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Turn off, dry out, pay up Recently, Sacramento got some summer heat relief via light rainfall. Unfortunately, what fell doesn’t add up to a drop in the bucket when it comes to California’s ongoing drought. Nor does an announcement from the State Water Resources Control Board mandating that public agencies, individuals and businesses can now be prosecuted and fined $500 per day for water waste. For starters, many water providers have already said they won’t levy the hefty ticket, according to a July 21 story in The Sacramento Bee. Instead, they’ll stick to the current system of warnings and smaller fines. It’s not enough. The city may have reduced its collective water usage by 13 percent compared to numbers from the past three years (see “Nestlé and drought, SN&R Editorial, page 15), yet I still see a surprising number of vibrant green lawns— both residential and commercial. An evening neighborhood stroll usually turns up more than one well-watered sidewalk as well. According to a report at Climate Central, an independent coalition of scientists and journalists, nearly 70 percent of California is mired in “extreme” or “exceptional” drought conditions. Compare this to my hometown of Wichita Falls, Texas, which is currently embroiled in a “stage 5 catastrophic drought.” Maybe it’s because Texas has burned hot and dry for years, but there, state-mandated restrictions mean no lush lawns, no green golf courses, no watery slabs of concrete. Restrictions are enforced, fines are collected, and, as my mother tells it, everyone knows better than to put aesthetics before the climate. “We just have dead grass. Everybody does,” she says. It’s time Sacramentans followed. Turn off the water, dry out your lawns (and sidewalks), or pay up.

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Re â€œHoly messâ€? by Nick Miller (SN&R Editorâ€™s Note, July 17): Good to see your unbiased observations on the Gaza massacre. I would describe it as an unholy mess, actually. I worked with some wonderful Palestinians in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates in the early 2000s. In fact, the Emirates is one of the few countries that has built hospitals and supplied ambulances in Gaza. Of course, they have to keep rebuilding them. The Israelis are doing exactly what has been done to the Jews throughout history. They are creating new, raw karma every day that they persecute the Palestinians. Even when the Palestinians try to fight their letter of way out of the blockade, the Israelis claim self-defense. the week Just as the Chinese are doing with the minorities in the occupied territories of China: China doesnâ€™t have a Muslim problem, the Uighurs have a Chinese problem. G.R.

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Re â€œCannabis lessonsâ€? (SN&R Editorial, July 17): Regarding your thoughtful July 17 Editorial, California needs to catch up with Colorado and Washington. California already has de facto legalization, but some California legislators want to restrict medical-marijuana access. This would be a backward move. Marijuana prohibition provides no societal benefit whatsoever. If the goal of marijuana prohibition is to subsidize violent drug cartels, prohibition is a grand success. The drug war distorts supplyand-demand dynamics so that big money grows on little trees. If the goal is to deter use, marijuana prohibition is a catastrophic failure. The United States has almost double the rate of marijuana use as the Netherlands, where marijuana is legally available. The criminalization of Americans who prefer marijuana to martinis has no basis in science. The war on marijuana consumers is a failed cultural inquisition, not an evidence-based public-health campaign. In California and throughout the nation, itâ€™s time to stop the pointless arrests and instead tax legal marijuana. Robert Sharpe policy analyst, Common Sense for Drug Policy

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Kudos for cohousing Re â€œYou have how many f@#king roommates?!â€? by Janelle Bitker (SN&R Feature Story, June 26): Great article on cohabitation. It seems that more and more people are choosing to live together for numerous reasons, such as shared costs and a greater sense of community. Cohousing is a great option for those interested in a more relaxed sense of community, while living more sustainable lives. In particular, Fair Oaks EcoHousing is currently seeking new members to help develop a cohousing community with eco-housing elements and sustainability in mind. The cohousing community is planned to be intergenerational, including children, adults and seniors. All interested will be welcomed! For more information, see www.fairoaksecohousing.org. Ivan Greene Carmichael

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Kai Newkirk (left), lead organizer with 99Rise, chatted with Sacramento Assemblyman Roger Dickinson last month.

Sacramento to host Occupy National Gathering on heels of 99Rise’s protests against big money in politics After the so-called death of the Occupy movement, political activism is making a comeback by in Sacramento. Nick Miller In June and July, law enforcement arrested 47 protesters over 12 days at ni ck am@ newsr evie w.c om the state Capitol. Those hauled away were members of the newly formed 99Rise movement. They peacefully remained in the building under the rotunda after curfew, in solidarity with their goal of getting big money out of politics. That hasn’t happened yet, of course, but the protesters made headlines by lobbying a few bills—and actually getting two passed. Some of these activists marched nearly 500 miles from Los Angeles to Sacramento, and hundreds more were local. They proved that Sacramento holdovers from the Occupy contingent would no longer quietly go about their business. That they were done “licking their wounds,” as local 99Rise organizer Curt Ries put it. And now they’re rising up, again. This week, Sacramento will host a two-day training session for those interested in 99Rise. The city also will welcome the Occupy movement’s national gathering beginning next Thursday. There’s a major protest of Monsanto planned for Davis in midAugust, as well. And 99Rise, a movement formed in Los Angeles in 2012 Visit www.99rise.org that now boasts chapters nationwide, and see the calendar is planning to announce another highfor the location and profile action this fall. time for this week’s “The endgame is to have masses Sacramento-area training. of people do civil disobedience,” said Ries, who recently launched a local 99Rise chapter. Learn more about The group first garnered national the Occupy National attention earlier this year, when leader Gathering at http://interoccupy. Kai Newkirk was arrested after internet/natgat2014. rupting a Supreme Court hearing on the Citizens United 2 case. He spoke out during the justices’ discussion in protest of laws and rulings that make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to fund political campaigns.

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Newkirk told SN&R that he thinks attitudes about money in politics are changing and says lawmakers are sympathetic to his group’s getbig-money-out-of-politics focus. “The impact for legislators is getting worse and worse,” he told SN&R via phone from Los Angeles. “They’re having to spend more and more time raising money from wealthy people. And they’re vulnerable, because billionaires can just come into a race” and prop up an opponent.

“The endgame is to have masses of people do civil disobedience.” Curt Ries 99Rise’s Sacramento chapter When 99Rise visited Sacramento earlier this month, state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg met with the group and backed their legislation—and even invited their video crew onto the Senate floor. There were also arrests, 47 in all, for charges varying from protesting without a permit, trespassing on state property after closing, unlawful assembly, and obstruction or delaying a police officer. STORY

Unlike Occupy, the 99Rise protests were nonviolent. There were no threats against officers or thrown bottles and no graffiti in the Capitol bathrooms, according to law enforcement. A spokesperson for the California Highway Patrol, which made the arrests, said officers “really appreciated the level of respect that the protesters shared for law enforcement, and we definitely shared that respect back.” The city of Sacramento and the county district attorney’s office has not announced whether they will prosecute the 47 arrests. A DA spokesperson said the office is in the process of reviewing the cases. A training this week, scheduled for July 26-27, here in Sacramento organized by 99Rise, will teach people about the group’s brand of peaceful protest, plus organizing tactics and public-relations strategies. The movement will hold similar teach-ins nationwide. “This year has seen explosive growth in interest from around the country,” Newkirk said. “We’ve just been really trying to catch up with that surge in demand.” The group boasts nearly 5,000 likes on Facebook.

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An offshoot of the Occupy movement, 99Rise is different because it is leadership-based, whereas Occupy was famous for lacking central decision-makers. There’s a lot of crossover in membership, though, at least here in Sacramento. “What they were trying to do, with getting money out of politics, is what Occupy started over,” said Justin “Faygo” Clark, a local activist with both groups. “They’re more leaderbased than Occupy, but I kind of prefer Occupy, where anyone can step up and be a leader for a moment.” Occupy also will make some noise this week, when it hosts the Occupy National Gathering from July 31, through August 3. “The mainstream corporate media has tried to write our epitaph prematurely, but the Occupy movement is far from over,” said Delphine Brody, who’s helping organize the event. The group will focus on issues such as water rights, environmental justice, media reform and also money in politics during the free four-day event at Capitol Park and Southside Park. Ω

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Sacramentans mostly look to Folsom Lake—or what’s left of it—when they think of spending a day on the water. by Tom Gogola Head southwest to Lake Berryessa, however, and middleclass recreation perseveres, even though in 2006 more than 1,000 mobile vacation homes were evicted. Now, U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, a Democrat who represents the Berryessa area about 40 minutes from Sacramento, has a bill that would shift management of the lake from the Bureau of Reclamation to the Bureau of Land Management. The congressman has also reintroduced a bill that would encompass the lake in a national conservation area, extending northward to the Berryessa Snow Mountain region. The move would end a multijurisdictional jumble and create a single overseer for the region, which would extend from the lake to the southern end of Mendocino National Forest. This means, essentially, that it would be easier to preserve Berryessa against mining and other encroachments.

“If Congress doesn’t act, then the president should.” Bob Schneider senior policy director, conservation group Tuleyome “The congressman feels that the BLM is the best agency to manage recreational activities at the lake,” said spokesman Austin Vevurka. Thompson’s office has also signaled a willingness to consider national-monument status for the roughly 400,000-acre proposed reserve if his NCA bill fails again. “I don’t know if this would happen or not,” said Vevurka, “but there is an executive path—there’s a way for the [Obama] administration to declare it a national monument.” The tourist economy just southeast of Berryessa in Napa sings a song of viticultural bliss, thanks in part to Thompson. According to the Center for Public Integrity, he is the House’s second largest recipient of funds from the beer and wine lobby. Thompson took $83,462 in 2013-2014 from the lobby, and is sandwiched between House Speaker John Boehner in the top spot and outgoing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the three hole.

Thompson, a fiscal conservative Blue Dog, has negotiated pro-business tourism and anti-development environmental concerns as he’s massaged his bills to win over the locals. He’s been good to the wine people over the years, but the Berryessa constituency is leery. In 2006, residents watched as the feds shattered the backbone of the area’s economic driver there when it removed about 1,300 mobile vacation homes from around the lake. “It’s a ghost lake,” Peter Kilkus, a resident who advocates for the lake, wrote in an email. He said he wants to restore it to its former glory and opposes the NCA move, saying it’s “unnecessary.” Tuleyome, a regional conservation group, has been pushing to create the Berryessa NCA. Senior policy director Bob Schneider says NCA designation is a win-win for the environment and tourists, noting that an NCA designation for the Rio Grande del Norte in New Mexico saw a big spike in tourism. But Schneider acknowledges that enhanced tourism under a BLM-managed conservation area may come with a “potential threat”: more tourists, more environmental stress. Still, he notes that tourism at the lake wouldn’t return to its previous scale. The mobile homes aren’t coming back. Thompson, Schneider said, assured locals that motorboats could remain on the lake, and privateproperty owners would be outside the NCA boundaries. Yet Kilkus remains skeptical of consolidating the Berryessa region under a BLM umbrella. His concerns are echoed by fisherman Mark Lassagne, who blogged on the Bass Angler website that new federal oversight could “eliminate launch ramps, marinas and much motorized recreation and other recreational uses of the lake.” Kilkus said the NCA bill is likely to fail unless Democrats win back the House and keep the Senate in Democratic hands. Hence the national-monument option. “If Congress doesn’t act, then the president should,” said Schneider. Ω

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That was before the project site— bordered by N and P streets and Fifth and Seventh streets—was to be within spitting distance of a new arena for the Sacramento Kings. Now, Kennedy Wilson’s subsidiary, KW Captowers LLC, which shares contractor AECOM with the arena developer, plans to go big. The revised project calls for two 24-story high-rises in the southeast section of the superblock, a couple of seven-story mid-rises on the western half, and 22 stories of hotel

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Such status may be less important now. Principal planner Scot Mende said on Monday that the city planning department decided to require a full environmental-impact report, rather than the expedited assessment that was planned. Under an EIR, the applicant must solicit and formally respond to community concerns. Not so under the assessment, a sort of planning loophole driven through the Legislature by state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg. The decision to require a full EIR also pushes a likely commission vote until February 2015 at the earliest, Mende said. Councilman Steve Hansen, who represents the downtown district, said he wants to let the public have its say before he weighs in on the project. “Generally though, we need far more housing in the core to ease our carbon foot print and the jobs-housing imbalance,” he said via text. Kennedy Wilson is no stranger to the Sacramento-area real-estate market. In 2011, the company acquired a 315,000 square-foot property management portfolio in the city, according to a release. In 2007, the firm’s auction group unloaded 34 Elk Grove condos over the course of an hour. The company also picked up a 393-unit apartment complex near the Sacramento River for $51.5 million or condominium building in the and a four-story office building on For this vision to be realized, northeast. There’s also supposed to Howe Avenue for $16 million. however, developers say they need to be a 50-unit mid-rise of more affordKennedy Wilson’s most recent facelift the 15-story Capitol Towers, able units. It adds up to 1,013 more Northern California acquisition was demolish 206 nearby garden apartliving units than there are now. of a 542-unit apartment complex ments occupied by older residents and Critics fear Commons will in Pittsburg earlier this month. It chop down at least eight trees. trade mellow green courtyards for purchased it for $96.5 million, most At the crux is the familiar tug of a sky-blotting concrete jungle and of which was borrowed from Fannie war between a city’s romanticized erase one of Sacramento’s only mid- Mae in the form of a 10-year loan. past and its aspirational future. 20th-century neighborhoods—one KW Captowers LLC’s Dave “We’re saying what they proposed of the first urban renewal projects Eadie didn’t respond to an interview is a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” said in California, according to opponent request before print deadline. In the Gretchen Steinberg, president of Carr Kunze. release announcing Kennedy Wilson’s Sacramento Modern, an architectural “This is not rational, sustainable, acquisition of Capitol Towers, KW preservation nonprofit that opposes transit-oriented planning,” Kunze Multifamily Management Group presthe project. said in a video testimonial posted to ident Robert Hart called the purchase If it gets built, that is. No Sacramento Commons Project’s “an exciting play” on Sacramento’s Sacramento Commons is the Facebook page. “Right to the contrary. central business district. brainchild of Kennedy Wilson, a You’re displacing the young profesCapitol Towers was completed global real-estate investment firm sionals. You’re displacing families. in 1965, following passage of the that’s made its billions by managing And you’re also displacing some of Housing Act of 1949. In the video, real-estate assets, not creating them. the seniors who live here as well.” Kunze effused about the way architects Back when the company plunked Earlier this month, SacMod mixed mid-century modernism with a down $64 million for Capitol Towers, submitted Capitol Towers for historic Central Valley flair, calling it a “beauin May 2012, plans were modest. In preservation status in an effort to slow tiful, coherent planning concept.” a release announcing the purchase, the city’s review process. The city is “What is at that neighborhood is the company said it would install new also evaluating the property’s potential something that no other neighborkitchen cabinetry and renovate the eligibility as a historic site, a staff hood in downtown or Midtown has,” fitness center, leasing office and retail report states. Gretchen Steinberg said. Ω amenities. N E W S | F E A T U R E S T O R Y | A R T S & C U L T U R E | A F T E R

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A controversial Oakland rapper abruptly canceled two gigs in Sacramento this week after online threats of violence reached the clubs’ owners. Philip Beasley took to the Twitter account he operates under his stage name Philthy Rich to spell out why he wouldn’t be spitting rhymes at Ace of Spades or Blue Lamp as planned this week. In the series of tweets from July 16, the underground rapper says he was forced to drop out of the July 23 and July 26 appearances after “[s]ome punk” threatened a drive-by shooting if he performed. He further said local law enforcement wouldn’t let him in the buildings due to the “death threats” and asked his fans to protest his Wednesday show at Ace of Spades, of which there was no mention on the club’s online calendar. “I’m already banned from Oakland clubs I ain’t do shit but keep it real,” one tweet reads. Ace of Spades owner Eric Rushing said the cancellation was due to poor ticket sales and the online foofaraw regarding Philthy’s alleged gang affiliation, which the club wanted no association with. Philthy has released multiple albums and mixtapes, including some under late rapper Mac Dre’s Thizz Entertainment label, which federal authorities targeted two years ago in a massive ecstasy- and cocaine-trafficking sting. Philthy was not one of the 25 individuals implicated in that operation, but he has been arrested on drug- and weapon-possession charges before, and was most recently busted outside of a San Francisco nightclub in 2012 for possessing a stolen Bentley. Philthy has also earned the ire of local underground rapper Lavish D, or Donald Oliver, who’s being held at Sacramento County Main Jail on a pending assault case. In a March 6 interview with Siccness Radio, Lavish called out the Bay Area rap scene and Philthy in particular, who he accused of making tracks with his enemies. “Philthy is a bitch, my nigga,” Lavish said at one point. “Nigga, let’s rap battle, nigga. … My squad will gas any niggas from Livewire.” Livewire Records is one of the labels Philthy has recorded under. On his Twitter account, Philthy bemoaned the gangster reputation that’s followed him his entire career, writing at one point, “I’m not in a gang im from seminary we don’t gang bang.” According to his website, the hip-hop artist is next scheduled to appear at a Santa Rosa record store for a signing on Friday before taking the stage later that night at Petaluma’s The Phoenix Theater. His July 26 show at Blue Lamp was also still listed as of Tuesday afternoon. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

Farm to fork it over Rumor had it that last year’s Farm-to-Fork week’s dinner wouldn’t return to Tower Bridge for the sequel due to red tape from Sacramento City Hall. Well, apparently the folks at FTF were able to pull some strings, because it was announced last week that the dinner will in fact return to the big ol’ bridge on Capitol Mall on Sunday, September 28. Tickets—at $175 a pop or $5,000 for a table of eight— went on sale Monday at www.farmtofork.com and sold out in less than five minutes. Chef Brian Mizner of Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. and chef Jason Poole of the Hyatt Regency will lead the 30-chef team for the three-and-a-half-hour dinner. With the sell-out came renewed criticism that the 175-buck price tag makes the event too exclusive. Meanwhile, bridge-dinner ticket scalpers will invariably be on Craigslist soon. (Nick Miller)

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Last year, when state Sen. Holly Mitchell was in the Assembly, she took up Assembly Bill 271. This would get rid of a decades-old law that discriminates against the state’s poorest families by taking away welfare dollars if they have additional children. This bogus law has got to go—but the only way it makes it out of committee is if A.B. 271 gets a lawmaker to sponsor it. So far, that seems like a long shot.

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We need to fight back The pendulum has swung toward income inequality, so what’s next? Three little words: Follow the money. Many human activities—including politics, health care, business, law and economics—can only be understood if you follow the money. While people do not always act in their own self-interest, this is certainly a better predictor than their stated interests. In a remarkable book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, French economist Thomas Piketty has followed the money over the last 400 years in both Europe and America. This book has not only received high praise from economists such as Nobel Prize winner and columnist Paul Krugman, but this l by JeFF VonKaene tome has made The New York Times Best Sellers list. When an economic textbook takes the spot j e ffv @n e wsr e v ie w.c o m normally reserved for a book by a movie star describing their tough childhood, we should take notice. Piketty writes about the obvious but often ignored truth that in every financial transaction, there is a negotiated price. And this price reflects the parties’ relative power. As far back as the 18th century, during the period of Jane Austen, a certain amount of money went to the person doing the farming and When an economic a certain amount went to the textbook takes the spot person that owned the land. That percentage, to a very large normally reserved for extent, determined the quality of a book by a movie star, life for each. Now, 400 years later, these take notice. same negotiated transactions are going on, except now it is bankers and business owners instead of landholders. And clearly, Americans as well as Europeans are returning to an era of extreme income inequality not experienced in the last 100 years. Piketty explains that the period between 1914 and 1945, which included two world wars and a major depression, wiped out so much wealth that it changed the power of the wealthy, and they temporarily lost their ability to dominate negotiations. But since 1945, the pendulum has swung back in favor of the rich. The tax rate on the wealthy has been reduced, the financial sector has been deregulated, and the power of unions has been reduced. These changes have all increased wealth inequality. Read Paul For us, though, living in the last 100 years, it seemed Krugman’s New natural to believe that with the expansion of the middle York Review of class, increased wage equality would follow. We believed Books article about Capital in that each new American generation would do better than the the Twenty-First previous one. Piketty explains why this is not true. Century at He predicts that wage and income inequality will http://tinyurl.com/ continue to grow, just as they did in the centuries before KrugmanCapital. World War I, unless there is a strong political and social movement that overcomes the ability of the wealthy to use their stronger bargaining position to negotiate a larger and larger percentage of the pie. Jeff vonKaenel When looking at issues such as the minimum wage, is the president, taxes on the wealthy, tax loopholes, overseas tax havens, CEO and banking regulations and political-campaign donation laws, majority owner of the News & Review it is important to think about who will benefit. Rest assured newspapers in that those who expect to benefit are hiring their lobbyists, Sacramento, preparing their lawsuits, making their campaign donations Chico and Reno. and girding for battle. We need to fight back. Ω

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Requiem for an idiot box Though my parents strictly regulated the amount of providers, by failing to offer tailored micropacktelevision I watched growing up, what I did ages, are positioned to hemorrhage subscribers by consume burrowed deep into my subconscious. who once felt like indentured customers. Raheem Recurring nightmares starred a green-eyed Lou None of this means people are watching less F. Hosseini Ferrigno. The bass-heavy Barney Miller theme television. According to a recent U.S. Bureau of sent me into a wild tarantism. And I harangued Labor Statistics survey, watching TV beat out my dad into buying a motorcycle he couldn’t socializing as the “leisure activity that occupied operate with two words: Arthur Fonzarelli. the most time … on average, for those age 15 I’m the last of a dying breed, particularly and over.” in Sacramento, where simply owning a TV is We still watch television, just not necessarily met with the same derision as if my car ran on televisions. Instead, people get their fixes on kitten tears. In 2012, Nielsen estimated that through cheaper content providers like Hulu, the percentage of U.S. consume buzzy viral clips rather homes with a television than whole shows (how much We still watch dropped 2.2 percent to Jimmy Fallon do you really 96.7 percent, the first need?), and eyeball mobile television, just decline since 1992, but devices instead of pimped-out not necessarily probably not the last. The flat-screens. economics of owning a Every generation bemoans on televisions. television, the transition the changes that make it feel old to digital media and the and obsolete, but this all seems proliferation of multiple video platforms were all great to me. Not only does it potentially stem the cited as factors. chances of a Comcast oligarchy, but creatively The cost of maintaining a pricey, bloated rich programming that couldn’t hit traditional cable contract with a monopoly-minded ratings expectations before should thrive with provider, oddly, was not. smaller online audiences. That’s been an issue within my social circle, I’ll soon need some gen-zed kid’s help even before an audio recording of a cable downloading the new season of Community customer’s dealings with an unhelpful Comcast from Yahoo! Screen. Like me, the drone went viral. People are realizing they no NBC-canceled sitcom is obsessed with our longer need to swallow 600-channel contracts junky TV culture. And, like me, it no longer to access their three favorite shows. And cable needs a TV to indulge. Ω BEFORE

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Nestlé and drought Sacramento reduced its water consumption by 13 percent in May compared to how much we used during the three prior years, according to recent reports in The Sacramento Bee. (That’s still 7 percent above the governor’s requested 20 percent, but who’s keeping track?) Still, we are obviously in the middle of the worst drought in a generation. Some of us are letting our lawns turn brown— or “gold,” as publicists for the state point out— plus shortening our showers, keeping the car dirty, and trying all sorts of other conservation tricks. Other parts of the state aren’t doing as well. In fact, water consumption in California’s urban south, along the coast from Los Angeles to the border, is actually up 8 percent. That’s unacceptable. But what’s even more frustrating is realizing that even though Water should be Sacramentans are reducing what reserved for the comes out of our taps and is wasted down the drain, other public good, not people in this community are for private profit. making a huge profit on water. We’re thinking specifically of Nestlé, the corporate giant that opened a water-bottling plant—over many objections—in south Sacramento in 2009. While it took a while to get up and running, the plant is estimated to bottle more than 200,000 gallons of water per day. As SN&R pointed out years ago, at the city’s industrial water rate, Nestlé is selling tap water back to us at a markup of at least 1,000 times what the city charges (see “All wet” by Cosmo Garvin; SN&R Bites; May 13, 2010). There’s an argument to be made that if the tap water is so potable, we should just drink it instead of buying our own water, bottled or otherwise. But that’s not the point: Changing our drinking habits won’t stop the Nestlé bottling plant. No, it’ll simply ship that bottled water to other markets outside Sacramento, where people will be happy to buy our tap water for a tidy markup of a thousand times what we would have paid for it. The Desert Sun, a Palm Springs newspaper, recently reported that the Nestlé water-bottling operation in Cabazon is taking water from groundwater wells on the Morongo Band of Mission Indians reservation. Bottling water from a drought area and trucking it to consumers is an absurd enough idea. Tapping into groundwater reserves to make a dollar is not just myopic, it should be criminal. This story was picked up by national outlets, including Salon. Let’s rewind a bit here: Sacramento, like Southern California, is a drought area, too. The very idea of bottling water and selling it at a markup— whether for local consumption or for export to areas outside the drought zone—is illogical. At the very least, Nestlé should be paying a premium for our tap water, rather than the industrial rate. Those funds could then go to all sorts of public services, such as providing water and cooling stations for our homeless neighbors. The drought is more than just a burden to all Sacramentans. Our dearth of water could be a new normal. And it should also be a wake-up call to Sacramento taxpayers: It’s time to come to grips with the reality of water in California. We need to move forward with long-term planning for water sustainability. Water should be reserved for the public good, not for private profit. Ω | A F T E R | 07.24.14 | SN&R | 15

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eel like fish for dinner? Then you’re in luck. There is no shortage of seafood in Sacramento’s restaurants and supermarkets. At Sunh Fish Company, a small family-owned shop in Midtown, the display case contains exotic items from every corner of the globe. There are Chilean sea bass from the Southern Ocean, wild Mexican prawns, Hawaiian ono, tilapia from Taiwan and farmed salmon from Canada. At Safeway, the selection of shrimp alone—America’s most popular seafood—seems almost endless, including canned, fresh on ice and bags of frozen prawns coated in beer batter. At Raley’s, there are packs of frozen baby octopi caught in Vietnam, swordfish from Singapore, mahimahi from Ecuador and yellowfin tuna from Indonesia. Local restaurants serve an equally diverse menu of items. From this bounty of options it might seem that the oceans are teeming with abundance, but they’re actually in pretty big trouble. Most fish populations are being harvested at or beyond their maximum sustainable rates. Fish stocks are declining, and seafood prices are climbing. Farming of fish and shellfish— called aquaculture—has become

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increasingly important in feeding the world. The industry has created a constant supply of many products previously seasonal, expensive or scarce. But even farming facilities are fraught with problems, like open-ocean salmon pens that cause pollution and disease outbreaks, and tuna-ranching operations that rely on massive amounts of wild fish as feed material. With so many issues at play, how do smart shoppers who care about health and the environment even know what seafood is OK to eat? What’s the good fish and what’s the bad fish? And what if the men and women behind the counter can’t even answer the most important questions, like where something came from or how it was caught?

A few Sacramento restaurants and retailers have been proactive in addressing the depletion of the oceans. By turning their backs on controversial seafood products, they’re coaching consumers toward the most responsible choices. Nguyen Pham, owner of Sunh Fish, has signed off of wild bluefin tuna because their stocks have been so reduced. Whole Foods Market, Kru Restaurant, and Mulvaney’s B&L have all done the same. But the majority of suppliers, including Bel Air and Costco, carry most seafood products that sell. Pham says most chefs and suppliers—especially in the sushi industry— must provide popular items, whether or not they’re considered sustainable, if they want to stay in business. “If you only use sustainable fish, that cuts you back to almost nothing,” Pham explains. “There will be times when you have nothing to serve. You have to have a backup plan.” That approach may be good for business, but it isn’t for the oceans.

The forgoTTen vicTims of commercial fishing Recently at Sunh Fish Company, a clutch of prawns—about 2 pounds—lay on ice under the display window. Strict federal law requires just about every aspect of these animals’ origins be labeled: wild, previously frozen, landed in Mexico. The only glaring omission, perhaps—and one not required or necessarily even known—is the collateral damage: If this shrimp was trawled, presumably about 8 pounds of other sea creatures were killed and discarded.

This is perhaps the most dire issue connected to the shrimp industry. Trawlers—boats that drag large nets across the ocean’s bottom—catch and kill much more than just their target species. Fishery experts say that for every pound of shrimp they bring to port, fishermen toss back several pounds of unwanted species—called bycatch—that they sift out of their nets. Lorayne Meltzer, a scientist from Arizona’s Prescott College who has been studying the Sea of Cortez shrimp industry for years, says most bycatch is dead by the time it’s returned to the water. Very little is kept and sold. The bycatch tonnage consists mostly of halibut, sharks, snapper and grouper, with the occasional sea turtle. A recent haul, she told SN&R by phone from Mexico, was made up of about 90 percent baby halibut by weight. For all those fish killed and tossed overboard, a few shrimp were thrown into the boat’s livewell. They were probably eaten in the United States, the biggest buyer of wild Mexican prawns, Meltzer says. Yes, shrimp is the most popular seafood item in America, where each person eats an average of 4 pounds of the creatures every year—a total of more than 1 billion pounds. But shrimp themselves, in most areas, are not at risk of disappearing. They breed like cockroaches—prolifically—and even where they are heavily fished, most shrimp populations are holding steady. Rather, it’s the animals they live with that are hurting. Chef Patrick Mulvaney likens bottom trawling, also used to catch halibut, rockfish and other local species, to clearcutting of a public forest.

Farmed vs. wild? Bluefin or albacore? Shrimp or no shrimp? How do we know if seafood is OK to eat—or if it’s destroying the environment and our oceans?

Sunh Fish Company owner Nguyen Pham, who offers an array of seafood from all over the world, says a challenge for restaurants is serving sustainable fish and being profitable.

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“If you were driving to the [Sierra Nevada] and you saw some loggers in a national park clear-cutting the trees, you’d call the police,” he says. “Shrimp trawling is like deforestation, but because no one sees it happening, we don’t think about it.” The devastation of trawling also goes unnoticed, Meltzer speculates, because the creatures killed by shrimpers tend not to be charismatic, lovable animals, like dolphins, which generated so much empathy and outrage in the 1980s, when an undercover cameraman filmed tuna fishermen butchering live dolphins that had become tangled in their nets. Rather, shrimping bycatch consists mostly of ungainly and slimy critters from the seafloor, she says. By comparison, the bluefin tuna is an example of what some naturalists refer to as “charismatic megafauna.” The animal is one of the largest and fastest fish in the sea and can weigh almost a ton. Bluefins have virtually no natural predators and, capable of swimming as fast a semi on the Jackson Highway, can catch and eat most other things that swim. Mahimahi flee like panicked sardines when a bluefin pack appears. But because the bluefin tuna tastes so good to the human palate, we have allowed this species, over a period of about 40 years, to be all but annihilated in the name of sushi. Here in Sacramento, Mulvaney and chef Billy Ngo of Kru Restaurant, as well as Pham at Sunh Fish, quit buying wild bluefin tuna. It has been an ethical decision, made in spite of the popularity of the product—especially the buttery fat belly meat, called toro on sushi menus.

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“If someone says, ‘I really want some toro,’ we’ll say, ‘I’m not confident with how bluefin tuna stocks are doing and how they’re raising them in farms,’” Mulvaney says. “‘But, look, we have albacore caught in California by hook and line.’” However, in recent years, according to Pham, interest in eating bluefin tuna, at least among his clientele, has diminished. “It’s not really something people want anymore,” he says. This is presumably due to widespread publicity campaigns by fishery activists like Carl Safina and groups including Greenpeace and Oceana. Ngo has also seen interest in eating bluefin diminish, though higher-end restaurants in the United States still serve a great deal. Most demand comes from Japan, where bluefin toro is the most coveted of sashimi cuts. To catch adult bluefin, boats use lines fitted with hundreds of baited hooks and set out overnight. They also use purse seines—large nets towed by power boats and wrapped around entire schools of fish. The other primary harvest method involves netting schools of juveniles and “ranching” them in floating pens, where they are fattened on sardines and anchovies, reared to market size and slaughtered. This latter practice has been considered even more devastating than the fishery that targets adults, for the young tuna never have a chance to spawn. The population is guessed to be at continued on page 19 about 10 percent of its

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Farmed Fish as the answer? Michael Passmore stands in the rising morning sun. He reaches over the rim of a swimming-pool-sized tank just outside his office, his hand dangling in the water as a shark-shaped torpedo moves toward it through the murk. As the creature passes under the surface, Passmore makes a grab at its back, which is lined with rows of diamond-shaped studs. Fingers meet the leathery skin, and the huge fish thrashes away in alarm, splashing Passmore’s shirt. The animal is 7 feet long. This fish—a white sturgeon—and its companions have been living on the Passmore Ranch, about an hour east of Sacramento, since they were babies almost a decade ago. They are Passmore’s most prized residents, and next spring they will be harvested. Their flesh and carcasses will go to a few chefs, some of whom utilize every last scrap of head, fin, skin and bone. Ngo, for instance, has used Passmore’s sturgeon skin to make a jerkylike fried appetizer, and the white meat as sashimi. Other chefs use the fish’s backbones for

making soup. The sturgeon’s eggs—their real treasures—will be cured on-site, jarred and sold as caviar. The farm also grows bass, catfish and carp, sold mostly to a few dozen restaurants around the country, as well as about 100 local households that receive doorstep delivery boxes of chilled fish fillets through the farm’s “community supported fishery” program. The farm,

global scale, fish and shellfish farming will help to meet the planet’s growing appetite for seafood. “The oceans are producing food at their maximum limit,” says Passmore, who also serves as the president of the California Aquaculture Association. “Per-capita seafood consumption is rising, and to feed the world, aquaculture is going to become an important part of the equation.”

“It would pRoBaBly Be good If we ate a lIttle loweR dowN oN the food ChaIN, But the demaNd Is foR salmoN. would you RatheR eat salmoN oR aNChovIes?” anthonie schuur Sacramento-based aquaculture consulting specialist

recognized for its sustainable practices, uses a gravity-powered water-circulation system and emits no wastewater off the property. Seafood Watch has even named farmed white sturgeon as a green rating on its “best choice” list. Mulvaney recently hosted a dinner to celebrate the designation and educate diners about sustainable seafood. While Passmore Ranch is hardly feeding the masses, aquaculture has the potential to alleviate overfishing pressure on wild resources. Passmore believes that, on a

Aquaculture already produces almost half of the world’s seafood, and the global industry is growing at several percent per year—though the American industry has actually declined. Some people in the seafood industry believe fish farming could help wild populations in decline by removing fishing pressure. There is even a relatively young farm in Japan that is now producing bluefin tuna. Recently, a slab of the beef-colored flesh was displayed on ice at Kru. The meat came from a bluefin tuna that was raised

in captivity from egg to slaughter size, and with no reliance on wild tuna stocks—something that has been achieved by no one else. “It’s sustainable,” says a sushi chef behind the counter at the restaurant as he slices cuts of fish, including Passmore Ranch’s sturgeon, which is served as nigiri. The bluefin tuna grown by Kinki University has been widely regarded as a major advance in aquaculture science. That’s because managing to fertilize and hatch tuna eggs in captivity, using a small collection of brood-stock fish, seemed for years to be impossible. Now, Kinki University is selling its very expensive Kindai tuna, the name by which it’s usually marketed, to restaurants around the world. But not all seafood activists are impressed by Kinki University’s achievement. That’s because it takes about 10 pounds of fish—edible and valuable species like anchovies and sardines—to grow each pound of the product. Conventional tuna ranching uses as much as 18-20 pounds of fish per pound of tuna produced. Kindai bluefin represents an improvement, albeit a slight one. “Frankly, [Kindai bluefin tuna] is staggeringly unsustainable if we’re talking about managing the global protein demand from the ocean,” says Casson Trenor, one of the leading voices in the country on the issue of fishing and sustainability, and founder of San Francisco’s Tataki Sushi & Sake Bar, which has been lauded for serving the world’s first “sustainable sushi.” “We’re taking 10 pounds of fish protein to make 1 pound of fish.” Farming does often add up to a net waste of

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Chef Billy Ngo of Kru Restaurant stopped serving some seafood, such as bluefin tuna, because of the devastating environmental impacts harvesting it has on the ocean.

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resources. In Peru, anchovy populations have plunged, thanks in part to the ravenous salmon-farming industry, and many activists are warning that fish farming continued from page 19 could end up doing more harm than good to the environment. Tom Worthington, co-owner of Monterey Fish Market in Berkeley, feels the researchers who developed the Kindai bluefin tuna have created new issues in the seafood sustainability puzzle, not solved an existing one. “It’s incredibly expensive,” he says. “It’s for superwealthy people. It’s not an answer for feeding the world.”

and controlled if the industry is to be truly sustainable. “Some species will not be suitable,” he says. “There are the major problems with the eel [unagi] industry and with bluefin tuna. You need to remember that you’re growing fish for a very elite market.” Farmed salmon, he says, are now being reared on less wild-fish meal than ever before—but only, he says, because plant protein is being used to balance out the feed blends, introducing issues to the aquaculture discussion previously only associated with livestock production. “You have to be careful that you aren’t eating salmon that’s being raised on rainforest soybeans,” he says.

everywhere the option to eat salmon at affordable prices. But Kenny Belov, who owns a trout farm in Lassen County, is generally skeptical of aquaculture. He believes only if done right— especially using landlocked systems of recirculated water—can aquaculture become a sustainable industry. Feed is an issue, as well, and one that Belov has directly tackled. He has developed a proprietary feed blend based on fast-growing marine algae—not fish meal. Until recently, the mash included soy protein, a component Belov has replaced with nut waste from California farmers. Belov also runs a fish supply company called TwoXSea, based in San Francisco, and has rallied against farmed salmon for years. He argues that the constant and widespread PHOTO BY RACHEL VALLEY

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Michael Passmore (right), shown here at a Seafood Watch awards dinner last week at Mulvaney’s B&L in Midtown. Passmore was recognized for his sustainable fishery practices in nearby Sloughhouse.

The wild debaTe Experts are divided over what fish is OK to eat and what is not. Geoff Shester, California program director for the group Oceana, points out that most farmed seafood is fed to other fish, sometimes in combination with plant protein. Shester, who himself has become a fan of catching and eating herring from San Francisco Bay, believes consumers should simply eat the smaller fish that farms use as their feed. “You’re taking the ocean and all its splendor and turning it into a feedlot for farmed fish and animals,” he says. He also points out that 400 million people could eat a seafood meal every day—and a delicious, healthy one—“if we fed them the forage fish that we feed to livestock.” Small fish, like anchovies and sardines, are high in healthy oils and, because they reside low on the food chain, contain less mercury than high-ranking predators, like tuna and sharks. Peter Bridson, aquaculture research manager with Seafood Watch, believes aquaculture practices must be carefully monitored

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availability of the product creates a false perception of abundance, ultimately diffusing consumer interest in addressing environmental problems in the rivers where wild salmon lay their eggs, like agricultural runoff, diversion of water and construction of dams—the issues that have plagued the Sacramento Valley’s runs of chinook salmon. “Not everyone in the world should be eating salmon,” says Belov. Paul Greenberg, author of the new book American Catch, which details global issues in the world of wild seafood, fishermen and aquaculture, agrees. “The advent of salmon aquaculture could cause the disappearance of wild salmon,” Greenberg said in an interview. “Consumers never see the environmental damage being done to rivers. They only see the display cases full of bright-red salmon meat.”

whaT The heck should we eaT?! Change is coming. Mulvaney says he is “very careful about shrimp” and buys farmed shrimp only from reputed facilities in the United States. His wild spot prawns are caught in California with midwater trawls— setups in which the net does not touch the seafloor, producing a great deal less bycatch. Worldwide, many governments have taken serious efforts to reduce bycatch,

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requiring their fishermen to place escape hatches inside the nets that allow sea turtles and other potential victims to get out before tumbling into the belly of the net, where they will drown or become crushed by the accumulating mass of captured creatures. But in spite of a law passed by the National Marine Fisheries Service in 1987 requiring that American shrimp trawlers use such turtle-excluder devices, fishermen in Louisiana have resisted, some refusing to abide by the law. The Seafood Watch program responded by slapping a red “avoid” rating on Louisiana wild-caught prawns, a rating which remains today. John Filose, a San Diego consultant to seafood vendors and importers, says the bycatch issues with shrimp fishing have been mostly alleviated, and shrimp farming facilities no longer wantonly destroy mangrove swamps. But Meltzer feels the distance between the source and final sale of most shrimp is too great for one to truly understand the consequences of eating it. Unlike most Americans, Meltzer almost never eats shrimp, since she believes it’s almost impossible to do so responsibly. Yet shoppers at virtually any Sacramento supermarket continue choose from just about every seafood item imaginable. Meanwhile, Filose believes that the ocean is healthier than it has been made out to be. He says many environmental groups “have to cause crises to raise money.” Schuur echoes the same allegation. Though he believes the oceans’ productivity has been tapped out and will need to be balanced by sustainable aquaculture, he believes “environmental organizations have inflated issues beyond reasonable limits.” “That’s their nature,” he says. “No one gives you money if there aren’t problems.” Greenberg says there might be hope for maintaining abundant, healthy oceans even as our demands escalate. “If we’re all going to eat the government’s recommended daily allowance of fish, we have to do it by feeding ourselves with a combination of wild seafood and onshore aquaculture that doesn’t involve the grinding up of other fish to feed the fish that we want to farm,” he says. Mulvaney is directly addressing the problems. So is Ngo, who has been trying to wean his customers off of unagi—one of the most problematic, but demanded, items in the sushi business. Eel farms depend on juvenile eels captured in the wild and reared in captivity. Wild eel populations have declined as a result. Ngo has experimented with using Passmore catfish as a replacement, but for now, eel remains on his menu. “It’s something people expect you to have,” he says. “You can’t just not serve it.” But Trenor, at the helm of his own eel- and bluefin-free restaurant, asserts that chefs must drive industry change. “If I were an herbalist, and I had people coming in wanting tiger penis and rhino horn, does that mean I’d have to give it to them?” he says. “No, it doesn’t, and chefs and business owners that put the onus on their customer are just passing the buck.” Ω

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day job to mentor the next generation of Sacramento’s comic-book creators. “He was a perfect fit,” McCleary says. “We gave him the reins and the idea, and it’s really his brainchild now.” McCleary and Burgoon built the 916 Ink Makes Comics program with a grant from Golden 1 Credit Union, a library of donated comic books from IDW Publishing and Big Brother Comics, and a squad of local volunteer artists. With Burgoon’s industry connections and passion, he launched the program into the literary scene like Colossus and Wolverine serving up a “fastball special.” Burgoon says the journey so far has been creatively rewarding. “I did take a pay cut to do something more amazing,” he says, “something that I believe in and could grow with. I get to do what I love, make the community better, work with good people and enjoy every day. I’d make that decision every time over money.”

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Stories written by children obey no boundaries or storytelling conventions, the om. only the fizzing engine of limitless clAssro w A hush fAlls over the oAk PArk bungAlo imagination. whisPers of third, fourth And fifth grAders At AsPire cAPitol After weeks of preparation, the 916 Ink authors have gathered for Pitch Day, student heights AcAdemy bArely register over the hum of Air which marks the chance to present story ideas to a bullpen of professional artists to conditioners fighting the heAt of lAte sPring in A room bring their literary dreams to life on the page PAcked with elementAry-school students And Adults. via an anthology. Burgoon’s next step will be to collect the handwritten stories, translate them into industry-standard scripts, and Later, he spent much of his time at distribute the works to the artists. Eben E.B. Burgoon, resident comic for learning Chico University, State California cy Teams of students pitch their stories to youth-litera -based Sacramento a 916 Ink, Arabic, Russian and international relations. the class, with several winks to Burgoon nonprofit, stands front and center sporting his But after September 11 left him disillusioned, and his creations. Jasmine sends Eben to trademark beard—the kind that would make he abandoned dreams of espionage work in Mars, where he’s raised by aliens before Thor drop his hammer—and wears a T-shirt favor of creative writing. returning to Earth in “Destination Montana: that depicts Abraham Lincoln fighting three with reconnected Burgoon 2007, in Then Clark Population Zero,” only to be jailed by the behind up light bears. His blue eyes a friend from San Luis Obispo, Dan Bethel, government. Ja’lyn pitches “B-Squad Goes Kent glasses. to collaborate on an animated version of to China,” a one-page homage to Burgoon’s “Welcome to Pitch Day!” however, realized, quickly pair The Eben07. comic that kills his characters in a big crackles applause excited of roar A that Web and print comics were a more costkaboom! Ja’kel riffs with “Ja Squad Saves among 30 8- to 10-year-olds, several parent audience. an build to way conscious gripping the Moon,” featuring a warrior bunny and artists volunteers, and 21 grown-up After experiencing the thrill of seeing lunar puns. pencils and sketchbooks. Burgoon, the early drafts of his first comic on the page, In the front row, artists Melissa Pagluica 34-year-old comic-book author best known radioactive back––the looked never Burgoon of Jeremy Rathbone listen to the pitches and Soldiers B-Squad: for self-publishing bite of artistic collaboration left him feeling while scribbling and sketching away. WaistMisfortune and Eben07: Covert Custodian, supercharged with great power and great high packs of student authors roam the room joined 916 Ink earlier this year to teach passion. storytelling his share to ty responsibili that By as Burgoon circulates from one team to the medium. favorite his students young Since 916 Ink’s 2011 launch, founder next, youngsters orbiting, asking questions summer, the class would produce the only n organizatio her dreamed McCleary Katie and following him like he’s a rock star. illustrated student-written, professionally would reach children and teens via its During the pitch session, volunteer artist comic book on the market. workshops. Now, three years later, its library Sean K. Sutter, sitting cross-legged on a But first, the origin story. boasts 33 publications of essays, poems, short carpet depicting a map of the United States, Burgoon grew up in San Luis Obispo, stories and creative nonfiction featuring 849 works through The Chronicles of Zoom, by loving Tintin, Calvin and Hobbes, and James 4-18. ages authors young fifth graders Acsah and Gleniesha. Zoom, Bond novels more than caped superhero secret McCleary’s became Burgoon a wind manipulator, faces off with his firecomics. weapon of mass instruction when he powered archnemesis Flame, who breaks “I’m definitely a nerd, but comic books comic-book 12-session a design to agreed off,” out of space jail, kidnaps Zoom’s family and nerd my weren’t initially how I got curriculum. After meeting McCleary earlier is split into evil and good halves. Naturally, he says. this year, Burgoon quit his grocery-store

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Good Flame and Zoom team up to defeat Evil Flame. Acsah’s natural storytelling ability thrives in the comic-book program, fed by a steady diet of Greek mythology and Marvel Comics. Sutter, who views the comic-book industry through the lens of a feminist father to a 3-year-old daughter, gently questions Acsah and Gleniesha’s initial impression that both Zoom and Flame are white men. The girls’ eyes light up with realization. Zoom’s identity changes from Toby to Tori, and Sutter gives her a caramel skin tone closer to that of her creators. “I just wish we had more pages,” says Sutter. “This could be a whole movie, a complete story that’s so cool.”

Comics, snobbery & the big show In early June, students, parents and artists gathered at The Brickhouse Gallery to mingle, nosh on cookies and snacks, and look at a copy of 916 Ink Makes Comics Issue No. 1, an item precious beyond valuation to its student authors. Burgoon glows with just as much pride as his young writers. “This is so far beyond what I expected. It doesn’t get better,” he says.

“These kids are going to read for the rest of their lives, and to be a writer you have to be a reader. Comic books are definitely literature.” Eben E.B. Burgoon 916 Ink instructor and comic-book artist

Desiray, a 9-year-old, is delighted with how Jared Konopitski’s sugar-rush artwork animated her work in “My Little Friends.” She plans to keep up her writing career. “What I like about writing is it’s fun, it’s entertaining, and you can put your own ideas onto paper,” she says. Desiray’s grandmother Mary Gary admires how Burgoon has coaxed magic from the minds of these kids. “I have to say, I’m a little bit of a snob, because I have avoided comics after I became an adult,” says Gary. “I absolutely have gone full circle—I have an appreciation for comics again.” To McCleary and Burgoon, that’s mission accomplished on both counts: supercharging

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Reading the war, 100 years later It seems like a long time ago. Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated on June 28, 1914. But the repercussions still affect us. World War I—the Great War, the “war to end all wars”— caused empires to fall or be overthrown, redrew maps and introduced the United States as a leader on the world stage. Nations were created—Yugoslavia, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, Czechoslovakia and the Baltic states, for instance—and disappeared—the Ottoman, German and Russian empires. Did you notice Syria, Iraq and Iran are on that list? Yep, WWI is still relevant. And, as one might expect, 100 years after the start of it, there are a slew of new books that purport to offer modern insight.

The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher (Grove Press, $26) is among the better

a kid’s passion for storytelling and defeating adult prejudice. “These kids are going to read for the rest of their lives, and to be a writer you have to be a reader,” says Burgoon. “Comic books are definitely literature.” This fall, McCleary and Burgoon will bring the 916 Ink Makes Comics program back to Capitol Heights Academy for a gardening and farmto-fork themed book, supported by a California Endowment grant. Ultimately, Burgoon says he hopes to grow enough to make a 72-page trade

paperback featuring more artists and longer stories. They might eventually bring in high-school age artists to gain experience, too. “I want the kids to feel like they have a real credit under their belt,” he says. Before that, however, Burgoon will launch into the next phase of his career with a more personal project via a Kickstarter campaign in August. The goal: Finance a six-issue trade paperback of B-Squad, with hopes of commanding an audience large enough to grab the attention of a cartoon outlet such as Hulu or Adult Swim.

Burgoon looks forward to supercharging his own stories by collaborating with his Sacramento squad of illustrators. “For me, when it turns into art and you get the page back for the first time, it feels like someone reached into your head and pulled out this amazing thing. It’s an overwhelming feeling, and this [Makes Comics program] is beyond that in so many ways.” Ω For more of Eben E.B. Burgoon’s work, take a look at http://ebenburgoon.com. To learn more about 916 Ink, visit www.facebook.com/916ink.

books addressing the war’s precipitating event. It’s an odd amalgam of history, biography, memoir and travel writing that really works to bring the inception point of the war into focus. Butcher covers the same terrain, on foot and by train, that Gavrilo Princip—the man who assassinated the archduke and duchess—traveled when he left his Bosnian Serb village in the mountains as a youth. Since Butcher, a journalist, covered the Balkan Wars of the 1990s fought as Yugoslavia broke up, he’s got a lot of experience to draw on when discussing the complicated situation in this part of the world. His firsthand account of how deeply ingrained the hostilities are and how close to the surface the urge toward war remain in the area provides necessary perspective on WWI. Given recent events in Ukraine and the South China Sea, it’s also worth reading July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War, Summer 1914 by T.G. Otte (Cambridge University Press, $29.99). Otte, a British history professor, is concerned with the diplomatic failures that occurred between the The same urges assassination and the start of the war a month later. War to national wasn’t inevitable, he argues; identity, selfrather, it was the result of a series of decisions made by determination, deeply misinformed men. The retention limitations of the leadership of the time—including intelof natural lectual limitations, which is an resources argument for really smart diplomats—are threaded and political throughout, as is some influence pointed criticism of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his chancellor continue to drive for encouraging the Austroglobal conflict. Hungarian Empire to take retribution on Serbia for its role in the assassination. In The Month That Changed the World: July 1914 (Oxford University Press, $34.95), historian Gordon Martel also focuses on that period between the assassination and Russia’s mobilization, an act which guaranteed that everyone else would take the field rather than wait to be attacked. Even though he uses primary sources, Martel is very reader friendly, with an organization that includes a guide to the people involved. WWI wasn’t the absolute beginning of current struggles. But it helps to understand that the same urges to national identity, self-determination, retention of natural resources and political influence continue to drive global conflict. It’s just that the big picture sometimes brings into focus exactly where we are now. —Kel Munger

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and Q-Vo. Fiesta en la Calle shows happen every Saturday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. through August 2. Or, if you don’t mind a short trek out of town to Lincoln, Thunder Valley Casino Resort’s Summer Concert Series (1200 Athens Avenue, www.thundervalley resort.com/entertainment) is already underway as well. This weekend, its outdoor amphitheater is hosting the contrasting sounds of metal band Anthrax (on Friday, July 25, at 6:30 p.m.) and smooth-jazz smooth-jazz guitarist George Benson Benson (Saturday, July 26, at 7 p.m.). at 7 p.m.). L a s t l y , d o w n i n w i n e c o u n t r y , B o g l e V i n e y a r d s (37783 (37783 County Road 144 in C l a r k s b u r g , w w w . b o g l e winery.com) winery.com) runs an outdoor door concert series called Friday Alfresco . This Friday, July July 25, the performer is Celtic rock group One Eyed Reilly, rock and and food will be served by Mama Mama Kim Cooks. Tickets are $10 per show, and proceeds go to a different charitable organization every week (this week, it’s Project RIDE, which provides therapeutic recreational horseback riding). The series runs through August 29.

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Now’s your chance to live inside a Ben Stiller film, finally. The Crocker Art Museum, in conjunction with the Sacramento Theatre Company, is recreating elements of the eponymous fantasy film by bringing the museum to life. Attendees are encouraged to wear PJs to partake in the evening of live animals, screenings of MULTIMEDIA the film and, of course, art. $5-$10; 5 to 9 p.m., at Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; (916) 808-1182; www.crockerart museum.org.

Mankind’s fascination with zombies is as undead as ever. Spend Friday night lounging on the lawn of The Discovery Museum Science & Space Center watching ZOMBIE the 1968 cult classic Night of the Living Dead while sipping on beers from Hoppy Brewing Company. Tickets include two brews, but you’re on your own for zombie protection. $10, gates open at 7 p.m., movie begins at 8:45 p.m.; The Discovery Museum Science & Space Center, 3615 Auburn Boulevard; (916) 808-3942; www.thediscovery.org.

The word “bus” doesn’t usually connote “awesome,” but the Sac Brew Bus is surely the exception: Riders will tour Bike Dog Brewing Company in Sacramento, Heretic Brewing Company in Fairfield and Berryessa Brewing Co. in Winters in addition to getting breakfast burritos BREW TOUR in the morning, snacks throughout the day and a barbecue lunch. A pint of brew at each location is included. $75, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; tour starts at Fahrenheit 250 BBQ, 7042 Folsom Boulevard; (916) 337-9443; www.sacbrewbus.com.

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thurSday, July 31 Activists in Africa and the Middle East have incited revolutions with Twitter. The least Sacramentans can do is use it as an excuse to go socialize and grab a beer. The 53rd SacTweetUp is exactly for that, an informal SOCIALIZING social-mediabased mixer. One drink is free for those who RSVP online. Free, 6 p.m. at New Helvetia Brewing Company, 1730 Broadway; www.sactweetup53. eventbrite.com.

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Midtown Block Butcher Bar This place serves the holy trinity of European cuisine: meat, cheese and alcoholic beverages. Most of its boards and plates are balanced using three basic tastes: salty (meats and cheeses), sweet (honey and jam) and sour (pickles and vinegar). The charcuterie boards impress visually and on the tongue. A recent selection included shaved almonds, neat piles of meat,

mustard, pickled cauliflower and beets, served with small slices of bread. The ’njuda sandwich is startlingly spicy and salty, with rich melted cheese and ground meat spread between pressed slices of bread. Or try the pressed serrano ham, manchego cheese, arugula and salsa sandwich—it’s like a cross between a cubano, a breakfast panini and a torta. Elsewhere on the menu there are fine cocktails, an intimidating whiskey list, and a small but diverse selection of beer and wine, both regional and international. European. 1050 20th St., (916) 476-6306. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHHH J.M. iteration of the popular Plan B Restaurant in Arden Arcade brings to mind old-school French dining. This should not be read as an insult. The menu runs with salads, sandwiches, mains and appetizers—however, the highlight is the generous array of mussels served in both modern and classic fashion. The épicé mussels are served in a thick tomato sauce with a rumbling chili-garlic heat. Coconut-broth mussels are sweet and tangy and worth a visit. A white-anchovy tartelette with shredded fennel and leek dazzles—it’s the sort of light food welcomed in tripledigit heat. The puff pastry it sits on is a means to an end. Branzino cooked en papillote is also a thing of beauty: light, flaky and served with wisps of lemon and fennel. The wine selection is limited, however, the house white is affordable

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Der Biergarten This spot is a slightly quirky, low-key place with only nine food items on the menu: four appetizer-style options, four sandwich-type offerings and a sausage platter, plus about 30 cold ones on tap. Patrons order from a building that was built from a couple of cargo containers and dine outdoors on communal benches, traditional German biergarten style. The Derfinater Dog is a gussied-up hot dog, and despite its seemingly excessive number of toppings, everything

Strings Urban Kitchen This more upscale version of the Gold River-based Strings Italian Cafe chain lands in the Il Fornaio camp, but with a lower price point. Recommended options include the Bruschetta Rustico, with chunky toasts layered with seasoned cheese, grape tomatoes, basil and balsamic vinegar. With less garlic than many versions, it’s a delicious and date-friendly choice. Pizzas are offered at 7 or 16 inches, with lots of optional additions. A small Pomodoro Mozzarella, with sliced tomatoes and marinara, was serviceable with mediumthick crust and plentiful toppings. A signature frutti di mare pie with shrimp, scallops, mussels and seafood sauce is a more unique take on the category. There are also quite a few vegetarian choices, including Vegetale de las Casa. Eggplant, peppers,

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zucchini and other veg are sautéed in oil and tossed with Parmesan and Gorgonzola. For dessert, try the tiramisu, with sprightly ladyfinger sponge cake and an airy mascarpone topped with cocoa and cinnamon. If you’re feeling generous, order the caffè sospeso (“pending coffee”), in which you pay for a cup for the next guest. Italian. 1500 Seventh St., (916) 444-6500. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHHH AMR

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-and-ginger soup possesses a slow burn, and a chicken-lettuce wrap is sophisticated: a modest portion of food of moderate size that’s highlighted with slivers of cucumber and a shaking of vinegar. The frozen bits, however are the real winners. Gelato and sorbet are both available in astounding offthe-cuff flavors that mostly draw inspiration from Asian cuisines. A vanilla-and-adzuki-bean gelato tastes sweet and earthy, with a flavor reminiscent to Chinese moon cakes. A nutty soy-based black-sesame-seed gelato is as rustic and charming as your favorite Instagram filter. American. 1907 Capitol Ave., (916) 442-7369. Dinner for one: $5-$10. HHH1/2 G.M.

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served a tasteful purpose. The mayo and garlic sauce helped moisten a somewhat dry roll, and the bacon added saltiness, which balanced the sweetness of cream cheese and barbecue sauce. The pretzel disappointed by being a bit on the flaky and brittle side. The sausage platter was the best item on the menu: a pork sausage, chicken sausage, and a veal-and-pork sausage—much more plump, juicy and flavorful than the frankfurters—served alongside piles of sauerkraut and German potato salad. German. 2332 K St., (916) 346-4572. Dinner for one: $5-$10. HHH J.M.

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East Sacramento Fahrenheit 250 BBQ This barbecue joint ups the ante with attentive table service and highend ingredients. Chef Jacob Carriker serves Southern staples such as pulled pork, brisket and ribs, plus the very California addition of smoked tri-tip. There’s also chicken and trout—all smoked in a 7-foot hand-forged steel behemoth. All the meats are dry rubbed and served without sauce, which can be added at the table from a choice of four: house, spicy, Kentucky mustard-based and Carolina vinegar-based. The pulled-pork sandwich is served on a hefty bun topped with coleslaw. The meat is moist, smoky and falling apart with tenderness. The half-chicken, from Mary’s Free Range brand, is a bit dry, but benefits from a shot of sauce. The tri-tip is well-smoked, but not as good as the brisket, although it still makes for a very nice addition to the Market salad, with baby greens, grilled zucchini and onions, and cornbread croutons. Barbecue. 7042 Folsom Blvd., (916) 476-4508. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHHH AMR

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South Sac Bodhi Bowl This Vietnamese 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, houseroasted peanuts and jagged pieces of faux beef. The “beef” actually is slightly sweet, plenty umami and pleasantly inoffensive, as far as fake meat goes. Nearly everything

here has a faux-meat product or tofu element. So, sorry diners with soy allergies—it can’t even be escaped in the papaya salad. Not an issue? Soldier on with the Hot & Sour soup, a not-too spicy sunsetorange broth that teems with a tomatoey and citrus flavor, chunks of pineapple, semicircles of trumpet mushrooms, cubes of fried tofu and slices of faux crab. Or, try the stir-fried Eight Fold Path. It features al dente celery, red bell pepper and triangles of the most savory, salty, dense tofu perhaps ever. Vietnamese. 6511 Savings Place, Ste. 100; (916) 428-4160. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHHH S.

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Arden/ Carmichael Field House American Sports Pub Launched by the same team that raised Shady Lady Saloon, this spot brings a bit more culinary hope to an often forgotten part of Sacramento. The whiskey burger is a mighty sammich of perfection with smoked Gouda cheese and bacon that serve as excellent counterpoints to the achingly sweet maplebourbon glazed red onions. Fries-slash-chips arrived pencil-thin and fiercely crispy. If you visit for brunch, don’t miss the signature bloody mary: a 32-ounce bloody mary that doesn’t skimp on the horseradish. It’s served with skewers of beet-pickled egg, sausage and bacon, tiger prawn, pickled veggies, and the most amazing slider. American. 1310 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-1045. Dinner for one: $15-$25. HHHH G.M.

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. Japanese. 2992 65th St.,

The Kitchen Diners here don’t receive a menu: They receive a program, divided into seven acts, and, yes, there’s an intermission. Guests all eat together, like a reservationsonly giant dinner party, dining on seasonal dishes such as chilled, minty pea soup, served with creamy pea pudding, cured scallops and Sterling Caviar. The offerings, which include the likes of lamb, steak and pasta, change

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often best quaffed alongside a well-crafted meal. Pangaea Bier Cafe recently stepped up its food game to satisfy that need with a revamped menu that includes an ever-changing rotation of seasonal, slightly upscale pub food. Try the Buffalo wings: They’re deeply flavorful fried morsels with a thick glaze of goodness. The mac ’n’ cheese is creamy, with a bit of beer in the sauce and a crunchy topping of herbflecked breadcrumbs. The sliders are gorgeous little mouthfuls with Tillamook cheddar and house-made pickles. They leave you wanting more, which is exactly what you get with the main-course cheeseburger, one of the best we’ve had in ages. Made from a custom blend of brisket and chuck, this is a juicy patty that holds together, yet bursts with flavor. The locally made brioche bun bears up well, and the house pickles and cheddar simply gild the lily. American. 2743 Franklin Blvd., (916) 454-4942. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHH1/2 AMR

monthly, but the highlights are the chefs’ tasters—small bites scattered throughout the dining area. A recent visit included oyster, faux lasagna bites, citrusy duck, and “kettle corn” cones of puffed wild rice, amaranth and corn with black-truffle caramel, which tasted sweet, salty and positively deadly. American. 2225 Hurley Way, Ste. 101; (916) 568-7171. Dinner for one: $100-$300. HHHH J.B.

Fair Oaks Yui Marlu Yui Marlu serves up California rolls, plus other American-style makizushi, but its mastery lies in Japanesestyle sushi and an assortment of other traditional fare. Here, the omakase was the pièce de résistance—one of those dishes that everyone stares at when it comes out of the kitchen. It looks like a flashy Dali-esque painting, with raw fish piled into small flower patterns atop scallop shells and a bed of microgreens, dollops of sauce, piles of ginger, slender slices of fried plantains sticking out upwards of 6 inches from the plate, and slices of lemon, radish and cucumber. And it tastes as surreal as it looks: The fish is fresh, fleshy and flavorful. The Rainbow roll and the Linda roll are like most American-style rolls served locally, but better. Japanese. 6720 Madison Ave., Ste. 5 in Fair Oaks; (916) 966-5639. Dinner for one: $15-$30. HHHH1/2 J.M.

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Given the heat of July, ice cream is a pretty important food in my diet right now. In honor of the refreshing frozen treat, the following are a few scoops of ice-cream-related developments. This first one is old news: Here’s the Scoop! ice-cream shop, a haven for Gunther’s Ice Cream, fruit freezes and vegan-friendly soy ice cream closed last year. In its place is Sweets and Sugars (3051 Freeport Boulevard) a Mexicanstyle desert place serving mangonadas, made with Gunther’s mango fruit freeze; flan; ice cream; fruit cocktails; and raspados, Mexicanstyle shaved ice. Next up, Baker’s Donuts (5880 Florin Road) has unveiled on its Instagram page (www.instagram.com/bakersdonuts) evidence that it’s currently experimenting with ice-cream-filled doughnuts. Flavors that have appeared so far include ube (purple yam), pandan and vanilla. Lastly, the Sacramento Walking Sticks (www.sacramento walkingsticks.org) will host its annual Ice Cream Walk (Vic’s Ice Cream to Gunther’s) on August 6, and August 7. —Jonathan Mendick

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Drop-kick the self-judgement My husband had a meth addiction for the last three years of our marriage. I had no idea until he was hospitalized. I feel like an idiot. I had suspicions that something was wrong, but when I questioned him, he lied. I chose to believe him because I love him. He completed rehab and is clean, but my trust is destroyed. When he was using, he was emotionally abusive to by Joey ga me. He also bad-mouthed me rcia to my children. We are trying to rebuild, but every time he a skj oey @ ne wsreview.c om takes a phone call or comes home late or wants to take a walk alone at night, I question Joey says being single whether he’s using. How can I drop is the new cupcake. this paranoia and trust again? Drop-kick the harsh self-judgment. You’re not paranoid, you’re frightened, and that’s understandable. Your husband lied to you (that’s disturbing). He nurtured a secret addiction to a dangerous drug (that’s alarming). You knew something was wrong (that’s good). You asked your man for details (that’s smart).

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Villains glower and plot, scoundrels are run through and the valiant musketeers—as well as a sword-swinging little sister—conquer all in Sacramento Shakespeare Festival’s production of Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of The Three Musketeers. With colorful costumes, broadly drawn characters, plenty of humor and a sword fight approximately every seven minutes, this show is exactly why the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival is a community treasure, especially for families hoping to introduce their children to live theater. Director Christine Nicholson keeps things moving at a rapid clip, as befits an all-out action-adventure. Earnest, young d’Artagnan (Aaron Kitchen), prepared by his father for membership in the exclusive musketeers, is off to Paris with a letter of recommendation. He’s also tasked with delivering his spunky, sword-swinging little sister, Sabine (Julianna Camille Hess), to a convent for her education. Of course, they’re barely out of Gascony before the pair run afoul of swordsmen in the employ of the evil Cardinal Richelieu, and d’Artagnan isn’t in Paris three minutes before he’s offended Porthos (Alejandro Padilla), Athos (Paj Crank) and Aramis (Elliot Herzer), the legendary trio of musketeers. But they quickly become fast friends and unite to thwart the nasty plots of the cardinal (Mike Sicilia, a scenery-chewing Mr. Burns of a villain) and his henchwoman, Milady (Dale Lisa Flint, in a performance reminiscent of Glenn Close’s Cruella De Vil). A big congratulations goes to fight choreographer Jes Gonzales, who’s got actors swinging swords, knives, fists and blunt objects. And it’s not all testosterone in action, either; one of the best battle involves two women, one sword and two daggers. Yes, the show plays fast and loose with history—but then, so did Alexandre Dumas. Its broadly drawn characters and undercurrent of humor will keep even screen-addicted youngsters engaged, elicit laughter from in-the-know parents, and make for a great evening under the Sacramento stars.

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Though the story and its overall messages can get a bit convoluted under all the theatrics, songs, the play-within-a-play concept and the playwright’s plotlines, this Marat/Sade is entertaining and absorbing. And the topics of the masses uprising and what happens during and after a revolution, especially when there are philosophical differences among the revolutionaries and their followers, are quite topical. Director Kent Johnson, with the help of choreographer Lori Russo, keeps the many juggling balls in the air—careful not to let the production overpower the play, or even the play take over the play. He pulls out complexities in his leads, uses the Greek chorus to add a touch of humor, and humanizes the supporting cast without having them become distractions. Notable leads include Richard Spierto as Sade, Mark Gonzalez as Marat, Sabrina Fiora as Charlotte Corday and Michael R.J. Campbell as Herald. Special kudos go to scene and lighting designer Niels Larsen, stage manager Alexa Slater, and costume designer Jeanette Trimble. Note: This theater does not have air conditioning, so it can be sweltering in the summer heat. Come prepared to feel what it’s really like in a humid bathhouse asylum. Ω

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William Shakespeare’s As You Like It is a pastoral comedy exploring the stark contrast between dangerously politicized city life (under a paranoid, usurping duke) and bucolic country life (where the exiled rightful duke enjoys a gentle campout à la Robin Hood, and love blossoms between young couples). There are 13 Actors’ Equity Association actors in the cast, and professional designers handle the costumes, music, sets and sound. And unlike some festival shows that feel a tad underrehearsed on opening night, this one is as smooth as silk. Tu, W, Th, F, Sa, Su 7:30pm. Through 8/24. $15-$85. Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival at Sand Harbor State park, 2005 State Hwy. 28 in Incline Village, Nev.; (800) 747-4697; www.laketahoeshakespeare.com. J.H.

The Flu Season

This play is a fascinating comedic drama filled with non sequiturs, wandering plotlines, interesting characters, Samuel Beckett-like prose, contortions and experiments in the written word. Once you’re aware that the structure and language of The Flu Season aren’t going to follow the norm, you can let the story, characters and words flow where they will and appreciate the art of a skilled playwright playing with plot and prose. F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 8/10. $15-$18. Ovation Stage at the Three Penny Theatre in the R25 Arts Complex, 1723 25th St.; (916) 606-5050; www.ovationstage.com. P.R.

Much Ado About Nothing

This comedy of misperception is set in post-World War I England and benefits from the chemistry and talent of the actors playing Beatrice (Jackie Gailbreath) and Benedick (Russell Dow), as well as the lovely pastoral setting in William Land Park. Directed by Lori Ann DelappeGrondin, Much Ado plays in repertory with The Three Musketeers. F 7/18

8pm; Su 7/20 6pm; Sa 7/26, Th 7/31 & Sa 8/2 8pm. Through 8/2. $15-$18,

Sacramento Shakespeare Festival in the William A. Carroll Amphitheatre in William Land Park, 3901 Land Park Dr.; www.sacramento shakespeare.net. K.M.

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The B3 Series offers this world-premiere production of Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder’s play about the power of books, reading as necessity and obsession, and the relationships readers form over their favorite books. With Kristine David in a delightful performance as a beyond-quirky librarian isolated in a mountaintop library and Julia Brothers as the antiquarian in search of a rare volume who won’t leave her alone, this quiet story offers both humor and emotional punch. Directed by David Pierini, Provenance has a gorgeous set that bibliophiles will covet. Tu, W 7pm; Th 2pm & 7pm; F 7pm; Sa 8pm; Su 1pm. Through 7/26. $23-$35. B Street Theatre B2 Space, 2711 B St.; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. K.M.

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Forget Downton Abbey. The Strauss clan has been reppin’ European nobility since the early 19th century. A British miniseries back in 1972 called The Strauss Family dramatized the famous Austrian family (Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, Edward Strauss and Johann Strauss III), most notable for its contributions to classical music—specifically the waltz. This weekend, fans can celebrate the musical dynasty at the Strauss Festival of Elk Grove. The free festival features nonprofessional waltz and polka troupes in costume, twirling and stepping to waltzes played by a live orchestra, all in front of what the festival’s website calls “elaborate handcrafted sets.” Lawn seating, geese and fireworks add to the romantic outdoor ambience each night. Free ($10 for parking); at 8 p.m. on July 24, through July 27, at Elk Grove Regional Park’s Strauss Island, 9950 Elk Grove Florin Road in Elk Grove; (916) 714-2527; www.straussfestival.com.

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Writer-director Mike Cahill’s first movie Another Earth was a hit at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Personally, I found it ridiculous and laughably by Jim Lane bad, a Plan 9 From Outer Space for the arthouse crowd. Consequently, I expected little from his new one, I Origins. But when the magic works, it works, and this film is a striking work of metaphysical science fiction. The movie blindsided me—appropriately, since it’s actually about being blindsided, surprised by what hits you when you’re looking at (or for) something else. That’s one of the movie’s clever little ironies: Its hero gets blindsided, even though his life’s work is the study of eyes.

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Michael Pitt, cool and subdued, plays Ian Gray, a Columbia University Ph.D. student in molecular biology with a lifelong thing for people’s eyes—each individual’s pair as distinctive and unique as fingerprints. He likes to take pictures of people’s eyes, great staring close-ups of each one. When he meets a masked beauty one night at a campus Halloween party, he photographs her distinctive gold-flecked eyes, then becomes fascinated by her otherworldly quality and unplaceable European accent. There’s an impulsive sexual episode in a bathroom, but when Ian asks her name, she is gone, abruptly and without a backward glance. Ian returns to his university research, which is focused (pun intended) on eyes. Not human eyes this time, but the primitive, rudimentary eyes of worms. Vision, Ian says, is the one thing nearly all religions point to as proof of intelligent design in the universe. Working with his research partner Kenny (Steven Yeun) and their lab assistant Karen (Brit Marling, whose cool demeanor matches Pitt’s), Ian sets a goal of seeing if, by gene-splicing and manipulation, he can induce ocular development in a species of worm that has the basic genetic material but has never evolved a sense of sight. Ian believes that by doing so he can disprove the existence of intelligent design—of God, of you will. (The idea that he might do just the opposite, by becoming himself

an intelligent designer, is a subtle irony that never occurs to him.) Ian is unable to shake the memory of that masked woman at the party with the gold-flecked eyes. With no clue to her identity except the pictures he took of her eyes, he manages—by luck or fate—to find her. She’s Sofi (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey), and she has the sort of impulsive spirituality that Ian lacks. She felt at first sight, she says, that somehow she knew Ian from a past life. “I don’t believe in that,” he tells her. “I’m a scientist, I believe in proof.” Yet something in the cool, methodical Ian responds to this gamine, and he embarks on a delirious affair with her that—not to tell too much—comes to a ghastly end on their wedding day. While a certain level of horrified disbelief sets in, Cahill picks up his story seven years later. Ian is now Dr. Gray; Karen, the lab assistant, is his wife and expecting their first child. Ian’s grief for Sofi remains beneath his calm surface, which Karen understands and accepts: She is his intellectual match and companion, but Sofi matched him in a way that Karen can’t— spiritually, in fact, though he would never say it. It is in this intellectual and emotional environment that Ian’s research, his preoccupation with eyes, and his emotional wounds converge, confronting him with ideas and concepts he has always dismissed—when he considered them at all. His research—his search, really—takes him first to rural Iowa, then to India, hardly the place to go to avoid matters spiritual. There he poses a question to a woman he meets on his quest: “What would you do if something scientific disproved your spiritual beliefs?” She turns it back on him: “What would you do if something spiritual disproved your scientific beliefs?”

That’s one of the movie’s clever little ironies: Its hero gets blindsided, even though his life’s work is the study of eyes. I Origins and its skeptical, questing hero reminded me of Robert Zemeckis’ 1997 Contact, from Carl Sagan’s novel. The central conundrum is much the same: What do you, as a person of science, do when something happens to you, but you can neither prove nor replicate? There’s a word for that, Mr. Scientist. It’s called faith, and it’s one of the “more things in heaven and earth” that Hamlet warned Horatio about. Ω

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Begin Again

Earth to Echo

Just your average post-apocalyptic apes.

Begin Again is director John Carney’s blatant attempt to recapture the magic of his 2006 surprise hit Once, and if it seems churlish to hold this shiny new product’s feet to that previous film’s lo-fi flame, blame Carney for continuously rubbing our noses in it. He practically begs for the comparison, but everything fresh and original about Once has been recycled and sanitized, and Begin Again is broad and excessive where Once was charming and concise. The film has an irresistible concept and all the necessary elements to make it work, but instead of trusting that, Carney overloads the film with artifice and plot. Begin Again feels like it should work, but never does, and in that sense, it is a lot like one of those God-awful Rock and Roll Hall of Fame jam bands, where talented entertainers team up to create a tuneless cacophony. D.B.

A handful of suburban kids (Teo Halm, Brian “Astro” Bradley, Reese Hartwig, Ella Wahlestedt) try to help an alien from another galaxy who has been stranded on Earth, even as the little fellow becomes the subject of an intense search by shadowy government agents. Sound familiar? Director Dave Green and writers Henry Gayden and Andrew Panay ransack the early career of Steven Spielberg—mostly E.T., of course, but with generous helpings of Close Encounters and The Goonies thrown in—giving it a contrived found-video look. The rip-off is so blatant that it makes any discussion of acting (pretty good), special effects (decent) or editing (fair) beside the point: This is the most shameless act of near-plagiarism since Star Trek cribbed that “The Trouble With Tribbles” episode from Robert A. Heinlein’s 1952 sci-fi novel The Rolling Stones. J.L.

A Most Wanted Man

A German anti-terrorism agent (Philip Seymour Hoffman) trails a Chechen who illegally enters Hamburg, and through a local lawyer (Rachel McAdams), petitions a banker (Willem Dafoe) for the fortune deposited years ago by his Russian father. Meanwhile, German police and an American agent (Robin Wright) meddle with Hoffman’s efforts to determine whether the Chechen is a refugee or a terrorist. Adapted from John le Carré’s novel, the movie is his usual sour litany of scheming and betrayal among people whose moral compasses point in different directions—when they exist at all, which is seldom. This one is well-acted but bleaker than usual, thanks to an uninvolving story, a shortage of sympathetic characters, leaden pacing by director Anton Corbijn, and washed-out, dreary cinematography by Benoît Delhomme. J.L.

Persecuted

A TV evangelist (James Remar) is framed for murder when he refuses to endorse a piece of religion-oriented legislation sponsored by a shifty senator (Bruce Davison). Writer-director Daniel Lusko’s attempt at a faith-based political thriller is absolutely and utterly botched. The plot makes no sense. Lusko is such a poor writer that he can’t tell a clear story. (He apparently doesn’t know it—he also wrote the film’s synopsis on IMDb, and it doesn’t match what happens on the screen.) Is there no person of faith who knows how to make a decent movie? It seems there used to be—remember Soul Surfer? This mess wastes some actors (Fred Dalton Thompson, Dean Stockwell), uses others who shouldn’t work at all (naming no names) and generally makes God’s Not Dead look like Citizen Kane. J.L.

The Purge: Anarchy

In the near future, the annual purge returns, that one night a year when no police or fire departments will respond, no hospitals will be open, and no crime will be punished for 12 hours. This time, instead of being trapped with Ethan Hawke in his house, we’re stranded outside with a motley group who weren’t able to make it to safety. Like the first movie, it’s really just another Saw or Hostel movie with delusions of George Orwell. Writer-director James DeMonaco salts his script with references to the New Founding Fathers, America reborn as a crime-free dystopia and other pretentious touches. The premise grew stale halfway through the first movie, and DeMonaco made the mistake of killing off Hawke so that now he’s dependent on stars of much lower wattage—Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford. J.L.

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Matt Reeves’ Dawn is a technically adroit but flavorless sequel to Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes reboot, and it trashes the surprising narrative structure of its predecessor in favor of a more factorytested, post-apocalyptic gloom. Dawn opens 10 years after the end of Rise, and in the decade since, most of humanity has been wiped out by a deadly virus, with only a small band of survivors left. Meanwhile, the supersmart apes are starting to thrive, and Dawn covers the conflict between these two societies in flux. The motion-captured monkey effects are next-generation stuff, a leap forward from the leap forward of Rise, and the various CGI primates have a tactile presence that is legitimately jaw-dropping. Too bad the megapixels are the only things that matter here, and no matter how photo-realistic the monkey fur, a cardboard character is still a cardboard character. D.B.

Sex Tape

A suburban couple (Jason Segel, Cameron Diaz) tries spicing up their love life by recording themselves in the act, but instead of erasing it afterward, they accidentally upload it to the cloud, which then distributes the video to several iPads—including that of the straight-arrow CEO (Rob Lowe) who’s about to hire the wife. Written by Segel, Nicholas Stoller and Kate Angelo and directed by Jake Kasdan, this risqué comedy is raunchy on the surface but surprisingly sweet at the center. It sags badly in the middle, but is pretty funny on both ends. It leaves us laughing, so we forgive the 20 minutes or so that tried our patience. The movie’s cleverest joke passes almost unnoticed: the casting of Lowe, who had a sex-tape problem of his own back in 1988. Also cast are Rob Corddry, Ellie Kemper and Jack Black in an unbilled cameo as a porn-site operator. J.L.

Snowpiercer

In the not-too-distant future of Joon-ho Bong’s meditative and thrilling Snowpiercer, a failed global-warming experiment has frozen the entire planet, rendering it uninhabitable. Eighteen years later, the remains of humanity live on a high-speed supertrain where a cruel class divide has developed, with the privileged class living up front, and the most destitute and exploitable people in the caboose. The setup may be high-concept times a thousand, but the obviousness of the symbolism (the train is the world, the passengers are humanity, and we’re done here) is so inextricably interwoven with the forward momentum of the plot and so well complemented by Joon-ho’s comic-book style and sick humor, you can’t help but buy in. Joon-ho previously made The Host, a monster movie that both satisfied and sabotaged the expectations of the genre, and he does the same thing with futuristic sci-fi in Snowpiercer. D.B.

Tammy

A fast-food worker (Melissa McCarthy) gets fired for being an unreliable slob, then comes home to find her husband having a romantic dinner with another woman (Toni Collette, shamefully wasted). At the end of her rope, she sets out with her alcoholic grandmother (Susan Sarandon) on a road trip to Niagara Falls. Co-written by McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone (who also directed), the movie is as disorderly and obnoxious as its title character. Meanwhile, a top-flight supporting cast (Allison Janney, Gary Cole, Kathy Bates, Sandra Oh, Dan Aykroyd) has little to do but stand watching the star thrash around, then line up at the end for an unconvincing group hug. McCarthy often shines as a supporting actress (remember

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Third Person

Writer-director Paul Haggis interlaces three stories: A famous novelist and his journalist lover in Paris (Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde), an American businessman and a Romanian refugee in Rome (Adrien Brody, Moran Atias), and an emotionally unstable woman and her vindictive ex-husband in New York (Mila Kunis, James Franco). The stories echo and reflect each other, but they don’t intersect in the same obvious way as Haggis’ 2005 Oscar-winner Crash. Themes morph and recur—deception, betrayal, children in jeopardy—until we wonder if all (or any) of the stories are happening in “reality.” Haggis keeps us guessing—and leaves us guessing, for that matter. His movie may annoy and alienate some, but others will find it fascinating and hard to shake when the lights come up. J.L.

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Transformers: Age of Extinction

Where to start? The American flag. “I just got picked up by Red Bull.” Magic hour on every point of the globe, all of the time, always. “These alien guns kick ass!” Transformium. “What we do here is science.” Monument Valley. “Mission accomplished.” Action scenes set in slums. King Arthur, high-school football and the Holocaust. “It’s sucking up metal and dropping it!” Creepy, daddy-daughter sex anxiety. “I’m a wicked warrior robot.” Product placement for Bud Light and automatic weaponry. “Don’t bitch out on me! Are you gonna bitch out on me?” Mark Wahlberg wears glasses to pass as a scientist in this world, and it works. “Algorithms! Math!” In short, this fourth installment of Michael Bay’s long-form paean to soullessness is better than some of its predecessors and worse than others, but God only knows which ones or why. D.B.

Wish I Was Here

A struggling actor (Zach Braff) tries home-schooling his kids when his ailing father (Mandy Patinkin) can no longer pay for their private school. Director, star and co-writer (with his brother Adam J. Braff) Braff’s movie is a labor of love on all levels, sweetly disarming in its desire to please and uplift. The script is more than a little scattershot and unfocused, but that’s not a bug, it’s a feature: The hero’s life is similarly unfocused, and undertaking a free-form education for his son (Pierce Gagnon) and daughter (Joey King) helps bring clarity to his own life, and to his relationship with his dad, his emotionally stunted brother (Josh Gad) and his supportive wife (Kate Hudson). The movie piles episode on episode like a game of Tetris, each interlocking with the others in a quirky and satisfying way. J.L.

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Darkness is as darkness does Yoodoo Park talks Grmln, symbolism and workout music Yoodoo Park does not believe in maintaining the status quo. One listen to his most recent effort, 2013’s Empire, released under the moniker by Brian Palmer Grmln—an album that marks a dramatic shift away from the more laid-back, dreamy aesthetics of Park’s debut EP Explore—confirms this. “I was getting bored of writing that type of music,” Park says of the EP. “I wasn’t really straining to [make] that kind of music. … I wanted to change things up.”

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“It’s definitely going to be a lot darker and heavier compared to my other material,” he says. The reason for the latest creative shift is, to say the least, amusing, “I pretty much only listen to music when I work out, so that’s probably why I’ve been writing heavier music. … [It’s] more like workout music,” Park says with a laugh. “I guess it could be a subconscious thing, because I’ve been so exposed to that type of music this whole time.” This is part of what makes Park’s Grmln so interesting— there’s always the possibility of having a curve ball thrown, and so listeners must stay alert. Not content to be labeled as pop or alternative or even as a singer-songwriter, Park’s focus seems to be on just going wherever the hell the music takes him during a given season of his life. Even if that means using somewhat unconventional methods to get a point across in a song, as he does on Empire’s crunchy rocker “Hand Pistol.” “I like using symbolism, and here, it’s a gun,” he says. “It’s about how people get pressured into finding someone, and then it ends up being a one-way street, where one person puts too much time and effort into the other. The gun symbolizes pulling the trigger, and whether they should go with it or not.” Park says he’s happy with his creative direction and looks forward to the release of Soon Away, and even though he feels his sound is taking a turn for the darker, he also knows that is just his assessment of the situation.

Yoodoo Park (second from right), is the main force behind Grmln, but, obviously, he gets by with a little help from some friends.

Check out Grmln on Tuesday, July 29, at Witch Room, at 1815 19th Street. The show starts at 8 p.m., and the cover is $6; Same Difference is also on the bill. Visit www.facebook.com/ grmlnband for more on the band.

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Change it up he did. Over the course of Empire’s nine songs, Park, who performs with a band, introduces listeners to something more akin to Jimmy Eat World or Blink-182 (with a touch of ’90s-era alternative thrown in for good measure on tracks like “Summer Days”) and less like the melodic dream-pop tracks which populated that previously released EP. Recorded during breaks from his sophomore year at UC Santa Cruz, Empire sounds as though it’s as much about engaging the artist’s musical preferences as it is about giving fans a more engaging live experience. “I didn’t necessarily want a challenge; it was that I had more fun playing this type of music than what I was making before,” Park says. “For recording purposes, it’s easier to make the kind of music I was making, but live, it’s harder for people to get into that.” Park says he’s not content to stop here, either. Grmln fans who have been paying attention to the artist’s Facebook page know to expect a new album, Soon Away, in September. Details about the project remain sketchy, but Park confirms that the switch from dream pop to pop punk is not the end of his creative evolution.

Empire sounds as though it’s as much about engaging the artist’s musical preferences as it is about giving fans a more engaging live experience. “Musically, the album is still poppy to an extent, but it’s becoming darker and moodier, like I am,” he says. “But that’s just my opinion. It might sound really happy to somebody else.”Ω

Mullets, dreams and PMS-driven punk So much string: Two five-piece bluegrass bands played back-to-back at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub last Tuesday night, bringing with them an incredible mullet, lots of plaid, some bare feet and more strings than I care to count. Whiskey Shivers from Austin, Texas, started things off with serious speed. All five members took turns singing—a proven challenge for the sound engineer—and the washboard player wore a mesmerizing chest tattoo of Texas encased in planetary rings. Plus the opener contained that aforementioned mullet. My energy sadly plummeted a bit during headliner the Infamous Stringdusters’ set. Clearly these five Virginian men are brilliant musicians. On banjo, fiddle, upright bass, dobro and guitar, they all sounded like virtuosos, loosely playing their songs in favor of long, improvisational interludes. It was as experimental and crafty as bluegrass gets. There wasn’t any foot stompin’ or drunken dancing. Rather, folks quietly listened, swayed and clapped on queue. But I guess I like my country music less progressive and more rowdy. Dirty, even. And I wasn’t alone. After about an hour, the Stringdusters broke for intermission, and much of the crowd flew to the back patio, chatting, lighting up bowls and not realizing that the band was already back onstage.

“if you let the dogs out, you gotta let them back in—we don’t want strays.” Personal favorites include “How Do Girls Even Do It?” and “I Only Fucked You as a Joke” for obvious reasons. The latter got the crowd of about 30 really moving, probably because it was so relatable. Lisa Prank, meanwhile, delivered a fun, short, pop-punk set completely solo. Well, besides the gnome and the drum machine, her “perfect bandmate who should just fuck up already.” She ended with an appropriate cover of Blink-182’s “Dammit.” Calling dreamers: If your summer has been severely lacking in all-night electronic dance parties surrounded by trees, consider the Stilldream Festival. From July 31, through August 4, the 14th annual festival takes over the entire—albeit, tiny—town of Belden, just east of Quincy and two hours north of Sacramento. And it’s actually a homegrown festival. Paul Plescov, a.k.a. Gamma, a local producer, is one of the founding organizers. Around Sacramento, he throws events featuring both area and touring talent from the underground electronic dance music scene. For those, follow the Stilldream Facebook page (www.facebook.com/stilldream. festival)—recent parties have been held at Midtown BarFly. Up in the beautiful Sierra Nevada, headliners will include producers Odesza and Joker. Seattle duo Odesza is a major name in the underground electronic world, nabbing slots at other major events like the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Sasquatch! Music Festival. Joker is the stage name for the English Liam McLean, who leans toward dubstep and grime. One of Sacramento’s stalwart electronic producers, Tha Fruitbat, will also perform. Alex and Allyson Grey, national leaders in spiritual and psychedelic art as founders of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, top the lineup on festival posters, proving Stilldream is more than music. Organizers describe it as a gathering about community, nature and consciousness, too. Photos from past years depict a weekend full of gorgeous art, neon lights and crazy costumes. Plus a dome with activities such as yoga, hula-hooping, poi, slacklining, meditation and henna. Last-minute tickets will go for $200. Grab ’em at Slice of Broadway (2424 16th Street) or at http://stilldream.org.

Grrrls: Seattle’s Childbirth and Lisa Prank wound down their West Coast tour in Davis. It was carefully planned around their synchronized ovulation cycles. “This song is about being more fertile than someone, which is all of us, because we’re ovulating right now,” Childbirth’s Julia Shapiro said. See? The trio wore hospital gowns. The band sold cassettes. A gnome hung out with the amps. Heavy distortion, muffled vocals, wild hair. The night in Third Space Art Collective’s sparse warehouse screamed hilarious, feminist punk rock. Childbirth is kind of a femme, punk supergroup too, with members from other brilliantly named bands Chastity Belt, Pony Time and Tacocat. It sped through a set of one- to twominute songs that dripped with crass irony and sarcasm. The song “Breast Coast” was inspired by surf-rock band Best Coast, and was “about going to the beach and loving your boyfriend.” Another was in response to the Baha Men hit “Who Let the Dogs Out,” because BEFORE | NEWS

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The nice thing about Connecticut noise-rock duo Magik Markers is that it is something of an anachronism, seemingly unconcerned NOISE ROCK with electronic beeps and charismaticfrontwoman things like making eye contact. Formed in 2001, the band’s long discography of noise rock sounding something like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs by way of Nirvana is proof of its obstinance (its former bassist left the band to pursue her dream of ventriloquism, which is a special kind of stubbornness, I say). The music is brooding, sexy and grimy—just the thing for listeners in search of something that’s a little threadbare in the best kind of way. 1815 19th Street, http://magikmarkers.tumblr.com.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort, 6:30 p.m., $29.75-$79.75

Somehow, it’s already the end of the Concerts in the Park season. Rockers the Brodys and Jeremy Briggs top the evening’s lineup, but local favorite the Kimberly Trip should also be a serious draw. The band’s quirky, new-wave, power-pop style has been around for more than a decade—Friday will mark its 500th show—but lately, the Kimberly Trip has been experimenting with more synth and other electronica elements. And the band says its ninth record, I’m All Outta Bubblegum, is more focused on NEW WAVE snarky vocals and less on elaborate soundscapes. Nab it on Friday—the album will be available to Concerts in the Park-goers. 910 I Street, www.kimberlytrip.com.

—Deena Drewis

VH1’s popular That Metal Show is bringing a live version of the program to town. Featured bands include Anthrax—one of the so-called Big Four of thrash metal— plus funk-metal pioneers Living Colour, and vocalist Corey Taylor of Slipknot and METAL Stone Sour. Sacramento group Burn Halo (pictured) will open the show, hot on the heels of radio play on KRXQ 98.5 FM (98 Rock) of its song “Fuck You.” The five-piece band, which will release a new album in September, is pumped about opening the show. “We love Sac and are glad to represent to the world what Sac has to offer,” guitarist Joey Roxx told SN&R. 1200 Athens Avenue in Lincoln, www.facebook.com/burnhalo.

—Janelle Bitker

Starlite Lounge, 9 p.m., $15 The Starlite Lounge has quietly become the best venue around Sacramento to see underground metal as of late, and this week’s show with Oregon noisemongers Yob is no exception. One listen to any Yob record (my favorite is 2009’s The Great Cessation) will convert any fan of cerebral metal into their corner. And while the band enjoyed short runs on both Metal Blade DOOM METAL Records and Profound Lore Records, both great labels in their own right, having a September 2014 release on Neurot Recordings couldn’t be any more apropos. Opening the show are progressive-noise merchants Giant Squid and the mighty Will Haven. 1517 21st Street, www.yobislove.com.

—Paul Piazza

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Fox & Goose, 8 p.m., no cover

Old Ironsides, 9 p.m., $7 This Saturday is Mick Jagger’s 71st birthday. Admit it, you’re a little surprised he’s still alive, let alone still rocking so damn hard. Over his 50-year career, he’s co-written a ton of incredible rock ’n’ roll tunes with his Rolling Stones bandmate Keith Richards (also surprisingly alive and rocking hard at age 70). Rather than try to cram 71 candles onto a cake, Old Ironsides is celebrating Jagger’s birthday with a tribute show. Eight local musicians (and bands)—including Jem & Scout, the Orange Scene (pictured), ROCK South Lot, William Mylar, Swahili Passion—will be covering their favorite Stones tunes. Get some satisfaction and show off your moves. 1901 10th Street, www.theoldironsides.com.

—Aaron Carnes

Local bands have been trying to figure out how to lure concertgoers to their shows for years. While it would seem like hosting free INDUSTRIAL shows would be the best option, many bands have failed both financially and with low attendance numbers. Kill the Precedent, which features a veritable who’s who of the punk and metal scene, has been drawing bigger numbers than most through sheer promotion and great live shows. KTP’s latest release, Dialogues With the Dead, benefits from the group’s two juxtaposing lead vocalists and an onslaught of KMFDM-esque riffage. Prepare to be inundated with crazy visuals and an aural onslaught. The Snobs and Storytellers are also on the bill. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.facebook.com/killtheprecedent.

Over the years, Chatham County Line’s balance of bluegrass style and modern sensibilities has shifted. The music’s themes were always less rooted in the past than timeless issues of fidelity, hope and personal purpose. Over the last 15 years the arrangements have also migrated toward a modern (’60s or ’70s, anyway) pop-rock manner. Tempos have moderated and prove moodier than traditional Appalachia. What remains steadfast is the BLUEGRASS acoustic instrumentation, four-part harmony and old-time radio single-microphone performances. It’s quite something to see CCL leaning into the mic to harmonize while playing their instruments furiously. It’s on tour supporting its latest album, Tightrope. 13 Main Street in Winters, www.chathamcountyline.com.

—Eddie Jorgensen

Chicken and dumplings is a traditional comfort food with many variations and a long history. Chicken & Dumpling, however, is the Davis acoustic blues duo of Charles “Chicken” Oriel and Julia “Dumpling” Simon. While the pair’s ACOUSTIC BLUES history may not be as long as that of the comfort food, Oriel and Simon reach deep into the archives to perform classics like Robert Johnson’s “Malted Milk,” Mississippi John Hurt’s “Richland Woman Blues” and Memphis Minnie’s “In My Girlish Days.” With Oriel on guitar, Simon on bass and both sharing vocal duties, they don’t shy from contemporary folk songs like Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright” or George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” either. 1001 R Street, www.chickenanddumpling.net.

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BADLANDS

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

2003 K St., (916) 448-8790

BAR 101

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

SEA LEGS, THE GOOD SAMARITIANS; 9:30pm, no cover

DYLAN CRAWFORD, 2-5pm, no cover

DRAZTIC MUSIC, PHILTHY RICH; 7:30pm-midnight, $20

KILL THE PRECEDENT, SNOBS; 3pm, $5; GASHERS, FLESH HAMMERS; 9pm, $5

Open mic, 8pm M; MOTO, PETS, CHARLES ALBRIGHT; 8pm Tu; Trivia, 8pm W

EGG, 9pm, no cover

DRUNKEN KUNG FU, 9pm Tu, no cover; SISTER CRAYON, 9pm W, no cover

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

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

NATE DEEZ, MESSY JESSY, JUAN,

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

X, 8pm, $45-$50

THE COZMIC CAFÉ

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

DJ Afro-Thunder and DJ Vyce, 9:30pm, $10

DISTRICT 30

DJ Mike Hawkins, 9pm, call for cover

DJ Louie Giovanni, 10pm, call for cover

DIVE BAR

Deuling Pianos, 9pm, no cover

1022 K St., (916) 737-5999 2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

FOX & GOOSE

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

ERIK PAUL, BILLY FELIX, MAINLAND; 8pm, no cover

G STREET WUNDERBAR

THE BUMPTET, 9pm, no cover

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

HALFTIME BAR & GRILL

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

ORGY, OUTLINED, S.W.I.M., CAST THE KORY GIBBS AND HIS THUNDERING CLARITY, CRAZY DOG; 8pm, call for cover BLUES BAND, FAILED DIPLOMACY; 8pm

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

ERIK SPENCER, 9pm, $5

HIGH-LOW JACK, CAMPFIRE CROONERS; 9pm, $5

Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu; Northern Soul, 8pm W, no cover

GROOVE THANG, 9pm-midnight, $5

APPLE Z, 9pm-midnight, $5

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

SAPIENT, ILLMACULATE, THOM STOCKTON TRIO, GOLDINI BAGWELL; 9pm, $10

HOT BUTTERED RUM, SEAN LEHE, THE FAMILY PRACTICE; 10pm, $15-$18

TAINTED LOVE; 10pm, $15-$18

GUERO, LIANI MOORE, PINE STREET RAMBLERS, 8pm W, $8

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR 1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931

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

KARNEEN BUTLER, MOLLY PAUL; 8pm, $5

DAVID HOUSTON & STRING THEORY, 8:30pm, $6

Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M, $5-$20; Comedy night, 8pm W, $6

MARILYN’S ON K

TIME CAT, 8pm, $5

THUNDER COVER, 9pm, call for cover

ADRIAN BELLUE, TODD MORGAN AND THE EMBLEMS; 9pm, $8

Marilyn’s Talent Showcase, 6pm, no cover

LOVEYDOVE, SIXTH SON, 8pm M, $5; HUMAN TEMPERMENT, PAUL WIL, 8pm W

1119 21st St., (916) 549-2779

Panik: deejay dancing w/ Angels of Kaos, Deejay dancing, 9pm, no cover before 9pm-2am, $5 10pm; $5 after 10pm

Gothic, industrial, EBM, ’80s, synthpop dancing, 9pm-2am, $3-$5

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

Swing dancing, 7:30pm Tu, $6; Salsa lessons w/ Nicole Lazo, 7:30pm W, $5

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN

TAO JIRIKI, PCB TRIO; 8:30pm, $5

908 K St., (916) 446-4361

MIDTOWN BARFLY

1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

WALKING SPANISH, LISA MARIE JOHNSTON; 8:30pm, $8

1000 K Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

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2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

sat july 26 @ 7pm

Mad Mondays, 9pm M

JOHN MAYALL, 8pm, $30-$35

FACES Hey local bands!

GROUND SCORE WILLIE, 9:30pm, no cover

THE BOARDWALK

1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

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Sin Sunday, 8pm, call for cover

Sacramento Women Take Back the Night ROCKER T, TRUE GANJA MAN, NO presents Kuntroversial Karaoke, 7pm, $5 SURPRISE, GONNA MAKE IT; 9pm, $5

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

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 7/28-7/30 KEVIN GATES, CHEVY WOODS, TREE THOMAS, WILL; 8pm Tu, $15

Saturday Boom, 9pm, call for cover

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

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

SUNDAY 7/27

Fabulous and Gay Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

BLUE LAMP

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

SATURDAY 7/26 POTLUCK, J. TERRIBLE, GFN & R3D, D WRECK, RIOT CRAIG; 7pm, $15

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Aug 12

sir sly

Aug 16

the siren show

Aug 19

chimaira

Aug 22

mic

Aug 23

slaVes

Aug 30

mac hersch

sep 09

mother falcon

sep 13

justin furstenfeld of blue october

sep 15

the real mckenzies

sep 20

the siren show

sep 21

amity affliction

sep 23

trapt

sep 27

aaron carter

oct 04

eluVeitie

oct 12

turquoise jeep

oct 18

the siren show

MOLLYMAWKS, MANDOLIN AVENUE; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz, 8pm M; HONYOCK, TECHNICOLOR HEARTS, DOG RIFLE; 8:30pm W, $5

THURSDAY 7/24 OLD IRONSIDES

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

ON THE Y

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731

FRIDAY 7/25

SATURDAY 7/26

ODAME SUCKS, TELL THE WOLVES, IRON HEART; 9pm, $5

SPIRIT OF SAINT LOUIS, ORANGE SCENE, SEX RAT; 9pm, $7

SOLANUM, CULTURAL WARFARE, CURSED, INFEX; 7pm, $6

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

ROD PICOTT, 8pm, $20

THE PARK ULTRA LOUNGE

DJ Eddie Edul, 9pm-2am, $15

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

Top 40, Mashups, 9pm, no cover

DJ Club mixes, 10pm, no cover

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

PARLARE EURO LOUNGE

Top 40, 9pm, no cover

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

SUNDAY 7/27

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 7/28-7/30 Karaoke w/ Sac City Entertainment, 9pm Tu, no cover; Open-mic, 9pm W, no cover

Open-mic comedy, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover CHATHAM COUNTY LINE, 8pm W, $15

PJ’S ROADHOUSE

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

ALEX VINCENT BAND, 9pm, $5

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

POWERHOUSE PUB

SWEET REVENGE, 10pm, call for cover

THE NIBBLERS, 10pm, call for cover

CHRIS GARDNER, 10pm, call for cover

LOOSE CHANGE, 3pm, call for cover

WHITE MINORITIES, REVOLVER, BLACKSHEEP; 8pm W, $5

THE PRESS CLUB

DJ Missy Mark, 9pm, no cover

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

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

THE O’ MULIGANS, TIDES, KID CADAVER, THE UNENDING THREAD; 6pm, $6

The Deep End w/ DJs Cue22, Druskee; Tu; SEA OF BONES, CURA COCHINO; M, $7

SHADY LADY SALOON

AFTERLIFE, 9pm, no cover

ROSS HAMMOND, 9pm, no cover

GOLDEN CADILLACS, 9pm, no cover

DOUBLE P REVIEW, 9pm, no cover

HARLEY WHITE JR., 9pm W, no cover

SOPHIA’S THAI KITCHEN

COTTON JONES, NEW GOD; 9pm, $5

Latin Night w/ DJ Ciel, 9pm, no cover

WATERSTRIDER, SPLIT SCREENS; 9:30pm, $5

STARLITE LOUNGE

1517 21st St., (916) 706-0052

SAVAGEHEADS, SSYNDROM, RULETA YOB, GIANT SQUID, WILL HAVEN; 9pm, RUSA, WALLFLOWER; 9pm, call for cover call for cover

STONEY INN/ROCKIN’ RODEO

JACKSON MICHELSON, 8pm, $5-$7

614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586 2030 P St., (916) 444-7914 1409 R St., (916) 231-9121

129 E St., Davis; (530) 758-4333

1320 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 927-6023

SWABBIES

5871 Garden Hwy, (916) 920-8088

TORCH CLUB

X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; JERAMY NORRIS BAND, 9pm, $6

WITCH ROOM

MAGIK MARKERS, RELIGIOUS GIRLS, SAN KAZAKGASCAR; 8pm, $8

904 15th St., (916) 443-2797 1815 19th St., www.witchroomsac.com

CAST THE CLARITY, SCREWLOOSE, ONCE AN EMPIRE; 9pm, call for cover

ORAM, POWER, FIGHTING WORDS; 9pm, call for cover

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

Country dance party, 8pm, no cover

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

NIGHT MOVES, 6pm, $8

SOUL SHAKERS, 1pm, call for cover

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm; BELLY GUNNER, OLD SCREEN DOOR, 9pm, $10

KB & THE SLINGTONES, 9pm, $10

Blues jam, 4pm, no cover; BIG STICKY MESS, 8pm, $5

SISTER SPEAK, HANS & THE HOT MESS; 8pm Tu; BLACK STAR SAFARI, 9pm W, $5

NUMBER STATION, SUN VALLEY GUN CLUB, FUZZ KUFFS, GHOST PINES; 8pm

Walking Spanish with Lisa Marie Johnston 8:30pm Friday, $8. Naked Lounge Downtown Rock

X 8pm Thursday, $45-$50. Center for the Arts Punk rock

GRMLN, SAME DIFFERENCE, 8pm Tu, $6; SPRAYNARD, COLOSSAL WRECK; 7pm W

All ages, all the time ACE OF SPADES

MOONSHINE BANDITS, DRY COUNTY DRINKERS, GOOD SAMARITANS; 6:30pm

SOULJA BOY, YUNG VON, BOBBY HOOPER, R-DOT CARTER; 6:30pm, $18

SHINE

THE STUFF, DR HALL & THE BLUES PRACTITIONERS; 8pm, $5

SAID THE SHOTGUN, TIME CAT, THOMAS HATCH; 8pm, $5

1417 R St., (916) 448-3300 1400 E St., (916) 551-1400

SOULFLY, DAMAGE OVER TIME, CONCEIVED IN CHAOS; 6:30pm, $18 DROP DEAD RED, PROXY MOON, GROUND SCORE WILLIE; 8pm, $5

SWON BROTHERS, CRIPPLE CREEK; 7pm W, $15 Open jazz jam w/ Jason Galbraith & Friends, 8pm Tu, no cover

Ace of SpAdeS thursday, july 24

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

All Ages Welcome!

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AgAinSt me!

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SOON

saturday, auGust 16

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SouljA boy

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friday, auGust 22

Soulfly

common kingS

09/27 Amon Amarth

tenelle - kayasun

damaGe oVer time - conceiVed in chaos

wednesday, july 30

Swon brotherS

09/28 Parachute 10/03 Jimmy Eat World

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cripple creek

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thursday, auGust 28

10/28 Airborne Toxic Event

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friday, auGust 1

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10/29 Colt Ford

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