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Carmageddon Soon, Sacramento will find itself in the throes of a full-scale Carmageddon.

At least that’s what commuters are bracing for on the eve of the Highway 50 lane closures scheduled for April 22 through June 25.

The purpose: Caltrans will reinforce and repair sections of the W/X Viaduct stretch that runs through downtown. Built in 1968, the concrete decks that skirt above the edge of Midtown and downtown are plagued by extensive cracking, according to Caltrans officials. In addition to repairs, other “rehabilitation” fixes will include new concrete barriers and railings, and improved, energyefficient lighting standards.

The work—at least three lanes on the eastbound portion of the freeway will be closed from April 22, through May 21, with three westbound lanes scheduled to follow from May 27, through June 25—will impact all nearby traffic, not just the W/X portion.

That’s right, Interstate 5, Business 80 and probably most of the nearby main traffic arteries, will teem with cars—the thought of which has sent many drivers into a panic about traffic jams and painfully extended commutes.

I understand the freak-out. I live near the heart of the scheduled repairs. But while I’m sure my neighborhood streets will look mighty ugly, it’s time for everyone (me included) to just calm down already.

The fixes are scheduled to last approximately two months—a minor inconvenience, sure, but it’s also an opportunity to build healthier, more environmentally friendly commuting habits.

Carpool. Take the bus or light rail.

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I don’t agree with it, but a lot of kids wear them to school. My kids don’t. It’s a generational thing. I should say I’ve worn my pajama pants to the doughnut shop before in the early morning on a weekend. But now, people wear them everywhere. It’s bizarre.

It’s acceptable [to wear] to do errands near your house.

I think as long as you’re comfortable, it doesn’t matter what you wear. If you want to wear pajamas all day, that’s fine. But typically, people look at you like,“Oh, wow, you just came out of the house.” To run little errands here and there, sure.

Never. Why would you wear pajamas out? I always get dressed when I’m going out, even if it’s just, like, to the gas station or to take the garbage out. I think it’s sloppy. I judge people and make fun of them when I see it, not to their face, but they might see me pointing at them, “What are you doing?”

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Sacramento struggles to understand its ‘hybrid’ gang problem as social media sparks violence Nine days before allegedly participating in an ambush of a music rival inside of Arden by Fair mall—one that sparked a series of Raheem gang shootings across the city—south F. Hosseini Sacramento rapper Donald “Lavish D” Oliver granted a rare interview to the ra he emh@ newsreview.c om Siccness, a website dedicated to hip-hop and the beefs that feed it.

The March 6 parley with Siccness Radio co-host Coop D’Vill is revealing. Over the course of nearly 54 uninterrupted minutes, the 29-year-old Oliver whipsaws between defiance and agitation in describing his ongoing problems with local rappers, police and basically anyone who doesn’t rep his gang-plagued Mack Road corridor.

“You can’t be right here unless you know somebody,” he told D’Vill. “And don’t say you know Lav, ’cause everybody know Lav. Nigga, you better name one of the homeys.”

The obsession with respect—and our 21st-century way of communicating it—is at the center of a reawakened gangland feud between south Sacramento and Oak Park groups that’s run bullet-hot and cadavercold since the mid-1980s, according to Sacramento Police Department officials.

“These two gangs have been a problem for our city for a long time,” police Chief Sam Somers Jr. told the Sacramento City Council last week.

What’s different, however, is the rapid speed at which social media drives intergang strife to a tipping point, until it spills into real-world gun violence.

“We’ve moved into an area where we don’t know what the hell is going on,” said James Hernandez, a Sacramento State University criminal-justice professor who testifies as an expert in gang cases.

The online quarreling serves a specific purpose, he added. “There’s nothing really within the gang to hold them together,” he said. “And if you have an enemy, it basically does that.”

From March 15-22, Sacramento police recorded eight shootings in total, with 11 victims. Three shootings and six victims were linked to the Arden Fair mall beating of a reported member of Oak Park rapper Mozzy’s crew. On March 15, police believe Oliver and six others attacked a young man they pegged as a rival inside the north Sacramento mall. Video of the assault hit BEFORE

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In his April 1 presentation to the city council, Somers said investigators traced the antagonism back to an online beef waged on YouTube. “They were just doing it in the virtual mode,” he said. “But those were the things that led up to the incidents that occurred on the 15th, where we had those shootings throughout the city of Sacramento.”

The following week, Oliver posted on Twitter, making light of the wanted photos of him and four others distributed through media outlets and Sacramento Crime Alert, a tip-gathering website. “#STARS my face all im the news. So im on the run,” one tweet reads.

“There is a question if they are gangs or just groups of violent friends.”

James Hernandez Sacramento State University criminal-justice professor Just as quickly, the violence halted, and those believed responsible went underground, Somers said. “Which is part of the problem that we have when we’re dealing with gangs today,” he added.

Police are still searching for suspects in the beating and clues in the shootings.

It’s not an entirely new problem.

At last week’s council meeting, longtime advocate Rhonda Erwin reminded elected officials of a summit they organized in the troubled Valley Hi neighborhood in 2006, where an at-risk youth came asking for a job. Last week, that young man’s mugshot was one of five plastered on the front page STORY

of The Sacramento Bee in connection with the Arden Fair mall incident.

“It seems as though we’re not really putting the efforts forward that we should be to address this,” she said. “I don’t know.

This is really discouraging, because we have lost a lot of young people, both to death and to arrest.”

A couple of years ago, Somers said police teamed with community partners to quell these two Sacramento gangs through its Cease Fire gang-prevention program.

A panel of faith leaders, neighborhood residents, former gang members and law-enforcement authorities explained the consequences of continued violence and were able to triage the situation for a while, Somers said.

Cease Fire wasn’t built to sustain a permanent peace, however, authorities say. The city council defunded the program late last year, and it’s been replaced with Cops and Clergy, which teams police and influential pastors in the community. The teams drop in on at-risk youth and adults at their homes, schools and, sometimes, jail, where they link them up with resources and try to develop personal relationships.

“We are letting these kids know that we are all partnering together to help them fly straight,” said police Lt. Roman Murrietta, who spearheads the program. “It’s a partnership that should have happened a long time ago.”

More than anything, the year-old partnership is about getting troubled neighborhoods to look to the police as partners, rather than as an occupying force.

“It’s about developing trust,” said Officer Michele Gigante, a Sacramento Police Department spokeswoman. “And that’s huge. Trust is huge.”

It can also be a hard-won commodity for a city that has validated some 4,700 residents as gang members.

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Somers told the council the two hybrid groups at the middle of last month’s violence would be “the target of our investigations long-term.” He said the Sacramento County district attorney’s office had agreed to pursue sentence-increasing gang enhancements and that the department was hoping to steer more gang cases to the U.S. attorney’s office, “because you get real time at the federal level, as opposed to what’s occurring here at the local level.”

In the meantime, the hunt for Oliver and friends continues.

The Oakland-born rapper told the Siccness he moved to Sacramento at a young age, and that authorities forced him and his fellow gang members out of their G Parkway neighborhood a decade ago to a place he refers to as “South Sac Iraq.”

“We still outside, we still rockin,’” Oliver said during the interview. “We a different kind of breed.”

The district attorney’s office filed one felony assault count against Oliver on March 21. He has yet to appear in court for an arraignment. The charge carries with it a maximum sentence of four years in state prison.

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As the city moves closer to approving McKinley Village, one council member demands changes that could derail the project The city’s largest infill development in years is close to becoming a reality.

Sacramento’s planning and design by board unanimously approved Nick Miller the proposed 336-home East n ic kam@ Sacramento community McKinley newsreview.c om Village late last month. After nearly six years of work, the Phil Angelides led project appeared poised for approval by the city council when it discusses the project in a few weeks on April 29.

a deal breaker for any council member, why didn’t the city staff aggressively pursue it earlier in the process?

City associate planner Evan Compton said that a third vehicle access point isn’t being required because two is sufficient. “We’re comfortable with the two access points,” he told SN&R. The city’s report on traffic impacts concurs: The thousands PHOTO BY SN&R STAFF

But then, Councilman Steve Cohn spoke up.

Cohn, who represents East Sacramento, told SN&R this week that he would not vote to approve the project unless an entrance tunnel for cars is built under the railroad tracks at Alhambra Boulevard and B Street.

There are already two planned vehicle entrances to McKinley Village near 40th Street and 28th Street. But Cohn says the 3,500 car trips a day through East Sac and Midtown will be too disruptive. “[McKinley Village] has created this firestorm by really forcing the traffic onto very quiet streets,” Cohn said.

This tunnel-vision ultimatum comes at the eleventh hour.

Environmental-impact reports are complete. The city’s Planning and Design Commission has chimed in and voted. Dozens of town halls and outreach meetings have gone down over the past six years.

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of new car trips in Midtown and East Sacramento that will happen because of McKinley won’t negatively impinge what’s referred to as the “level of service,” or amount of traffic, in the neighborhoods surrounding McKinley Village’s entrances. Things will still flow smoothly, the report surmises.

“With the two access points we have, they really work extraordinarily well from a traffic perspective,” Angelides said. The planning commission agreed with its 13-0 vote on March 27.

But Cohn says the big problem is the traffic study only looks at the impact on drivers, not residents. “It doesn’t measure impact on a quiet neighborhood street,” he said. If McKinley is built and thousands of cars pass through the narrow, sleepy roads near 40th Street, it will change the tenor of the neighborhood, he argues.

There’s precedent for this. In 1997, Cohn worked on the Midtown Traffic Plan. The impact report said everything would run smoothly,

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and that traffic impacts would not be significant. But the reality on D Street and other Midtown blocks was “like a nightmare,” the council member said. Cohn said it’s frustrating that city staff didn’t look into these sort of real-world traffic impacts for McKinley Village more aggressively.

The city did commission a feasibility study for a possible vehicular underpass at the Union Pacific railroad tracks near Alhambra Boulevard. The verdict: It would be a challenge to execute.

And costly.

“We’re not even clear if it could be built,” Angelides said of the tunnel. He also explained that if it were possible to construct, the costs would “kill the project.”

Cohn rejects this. “If that is true, I think it might illustrate the problem with that site,” he said of Angelides’ claim.

“[McKinley Village] has created this firestorm by really forcing the traffic onto very quiet streets.”

Steve Cohn Sacramento City Councilman Angelides, who has worked on the $160 million project since late 2007, counters that the demand for a third entrance point would have to “restart the process,” which could increase risk for investors.

He says Cohn’s opposition is “wholly political at this point.”

Cohn is locked in a race for state Assembly, and East Sac residents are all potential voters.

“This is not typical NIMBY behavior,” Cohn said. “People are willing to accept appropriate infill development.”

Angelides said it’s classic NIMBYism—with a twist. “It’s a more elegant way for them to be against infill development without being against it. They get to be for something.” Ω

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As recently as five years ago, UC Davis biologist Mourad Gabriel said he could freely roam the woods tracking radiocollared bobcats and Pacific fishers, an endangered weasellike predator, across the Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada. But the increasingly common presence of gun-toting weed growers is making that a dangerous proposition.

More than once, Gabriel or his colleagues have been chased or shot at, and at least one biologist has been captured and interrogated by pot growers, he said.

The marijuana industry is booming from what is called the “green rush,” and numerous plantations are appearing on public lands. In places, trees are cut down, and seasonal camps are built to accommodate growers, who often live on-site for the summer growing season and may guard their plantations with firearms.

As a result, Gabriel and his colleagues only conduct field work while accompanied by armed state and federal agents during the April-November growing season, and they avoid certain areas altogether where growers are suspected to be present. “Between 10 and 25 percent of our project area can’t be monitored at all during the growing season,” Gabriel said.

Marijuana growers don’t only threaten the safety of scientists. They use rodent poison in their grows and this has become a significant cause of death for nontarget species that sometimes eat culled rats and mice.

Gabriel has spent a decade observing fishers’ behavior and making regional population assessments. He said between 80 and 90 percent of fishers found dead in his study regions have contained rodent poison in their systems. He warns that the animals themselves and the ability of scientists to track them are being compromised by marijuana farmers.

“They have completely hindered our capacity to conduct science for the protection of an imperiled species,” he said.

(Alastair Bland)

Full-contact golf File this one under “First World problems.”

Two golfers got their clubs bent out of shape over poor etiquette last month in Sacramento County. Then, they beat the snot out of each other.

“Wait until you hear what it started about,” said Sgt. Lisa R. Bowman, spokeswoman for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department.

The dispute started around 8 a.m. on March 16, when a trio of putters skipped the group in front of it at WildHawk Golf Club on Vineyard Road, Bowman explained. This sparked an argument between the skipper and the skipped, one that got all yuppie-gangsta when a 54-year-old man whacked a 25-yearold man with a golf club.

It was the elder golfer’s group that skipped the younger man’s, Bowman said. According to a sheriff’s department incident summary, the accosted 25-year-old armed himself with a broken club and lashed out at his assailant’s golf partner, who tried to disarm him. The 54-year-old—described as 6-foot-4 and 220 pounds—then knotted his smaller opponent in a headlock, punched him and dragged him to the green. It took several people to separate the pair.

Both combatants were transported to the hospital, but neither was arrested. Deputies recorded multiple witness statements and forwarded the case to the Sacramento County district attorney’s office, which doesn’t typically prosecute these types of scraps. “We have not heard the outcome yet,” Bowman said on April 3.

This may be one instance where it’s better to blame the players, not the game. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

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SCORE KEEPER Sacramento’s winners and losers—with arbitrary points

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Sacramento County’s district attorney race got ugly last week, with candidate Anne Marie Schubert accusing rival Maggy Krell of mishandling a humantrafficking case. Meanwhile, Scorekeeper wants to know why all the candidates seem to focus on is human trafficking and not issues like realignment.

Sacramento Regional Transit held its annual State of RT presentation last week. There was exciting news (see Jeff vonKaenel’s Greenlight column, page 20). But one thing not discussed at the meeting was a recent story in The Atlantic on the price paid for public transportation. “The reason local agencies seem to need so many fare increases is that they do a poor job keeping the price of taking a ride near the cost of providing it,” the article says. Scorekeeper also worries that light-rail extension will lead to increased costs.

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1975. They were active in Warehouse Ministries for many years and met Pastor Bob at BOSS (Bayside of South Sacramento). They followed him when he opened The House – A Bayside Church, in Midtown and were two of the founding members. Steve and Beth like being part of an urban downtown church where they enjoy the warm, inclusive and authentic atmosphere.

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The intersection of J and 16th streets just got more exciting: The owners of Burgers and Brew purchased the shuttered Purgatory Restaurant & Lounge nightclub at that corner, and they plan to open a brewery at the spot sometime next year.

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A big huzzah to Auburn’s Knee Deep Brewing Co., whose Citra IPA beer took the grand prize and audience award at The Bistro’s IPA Festival in the Bay Area this past weekend.

That’s like winning the Oscars of beer. Nice job!

Scorekeeper appreciates the Midtown Farmers Market on Saturday. But do we really need the acoustic-guitar dude covering Bob Marley and Matchbox Twenty songs? I just want some oranges and kale.

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AT&T stymies government access It’s the media battle no one is watching. No one except Bites and maybe a few fans of public-access television and televised local-government meetings. Maybe them. Ah, well, you knew what you were getting into when you decided to read this column.

After several years, the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission has given up the good fight against AT&T VIN AR G and its shoddy treatment of local public, o SM

by Co education and governmental access cos mog@ n ewsrev iew.c om channels.

The so-called PEG channels include Metro Cable Channel 14, which shows city council and school-board meetings, and public-television station KVIE’s second channel, KVIE 7, and all of Access Sacramento’s programming on Channels 17 and 18, everything from high-school sports to political shows like Jeanie Keltner’s Soapbox!

AT&T’s U-verse service shunts all of those channels—along with the PEG channels coming from neighboring counties—into Channel 99, which isn’t really a channel at all, but an “app” that makes it impossible to find the PEG channels in the regular program guide, and prevents users from recording any programming with their digital video recorder (see “Public-access ghetto” SN&R Bites; September 5, 2013).

It used to be worse. At first, AT&T wouldn’t include closed-captioning service on those channels, and the picture quality was horrendous. And recently, the PEG channels were down for several days for local U-verse customers. No one seemed to notice.

Advocates for public media call Channel 99 the “PEG ghetto,” and the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission, along with the cities of Los Angeles and El Segundo, sued AT&T to get the telecom giant to comply with state law requiring equal access to these channels.

Well, a settlement has now been reached.

And in exchange for dropping the lawsuit, Sacramento and the other cities will get, well, not much.

In Sacramento, the Channel 99 PEG ghetto will be supplemented by another “app,” Channel 14, which will contain just the Sacramento County PEG channels. This is not in any way better than the current situation— and it will still block recording of government meetings and other PEG programming for U-verse customers.

AT&T has also agreed to set up a monitoring station so the cable commission can actually find out when the PEG channels go down. Weirdly enough, U-verse service currently doesn’t reach the cable commission offices.

Cable commission lawyer Harriet Steiner said the settlement followed from the realization that AT&T was going to keep dragging the case out, and that years of appeals and mounting legal costs were likely. “It became clear it

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The Sacramento City Unified School District is still looking for a new superintendent after the old one, Jonathan P. Raymond, pulled a midyear disappearing act. Raymond was an autocrat; with the support of a good-old-boy school board, he shut parents, employees and taxpayers out of key decisions.

Now the school district wants to know, what qualities do you want to see in a new superintendent? The school district is so serious about public input that it held one public meeting this week. Also, a SurveyMonkey survey has been posted online, which you might stumble upon if you happened to be checking the district’s website. Truly, a new day of transparency and public engagement at SCUSD. Bites will fill it out later, and perhaps suggest a superintendent who doesn’t blow off interview requests, as current interim Superintendent Sara Noguchi has done. And maybe someone who will follow the California Public Records Act, which the current administration does not. Your suggestions may vary.

“On the batterfield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a Nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no Veteran behind.”

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Advocates for public media call Channel 99 the “PEG ghetto.”

Raymond’s right-hand man, school board president Patrick Kennedy, is moving on, too, rolling an all-but-unopposed election as county supervisor this June. Not too many $100,000a-year jobs out there, free for the asking. But Kennedy’s got a knack for that kind of thing.

So far, the theme of the Kennedy campaign seems to be “Patrick Kennedy!” His Facebook page and Twitter feed carefully avoid any substantive issues. Not a peep about sprawl or income inequality or affordable housing.

Kennedy was at one time a vocal skeptic about the city’s arena scheme; he’s been quiet about that, too, now that Region Builders is backing his noncampaign.

After the umpteenth post about the latest endorsement from some chamber of commerce group or establishment politician, or invitation to yet another campaign fundraiser, Bites posted a comment on Kennedy’s Facebook, asking what any democracy enthusiast ought to be asking: “Is this campaign about anything?” and questioning how Kennedy’s policies will be different than his predecessor, developer darling Jimmie Yee. The comment was immediately deleted, and Bites was blocked from making further comments. So, there you go. Kennedy’s campaign is completely vacuous—but at least he’s totally thin-skinned about it. Ω

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A vision of urban streetcars A cool city starts with a cool transit system I am a newspaper publisher. This means I go to many events. While the subject matter differs—economic development, health care, youth issues—the formats are very similar. First, you mingle for about 30 minutes. Then, you go into a big room for a meal, where you talk to your tablemates, and then you hear a presentation or speech. Often there are awards. I have even received some of these awards.

Sometimes you are given a fair amount of dense information with no time to reflect on that information. After the breakfast, lunch or dinner, you are immediately returned back into l your regular life. It is easy to forget whatever was

by Jeff VonkAene presented at the event. j e ffv @n e wsr e v ie w.c o m However, this was not the case at the sixth annual State of RT Breakfast held last Friday at the Hyatt Regency Sacramento. I had plenty of time to reflect on the importance of Regional Transit and its partners developing an effective transportation strategy while sitting in my car in the Hyatt parking structure.

As my car moved ever so slowly toward the exit, RT’s vision of urban streetcars running every 10 minutes came into sharp focus for me.

If our streetcars ran every 10 minutes, then the average wait would be five minutes. As I waited to get out of the parking structure, I thought about cities I loved to visit—New York City; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; and Portland, Ore.—all of which have great transportation systems. And cities I do not like to visit—Los Angeles, Phoenix, Atlanta— all of which have crummy If our streetcars ran transportation systems. Part of what makes a city fun is every 10 minutes, the ease of getting around.

Finally, I reached the then the average tollbooth, where the friendly wait would be Hyatt employee told me the for the privilege of my five minutes. cost car visiting their parking structure for several hours.

Sixteen dollars. For a person making minimum wage, this would represent one-fourth of their daily take-home pay. Luckily, I received a partial discount because I Visit attended a Hyatt event. Nevertheless, this parking fee www.sacrt.com brought home the critical need for urban dwellers for Sacramento and urban visitors to be able to move around our city transit information and resources. without a car.

And, fortunately, this is the plan. Sacramento Regional Transit District CEO and general manager Mike Wiley presented a vision for RT and for Sacramento that includes streetcars running from West Sacramento Jeff vonkaenel through downtown, an extension of the RT lines with is the president, links to the community colleges and the airport, a CEO and regional transit hub at the train station, and more. This majority owner of the News & Review vision would enable transit to be a viable option for newspapers in nearly all of our residents and visitors. This plan looked Sacramento, Chico very exciting, sitting with a full stomach in the Hyatt and Reno. parking structure. And it looked very affordable when I paid my parking fee. Ω

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K.J.’s white whale

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We hadn’t intended to weigh in on the “strong mayor” measure yet, but recent events pushed it to the front of the list.

At a public forum at SEIU Local 100’s union hall last month, reporters were excluded—except for one who snuck in early. SN&R’s Raheem F. Hosseini and The Sacramento Bee’s Ryan Lillis were denied entrance.

This might mean a number of things, but we’re leaning toward an explanation that puts the buck right on Mayor Kevin Johnson’s desk, where it ought to stop. His continual insistence that he needs increased executive power—stronger than the governor or the president—in order to make Sacramento a “world-class city” has been rejected, and not just by this paper.

But like a certain one-legged sea captain in search of an elusive white cetacean, K.J. just seems unable to let go of this idea.

He’s failed to prove that it’s necessary; his own success with the Sacramento Kings ownership is evidence to the opposite. He’s been unwilling to allow the strong-mayor system to start after he leaves office, which would be proof positive that he genuinely thinks it’s a good idea for the city and not just a good idea for him. And now, he’s giving every appearance of trying to get his electoral troops in order outside the view of the public.

Frankly, we think the mayor needs to put away his harpoon. Let others—not his surrogates, please— make the arguments for executive mayor. If this is anything more than a personal obsession, it’s time for K.J. to put the principle ahead of his own larger-thanlife personality. Ω

A couchsurfer’s guide to Sacramento

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Sometimes you just need a good stranger in your life to he had some wild stories to tell. He hitchhiked shake things up. and bused, but mostly walked, to Sacramento by Mine arrived a couple weeks ago. He wore from San Diego. It took about nine weeks, and Janelle Bitker a hooded sweatshirt, baggy jeans and tennis he said his favorite part was trekking for days shoes, with a guitar case and massive backon end through sand. He was very tan. pack strapped around his body. He ate someOf course, hosting Devin conjured up the one’s leftover spaghetti with his fingers—he usual reminders that life is not about posseslicked them clean before we hugged. sions, jobs can be left and the world ought to “Can you believe someone just gave me be explored. But it also came with the responthis spaghetti?” he said, laughing. “And sibility of showing off Sacramento. I told him earlier, I was buskabout our trees and beer and ing in Old Sac, and farm-fresh food and knack This was about someone just gave me a for producing metal bands. I hamburger.” brought him to my cooperative breaking free This was my home in Midtown with housecouchsurfer, Devin. from the bubbles mates doing acro-yoga in the Yes, “couchsurfer” living room and kale growing of Midtown and is one word with no in the backyard. hyphen. As in, Devin At the same time, couchsurfing. found me through the Sacramento was Devin’s first website www.couch inland California destination. surfing.org. For the uninitiated, it’s a website This had to be an exposure to new cultures. where travelers can link up with local resiFor both of us. This was about breaking dents for a place to crash. Hosts find reward in free from the bubbles of Midtown and meeting someone from a different world. And couchsurfing.

An online version of this even if backgrounds aren’t that different, it We went line dancing. I refused to ride the essay can be found at mechanical bull, but I still left feeling a little www.newsreview.com/ takes a certain type to want to meet strangers more local. Meanwhile, Devin’s perceptions sacramento/ in such an intimate, immediately trusting way. pageburner/blogs. Lasting friendships are often born. of Sacramento are probably totally weird, and Devin is from New Hampshire, which is it’s probably all my fault. not exactly a foreign cultural landscape. But Hippie slop for dinner, cowboy boots for dessert. Ω BEFORE

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As of March 31, the deadline for signing up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, some 7.1 million Americans had opted to do so, meeting the goal set by the Obama administration—despite the massive obstructionism created by Republicans and the initial meltdown of the federal website.

Americans are beginning to realize that “Obamacare” is working. Millions of formerly uninsured people now have the peace of mind of knowing that health care is available and affordable. Those with pre-existing medical conditions now can obtain insurance. Women are charged no more than men.

More good news: Costs are coming down. In a recent report, the Congressional Budget Office noted that the ACA is fostering fiscal responsibility; were it repealed today, federal deficits would increase by $1.7 trillion over the next 20 years, the CBO estimates.

And the ACA is saving money in other ways.

Hospital administrators across the country know how insistent the law is when it comes to reducing the number of Medicare readmissions. Each one costs $12,000 on average, and since January 2012, there have been 130,000 fewer readmissions. Do the math.

Transforming the American medical system is a huge undertaking. The Affordable Care Act isn’t perfect, and it will need tweaking as it goes along. But it’s on its way to becoming one of the foundational programs—like Social Security and Medicare—that make America better for everyone, including those who continue to obtain their health insurance through their employer. Ω |

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ocal city council candidate Julius Cherry just wanted to create a little buzz. The retired fire chief is new to the world of political campaigns, so when he met with his advisers to come up with a slogan, the team settled on the following. Cherry says it has a ring to it: “I’m not the Mayor’s favorite candidate ... but I’d like to be yours.”

The race to represent Sacramento City Council’s District 7 includes former Oakland Raider Rick Jennings, schoolteacher Abe Snobar and retired fire chief Julius Cherry. Jennings and Cherry’s fundraising and endorsements are neck and neck—Snobar is in a distant third.

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He explained the aftermath while munching on steak and eggs during a late lunch this past week.

“I’ve gotten some grief from people,” he says. It is the first thing visitors see on his campaign website.

“I mean no disrespect by it. But I’m not sure my opponent thinks that.”

Nonprofit executive director and former Oakland Raider Rick Jennings is the rival in question. He does in fact take insult at Cherry’s jab, which he calls divisive.

“He wants to tie me to the mayor as a yes vote, as the mayor’s vote, as the mayor’s bitch,” Jennings says.

So goes Mayor Kevin Johnson’s increasingly politicized Sacramento.

Jennings and Cherry both live in south Sacramento’s Pocket community, going on decades. Both raised their children there. Both men are nearly the same age. Both have raised tens of thousands of dollars to run to succeed Councilman Darrell Fong. Both earned big-name local endorsements. It’s as competitive a race as Sacramento has seen in years.

The battleground, District 7 itself, has it all: heritage neighborhoods, not-in-my-backyard residents, old-school businesses, vacant storefronts, a beautiful river, a contentious new development, gang violence. The region consists of the Pocket, Greenhaven and Valley Hi, all often overlooked

He also remembers his stepfather, who wanted to become a police officer. He passed the test, and later a man came by the house.

This man explained that if his stepfather could contribute $500 to a campaign, he’d likely get a call from the police department.

“Today, we’re appalled by that story,” Cherry says, “but at the time, my stepfather wasn’t upset because they asked for $500. He was upset that he didn’t have $500.”

This is one reason why Cherry doesn’t believe in the strong-mayor initiative, in placing all the power in one person.

“Let me make this very clear: I’m not suggesting anybody in Sacramento is corrupt.

What I’m saying is a patronage system sets up an environment for corruption.” That’s why he’s “fundamentally against” the executivemayor model.

But that’s not why the Vietnam War veteran, Sacramento resident of 42 years, attorney and retired fireman of three decades is running for office. His “No. 1 issue, bar none, unequivocal, is long-term financial stability.”

Cherry, 59, was Sacramento Fire Department chief from 2004 to 2007. “On the city’s executive team, we for years have discussed the fact that there’s a structural deficit.”

What he means is that the city is constantly juggling to make ends meet. Some years, the economy is good and revenue is up. Others, times are rough and public safety, libraries, parks and more face major cuts.

“The whole boom-bust cycle is not OK,” he says.

He also worries the city’s finances are bound to get worse—and soon.

Consider Measure U funds—or revenue from a tax increase that was passed in 2012 to help pay for basic services—would expire just after Cherry’s first term, if elected. That same year, additional liabilities for public-employee health care and pensions will jump onto the books as well. And the new Sacramento Kings arena bond payments will add some $20 million annually into the debt mix.

“You’re not going to cut your way out of this problem,” Cherry says.

Back in District 7, he says his other two main priorities will be to restore basic services and increase revenue by growing the local tax base. This means ending fire-station brownouts, getting more police in the neighborhoods, and using his influence as council member to direct “sunshine” on issues such as gangs.

The city council race to represent Pocket, Greenhaven and Valley Hi is unabashedly political. But the overlooked communities also face real issues, like gangs and blight, that impact the rest of the city.

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communities when it comes to big-picture Sacramento. But now, with less than 60 days until the June 3 election, heads are turned.

SN&R met with the three candidates—yes, there’s a third, a schoolteacher named Abe Snobar— who all spoke of a deep pride for and commitment to their sometimes forgotten neighborhoods. There are endemic problems that the city as a whole can no longer afford to neglect.

“Sacramento will not become great until there is better connectivity” to these neighborhoods, says Snobar.

At least now the district is getting a little buzz.

THe FIReman As a young boy in Gary, Indiana, Julius Cherry remembers driving on the freeway into Chicago, some 25 miles away. There was a sign, “Mayor Daley Welcomes You to Chicago.” It remained there for decades: while growing up, when he left to join the Air Force, when he’d come back to visit. The adults called it “The Daley Machine.”

“And you were either inside the machine or outside the machine,” Cherry says.

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According to the city’s most recent campaign-finance reports, Cherry leads all District 7 candidates in fundraising, bringing nearly $83,000. In addition to the coffers, he’s garnered endorsements from Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg; county Supervisor Phil Serna; three current council members, including incumbent Fong; former Mayor Heather Fargo; most local Democratic Party groups and labor unions; and the firefighters’ union.

Will he be able to stand up to the firefighters when seated at the budget-negotiation table?

“I love the firefighters, no question about it.

I spent my life in that career. … But they don’t expect me to give them any more consideration than anyone else. And that’s just how we’ll approach it.”

Unlike the mayor and other council members, Cherry also says he will never accept behest-type donations. “I’m very skeptical of that. I’m concerned about the appearance,” he says, citing the drama over Walton family donations to city leaders and the big-box ordinance vote last year.

He says he’s ready to roll up his sleeves and do the hard work. There’s a lot of it. “But I’m very optimistic about our future,” he says.

THe RaIdeR As a teenager, Rick Jennings says he was into “stupid stuff, girls and gangs.” But his Uncle Tommy got his ear one day and changed his trajectory. Jennings ended up at the University of Maryland, and became the first college graduate in his family, and later played for the 1976 Oakland Raiders Super Bowl team.

After the Raiders won the big game, owner Al Davis called Jennings into his office. “How did you negotiate your contract?” Davis asked him. Jennings told him that before the season began, he did his homework to find out what other comparable players were making. “And I’m going to be honest, I bumped it up a little,” he told Davis.

“Well, you cheated yourself,” Davis responded. Then he handed Jennings an envelope with his bonus for winning the Super Bowl—and an extra $10,000. Jennings says this moment taught him about integrity and character.

After the NFL, Jennings moved to the Pocket. “Same house since 1986, same wife since 1978,” he says. He worked for Xerox, where he climbed the corporate ladder, earning upwards of $180,000 a year. “But I wasn’t making a difference. I was suffering.”

So he quit corporate American in the ’90s to work for Kevin Johnson as executive director of the St. HOPE Academy, the now-mayor’s Oak Park-based nonprofit. In 1996, Jennings was nominated to the Sacramento City Unified School District board, where he would serve for 12 years and was instrumental in driving the contentious plan to turn Sacramento High School into an independent charter.

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Rick Jennings (right) is a celebrated nonprofit executive and former school-board member. But he says everything in life so far has prepared him to run for office.

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“But everything has prepared me for this,” Jennings says of his run for public office.

Jennings says he walks 10,000 steps a day, which adds up to about 4-and-a-half miles. This afternoon, he walks from his nonprofit’s headquarters a few blocks to SN&R’s office, also located on Del Paso Boulevard, where he settles in for an hourlong interview. The 60-year-old Baptist, in a purple collared shirt and slacks, still appears in game shape.

He says if elected, he will work to be a coalition builder in District 7. “That takes a workhorse, not a show horse,” he says.

One of his priorities is public safety, he says, and a big issue in the Pocket now is the bike-trail expansion along the Sacramento River. “Most people feel strongly that the river should be open to the community,” he says. But some riverfront homeowners worry that crime will increase if the riverbank is opened up to the public. Jennings walked the river recently, studied police reports, spoke with neighbors. Turns out, data shows that in places where the river access is open to the public, there’s “not a significant spike in crime,” he says.

His campaign fundraising nearly equals that of Cherry. He’s taken in more than $64,000, including major donations from the police union, AT&T and the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce’s PAC. His endorsements include outgoing Supervisor Jimmie Yee, District Attorney Jan Scully, four current city council members and former Councilman Robbie Waters.

But it’s one endorsement, Mayor Kevin Johnson’s, that’s causing the biggest buzz.

Abe Snobar moved to Valley Hi in 1986, at age 13, and still lives there to this day. “I always say that I was

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raised by District 7,” the candidate likes to say. He went to Valley High School, where he played football, and he eventually graduated from Sacramento State University. He’s taught at five area schools, including elementary and special education, and quite possibly possesses more Valley Hi pride than all other residents combined.

But, he admits, Valley Hi has a retention problem.

“It’s a transient neighborhood,” he says. “People build up the pride, move away, then never come back.” He and the other candidates concede that there’s not a lot of reasons to stay. Snobar’s two daughters even live in Elk Grove with his ex-wife most of the time.

Crime is a major issue. The perception is that Valley Hi is not safe. Even Valley High School itself is surrounded by not one, but two fences. “You put a cage up, and now you’re going to create a sense of feeling trapped,” Snobar says of his alma mater.

Administrators tell him the fence isn’t for the students—it’s to keep out the neighborhood. “But what does that say about the neighborhood, then?”

Snobar will be the first to tell you that he’s “not a politician, but a schoolteacher,” his profession for the past 16 years. (Except this campaign year; he’s taking it off, working as a wine salesperson on the side.) But because he’s spent so many years in the schools, he understands that Sacramento’s leaders need to have a special patience with Valley Hi. For example, Valley Hi residents speak a whopping 72 different languages, he says. Mien, Hmong, Russian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese— and on and on. A community center near Franklin Boulevard and Cosumnes River Boulevard could be a place to bridge this language gap, he says. “We need to create a place where the neighborhood can have a connection.”

Donors haven’t connected with Snobar’s campaign so far; he’s raised less than $4,000. He has yet to collect any big-ticket endorsements, either. But he’s not running on money or word-of-mouth.

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Abe Snobar doesn’t have a lot of campaign cash or political support.

But he does have unequaled passion for District 7.

“We’ve got to get out in front of this,” says Jennings. He’d like to see more forums, town halls and increased opportunities for residents to speak out about gang issues.

The former athlete also says sports leagues, which are lacking in District 7, could help. “Kids need opportunities outside of gangs at an early age.”

Both Snobar and Cherry agree that increased patrols due to Measure U funding will help. As a former fire chief, Cherry understands that it sometimes takes a year-and-a-half to get new hires up and serving neighborhoods, he says; the city started training new police recruits late last spring.

One reason gang businesses of drug-dealing and prostitution take root in neighborhoods such as Valley Hi is because everyday retail shops disappeared during the recession.

Blight welcomes crime.

“Closing of businesses is a big issue,” Snobar says.

And the shutterings continue. He rattles them off: Denny’s on Mack Road, Albertson’s, K-Mart, Target.

“And every small shop on the Raley’s side [of Mack], except the tire shop, Taco Bell and Togo’s.”

Snobar is District 7’s Wikipedia.

A solution is for the city to make its administrative processes more business friendly.

“The fees are high, and the red tape is too much for people to overcome. We need to make it easier for people to open businesses, and they will come,” Snobar says.

Both Snobar and Jennings are pro-arena and view it as an asset for District 7. Snobar is even a Kings

“What we’re seeing is an accelerated politicization of sacramento.”

Julius Cherry Sacramento City Council candidate season-ticket holder. But that doesn’t mean he would have given the arena a rubber stamp. “I also believe in the people’s right to vote,” he says.

Like strong mayor, the arena is a citywide issue that clearly splits Cherry and Jennings.

“When you take a resource like underused parking spots and turn them into an arena, I’m excited by that,” Jennings says of the project. “One of the things that has affected our ability to be a great city is that we haven’t taken care of our urban core.”

Cherry isn’t against the concept of an arena as a catalyst, but says taxpayers are taking on too much risk.

But the biggest risk of all to the fate of District 7 could be Delta Shores, a proposed new megadevelopment on the area’s southernmost land. Some 5,200 residents plus 250,000 square feet of commercial and 1.3 million square feet of retail real estate—if the long-stalled project does emerge in the next four years, it could further inequality in the area.

Who’s going to open businesses in the old neighborhoods when everyone’s shopping at the new stores?

“There’s already really a disparity between the Greenhaven-Pocket area and the Valley Hi area,” Snobar says.

“We tend to get the leftovers.”

Jennings agrees. “The residents of Valley Hi feel neglected.”

But Delta Shores could be an opportunity. The city is expanding its light-rail network, which will include a stop at the east end of the planned development, plus two additional stops in the Valley Hi neighborhood.

This will connect the community not just to Cosumnes River College via the region’s foremost means of mass transit, but also to the rest of the city itself. And that’s really what all three candidates say District 7 needs most: To feel like it’s part of Sacramento. Ω

“It all has to do with area pride,” Snobar says.

November’s strong-mayor vote and vehemently rejects this notion.

“What [Cherry] doesn’t understand is that all my life I have stood up to every single man and given him his due respect. But I want to make Cherry lets out a chuckle when asked sure I get my due respect. And a ‘yes about the campaign slogan featured man’ is an insult to me. This is not so prominently on his website. He about the mayor. This is about serveven repeats it out loud: “I’m not the ing the people,” Jennings says. mayor’s favorite candidate, but I’d Cherry says it’s all about that like to be yours.”

Chicago-style patronage system.

There’s a certain innocence to “What we’re seeing is an accelerated the slogan, sure. The mayor likes politicization of Sacramento,” he Jennings. If you don’t like the mayor, says. “One of the reasons I’m running vote for Cherry. There you go. is the politics of Sacramento is trumpBut some speculate that a reason ing the public interest.” that Jennings rebuffs Cherry’s slogan He stands by his slogan. “If telling is that it hits close to home. The the truth is disrespectful, or dirty mayor was the one who recruited him politics, then I’m guilty.” He calls from the corporate world and into St. the strong-mayor issue “a solution HOPE back in the looking for a ’90s. Jennings’ problem.” wife, Cassandra, Meanwhile, actually works back in District for the mayor.

7, there remain As an adviser, plenty of probshe supervises lems looking for Johnson’s “policy solutions.

Abe Snobar initiatives,” Gangs Sacramento City Council candidate according to were featured a press release prominently in in 2012. the news last month, on the heels of Cherry’s slogan raises the quesseveral shootings, some of which tion: Is Rick Jennings an automatic law enforcement says can be traced “yes” vote for all things K.J.? back to Mack Road and the Valley Hi It’s worth noting that Jennings actually has yet to take a stance on this Crips, in addition to Oak Park gangs.

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Julius Cherry stirred controversy with his campaign slogan, but the retired fire chief says he’s ready to work with everyone at City Hall if elected.

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Jessie Watkins (left) is a volunteer photographer for Diana Miller Photography’s Little Blessings, which offers complimentary portrait sessions for chronically and terminally ill children.

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Elizabeth was born at 27 weeks in July 1996. She weighed 368 grams and measured 10 inches long. Her twin brother Seth died right after birth, but Elizabeth seemed stable.

She stayed at the UC Davis Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for a few months, went home to Grass Valley, and then died just a few months later in December.

Watkins was 5 years old at the time. She recalls being in the car a lot—driving to and from the hospital. But her memories of Elizabeth essentially stem from four photos that hang above the family’s fireplace.

Fast-forward to 2012 at Sacramento City College, where Jessie was working through the nursing program and taking photography classes for fun.

Local photographer Diana Miller was a guest lecturer in one of those classes. She talked about her journey from full-time nurse to full-time photographer and her belief in giving back to the community. She briefly explained her own project, Little Blessings, for which she offered complimentary portrait sessions for children with life-limiting—a.k.a. terminal—illnesses.

And what was Miller’s final slide? A picture of Elizabeth.

“I just gasped in air,” Watkins said. “I was shaking and convulsing and couldn’t talk.”

The coincidence—or as she said, fate—was too much to handle. As it turns out, Miller was Elizabeth’s nurse at UC Davis. And Miller took the photos of Elizabeth that now hang in the Watkins’ home.

Watkins took their encounter as a sign that she should pursue photography, not nursing, and that she should also work for Miller. She started interning, and last year, became Miller’s full-time office assistant.

Meeting Watkins was striking for Miller as well.

A photo of Elizabeth hangs in her Citrus Heights studio—a black-and-white shot of Elizabeth’s tiny, fragile body engulfed by her father’s hands.

Elizabeth was Miller’s first Little Blessings baby, and the Watkins said they were so relieved to have the keepsake.

“We don’t have any other beautiful photos of Elizabeth to remember her by,” said her mother April Watkins. “We look at them all the time and we think about our wonderful memories with her.”

Miller said she wasn’t thinking that far ahead at the time.

“I didn’t think she was going to die, but it ended up turning into a remembrance thing,” she said.

Miller left nursing two years later, pursued photography professionally and eventually became the president of the Professional Photographers of Sacramento Valley. She wanted to create a service

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In 2004, a larger San Francisco-based nonprofit, Moment by Moment, expanded into Sacramento. The organization offers the same photography services, so Little Blessings became Miller’s solo side project until Moment by Moment left the region in 2013.

Now Miller and El Dorado Hills-based photographer Lynn Greene manage an army of 35 photographers to answer requests from UC Davis Medical Center and Sutter Medical Center.

Watkins has conducted three portrait sessions for Little Blessings so far. It took her seven months to get over her nerves, but she felt the need to volunteer because of how Little Blessings shaped her own life.

“Those pictures are my memories of my sister,” she said. “That’s what I try to think about when I’m shooting. What is this Jessie Watkins moment in time really photographer, Little Blessings going to mean 10 or 15 years down the road?”

Here’s how it works: When a child is diagnosed with a chronic or life-limiting illness, hospital staff ask the family members if they want a complimentary portrait session. Staff alerts Miller. Miller emails the photographers. A volunteer goes to the site, conducts a session and sends the family a final disc of images.

Very little information about the families is shared with Little Blessings to ensure privacy—all the volunteers are trained to uphold the hospitals’ confidentiality standards.

Miller said she’s been able to answer every request so far. Courtnee Hoogland, a child-life specialist with the UC Davis Children’s Hospital, said she’s never heard of a family rejecting the services.

Diana Miller (left) and Watkins hold a portrait that Miller took of Watkins’ sister Elizabeth who died just a few months after her birth.

“ Those pictures are my memories of my sister. That’s what I try to think about when I’m shooting.”

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“Everyone wants a legacy of their child—to have something to hold onto later, regardless of life-limiting illnesses,” Hoogland said.

For the photographers, some mental preparation is also required. Watkins said she was visibly shaking during her first session, but that it gets easier each time.

Leilani Paular, a Carmichael-based volunteer photographer, said she has to remind herself that she’s providing a service, and most of all, not to get emotional.

“I need to be on my game,” she said. “Everyone’s thinking about the uniqueness of the situation, but it’s also a photo session, and we’re going to come together, smile and have this memory.”

Any family portrait can have obstacles, but the sessions for Little Blessings carry their own challenges.

Photographers noted the awful fluorescent lighting in hospitals and needing to make sure the scary-looking equipment is out of the frame. Avoid flash. Avoid asking questions. Be mindful of tubes and medication schedules. And be careful with the subject—sometimes the baby can’t be moved at all.

Still, the resulting portraits reflect powerful, intimate moments. A father holds twins in his lap, one healthy and one dying, with a shocked, haunted look in his eye.

Pumps and chords surround a smiling family, who in turn, surrounds its own impossibly tiny baby. There are close-ups of little hands, little feet and kisses on little foreheads. Miller called them celebrations of spirit and hope, rather than sad portrayals of loss. Volunteers agreed.

“It’s something families don’t often think about, but we’re here and we find it important,” Paular said. “As photographers, we want to document lives.”

For the Watkins, remembering the lives of their lost children is a vital part of the healing process. And the constant reminder—the photos hanging in the living room—helps.

“It’s never going to go away,” April Watkins said.

“Elizabeth and Seth are always going to be part of us.”Ω

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Last week, Amazon released Fire TV, a set-top box that allows users to stream Internet media, like Netflix and Hulu Plus, to a television set. The inch-thick rectangular box plugs into a high-definition TV and provides entertainment from a variety of services, including the company’s Prime Instant Video lineup.

The Fire TV box is thin, lightweight, and classy black.

It’s small enough to fit in your back pocket (which is probably something you don’t need to do) and is sold with a power cord, a remote control and two AA batteries. It requires an HDMI connector cable, which is not included. Don’t worry, if you don’t already have one lying around the house, Amazon helpfully suggests adding one to your purchase for only $5.99.

To set up, simply connect the Fire TV to your television using the HDMI cable, and plug the device into a power source. You can connect to your home network through Wi-Fi, or by plugging directly into your modem using an Ethernet cord, which is also not included.

The remote control features a built-in microphone, so you can search Amazon Prime Instant Videos by saying a title, name or genre. Just hold down the mic button and say what you are looking for, and Fire TV will show you a list of results to your search.

Once activated, the home screen shows a I’d recommend list of apps and games available, plus movies and Amazon Fire TV shows from Amazon and to my 65-year-old Prime Instant Video. You can add apps, like Netflix, mom, but not to my Hulu Plus, WatchESPN and 23-year-old techShowtime Anytime, by searching available consavvy friends. tent from the app section.

The games section offers a variety of Android-based titles that are compatible with Fire TV. Some games are only compatible with the Fire TV Game Controller, which can be purchased for an additional $39.99.

I found the Prime Instant Video interface easy to navigate, but somewhat poorly designed. For example, instead of showing the titles in grid form, they’re displayed, single-file, in a very long line. To browse movies, the user must side-scroll across the screen through hundreds of titles. The motion made me feel a bit nauseous.

Conversely, the Netflix and Hulu Plus interfaces were designed well and offered plenty of features to help users discover content.

Fire TV fails to impress when it comes to games, however. The selection is very limited, and the few games I did play have been configured in a way that didn’t fit properly on my screen. Because of the lackluster gaming experience, I recommend postponing spending the extra 40 bucks on the Game Controller accessory until there are more titles available.

Overall, I’d recommend Amazon Fire TV to my 65-year-old mom, but not to my 23-year-old tech-savvy friends. The set-top box has a simple user interface that makes it easy to discover new content, which is great for people who like their technology simple and efficient. However, the lack of available games and disappointing play experience turns the one thing that makes Fire TV stand out from the rest its biggest shortcoming.

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Artificial wildlife No, the C.N. Gorman Museum will not be open during traditional Second Saturday hours. But it looks like the exhibiting artist Wendy Red Star went out of PHOTOGRAPHY her way to photograph herself in the middle of life-size dioramas brimming full of artificial wildlife, so let us go a little out of our way to pay respect to her work.

The Gorman Museum on the UC Davis campus is a venue for Native American artists, and Red Star, who is half Crow, grew up on a reservation. Her photography is a take on the modern Native American experience, and also its history, but in Rainbow Brite saturation and often humorous ways. The Four Seasons series, for example, are vivid, idyllic scenes of Red Star dressed in traditional Native American-style attire, seated in the midst of each season. But then, the viewer sees the seams in the beautiful mountain backdrop, the scrubbingsponge inhospitality of the AstroTurf, and the twodimensionality of the delicate doe with the dappled rump. It’s life. And it’s apparent: We’ve created this environment for ourselves.

Stop by Davis before the Second Saturday art walk begins in Sacramento to view Red Star’s work—the museum is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. as part of the university’s Picnic Day—or make sure to attend the reception on Wednesday, April 16, where Red Star will be on hand to give a talk. Maybe even with a cardboard cutout of a deer.

Where: C.N. Gorman Museum, 1316 Hart Hall at UC Davis, 1 Shields Avenue in Davis; (530) 752-6567; http://gormanmuseum.ucdavis.edu.

Second Saturday hours: April 12, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Artist’s reception and talk: Wednesday, April 16; 4-6 p.m.

Hours: Monday through Friday, noon-5 p.m.; Sunday, 2-5 p.m.

Through June 12.

“Spring” by Wendy Red Star, digital photograph, 2005.

Twisted and playful John Stuart Berger is well-known for painting fantastically wretched birds, worms and rats that GROUP SHOW would be at home in Betelgeuse’s netherworld. The Sacramento artist is the curatorial power behind Fe Gallery’s April exhibition, The Point of No Return, so expect some twisted, playful and bold artwork from a roster of more than two-dozen artists, including folks from Short Center North.

“Mogo on the Gogogo” by David Mayhew, archival inkjet print on cotton rag, 2013.

Easy on the puns, there

Where: Fe Gallery, 1100 65th Street; (916) 456-4455; www.fegallery.com.

Second Saturday reception: April 12, 6-9 p.m.

Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Through June 6.

“The Forward Crawl” by John Stuart Berger, mixed media on paper, 2012.

So, who’s going to be the first one to make a pun about the new Midtown restaurant Easy on I’s popup art show being easy on the eyes?

Shit.

That’s shameful.

But the art is not. The eatery is in the former Michelangelo’s space, and the art featured will be prints by local curator Alan Dismuke’s new Left Coast Editions company, which he founded in late PRINTS 2013 to offer a more affordable option to folks who love art, but may not be able to buy original works by Sacramento-area creatives, such as Chris Botta, Gale Hart, Dwight Head, David Mayhew, Eli Trujillo and David White.

Where: Easy on I, 1725 I Street; www.facebook.com/leftcoasteditions.

Second Saturday reception: April 12, 6-9 p.m.

Hours: 11 a.m.-midnight.

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C i s s a l C Y a W e s U a C Yes, California state UniversitY, saCramento and UniversitY of California, davis are football rivals.

And their annual Causeway Classic football game is always a hotly contested one, with UC Davis having prevailed the majority of the time. Well, in a twist on the old rivalry, both schools on opposite sides of the Yolo Causeway will be hosting large schoolwide arts and entertainment events this week.

Sac State opened its five-day Festival of the Arts (www.csus. edu/festival) on Wednesday, April 9, and it continues through this Sunday, April 13. Highlights include a musical-theater performance (Gypsy, running through April 20), a performance-art showcase at the Crocker Art Museum (U-Nite, 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 10) and an art exhibition (Sacramento Art: A Community Art Exhibit of the Sacramento Fine Arts Center and its

Partners, reception 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Friday, April 11). Plus, there will be more dance performances, concerts, lectures and film screenings. It all culminates in Family Sunday Funday, a free oncampus event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 13, featuring dance, art and SactoMoFo food trucks.

Across the causeway, UC Davis’ Picnic Day (www.picnicday.uc davis.edu) celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Already underway is Picnic Day Pre-Week, a series of noontime events on the UC Davis Quad that began on Monday.

It continues through Thursday with a picnic and live entertainment, and then a rally on Friday with the Aggie Pack (the school’s student spirit organization) and Gunrock (the school mascot). The big party— Picnic Day itself—happens on Saturday, April 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. In total the day features a collection of more than 200 events, including a battle of the bands, a dachshund race, a fashion show, cockroach races and a parade. The whole celebration doubles as an open-house for prospective students, and all events are free.

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Sacramento Dog Show Thursday, april 10, Through sunday, april 13 Science shows that humans and dogs have spent time evolving CANINES together for tens of thousands of years.

Finally, we’ve now reached the point where dogs are perfect for Internet memes and shows such as the Sacramento Kennel Club’s Sacramento Dog Show, featuring competitions, training sessions and vendor booths. $8.50-$10 per day at Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Boulevard; (916) 508-4433; www.sacramento dogshow.com.

Peter Sagal: Behind the Scenes of Radio’s Funniest Program Friday, april 11 Peter Sagal, the dynamic host of NPR’s weekend news quiz Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! will be in Davis to talk about his experience hosting the radio show and possibly make some witty commentary on current events. See the COMEDY face behind the voice that brings a lighthearted, humorous view to the news each week. $47-$70, 8 p.m. at Mondavi Center, 9399 Old Davis Road in Davis; (866) 754-2787; www.mondaviarts.org.

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How-to Clinic: Flat Fix Thursday, april 10 Summer is practically here. Time to grab the bikes gathering dust in the garage, grease up the gears and get the family ready for the great Sacramento outdoors. But before heading out, hit up this BIKE 45-minute tutorial on how to fix flat bike tires by Sacramento State University Associated Students Inc.’s outdoor-recreation program, Peak Adventures. Free, 6 p.m. at Peak Adventures on the Sacramento State University, 6000 J Street; (916) 278-6321; www.peak adventures.org.

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The Original Rubber Stamp Convention saTurday, april 12, Through sunday, april 13 Many stamp conventions are for postage-stamp collectors. But not this one. Instead, it’s all about rubber stamps, a craft that only requires some ink, rubber and a surface. At this convention, one can partake in contests, demos and interactive artmaking classes. $7 for one day, $8 for two; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on STAMPS Sunday at Sacramento Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H Street; www.astampinthehand.com.

Second Saturday morning ongoing The Midtown Business Association and the Midtown Farmers Market Sacramento have paired up to kick off a new Second Saturday morning event. Basically, ART/FOOD it’s just the regular farmers market, but with an added pop-up dog park, chef demonstrations, a craft fair and an Edible Tasting Garden. Free, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday at 2020 J Street; (916) 442-1500; www.midtown farmersmarketsac.com.

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While the staff was very friendly and courteous, there were a few hurdles during ordering, mostly in regards to the smoothies. For example, one server didn’t know if the whipped cream on the jackfruit smoothie was dairy or soy-based, and another didn’t quite understand an inquiry about whether the avocado shake can be made without dairy, due to a language barrier. Those seem like important things for the waitstaff to be aware of in an all-vegetarian restaurant that’s bound to attract thirsty lactose-intolerant types.

Requesting “no milk or whipped cream” vs. “no dairy” for the avocado shake seemed to do the trick, though, and the result was almost embarrassingly decadent yet wonderfully light.

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It is absolutely possible to have fantastically fragrant and savory pho without a trace of beef, which it’s traditionally made with. Pho fanatics might ask, “Does it compare to the meat version, though?” Does it matter if it’s delicious?

Dude, open your mind and open your mouth.

There are plenty of recipes for plantbased broth in cookbooks and on the Internet. Start with this one from Vegetarian Times magazine: http://tiny.cc/ vegpho. If you’re crunched for time (or just lazy—no judgment), Pacific Foods makes an organic Vegetarian Pho Soup Base.

It’s a suitable starter. Add a few peppercorns, coriander seeds and star anise to increase its flavor. Or, just use the starter in place of vegetable broth in the Times’ recipe, minus the dried shiitake. See? You don’t have to torture and kill a cow to have a lovely bowl of soup. How nice!

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The server placed a trough-sized bowl of pho on the table, steaming hot. Inhaling those little white wisps wafting upward was like one of those vintage by Shoka Folgers Coffee commercials, where a sniff pleasurably jolts the sleepy sipper’s eyes open. s hokas@ However, the taste of the delicately herbaceous newsreview.c om and mushroomy broth in the soup served by Bodhi Bowl was infinitely more satisfying than freeze-dried instant coffee.

The south Sac Vietnamese eatery has been open since the beginning of 2013, and the fare is all vegetarian and mostly vegan. Not that the lack of meat seems to have made a difference in rating: enthusiasm or the variety of its diners—young, HHHH curious foodies and families with toddlers and senior citizens alike always seem to be at dinner for one: ease in the bright, window-lit dining room like $8 - $15 they’re regulars.

That musically fragrant pho was enough to make a repeat diner out of anyone. And it did. But on a second taste another day, the flavor was not as complex and magical as that initial bowl, which raised the question: Was the kitchen inconsistent, or is this what H flawed an addict feels like, chasing that incredible first high?

HH haS momentS Fortunately, there are plenty of other high notes on the menu to pursue. The Heavenly HHH Noodle is a bún chay dish, a can’t-go-wrong aPPealing salad made of snow-white vermicelli noodles HHHH with cooling mint, cucumber slices and bean authoritative sprouts, romaine lettuce and jagged pieces of HHHHH faux beef, with house-roasted peanuts sprinkled ePic on top. The “beef” actually was slightly sweet, plenty umami and pleasantly inoffensive, as far as fake meat goes.

That is one thing to expect in most of Bodhi’s bowls and plates, though: While there’s no actual animal flesh on the menu, nearly everything has a fake-meat product or tofu element. So diners with soy allergies, sorry dudes. It can’t even be escaped in the papaya salad. It’s wonderfully refreshing, crunchy, shockingly filling and mercifully fish-sauce free, but not soy-sauce free.

So if soy isn’t an issue, soldier on by taking Still hungry?

Search Sn&r’s the Hot & Sour soup for a test drive—um, in “dining directory” your mouth. The not-too spicy sunset-orange to find local restaurants by name broth teemed with a tomatoey and citrus flavor, or by type of food. with chunks of pineapple, semicircles of trumSushi, mexican, indian, pet mushrooms, cubes of fried tofu and slices italian—discover it of, in this writer’s opinion, unnecessary faux all in the “dining” section at crab among other vegetables, which, like the www.news imitation shrimp in some of the other dishes, is review.com. easy enough to eat around.

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Where to eat?

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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serves an excellent baba ghanoush that, instead of being blended into a smooth paste, is served chunky and studded with eggplant seeds. Its smoky, deep flavor is balanced out by a lemony brightness, and it’s good on the somewhat flabby pita bread with which it’s served, but it’s even better on the house-made za’atar bread. Chicken-breast kebabs are not particularly flavorful but have some char from the grill, while the falafel and chicken shawarma are underwhelming. Do order a side of tabbouleh salad, however. It’s pretty to look at—bright-green chopped parsley studded with white grains of bulgur—and tastes refreshing. Palestinian.

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

Mother It’s no secret that Mother is a vegetarian-vegan restaurant, but this is not just a place that replaces the meat in a meal. Instead, Mother celebrates an endless array of fresh vegetables and grains.

The chile verde here comprises chunky potatoes, pinto beans and hominy for a “meaty” texture. Try it topped with a soft-poached egg, and stir the yolk into the zingy chile sauce.

Kale has been done almost to death, but Mother’s version is a take on the Waldorf salad that makes eating your greens easy. Lots of golden raisins, celery, walnuts and balls of apple with a bit of skin attached join dilled yogurt and baby kale. Dessert includes the

now-legendary brown-butter and sea-salt cookies. Do yourself a favor and get some.

Vegetarian. 1023 K St., (916) 594-9812. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHHH1/2 AMR

Midtown The Coconut Midtown The food here travels a path between standard and inventive.

Cream-cheese 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 minced-meat 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-and-hydrant 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 ham-and-Gruyere sandwich usually battered with egg.

This one had a fried egg and béchamel, with a generous smear of mustard inside.

The mountain of potato hash alongside tasted flavorful and not too greasy. The menu also features pizzas and housemade 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 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 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.

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Tidbit Catering & Gelateria Chef Eric Lee has crafted an eclectic, bargain-friendly menu.

Fried calamari are lightly seasoned with a crispy exterior and served with a marinaraish bland sauce. A carrot-andginger soup possesses a slow burn, and a chicken-lettuce wrap is sophisticated: a modest portion of food of moderate size that’s highlighted with slivers of cucumber and a shaking of vinegar. The frozen bits, however are the real winners.

Gelato and sorbet are both available in astounding offthe-cuff flavors that mostly draw inspiration from Asian cuisines. A vanilla-and-adzukibean gelato tastes sweet and earthy, with a flavor reminiscent to Chinese moon cakes. A nutty soy-based black-sesame-seed gelato

is as rustic and charming as your favorite Instagram filter.

American. 1907 Capitol Ave., (916) 442-7369. Dinner for one: $5-$10. HHH1/2 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

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 well-flavored 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.

3672 J St., (916) 736-2506.

Dinner for one: $20-$25.

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South Sac Kansai Ramen & Sushi House This place serves its own take on ramen and sushi, with varying degrees of success. The kakuni ramen, which features three thick slices of braised pork belly in lieu of the house ramen’s thin slices of chashu, boasts a nice, sweet marinade; tender consistency;

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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 beef marinated in soy sauce) plus veggies (diced green onion, cucumber and cilantro) wrapped in a large, flat carbohydrate crepe. 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.

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.

1120 Fulton Ave., Ste. I; (916) 486-1140. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH1/2 J.M.

Roma’s Pizza & Pasta This eatery claims to serve “authentic Italian-style” food, but that’s only partially true when it comes to its pizza. That’s because it actually serves two types: one with the kind of thick, doughy crust usually found on an American-styled pizza, and another with a thinner crust, resembling a pie one might actually have in Italy. The thicker crust is chewy, but ultimately lacking in flavor. However, the tomato sauce makes up for the dough with a nice, spicy kick, and Roma’s doesn’t skimp on the toppings. The thin-crust pizza impresses: It’s light and crispy like a cracker and clearly is the superior option.

Italian. 6530 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Carmichael, (916) 488-9800.

Dinner for one: $10-$20.

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Arden/ Carmichael FreshMed Mediterranean Cuisine

West Sacramento Wicked West Pizza & BBQ This popular destination for kids’ sports teams and birthday parties also caters to adult

This restaurant broadens the definition of “Mediterranean.”

In addition to the usual options—gyros, hummus, falafel, etc.—it also serves dishes from a wide range of cultures. For example, FreshMed offers a $6 Indian and Pakistani lunch buffet.

Selections include stir-fried eggplant; curried chickpeas, lentils; and a creamy, spicy and hearty chicken tikka masala. The Mediterranean

Stirling Bridges Restaurant and Pub This British- and Scottishthemed gastropub offers an adequate beer selection and an extensive menu that goes beyond standard deep-fried pub fare. Try the Irish onion soup, a French onion-styled soup

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diners with good food and healthy options, such as organic whole-wheat crusts.

Gluten-free 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. Pizza/ Barbecue. 3160 Jefferson Blvd. in West Sacramento, (916) 572-0572. Dinner for one: $5-$10. HHH AMR

and copious flavor. Be sure to order noodles al dente, and it’ll make for a good option, even with its run-of-the-mill broth. Or amp it up with the spicy tan tan men, which uses a beefy and seafood-tinted soup base that teems with flavor. The sushi rolls here are Western style—a.k.a. loaded with toppings. Try the Mufasa roll. With crab and avocado on the inside and salmon and sauce outside, it’s particularly tasty, seasoned in sesame oil and baked—a somewhat unusual technique for sushi.

Japanese. 2992 65th St., Ste. 288; (916) 455-0288. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH J.M.

kicked up with Irish whiskey and Guinness beer. Or order the house-made veggie burger—it’s one of the tastiest black-bean patties around. The most unusual dish on the menu is the Scottish Mafia Pizza. Topped with turkey pastrami, potatoes, cabbage and Swiss cheese, it falls short with its too many flat flavors to actually benefit from their unusual pairing. Thankfully, there’s Tabasco sauce on the table. Pub. 5220 Manzanita Ave. in Carmichael, (916) 331-2337.

Dinner for one: $10-$20.

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

Want to stick to the menu? Try the Kim Son Spicy Beef, seasoned with sha cha jiang, a sauce composed of minced garlic, chili, shrimp and other seasonings: It’s the best dish from an otherwise lackluster menu of Chinese food. Chinese. 4980 Watt Ave. in North Highlands, (916) 331-8188. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHH1/2 J.M.

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Raley Field hosts the Sacramento River Cats’ home opener this Friday, April 11, at 7:05 p.m. Let’s look at the food situation: Talk to any foodie in town, and they’ll probably say, “It needs more craft beer.” Still, it’s got some options. There’s a Beers of the World cart in section 109, a beer garden in section 124 and, of course, a Coors Light cart in section 106 for the noncraft enthusiast. For nonalcoholic baseball fans, Raley Field’s (located at 400 Ballpark Drive in West Sacramento) one of the only places in town where you can still get Merlino’s Freeze (section 117). Foodwise, new this year are sweet and savory pies from the An Honest Pie food truck (section 107). And in its Raley Field debut, West Sacramento restaurant Broderick Roadhouse will serve grub in the Jack Daniel’s Solon Club. Section 119 has vegetarian options, including a black-bean burger and vegetarian Italian sausage. And, of course, there’s the Donut Cheeseburger in sections 105 and 115. Move over peanuts and Cracker Jacks.

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A dozen of Sacramento’s biggest amateur talents will strut their stuff on Thursday, April 10, on the grand Crest Theatre stage. And on live television.

It’s a riff on NBC’s popular reality show, America’s Got Talent— only PERFORMANCE Access Sacramento’s second annual Sacramento Has Talent program features up-and-coming locals.

There will be music. Hans Eberbach, singer-songwriter of Hans! and the Hot Mess will show off a rootsy style that’s helped him build a fan base for years. Meanwhile, Woodland’s Amiah Lopez is already a force at 13 years old—she won last year’s Yolo Idol singing competition. And Access Sacramento selected two singers through its own audition—Micayla Brim, a student at American River College with a powerful range, and Rebecca Peters, a waitress in Sacramento with a sweet, soulful tone.

There will be dance. The Sinagtala Theater Ensemble specializes in Filipino dance, while the Hijinx Dance troupe thrills with quick, contemporary hip-hop moves.

Madeline “Anime Girl” Roa is a flow artist equipped with a Hula Hoop and levitation stick.

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Like any good talent show, this one has stakes. The performers will compete for a top prize of $500. Proceeds go toward Access Sacramento’s Neighborhood News Bureau project, which teaches and pays young journalists in training. $25-$50, 7 p.m. at the Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street; (916) 606-3905; www.accesslocal.tv.

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The Book of Liz Resurrection Theatre’s production of The Book of Liz is a hoot and a half, as the Squeamish might say. The Book of Liz gives us a peak at the Squeamish, by Patti Roberts an isolated religious community similar to the Amish that dresses like Pilgrims, does not engage in modern life, and comes up with its own versions of Bible teachings. It’s a simple, earnest group guided by Reverend Tollhouse, who makes up rules as he goes along—much to the chagrin of the gentle but stubbornly vexed Sister Donderstock.

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Athol Fugard’s The Train Driver is a powerful play that explores white guilt and the legacies of South African apartheid through the story of one black woman’s act of hopelessness and its traumatizing effect on one white man’s psychological well-being. Inspired by an actual event and written with compassion and understanding, The Train Driver is devastating. Chris Lamb delivers an intense performance as the title character, while James Wheatley (who also directs) gives a subtly nuanced physical performance. Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm.

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When playwright Theresa Rebeck was asked in 2007 what makes her plays tick, she replied “[b]etrayal and treason and poor behavior.” It was an honest response.

If the name sounds familiar, it should.

Capital Stage did Rebeck’s Bad Dates and Mauritius; more recently, B Street Theatre did Seminar (bullying and seduction involving four budding writers and a burned-out pro).

The Family of Mann is one of Rebeck’s early plays, from 1994. The central character (Belinda) has quit her job as an English professor to write TV scripts in Los Angeles. (Rebeck earned a Ph.D. in Victorian lit and then wrote for NYPD Blue and L.A. Law.) Dark comedies satirizing the falseness and commercialism of the Hollywood meat grinder are legion, and while Rebeck nails the target, she doesn’t have much that’s new to add. The story’s told through short scenes—some in the “writers’ room” (where deadline-crazed writers desperately bounce ideas off each other), some depicting social encounters where the writers let down their hair (or their pants), some featuring scenes from the vapid sitcom itself. There are smidges of “magical realism” (popular in the 1990s), including a character who suddenly grows angel wings.

This staging by the Actor’s Theatre of Sacramento fits the company’s pattern.

Director Mark Heckman’s clearly thought through the script, and some of the acting is pretty good. Jeff Machado, a former morning radio host, does well sketching in the egotistical, manipulative producer Ed; yet acting by some supporting cast members is closer to “fair.” The multiple short scenes make for much furniture-moving-in-the-dark.

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Gary S. Martinez depicts the title character, and the first time he hobbles across the stage to answer a knocking door, he appears so weak, you want to jump out of your chair and help him as he stumbles along. But help is on the other side of the door in the form of a young Ross Gardiner (nicely portrayed by Ryan Blanning).

Both are reluctant participants in this forced relationship: Ross is ordered by the court to make weekly visits to Mr. Green after a reckless driving conviction that involved the elderly man. Under the delicate thumb of director Marie Bain, the empathetic performances keep you rooting for this unusual friendship and ultimate resolution. W 12:30 &

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The music these four guys play is as about unique as they look.

Put your throat into it Tuvans are an ethnic group with their own republic within Russia, Tuva.

But they’re possibly most notable for their cultural similarities with Mongolians, with whom they share an affinity toward shamanism and throat singing. And Huun-Huur-Tu is probably one of the most famous throat-singing groups worldwide. The Tuvan quartet plays traditional Tuvan instruments such as the igil (a two-stringed bowed instrument), khomus (a Tuvan harp), doshpuluur (a plucked-string instrument) and a dünggür (a shaman drum). But they’re probably best known for their performances of khoomei, a type of overtone singing that provides rich tonal harmonies. They’ve been touring since the 1990s and have subsequently picked up many influences from other world-music performers, Western classical music and even electronica. Huun-Huur-Tu, $12-$25; 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. at Scott-Skillman Recital Hall in the Harris Center for the Arts, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.harriscenter.net.

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The Family of Mann, 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; $15-$17. Wilkerson Theatre in the R25 Arts Complex, 1723 15th Street; (916) 501-6104; www.actinsac.org.

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The Squeamish community is the very humorous creation of playwrights and siblings David Sedaris (author and humorist) and Amy Sedaris (she of various comedic talents) who gently skewer inflexible religions, dutiful believers, gender roles, 12-step rules, uninformed opinions and some of the quirkiness of modern society.

The play begins inside the secluded Squeamish compound, where Sister Donderstock (Georgann Wallace) is busy making her famous hand-rolled and world-renowned Squeamish cheese balls, which is the community’s moneymaker. She starts to question some of the rules put forth by Reverend Tollhouse (Earl Victorine) and endorsed by Sister Butterworth (Katie Hulse), especially when he introduces a new member, Brother Brightbee (Steve Buri).

When it’s announced that Brother Brightbee will take over the cheese-ball making, Sister Donderstock flees the reclusive community and begins a personal quest into the outside world that includes a stint as a costumed mascot, a waitress at the Plymouth Crock Family Restaurant, a roommate to Ukrainian immigrants and a patient with a strange medical disorder.

The humor is gently biting, a bit pointed and at times poignant—best while in the Squeamish environs, but still funny in fish-out-of-water moments when Sister Donderstock delves into secular society.

If this was a real painting, it might be called “A Squeamish’s Mother.”

B Street Theatre’s Family Series is reviving its very successful comedy-mysteryadventure of the legendary deducing detective, his sidekick Dr. Watson and his nemesis Dr. Moriarty. Good choice, since the adaptation gives us everything you want in good children’s theater: engaging actors, fun characters, funny bits, suspenseful story, exotic locations (moors, parlors, pubs and underground Druid caves), clever scenery, beautiful costumes, and a production adults can fully engage in as well. Sa, Su 1 & 4 pm. Through 4/13. $15-$20. B Street Theatre, Family Series Stage, 2711 B St.; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreet theatre.org. P.R.

fortunes are seen through the viewpoint of a Cajun family caught up in an intergenerational struggle. There’s plenty going on, and playwright Nedra Pezold Roberts manages to combine it all into a tasty gumbo. Ray Tatar, working on a shoestring budget, makes effective use of his mixed professional and community cast, and keeps the narrative simmering. F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm.

Through 4/27. $12-$20. California Stage in the R25 Arts Complex, 2509 R St.; (916) 451-5822; www.calstage.org. J.H.

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Among the innumerable kick-punching pleasures of the martial arts mash-up The Raid 2 is the way that it photocopies the bone-crunching karate by Daniel Barnes horror of the low-budget 2011 original while simultaneously expanding the universe into a languorous crime epic. Made in Indonesia by Welsh writer-director Gareth Evans, The Raid: Redemption was a claustrophobic potboiler set almost entirely within a single apartment building. The Raid 2 immediately (and somewhat hilariously) digresses from that aesthetic in the opening image, a God’s-eye-view wide shot of a serene open field.

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Evans also violently dispatches with two major characters from The Raid: Redemption in the first few minutes (suck it, ambivalent ending!), offering an ambitious story arc that spans several years, rather than several flights of stairs. And yet the show-stopping fight scenes of the original are if anything amplified here, and are mostly announced with an operatic fanfare worthy of a Sergio Leone gunfight. The success of Evans’ ballsy vision suggests that he has the chops to also direct romantic comedies, costume dramas, and jukebox musicals where everyone beats the living shit out of each other.

Iko Uwais returns from the first film to play Rama, the one morally upright cop left in Jakarta, who also happens to be a whirling dervish of righteous, blood-spilling mayhem. As depicted in these two films, Indonesian cities are surprisingly unmarred by gun violence, and yet are teeming hotbeds of machete, baseball-bat, hammer, and crazy curved-knife violence.

Perhaps Evans is just falling back on martial-arts and comic-book clichés here, but after watching The Act of Killing, I will believe literally anything about the country of Indonesia.

After surviving the immense carnage of the original, Rama is recruited into a rogue police department tasked with rooting out dirty cops. He goes deep undercover as a prisoner in order to befriend the son of a crime boss, and, naturally, his incarceration leads directly into two of the most intimately over-the-top fight scenes

in film history (one in a bathroom stall, one in a giant mud puddle). Evans and Uwais stage these hyperbolic hand-to-hand combat sequences with a ruthless, almost hallucinatory perfection—this is what a Busby Berkeley movie would have looked like had he been a sadist instead of a pervert.

The only major knock on The Raid 2 is a surprising one. In its attempt to fit state-of-theart, video-game-style fight sequences into the frame of a weighty existential crime film, The Raid 2 becomes a little too familiar. Evans is less accomplished with dialogue than he is with staging glorious fight scenes, and the characters aren’t distinctive enough to sustain the dramatic momentum. This is especially a problem in the second act, when Evans resorts to something as conventional as a car chase, although even there the emphasis is on bodily rather than vehicular mutilation.

But familiarity is a minor criticism for a movie with such insane ambition, and the demonic glee that Evans feels in unpacking his model train set of cinematic influences is palpable. The most obvious points of reference for the sleazy grandeur of The Raid 2 are 1970s crime films such as The Yakuza and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, as well as their 1990s offspring, like Reservoir Dogs and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. However, Evans’ palette is also rich enough to allow for references to slasher films (one fight scene set in a kitchen splatters more blood than most horror franchises), Barry Lyndon, There Will Be Blood, and the speed-freak noir of Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuki.

This is what a Busby Berkeley movie would have looked like had he been a sadist instead of a pervert.

Alternating between jaw-dropping fight sequences and a gnarled, lurid drama of shifting loyalties, Evans stretches the film into 150 minutes of borderline Zack Snyderesque much-too-muchness. I am reasonably certain that the film ends only because Rama kicks literally every person in Indonesia to death. Still, The Raid 2 is strangely compact as drama, with a malicious application of Chekhov’s rule: If you see a character casually carrying a couple of hammers, rest assured that it won’t be long before those hammers are used to mutilate and disembowel humans in every manner imaginable. Ω

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier

SHIELD, the agency for which Captain America (Chris Evans) and the other Avengers work, has been subverted by the terrorist organization HYDRA. Col. Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) is dead, and only the Captain and Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a. Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) remain to fight for freedom, aided

by Sam Wilson, a.k.a. the Falcon (Anthony Mackie). The movie is a letdown from 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger, partly because much of the first supporting cast is gone, partly because director Joe Johnston has been replaced by brothers Joe and Anthony Russo, a lackluster change. Still, it’s diverting enough, and the Russos’ when-indoubt-start-a-CGI-fight approach will please the fans. Evans is, once again, the best reason to see the movie, and Johansson makes a fun partner-cum-sidekick. J.L.

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Divergent

In the Chicago of a distant future, when society is divided into five factions based on perceived virtues, a teenager (Shailene Woodley) learns that she’s Divergent, not fully fit for any faction. She must keep it a secret and trust no one, but she doesn’t know why.

Writers Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor and director Neil Burger adapt the first novel of Veronica Roth’s trilogy (an obvious imitation of The Hunger Games) and do a creditable job.

Woodley may not have the stunning versatility of Jennifer Lawrence, but she has a sensitive, appealing presence and carries this big movie well. The supporting cast is also a plus (Theo James, Miles Teller, Kate Winslet, etc.), as are the movie’s sweeping yet believably lived-in look and Burger’s brisk pacing. It all bodes well for the next installment. J.L.

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Draft Day

For a while, it appeared that the macho narcissism of Kevin Costner would be abandoned as a relic from a previous millennium, but this year has seen a resurgence of his brand of cinematic solipsism. Costner was a killer-for-hire in 3 Days to Kill, and he’s the general manager for the Cleveland Browns in Draft Day, but he plays the same character in both films: a real man. He is suspicious of intellectuals and non-Americans, uncomfortable with free-thinking women, and doesn’t care one bit for this Twitter thing (if that’s what it’s even called!). Although surrounded by a solid supporting cast, including Frank Langella and Jennifer Garner (now past 40, making her Hollywood’s-idea-of-an-age-appropriate love interest for a 59-year-old man), this is Costner’s show. Their only function is to bask in the glow of his masculine decency and comment on the magnificence of his balls. D.B.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel

In an Eastern European country between the World Wars, a meticulously correct concierge at a gleaming luxury hotel (Ralph Fiennes) basks in the crisp stylishness of his position—until he runs afoul of the heirs to one of his richest and most besotted customers (Tilda Swinton plays the old woman under pounds of hilarious age makeup; Adrien Brody and Willem Dafoe lead her cabal of greedy relatives). Director and co-writer (with Hugo Guinness) Wes Anderson begins in the present day, moving back to the 1930s in stages, like a time traveler, and his movie overflows with endearing comic invention, countered by an undercurrent of melancholy nostalgia for a lost (and maybe imaginary) elegance. It’s a funny, sad movie and a rueful delight. Tony Revolori is fun as Fiennes’ adoring sidekick. J.L.

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Jinn

A young man adopted in childhood (Dominic Rains) receives a videotape from the biological father he never knew, warning him of sinister forces at work and a family curse reaching back for generations.

The man and his wife (Serinda Swan) follow a trail of clues to two mysterious individuals (Ray Park, William Atherton) with secret knowledge.

Supposedly based on some eastern legend, the script by director Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad is composed entirely of incoherent gobbledygook.

The digital effects look like they were created on a 1984 Macintosh, and performances seldom rise above the amateurish. In fact, a more amateurish movie on every level, from writing to sound recording, is hard to imagine. There’s the aura of a vanity production by people with more money than talent—and not enough money at that. J.L.

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Kristen Bell reprises her television role as a wise-cracking gumshoe in a seedy Southern California beach town in Veronica Mars. The CW/ UPN series was canceled in 2007, but retained a cult following strong enough to get this film funded through Kickstarter. It opens with a very TV-like recap of the series, as Mars relates her time as a teenage amateur detective and her stormy relationship with bad boy Logan Echolls (Jason Dohring), who is now under suspicion for murder. This critic has never seen a single episode of the series, but the appealing merge of sleazy modern noir and wiseacre humor here makes me wish that I had. However, with visuals that mimic the perfunctory, shot-reverse-shot efficiency of a TV show, Veronica Mars never feels like anything more than a very special episode, a treat for hardcore fans and a curiosity for everyone else. D.B.

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In 1975, empowered by two very profitable cult films, Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain) attempted to mount a massive, acid-laced production of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic Dune. He worked on the film for more than two years, but failed to secure the final funding (he caught Hollywood in a pre-Star Wars phase of rare fiscal restraint and fantasy aversion), despite assembling a group of “spiritual warrior” collaborators (including Moebius, H.R. Giger, and Dan O’Bannon), who would go on to shape Hollywood’s future. This affectionate documentary from director Frank Pavich tells the story of that lost film, offering copious storyboards and conceptual art, and yet it wisely makes the lively 80-something Jodorowsky the centerpiece. Jodorowsky claims that he was “searching for the light of genius” in his Dune collaborators, and after four decades, that light has finally been allowed to shine. D.B.

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Muppets Most Wanted

The reunited Muppets set off on a world tour, never suspecting that their new manager (Ricky Gervais) is using the tour as cover for a crime spree masterminded by an escapee from a Russian gulag, “the world’s most dangerous frog”—a near-perfect double for Kermit. The movie opens with one of many clever songs by Bret McKenzie, “We’re Doing a Sequel,” frankly admitting that “the sequel’s never quite as good.” Happily, the movie belies that truism. It’s not only even better than 2011’s The Muppets, it’s the best Muppets movie since the first one in 1979. Nicholas Stoller and director James Bobin’s script is a riot of groan-andguffaw jokes, and Bobin’s pacing is sprightly and joyous. Gervais, Tina Fey (as a gulag guard) and Ty Burrell (a French cop) head the customary all-star supporting cast. Pure fun. J.L.

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Need for Speed

As the listless lead of this dim-witted video-game adaptation, Aaron Paul already seems decades removed from his days of winning awards for Breaking Bad. Here he plays street racer Tobey Marshall, who, after winning a street race, is wrongfully blamed for the death of his friend in a different street race, leaving only one way to clear his name—a street race! For some reason, director Scott Waugh (Act of Valor) and screenwriter George Gatins felt that this single-celled Fast and the Furious clone demanded a leisurely 130 minutes of handme-down characters and monosyllabic dialogue.

There is an argument that this sort of cinematic twaddle “isn’t hurting anyone,” but then, illiteracy isn’t technically hurting anyone, either.

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The great flood of Genesis gets a typically idiosyncratic retelling from director and co-writer (with Ari Handel) Darren Aronofsky, as Noah (Russell Crowe), his wife Naameh (Jennifer Connelly) and eldest son Ham (Logan Lerman) prepare for rain, while Noah’s grandfather Methuselah (Anthony Hopkins) kibitzes from a distance and some rocklike fallen angels called Watchers help build the Ark. Not everything works—those Watchers seem to have beamed in from one of Lerman’s Percy Jackson pictures—but the movie often has the raw energy of a primitive legend handed down from the prehistoric, torch-lit past. Crowe’s Noah is more tortured prophet than white-bearded patriarch; it’s a bold concept, and it works. Emma Watson plays an orphan adopted by Noah’s family, while Ray Winstone plays a savage, sinful king. J.L.

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Blue Oaks goes analog to craft its retro-modern mix of folk, country and doom metal It’s not easy to find a recording studio with a producer experienced in old-school analog recording technology. This detail was so important to by Aaron Carnes local folksy-blues duo Blue Oaks, however, that they traveled miles away to East Palo Alto to track their debut 7-inch single “Hit By a Train From New York City Blues.” There, the duo worked with Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden Recording Studio, which typically attracts punk and metal bands, to record the single and B-side “Skeleton Key.”

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Cash in the mix, but Stone has just as much love for doom metal and Radiohead.

“People ask me all the time, ‘Do you wish you could live in the ’60s?’ I’m happy that I live now, because I’m able to keep something alive for our generation, because it needs it more than ever with computer technology,” Stone says.

What Stone does bring to his music is an appreciation for older traditions. Blue Oaks’ music is a loose amalgam of blues, country, folk, rock ’n’ roll, and soul. The songs are gritty, mysterious and sometimes wander into the familiar sounds of past generations, all while taking unpredictable detours.

“One of the best things about being able to write music is being able to pick all the things you like and put them together. I’ll write an intro that sounds like Muddy Waters, then I’ll bridge it into a Neil Young-sounding verse, then going into some superdroney, buzzy Sabbath-y riff,” Stone says.

He’s very passionate about structure in particular, but not interested in the traditional versechorus-verse-chorus route. The band even has a near seven-minute opus, “To Be Kind Is Sin,” that some have suggested they make shorter.

“I don’t think they understand that we’re not looking to make it a radio-friendly song. The point is to have it build and change,” Stone says. “When I listen to music, the dynamics and progressions are what’s most inspiring.

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But, while both members are fans of the analog aesthetic, sound quality alone wasn’t the sole reasoning for studio choice.

“If we recorded it digitally on my laptop, it would sound pretty good—with the patches you can probably replicate certain sounds,” says Blue Oaks singer-guitarist Brendan Stone.

“Most people probably wouldn’t know. But we would have to live with knowing that say, we screwed up that drum part and just pasted that in there.”

Drummer Cody Walker couldn’t agree more.

“There has to be full takes. There is no cut and paste. I think that jeopardizes the authenticity of the whole thing,” he says.

Walker’s vehemence on the subject might explain why after five years of Stone flying solo under the moniker Blue Oaks, he picked Walker to join and make it a band proper in 2012.

Now, together they apply this philosophy of dodging the easier digital route to stick with older, more hands-on technologies.

Stone has an endless fondness for all things old—he grew up listening to ’50s and ’60s rock ’n’ roll, he owns an a ’60s Cavalier Coca-Cola vending machine, and even had a saddlemaker craft a custom leather guitar strap like he’d seen some musicians of days past do.

Still, the music of Blue Oaks isn’t retro. Sure, there are influences like Bob Dylan and Johnny

Blue Oaks’ songs are gritty, mysterious and sometimes wander into the familiar sounds of past generations, all while taking unpredictable detours.

When the pair structures its songs, more often than not, the two don’t know where they’re going. But they like the freedom to be imperfect, a quality that’s needed to chart new territory.

“You need the freedom for accidents to happen. A lot of bands make sure that everything’s perfect. I think the computers have a lot to do with that. Personally, I’ve been really disappointed going to shows in the past year; everything’s so precise,” says Stone. “That’s not what you get if you see us live. ... I would rather risk playing a bad show than have everything be pitched and autocorrected.” Ω

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Sexy-cheesy, cool Barcelona, Seattle, Sacramento: You’d think a concert would be a safe haven from arena talk, but the members of Barcelona had other ideas.

The Seattle-based trio played at Assembly Music Hall on Friday night, and frontman Brian Fennell actually joked about his longing for the Seattle SuperSonics, a.k.a. the Sacramento Kings, if the NBA voted to move the team up north last year.

No one laughed.

Fennell would have been better off telling a story from the last time he was in Sacramento—pre-iPhone days. The band desperately wanted In-N-Out Burger, and someone’s BlackBerry directed them toward a bail-bond company with a similar name instead.

But it was hard not to like the guys in Barcelona, who seemed so earnest and happy playing their new, R&B-tinged electro. This is a band that was once dubbed Seattle’s Coldplay, as it was known for emotional, piano-driven indie rock.

Barcelona dropped three EPs earlier this year, Love Me, Love You and Know Love, which form a cohesive narrative about, you guessed it, love. The band moves from manic to smooth to a more balanced sound, modeled after the ebb and flow of a relationship. Soundscapes are equal parts sexy and cheesy.

“We wanted to do something more tongue-in-cheek, less serious and stop trying so hard,” Fennell said in an interview with SN&R. That comment applies to Barcelona’s new direction in general. Fennell said the band got tired of its most recent full-length album, with its raw, live nature, before it even came out. They wanted to try out the sounds that they were actually listening to. Now, Fennell doesn’t play piano at all.

It was difficult to tell how many folks in the audience came out for the new Barcelona, compared to how many were hoping to catch the old version. But when the band played one of its synth-less hits, the whole front row swayed together, mouthing every word.

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One of those heroes was Poppet, FRIDAY 4/11 - SUNDAY 4/13 the alter ego of Molly Raney.

FROM LAST COMIC STANDING! Wednesday aPRIL 09 She used to frequent house shows JOHN HEFFRON presented by student-run radio 105.1 KNCI College WedNesdays STEVE MAZAN, RACHEL MCDOWELL $2, $3, $4 drINK speCIals station KDVS. But then she finished WEDNESDAY 4/16 18 & over her degree in 2010, and zipped up MIKE E. WINFIELD LIVE to Washington before returning to ThuRsday aPRIL 10 THURSDAY 4/17 - SATURDAY 4/19 the area last year. Her shows are FROM CONAN & FOX SPORTS NETWORK! true performances, with operatic 101.9 Wolf NIght MICHAEL KOSTA GRANT LYON, LYDIA POPOVICH singing complemented by dramatic roCKIN’ CouNtry BaNd NIghts costumes and interpretive dance. On whiskey dawn!!!

SUNDAY 4/20 this evening, she walked out in stiff, free BullrIdes NGAIO BEALUM’S flashy, kimonoesque pants, a leotard 4/20 FESTIVAL and a black scarf covering her FRIday aPRIL 11 face. The room was captivated, and THURSDAY 5/1 - SUNDAY 5/4 then she proceeded to create a full, BlaCKBerry smoKe FROM CHELSEA LATELY AND THE HEAT! ut futuristic electro-pop sound with a s& o theld deltao saINts ADAM RAY keyboard and live looping.

GREG EDWARDS, MARK SERRITELLA Pro tip: She’s currently schedsaTuRday aPRIL 12 THURSDAY 5/8 - SATURDAY 5/10 uled to play a KDVS fundraiser FROM MTV’S GIRL CODE & GUY CODE! at Witch Room (1815 19th Street) $3 JaCK & $2 Coors lIght CHRIS DISTEFANO MYLES WEBER, DASH KWIATKOWSKI on Thursday, April 24. It’s hard to 9pm - 10pm imagine a better venue for Poppet’s FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! antics. ;>0;;,9 *64 7<5*/305,:(* -(*,)662 *64 73:(* sunday aPRIL 13 Be Calm Honcho closed the show WWW.PUNCHLINESAC.COM 18 & over with a set that walked the line between cute, lighthearted pop and free daNCe lessoNs CALL CLUB FOR SHOWTIMES: (916) 925-5500 2100 ARDEN WAY s IN THE HOWE ‘BOUT ARDEN SHOPPING CENTER bluesy rock ’n’ roll. It’s an impres2 DRINK MINIMUM. 18 & OVER. I.D. REQUIRED. sive line to walk.

1320 deL Paso bLvd TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE CLUB BOX Frontwoman Shannon Harney OFFICE WITH NO SERVICE CHARGE. stoNeyINN.Com | 916.927.6023 lit up the room with her exuberant personality—and her neon-pink tights and shiny silver boots. In the middle of songs about the beach, sun, ocean and all things California lovin’—a bit of “West Coast masturbation,” as she called it—Harney spoke of her time at UC Davis as an undergrad and resident of the Domes, the on-campus, co-op community of dome structures. She waved to the - April 13 - April 10 familiar faces in the crowd and retold stories of way back when. big sticky mess Even though she lives in San 7pm • $12adv Francisco now, she seems to keep lia marie johnson NEWSPAPER: SAC NEWS & REVIEW (all ages) finding excuses to come back PUBLISH DATE: 4/10/2014 6pm • $12adv to Davis.

Davis apparently has a strange, ART DUE: 4/2 potent hold on its former students.

Like me. Shit. How did I even end CONTENT: PUNCHLINE - April 14 up in this warehouse?

SIZE: 1.87” X 5.67” Pro tip, part two: Picnic Day’s 100th anniversary takesART place on terrors239-3411 of 1927, the wind & the waves (all ages) April 11 - PFEIFER night PRODUCTION: -SACHA (720) 6pm • $12adv Saturday, April 12, which means the NOTES: region is going to receive hoards of alumni longing for the glory (from sublime with rome) riotmaker days. A few favorite local bands are (feat. tyler from arder park roots scheduled to play on that lush, green & one leg chuck) and denver j band quad, including the experimental 9pm • $15adv indie stylings of Sunmonks and the high energy of Whiskey Business, - April 12 - April 17 along with all of UC Davis’ talented a cappella groups. Be safe, and cheers.

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ELI AND THE SOUND CULT

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UC Davis nostalgia: Warehouse shows give off this unbeatable sense of cool. It feels like you’re in on a secret, even though you’re not. I certainly felt in on a secret Saturday night at Third Space, located among the warehouses on Olive Drive in Davis. With two hometown heroes on the bill, it created nostalgia for a Davis of just a few years ago.

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Rebel Punk

Eli and the Sound Cult

Diana Krall

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

PJ’s Roadhouse, 8 p.m., $5

Marilyn’s on K, 8:30 p.m., $5

If you like the name “Rebel Punk,” then you’ll probably also enjoy the music of Rebel Punk. It’s as fun to listen to as its name PUNK suggests—punk with scruffy Mike Ness-esque vocals and a rebellious attitude in its lyrics. “I don’t care what you say, I’m gonna be myself,” sings George Palacios in the anthemic song “I’m Never Coming Home,” accompanying himself with crunchy and bluesy guitar riffs. Bassist Craig Dieterich and drummer John Quesada round out the Sacramento trio, evoking a high-energy yet well-polished California 1990s punk sound that wouldn’t be out of place on a major label alongside Rancid or the Offspring. 5461 Mother Lode Drive in Placerville, www.rebelpunkband.com.

Who doesn’t love an excuse to dress fancy?

Probably a lot of you, but Eli and the Sound Cult doesn’t care. For the second year, the Sacto popsters are putting on a Spring Formal. Expect hours of dance music and a touch of cheesiness. The band is known for putting on a theatrical pop experience, meaning music layered with electronic beats, live guitars, visual installations and other props. And for Spring Formal, Eli and the Sound Cult is expected to unveil new songs and a new stage show. Local post-rock INDIE POP bands Sun Valley Gun Club and Paper Ghost are also on the bill. 908 K Street, www.eliandthe soundcult.com.

—Janelle Bitker

Mondavi Center, 7 p.m., $52.50-$105 Canadian jazz pianist and vocalist Diana Krall specializes in soft, subtle and sad ballads.

She married British singer-songwriter Elvis Costello in 2003, but his influence doesn’t pop up much. She’s a Berklee College of Music trained jazz pianist with 11 studio albums JAZZ dating back to 1993. My favorite is 1999’s When I Look in Your Eyes, a Grammy Award-winner featuring beautiful ballads backed by Johnny Mandel-penned string arrangements. In other albums, she flirts with Portuguese lyrics and bossa nova beats. Her latest, 2012’s Glad Rag Doll, adds some spice into the mix with a pinup-style album-cover photo and some more up- tempo numbers. 9399 Old Davis Road in Davis, www.dianakrall.com.

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No matter how many times Jon Spencer shouted, “The Blues is No. 1!” (which was a lot), his group the Blues Explosion didn’t exactly play the blues. But that was the point. Its style was more a hodgepodge of punk, noise, hip-hop, garage and soul, but Spencer gave it an old-timey blues theatricality and drenched it in irony—it was the ’90s, after all. But even with a knowing wink, it was still a kick-ass indie-rock band.

INDIE ROCK Its latest album, 2012’s Meat + Bone (the first in eight years) drops the irony and the constant self-referencing in favor of a really good, really loud, still very weird rock ’n’ roll album. 314 W. Main Street in Grass Valley, www.thejonspencerbluesexplosion.com.

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Alasdair Fraser & the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers

Jay Farrar

UC Davis Quad, noon, no cover

Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 6:30 p.m., $12-$14

Although French Cassettes started in the California town of Ripon, point of origin shouldn’t be an issue, nor should you hold it against them. The quartet’s 2013 release Gold Youth is filled with enough infectious pop to make any newcomer take notice. From the opening anthem of “Us Kids” through to my favorite moment, the gorgeous and uplifting grooves on the track “Teeth for Talking,” this album will appeal to fans of groups as farranging as Dr. Dog, Cake and the Lumineers.

Catch the Cassettes’ set for no cover charge INDIE POP while hanging out on the grass, eating yogurt. What could be better? UC Davis Quad, 1 Shields Avenue in Davis; http://frenchcassettes.net.

—Eddie Jorgensen

Orange County indie-pop quartet the Colourist bubbles with a danceable ’80s new-wave pulse and an upbeat ebullience reminiscent of INDIE POP Foster the People. Drummer Maya Tuttle’s sweet, spunky soprano and guitarist Adam Castilla’s diffident tenor brightly harmonize over handclaps, keyboard swirls and arty strut. The band signed to Republic Records two summers ago, and last month released an eponymous full-length debut. It’s highlighted by the perky, side-winding pop of “Little Games,” featured in a Nokia Lumia commercial set at a concert.

Well-matched opening band Night Terrors of 1927 offers sweeping orchestra-flavored dance pop characterized by, at times, glitchy beats and grandiose sentiments. 2708 J Street, www.thecolouristmusic.com.

Harris Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m., $12-$39 The San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers will join master Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser for a special performance featuring 85 musicians: 50 fiddlers plus cellists, guitarists and harpists. Solo and group compositions will be performed by members age 6 to 76 and will include dancing and vocals. Born in Scotland, Fraser now calls California home and also CELTIC leads music camps and pens original compositions. He reaches back to draw from the best of Scottish music, including Gaelic laments and energized dance numbers. More fun facts: He’s on the Titanic soundtrack and has performed on A Prairie Home Companion. 10 College Parkway in Folsom, www.alasdairfraser.com.

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BADLANDS

SUNDAY 4/13

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/14-4/16

DEVIL YOU KNOW, RAVEN THRONE; 6:30pm, $12

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

Fabulous and Gay Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

Saturday Boom, 9pm, call for cover

Sin Sunday, 8pm, call for cover

Mad Mondays, 9pm M; Sonique: house and techno, 10pm Tu, no cover

BAR 101

Karaoke, 7:30pm, no cover

RUBBUDY BUPPIDY, 9:30pm, call for cover

JAMES CAVERN, 9:30pm, call for cover

VAGABOND BROTHERS, 2-5pm, no cover

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

BLUE LAMP

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

Funktion w/DJs Step Rock and B. Vega, 9pm, call for cover

PLAYA RAE & TREY C, 8pm, $6

Record Club presents: Radio Radio ’80s Dance Night, 9pm, $5

Get Down to the Champion Sound reggae night, 9pm-2am, $3

VIS, ANCIENT ASTRONAUT; 8pm M; Naughty Trivia, 8pm W, no cover

THE BOARDWALK

SHOTTY SHOT, LANCE, ROPPA, ABM,

LION I AM, WE RISE THE TIDES, I, ASSAILANT; 7:30pm, $10-$12

STITCHED UP HEARET, THE NEARLY DEADS, BRI; 7:30pm, $12-$15

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

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 MIZZLE; 8pm, call for cover

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

The Spencers: Theatre of Illusion, 8pm, $28-$32

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

THE COZMIC CAFÉ 1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

DJs BPhree, Mitchell Cukr, Aviator, Ben Tension & Selly, 9pm, call for cover

DIVE BAR

Deuling Pianos, 9pm, no cover

FACES

DJs Donald Glaude and Rick V, 9pm, call for cover

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

2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

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

STEVE MCLANE, 8pm, no cover

MIKE BLANCHARD & THE CALIFORNIOS, THE POLYMERS, BLAME THE BISHOP, 9pm, call for cover WE JUST MET; 9pm, call for cover

THE GOLDEN BEAR

DJ Shaun Slaughter, 10pm, call for cover

DJ Crook One, 10pm, call for cover

DJ Whores, 10pm, no cover

RADIO KINGS, 9pm-midnight, $5

RED UNION BLUE, FOX TROT MARY, ACHILLES WHEEL; 8:30pm, $15-$40

2326 K St., (916) 441-2252

HALFTIME BAR & GRILL

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

JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, SHOCKWAVE RIDERZ; 8pm, $22-$25

Community Music Jam, 6:30pm M, no cover

MASSIVE DELICIOUS, 9pm, no cover

SEA LEGS, MAMA FOXXY; 9pm Tu, no cover

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

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

DJ Elements, 9pm, call for cover

FOX & GOOSE

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE, THE BUNNY THE BEAR; 7pm Tu, $12

DEAD WESTERN, HALFPENCE, HAYPENNY; 8pm, call for cover

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

594 Main St., Placerville; (530) 642-8481

1022 K St., (916) 737-5999

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SATURDAY 4/12

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB, ROYAL CANOE; JAMIES ELSEWHERE, INCREDIBLE ME, 7pm, $20 LONELY AVENUE; 6:30pm, $10

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FRIDAY 4/11

Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu; Northern Soul, 8pm W, no cover Industry Night, 9pm, call for cover

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

HARLOW’S

MEGAN NICOLE, LIA MARIE JOHNSON; 7pm, $12-$15

ROME, 10pm, $15-$18

HIP SERVICE, 10pm, $12; SUPER HUEY, 7pm, $10

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR

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

CHICKEN & DUMPLING, DR HALL & THE BLUES PRACTITIONERS; 8pm

LARISA BRYSKI, WILLY SELTZER, KARLEE & CONNOR, EMMA & BRODIE; 8:30pm, $5

MARILYN’S ON K

COLLEEN HEAUSER, GIBSON & GRAY, ANGELIQUE; 8pm, $5

ELI AND THE SOUND CULT, SUN VALLEY GUN CLUB; 8pm, $5

JUKEBOX JOHNNY, 9pm, call for cover

Showcase Sundays, 7pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm M, no cover; Greatest Stories Ever Told, 8pm Tu, no cover

MIDTOWN BARFLY

Electronic, house and deep bass deejay dancing, 9pm-2am, call for cover

DJs Cloud D, Pericles, Tooth and N4IL, 5th Bar Drop, 9pm-3am, $15-$18

The Drop, house and ’90s hip-hop w/ DJ Jonathan, Funktion, Phreed, 9pm, $3-$5

Goth, darkwave, industrial, electronic deejay dancing, 9pm-3am, call for cover

IRON REAGAN, SUMMIT, GHOUL; 7pm M, $10; Swing, Tu; Salsa, 7:30pm W, $5

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN

GHOSTPLAY, ROYAL JELLY, CALLOW; 8:30pm, $5

JON EMERY, MCDOUGALL, BLUE OAKS; 8:30pm, $5

SHELBY AND TIEG, JUSTIN FARREN; 8:30pm, $8

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693 1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931 908 K St., (916) 446-4361 1119 21st St., (916) 549-2779 1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

POLYRHYTHMICS, BIG STICKY MESS; 8pm, $12-$14

THE COLOURIST, NIGHT TERRORS OF 1927, THE WIND & THE WAVE; 6:30pm M, $14 Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M, $5-$20; Comedy night, 8pm W, $6

Jazz session, 8pm M, no cover; Sean Lehe presents: Rare Grooves, 8:30pm W, $5

1000 K Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

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THURSDAY 4/10 OLD IRONSIDES

FRIDAY 4/11

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

MICHELLE LEWIS, GUIDO GUIDO; 8pm, no cover

ON THE Y

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731

SATURDAY 4/12

SUNDAY 4/13

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/14-4/16

HIGHWAY 12, OF US GIANTS, AMOUR; 9pm, $5 DEAD IN SECONDS, STEEL SAVIOR, OSTRACIZED; 8pm, $5

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

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Open-mic comedy, 9pm, no cover

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

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

JOE LOUIS WALKER, 8:30pm, $20

THE PARK ULTRA LOUNGE

DJ Eddie Edul, 9pm, call for cover

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

Top 40, Mashups, 9pm, no cover

DJ Club mixes, 10pm, no cover

REBEL PUNK, 9pm, $5

RADIO HEAVY, 9pm, $5

WONDERBREAD 5, 10pm, call for cover

JOY IN REPETITION, 10pm, call for cover

RICK ESTRIN & THE NIGHTCATS, 3pm, call for cover

Karaoke, Tu; MOTORIZE, THE LOST CHERRIES, PARADOX DRIVE; 8pm W, $5

THE PRESS CLUB

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

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

Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

SNOW WHITE SMILE, ORIGIN ALIVE; 9pm Tu, $7; SWOON, DANK OCEAN; 8pm W, $5

STARLITE LOUNGE

PLAN 9, 9pm, call for cover

EAT THE TURNBUCKLE, ALARMS, KNIFETHRUHEAD, XTOMHANX; 9pm

Papasote’s Karaoke Explosion, 9pm W, no cover Comedy open-mic, 8pm M; Bluebird Lounge open-mic, 5pm Tu, no cover

13 Main St., Winters; (530) 795-1825 1116 15th St., (916) 442-7222

PARLARE EURO LOUNGE

Top 40, 9pm, no cover

1009 10th St., (916) 448-8960

PJ’S ROADHOUSE

5461 Mother Lode, Placerville; (530) 626-0336

POWERHOUSE PUB

SWEET REVENGE, 10pm, call for cover

614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586 2030 P St., (916) 444-7914 1517 21st St., (916) 706-0052

STONEY INN/ROCKIN’ RODEO 1320 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 927-6023

WHISKEY DAWN, 9pm, $5-$10

SWABBIES

5871 Garden Hwy, (916) 920-8088

THE STATION

Salsa w/ Mike Del Campo and Mr. DJ Omar, 8:30pm, no cover; $5 after 9:30pm

TORCH CLUB

X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; FUNK.DEFIED, 9pm, $5

1100 Orlando Ave., Roseville; (916) 728-1166 904 15th St., (916) 443-2797

BLACKBERRY SMOKE, 8pm, $15

VINTAGE VANDALS, THE DEVILS TRAIN, ROCKABILLY LOVE CATS; 4pm, $8

Country dance party, 8pm, no cover

HANS EBERBACH, 6pm, no cover

SOLSA, 3pm, $10

APPLE Z, 2pm, $5

Salsa with Mike Del Campo, 8:30pm, no cover; $5 after 9:30pm

Domingos Latinos with Mr. DJ Omar, 9pm, $5-$10

Blues jam session, 8:30pm Tu, no cover

HARLISS SWEETWATER, 9pm, $8

Blues jam, 4pm, no cover; THE NIBBLERS, 8pm, $7

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Freedom

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Are you

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s Love

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Saturn

is the most important kind of joy you can seek right now. It’s also the most important subject to study and think about, as well as the most important skill to hone. I advise you to make sure that freedom is flowing through your brain and welling up in your heart and spiraling through your loins. Write synonyms for “freedom” on your arm with a felt-tip pen: liberation, emancipation, independence, leeway, spaciousness, carte blanche, selfdetermination, dispensation. Here’s one more tip: Connect yourself with people who love and cultivate the same type of freedom you do.

Your Messes Week, Taurus. In accordance with the astrological omens, you are authorized to love the hell out of the messes in your life—from the small, awkward knots of confusion to the big, beautiful heaps of fertile chaos. This is not a time to feel embarrassed or apologize for your messes; not a time to shy away from them or ignore them. On the contrary, you should explore them, celebrate them and even take advantage of them. Whatever else they are, your messes are untapped sources of energy. Learn to love them for the mysterious lessons they keep teaching you. Love them for the courage and willpower they compel you to summon.

Love them for the novelty they bring your way and the interesting stories they add to your personal legend.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “A

snowball’s chance in hell” is an American idiom that’s equivalent to saying “it probably won’t happen.” After all, a snowball would instantly melt if exposed to the scorching fires that rage in the underworld. But what if there’s an exception to this axiom? Let’s call on another American idiom: “when hell freezes over.” It’s another way to say “it probably won’t happen.” But the truth is that now and then, a cold front does indeed sweep through the infernal region, icing its flames. When that happens, a snowball’s prospects of surviving there improve dramatically. And that’s exactly what I predict will happen for you in the coming week.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 2007,

J.K. Rowling finished writing the seventh volume of her Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The day it was published, it sold 8.3 million copies.

But Rowling had actually written the final chapter of this last book way back in 1990, when she first conceived the story she was to spend the next 17 years working on. She knew the climax right from the beginning. I foresee a similar theme unfolding for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. As you plot a project you will be developing for a long time to come, you will have a vision of what it will be when it becomes fully mature.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When you see your

shadow, it’s usually right next to you. It’s there on the ground or floor, a fuzzy black shape that follows you around closely. But today I saw my shadow waving back at me from afar. I was standing on top of a hill, and the sun’s rays created a dusky version of me in the meadow way down below.

I think this is a useful metaphor for an opportunity that’s available to you. In the coming days, you will be able to view the shadowy, undeveloped parts of your personality as if from a distance. That means you will have more objectivity about them, and thus greater compassion. You can get a calm, clear sense of how they might be mucking with your happiness and how you could transform them.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “You cannot

use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars,” said psychologist Timothy Leary. That’s good advice for you to keep in mind in the near future.

You might want to find a way to carry on constructive dialogues with people who have a hard time understanding you. It’s not necessarily that they are stupid or resistant to your charms. The problem is that they haven’t experienced some of the critical transformations you have. They can’t be expected to converse with you in your butterfly language. Are you willing and able to speak caterpillar?

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thinking of linking your fortunes to a new ally? Or deepening your collaboration with a familiar ally? Have you fantasized about bonding intensely with a source that may be able to give you more of what you want and bring out more of the best in you? These prospects are worth contemplating, Libra. But I suggest you let your connection ripen a bit more before finalizing the shift. I’m not necessarily saying there’s a potential problem.

I simply suspect that you need further exploration and additional information before you can make the smartest move possible. has been in the sign of Scorpio since October 2012 and will be there until the end of 2014. (It will make another visit from June to September 2015.) What does that mean?

I have a view of Saturn that’s different from many astrologers. They regard it as the planet of limitation, struggle and difficulty. Here’s what I think: While Saturn may push you to be extra tough and work superhard, it also inspires you to cut away extraneous desires and hone in on your deepest purpose. It motivates you to build strong structures that free you to express yourself with maximum efficiency and grace.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

When I took an intermediate painting class in college, our first assignment was to imitate an old master. My choice was the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569). I worked on reproducing his painting “The Fight Between Carnival and Lent” as precisely as I could. It was tedious and liberating. I invoked Bruegel’s spirit and prayed for his guidance. I sank my psyche deeply into his. By the end of the four-week process, I’d learned a lot about painting. Given the current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suggest you try something similar. Pick someone who excels at a way of working or a state of being that you would like to master yourself, and copy that person for a while.

For best results, have fun with it. Play!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Capricorn author J.R.R. Tolkien spent 14 years working on The Lord of the Rings.

In using a typewriter to produce more than 1,200 pages, he relied solely on his two index fingers. He never learned the 10-finger typing method. I suppose it didn’t matter in the end. Presumably, his impediment didn’t affect the quality of his work, but only made it harder to accomplish and required him to spend a lot more time. Is there a fixable limitation on your own ability to achieve your dream, Capricorn? Is there some handicap you could, with effort, overcome? If so, now would be an excellent time to begin.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The

truth’s superb surprise,” wrote poet Emily Dickinson, may be “too bright for our infirm delight.” Sometimes we’ve got to be careful about articulating what’s really going on.

“The truth must dazzle gradually,” she said.

If it hits us too fast and hard, it may be difficult to digest. So, did Dickinson suggest that we should lie and deceive? No. “Tell all the truth,” she declared, “but tell it slant.”

This is excellent advice for you in the coming days, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here’s

my report on your progress. You are not struggling to embody a delusional state of perfection as it is imagined by other people. Rather, you are becoming an evermore soulful version of your idiosyncratic self, evolving slowly but surely. You are not dazedly trudging along a narrow track laid down by thousands of sheep.

Instead, you are lively and creative as you bushwhack a path for yourself through the wilderness. To celebrate this ongoing success, Pisces, I suggest you get yourself a new power object that symbolizes your inventive devotion.

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Talk it out If there’s one motto that Dave Smith lives by, it’s “Do what you love.”

Bitten by the broadcasting bug at a young age, Smith has showcased his easy-going conversational style as a radio talk-show host for more than 35 years. Along the way, he’s interviewed celebrities, covered sporting events and struck up a friendship with another up-and-coming broadcasting personality—Rush Limbaugh.

When he’s not on the air for his show On Tour With Dave Smith, Smith keeps busy selling retro video games, DVD movies and fake poop at the Folsom Boulevard Flea Market. Yes, fake poop. SN&R put Smith in the hot seat to ask him about his radio career, his business hobby, and what it was like getting to know one of the most rabble-rousing figures in media.

What made you interested in becoming a talk-show host?

About 38 years ago, I got my first break with Channel 40 KTXL. They were doing a story about rafting down the Sacramento River from Sunrise [Boulevard], and I happened to be out that day. They interviewed me about rafting. I think I was about 16 or 17 at the time. Not long after that, I walked into the general manager’s office at Channel 40 and told him I wanted to work in broadcasting. He told me to stay in school.

What was your first break?

A couple years after [I went to KTXL], I got the opportunity to do a couple of spots at a small AM radio station, KJAY, and that turned into a weekly threeminute spot where I would go out and do interviews. Two years after that, it got expanded to an hour. Then it became two |

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hours of weekend entertainment, and 35 years later, I’m still doing it. It’s been an incredible ride—especially when you consider some of the things I’ve gotten to experience that people don’t normally get to experience.

Highlights from your career so far?

I got to fly in a Goodyear Blimp. I’ve gone to cover the Sacramento Kings, Oakland Raiders, San Francisco 49ers, and I’ve gone to the Super Bowl. I even got to hold the trophy after the game. I’ve also gotten to interview a lot of celebrities. It’s just been a lot of fun.

You came up at the same time as Rush Limbaugh and knew him personally. What was he like back then?

Rush was a kick. I was on the radio three years prior to him arriving in Sacramento, and the first day he was on KFBK, he [said he] wanted to ban ugly people from the streets during daylight hours. It was his first day. I thought the bit was hilarious. He wasn’t that political back then. He was just trying to be funny.

How did you get to know him?

Me and some of the other guys I worked with at the time started picking on Rush.

We’d pull elaborate pranks and create things to drop off at KFBK under the cover of darkness. One thing was a vacuum cleaner painted completely gold that said, “Clean up your act.” We also made comedy songs about Rush. One of them he ran as his theme song for about six months.

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Has your radio show changed through the years?

Not really. Back when I started the show, I don’t think the Sacramento News & Review was around, but I would find out what entertainment was coming to town, get their phone numbers and contact them. Sometimes, I’d get them to call in and do an interview so they could promote the event. But a lot of times, they would come out to the KJAY studio in West Sacramento. It’s still pretty much the same today as it was back then, although I tape a lot of it now at my home or out on the road talking to people at events.

What sets you apart from other hosts?

I don’t get political, and I’m always looking for the best in people. If I do a bad interview, I won’t air it. If I don’t like a movie or band, I won’t talk about it. But if it’s something I like, you’re gonna hear about it.

I understand you also have a couple of side hobbies and businesses.

Yes, I do. I sell crap. Many years ago, I was playing around with some cement, and I made a couple of [pieces of] fake dog poops for fun. I recently revived that idea and started sculpting them again, but I put a key holder underneath. You can put it in your yard and hide your spare key, and I guarantee no one is going to pick it up. I recently sold out of them at Evangeline’s in Old Sacramento. Ω

On Tour With Dave Smith airs on Sundays at noon on KJAY 1430 AM; www.kjay1430.com.

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