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unacceptable The United Nations sent a letter to Mayor Kevin Johnson a couple years ago condemning how his city “criminalized” its homeless population. The U.N. also blasted Sacramento for not providing people who live on the streets and along the riverbank with clean water and toilet facilities. A visitor from the U.N. called this city’s treatment of homeless persons “unacceptable, an affront to human dignity and a violation of human rights that may amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.” It was as awful a review as a city could get from a major international organization. Yet the media gave this U.N. smackdown zero attention, and City Hall didn’t even blink. It comes as no surprise, then, that another brutal report by the U.N.’s Human Rights Committee released last month also gained scant notice, both here and nationwide. This new report includes broader observations about U.S. human-rights violations. It’s an embarrassing list of failures. The U.N. dings America for its use of torture, racial disparity in the criminal-justice system and racial profiling, the death penalty, drones, not addressing gun violence, permitting excessive force by law enforcement, the detention of immigrants, ignoring domestic violence in minority communities, the criminalization of ethnic youth and students, solitary confinement in prisons, Guantánamo Bay, National Security Agency surveillance, its warped approach to juvenile justice, the suppression of voters, police harassment of homeless persons, and on and on. I realize that it’s easy to ignore these transgressions. There’s baseball and beer, shopping and TV, music and movies, friends and Facebook. But our fantastic distractions are ultimately a gilded shame. The U.N. committee has asked the United States to address its report by March 2019. Will we blink?
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Impatient drivers. Maybe we [bicyclists] are holding them up for a little bit, so they pass by you more aggressively, more closely than is safe. … Or they yell something at you. Overall, it is not too big an issue, but I have had it happen enough times to be threatening.
I think there are a lot of misunderstandings on where people should bike and shouldn’t bike. There is this “us” and “them” idea, whereas most people are actually bikers and drivers; you bike and drive your car sometimes. You assume as a bicyclist that the cars are doing something to you.
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Some of the roads have no bike lanes. I think it is kind of dangerous to ride with the cars. I was hit once in the street. There was a car turning around, and he didn’t see me, and I was hit, but it was not serious.
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People are pretty courteous if there is a road without a bike lane, [and] I am forced to ride in their lane. I have been able to take the American River Bike Trail wherever I want to go. I have been mostly northeast to the Fair Oaks area. I use [the bike trail] as a way of getting around to friends’ houses.
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Bicycling is actually easier than driving, believe it or not. I have had people almost run into me, and I was as close to the gutter as I could get. The sidewalks are not big enough at all for bicycles and pedestrians. ... It is really hard to navigate from point A to point B by taking side streets.
[My wife and I] rode from Folsom to this area. My sister and brother-in-law live close by. The last section getting on 16th and N [streets] over by the industrial zone coming into Sacramento was kind of awkward, but I am not too familiar with the routes as of yet.
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Lawson lived in South Sacramento with her parents and two brothers until just recently, when she moved out on her own. She’s attended Sacramento City College, majoring in political science, but has taken a break to focus on the youth council. When she returns to college in a year or two, she plans to switch her major to communications with an eye toward social-media counseling.
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Re “Tunnel vision� by Nick Miller (SN&R News, April 10): The cost to build responsibly is a part of doing business. I think it is nervy of developer Phil Angelides to accuse Councilman Steve Cohn of political motivation. Angelides is listed as a political supporter for Councilman Kevin McCarty and contributed to Councilman Darrell Fong’s campaign. And our own SN&R reported how Angelo Tsakopoulos, one of California’s most powerful political figures, stayed after project approval to shake hands with the planning commissioner. And I consider Angelides’ unfounded letter of accusation that East Sacramento is displaying “classic the week NIMBYism� as a slur. East Sacramento has a long history of and has been formed by infill. We support the current infill project Sutter Park. East Sac supports smart, healthy infill. McKinley Village, at the freeway’s edge—rimmed by a railroad track with trains hauling up to 100 cars of highly flammable crude oil in a basin of noise and air pollution—is not healthy for children. Sidney Norris
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Cohn’s McKinley stand Re “Tunnel vision� by Nick Miller (SN&R News, April 10): I am glad you clarified that the vehicle-tunnel access from McKinley Village has been part of the negotiations with Phil Angelides since the very beginning. I find Councilman Steve Cohn’s last-minute jump on the bandwagon—stating 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— quite interesting. We have had dozens of meetings over this past year, and I don’t remember Cohn ever taking a stand for this access. I’m happy that he is finally speaking up in favor of the third access, but it could be a day late and a dollar short, since the project is in the final stages and only needs approval by the city council. Since this project is in Cohn and Councilman Steve Hansen’s districts and will affect these districts more than any others, the other city council members should respect the opinions and concerns of Cohn and Hansen and not approve this project without a guaranteed vehicle-tunnel access. Terry Reed Sacramento BEFORE
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McKinley’s politics Re “Tunnel vision� by Nick Miller (SN&R News, April 10): Dumping this project’s traffic onto C and 28th streets without offering any mitigation is not a good way to do business. It is well-known that Phil Angelides has had ongoing discussions with both of the key city councilmen and their staff about the feasibility and cost of at least a one-way vehicle tunnel. Councilman Steve Cohn should have spoken out in support earlier, as should have Councilman Steve Hansen, but labeling this last-minute “railroading� is disingenuous. It’s simply politics. Ellen Trescott Sacramento |
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to Pass Tax-cut Package” to “Pressure Builds in House to Elect CHIPPY 1337,” a reference to another hacker group. Within 30 minutes, Keys’ credentials had been revoked and the headline corrected. Keys might have expected, at worse, a stiff warning and small fine. But he literally messed with the wrong guy. Sabu had been an FBI informant since his arrest in June 2011, right around the time he started AntiSec. For five months, Monsegur encouraged his followers to commit cybercrime while under the FBI’s control. He was the “honeypot” attracting would-be perps into an operation seemingly designed to intimidate future hackers and anyone who might associate with them, like Keys.
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The trial of former KTXL Fox40 Web producer Matthew Keys in Sacramento federal court by appears to be approaching its anticlimax. Chris Parker The 27-year-old blogger and journalist is accused of helping hackers break into the Los Angeles Times website, where they changed the headline of a story. Keys has even confessed to the substance of the crime, though it hardly qualifies as misdemeanor vandalism. So why make a federal case out of it? Couldn’t Department of Justice resources be better directed elsewhere? It’s a question of priorities, according to Surviving Cyberwar author Richard Stiennon. “For those in justice, your career path is to get a whole bunch of successful prosecutions and get noticed,” Stiennon says. “So you’re going to go after the lowhanging fruit.” Lately, prosecutors have been taking advantage of the wide latitude afforded them by the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to press cases involving “network security.” And they press hard. Last January, Internet entrepreneur and activist Aaron Swartz killed himself while under felony prosecution for downloading academic journals. Swartz, who helped create the crowdsourced entertainment site Reddit, was facing 50 years and $1 million in fines. “The days of ‘Let’s haul this kid in front of the judge, scare him and send him home with a warning’ are long since gone,” says attorney Jay Leiderman, who represents Keys. “Prosecutorial discretion is a great thing if it’s exercised, but it doesn’t happen in any meaningful way these days, because prosecutions are so politicized.” That’s the crux of the problem for Keys, the former Reuters social-media editor and possessor of 23,000 Twitter followers. In December 2011, he crossed paths with Hector Xavier Monsegur, a.k.a. Sabu, the leader of AntiSec, a more mischievous offshoot of hacktivist group Anonymous. Keys passed them the credentials he once used to log into KTXL’s computers, which were linked to the Tribune Company network. KTXL had fired Keys two months earlier, and he’s since expressed surprise that the credentials still worked. An AntiSec member used them to access the L.A. Times website and change a story headline from “Pressure Builds in House
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original drafters focused narrowly on a real eye-opener to what happens in the government computers and the intent of the criminal-justice system,” says Lofgren. intrusion. “What they felt was very abusive was this But changes in the law and vague word- sort of thing where you more or less try ing have turned “unauthorized access” to a to extort concessions through the use of computer into a prosecutorial blank check. overprosecution.” Eleven years ago, nearby Fiddletown Keys’ odyssey appears to be drawing to resident Bret McDanel was jailed under its close, for better or worse. His last court the CFAA for a crime the government later appearance, on April 2, was accompanied admitted he hadn’t really committed. by news that the case had gone to proffer. McDanel noticed a security flaw in his This involves the prosecution sharing their firm Tornado Development’s Web-based case with the defense, generally with an communications software. He told his eye toward an agreement. Proffers are less supervisors, but his concerns went unadbinding than a plea, and typically are predidressed. After leaving their employ, he sent cated on the defendant’s testimony against an email to all the software’s users informsomeone else. ing them of the issue. The Amador County Nearly all those swept up in the feds’ resident was charged with undermining the Anonymous-related enforcement actions “integrity of a computer system.” have been processed. The sole remaining By the time the feds admitted the exceptions are Keys and cooperating ringMatthew Keys is law wasn’t meant to protect a software leader Monsegur. In January, Monsegur’s company’s reputation, he had already sentencing was delayed for a third time, so certainly guilty of served his 16-month sentence. He’d lost it’s not difficult to believe he’s the bow on something, but probably his fiancée and was living with his parents, the whole operation. while his former employer had gone out of Keys is certainly guilty of something, not a felony. business. But McDanel can surely tell you but probably not a felony. In that respect, which way the railroad runs. he’s perhaps a victim of cybercrime’s “Part of this is [the feds’] broader push As Keys has discovered, the feds lean intrigue and a prosecutor’s desire to leverto send a message that anything and everyhard and wear you down. He faces up to age that publicity. thing is going to go punished that appears $750,000 in fines and 25 years in prison. “Any case that has the word ‘cyber’ in to suggest that the control of the Internet Swartz initially faced only 35 years, but it brings headlines, because it’s interesting. is up for grabs,” says Hanni Fakhoury an four months before his death (20 months There’s a degree to which careers are attorney at Electronic Frontier Foundation after his initial arrest), they added nine made this way,” says Leiderman. “‘Cyber in San Francisco. “It is not a coincidence more felony counts, raising his jeopardy prosecutor blah-blah-blah.’ Nobody reads that this was linked to behavior undertaken to 50 years. The idea, critics say, was to the ‘blah-blah-blah.’ They just go, ‘They in the name Anonymous.” squeeze a plea out of him; Swartz found a caught a cybercriminal. Fantastic.’” It wasn’t always like this. Keys and different way out. Lofgren continues to push changes Swartz were charged under CFAA, a Swartz’s act of martyrdom generated a in the law to make it less prone to abuse. 28-year-old law whose contours, like the firestorm of protest. It caught the attention Unfortunately, there’s precious little to be shore, have worn away with time, yielding of Bay Area Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, done about overzealous prosecutors. to much wider application. who sponsored (still-stalled) legislation “You really can’t impose good judgThe CFAA was conceived in the known as Aaron’s Law to change some ment legislatively,” Lofgren says, “but we wake of the Matthew Broderick movie CFAA provisions. do need to have better oversight over the WarGames, about a hacker who inadver“In talking to Aaron’s family and others Department of Justice.” Ω tently almost starts a nuclear war. The who were involved in his situation, it was S T O R Y | A R T S & C U L T U R E | A F T E R | 04.17.14 | SN&R | 11
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Mad, man It’s 4/20 this week—but some legal marijuana businesses and advocates can’t buy advertising Even though polls show that most Americans support the legalization of marijuana, corporate America continues to censor by David Downs pot-related speech. Legal reformers are banned from issue-advocacy advertising; major websites such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo prohibit the listing of legal marijuana businesses; and normal folks face even tougher reprisals for speaking out at work, at school or in the community. Justin Hartfield, founder of the nation’s leading marijuana-locator website WeedMaps, was doing interviews last week, telling people how lawyers for CBS Outdoor pulled his ad in New York’s Times Square from rotation after the billboard company took his $50,000 and told him the ad launched on April 1. “It was surprising, but not shocking, just because this has totally happened to us in the past,” Hartfield told this writer. WeedMaps’ 26-by-20-foot electronic billboard would have been the Big Apple’s first mainstream weed ad. Designed to increase awareness of reform and mobilize the community, the 10-second spot was approved to run on the CBS Super Screen on 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues, 18 hours a day for 61 days.
WeedMaps’ 26-by-20-foot electronic billboard would have been the Big Apple’s first mainstream weed ad. It was to read: “High, NYC” and was to feature a link to WeedMaps’ New York City marijuana-resource site. The website itself details the obvious: New York City’s illegal but highly evolved weed scene, the state of the failed law, ways to contact politicians, plus a stoner’s guide to NYC. WeedMaps submitted its ad proposal in late January and received multiple levels of approval by Toronto-based Neutron Media, which sells CBS Outdoor’s billboard spaces, Hartfield said. In fact, Neutron Media had first approached officials at National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and offered them the billboard—but they couldn’t afford it, so officials from NORML called the folks at WeedMaps. BEFORE
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“I thought it would be a good opportunity to do something similar to what NORML would do anyway, but also kind of branding WeedMaps, so I decided to take them up on it,” Hartfield said. As of press time, the ad was still pending legal review. The rejection is part of a pattern: Weed-reform advocates often cannot engage in the same speech as drug warriors or gun lobbyists. In 2010, the Marijuana Policy Project tried to run pro-cannabis ads in California in the run-up to Proposition 19, a statewide measure that sought to legalize and regulate pot. But broadcasters rejected the ads, said Aaron Smith, now head of the National Cannabis Industry Association. “The ad had nothing to do with saying marijuana is a good thing,” said Smith. “That’s what burns me.” In March, Comcast rejected an informational ad about medical marijuana that was scheduled to broadcast in Long Island, New York; Massachusetts; and Chicago, USA Today reported. Facebook routinely bans Smith from paying to “promote” news stories about the NCIA—even reports from the Wall Street Journal. Facebook promotions are vital to reaching the group’s base, he said. Hartfield finds the double standards galling. “The ad is right above the Cold Stone Creamery,” he said of his proposed billboard in Times Square. “And you could argue that there are a lot of families going there and what message is that sending? Well, if you look up above the Cold Stone to the building immediately to the left, you’ll see a 24-seven ad for Stella Artois.” Even where weed is legal—like Colorado and Washington and the 21 states that have embraced medical cannabis—marijuana businesses face unfair speech restrictions. Google, Yahoo, Bing, Facebook and Twitter ban any ads promoting “illegal drugs”—which is truly ironic, some say, given Google’s long history of running pill ads from overseas entities. In 2011, the U.S. attorney in San Diego, Laura Duffy, even threatened newspapers for taking medicalcannabis dispensary ads. Ω
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Cutbacks, new website force Sacramento Superior Court to charge for public data In a move with broad implications for government watchdogs, crime victims, defendants and their by families, the Sacramento Superior Raheem F. Hosseini Court will begin charging people to search its website for cases ra heemh@ using a defendant’s name. newsre view.c om The previously free service allowed the public to access basic information about an individual’s court history—including charges, pleas and sentences—without knowing a specific case or reference number. The fees, which go into effect on July 1, would charge up to $1 for every name users attempt to look up, or $2,500 for a one-year subscription. (There’s no refund if a search turns up no results.) Critics say the charges will block those who can’t afford them from a valuable public safety tool. “What’s the public-safety cost of that?” said Matt Carroll of Paladin Private Security, which has contracts with multiple property districts throughout Sacramento County. “You’re cutting off at the knees hundreds of community members.” Carroll said the company’s security guards use the database 20 to 40 times a day to run basic background checks on the people they contact and inform law enforcement if there are outstanding warrants. “We use the heck out of it, to the point that we programmed it into our infrastructure,” he said. The Sacramento Superior Court plans to charge more than other major California courts for access to public records.
So do property managers looking to screen prospective tenants, as well as local residents hoping to vet renters, baby sitters, even romantic interests, said Carroll. “It was such an efficient tool to have out there,” he lamented. Court officials defended the new fees as the price of bringing the website into the 21st century. “This is not a moneymaking venture,” said the court’s chief technology officer, Heather L. Pettit. “It’s purely cost recovery.” The court unveiled its new “public access site” on April 7. Aside from monetizing defendant name searches, the site boasts several new features. Users can subscribe to specific civil, probate and, eventually, criminal cases; receive email alerts when new court documents are filed; and download full case files, rather than struggle with oversized binders and copy machines at the courthouse. Family-court documents and other privileged matters would be accessible only to case participants, not the general public. The document-download service also comes with a price tag, however. Downloads will cost $1 per page for the first five pages, then 40 cents for each additional page, topping out at $40 per document. Pettit said case participants would have 72 hours to download their documents for free. Taken together, Sacramento Superior Court proposes charging more for its electronic data than superior courts in Alameda, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Diego
Weakened CORE counties. It’s also more expensive than the federal court system’s Public Access to Court Electronic Records, or PACER, which charges 10 cents per printed page. During an interview last week in judge’s chambers, Pettit and three superior court justices said the technology upgrades promise increased efficiency for a court system that has shed 30 percent of its personnel since 2008. Family law, especially, had gotten so backed up that scalpers were selling tickets to people waiting in line, said Kevin R. Culhane, assistant presiding judge. “The thought is ‘online rather than in line,’” he said. Judges can now immediately issue and retrieve digitized protective orders from the bench, rather than engage in a weeks-long process that ends with hard-to-read scribbles on flimsy carbon-copy stock. As for why the court decided to levy fees for the once-free name search, officials said it’s because it’s the most-trafficked portal on the court’s website, averaging 50,000 searches a month. “It would be nice to not charge the way we haven’t been charging,” said Judge Alan G. Perkins. The California Newspaper Publishers Association has yet to take a position on the matter, but CNPA general counsel Jim Ewert said the court’s budget setbacks make it difficult to say it “shouldn’t charge for that value-added service.” Still, he wanted to make sure the fees were revenue neutral and expressed privacy concerns about the new requirement to set up user accounts. “That gives me pause,” he said. Paladin’s Carroll also challenged the notion that name searches are still free at the courthouse. “You know what’s not free?” he said. “Parking.” Carroll added that the courthouse’s location, limited hours and records staff represented obstacles to the average citizen, especially those with trans portation issues or limited resources. “This is a huge hurdle to public disclosure and public access,” he said. “If I say I’m going to give you a free meal, but you have to climb Mount St. Helena to get it, that’s not free.” If the new fees generate more than the $836,440 annual cost of maintaining the website, Pettit said the court will reduce them, as it’s required to by the California Rules of Court. Ω
Bowing to pressure from its teachers union, the Sacramento City Unified School District withdrew last week from a statewide effort to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores. Specifically, the district opted out of a waiver from the sweeping education law known as the No Child Left Behind Act. The district’s waiver was secured by the California Office to Reform Education, or CORE. Sacramento teachers and parents criticized former district Superintendent Jonathan Raymond for joining CORE with little input from stakeholders or democratic oversight by the school board. Patrick Kennedy, the board of education president, announced the district’s withdrawal from the CORE waiver last week at Sacramento City Teachers Association headquarters. “The way that [it] was developed was probably not as collaborative as it should have been, and it was clear that it was becoming a distraction from being able to get the important things done,” he told SN&R. CORE, a nonprofit consortium of 10 California school districts, representing more than 1 million of the state’s 6.3 million students, obtained the waiver for the 2013-2014 school year to avoid federal penalties tied to student test performance. Until last week, district staff were preparing to file renewal paperwork with the U.S. Department of Education by May 1. But fully implementing the waiver wouldn’t have been possible without the teachers union agreeing to an evaluation system in their next contract, under negotiation now. Kennedy, who is running for county supervisor, said the district is seeking legal clarification on whether it will be subject to NCLB testing and spending requirements starting July 1, or be shielded by the statewide waiver granted to the California Department of Education on March 7. CORE spokeswoman Hilary McLean said the school district remains part of the consortium, just not the NCLB waiver. “All 10 districts continue to meet and collaborate on common core implementation and other areas of common interest,” she said. NCLB technically lapsed in 2007, but Congress has continued to fund education under its terms in the absence of a bipartisan agreement to fix the flawed reform effort. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson termed the district’s decision a “real loss for the city’s kids” on Twitter. Johnson’s wife Michelle Rhee founded StudentsFirst, which endorsed the CORE waiver last year. Sacramento City Teachers Association president Nikki Milevsky said withdrawing from CORE helps clear the air at the start of the bargaining process. “Now we get to sit down with a partner that shares our beliefs and isn’t driven by an outside force telling them to have different beliefs,” she said. The association hopes the next two- or three-year agreement will be wrapped up later this year. (Cody Drabble)
Spray hate Victor Herrada didn’t notice the hate speech scrawled across the front of his Sacramento jewelry store right away. The owner of Prestigio Jewelers on Franklin Boulevard came to work in a hurry last Thursday morning, and was in the midst of setting up his display case when the offending slur caught his eye. Spray-painted in black across a promotional poster for Latina pop star Julieta Venegas’ April 27 appearance at Ace of Spades was a word that packs a lot of hurt into three letters: “fag.” Herrada described the vandalism as a “cowardly, hateful act,” especially given his shop’s diverse clientele. “We’re known for helping the gay community get married,” he said. “There’s no judgment here.” Herrada said Sacramento police were able to pull a glimpse of the suspected perpetrator by accessing the outdoor security system of the market next door, and saw that the vandalism occurred around 2 a.m. on April 10. (Raheem F. Hosseini)
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RIP fun Luigi’s Fun Garden in Midtown’s MARRS building will shut its doors on May 17. The pizza parlor and all-ages music venue has been sold, and it’s not exactly clear what will happen after a remodel and name change. But music promoter Jerry Perry has dubbed its final shows the Enjoy it While You Can series.
Marcos Breton used this past Sunday’s column to worship at the altar of former Sacramento city schools Superintendent Jonathan Raymond. “It was Raymond” this, “It was Raymond” that, he praised. Apparently, Raymond’s the only one with the gall to stand up to the local teachers’ union. The real story: The departed superintendent probably did more to fuel the flames than resolve ever-persistent issues.
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Remember how Sacramento went nuts for that towering Hard Rock Cafe guitar sculpture when the restaurant chain came to K and Seventh streets? Well, turned out that was a bust. And now the Sacramento Kings want to put a giant 60-foot sculpture at the corner of K and Fifth for the new arena. The big complex rears its head again.
Valley Music and Arts Festival. Sadly, the countless renditions of bro tanks, floral headbands and absurd nose rings just won’t quit— the enormous desert music festival is held again this weekend. Beware.
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Huge plans for huge problems Franklin Boulevard neighborhood leaders get innovative Last year, SN&R published a long piece on the history of Franklin Boulevard—and the struggling, often overlooked neighborhoods that surround it (see “On the rise and fall (and rise and fall, again) of Franklin Boulevard,” SN&R Feature Story; July 18, 2013). Part of what makes Franklin so fascinating—to Bites at least—is that the area is in many ways the prototypical inner-ring suburb. N vi AR G These were working-middle-class tracts, o by CoSm built largely in the 1950s (older on the north cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om end, newer going south), which declined as suburbanization, white flight and “flight from blight” took their toll. It’s an important kind of neighborhood, because there’s so much of it in Sacramento. Think of any aging commercial corridor—Florin Road, Stockton Boulevard, Del Paso Boulevard (most of Sacramento’s “boulevards”)—and you see the same patterns of disinvestment and inequality. The other part of what makes Franklin Boulevard interesting is the people trying to figure out creative ways to revitalize the area, when all the attention and money is focused elsewhere—like Folsom or Elk Grove or the Sacramento Kings arena. To that end, formation of the North Franklin Boulevard Community Development Fund was announced last week. It’s a community-development corporation, a 501(c)(3), created to try to do what the city and the county and the now-defunct redevelopment agency have not. “For years, we’ve been waiting for government to help us improve the district. We’ve been waiting for that new streetscape, more trees and crosswalks, better sidewalks and bike lanes, a bank, a health clinic … and on and on,” said Frank Cable, president of the North Franklin District Business Association, in an emailed statement. “But we’ve realized that local government is struggling too and, if we wait for the next booming economy, we’ll continue to be left behind. We’re taking the future into our own hands.” Over the last year, the North Franklin district has been busy creating a new community economic development plan. Local residents and business owners have been meeting and discussing their priorities for the neighborhood. More sophisticated surveys will go out in the coming months. “One of the biggest things is having a more interesting, compelling and safe streetscape,” says the North Franklin association’s executive director Marti Brown. Other ideas include limits on recyclers and a progressive street-food ordinance. Plans for a farmers market are underway. Brown has a track record of civic innovation. When she lived in Vallejo and served on the city council there, she led a “participatory budgeting” initiative that involved citizens directly in deciding how to spend a portion of that city’s sales tax. Project ideas came from the public and were BEFORE
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Brown and Hernandez also want to push for new affordable housing in the area, and promote development around the underused light-rail station at 47th Avenue. And they still hope to find ways to better connect the neighborhood, the Campbell Soup Company site and the new lightindustrial businesses expected to move into the site in the coming months. They say their plan is different than the typical redevelopment plan of the past—which might focus on a few physical improvements. They want to tackle physical and social problems at the same time. It sounds like an awfully ambitious plan for a neighborhood like Franklin Boulevard’s in a city that doesn’t pay a lot of attention to neighborhoods like Franklin Boulevard’s. “We have huge plans,” Brown said. “Because we have huge problems.” Ω
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This past Wednesday was a good day for the residents of Sacramento County. A milestone day, because the county supervisors were having a special meeting about our safety net. But instead of discussing ways to cut the critical safety net, they looked at the best ways to improve it. That’s right. Improve it. Make it better. County officials have been working hard developing plans. Nonprofit agencies have been strategizing about how to make their cases. And individuals told their stories, personal tales that brought home the importance of services for our most needy l by Jeff Vonkaene citizens. We have nearly 1.5 million residents living in j e ffv @n e wsr e v ie w.c o m our county. Most of us have our health, a home and a job or retirement income. And we, the fortunate ones, should be grateful. But there are those who do not. Some made mistakes. Some had the wrong parents, or their genetic roll of the dice did not turn out well. Some of our neighbors have physical disabilities. Some have severe mental illness. Some have not recovered from an abusive upbringing, or are suffering from addiction. What is clear is that services matter. Housing helps Anyone who the homeless. Quality foster helps children in abusive has tried to help care situations. Public transportation someone in helps those who do not have cars or physically cannot drive crisis knows how cars. The list goes on. It is also clear that there are difficult it is. currently not enough government resources to solve all these problems. So the county’s board of supervisors was asking the right question on April 9: Where should we put our limited resources? And asking the right questions often will produce the right answers. I was personally moved by the presentations at the To read the report prepared by the meeting. We are very fortunate to have elected officials, Human Services county employees and nonprofits who care deeply about Coordinating Council suggesting these issues. Fixing and improving the safety net is a priorities for the complicated, difficult and exasperating problem. Anyone safety net, go to who has tried to help someone in crisis knows how difficult http://tinyurl.com/ it is. Over the last several months, through SN&R’s Custom SafetyNetRpt. Publications division, I have had the opportunity to get to know dozens of county employees who are directly working with residents in crisis. I have talked to a county veterans’ services employee who would walk through fire to help one of her clients. A MediJeff vonkaenel Cal worker who teared up when talking about how one of is the president, her clients was now going to be able to get health insurance. CEO and And I have seen how Paul Lake, director of the Sacramento majority owner of the News & Review County Department of Human Assistance, and county newspapers in Supervisor Phil Serna are so proud that fewer of our citizens Sacramento, Chico will be hungry because of increased food-stamp participation. and Reno. Last Wednesday was an important day spent trying to fix our safety net. A safety net made of money, effort and love. It was good to see all three ingredients at the meeting. Ω
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McKinley Village isn’t perfect. Even developer Phil Angelides says this. The project, which would bring 336 single-family homes to what has been an otherwise challenging-to-develop plot just north of East Sacramento, goes in front of the city council later this month for final approval. Neighborhood opposition to McKinley Village is strong. Lawn signs emblazoned with “Stop McVillage” dot East Sac and Midtown. Town halls and public meetings on the proposed community have been heated. In other municipalities such as Roseville or Davis, similar resident resistance would probably be enough to kill a project. But not here in Sacramento. Most residents are upset about potential traffic from proposed development. The More people project includes only two entry need to be living points for cars: one at 40th Street in East Sacramento and in central cities another at A and 28th streets and along massin Midtown, near Sutter’s Landing Regional Park. transit corridors. A majority of residents lobbied aggressively for a third vehicle tunnel at Alhambra Boulevard at B Streets. The city, however, isn’t requiring more than two vehicular-access points. And the city’s environmental-impact report cites that traffic from a projected 3,500 new McKinley Village car trips will not detrimentally impact congestion on East Sac and Midtown roads. But residents, and even Councilman Steve Cohn, argue that there’s a huge difference between projections and reality. East Sacramento’s sleepy roads are narrow and quiet, they point out. A couple-thousand extra car trips a day will awaken them, and possibly change the tenor of the neighborhoods. Angelides, however, says the multimilliondollar cost of building a third vehicle tunnel into the neighborhood at Alhambra will kill the project. It’s also worth noting that a city study of a tunnel’s feasibility at that location is inconclusive; it may not be possible to construct one under Union Pacific’s railroad tracks. Angelides has promised to either build a bike and pedestrian tunnel at Alhambra and B Street, or donate $1.7 million to city transportation projects. That’s not what residents want to hear. But that seems fair. There are two reasons the Sacramento City Council should approve McKinley Village. The first is that we need more people living in the urban core, and not sprawl neighborhoods such as Cordova Hills. The second is that, given the proposed site’s contentious history, this may be the best—and possibly last—applicant for the land. Quality of life in our inner-city neighborhoods is vital. We trust that city staff diligently investigated McKinley Village’s traffic and environmental impacts despite resident dissatisfaction with their results. We also realize some residents will never be happy with any development at the site in question. At the end of the day, climate change is real. More people need to be living in central cities and along mass-transit corridors. McKinley Village satisfies this criteria. Ω
A taste of discrimination envy Two weeks ago, I wrote a short news item about two discrimination envy. This is when a privileged golfers who got into club-swinging throwdown group feels excluded from dialoguing about by with each other over a skipped turn. When I inequality, and starts reacting to perceived Raheem uploaded the story to SN&R’s Page Burner injustices. Like when Fox News pretends that F. Hosseini blog, I chose a cheeky headline: “White male Christians are under attack because a mall Santa entitlement goes nuclear on the golf course.” somewhere said, “Happy holidays.” This upset a few people. Discrimination envy seems to be on the “Ok article except for the title,” an anonyrise, and not just because we elected our first mous reader posted to our website. “Isn’t this black president five years ago. My guess is that 2014? Why make this as the demographics of the a race thing instead of United States change so that sports thing?” White America whites relinquish their numeric On SN&R’s Facebook dominance, they (or we) are has rarely had it page, a few more chimed going to get more anxious about better, according in, with one user calling surrendering our status and the headline “awful and influence. to a study released telling,” and another And yet, white America has last year by the Pew rarely had it better, according chastising me for making it “racist when race to a study released last year Research Center. [wasn’t] even stated or by the Pew Research Center. the issue. [WTF] is wrong Between 1967 and 2011, the with people!?” report found the gaps in household income and An online version of this I’m still waiting for the vanguards of the household wealth widened between blacks and essay can be found at Associated Press Stylebook to chew me out. whites. Disparities shrank a bit when it came to www.newsreview.com/ As far as I can tell, no one took issue with the high-school completion and life expectancy, but sacramento/ remained mostly unchanged regarding poverty pageburner/blogs. hyperbolic use of the word “nuclear” in the headline, so I’ll count my blessings. and homeownership rates. But I get it. My bad. Mea culpa. I am sorry, I doubt anyone experiencing discrimination white America. My intent wasn’t to start a race envy would like a taste of the real thing. But war—especially against the one I belong to, when it comes to complaining, I guess we really according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But this were all created equal. Ω seems like a good opportunity to talk about BEFORE
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Critics laud Sacramento as among the most bike-friendly cities in America. But Brown and others feel Sacramento is some distance from entering the ranks of the best-known bike-friendly places, such as Portland, Ore.; Madison, Wis.; San Francisco; Amsterdam and, locally, Davis. “People say that Sacramento is one of the friendliest cities for cycling, but they don’t ride a bike,” Brown says. “They say it because it sounds good, because it’s part of our civic identity.” He says city managers are really pretty skeptical about bikes. “They really don’t want to inhibit drivers’ ability to get around the city.” Sure, there are plans to create more bike lanes and bike-parking stations, and to launch a bicycle-sharing program, featuring about 600 public-use bicycles, within the next year. The 30-mile American River Bike Trail is famous among cycling and recreation buffs, while urban bike commuters praise the flat terrain and the easily navigated street grid as prime reasons not to bother driving in Sacramento. But Adrian Moore, owner of Ikon Cycles in Midtown, rides his bike almost every day and says, “Sacramento’s getting better, but we aren’t bike-friendly.” Cyclists say a major problem is that downtown, like most cities, was designed largely to accommodate commuters, who drive to the capital by freeway. In the suburbs, it’s even worse, they argue, with heavily trafficked boulevards and far too few bike lanes for comfort. Bike lanes are prominent within the city. In fact, there are 240 miles of them—a relatively high bike-lane-to-total-street ratio. Critics say many of these routes fail to serve as effective travel arteries. Some end abruptly and leave cyclists floundering in multilane raceways, which drivers use as high-speed freeway on-ramps, like I and P streets. J Street, the central city’s main thoroughfare, is considered completely unsafe by bike advocates. They want to make a contiguous network of safe and reliable routes. They also want to see bike lanes that are entirely separated from auto traffic by a physical barrier, as well as more places to park bicycles. “Any kind of facilities, whether bike lanes or racks or share-the-road signs, help to legitimize bicycles in the minds of drivers,” Moore explains. In a perfect biketopia, the thousands of would-be cyclists currently too nervous to leave their cars would take to their bikes. As numbers grew and infrastructure improved, the population of urban cyclists would almost surely continue to climb toward a critical mass—and at some point, perhaps just a few years away, San Francisco, Davis, Seattle and Portland would find
themselves in the company of another esteemed West Coast cycling town. Sacramento, too, could be an urban bike-riding utopia. Sparking this change, however, may be a long uphill climb for the area’s bike advocates.
How Sacto failS aS a bike town Jim Brown hops a curb and breezes past several pedestrians on the sidewalk. “Everybody has their own bootleg way to get to the train station,” he says. He and other cyclists are frustrated that no single bike route leads all the way to the depot. H Street may seem like the quietest, safest road there. “But it’s a one-way street going east,” Brown says. “It’s illegal to ride west on it.” Instead, this is how he bikes to the train station: He cuts across L Street, against a red pedestrian light, and crosses the three traffic lanes in order to gain a jump on an approaching wave of cars. He sprints for a block, then cuts right at Fifth. Here, he pulls to the curb, waits for a break in the traffic and speeds downhill, through the Downtown Plaza tunnel and, with a look over his left shoulder, veers left across the empty roadway. With a left turn onto I Street and another harrowing maneuver across multiple lanes of traffic, he has arrived. The train station is a refuge from the noisy streets. There’s even a bike rack—a generous accommodation to cyclists who otherwise risk losing their rides to thieves, who like to
“The city is going to have a real come-to-Jesus moment when they realize that downtown really isn’t very safe. Right now, you can’t even ride safely from the Amtrak depot to the state Capitol.” Jim Brown
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lanes than they are here. It’s also so easy to bike here.” It’s flat, he says, and few errands require going more than 5 miles round-trip. “That’s 20 minutes, and that’s the same if you’re driving,” he says. Vincent Sterne, a Sacramento resident and the owner of Two Rivers Cider Company, is a bike commuter and believes the area could use a few improvements for cyclists, especially more bike lanes and more places to safely lock bikes. But overall, Sterne thinks the city is “a great town for cycling.” He marvels as to why so many locals drive cars. “I’m surprised and disgusted, to be honest, that more people don’t ride bikes,” he says. “It’s hard for me to fathom that a person who lives and works in Midtown has any need for an automobile at all.” John Hodgson, a Midtown resident who commutes several blocks by bicycle to his office, agrees that the central region of Sacramento is an almost perfect place to ride. “For trips that are less than 10 or 15 blocks, cycling is faster than driving and more pleasant, and you don’t have to worry about parking tickets,” he says. “To me, riding a bike is one of the basic amenities we have here.” But outside the center of the city, the cycling scenery is not so picturesque. “It’s just plain dangerous in a lot of parts,” Hodgson says, citing several particularly nasty intersections along Fair Oaks Boulevard. “It’s very unfriendly. That’s just the design. I don’t know what there is to do about it. You have these huge intersections with four to six lanes. Their purpose is to move traffic. Some of them are close to the freeway, where people are inclined to drive fast.” “It can’t be cars vs. bikes. It’s about accommodating both, but without slowing
No matter how comfortable a cyclist may feel on the streets of Sacramento, drivers dominate the city. Less than 3 percent of commuter trips in and around Sacramento are made by bicycle. By comparison, 19 percent of commuter trips in Davis are made by bicycle, 6 percent in Portland, and 12 percent in Boulder, Colo. While Sacramento’s bike-commuting score is almost three times better than that of Los Angeles, cycling advocates believe the city has plenty of room to improve. One need only look at Seville, Spain, to understand how streamlining a city’s bicycle facilities can dramatically increase the number of commuters using bikes and, even, the collective quality of life. There, cycling accounted for just 0.2 percent of all commuter trips in 2005. The city of 700,000 was a congested mess, stricken with chronic traffic that clogged the roadways leading into and out of the urban center. Finally, city leaders agreed that there might be a simple way out of the gridlock: more bicycles. They rapidly added many miles of bike lanes and separated cycle tracks, and launched a bike-sharing program. The cycling rate promptly began to climb—rapidly—and has since passed 7 percent. Seville is now considered one of the most bike-friendly cities in Europe. Sacramento is thankfully less fraught with traffic and congestion than Seville was a decade ago. Midtown is already pretty bike-friendly, with quiet streets lined with bike lanes on almost every block. But downtown and many suburban areas, lodged in their antiquated car-and-driveroriented designs, could be improved—and simple installations of bike parking racks and bike lanes could spur big changes. That,
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“Politicians are reluctant to take a stand for bicycles. Downtown is terrible for bikes, and it isn’t getting much better.” John Boyer
owner, Edible Pedal bike-delivery company anyway, is what Sotiris Kolokotronis believes. An avid cyclist, Kolokotronis also is a big-time local developer and owns SKK Development, based in Midtown. He believes Sacramento is currently at a sort of tipping point where a few significant improvements in cycling facilities could draw thousands more would-be bicyclists from their cars. “More and more people are realizing how beautiful and convenient it is to ride a bike around the city,” Kolokotronis says. The city says that eight bike corrals are now tentatively scheduled for installment around the city. The corrals, which Cox says cost between $2,000 and $3,000 each to install, are placed in the street—generally where a car might otherwise park—and can accommodate about a dozen bicycles. Cox says there has been no careful cost-benefit analysis of installing them. “But it’s just intuitive,” he says. “You have a bunch of bikes parking there rather than one car. It seems like it’s better for the business and better for the neighborhood.” Emily Baime Michaels, the executive director of the Midtown Business Association, says that the district’s developers and business owners— especially those running bars and
restaurants—recognize bicycling as a vital artery of economic blood in the city’s heart. “It’s kind of a no-brainer that if developers are focused on cycling rather than on autos, that allows us to achieve a higher density of residential units and retail space,” Michaels says. Most new building projects in Sacramento are now required to include bike parking racks, while limitations have been placed on the building of car parking facilities. But the much-anticipated Sacramento Kings arena project, expected to be completed in late 2016, is moving forward with plans for fewer bike-parking facilities than cycling advocates might like to see.
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But the arena may include no and this is hampering the improvement of more than 126 bike-parking spaces, and there are cycling infrastructure,” Boyer says. “It’s one of no plans for a bike valet like the one at the San the main hurdles we need to get through to really Francisco Giants’ AT&T Park. make this a bike-friendly environment.” “If 5 percent of [people attending] a Lady Boyer is pessimistic about city policies when Gaga show biked to the arena, you’d have 900 it comes to bicycles, people and cars. bikes,” Brown said. “They’ll have no place to “Politicians are reluctant to take a stand for put them all.” bicycles,” he says. “Downtown is terrible for The arena’s developers don’t expect large bikes, and it isn’t getting much better.” numbers of cyclists to attend concerts or basketBoyer says he wants to make it clear to ball games. These events tend to draw crowds others that bicycles are a viable cog in the from places many miles outside the city, explains urban economic machine—not that Boyer is the Desmond Parrington, the city’s entertainmentonly believer. and-sports-center project manager. He describes Ed Roehr, owner of Magpie Cafe and an example of an arena in New York City that Yellowbill Cafe & Bakery, uses Boyer’s services was smartly fitted with 200 bike racks. But few for delivery runs of takeout orders and catered cyclists used them, he says, and they ultimately meals. “The Edible Pedal has been huge for us,” served as an inconvenience and obstacle to he says. “We used to have to turn orders down pedestrians trying to access the space. sometimes because it just wasn’t worth it if it Sparky Harris, with the city’s planning was just two or three boxed lunches. We’d have commission, says a lengthy urban study is to find someone to drive the van, find a place now being launched to look at downtown to park it, make sure there was gas in it. It just Sacramento’s weaknesses and glitches in terms of wasn’t cost-effective.” transportability: where exactly traffic tends to get Now, small orders that once would not have snagged up and how existing buildings, roadways been delivered by vehicle find their way across and facilities could be town thanks to Boyer’s amended to improve bicycles, Roehr says. access between one Sterne at Two area and another. Rivers also supports Then, alterations will his business with be made and building bicycles. Using projects aligned to several cargo bikes, he meet the same goals. regularly hauls kegs But it won’t of cider to events—as necessarily make Adrian Moore many as 30 gallons at Sacramento a better owner, Ikon Cycles bike shop once, he says. place for bike riding. “It’s so much in Midtown Downtown is changeasier to go door-toing, he explains, with door on a bike rather more and more people now remaining in the area than pack it all into a van and deal with traffic after work, rather than leaving at the day’s end and try and find a place to park,” Sterne says. via the nearest freeway. To move about between The ease of moving through the city on a work and restaurants and retailers and bars, bicycle is familiar to any regular cyclist—and for these people may wish to ride public transit, this reason, Boyer thinks more businesses and Harris says. Some will want to walk. Many will services could be doing as he does. Pizzas, packcertainly prefer to keep on driving. ages, mail—all could move by bike under most “We want to improve access to downtown local circumstances, he says. Boyer’s latest addifor all people,” Harris says. “But not everyone tion to his service—the Community Supported wants to ride a bicycle. ... Agriculture box deliveries—is a step further in “To be honest, I think the goals of the cycling the direction of his pedal-powered paradise. advocates may be a little too utopian.” “It’s sustainable food delivered by sustainable means,” he says. Boyer’s idea of a perfect Sacramento, he says, is a place where people, not vehicles, own It’s true that cyclists such as John Boyer envision the town, whether they’re cycling, walking or a bike-friendly city that does not exist—at least just sitting. In the existing world, he argues, not here and not now. In his imagined world, cyclists are frequently viewed as “just a step up pedestrians and cyclists enjoy an urban environfrom homeless. And people who rest on benches ment centered around public parks, plazas and are considered ‘loitering.’” people—not automobiles. In this world, goods Boyer wonders why bike infrastructure such are delivered largely by bicycle, and few people as lanes and corrals must be fought for, and why drive. The concept is not entirely a fantasy. In automobile infrastructure remain the status quo. Europe, parts of many cities look much this Sterne believes this modern social norm way, including Dublin; Munich; Copenhagen, could change with time. “Hopefully, as more Denmark; Ferrara, Italy; and Stockholm, Sweden. people ride bikes and as the cycling community But Boyer is trying to bring this vision alive grows, we’ll start seeing changes in how they in Sacramento. He runs a food-delivery service design the city and how they build infrastruccalled Edible Pedal, launched in 2009. He now ture,” Sterne says. “As more people become works with almost a dozen restaurants, as well as more active and more concerned about the enviGood Humus Produce. Boyer and his employees ronment and their health, we’ll maybe see less ride several modified utility bicycles fitted with red tape, more cyclists and fewer drivers.” Ω B E F O R E | N E W S | F E A T U R E S T O R Y | A R T S & C U L T U R E | A F T E R | 04.17.14
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rom across a busy street in Paris’ 10th Arrondissement, P. Joshua Laskey could tell that the performers were good, mostly because they were surrounded by a sizable audience—including a group of toddlers who were paying close attention.
It’s not that uncommon to see street performers in Paris, but even though he and his wife, Jessica Goldman Laskey, were out of earshot and speak less than perfect French, he could tell “in two seconds” the troupe was doing Hamlet. But how? “Because I have a deep, spiritual connection to Hamlet,” Laskey explained in a recent interview with SN&R. And that’s why he turned to Goldman Laskey and said, “We need to cross the street.” Goldman Laskey remembers the performers as taking a broad, physical approach to the play— “clowning without mugging” in a way that made it intelligible both to preschoolers and visiting Americans. There were also minimal props and only four performers. “They had a chalkboard with the characters’ names on it, and every time someone died, they’d cross the name off the chalkboard,” she said. But what really caught the attention of the pair was how this abbreviated production of the play—which is probably, along with Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s best-known work—managed to capture the attention of such a range of audience members. “The toddlers were just enrapt,” said Goldman Laskey. “They’re riveted to this kid, this 20-something kid, who’s up there speaking in this—I assume—very poetic French,” said Laskey. “This is the kind of theater that we all
aspire to. I really can’t understand the words very well, but I understand the emotions, and these little kids didn’t move while this was going on.” Typically, even a shortened version of Hamlet runs more than three hours, and the play calls for as many as 32 actors—though usually some doubling does occur in roles. There are 11 characters with speaking roles, though, so it’s not a small show to mount, even with a minimal set.
“ This is the kind of theater that we all aspire to.” P. Joshua Laskey director, Theater Galatea The couple, who have done extensive work in theater in the Sacramento area as actors and directors—and, in Laskey’s case, also as a playwright—looked up the troupe that had done the production. “Their motto is, roughly translated, ‘A tragedy for comedians in unexpected places,’” said Laskey. “They perform all over Paris.” Now, the couple’s production group, Theater Galatea, is tackling its own take on Hamlet that’s rooted in that street show they witnessed in the 10th Arrondissement. Laskey’s adaptation of Hamlet, which opens on April 18, is about half the length of the original play and written for four actors. But, while the theater company won’t be heading out to any street corners just yet, it has been joined by Sacramento actors Blair Leatherwood and Kellie Yvonne
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you’ve had complicated parental and romantic relationships.” And, Goldman Laskey said, she hopes the audience won’t let the iconic status of the play close them off to the experience. “The play’s been done so many times, and everybody knows the story,” she said. “But that’s what makes plays into museum pieces, when everyone knows what’s coming.”
Kellie Yvonne Raines (far left), Laskey, Goldman Laskey and Blair Leatherwood examine Yorick’s skull in a take on the classic Hamlet scene.
that Shakespeare was writing for his time. His plays have things that are outside our understanding, so providing context in an adaptation is “an extra layer that brings it back for our audiences to something they can understand and care about.” In Theater Galatea’s version, for example, Hamlet’s famous speech about how actors should perform and his reminiscences of Yorick, the court jester—while holding his skull, no less—have had to go for the most basic reasons: time, and having only four actors. But those elements are retained in the play in a slightly different way, one that will no doubt surprise and delight audience members familiar with them. As for the idea of going to see Hamlet, Laskey has some advice. “Don’t be afraid of the name ‘Hamlet,’ because you have more in common with him than you think,” he said. “You’ve gone through stuff that you didn’t understand, you’ve tried to make the right choice, |
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You never know how much you want something until it’s suddenly within reach. Before the Sacramento River Cats’ #Caturday promotion, I had no desire to emblazon my pet cats’ faces on the Jumbotron at Raley Field. But when the River Cats solicited photos of local cats for big-screen fame during last Saturday’s game, I just had to see my kittehs up in lights. My boyfriend and I plotted for days about how to submit our cats’ photos. Day before? Day of? During the game? On Twitter? On Facebook? Both? When it comes to house-cat promotion, how much is too much? We decided on a game-day strategy, tweeting a photo of each of our three cats to @RiverCats hours before the first pitch. Peanut’s photo was starred as a favorite by the team’s account. Kiki’s was immediately retweeted. Awesome! We posted a photo of our third cat, Pinto, and waited. No response. We studied Pinto critiIf the cally as he batted a paper ball across our kitchen Sacramento floor. Was there someRiver Cats thing unappealing about him we hadn’t noticed continue the before? As a follow-up, #Caturday we tweeted an old photo of Pinto hopped up on tradition next catnip with the caption, year, cat lovers “Pinto’s not old enough for Raley Field’s Beer definitely need Garden, so he’s settled to step it up. for catnip before the game. #caturday @RiverCats.” A Facebook friend immediately called us out. “Pinto the cat. Unwilling media whore. Shame on you.” It occurred to us we might be taking this #Caturday thing too seriously. I put on my cat-ear headband, and we drove out to the ballpark. The game program featured Grumpy Cat and Business Cat on the cover, but there were hardly any signs of cat love among the crowd. Actually, there wasn’t much of a crowd. Opening night was the day before, and the River Cats’ Nate Freiman had hit a grand slam in the eighth inning to defeat the Salt Lake Bees 7-6. Was it too much to expect fans to come out again for #Caturday? The loyal fans that did show bravely weathered the chill of an unrelenting Delta breeze. In a few months, those breezes will be welcome relief from the heat, but on this night, many huddled under blankets with their sweatshirt hoods up. Nobody lined up for a Merlino’s Freeze, but things were livelier in the beer garden, where tipsy fans shouted encouragement. The River Cats pulled ahead of the Bees in the sixth inning and sustained that 5-4 lead until the fireworks show finale. Cat photos flashed on the big screen between innings, but my pets’ were never among them. I let go of hopes for feline fame and celebrated a River Cats victory with the bright blooms of fireworks bursting between the Ziggurat Building and the Tower Bridge. If the River Cats continue the #Caturday tradition next year, cat lovers definitely need to step it up. The annual Bark in the Ballpark promotion, held this year on May 28, features dog-and-human ticket packages and an on-field dog parade—we can’t let felines fall out of favor with America’s pastime. I’ll start training my cats to march in parade formation, just in case. —Becca Costello
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Art and Science of Cheesemaking: Camembert Thursday, april 17 Garlic-and-Sriracha-infused pickling is all the rage, sure, but vinegar-based preservation techniques are to cheesemaking as EDM is to rock ’n’ roll. The fact that a stinky, stinky cheese can be made out of milk is pretty incredible. Learn to CLASS make and age your own, and finally impress all your French friends. $40-$49, 6 p.m. at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Community Learning Center, 1914 Alhambra Boulevard; (916) 455-2667; www.sacfoodcoop.com.
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Inside the Directors Studio: Crafting the Vision Friday, april 18 Dance is a transcendent (if often bungled) language. Molly Lynch, artistic director of the National Choreography Initiative, DANCE goes behind the process of designing movement and how she translates ideas, stories and emotions through physical motion. $20, 6 p.m. at the Sacramento Ballet, 1631 K Street; (916) 552-5800; www.sacballet.org.
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Take Me Out to the Museum Friday, april 18 Spring is a time of rebirth—for flora and fauna, of course, but also because it marks the start of baseball season. Celebrate America’s ART pastime by meeting Dinger of the River Cats, making some baseball-themed art, and checking out Peter VandenBerge’s bronze sculpture “Little Leaguer.” $5-$10, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; (916) 808-7000; www.crockerartmuseum.org.
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Serge! saTurday, april 19 This party celebrates the original hipster: French musician, poet, painter, writer and actor Serge Gainsbourg. The Sacramento French Film Festival TRIBUTE hosts the fifth annual celebration of the spirit of Gainsbourg, featuring deejays, dancing, cocktails and a performance by Rue ’66. $10, 8 p.m. at Beatnik Studios, 723 S Street; (916) 455 9390; www.sacramento frenchfilmfestival.com.
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rant 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. HHHH G.M.
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 marinara-ish 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 off-the-cuff flavors that mostly draw inspiration from Asian cuisines. A vanillaand-adzuki-bean gelato tastes sweet and earthy, with a flavor reminiscent to Chinese moon cakes. A nutty soy-based blacksesame-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
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. HHHH AMR
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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
eatery’s menu is all vegetarian and mostly vegan, with plenty of high notes. The Heavenly Noodle is a can’t-go-wrong salad comprising snow-white vermicelli noodles with cooling mint, cucumber slices, house-roasted peanuts and jagged pieces of faux beef. The “beef” actually is slightly sweet, plenty umami and pleasantly inoffensive, as far as fake meat goes.
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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; 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.
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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
Ste. 288; (916) 455-0288. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH J.M.
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.
Arden/ Carmichael FreshMed Mediterranean Cuisine 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 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.
West Sacramento Wicked West Pizza & BBQ This popular destination for kids’ sports teams and birthday parties also caters to adult diners with good food and healthy options, such as organic whole-wheat crusts. 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.
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Few stews pair as well with beer as chili con carne, a.k.a. chili. And pairing the hearty and spicy stew (at least one of which comes sin carne for vegetarians) with brews is exactly what the Sacramento Beer and Chili Festival is all about. Individuals and restaurant teams (Broderick Roadhouse, Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co., The Golden Bear) will compete in a chili cook-off. Breweries (including 21st Amendment Brewery, Drake’s Brewing Company and Two Rivers Cider Co.) will provide unlimited tastings. And Sacramento musical talent the Twilight Drifters, Hans Eberbach and As Yet Untitled will kick the jams. There’s also a children’s area with face painting, fishing and a playground. Bonus: The whole thing’s a fundraiser for school art programs through the Sacramento Artists Council Inc. It happens at Fremont Park (1515 Q Street) from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 19. General-admission tickets are $35 in advance and $40 the day of the event. See www.sacramento beerandchilifestival.com for VIP and designated-driver prices.
themed gastropub offers an adequate beer selection and an extensive menu that goes beyond standard deep-fried pub fare. Try the Irish onion soup, a French onion-styled soup kicked up with Irish whiskey and Guinness beer. Or order the house-made veggie burger—it’s one of the tastiest black-bean patties around. The most unusual dish on the menu is the Scottish Mafia Pizza. Topped with turkey pastrami, potatoes, cabbage and Swiss cheese, it falls short with its too many flat flavors to actually benefit from their unusual pairing. Thankfully, there’s Tabasco sauce on the table. Pub. 5220 Manzanita Ave. in Carmichael, (916) 331-2337. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH1/2 J.M.
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Rethinking sex work Playing the Whore The No. 1 claim made by Melissa Gira Grant, a former sex worker, in Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work BOOK (Verso, $14.95) is simple and clear: Sex work is work, and as such, needs to be considered as labor performed by people who have a right to decent working conditions. This neatly separates discussion of sex work from “human trafficking” or any type of sex abuse that involves an unwilling person; if she or he didn’t give consent, they’re enslaved, not working. Her argument is purely from a labor perspective, which is, on the one hand, refreshing, and on the other, a bit disturbing. It’s possible to seek a middle ground where sex work is destigmatized and at the same time, the economic conditions that make people potential workers are alleviated. —Kel Munger
Act locally, save globally earth Day netWork Earth Day officially lands on Tuesday, April 22, this year. But you’re savvy enough to know: Every day should be Earth Day. Visit the Earth Day Network for a history of the holiday’s origins as well as resources, tools and campaigns. Learn more about local activities as well as global efforts, such as The Canopy Project, an international mission to protect and preserve large swaths of forestry. Or learn more about Women and the Green Wage Economy campaign, which, as its ENVIRONMENT title suggests, “promotes women’s leadership in designing and advancing the green economy.” www.earthday.org. —Rachel Leibrock
Read smarter the rumPus Book cluB If you like the idea of a book club but can’t stand the thought of actually socializing with people, The Rumpus Book Club may be a pleasing alternative. Hosted by The Rumpus, an online pop-culture magazine with essays, comics and reviews that place an emphasis on the smart and unexpected, the reading group follows the same ethos. For $25 monthly, LITERATURE members receive a new book and are invited to post in an online forum. At month’s end, the author joins in for a moderated discussion. Happy reading—no boring small talk required. http:// store.therumpus.net/product/the-rumpus-book-club. —Rachel Leibrock
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Bruce Dancis Book reaDing Former Sacramento Bee entertainment editor Bruce Dancis came of age amid the social upheaval of the ’60s, but his commitment to fostering change started early. As a preteen, the Bronx-raised son of young socialists regularly argued with teachers about the EVENT civil-rights movement, and in 1963, when he was just 15, he walked as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Dancis (who, full disclosure, was once this writer’s boss) continued his activism at Cornell University, participating in sit-ins, protests and rallies. He destroyed his draft card—the first at Cornell to do so— and later took a leave of absence from school to work full-time as an activist. His work—which included a 1967 protest on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the Pentagon alongside Abbie Hoffman—landed Dancis on the FBI’s radar, and he eventually spent 19 months in federal prison, convicted on charges related to evading the draft. Dancis (pictured above, far right) writes about these experiences in his memoir Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison During the Vietnam War (Cornell University Press, $29.95). The book recounts Dancis’ history, written in a clear, unsentimental and engaging voice. “I don’t compare what I did in going to prison with the courage it takes to be in combat,” Dancis writes. “I’ve never experienced warfare so I can only imagine how I would have reacted to a life-ordeath situation.” Dancis will discuss his experiences on Wednesday, April 30. No cover, 7 p.m. at Time Tested Books, 1114 21st Street; (916) 447-5696; www.timetestedbooks.net. —Rachel Leibrock
Respect the relationship
A guy who really likes you would plan dates that took you into the world because that’s what you enjoy. One last thing, please don’t judge yourself for not taking his fantasy seriously. Yes, it might have been sweeter to play along. It certainly would have been kinder not to ridicule his desires. After all, you were the one that he wanted. That said, be clear he lacked the maturity to communicate the importance of his fantasy. He also failed to protect the marriage from the harm of turning his fantasy into reality without you. And that leads to the deeper problem in your marriage: a lack of respect for each other. That’s the issue you both need to tackle in therapy.
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I’m dating a guy who only wants to chill in his room with a video game and pizza. He rents a room in a house with a bunch of other people. It feels completely claustrophobic to be there. I always suggest that we go out, and I always offer to pay my own way. He never wants to go out. I realize that he doesn’t make much money, but neither do I. We both work at the same place, he’s in the warehouse, and I work in the store. I don’t understand why he can’t try to do something special for me once in a while. I finally got sick of it, and we had an argument. He yelled that everyone wonders why I’m with him. I went home crying, and he hasn’t even called me. He is a really nice guy. I feel bad, and I want to call him but don’t really know what to say. Any ideas? “Thank you” is the perfect place to start. Express your gratitude to this man for the privilege of his friendship. Do this after reflecting on what this relationship taught you. In the process, stop your brain from fearing that you have lost your true love. He was not your soul mate. You shared a relationship in which you didn’t feel appreciated. Be grateful that you can recognize a nice guy (not everyone has this awareness). Now search for a nice guy who is into you. A guy who really likes you would plan dates that took you into the world because that’s what you enjoy. There are many possibilities for people on a budget: a picnic in the park or along the river, Second Saturday art walks, and free concerts or low-cost plays. You can enjoy any of these awesome events on your own or with friends to fill in the hours previously spent stuck in a bedroom with a guy, a pizza and a video game. Ω
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A slightly altered perspective Miss Saigon The Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra (a.k.a. CATS) is a unique venture that mounts one elaborate show annually. It’s done comedies, by Jeff Hudson tragedies, stagings of ancient Asian classics, and American tales of immigration, internment, and assimilation. This year, it’s doing the musical Miss Saigon, marking the production company’s 20th anniversary. Miss Saigon is a Vietnam War tale, modeled on Puccini’s tragic opera Madama Butterfly, and featuring a doomed romance between an American soldier and a Vietnamese bar girl as the South Vietnamese government disintegrates. The Broadway production relied on spectacular effects: an evacuation helicopter and a huge American car. More recent versions (like the 2011 Music Circus staging) used less eyepopping substitutions—making the love story (and its, some would say “limited,” credibility) even more important.
Director Mason also makes a very savvy choice in that same scene, surrounding Lee with American icons—Elvis, Uncle Sam, Shirley Temple, Mouseketeer Annette Funicello and Marilyn Monroe—each played by an AsianAmerican (as the Engineer would dream them). It’s a huge production—costumes, a sevenpiece band, etc.—and not entirely glitch-free. But the story carries you swiftly along, and it’s told with greater attention to an Asian viewpoint, illuminating the material in ways I’ve not encountered in sleeker mainstream versions. Good going, CATS! Ω
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This CATS production connects in this regard. David Holmes (as soldier Chris) and April Lam (a recent grad of UCLA’s theater program, playing Kim) generate sparks onstage and sing well together. Director Susan Mason mingles their swift romance with chaos in a city where desperate people are trying to flee. Professional actor Jared Lee plays the corrupt, endlessly reinventive Engineer, and Lee is remarkable, lusting after luxury in his big number (“The American Dream”) with flashes of Al Jolson-style vaudeville. (And, keep in mind, Jolson was an immigrant who made it big in America pretending to be something he was not, just like the Engineer.)
This week’s discussion of the Sacramento Community Center Theater is long overdue. The facility’s shortcomings—poor acoustics, insufficient restrooms (especially for women) and so on—became apparent soon after it opened in 1974. The dilemma stood out in higher relief when the better-designed Mondavi Center opened in 2002 in Davis, and the region’s cultural center of gravity for high-end performing-arts groups started shifting there instead. But it’s only now that Sacramento is finally addressing the issue, looking at different options to gussy up the old venue. The city of Sacramento held a public discussion on Wednesday, April 16, and the city council will discuss renovation options on Tuesday, April 22. The remodel alternatives aren’t cheap, and the less expensive ones won’t get the job done. A number of people maintain that the city should instead build a new, more well-designed hall (something like the Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto, which opened in 2007). The problem with the new facility strategy is that it will take many years. The city would need to identify and acquire a site, hire the architects and fund construction (and keep in mind, the city’s hitched most of its financial resources to a certain arena). A new hall would be a long process. In the meantime, some of the remaining local groups performing in the old Community Center Theater might expire. This situation was foreseen, and should have been addressed much sooner; the long delay has only made things worse. And how did Modesto (yeah, Modesto!) build a modern-arts complex that Sacramento can only envy? Modesto’s got a very large, privately held corporation (whose name is on its arts center). Sacramento, alas, has no equivalent. —Jeff Hudson
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The central character (Belinda) has quit her job as an English professor to write TV scripts in Los Angeles. 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; acting by some supporting cast members is closer to “fair.” The multiple short scenes make for much furniture moving in the dark. Production values are basic and low-budget, fitting with the company’s priority. F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 5/4. $15-$17. Wilkerson Theatre in the R25 Arts Complex, 1723 25th St.; (916) 501-6104; www.actinsac.org. J.H.
Disappearing lowlands in coastal Louisiana combined with shifting economic 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, 1723 25th St.; (916) 451-5822; www.calstage.org. J.H.
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Written and directed by Richard Shepard (The Matador), Dom Hemingway not only features an overwrought graveside confessional, but indulges star Jude Law in about five minutes of writhing, awards-groveling bathos. Even worse, the graveside sequence is the culmination of a third-act spiral that undermines an otherwise enjoyably coarse black comedy. Shepard and Law create a magnificent character in the titular ex-con Dom, whose spasms of poetic vulgarity (he describes one man as having “a face like an abortion”) could have become film legend, but they confuse sick fascination for genuine affection. When you see where the film starts, it seems unlikely that drippy soft-heartedness will be its ultimate undoing. In a bracing, hilarious, straight-to-camera monologue destined to never become a staple of youth dramatic classes, Dom offers an epic poem to the holy splendor of his own member, whose “splendid contours” he insists constitute a flawless work of art destined to win the Nobel Peace Prize. It’s a brilliant scene, at once lyrical and offensive, and establishes Dom as a deluded egotist, a point underlined when Dom prematurely ejaculates, and one of his fellow prisoners rises into the frame. Jude Law grew mutton chop sideburns and added about 30 pounds of English-ale belly to play the title character, and that slight deglamorization seems to have recharged his batteries. Although underappreciated for his work in Side Effects, this is easily Law’s best
performance in a decade, and it is especially nice to see him resharpen the comic timing that had been blunted by hacks like Guy Ritchie and Nancy Meyers. The irresistible gag is that Law’s comedic chops and welcoming blue eyes are in direct to contrast to Dom’s sociopathic behavior and easily offended egotism. We see this the moment that Dom is released from prison, when he makes a beeline back to his old neighborhood in order to brutally assault the man who ended up marrying his now-deceased ex-wife. This is also when we see the worry lines of regret and self-doubt seep into Dom’s face—for all his coke-snorting, self-destructive braggadocio, Dom is filled with a self-loathing that humanizes him. While he is a fictional creation, Dom Hemingway is cut from the mold of “hard man” criminal biopics such as Chopper and Bronson, with a heavy dollop of Ben Kingsley’s character from Sexy Beast. Shepard’s wrinkle on the genre is to strain it through a filter of distinctly British gallows humor, with Withnail & I getting referenced especially hard, particularly during a lengthy interlude in the South of the France that is the film’s unquestionable highlight. The presence of nattily dressed Withnail & I star Richard E. Grant in the role of Dom’s left-handless right-hand man Dickie only adds to the atmosphere of authenticity. For a while, this stylish hybrid of hard-man moxie and mannered British comedy works quite well, thanks in large part to Law’s excellent lead performance, as well as lived-in oddball supporting work by Grant, Demian Bichir and Jumayn Hunter. Dom’s sun-blotting egotism and thoughtless descent back into his pre-prison lifestyle makes him distinctly unlikeable, but he is also “a good soldier” who wants to do right by those who do right by him. He is a criminal who “plays by the rules,” an enormous mistake in a world where all of the rules are unwritten and rarely followed.
This stylish hybrid of hard-man moxie and mannered British comedy works quite well, thanks in large part to Jude Law’s excellent performance. Unfortunately, Shepard doesn’t have the fortitude to carry the film to its logical conclusion, instead settling for ridiculous deus ex machinas and overindulging a subplot involving Dom’s daughter (Emilia Clarke from Game of Thrones) that never comes together. For a film that begins by soliloquizing its protagonist’s penis, Dom Hemingway is surprisingly short of balls. Ω
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The auteur influences on Jonathan Glazer’s mesmerizing and meditative nightmare Under the Skin are legion, including Nicolas Roeg, Abbas Kiarostami, Stanley Kubrick and early Ridley Scott, but the result is a genuine original that defies categorization. In an inversion of the “male gaze,” Scarlett Johansson stars as an emotionless alien trolling for male victims on the highways of Scotland. She brings loners and hitchhikers into her nest, using her physical allure to subdue her prey into a hypnotic submission, and Glazer does the same thing to the audience with his camera. Even the natural world behaves unnaturally in Glazer’s lens, and he shoots the Scottish countryside as though it were an alien landscape. Nearly wordless and devoid of comforting context, and driven by composer Mica Levi’s haunting and discordant score, Under the Skin will drill deep and lay eggs in your brain. D.B.
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Noah
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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Oculus
A young man (Brenton Thwaites) is released after 11 years in a mental institution after the violent deaths of his parents (Rory Cochrane, Katee Sackhoff)—but his sister (Karen Gillan) is determined to prove the murders were the work of an evil force residing in an antique mirror. Directed by Mike Flanagan and written by Flanagan and Jeff Howard (from a 32-minute short by Flanagan and Jeff Seidman), the movie is utterly run-of-the-mill. There are the usual plot holes of a no-rules, would-be supernatural thriller, the typical booga-booga scare music, the customary overwrought acting, the standard Rube Goldberg death traps—and, of course, the obligatory ending with the door left wide open for indefinite sequels. All that’s missing is suspense. J.L.
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The Raid 2
Among the many pleasures of The Raid 2 is the way that it recreates the bonecrunching “karate horror” of the low-budget 2011 original, while simultaneously expanding its universe into a languorous crime epic. The show-stopping fight sequences are if anything amplified here, and mostly get announced with a slow-building, operatic fanfare worthy of a Sergio Leone gunfight. Writer-director Gareth Evans’ ballsy vision suggests that he also has the chops to direct romantic comedies, costume dramas and jukebox musicals where everyone beats the living shit out of each other. Evans and star Iko 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—and the demonic glee that Evans feels in unpacking his model train set of cinematic influences is palpable. D.B.
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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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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A brilliant scientist (Johnny Depp) is given a fatal dose of radiation by a cabal of anti-technology Luddites. Before he dies, he, his wife (Rebecca Hall) and best friend (Paul Bettany) transfer his personality to an experimental artificial-intelligence computer— with unexpected (if predictable) consequences. Performances are good—also featured are Morgan Freeman, Kate Mara, Cillian Murphy and Cole Hauser—and the movie is consistently interesting, but first-time writer Jack Paglen and first-time director Wally Pfister have bitten off more than they can chew. The story lumbers and becomes muddled, finally winding down into a bizarre variation on Romeo and Juliet. The ending, which leaves the door wide open for Transcendence 2, is annoying, and not as clever as Paglen and Pfister probably think it is. J.L.
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The title of Errol Morris’ latest documentary comes from one of subject Donald Rumsfeld’s pet sayings, and it displays the sort of verbal and logical contortion that the former defense secretary is famed for. Rumsfeld dictated more than 20,000 memos during his tenure in the Bush II White House, and he still seems to be a never-ending source of riddlelike “rules,” which are pitched somewhere between Zen koans and malapropisms. It’s all very cute, and Rumsfeld seems quite satisfied with himself, until you realize that his verbal trickery misled us into a war that killed half-a-million people, and his lipless, lizardlike grin belies the satisfaction of getting away with it. In other words, Rumsfeld is a classic Morrisian deluded obsessive, and while there are enough revealing moments to recommend the picture, Morris comes closer than usual to a sort of queasy hero worship. D.B.
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and spent much of his life in hospitals. He and Knipp bonded over music—they met in high-school choir, and he played guitar, bass and drums. “He was 10 times the musician I’ll ever be,” she says. Now, Knipp feels ready to celebrate Dadami’s life. And while the event is a fundraiser, she wants the night to be first and foremost a rock show—fun, joyous, lively. And it should be. Bay Area singer Amber Snider opens the show, followed by Sandra Dolores, the local singer-songwriter who hosts the Torch Club’s open-mic and just dropped her new EP Anima last month. Knipp will close the show with her new band, the Heart Miners, which features Ed Stoner on guitar, Casey Lipka on upright bass and Rose Cangelosi on drums. Stoner has been playing with Knipp for four years—he’s also known as Kentucky Slim, a Sacramento Area Music Award winner for best blues artist, and former owner of the Blue Lamp. Meanwhile, Lipka also plays in local, all-female band Cave Women, and Cangelosi drums for Sacramento’s second-line style Element Brass Band.
Catch Katie Knipp and the Heart Miners at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 19, at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, located at 2708 J Street. Sandra Dolores and Amber Snider also play; the cover is $10. Check it out at www.katieknipp.com.
Now, the Sacramento-based Knipp is organizing her own version: Chickapalooza. Knipp’s will also feature female musicians and benefit charities, with a few concerts every year throughout Northern California. It stops at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub on Saturday, with Knipp’s bluesy Americana at the helm, and all ticket sales going to Cystic Fibrosis Research Inc. She’ll unveil a new band—her first since moving from the Bay Area to Sacramento five years ago. And she’ll finally address a part of her life that she’s been wrestling with for years—the death of her best friend, who died of cystic fibrosis when he was 26 years old. That alone will make Saturday a huge night for Knipp—bigger than opening up for the Doobie Brothers or Tim Reynolds, or singing backup for Barry Manilow in front of thousands of people. “This benefit is so much more important to me,” she says. “I’ve put it off for a decade because I was too emotional about it.” Her friend Josh Dadami was born with the degenerative lung and digestive system disease
“It’s going to be fun to have a female rhythm section—I’ve never had that before,” Knipp says. Even solo, Knipp’s rich, soulful voice easily fills a room. She switches between piano, guitar, harmonica and dobro to create a sound best described as torch piano rock mixed with blues and Americana. Knipp is originally from Concord, where she grew up listening to the likes of blues legends Bonnie Raitt, Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. She had always sung, and at 15 started teaching herself piano during lunch breaks in the high-school choir room. At California State University, East Bay, she taught herself guitar while earning a music degree—her emphasis in classical voice makes her a “closet opera singer.” Then she moved to Marin County and established herself as a fixture in its music scene until five years ago, when she got married and moved up north. She bought a house in Natomas, opened a music studio, started teaching and released her fourth album Nice to Meet You. Yet, Knipp says it’s been tough navigating the Sacramento live-music scene beyond cafes, wineries and private events. With the Heart Miners, she’s optimistic she’ll be adding more nightclubs and festivals to the rotation, along with a West Coast tour and fifth studio album. Consider this Knipp’s coming-out party. Ω
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Theater folk: The Davis Musical Theatre Company seemed like a strange setting for a folk show. But the acts on Friday night really performed—stage props and all. Dead Western, a.k.a. local freak-folk musician Troy Mighty, started off with his signature, strange darkness. He wore wide streaks of yellow face paint down his cheeks—clown tears—and similarly dramatic, over-the-top facial expressions. A kazoo was blown pathetically as Mighty shrieked. A bow screeched against a drum symbol. Mighty curtsied delicately after each song. Some insist that great art makes people uncomfortable. I witnessed a lot of discomfort. On my right, a man shrunk in his seat and scanned Facebook on his phone. On my left, a woman switched between covering her ears and laughing—the kind of laugh where you don’t know what to do but laugh, so you laugh. Meanwhile, at least a quarter of the audience left. But they all returned for Vandaveer, the alt-folk project of Washington, D.C.-based Mark Charles Heidinger. With heartfelt harmonies, an acoustic guitar, a slide guitar and plenty of foot-stomping, the trio pulled off brilliant, melodic Americana for two hours—with surprising hilarity sprinkled in. Heidinger began with a confession: Vandaveer had raided the prop closet. Some fake potted plants sat on nightstands with candles and an oldfashioned phone to really sell the mood. When the phone rang, singer Rosie Guerin answered. “This really isn’t a good time,” she whispered. Somehow, Vandaveer found excuses to similarly interrupt their concert four more times. “We could have gone Great Gatsby,” Heidinger went on. “We could have gone suffrage movement. We could have gone Wizard of Oz. I mean, there are 38 hats backstage.” The set felt impressively intimate— more like a living-room show than a concert in a theater. Sure enough, Vandaveer is on a long tour of livingroom shows, and the Davis edition was an anomaly. Yet, Heidinger worked the crowd like a comic, playfully bickered with bandmates, and discussed topics as varied as the zombie apocalypse, screaming kids in minivans and llama tattoos. He
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San Francisco’s Burnt Ones and its labelmates on Castle Face Records are trying to redefine psychedelic rock. For the PSYCHEDELIC ROCK uninitiated, Castle Face belongs to Thee Oh Sees’ John Dwyer, and it put out Burnt Ones’ third record Gift in March. The album showcases a distorted, fuzzy psychedelic pop that’s impressively sunny and melodic. No studio experiment seemed to be too unusual or trivial—here’s to hoping analog tape loops and drum machines appear at the live show, too. More fuzz will come from Male Gaze, a trio made up of ex-members of Blasted Canyons, Mayyors and the Mall. Useless Eaters, a minimalist garage-punk project, will start things off. 1815 19th Street, www.burnt ones.bandcamp.com.
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Tinariwen is a group of true rebel exiles that survived the slaughter of their friends and family in Mali. It formed in refugee camps, developing hypnotic, rhythmic, drone-laden desert blues threaded with slowly undulating guitar like a sunbaked Santana. In this isolated area, Tinariwen’s protest music has given voice to their people for three decades, passed through homemade cassettes. The group was discovered around the millennium and has released six albums, working with artists such as TV on the Radio, Wilco and Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Its latest, Emmaar, was recorded at Joshua Tree National Park WORLD and surveys renewed unrest in Mali with ambling, expansive Southwestern-tinged dolor. 314 W. Main Street in Grass Valley, http://tinariwen.com.
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Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 6 p.m., $10 Ten years ago, Sacramento-based singer-songwriter Katie Knipp lost her best friend to cystic fibrosis. This Saturday, she’s throwing an event called Chickapalooza— a concert with proceeds benefiting the nonprofit organization Cystic Fibrosis Research FOLK ROCK Inc. The bill will be headlined by Knipp with her band the Heart Miners, and Amber Snider and Sandra Dolores will open. The Heart Miners create a bluesy torch-style sound that combines dark bass-clef heavy piano licks with flourishes of muted trumpet, organ and slide guitar. Knipp’s vocals punch through all of these numerous layers with Joss Stone-esque soul power and vibrato. It’s good music for a good cause. 2708 J Street, www.katieknipp.com.
—Jonathan Mendick
Shine, 8 p.m., $5 A lot of people have played in Sacramento folk-rock collective the Royal Jelly at one point or another. But the one consistent member is group leader Marc Del Chiaro. Although the band does range in size and its manner of execution, it always sort of floats around a Beatles-influenced folkrock sound. Del Chiaro has a dynamic, soulful voice, which is always enhanced with a wall of harmonies. The band also toys around with bits of jazz, chamber pop FOLK ROCK and blues, perfect for an intimate venue such as Shine. Del Chiaro also uses his vocals to bring an incredibly large, theatrical presentation to the music. 1400 E Street, www.facebook.com/theroyaljellyband.
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With many tribute bands these days simply learning a set list and rarely playing or practicing enough to keep their chops up, Petty Theft is the exception to the rule. This seasoned group from the Bay Area got its start playing in bands with original material, but soon found a common love of Tom Petty tunes. The sextet has been laudROCK ed for its live shows and has been selling out venues throughout the Bay Area with relative ease. And while the group’s Sacramento Valley draw is already quite impressive, these men aren’t afraid to venture further up Interstate 50 to Folsom to spread the gospel of Petty’s music. 614 Sutter Street in Folsom, http://pettytheftrocks.com.
Whether you’re celebrating Easter or 4/20 this upcoming Sunday night, a great way to end the evening would be to spend it FUNK groovin’ with Mojo Green. The group from Reno, Nev., plays an infectious brand of powerhouse funk that is propelled by an excellent horn section—accentuated by Kevin Thomas on baritone sax. Mojo Green began as an instrumental band, but eventually brought dynamic vocalist Jenes Carter into the fold. Guitarist Tim Bain’s sticky licks also help to electrify this sensationally funky, smokin’ tight band. Its debut album Funk in Public is highlighted by party favorites such as “Equilibrium” and “Triple Shot.” 2708 J Street, www.mojogreenmusic.com.
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The Palms Playhouse, 8 p.m., $20 JD McPherson is a throwback to a time when rock ’n’ roll was simpler and more subversive. If you like music that’s purely about the sound and feel of rock itself, McPherson is one cat you should get hip to. His 2012 release Signs & Signifiers is loaded with memorable moments, like the Chuck Berry-esque rocker “North Side Gal” and the danceable “Fire Bug,” which sounds like it could have been from a Jerry Lee Lewis ROCK record. McPherson gets his vocal swagger on with swinging numbers like “Country Boy,” and croons soulfully on the title track. Basically, this is one rock ’n’ roll party you need to attend. 13 Main Street in Winters, www.jdmcpherson.com.
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Torch Club, 9 p.m., $6 The master of disguise, Peter Petty, is bringing his Double P Revue to shake up Sacramento’s midweek slump with his interpretation of music from the Roaring ’20s to the hip-hopping CABARET 2000s. He’s a band leader, thespian, singer and comic and has performed with such disparate musical artists as the Harley White Jr. Orchestra, the Dean-O-Holics, Cake and the Sacramento Opera. Amid costume changes and standards by Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Tom Waits or David Bowie, Petty is wild but always in control—whether in tux, space helmet or donning a suit that Dean Martin might have sported during his heyday. It’s all fun. 904 15th Street, www.peterpetty.biz.
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THE MIKE JUSTIS BAND, 8pm, no cover
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TOTAL RECALL, 9pm, no cover
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Hip-hop and Top 40 Deejay dancing, 9pm, $5-$10
WEST NILE RAMBLERS, 9pm, $5
THE ROY THORPE JR. BLUES BAND, DEAD LARRY; 9pm, $5
LEVEL UP FOOD & LOUNGE
Karaoke, 9pm, no cover
DJ Rock Bottom and The Mookie DJ, 9pm, no cover
LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR
Joe Montoya’s Poetry Unplugged, 8pm, $2
BACK ALLEY BUZZARDS, RED SKY SUNRISE, JULIE THE BRUCE; 8pm, $5
MOUNTAIN SHINE, COAL MINE CANARIES, HALFPENCE AND HAYPENNY; 8pm, $5
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You Front The Band Live Karaoke, 9pm, call for cover
STRANGER, SIMPLE CREATION, RIOTMAKER; 8pm, $10
908 K St., (916) 446-4361
MIDTOWN BARFLY
MAC RUSS, TONY GALIOTO, SURFACE TENSION; 6:30pm W, $5 Hip-hop and R&B deejay dancing, 9:16pm Tu, no cover Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M, $5-$20; Comedy night, 8pm W, $6
Showcase Sundays, 7pm, no cover
Karaoke, M; Greatest Stories Ever Told, Tu; SELF PROCLAIMED, VERGE; 9pm W
Goth, darkwave, industrial, electronic deejay dancing, 9pm-3am, call for cover
Swing dancing lessons, 7:30pm Tu, $6; Salsa lessons, 7:30pm-midnight W, $5
AMBOY RAMBLER, COWBOY STAR, MANDOLIN AVENUE; 8:30pm, $5
GOOD NAME OF TRUTH, CORY BARRINGER, CURING ADAM; 8:30pm, $5
Jazz, 8pm M; ISAIAH VALLEJOS AND KENAI GONZALEZ, FACES; 8:30pm W, $5
OLD IRONSIDES
Bluegrass Open Jam, 7:30pm, call for cover
THE KNOCKOFFS, GO NATIONAL, NAR; 9pm, $8
Fascination: ’80s new-wave dancing, 9:30pm, $5
Karaoke w/ Sac City Entertainment, 9pm Tu, no cover; Open-mic, 9pm W, no cover
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MOJO GREEN, JUSTIN ANCHETA; 8pm, $12
HIGH ALIVE, DEBORAH CROOKS, CALLING TEMPO; 8:30pm, $5
1901 10th St., (916) 442-3504
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SOLANUM, ARMED FOR APOCALYPSE, Space-themed EDM party, 8pm-2am, HORSENECK, KILL THE PRECEDENT; 8pm $7-$12
1119 21st St., (916) 549-2779
Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu; Northern Soul, 8pm W, no cover
RIFF RAFF, 9pm-midnight, $5
WHITE LIES, FEVER THE GHOST; 6:30pm, CHUUWEE, C PLUS, PETRO; 10pm, $22.50-$25 $8-$10
2431 J St., (916) 448-8768
Queer Idol, 9pm M, no cover; Latin night, 9pm Tu, $5; DJ Alazzawi, 9pm W, $3
Dragalicious, 9pm, $5
THE DENVER J BAND, BABES4CHANGE; 9pm, no cover
2708 J St., (916) 441-4693
1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931
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Hip-hop and Top 40 Deejay dancing, 9pm, $5-$10
SWEET REVENGE, 9pm-midnight, $5
5681 Lonetree Blvd., Rocklin; (916) 626-6366
LEADERS, REFORMERS, WITH WOLVES, HAVENSIDE, SHORELINES; 7pm W, $10-$12
THE ROYAL JELLY, 9pm, no cover
2000 K St., (916) 448-7798
228 G St., Davis; (530) 756-9227
THROUGH THE ROOTS, NEW KINGSTON, THE STEPPAS; 6:30pm W, $13
TINARIWEN, THE MELODIC; 8pm, $30-$35
FACES
1001 R St., (916) 443-8825
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I SEE HAWKS IN LA, 8pm, $20
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AUTO REPLAY, 10pm, call for cover
PETTY THEFT, 10pm, $10-$15
2030 P St., (916) 444-7914
MC HAM, MACHONA DAYTONA; 9pm, no cover
Top 40 w/ DJ Rue, 9pm, $5
Top 40 Night w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9pm, $5
Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5
THE AFTER LIFE, WOULD BE TRAIN ROBBERS, SEA LEGS; 9pm M, $6
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HOT CITY, 9pm, no cover
CRESCENT KATZ, 9pm, no cover
DELTA CITY RAMBLERS, 9pm, no cover
ALEX JENKINS, 9pm, no cover
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614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586
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1409 R St., (916) 231-9121
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Country dancing, 7:30pm, no cover; $5 after 8pm
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STORYTELLERS, THE SCRATCH OUTS; 6pm, $5
CHRIS GARDNER BAND, 27 OUTLAWS; 2pm, $10
WILD WEST SHOW, ROAD 88; 2pm, call for cover
PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm; TERRY HANCK BLUES BAND, 9pm, $10
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AUTUMN SKY, WOLFHOUSE; 9pm, $5
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SICFUS, SEXRAT; 8pm, $5
ROYAL JELLY, SAID THE SHOTGUN, VINCENT CROSS; 8pm, $5
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s
Compensation Week. If you have in the past suffered from injustice, it’s an excellent time to go in quest of restitution. If you have been deprived of the beauty you need to thrive, now is the time to get filled up. Wherever your life has been out of balance, you have the power to create more harmony. Don’t be shy about seeking redress. Ask people to make amends. Pursue restorations. But don’t, under any circumstances, lust for revenge.
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your enlightened behavior in the past. I’m reminded of the fairy tale in which a peasant girl goes out of her way to be kind to a seemingly feeble, disabled old woman. The crone turns out to be a good witch who rewards the girl with a bag of gold. But as I hinted, there could also be a bit of that other kind of karma lurking in your vicinity. Would you like to ward it off? All you have to do is unleash a flurry of good deeds. Anytime you have a chance to help people in need, do it.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Our
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As they
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I wonder
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe,” said novelist John Updike. That’s a sad possibility. Could you please do something to dispute or override it, Taurus? Would it be too much to ask if I encouraged you to go out in quest of lyrical miracles that fill you with wonder? Can I persuade you to be alert for sweet mysteries that provoke dizzying joy and uncanny breakthroughs that heal a wound you’ve feared might forever plague you? Here’s what the astrological omens suggest: Phenomena that stir reverence and awe are far more likely than usual.
if it’s time for you to modify an old standby. I’m getting the sense that you should consider tinkering with a familiar resource that has served you pretty well. Why? This resource may have some hidden weakness that you need to attend to in order to prevent a future disruption. Now might be one of those rare occasions when you should ignore the old rule, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” So be proactive, Gemini. Investigate what’s going on beneath the surface. Make this your motto: “I will solve the problem before it’s a problem—and then it will never be a problem.”
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Do you
really have what it takes or do you not have what it takes?” That’s the wrong question to ask, in my opinion. You can’t possibly know the answer ahead of time, for one thing. To dwell on that quandary would put you on the defensive and activate your fear, diminishing your power to accomplish the task at hand. Here’s a more useful inquiry: “Do you want it strongly enough or do you not want it strongly enough?” With this as your meditation, you might be inspired to do whatever’s necessary to pump up your desire. And that is the single best thing you can do to ensure your ultimate success.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I swear my
meditations are more dynamic when I hike along the trail through the marsh than if I’m pretzeled up in the lotus position back in my bedroom. Maybe I’ve been influenced by Aristotle’s Peripatetic school. He felt his students learned best when they accompanied him on long strolls. Then there was philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who testified that his most brilliant thoughts came to him as he rambled far and wide. Even if this possibility seems whimsical to you, Leo, I invite you to give it a try. According to my reading of the current astrological omens, your moving body is likely to generate bright ideas and unexpected solutions and visions of future adventures.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Throughout
North America and Europe, there are hundreds of unused roads. Many are former exit and entrance ramps to major highways, abandoned for one reason or another. Some are stretches of pavement that used to be parts of main thoroughfares before they were rerouted. I suggest we make “unused roads” your metaphor of the week, Virgo. It may be time for you to bring some of them back into operation, and maybe even relink them to the pathways they were originally joined to. Are there any missing connections in your life that you would love to restore? Any partial bridges you feel motivated to finish building?
lie in the sand, African crocodiles are in the habit of opening their jaws wide for hours at a time. It keeps them cool, and allows for birds called plovers to stop by and pluck morsels of food that are stuck between the crocs’ molars. The relationship is symbiotic. The teeth-cleaners eat for free as they provide a service for the large reptiles. As I analyze your astrological aspects, Scorpio, I’m inclined to see an opportunity coming your way that has a certain resemblance to the plovers’. Can you summon the necessary trust and courage to take full advantage?
Are you sure you have enough obstacles? I’m afraid you’re running low. And that wouldn’t be healthy, would it? Obstacles keep you honest, after all. They motivate you to get smarter. They compel you to grow your willpower and develop more courage. Please understand that I’m not taking about trivial and boring obstacles that make you numb. I’m referring to scintillating obstacles that fire up your imagination; rousing obstacles that excite your determination to be who you want and get what you want. So your assignment is to acquire at least one new interesting obstacle. It’s time to tap into a deeper strain of your ingenuity.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In
1937, physicist George Paget Thomson won a Nobel Prize for the work he did to prove that the electron is a wave. That’s funny, because his father, physicist J.J. Thomson, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 for showing that the electron is a particle. Together, they helped tell the whole story about the electron, which as we now know is both a wave and a particle. I think it’s an excellent time for you to try something similar to what George did: follow up on some theme from the life of one of your parents or mentors; be inspired by what he or she did, but also go beyond it; build on a gift he or she gave the world, extending or expanding it.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You
have been a pretty decent student lately, Aquarius. The learning curve was steep, but you mastered it as well as could be expected. You had to pay more attention to the intricate details than you liked, which was sometimes excruciating, but you summoned the patience to tough it out. Congrats! Your against-the-grain effort was worth it. You are definitely smarter now than you were four weeks ago. But you are more wired, too. More stressed. In the next chapter of your life story, you will need some downtime to integrate all you’ve absorbed. I suggest you schedule some sessions in a sanctuary where you can relax more deeply than you’ve allowed yourself to relax in a while.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have
the power to shut what has been open or open what has been shut. That’s a lot of responsibility. Just because you have the power to unleash these momentous actions doesn’t mean you should rashly do so. Make sure your motivations are pure and your integrity is high. Try to keep fear and egotism from influencing you. Be aware that whatever you do will send out ripples for months to come. And when you are confident that you have taken the proper precautions, by all means, proceed with vigor and rigor. Shut what has been open or open what has been shut—or both.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Karma works
both ways. If you do ignorant things, ignorant things may eventually be done to you. Engage in generous actions, and at some future date you may be the unexpected beneficiary of generosity. I’m expecting more of the latter than the former for you in the coming days, Libra. I think fate will bring you sweet compensations for
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For the week of April 17, 2014
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Magic by night By day, Bill Hutcheon is a zoning investigator for the city of Sacramento’s Community Development Department. By night, however, he’s known as Bill Devon, a magician and owner of Top Class Magic (www.topclassmagic.com). Born in 1949, he started as a magician’s apprentice before working professionally from age 16 until his mid-20s, when the need to support a wife and child required him to find a “regular job.” Still, he’s not given up his tricks entirely. These days, he still performs at birthday parties, corporate events and community celebrations. With 50 years of magic under his belt, Devon sat down with SN&R to talk about his career and the Sacramento magic community.
How exactly does a magic apprenticeship work? I’ve found that magicians are very sharing with their magic. And it’s not a real secretive thing, like where they want to guard all their secrets and not share it. I’m sure there’s some at a certain level, where [magicians] have their own unique act, [and] they don’t want to share it with everyone because everyone would be copying it. But by and large, most magicians are very sharing, and I think the key is from the mentor’s point of view, if you find a younger magician, or somebody your own age who truly wants to learn, then you want to teach them. That’s what happened with me.
Once a trick is revealed to the public, can you not use it anymore? This is my take on it: They came out with this Masked Magician [character]. And all of the magicians in the magical fraternity said, “Oh, this is terrible. That guy ought to be taken out of town,” and this and that. But the way it’s worked out ... all it’s done is kind of make magic more interesting. I’ve watched that show Breaking the Magician’s Code: Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed, where they reveal some secrets, and then I’ll rewatch the same episode six months later, and I can’t remember how it’s done.
What you remember is the performance aspect? A lot of times, even if you know how a trick is done, [it’s fun] just watching the artistry in doing it. I’ll give you an example: I produce seven live doves out of thin air throughout the act. Obviously, they’re in my coat—you know, different parts of my coat, up my sleeves, whatnot—but … I think the fun of it is watching [and thinking], “Now I know he has one in his coat somewhere, but how the heck does he get it from his coat to pop out of the handkerchief?”
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Do we have a big community of magicians in Sacramento? Yes. The second Wednesday of every month, the IBM—which is the International Brotherhood of Magicians—meets. The fourth Wednesday of every month is the SAM— which stands for the Society of American Magicians. The Elk Grove magic club, they meet the first and the third Wednesday of the month. Theoretically, you can go to a magic meeting every Wednesday.
What are those like? You open the meeting, covering old business [and] new business. Then, they take a break, and they have a little sign-up sheet for anybody that wants to perform, [and] do like five or 10 minutes of magic.
Like an open-mic for magic? Yeah. And then sometimes they’ll have a theme, like everybody will do card tricks tonight, or mental magic or kids’ show magic. And sometimes they’ll have a workshop where somebody will teach a trick. Another big thing is that a lot of the clubs, four or five times a year, sponsor lectures where they have a well-known magician come to town.
Do magicians actually go to a magic store to get supplies? There’s a magic shop in Sacramento called Grand Illusions, [owned by] Steve Johnson. I’ll have tricks for the cards [where] I need fanning powder ... it makes the cards smooth. I know he has it there. I’ll need rope; he’s got tons of the right types of |
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Favorite moment in your career? There was a very famous sexpot actress in the ’50s and ’60s, Jayne Mansfield. She was kind of like ... Marilyn Monroe. In 1967, Jayne Mansfield was in Sacramento, and she was appearing at a local nightclub on Auburn Boulevard, the Cleopatra Club. She was the guest of honor, and they had me perform. They introduce me, and I do my dove act, and the main audience is in front of me, but behind me is the guest-of-honor table. And that’s where Jayne Mansfield is sitting. So I produce a dove and every time I produce a dove, my assistant would walk past me and pass Jayne. And Jayne would want to pet the dove. I didn’t know that, I found out later. About the fourth dove I produce, the audience in front is just laughing. I didn’t know what it was until after the show was over. They told me: “Do you know what everyone was laughing at?” I go, “No.” [Someone] says, “Jayne wanted to pet your doves. Well, that poor dove pooped in her fruit cocktail!” Ω
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