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Childish endeavors Lately, it seems like everyone is having babies.

Cute, adorable, squeezable, money-grubbing babies.

People often ask if I’ve thought about having children. Of course I’ve thought about having children. I’ve probably overthought it—made a budget, crunched the numbers and then gave up.

Food, health care, clothes, toys, hobbies, etc.—children are cherubcheeked vampires who’ll suck your bank account dry.

Seriously, I love kids, yet I’m also respectfully fearful of how much it costs to raise a healthy child.

According to an August report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average family will spend $241,080 to raise one child over the course of 18 years. That sum doesn’t include college but does encompass what is the single biggest expense for many families: child care.

Those not able to take advantage of family assistance will likely fork over a huge chunk of their monthly salary to a licensed child-care facility.

According to a 2012 report from Child Care Aware of America, an information hub for child-care resources, two-parent households in 35 states with an infant in day care can expect to pay more annually than they would for a year of in-state tuition at a fouryear public college.

In California, day care costs a household approximately $11,823 annually—or nearly $1,000 a month.

That’s 14.6 percent of the median twoparent household’s annual income and a whopping 42.9 percent of the median single parent’s income.

Instead of posing cuts and restrictions to benefits such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, lawmakers should instead devise ways to help families better afford basic needs such as food, shelter and care.

Raising a child isn’t a luxury, it’s a right.

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The Grocery Outlet in Midtown used to be called [Rick’s Uptown Market] when I was a kid. I might have been 5 years old. I took one of those supersquishy bouncy balls home. I had asked my mom ahead of time, “Can I get this ball?”

All of a sudden, I had this ball. She took me back and made them yell at me.

I stole somebody’s boyfriend once. It was a friend that I made, [and] then we got close. We both hated it, the kind of typical-cheating thing.

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My sister got caught shoplifting with me. I was 13. She bought me—OK, stole—a Christmas present for me. It was a perfume thing, or something like that. She got busted by the Kmart people, and I had to buy it for her, because she stole it for me.

The only thing I’ve ever stolen was a vehicle, and I wasn’t in this country.

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Re “Kings fan venom” by Nick Miller (SN&R Editor’s Note, October 31): The trend of vehemently denouncing people for differences of opinion is now an accepted facet of our society. Don’t like the Sacramento Kings getting a $400 million upfront gift from the taxpayers?

Then you’re obviously a hater, and you have to be shouted down. Don’t agree with President Barack Obama on pretty much anything? Then you’re obviously a racist. Dare to ask letter of why global warming the week hasn’t been as bad as Al Gore told us it would be? Oh, well, then, you’re an ignorant denier!

I suppose this is the society some people wanted, given that they can’t form cogent arguments to support their opinions. All that’s left is character assassination, and I imagine that actual assassination isn’t too far behind.

It’s also interesting to see the proverbial chicken come home to roost as an editor of the SN&R complains about this kind of behavior, given that he’s signed off on a slew of articles that have done just the same to Christians, conservatives, tea partiers, global-warming

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In order for us to reclaim our children’s education from the privateers, such as Michelle Rhee and Raymond, we must be a lot more vigilant as voters and only support candidates who will guarantee, in writing, to roll back all charter-school funding, never approve another charter school in Sacramento, and refund and reopen the public schools Raymond closed. Let’s make a pact with our children that we will never take our eye off the ball again and elect foxes to guard our henhouse.

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Support mental-health hospital in north Sac Re “Psych, out!” by Raheem F. Hosseini (SN&R News, October 24): The idea of creating a mental-health facility that helps in any way, shape or form is awesome and inspiring.

I truly understand the concern from residents who do not understand those with mental-health challenges. However, I embrace this decision and wish the residents who are opposed to this hospital could put themselves in the shoes of people struggling every single moment with a mental-health condition. It’s time for us all to support each other and not live life by a status symbol and such greed. Support helping all in need. It’s the right thing to do, and we all truly know it.

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Correction

In last week’s Bites column, “More lowpower radio coming to Sacramento,” SN&R editors incorrectly stated that the Alliance Française of Sacramento is applying to the Federal Communications Commission for a low-power FM frequency. That is incorrect: The Sacramento French Film Festival is in fact the applicant.

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Developers present ‘hypothetical’ concepts for new Sacramento Kings home as city leaders weigh impact on downtown Signature gatherers and opponents still aim to put the Kings arena’s public subsidy to a by vote next June. Meanwhile, the city and Nick Miller the Sacramento Kings hustle to move the project forward. nick am@ newsre vie w.c o m This week in new arena news: Sacramentans got a first look at design possibilities for the team’s proposed downtown HQ. “These are just hypothetical,” Kings president Chris Granger cautioned city council members and the audience at last Tuesday night’s meeting before unveiling design concepts.

“We are not submitting any of these as sort of the final answer. … But we do like to show these because it elicits a reaction … that gives us feedback.”

Granger and Co. have been toting these not-actual-rendering designs at town halls and meetings during the past few weeks as part of an outreach plan. It’s like a Rorschach test, but for the Kings arena.

Their goal is to fine-tune the design scheme and finalize a proposal by next year.

Mark Friedman, who leads the arenadevelopment team—along with design firm AECOM, Turner Construction and ICON Venue Group—introduced Granger and used prhases such as “architecturally Read SN&R’s blog significant,” “environmentally responsible,” Page Burner for more “absolutely fantastic place,” “great civic Sacramento Kings space” and “showcase what’s terrific about arena updates at Sacramento” to describe the arena’s design www.newsreview.com/ pageburner. goals. (There was no discussion of what, specifically, makes us terrific, just to say.)

City staff had also prepared a list of arena goals, based on community outreach done during early October.

Council approved these objectives with a 7-1 vote; it included the usual—making it a “world-class destination”—plus some oft-overlooked ideas, such as making it a place for artists and bicyclists.

Two wheels were actually a topic of note during the meeting. Jim Brown, executive director of Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates, said the arena needs to be “fully accessible by all modes of transportation” and urged the council to rethink the oneway streets that surround the arena, because they encourage people to take their cars to 6

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Sacramento Kings president Chris Granger said the new arena will not look like these detail scenes from concepts unveiled last week. Or it might? Either way, they’re just “hypothetical,” he said.

“ We are not submitting any of these as sort of the final answer. … But we do like to show these because it elicits a reaction.”

Chris Granger president, Sacramento Kings games and concerts in lieu of alternative modes of transit. He reminded that the arena bill passed by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg this fall requires that car trips to the arena be reduced.

Both Councilmen Steve Cohn and Steve Hansen spoke in support of a bikefriendly design. We need to “complete our bike network all the way into the arena site,” Cohn said. (It’s worth noting that AT&T Park in San Francisco offers a free bike valet during Giants games.)

Granger, who unveiled concepts to the public for the first time during a 15-minute

presentation, discussed the idea of a large plaza near the arena, at the northeast corner near J and Seventh streets. “About as big as the plaza at L.A. Live” is how he described it.

Then, he proceeded to share three distinct arena design options.

The first showcased an arena that allows people on K Street to see inside, via large glass windows, and even possibly enter the arena through an openair deck on the second level. “This is something we are falling in love with very quickly,” Granger said of the idea, which was widely praised by council members.

“You might literally be able to walk in from the plaza on K Street” and watch a game or a concert, he said.

He also said this gives the team more flexibility with seating. Only three concerts out of the past 1,000 at Sleep Train Arena attracted more than 18,000 attendees, and only 27 had more than 15,000, Granger explained. He said an arena with a base capacity of 17,000 could then expand to possibly 19,000 with indoor-outdoor synergy.

“Synergy” was the word of the day, in fact. Councilman Hansen said he wanted to see an arena that “reopens the grid, reconnects the city.”

Specifically, he doesn’t want to see it

close off L Street and the Capitol Mall to all the action.

The other designs included one that looked like a Guggenheim Museumspaceship, complete with lawn and solar panels on the roof, and another that had giant video-projection screens draping the facade.

Foremost Kings-arena critic Neil deMause, of the website Field of Schemes, dismissed last week’s presentation as simply an opportunity for public-relations spin and excuses, especially when it comes to the lowerthan-anticipated arena capacity.

“What this seems to add up to, reading between the lines, is: ‘We don’t want to spend a lot of money building a building that we can’t sell out on a nightly basis, so instead we’re going to put some folding chairs outside and let people peek in through a window,’” he wrote at www.fieldofschemes.com.

Others found consensus at the meeting: Attendees, Mayor Kevin Johnson and even Shaquille O’Neal (not in attendance) all agree on the same design as their favorite.

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Before the Sacramento River was tamed with dams, levees and canals, vast floods were a regular event, according to Jacob Katz, a biologist with the nonprofit CalTrout, who has directed the so-called “Nigiri Project”—symbolically named for the classic sushi presentation of raw fish served on a wedge of rice.

This historic ephemeral swamp, he says, helped support huge populations of animals.

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To produce their results, the researchers replicated the historic flood events of the Sacramento Valley by artificially inundating a small rice field in the Yolo Bypass floodplain in early 2012 and again in 2013. Each time, they released thousands of young salmon into the shallow waters.

After several weeks, the scientists recaptured and measured their sample fish. They found that the salmon from the flooded fields had grown remarkably fast and were between 3- and 3.5-inches long. By comparison, baby chinook salmon of the same age in free-flowing sections of the Sacramento measure about 2 inches long. That’s because cold, fast-flowing river water provides

relatively little shelter for baby salmon, as well as relatively little to eat, according to Katz.

“But these flooded marshes are like a buffet for baby fish,” he said.

Such a size difference in young fish can give them the advantage they need to survive to adulthood in the ocean, where salmon spend most of their lives. This makes the Nigiri Project’s findings potentially valuable to the struggling chinook salmon population, which has fallen to record low levels in recent years.

Katz has collaborated on the Nigiri Project with Carson Jeffres, a biologist with the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, and Ted Sommer and Louise Conrad, both with the state. In the 2013 rendition of the experiment, they released some 50,000 fish onto 18 acres of fields, donated temporarily to science by Cal Marsh and Farm Ventures, a group of landowners.

But Katz believes there may be as many as 10,000 acres of farmland that could be made available for use as seasonal fish nurseries.

Jeffres noted that rice production would not be impacted by the program.

“We would just need water out there for a window of several weeks between January and March, before the farmers start planting in the spring,” Jeffres said.

Jeffres and Katz’s hope is that government agencies will incorporate the methods of the Nigiri Project into the state’s wildlife-management programs. The idea is to take advantage of Sacramento Valley flood events, which occur once every two or three years, by containing the water on the fields even after the swollen river subsides.

Katz points out that the full-scale size of his experiment makes replicating the concept a cinch for fishery managers.

“Experiments like this are usually done in Tupperware at UC Davis,” he said. “But we made sure that our research could be as easily transferable to management as possible.”

And if the plan unfurls as Katz and Jeffres envision, we can have our fish—and eat our rice, too. Ω

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Raheem F. Hosseini In the two years since California realigned its prisons, shifting lowerraheemh@ level offenders to local counties, the newsreview.c om number of inmates with mental-health issues doubled at Sacramento County’s main custodial facility.

Thirty-four percent, or roughly 750 of the men and women incarcerated at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center, have mental-health issues varying from mild to severe, said the facility’s commander, deputy chief of corrections Milo Fitch.

As of now, inmates in need of acute psychiatric care are bussed more than 23 miles to the main jail in downtown Sacramento.

Sgt. Lisa R. Bowman, spokeswoman for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, said inmates can be housed separately, depending on the current population and its needs.

“Of course, the money will help us design a space for that population,” she added.

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That could change.

An $88.9 million state-funded expansion of the jail could add 26 beds for the mentally and physically infirm by the fall of 2019. An outpatient clinic, more space for rehabilitation programs and improved security are also part of the conceptual plan.

But it’s the mental-health resources that stand out.

“Currently, RCCC does not have any specific distinct and separate housing units for the treatment of inmates with significant emotional or psychological problems,” explains a staff report to Sacramento County supervisors, who approved the funding application last month. “Every outside assessment report … over the past 15 years has consistently indicated additional support space is required.” |

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That’s a big share of Rio’s fluctuating population, which numbered at 2,200 on October 24. These include inmates who are awaiting mentalcompetency evaluations to see if they can stand trial, or placement in a state hospital. Sacramento averages roughly 120 “restorative care transfers” to state hospitals a year, Fitch said.

Officials believe the construction project will reduce the number of inmates hospitalized outside and eventually pare down operational costs, even with the addition of $4 million in annual personnel costs.

Inmate suicides at both Rio and the main jail downtown have also been concerns, accounting for seven deaths in the last six years. On January 28, a 34-year-old Chowchilla man booked into jail on public-intoxication charges hanged himself in his cell using a piece of clothing. The jail recorded

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four suicides apiece in 2008 and 2005, and seven such inmate deaths in 2002.

Added prevention training and tier fencing at the jail have helped reduce instances of inmates taking their own lives, the Sacramento County Office of Inspector General said in its 2012 annual report. Jail psychiatric staff conducts routine suicide-prevention training with custodial staff, Fitch added.

While the county hopes to build on these efforts, there’s no guarantee its project will get funded.

The sheriff’s department, which operates Rio on 70 acres southwest of Elk Grove, put in an $80 million ask with the California Board of State and Community Corrections. The board is looking to scatter $240 million in tax-exempt bond money to construct criminal-justice facilities as part of Senate Bill 1022.

That may sound like a big pot, but it essentially breaks down to three maximum allocations for large counties.

“There’s a lot of competition,” Fitch told SN&R. “Los Angeles is always the front-runner. Another county is claiming it’s shovel-ready. … Hopefully, we can at least be third on the list.”

Sacramento won’t learn if it’s made the cut until January 2014.

“It’s exciting, because the facility down there is utilized for so many programs,” Bowman said.

That may give Rio an edge over other big jails. Bowman said the board will consider what offender rehabilitation programs each county currently has, and how successful they’ve been in preventing inmates “from going back to a life of crime.”

Along with erecting a two-story medical intake building, Fitch envisions building a state-of-the-art cookchill facility to serve 18,000 meals a day—equal to a large hotel—and augment an existing culinary program.

A new laundry facility would double as a vocational program. There would also be a welding and fabrication shop to replace the garage inmates currently learn in, as well as classrooms and a computer lab.

If the state approves Sacramento’s bid, construction would begin in 2017. The county needs to put up nearly $8.8 million of its own money to qualify. Ω

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The first-ever master plan will provide a road map for managing and accommodating campus growth over the next 10 to 15 years, headed by Richard W. Thompson, director of urban design and planning for the architectural firm AC Martin Partners.

Thompson’s firm has assisted in the creation of master plans for more than 25 higher-education campuses, including University of Southern California; Azusa Pacific University; and CSU Chico, Dominguez Hills, Fullerton and Northridge.

Sac State faces several challenges before any shovels can break ground on more than a dozen proposed buildings. During a campus forum attended by students and faculty, Thompson explained that mounting congestion, parking and housing issues will require creative solutions. “Every campus is different, and one of the main issues here is the fact that you’re [bound] by the river, the railroad and the freeway,” he said.

Since most of the CSU campuses, Sac State included, were originally designed as commuter campuses, converting the space into a 24-seven hub of activity is not simple.

A new aboveground parking structure can cost from $15,000 to $20,000 per parking space.

And the university has utilized all of its housing capacFace-lift. ity only once in the last decade, despite plans to add 3,000 beds for faculty and students.

Third, local transit agencies have built as close to the campus as possible, which means the university will have to provide a shuttle service to the light-rail station.

Among several anticipated priorities are a new eventcenter space, bioswales for stormwater management, green roofs, solar panels to shade parking structures and a new transit center. Once a consensus master plan is completed in early 2014, students can expect revenuegenerating parking and housing structures to go up first, while new academic buildings will lag, depending on the availability of state funding. (Cody Drabble)

Tales from the activity log For many, October 31 is an evening of dress-up and drunken revelry. For some, it’s just another night out on patrol.

Sacramento Police Department logs reveal a relatively quiet All Hallows’ Eve, albeit one punctuated by a couple of eerie, true stories.

Around 10 a.m. on Halloween, officers responded to a call that a woman located near the 1400 block of 30th Street had been sending messages to a third party that “she was possibly in danger.” Officers learned that she had, in fact, been in the area recently, but vanished by the time they got there. After a search and following up on all available leads, they were unable to locate or contact the woman.

Elsewhere, some eight hours earlier, just before 2 a.m., officers responded to a call from a business on the 5400 block of Stockton Boulevard to check on the welfare of a person who had been in the bathroom for an extended amount of time. When police finally opened the door, they found that the person had died. According to the police log, no foul play was suspected.

Spooky, nonetheless. (Dave Kempa)

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Suburban trends are a worthy subject for the annual State of the County luncheon, set for Friday, November 15, at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel. With 564,657 residents, more people live in the unincorporated parts of Sacramento County than in most California cities, including Sacramento. But this year’s address comes with an ungainly title: “Suburbs: Popular and Politically Incorrect—the Importance of having Prosperous and Livable Suburban Communities.” (Whew.) And it’s also being given downtown. Guess the burbs aren’t so special, after all.

One of Sacramento County’s finest, a scrappy K-9 officer by the name of Drago, got a special Halloween treat last week: Veterinarians cleared him for active duty only 13 days after this durable pooch took a bullet to the chest. A suspected car thief allegedly shot Drago while fleeing through an open field in Rio Linda on October 18. The suspect, 42-year-old Robby Joe Wolff, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene. News of Drago’s recovery—and Wolff’s death—drew overwhelmingly positive feedback on the department’s Facebook page.

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This is For the Sake of the Lake week, which means that local water agencies and municipalities will highlight how, possibly, Folsom Lake could become a pool by 2060, mostly because of climate change, but also maybe because of Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to divert the Delta’s water with giant tunnels.

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Suburbia remains popular, the Bee’s editorial board rotates out and the city gives away free advertising A little while ago in the opinion section of The Sacramento Bee, editorial page editor and smart-growth enthusiast Stuart Leavenworth fumed and fretted about an upcoming Sacramento appearance by writer Joel Kotkin.

A taxpayer-subsidized speech, in fact, called, “Suburbs: Popular and Politically Incorrect.” On November 15, Kotkin will be the guest of Sacramento County ARvIn Supervisor—and former developer—

by CoSmo G Susan Peters, as well as the Sacramento cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om Metro Chamber. Sacramento County is even kicking in $15,000 toward the event.

Leavenworth is irritated because Kotkin has made a specialty out of tweaking smart-growth folks and creative-class types, arguing that what enviros condemn as “sprawl” is really just the rational preferences of the vast majority of Americans, and that policies that attempt to steer suburbanites into denser, transit-oriented living are doomed to failure.

There’s a lot in Kotkin’s writing to argue with, and some worth struggling with as well.

Leavenworth worries that Kotkin, this “skewed scholar of suburbs,” will reassure Sacramento’s businesspeople that it’s perfectly all right to pursue the same old balls-to-thewall dumb growth, like Cordova Hills, that they’ve always done.

Probably, he will, though Kotkin’s writing is actually more interesting than that. Like when he chides communities who suffer civic “penis envy,” and obsession with the idea of being a “world class city.” He’s a critic of light-rail systems, and rail-based mass transit generally, which he sees as a benefit to affluent riders and urban developers, less useful for transit-dependent people who actually need a solid working bus system. He’s sharply skeptical of the downtown arena game, writing that, at best, such mega-projects “create a kind of Potemkin City, a showplace to relieve the embarrassment of elites and suburbanites when downtown but whose economic value doesn’t go much beyond the generally low-wage convention-and-visitors business.”

Not exactly the kind of stuff you’d expect the Sacramento Metro Chamber to pay big money to hear. (Not when they can get it for free from lots of people who live around here.)

What are the chances that Kotkin lays any of it on them later this month? That would be worth at least some of the county’s $15,000.

Bites will miss Leavenworth, who is leaving his Bee gig sometime soon. His colleague Ginger Rutland left earlier this month. What will the Bee editorial page be like without them?

Will it remain as vigilant against sprawl?

Will it be any less nastily anti-union?

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In any case, Bites has met Leavenworth and Rutland and found them both to be awfully nice people, smart as hell, occasionally ridiculously off-base, and a lot of fun to read over the years. All the best.

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Anyone else notice that the city of Sacramento has started offering free advertising to certain businesses on its Facebook and Twitter accounts? It’s called “Business First Fridays,” and this month, the feature was a downtown Italian place, complete with the closeup pastaand-cheese shot, peppy ad copy, link to the restaurant’s Web page, and an offer of free gelato with purchase.

Whoever runs the city’s Facebook account says it’s not really advertising, because the city gets no revenue from it, and because it’s all part of the Sacramento Business First program run by the Economic Development Department.

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Every one of the businesses promoted by the city seems to be located on the grid.

Mostly restaurants, a hip coffee shop, a salon, a party concierge (ice carving and stuff like that), the Esquire IMAX Theatre. Oh, and there’s also a drug-testing lab that got free advertising from the city. But the drug-testing lab that got free advertising from the city actually appears to have its offices outside of city limits, on Howe Avenue.

Is this a representative group of Sacramento (and Sacramento-adjacent) businesses? Is it fair to other neighborhoods? Is this a “city that works for everyone,” or are free ads just for merchants that fit a certain profile? Would the city’s Economic Development give free ads to local bail bonds, liquor stores, gun shops, adult bookstores and other workaday taxpaying enterprises? Maybe. It would be interesting to find out. Ω

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We have less than one rotation of the Earth before the November 2014 election. And, because of term limits, the November election will create new political heavenly bodies in the California Senate and Assembly. State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg is moving on, and Democratic State Assemblymen Roger Dickinson and Richard Pan are competing to replace him.

There has been much political stargazing as everyone tries to figure out the best way to keep their political planets in orbit after the next election. However, Proposition 14, the Top Two Primaries Act passed by voters in June 2010, has changed the political reality.

This reform requires that the top-two primary votel getters, regardless of political affiliation, run against

by JEFF VoNKaENE each other in the November general election. j e ffv @n e wsr e v ie w.c o m Since nearly all Assembly and Senate districts are either heavily Democratic or heavily Republican, in the past, the primary election would usually determine the winner. This meant that unaffiliated and minority party voters had no say in the election. Now they do.

This reform has also significantly weakened wellfinanced special interests, such as the gun lobby, the trial lawyers and the teachersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; union. Under the old system, a In the last general special interest would regularly election, 19 out of 80 fund a primary candidate Assembly seats against any public official who voted against them. The fear had runoffs between of this threat caused many two members of the legislators to cater to special interests. But now, even if a same party. special-interest lobby finances an opposition candidate in the primary, a legislator can often still make it into the general The New York Timesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; article election.

And this reform is making a difference. In the last on October 18, â&#x20AC;&#x153;California Sees general election, 19 out of 80 Assembly seats had runoffs Gridlock Ease in between two members of the same partyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;12 Democrats Governing,â&#x20AC;? credited Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and seven Republicans. In order to win the election, these Proposition 14 as candidates had to adjust their platforms to appeal to voters one of the reasons outside of their party. that the state This reform has attracted national attention. The New York has moved away Times recently ran an article comparing Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s producfrom gridlock and toward a more tive legislative session to the gridlock mess in Washington, functional govern- D.C. The Times quoted one political expert as saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You ment. Read it at see Republicans voting for immigration reform, you see http://tinyurl.com/ CAvsWAgridlock. Democrats voting for streamlining environmental regulations.â&#x20AC;?

Much of this comes down to political calculation.

Take the anticipated upcoming race with Assemblymen Dickinson and Pan, running for the same state Senate Jeff vonKaenel is the president, race. They are in a Democratic district with 49 percent CEO and Democrats, 26 percent Republicans and 25 percent unaffilimajority owner of ated and minority-party voters. the News & Review Before Proposition 14, the primary election would newspapers in Sacramento, determine the winner. But now, it is highly likely that both Chico and Reno. Dickinson and Pan will make the runoff in November. This means that both candidates need to craft their message to appeal to Republicans and independent voters if they want to win the election.

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Playing chicken with public health By official count, at least 362 people were sickened by the recent outbreak of salmonella caused by Foster Farms chicken, including 268 Californians. If, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates, there were about 25 illnesses for every one reported, it’s likely the actual number was closer to 7,500. The infection strain was particularly virulent and resistant to antibiotics and forced the hospitalization of victims in 38 percent of the known cases.

The outbreak was traced to California Foster Farms plants in Livingston and Fresno, yet the company never recalled the infected chicken, despite pleas from consumer groups. The U.S. Department of Agriculture sent a letter admonishing Foster Farms for unsanitary conditions, citing a dozen instances this year when fecal matter was found on carcasses at the plants, yet never moved to require a recall or shut down the facilities.

That’s unacceptable. The salmonella outbreak represented an epic failure of corporate responsibility and a frustrating example of the USDA’s inability to police the safety of our food supply.

Testing by Consumer Reports found either salmonella or the also dangerous campylobacter or both in more than 80 percent of the chicken The widespread sold by Foster Farms and Tyson. use of preventative Each year, these pathogens sicken antibiotics in these 3.4 million Americans and kill about 500, according to the CDC. facilities is producing In the face of these numbers, drug-resistant the poultry industry has argued that salmonella-laden chicken is bacteria that are an perfectly safe to eat if properly increasing threat to cooked. That’s a rationalization that blames the victims and human health. ignores the problem of crosscontamination, which can occur when tainted chicken touches other foods, kitchen utensils or food-preparation surfaces. In the most recent outbreak, most of the California illnesses were traced to one Costco store’s cooked chicken products, demonstrating that even professional food handlers aren’t always able to prevent cross-contamination.

Raising poultry in overcrowded, unsanitary factory farms provides a breeding ground for disease, and the widespread use of preventative antibiotics in these facilities is producing drug-resistant bacteria that are an increasing threat to human health. Even careful consumers are at risk.

As the recent salmonella outbreak demonstrated, current USDA regulations are sadly inadequate.

Unlike certain strains of E. coli, salmonella is not considered by the USDA to be an “adulterant” that would make infected foods subject to recall. In essence, the agency is accepting the industry’s stance that salmonella is unavoidable in factory-farmed poultry, but that’s simply not the case. Food-safety advocates have pointed out that in Sweden, industrially produced supermarket chicken is virtually salmonella-free.

The USDA should act immediately to classify salmonella as an adulterant and tighten inspections to prevent sales of salmonella-laden foods. Until that happens, consumers should approach factory-farmed poultry with great caution—or avoid it altogether. Ω

Voter burnout Apparently, we voters are kind of dumb when it comes to Today, I get paid to follow the money. It’s fiscal policy. often a confounding slog through creative arithThat’s the demoralizing takeaway from a metic (does the Sacramento Convention Center by Complex make the city money or lose it?) and Raheem F. Hosseini recent statewide survey by a trio of Sacramento State University research bodies. While the rosy projections (taxpayers will get back their questions tracked familiarity with local spending $300 million investment in a new Sacramento issues, the disappointing results implicate every Kings Arena through … parking revenues?) voter from 1 Sports Parkway here in Sacramento So, I sympathize with some of the to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, survey’s findings.

D.C., our government-shutdown capital.

For example, only 25 percent of respondents The survey, which quizzed nearly 940 knew their local representatives spend more randomly selected adults living in cities and on public safety than they do on food stamps, incorporated towns Medi-Cal or aid to other cities, around California, found none of which are municipal We better start that a plurality know responsibilities. Most couldn’t jack about municipalsay whether California’s budget doing our damn government spending, picture improved recently (it homework. where their taxes go or has), whether the state carried what they’re voting for. a deficit last year (it didn’t?) or I can relate. what they spent on sales tax I used to make a tradition of sitting down (I looked it up: Measure U boosted Sacramento’s with my dad before Election Day to hash to 8.5 percent).

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when the Sacramento band cake poSed the queStion, the query appLied more to the cuLt of ShaLLow fandom: trend foLLowerS who LikeLy forked over pLaStic inStead of caSh to Stay up on the LateSt tuneS, concertS—and the t-ShirtS to prove they were there.

When SN&R asked musicians how they afford their rock ’n’ roll lifestyle, however, the question was literal and heartfelt: How, exactly, do you juggle paying the bills with making art?

The answers were as varied as the musicians we interviewed. We found a taxicab driver and a pet groomer, a wine expert and even a tombstone carver.

And while some of the artists profiled here admitted they burn with the drive to move beyond the time clock, others said they were pretty damn happy with the current work-art balance.

Working (wo)man’s blues? You decide.

A marker of success Singer-Songwriter MaSon rex carveS hiS MuSical niche

In some ways, Mason Rex’s day job isn’t that different from his singer-songwriter gig: He spends long hours alone, focused intently on the fusion of craft, skill and raw emotion.

And, much like his songs do, Rex says his work as a tombstone carver helps him connect to others.

“For me, it means something, [and] it means something to other people,” says the Woodland resident.

Rex, who works for a friend’s family business, started chiseling words into stone about eight years ago.

Although most gravestone lettering is now computercut, the job still requires an eye for intricate design, as well as an intuition for a family’s needs.

“People come in and they have ideas, and you take those ideas and use your expertise to help them,” he says. “You make it something everyone is happy with.”

And, no, Mason Rex isn’t his birth name. Rather the artist, inspired by his stonemasonry trade, adopted his fitting stage name.

“I just thought it sounded good,” he says with a laugh.

Certainly, the job’s become something of a lifestyle for the musician. He spends his days designing and making grave markers, and where some would crave company, Rex says he welcomes the solitude.

“I get to work with my hands, and I have days where I’m completely alone, and I can work at my own pace and even work on my songs.”

Sometimes, he adds, his two crafts overlap.

Once, for example, Rex found himself tasked with making a marker for a 2-year-old girl’s grave.

The thought of a child dying so young weighed heavily on him.

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“I just had [her] on my mind,” he says. “Within a day, I’d [written a song] about it, told from the perspective of a higher power about what happens to children after they’ve died.”

The song’s somewhat melancholy ethos fits with the rest of Rex’s catalog. The singer-songwriter, who claims influences such as Dylan, the Beatles, Nirvana and the Cure, writes folk-tinged tunes shot through with poppy melodies and a rough-cut rock sensibility.

There’s no album to speak of yet—just tons of recordings, creative ambition and a drive to get everything right.

“I’m really hard on myself. I’m a perfectionist,” the self-taught musician admits.

In addition to the album in never-ending progress, Rex currently plays shows as part of a rock project with drummer Justin Keith. What exactly the musical future holds, however, he can’t quite say.

“It’s a hard [choice]: Do you follow a career with a future, or do take a chance on the music dream?” he asks.

Whatever the answer, Rex says he knows that wealth and fame aren’t really factors in any decision he makes.

“There’s also personal success,” Rex says. “If I’m happy, who cares where I am?”

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indie MuSician Jocelyn noir reapS the fruitS of her labor, artiStic and otherwiSe The wind is startlingly strong on this chilly October evening, but Jocelyn Noir doesn’t mind, because she’s finally home from a hectic workday. It’s the busiest time of year at Boeger Winery in Placerville, where she’s the assistant tasting-room manager, but it’s also been a busy season for the 27-year-old musician, whose indie electro-pop projects—her solo act Alak and band Biosexual—both dropped new releases in October.

On this day, Noir says 400 people came to taste the fermented fruits of Boeger’s scenic, undulating vineyards in the foothills—nearly twice as many as a normal Sunday—and she was on hand to guide them through it.

“A lot of people don’t know very much about wine, but they want the [wine-tasting] experience, and so you need to help them along the way, so they can get a wine that they like,” she says. “I have always enjoyed wine, but I didn’t know wine language; I couldn’t tell why which ones were different, and memorizing the varietals and what a blend was,” she says. “I’ve really learned a lot since I started working there.”

Noir has been clocking in at the winery for the past seven months, and until last month, was the events coordinator at Cosmic Café & Pub, also in Placerville, for about five years.

“I decided it would be easier to stick to one job instead of two jobs, ’cause it’s been really intense doing work from home, and then going [to the winery] and

Mason Rex, a Woodland-based singer-songwriter, says he enjoys his job carving tombstones because all that time spent alone gives him the opportunity to work on his musical craft.

trying to do other things, like raise my daughter and have a music career,” she says.

Although Noir says she loves working in the tasting room, ideally, she wants her music to be her full-time occupation.

Alak’s new five-track EP, Guardian Petted, recently had a limited release on cassette, via the Kaleidoscope label, and sold out in the first 10 minutes (but it’s available for free download online at http://bit.ly/19kiks6).

The sound is a compote of etherealness, synthesizer and driving beats, with her soft voice guiding the listener’s ear into the valleys and over the peaks of the surreal sonic landscape she’s constructed. And a new eponymous release of angular, experimental electro-pop by her band Biosexual—which includes her brother Michael RJ Saalman and boyfriend Zac Nelson—has been receiving favorable reviews, including Redefine magazine’s Jason Simpson citing the record has “moments of true pop genius.”

Or, as Noir said, it’s “weird music.” She admits she has been discouraged to share her creative output with those at her place of employment in the past because she found it difficult to explain her experimental sound.

“But now, what I’m doing with Biosexual, it’s … more accessible for people. I’ve been sharing that a lot more,” she says. “It’s been a long process. It’s been, like, almost 10 years of working really hard on music and not a lot of fruition.”

Still, Noir remains excited about the possibilities.

And, for now, she’s grateful to be punching her time card at the winery, even though she gets frustrated when some folks won’t put down their iPhones and enjoy the “magical place.”

“As a ‘real world’ job, this is my fantasy job. It’s the best I could ask for,” Noir says. And although she’s wiped out from the frenzied day at work, she reveals her work isn’t over yet.

“I have to wear a black bodysuit and mask and walk around in the dark.” She’s shooting a scene for a Biosexual video later in the evening.

“No matter how tired I am, I’m going to follow through,” she says.

That’s good, because the band is scheduled to shoot yet another video the following night.

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Steven Payan’S 12-hour taxicab Shift driveS home beatS, activiSm and high-SPeed chaSeS In some ways, Steven Payan’s job as a Woodland taxi driver helps move his music career. During his 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. shift, for example, he gets enough downtime to write lyrics. The Woodland native also bumps tunes by his hip-hop group, Mentes Diferentes, through the taxi’s speakers—it’s an easy way to have his music heard by a captive audience, and, he says, people often give him positive feedback, or start conversations about it.

But then there are the darker times. Like when Payan has to pick up people who appear to be on drugs, or the one time he had to make a high-speed escape: “It [was] 5 o’clock in the morning, and a guy comes out of a store dressed in an all-black trench coat, cowboy hat, 6-foot-3 or 6-foot-4, looking like a villain from an old Western flick: gray, grimy beard and walking with a limp and a cane,” says Payan.

“A feeling came over me, like, ‘Man, I better not look at this guy directly in the eyes.’”

After entering the freeway, the villainous-looking man told Payan that people in several cars behind the taxi were trying to kill him. Payan had no choice but to

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Taxicab driver Steven Payan sometimes treats passengers to new songs by his hip-hop group Mentes Diferentes.

Just working for a paycheck? Hardly.

Jocelyn Noir (right), a singer known for her work in Biosexual as well as the solo project Alak, calls her winery gig a “fantasy job.”

“ROCK ’N’ ROLLLifestyle”continued from page 15 take him seriously, so he hit the gas pedal, and a few cars followed in a high-speed pursuit. He eventually evaded them by driving through roads near the Sacramento International Airport and performing a quick U-turn through a gas station. This thrilling ride earned him just $50. But, hey, at least he walked away with a crazy story to tell.

Onstage, Payan goes by the stage name Chaotic Itilii.

Mentes Diferentes, formed circa 2008, is rounded out by Vicious V and Reckless Reaction (who also comprise the group Desperados), plus Kest, Horizon, J-loco, Chuco, Lil’ Joker, Nikki, Kron and DJ Roots.

With lyrics in English and “Spanglish”—as well as a Chicano perspective on the streets, activism and gang violence—the group often gets compared to Cypress Hill, Wu-Tang Clan and Immortal Technique, says Payan.

But if you were to bump into Payan at a party, he wouldn’t necessarily introduce himself as just an emcee— or just a taxi driver either, for that matter.

Those are simply things he does.

“I’m a community organizer, and what that encompasses is that I address issues through music and art and activism,” says Payan. “I like to say I try to reflect street culture through hip-hop, through Mentes Diferentes: I’ll go out there doing music, graffiti, teaching workshops on how to do stencil bombing with a political message, how to organize, how to know your rights.”

And much of that community organization happens during his taxi shift.

In addition to being an administrator for the Mentes Diferentes Facebook page, he also regularly posts as an admin on Facebook pages for Occupy Sacramento, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and the Peace and Freedom Party (Yolo County chapter).

Just not when there’s high-speed chase, of course.

Pet groomer by day, singer-songwriter by night, Carly DuHain says she’s learned to live on the cheap.

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A daily grind, the bigger picture

EmcEE SpittlEz jugglES a caShiEr job, School and lifE onStagE “It came from two words,” Tonya “Spittlez” Wright says of her artist pseudonym.

“The word ‘spittle,’ it’s a drop of spit, and from Skittles, because I didn’t want to put myself in a box, to be one kind of artist.

I do pop, I do R&B, I do rock, I do techno—I make all that music. So I spit, and I’m flavorish—I can do any kind of music.”

Perhaps. But don’t let her petite frame and girlish giggle fool you. Spittlez means business.

When she’s not behind the mic, for instance, Spittlez studies sound engineering at Pinnacle College. And to pay the bills, she works as a cashier at a gas station in Natomas.

Not exactly the life of a glamorous rapper, but Spittlez says she’s one to value hard work over glitz.

Indeed, the artist’s been performing music for more than a decade, drawing comparisons to the likes of Eve and MC Lyte—mixed in with a bit of Missy Elliott.

Locally, she’s worked with artists such as Century Got Bars, DJ Quik, T-Nutty and Marvaless. She’s also been recording her own music since she was 18 under her own label, Spitfire Entertainment, and, in June, she signed on with Marvaless Muzic, a label founded by the rapper.

Such deals may push Spittlez more squarely into the spotlight, but the artist knows there’s still plenty of hard work ahead.

Not to mention endless hours logged behind the cash register.

“It’s not the awesomest job ever,” she says of her work, “but I am blessed to have a job to support my family and my music. Music does support, but it does not pay all the bills, so I need to make sure I can take care of my family and make sure I am keeping up with my music financially.”

Spittlez has been working at this particular gas station for two months. Before that, she pursued music full time.

Now, even though she has to devote 30 hours of her week to ringing up purchases, Spittlez says she uses the time to network and work on her music.

“I don’t really take the ... gas station serious, because I know I’m not going to be there, probably [beyond] this year. I have other goals that will have me elsewhere soon.”

Goals that college is helping her meet. Spittlez says she’s utilizing the 18-month engineering program to learn sound production and how to better run her business.

“I’ve been doing music for so long, school is teaching me how to focus, especially with the business,” she says.

“Before school, I was recording by myself, but to actually know what I’m doing is pretty cool.”

So, for now, while her life consists of the daily grind of school, a job and a few precious hours to work on her music, Spittlez embodies the message of her music—to stay positive and uplifted—because she knows this is only a temporary pit stop before she reaches her goals.

—Jessica Rine

Feed the soul

SingEr-SongwritEr carly duhain EatS a lot of ramEn—and lovES it

For starters, there’s that one time that, desperate to figure out a way to pay her rent for the month, blues-rock singer-songwriter Carly DuHain sold her Harmony acoustic guitar.

Sometimes the measures needed to get by aren’t quite so extreme.

DuHain, who also has a roommate to help keep down costs, knows how to spice up a mean bowl of ramen, for example, and isn’t afraid to eat freezer-burned meat.

Hey, don’t let anything go to waste, right?

For DuHain, it’s all just another day in the life of a musician trying to balance— much less afford—making art with paying the bills.

Currently, DuHain works as a dog groomer at local pet-supply store and dog wash in West Sacramento.

With 13 years logged in the grooming industry—and three of those years spent working as a veterinary technician and assistant—DuHain’s experiSpittlez enced it all. She’s separated emcee plasma from blood, been peed on by a dog and even performed CPR on an animal that suffered from a heart attack.

Still, through all the urine and stressful moments, DuHain says she loves her job.

“I like animals because they’re the best examples of unconditional love. I think that’s something that a lot of people that I’ve cared for deeply have lacked,” says DuHain.

With three cats to feed at home—Phillip; Uhura, also known as “Rocket Cat”; and Maple—DuHain says she’d rather starve then let her pets go hungry. In other words, she lives and dies by cheap eats.

Sometimes her diet consists of, as she most eloquently words it, “cheap-ass Old Tavern bar food.” But when money is tight, DuHain turns to her coin jar and offers these helpful rock ’n’ roll-worthy tips to spice up any flavor of ramen.

“Crystal Hot Sauce, throw an egg in there, all the veggies in your house, cilantro, and if you have any meat … throw that in there, too,” says DuHain. “I had beef liver frozen for days, and it got super freezer-burned, [but] I tried to make the Top Ramen as much like pho as possible—it was pretty good.”

Whatever the flavor, she adds, music will always take precedence over nourishment.

“If you have to choose between eating really well or buying a new pair of strings or new cables because you’re like me and you lose them all the time, [then] you forgo the food,” DuHain says. “You stock up on frozen corn, and you accept it.”

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Skip the cheesy fries and chicken wings, and check out SN&R’s guide to the best vegan and vegetarian bar bites It’s getting to be the holiday season soon—which, for many people, means lots of socializing and bar-hopping. Trouble is, most bar dining options are predictable and tired: buffalo-style chicken wings, cheesesmothered french fries with Bacon Bits, beefy burgers, etc.

What to do if you’re not a meat eater?

Vegetarians and vegans will often find their season’s eatings typically mean slim pickings—how about some iceberg lettuce?

Sorry, but rabbit food will prove totally useless when it comes to absorbing all those drinks you plan on downing at the bar tonight.

But don’t despair, leaf eaters. The following is SN&R’s guide to the area’s top five spots for yummy meat-free bar fare. Too cold to leave the house? If you’ve got a frying pan and a few basic ingredients, we’ve got you covered there, too.

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Head cook Carlos “Cawzlos” Lopez was brought in to update the Round Corner Tavern’s menu a few years back because the bar didn’t offer much in the way of vegetarian or vegan-friendly fare. Since then, Lopez has implemented much in the way of animalfree dishes in the kitchen, now called Downtown’s Kitchen. Try the crispy potato tacos—snag three for $5 on Tuesdays. These half-moon shaped papas are sprinkled with cheese, topped with shredded lettuce, spicy salsa and drizzled lightly with sour cream.

Other options on the bar’s daytime menu include a spinach, garlic-and-queso fresco empanada, or a potato served with garlic and parsley option.

“I’ve worked in restaurants for quite a few years, and people would come in and say vegetarian options get really boring,” says chef Anya Felix, who also works in the Round Corner kitchen with her husband Pablo. “It seemed to make sense to appeal to a lot of people.”

Round Corner Tavern’s Downtown’s Kitchen, 2333 S Street; (916) 451-4682; http://downtownskitchenbbqvsvegan.com.

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Order a veggie-packed pie from Elixir Bar & Grill. If you’re vegan, just ask the kitchen to skip the gooey moo stuff.

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Garden of eatin’ Few items go hand in hand better than a slice of pizza and an ice-cold beer. At the Elixir Bar & Grill downtown, go for the Chainbreaker White IPA from Deschutes Brewery paired with a piece of the bar’s veggie-packed pie. The bar’s calzones and pizzas are made from scratch and can be ordered with dozens of ingredients, including sliced jalapeños, olives, mushrooms and everything delightful found in any vegetable garden.

“Not all people who like to get drunk like to eat meat,” says Elixir co-owner Shann Marriott Jr. Word.

Elixir Bar & Grill, 1815 10th Street; (916) 442-0693.

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for a winning and mouthwatering combination for $6.50.

“I recommend it to meat eaters, too, looking for something different,” says Nutting.

LowBrau, 1050 20th Street; (916) 706-2636; www.lowbrausacramento.com.

you had me at ‘beer-battered’ Just on the outskirts of Midtown, tucked away down on Franklin Boulevard, there exists a little spot that’s a bit dive and just a tad bit punk rock, too. The Hideaway Bar & Grill’s menu is known for its thick burgers piled high with toppings.

Luckily, the joint doesn’t forget about its vegetarian customers, either.

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“Not all people who like to get drunk like to eat meat.”

Shann Marriott Jr. co-owner, Elixir Bar & Grill

Gooey grilled-cheese sandwiches evoke images of Mom in the kitchen. A bowl of hot tomato soup plus fall’s chilly temperatures equals a classic combination—and the perfect excuse for staying in.

Of course, you probably already know how to make a grilled-cheese sandwich, but why not give it a gourmet twist? Try sinking your teeth into grilled Brie paired with honey-sautéed red onions and thinly sliced Granny Smith apples. Want a vegan option? Try substituting a dairy-free “cheese,” such as Daiya’s Havarti Style Wedge for a similar effect. The following recipe makes two sandwiches and goes well with a glass of wine (or frosty brew)—and a game of Scrabble. Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω

Half of a red onion Half of a Granny Smith apple Four slices of bread, any style Olive oil One wedge of Brie or vegan cheese substitute Ω 1 tablespoon of honey Ω Cayenne pepper Directions

have it all veGan When the concept for LowBrau was still just a mere blueprint, owners Clay Nutting and Michael Hargis made sure to keep their vegetarian and vegan friends in mind. Today, the bierhall menu includes three types of vegan sausages with all the fixings. Most toppings—try the onions or sweet peppers—are cooked in an olive and canola-oil blend. The only topping that isn’t vegan-friendly is the beercheese sauce. Try the smoked-apple sage; it’s potato-based, and when topped with sauerkraut and the spicy house mustard, it makes

The Hoods Burger, offered whenever the kitchen is open, is a filling, meat-free option that all local vegetarians must try to finish at least once. This $11 unusual offering comprises an Olympia Beerbattered zucchini patty dressed with cheddar cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, red onion and homemade ranch dressing.

Bar owner Mariah York-Carr says she tries to take care of all her clients.

“We have a few vegetarian options, partially because that is a need that is not met in Sacramento. We also have vegan options, too,” York-Carr says.

On that note, try the Vegan Drop Dead, as well. It includes avocado, cremini mushrooms, olive spread and mixed greens on a sourdough baguette. It’s also $11 and served with fries or a salad.

The Hideaway Bar & Grill, 2565 Franklin Boulevard; (916) 455-1331; www.facebook.com/ sactohideaway.

Add just enough olive oil to coat to a pan, and then add the onion and apple.

Cook them on medium-high heat until they begin to soften—it should take about five minutes. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of honey onto the softened ingredients, and add a dash of cayenne for spice. For the bread option, any choice will do, however buttered (vegan or otherwise) sourdough is tastiest. Fill the sandwich with all the candied ingredients and grill until golden brown. Enjoy! Ω

Shady Lady Saloon’s friedgreen-tomatoes appetizer is healthy because it starts with veggies—right?

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Shady Lady Saloon executive chef Kevin Ritchie boasts 20 years experience and until recently, he says, Southern-style fried green tomatoes were noticeably absent from local bar menus—even though they pair perfectly with many cocktails.

“A lot of bar bites and menus are chicken wings and quesadillas. I wanted something Southern, I wanted something vegetarian, and I wanted to do something unique,” says Ritchie. “I wanted to go in a different direction [with] tarragon and tomatoes. I love the flavor components between [the two], with a cool rémoulade and something bright that [is] going to cut through the richness of the fried green tomatoes.”

At Shady Lady, these cornmealbattered golden discs are thickly cut and garnished with bright yellow and red cherry tomatoes and cost $7.

Shady Lady Saloon, 1409 R Street; (916) 231-9121; www.shadyladybar.com.

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Hey, man, nice arena Local hooligans howled the fight song for the Sacramento Republic FC long before the team even secured a stadium, while members of the Tower Bridge Battalion drank away weekday afternoons at Alley Katz this summer, watching the United States men’s national soccer team earn its place in the 2014 World Cup. Certainly, one thing’s clear: Sacramento has developed a strong and lingering case of the soccer bug.

So, you can imagine what I, fervent fan of the world’s greatest sport, said this past weekend upon learning that I live not even 3 miles away from Sacramento’s very own pro indoor soccer team—the Sacramento Surge: “Who the hell are these guys, and why haven’t I heard of them?”

As it turns out, the Surge is an expansion team in the Professional Arena Soccer League, a 20-club, U.S.-Mexico league now in its sixth season.

The Surge entered its sophomore season after an unfortunate expansion year, in which the team earned one of its two victories only after Washington’s Tacoma Stars unceremoniously announced they wouldn’t be making a trip south for the final game of the season.

But onward: The Surge held this year’s home opener on a Sunday afternoon. The team hosted the Las Vegas Legends in its hidden venue, the Estadio Azteca Soccer Arena—a little spot off Del Paso Boulevard that boasts its own burger joint and a full bar for soccer fans looking to start their night with a stiff cocktail or Negra Modelo on tap. (For schedule and ticket information, visit www.

The Sacramento sacsurge.com.) Regardless of the team’s performance, I’ll be Surge deploys willing to attend matches for coherent team the venue alone.

Which is great, because these play, but that guys suck. can only go so The Surge deploys coherent team play, but that can only go far without so far without serious talent serious talent on the roster. The only player to stand out in Sunday’s openon the roster. er was goalkeeper Emanuel Lopez—more for his pink jersey and his bleached-blond spiked tips than for his play, which, while at moments was pretty good, wasn’t enough to stop the Legends from scoring half of its goals on him in the Surge’s 14-6 loss.

Speaking of the Legends, these boys were the ultimate villains. From the towering, whiny enforcer Enrique Tovar, to the flailing waif Ricardinho, I have never seen a football club more guilty of theatrical flops or more vocal in its bitching to officials. Its slick coach also strutted around the arena in a jet-black suit with a sequined peace sign sparkling across his back.

As the match reached its end, I was impressed to see the 200-plus Surge fans remain to see the team through to the end, despite the deficit. I’m sure I wasn’t alone in my satisfaction at one last Sacramento free kick in Vegas territory with two minutes left, which came to pass alongside much protestation from the already-victorious Legends.

Rather than pass the ball to one of his teammates, the Sacramento player decided to take a direct shot at the goal, but instead crushed a screamer squarely at the crotch of a Vegas player, sending urgent, searing pain through the poor defender’s body.

Ah, yes, the Surge.

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“Off the Path” by Sean Royal, light box.

The incredible lightness of boxes Sacramento’s Sean Royal is a self-taught and self-motivated artist. Well, he does get a little help from a Bruce Lee or Frank Zappa quote here and there, like, “Without deviation, progress is not possible,” from the latter.

Royal’s new series combines layers of Plexiglas and light boxes with images of feminine beauty—such as a portrait of a young woman, MIXED MEDIA like the glamorous Hedy Lamarr, or disembodied, full lips—plus geometric shapes and graphic flourishes.

He’ll be exhibiting this work at Archival Gallery for the month of November.

Also showing is John Stuart Berger.

“Yellow Sweet Clover” by Jimmy Fike, photograph, 2011.

Botanical grazing

Where: Archival Gallery, 3223 Folsom Boulevard; (916) 923-6204; www.archivalframe.com.

Second Saturday reception: November 9, 6 to 9 p.m. Through November 30.

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

J.W. Fike’s Photographic Survey of the Wild Edible Botanicals of the North American Continent series is, in a word, fantastic.

Jimmy Fike’s photographs of plants that many people refer to as “weeds” are captured digitally in stark black PHOTOGRAPHY and white, with the edible bits in luscious color. That is correct, the “weeds” are food—for humans! And they grow in many places, including urban areas. Fike stresses the idea of sustainability and our ecological future in these elegant images.

So, after getting an eyeful of Fike’s photographic feast, resolve to stop spraying Roundup on the plants, and see if pineapple grass tastes as good as Fike makes it look.

A connection is made Illustrator and painter Steve Barbaria’s new series revolves around maps and where they’ve allowed people to go throughout history. He shows how far away yet close MIXED MEDIA people are: We are all connected. It’s a global vision that he’s dealing with, as he ties in environmental realities— such as scavengers in computer junkyards—and makes abstract concepts visually come to light. (Full disclosure: Barbaria formerly was an illustrator for SN&R.)

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

Artist’s reception: Friday, November 8, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Second Saturday reception: November 9, 5:30 to 9 p.m. Through December 7.

Hours: Monday through Thursday, noon to 6 p.m.; Friday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.

Where: Arthouse, 1021 R Street, second floor; (916) 412-6948; http://arthouse-sacramento.com.

Second Saturday reception: November 9, 6 to 9 p.m. Through December 11.

Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Second Saturday, 5 to 9 p.m.

“Medusa” by Steve Barbaria; oil, acrylic and collage.

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Patriotism and Sacramentans’ Involvement in U.S. Wars Saturday, November 9 Are you obsessed with death and war? Join a 90-minute tour commemorating departed locals who battled on behalf of God, country and manifest destiny. Word is the cemetery dates one of its residents TOUR back to the War of 1812, when we took on those grubby Brits for a second time. Free, 10 a.m. at the Historic City Cemetery, 1000 Broadway; (916) 448-0811; www.oldcitycemetery.com.

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Three artists who cut their teeth in the outlaw graffiti scene have the mainstream’s attention this month.

The free exhibition, titled Possibilities Are Endless, is already on display, and features the eclectic works of illustrator Ricky Watts, spray-paint muralist Marco LaFarga and Victor A. Malagon, who shapes ART massive wood panels into razor-sharp 3-D sculptures. Sacramento State University Union Gallery, 6000 J Street; www.union.csus.edu/gallery.

include: raising awareness about the dangers of climate change through his film An Inconvenient Truth (for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize); helping boost the development of the Internet during his time as a legislator; and creating the innovative and investigative-reporting-heavy Current TV network (and then helping rescue two of its reporters—Sacramento-native Laura Ling and her colleague Euna Lee—after they were captured by North Korean soldiers in 2009).

Yes, tickets to see the lecture are a bit expensive, $175-$375. But here’s the catch: Tickets are sold as a series of five lectures, so this purchase price also includes tickets to see Adm. Michael Mullen, Dr. Andrew Weil, Judy Smith and Ina Garten. Not a bad deal that even we—the regular, unremarkable people of the world—can afford. Visit www.sacramentospeakers.com for more information.

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Downtown Sacramento Ice Rink through moNday, JaNuary 20, 2014 Sharpen your skates, and grab your sparkly spandex unitards: The annual ice rink, operated by the Downtown Sacramento Partnership, opens for the RECREATION season on Friday, November 8. Special Thursday Theme Nights include tie-dye and Hawaiian luau. $8 admission, $2 skate rental; daily at 701 K Street; (916) 442-8575; http://downtownsac.org/events/ ice-rink.

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and wine bar spotlights the local farm-to-glass movement. Here, diners can order 2-ounce tasting flights of wine. Choose three from the same vintner to compare styles, or mix and match to contrast similar wines from regional wineries. Wines are also available in larger pours and by the bottle. Wine is meant to be enjoyed with food, of course: The menu offers a wide selection of tidbits and hearty dishes.

Worth sampling: the goatcheese stuffed peppers, chilled Spanish-spiced shrimp, and a cheddar-and-apple melt. Or try the ambrosial Wine Country sandwich, with salty prosciutto, sweet fig jam, oozy mozzarella and peppery arugula on grilled bread. There are also a variety of flatbreads loaded with topping combos like capicola, three cheeses, piquillo peppers and green onions. The bread for these is nicely crunchy but not too chewy and comes across as more than a pizza trying to be fancy. American. 1200 K St., Ste. 8; (916) 228-4518. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHHH A.M.R.

Estelle’s Patisserie With its marble 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.

Grange Restaurant & Bar You won’t find any “challenging” dishes on this menu—just delicious local and seasonal food such as the Green Curry & Pumpkin Soup, which has a Southeast Asian flair. A spinach salad features ingredients that could be considered boring elsewhere: blue-cheese dressing, bacon, onion. But here, the sharply cheesy buttermilk dressing and the woodsy pine nuts make it a salad to remember. Grange’s brunch puts other local offerings to shame. The home fries are like marvelously crispy Spanish patatas bravas. A grilled-hamand-Gruyere sandwich is just buttery enough, and an eggwhite frittata is more than a bone thrown to the cholesterolchallenged; it’s a worthy dish in its own right. American.

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

Zia’s Delicatessen Zia’s Delicatessen isn’t really about trying every sandwich: It’s about finding your sandwich. In addition to a large selection of salumi, there’s the worthy eponymous offering, served with a wedge of zucchini

frittata, a slice of provolone, romaine lettuce, grainy tomato, and a simple dash of vinegar and oil that adds tang.

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

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

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

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

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

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Midtown Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. The restaurant, by the same owners as Midtown’s The Golden Bear, sports a firefighting theme (a ladder on the ceiling duct work, shiny silver wallpaper with a ratand-hydrant motif, et al) and a bar setup that encourages patrons to talk to each other.

An interesting wine list includes entries from Spain and Israel; there are also draft cocktails and numerous beers on tap.

The brunch menu is heavy on the eggs, prepared in lots of ways. One option is the Croque

izes 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.”

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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.

Tank House BBQ and Bar The décor here is “suspenders and suede oxfords”—both homey and eclectic with old wood, new wood and wallpaper that is to die for. A large patio is welcoming and allows diners to bathe in the haze from the drum smoker. You’ll leave perfumed in white-oak and almond-wood smoke; a good thing if your date digs the smell of meat and wood, bad if you have a meeting after lunch. Recommendations include the ribs, which are astounding in texture. The meat falls off the bone with confidence that your mouth will catch it. A lack of salt or spice on the ribs, however, robs them of the chance of being truly astonishing. (An easy fix.)

The brisket is also fantastic— as tender as the first time you held hands with a high-school crush, with a sweet, smoky flavor that’s just as memorable.

Loaded onto the sandwich and served with white American cheese, it makes for an epic meal. Barbecue. 1925 J St., (916) 431-7199. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH G.M.

East Sac Istanbul Bistro Turkish chef Murat Bozkurt and brother Ekrem co-own this paean to

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

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

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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 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.

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Stirling Bridges Restaurant and Pub This British- and Scottishthemed gastropub offers an adequate beer selection and an extensive menu that goes beyond standard deep-fried pub fare. Try the Irish onion soup, a French onion-styled soup kicked up with Irish whiskey and Guinness beer. Or order the house-made veggie burger—it’s one of the tastiest black-bean patties around.

The most unusual dish on the menu is the Scottish Mafia Pizza. Topped with turkey pastrami, potatoes, cabbage and Swiss cheese, it falls short with its too many flat flavors to actually benefit from their unusual pairing.

Thankfully, there’s Tabasco sauce on the table. Pub. 5220 Manzanita Ave. in Carmichael, (916) 331-2337.

Dinner for one: $10-$20.

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Arden/ Carmichael Ramen & Rice At Ramen & Rice, a ramen restaurant that also makes Korean dishes, it’s best to stick to the latter. Order the bibimbap with the brown rice—it imparts a delightful nutty flavor. The sliced mushrooms add to the umami of this dish, and the shoyu, mustard and spicy sauces that come on the side should all be used liberally. Meat is very easily avoided here: The restaurant emphasizes the healthful aspect of its dishes, and tofu can be substituted for any meat, as can vegetarian broth in most of the soups.

On the Japanese side of the menu, the ramen broth lacked a much-needed, salinated quality, the chashu lacked succulence and the hardboiled egg was served overcooked with an ugly green yolk. A steaming bowl of Japanese curry, however, boasted a comforting flavor, and, unusually, a bit of spice. Japanese and Korean. 807 Howe Ave., (916) 922-6227. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHH1/2 B.G.

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

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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.

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.

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” 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.

Super sausages I’d like to officially nominate Hmong-style sausage as that Asian culture’s food that’s most likely to become a mainstream hit in Sacramento.

These super sausages are made of ground meat (usually pork or chicken), and then seasoned with a blend of lemongrass, ginger and Thai chili (a.k.a. bird’s eye chili). I’ve sampled a few tasty Hmong sausages at restaurants in the past few years, and some of my favorites come from Vientiane Restaurant (1001 Jefferson Boulevard, Suite 600 in West Sacramento) and South East Asian Barbecue (557 Eleanor Avenue).

These days, I’ve been more inclined to grab frozen sausage from a supermarket like New Asia Supermarket (6418 Stockton Boulevard) or Samthong Meat Market (6235 Franklin Boulevard). Priced at less than $10, a five-pack of Samthong’s house-made sausage is a steal.

Options include regular, spicy and extra spicy—for both chicken and pork. Hmong sausage pairs well with stir-fried or raw cabbage, sweetand-sour sauce and a side of sticky rice.

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Check it DiscovEr & go musEum passEs Got a library card? Then accessing free (or nearly free) culture is as easy as checking out a book. Sacramento Public Library cardholders can take part in its Discover & Go museum-pass program and explore regional museums such as the Napa Valley Museum in Yountville, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, and the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa. In all, the SPL card provides discounts or free passes to more than 20 eclectic offerings.

Each pass is good for two users, but some museums, including Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco, also offer family passes. Library-card CULTURE numbers can be used to reserve and print the passes from home, then hit the highway. www.saclibrary.org/services/museum-passes.

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Latyrx is back. The hip-hop duo is now touring in support of the November 5 release of The Second Album (via its own label, Latyramid)—a follow-up to the similarly vaguely titled The Album recorded 16 years ago. Thankfully, the tour stops in Sacramento on Saturday, November 9 (10:30 p.m. at Harlow’s RestauHIP-HOP rant & Nightclub, located at 2708 J Street; tickets are $15-$18). Destructikonz opens the show.

Never heard of Latyrx? Here’s the background: A pair of emcees—Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truthspeaker—first recorded together on a DJ Shadow-produced underground hip-hop track called “Latyrx” in 1996, and they’ve kept the name ever since. Shadow and Latyrx were both part of the Solesides collective (also featuring Blackalicious and DJ Zen) formed in 1992 at UC Davis. Solesides disbanded in 1996, eventually morphing into the larger-but-still-indie record label Quannum Projects in 1997 and moving to the Bay Area, where it remains today.

The Second Album features numerous guest producers (the Bangerz, Tune-Yards and Chris Funk of the Decemberists) and lyrical guests (including fellow Quannum artists, such as Born’s wife—Joyo Velarde). But the album’s greatest asset is the juxtaposition of Born and Lateef’s vocals—one a scruffy tenor, the other a clean alto—which commingle atop a variety of beats, with a variety of influences, including dance club and folk rock.

Each track sounds drastically different from the next, and this certainly has the effect of drawing listeners in, making them curious as to what’s going to happen next. http://latyrxauthentic.com.

—Jonathan Mendick

Don’t be a stalker I’m divorced from my high-school sweetheart.

It’s been painful, but I’m seeing a counselor. I am working, taking classes toward my bachelor’s degree and enjoying the hobbies on my bucket list. I met someone unexpectedly. We went out and had a blast. He kissed me goodnight and asked if he could see me again.

He works a lot and didn’t have much time to talk between our first and second dates. After

by Joey ga our awesome second date, rcia he asked me out again. He called the next day and made a skj oey @ ne wsreview.c om some vague plans for the weekend. I kept trying to get specifics, but he wouldn’t budge.

Joey By Saturday afternoon, I hadn’t heard from him, so I sent him a is fascinated by text. He didn’t respond, but I could the gig economy. see that he had read it. I called him Saturday night. He apologized, said he was tired and didn’t want to go out. I asked if he still liked me or if I did anything that made him change his mind about me. He said no and he would call. It’s been three days. Should I call again, just to check in?

One of the values of dating, when it is done correctly, is that you learn how to be yourself without pouring all of yourself into the relationship.

Please don’t. Desperation damages the female brand. Instead, call yourself back to the divorced-anddiscovering-life you, the woman who existed before you met this man. She was a force of nature— cleaning out her wounds, crossing items off her bucket list and climbing steadily toward her goals.

Continue that focus on shaping your own life. Enthusiastic interest in your own ideas and dreams, coupled with the persistence to birth your vision into reality is incredibly attractive. Asking a man you barely know if you have done anything to lose his attention is, well, not attractive. But don’t beat yourself up. Most of us have been needy at one point or another.

If you married your high-school sweetie, you may have missed the opportunity to date. One of the values of dating, when it is done

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Give your name, telephone number (for verification purposes only) and question—all correspondence will be kept strictly confidential.

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correctly, is that you learn how to be yourself without pouring all of yourself into the relationship.

Sharing should be gradual, until you decide to commit to one person, and that person commits to you. Then you can freely give all of yourself to each other. Yes, that means you treated two great dates as evidence that you and this man are soul mates. Who knows?

Maybe you are. But right now, all we know is that you enjoyed two wonderful outings with him. Oh, and we also know that when you fear you have been rejected, you cling. So, in the future, if a man asks you out, is vague on details, and doesn’t call to clarify those details well before the anticipated outing, please make other plans without him. And, no, do not call or text this man now to check in.

Consider your two dates and phone conversations to be opportunities to practice the art of dating.

I saw a woman I know on an online dating site. Her kids attend the same school as mine, so I know that her husband left her for someone else more than a year ago. I want to contact her, but should I try to run into her at the school? Since I already know her, it might be weird to contact her online.

Don’t be a stalker. The fact that your kids attend the same school means nothing at this point. She posted a profile online, so send a message to her on that site.

Be certain to say that she looks great and familiar. Invite her to lunch if you are truly interested in her, and not just curious about her marriage. At lunch, you can inquire about her kids and tell her what school your kids attend.

Good luck! Ω

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Buried Child is also a story that plays with the audience’s emotions, providing unsympathetic characters, storylines and outcomes that are entertaining and highly disturbing (warning!), climaxing with a last-scene reveal that is hinted at, but still packs a punch once delivered.

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(916) 448-0312; www.ovation The rest of the cast is just as memorable stage.com. Through and disconcerting: Steve Buri as the emotionNovember 24. ally crippled son Tilden; John Hopkins as the physically disabled son Bradley; Doug Pieper as grandson Vince, searching for a family he overly romanticizes but never really had; Karen Kearney as Halie, the detached and disturbed “I’d like you to meet my crazy family.”

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That’s the takeaway from this handsome production by the Falcon’s Eye Theatre, launched six years ago by then-new Folsom Lake College.

Falcon’s Eye has grown and matured at a fairly astonishing rate. The Crucible is a major undertaking: This production features a cast of 20, in age-appropriate roles ranging from college teens to senior citizens, with colonial costumes (by Nancy Pipkin), dance choreography (by Claire Alano) and thoughtful sound design (by dramaturge Cathy Hardin) to boot. It’s a show Falcon’s Eye couldn’t have mounted a few years ago, when the company was staging plays in local churches, while the Harris Center for the Arts (formerly Three Stages) was under construction.

But now, Falcon’s Eye has a permanent home: The Harris Center is a gorgeous complex that rivals the Mondavi Center in Davis, and puts the aging arts infrastructure in downtown Sacramento and at Sacramento State University to shame.

This production has lots going for it. Arthur Miller’s 1953 script remains impressive and intense after 60 years. It’s all about tough moral choices that arise when hysteria spreads, church and state overstep their bounds, and innocent people are sentenced to death on groundless charges. Director Peter Mohrmann (co-founder of Capital Stage) builds a rising sense of tension, and there are fine performances by silver-haired veterans Maggie Adair Upton, Allen Schmeltz and Tom Rhatigan—also by Cathy Hardin (several Foothill Theatre productions), young Alexandra Barthel (Capital Stage’s The North Plan) and others.

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matriarch; Amber Lucito as Vince’s girlfriend, the only half-sane member of the group; and Mark Brown as creepy Father Dewis. And, in an inspired addition, violinist Patrick Claypool is a haunting spirit, shadowing characters while playing perturbing tunes and screeches on his instrument, capturing the soundtrack of family dynamics gone way, way wrong. Ω

—Jeff Hudson

The Crucible, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; 2 p.m. Saturday, November 9; $10-$15. Falcon’s Eye Theatre at the Harris Center for the Arts, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.falconseyetheatre.com. Through November 10.

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by Lisa D’Amour about the unlikely friendship between two sets of neighbors takes us down a pretty entertaining road, but fails to find the more interesting paths. Instead, the plot increasingly becomes more sitcomesque with a strange, disjointed ending that feels a bit preachy and tagged on. Th, F 8pm; Sa 5 & 9pm; Su 2pm; Tu 6:30pm; W 2 & 6:30pm. Through 11/17.

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There’s always plenty of gloom and doom in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Now, Capital Stage has brought back the company’s founder Stephanie Gularte as director for its firstever Shakespeare production, and Gularte has written an original adaptation of the famous Scottish play, projecting it into a postapocalyptic world, that adds even more gloomy doom to the tale of treachery and madness.

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Short reviews by Patti Roberts.

The pianist Pianist and conductor Peter Nero is a master of blending the genres of jazz and classical music. The Grammy Awardwinning musician and former director of the Philly Pops visits Folsom’s Harris Center for the Arts this week for two nights of performances. A Tuesday-night show titled Peter Nero: The Gershwin Project pays tribute to arguably the most famous musician to blend jazz and classical music, George Gershwin. Nero’s Wednesday-night performance, Peter Nero: Classic Connections, also features popular jazz standards arranged and played in a classical fashion. His virtuosic piano playing can sound as if he’s two pianists playing at the same time—perhaps something like what Bill Evans or Art Tatum might have sounded like if they’d lived longer and played more classical music. Tuesday, November 12, at 7:30 p.m.; and Wednesday, November 13, at 7:30 p.m.; $29-$49.

Harris Center for the Arts, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.harriscenter.net.

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We get a cross-section of war-film clichĂŠs and teen-lit clichĂŠs interspersed with zero-gravity laser fights. The sociopolitical context is reduced to a series of buzz catchphrases regarding â&#x20AC;&#x153;unsustainable population growth,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;war crimesâ&#x20AC;? and the potential for â&#x20AC;&#x153;diplomatic solutions.â&#x20AC;?

Much of Enderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Game feels strangely anonymous, a grab bag of loose ends borrowed from more notable films and franchises. There are glaring similarities to Paul Verhoevenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Starship Troopers, with none of that movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nihilistic satire. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;gameâ&#x20AC;? that Ender and his teenage peers are forced to play looks an awful lot like Quidditch in outer space. And no one who has ever heard â&#x20AC;&#x153;Someone please get Writer-director Gavin Hood (a surprise 2005 of Ray Bradbury or Kurt Vonnegut will have me out of this dread- Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner for their mind blown by the third-act twists. fully clichĂŠ film.â&#x20AC;?

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Asa Butterfield plays the title character No one who has ever heard Andrew â&#x20AC;&#x153;Enderâ&#x20AC;? Wiggin, a child genius who is as ferocious as he is precocious. He lives in Poor of Ray Bradbury or a future world decimated from repeated attacks Kurt Vonnegut will have by an insectlike race known as the Formics, and derisively referred to as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buggers.â&#x20AC;? their mind blown by the Fair Determined to prevent any future attacks, the third-act twists. world leaders have established a brutal training program to transform video-game-obsessed kids into hyperaggressive military masterminds.

None of this is to say that the film doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Good Even though he is a decadent â&#x20AC;&#x153;third childâ&#x20AC;? have its formal pleasuresâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the special effects in a society that allows only two per family, are remarkable, the design of the Battle Camp Ender excels as a cadet, coming to the attention space station is breathtaking, and the scope of Very Good of a dour, monotone military leader played by the battles is realized on a grand scale. There is Harrison Ford. Thankfully, hard evidence exists a seething ambition present in Enderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Game that Ford was once an enjoyable screen presence, that might be enough for some people, although because this officious, possibly sociopathic itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an ambition that is not only unrealized, but excellent commander is just another in a long line of largely not even attempted. Ί glower-and-growl jobs that Ford has phoned in over the last couple decades.

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For years now, the trend in special-effects-heavy, nine-figure-budget, brand-name tentpole Hollywood entertainment has run toward by Daniel Barnes pompous, self-important bloat, led largely by Christopher Nolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Dark Knight trilogy.

In a headline-grazing quest for topicality amid all the explosions and misanthropy, Nolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Batman films employed a â&#x20AC;&#x153;teach the controversyâ&#x20AC;? approach long favored by birthers, truthers, intelligent designers and other lying dogs. Depending on the scene, Bane in The Dark Knight Rises was a metaphor for either the tea-party movement or the Occupy movement.

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The title stands for “adult children of divorce”—one of whom (Adam Scott) is forced to contend anew with his long-andbitterly divorced parents (Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara) during the run-up to his brother’s wedding. The script by Ben Karlin and first-time director Stu Zicherman is a highly polished comic gem—perceptive, often excruciatingly funny and with a ring of sardonic truth. Zicherman directs with a breezy assurance that belies his rookie status, and the movie has all the earmarks of indie filmmaking at its best. There’s also a top-drawer supporting cast (Jane Lynch, Amy Poehler, Clark Duke, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jessica Alba, Ken Howard), all of whom seem to have piled aboard for the sheer fun of being part of the show. The ending, upbeat yet ambiguous, is a particularly nice touch. J.L.

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Concussion would not be out of place on Cinemax at 2:35 in the morning, but writerdirector Stacie Passon clearly values quiet introspection over crass titillation. Abby’s dalliance in prostitution becomes a dangerous obsession, which Passon positions as an extension of a middle-aged obsession with exercise and body image. Concussion is a promising work from a filmmaker to watch, but Passon still needs to figure out how to make a film about sterility and dispassion that isn’t sterile and dispassionate. D.B.

Captain Phillips

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After a bored lesbian housewife named Abby (Robin Weigert) suffers a head injury caused by one of her children, a deep-seated dissatisfaction is awakened. At first, she turns to outside work, remodeling a Manhattan apartment in order to alleviate her suburban ennui, and finally finds passion and fulfillment working as a high-class call girl for female clients. The illicit eroticism and housewife-to-prostitute story arc of

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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 whiteknuckle 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 one-woman 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.

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An El Paso lawyer (Michael Fassbender) tries to make a quick fortune in drug trafficking, but the deal goes wrong, and he finds himself—and everyone he knows—the prey of the ruthless Mexican cartel he’s been dealing with. Directed by Ridley Scott and written by acclaimed novelist Cormac McCarthy, the movie is a stylish muddle with a murky plot that seldom makes sense. McCarthy, unfortunately, is out of his element: A star-studded cast (Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt, Rosie Perez, Bruno Ganz) grapples valiantly but in vain with his over-literary dialogue (real people simply don’t speak like this, only characters in pretentious novels).

Diaz is especially unlucky, saddled with an unplayable, unintentionally comic scene that calls for her to masturbate against a car windshield. J.L.

Those who love Brian De Palma’s adaptation of the Stephen King novel Carrie will probably regard director Kimberly Peirce’s slavish devotion to the 1976 film as pointless, but newcomers are more likely to embrace this self-aware update.

The De Palma original is a minor classic that overshadows this nearly scene-for-scene reproduction, although for anyone arriving to the new Carrie without baggage, the mostly intact story is still queasily irresistible. There are significant departures here, some of them disappointing compromises, while others show that Peirce and her collaborators have larger goals beyond updating Stephen King’s story for the onlinebullying generation. This would have worked if the actress playing Carrie was anything more than adequate, but Chloë Grace Moretz is overly mannered and false. That same artificiality permeates the proceedings— everyone here looks too pretty, everything feels too polished, and every theme is too obvious and strident. D.B.

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12 Years a Slave

Director Steve McQueen and writer John Ridley tell the true story of Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free man of color in 1841 New York who was kidnapped into slavery, finally freed in 1853, and wrote a book about his years of bondage. Ridley and McQueen take only minor dramatic license with Northrup’s extraordinary narrative—such abductions were all too common in pre-Civil War America; what’s extraordinary is that Northrup got free again—and the movie is searing and indelible. Even the most despicable characters are given their full dimension with no trace of 21st-century hindsight. The movie’s centerpiece is Ejiofor’s remarkable performance, giving it a core of unquenchable humanity. Newcomer Lupita Nyong’o shines as a tormented slave woman, as does Alfre Woodard in a striking cameo. J.L.

Every word that accurately describes the experience of Captain Phillips makes it sound like the movie beats the hell out of its viewers. It’s an exhausting film, but in a good way. Much as he did in United 93, director Paul Greengrass employs his punishing brand of verisimilitude to immerse the audience in real-life horrors. 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. Tom Hanks plays Phillips, and while his casting may be character shorthand for “decent and dutiful,” Greengrass and screenwriter Billy Ray are after larger spoils. Captain Phillips splits its time between Phillips and his malnourished Somali captor, a violently ambitious pirate played by Barkhad Abdi, who gives one of the most compelling performances of the year. D.B.

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When he turns 21, a young man (Domhnall Gleeson) learns from his father (Bill Nighy) that the family’s men can time travel back to moments in their own lives, where they get the chance to correct mistakes—but often with unforeseen consequences. Writer-director Richard Curtis’ premise is a bit on the twee side, and he tends to doodle idly with it—running 123 minutes, the movie sometimes threatens to wear out its welcome. But the idea does have its appeal—who wouldn’t like a do-over now and then?—and the cast certainly has charm in abundance to compensate for the occasional spinning of wheels. Gleeson (son of Brendan) is clearly going places, and he holds his own with both the ever-reliable Nighy and the always-radiant Rachel McAdams as the true love he keeps meeting, losing and meeting again. J.L.

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Adrienne Bailon. It’s pretty much what you’d expect of a movie with a title like that—not to mention one that gives screen credit to God as executive producer (as if he needs the résumé enhancement). It’s essentially a Sunday-school movie like the recent Grace Unplugged, just as preachy but slightly less awkward about it. Atkins gives a smooth and sincere performance, even in the face of writer Galley Molina’s frequently stilted dialogue (Bailon is less adept at navigating the rocky script). Steve Race’s direction is efficiently pedestrian, and cinematographer Keith J. Duggan gives an unexpected gloss to the movie’s San Jose locations. J.L.

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Four old buddies (Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline) gather for a bachelor party in Las Vegas for the last one to marry, where they unpack ancient baggage in the course of proving there’s life in the old boys yet.

Indeed there is, and writer Dan Fogelman and director Jon Turteltaub should thank God for it. Without these guys—plus Mary Steenburgen as a lounge singer who befriends them—the movie would be less than nothing. (It’s hard to believe that this wheezing retread of The Hangover came from the man who wrote the marvelous Crazy, Stupid, Love.) Douglas and De Niro add some dramatic heft while Freeman and (especially) Kline handle comic relief. Steenburgen blends right in, and has a nice singing voice, to boot.

Joanna Gleason adds bookend cameos as Kline’s wife back home. J.L.

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The superhero gets a second solo album with Thor: The Dark World, which manages to outpace the first Thor in terms of atonality and gobbledygook. This time, the crown prince of Asgard battles elves who seek to bring darkness to the interconnected universes, for reasons that probably make sense to them. These elves have been hiding for millennia in the far reaches of outer space, unnoticed by Asgard, even though they have a guy whose sole purpose in life is to watch the entire universe.

Natalie Portman is back as Thor’s wooden love interest Jane, who gets possessed by a powerful form of energy that the elves want to use as an apocalyptic weapon. It would be nice to credit director Alan Taylor for the hilarious irony of having the drowsy Portman play a woman “consumed by energy,” but it’s probably just bad acting. D.B.

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Adrian Bourgeois returns to Sacramento with a new project Just five months ago, Adrian Bourgeois said bon voyage to Sacramento and jumped with both feet into the unknown. by Aaron Carnes Or, as some people call it: Los Angeles.

Now the singer-songwriter is back—for one night, anyway—to show off his new band, See How They Run. While the band is technically only a few months old, the project has been many years in the making.

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Bourgeois and bandmate Paige Lewis, who will perform Thursday, November 14, at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, have known each other almost half their lives. Over the years, the pair has collaborated on songs and performances—even though they’ve rarely lived in the same town long enough to give it much time.

Then, this past June, the twosome ditched their respective towns—Sacramento for Bourgeois, and Houston for Lewis—and met up in Los Angeles to give a joint venture the old college try.

“It’s always been kind of frustrating, because I feel like whenever over the years we’ve collaborated and performed together, it’s been the best combination,” Bourgeois said. “We always thought throughout the years, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if we could actually do this full time?’ [But] we never had the opportunity until this year.”

Part of what makes See How They Run work so well lies in just how different the two musicians’ influences are.

Bourgeois grew up on a steady diet of the Beatles, Bob Dylan and a garden variety of ’60s-era rock ’n’ roll.

Lewis’ influences, in contrast, include more modern-pop singers such as Sheryl Crow and Alanis Morissette, with a subtle undercurrent of country. Together, the duo creates moody, lush

pop arrangements that take elements from both worlds. Their voices pair to create gorgeous and sometimes haunting harmonies.

“When we work together, it tends to be more experimental and esoteric than [the kinds of songs] either of us comes up with individually,” Bourgeois said. “We take each other to a different place.”

The two met as kids in Nashville, Tenn.

The Bourgeois family moved there in 1994 and stayed until 2002, when they moved back to Sacramento. Bourgeois’ father, Brent, himself a former musician with a few 1980s-era Top 40 hits under his belt (including “I Don’t Mind at All” with his former band Bourgeois Tagg) moved the family to Nashville for his new job as a record producer and head of A&R at the Christian label Word Records.

Lewis was one of the artists he discovered and ultimately signed. She was 15 at the time, and Bourgeois was 12.

As he got older, Bourgeois followed in his dad’s footsteps, honing his craft as a singersongwriter. In 2008, he released a Beatlesinfluenced self-titled debut album; currently, he’s readying to release a double album, Pop/ Art, in February 2014.

Lewis, who has released several records, including the 2011 album One Good Day, didn’t see her career take off with Word Records. So the singer headed to Los Angeles where she made a go as an indie artist before moving to Houston.

Whenever the two landed in the same city along their travels over the years, they worked on songs and performed during each other’s sets.

“ When we work together, it tends to be more experimental and esoteric. … We take each other to a different place.”

Adrian Bourgeois See How They Run “Even with just that small amount of time, those shows always felt like the best that I was ever a part of because I felt that our voices blended so well together,” Bourgeois said.

Now, although each is still working on solo material, they’ve been able to give more focus to their joint project. Here, both sing and play guitar and the sound is fuller, enhanced with looping pedals and backing tracks.

“Both of us have spent 10 years playing bars and coffee shops as solo artists. Now we can create a full-band sound with just two people,” Bourgeois said. “I think we’re both thinking, ‘Wow, I wish we thought of this years ago.’” Ω

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Boy bands, grunge and motorboating tomcats Sugar-free drama: If you’ve banished any memory of Aaron Carter to the dusty corner of your brain previously reserved for the lyrics to “Big Willie Style” and the dance sequence to the Macarena, allow me to reopen old wounds. Once upon a mid-1990s wet dream, there were the Backstreet Boys, comprising four guys everyone forgot about and Nick Carter. The “BS Boys,” as no one ever referred to them, enjoyed an explosive rise to celebrity, inspiring Carter’s youngest sibling Aaron to saddle up for a ride of his own.

Opening up for big brother’s band in Berlin in 1997, 10-year-old Aaron signed a record deal and released his first single “Crush on You” at an age when most of his peers were still getting caught sticking Cheetos up their nose. In 2000, the younger Carter’s hit “I Want Candy,” among many others, received a traumatic amount of Nickelodeon play, as his second album Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) went triple platinum. Things became less fairy tale from there.

After eight years adrift, Aaron Carter, now 25, has already suffered the sundry traumas of loss, drug abuse, rehab and the psychological troubles that accompany celebrity.

It’s that darkness though that’s giving Aaron’s Party 2.0 the weird edge his notably sugarcoated hits once lacked. Whatever your reasons for going—yesteryear fandom, curious speculation—the improbably named After Party Tour is bound to hold a little something for everyone. General admission for Carter’s show at Assembly (1000 K Street) on Tuesday, November 12, costs $15 at the door, or you can pay $50 more for a VIP ticket that during previous shows on this tour have meant carte blanche for inappropriate touching, photo ops and motorboating. The show starts at 9 p.m.; see www.assemblysac.com for more info.

when Cobain died a few months later. Incarnations of the group have centered on the original guitarist and vocalist Curt Kirkwood for years, and currently includes two of the three original members, plus drummer Shandon Sahm and Curt’s son Elmo.

The group, touring in support of its latest album Rat Farm, performs on Wednesday, November 13, at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub (2708 J Street). Tickets are $15, and the show starts at 8 p.m. (www.harlows.com).

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Soul satisfaction: The Brooklynbased Lake Street Dive arrived at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub on October 29.

The quartet, whose members met at the New England Conservatory in Boston, blend a jazz and soul-inspired sound with classic pop sensibilities. Its sophisticated throwback sound defies as many genre labels as it fits.

“These days, we just say ‘soul,’” frontwoman Rachael Price told SN&R. “The aesthetic of soul encapsulates everything we’re trying to do.”

The band’s energetic set that night featured a crowd-favorite adagio arrangement of the Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back.”

Price explained the group’s choice to cover songs such as George Michael’s “Faith,” Daryl Hall & John Oates’ “Rich Girl” and Paul McCartney’s Wings ballad “Let Me Roll It.” “Partly, it’s nostalgia, and because we play 90 percent original music, we like to put in a song that everyone is going to recognize instantly, but we also like to do it in a way that’s completely different,” said Price.

Price, the daughter of composerproducer Tom Price, dazzled the crowd with her brassy voice on the song “Bad Self Portraits,” the title track from the band’s forthcoming album, due out in February 2014.

Drummer Mike Calabrese and stand-up bassist Bridget Kearney rhythmically steered the songs through the 80-minute set, providing Beatlestinged vocal harmonies on “Elijah” and “Stop Your Crying.”

Price introduced Kearney’s song “Wear a Wedding Band” with a warning to unnamed tomcats prowling Harlow’s without their connubial ornaments on display.

“Every show has one,” Price told the crowd.

A bit of grunge history: In Arizona in 1980, the Meat Puppets began performing a brand of music at the murky intersection of hardcore, punk, country and folk. The band’s unmistakable sound eventually attracted the attention of Kurt Cobain, who coordinated their significant debut to the world as guest musicians on Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. During the set, Cobain and the Puppets covered three songs from the group’s second LP Meat Puppets II, including “Lake of Fire,” a song poised to become a cult anthem BEFORE

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The Devils Train

Alejandro Escovedo and the Sensitive Boys

Meat Puppets

The Press Club, 8 p.m., $5 With that human-sized upright bass and the mixture of 1950s retro wear and punked-out tattoos, there’s only one word PSYCHOBILLY that can properly describe Grass Valley band the Devils Train: psychobilly.

Yet beneath the surface is a more eclectic band. It tosses in styles like jazz, punk, metal, ska, hardcore and pretty much any kind of music it feels like playing—and it does it all with a heavy dose of sleaze, camp and style. The lyrics (and for that matter, its band name) are deliberately macabre, but also tongue-in-cheek. It’s the kind of band that’s fun to watch, and the members are not really Satan-worshipping train conductors—I think. 2030 P Street, www.facebook.com/thedevilstrainofficial.

Mary Gauthier

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

Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 7:30 p.m., $22.50-$25 Alejandro Escovedo is an extraordinary songwriter who’s lived a full musical life. His band ROCK the Nuns opened for the Sex Pistols on its legendary last show in ’78. In the ’80s, he helped launch cow-punk with his bands True Believers and Rank and File. After going solo, Escovedo released around a dozen studio albums, vacillating between an NPRready singer-songwriter, alt-country rocker and Texas bluesman. His powerful 2002 album By the Hand of the Father became a stage play. Around then, hepatitis C almost felled him, but he bounced back with four consecutive great albums of smart, unbridled rock, and the latest, Big Station, may be his best.

2708 J Street, www.alejandroescovedo.com.

—Chris Parker

—Aaron Carnes

some fear none a mile till dawn race to the bottom 8:30PM // $5

SAL CALANNI, JASON LOVE

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- November 07 -

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9pm // $6

WITH SARAH TIANA

sat 11/09

THURSDAY 11/14 - SUNDAY 11/17 THE PITBULL OF COMEDY!

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BOBBY SLAYTON

$20adv • 7pm

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open mic talent showcase

REGGIE STEELE

7pm // free

THURSDAY 11/21

FREDDIE RAINBOW PRESENTS: GENDER NIGHT

mon 11/11

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uk underground & bass music // 9pm // $5

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

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BRYAN CALLEN

Mary Gauthier is first and foremost a storyteller and songwriter in the literary tradition, whose songs have been praised by Bob Dylan and Tom Waits and recorded by Jimmy Buffett and Blake Shelton. She writes about AMERICANA the human condition, about those who don’t always fit in; those on the edge of society.

Don’t expect upbeat songs, but do expect and enjoy songwriting at its best by the artist who received New/Emerging Artist of the Year from the American Music Association for her album Mercy Now in 2005. She’s currently in the process of recording her seventh album directly to tape, using 1950sera microphones. 13 Main Street in Winters, www.marygauthier.com.

—Aaron Carnes

thurs 11/07

THURSDAY 11/7 - SATURDAY 11/9 FROM MADTV AND THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE!

The Palms Playhouse, 8 p.m., $20

The Meat Puppets may not have invented cowpunk (country plus punk), but the group was the first to take it to such manic levels.

Since the early 1980s, its sound has gone all over the map, including straight-up country, and its latest, Rat Farm, is a psychedelic folk-rock album. However, it was the group’s second album, Meat Puppets II, where it really hit its stride. Three of the songs (“Plateau,” “Oh, Me” and “Lake of Fire”) were COWPUNK covered by Nirvana on MTV Unplugged—and they were the best songs of the whole performance. The Meat Puppets influenced an entire generation of indie rockers, including Dinosaur Jr., Pavement, Superchunk and, of course, Nirvana. 2708 J Street, www.themeatpuppets.com.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’m not a big

fan of fear. It gets far more attention than it deserves. The media and entertainment industries practically worship it, and many of us allow ourselves to be riddled with toxic amounts of the stuff. Having said that, though, I do want to put in a good word for fear. Now and then, it keeps us from doing stupid things. It prods us to be wiser and act with more integrity. It forces us to see the truth when we might prefer to wallow in delusion. Now is one of those times for you, Aries. Thank your fear for helping to wake you up.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Poetry

might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings,” wrote W.H. Auden. If that’s true, then your job is to be a poet right now. You seem to be awash in a hubbub of paradoxical inclinations, complete with conflicting desires and mismatched truths. There’s no shame or blame in that. But you do have a responsibility to communicate your complexity with honesty and precision. If you can manage that, people will treat you with affection and give you extra slack. They might even thank you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What

can you do to improve your flow? Are there obstructions in your environment that keep you from having a more fluid rhythm? Do you harbor negative beliefs that make it harder for life to bestow its natural blessings on you? Now is the time to take care of glitches like these, Gemini.

You have more power than usual to eliminate constrictions and dissolve fixations.

Your intuition will be strong when you use it to drum up graceful luck for your personal use. Be aggressive. Be bold. Be lyrical. It’s high time for you to slip into a smooth groove.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the

beginning of his novel The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk offers this meditation: “To imagine that a person who intrigues us has access to a way of life unknown and all the more attractive for its mystery, to believe that we will begin to live only through the love of that person—what else is this but the birth of great passion?”

How do you respond to this provocative statement, Cancerian? Here are my thoughts: On the one hand, maybe it’s not healthy for you to fantasize that a special someone can give you what you can’t give yourself. On the other hand, believing this is true may inspire you to take an intriguing risk that would catalyze invigorating transformations. Which is it? Now is a good time to ruminate on these matters.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Canadians Tommy

Larkin and Stephen Goosney are biological brothers, but they were adopted by different families when they were young. But once they began looking for each other, it didn’t take long to be reunited. Nor did they have to travel far to celebrate. It turns out that they were living across the street from each other in the same small town in Newfoundland. I foresee a metaphorically similar experience in your future, Leo. When you get reconnected to your past, you will find that it has been closer than you realized.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This will be

an excellent week for you to talk with yourself—or rather, with yourselves. I’m envisioning in-depth conversations between your inner saint and your inner evil twin, between the hard worker and the lover of creature comforts, between the eager-to-please servant of the greater good and the self-sufficient smarty who’s dedicated to personal success. I think that in at least some of these confabs, you should speak every word out loud.

You should gesture with your hands and express colorful body language. It’s prime time for your different sub-personalities to get to know each other better.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the com-

ing week, you will probably have more luck than usual if you play keno, craps, blackjack, bingo or roulette. People who owe you money will be inclined to pay you back, so you might want to give them a nudge. I won’t be surprised if you find a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk, or if a store cashier accidentally gives you way too much change. In the wake of these tendencies, your main assignment is to be

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Not for

all the whiskey in heaven,” begins a poem

by Charles Bernstein. “Not for all the flies in Vermont / Not for all the tears in the basement / Not for a million trips to Mars / … Not for all the fire in hell / Not for all the blue in the sky.” Can you guess what he’s driving at? Those are the things he will gladly do without in order to serve his passion. “No, never, I’ll never stop loving you,” he concludes. According to my understanding of your astrological cycle, Scorpio, now is a good time for you to make a comparable pledge. What is the one passion you promise to devote yourself to above all others? And what are you willing to live without in order to focus on that passion? Be extravagant, pure, wild and explicit.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.

21): Dmitri Razumikhin is a character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. His surname is derived from the Russian word for “reason.” At one point, he makes a drunken speech that includes these observations: “It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! …

Not one single truth has ever been arrived at without people first having talked a dozen reams of nonsense, even ten dozen reams of it.” Let’s make this a centerpiece of your current strategy, Sagittarius.

Just assume that in order to ferret out the core insights that will fuel your next transformations, you may need to speak and hear a lot of babble.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

At the 2013 Grammy Awards, actor Neil Patrick Harris introduced the band Fun. this way: “As legendary gangster-rap icon Katharine Hepburn once said, ‘If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.’” Everything about that vignette is a template for the approach you can use now with great success. You should gravitate toward festive events and convivial gatherings.

Whenever possible, you should sponsor, activate and pave the way for fun. Toward that end, it’s totally permissible for you to tell amusing stories that aren’t exactly factual and that bend the rules not quite to the breaking point.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Some

spiritual traditions regard the ego as a bad thing. They imply it’s the source of suffering—a chronically infected pustule that must be regularly lanced and drained. I understand this argument. The ego has probably been the single most destructive force in the history of civilization. But I also think it’s our sacred duty to redeem and rehabilitate it. After all, we often need our egos in order to get important things done. Our egos give us the confidence to push through difficulties.

They motivate us to work hard to achieve our dreams. Your assignment, Aquarius, is to beautify your ego as you strengthen it. Build your self-esteem without stirring up arrogance. Love yourself brilliantly, not neurotically. Express your talents in ways that stimulate others to express their talents.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Dr. Seuss

wrote his children’s books in English, but he liked to stretch the limits of his native tongue. “You’ll be surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond ‘Z’ and start poking around,” he said. One of the extra letters he found out there was “yuzz,” which he used to spell the madeup word “yuzz-a-ma-tuzz.” I recommend that you take after Seuss—not only in the way you speak, but also in the ways you work, play, love, dream and seek adventure. It’s time to explore the territory beyond your comfort zone.

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Wood Rudúlph, who grew up in the Sacramento area, lives in Land Park with her husband and their son. She’s also an adjunct professor of journalism at American River College, where she’s teaching a class on race, gender and the media. Wood Rudúlph, who’ll be reading from and discussing her book on Wednesday, November 13, at Time Tested Books, recently talked to SN&R about unintentional feminism, malebashing and Gloria Steinem’s makeup.

In the book, you write about young women who get into activism and don’t realize that what they’re doing is feminism. Do you see a lot of that?

Absolutely. I felt that when I was in my 20s and even younger. I grew up with a feminist mother, and even my dad, too—I don’t know if he would identify as a feminist, but he encouraged me to be educated, to be independent, to have a career and affirmed that I was equal to anyone, regardless of gender.

So, I was raised to have it all, basically.

But there’s a backlash to having it all, because once you get to the age of, say, making babies … it becomes difficult to have it all. But before that, in your 20s and before babies, there’s this time in your life that is about figuring out who you are, and so many wonderful things happen during that time, but you really start to feel strongly about your core beliefs. ...

A lot of young women in this generation who are going through this period of exploring core beliefs don’t know that what they’re doing is feminism. The word “feminist” had become a negative word. “Feminist” has become something they didn’t want because of the association with male-bashing, or the old stereotypes of bra burning—which never happened, by the way. And there’s been legitimate criticism that feminism has been exclusionary over the years—that it’s been primarily white women of privilege. That’s true, to a certain extent, unfortunately, but it certainly is less true today in feminist activism. We like to call this book the “gateway drug” to feminism. Here, taste a little bit. ‘Oh, that’s good.’ Now try a little more.

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traditional beauty standards, but feminism has always had room for women who retained a sense of fashion and made their own path, you know?

These bold actions and statements— protesting at the Miss Universe pageant, for instance—were the sort of actions that needed to be taken then. You have to shout really loudly to get attention at the beginning of any social movement. Women were being judged solely on their looks, and so second-wave feminists were saying, “Well, then, let’s just get rid of that exterior packaging, so that you have to look at me as a person and listen to what I have to say.”

But even one of the icons of second-wave feminism, Gloria Steinem, was gorgeous.

Loved her makeup, loved her hair, dressed fashionably and refused to apologize for it.

You could just as easily call this “peopleism” or “humanism” or whatever.

Right. A lot of people who might be described as fourth-wave feminists—if you want to give it a title—will call themselves “humanists.” They almost want to get rid of that title entirely, even as they’re doing feminist work. But I think there’s an importance in valuing the term, embracing it and not hiding from it. The history is important, all these different waves, right up to today.

It is rooted in women’s rights, but also human rights. It was about socioeconomic rights and racial equality, and it remains that way. So embracing that term today is empowering. If you call it something else, it’s almost like dismissing that history. The |

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book is a primer on the history of feminism for young women who don’t want to take a women’s-history course—or just haven’t yet—and also provides some ways to take feminist action in small ways.

What sort of small ways?

For instance, be conscious of where you shop. What are the corporate policies of the major brands that you shop? And there’s using makeup responsibly: Is there Third World labor associated with your lipstick?

We’re not saying, “Don’t wear lipstick.” If you want to wear lipstick, go for it, but don’t do it at the expense of another person’s health and well-being.

What about the politics of plastic surgery?

We talk about plastic surgery, too, about how the decision to have breast implants can impact so many women. I wrote an essay in that book about [waxing. I do it,] and I don’t apologize for that. But I wouldn’t have that standard of normalcy if not for porn culture and the value that we place on a particular aesthetic of women’s bodies. So, I wrestle with that.

And wrestling with it is part of being a feminist?

Yes, because we’re saying, ‘OK, no one is a perfect feminist. It’s OK to wrestle with your choices.’ Just be clear about that and about how it’s affecting other women. Ω Heather Wood Rudúlph will read from and discuss Sexy Feminism: A Girl’s Guide to Love, Success, and Style at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, November 13, at Time Tested Books located at 1114 21st Street.

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