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#BeBossy It’s Women’s History Month, and with the requisite celebration of pioneers and leaders, also comes discussion on what we should do to empower young women.

And also much talk about what we shouldn’t do.

Lean In, a nonprofit founded by Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, recently teamed with the Girl Scouts of the USA for #BanBossy, a social-media campaign to end the use of the B-word: “When a little boy asserts himself, he’s called a ‘leader.’ Yet when a little girl does the same, she risks being branded ‘bossy.’ Words like bossy send a message: don’t raise your hand or speak up,” the campaign manifesto reads.

Sandberg, whose book Lean In advised women to mentor one another and encourage leadership roles, took to the podium at the 2013 BlogHer conference to discuss negative connotations surrounding the word in question: “Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy? Take a deep breath and praise her leadership skills instead.”

I get the sentiment, but instead of censoring the word, why not own it?

Why not challenge the notion that being considered bossy is a bad thing?

While the word has many negative synonyms—tyrannical, overpowering and ironhanded, just to name a few— it’s also just another term for assertive, confident and commanding. It’s just another way to describe someone unafraid to voice her opinion, take a stand and take action.

It’s just another way to describe a leader.

The problem isn’t the word, the problem is people who view confident, assertive and commanding girls (and women) as little more than pushy, irksome or annoying.

To be bossy means to be like a boss. And when it comes to young girls, that’s a very powerful thing.

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Thanks for some interesting comments on the Wizard World phenomenon. Keep the faith.

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Re “Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!� by Janelle Bitker (SN&R Arts&Culture, March 6): I was mildly interested to note that this issue focused to some extent on the ongoing Wizard World comic con here in SuckTown. Your article was of particular interest, since the thesis of your remarks therein seems to be the question: Are nerds achieving true peer social ascendancy, or is it all about money?

I must conclude that your question is posed rhetorically, rather than earnestly, since you obviously appear to know the answer to that.

It is in fact all about money, since this is, after all, America, home of hard bottom-line corporate capitalism and Goebbels-style soulless commercial propagandizing. To seriously propose anything else is pure naivetĂŠ, since corporate capitalism has a long-proven track record of quickly co-opting any newly emerging social trend or currently popular youth fad so as to rapidly generate massive economic profits.

I was, in my own youth, a science-fiction fan. Back in those days (late ’50s and ’60s), we also were a very small, exclusive (though frequently ostracized by our school peers) group, who sought refuge from being different through our mutual interests and interactions. We published amateur fanzines, wrote sci-fi stories, attended conventions and found considerable comfort keeping the company of our peers, since back in those days, there were pretty much only two categories of youth: the conventional sports jocks and cheerleaders, and us sensitive, perceptive and highly imaginative oddballs.

After a while, however, us sci-fi fans came to the attention of Hollywood, with Star Trek shortly thereafter coming into being as a popular TV series. Before you knew it, we were no longer a small and exclusive peer-support group, but the subject of a corporate shark feeding frenzy to capitalize on our interests.

Today, this same model operates continuously at any given moment, and the true aim of any youthful subculture ought to be to resist this commercialization and corporate exploitation at all costs, if it is to remain pure and aesthetically fulfilling. Otherwise, the game is up, and Big Money is once again hard at work turning youthful ignorance into big profit margins.

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Where has Sacramento County been? And just after forming the blue-ribbon commission on the disparity of deaths of black children, why would they vote to gut the inclusionary-housing ordinance? What will it take to change deficiencies in low-income housing and other aspects of what we call the safety net? Since the economic downturn, what’s changed? What needs rebuilding?

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Sacramento council member may work with group to establish village for chronically homeless A developing plan to build an exclusive community for the city’s most chronically homeless by may count a surprising political ally in Raheem Sacramento Councilman Allen Warren.

F. Hosseini Around the same time that city leaders prepared to earmark $1 million for ra h e emh@ newsr evie w.c om new homelessness programs last month, Warren’s office was in talks to lend a piece of his economically distressed district to a unique project that could result in up to 75 permanent sleeping cabins for homeless men and women, someone involved in those talks confirmed.

“We’re getting close,” said Steve Watters, executive director of Safe Ground Sacramento, the six-year-old charity that will forever be remembered for trying to legalize “Tent City” a few years back.

Safe Ground is a coalition of local homeless leaders and promises on its website to help reintegrate “unsheltered homeless adults who sign a covenant to be alcohol, drug and violence free.” At one time, that meant squaring off against the city over a teeming homeless encampment along the American River Parkway known as Tent City, which was eventually torn down, setting north of a hundred people adrift and headed for illegal camping busts.

While in the midst of that effort, Safe Ground began pursuing a less in-your-face housing strategy, one that seeks to bring long-suffering adults off the street and into a crisp cottage-style development with basic services.

“The organization has been building a lot of support since they changed their vision,” said Andrea San Miguel, Councilman Warren’s lead staffer on social issues.

Micro-cottage communities are already being tried in Washington, considered in New York and watched closely by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The approach isn’t as revolutionary as Utah’s efforts to set chronically homeless individuals up with apartments and case workers, but it’s close.

It’s a bold vision, no doubt: Instead of shabby tents pitched along pockmarked

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fields, Watters envisions tidy tracts of fully furnished sleeping cabins, plus a community center, dog park, kennel and landscaped gardens, all with the purpose of easing dozens of the city’s most chronically homeless men and women back into mainstream society. Counting couples, the community could house up to 100 individuals at a time.

“I’m optimistic.

I have to be.”

Steve Watters executive director, Safe Ground Sacramento, on the possibility of establshing a village in north Sacramento A case manager would oversee new entries to the village, conducting needs assessments and developing tailored action plans that could include Affordable Care Act enrollment, addiction treatment, psychiatric aid, employment assistance, life-skills training and other basic services.

Stays would max out at a year, but Watters expected most residents to do six-month stints. To save money, bathrooms, showers and other plumbing needs would be consolidated in the community center, while solar batteries would be installed to sop up the sun’s energy.

“It’s a well-thought-out plan,” Watters said.

To pull it off, Safe Ground could need as much as 2.5 acres of city-owned land and about $3 million, which Watters hopes to cobble from the city, foundations, the business community and grants.

It also needs someone to say yes. “It has been part of the problem, and I don’t say that with any judgment of any of the council members,” Watters hedged.

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Enter north Sacramento District 2 representative Warren. In early 2013, the councilman, then only a couple months into his freshman term, agreed to meet with Watters. The Safe Ground director planned to make a hard sell. He didn’t need to.

“I went in prepared to do a song and dance, and before I opened my mouth, he said he was sold,” Watters recalled.

The politician and activist may now be closing in on a potential location on which to build. Watters expected to make a formal announcement later this spring or in early summer, though San Miguel framed the prospects more cautiously.

“We’re willing to hear out what [Watters] is envisioning and researching,” she said.

“I’m optimistic,” Watters added. “I have to be.”

The bid will test Warren’s political capital in his district and put him out on a limb that his fellow Sacramento politicians have, thus far, failed to reach out and grab.

After all, it’s one thing to say you want to help homeless Sacramentans, and quite another to put your district where your platitudes are.

According to San Miguel, Warren isn’t interested in political calculus.

“The council member doesn’t make decisions based on whether he thinks it’s a good political decision,” she said. “He governs based on what’s important. And this is important.”

It’s also not entirely without controversy. The complex would be designed exclusively for the chronically homeless, those adults who have been living on the streets for a year or longer, rather than the larger ranks of homeless families and youth.

Asked why, Watters said there appeared to be more programs available for the latter groups.

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Not so, according to Shahera Hyatt, director of the California Homeless Youth Project.

The only place in the five-county Sacramento region that provides shelter to homeless minors outside of the foster-care system is Wind Youth Services, which has a total of 12 beds at its emergency overnight shelter in north Sacramento.

Wind nearly shuttered its popular drop-in center for youth this past fall due to a loss of grant money.

For young homeless adults between the ages of 18 and 24, who have different developmental needs than their older counterparts, Hyatt said there are “zero options.”

“I’m supportive of Safe Ground, and definitely understand the need to respond to chronically homeless adults in a much more robust way than we currently are, but unfortunately, Watters’ assertion that homeless youth and families are being adequately served by existing programs is mistaken,” she said.

Watters thinks the village model that Safe Ground hopes to realize locally can eventually be targeted to other populations.

“We want to make it a showcase, something that Sacramento will be proud of and will want to replicate,” he said.

Watters believes naming a possible construction site is still months away.

Watters has seen similar models fall short by cutting corners or moving forward without proper support. He doesn’t want this proposal to end up being another wellintentioned casualty. “I think we can do this really well,” he said.

This particular journey has taken a couple of years already, he added. If it takes a couple more, that would mean opening the village just as Sacramento County’s “10-year plan to end homelessness” reaches its 2016 deadline. Ω

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County employees with United Public Employees Local by Raheem #1 last week staged a walkout to protest stalled labor negoF. Hosseini tiations. If the chatter from the 3,600-strong union of social workers and other employees is to be believed, a full-on ra h e e mh @ strike might be next. ne w s re v i e w.c o m A tough yearly evaluation by the Child Protective Systems Oversight Committee last month asserted that some kids ended up in harm’s way because their social workers lacked critical-thinking skills and weren’t getting enough information from county mental-health workers.

Even with only nine critical incidents to examine last year, committee members uncovered many of the same issues they’ve raised before. Those trends included decision-making errors; flawed policies and procedures; and an inadequate understanding of how domestic violence, addiction and mental-health issues often overlap in childabuse cases.

Some of those problems arise because of a lack of communication between the county’s CPS and mentalhealth divisions, both overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services. In two cases—one in which a child died and another almost died—the panel said the mentalhealth system had direct information that, if conveyed to CPS, could have averted trouble.

DHSS director Sherri Heller said efforts are underway to address that. She and CPS deputy director Michelle Callejas also spoke during the February 25 hearing of creating a database to track multiple risk factors in families, revamping the agency’s critical-review process and addressing the issue of confirmation bias, in which social workers pursue evidence that supports a preconceived conclusion.

But there are other issues as well, said committee co-chair Gina Roberson. “What we’ve seen over the years, where we think the gap is, is really in the critical-thinking skills of the social workers,� she told supervisors.

Supervisor Phil Serna suggested that might be due, in part, to micromanaging the work of social workers through detailed policy forms that take away their discretion. “Perhaps we’ve institutionalized the asking of the wrong questions,� he suggested.

But, in at least one instance, discretion seemed to cause the problem. In the reviewed case, a social worker verified that parents left their child with an unsafe caregiver, then labeled the allegation as “unfounded� to keep the family intact, possibly because the parents expressed a willingness to work with CPS. “That same child was later left with a different unsafe caregiver and murdered,� the report states.

Roberson said the committee revealed a similar theme last year.

Next year’s funding allocation for the impacts of stateprison realignment also promises to help the downsized agency add some needed staffing.

Which could put a dent in one of the thorniest problems.

On the Facebook page for the California chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, a local social worker said the county was unwilling to negotiate on workload issues that would lead to better outcomes for kids caught up in the CPS system. He added that more than 600 workers were written up for participating in labor protests.

The county’s labor-relations manager, Robert Bonner, said a process already exists for labor and management to address workload concerns. Ί

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Cole’s disappearance took place more than a week ago, on the evening of Monday, March 3, when the 28-year-old allegedly drove from Sacramento to meet with friends in Nevada City.

“He called me that night at about 6:45-ish,” says Cole’s friend, who lives in Sacramento and goes by the name Grey Cat. “He called me to ask if he could stay the night at my house” after returning from Nevada City.

Turns out, Cole used to live at Grey Cat’s Oak Park home but had recently decided to move out.

Instead, he started living out of his car to save money. Grey Cat says Cole’s been essentially living homeless and couch surfing for the past month-and-a-half.

Cole was the drummer in Nevada City-based band Lasher Keen, and would travel to the foothills regularly to practice and hang out.

Local musician Broughty Cole had been missing for more than a week.

Dave Kempa contributed to this report.

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He never made it.

“He seemed fine,” says Cole’s brother Kalan Sorion. “Just sounded like he was busy, like he had things to do.”

Grey Cat became concerned when Cole didn’t show up the next day for a concert in San Francisco, Skinny Puppy, which they both were excited to see. Family filed a missing-persons report with law enforcement after Cole didn’t appear for a gig with his band on Wednesday, March 5. A search effort began in Sacramento and the foothills soon after.

Friends and family also took to Facebook with a heartfelt and tireless effort to make others aware of Cole’s disappearance.

On Saturday, March 8, a friend decided to look for Cole near Miller Park, “just on a hunch,” according to his sister Jamaica Cole. The friend had seen Broughty at this spot a week or two beforehand.

That’s when his car was discovered, near the Miller Park river access just south of Broadway, adjacent to the Sacramento River, at 2710 Ramp Way. Inside the car were some of Cole’s personal belongings, including a backpack, food and a receipt from the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op. But not his wallet, keys or phone, nor his his black-and-white checkered flannel jacket, which Sorion recalls his brother wearing earlier that day.

Marina security said Cole’s car had been parked there since the day he went missing, March 3.

“It’s a place that he would have gone to,” his sister said of the marina and waterfront. “I just don’t understand why he would have gone there when he did.”

Cole is originally from Placerville and moved here five years ago. He and his older brother lived in Oak Park as roommates and also played together in a band called Eye of the Architect. Cole once worked at the Naked Lounge Downtown coffeehouse on 11th and H streets.

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Volunteers, friends and family continued the search for Cole up until Tuesday afternoon, when police announced that they’d found a body along the Sacramento River’s bank.

Police spokesman Doug Morse said law enforcement started searching the area on Tuesday morning just before noon. “Officers quickly discovered what appeared to be an adult male, deceased in the river near the park,” he said.

“There has been nothing suspicious noted,” Morse said of his body.

Police continue to investigate Cole’s case. So far, there is no sign of foul play, but everyone now awaits a coroner’s report.

A candelight vigil was scheduled at the marina this past Tuesday evening.

“It’s a place that he would have gone to. I just don’t understand why he would have gone there when he did.”

Jamaica Cole Broughty Cole’s sister, on his disappearance and discovery at the Miller Park Marina There weren’t really any clues about why Cole disappeared and how his body ended up in the river.

Cole did write the following post on Faceboook on January 27: “You have been hardwired with too many beliefs. They must be [disassembled] one by one until a chain reaction occurs that can take you back to a state of transient identity. My advice to myself for this year.”

Jamaica says she doesn’t think what happened was planned and says his going off the grid was not ordinary behavior.

Cole’s brother Kalan Sorion agreed. “It’s totally out of character,” he said. Ω

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Or does it want to keep them in the dark when it comes to big-ticket contracts and deals, such as the proposed new Sacramento Kings arena?

That was the question going into this past Tuesday’s city council meeting. A small tweak to council rules would have eliminated a requirement to disclose million-dollar contracts to the public at least 10 days before a council vote.

Watchdog groups such as Eye on Sacramento, however, pointed out the proposed change— buried in an agenda item— on Twitter a day before the meeting.

Then, Councilman Jay Schenirer, who sponsored the so-called sunshine rule last year, tweeted that he wouldn’t let the council renege Sacramento tried to get on its agreement: “The rid of its “sunshine rule” Sunshine Rule I sponsored last after just one year. year will be protected tonight, and the sun will keep shining!”

Read SN&R’s blog Page Burner at www.newsreview.com/ pageburner for an update later this week. (Nick Miller)

Medi-Cal’s big wait Sometimes, acquiring health care can be a blessing and a curse.

Late last year, “Michelle” found herself navigating the Covered California website in search of affordable health coverage. After a frustrating, confusing and slow process filling in the required information, the mother of two (her name has been changed to preserve her anonymity) discovered, to her surprise, that she and her self-employed partner qualified for Medi-Cal. Then, “the Covered California site just sort of dropped me off,” she said. “They sent my paperwork to the state, and then seemed to be expecting that the state would call me. I know from experience that that’s just not going to happen, or it’ll be months.”

And now, because of Medi-Cal expansion, it’s a busy time.

According to the California Department of Health Services, Medi-Cal currently provides services to around 8 million residents statewide. Under the expansion mandated by the Affordable Care Act, roughly 1.4 million more state residents have become eligible.

In Sacramento County, thousands who once had private insurance now get coverage through Medi-Cal. More previously uninsured county residents are now eligible as well.

The verdict is still out on how long people will have to wait for applications to see the light of day. Michelle says that after waiting a few weeks to hear back about her application, she called the state to find out what was going on. She was told that her family’s information was in the system, but they didn’t know how long it was going to be before coverage was sorted out.

In the meantime, an emergency medical condition forced the state to expedite Michelle’s application, and she was assigned coverage from a community clinic. Eight weeks later, her partner still doesn’t have coverage. (Leilani Clark)

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Just after midnight on Sunday, two suspects approached a victim near G and 24th streets.

They pushed him down, assaulted him, then took his money. Later that same morning, at U and 16th streets, a tussle in a parking lot led to reported shots fired, also according to the police crime log.

Police are investigating whether a man was shot in the hand.

Meanwhile, be safe out there.

Gov. Jerry Brown commented last week that he was worried decriminalization and legalization of marijuana would lead to the devolution of California, that we would no longer be a great state. As SN&R pot columnist Ngiao Bealum wrote this week: People have been high in Cali for years, and we’re still a great state. C’mon, guv, even Dionysus reportedly inhaled.

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Make my day— with tableside guac Tres Hermanas is known for its reliable, tasty Mexican food. So much so that even Clint Eastwood apparently likes to visit the joint. Scorekeeper spotted this star among movie stars on Sunday evening enjoying an early dinner (he was with a friend and not talking to his chair).

Local Twitterati informed us that Eastwood is also regularly spotted at the West Sacramento Nugget Market.

Congratulations to Sacramento Beer Week and Wizard World Sacramento Comic Con, both of which successfully overtook—even transformed—the urban core this week. Capitol Beer Fest sold out, and costumed nerds injected K Street with new life. We’d make a snarky joke about how you don’t need NBA basketball to enliven downtown, but that’d be so predictable.

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From Russia, no love

Scorekeeper didn’t realize Sacramento Bee scribe Marcos Breton was also on legal retainer with the city? We keed, we keed—but it’s pretty strange that, every time the city has a court date, there he is in the Bee, what with his pro-arena spinning and sophistry. We even saw him on KCRA News on Sunday evening championing the pro-arena case. Hope he’s charging by the hour.

At last Tuesday’s city council meeting, members decided not to publicly welcome a delegation from Russia, which was in Sacramento to study government and how things work. Scorekeeper agrees with the Bee editorial board: That was a dumb, unbecoming move.

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KUBU-LP will be broadcasting in the city of Sacramento at 96.5 on the FM dial, hopefully by this fall. KSCF-LP has been granted a license for 99.1 FM. Several other local applications are pending with the Federal Communications Commission.

The “LP” is for “low power,” the class of ARviN G limited-range licenses reserved by the FCC o SM Co by for local nonprofit and education groups. cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om The U-B-U in KUBU-LP is short for “you be you,” a bit of encouragement from Access Sacramento—the nonprofit that was awarded the radio license. “We’re going to try to find a place for anyone who wants to get on the air,” said Gary Martin, executive director of Access Sacramento.

Production will be done largely from Access’ studios on T Street. The KUBU-LP transmitter will be perched atop a Midtown office building, and the signal will cover about a 5-mile radius. That’s as far as Sleep Train Arena in the north, Florin Road in the south, throughout West Sacramento and out to Sacramento State University in the east. Martin says funding will determine when the station goes live; the transmitter could cost as much as $30,000.

The radio station fits perfectly with Access Sacramento’s mission for the last 30 years: to help citizens create the kind of TV and radio programming that the commercial media doesn’t provide.

“The idea is that local people get to share their thoughts with the community and have a free and open debate on issues of public importance. That’s the essence of democracy,” Martin explained.

Yup. The best way to get on air is to contact Access and sign up to attend its orientation and radio classes. Maybe Bites will see you there.

The other license awarded so far, with the call letters KSCF-LP, goes to Williams Memorial Church of God in Christ in south Sacramento.

Church member and community-radio wrangler Reuben Meeks explained the S-C-F stands for “Sacramento Christian families.” The programming will likely be a mix of locally produced talk, daily devotionals, urban and gospel music, and some streaming of church services.

“We are going to really focus on south Sacramento and bring a positive vibe to the disenfranchised,” Meeks said. The transmitter signal should reach as far as Elk Grove in the south, Greenhaven in the west, downtown Sacramento in the north and Rancho Cordova in the east.

Meeks’ name may be familiar: He was a captain in the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department for many years and police chief in Rancho Cordova until 2009. Radio has been a constant part of his life. He’s the only licensed ham radio operator Bites has met in a while, and his father was a broadcast engineer in the BEFORE

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The whole idea behind LPFM is getting local voices on the air. There are still applications pending from groups like Verge Center for the Arts, West Sacramento Neighbors Fair and the Sacramento Old City Association. All real organizations with a strong sense of place, Bites can attest.

Then there’s the local-sounding but somewhat mysterious North Sacramento Community Radio. When Bites called the contact listed on the FCC application, attorney Dan J. Alpert, he asked, “Sacramento is near Mexico, correct?”

Nope. But Texas is, and that’s where the nonprofit North Sacramento Community Radio is incorporated, rather than California. Mesquite, Texas, is also the address of Antonio Cesar Guel, president of the Hispanic Christian Community Network, listed as consulting engineer for the North Sacramento group.

The radio station fits perfectly with Access Sacramento’s mission for the last 30 years.

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Alpert (area code 703, that’s Virginia) says he and Guel are consultants helping local groups navigate the FCC approval process.

Also, he said sorry that he got Sacramento mixed up with San Diego.

The board of directors listed for North Sacramento Community Radio have addresses in El Dorado Hills and Elk Grove. The group’s phone number has a 530 area code. So that’s all sort of Sacramento adjacent.

But no one answered the North Sacramento Community Radio phone number, or returned Bites’ phone message. The application mentions religious and educational programming, but doesn’t list any local churches or community groups.

And it turns out that LPFM-advocacy groups have complained to the FCC that Guel has filed for several LPFM licenses around the country that appear to have no real connection to the local communities. In fact, the language that North Sacramento Community Radio uses to describe itself in its application is exactly the same as language in other Guel-filed applications.

And recently, the FCC sent Guel a letter of inquiry asking about possible violations of law in 14 applications he filed around in several states.

Specifically, the agency wants more information about “the authenticity of the applicants and parties to the applications,” and has concerns about “instances of potential misrepresentation and/or lack of candor.” So does Bites. Ω

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Raise the minimum wage It’s the right thing to do It’s time to raise the federal minimum wage.

Well, actually, the time to raise the minimum wage was 40 years ago, when inflation, acting like a sneaky pickpocket, started stealing away the buying power of our most needy citizens.

Over the last 40 years, our wealthy have become more wealthy. Our poorest citizens have become poorer. Now, American income distribution resembles a Third World nation. This gap between the rich and the poor destroys lives and our very social fabric. l ne

by Jeff VonKae President Barack Obama is proposing to raise the federal minimum wage from the current level j e ffv @ne wsr e v ie w.c o m of $7.25 an hour ($8 in California) to $10.10. This 39-percent increase will roughly replace the amount that inflation has taken away since 1968.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says that a $10.10 minimum wage will bring $31 billion to our lower-paid workers. It will free millions of people from poverty. And these are not teenagers working part-time jobs: The average age is 35, many are parents, and most of these people work full time. even better, this will A $10.10 minimum notAnd, increase the federal debt. wage will free It will not require more taxes.

In fact, it will decrease the millions of people need for federal services such food stamps, subsidized from poverty. as housing and emergency services.

Then, there is the question of jobs. Some economists think there will be job losses, particularly economists Could you live on being paid by the restaurant industry and other industries, the minimum wage? which would be impacted by this increase. Other econoUse The New York mists believe there will be an increase in jobs, because the Times’ interactive calculator to find increased wage will provide a stimulus to the economy.

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Increase on I am a proud American. In 1968, when the minimum Employment and Family Income” at wage was the equivalent of $10.10, my father and his http://tinyurl.com/ generation of World War II veterans repeatedly, and I CBOMinWage. mean repeatedly, told me and my classmates that, in America, if you worked hard, as long as you did not do something stupid like get drunk and drive down the wrong Jeff vonKaenel side of the street going 90 miles per hour, you would be is the president, OK. You might not live in the biggest house. You might CEO and not get a new car every year. But you and your family majority owner of the News & Review would do all right. newspapers in We can no longer say that. I want to be able to repeat Sacramento, my father’s message to the new generation of young Chico and Reno. people. We need to raise the minimum wage. Ω

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Forgive us for the expression “here we go again,” but the crisis in Ukraine is one of those moments.

From the right, there’s criticism of the Obama administration for not “doing something” about Russia’s invasion of Crimea and its use of troops against Ukraine.

What the right doesn’t say is what, exactly, President Barack Obama should be doing. Do we really want a war with U.S. troops—even as part of a coalition—deployed in Ukraine? Or perhaps we should go all out and “nuke ’em back to the Stone Age,” which will, of course, take all of us to destruction?

On the left, we’re hearing complaints that the United States has lost the moral high ground, since what Russian President Vladimir Putin is doing in Ukraine is so very, very similar to what we did in Iraq.

Does this mean we should ignore the Ukrainians’ right to determine their own government, to protest—as so many so clearly did—until they ousted a leader they found corrupt? Should Ukraine’s sovereignty in Crimea be ignored?

We are at the place where reality meets realpolitik, and this is not the time for extreme action.

Instead, this is a time for deliberative and thoughtful use of nonmilitary pressure to discourage aggression.

The Russian economy is in trouble, and its stock market has taken a bashing because of this invasion.

The use of diplomatic pressure and sanctions doesn’t make for good sound bites—and it certainly doesn’t sate the “do something!” crowd—but it is the sanest approach to military aggression on the part of a major nation, especially one with an extensive nuclear arsenal.

Here’s the lesson that we needed to learn from the Cold War: When everybody’s got nukes, nobody wins a hot war. So we applaud the measured approach being taken by Obama and the other leaders of the G-8 nations, and call for continued use of tactics and approaches that keep the door open to diplomacy and closed to war. Ω

Sacramento’s muddled homeless strategy Last month, the Sacramento City Council put aside But the biggest threat to the area’s most $1 million for new homeless programs. The vulnerable might just be a middling sports by funds will likely be handled by Sacramento franchise. Community stakeholders are locked Raheem Steps Forward, which coordinates the area’s in negotiations over a “community benefits F. Hosseini homelessness strategy and dispenses federal agreement” with the Sacramento Kings and city grants to groups working toward that cause. officials to ensure the downtown arena project It was a welcome surprise to cover, doesn’t steamroll the city’s poorest on its way to but also represents just how schizophrenic fruition.

Sacramento’s approach to our homeless A new sports and entertainment complex humanitarian crisis has been. For instance, could mean 1.5 million square feet of rippling Steps Forward still struggles to front payments development, so what happens to all the poor to vendors due to a lack of financial support and unsheltered folks living within the boom from Sacramento County. radius?

At the same time, the county is the only Ask the 60-plus former residents of the municipality propping up the Regional Human Marshall Hotel. Buoyed by progress on the Rights/Fair Housing arena front, Marshall owners Commission, a resource realized their decade-long goal The biggest threat for low-income tenants to ditch the low-income housing facing eviction and other business and transition into a to the area’s most crises. On Tuesday, boutique operation that charges supervisors were expected vulnerable might market rates. Residents were to inject another $50,000 just be a middling given relocation cash and sent to keep the commission on their way. sports franchise. limping through June.

Sacramento Housing Neighboring cities Alliance organizing director stopped or greatly reduced their funding.

Tamie Dramer worries the exodus might soon As for those trying to avoid slipping into be on for other “single-room occupancy” homelessness, that’s getting harder, too. hotels, often the last option for those facing Sacramento County recently dismantled its homelessness. If that’s the case, all the lip affordable-housing policy in the hopes of enticservice about ending homelessness by 2016 ing residential development. A similar choice will prove as hollow as the abandoned Sleep faces the city of Sacramento.

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Hip-hop hiccup The Concerts in the Park series is an important showcase for Sacramento’s local music scene.

Thousands of people attend these shows on Friday nights at downtown’s Cesar Chavez Plaza, and, in recent years, the Downtown Sacramento Partnership has made smart changes to inject new life into the free weekly party.

But when this year’s lineup was announced last week, there was a glaring hiccup: The dearth of hip-hop artists.

Bands and acts practically beg to play these shows, and getting the opportunity to do so is a feather in the cap of local musicians. It’s competitive, we get that. But hip-hop artists need greater representation.

Sacramento’s music community has a long history of discouraging, even banning, rap and hiphop from local clubs and events. Let’s not continue this shameful practice on Sacto’s biggest stage. Ω

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A woman’s place is in Forget Betty Crocker—Sacramento’s top female chefs dish on food, the ‘pink ghetto’ and breaking into the good ol’ boys club

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n her right arm, Rachel Kelley wears a tattoo of a tank.

The executive chef at Revolution Wines leads a team of six young men, and sometimes, she likes to embarrass them.

“Whenever that happens, I kiss my bicep,” she says, laughing. “So I just figured it’d look a lot tougher if I had a tank on it.”

She also has guns on her hips, a sushi master on her back and a pastry pinup chef on her side. She stretches her T-shirt around to reveal glimpses as she struts up and down the winery’s aisles of casks in ripped, checker-print jeans.

Kelley certainly knows her way around a kitchen, but there is one missing element in her résumé: She’s never worked for a female chef.

She’s one of a handful of female head chefs in Sacramento. Nationwide, most men and women agree that restaurant kitchens are still male-dominated.

“The physical demands of the kitchen are not so insurmountable that women can’t do it,” says Rick Mahan, chef and owner of The Waterboy.

“But we’re talking about an industry that has been for a very long time, and will probably continue to be for a very long time, a boys club.”

Just look to the James Beard Foundation Awards, a.k.a. the Oscars of food. The 2014 awards are announced in May, but 265 semifinalists were recently revealed, and about 17 percent are women or partnerships between men and women. Consistently since 2008, between two and four awards out of 13 categories have gone to female chefs.

Many of Sacramento’s most well-known chefs are, indeed, men. Adam Pechal of Tuli Bistro Group was featured on the reality TV competition The Taste, Michael Thiemann of Mother once worked for celebrity chef Tyler Florence. Patrick Mulvaney of Mulvaney’s B&L is cooking at the prestigious James Beard House this week.

So, are women not getting attention, or are there just not very many of them? Census data suggests the latter—in Sacramento County, more than 90 percent of chefs are men.

Think back to Sacramento Bacon Fest in January. The grand finale was a throwdown

among 13 premier local chefs. Kelley was the lone woman, and the only chef with female cooks in tow. And she finished on top with Best Dish.

“I didn’t really come in with a plan. I just brought ingredients I like to work with,” she says.

Those ingredients created a comforting, balanced plate of wine-braised bacon, Brussels sprouts, king trumpet mushrooms and thinly sliced apples, all over melted Brie on brioche.

“When I put it on the plate, I thought, ‘Yeah,’” she shrugs and nods a few times. “‘That’s what I do.’”

Kelley may talk about her accomplishments casually, but achieving chef status is no small feat—especially when going against a pervasively masculine kitchen environment, a stereotype that women belong in pastry and common pressures to start a family.

“I just work twice as hard as everyone else,” she says.

Kitchen culture When Kelley was working her way through restaurants, she faced a frustrating pattern.

Despite a résumé full of grill and saute experience, she got placed at salads every time she applied to a new restaurant.

“I would try not to get my feelings hurt by that kind of stuff,” she says. “A lot of women have to fight for what they want in their jobs.”

There is a silver lining: “I can make salads in my sleep now.”

Not only has Kelley never worked for a female chef, but she’s rarely worked alongside female cooks. It adds up with the most recent census data—the Equal Employment Opportunity Tabulation for 2006-2010—which shows that 58 percent of cooks in the country, and 60.9 percent in Sacramento County, are men.

The numbers are far more striking when it comes to chefs. Nationally, more than 80 percent are men, and locally, that number jumps to 91.8 percent. That means Kelley is one of about 100 female head cooks in Sacramento County.

And at 30, she might seem young for an executive chef, but Kelley has been through

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“A womAn's plAce” continued from page 17 plenty of restaurants. She’s tackled bread-making at The Bread Store, steak at Harris’ steakhouse in San Francisco, sushi at the now-shuttered Dragonfly downtown, and pastry at Ella Dining Room & Bar. She took on the steakhouse job while attending the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco full time—she’s still paying off loans.

Landing at Revolution about a year-and-a-half ago made it all worth it, she says. Her kitchen is tiny, with two ovens and induction burners, but the place feels like home. And she still manages to churn out elegant plates all day to pair with Revolution’s wines: bruschetta with chevre, pickled beets and tarragon; mussels with crispy bacon, red onion, chili flakes and white wine; and the ever popular “French BLT,” house-cured bacon, apple, Brie and caramelized onions on baguette. On Friday nights, the tasting room swarms with regulars eager for Revolution’s $15 wine-andentree special—syrah paired with seared duck breast over potato puree, Brussels sprouts and satsuma reduction was a recent offering.

“I fell in love,” she says. “It’s a family here. Everyone looks out for each other.”

Talking about other kitchens takes her out of her blissed-out cheese-andwine zone. Most restaurants kitchens are a little rough. She says she recalls seeing sexual harassment in the past, though she never experienced it personally.

“I’ve always easily fit in as one of the guys,” she says, absentmindedly stroking a skull necklace her mom made. “It wasn’t hard for me to adapt to the dirty jokes and the arm punches.”

Kitchens can be lewd, grimy places—though Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co.’s Brian Mizner says it’s not just because of their maledominated nature.

“There are jokes and brashness you wouldn’t hear in a normal workplace, but the girls are no better than the guys,” Mizner says.

Hours are long—many chefs cite working at least 12 hours a day—and pay is rarely substantial. According to the most recent census data, 51 percent of chefs in Sacramento County earn less than $25,000 per year, and 35.4 percent earn between $25,000 and $50,000. Combined with the constant pressure, some say being a chef is, understandably, less than desirable for a lot of women.

“When service is happening, you’re in charge of 25 employees, 100 plates and 100 experiences,” says Carina Lampkin, chef and owner of Blackbird Kitchen & Beer Gallery. “Everything depends on how good that executive chef is at managing stress.”

Lampkin worked her way through several San Francisco establishments—most notably as sous chef at Bar Crudo under Selvera Enterprises, but also at other kitchens belonging to The Absinthe Group and The Slanted Door Group. She recounts working the grill station at Range, once a Michelin-starred restaurant, and calls it a nightmare.

“I got a little man trip in there,” she says. “The boys beat up on you and make sure you can rumble with them. But you just have to be a toughass bitch to work in the kitchen.”

Lampkin laughs. With her hair half-buzzed, half-spiked straight in the air, she certainly looks tough.

“Maybe most women just don’t feel like fighting.”

pink ghetto and chef flight At Ella Dining Room & Bar, Kelley started out at the pantry station—salads, cold dishes, dessert plating. From there, she was recruited to be the restaurant’s assistant pastry chef—even though she had no prior experience or real ambition for it—and when the chef above her left a month later, the position fell to Kelley. She became what she affectionately calls “a pastry girl.”

Kelley doesn’t think she was approached to join Ella’s pastry staff simply because she’s a woman. But she acknowledged that all of the pastry-assistant applicants she interviewed happened to be women, and if there were any other women in kitchens she’s worked at in the past, they typically tended to the pastry corner.

Ella’s current pastry chef, Jane Anderson, says she was drawn to the science and creativity of desserts as well as the high stakes—it’s a last chance to wow people. And she certainly does. Her vanilla bean pavlova—meringue with a crisp shell and a light, lush center—is an ideal way to end a rich meal, elegantly plated with seasonal fruit.

But Anderson’s work is playful, too.

Her pot de crème tastes like childhood—buttery, spiced cookie dough with milk crumbs and gooey, toasted marshmallows. And she manages to turn the humble doughnut into a light, comforting, whimsical treat year-round.

“I think pastry requires a certain finesse that a lot of women naturally do have,” she says. “I hear a lot of men say, ‘I don’t have the patience for what you do.’”

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finding her way to the “pink ghetto” of the kitchen.

“I needed a break from the [chaos] of the line,” she says. “It takes a certain breed of person to work in kitchens. You really need tough skin, which isn’t easy for some women. … I worked my ass off to earn the respect of the guys around me. In past jobs, I’ve had guys tell me they didn’t want to learn from me because I was a girl.”

She stops, laughs and sighs. “They didn’t last long.”

While Anderson abandoned the line—and potentially a shot at executive-chef status—for Sacramento pastry stardom, she doesn’t represent the masses. Many of Sacramento’s culinary students don’t land in local restaurants at all.

Los Angeles and New York City— cities that are, perhaps, more forwardthinking. Plus, she adds, the influx of female students doesn’t necessarily translate to an influx of female cooks, regardless of location.

“A lot of culinary students come in and start networking and realize there are other jobs in food service apart from being a chef,” Griley says. “It’s a personal choice of investment.”

Some discover food styling, food photography or food writing, for example. Meanwhile, some women who do work as restaurant cooks find a way out after a few years. Mizner says he knows women who have gone on to organizational aspects or catering.

“Females manage their time more wisely than men, while we don’t even think about it,” he says, citing his own 16-hour days, sometimes six days a week. “Females are more creative. I think they find a more thoughtful way to go about the food business.”

Mizner counts three women among his kitchen staff of 15—one is his daytime sous chef and “a total badass.” And he’s worked under a female chef, Ame Harrington, at L Wine Lounge & Urban Kitchen.

Harrington has since moved on to catering.

Sylvanna Mislang also worked on the line at L Wine Lounge under Harrington as well as Blackbird Kitchen & Bar under Lampkin.

She says she learned loads from both women, but she’s done with restaurants.

“I don’t feel the need to be in a kitchen environment anymore with all that hustle and bustle,” she says.

“What I’m doing now is my own speed.”

Currently, she works a 5 a.m. produce shift at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op—a position she’s enjoyed for nine years—and puts on vegan pop-up dinners twice a month under the moniker The Roaming Spoon. She’s no longer a chef—she calls herself a “culinaire”— but says she hasn’t missed the headache of restaurants. Now, she’s able to focus all her creative energy on one dinner a couple times a month, elevating vegan food—no animal products of any kind, even honey—into modern, interesting four-course meals.

Think kiwi tartare with capers, radish, endive and dots of smoked aioli; or an icy carrot and ginger granita.

Her relationships with local farmers allow her to harvest right before meals. Then she brings a campfire stove to different locations around town and serves 12 diners. And in

“The boys beat up on you and make sure you can rumble with them.

But you just have to be a tough-ass bitch to work in the kitchen.”

Carina Lampkin Blackbird Kitchen & Beer Gallery, on working in male-dominated kitchens

At the nation’s oldest, most elite culinary college, The Culinary Institute of America, the number of female students is higher than ever before—they now make up about 47 percent of the student body.

Meanwhile, the local outpost of Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts enrolls a class that’s typically 40 to 45 percent female, and The Art Institute of California in Sacramento has maintained a class that’s roughly 65 percent female since its culinary program started five years ago.

Kathie Griley, culinary director at the Art Institute of California– Sacramento, points to the increasing popularity of cooking shows as a source of inspiration for women.

“The Food Network has blown up our industry a bit,” she says. “It highlights successful women chefs, and it gives young women confidence to enter a traditionally male-dominated world.”

But many of the female graduates who do decide to pursue their chef dreams leave Sacramento, according to Griley. They go to San Francisco,

such an intimate setting, she says she actually feels connected to her diners.

“Sometimes I’ll get applauded when I bring out a dish. And I’m like, ‘Oh my God, you’re all so amazing,’” she says.

Family matters It’s no coincidence that Kelley and Lampkin don’t have children. A highstress job with long hours is difficult enough without adding kids to the mix, and they say they have no plans to ever start families.

Wendi Mentink, executive chef at Bidwell Street Bistro for 13 years, says she’s never had a serious enough relationship to even think about having kids, which in her view, is a relief.

“I am grateful I didn’t have to face that decision,” she says. “I’ve been a career girl. I never got the family, but I got the career.”

As most families still operate traditionally, many women usually feel in charge of the child care.

This is inevitable, Mahan says, so many female cooks opt for a more balanced life.

“You look at high-profile female chefs in California, and they rarely had children. If they did, it was later in their careers,” he says, citing Suzanne Goin of Lucques and A.O.C. in Los Angeles, Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, and Cindy Pawlcyn of Mustards Grill in Yountville. “If you’re going to run a restaurant, make a name for yourself and stay relevant, you need to make choices.”

Griley is another example. She worked in restaurants for years, but says she ultimately left for a job with more normal hours when she had a son.

“He was with day care more than he was with me,” she says. “The industry puts stress on personal relationships, and biologically, we’re at a disadvantage. It’s a sacrifice.”

It can be done though, Kelley emphasizes by pointing to her own boss at Revolution, Gina Genshlea.

As an owner, Genshlea endures long hours, often seven days a week. And she has three kids—the youngest is 9 years old.

“The business feels like it’s having six more kids sometimes,” she says.

“It’s like double the work, and it can be really stressful.”

That was never the plan, though.

Her husband was supposed to take the lead, and she was going to work part time and otherwise remain a stay-at-home mom. But the business needed her, and she started working full time just six months after opening.

Genshlea would walk around with a kid in one arm and a box of wine bottles in the other. Luckily, the children liked playing in the cellar,

splashing in water-filled barrels in the summertime.

Perhaps, Lampkin says, Sacramento in particular has a dearth of prominent women chefs because it’s such a family-oriented town.

“It’s not at all like San Francisco,” she recalls. “No one even wants to get into a relationship there.”

Lampkin has a unique perspective on family matters in kitchens that has nothing to do with children. Last fall, her family-owned restaurant Blackbird Kitchen & Bar closed abruptly—and notoriously.

Her staff was let go immediately in a breezy email, which she says was sent out by another family member under her name.

She opened the new restaurant in late February. Now, she admits that the former restaurant was overly ambitious and improperly managed, and she has new, nonfamilial partners taking the financial reigns.

“Who doesn’t have a little family drama? I think going forward, me and my family are cool now,” she says.

Lampkin pauses to take a bite of bright, citrusy cheesecake that her mother, present for prelaunch moral support, pulled out of the oven earlier.

Lampkin comes from a food family— they owned a commercial bakery in New York before transplanting to Auburn—and is thusly loud, colorful and passionate about an excellent dessert.

“Mom!” the 32-year-old yells across the restaurant. “This cheesecake is fucking bomb!”

“But it’s probably not as unusual as [media] portrayals make it out to be.”

Those guideposts are Leslie Revsin, the very first female chef at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City; Madeleine Kamman, iconic French chef, educator and author; and Roxsand Scocos, chef of RoxSand in Phoenix, Ariz. They all put their stamp on Mulvaney, as well as countless other chefs across the country.

“In the kitchen, we don’t care about issues of gender as much as issues of confidence.”

Jane Anderson abandoned the line for Sacramento pastry-chef stardom at Ella Dining Room & Bar.

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And, likewise, a number of women have put their own stamps on Sacramento over the years—Pat Murakami of the once-influential Chinois East-West and now Ambrosia Cafe & Catering; Biba Caggiano of Biba Restaurant; Molly Hawks of Hawks Restaurant in Granite Bay; Teresa Urkofsky, formerly of Paragary’s and currently an instructor at American River College; Mai Pham of Lemon Grass; and Nancy Selland of Selland’s Market-Cafe.

‘We want people to “In the kitchen, we don’t care know we’re here’ about issues of gender as much as For Mahan, Sacramento has fewer issues of confidence,” Mulvaney says. female chefs than cities like Seattle, “At the end of the day, the person in Chicago and New York City because charge is the chef—gender neutral.” it isn’t as established of a culinary Still, women notice the dynamics destination. even if they aren’t talking about it on “We’ve made great strides in the a regular basis. Lampkin even says past 10 or 15 years, but we’re still she and Kelley have been discussing a reasonably immature,” he says. “I pop-up series to, in part, raise awarethink you will see more women leadness about the local gender disparity ing kitchens as our restaurant scene in restaurant kitchens. It won’t enter develops.” the planning stages until Lampkin Mentink says there’s been signifiis more settled at her new Blackbird cant progress—just 10 years ago, she Kitchen, but there is a working title: feels men had a difficult time sharing Renegade Rebel Girls. space with women, who were brushed “We want to showcase our off to pastry or pantry. few lady chefs, our badass NorCal “That’s where the females bitches,” Lampkin says. “We want belonged,” she says. people to know we’re here.”

Mulvaney echoed Mentink’s sentiMany chefs say they’re noticing ments. But these days, he says, the more young women on the line in idea that there’s a lack of women in Sacramento restaurants—perhaps kitchens is largely the media’s fault. times are changing—and they have “Someone took a snapshot and some advice: Don’t take “no” for an tried to get what the whole world was answer, work harder than everyone like with that one snapshot,” he says. else and learn to shit talk.

Granted, Mulvaney worked under In the end, it’s about skill, talent multiple female chefs and admits and a committed work ethic, says his experience—like every person’s Mentink. experience—is unique.

“If you go into a job and you kick “My mentors and guideposts ass, nobody is going to question your have largely been women,” he says. gender.” Ω B E F O R E | N E W S | F E A T U R E S T O R Y | A R T S & C U L T U R E | A F T E R

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Midtown Out Loud hosts Jen Ikemoto (left) and Heather Anderson say the biweekly open-mic series is a place for creative expression, goodwill and good manners.

The Midtown Out Loud open-mic series relaunches in a new venue, but with the same focus on creativity and community

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eather Anderson always knew it was about family. About building community.

That was the idea, anyway, when she first launched Midtown Out Loud, the biweekly series that returns on Wednesday, March 19, after an extended hiatus.

The concept for MOL was first seeded two decades ago when she attended a poetry open-mic with her mother, and her mother’s boyfriend signed the teen up to read without her knowledge.

While this might have freaked some people out, Anderson, already an avid writer, was prepared. Sure, it was a little nerve-wracking, she said.

But the crowd was nice. Friendly and supportive.

“It was the kind of place where, not only did you have to be brave, you had to be vulnerable, too,” Anderson said.

From there she followed the words, performing at various open-mics, including a poetry slam where she nabbed second place.

Her mother was at that reading, too, Anderson remembered, encouraging her.

“She was an English teacher; she was a big, big influence,” she said.

Anderson started her first openmic series at a cafe in 1996 in Chico, where she was attending college.

She modeled it after the reading she’d gone to with her mother, and, between the cafe’s built-in crowd and people she knew from her classes and dorm, the series grew.

Years later, new to Sacramento and hungry for community, Anderson launched Midtown Out Loud at Butch N Nellie’s Coffee Co., a cafe that later evolved into Mondo Bizarro, and then Midtown Village Cafe.

It was an instant hit. It was also family.

“From the beginning … it bridged a number of different communities, different ages, different genders,” Anderson said. “It had lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, straight, and it had a really, really safe feel.”

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SCENE& HEARD Now, 18 months after her mother’s unexpected death forced Anderson to put Midtown Out Loud on hiatus, the series returns to a new venue.

“That was a real turning point,” Anderson says now of her mother’s 2012 death following an attack in her Southern California home.

The Midtown Out Loud crowd, full-throttle, turned out to help Anderson: They attended the memorial service. They sent journals and cards and poetry.

“I had always been a part of the experience from the mic out,” she said.

“But [until then] I hadn’t actually been a part of the receiving end.”

“It was a love poem about cheese,” Ikemoto said with a laugh.

Cheesy maybe, but it worked, and the pair became fast friends.

And the series, Ikemoto said, became integral to her life—and not just for what it did for her and her now wife.

After the death of her mother, Anderson stepped away, but Midtown Out Loud continued for a few months, with Ikemoto co-hosting with another local poet, Jovi Radtke.

“The community did rally around Heather,” Ikemoto said. “This was a sacred space touched by [Anderson’s] mom, even though most of us had never met her. There was just a big outpouring of love and support from the community.”

Anderson had put a lot of energy into building that up, pushing Midtown Out Loud not just as a forum for words, ideas and music, but as a place to foster change, growth and goodwill.

‘A celebrAtion of brAvery’

It’s easy to see why people flock around Anderson. With a bright smile and a halo of springy, sunshine-hued curls, she exudes genuine warmth.

She’s also a big hugger.

From the genesis of Midtown Out Loud, in fact, Anderson has always made a point of embracing every guest—be it a performer or audience member.

OK, sure, she said, maybe that sounds a little campy, a little “Kumbayah.”

“But now, if I don’t give people a hug, they demand one,” she said on a recent weekday morning at Shine, the downtown cafe where she’ll host the Midtown Out Loud relaunch with her sidekick, local poet Jen Ikemoto.

Often, it’s more than just hugs.

Anderson is known to buy someone a drink if she knows someone is broke.

Sometimes the generosity is more expansive.

Local poet and singer-songwriter Sarah Myles Spencer said the MOL crowd—and Anderson, in particular—got her through some pretty rough times.

“Once, Heather knew my bike was broken and I couldn’t get my kids to school,” she said. “So one day, she showed up with a bike for me.”

Unlike many other open-mics, Spencer said, MOL isn’t about seeking the spotlight.

“We don’t just come and wait for our five minutes onstage,” she said. “People show up in a regular, everyday-life way, … and Heather is always the first person to ask, ‘What do you need?’”

It’s not always so serious. For Ikemoto, that need was more in the department of love. The state worker met the open-mic host in the early Midtown Out Loud days, where Anderson encouraged Ikemoto to use poetry and the stage as a platform to propose to her girlfriend.

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Local poet and MOL regular Shane Salter echoed this sentiment.

“It’s like family, no one is judging you,” he said. “There are musicians and poets and comedians—so many different styles, and everyone is just here to listen. There’s just so much respect in the room.”

Anderson is big on respect.

Midtown Out Loud gets a lot of openmic “virgins” and performers otherwise nervous to share. Some of the material is intensely personal. Raw, rough and charged with feeling.

“If you’re stumbling over your words or you get really emotional about what you’re reading, you’ll hear someone yell out, ‘We got you!’”

Anderson said. “It’s a celebration of the bravery to get up there.”

This means intent listening, lots of applause and treating those minutes onstage with dignity.

“We’re here to have fun, but don’t forget your manners,” Ikemoto

“ We don’t just come and Wait for our five minutes onstage. PeoPle shoW uP in a regular, everyday-life Way.” Sarah Myles Spencer poet, singer-songwriter

From the start the series attracted a crowd that, depending on the night, ranged anywhere from 30 people to upward of 100 (a number that, incidentally, didn’t include the 25-plus people who signed up to perform).

Anderson decided to capitalize on that success.

“We started to focus on community engagement [because] we realized that the people were gaining something from the family that was being created,” she said.

Whether it was helping someone find a new home, hosting a holiday food drive, or raising money for organizations such as WEAVE, the purpose was the same: Give back, build bridges, create community.

With the relaunch, Anderson said, she hopes to be “more strategic” about pairing with charities. The first shows will benefit the Real Poets Writing Project, a local project that pairs writing mentors with at-risk youth.

Real Poets mentor Kamila LaShaun says it’s a natural fit. She first stumbled upon Midtown Out Loud after moving to Sacramento. Soon, she said, the series changed her life.

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said. “Heather has really pushed that idea to ‘respect the mic’—to respect the room.”

Now, while the pair is ready for the return, they’re also aware of its challenges.

“We’re trying to stay true to the vibe, and we know that new spaces bring new challenges,” Ikemoto said.

The decision to relocate to Shine was based on logistics, Anderson said.

During the hiatus, Midtown Village Cafe changed ownership and then started undergoing renovations. So, with the blessing of their former hosts, Anderson and Ikemoto sought a different venue.

“We needed to find a space that was specifically focusing on local community,” Anderson said. “And Shine offers primarily local food, local beer, local wine, and they’re a big supporter of local art.”

Shine is considerably larger than Midtown Out Loud’s original venue, but Anderson is confident people will show up in large numbers.

“We don’t know what it’ll look like on the first night, but it’ll be massive,” Anderson said. “Our family is like an amoeba—it just keeps growing and forming.” Ω |

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Beautiful, sparkly freaks I looked like a carefully constructed thrift-store mess—but covered with glitter. And I don’t think I’ve ever felt more appropriately dressed for a party in my life.

Sequined, patterned, multicolored silk top. Baby-blue tutu. Green-and-black horizontal-striped tights. Bluevelvet blazer. Homemade bottlecap earrings with silly phrases, such as “Holy cow! Drink me now!”

And the kicker: bright-green, sequined strands of lights, battery operated and attached to shoulder pads.

Approaching any event in such garb is a little daunting, though. Especially when it’s a dark, 45-minute drive away, in the middle of Winters farmland.

But all I saw at last Saturday’s party—an annual, semisecret shindig that will remain nameless, but you should really, really look into it—were hundreds of other beautiful, sparkly freaks. Some of them danced under a neon dome to electro swing. Some crowded into a tapestrycovered barn blasting house music. Some swayed in an outdoor amphitheater to live indie, funk and jam bands.

Others huddled over a fire pit, joined drum circles, sipped pour-over coffee, and marveled at fire spinners, hula hoopers and burlesque dancers.

They were wearing all kinds of crazy things: We fed one another bright-blue wigs; robot hot, freshly fried masks; LED-lit dresses; oversized fur coats; full- doughnuts while a blown steampunk attire; threesome unfolded fairy wings; and fuzzy, red top hats. just a few feet away.

My housemates and I arrived at 10 p.m. The party was set to last until at least sunrise. We had tents and sleeping bags. Where to first?

We passed through the mini-Biergarten and hookah bar. We sprawled out onto a bean-bag chair in a blacklight tent designated for body-paint activities. We fed one another hot, freshly fried doughnuts while a threesome unfolded just a few feet away.

Inevitably, the dome beckoned. DJ StraightNasty was spinning, and, with his mash of old-school swing, funk, circus beats and house music, he consistently creates the most reliably good time in Yolo County. There, we engaged in ecstatic, free-form dance. We climbed on top of wooden tables and waved at all of our old friends who we had, maybe, just barely forgotten about.

Because the coolest thing about this party was that it embodied a community—a group of friends and volunteers who traveled from all over California to build this farm into the area’s most notorious, Burning Man-esque bash.

I hugged gloriously costumed individual after gloriously costumed individual—UC Davis students, alumni and folks I only recognized from coming to this party year after year after year.

Just after 5 a.m., we pitched our tent and settled in while the bass beat on and on. Three hours later, I awoke to a mixture of chickens clucking and people giggling. The volunteers probably never went to sleep at all—they’d already lined up for coffee, vegan breakfast burritos and fruit salad. They picked up stray bottles and dismantled stages, chipper as ever.

Then, I spotted one of my former college roommates, crawling into her own tent for the first time. My heart felt sad that the event was fleeting. My mind raced ahead to the possibilities of March 2015.

But more than anything else, my body ached angrily at my life decisions. I relented and curled into a ball again— now coated in equal parts of dirt and glitter.

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An Irish Hooley Saturday, March 15 There’s nothing more Irish than heading to a local pub and hearing some Irish folk singers. Except An Irish Hooley, featuring Slugger SONG AND O’Toole playing Celtic songs and DANCE the Kerry Dance Troupe performing traditional Irish dances. $12-$39, 7:30 p.m. at Harris Center for the Arts, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.harriscenter.net.

—Jonathan Mendick

Glitz and Glamour Gala Saturday, March 15 The Sacramento Ballet postponed its production of The Great Gatsby until next year due to “issues,” according to artistic director Ron PARTY Cunningham. But you can still get down like James “Jimmy” Gatz at its black-tie party featuring champagne, a three-course dinner and live entertainment. $250, 7 p.m. at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J Street; www.sacgala.eventbrite.com.

—Jonathan Mendick

The Zombie Run Saturday, March 15

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acramento Beer Week is over, and now it’s St. Patrick’s Day weekend. In other words, it’s out with the hipsters, and in with the bros.

St. Patrick’s Day isn’t about serving highquality beer to a select few (nor really about observing the patron St. Patrick—was it ever?), but bros drinking beer in mass quantities. Thankfully, SN&R found a couple of great nonbro events to go along with the standard totally bro-friendly ones.

The 18th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Old Sacramento is probably the biggest nonbro event happening this weekend. Presented by the Old Sacramento Business Association (http://oldsacramento.com), the free parade starts at Second and O streets near the Crocker Art Museum, goes to Old Sacramento and back, with 1,000 marchers, including dancers, bagpipers and bands. It happens on Saturday, March 15, at 1 p.m.

The Blue Diamond Almonds Shamrock’n Half Marathon, 5K, and Kids’ Run happens this Saturday (the 5k and fun run) and Sunday (the half-marathon). While registration for the half-marathon is already sold-out, runners can still sign up for the 5k ($40-$45) and the kids’ run ($17) at www.shamrocknhalf.com. Yes, it’s probably

a race in which a bro could chug a Guinness at the halfway point, but that’s pretty unnecessary. All races start and finish at Raley Field, 400 Ballpark Drive in West Sacramento.

Bros can consume a great deal of beer on the St. Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl hosted by the 5hundy Social Club. Stop at Midtown bro hangouts such as BarWest, The Golden Bear and Pour House between 3:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Saturday, March 15. If you get a drink at each stop, you’ll consume around 15 drinks and barf. Don’t be that guy, bro. Prepare yourself at www.5hundy.net.

Lastly, three venues all on L Street between 15th and 16th streets (Mix Downtown, de Vere’s Irish Pub and Firestone Public House) will throw an all-day block party (9 a.m. to midnight) on the actual St. Patrick’s Day, Monday, March 17. The free party will feature bands, plenty of Guinness on tap and popular Irish food. Bonus: If you get too sloshed to drive home, make sure to call a cab at (916) 444-2222, and tell the driver to charge the first $35 of the ride to Berg Injury Lawyers. Get more deets at http://firestonepublichouse.com, bro.

—Jonathan Mendick

If you want to elevate your heart rate past its normal level or elevate your normal run past a treadmill routine at the gym, The Zombie Run might be for you. It’s a 5k where you RUN can either run away from zombies or become a zombie and chase after those annoying 5k participants. $45-$150; 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. at Sacramento Raceway Park, 5305 Excelsior Road; www.thezombierun.com.

—Jonathan Mendick

Modern Quilted Placemat Sunday, March 16 It’s not a old-fashioned quilting circle, so don’t think that by attending this workshop hosted by modernist quiltmakers Two WORKSHOP Accordions that you’re going to magically turn into a floral-patterned-calicoloving silver-haired grandma. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But you will learn quilting basics as you make swanky color-block placemats. Grandma will be proud. $65, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Delta Workshop, 2598 21st Street; (916) 455-1125; www.deltaworkshopsac.com.

—Shoka

It’s Electrifying! Alternative Fuel Vehicles in California through Sunday, June 15 If you couldn’t already tell by the thousands of Priuses on the roads in Sacramento, California’s an alternative-fuel vehicle mecca. Check out some cool alternative-fuel rides in this exhibit. $4-$8, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily at the California CARS Automobile Museum, 2200 Front Street; (916) 442-6802; www.calautomuseum.org.

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But, while enjoying the bakery on the periphery is fine, a proper visit is a must.

Aziz Fattahi, a mostly self-taught baker, opened Village Bakery in 1997 after baking bread in his home for years. His bread, pizza, and baked goods were so well-received, he rating: HHHH 1/2 quickly became one of the most respected bakers in Northern California with Village Bakery turning into a destination eatery.

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Dinner for one: Village’s seed loaf is slathered with sesame, $4 - $10 poppy, and sunflower seeds inside and out, and it has a devout following. Earthy and nuttier than a Burning Man festival, it’s best taken home to be toasted and then slathered with butter and jam. A rosemary focaccia is soft as a pillow and greedily soaks up any oil and balsamic you put in front of it.

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You can order ahead for a whole pizza, though some pizzas are also available by the generous slice. The pepperoni doesn’t skimp and is served up with a pool of spicy oil that only a handful of napkins can sop up (but why would you?!). The vegetarian pizza comes topped with zucchini, peppers, mushrooms, tangles of caramelized onions and chunks of briney feta cheese. Even the most ardent carnivore will swoon at this.

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925 K St., (916) 447-7500. Dinner for one: $15-$25. HHH B.G.

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Here are a few recent reviews and regional recommendations by Becky Grunewald, Ann Martin Rolke, Garrett McCord and Jonathan Mendick, updated regularly.

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Downtown & Vine This tasting room 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 goat-cheese stuffed peppers, chilled Spanish-spiced shrimp, and a cheddar-andapple 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 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 AMR

Midtown The Coconut Midtown The food here travels a path between standard and inventive. Creamcheese wontons, for example, aren’t the epitome of culinary Southeast Asian traditions, but damn it if they aren’t delightful. Soft cream cheese and chives in a crispy wrapper and served with a sweet chili sauce?

Nothing wrong with that. The chicken larb—a spicy mincedmeat salad—is fragrant and intense. Mint, chilies, basil and iceberg lettuce are drenched in a spicy lime dressing punctuated with a heavy hand of fish sauce. The Coconut has warnings in its menu about which dishes are spicy, but unless you’re a newborn kitten, trembling and mewling, you might not even be aware of the chilies in your food. Thai. 2502 J St., (916) 447-1855. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHH1/2 G.M.

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

that encourages patrons to talk to each other. An interesting wine list includes entries from Spain and Israel; there are also draft cocktails and numerous beers on tap. The brunch menu is heavy on the eggs, prepared in lots of ways. One option is the Croque Madame, a hamand-Gruyere sandwich usually battered with egg. This one had a fried egg and béchamel, with a generous smear of mustard inside. The mountain of potato hash alongside tasted flavorful and not too greasy. The menu also features pizzas and house-made pastas, but one of its highlights includes an excellent smoked-eggplant baba ghanoush, which is smoky and garlicky. The bananas foster bread pudding is equally transcendent. American. 1630 S St., (916) 442-4885. Dinner for one: $20-$40. HHH1/2 AMR

it all together for an addictive and satisfying lunch. One of Thai Basil’s true highlights is its homemade curry pastes. These balanced constructions of basil, lemongrass, shallots, chilies, kaffir lime leaves and other ingredients, when roasted, have been known to drive hungry Sacramentans into a berserk craze. Service here is impeccable. Thai Basil has earned its reputation. Thai. 2431 J St., (916) 442-7690. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHHH G.M.

Land Park/ Curtis Park Spice Kitchen The menu here has a few tangential dishes like pad thai, but it’s mostly focused on Japanese cuisine, with a side menu of Chinese-American favorites. Tasty options include the vegetable tempura, lightly fried with slices of Japanese sweet potato and yams. If you want ramen, the hot soup dish these days, try the red tonkotsu version: It’s served with lots of nicely chewy noodles, spinach and the requisite soft-boiled egg. Spice Kitchen also serves bento boxes in lunch and dinner portions for a good price. Here, diners get soup, rice, salad and tempura, as well as a meat of choice. Japanese. 1724 Broadway, (916) 492-2250. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHH AMR

Thai Basil SN&R readers consistently vote this place among the city’s top Thai restaurants for this paper’s annual Best of Sacramento issue. And for good reason. The restaurant’s tom yum soup may be one of the best foods served in the City of Trees. It features an incredibly savory broth with layers of flavor. Likewise, the tom kha gai—a coconut-broth soup—is a veritable panacea against Delta winds. Salads make up a large part of Thai cuisine and should not be overlooked. Larb gai consists of simple shredded chicken over mixed greens, cucumber and tomatoes. Fresh mint and a chili-laden dressing heavy with fish sauce and vigorous squeezes of lime juice pull

East Sac Cielito Lindo Mexican Gastronomy Instead of cheese-blanketed entrees, diners here can order

upscale dishes such as enchiladas de mole: tortillas wrapped around amazingly moist, flavorful chicken, bathed in a housemade mole poblano. The sauce has a million wonderful flavors.

The portions here are quite generous. A green salad with fruits and nuts was big enough for a meal, even without the optional meat or seafood topping. The restaurant’s empanaditas de salpicon con papas are little turnovers standing up amid a drizzle of ancho sauce. The crust features a bit of leavening that makes it both crunchy and fluffy. The filling of beef, potatoes and vegetables tastes wellflavored and a bit spicy. Or try the tacos de arrachera—three soft tortillas enclose marinated strips of meltingly good steak, topped with roasted poblano chilies, lots of fresh cilantro and crema. They’re drippy, but worth every napkin. The menu is meatcentric, but the kitchen is vegetarian friendly as well. The crema de rajas poblanas, fully vegan and similar to a Mexican minestrone, is full of chickpeas, poblanos and onions in a rich broth uniquely flavored with vanilla and epazote. Mexican.

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beef marinated in soy sauce) plus veggies (diced green onion, cucumber and cilantro) wrapped in a large, flat carbohydrate crepe (a thin pancake made out of flour, water and green onion). Elsewhere on the menu, Yang’s eponymous noodles are homemade, alkaline and chewy. Chinese.

5860 Stockton Blvd., (916) 392-9988. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHHH J.M.

West Sacramento Wicked West Pizza & BBQ This popular destination for kids’ sports teams and birthday parties also caters to adult diners with good food and healthy options, such as organic whole-wheat crusts. Glutenfree and vegan choices are also available. With a texture closer to Chicago style than New York style, the pizzas are tasty but quite filling. Choose from house-made sauces and fresh toppings, or pick from one of the inventively named presets.

The Old Lady is especially good, with pesto, potatoes, spinach, lots of veggies and a zingy balsamic drizzle. The biggest secret here, though, is the barbecue. Wicked West delivers with shredded, tender meat that’s lightly smoky and tossed with a vinegar-based sauce. The pork ribs are dry-rubbed and toothsome, while the tri-tip is well cooked but leans toward a dry texture. The chicken is rubbed with olive oil and herbs and rotisserie-smoked to produce a moist and juicy result.

South Sac Yang’s Noodles This is perhaps the only place in town that serves niu rou jian bing (sliced beef rolls)—a specialty of northern China—and the ones at Yang’s hit the spot. This is basically the Chinese version of a burrito: meat (thinly sliced

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El Forastero Mexican Food The menu here resembles the type of Mexican food found in Southern California: a blend of American fast food, Tex-Mex and traditional Mexican dishes.

There’s menudo on weekends, but also french fries hiding inside burritos and buried underneath steaming piles of carne asada.

For a taco or torta filling, try the adobada, a pork marinated in a red chili sauce. Or, try two of the most famous San Diego-style Mexican dishes, both delicious but full of calories: the California burrito and carne asada fries.

The latter consists of a plate of fries topped with carne asada, cheese, sour cream and guacamole. A California burrito is basically an order of carne asada fries wrapped in a tortilla— which, surprisingly, isn’t even the fattiest-sounding dish on the menu. That distinction most likely belongs to the hangovercuring Super Breakfast burrito, with bacon, chorizo, ham, fries, eggs and cheese—all wrapped in a tortilla. It’s incredibly hearty.

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North Highlands Kim Son Mongolian BBQ Vietnamese & Chinese Food It’s difficult to rate Mongolian barbecue by regular reviewing standards, because it’s the diner who chooses the ingredients and seasoning and then gives them to the chef to prepare. But here’s what Kim Son does well: It stocks plenty of fresh veggies; thin slices of meat; thick,

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Casual Asian fusion seems to be hitting just the right notes around town. UC Davis students now have a source of latenight kimchee quesadillas that beat their wildest, at-home munchie-driven experiments: Tako Korean BBQ, the KoreanMexican spot on T Street, added a Davis location earlier this month called Tako Cantina. It took over the spot previously occupied by the straightlaced Mexican joint El Mariachi Taqueria at 400 G Street. Meanwhile, Midtown will get a taste of Elk Grove’s sushi-burrito king, Wrap N’ Roll, in April.

The restaurant is opening in the former TreyBCakes location (1801 L Street), offering saucy rice plates, salads, and Japanese-Mexican hybrids such as nachos with raw tuna, melted Jack cheese and edamame. And, of course, sushi burritos, which are in fact giant, burrito-sized sushi rolls.

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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.

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chewy chow mein noodles; about a dozen sauces (including cooking wine, ginger, teriyaki, and Sriracha sauces); and additional toppings (sesame seeds, minced garlic).

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Selections include stir-fried eggplant; curried chickpeas, lentils; and a creamy, spicy and hearty chicken tikka masala. Regular menu items include baba ghanoush, which tasted a bit bitter, and chicken kebab. The Mediterranean Nacho and chicken panini are examples of what the restaurant does well: culinary mashups that aren’t derivative, but instead rely heavily on flavor and innovation. The paninis are standouts: The bread is sweet, thicker than one might expect, and pressed nicely on a grill, with char marks on both sides. Mediterranean.

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A good teacher provides a context for growth in the knowledge required to build skills while simultaneously deconstructing stereotypes, piercing illusions and tipping sacred cows. The pushback can be intense and heartbreaking, but when real teaching is engaged, students of any age can develop qualities and capabilities like respect, resilience, compassion and creativity.

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For a few hours each month, I visit family or friends. I feel entitled to this time, but when I return home, I am on the receiving end of my husband’s anger. I wish he could send me out happily and welcome me back happily. Often, I can’t relax because I am anticipating his cold shoulder or snide comments when I return. I think his meanness is related to the loss of his parents and his unwillingness to face his feelings. He refuses to go to therapy.

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Your husband’s response to your outings seems extreme, even emotionally abusive. Yes, he might be mourning the loss of his parents.

But that is not a valid reason to control your brief and occasional visits with family or friends.

That said, let me add that grief is illogical. Your husband may be unaware that the death of his parents has triggered his fear of abandonment. He reacts to his lack of control over loss by attempting to keep you close. Since he refuses to see a therapist, invite a family member he respects to talk with him.

You must also manage your guilt. During outings, focus on where you are and who you are with, not on your (absent) husband.

When you return home, share your joy with him. If he is angry, don’t try to control him, let him have his feelings. But don’t permit his negativity to dampen your joy. Ί

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The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck’s sprawling, panoramic novel becomes a sprawling, panoramic show in this large-scale production by the UC Davis by Jeff Hudson Department of Theatre and Dance. The story follows the Joad clan as they depart Dust Bowl-stricken Oklahoma (where the bank has foreclosed on their struggling farm) and embark on a desperate odyssey to California, seeking jobs as fruit pickers.

Needless to say, things don’t work out the way they planned.

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The grapes of Wrath, 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; $12-$19. Main Theatre in Wright hall at uc Davis, 1 Shields Avenue in Davis; (530) 754-2787 http://arts.ucdavis. edu/theatre-dance.

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in at night to burn their squatters’ camp.

Also in the mix are discouraged family members who just wander off and disappear, wind and flood, and music encompassing sturdy hymns and the blues.

Strong performances include John Zibell (a doctoral candidate who’s been acting for decades) as Tom Joad, and JanLee Marshall (an MFA candidate) as resourceful Ma, taking setbacks in stride and making sacrifices to hold the struggling family together.

Director Miles Anderson (who grew up in what was Rhodesia and is now Zimbabwe) brings out the jarring social tensions in the story. Ω

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The Merry Wives

Big Idea Theatre brings Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor to a gold-rush town, with Jeffrey Lloyd Heatherly as a properly bombastic and outrageously funny Falstaff.

Directed by Angelina LaBarre, the show takes advantage of Big Idea’s strong, collaborative ensemble for a streamlined, funny production with high values—including excellent costumes (Laura Kaya) and set (Alex Slater). Th, F, Sa 8pm. Through 3/29. $10-$16. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.com. K.M.

4 Wrong for Each Other One thing you know you can count on when B Street Theatre tackles a Norm Foster comedy is that it will be funny, obviously, but also tender, touching and tight. Very tight. Not a second is wasted in the latest Foster show, Wrong for Each Other.

The warmhearted comedy, comfortable and nonthreatening in any way, tells the story of Norah (Melinda Parrett) and Rudy (Kurt Johnson), who met, fell in love, got married and then divorced. When they meet again nearly four years later, sort of by chance but more by stalking on Rudy’s part, the two flash back through the highs and lows of their relationship, adding comments in between those memories.

The actors do a sterling job throughout this now-and-then adventure. They’re shy and flirty upon first meeting, gradually becoming comfortably at ease and then on edge. Parrett gets the tone just right as the diffident, difficult-to-get-a-handle-on Norah, while Johnson is completely without artifice as the affable Rudy. How could an audience not root for these two to succeed? Spoiler alert: Whether they will remains undecided at play’s end, but there is hope. That’s another thing you can count on from Foster.

Director Lyndsay Burch, scene designer Samantha Reno, lighting designer Ron Madonia, and stage manager Anthony Poston have collaborated on a production that moves seamlessly in time and location.

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Romeo and Juliet

This production moves the setting to Prohibitionera New Jersey, but this tale of star-crossed lovers from rival dynasties remains funny in the bawdy first half, then tragic (as the bodies start piling up). Good chemistry between the young couple—it all happens so fast.

W 6:30pm; Th 12:30 & 6pm; F 8pm; Sa 2 & 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 3/23. $12-$31. Sacramento Theatre Company at the Wells Fargo

Pavilion, 1419 H St.; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. J.H.

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Seussical the Musical

The title alone should give a clue that even through this production is part of Runaway Stage Productions’ main season and not part of its Storybook Theatre children’s productions, it’s a show for the young crowd. It’s colorful, bright, features funny characters dressed in crazy costumes and full of songs backed by a live orchestra. The story is a bit disjointed, but the kids in a recent audience didn’t seem to care. It’s for kids or adults who are accompanied by a kid. There’s also great opportunity to bring the kids down to the orchestra pit before or during intermission to check out where the live music is coming from. F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 3/23. $18-$25.

Runaway Stage Productions at the 24th Street Theatre, 2791 24th St.; (916) 207-1226; www.runaway stage.com. P.R.

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This self-propelled startup company, operating in newly converted industrial space, ambitiously launches with a production of Anton Chekhov’s classic script from 1900—alternately comic and melancholic, philosophical and cosmic. The lovingly mounted little show is staged on a shoestring budget, but it delivers in artistic terms, and it’s a thrill to witness a successful small production of this great play. Th, F, Sa 7pm; Su 2:30pm.

Through 3/16. $10-$15. Art Theater of Davis, at Third Space, 946 Olive Dr. in Davis; www.facebook.com/ arttheaterofdavis; reserve tickets by email at art.theater.of.davis@ gmail.com. J.H.

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The cast of 27 ranges from children to older adults, and includes several master’s of fine arts and doctoral candidates (some quite experienced) in the leading roles.

There are scenes involving birth and death (violent and otherwise) and the body count rivals a Shakespeare tragedy. There are happy times as well: chance meetings between long-separated friends, big family meals cooked over a campfire. And social justice comes up often—talk of lawmen who side with landowners, heartless bankers confiscating land from impoverished farmers, screaming fruit pickers demanding a living wage and nameless goons who swoop

No, not hipsters: drifters, squatters and fruit pickers.

City Theatre presents John Steinbeck’s classic.

This production is an admirably ambitious undertaking with some good performances and imaginative staging. There are times, however, when all the production elements seem to swallow up the story, and we lose the intimacy of this tale of a Depression-era seaside town and its memorable characters. F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm; Sa 3/22 2pm. Through 3/23. $12-$15.

City Theatre in the Main Auditorium, Performing Arts Center at Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Blvd.; (916) 558-2174; www.citytheatre.net. P.R.

A good-looking (and goodsounding) Sacramento chamber choir.

Holy music Churches are known for having great acoustics, and this Saturday and Sunday, the Sacramento chamber choir Sacramento Master Singers takes advantage of the acoustics at the First United Methodist Church with a program called Mass2 (Mass Squared). The Master Singers were established in 1982 and are directed by Dr. Ralph Hughes. At this concert, the group will perform Ola Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass for choir and string orchestra, excerpts from Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir, and spirituals such as Moses Hogan’s “Elijah Rock” and Hall Johnson’s “Ain’t Got Time to Die.” Both shows are a tribute to Sacramento choir and orchestra director (Camellia Orchestra, River City Chorale, American River College) Walter Kerfoot , who will be in attendance on Sunday. $20, 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 15; and 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 16; at First United Methodist Church, 2100 J Street; (916) 788-7464; www.mastersingers.org.

—Jim Carnes

Wrong for Each Other, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday; 2 and 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday; 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday; 5 and 9 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; $23-$35. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. Through April 13.

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One of the best among many moments of unintentional hilarity in Noam Murro’s noisy and stupid 300: Rise of an Empire is almost a throwaway line. by Daniel Barnes As an Athenian general surveys his chiseled and battle-worn troops, all of whom appear to have wandered out of a 1980s Bowflex commercial and into a gladiator-themed stag film, he remarks with a straight face, “Not bad for a bunch of farmers, poets and sculptors.”

OK, so 300: Rise of an Empire isn’t exactly Double Indemnity in terms of snappy dialogue and complex characters, but that’s not the problem here. The problem is that in terms of being a hyperstylized, dreamily captivating, deliriously homophobic and homoerotic bit of action kink, it’s not exactly Zack Snyder’s 2006 original 300, either.

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It is easy to decry 300 now, since it created Snyder’s career and forged his cinematic identity, and that hasn’t worked out well for anyone but him. Despite a flood of imitators, though, 300 remains a powerful visual experience, and there are enough disturbing elements in it to undercut the heroic tableaus and blatant Persian-baiting.

In creating and fetishizing an ancient universe of institutionalized masochism, sexual degradation and corruption, Snyder makes you wonder if his Sparta is even worth protecting.

300: Rise of an Empire has no such transgressive ambitions and mostly seems content to hurtle strawberry-jamlike globules of freshly drawn platelets at the viewer’s retinas over and over again. Snyder’s gaudy kinkiness is mostly gone, and instead we get endless and mindless slow-motion, hand-to-hand slaughter, with the persistent “thwamp!” from the Junkie XL score signifying that this cartoonish mayhem is really serious stuff.

The plot places 300: Rise of an Empire at the vanguard of franchise-film story-tending. It’s not a prequel, but it fleshes out the backstory of the “God King” Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro, one of a handful of returning actors). It’s also not a sequel, although the third act takes place after the Spartan defeat. It’s also not a reboot, even as it

slavishly attempts to recreate the look and feel of the original.

Like The Bourne Legacy, 300: Rise of an Empire is more of a “parallel-quel,” telling a narrative that operates side by side with the already established storyline, while occasionally interweaving some of those new elements into the franchise’s mythology. It’s really quite annoying.

This 300 parallel-quel follows Themistokles, a personality-free war hero who leads the Athenian armies against the massive Persian fleet. Themistokles is played by Australian actor Sullivan Stapleton, and he’s matched by French actress Eva Green as the leather-bustierclad Persian commander. More accurately, the unmemorable Stapleton is completely overmatched by Green, who savors every purple word of Snyder and Kurt Johnstad’s dopey screenplay as though they were stuck between her teeth.

Her Artemisia is a long-suffering Greek orphan and slave taken in by the Persians and trained to kill, and she still seeks vengeance for her suffering. Snyder only co-wrote and co-produced 300: Rise of an Empire, but it still continues his appalling treatment of women, offering the same repulsive, rape-as-femaleempowerment viewpoint he peddled in Sucker Punch and Watchmen.

After Themistokles kills the Persian king, the revenge-minded Artemisia urges his son Xerxes to reinvent himself as a God. Wandering the desert, he enters a hermit’s cave and submerges his scrawny frame and shaggy visage in a pool of supernatural something or other. He re-emerges as the bald and bedazzled giant we know from the first film, overly complicated facial jewelry and all. Apparently, the ancient demons of the underworld are hella into eyebrow piercings.

Zack Snyder only co-wrote and co-produced 300: Rise of an Empire, but it still continues his appalling treatment of women.

In contrast to the grueling ground war of 300, most of the fighting here takes place on the water, and the action choreography is just outlandish enough to make the Pirates of the Caribbean movies look like naval-history documentaries. At one point, a fleet of gigantic Persian warships ride in on a hundred-foot-tall, crestless tidal wave that allows them to charge down on their opponents like Gandalf at Helm’s Deep.

If only the rest of 300: Rise of an Empire was as idiotically over-the-top as that image.

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The U.S. Army’s Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section, tasked during World War II with retrieving millions of artworks stolen by the Nazis, is somehow turned into a movie in praise of stars Matt Damon and George Clooney (the latter also directed and co-wrote with Grant Heslov, from Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter’s book), making the section’s fine work look like a 1940s prequel to Ocean’s 11. It also reduces the 400 workers from 13 nations to a handful of Americans (John Goodman, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban) with a few token Europeans (Cate Blanchett, Hugh Bonneville, Jean Dujardin). False notes abound—words to a song that weren’t written until 1954, etc.—and, as usual, Clooney’s preening vanity gives him all the best lines. J.L.

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This pulse-deadening thriller from director Jaume Collet-Serra (Unknown) would like to be an airborne thrill ride, but it only manages to capture the claustrophobic tedium of a transoceanic flight. Liam Neeson phones in another growl-and-glower job as Bill Marks, a blearily alcoholic federal air marshal who begins receiving midair text messages from a passenger threatening to murder people.

Marks tramples all over the passengers’ rights in his attempt to uncover the killer, whose plan appears to implicate the troubled air marshal.

The setup is just Ten Little Indians goes techno, and much like last year’s dismal The Fifth Estate, Non-Stop is convinced that watching people play with their cellphones is the apex of suspense.

Collet-Serra hints at an insipid political consciousness, but the reveal of the killers and their motives is so pointless, it may as well have been determined by a dice roll. D.B.

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Director Rob Minkoff and writer Craig Wright (with additional dialogue by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon) demonstrate yet again—as if we needed more proof—the folly of turning six-minute cartoons into 92-minute features. The old “Peabody’s Improbable History” segments of The Bullwinkle Show had lousy animation but clever writing; the movie reverses the equation, and it’s not a fair trade. In an apparent nod to animal-rights advocates, Sherman is promoted from Peabody’s “pet boy” to his “adopted son,” and that’s all Minkoff and Wright need to turn the movie into a maudlin wallow on the meaning of parenthood. Along the way, they cluck their tongues over that other family issue, school bullies. Ty Burrell and Max Charles provide the voices of Peabody and Sherman, and they’re all wrong. J.L.

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The life of Jesus Christ (Diogo Morgado) is depicted here from Nativity to Resurrection. As a devotion, the movie will comfort believers with its sincerity, but as drama it’s low watt.

There are casual anachronisms—talk of Roman “occupation” (a term lifted from Jesus Christ Superstar, of all places), and Jesus has not followers but “supporters,” as if he’s a candidate for something. Director Christopher Spencer leans heavily on extreme close-ups to conceal the picture’s limited budget (much of which was apparently spent on a CGI model of Jerusalem).

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In the doomed city of the ancient Roman Empire, a Celtic gladiator (Kit Harington) falls for a freeborn woman (Emily Browning) who has caught the eye of a powerful senator (Kiefer Sutherland). Lee and Janet Scott Batchler’s script flaunts its ignorance of history (“OK,” says one slave. Elsewhere, Browning snaps, “I’m a citizen of Pompeii!” No, honey, you’re a citizen of Rome who lives in Pompeii). The model isn’t Roman history, it’s James Cameron’s Titanic— but Harington isn’t Leonardo DiCaprio and Browning isn’t Kate Winslet (at least Sutherland isn’t Billy Zane). Director Paul W.S. Anderson strains credulity by having Harington defeat foe after foe, each of whom outweighs him by a good 30 pounds. The final destruction is enjoyably cheesy—and that’s really all we came to see. J.L.

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In 2005, a team of Navy SEALs (Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster) drops into the Afghan mountains to ambush a high-level Taliban warlord—but are ambushed themselves, unable to call in air support or rescue. Based on a real operation, the movie has grueling scenes of combat, some of the most realistic and harrowing ever seen.

But writer-director Peter Berg and writer Patrick Robinson (adapting the memoir by Marcus Luttrell, the “lone survivor” of the title) never get around to establishing the characters as individuals. This makes the closing array of names rather confusing. Besides, the title is the ultimate spoiler, so there’s little suspense.

We know only one will survive, and since only Wahlberg is billed above the title … J.L.

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Software inventor and lifelong tinkerer Tim Jenison of San Antonio, Texas, got an idea in his head that the great 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer might have used some simple yet clever gadgets to produce his almost photorealistic masterpieces. Acting on his theory, Jenison set out to see if he could duplicate one of Vermeer’s paintings (“The Music Lesson”) using only materials that were available to the Dutch master 300-plus years ago. His friends, the comedy-magic duo Penn & Teller, intrigued by the idea, decided— with Teller directing and Penn Jillette producing and narrating—to record the progress of Jenison’s project. The result is a short but sweet documentary, entertaining and stimulating in the way it explores the intersection between technology and the artistic temperament. J.L.

Given the many cinematic atrocities that have been produced by Hasbro in recent years, it is completely understandable to approach The Lego Movie with a certain amount of suspicion and dread. However, this is as wildly imaginative and fun as any film you’re likely to see this year, even if it is based entirely on corporate synergy. Written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs), The Lego Movie concerns a lonely conformist (Chris Pratt, extremely personable) mistaken for a prophecy-fulfilling rebel savior. The film never takes its mumbo-jumbo seriously, opting instead to focus on giddily anarchic comedy, a childlike sense of visual invention, and a copyright-protected wet dream of supporting players. The only missteps are made in the third act, as that childlike wonder is literalized, and madness is sacrificed at the altar of lesson-learning. D.B.

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Two attractive singles (Michael Ealy, Joy Bryant) get fixed up by their best friends (Kevin Hart, Regina Hall), and a one-night stand turns serious: love, move in, crisis, break up.

Meanwhile, each huddles up periodically with his or her pal to puzzle over dealing with the opposite sex. Directed by Steve Pink and written

by Leslye Headland, this remake of the 1986 Demi Moore and Rob Lowe movie (both loosely based on David Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago) is a rueful Valentine candy box, blithely profane, but essentially sweet and very funny. Ealy and Bryant are appealing, though they mainly play straight-man to Hart and Hall. Hart’s staccato schtick plays much better in a supporting role, and Hall matches him line for yammering line.

They’re hilarious: This could be the beginning of a great rom-com team. J.L.

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Although the revolting 3 Days to Kill is basically a revamp of French au-turd Luc Besson’s lousy 2013 film The Family, this movie is so awful it makes The Family seem good enough to have not been based on a Besson script. As supposedly directed by McG, 3 Days to Kill stars Kevin Costner as grizzled CIA killer-for-hire Ethan Renner.

After learning he has inoperable cancer, Ethan reunites with his estranged wife and daughter, but a mysterious agent (Amber Heard, playing one of the most asinine characters in recent memory) lures him back with the promise of a life-saving cure.

Ethan’s ex-wife divorced him out of mortal fear, yet she immediately departs for a business trip the second he shows up, leaving her only daughter with this near-stranger and career murderer. “She’s a good mother,” growls Ethan. Agree to disagree! D.B.

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Two single dudes (Zac Efron, Miles Teller) and their divorce-bound pal (Michael B. Jordan) swear off serious relationships with women—but each of them quickly backslides into what might develop into a real romance.

This flimsy update of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost was written and directed by Tom Gormican, whose experience consists of only two pictures, including this one. Gormican shows aptitude, but apparently it’s more from paying attention in screenwriting class than from observing people in real life: His script is so arch and self-consciously clever that the jokes sound stale even as we hear them for the first time. Efron and Teller do what they can (Jordan is underused), but the women make a stronger impression: Imogen Poots as Efron’s match and (especially) Mackenzie Davis as Teller’s. J.L.

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There’s something exciting in finding out your album has been considered one of the year’s best by a respected music magazine. by Aaron Carnes That’s precisely what happened to local pop band Desario in 2012, when the music magazine The Big Takeover not only gave the band’s sophomore release Mixer a rave review, but also named it one of its top 30 albums of the year. The list included also included acts such as Ken Stringfellow, Guided by Voices and the Wedding Present, the latter a band particularly loved by several members of Desario.

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The band’s new batch of material, which the band has yet to record, consists of songs that are shorter, leaner and more focused than previous efforts. This change wasn’t entirely the result of critics, however: The addition of Kirk Cox, the band’s new drummer, also prompted the shift. “[Cox] comes from a different background.

He grew up playing hardcore, [and] he was in power-pop bands,” Conley said. “He definitely comes from a more aggressive music background.”

The band’s songwriting process has also changed. Until recently, all material was written together at band practices or in jam sessions. Post Mixer, however, the process has changed.

Now members bring in completed or partially written songs. “[Before, songwriting] was literally somebody noodling around with, whether it be a drum riff, a guitar riff or whatever, and we’d be like, ‘Hey, keep playing that,’” Yoas said.

As it turned out, this new approach meant more material.

So far, Desario has written 15 tracks—too many for one album.

The plan now, Conley said, is to save a few for future projects.

“We’d like to do two releases—maybe two shorter full-lengths, or maybe an EP and an album,” he said. “We’re going to track everything and see how the songs fit together. The songs will tell us how they want to be released.”

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The members of Desario finally see the light.

Catch Desario’s songs—the long and the short of them—at 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 22, at Old Ironsides, located at 1901 10th Street.

The cover is $6, and Sherman Baker and Bye Bye Blackbird are also on the bill. Check the band out at www.facebook.com/ desarioband.

“It was great, especially considering the company,” said singer-guitarist John Conley.

Certainly, Desario was worthy of its spot.

Mixer is an atmospheric indie-rock album with lush dueling guitar work and ’80s drum grooves in the vein of the Jesus and Mary Chain. The songs exude a laid-back sound, in no rush to finish, but instead dwelling in gorgeous swells and repetitive post-punk riffs. Throughout, Conley sings softly along, accenting the guitar work, rather than singing on top of it.

Not all reviewers were as kind to Desario, however. While most were generally positive, some offered criticism, namely that the songs were on the long side.

The members of Desario didn’t disagree— the average length of a song on Mixer, after all, clocked in around five minutes.

“I recorded that record, and after listening to it so many times, as we were wrapping it up, I felt the same way,” said guitarist Mike Yoas. “I love these songs ... but they tend to go on, and they go to a lot of different places.

As a band, it’s just where we were.”

And so the members of Desario thought long and hard about that feedback as they started writing new material.

“ We like to do something different all the time, without totally going off the map.”

Mike Yoas guitarist, Desario Such writing, as it turns out, also lends itself to songs that have a light, easy jam feel—like those on Desario’s first two albums.

With the band’s new tracks, however, more thoughtful tinkering means more structure with songs that rely less on texture and more on chord changes.

Still, the sonic changes are by no means dramatic.

“I think ... we were ready for a change, not a major change, not a calculated change,” Yoas said. “We like to do something different all the time, without totally going off the map.” Ω

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What’s in the water at Pour House?: Local singer-songwriter and 2013 Sammies Artist of the Year winner James Cavern finally made his national TV debut on the March 4 episode of The Voice.

Cavern performed Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” but, unfortunately, none of the celebrity judges turned their chairs.

Adam Levine, citing Gaye as maybe his all-time favorite artist, said the late soul singer was a hard artist to cover. And Usher offered this: “If you don’t live up to or either exceed expectations, it can’t benefit you. … [But] you did add something that was different. You have that raspy tone that Marvin adds every so often. … I want to hear more of that.”

Cavern revealed it was a show mentor who advised he “tone down” that rasp, and if he had the chance to do it again, he’d listen to his gut.

“But I didn’t leave feeling any ill will at all,” Cavern said. “Why would I complain? I just got professional feedback.”

Cavern is currently on tour with Arden Park Roots. Check out his website for more info (www.james cavern.com).

Meanwhile, the show offered a better outcome for singer-songwriter Jeremy Briggs, who performed on the show’s February 24 premiere. The state worker by day was introduced with a clip that showcased Sacramento (including footage of him performing at Pour House which, incidentally, is where Cavern hosts a weekly music jam). After, Briggs belted out a soulful rendition of Bad Company’s “Bad Company.”

The performance earned chair turns from both Blake Shelton and Shakira, the latter of whom praised Briggs’ powerful voice but also his “control and technique.” Briggs picked Shakira as his mentor. Follow Briggs’ progess on the show at www.nbc.com/the-voice/artists/ season-6/jeremy-briggs.

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It was hard to tell if Shady Lady patrons were present for the band— White on bass with other performers on trumpet, drums and keys—or for the venue’s expert old fashioneds. But a number of people were clearly captivated, nodding their heads, tapping their feet, and, eventually, swinging their partners in circles at the foot of the stage. Perhaps jazz isn’t quite dead in Sacramento after all.

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Jazz is dead: Any given week, you can usually find something—multiple events—to satisfy your live folk, rock, blues, hip-hop, pop, punk, metal cravings. But jazz? Ick. Pickings are slim or nonexistent.

I had a friend visiting from New York a couple weeks ago. As a strangely hotshot saxophonist, he went on and on about his young, contemporary jazz scene, which mixes in classical, indie rock and electronic styles to create something worth saving.

Worth saving to people who don’t like jazz, that is.

For the past few years, magazines have been plagued with “Is Jazz Dead?” headlines. Some point to the lack of pianos in bars—removed to create more space for paying binge drinkers—or the rebranding of jazz as some highbrow form of art.

Meanwhile, its enduring fan base is aging and dwindling.

Anyway, my friend made me remember that I love jazz, and that I’ve missed it, and hell, where can I even hear it live it in Sacramento?

Here’s your answer: Every third Thursday of the month, Beatnik Studios hosts a jazz night with West Coast touring talent. But only once a month?

Less than ideal for spontaneous whims.

There’s also an open jazz jam at Shine cafe on Tuesday nights, and a monthly evening with the Bay Area’s Ice Age Jazztet. And Ross Hammond has hosted a jazz series on Mondays at Luna’s Café & Juice Bar for years.

But enthusiasts still miss the longgone jazz nights at Capitol Garage, once bursting with now-departed student talent.

New Orleans jazz is on the rise around here in forms of big brass bands—Element Brass Band, City of Trees Brass Band—and some national up-and-coming acts that have recently toured through— Dustbowl Revival, Mother Falcon— and drawn enormous crowds. They feature brass sections and jazzy elements, melded with bluegrass, swing, indie rock or hip-hop.

But for that dark, cool, easy feeling that you can really only get from a traditional live trio in a dim nightclub, you have at least one reliable option: Harley White Jr. at the Shady Lady Saloon, every other Wednesday at 9 p.m.

White has been around years—so long that it’s easy to forget we have such a badass staple sharing his music so often for free. Last week in Shady Lady’s chandelier-lit, vintage red-wallpaper-adorned, craft-cocktailfueled space, White’s old-school swagger felt just right.

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Crocker Art Museum, 5 p.m., $10 Through the influence of such musicians as James Brown, George Clinton, and Sly & the Family Stone, funk has spread its seed to FUNK pretty much every corner of the popular-music world. It certainly reached Groovincible (pictured) and Idea Team, two Sacramento groups that’ll be participating in the next Crocker Art Museum Art Mix program, titled Funk Springs Eternal.

The event will also feature funk-inspired art, a deejay set from FFFreak and B-boying demos from the Outsiders Crew. Plus, grab some funk vinyl at a pop-up record shop, and listen to the ultratextured sounds of funk music on the analog medium for which it was first recorded.

216 O Street, www.crockerartmuseum.org.

If Jon Arbuckle (Garfield’s human) or Lawrence Welk come to mind when accordion music is mentioned, then a surprise awaits when Those Darn Accordions mix it up on originals and covers of rock standards like Charlie Daniels’ “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” complete with accordion showdown, and Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love.” Fronted by Paul Rogers and Suzanne Garrmone with Michael Messer on drums and Lewis Wallace on bass, Those Darn Accordions have a sense of humor that is ROCK featured in their song “The Story of Lawrence Welk.” The Mad Maggies joining Those Darn Accordions on their Alive and Squeezing tour. 13 Main Street in Winters, www.thosedarnaccordions.com.

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Miners Foundry Cultural Center, 7 p.m., $12-$15 How do people that just aren’t that into Celtic music celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? Well, for punk rockers, the answer is to head over to Nevada City and enjoy six great punk-rock bands. Headlining the event is Sacramento’s Dog Party (pictured), which has been blowing up as of late.

PUNK ROCK The Ramones-loving garage-rocking sisters write superfun, infectious punk-rock songs that rock harder than 95 percent of the other so-called punk bands. Another highlight is Shinobu, a criminally underrated, neurotic, brainy jangle-punk quartet from San Jose. The rest of the lineup includes some loud local talent: Pug Skullz, Alarms, Slutzville and the Devil’s Train. 325 Spring Street in Nevada City, www.minersfoundry.org.

Bob Hope Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $52.45-$90.85 Steve Martin’s love for bluegrass goes back to his teens: He’d slow down records to learn the notes. The comedian BLUEGRASS won a Grammy Award playing on an Earl Scruggs instrumental in 2001, then won his own for his 2009 bluegrass debut The Crow: New Songs for the Five String Banjo. North Carolina’s Steep Canyon Rangers already had a following when they jammed with Martin and Edie Brickell at a party in 1992. It led to a tour as Martin’s backing band and the 2011 collaboration Rare Bird Alert. It possesses a fall flavor, the orange and burntumber leaves dappled with bright melodies, like sunlight through the branches. 242 E. Main Street in Stockton, http://stevemartin.com.

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Off Center Stage, 8 p.m., $10-$12 Of the 50 or so people that have at one point joined Adam Kline’s Nevada City indie-pop project Golden Shoulders, a couple are pretty big names in their own right (like Joanna Newsom and Little Wings’ Kyle Field).

Even though the lineup is in constant flux, the sound isn’t. Kline is a Beatles fanatic, but adds a dash of awkward (Pavement, Violent Femmes, etc.), a splash of country folk and just a pinch of ’70s prog rock. Kline has a sharp, commanding voice. The songs have a dreamy, atmospheric quality, a straightforward rock ’n’ roll attack, INDIE POP and are always just a joy to listen to. 315 Richardson Street in Grass Valley, www.goldenshoulders.com.

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Beatnik Studios, 3 p.m., $15-$20

Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, 2:30 p.m., $5-$10 Founded in 2001 by director Les Lehr, the 60-member Sacramento Symphonic Winds perform rock, jazz and show tunes. In its spring offering, the ensemble presents Broadway! Opening with West Side Story (1957, CLASSICAL Leonard Bernstein) and closing with the challenging The Cowboys (1972, John Williams), this performance includes some of the bestloved works of the 20th century. Vocalists Sue Geddes and James Gentry join the winds on Oklahoma! (1943, Richard Rodgers), and flutist Morgan Thomas is featured on Flute Concertino, Opus 107 (1902, Cécile Chaminade).

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For a Sunday-afternoon foot stomping, check out the Grammy Award-nominated, Louisianabased Magnolia Sisters in celebration of their March release, Love’s Lies. Equipped with accordions, fiddles, concertinas and rubboards, the band plays Cajun and Creole styles, as well as dancehall standards, porch ballads and all-string tunes from the 1930s.

Four ladies—Ann Savoy, Jane Vidrine, Anya Burgess and Lisa Trahan—make up the band, which notably puts a feminine, CAJUN soulful spin on an otherwise male-dominated style. While all talented, Savoy in particular boasts a wealth of accomplishments: award-winning books, multiple Grammy nominations and an appearance in The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

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The Sword recently surpassed a decade of bringing “stoner” metal to the masses.

The genre embraces a retro approach to heavy music. In the Sword’s case, think heavily distorted early Black Sabbath meets Southern rock with intricate METAL Iron Maiden guitar harmonies. Hailing from Austin, Texas, the band’s toured almost nonstop since the release of its fourth album, 2012’s Apocryphon. While songs like “Freya” and “Tres Brujas” are mainstays in its epic sets, the Sword has also branched out into the world of gastronomy, with a hot sauce called Tears of Fire. Opening will be Big Business, a formidable group whose two founding members have spent considerable time playing in Melvins.

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101 Main St., Roseville; (916) 774-0505 1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

THE BOARDWALK

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

314 W. Main St., Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384

CLAIRE LYNCH BAND, KATHY BARWICK, PETE SIEGFRIED; 7:30pm, $20-$22

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BILLY BUCKMAN, TAMRA GODEY; 7:30pm, $8

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DJ Anthony Vincent, 9pm, call for cover

DJ Romeo Rayes, 9pm, call for cover

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Dueling Pianos, 9pm, no cover

594 Main St., Placerville; (530) 642-8481 1016 K St., (916) 737-5770 1022 K St., (916) 737-5999

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2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

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STEVE MCLANE, 8pm, no cover

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 3/17-3/19 PROTEST THE HERO, BATTLECROSS, SAFETY FIRE, INTERVALS; 6pm M, $16

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DELTA CITY RAMBLERS, THE COFFIS BROTHERS, MATT SERTICH; 9pm, $5

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Community Music Jam, 6pm M, no cover

SOL SEED, 9pm, no cover

MUSICAL CHARIS, 9pm Tu, no cover

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

Queer Idol, 9pm M, no cover; Latin night, 9pm Tu, $5; DJ Alazzawi, 9pm W, $3 PIKEYS, BOBBY & THE KENNEDYS; 5:30pm M, $2-$10; Pub Quiz, Tu; Northern Soul, W

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

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5681 Lonetree Blvd., Rocklin; (916) 626-6366

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FOREVERLAND, 10pm, $15

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

HALFPENCE AND HAYPENNY, THE CRUX, BILLY BUCKMAN; 8pm, $5

THE SCARVES, MARTY COHEN & THE SIDEKICKS; 8pm, $5

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908 K St., (916) 446-4361

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BLACKEYED DEMPSEYS, 8pm, $8

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TWO TRACK MIND, RICHIE LAWRENCE; 8:30pm, $5

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693 1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931

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GALACTIC, 9pm Tu, $32.50-$35; THE SWORD, BIG BUSINESS; 8pm W, $20-$25 Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M, $5-$20; Comedy night, 8pm W, $6

Showcase Sundays, 7pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm M; Greatest Stories Ever Told, 8pm Tu; TIMOTHY H., 9pm W, $5

SWORN VENGEANCE, HOODS, HAVENSIDE; 4:30-11pm, $12-$15

EDM $5, 9pm M; Swing dancing lessons $6, 7:30p Tu; Salsa lessons, 7:30pm W

STEVE KOTAREK, THE MOLLYMAWKS; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz, 8pm M; ANDREW CASTRO, COLIN BONDINE, CORY NORRIS; 8:30pm W, $5

1000 K Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

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670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731 13 Main St., Winters; (530) 795-1825

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 3/17-3/19 Karaoke w/ Sac City Entertainment, 9pm Tu, no cover; Open-mic, 9pm W, no cover

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STEPPING STONE, 9pm, no cover

502 29th St., (916) 446-3624

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

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

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Rock On! live-band karaoke, 8pm Tu, no cover

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MC HAM, DJ Gourmet; 9pm, no cover

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

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

Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

SAC STORYTELLERS, M, $5; THE BALLANTYNES, Tu, $6; IRON CHIC, W, $7

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DJ Ezra, 9pm Tu, call for cover; HARLEY WHITE JR., 9pm W, no cover

2030 P St., (916) 444-7914 1409 R St., (916) 231-9121

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Microphone Mondays, 6pm M, $1-$2; KUMBIA QUEERS, 8pm Tu, $10

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

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

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

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm, no cover

JOHNNY KNOX, 5:30pm, no cover; MIND X, 9pm, $8

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At this juncture in your life story, Aries, it might be healing for you to make a similar declaration. Now is an excellent moment to say a final goodbye to plot twists that you wished would have happened but never did. To do so will free up stuck energy that will then become available for future projects. You may even awaken to exciting possibilities you haven’t imagined yet.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In May

2011, two Nepali men reached the top of Mount Everest after a six-week climb.

Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa and Sano Babu Sunuwar had prepared an unprecedented way to get back down off the mountain.

Strapping themselves to a single parachute, they leaped off and paraglided for 45 minutes, landing near a Sherpa village thousands of feet below the summit. I suggest you look around for a metaphorical version of a shortcut like that, Taurus.

Don’t do the next part of the journey the same way you did the previous phase.

Take a more direct route. Enjoy an alternate adventure. Give yourself a fresh challenge.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Seeking

wisdom and chasing after pleasure are polar opposites, right? You must devote yourself to either one or the other, correct? You can be an enlightened servant of the greater good or else an exuberant hedonist in quest of joy, but not both.

True? No. No. No. False. Wrong. Here’s the bigger truth: Now and then, grace periods come along when you can become smarter and kinder by exploring the mysteries of feeling really good. Can you guess when the next of these grace periods will arrive for you, Gemini? Here’s the answer: It’s here now!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Humans

walked on the moon before anyone ever had the simple idea to put wheels on suitcases. Unbelievable, right? Until 1972, three years after astronauts first walked on the lunar surface, travelers in airports and train stations had to carry and drag wheelless containers full of their belongings. I suspect that a comparable out-ofsequence thing may be going on in your own life, Cancerian. In some ways you are totally up-to-date, and in other ways you are lagging behind. Now would be a good time to identify any discrepancies and start correcting them. Metaphorically speaking, I’d love you to have rolling luggage by the next time you take a journey.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Have you ever

heard of Sasquatch, also known as Bigfoot? You know, one of those big, hairy, humanoid beasts that walks upright and lives in dense forests? Scientists assure us that there is no such thing. But then they used to say the same thing about the platypus. It was a myth, they declared; a figment of explorers’ vivid imaginations.

A duck-billed, egg-laying mammal simply could not exist. When the respected British zoologist George Shaw claimed there was indeed such a creature, he was mocked by his contemporaries. Eventually, though, the truth emerged, and Shaw was vindicated. I suspect that you Leos will soon experience an event akin to the discovery and confirmation that the platypus is real.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Kyoka is a

Japanese word that means “a flower reflected in a mirror”. I suggest you use it as a metaphor to help you understand what’s happening in your life right now.

Here are some clues to jump-start your ruminations. Are you more focused on the image of what you love than on what you love? If so, is there anything wrong with that, or is it perfectly fine? Are you more interested in ephemeral beauty that you can admire from afar than in tangible beauty you can actually touch? If so, is there anything wrong with that, or is it perfectly fine? Should you turn away from a dreamy surrogate and turn toward the real thing? If so, why?

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You won’t

be the recipient of good luck in the coming days. Nor will you experience bad luck or dumb luck or weird luck. No, Scorpio.

The serendipitous slew of synchronicities that will slip and slide into your sphere requires a new word, which I have coined for this occasion. That word is “shluck.”

Shluck is a cracked yet plucky sort of backward luck that provides you with an abundance of curious slack. Shluck slings your way a series of happy accidents and curious coincidences that give you experiences you didn’t even realize you needed.

To take maximum advantage of shluck’s benefits, you have to dispense with your agendas and drop your expectations.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

In the old fairy tale “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” the poor woodcutter Ali Baba is collecting firewood in the forest when he spies a gang of thieves bragging about their exploits. Observing them from a hiding place, he hears them chant a phrase, “Open sesame.” This magically unseals the opening to a cave that happens to be full of their stolen treasure. Later, when the thieves have departed, Ali Baba goes to the cave and says “Open sesame” himself.

The hocus-pocus works. He slips into the cave and steals a bag of gold from the robbers’ plunder. This story has resemblances to an adventure you could enjoy sometime soon, Sagittarius. I suspect you may discover your own version of “open sesame.” It will give you access to a less literal and more legitimate bounty.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Your ability to heal rifts and bridge gaps is unusually high. You could connect seemingly irreconcilable elements and forge apparently impossible links. Former allies who have become estranged might be moved to bond again through your compassionate intervention. I’m not promising amazingly miraculous feats of unification, but I’m not ruling them out, either. You have a sixth sense about how to create interesting mixtures by applying just the right amount of pressure and offering just the right kind of tenderness.

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

friend Harry said he wanted to teach me to play golf. “Are you kidding?” I asked him incredulously. “The dullest game on the planet?” He tried to convince me that it would provide lots of interesting metaphors I could use in writing horoscopes.

“Name one,” I challenged him. He told me that “Volkswagen” is a slang term that describes what happens when a golfer makes an awkward shot that nevertheless turns out to be quite good. “Hmm,” I replied. “That is exactly the theme I have decided on for the Aquarius horoscope.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you

remember being in your mother’s womb?

Probably not. But here’s what I know about that time: In the first few weeks after you were conceived, your body grew at a very rapid rate. Once you were born, if you had continued to expand and develop with that much vigor, you would literally have grown to be as big as a mountain by now. So let’s be thankful you slowed down. But I do want to sound an alert and let you know that you are currently in a growth spurt with some metaphorical resemblances to that original eruption. It’s basically a good thing.

Just be aware that you may experience growing pains.

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The kid gets in the pictures When he’s not busy playing PingPong or video games, El Dorado Hills resident Matthew Zhang spends a lot of time in Los Angeles where he takes improv-comedy classes, performs stand-up comedy, and hits up film and TV auditions. This month, the 11-year-old actor squares off against Jason Bateman in the new spellingbee comedy Bad Words, scheduled for limited release on March 14, and opening in theaters nationally on March 28. Zhang, whose résumé includes various sitcoms and cartoons, has only been acting for three years, but he’s already got designs to write a screenplay. You know, just like any other preteen.

What was it like shooting Bad Words?

It was really fun to work with Jason Bateman. [I was] on set for two days, and then [Bateman] wanted me to add some stuff to [my part], and he gave me a sandwich. I really don’t want to give anything else away, though.

Fair enough. What else have you done?

I had a recurring role on Back in the Game with James Caan on ABC. It was really fun.

That was my first big TV show, and there were a lot of other kids on the set.

Is that cool when there are a lot of kids to hang out with while you shoot?

Yeah, we hang out, [but] some of us have to do school and homework. I do independent study, and that usually takes three to five hours a day.

Favorite subject?

History. It’s entertaining, not boring. I like to read. I like the Harry Potter series, Holes and Chronicles of Narnia.

Do you have any other hobbies?

I play a lot of Minecraft. I also play PingPong when I’m at home in Sacramento.

Are you a Kings fan?

Or do you root for the Lakers now?

I like tennis—I used to play; I don’t really like basketball.

Do you like spending so much time in L.A.?

I like L.A., because the weather is always so warm, but that’s about all I like. Well, I like the acting.

But you like Sacramento better?

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It’s a million-dollar deal.

You’ve probably met a lot of famous people— who was your favorite?

What’s next?

I’m really interested in writing scripts. For now, I want to be an actor—I don’t know if I’m smart enough to be a director.

I saw Jackie Chan at a movie screening once, but he was kind of in a hurry.

I’m sure you’re smart enough—what about college?

What actors do you admire?

I want to go to the [University of Southern California in Los Angeles] and study acting and screenwriting.

Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-Fat and Russell Peters. Also, Jason Bateman—I love Arrested Development, but I’m probably not supposed to say that because I’m only 11. I really liked Will Arnett, too, in The Lego Movie.

You’ve done voice-over work for a new Nickelodeon animated series Bad Seeds.

What’s that like?

Voice-over acting is really relaxing. You go in, and it only takes 40 minutes and then you’re done.

Why stand-up comedy?

I love being funny. I saw Russell Peters’ stand-up material, and thought, “I want to be just like him.” Now I [do] improv and also perform my own material.

How do you develop your jokes?

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Did you follow his lead into the profession?

Yes. He has a movie called Space Warriors, and he was also in The Avengers. But we both started acting at the same time, actually.

Is there sibling rivalry?

Not really. Sometimes we go for the same roles, but it just depends on what the [filmmakers] want. He’s 15, and I’m 11, and sometimes there are roles that fit one of us better.

So, you’re not competitive?

No, we both get the money, so it doesn’t matter who gets the part.

Who’s the better actor?

Well, everybody’s entitled to their own opinion, but I’d say I am.

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