent adults.

“The need is so great,” says Cathy Levering, executive director of the Sacramento District Dental Society.

“And the problem is, it’s not just the indigent. It’s the working poor, the people who have no benefits and are working but can’t afford dental care.”

It’s particularly bad here in Sacramento.

According to Levering, every county across the state has a free clinic providing dental services to the poor.

The county clinic in Sacramento, however, only performs extractions and care for abscesses—the dental equivalent of an emergency-room visit. Preventative care, such as teeth cleaning and fillings, is not available.

Heather Mostajo will enjoy smiling for holiday pictures more with her new dentures.

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Cares, a semiannual volunteer effort where dental professionals provide free care to residents who can’t afford it on their own. Last year, the California Dental Association held two daylong events, one in Modesto and another at Cal Expo here in Sacramento, providing more than 17,000 dental procedures to almost 3,700 uninsured residents.

Terry Jones, chairman of the Sacramento County Medi-Cal Dental Advisory Committee and dentist for three decades, says that despite monetary woes and state funding cuts to programs in recent years, dental professionals throughout Sacramento have worked to fill in the gaps for the uninsured. More than a dozen clinics in the region, for instance, provide low-cost care (if only just for pain relief and extraction referrals), and many practices work with the Sacramento District Dental Society to provide services to lower-income residents on a sliding-scale price system.

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Levering says that grants to the Sacramento District Dental Foundation, the nonprofit arm of SDDS, have helped Sacramentans in need to receive care. “The hospitals and other organizations have been great in providing these grants,” she says, “[but] I think it’s a Band-Aid.” Jones agrees, pointing to the immense crowds drawn each year to CDA Cares events. “The fact that people stand in line for two days to get dental treatment makes you think, ‘Oh my God, this is terrible.’”

A similar thought, one surmises, went through Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg’s mind last year, when he visited the CDA Cares event at Cal Expo. Moved by what he saw that day, Steinberg this summer managed to reinstate Denti-Cal into Gov. Jerry Brown’s state budget—a big win for both the state’s dental association and SDDS. Today, the dental community remains hopeful. Care for California’s children is in a markedly better condition than for adults, and uninsured pregnant women have access to services. Even with the exclusions of dental services in “Obamacare,” dentists hope that universal dental care will be the next logical conversation once the program is in place.

“The fact that it’s considered an essential health benefit is critical,” says Jones. “Dental care has a serious impact on the overall well-being of the individual.”

Last Tuesday, October 1, Mostajo received her full set of dentures after a year’s worth of oral surgery, which included removal of rotten teeth and reconstructive work on a jaw once disfigured as a result of domestic abuse.

She was able to receive her teeth thanks to a collaborative effort between Women’s Empowerment, a group dedicated to getting homeless women under a roof and in the workforce, and SDDS’ Smiles for Big Kids program.

Over the past year, Mostajo has gained both permanent housing and employment in a clerical position. But as the holiday season approaches, it’s the new smile for which she is most excited.

“Last Christmas, they did family pictures, and I never wanted to be in them,” she says. “This year, I get to be in there with my kids.” Ω

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The report, called the Children’s Report Card, states that 10,404 Sacramento County children enrolled in K-12 grades ended up in homeless situations at least once during the 2011-12 school year—a dramatic increase from the reported 7,254 students over the 2009-10 school year.

The report sounded alarms for homeless and youth advocates in the region.

“The statistics are shocking and should be a call to action for the County Board of Supervisors and School District officials to address this rising crisis,” Bob Erlenbusch, executive director of the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness, said in the nascent group’s most recent press release.

Valerie Cousins of the Children’s Coalition agrees the numbers are troubling. Regarding methodology, Cousins said the count isn’t necessarily uniform, and that schools report the numbers to the county office of education. But the rise in Sacramento’s homeless students, twice the national rate, is certainly worth our attention.

The two school districts experiencing the highest rates of student homelessness last school year were Robla, at 20 percent, and Galt Joint Union, with 15 percent. (Dave Kempa)

Moth-stalled In early 2007, light brown apple moths fluttered from their Hawaiian roots and said aloha to the mainland. By 2010, the dogged little tourists landed in Sacramento County. Now they won’t leave.

Sacramento and 18 other counties receive federal funds to battle their infestation, which are most prevalent locally in parts of North Highlands and Galt, the Delta agricultural region, and several production nurseries. County agricultural officials say the little buggers infest about 200 fruit crops, causing defoliation and negative economic impacts to our local farmingto-forking industry.

In the past year, the county received nearly $90,000 for quarantine efforts, which include monthly nursery inspections and monitoring the movement of nursery plants and green waste outside quarantine zones.

So far, the moths haven’t taken over. But it looks like they’re staying. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

Steak your Claim More and more chain restaurants and businesses are coming to Sacramento’s central-city grid.

The latest? Claim Jumper, the popular gut-stuffer chain, is in at J and 11th streets. McCormick & Schmick’s, the seafoodchain joint, is out.

Claim Jumper announced on Monday afternoon that it would open this winter downtown, at 1111 J Street. This is the same location in the Elk’s Tower that houses McCormick & Schmick’s, which closed on October 7. Both restaurant chains are owned

by Landry’s Inc., based out of Houston, Texas, which also owns Morton’s Steakhouse and Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Claim Jumper is based out of Irvine, Calif., where this writer attended undergrad, and was a popular spot with my roommates. Something about artichoke dip and ribs, if I recall (I never actually ate there, so I can’t affirm the virtues of the Claim’s stuffed barbecued-shrimp embrochette). Claim Jumper’s press release say it’s “known for their wide selection of fresh options.” Such as it’s line of microwave frozen dinners.

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A would-be carjacker came up snake eyes on his first two attempts attempts Saturday afternoon in north north Sacramento before scoring a vehicle a vehicle with no people in it. According According to police logs, one of the failed failed attempts involved a suspect suspect smashing out the window of of a car with the driver and a child still in it. The driver then suffered minor injuries, then sped off.

This has become a ballsy habit: Sacramento city police habit: Sacramento recorded another instance of a recorded another man flashing his merchandise man flashing to passing motorists near to passing motorists Riverside Boulevard and Riverside Boulevard Broadway Broadway late Saturday late morning. This morning.

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Better luck tomorrow The latest strong-mayor proposal, to be debated this week by city council, is a mess Sacramento Tomorrow unveiled its strong-mayor retread last week to the city council. The group wants us to think this effort is somehow basically different than Kevin Johnson’s Checks and Balances Act of 2012. So why title it the “2014 Checks and Balances Act,” hire the same consultants, and take money from the same businessmen to push it? arvin The Sacramento City Council will

by CoSmo G consider the measure on Tuesday, cos mog@ n ewsrev iew.c om October 15, the first step on the way to the June 2014 ballot. Just like the old strong-mayor plan, the new one would give the mayor power to hire and fire the city manager, and also control the bureaucracy. The mayor could introduce and veto the budget, as well as ordinances.

To garner more support for the plan, Sacramento Tomorrow has tossed in provisions for an independent redistricting commission and new term limits for council members. This version of strong mayor also leaves us with an eight-member city council. In the event of a tie, Sacramento Tomorrow’s spokesman David Nagler says, “one idea is to have the mayor come in and break the tie.”

Terrible idea, and just one glaring problem in the measure, which Nagler says should take no more than two council meetings to vet.

Sacramento Tomorrow’s argument basically boils down to this: “It is time for the voters to decide on strong mayor.”

It’s a half-assed argument, which could be applied to anything. For example, it’s time voters decided on an ethics commission and campaign-finance reform and a full-time city council. Why? Because they haven’t yet.

There is nothing magical about the strong-mayor idea that makes it worthy of the ballot—other than the fact that it has been flogged nonstop by a certain stubborn segment of the business community for five years.

And, let’s be clear, strong mayor is not about “vision” or “accountability” or “checks and balances” or any of the warm and fuzzy words the consultants use. It’s about redistributing power.

Today, labor and business, developers and neighborhood groups try to influence and win as many seats on the city council as they can.

Power is spread around.

Strong mayor creates a winner-take-all system, removing checks and tilting the balance. Neighborhood groups in particular will see their power diminished. Anybody not down with the winning team will be shut out.

So, does Sacramento Tomorrow have the votes? Probably. Bites figures it’s down to the Steves.

Councilman Steve Hansen is with Team K.J. much of the time, but maybe not this time. A year ago, when he was running for

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Councilman Steve Cohn has been unpredictable, sometimes voting with the mayor on this issue, sometimes against.

Of course, any of the usual dissenters could vote yes just because they want to get it over with, and because they think voters will shoot it down anyway. And Cohn, Bonnie Pannell, Kevin McCarty and Darrell Fong are all shorttimers getting ready to retire or go for higher office. None of them will have to put up with a strong mayor.

Why should a small, self-selected group get to decide what is placed on the reform agenda?

If the measure is to be placed on the June ballot, the city council will have to act by the end of the year. The compressed timeline is a problem, because this measure is a mess. The eight-member council is an obvious flaw. A fix would be to create a ninth council district, but that’s going to require a lot of thought and ultimately, cost a lot of money.

And why shoehorn term limits and redistricting in with strong mayor? The city council can create a redistricting commission on their own, anytime between now and 2020.

As for term limits, consider the hell they’ve played on the state Legislature. Sacramento Tomorrow added these into the deal as some sort of sweetener. But the overall package makes no sense.

If the council really buys into the idea that “it is time” for voters to weigh in on strong mayor—it’s not, voters have expressed no interest—then at least let strong mayor stand on its own on the ballot, and let it have some competition.

Why should a small, self-selected group get to decide what is placed on the reform agenda?

Why not let local community groups and good-government advocates—who have been working for years to improve Sacramento’s governance—put forth their ideas for reform?

Bites suggests an ethics commission and a full-time council; others have ideas every bit as worthy as strong mayor.

The city council should at least give these community groups and their ideas the same access to the ballot that Sacramento Tomorrow is getting. Then let the voters decide. Ω

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Bygone barbershop banter Getting your hair trimmed has changed since the 1960s in Ohio

For reasons I do not understand but have come to appreciate, hair regularly grows out of my head. This is not a recent phenomenon. To solve this problem, over the last 62 years, I have regularly engaged the professional services of barbers and hairstylists. I would guess I have plodded into the chair, had a sheet draped over me and scissors applied to my hair about 500 times.

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by JeFF VonKaene little town in northern Ohio during the 1950s and j e ffv @ne wsr e v ie w.c o m ’60s, riding my bike to the barbershop was a big deal. At the barbershop, there were sometimes other boys like me, always lots of men and never any women. But there was always a barbershop conversation that included all the men in the room, and sometimes us boys. Just by entering the barbershop, I became a member of the club.

The conversation topics varied. The pitiful state of the Vermilion High School football team and the Cleveland Indians were often mentioned. The Cuban missile crisis was a hot topic, as was the assassination of President I grew my hair long. John F. Kennedy. As I got older, I too could share opinBut long hair was ions and even tell some jokes. not popular at the At the barbershop, I felt part of a bigger world. barbershop.

Then, for me, things changed. First, it was seeing on television the young kids being blasted down the street by fire hoses because they believed their parents should be able to vote. I started to support the civil-rights movement, which was not very popular in the Vermilion barbershop. But then came the Vietnam War. I was angry. Angry about the war.

Angry about the needless human slaughter. Angry that my friends and classmates were being drafted, and even more angry when they were killed. I was angry at my country, my government and even my barbershop.

I grew my hair long. But long hair was not popular at the barbershop. I stopped feeling welcome, so I stopped going. Instead, I cut my own hair. A mistake.

Had friends cut it. Another mistake. But as the fashion changed, my hairstyle again became shorter. For about 30 years, I went to cheap hair salons. They did a fine job.

Jeff vonKaenel But they were definitely not like the Vermilion barberis the president, shop. No community dialogue.

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Support craft beer In downtown or Midtown Sacramento, you can buy a bottle of wine or liter of vodka to take home for personal consumption, but it’s illegal to buy a single bottle of beer to go. That’s because the unique-toSacramento single-serve ordinance, passed in the mid-1990s in the hope of controlling street drinking and vagrancy, is still on the books. It’s an impractical law that defies common sense, and we’re surprised the Sacramento County Supervisors are considering a similar ordinance for the parts of the county.

It just doesn’t make sense, from a public-safety perspective, to prohibit the purchase of single bottles of beer while allowing sales of similar quantities of higher alcohol-by-volume beverages such as wine and spirits. Besides, there are other laws on the books that offer more effective means of dealing with public intoxication, loitering and other problems the single-serve law seeks to address.

Additionally, extending the single-serve law to the county could slow the development of a booming local industry: the craft beer business. The Sacramento region is home to dozens of new breweries, most of which do not sell six-packs, but offer their high-quality brews in 22-ounce or 750-milliliter bottles. The supervisors should be looking for ways to support, not restrict, these dynamic new businesses. Ω

Real possible chaos

When right is wrong Last week, the federal government shut down for the first the ACA is a bad idea, using Dr. Seuss’ timeless time in almost 18 years, sounding a death knell tome, Green Eggs and Ham, as a metaphor for Republicans in the 2014 elections. Few knew by to prove it. (Notably, the book’s protagonist Dave Kempa this better than Sen. John McCain. decides he likes the green fare after trying it, The morning the shutdown began, the which is probably why Cruz is so scared.)

Arizona Republican tweeted a Quinnipiac Cruz and his ilk have rallied the conservative University poll showing that American voters base against party affiliates like McCain by opposed the government shutdown by a 72–22 publishing works that paint them as Republicans margin. As we all know, House Republicans in name only, or RINOs. The tactic has proven tried on multiple occasions effective, forcing GOP to tack on a measure to the moderates up for re-election Republicans who budget that would defund the to stand with tea-party can still read the Affordable Care Act, effecmembers on some serious tively terminating President firebrand issues. One puppet signs see where Barack Obama’s signature is former Republican lion they’re headed: health-care legislation.

Lindsey Graham. Facing straight out of McCain is a lifelong tough internal challenges Republican—you may to keep his South Carolina Washington, D.C. remember him running Senate seat, Graham is now against Obama on the GOP taking kamikaze orders from ticket in 2008—so why would he tweet such the tea party’s government deconstructionists.

Cue the shutdown.

For an online damning numbers?

Because Republicans like him are no longer According to the Quinnipiac poll, Democratic version of this essay, visit in control of the party line. The tea party has voters oppose it by a 90-6 margin. Independents www.news wrested the wheel from the GOP establishoppose the shutdown 74-19. Hell, Republicans review.com/ only support it by a slim 49-44 count, which, sacramento/ ment, and Republicans who can still read the given the poll’s 2.5 percent margin of error, pageburner/blogs. signs see where they’re headed: straight out of Washington, D.C. actually represents a statistical tie. Given Enter Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, the new face these figures, it’s no wonder Congress has an all-time low approval rating of 10 percent. And email this essay’s of conservatism. Cruz likes to compare universal author at davek@ health-care coverage to Nazi Germany. Given it’s certainly cause for alarm for Republicans newsreview.com. the chance, he’ll spend 21 Bataan Death Marchcontrolling the house. Ω like hours (his words, not mine) telling you why B E F O R E | N E W S | F E A T U R E S T O R Y | A R T S & C U L T U R E

The U.S. government shut down last week, unable to pay its bills. The world’s greatest democracy was brought to a standstill by Republicans in Congress who would rather play Russian roulette with the economy than confront the severe dysfunction the teaparty faction has brought to their party and the nation.

As of this writing, it’s unclear how long the shutdown will last or how much damage it will do.

What’s apparent is that even if the current crisis is resolved quickly, there is another potentially more serious one just days away. If the tea partiers make good on threats to refuse to raise the so-called debt ceiling on October 17, the United States would default on its debts for the first time in history, and there is a very real possibility the result could be economic chaos on an international scale.

None of this has to happen. Throughout the standoff in Washington, D.C., it’s been clear that there were more than enough votes to pass a budget and pay the country’s debts—if Republicans in Congress would allow those measures to reach the floor without tacking on anti-”Obamacare” provisions. In effect, the tea-party faction has held the government and the economy hostage, seeking political concessions they’ve been unable to achieve through the electoral process.

This is no way to run a country. It’s time for moderate Republicans to take their party back, reject hostage-taking as a political strategy and work with Democrats to address the nation’s business. Ω

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Dr. Ken Murray wrote an essay for the web-only magazine Zócalo Public Square, thinking he’d be lucky to attract a few dozen readers and generate an online comment or two. Instead, the physician—a UC Davis medical-school graduate who taught family medicine at the University of Southern California—drew an avalanche of responses. In fact, what he wrote put him center stage in a swirling debate about life, death and doctors.

What did he reveal that was so groundbreaking?

He claimed that a vast majority of physicians make dramatically different end-of-life choices than the rest of us.

Put simply, most doctors choose comfort and calm instead of aggressive interventions or treatments, he said. Another way to look at it is that doctors routinely order procedures for patients near the end of life that they would not choose for themselves.

What do doctors know that the rest of us don’t?

According to Murray, physicians have seen the limitations of modern medicine up close and know that attempts to prolong a life can often lead to a protracted, heartbreaking death.

Murray’s 2011 “How Doctors Die” was translated into multiple languages and written about in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and The Sacramento Bee. Thousands of people commented on it via the scores of newspapers and blogs that reprinted it. Readers told of “near-dead relatives being assaulted with toxic drugs,” said Murray, being offered “painful procedures for no good reason.” Among the responses were hundreds of anecdotes from physicians and health-care professionals that backed Murray’s thesis.

“Most of the stories were heart-wrenching,” he said.

Data that proves the divide isn’t hard to find. Murray cites the Johns Hopkins Precursors Study, one of the longest longitudinal inquiries into aging in the world, which contains a running medical record of health statistics on a group of about 750 doctors, who were members of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore between 1948 and 1964. Through the years, the study has helped medical research correlate, for example, high blood cholesterol with heart attacks. But 15 years ago—with its participants in their 60s, 70s and 80s—the researchers began asking about end-oflife choices.

Dr. Joseph Gallo, director of the Precursors Study, was happy to explain how the data has continually found that doctors—by a vast majority—make different choices when faced with dire diagnoses. Physicians who choose the least procedures also tend to have advance directives, an important bit of paperwork that allows patients to choose a health-care proxy and determine in advance what interventions they do or don’t want if they experience a decline in health.

In one scenario where the study group was asked what their wishes would be if they had an irreversible brain disease that left them unable to recognize people or speak, “most people would want everything,” said Gallo, while about 90 percent of doctors “would say no” to CPR, a mechanical ventilator (breathing machine), and kidney dialysis. About 80 percent of the doctors would also say no to major surgery or a feeding tube, he said.

“It seems the more familiar you are with interventions, the less you want,” Gallo said point-blank.

Welcome to “the gap.”

Murray believes blame for the breach can be split three ways between bad physician-patient communication, unrealistic expectations on the part of patients, and their families and a health-care system that encourages excessive treatment.

(Note: A quarter of all Medicare spending occurs in the last year of life.)

But still, is it really true that doctors die differently right here in Sacramento? Is it possible that the region’s seriously ill people often undergo aggressive interventions before they die—ones they would not want if they better understood the likely outcomes?

SN&R spoke to a number of Sacramento area physicians— especially internists, palliative care and hospice-certified ones—to explore their thoughts about the gap and ask about their own end-of-life wishes.

‘Don’t tube me’ When you consider the large number of deaths Sutter Health’s Dr. James McGregor has witnessed in his decades as a Sacramentoarea specialist in palliative care and hospice, it is poignant to see him almost overtaken with emotion while telling the story of Ella.

An elderly woman diagnosed with a terminal illness, Ella (not her real name) had strong feelings about not having any medical interventions as she neared her life’s end. She’d filled out her paperwork to this effect and made it official, with her husband serving as her health-care agent in the event that she became unable to make her own decisions. Soon came the inescapable point when Ella, stretched out on a hospital bed and near the end of life, began having difficulty breathing. One of her many doctors said to the husband, “She’s struggling so much. Don’t you want her on a respirator?” Thinking the doctor knew best, the husband gave his consent, and Ella was hooked up to a breathing machine.

That one moment’s choice turned into seven long days of regret.

Despite her wishes, Ella remained marginally alive in the intensive care unit with “tubes everywhere” and a machine breathing for her throughout the week. According to McGregor, the husband then had to take responsibility to withdraw care. “He was heartbroken,” said McGregor. “He felt he had betrayed his wife during her last week of life. … You could see such pain.”

McGregor, an expert in hospice care (which provides terminally ill patients with comfort rather than aggressive treatments) and palliative medicine (with its focus on relieving and preventing suffering), said Ella’s experience was probably more common than most people know.

“I’ve seen patients die in the ICU with every line going, everything, and the family can’t even get close to them.”

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“DOCTORS’ SECRET” continued from page Indeed, though most people want to pass away at home surrounded by loved ones, 70 percent die in a hospital, nursing home or long-termcare facilities after a long struggle with advanced cancer, heart failure, incurable disease or the multiple incapacities of old age.

When asked about the gap and why doctors don’t tend to find themselves hooked to respirators in ICUs at the end of their lives in the manner of Ella, McGregor was somber.

“Often the question isn’t framed well,” said McGregor, as in, “‘We have two options here: We can go full-court press, or we can aggressively manage your symptoms and keep you comfortable. What would be quality of life for you?’”

Physicians, he said, tend to choose option No. 2, because they’ve seen what they’ve seen, and “they know one intervention can start a whole cascade.”

Dr. Kevin Ryan, a retired area physician and a self-published author from Solano County, puts it a different way: “Doctors have seen [death and dying] from every vantage point except it personally happening to them.

“When you’re close to the fire, you know what it is to get burned.”

Each of seven local doctors interviewed for this story brought up the difficulty many physicians have in communicating with patients who face a terminal or otherwise awful diagnosis. Medicine and hospitals exists to fight disease and death, goes the thinking, so if a patient dies, the doctor has failed.

McGregor remembered a clinicalskills class he’d taken in medical school that imparted a first-person list of steps a physician should take that concluded with the words “if the patient dies, I failed.”

“We’re supposed to do things, we’re supposed to fix things,” said McGregor. “Physicians can feel powerless if they can’t offer something, and it’s difficult for them to talk about the options that are not the aggressive ‘making you healthy’ options. … A physician can feel he’s failed a patient when he says, ‘Well, you can go to hospice.’”

Indeed, a report published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 69 percent of lung-cancer patients and 81 percent of colorectal-cancer patients did not report understanding from their doctor that chemotherapy was not at all likely to cure their cancer.

But it runs two ways, said McGregor.

The patient or the family can often come in with vastly unrealistic expectations, sometimes reinforced by popular culture. Many see CPR, for example, as a sure-bet lifesaver, but in

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truth, it is rarely effective. “There’s a popular misperception that medicine can fix everything,” he said. “And there’s also a sense of entitlement sometimes—‘You should give me everything.’”

Sadly, another reason physicians sometimes “do everything” with terribly ill patients is fear of malpractice lawsuits.

“I believe it is a factor,” said McGregor. The other doctors interviewed agreed. “Sometimes, [physicians] just say, ‘OK, we’ll give you everything,’ even though we know it’s not going to help” as a way of not becoming entangled in a legal action from a family member who thought more procedures were merited, he said.

As for his own end-of-life wishes, McGregor was no different than all but one of the doctors interviewed by SN&R. If faced with a terminal illness, his wish is to die at home without interventions and with the assistance of hospice.

“I joke that I have DNR, DNAR and AND tattooed on my chest,” said McGregor (do not resuscitate, do not attempt resuscitation, allow natural death).

“Just don’t tube me,” he clarified.

‘No way are they doiNg that to me’ It can be tough work getting a bit of time on a local physician’s schedule if you’re a regular patient, and that goes double if you’re a journalist hoping for an on-the-record interview about death.

Canceled meetings, postponed conversations, ignored emails—maybe doctors just don’t want to talk about this subject? Or maybe they really are monumentally busy. In one case, a local physician suggested SN&R meet for a chat in the lobby of the Future Nissan of Roseville in the Auto Mall while his car was being worked on.

Dr. Michael GuntherMaher appeared a healthy version of Breaking Bad’s Walter White, with a button-down shirt and tie, shaved head and goatee. After turning his car over to mechanics, the medical director for the Sacramento and Roseville Kaiser Permanente hospice apologized for the offbeat interview location, with its roaming salesmen and soft-rock soundtrack, and proceeded to tell the story of Sophie.

Dr. Jeffrey Yee, seen here with his patient Gloria Shaffer, runs a group-education program at Woodland Healthcare that teaches the elderly and infirmed about the importance of advance directives and Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, or POLST, forms. “We try to get people to consider the issues beforehand,” he said.

An 88-year-old African-American woman, Sophie (not her real name) checked into Kaiser a few months back with a history of rapid weight loss and an infection called sepsis, said GuntherMaher. “We did some tests and found she was anemic. We scanned her abdomen … and we found a mass. It was very clear she had cancer,” he said.

Initially, Sophie said she wanted the doctors to do everything possible to save her life, said GuntherMaher.

At the family’s strong urging, the hospital proceeded to pull out all the stops with interventions and drugs.

“And this woman just slowly died in the ICU with a tube down her throat,” he said. “The family finally said, ‘Take her off the machine.’ It was a very difficult and protracted ending to her life when there was no reasonable hope any of it would work.”

GuntherMaher, who had been asked to consult on Sophie’s case in his role as a palliative specialist, reflected that the woman had given up the chance to return to Oakland to die peacefully in her own surroundings, “around friends and family who wanted so much to visit her, to say goodbye. … That opportunity was completely lost,” he said.

“I have a lot of stories like this,” he said. “The hospital is full of them.”

GuntherMaher views Sophie’s case as an example of what he refers to as the chaos that accompanies many end-of-life scenarios.

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“A lot of life changes go on in Asked why doctors die different, the later years, and families are illas in Murray’s thesis, GuntherMaher prepared,” he said. “There’s illness. responded, “Doctors are different.”

People are in and out of hospitals “As a group, we tend to be on the or nursing homes. They’re in these end of the spectrum where you find places, even though they used to capable, intelligent people. So, if you think, ‘I never wanted it to be like take [such] people and expose them to that.’ But there they are. And it’s these complexities and these difficulchaotic.” ties over and over again, they’re going It was a desire to help make order to take that and process it. out of such endof-life turmoil that led GuntherMaher on the path to his current post at Kaiser.

“I think most people … what they have is fear,” he said. “They’re afraid. They’re confronted.

There’s unfinished Dr. Jim McGregor business. They can’t accept that things will come to an end this way because they’re so “The other thing we [doctors] are not ready.” able to do is reconcile the physiology This state of mind, he said, often issues, the biology failing, with the lays the ground for patients or their more difficult slippery human issues. families to go for whatever procedures What is a life? What is death? What’s are offered, however aggressive. it all about? We’re confronted with Like every other physician SN&R that on virtually a daily basis. Nobody spoke to, GuntherMaher believes else in our society is, except maybe patients should be able to choose for pastors.” themselves whether or not to undergo GuntherMaher said the physitreatments near the end of life. “I’m cians he hangs out with are in the all for people choosing,” he said, “as hospital daily and “most of them long as it’s informed.” who have been vocal about [interventions near the end of life] have

basically said, ‘No way are they doing that to me.’”

It was no surprise to find that GuntherMaher’s end-of-life choices echo that of other doctors in the Johns Hopkins’ study. In fact, he’d gathered his three 20-something children just a few months ago for a meeting about his wishes. His son and daughter were with there in person and “We got my daughter and son-in-law on FaceTime on the iPad,” he said.

GuntherMaher pulled out his advance directive and showed his children a POLST form.

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms state what kind of medical treatment seriously ill patients—usually already in the hospital or a nursing facility—want for themselves.

“I think it provided a good opportunity for us to be a family and talk about something meaningful together and practice compassionate listening and thoughtful speaking with one another,” he said, “and consider for a moment that time is precious.”

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Among other things, GuntherMaher told them, “I don’t want to be resuscitated if my heart stops. I don’t want to be on a mechanical ventilator. When my time comes, I want to die in my own home.”

‘Medicine can’t fix everything’ The place has the ambience of a modern airport terminal, with its long median aisle, high-ceiling skylights, stylish design and chairs positioned in rows around stations with smiling receptionists. Surprisingly, Woodland Healthcare (a service of Dignity Health) houses a newish Yolo County medical complex that even includes a classroom.

Dr. Jeffrey Yee stands before his students—gray button-down shirt, khakis and a pocket pager—with all the friendly charisma of a socialscience professor. But he’s a doctor who takes time from his paid duties as a general internist to teach elderly and chronically ill patents about advanced directives and POLST forms. Yee’s audience in early September consisted

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Another program that could result in narrowing the gap between physicians and everybody else on end-of-life choices is dubbed ROYL, short for The Rest of Your Life.

Dr. Philip Lisagor, a retired cardiothoracic surgeon and chief medical officer for ROYL in Reno, Nev., had a realization toward the end of his career: “It struck me that nobody was talking to patients with serious illnesses about what was happening,” he said.

“A specialist would come in with some high-tech procedure and send them back to the referring doctor. Something else would happen to the patient, and they’d be off for another procedure. Doctors weren’t talking to each other or to their patients.

“A game is played,” he said.

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Local physician Michael GuntherMaher said the doctors he hangs out with at the hospital who have been vocal about interventions near the end of life have said, “No way are they doing that to me.”

of 14 elderly patients—many of whom looked to be struggling with chronic disease or cancer.

Yee, who testified in 1997 on behalf of POLST before the state Legislature, led his students through a PowerPoint presentation on advance directives and the importance of naming a health-care agent or proxy. He and a nurse practitioner even performed a skit where the two played siblings with different interpretations of what a doctor recommended should be done with a mom on life support.

“We try to get people to consider the issues beforehand, to have conversations,” Yee told SN&R before the class. “We try to get people to experience the tensions and trade-offs they very well may face in the future.”

Launched six months ago, Yee’s groupeducation project is one of many approaches being taken in the Sacramento region and across the country to better inform people about their options. Modeled after a much-lauded program at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in Lacrosse, Wis., which proactively encourages hospitalgoers to fill out advance directives, BEFORE

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Yee doesn’t use “end-of-life” terminology or the word “death” in his seminars. Nor does he discuss specific procedures and their possible outcomes. “When you reduce it to a conversation about ‘this procedure succeeds this amount of time,’ that doesn’t really give you the big picture,” he said. “What number should it be that you say, ‘This is a low chance of success’?” he asked. If you’re 95, he said, you might answer that question differently than if you are 30 and have three kids.

Interestingly, Yee—the youngest doctor interviewed—was the only local physician who didn’t immediately say he would decline interventions if he himself was faced with a terminal illness. “It depends on the situation,” he said. “I don’t know that I could specify that so specifically now.”

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Lisagor noted that the profit motive should not be overlooked when discussing why the gap exists, and so many doctors often encourage interventions they themselves wouldn’t choose.

“The health-care industry makes a huge amount of money on end-of-life care,” said Lisagor.

Indeed, about 27 percent of Medicare’s annual $327 billion budget—$88 billion—now goes to care for patients in their final year of life.

“Everyone in the system profits from more procedures,” said Lisagor, “including doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, people down the line in diagnostic centers and etc. …

It’s an enormous issue.”

Since retiring, Lisagor and colleagues set up the ROYL program, an online organizational system that walks people through “all the documents and information necessary for you to plan your life and health aging.”

ROYL (www.theroyl.com) encompasses financial, emotional and physical issues in addition to medical and end-of-life planning.

He hopes to beta test at a skilled nursing facility in the Reno area soon and, eventually, take the program out to the country.

Some believe pilot programs like Yee and Lisagor’s will fasten together with other sweeping trends—the growth in hospital-based palliative-care programs, increased use of POLST forms, an uptick in the number of people dying in hospice care—and create a seismic shift in how America, and not just its doctors, faces death.

Nudging along that transformation could be the huge numbers of baby boomers who have begun turning 65 (about 8,000 per day)

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and, thus, looking at their final chapter of life.

In the social realm, members of this inimitable generation may set their sights on experiencing better deaths than the often-troubling ones they have been seeing their parents undergo. On the economic front, the boomers present a major financial incentive for addressing the issue, since Medicare costs for this single generation are projected to skyrocket if end-of-life scenarios remain status quo.

Though a proposal to reimburse doctors for talking about end-of-life choices with patients was ultimately left out of the Affordable Care Act (thanks to Sarah Palin’s 2009 charge that such conversations amounted to “death panels” for “grandma”) many, like Ken Murray, think that controversy actually got people finally talking and thinking about end-of-life matters.

“There’s a cultural change taking place across the country,” said Murray, the doctor with the oft-reprinted essay. “The taboo is unraveling. People want to talk about this. ...

It’ll take time, but I believe it’s happening.”

The local physicians interviewed for this story also tended to agree that things were improving in the end-of-life care realm.

“I do think it’s getting better,” said McGregor. “I think what people need to understand is that there is the possibility of having a comfortable death, of mending relationships and dying surrounded by loved ones. People need to understand this as a real and viable option.

“And they need to understand that medicine can’t fix everything.”

Will better communication, reasonable expectations and a hoped-for future health-care system where financial incentives no longer skew toward senseless interventions help narrow Murray’s gap and increase the possibility for more “good” deaths?

Naturally, the local doctors hope so.

But perhaps Dr. GuntherMaher’s patient Clarice, who had been to see him just a few days before he talked to SN&R, can best give testament.

In her early 60s, Clarice (not her real name) was diagnosed in February with kidney cancer.

“She was not curable,” he said. After doing some tests, “We told her, ‘This is not looking good. You have advanced cancer, and you’re too weak to undergo chemotherapy, which means you don’t have any reasonable options for beating this.’”

Clarice appreciated the candor, said GuntherMaher.

“She has a spiritual belief system. She has a healthy marriage, healthy relationships with her kids, and she said, ‘I’ll be OK with this.

I want to go home and be with my family and let them take care of me. I can still enjoy some time with them.’”

She left the hospital and went into hospice, said the doctor. “I spoke to her daughter yesterday, and they’re flying her sister home from Guam. … The family is coming together. The children are saying, ‘I’m dropping everything to be with Mom.’ There’s a time in life when you just do that.”

In other words, Clarice accepted her fate and prepared for her own good death. She knew what she wanted. She made her choices.

She embraced a truth about dying that most physicians already know all too well: Often doing less allows so much more. Ω for more information about end-of-life planning, or to find an advance-directive form, go to the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California at www.coalitionccc.org.

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One constant: For 22 years and counting, SN&R has highlighted the best in local music via the Sacramento Area Music Awards, a.k.a. the Sammies, an annual celebration of musicians who run the gamut of genres, including pop, rock, indie, hip-hop, rap, metal, hardcore, punk, jazz and experimental.

Cake, Chelsea Wolfe and C Plus. Tesla, Tribe of Levi and Track Fighter. Deftones, Death Grips, Dog Party and DJ Whores.

And that’s just for starters.

Another constant? You. Every year, countless Sacramento fans support their favorite local artists by going to gigs, buying merchandise and spreading the word.

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They also get out the vote.

And, sure, playing your heart out on a stage—be it to 500 rabid devotees or to a handful of your closest relatives—isn’t about some plaque you might get down the road, but it certainly doesn’t hurt to know that people like you—they really like you.

This year, thousands of votes were logged for hundreds of nominees in dozens of categories. The resulting nominations ballot represents a diverse spectrum of sounds and microscenes. There are heavy-metal bands that rock the suburbs, and punks who play grimy basement parties. There are deejays who whip up a frenzied dance party at the latest, hippest club, and reggae bands who lull fans into a peaceful calm. There are, of course, earnest singer-songwriters who toil away in Midtown coffee shops, and seasoned jazz musicians who could easily share the stage with any of the genre’s most famous.

They’re all here. And they’re all pretty damn worthy.

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Dreaming of the 1980s There are several amazing things to love about photographer Stu Levy. First, his artist’s bio begins like this: “After his college rock band failed to make it big, he went on to med school, becoming a physician and practicing family medicine in Portland, Oregon.”

Levy must have channeled his musical creative energy into visual art while he was professionally healing families, capturing fetching landscapes and intricate multiframe environmental portraits. The latter, Grid-Portraits, are black-and-white gestalts of around 12 to 20 individual photographs that create a wide-angle view into his subjects’ homes or offices. In them, sometimes the edges of the furniture don’t align, or sometimes the baby in foreground is also in the middle ground and the background, giving the impression that the room is overrun with babies. He engages the viewer’s perception in a playful way, sometimes leaving humorous details in one of the frames of the grid, such as an ax over a baby’s crib. Or even better, the former mayor of Portland in the 1980s, Bud Clark, with a handlebar mustache, beard and plus fours on his bicycle, way before Portlandia ever spoofed dreaming of the 1890s. And that is hard not to love.

Where: Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, 2015 J Street, Suite 101; (916) 441-2341; www.viewpointgallery.org.

Artist’s reception: Friday, October 11, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Second Saturday reception: October 12, 5:30-9 p.m. Through November 2.

Hours: Tuesday through Thursday, noon-6 p.m.; Friday through Saturday, noon-5 p.m.

“Artist’s Proof and Consequences” by Stu Levy, photograph.

Evolution of space Evolve the Gallery has evolved into a larger gallery space. It recently settled into its new location on Third Avenue and Broadway in Oak Park in the former 40 Acres Art Gallery space. The move only covered a couple blocks, but the larger new space will mean there’s room for more art.

The current show features African and African-American female artists, such as Dawn Williams Boyd and her quiltlike “cloth paintings.” Her work addresses racism, spirituality and sexuality. Her provocative “Odalisque,” for instance, is a take on Édouard Manet’s classic painting of a nude prostitute in repose, “Olympia,” but Williams Boyd’s dark figure lies on her stomach instead, contrasted by a pile of colorful pillows, rendering her more like a silhouette. Unlike Manet’s woman, who stares directly at the viewer with a dark-skinned servant presenting her flowers at her bedside, Williams Boyd’s woman faces away from the viewer, glancing over her shoulder, with two contrasting smiles.

“Shizuka” (detail) by Yoshio Taylor, ceramic.

The professor and the professed When one is a professor of art for decades, such as Ruth Rippon, one may accumulate a cadre of talented students. The former Sacramento State University professor’s third annual alumni show features some of her past students of the ceramic arts who have gone on to establish names for themselves in the local art scene and beyond. The group show includes Terry Accomando, Garon Curtis, Eric Dahlin, Linda S. Fitz Gibbon, Ray Gonzales, Fred Gordon, Lee Kavaljian, Steve Klein, Tony Natsoulas, Larry L. Ortiz, Joel Reber, Yoshio Taylor, Warren Tobey, Rimas VisGirda, Doug Wylie, Gloria Woolley and others.

Where: Evolve the Gallery, 3428 Third Avenue; (916) 572-5123; www.evolvethegallery.com.

Hours: Second Saturday, 1 to 6 p.m., and by appointment.

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Where: Alpha Fired Arts, 4675 Aldona Lane; (916) 484-4424; www.alphafiredarts.com.

Hours: Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Through October 26.

“Odalisque” by Dawn Williams Boyd, mixed media cloth painting, 2005.

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October, and autumn temperatures continue to drop on a nightly basis. There are several options to deal with this situation: turn on the heater, light up a fireplace or wear warm flannel pajamas. Or another (and my favorite) option: consume alcoholic beverages. Luckily, that’s something that can be done while socializing. This week offers two fun events great for warming the belly with libations (note: Alcohol doesn’t really warm a person up, so don’t forget to bundle up during chilly evenings).

Sacramento Turn Verein, where, according to its website, “folks with German ancestry and people with an interest in German culture congregate,” will host its annual Oktoberfest celebration this weekend. Friday and Saturday night, it’ll fill its halls with music, food, beer, wine and folk dancing. Admission costs $20 for adults, $15 for college students with ID and $5 for children 12 and younger. It happens from 6 p.m. to midnight on Friday, October 11, and from 3 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, October 12, at 3349 J Street. Visit www.sacoktoberfest.com for more details.

There’s plenty of sake to warm oneself up with this week, too, at the ninth-annual Northern California Premium Sake Fest. It’s on Tuesday, October 15, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Sacramento at 2001 Point West Way. The festival will serve up more than 100 types of sake, shochu (a Japanese liquor) and Japanese beer. There will also be taiko drummers, a sushi contest, an auction and food from local restaurants. Tickets cost $60 in advance and $70 at the door. For more information, visit www.nafdc.com.

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Thursday, OcTOber 10, ThrOugh saTurday, OcTOber 12 Smack-dab in the middle of LGBT History Month—and also landing on National Coming Out FILM Day—the Sacramento International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival presents short films, documentaries and feature films.

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A 30-minute drive down the Jackson Highway delivers day-trippers to the bountiful and always bustling Davis Ranch. This weekend the ranch emerges in full autumnal form with hay FESTIVAL rides, tractor rides to the pick-your-own pumpkin patch, a corn maze, and a mountain of dried gourds that will have you feverishly perusing Pinterest for gourd crafts. Free, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at 13211 Jackson Road in Sloughhouse, (916) 682-2658, www.zslproductions.net/harvest.

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Sacramento Puppy & Kitten Show saTurday, OcTOber 12, ThrOugh sunday, OcTOber 13 The upside to being way too obsessed with your pet is that PETS there are tons of other people that are way too obsessed with their pets, too. Meet some of them at the Sacramento Puppy & Kitten show, where attendees can chat with a pet psychic, plan pet birthday parties, enter their furry besties in a costume contest and buy various pet accoutrements. $8.50-$10, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Boulevard; www.sacramentopuppyandkitten show.com. |

On Trail ThrOugh nOvember 2 So, you didn’t get to go on a summer vacation. Take one this month by heading to the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center to check out On Trail: Images from Hiking Trails of the American West, a collection of photographs by Garrett Cotham that will give viewers glimpses of some of the best hiking trails this ART side of the Mississippi. Free, Second Saturday reception from 5:30 to 9 p.m. on October 12, at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, 2015 J Street, Suite 101; (916) 441-2341; www.viewpointgallery.org.

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A new take on the grape Downtown & Vine 1200 K Street, Suite 8; (916) 228-4518; http://downtownandvine.com With all the recent talk about “farm to fork,” we seem to be neglecting some unique local “farm-to-glass” by experiences. Only in California—where everyAnn Martin Rolke one and his brother seems to be a home-brewer or winemaker—would such an oversight occur.

Microbreweries and pubs abound, but our vintner friends seem less celebrated here.

Downtown & Vine, slightly hidden on the K Street block near the Esquire IMAX Theatre, is here to change that.

This tasting room and wine bar opened in December 2012, with Gregg Lamer, rating: who holds the title of certified sommelier, and chef Kate Chomko, who trained at the HHHH Culinary Institute of America and Le Cordon dinner for one: Bleu College of Culinary Arts. $10 - $15 These terrifically knowledgeable owners have mostly been operating under the radar, but have big plans afoot. With a new wine-bar license allowing them more event latitude and plans for special guests, Downtown & Vine should be on your to-do list.

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Lamer plans to highlight a local vintner each week in addition to wines from Italian and Spanish regions as sourced by Bay Area merchant Kermit Lynch.

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Chomko recently updated the menu to offer a wider selection of tidbits and heartier dishes.

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Served on Bella Bru cranberry-walnut bread, the open-faced bites are simple enough for kids to enjoy, but also complex enough for adults.

Desserts are limited, but include choices from cult-favorite Andrae’s Bakery in Amador City and About a Bite Bakery in Rancho Cordova. Andrae’s Basque cake is part pound cake, part nirvana, with a moist, buttery texture paired with tangy crème fraîche and lemon syrup. The mint-ganache “bites” from About a Bite are the perfect size to enjoy with a dessert wine or glass of sparkly.

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The ingredients are sourced from nearby farms and companies—including the Masumoto Family Farm near Fresno and the Guittard Chocolate Company in the Bay Area, the latter of which makes for a stellar vegan dark-chocolate pop. Find these treats at Whole Foods Markets, Courtyard Market at Sacramento State University (6000 J Street) and other locations listed at www.bargelato.com.

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

Here are a few recent reviews and regional recommendations by Becky Grunewald, Ann Martin Rolke, Garrett McCord and Jonathan Mendick, updated regularly. Grange Restaurant & Bar You won’t find any “challenging” Check out dishes on this menu—just www.newsreview.com delicious local and seasonal for more dining advice. food such as the Green Curry

& Pumpkin Soup, which has a Southeast Asian flair. A spinach salad features ingredients that could be considered boring elsewhere: blue-cheese dressing, bacon, onion. But here, the sharply cheesy buttermilk dressing and the woodsy pine nuts make it a salad to remember. Grange’s brunch puts other local offerings to shame.

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

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

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

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

In addition to a large selection of salumi, there’s the worthy eponymous offering, served with a wedge of zucchini frittata, a slice of provolone, romaine lettuce, grainy tomato, and a simple dash of vinegar and oil that adds tang.

Order it hot, so that the provolone melts into the bread.

Also tasty: the hot meatball sub with small-grained, tender meatballs bathed in a thin, oregano-flecked tomato sauce that soaks into the bread. A tuna sandwich is sturdy, if not exciting. It is just mayonnaisey enough, with tiny, diced bits of celery.

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

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

Midtown 24K Chocolat Cafe This cafe serves a solid, if very limited, brunch

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

2331 K St., (916) 476-3754. Meal for one: $10-$15. HHH B.G.

Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. The restaurant, by the same owners as Midtown’s The Golden Bear, sports a firefighting theme (a ladder on the ceiling duct work, shiny silver wallpaper with a rat-and-hydrant motif, et al) and a bar setup that encourages patrons to talk to each other. An interesting wine list includes entries from Spain and Israel; there are also draft cocktails and numerous beers on tap. The brunch menu is heavy on the eggs, prepared in lots of ways. One option is the Croque Madame, a ham-andGruyere sandwich usually battered with egg. This one had a fried egg and béchamel, with a generous smear of mustard

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

LowBrau This place specializes in beer and bratwursts. Both are done smashingly. The sausage is wrapped in a tight, snappy skin like a gimp suit, which gets nicely charred by the chefs.

Within it lies a beguilingly spicy and juicy piece of meat. Get it with a pretzel roll for a truly exciting experience. There are vegan options, too: The Italian, an eggplant-based brat, has a surprisingly sausagelike texture that no self-respecting carnivore will turn 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.

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

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

South Sac A&A Tasty Restaurant and Bar This Little Saigon eatery boasts such an extensive menu of Chinese and Vietnamese dishes that it’s hard to pinpoint its crown jewel. Notable options include a salty fish and chicken-fried rice entree with stir-fried vegetables. The fried rice offers copious pieces of the diced salty fish. This may seem a bit weird to the uninitiated, but the reward is a unique, jolting pungent flavor that spruces up an otherwise boring chicken-fried rice. Elsewhere on the menu, the Vietnamese pork-chop rice plate, served with a small bowl of fish sauce, surprisingly stacks up to similar dishes from other strictly

North Sac Asian Café Asian Café serves both Thai and Lao food, but go for the Lao specialties, which rely on flavoring staples such as fish sauce, lime juice, galangal and lemongrass, lots of herbs, and chilies. One of the most common dishes in Lao cuisine is larb, a dish of chopped meat laced with herbs, chilies and lime. At Asian Café, it adds optional offal

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

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

Arden/ Carmichael El Pollo Feliz For a restaurant dubbed “the happy chicken,” El Pollo Feliz sure smokes a lot of birds. These chickens get one

heck of an afterlife: Their parts are rubbed with earthy Mexican spices and then slow-cooked in a smoker for hours. The restaurant’s signature dish is barbecue chicken, and customers can purchase wings, breasts, drumsticks and thighs in a variety of amounts. You can also order it covered in a chocolatey and peppery mole-poblano sauce; shredded and scattered atop a plate of nachos; on top of a salad; inside a torta-style sandwich; or stuffed into a burrito. There’s a friendly neighborhood vibe here, and much of the cooking happens in the parking lot directly in front of the mom-and-pop joint. Mexican.

4717 Whitney Ave. in Carmichael; (916) 485-4446. Dinner for one: $5-$15. HHHH J.M.

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Taqueria Garibaldi One of this restaurant’s biggest pulls is its choice of meats. The chorizo is red, crispy and greasy in all the best ways. The lengua (tongue) is soft and dreamily reminiscent of only the most ethereal bits of beef. The fish is fine and flaky and the cabeza and pork are herculean in flavor options worthy of note, too. Tacos are small and served on two tiny tortillas (flour or corn, your call) with a bit of house salsa that has all the kick of a pissed off Girl Scout who’s just tall enough to nail you right under the kneecap.

Or, feel free to customize, too, courtesy of the fully loaded salsa bar. Be sure to pick up a glass of the homemade horchata, which is sweet and milky with seductive whispers of cinnamon. You will want seconds. Mexican.

1841 Howe Ave., (916) 924-0108.

Dinner for one: $8-$10. HHH G.M.

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

Sure enough, Skip’s Kitchen features a lot of calorie-rich items, such as fried macaroniand-cheese balls, ravioli, chicken strips, chicken wings and shrimp, plus creamy Oreo milkshakes. There are salads, too, but the best dish on the menu is the burger. All five styles (original, mushroom and Swiss, bacon and cheddar, three-cheese, and Western) are served on a brioche bun and cooked “medium,” unless otherwise specified. The kitchen offers a house-made veggie burger as well. If there’s such a thing as a “gourmet” burger that can rightfully sell for $10, this is probably it. American.

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

Customers can choose from two types of pies: breakfast or lunch. Breakfast pizzas consist of standard pizza dough, on top of which rests a thin layer of egg, cheese and toppings (read: no sauce). One pepperoni-andjalapeños morning pie starts off well, but then the dough disappoints. It doesn’t quite fit in either the “thick” or “thin”

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Vietnamese restaurants in the area. The pork is thinly sliced and tender, easily cut with a simple butter knife. A&A’s mash-up of hu tieu and huáng máo ji is unusual: The dish is commonplace, yet here it shines when set atop a steaming bowl of noodle soup. Chinese and Vietnamese. 6601 Florin Rd., (916) 379-0309. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH1/2 J.M.

category; it’s not yeasty enough and too chewy and firm. A mushroom-and-spinach pie offers better texture. Lunch pizzas here are less unique, but still hit a nice mark via a few standout ingredients. The garlic pizza reaches a nice balance of sweet and salty with a creamy white sauce, mushrooms, onions, pepperoni and sausage. Buffalo also offers Gunther’s Ice Cream, side salads, fried chicken and canned sodas, but here, it’s breakfast pizza for the win. American.

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

The Hideaway Bar & Grill This bar fills a niche Sacramento might not have known it lacked with its vague rockabilly vibe, lots of greased hair on the men, brightly dyed hair in retro styles and cat-eye glasses on the ladies, and an abundance of black clothes and tattoo sleeves for all. The liquor selection is basic (no craft cocktails here).

The menu’s heavy on fried appetizers, salads, sandwiches and burgers, the latter of which are architectural, towering assemblages. Happily, the fluffy charred buns are sturdy enough to hold up when the tower is squeezed to a more realistic height. A meaty veggie burger (one of three veggie sandwich options) gets crunch from fried pickles and sweet heat from barbecue sauce. Overall, the Hideaway offers cheap beer, adequate bar food and a comfortable place to hang with out friends. American. 2565 Franklin Blvd., (916) 455-1331. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHH1/2 B.G.

Meat-and-cheese diet When I drove out to eat at La Trattoria Bohemia in East Sacramento last week, the only vacant parking spot was in front of an under-construction building across the street. Formerly The Electric Bike Shop (which has moved to Midtown), the building was still undergoing major renovation, and I wondered what would come of the space. Fortunately, my curiosity only had to last one evening, because—as luck would have it—the next day, a friend informed me that the storefront will soon become The Cultured & The Cured, a specialty deli selling premium cheese, charcuterie, and local beer and wine. When it opens its doors at 3644 J Street, it’ll be right in the middle of a nice spot for good eats and drinks, with neighbors La Trattoria, Bonn Lair and the relatively new Cielito Lindo Mexican Gastronomy. For more information, and to keep updated on the store’s progress, visit http://cultured andcured.com or www.facebook.com/culturedcured.

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The deeper problem is that your sister harbors a yawning emptiness in her own heart that cannot be filled by a person. It can only be filled by her own love of and esteem for herself. The pain of heartbreak is a call to grow spiritually. She must learn the joy of being alone without succumbing to loneliness. When she does, her desperate behavior will end.

As Thich Nhat Hanh, a Mahayana Buddhist monk and author, says:

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Fast food for hungry lit-lovers Pride and Prejudice Michael Stevenson directs Sacramento Theatre Company’s production of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice like an Evelyn Wood speed-reading by Jim Carnes demonstration. Words and words and more words fly by in a flurry, and even if you miss some here and there, you get the gist of it.

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Austen’s most popular novel, and STC’s adaptation by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan turns the Regencyera tale of economics and class distinctions wrapped around a love story into a veritable rom-com. Its romantic center is surrounded by broad comedy. John Lamb gives a master class in physical comedy as Mr. Collins, a man of the cloth who is stitched a little too stiffly. The whole play’s much funnier than you’d expect Austen to be.

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It’s a shame, since this play has so much going for it: a creative storyline and engaging dialogue delivered by a fearsome foursome cast of B Street Theatre regulars—Elisabeth Nunziato, Jason Kuykendall, David Pierini and Tara Sissom.

Detroit takes place in a typical suburban neighborhood that once held promise of a middle-class utopia but is now as tired and rundown as its residents. Mary (Nunziato) and Ben (Pierini), barbecuing in their backyard, put on a brave facade in front of new neighbors, despite the fact they’re reeling with Ben’s unemployment and Mary’s resentment and her love of liquor. The in-your-face new next-door neighbors Kenny (Kuykendall) and Sharon (Sissom) are pretty blunt right off the bat: recovering rag-tag addicts with no social charms or filters who are just trying to get through each day with little money and big urges.

The fascination is the unusual bonding that occurs between the improbable foursome and the influences both good and bad that seep between the two couples’ backyards.

Between the raucous romps, there are some unexpected sweet moments that charm and humanize. It’s just too bad that the silly overthe-top antics supplant what could have been a more satisfying ending.

—Patti Roberts

Detroit, 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday; 5 and 9 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; 6:30 p.m. Tuesday; 2 and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday; $23-$35. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. Through November 17.

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City Theatre puts an authentic steampunk look on this epilogue to William Shakespeare’s tragedy of young love, as Romeo and Juliet’s cousins, Benvolio (Anthony M. Person) and Rosaline (Julianna Camille Hess) struggle with their own starcrossed love and lingering urges to vengeance. Directed by Lori Ann DeLappe Grondin. F 8pm; Sa 2 and 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 10/13. $10-$15.

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It’s about art, it’s about porn, it’s about the law and how it sometimes equates the two and finds every way it can to limit them and to punish their practitioners. Big Idea Theatre tackles playwright Lee Blessing’s controversial adult drama with ferocious conviction. Th, F, Sa 8pm.

Through 10/26. $10-$16. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 960-3036; www.bigidea theatre.com. J.C.

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Playwright Aaron Posner’s adaptation of Chaim Potok’s book, which became an offBroadway hit last year, takes the same premise of misunderstood

artistic boy aching to break out of his social and religious confinements. For the most part, it’s a compelling universal look at an artist’s struggle to have a unique voice, but it falls short in sharing the complexity of the situations, making the main character unsympathetic at times. Tu, W, Th, F, Sa 8pm. Through 10/19. $23-$35.

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Celebration Arts’ production of the final play in August Wilson’s “century cycle” takes place in the ’90s, as Harmond Wilks (Romann K.B. Hodge) is on the verge of “making it”—he’s in a partnership to redevelop Pittsburgh’s Hill District and about to announce his candidacy for mayor. The discovery that a house belonging to an old man (Kelton Howard) was purchased illegally for demolition forces Wilks to examine his values—at great cost to his success. Directed by James Wheatley. Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm.

Through 10/20. $8-$15. Celebration Arts, 4469 D St.; (916) 455-2787; www.celebrationarts.net. K.M.

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Friday; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; $15-$38. Sacramento Theatre Company at the Wells Fargo Pavilion, 1419 H Street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org.

Through October 27.

The play revolves around the Bennet family (long-suffering Matt K. Miller as Mr. Bennet and long-winded Jamie Jones as Mrs. Bennet) and their five unmarried daughters. The family’s financial future is tenuous, since they stand to lose their home when Mr. Bennet dies. Hence, there is some urgency to marry off one or more of the girls to a man of wealth and status. Enter Mr. Bingley (Matt Surges), a single man worth a fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy (Ryan Snyder), who is even richer.

The two older Bennet babes—Jane (the fetching Rebecca Scott) and Elizabeth (Brittni Barger, who delivers a smart, unfussy performance)—become the centers of attention, and Jane and Mr. Bingley seem happily matched.

But the pairing of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy is far less sure. They exude genuine disdain for one another, but the chemistry between the characters and the sexual spark between the actors assure a happy ending somewhere down the road.

It’s a briskly paced production that moves with real efficiency. Stevenson’s large cast is strong, top and bottom. Anna

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Heaps of horror Sacramento loves Halloween. People get all theatrical, dress up and take on the personalities of dark, odd characters. Such is the case with this weekend’s Sacramento Horror Film Festival, which features costumes, stage performances, a zombie tribute to Michael Jackson and, of course, film. The festival kicks off on Friday, October 11, at 5:30 p.m. with the M.J. tribute followed by short films; a feature film (An American Terror); a performance by the Shadow Circus Creature Theatre and Jay Siren; and a zombie beauty pageant at 8:30 p.m. The night closes with Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon with lead actor Nathan Baesel in attendance for a Q-and-A. Saturday features a day full of short films, followed by a live shadow-cast performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show by Amber’s Sweets. And Sunday offers a family-friendly film, more shorts and a performance by aerialist Alia Omran. Basically, it’s a weekend of beautiful but horror-filled sensory overload. Visit www.sachorrorfilmfest.com for more information.

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Every word that accurately describes the experience of Captain Phillips makes it sound like the movie beats the hell out of its viewers. Captain by Daniel Barnes Phillips is indeed a gripping, grueling, agonizing, nail-biting, brutalizing, kick-punching motion picture, but beyond the technical thrills and vise-grip tension, it also offers a weary, hard-won empathy.

Much as he did in United 93, director Paul Greengrass employs his punishing brand of verisimilitude to immerse the audience in a situation that many wouldn’t want to experience even vicariously. This time, Greengrass locates his handheld camera 150 miles off of the East African coast, where in April 2009 Somali pirates brazenly commandeered a container ship and took captain Richard Phillips hostage.

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Tom Hanks plays Phillips, captain of the MV Maersk Alabama, and Billy Ray’s script is based on Phillips’ book A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea, co-written with Stephan Talty.

Hanks’ casting may be character shorthand for “decent and dutiful,” but Greengrass and Ray are after more than a simple tale of heroism. The film’s bland title is almost perversely misleading, since Captain Phillips is really the story of multiple captains. While Phillips’ book bounced between his ordeal in the ocean and his wife’s anguish back home, the movie focuses mainly on Phillips and his Somali captors.

The film opens in Underhill, Vermont, as Phillips prepares to depart for Africa, bemoaning the elevated levels of competition that force him to work longer hours and take ever more dangerous assignments. Greengrass then cuts to a beach in Somalia, where viewers are immediately engaged in a more cutthroat form of job competition, as penniless men offer meager bribes to gain employment as pirates.

This is where we meet the second “captain,” a violently ambitious pirate played by Barkhad Abdi, who possesses one of the most compelling faces you’ll see on screens this year. Abdi’s Muse is selected to captain a motorboat of three

robbers, but he is barely less impoverished than his crew (one of whom is barefoot), and Greengrass has an obvious ambivalence toward him as a figure of villainy.

In a perverse reflection of Phillips, Muse is also at the mercy of his bosses, but without the bosom of American prosperity and debt lending to fall back on. He dismisses the $30,000 in the vessel’s safe as not enough, which Phillips initially misinterprets as greed, not realizing that warlords will likely take every cent of the spoils.

Muse and his crew are not just hungry, they’re literally malnourished, and attempt to kill their appetites by constantly chewing an amphetaminelike herb called “khat.” It is the khat that fuels their daring takeover of the MV Maersk Alabama, but when their supply begins to dwindle during the claustrophobic lifeboat sequences in the second half, they become more unpredictable and dangerous.

Greengrass repeatedly relies on the same starboard-to-port helicopter shot of a destroyer knifing through the water that has become a staple of Michael Bay’s military-recruitment oeuvre. Some may dismiss this as fetishizing American might, but the point is that the emaciated Somalis are absurdly outmatched. They’ve brought cheap guns and herbal stimulants to a snipers-and-drones fight.

Neopolitical thrillers are Greengrass’ stock in trade, but his disappointing previous film Green Zone was a more plotdriven and less visceral take on the same sort of material. Captain Phillips is a return to the queasily compelling, relatively real-time docuthriller approach of United 93 (and to a lesser extent, Greengrass’ two Bourne films), and its success indicates that this may be Greengrass’ one good trick.

Tom Hanks’ casting may be character shorthand for “decent and dutiful,” but Paul Greengrass is after more than a simple tale of heroism.

It is possible that sounding this same strident note could cause Greengrass to devolve into a shaky-cam Stanley Kramer. The pertinent question is whether or not there is value in recreating the real-life terror and tragedy of these events beyond a bruising entertainment. In the end, perhaps we just want to be like Hanks’ Phillips, covered in someone else’s blood and gasping in shock, but reassured that we’re safe. Ω

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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

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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In an effort to prove that he can do literally anything better than you, Joseph Gordon-Levitt writes, directs and stars in the nimble anti-romantic comedy Don Jon. His sex-obsessed Don is both a Long Island party hound and a strict Catholic devotee, and he brings a ritualistic asceticism to every aspect of his life, from his home-cleaning habits to his many meaningless carnal encounters. Even after Don finds a dream girlfriend (Scarlett Johansson), his most satisfying relationship is with his pornography folder. Don’s lifestyle of self-obsession is fetishized in a manner almost worthy of American Gigolo, but a broader and less engaging tone is employed in the scenes with his sitcomlike family. Still, it’s hard to believe that a film about the toxicity of sexual dehumanization could be this sweet, and that makes Don Jon more than a mere résumé stuffer. D.B.

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Jacob Kornbluth’s documentary Inequality for All explores the increasing income disparity in America, taking a cheeky tone and glorified PowerPoint approach that is colorful but tired. Fortunately, Kornbluth has an energetic and likable central figure in Robert Reich, the diminutive, longtime friend of former President Bill Clinton and the former labor secretary in his cabinet. Reich is predominantly an author and lecturer now, and the film is structured around his UC Berkeley class on wealth and poverty (cut to students nodding serenely at Reich’s every word), while also wading delicately into his personal life. The film is not immune to the straw-man arguments endemic to advocacy documentaries, and occasionally employs clips from The Daily Show With Jon Stewart in place of salient points. Despite the blatant advocacy and hackneyed approach, though, Inequality for All pulls up the roots of an issue that should transcend political ideology. D.B.

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The plot of this bilingual, cross-cultural romantic comedy is too contrived and silly to go into in detail. Suffice it to say it involves the leader of a Mexico City mariachi band (Jaime Camil), a visa clerk at the American Embassy (Laura Ramsey) and a lost computer. With little help from the script (a typical too-many-cooks affair involving Issa López, Georgina Reidel, Gabriel Ripstein and Oscar Orlando Torres), director Pedro Pablo Ibarra is forced to rely on the sights of Mexico City and the appeal of his two stars. Fortunately, sights and stars deliver on a modestly likeable level.

Camil has presence and charm, plus a pleasant singing voice and a nice rapport with Ramsey (a Naomi Watts lookalike). Stockard Channing and Tom Arnold contribute drive-by cameos as Ramsey’s mother and boss, respectively. J.L.

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Prisoners

There is a very serious moral question posed by Prisoners—can movie audiences abide the studio-sponsored torture of Hugh Jackman doing a decaffeinated riff on Sean Penn’s yowling-at-the-heavens bit from Mystic River for 153 minutes? Jackman plays Keller Dover (seriously!), a handyman and closet survivalist whose daughter is kidnapped along with his neighbors’ girl. The manhunt immediately leads to Alex Jones (Paul Dano), a mentally handicapped man who is exonerated for lack of evidence. Keller still suspects that Alex was involved in the abduction, so he takes the interrogation into his own hands, resorting to beautifully shot torture in order to recover his daughter. Director Denis Villeneuve made the Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee Incendies, but his American debut Prisoners just reheats the heavy-handed, high-gloss revenge porn of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and the aforementioned Mystic River. D.B.

It has become second nature for a struggling film actor to reinvigorate his or her career on television, but it is much less rare for the star of a long-running TV show to find new life on the big screen. Against all odds, Nicole Holofcener’s witty and observant Enough Said successfully reinvents a couple of TV stars who never quite connected as film actors. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini play Eva and Albert, divorced empty nesters who begin a tentative courtship. Of course, it is bittersweet watching Gandolfini on screen again, especially when he’s so good in a role that is the polar opposite of Tony Soprano. Louis-Dreyfus and Gandolfini have genuine chemistry, and their self-effacing flirtation grounds the film. D.B.

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Gravity

Two astronauts (Sandra Bullock, George Clooney) are stranded in space when a debris storm demolishes their space shuttle and wipes out the rest of the crew. Director Alfonso Cuarón, who co-wrote the script with his son Jonás Cuarón, has crafted one of the great white-knuckle thrillers of all time—as airtight as the pressure suits the astronauts wear, without a wasted syllable and just enough featherlight touches to keep the tension from becoming entirely unbearable. Despite Clooney’s presence, it’s a virtual onewoman show for Bullock, and she’s as brilliant as the movie itself, showing the panic, despair, hope and hopelessness in her character’s struggle to survive.

The story is so riveting that Cuarón’s virtuosic touches go almost unnoticed, but they’re there, with stunning visual effects to boot. J.L.

An Alabama teenager (AJ Michalka) rebels against her ex-rocker, born-again father (James Denton) and runs away to Los Angeles to break into the music business, where she finds her commitment to “the God thing” put to the test. Written and directed by Brad J. Silverman, this earnest little Sunday-school movie has sincerity going for it, plus decent performances, especially from old pro Kevin Pollak as Michalka’s producer. On the other hand, the songs (both spiritual and secular) are nothing special, the movie tilts into awkward preachiness, and Silverman’s flat direction renders both background and characters as untextured as Stash Slionski’s flat photography. Michalka, as singer and actress, is pleasant enough, but it’s hard to believe, even in today’s Hollywood, that she’d be hailed as the wonder of the age. J.L.

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Vin Diesel is back as the formidable interplanetary fugitive first seen in Pitch Black (2000) and The Chronicles of Riddick (2004). This time, he’s been left for dead on a sun-blazed world inhabited by predatory monsters; he finds his way to a deserted outpost and broadcasts his presence into space, planning to steal a ship and escape when bounty hunters show up to capture him. Writer-director David Twohy plops us down in the middle of his story and leaves us hanging at the end, waiting for Episode 4. In between, the movie is a harsh, gritty pleasure, straightforward and tautly suspenseful, and showcasing Twohy’s knack for portraying truly alien worlds. Jordi Mollà, Matt Nable and Katee Sackhoff play three of the bounty hunters, and there’s a cameo by Karl Urban as Riddick’s nemesis from Chronicles. J.L.

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Runner Runner

A Princeton University student with a penchant for online gambling (Justin Timberlake) lands a job with the kingpin of one such site operating out of Costa Rica (Ben Affleck)—then begins to suspect he’s being set up to take some kind of fall, and learns that everything is easier to get into than out of. Brian Koppelman and David Levien’s script is smart and taut, and director Brad Furman serves it up with an eye for the murky shadows of film noir updated to the 21st century. Furman gets sharp performances from all concerned, including Gemma Arterton as Affleck’s armcandy assistant, whose own motives and priorities remain unclear until the end. Timberlake slides smoothly from smug to desperate to determined, while Affleck has seldom been better: He makes a villain of ingratiating charm straight out of a Hitchcock flick. J.L.

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Writer Peter Morgan and director Ron Howard recount the 1970s rivalry in Formula One auto racing between Britain’s James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Austrian Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl), including Lauda’s horrific near-fatal crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix and his return to the circuit only six weeks later. Morgan’s talent for dramatizing recent history (The Queen, Frost/Nixon) remains unimpaired, the race scenes are harrowingly exciting, and Howard gets fine performances from all, especially Brühl in a showcase breakout role. Threatening to undo all these virtues is a soundtrack (including Hans Zimmer’s bombastic music) that’s about 6 trillion decibels too loud: The movie is wonderful to look at but actually physically painful to listen to. Memo to Howard: Volume is not the same thing as intensity. J.L..

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In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a young girl enters her school’s Koran recitation contest so she can use the prize money to buy a bicycle—even though riding a bike in public is hardly an appropriate activity for a devout Muslim girl. Writer-director Haifaa Al-Mansour’s first feature sneaks up on you: It begins in a leisurely, diffident manner, almost drably understated in its slice-of-Saudi-life way, as it matter of factly lays out the challenges of growing up female in that part of the world. But Al-Mansour builds her story carefully, mainly through the subtly luminous performances of young Waad Mohammed in the title role and Reem Abdullah as her mother.

The movie ends on a highly emotional note that might easily have tipped over into bathos. But Al-Mansour knows her stuff—she earns her emotion honestly. J.L.

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J. Lately & J. Good

Narwhal

Bat Festival Fundraiser

Ahmad Jamal

Bows and Arrows, 7:30 p.m., $5

Shine, 8 p.m., $5

Back in April, Oakland rapper J. Lately and Sacramento rapper J. Good collaborated on the PB&Js album. While individually both HIP-HOP rappers are known for their laid-back flows and old-school boom-bap beats, together they produce an album that’s twice as relaxed, twice as raw and twice as old-school. These aren’t retro beats by any means. The production is top-notch, slicker than anything going around at the dawn of old-school hip-hop, but it has the same bare-bones aesthetic that the genre was built on. This show at Bows & Arrows is part of the PB&Js West Coast promotional tour. The duo will be joined by Sacramento rapper Chuuwee.

1815 19th Street, www.justlatelymusic.com.

—Aaron Carnes

Shine, 3 p.m., $7

Harkening back to early Genesis, Pink Floyd and even Neil Young on “Open Road,” Narwhal’s progressive folk-rock sound blends electronica with guitar, keyboards, bass, percussion and mandolin. This quartet has been performing around the greater-Sacramento area for the past couple of years and will be joined by instrumental quartet 4th World, whose work is influenced by trumpeter John Hassell, Brian Eno and Farafina, among others. Its sound is both ancient and contemporary, beckoning listeners to step into another time and place.

PROGRESSIVE ROCK Opening is Chad E. Williams, Sacramento guitarist, filmmaker, frequent contributor to Instagon and founding member of Garage Jazz Architects. 1400 E Street, www.facebook.com/narwhaltheband.

Mondavi Center, 8 p.m., $25-$49

For the past three years, the fall season has inspired owner of Shine coffeehouse, Rena Davonne, to host an all-day affair that benefits the winged creatures of the night: bats. Shine’s annual Bat Festival Fundraiser is a day packed with live music, food, drink MULTIMEDIA specials, art sales and more. All proceeds (cover charge and art sales) go to Flying Mammal Rescue of California. Live entertainment for the evening by Tao Jiriki (pictured), Travis Latrine and more begins at 6 p.m. Art submissions for this batthemed event are accepted until Friday, October 11. This benefit starts early at 3 p.m. and goes well into the night.

1400 E Street, www.shinesacramento.com.

Jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal has tickled the ivories for more than six decades. Over the years, he’s pioneered a rhythmic method of jazz piano solos—something that’s continued to stick out in an era of speedy bebop licks. The 83-year-old, who performs Saturday at the Mondavi Center, is also known for his keen sense of interplay with other musicians (check out the 1981 LP Ahmad Jamal/Gary Burton in Concert, for example). He’s also popular with a new generation of hip-hop artists—several have sampled his work; most notably, Pete JAZZ Rock featured a sample of Jamal’s “I Love Music” on the Nas song “The World Is Yours.” 9399 Old Davis Road in Davis, www.ahmadjamal.net.

—Steph Rodriguez

—Jonathan Mendick

—Trina L. Drotar

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

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Nike’s Never Not & TW’s Nation

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AB-Soul & Joey Badass

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Soulfly

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Clutch

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Mayday Parade

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Misfits

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Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

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Frank Hannon & John Corabi

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Talib Kweli

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Blood on the Dance Floor

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Joe Pug

Modern English

John Vanderslice

Koffin Kats

Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 7:30 p.m., $10

Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 8 p.m., $17.50

Joe Pug is the good kind of cranky: Highly skeptical of the music-industry status quo (and not afraid to say so), the singer-songwriter has based his career largely on direct interaction with fans and faith in word-ofmouth publicity. In the past, he distributed free CDs to anyone who wanted one (covering postage, even) and attempted to eliminate additional ticket fees by selling directly to attendees. His coarse-grain vocals inevitably draw comparisons to Bob Dylan, and fans of Whiskeytown-era Ryan Adams and local SINGER-SONGWRITER favorite Jackie Greene will also find much to like.

2708 J Street, www.joepugmusic.com.

One of the classic ’80s new-wave rock bands, Modern English has broken up and reunited twice now. Though it has never matched the NEW WAVE success of songs like “I Melt With You” and “Hands Across the Sea,” it is still turning out some pretty good pop rock. If Modern English has gotten a little grayer and wider since 1982, well—haven’t we all? Video from recent gigs, though, proves the group can still bring the ’80s angst and mix it up with some distinctly 21st-century moves. The band will be joined by the Generals, a Sacramentobased indie-pop duo with a full sound and some thoughtful lyrics. 2708 J Street, http://modernenglish.me.

—Deena Drewis

—Kel Munger

LowBrau, 8 p.m., $10

Cafe Colonial, 8 p.m., $10

John Vanderslice has always ridden that line between crazy, creative artist and meticulous, calculating producer. His unique songwriting has earned a lot more respect from musicians than mainstream appeal. Yet, he can produce a really solid, palatable album. He’s that good.

He owns the Tiny Telephone recording studio in San Francisco, where musicians wait almost a year to get in. For his own music, he spends months tinkering with songs, adding subtle SINGER-SONGWRITER nuances that a small handful of discerning fans catch on their headphones. Sometimes his albums suffer from studio excess, but generally, he balances his two worlds really well and creates unique indie-rock albums. 1050 20th Street, www.johnvanderslice.com.

Straight outta Detroit comes three-piece psychobilly band the Koffin Kats. These guys blend elements of punk and oldtime rock ’n’ roll into their music with, of course, plenty of stand-up bass. Lyrically, PSYCHOBILLY the band’s material covers a wide range of topics from life experiences growing up in the band’s hometown to a combined love of science fiction. What’s more is these cool Kats just returned from a three-month European tour and are scheduled to shake things up at a new music venue in town, Cafe Colonial. Supporting performances for the night include the Infamous Swanks, Avenue Saints and the Devil’s Train.

3520 Stockton Boulevard, www.koffinkats rock.com.

—Aaron Carnes

—Steph Rodriguez

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ROCCA VARNADO, THE BELL BOYS, LADY REMEDY, BAD NUZE; 9pm, $10-$15

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DJ Elements, 9pm, call for cover

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NACHO BUSINESS, MONSTER TREASURE; 9pm, $5

KEYSER SOZE, THE STORYTELLERS, SACTO SOUL REBELS; 9pm, $5

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WONDERBREAD 5, 10pm, $12

STEELIN’ DAN, 7pm, $15-$20; ROYAL JELLY, 10pm, $7

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

HAYLEY JANE AND THE PRIMATES, OLD GROVE; 8pm, $6

Readings by Beth Lisick, Rachel Leibrock, Frank Andrick, David Houston, 8pm, $10

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THE KELPS, HONYOCK; 8:30pm, $5

AMERICAN NOMAD, SUNMONKS, JUSTIN FARREN; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz, 8pm M; ADAM ARCURAGI, CHEYENNE MIZE; 8:30pm W, $5

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Karaoke, 8pm M; DENVER J. BAND, OIL & SMOKE; 9pm W, $5

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CAVE, THE CAIRO GANG, DONALD BEAMAN; 8pm Tu, $6; Comedy, 8pm W

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YO GOTTI, YG, ZED ZILLA, SHY GLIZZY, CASH OUT; 7pm W, $25

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CAPLETON, AFRICAN FOUNDATION; 7pm, $20-$25

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FOGHORN STRINGBAND, BONANZA KING; 8pm, $15

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KEVIN SECONDS, RYAN DAVIDSON; M; CELESTIONS, HOPELESS JACK; 8pm W, $5

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THE ALL MY BROTHERS BAND, 10pm, $5 TOTAL RECALL, 10pm, $5

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

Comedy with Mark G and, 8:30pm W, $5

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

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Microphone Mondays, 6pm M, $1-$2; SLV, 7pm Tu, $5

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ERIC MARTIN, LARISA BRYSKI; 3-9pm, $15-$20

Roots American Rockabilly Festvial, 1-7pm, call for cover

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ARDEN PARK ROOTS, ONE DROP, STREET URCHINZ, RIOTMAKER; 6:30pm, $10

TAO JIRIKI, TRAVIS LATRINE, BFF, JUSTIN PURTILL; 6pm, $7

Larisa Bryski’s Vocalist Showcase, 4pm, $5

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sometimes

you quit games too early, Aries. You run away and dive into a new amusement before you have gotten all the benefits you can out of the old amusement. But I don’t think that will be your problem in the coming days. You seem more committed than usual to the ongoing process. You’re not going to bolt. That’s a good thing. This process is worth your devotion. But I also believe that right now you may need to say no to a small part of it. You’ve got to be clear that there’s something about it you don’t like and want to change. If you fail to deal with this doubt now, you might suddenly quit and run away somewhere down the line. Be proactive now, and you won’t be rash later.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Jugaad is

a Hindi-Urdu word that can be translated as “frugal innovation.” People in India and Pakistan use it a lot. It’s the art of coming up with a creative workaround to a problem despite having to deal with logistical and financial barriers. Masters of jugaad call on ingenuity and improvisation to make up for sparse resources. I see this as your specialty right now, Taurus.

Although you may not have abundant access to VIPs and filthy riches, you’ve nevertheless got the resourcefulness necessary to come up with novel solutions. What you produce may even turn out better than if you’d had more assets to draw on.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In ac-

cordance with your current astrological omens, I authorize you to be like a bird in the coming week—specifically, like a bird as described by the zoologist Norman J. Berrill: “To be a bird is to be alive more intensely than any other living creature. …

Birds have hotter blood, brighter colors, stronger emotions … they live in a world that is always present, mostly full of joy.”

Take total advantage of the soaring grace period ahead of you, Gemini. Sing, chirp, hop around, swoop, glide, love the wind, see great vistas, travel everywhere, be attracted to hundreds of beautiful things and do everything.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “The

nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired,” wrote Nikos Kazantzakis in his book Report to Greco.

I’m hoping that when you read that statement, Cancerian, you will feel a jolt of melancholy. I’m hoping you will get a vision of an exciting experience that you have always wanted but have not yet managed to bring into your life. Maybe this provocation will goad you into finally conjuring up the more intense desire you would need to actually make your dream come true.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “It is truly strange

how long it takes to get to know oneself,” wrote the prominent 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. “I am now [62] years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I love lightly toasted bread. … I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost 60 years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.” Your assignment, Leo, is to engage in an intense phase of self-discovery like Wittgenstein’s. It’s time for you to become fully conscious of all the small likes and dislikes that together shape your identity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I’d rather

be in the mountains thinking of God than in church thinking about the mountains,” said the naturalist John Muir. Let that serve as your inspiration, Virgo. These days, you need to be at the heart of the hot action, not floating in a cloud of abstract thoughts. The dream has to be fully embodied and vividly unfolding all around you, not exiled to wistful fantasies that flit through your mind’s eye when you’re lonely or tired or trying too hard. The only version of God that’s meaningful to you right now is the one that feeds your lust for life in the here and now.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The advice I’m

about to dispense may have never before been given to Libras in the history of horoscopes. It might also be at odds with the elegance and decorum you like to express.

Nevertheless, I am convinced that it is the proper counsel. I believe it will help you make the most out of the highly original impulses that are erupting and flowing through you right now. It will inspire you to generate a mess of fertile chaos that will lead to invigorating long-term innovations.

Ready? The message comes from Do the Work, a book by Steven Pressfield: “Stay primitive. The creative act is primitive. Its principles are of birth and genesis.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Two years ago, a British man named Sean Murphy decided he had suffered enough from the painful wart on his middle finger. So he drank a few beers to steel his nerves, and tried to blast the offending blemish off with a gun. The operation was a success in the sense that he got rid of the wart.

It was less than a total victory, though, because he also annihilated most of his finger. May I suggest that you not follow Murphy’s lead, Scorpio? Now is a good time to part ways with a hurtful burden, but I’m sure you can do it without causing a lot of collateral damage.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Grace has been trickling into your life lately, but I suspect that it may soon start to flood. A spate of interesting coincidences seems imminent. There’s a good chance that an abundance of tricky luck will provide you with the leverage and audacity you need to pull off minor miracles. How much slack is available to you? Probably as much as you want. So ask for it! Given all these blessings, you are in an excellent position to expunge any cynical attitudes or jaded theories you may have been harboring. For now, at least, it’s realistic to be optimistic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Capricorn innovator Jeff Bezos built Amazon.com from the ground up. He now owns The Washington Post, one of America’s leading newspapers. It’s safe to say he might have something to teach us about translating big dreams into practical realities. “We are stubborn on vision,” he says about his team. “We are flexible in details.”

In other words, he knows exactly what he wants to create, but is willing to change his mind and be adaptable as he carries out the specific work that fulfills his goals. That’s excellent advice for you, Capricorn, as you enter the next phase of implementing your master plan.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Here’s

the horoscope I would like to be able to write for you by the first week of December: “Congratulations, Aquarius!

Your quest for freedom has begun to bear tangible results. You have escaped a habit that had subtly undermined you for a long time. You are less enslaved to the limiting expectations that people push on you.

Even your monkey mind has eased up on its chatter and your inner critic has at least partially stopped berating you. And the result of all this good work? You are as close as you have ever come to living your own life—as opposed to the life that other people think you should live.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “It’s an

unbearable thought that roses were not invented by me,” wrote Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. You’re not as egotistical as Mayakovsky, Pisces, so I doubt you’ve ever had a similar “unbearable thought.” And it is due in part to your lack of rampaging egotism that I predict you will invent something almost as good as roses in the coming weeks. It may also be almost as good as salt and amber and mist and moss; almost as good as kisses and dusk and honey and singing. Your ability to conjure up long-lasting beauty will be at a peak. Your creative powers will synergize with your aptitude for love to bring a new marvel into the world.

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Have we got your attention?

On Saturday, October 12, the baddest chicks in the Sacred City Derby Girls league will get down and dirty for their spectators’ viewing pleasure—and a little cash. Turns out, it’s not cheap to strap on skates and pads and bash into each other around a flat-track rink several months out of the year.

“Our team holds many fundraisers throughout the season, as we are a pay-to-play sport,” explained the league’s marketing director Renee Mazyck, a.k.a. “Dirty~8~Special.” “[We] have expenses that, if it weren’t for fundraising and sponsors, would come out of our very tiny pockets.” Here’s how it works: Local combatants—all from area teams— grapple until one is pinned for three seconds. If it all sounds a little titillating, well, it’s supposed to. But don’t be fooled—these women are in it to win it. “It has become a pretty competitive event for the participants who are wanting the title and the belt—but there can only be one!” said Mazyck, who agreed to give us the dirt on mud, sexism and gnarly injuries.

As a guy, I should probably already know this, but what’s appealing about women wrestling in mud?

I was kind of hoping you would tell me! All we know is it’s a crowd-pleaser to watch women wriggling around in liquidish-type substances. I’d like to think it’s the brutal beauty of the mono y mono competition aspect. Alas, I really think it’s the thought of someone’s boob popping out of their uniform that gets the fans there.

Where did the idea come from?

Well, a bunch of brilliant minds [came] together and tried to think of events where we could draw a large crowd—which may care to partake in a cool, refreshing beverage—and the team could compete in something other than our beloved roller derby. It seemed like a good transition, and we were hoping to get those who attend to come to a bout and watch us play.

Mud seems like a natural enemy to skates, so was anyone skeptical at first?

Mud certainly is a natural enemy of skates.

Thankfully, we don’t wear skates while in the mud. Our competitors are excited for a chance to drop the skates and get on their knees and put their hands on their teammates. Of course, this is all in good fun, but sometimes sticking a teammate’s face in the mud gives you a whole new love for them.

Does the cleanest person win?

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Roller derby is about subverting stereotypes by playing up to them in a tongue-in-cheek way, i.e., pinup women in short shorts beating the crap out of each other. How does this mesh with that?

I think it falls right in line with all of it.

Unfortunately, women’s sports still are not treated with the same respect as men’s sports. Until such a time when the sports world can see women’s flat-track roller derby as a serious sport, we use what we have to try and draw a crowd. [W]e are a fun-loving bunch of athletes who love what we do so much, we are willing to, as some would say, “degrade” ourselves to get attention.

What do you enjoy most about it?

I’ve played some type of sport throughout my life, and nothing compares to roller derby. The highly competitive aspect, the full contact, the athleticism and the camaraderie. I live, eat and breathe this sport. My family, friends and co-workers are well-versed because it is part of me.

What’s the gnarliest injury you’ve gotten?

I’ve had a severely dislocated finger.

It was completely sideways. Got some great pictures of it. I’ve also had to have cortisone injections in both shoulders, and it feels like my hip needs one now. I’ve also lost numerous toenails—gross, I know! I have a permanent callous on the bottom of my foot, which I have to protect when I get a pedicure ’cause those ladies always want |

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to mess with it! Technically, that’s not an injury, but it’s what some would consider a downside to derby.

Have you ever wrestled in mud?

My first season with the team I wrestled.

It was an awesome experience. My sister, Knee High Ninja, was [in] my corner, and we wore matching face masks and I donned my high-school son’s singlet. He wasn’t embarrassed at all—not!

What’s the weirdest place you found mud?

I think the weirdest for me was how much can get in your ears. It just kept coming out!

Where did the “Dirty~8~Special” name come from?

I polled my friends to help come up with a name that fit my personality. I wanted something catchy and fun for the announcers to say and for the fans to hear. I wanted a name that had a gun connotation, as I am a huge fan of firearms. One of my best friends came up with Dirty~8~Special after the [band] 38 Special. The “Dirty” part of my name fits me, and not because I don’t shower. Imagination, go! Ω

The Sacred City Derby Girls mud-wrestling fundraiser starts at 7 p.m. on Saturday, October 12, at The Onyx Club, located at 116 Main Street in Roseville. On November 9, the league will hold its season-closing bout at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium at 1515 J Street. Visit http://sacred cityderbygirls.com for details.

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