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Wholly unaffordable Last week, Whole Foods Market announced plans to open a 40,000 square foot store at 20th and L streets in Midtown.

On the one hand, awesome: A robust Midtown should be able to support all types of businesses.

Look at any thriving and on-the-rise neighborhood in cities such as Oakland, Portland, Austin or Nashville, and you’ll find a mix of big stores and indie retailers.

On the other hand, ugh: Whole Foods is the last thing Midtown needs. It’s not so much that Whole Foods will siphon customers away from local options, such as the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op or the Midtown Farmers Market, it’s that it won’t offer the average resident affordable groceries.

Not to be a hypocrite, of course. I get Whole Foods’ allure—the grocer offers a dizzyingly broad selection of organic, vegan and ethically sourced options. Each year during the holidays I venture there because it’s the only nearby place that stocks a particular brand of vegan roast my family likes. And each year I walk out with a bagful of organic, vegan and ethically sourced options that typically cost upward of $50. In fact, it’s become something of a joke in my house: I’m only “allowed” to set food inside of a Whole Foods once a year.

And that’s a problem. (Google “Whole Foods” with “anti-labor union” or “local farmers markets” for other quandaries.) Whole Foods is ridiculously, almost offensively overpriced. And in Midtown, an area already negatively impacted by the effects of gentrification—namely, rising rents—that’s bad news.

Most of those who make up the heart of Midtown—creatives, students, young professionals, the elderly—won’t be able to afford to shop there regularly, if at all. And what’s the point of a neighborhood grocer if it outprices the community it’s supposed to serve?

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Re “NestlĂŠ and droughtâ€? (SN&R Editorial, July 24): From the numbers, Sacramentans are beginning to take the drought seriously. The city should follow suit by reconsidering the NestlĂŠ agreement.

NestlĂŠ was welcomed to Sacramento with open arms in 2009 by Mayor Kevin Johnson, touting job creation (about 40). Our drought was well underway already, but was largely unnewsworthy. NestlĂŠ settled comfortably in Sacramento after it was ousted by tiny McCloud, up in Siskiyou County, where it wanted to set up its aquifer-sucking shop. The NestlĂŠ letter of story and how its project was fast-tracked in Sacrathe week mento without environmental review or public comment is all online (Google “Stop NestlĂŠâ€?), as is NestlÊ’s global march to privatize water, even in water-starved areas of the world. You can also read its chairperson’s 2005 comment that it is an “extreme solutionâ€? to think of water as a “public right,â€? or to presume that “as a human being you should have a right to water.â€?

An interesting NestlÊ sidenote is that it contributed $1 million to Monsanto’s campaign against GMO labeling.

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How does Sacto benefit from NestlĂŠ?

Re “Good fish, bad fish� by Alastair Bland (SN&R Feature Story, July 24): Thanks for the keepsake article on the above. As someone who is researching and working in the food business, restaurants, etc., I found the article to be controversial in nature because of the subject matter and the pros and cons of aquaculture as a way of balancing an unknown number of fish stocks out in our Earth’s oceans.

We don’t know enough about our seas and oceans and what’s on the bottom compared to what we know about our moon, Mars and the universe in general, hence what trawlers could potentially damage when using nonbreakaway nets— especially if those nets go down to 3,000 feet.

Vendors, importers, consultants and their supporters believe there is still a lot of fish in the oceans.

Are they regenerating? How would they know?

Or is it wishful thinking? Until a marine-science consortium or the likes of the Cousteau Society can do a worldwide survey of the oceans and seas, we won’t really know.

The sushi chefs and the seafood restaurants out there will measure the demand for bluefin tuna, but should educate and let their customers know that certain species are dying out. Aquaculture is one thing, but I won’t eat genetically modified salmon anytime soon, either.

Ed Allen Fairfield

Re “NestlĂŠ and droughtâ€? (SN&R Editorial, July 24): Informative and damning not only from the water perspective, but it also appears there are some serious ethical issues coming from the mayor’s office and city council. How much money has NestlĂŠ contributed to the respective campaigns and/or projects of our leaders in city government for such preferential treatment? Better yet, who agreed to give NestlĂŠ an industrial rate of $.9854 for every 748 gallons of water? Aside from 15 to 40 local jobs, how is Sacramento benefiting from NestlĂŠ pillaging our water supply? Something really stinks! I am astonished, to say the least.

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We may be in a drought, but there isn’t anyone dying from dehydration due to lack of access to drinking water. Instead, it is a water-allocation issue, and I don’t see why NestlÊ should not have as much water as it wants (it does pay for it) vs. a Central Valley farmer, etc. NestlÊ provides a lot of jobs in an area that needs more jobs, not less. Chasing off successful companies because you don’t like people buying bottled water is a recipe for failure.

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Details from Fox40 anchor Sabrina Rodriguez’s alleged shoplifting conspiracy.

And about those drug charges …

Life was good earlier this summer for Fox40 reporter and anchor Sabrina Rodriguez—at least by before she was facing shoplifting and Nick Miller conspiracy charges. Or before her fiancé Nicholas Gray was facing years in prison ni ck am@ newsr evie w.c om for the manufacture of illegal marijuana concentrates, arson, drug dealing and battery. Just weeks ago, the duo was a glamorous couple, attending award shows—and Rodriguez was winning Emmys.

On June 14, for instance, she won two Northern California Emmys. Her speech, however, caught the audience off guard.

She talked about the “biggest emotional roller coaster” of her life, “every reporter’s worst nightmare”: On May 4, Gray proposed, and the couple got engaged. That’s the good stuff.

But two days later, on May 6, bad news: The couple’s south Sacramento rental home “literally exploded and burnt down in a fire,” she told the crowd.

She then held up a flattened gray slab of metal: “This is what’s left of my Emmy.”

Sacramento law enforcement has a different story. It says that the 2:40 a.m. fire was a result of an explosion caused by the illegal manufacture of butane hash oil, a form of concentrated marijuana.

Gray was arrested last week for the fire and other charges. He previously was arrested in May for shoplifting and conspiracy. And he also has a prior felony conviction for possession and sale of marijuana, dating back to 2003, and a burglary conviction.

Rodriguez isn’t facing charges for the fire, but she turned herself in last week for an outstanding shoplifting warrant from 2013, the same charges as her fiancé. On August 5, she resigned from Fox40.

Shoplift till you drop Are Rodriguez and Gray a Sacramento version of Bonnie and Clyde?

Court documents and police reports allege that the couple partook in an ongoing plot to steal high-end clothing and merchandise and sell it on the black market.

Public records detail a string of larceny and braggadocio.

On January 13, 2013, Gray and Rodriguez allegedly drove from Vacaville to San Francisco to sell stolen Nike Air Max shoes and Coach bags. Police obtained BEFORE

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Ditto her right—except that it melted in a fire this past May. Authorities say the fire was caused by a butane hash-oil explosion.

photos of Rodriguez with a stolen pair of shoes and a wallet.

The subsequent month, in February, Gray sent a text message to Rodriguez to let her know that he’d stole nearly $3,000 worth of cashmere sweaters and skirts.

“I got rent,” he wrote.

Other arrest records describe Gray crowing to Rodriguez via text how “easy” it was to steal $640 worth of purses from the BCBG outlet store in Vacaville in March 2013. Rodriguez responded via text later that day: “Awesome. I love when a plan comes together.”

Also in March at Folsom Coach outlet store, Rodriguez is accused of grabbing a wallet and showing it to Gray, who then placed 10 of them in a “Faraday bag,” which is designed to block a store’s security sensors.

A report by a Folsom Police Department officer says Rodriguez helped “conceal the actions of Gray” as he allegedly placed the wallets in the special bag and left the store. Rodriguez followed about 20 seconds later—as did outlet security officers.

A Folsom police officer caught up to Rodriguez and questioned her. She denied stealing any merchandise and, upon request, provided the cop with Gray’s phone number and date of birth.

Rodriguez was then detained in the back of a police vehicle. Meanwhile, the officer viewed video surveillance of the theft. She eventually was let go.

Later that same day, Gray allegedly headed to the Bay Area to sell the newly lifted Coach goods. He also sent the following text message to Rodriguez: “I love you so much. Your [sic] strong like a samurai.”

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responding to their house fire discovered the shoplifting warrants. Rodriguez and Gray were not taken to jail the morning of the fire, however, but authorities did ask them to turn themselves in as soon as possible.

That didn’t happen. Gray was arrested 10 days later, on May 16, while driving Rodriguez’s red Ford Focus. A search warrant for Gray’s iPhone led to discovery of images of alleged stolen goods and incriminating text messages between him and his fiancée.

Rodriguez turned herself in last Thursday and is specifically charged with grand theft, burglary and conspiracy, including snatching nearly $2,500 worth of Coach wallets. She is out on bail, but Gray remains at the downtown jail. His arraignment this past Monday was continued so that he could retain a defense attorney.

It’s worth noting: Law enforcement claims it obtained audio recording of Gray from last year, in which he boasts that he’d stolen up to $200,000 worth of clothing in only two months.

In the drug game?

The district attorney issued a press release last week detailing an increasing trend of butane hash oil manufacturing in Sacramento—and dangerous explosions and fires that accompany its production.

Butane hash oil—which is also referred to as BHO, honey oil, glass, shatter or dabs—is made by turning leftover cannabis trimmings, or shake, into an oil or resin by using butane, which is highly flammable.

A local medical-cannabis dispensary owner told SN&R that BHO is “very popular now” and sells for upward of $60 a gram.

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The DA report includes a reference to a May explosion at a south Sacramento home, where a firefighter was injured combating a blaze started by BHO manufacturing. This incident was in fact the May 6 explosion at Gray and Rodriguez’s residence.

Rodriguez’s attorney, Mark Reichel, says his client “had no knowledge” of any illegal cannabis manufacturing going on at her home—even though marijuana plants were discovered in the couple’s garage.

Is Rodriguez—who was never caught physically stealing merchandise from a store by police—a victim?

“Yes, sometimes you’re caught in a situation that you’re helpless to change,” Reichel said.

Gray, who works in the medicalmarijuana industry, is charged with the fire, illegal manufacture of BHO and more.

Police initially did not find evidence of BHO at the couple’s home, but a follow-up investigation by the homeowner’s insurance company revealed signs of honey-oil production, according to sources.

Reichel calls it a weak case. “Not many people are cooking BHO at 3 a.m.,” he said.

The DA’s office declined to discuss the case with SN&R. Rodriguez took a voluntary leave of absence from Fox40 last week, but eventually resigned on Tuesday. She’s since hired local public-relations expert Doug Elmets to handle all media inquiries.

Since bringing Elmets onboard, Rodriguez has deleted photos of her with Gray from her Facebook and Instagram accounts, the latter of which is now private.

She also sent an email to The Sacramento Bee announcing that she had “severed [her] ties” with Gray.

Rodriguez is due in court at the end of the month, on August 29. Ω

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Amanda Reiman Advocacy groups such as ASA, California policy manager, the Drug Policy Alliance, California Drug Policy Alliance NORML and the Emerald Growers Association have been having closeddoor meetings with the police chiefs in Sacramento this summer in an attempt to iron out their differences.

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The DPA argues that the current version of the bill would make things worse for Californians. For one, anybody with a past drug felony would be disqualified from getting an industry license.

In addition, many of the industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest and best actors wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t qualify for a license, for technical reasons, such as an outstanding federal case or the lack of official city permission to grow (which is pretty much every urban farmer in California).

The bill also provides statewide approval of controversial new city bans on medical-pot dispensaries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The issues are extremely glaring, and, frankly, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure they can be resolved,â&#x20AC;? said Amanda Reiman, DPAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s California policy manager. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The police chiefs think medical marijuana is a sham and look at this as an opportunity to stifle the progression of medical-marijuana policy.â&#x20AC;?

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco was once a co-sponsor of the bill, but then dropped his support for it because of recent amendments.

ASA held a citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lobbying event at the Capitol on Monday, August 4, with hundreds of patients sitting down for short meetings with their Assembly members and urging them to support sensible rules in California. Ί

The disease detectives

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On the trail of Sacramento’s virulent tuberculosis outbreak If Etta Dixon knocks on your door, chances are you’re harboring a very small and nasty fugitive. by A communicable-diseases invesRaheem F. Hosseini tigator with the Sacramento County Public Health division, Dixon has ra heemh@ been in all kinds of homes recently newsre view.c om searching for traces of a culprit that’s already sickened about 60 victims this year: tuberculosis.

“I absolutely know what I’m looking for,” she said. “It’d be nice if it’s in a nice, tidy package, but that’s not how diseases work.”

an estimated 2,170 cases—nearly six for every 100,000 residents—down from 5,382 cases in 1992, says the California Department of Public Health’s Tuberculosis Control Branch.

The most vulnerable demographics appear to be foreign-born residents and those who are 65 and older. Men also report higher incidents of TB, accounting for approximately 61 percent of California’s 2013 caseload.

In the past two years, Sacramento County ranked 13th and 19th among all California counties when it comes Photo courtesy of Angie Butters

A technician studies possible tuberculosis samples inside of Sacramento County’s public-health lab.

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(it’s not), and that the response to the high-school outbreak was slow (not exactly).

Grant’s Patient Zero was isolated and receiving treatment the same day the county was contacted, said Angie Butters, program manager of the health division’s Chest Clinic.

Hospitals and other medical practitioners are required to notify the county of possible TB cases within 24 hours.

That doesn’t always happen—and there are some misdiagnoses, especially during flu season—but there are backup protocols in place to catch what ER docs occasionally miss.

“TB is difficult because you can’t depend on just one test,” Kasirye said.

“And you have to do them in a certain order.”

There’s the initial skin test, followed by a pulmonary X-ray and a sputum diagnostic. An abnormal X-ray can show large cloudy areas where TB bacteria has eaten into the lungs, but isn’t always definitive.

And Kasirye said a sputum culture can take five weeks to return from the lab, and it’s often necessary to push treatment before that final confirmation comes in.

To treat the active strain, medical practitioners usually prescribe a four-drug cocktail that has to be administered daily for a minimum of six months, with public-health nurses visiting patients every day at home, work or elsewhere to make sure it’s done right. “They just spend the whole day going from one house to another,” Kasirye said of her nurses.

Aside from the daily visits, patients also come in for monthly blood tests to monitor their status and detect potential side effects from the drugs, which can sometimes affect liver health.

Every collected bacteria specimen is sent to a reference lab for fingerprintlike genotyping that can discern transmission patterns across multiple jurisdictions, Kasirye said.

Public-health spokeswoman Laura McCasland compared the process to a criminal investigation, making people like Dixon something of a disease detective. At times, that’s meant interviewing upward of 200 people, including homeless individuals exhibiting mental-health issues. “One thing that you need to be careful of is that you’re targeting the right people,” she said.

TB is the Moriarty to her Sherlock Holmes. And the game is always afoot. Ω

to the rate of reported TB cases.

The most recent outbreak of the Officials totaled 84 cases last year. airborne bacteria—at one time the “We really believe it’s a commubiggest killer in America—infected a nity issue, not a school issue,” said female student at Grant Union High Bill McGuire, deputy superintendent School in late February. Three of her of the Twin Rivers Unified School classmates, as well as four friends and District, to which Grant Union relatives, became ill with active TB, which carries many of the same symp- belongs. The district presented a 15-page action plan during a special toms as the flu or pneumonia and can school board meeting this past prove fatal if untreated, especially Monday and scheduled an August 22 among older, vulnerable populations screening for students who have yet with compromised immune systems. to be cleared. McGuire stressed that Health officials don’t yet know the four students who did have active how their teenage Patient Zero cases completed their treatment and contracted the disease, said Dr. Olivia are no longer sick.

Kasirye, the county’s public-health A shared ventilation system at officer. “And sometimes we never Grant may have helped spread the know why.”

That’s because TB can lie dormant current strain to adjoining classrooms.

More than 400 students and staffers in a person for months, even years, have been screened thus far, with 122 before symptoms manifest, if they receiving preventative treatment after ever do. According to the Centers showing signs of exposure. for Disease Control and Prevention, They’re not sick or contagious, one-third of the world’s population is though—a message public-health infected with TB, though only about officials have struggled to articulate to 9 million grew sick in 2012. Kasirye said about 10 percent of those infected a nervous community.

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Milo Fitch, 55, chief deputy of the department’s correctional services division since October 2013, served as captain of the county’s primary custodial institution, Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center, when the state realigned its prison system.

That began in October 2011, shortly after the Supreme Court deemed California’s systemically overcrowded pens unconstitutional. In effect, realignment steered thousands of low-level offenders who would ordinarily serve their sentences in state prisons to local county jails that weren’t used to incarcerating offenders for longer than a year. The state paid counties millions for the influx of new prisoners, supposedly for rehabilitation, but local officials claimed the money was only enough to add jail space and hire probation officers.

Fitch was one of the first to spot opportunity in realignment, traveling the nation and consulting researchers to create GED, welding, culinary and computer programs at the jail, among others. Other county criminal-justice agencies gradually took note.

One of Fitch’s proudest accomplishments, he said, was creating the Sacramento County Reentry Council, an eclectic mix of government and private entities focused on providing re-entry services to exiting jail inmates.

Fitch acknowledged it took “a lot to turn that ship” that is Sacramento’s criminal-justice system, but expressed optimism about the future. “We’re farther along, in my opinion, than any other county,” he said.

Fitch said he agonized over his decision to retire. He told SN&R he’d likely return in a reserve capacity after six months, and is considering other second-career opportunities, including a possible teaching position at Sacramento State University.

“I’m going to stay engaged,” he said. “It’s a great place to work, and I can’t just leave it.”

In the meantime, he’s looking forward to working on his ranch, and preparing a 5-year-old show horse for competition next year. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

Co-op credits The Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op’s planned relocation downtown took a small step forward Tuesday, when the Sacramento City Council was slated to allocate about 20 credits for sewage capacity to the proposed business.

Unable to expand at its current location in east Sacramento, the co-op has proposed building a two-story grocery store and parking garage that would take up most of a city block on R and 28th streets. The new location would provide 51 full-time jobs, according to a city staff report. (RFH)

Water use dips Sacramento-area water customers are answering the call to reduce their consumption during this drought. Sort of.

The Regional Water Authority says water use went down 18 percent between January and June of this year, a couple points off the 20-percent mark that the state and local communities have set as a goal.

Some water providers are also heeding new statewide conservation guidelines that took effect on July 29, according to a survey the authority referenced in the release.

Ten providers already have mandatory watering restrictions in place, while another seven are in the process of transitioning from voluntary to mandatory watering restrictions, or have already.

The state Water Resources Control Board has directed water providers to make voluntary water restrictions mandatory, and has the ability to charge violators $500 for wasteful practices. (RFH)

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Women against ‘strong’

FiveThirtyEight, the ESPN subsidiary overseen by datajournalism overlord Nate Silver, is doing a best-burrito-in-America contest. El Farolito, based in San Francisco, was ranked No. 1—but was beaten out last week by Sacto’s very own Chando’s Tacos!

Good work! (Sadly, however, Chando’s didn’t move on in the bracket.)

It’s “strong mayor” season, and last week, the League of Women Voters came out against the mayor’s latest bid for more executive power. Just as it did back in 2009, the first time K.J. made “strong” power moves.

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It’s been rumored for a while that the Sacramento Kings were interested in purchasing the Sacramento Republic FC soccer squad.

And this week, in Portland, Ore., significant negotiations to that effect are taking places. That’s great—just don’t expect a publicly subsidized stadium.

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(Insert ‘whole paycheck’ joke here) Megagrocer Whole Foods Market announced plans to come to Midtown, at the 20th and L streets intersection, with construction beginning in 2016. It’s also reported that at least two-thirds of Midtowners are looking for second jobs so that they can shop there.

- 12.99 Don’t capture those flags, jerks Someone took the gay-pride flags from the Sacramento LGBT Community Center this past Friday night. “Our two rainbow flags were violently ripped from their flag poles and stolen,” the organization, located near L and 20th streets, wrote on Facebook. Not cool.

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Lies and spies News10 questioned Sheriff Scott Jones for months as to whether his department was spying on Sacramentans with “stingray” technology. Jones rebuffed the inquiry—but then last week, he admitted to The Sacramento Bee that yes, in fact, he’s spying on residents. Jones added that his investigators are judicious in their spying and only target criminals, relevant info, etc. But how can we trust Jones and Co. after all the lies?

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Honestly, Bites is not sorry to see it go.

Years ago, while the city council was wheedling Westfield to give the mall a facelift, or any attention at all, this writer was calling for dynamite. Of course, Bites had something more human-scale in mind: restoration of the street grid, neighborhood-supporting retail. And aRvIn housing, housing, housing. Not another

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Nonetheless, here we are. Mayor Kevin Johnson’s celebrity has been enhanced, it seems. His bottom line, too. Just last week, as the wrecking crews got to work, the National Basketball Association cut Johnson a $50,000 check for the mayor’s St. HOPE Academy charter-school company, according to city documents. The week before that, Marci Friedman, mother of arena developer Mark Friedman, gave another $250,000 to St. HOPE, at the mayor’s behest.

Coincidence? Looks more like a transaction. Step one, mayor pushes through arena project. Step two, people who profit from the arena reward mayor with big checks for the mayor’s family business. Nothing on the city’s behest paperwork says “quid pro quo.”

And even if it did, who would object? No one around here.

Bites couldn’t help but notice that the ridesharing company Uber Technologies also recently gave $50,000, at the mayor’s behest, to the African American Mayors Association.

That’s a new nonprofit that Johnson started this summer. Didn’t know the mayor had started yet another nonprofit staffed with former city employees? How would you?

Anyway, Uber is fighting hard to keep from being overly regulated or outright banned by local governments. There are limits on the amount of money a company can give to a mayor’s campaign fund. But there’s no limit on how much they can “behest” to organizations that enhance the mayor’s power and political profile. (See “K.J. Inc.,” August 16, 2012, for a primer on the lucrative behest loophole.)

Also, Uber’s big donation came just after the Sacramento City Council slapped new regulations on traditional cab drivers, requiring them to speak English and to not dress funny.

The kind of rules that don’t apply to rideshare companies like Uber, it should be noted. Bites imagines it will stay that way.

More news about the Johnson family business last week. It was announced that Michelle Rhee would be taking over St. HOPE’s board of directors as the new chairwoman. Rhee, of course, is Johnson’s spouse and the founder of the controversial StudentsFirst organization, which she promised would raise $1 billion— billion with a “B”—to fight teacher unions and push the family’s ideological brand of education reform.

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As part of the St. HOPE shakeup, StudentsFirst vice president of operations, Enoch Woodhouse, has been installed as the new superintendent of St. HOPE schools.

Observers of the teacher wars have noted that the changes come at a time when StudentsFirst seems to be floundering, having closed down operations in several states.

Rhee’s own star was tarnished by the D.C. cheating scandal, and Campbell Brown seems to be rising as the new face of the national teacher-bashing movement.

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It’s not entirely clear what’s going on behind the scenes at St. HOPE that demanded Rhee’s up-close attention. We’ll see. But if Sacramento is a smaller pond, it must be a more comfortable one. There’s no critical media to speak of. And whatever problems St. HOPE has, the mayor’s perpetual money machine will help. He has raised more than $1 million in behested payments for St. HOPE in the last year—using his public office and profile as mayor to do so.

It will likely be a comfort to him to have Rhee keeping an eye on the family business while Johnson works on his next big mayoral ambition—passage of his “strong mayor” plan. More about that in future columns. For now, just step back and take in the sweep of Johnson machine. The distinguished members of the Society of St. Tammany would be impressed.

Over here, Johnson is remaking the city charter to his liking. Over there, his wife runs a national education-reform group that promotes charter schools and campaigns to bring school districts under mayoral control.

Johnson uses City Hall to funnel money into his own education-reform group, Stand Up, which shares an ideological agenda—and a physical address—with Rhee’s StudentsFirst.

He uses City Hall to funnel money into his charter schools, which his wife runs. He uses City Hall to funnel money into his other nonprofits, like the Sacramento Public Policy Foundation—which helps promote Johnson’s strong-mayor plan.

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Turning around a troubled district Twin Rivers Unified School District Superintendent Steven Martinez is making a difference Earlier this year, the Greater Sacramento Urban League’s president James Shelby told me that Twin Rivers Unified School District’s new superintendent, Steven Martinez, was the real deal. He said that Martinez was turning around the troubled district.

A little later, Sacramento County superintendent of schools David Gordon also told me what a great job Martinez was doing. This is high praise, indeed. A former superintendent of Elk Grove Unified School District, Gordon operates as a regional education godfather. Although lacking in firearms, Gordon L

by JEff VonKaEnE has the intellectual firepower and connections to make things happen. He knows what it takes to run a school j e ffv @n e wsr e v ie w.c o m district.

So after both Shelby and Gordon told me about Martinez, I called the Twin Rivers district office to see if I could meet him. I wanted to learn more about what he was doing, and I wanted to share with him the work that SN&R has been doing with other school districts.

So I called the Twin Rivers communication director Many times when Zenobia Gerald to set up a I ask a union rep about meeting with Martinez. Now, is not the first commumanagement, it is Gerald nication director I have called like asking a recently to set up a meeting, but Gerald divorced person is the first one to tell me that I will love meeting her boss. about their ex. Gerald implied that introducing me to Martinez would be like introducing children to the joy of ice cream.

So I met with Martinez. I am a big fan of ice cream, especially Vic’s Ice Cream. I left this meeting thinking of a double scoop of peach and chocolate on a sugar cone.

We had an hourlong discussion about the importance of engagement instead of rules, about the thrill of hiring art teachers instead of focusing only on test scores, about what could be done instead of what could not be done. Martinez conveyed his love of the students, teachers and staff. I was impressed.

I wondered if I could find an opposing view. Naturally, I thought of the teacher’s union. So I called Twin Rivers United Educators president Kristin Finney. Finney’s job is to negotiate with Martinez, not to praise him. Nevertheless, Finney told me that Martinez had made a real difference in improving the district. She praised the hiring of extra art teachers and Jeff vonKaenel improvements in school facilities. Many times when I ask is the president, a union rep about management, it is like asking a recently CEO and divorced person about their ex. But given the chance, Finney majority owner of the News & Review did not go after Martinez.

Martinez took the reins of the region’s most troubled newspapers in Sacramento, district. He not only inherited the usual underfunded education Chico and Reno. system and poverty issues, but this district had repeatedly done knuckleheaded things. Knuckleheaded things like having an out-of-control police force, purchasing air conditioners that were never installed, spending massive amounts of money on legal fees, and having a trustee who not only had an affair with but also borrowed money from an employee.

Taking over the Twin Rivers district took some courage. I am glad that Martinez took the job. More importantly, I believe that 27,000 students are happy, too. Double-scoop happy. Ω

This Modern World

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Israel must care Hamas fires rockets. The Israel Defense Forces strike back. Innocent civilians (mostly Gazans) die. Schools and hospitals are destroyed, and the Palestinians’ homes become rubble. The casualties and destruction create trauma and rage in another generation of Palestinians, who vow to fire more rockets at Israel just as soon as they can. It’s a tragedy.

Israel should end the war now—for Israel’s sake.

Israel is a democracy, with the best-educated and most engaged citizens in the Middle East.

Unlike Hamas, Israel has absolutely nothing to gain by continuing to shell civilians. And Hamas will have nothing to gain, either, if Israel doesn’t take its bait.

The current nonproportional response to the predations of Hamas is only creating more animosity The current toward Israel. Even the United Nations and the White House Israeli assault in are fed up. Israel needs to demonstrate the life-affirming Gaza, including principles contained in its own the horrific constitution by caring for the Palestinian civilians. violence against Yes, Israel should not have to worry about rockets falling Rafah, is an on their citizens’ heads. No unacceptable nation should tolerate it. But the current Israeli assault in humanitarian Gaza, including the horrific crisis. violence against Rafah, is an unacceptable humanitarian crisis.

The Israeli government should enlist the aid of other nations to root out the remaining tunnels and rockets. Israel, show your national character by moving beyond a mindless hunt for revenge. Do it now, before the death toll in Gaza is so great that no other nation will come to your aid.

And do it unilaterally, because bombing and killing unarmed people in pursuit of criminals is the act of a bully. Do it because it is the right thing to do, if there is ever to be peace for your nation.

The only way that any of this will end is when the rest of the world joins to support moderate voices in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. There are plenty of Israelis who do not want to bomb Palestinians, and plenty of Palestinians who do not want to push the Israelis into the sea.

The only people who say otherwise have something to gain by keeping discourse quiet and rockets flying. Nothing solidifies a group like the state of perpetual embattlement; it’s an old propaganda trick.

The community of nations—including Arab states—must assist Israel in protecting its national security, including destroying the tunnels and disarming Hamas. Recent reports indicate that the region’s Arab states—Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan—have had it with Hamas. But this also means that they must demand that the Israeli government begin to treat Palestinian civilians like human beings, not “collateral damage.”

Because what’s happening now is not working. Ω

A journalist’s Twitter nightmare Last week, I found myself in a Twitter debate (is there That’s not to say we reporters don’t say or any other kind these days?) with a Washington post some dumbass things. Just ask celebrity by Post columnist about the perils of sharing curmudgeon Stephen A. Smith, whom ESPN Raheem opinions on social media when you’re a workpulled after he asked domestic-violence F. Hosseini ing journalist. victims to consider ways they can prevent CNN correspondent Diana Magnay had abuse. His suspension—and resulting apolbeen exiled to Siberia (Moscow, actually) for ogy—were indeed merited. referring to Israeli rubberneckers who threatened But there’s a fine line between reprimanding her and cheered a Gaza missile strike as “scum.” insensitivity like Smith’s and punishing human Magnay said she was characterizing the harassreactions like Magnay’s, especially when such ment she endured, not the actions have the whiff of personal politics of one appeasement about them.

There’s a fine group wishing the demise A profession that wraps of another. But, hey, itself in the First Amendment line between when sponsors complain, shouldn’t duck from thoughtreprimanding reporters eat their swords. ful provocation, or use the insensitivity and Is the journalism word “ethics” as a synonym industry really so afraid for “business.” punishing human of its own clumsy “Well, aren’t ethics ultireactions. humanity? mately tied to business considerYes. The columnist ations?” the columnist tweeted. wrote that Magnay’s reassignment was the “Your value IS your integrity, credibility.” latest in an increasingly common occurrence: Yes to the second, hell no to the first. There’s reporters getting punished for sentiments posted a reason that a literal wall exists between to social media.

SN&R’s editorial and advertising departments, It’s a bit of a double-edged sword, isn’t and it’s not just because our ad reps dress better. it? With dwindling advertising revenue, news Financial considerations aren’t supposed to drive organizations push their reporters to build coverage, nor should they determine which “brands” and expand audiences. But don’t reporters are sacrificed to reactionary mobs. stray off message.

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plans for bike and pedestrian safety, economic development, housing, environmental health and healthy food access.

An intensive, multiday planning process from Aug. 11-17 aims to include both this group of residents and those eager to publicly speak about their priorities, concerns and experiences of living in South Sacramento. At the Building Healthy Communities Charrette, several local organizations will collect this feedback and apply it toward their initiatives to improve the neighborhood and the health outcomes for its residents.

Ubuntu Green is coordinating the charrette with WALKSacramento, Soil Born Farms, Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates, Sacramento Housing Alliance and Youth Development Network.

ust because some people don’t go to town hall meetings, doesn’t mean they don’t care about their neighborhood or have valuable insight to share.

For those who don’t attend, many of their voices will still be heard thanks to the use of MetroQuest, an online platform that allows for the mobile gathering of public input — the more, the better.

“This charrette is the first of its kind,” says Charles L. Mason Jr., founder and CEO of Ubuntu Green, which is coordinating the event.

“By engaging residents in some of our region’s most underserved communities, we can set a precedent for community engagement that will allow for meaningful interactions with residents for years to come.”

Ubuntu Green is a grant recipient of the California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative.

Organizers hope to attract members of neighborhood associations, elected officials, nonprofit groups, youth advocates, residents and other stakeholders to the charrette. Out of the charrette will come community action

“It’s a lot of stuff, but in working really intensely in a really short period of time, you can get it done,” Mason says.

“By engaging residents in some of our region’s most underserved communities, we can set a precedent for community engagement that will allow for meaningful interactions with residents for years to come.”

a better place to live.”

Listening closely to residents makes for more effective advocacy work, Mason says. He described the recent work of a local coalition — which includes Ubuntu Green — to submit language for a new urban agriculture ordinance for the city of Sacramento, after determining that people wanted more opportunities to grow their own food and, in some cases, sell the produce. The coalition is advocating for measures that remove barriers to urban farming and improve access to healthy food for all.

For more information on the Building Healthy Communities Charrette for South Sacramento, visit www. www.ubuntugreen.org.

BuIldIng HEalTHy COmmunITIES In 2010, The California Endowment launched a 10-year, $1 billion plan to improve the health of 14 challenged communities across the state. Over the 10 years, residents, community-based organizations and public institutions will work together to address the socioeconomic and environmental challenges contributing to the poor health of their communities.

Participants in a June 26 workshop about the upcoming Building Healthy Communities Charrette share their views on issues that should be discussed.

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Charles L. Mason Jr., CEO of Ubuntu Green

“The idea is to include the needs and goals (of residents) in current community plans or into the next update of the city and county general plans,” says Teri Duarte, executive director of WALKSacramento. “We hope to bring in lots of residents to the charrette to tell us about the changes they’d like [to see] to make their neighborhoods healthier and

your ZiP code shouldn’t predict how long you’ll live – but it does. Staying healthy requires much more than doctors and diets. Every day, our surroundings and activities affect how long – and how well – we’ll live.

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ith a wild grin and orange cowboy hat, flanked by women friends (her de facto bodyguards) in Johnny Cash-black and dark shades, the rail-thin blonde with the contagious laugh rolled up to the microphone and launched into her one-woman show Die Laughing With Cathy Speck.

“Was it Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn who faked his death so he could go to his own funeral?” Speck began her performance. “Right now, I feel like I’m at my own funeral! So here we go!”

Over the next hours Speck—known by some in her hometown of Davis as the “queen of happiness”—sang, laughed, joked, blew bubbles and told stories about life, death and love so as to raise money last summer for her cause. Diagnosed in 2009 with a familial form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly called ALS, Speck has dedicated her life to raising awareness and funds for the fatal malady (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease).

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It wasn’t the first time this woman had taken center stage as a local advocate for carpe diem.

Since her diagnosis, Speck has hosted annual Specktacular Skydiving for ALS fundraisers (yes, she’s jumped); led boisterous teams of supporters on annual Sacramento ALS walks; and told her story to anybody who will listen, including multiple college and junior-high classes in the region. Last month, when doctors told Speck they had found a new medical issue with her lower intestines—a rare cancer had taken up lodging there—her response was classic.

“This [the cancer] is just a wake-up call for me to get back on top of my game,” said Speck.

“To be with the sweetness of the moment, to be happy to the core and extend that out.”

Given the unfathomable challenges of her primary disease, the additional arrival of cancer, the suffering she and her family have been through (Speck has already lost her mother and two brothers to ALS), and the anguish that must accompany any terminal diagnosis, two questions come to mind: 1. Why is this woman so happy?

2. If Speck can exemplify happiness despite the severity of her circumstance, why can’t we all?

Seven years ago, SN&R published a story “The big happy” (SN&R Feature Story; August 9, 2007) that examined the relatively new field of positive psychology.

Instead of obsessing on human failings and flaws as psychologists had previously done (think Freud), a new group of professionals suggested a shift in emphasis to what makes humans strong, gritty, resilient … happy.

Thanks to pioneers like Martin Seligman, the renowned psychologist who wrote Authentic Happiness in 2002, an industry was born with its best-selling books, national summits and contentment gurus.

Well, developments in the field have only accelerated since then. In fact, science has discovered that we humans can actually be taught many (sometimes unexpected) things about happiness.

And who better than Speck to serve as teacher?

Today, the science of well-being is booming and involves academics and scientists in disciplines beyond psychology—we’re talking neuroscience, sociology, medicine, economics and evolutionary biology. It’s no longer just intuitive that happiness and a positive outlook is good for one’s mental and physical health—now science also heralds the many benefits that can be accrued from looking on the bright side.

Not surprisingly, technology has entered the mix with new positive-psychology tools. Happify is a digital app tool with “scientifically designed games and activities” that lets people regulate and monitor their emotions and behaviors. Another example: The Gratitude App for Google Glass encourages optimism and the expression of gratitude.

“It’s exploding,” said Sacramento psychotherapist Stephen Walker of the happiness field.

“The neuroplasticity part [the ability of the brain to develop new connections] is the cutting-edge piece.”

Indeed, our scientific understanding of the brain (including acknowledgment that the brain actually can change) has doubled in the last decades. Neuroscientists have discovered, for example, that greater activity in the left side of the frontal cortex, is associated with positive emotions and increased happiness.

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“The science of happiness has blossomed,” concurred Emiliana Simon-Thomas, UC Berkeley’s neuroscientist who works as science director at the Greater Good Science Center. Simon-Thomas is one of a pair of GGSC instructors offering an upcoming free massive open online course, or MOOC, on the edX platform called The Science of Happiness. The class, which is still open for enrollment, launches on September 9, and has so far signed up a whopping 65,000 students.

Simon-Thomas and others seem to largely embrace the idea, based on a meta-analysis of hundreds of studies from across the globe, that insights into happiness can be derived from a pie chart that’s divided into a 50-10-40 split.

Though some consider the chart’s simplicity to be misleading, the schema breaks it down that 50 percent of happiness is determined by

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Search “Pharrell Williams” and “Happy” on YouTube, and before you can say “room without a roof,” millions of results pop up, including variations from Russia, France, Iran, Vietnam—you name it. Each features groups of people, singing along with, and getting their happy-feet boogie on, to the Grammy Award winner’s mega pop anthem. The “Happy” flash mobs (don’t miss the one from Azerbaijan) will particularly wash you in hope for humanity. “Clap along if you know what happiness is to you. … Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do.”

Turns out, this outpouring of feel-good euphoria may hold a lesson for us all. Yes, we can actually benefit from accepting Williams’ invitation to embrace the notion that “happiness is the truth.”

UC Davis psychology professor Robert Emmons has written four books about the benefits of gratitude. Among other things, regularly acknowledging and expressing what one is grateful for improves health, fosters closer relationships, and increases optimism.

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genetics, with findings based primarily on studies that track identical twins separated as infants and raised by unconnected families in different environments. Another 10 percent of our happiness quotient is due to life circumstance, which includes health and wealth. On the latter, multiple studies, including one by Nobel Prize winner and Thinking, Fast and Slow author Daniel Kahneman, have found that once people reach a modicum of financial security, pecuniary gains don’t increase happiness.

Importantly, the remaining 40 percent of what makes up happiness seems to be determined by day-to-day habits, attitudes, activities, work and social relations.

And that’s a sizable chunk.

In the case of Cathy Speck, that 40 percent can be deconstructed, more or less, into five realms that coincide with much of what is being discovered about happiness: 1. Speck has a committed, loving and laughing network of friends and family members with whom she stays connected, physically and virtually; 2. she expresses gratitude naturally and constantly for what she calls “the whirled” and her spot in it; 3. she embraces a live-in-the-moment philosophy, practices mindfulness and turns to books about Buddhism if ever she feels blue; 4. she’s generous with her time and energies, especially as a fundraiser for her causes; and 5. she is passionately devoted to those causes and is fueled by the sense of purpose it gives her.

Though thinking and behaving in a way that promotes well-being comes naturally to Speck, it seems “happiness benefits” can be amassed by any who choose to follow the science in these same five realms.

Relationships To be a friend of Speck’s on Facebook is to belong to a far-reaching social network that seems keenly connected to this one woman’s irreverent sense of humor, passionate belief in speaking openly about “the life and death cycle,” and her particular diagnosis—ALS, which causes the body to slowly become paralyzed, with one muscle group after another ceasing to function.

Speck, who spent a week in late July at Sutter General Hospital after surgery for her newly diagnosed neuroendocrine cancer, took her virtual community along for the ride as she endured what constituted risky surgery, given her unfolding ALS, to remove tumors in her lower intestine, as well as take out her appendix and gall bladder. Myriad posts proclaiming love and support flowed through social media toward Speck. Friends at the hospital—who decorated her room in a Hawaiian motif—shared photos of Speck at various stages of recovery. One friend advised Speck: “[T]he amount of love being sent through the Internet to you may cause your iPad to blow!”

Now, this kind of share-everything transparency related to an illness or medical procedure may not be for everyone. But it’s endemic of

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“People tend to be happiest when they are with other people or with a community of trusted friends and family,” said Simon-Thomas.

Multiple studies reveal that having close relationships, including romantic ones, are particularly beneficial. “Having people to confide in, who’ll lend support in times of trouble cannot be overrated,” she added.

It often surprises people from industrialized countries when they travel and find that developing countries are full of happy people, she said.

That’s because, in some Third World regions, the poor live in interdependent communities with tight-knit families and close social connections. Research in evolutionary history indicates that the American standard of rugged individualism may not actually offer the best path to achieving well-being, she said.

GRatitude UC Davis professor Robert Emmons, a psychologist and national expert on the benefits of gratitude, gets hyped up quick about the “new generation of researchers” that have entered the gratitude field.

“Some of the findings are really amazing,” he said. According to Emmons, clinical trials show that the practice of gratitude can lower

blood pressure, improve immune function and facilitate more efficient sleep. Additionally, it can reduce lifetime risk for depression, anxiety and substance-abuse disorders.

“Gratitude is good medicine!” says Emmons.

This author of four books (including Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier) and editor of The Journal of Positive Psychology makes a case that the expression of gratitude has a deeper power than ubiquitous smiley-face emoticons might convey.

In additional to improved health, he says, feeling and communicating gratitude results in closer relationships and increased optimism—both of which are keys to happiness.

We tend to get used to things so that good things become predictable and invisible, he said.

The act of expressing gratitude helps overcome that adaptation and can be a watch guard against taking life for granted.

From the social evolutionary perspective, said Emmons, research is demonstrating “that gratitude takes us outside ourselves where we see ourselves as part of a larger, intricate network of sustaining relationships.

“Gratitude helps regulate relationships, solidifying and strengthening them,” he suggested in an email. “It is not only a response to kindnesses received, but also a motivator of future benevolent actions.”

Also it “enables us to face the bad stuff with hope and confidence that ultimately the future will bring more joy than suffering.”

Both Emmons and Simon-Thomas, who oversees UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center’s Expanding Gratitude Project, suggest individuals keep a gratitude journal, i.e., write down what one is grateful for and look back on it on occasions when inspiration and reflection is warranted.

Mindfulness The history of mindfulness goes back to Buddhism, with its teachings that draw attention to the moment and advocate meditation, serenity, balance and effortlessness. It was 1979 when University of Massachusetts molecular biologist Jon Kabat-Zinn first brought Buddhist principals (if not its religious connotation) together with medical findings with his Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program. More recently, a pile of research has continued to document the psychological and emotional health benefits of practicing mindfulness.

Health-care organizations like Kaiser Permanente and Sutter Health now offer programs and podcasts that promote mindfulness exercises to patients since these have been found to reduce stress and anxiety, ease chronic pain, reduce blood pressure and improve immune systems.

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Generosity A long-ago episode of Friends featured Joey, set to volunteer at a telethon for PBS, arguing with Phoebe about the existence (or not) of selfless good deeds. Phoebe claimed his act of volunteering was not selfless because he’d benefit from the television exposure. She challenged herself thusly: “I’m gonna find a selfless good deed!”

By the end of the show, she hadn’t. As Phoebe learned, it’s hard for generous acts to be selfless because accomplishing them makes you feel good. Indeed, this can be tracked because research reveals that our brains light up in areas associated with pleasure when we are kind to others.

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Could it be, for example, that spending money on others makes us happier than spending on ourselves?

Elizabeth Dunn an associate psychology professor at the University of British Columbia and co-author of Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, conducted a study that answers with a resounding “yes.” In it, participants who were randomly assigned to spend money on others experienced greater happiness than those assigned to spend it on themselves.

In another study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, scientists looked at data from more than 200,000 people from all around the world and found that donating to charity boosted happiness. Unpredictably, the finding was even true in countries where people had to struggle to put food on their own table for their own families.

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of herself, “one of those cute little things, me with the twinkling eyes.”

“I looked in [that girl’s] eyes and realized, ‘Oh my God, that little girl is still in me! … I realized that’s who I can be, that’s who I am.”

Speck suddenly felt her life had purpose: “I realized I had to do right by her. I saw that I couldn’t force her to drink or starve her or hurt her anymore in any way.”

The awakening led Speck on a new life path aimed at being good to “little Cathy.” She enrolled in college classes, rededicated herself to playing music, performing and writing.

Eventually, the darkness lifted. Years later, post-diagnosis, Speck’s life filled with a larger life purpose—to “help with ALS … and to help spread laughter and love.”

“I think that I’m so full of love and happiness now because I felt the darkness then,” she said.

Huyen Friedlander-Brannan, a Woodland therapist who knows Speck and works with UC Davis counseling services explains it this way: “Oftentimes, looking at the really hard stuff—like death and dying or addiction or chronic illness—actually makes room for the happiness,” she said. “For Cathy, it’s all about loving people and relationships and inspiring people.”

Speck’s sense of purpose is authentic and no doubt part of what’s kept her going despite it all.

Indeed, research from Cornell University in Chicago found that purpose protects people against stress, Cathy Speck a fact that likely explains why people with purpose live longer.

What constitutes purpose is different for everyone.

It can be self-focused, like achieving a goal you set for yourself at work. Or it might be simply making ends meet for your family or staying healthy so as to one day meet your PurPose wished-for grandchildren. Often, as with Speck, It’s surprising when Speck, the queen of it means committing to a larger purpose or social happiness, describes her 25-year-old self (precause that benefits the less fortunate or future ALS diagnosis) as severely depressed, with generations. lots of problems. But it’s true. In her mid-20s, Science has recently distinguished between Speck was “alcoholic, anorexic and bulimic how “happy” and “meaningful” lives differ and suicidal … everything you can think of,” when it comes to physical health and a longer she said. Indeed, she spent her adolescence life. But for Simon-Thomas, the truth includes “funny and smart on the outside” but grieving both words. on the inside after a mother who died when “The best way to pursue happiness is through she was 13. pursuing a meaningful life by committing When Speck came out as gay in the late ’70s yourself to a greater purpose beyond your own (“when it was not OK,” she said), the young self-interest,” she said. woman struggled to make her way. “That’s when Speck, now back at home recovering from all the sadness and anger and depression came her recent surgery, couldn’t agree more. that I had been hiding away,” she said.

“I do the best I can from right here,” she said.

But a turning point arrived. At the height of “If I’m able to help other people feel happy or her angst and “feeling shameful and humiliated,” joyous or laugh, and keep extending that out, she somehow came across a kindergarten picture then that makes me happy.”

“i think that i’m so full of love and happiness now because i felt the darkness then.”

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“It’s being awake and paying attention,” said Stephen Walker, a licensed psychotherapist with an office in Midtown. “It’s an awareness and acceptance of the present moment.”

“It’s about the here and now,” he said.

Known in some local circles by the name Lama Jinpa, Walker traveled to India and became a Tibetan Buddhist monk at an earlier point in his life. So his experience in this realm is substantial. “Mindfulness is about cutting back on the striving and judgment,” he said. “It’s more on being than doing,” he said, “accepting rather than rejecting.”

According to Walker, you don’t have to sit in the lotus position and think higher thoughts in a formal meditation practice to derive benefits from mindfulness. The simple act of getting comfortable, focusing your mind on the present while gently pushing away distractions (perhaps while silently repeating a positive mantra or phrase) causes the body to relax, the breath to slow and the heart rate to drop.

Interestingly, the practice of mindfulness also tends to makes people more altruistic.

A 2013 study published in Psychological Science found that people who took an eightweek mindfulness course were far more likely than a control group to give up a crowded waiting-room seat for a person on crutches.

Another study in the same publication revealed that meditating showed changes in brain activity, “including in networks linked to understanding the suffering of others.”

For some, the quest for happiness can seem selfish in a world overcome with the suffering of others due to poverty, war and violence.

“Life has its sadness, its anger, its pain,” said Simon-Thomas, “and experiencing these are really important.”

She admitted, “The heaviness of other people’s suffering can be overwhelming.” The best you can do, she said, is take on a mindset that “when you can do something, you will.

“Acknowledge that you are concerned about the welfare of others and will make good choices,” she said, such as acting with compassion toward the people in your life, making sustainable choices for the environment, working for social change, etc.

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Among area university students, it was a coveted Friday night destination—wild electronic music parties that people heard about, but no one really knew where it was.

Rumors told of a free bar, fire spinners and a Burning Man vibe.

Joseph Wisgirda ran the speakeasy. The physical space was his garage. Small. Some lights. Nothing special, he says. But the music?

Experimental, interesting and generally excellent. The talent came from a group known as the Chillage People. It started out as a few students who wanted to learn how to produce electronic dance music—EDM for short—but had no idea how. They’d meet after class and mess around on their laptops.

Naturally, it evolved. Wisgirda was a physics graduate student at the time and started an Introduction to Electronic Music production class at the Experimental College, a program at UC Davis where people can take or teach classes in alternative subjects. He met some of the Chillagers, and the group grew to about 14 producers. It became a weekly salon and

listening club, with the Luna Lounge as its laboratory.

Due to a perpetually exploding toilet, however, the Luna Lounge closed down after a two-year run.

“I’m amazed I got away with it as long as I did,” says Wisgirda, a.k.a Big Joe Daddy.

But Chillage kept going. In 2012, the collective formed Chillage Records and released its first compilation, Crunksauce Vol. 1.

Then, Volume 2 came out in January this year, and it was met with rave reviews from underground EDM blogs, such as Bassadelic.

Now, Thursday, August 14, marks the release of Crunksauce Vol. 3, with the big party scheduled for Saturday, August 23, at Sidetrax in Midtown Sacramento.

Some original Chillagers, like Spoken Bird and Urple Eeple, have left for the Bay Area, finding success and playing big EDM festivals: Stilldream in Belden, Lucidity in Santa Barbara, Firefly Music Festival in Delaware.

But locally, EDM hasn’t quite taken off like it has in the Bay Area and other big metro areas. People know the genre is on the rise—electronic beats have been seeping their way into mainstream hits for years—and many of Sacramento’s

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At the time, dubstep was just starting to get big. Skrillex had yet to explode.

Grimey was ahead of the trend. Now, enthusiasts say dubstep is out, stale. Hip hop-influenced trap is in, but probably not for long. Deep house is supposedly next.

Sure enough, the biggest weekly party in Sacramento right now is Trapacana at Badlands on Tuesday nights. But there are so many regular EDM nights at venues like Badlands, Press Club, Starlite Lounge, Midtown BarFly, Sidetrax and District 30 that it’s hard to keep track. Some only last a couple months before they’re replaced with a new effort.

Ynclan blames EDM itself.

“The genre’s so splintered to mini categories that it’s hard to draw,” he says.

That means folks looking to dance tend to make their choices by venue, which isn’t consistent, or production company.

George Galea’s Head on High Productions started in 2012, focusing on less popular subgenres that are heavy on bass. He uses a team of about 15 local producers to put on underground shows twice a month, and then he brings in special guests, including Chillagers.

Requiem Events is another local company that started last year, already with 20 resident deejays. Its Midtown BarFly parties—the monthly Throwdown and weekly That Thing on Friday—bring out an 18-and-over crowd that dances uninhibited to house and big room. LED-lit hula hoops, poi balls and costumes are common sights.

But if casual EDM fans closely followed the artists, they’d know that Crescendo and Spire—producers who were also involved in Grimey—recently started Rhythm, a twice-a-month bass and techno night at Badlands. And maybe they’d know that Schneider spent last winter in Australia collaborating with Mr. Bill, a big name in EDM, and will likely go back later this year. And one of Ynclan’s songs has basically hit the mainstream already. He and Ryan Wade, a.k.a.

Bit Crusher, produced a remix of Skrillex’s “Fire Away” under the moniker Zero Friendz. Now Skrillex has been spinning Zero Friendz at his own shows.

“I wish I could say it’s about the music, but at the end of the day, it’s just about a party,” Ynclan says. “Whoever has the best party wins.” Ω

” We are making the most complicated, difficult-to-make music ever. until We shake that stigma—Which may never happen—it’ s not gonna be taken seriously as a genre.”

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The game started out scorching—and I don’t mean the play on the field. Spectators on the west side of the stadium (sections 101 through 110) had full shade, but the east side (sections 111 through 120—I was in section 112) got the brunt of the setting sun on a 100-degree day. Note to future Republic FC spectators: Get tickets in sections 101 through 110 if it’s warm out. Thankfully, things got more comfortable when the sun set behind the stands and I purchased a cold (but expensive) 24-ounce beer.

But let’s cut to the beautiful game—at least in theory.

Things started out well for the Republic, with a few shots on goal that forced West Brom’s goalkeeper into two saves. But West Bromwich’s physical strength and technical superiority helped it respond quickly, with Victor Anichebe assisting on a Saido Berahino goal, and then Berahino assisting on a Youssouf Mulumbu header to end the half at 2-0. West Brom’s strong Nigerian striker Anichebe (pictured) continued to shine in the second half when he struck a long-range shot from 25 “Out of the way, little man—that’s yards out to make the score my ball.”

3-0. The Republic finally got one back when J.J. Koval— on loan from the San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer for the game—scored in the 73rd minute. The match ended 3-1.

If it’s any consolation, the Republic fans got to poke fun at West Brom with chants reminding them that Norwich City FC—which participated in the previous Sacramento Soccer Day—was relegated to the Football League Championship, England’s second tier after finishing third-to-last in the EPL this summer.

In all seriousness, it was a huge win in my book for the Republic to even score against a Premier League team. Besides, it’s always a good training exercise for lowly teams such as the Sacramento division to play against top-flight opposition, no matter how lopsided the score. Indeed, the benefits showed up in the Republic’s next USL Pro league game, in which it dominated the Pittsburgh Riverhounds 5-0—while simultaneously breaking the USL Pro attendance record. Things are looking bright (and hot) for the Republic in the next few months.

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nightclubs have designated EDM nights.

Still, a disconnect persists in Turnouts vary. For some, the very best Sacramento.

EDM experiences will always have to “I’ve been playing at a show, and happen underground, like at the Luna someone will tap me, ‘Do you have any Lounge.

Beyoncé?’” says Neil Douglas, a local Shane Ynclan, a.k.a. Synclan, started producer under the name FunkAdvisor. toying around with beats at age 16. Ten “Happens all the time: Beyoncé, Rihanna, years later, he’s admittedly jaded about 2 Chainz.”

Sacramento’s EDM scene. Hell, he says Sacramento’s even the term EDM is “a bad word” in some circles. To serious electronic artists, ‘splintered’ scene EDM has been co-opted, instead referring Evan Schneider remembers the days strictly to party genres like house and big when he was one of two EDM producers room. In other words, rave music with in Sacramento. Things have certainly major drug connotations. changed.

“We are making the most complicated, “When I started, it was a hard sell for difficult-to-make music ever,” Ynclan says. anyone to give you an electronic-music “Until we shake that stigma—which may night,” Schneider says. never happen—it’s not gonna be taken seriously as a genre.”

There’s a common misconception that making EDM is just pushing buttons.

That it’s music made by computer nerds with no real talent.

Wrong.

Shane Ynclan “If you want to make Sacramento EDM artist mediocre EDM, it is very easy,” Wisgirda says. “If you Schneider goes by Tha Fruitbat, and want to craft something with some real he played his first gig in 1998. Back then, meaning and some real depth, it’s going to laptops weren’t so powerful, and most take time and effort, and it helps to have people didn’t have the advanced music some real music knowledge.” software that’s widely available today. He Wisgirda has a background in jazz and performed with a ton of equipment—rack classical music. He knows his theory. A lot gear, synthesizers, keyboards. In 2001, of the more experimental electronic artists he formed the Command Collective with in Sacramento, too, have backgrounds Dusty Brown, Chachi Jones and Tycho— in traditional music. Then they see some yes, that Tycho—with the goal of putting epic show—for Wisgirda, it happened at on shows and supporting one another in Burning Man—and are hooked. a tough environment. It only lasted a few Now, Wisgirda creates “circus years before Jones and Tycho moved to the glitch-hop show tunes.” He plays a digital Bay Area. trumpet—a wind controller—and uses Newer EDM producers point to his knowledge of traditional jazz and Grimey as what really got things going.

Dixieland to fuse with glitch.

Grimey was a twice-a-month dance party Fellow Chillager Derrek Gass, a foundat the TownHouse Lounge that ran from ing member who plays under the moniker 2010 until the venue closed in 2013. The Lazer Tooth, spends a lot of time capturing dubstep, heavy-bass party then moved real-world sounds. Recently, he played to The Press Club until its founder, DJ with the Doppler effect of fire whizzing by Whores, moved to Denmark in March. a microphone.

At its peak, Grimey packed 400 people “As it gets close, you can hear the in TownHouse. On a Tuesday night. gas trying to ignite,” Gass says. “Further away, the air and atmosphere smooths that frequency out.”

With the sounds of chopping vegetables, tapping the side of a pan of water, smacking a telephone on a table—as Wisgirda says, “this type of music is full of happy accidents.”

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African American Art

Harlem Renaisance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond

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Discover an exhibition that explores decades of social and political change. The Crocker is proud to be the only West Coast venue for this stunning collection of African American visual heritage; featuring 100 paintings, sculptures, and photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Don’t miss your chance to view some of the most famous images of 20th-century African American art.

Jacob Lawrence, Bar and Grill, 1941, gouache, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Henry Ward Ranger through the National Academy of Design.

African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with generous support from Alston & Bird; Amherst Holdings, LLC; Diane and Norman Bernstein Foundation; Larry Irving and Leslie Wiley; the William R. Kenan, Jr. Endowment Fund; Clarence Otis and Jacqui Bradley; and PEPCO. The C.F. Foundation in Atlanta supports the museum’s traveling exhibition program, Treasures to Go.

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Spellbinding beasts Pay attention, because the paintings of Margaryta Chaplinska are mesmerizing. Her portraits of people are expertly crafted, with visceral emotion shining through every countenance, and hair and clothing illustrated with broader strokes of movement, giving it GROUP SHOW palpable life. And the Roseville-based artist—who immigrated to the United States in 2003 from Ukraine—gives similar treatment to animals, like a trio of crocodiles that are in Sacramento Temporary Contemporary’s Animal Attraction group show this month. The three beasts look like a mosaic of gemstones—quite a spellbinding triad of reptiles.

Where: Sacramento Temporary Contemporary, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 921-1224; www.tempartgallery.com.

Second Saturday reception: August 9, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Through August 28.

Hours: Thursday through Saturday, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 3 p.m.; or by appointment.

“Coccodrillo, крокодил, krokodil” by Margaryta Chaplinska, oil on canvas, 2014.

Street style If an artist’s work is a reflection of what’s going on in his mind, then Gabriel Luis Perez has a lot MIXED MEDIA in his. His mixedmedia paintings are often frenetic, with layers upon layers of bold and dark paint that show an influence of street art, plus fabric and metal objects added to the surface. “Stormin Norman Por Siempre,” for example, has an army of curling white triangles attached to the canvas with open safety pins over a gritty, spray-paint-decorated freeway-underpassesque background, and dots of graffiti-style ink drippings over it all.

The Los Angeles-based artist is the first chosen to be featured in Broadway’s new art gallery, En Em Art Space. Welcome to the neighborhood.

Where: En Em Art Space, 1714 Broadway; (916) 905-4368; www.enemspace.com.

Second Saturday reception: August 9, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Hours: Thursday through Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.; or by appointment.

“Fort Bragg Cypress 9” by Kurt Edward Fishback, archival pigment print, 2009.

Before the lens Although Kurt Edward Fishback got his middle name from family friend and influential American photographer Edward Weston, he’s made a name for himself with his own photography. He proved he is a master of light, exposure and capturing his subjects with a friendly ease in his series of environmental portraits of artists in their work spaces. More recently, Fishback created a series of vivid, spiritual and psychePHOTOGRAPHY delic mandalas, which are teeming with elements of nature, including rocks, feathers and clouds. This month, though, he’s showing a more traditional interpretation of nature with black-and-white landscape photographs. In these portraits of trees and beaches, Fishback also captures his subjects with the same kind of elegant ease as many of those artists who once stood before his lens.

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

Second Saturday reception: August 9, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Through September 6.

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

“Stormin Norman Por Siempre” by Gabriel Luis Perez; acrylic, fabric, Krink, safety pins, and mixed media on canvas; 2014.

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11 GALLERY 21TEN 2110 K St., (916) 476-5500, www.gallery2110.com

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20 SACRAMENTO GAY & LESBIAN CENTER 1927 L St., (916) 442-0185, http://saccenter.org

21 SHIMO CENTER FOR THE ARTS 2117 28th St., (916) 706-1162, www.shimogallery.com

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California Automobile Museum Car Cruise Saturday, auguSt 9 It’s not officially summer until you attend an event with the word “cruise” in the CARS title. Watch classic cars cruise from Sacramento State University down Fulton Avenue, before ending up at a street fair between El Camino Boulevard and Marconi Avenue, where there’ll be live music, a beer garden and food trucks. Free, 4 p.m., starting at Sacramento State University, 6000 J Street; www.calautomuseum.com.

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Contrary to what the name might suggest, Lunar Lunacy is not a rave for werewolves. Rather, it’s a 5- or 17-mile bike ride that will take place on the night of a full moon. Food trucks and live music BIKE RIDE will kick off the event before the ride begins at the Capitol, and prizes will be awarded for the most tricked-out sets of wheels. $20-$50, 8 p.m., 10th Street and Capitol Avenue, http://lunarlunacyride.com.

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It seems like just yesterday that our poor, boring city was without its famous self-described “multicultural celebration of the diverse cultures that use banana as food.” Launched in 2009 as a fundraiser for the National Academic Youth Corps, its partner organizations now also include Sol Collective, Samoa Silasila, and Fenix Drum and Dance Company.

This Saturday, August 9 (10 a.m. to 7 p.m.), and Sunday, August 10 (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.), the festival once again offers multicultural entertainment like dancing (Polynesian, hiphop, salsa), drumming (Caribbean steel pan, African drumming) and

live music (Urban Fire, Texas Blues Band, Patrick Riley Band). There’ll also be circus performers, art demonstrations, a 5k walk, and a competition called the Little Mr. & Miss Banana and Miss Banana Queen Pageant. Entertainment happens on three stages—a main stage, a stage for teens and a stage for kids— so there’s something for the whole family.

Then, of course, there’s the main reason everyone shows up: to eat a whole bunch of bananas. There are multiple banana-pie eating contests, a banana-pancake breakfast each day (starting at 9 a.m. before each day’s events start), and dozens of banana-based foods (ice cream, cake, vegetarian banana burgers, salads, cheesecake, fried plantains, grilled bananas) to sample. In the words of Kanye West, you’ll be “going gorillas.”

Tickets cost $5. William Land Park is located at 3800 S. Land Park Drive.

Visit www.sacbananafestival.com for more information.

Ever wish you could bring your kid to your favorite music festival? Then you’re probably a horrible parent, but here’s the next best KIDS thing: This weekend-long event features live music for parents and children alike. Please leave your flower crowns and insensitive Indian headdresses where they belong—in the garbage.

Free with paid admission of $5.50, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive; (916) 808-7462; www.fairytaletown.org.

—Rudy Raya

Davis Film Festival Sunday, auguSt 10 The Davis Film festival is like two festivals crammed into one day. Part one (1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.) has live music, a bunch of short films and a locally made romantic comedy called Princess Daisy. Part two (6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.) offers more short films and a rated-R documentary called Risky Business: A Look Inside America’s FILM Adult Film Industry. $8-$14, 1:30 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Theatre, 203 E. 14th Street in Davis; (530) 383-1711; www.davisfilmfest.org.

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Have Another Offal Day Sunday, auguSt 10 If you’re the type of person who regularly eats fetal duck eggs, chicken feet and pig ears, then you probably don’t want to pay $65 to eat them FOOD at a fancy event. For everyone else who wants to see what all the “fuss” is about, here’s your chance to try offal, a.k.a. the parts of animals that don’t generally get eaten by Americans with really pale palates. $65, 2 p.m. at Mulvaney’s B&L Next Door, 1215 19th Street; www.offalday2.eventbrite.com.

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Jason Azevedo, Mighty Tavern Aimal Formoli, Formoli’s Bistro Kelly Hogge, Magpie Cafe Rachel Kelley, Revolution Wines Brian Mizner, Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. Billy Ngo, Kru Contemporary Japanese Cuisine Ravin Patel, Ella Dining Room & Bar Oliver Ridgeway, Grange Restaurant & Bar Adam Schulze, The Waterboy Michael Thiemann, Mother

Best food truck

Bacon Mania Chando’s Tacos Ciao Chow Food Truck Cruzin Crustacean Dave’s Dawgs Drewski’s Hot Rod Kitchen El Matador Mobile Mex Fuzion Eatz Gameday Grill Gyro King Krush Burger The Leaven & Earth Sandwich Co. Mama Kim Cooks Om Karmabile Papa Dale’s & French 25 Bayou Diner Slightly Skewed Smokers Wild BBQ Swabbies Mobile VolksWaffle Wandering Boba Wicked ’Wich

Best spot for happy hour

Blackbird Kitchen & Beer Gallery Ella Dining Room & Bar Kasbah Lounge Lucca Restaurant and Bar Pour House R15 The Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar Riverside Clubhouse Shady Lady Saloon Block Butcher Bar

Best IndIan

AB Indian Sweets & Catering Bombay Bar and Grill Curry Club Kathmandu Kitchen Kaveri Madras Cuisine Mehfil Indian Restaurant Monsoon Cuisine of India Pooja Indian Grill Raja’s Tandoor Ruchi Indian Cuisine Tandoori Nights

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Baguettes The Bread Store Bud’s Buffet Coast to Coast Sandwiches Corti Brothers Dad’s Sandwiches Duc Huong Sandwiches Huong Lan Sandwiches Juno’s Kitchen and Deli Magpie Cafe Muntean’s Sandwiches & Soups Roxie Deli and Grocery Sampino’s Towne Foods The Sandwich Spot Super Tortas Chilangas “El Abuelo” Thanh Huong Food to Go Tony’s Delicatessen & Catering Zia’s Delicatessen

Best Baked goods

Estelle’s Patisserie Ettore’s European Bakery and Restaurant Freeport Bakery La Esperanza Bakery Les Baux Bakery Mahoroba Japanese Bakery New Roma Bakery Pushkin’s Bakery Rick’s Dessert Diner Starbread Bakery Sugar Plum Bakery Village Bakery Yellowbill

Best MedIterranean/ MIddle eastern eats

Anatolian Table Cafe Europa Cafe Morocco Casablanca Moroccan Restaurant Crest Cafe Darna Famous Kabob FreshMed Mediterranean Cuisine The Kabob House Maalouf’s Taste of Lebanon Marrakech Moroccan Restaurant Opa! Opa! Petra Greek Pita Kitchen Plus Royal Kebab Shahrzad Fine Persian Cuisine

Best MexIcan food

524 Mexican Restaurant Azul Mexican Food & Tequila Bar Caballo Blanco Restaurante El Novillero El Papagayo Restaurant El Pollo Feliz La Flor De Michoacan Lalo’s Restaurant

Nopalitos Southwestern Cafe Mayahuel Tequila Museo Rey Azteca Restaurant Bar Tres Hermanas Vallejo’s Restaurant Zocalo

Best new restaurant Block Butcher Bar Lou’s Sushi Mighty Tavern Mother Thai Canteen

Best outdoor patIo

Aioli Bodega Espanola Dad’s Kitchen Der Biergarten Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. LowBrau Lucca Restaurant and Bar Mulvaney’s Building & Loan Revolution Wines Riverside Clubhouse The Shack Ten22 Tower Cafe

Best pIzza

1st Choice Pizza & Curry Chicago Fire Giovanni’s Old World New York Pizzeria Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. Hot City Pizza Hot Italian Il Pizzaiolo Linda’s Chicago Style Pizzeria Luigi’s Pizza Parlor Masullo OneSpeed Pizza Rock Sacramento Pieces Pizza by the Slice Roma’s Pizzeria Trademark Pizza Trick Pony Uncle Vito’s Slice of N.Y. Zelda’s Gourmet Pizza

Best Brewery

American River Brewing Co. Auburn Alehouse Brewery Berryessa Brewing Co. Bike Dog Brewing Company Device Brewing Co. Hoppy Brewing Company GoatHouse Brewing Co. Knee Deep Brewing Co. Loomis Basin Brewing Company Mraz Brewing Company New Glory Craft Brewery New Helvetia Brewing Co. Out of Bounds Brewing Co.

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Jalisco dreamin’ Zazon Guadalajara Grill 2386 Fruitridge Road, (916) 393-9090 Many Californians say they know Mexican food, but what we really know is a fairly Americanized version. Because with a country as big as by Ann Martin Rolke Mexico, of course, there are a multitude of culinary styles that we barely come across here.

Zazon Guadalajara Grill offers a fun experience for learning more about foods native to the state of Jalisco, where the city of Guadalajara resides. The menu is extensive, though, and there are plenty of familiar dishes, too.

Rating: In fact, my dining companions and I first tried more familiar foods to better judge them HHH against nearby restaurants. The al pastor burrito was a monster, even without the sour dinner for one: $5 - $10 cream and cheese. Zazon’s pastor is more crumbly than others, but sports plenty of complex dried chili flavor. It was lost in the burrito and better featured in a taco.

In fact, the tacos are outstanding. The cabeza (beef cheeks) and barbacoa are the best fillings—both so tender they practically melted.

The chicken tasted rich with dark meat and a subtle spice, while the carnitas are flavorful but tend toward dryness. Typical of Jalisco, there are also fried fish tacos on the menu.

The Guadalajaran influence shows in H Flawed several shrimp dishes. We tried the grilled and garlic preparations, both served with buttery HH rice studded with corn, peas and carrots, and has moments plenty of sautéed peppers and onions. We loved HHH the slightly charred flavor of the grilled shrimp, appealing while the garlic ones were marred by an offHHHH flavor that indicated they were past their prime. authoRitative The beans that accompany many of the HHHHH entrees are not the usual pinto or refried, but epic Jalisco-style peruanos. These little yellowish beans were perfectly al dente and served in their own flavorful broth alongside expertly cooked plain rice.

On another visit, we sampled the pozole, Still hungry? only available on weekends (along with birria search sn&R’s and menudo). Zazon offers a small portion or “dining directory” the gargantuan size you see at most places. to find local restaurants by name The broth was disappointingly bland, but or by type of food. once dressed with plenty of lime, hot sauce sushi, mexican, indian, and cabbage, the soup came alive. It’s just italian—discover it not one of the best choices. all in the “dining” One confusing aspect of Zazon is that the section at www.news print menu doesn’t include all of the items on review.com. the boards above and below the register. Leave yourself plenty of time to read everything.

The restaurant serves huaraches and tejuino, for example, which aren’t listed on the printed menu. The huaraches are served in little masa boats that can be topped with any of the featured meats plus tomatoes, cabbage and salsa. Tejuino is a fermented corn drink native to Jalisco, but we didn’t realize it was an option until after we had already ordered.

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The latter was a wonderful mix of fresh fruit topped with a cream sauce (usually crema and condensed milk). Diners add additional toppings to order, such as granola, coconut, raisins, sprinkles or chocolate chips. It was fantastic.

The tacos are outstanding.

The cabeza and barbacoa are the best fillings— both so tender they practically melted.

The refrigerated case also offers rice pudding, a slew of sweet cakes mostly covered in whipped cream, cake pops and stunning gelatin desserts shaped like flowers. The ones we tried were good, but not great, although we hardly sampled them all.

Zazon is somewhat inconsistent in quality, but full of interesting flavors and friendly service.

It requires several trips to sample even a small portion of its menu, but it’s worth it to discover some of the interesting dishes of Jalisco that aren’t at most Mexican restaurants. Ω

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Richard Watts really cares about animals.

So the Brit started a website called Vegan Sidekick (www.vegansidekick.com) where he posts “crappy cartoons”— simple line drawings of figures engaged in dialogue, like one depicting a vegan who says he avoids harming animals to a meat eater who then responds with a whatabout-the-feelings-of-plants comeback.

The meat eater’s “Plants tho” defense has become Sidekick’s double entendre tagline. It’s a funny way to illustrate a typical argument herbivores hear. Watts gets some intense comments from trolls on his Facebook page, writing treatises against the vegan viewpoint and becoming the embodiment of the comics, but Watts deals with them elegantly. For those in-the-closet vegans who are afraid of confrontations, this is helpful reading. Watts has also self-published a book of his work (two, actually: One is the dirty-mouth adult version) at www.lulu.com.

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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.

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Blackbird is back with chefowner Carina Lampkin again at the helm. It’s located in its original space with a similar aesthetic, though with more focus on beer and bar food to better complement the seafood-inspired dinner menu.

A burger served with house pickles, seven-day house-cured bacon, cheddar and sweet ’n’ chivey “awesome sauce” make for one of the city’s best burgers, no question. Chowder fries, however, are nifty in theory— fries covered in bay shrimp, bacon and parsley, then doused with chowder. It’s a play on poutine, but a lack of acid and serious sogginess issues mar it from being a landmark dish.

Better yet? Fish tacos featuring fried pollock served with pickled cabbage and chipotle crema. These and a beer will remedy any bad day you’re having. American. 1015 Ninth St., (916) 498-9224. Dinner for one: $10-$30. HHH1/2 G.M.

Cafe Plan B This Midtown 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

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,

and welcome, pairing well with numerous dishes. French.

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

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

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

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.

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,

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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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

Land Park/ Curtis Park Pangaea Bier Cafe Just as European wines are made to be enjoyed with food rather than sipped alone, the current tsunami of European-style microbreweries feature drinks

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.

Ste. 288; (916) 455-0288. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH J.M.

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.

Shige Sushi The food here tends to edge more classic than modern. Cooked chicken hearts, skewered and dusted with a bit of chili powder and lashed with lemon juice, make for a juicy and flavorful take on the classic street food. Fried smelt are crispy and oily in the right way: by way of the smelt themselves and not the cooking oil. It’s a treat that should not be passed up. A classic Philadelphia roll is packed with crab, avocado and cream cheese—American-style sushi at its finest—and the Ziggy roll, wrapped in a canary-colored soy wrap, is a mix of masago, avocado and crispy soft-shell crab that offers a blend of textures and a creamy-piquant flavor that’s terribly addicting. Sushi. 5938 Madison Ave. in Carmichael, (916) 331-7300.

Dinner for one: $20-$40.

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Pizza, pizza

Sacramento’s pizza scene is currently in the midst of a reshuffling. One of the quieter recent openings was APizza, which popped up inside the Sacramento Convention Center (replacing Wolfgang Puck Express at the 13th Street entrance between J and K streets) in late June. The pizza spot—which is only open for lunch on weekdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.— is owned by Bill Pustari, who also owns the popular spot Modern Apizza in Connecticut. The fusion joint Chicago’s Pizza (4391 Gateway Park Boulevard, Suite 600 in Natomas) is also now open in the former Pannu’s Pizza Palace place. It serves up similar Indian-style pies, such as chicken tikka masala pizza, veggie curry pizza and even a Chicago deep-dish pizza that matches its name. Lastly, the recently closed Luigi’s Slice and Fun Garden in Midtown will become Pizzeria Urbano (1050 20th Street, Suite 150). No word yet on an opening date, but a photo of a pizza on its Facebook page (www.facebook. com/pizzeriaurbano) was tagged “#comingsoon.”

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Bacon and Butter Broderick Roadhouse Burgess Brothers’ Barbecue Burger Junction Burgers and Brew Dad’s Kitchen Flaming Grill Cafe Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. Krush Burger Nationwide Freezer Meats Pangaea Two Brews Cafe Stevie Boy Burgers Skip’s Kitchen Squeeze Inn

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Anna’s Cafe Andy Nguyen’s Vegetarian Restaurant Baagan Bodhi Bowl Cafe Capricho El Papagayo Restaurant The Green Boheme Loving Hut Mother Noble Vegetarian Restaurant The Plum Cafe & Bakery Queen Sheba Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Sunflower Drive In

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Lou’s Sushi Mikuni Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar Miyagi Bar & Sushi Nishiki Sushi Osaka Sushi Sushi Hook Sushi Paradiso Zen Sushi Yui Marlu

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OK, so maybe you don’t really think of a marching band as the kind of musical act one travels to see—all those horn blowers, drum hitters and baton twirlers are supposed to high-step their way to you, right? Check those preconceptions, fall into formation and parade yourself over to the Miners Foundry Cultural Center on Friday, August 8, to catch the MarchFourth Marching Band. The ensemble combines funk, jazz, rock, gospel and more to kick out the jams, moving-party MUSIC style. And there are flashy costumes, acrobatics and dancers, too. $22-$32, 9 p.m. on Friday, August 8; at the Miners Foundry Cultural Center, 325 Spring Street in Nevada City; (530) 265-5040; www.minersfoundry.org.

—Rachel Leibrock

The fiction maker roBerto Bolaño’S Fiction The late Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño has enjoyed a successful posthumous career in the United States, thanks in no small part to the translations of his work

by Chris Andrews, an Australian writer who BOOK teaches at the University of West Sydney.

Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe (Columbia University Press, $30) offers insights into Bolaño’s influences, his creation of a “fiction-making system” and the reception of his work among Englishspeaking readers. Although Andrews did correspond with Bolaño during the last year-and-a-half of his life, this isn’t a biography. Instead, it’s a sharp and accessible guide to the literary style and narrative skills of this amazing novelist.

—Kel Munger

Sutter’s landing Sean K. Sutter art Show Sean K. Sutter started painting en plein air in 2011 while studying art at Humboldt State university.

Since moving to the Sacramento Valley from California’s north coast, the Davis-based artist and illustrator has found plenty of reason to continue this practice, ART reveling in the hidden textures and shades of Yolo County rice paddies and the hills of Napa County.

Indeed, Sutter introduced himself to his new home with hikes and watercolor sketches in his Moleskine notebook, taking the time to soak in the evening light. He says he took special care to capture the subtle changes in hue as the afternoon sun sets, bringing out the gold and pink in wild grasses going to seed, the minty blue in the shadow of an oak, and ocher earth tones underneath it all.

Now, Sutter’s new solo show With Eyes to See… , which opens on Saturday, August 9, with an artist’s reception at the FicklinWilcox wine shop, shows off those experiences with more than a dozen colorful acrylic-on-wood landscape paintings depicting these scenes of nature, such as “Cold Water” (pictured).

The art opening will give also visitors a chance to slow down and enjoy the finer side of California: Portuguese varietal grapes grown in Madera County and aged tawny port and tempranillo. But, warning: It might be near-impossible to experience Northern California any other way once you’ve paired Sutter’s meditation on local beauty with a nice glass of red. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, August 9; at Ficklin-Wilcox, 920 20th Street; www.ficklinwilcox.com; www.seanksutter.com.

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But attraction and connection are more complex. Sexual attraction can signal compatibility, or it can simply be a revelation of rising desire. Attraction and connection might also mean that your brain recognizes an unfinished emotional pattern. Translation: Your shy guy’s pheromones or gestures or speech pattern mimics that of someone you never got over. Yes, your brain is trying to doctor an old wound and using this new man as the stand-in for your love interest in the failed relationship. How do I know? Easy.

You’re clinging to a relationship that will not work. If your brain operated in present tense, it would see a man who tosses you aside whenever someone sparkly comes along. Yes, your brain would see a man who gets sloshed and calls you to whine about his inability to meet you as an equal. If reality was your brain’s operating system, you would see yourself as a woman craving a man who is ambivalent about her.

Can you acknowledge reality more honestly now? If so, tell this

The chemistry between me and this girl is off the charts. When we’re apart, I can’t get her out of my head.

She’s older than me, but I don’t care.

All I want is to be with her. She talks about me moving in with her and about us going on vacations together, but when I try to make plans, she gets angry and accuses me of trying to control her. I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong, or how it goes downhill so fast. Her ex-husband was a control freak, but I’m not. How do I let her know?

Slow down. If you keep trying to do everything right, you won’t be able to keep everything real. Desperation, born of your fear of losing your girlfriend, is layered into your well-meant efforts to prove your love. That’s why she scrapes you off like a barnacle. So, yeah, you’re not going to like my advice, but here it is: Back off.

The next time she talks about cohabitating or vacationing together, smile. As you smile, let yourself mentally enjoy the thought of those experiences with her. If you can control yourself, say nothing. If you must say something, try this: “Sounds good.”

Don’t insist on syncing calendars. Just enjoy the daydream for what it is. If the relationship has legs, a move-in plan or holiday schedule will arise naturally. When it does, keep your sanity. Suggest a weekend away or a staycation at her place (or yours) before jumping too fast into something that you neither of you is ready to manage. Ω

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man that the two of you will no longer be in contact. Once you let your brain know what you want, it can support you in making dating choices that are wise, worthy and wonderful.

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I met a man at church two years ago and felt an immediate spiritual connection.

We share emotions easily (I am more extroverted, and he is shy with others but open with me), and our sexual electricity is intense.

But he has a tendency to not call me for weeks, and during that period, he dates someone else.

It’s a different woman each time, someone he meets online

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Do you really want to convince him to buy into your fantasy? You believe that sexual attraction and a shared spiritual perspective indicate enough chemistry for commitment.

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Ha-ha, you’re dead Why I Died, A Comedy!

Katie Rubin, a UC Davis grad known for her one-woman productions, returns to Capital Stage for a two-night stand this week in her latest, Why I by Kel Munger Died, A Comedy! Rubin, who’s had roles in a number of Capital Stage productions, is now based in Southern California, although she’s touring nationally with this new solo show and as a stand-up comedian.

Why I Died, which was well-received at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, is a rambling and hilarious look at spiritual death. Rubin describes it as “a drama wrapped in comedy.”

“This show tells the story of my journey into, through and sort of out of a very deep spiritual process through the Sufi path,” she told SN&R. “While I was doing that I was simultaneously trying to write my third show, so this is the story of trying to live a comedic performer life while dying spiritually and being like spiritually reborn in a new way.”

hippie who’s my best friend”—as well as characters from the play she was working on at the time—“a Texas infomercial saleswoman.”

“At the heart of it, there’s a really simple narrative,” Rubin said, “but around it are all these other concepts.” It has to be funny, she said, or else it would be too heavy-handed.

Apparently, the road to spiritual health is paved with plenty of chuckles and guffaws. Ω

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Several one-time performances and a small show with a short run highlight this week’s theater offerings.

William a. Parker is back in town with a one-man show that gets a single performance at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 7, at The Guild Theater (2828 35th Street). Theatergoers may recall that Parker emerged in Sacramento a decade ago, staging strong black theater productions.

Parker’s play Waitin’ 2 End Hell (favorably reviewed by SN&R in 2003) went on to a New York production, netting Parker reviews in The New York Times and the Village Voice. Parker lives in Atlanta now, and he’s still writing plays. His upcoming solo show at the Guild is called Da’ Plantation – Racism… Time of the Gentile, and it’s steeped in Biblical prophecies and historic photos. There is adult content in it, so it’s meant for mature audiences. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at www.parkersplays.com.

Capital Stage continues its Playwrights’ Revolution series of staged readings on Thursday, August 7, with The Purveyors, by local playwright, actor and director Anthony D’Juan. There are more staged readings of other scripts nightly from Tuesday, August 12, through Thursday, August 14. Readings are at 7 p.m. at Capital Stage (2215 J Street). Tickets are $5. Visit www.capstage.org or call (916) 995-5464 for more info.

Acme Theatre Company in Davis is staging The Rememberer by Steven Dietz, based on the story of a young Native American girl who was taken from her home and put in a government-run school in 1911. Acme is a high-end youth-run company. The Rememberer’s remaining performances are at 7 p.m. nightly from Thursday, August 7, through Saturday, August 9; and at 4 p.m. on Sunday, August 10, in the Richard Brunelle Performance Hall at Davis High School (315 W. 14th Street in Davis).

Tickets cost $8-$14 and can be purchased at www.acmetheatre.net or at the door.

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Under stress and eager to please, the question of whether or not she can find peace and still be funny results in a show with one woman, a number of characters—“we keep making up numbers” she said—music, poetry and enough laughter to reach enlightenment.

Rubin is clear that audiences should not expect anything even resembling religious proselytizing.

“Sufism isn’t really a religion; Sufism is the mystical arm of a religion, and that’s a really important distinction,” she said. “Sufism is to Islam as Kabbalah is to Judaism, or as Christian mysticism is to Christianity.”

She describes religion as being about doctrine, dogma and rules, while the mysticism is about “chanting and praying and meditating to bring you close to the divine in your actual body.”

And that can be fairly difficult while trying to keep a career on track in Hollywood. The show incorporates characters based on real people in her life at the time—“a really out-there spiritual

—Jeff Hudson

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This Shakespeare comedy moves from the stressful, politicized city (in director Edward Morgan’s take, America’s gritty industrial age, circa 1900) to an idealized vision of bucolic rural life (an Adirondack campout, replete with venison, campfire sing-alongs and romance). Morgan works in touches of vaudeville (Touchstone tries tap dancing), the costumes and sets are lovely, the cast is almost entirely professional, and the lakeside venue is beautiful. It’s a stylish, confidently staged show. Tu, W, Th, F, Sa, Su 7:30pm. Through 8/24. $15-$85. Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival at Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Hwy. 28 in Incline Village, Nev.; (800) 741-4697; www.laketahoeshakespeare.com. J.H.

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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.

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Poor George (Eason Donner), the linguistics professor who struggles to speak what’s in his heart. Julia Cho’s play tells the story of his struggle to record a vanishing language spoken by battling spouses (Shaleen Schmutzer-Smith and Scott Divine) who prefer to fight in English, the language of “hatred,” while his wife (Jessa Berkey) leaves him, and his assistant (Elizabeth Holzman) pines away for his love. It’s a fascinating look at the power of language and human emotion, directed by Benjamin T. Ismail, with a fantastic set by Brian Watson. Th, F, Sa 8pm. Through 8/23. $10-$20. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.com. K.M.

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Though the story and its overall messages can get a bit convoluted under all the theatrics, songs, the play-within-aplay concept and the playwright’s plotlines, this theatrical spectacle is entertaining and absorbing.

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.

F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 8/10. $15-$20. California Stage Theater at the R25 Arts Complex, 1725 25th St.; (916) 451-5822; www.calstage.org. P.R.

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This is how every Scot dresses, right?

There will be kilt This week, California Musical Theatre’s summer Music Circus series revives Brigadoon. This 1947 musical was the first big hit for the songwriting team of Lerner and Loewe (who would later write My Fair Lady and Camelot). Audiences just after World War II loved shows involving an escape to a hidden paradise where the world’s troubles faded from the mind. In this show, two American guys on a hunting trip stumble upon a mysterious Scottish village from the past that emerges from the mist of time for just one day, every 100 years. Needless to say, there’s a love story involving a Scottish lassie which unfolds through plenty of singing and dancing. And, chances are, there will be a kilt or two. $35-$89, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday; 7:30 p.m. on Friday; at the Wells Fargo Pavilion, 1419 H Street; (916) 557-1999; www.sacramentomusiccircus.com.

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Disaster strikes out Into the Storm Into the Storm, the new disaster movie directed by Steven Quale from a script by John Swetnam, has many of the attributes that money can buy and all of by Jim Lane the clichés that Quale and Swetnam could dredge up. At least I hope it’s all they could dredge up; I’d hate to think they’re saving any for later.

The movie is essentially a rehash of Twister.

When I first saw the preview trailer a couple of months back, I remember thinking, “Already?”

But actually, Twister came out 18 years ago.

Hard to believe, isn’t it? Seems like only a couple of summers since we watched that cow mooing her way around the funnel cloud. After 18 years, something like Into the Storm was probably overdue, especially with the advances in computer-generated imagery since ’96.

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Those effects, in fact, are what Into the Storm spends most of its time on. Most of its money, too. Anyhow, there wasn’t much left over for big-name stars. Don’t expect to see the 2014 equivalent of Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt— or Cary Elwes and Jami Gertz—here. The cast is made up entirely of earnest no-names with pretty, vaguely familiar faces—the kind you feel sure you’ve seen before but can’t quite remember where. On a soap opera? A guest spot on NCIS? A Prius commercial? Everybody speaks their lines clearly in a distinct voice and with a straight face. None of them needs to start working up an American Film Institute Life Achievement Award speech just yet, but nobody has anything to apologize for, either.

As for Swetnam’s script—well, some apologies may be in order there. Back in 1996 for Twister, Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin at least had the wit to crib their story from the 1940 newspaper comedy His Girl Friday. Into the Storm has to make do with what Swetnam is able to come up with, and all he seems to know is YouTube.

Has anything in screen history become a tired cliché faster than the conceit of presenting a movie as if it were made up of found video?

I think the idea behind this kind of yank-me-around-again cinematography used to be that it somehow made a movie look more “realistic”—sort of the way old-school moviemakers used to regard black-and-white photography. But the more movies that adopt the style, the more it begins to look like the lazy way out, as if the people behind it are thinking they might as well make the movie look like it was shot with handheld iPad, because that’s where it’s going to end up, anyway.

It’s definitely the lazy way out when it comes to that bane of all screenwriters, exposition. You don’t have to bother working it into credible dialogue; you don’t even have to resort to a voice-over or an opening screen crawl like an episode of Star Wars. Just have an actor turn to the camera, clear his throat and say, “Let’s see, what should you know about me?” Or he can train the camera on someone else and tell you all about them.

The beauty of this is that the more awkward it is, the more “real” it looks. Swetnam pulls this ploy time and again. It’s how we meet most of the personages in Into the Storm (it would be stretching a point to call them characters).

There are the storm chasers, Pete the hunch-player (Matt Walsh) and Allison the data-cruncher (Sarah Wayne Callies), cruising the highways of Tornado Alley in an armored monstrosity they call Titus. (Titus, Pete says, has an anchor system that can withstand winds up to 170 mph— which tells us that we’re going to see winds a lot faster than that.) Then, in the town where the tornado convention is about to meet, there are Gary, the vice principal at the high school (Richard Armitage), his two teenage sons (Max Deacon, Nathan Kress), and the older boy’s secret crush (Alycia Debnam Carey). Plus two “amateur daredevil” cretins, Donk (Kyle Davis) and Reevis (Jon Reep)—or, as I couldn’t resist dubbing them, Reevis and Rutthead. There are others, but most of them are simply corpses in waiting who make no particular impression.

Has anything in screen history become a tired cliché faster than the conceit of presenting a movie as if it were made up of found video?

As for the storm itself—or storms, really— well, you’ve seen the trailer, haven’t you? That’s all here and more. The destructive effects, despite occasional flashes of cheese, are generally good and sometimes quite impressive. After all, that’s the part money could buy. Ω

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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 factory-tested, 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.

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The Fluffy Movie

So much of a stand-up comedian’s success hinges on their ability to connect to an audience, and to connect the people in the audience to each other through laughter. The material of comedian Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias seems especially dependent on an audience investment in the inspirational and emotional aspects of his life story, from his battle with morbid obesity to his rocky relationship with his girlfriend’s son to his own estranged father. That’s the appeal of The Fluffy Movie, an affable but unremarkable feature-length stand-up concert documentary filmed over two nights in San Jose, and the problem. There is a casual and somewhat lazy assumption in the material that the viewer is already familiar with the Fluffy origin story, so The Fluffy Movie is both an insufficient entry point for newbies, and a too-familiar series of callbacks for longtime Fluffy fans. D.B.

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Get on Up

The life of James Brown, from his dirt-poor childhood in Georgia to his reign as the “Godfather of Soul,” provides grist for a standard Hollywood musical biopic. The best reason to see it is Chadwick Boseman’s powerhouse performance as Brown; he goes as deep into the character as the shallow script (by Steven Baigelman and Jez and John-Henry Butterworth) and direction (by Tate Taylor) will allow.

The movie jumps around in time, perhaps to make the cameo roles of Viola Davis (as Brown’s mother) and Octavia Spencer (as his “aunt,” a bordello-keeper) seem bigger than they are. Boseman gets stronger support from Nelsan Ellis as sideman Bobby Byrd and Dan Aykroyd as manager Ben Bart. Aside form that, there’s Brown’s music, which is faithfully reproduced and gives a good sense of Brown’s charisma in concert. J.L.

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The Grand Seduction

A withering Canadian fishing village hopes to land a new factory to revitalize the local economy, but they must have a local doctor, so the town’s mayor (Brendan Gleeson) schemes to waylay a just-passingthrough plastic surgeon (Taylor Kitsch) and convince him that this is just the place to put down roots. Written by Michael Dowse and Ken Scott and directed by Don McKellar, the movie is another specimen of that British whimsy that stretches from 1949’s Kind Hearts and Coronets to The Full Monty and

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A seemingly limitless stream of pure empathy runs through Richard Linklater’s transcendental movie event/social experiment/lifeaffirming headtrip Boyhood. At the end of the film’s first seamlessly interwoven vignette, 6-year-old Mason (Ellar Coltrane, literally growing up on camera) and his family are moving away from their sleepy Texas town. As the car drives off, Mason’s playmate speeds up on his bike for one last glimpse, barely visible through the tall grasses of fading memory. This is the first of many forgettable friends who will flit in and out of Mason’s young life. Late in the film, when Mason is a college-bound teenager, an adult offers that post-adolescence is “where you find your people,” and Mason can barely refrain from rolling his eyes. The miracle of Boyhood is that we empathize with everyone in this scenario, even with the nameless and forgotten playmate starring in his own alternate-universe movie life. D.B. beyond—which is a little odd, since it’s an English-language remake of a French-Canadian movie of 2003. The villagers’ chicanery is sometimes more exasperating than amusing, but the two stars, along with a supporting cast of eccentric actors largely unknown outside Canada, keep the charm level high enough to entertain. J.L.

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In last year’s hollow and dutiful Thor: The Dark World, the climax took place in a red cloud. In James Gunn’s busy and dispiriting Marvel comic-book adaptation Guardians of the Galaxy, it takes place in a purple cloud. Progress! With an ensemble cast that includes a talking raccoon and a sentient tree, Guardians of the Galaxy is more ostensibly a comedy than other Marvel properties like Thor and Captain America, but it offers roughly the same amount of jokey and juvenile bickering as those other films. Far from upending the Marvel formula, this is just another entry in its spreadsheet, The Avengers minus the monstrous egos.

Gunn juggles several different MacGuffins, but the only point is to create a through line to the next movie: Just like everything else in the Marvel cinematic universe, Guardians of the Galaxy exists solely to advertise its own as-yet-unmade sequels. D.B.

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I Origins

A Ph.D. student in molecular biology (Michael Pitt) with a fascination with people’s eyes—he’s taken thousands of photos of them—meets a mysterious young woman (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey), then loses her on their wedding day. Six years later, he’s married to his former lab assistant (Brit Marling), and their joint research into ocular evolution leads him into almost mystical areas that his cool, methodical mind can hardly grasp. Writer-director Mike Cahill follows his first feature, the ridiculous Another Earth, with a huge improvement, a striking work of metaphysical science fiction. The skeptical hero’s research—his search, really—forces him to confront ideas and concepts he has always dismissed, and he glimpses some of those “more things in heaven and earth” that Hamlet warned Horatio about. J.L.

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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).

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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.

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Slow and steady wins the race After more than four decades, Israel Vibration sets its own schedule Reggae fans have almost always been a different type of concertgoer. Not only do they provide the bands they love with an extremely loyal by Eddie Jorgensen following, they usually show up en masse to concerts expecting a start time other than the one advertised.

Perhaps not coincidentally, the members of roots-reggae bands tend to do everything on their own, slow, and certainly not methodical, schedule.

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Although Israel Vibration’s first recording went awry in 1975 after the band recorded its “Bad Intention” single at the legendary Channel One Studio—the release never saw the light of day—Spence said they learned from the experience.

“We had a disagreement with the label, and we didn’t feel comfortable staying. That’s that,” Spence said.

Eventually, the band made it to RAS Records—home to such reggae greats as the Wailers Band, Yellowman, Black Uhuru and Luciano. There, they released numerous records before joining Mediacom in 2007.

The label switch was necessary, Spence said.

“Let’s just say that over the years, RAS could have done a lot more for us,” he said.

It’s been more than four years since Israel Vibration released an album, but the duo isn’t resting. The band tours regularly—although these days the venues tend to be smaller clubs instead of the big-money festival circuit it once populated.

No problem, Spence said, the vibe is just the same.

Well, mostly.

“Sometimes the festivals bring a different energy, but I still think they are both interesting,” Spence said. “However, there is a little more pressure at festival shows. With as many as 15 or 20 acts on a festival, you are competing and need to bring your A game.”

Up next, the band plans to record in September and also continue touring. At some point, Spence said, he and Bulgin would like to bring it all back home with a return to Jamaica.

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Israel Vibration performs on Sunday, August 10, at Assembly Music Hall, located at 1000 K Street.

The show begins at 7:30 p.m., and tickets are $22.

Simple Creation is also on the bill.

See www.israelvibration.com for more on the band.

Take, for example, what it took to even get an interview with Israel Vibration, the Jamaican roots-reggae band set to appear on Sunday, August 10, at Assembly Music Hall: Repeated phone calls and too many unsuccessful emails—and that was just to find a band contact. Finally, however, an interview was arranged and completed. Well, after the scheduled interview time and day was changed several times, that is.

Still, perhaps the band has earned a right to set its own schedule.

The original members of Israel Vibration— Cecil “Skelly” Spence, Lascelle “Wiss” Bulgin and Albert “Apple Gabriel” Craig—all met at an early age while at the Mona Rehabilitation Centre in Jamaica where they received treatment for polio.

Later, they formed a band and have toured and released albums for more than four decades—first as a trio, and later as a duo when, in the late ’90s, Craig left to pursue a solo career.

Spence, now 60, now looks back on that time at the rehabilitation clinic as a positive experience.

“It was a good experience for me. The workers took good care of us, and I got to visit my family in the summertime,” said Spence, his voice giving off a barely discernible Jamaican accent.

“ There is a little more pressure at festival shows. With as many as 15 or 20 acts on a festival, you are competing and need to bring your A game.”

Cecil “Skelly” Spence Israel Vibration “I would like to … give something back. I’d like the band to do a free concert if possible at the Mona Rehabilitation Centre,” Spence said.

Expect it to happen—but, as with anything on the band’s schedule, just don’t expect it to happen anytime soon. Ω

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toward dubstep. A crowd of dancers gathered as soon as Sister Crayon spun “Help Me Lose My Mind,” by British electronic duo Disclosure with London Grammar. I eagerly joined said crowd, though hearing that sultry voice mostly made me wish I could listen to Lopez sing as well.

For the uninitiated, Lopez has some powerful pipes—rich, raw, wild, haunting, emotional. And live, Sister Crayon is made more dynamic with keys and drums. The band is releasing its second full-length album later this year—on Facebook, Sister Crayon teased that the record has already been tracked. Good thing Sacramento can already look forward to seeing Lopez and Fernandez again soon: In October, Sister Crayon is slotted to play TBD Fest in West Sacramento.

Gastromusic: I’m headed to Outside Lands on Friday and am already looking forward to telling you what you missed. It’s long been sold-out, but you can probably still find your way to an overpriced ticket.

The lineup isn’t incredible. Kanye West, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, and the Killers hold the headlining slots, but there are some superfun electronic artists in the mix—Disclosure, Duck Sauce, Boys Noize, Gold Panda, Tiësto— and newer, popular alt-pop-rock BEFORE | NEWS

Fake gold: My bad announcing that Goldfield Trading Post was ready for business in last week’s Sound Advice. The owners of the upcoming country bar and restaurant—the same duo that brought Sacramento Ace of Spades and Assembly Music Hall—seemed awfully confident with their various paid advertisements and social-media statuses emblazoning an August 1 opening.

Sadly, construction delays proved insurmountable.

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bands—Chvrches, Local Natives, Grouplove—and a couple really legit rock bands—Arctic Monkeys, the Flaming Lips. Though, mostly what I see in the lineup is nostalgia for several years ago, like Death Cab for Cutie, Dum Dum Girls, Spoon and Jenny Lewis. Luckily, everyone’s teenage crushes on Spoon and Jenny Lewis were both validated by The New York Times in back-toback magazine features these past few weeks.

My favorite thing about Outside Lands, though, has always been its selection of edibles. Not that kind: The festival nabs major San Francisco Bay Area chefs to cater, and the menu is always high quality, diverse and not insanely expensive.

Think Korean bulgogi tacos, South American arepas, deconstructed samosas, pork belly bao, porcini doughnuts and even shucked raw oysters. And if you really just want festival food, San Francisco’s chefs are apparently not above doughnut cheeseburgers and funnel cake.

But brand-new this year, Outside Lands is pairing its culinary stars with musicians, comedians, dancers and other entertainers in a program called GastroMagic. Yes, magicians are on the menu, too.

That means yet another lineup to pay attention to. With seats free on a first come, first serve basis—and limited to 10 fans—the gatherings are seriously intimate. Holy Ghost! will spin while a chocolatier works his magic onstage. Big Freedia will call on fans to twerk in exchange for beignets. Duck Sauce will perform while a chef cooks duck.

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Home girls: Terra Lopez and Dani Fernandez shook up Dive Bar last Wednesday night during a feel-good homecoming. The ladies are the voice and synth behind Sister Crayon, the electronic soul duo that got its start in Sacramento before relocating to Oakland.

The long and skinny lounge was packed with Sister Crayon’s fans and friends—groups of attractive, alternative, female 20-somethings— who didn’t quite mix with the Dive Bar regulars. Then, there were a whole lot of cheese-industry folks from the American Cheese Society Conference, eagerly waiting for the famed mermaid to appear.

Sister Crayon’s deejay set was balanced, consistent, lengthy and walked that line between commanding attention and making room for conversation. In other words, ideal for a bar’s special-guest deejay set.

Lopez bobbed her green flatbilled hat-wearing head, pumped her fists in the air and sang. Fernandez swayed hunched over sound gear.

The music flowed between hip-hop,

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Thunder Valley Casino Resort, 7 p.m., $37.75-$89.75 Deep Purple may be headlining this show, but never discount the drawing power of New York’s Blue Öyster Cult. Since its first ROCK self-titled release in 1972, the group’s “cult” following has grown exponentially. While many will recognize its hits like “Godzilla,” “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” and “Burnin’ for You,” there’s always a notso-popular song thrown into sets to satiate the appetites of its devoted legions. Original members Eric Bloom (singer) and Donald Brian “Buck Dharma” Roeser (lead guitar and vocals) have carried the name through many lineup changes. BÖC’s Allen Lanier (keyboards and guitar) died in 2013, but the band still delivers the goods like it was the mid-’70s. 1200 Athens Avenue in Lincoln, www.blueoystercult.com.

Crest Theatre, 8 p.m., $35-$55 Robert Cray is an eloquent bluesman whose soulful vocal style, moaning guitar solos and upbeat tempos have established him as one of the best in the genre for 30 years. Songs like “Smoking Gun” and “The Forecast (Calls for Pain)” are modern blues standards. On the Robert Cray Band’s latest album In My Soul, he strives to capture the soulful spirit of the early ’60s and ’70s. A cover of Otis Redding’s “Nobody’s Fault but Mine” and an instrumental called “Hip Tight Onions” are nods to the sound of Memphis’ Stax Records.

BLUES Random trivia: Cray was also the bassist for Otis Day and the Knights in the classic comedy film Animal House. 1013 K Street, www.robertcray.com.

—Paul Piazza

Harris Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m., $25-$49 If you have yet to see the 2014 Academy Award winner for Documentary Feature, then hurry up and check out 20 Feet From Stardom, which tells the story of some of the music industry’s most respected backup singers, including the incomparable Darlene Love. Although Love iniPOP tially didn’t receive credit for her lead vocals on the 1962 hit by the Crystals, “He’s a Rebel,” the Los Angeles native’s lead vocals eventually earned her widespread kudos. Some of her most notable moments include her vocal contribution on the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” and Frank Sinatra’s “That’s Life,” as well as her own starring turn on the 1963 holiday classic A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector. 10 College Parkway in Folsom, http://darleneloveworld.com.

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Center for the Arts, 8 p.m., $12-$15 Over the last few years, the Dustbowl Revival has made quite an impression on the music world. Between recording a stellar EP and two albums—including its most recent, 2013’s Carry Me Home—as well as a Daytrotter (online radio) session, the band has shown the world just how dynamic its music is at live shows. This roots collective gets the blood pumping with Motowntinged rock and soul numbers like “Feels Good”—featuring Liz Beebe’s showstopping vocals—before switching gears to include more jazz-based, ragtime tracks like “Edgar Allan Poe,” or even a vaudevillian jaunt by way of bluegrass with the lively ROOTS “Soldier’s Joy.” It’s all crowdpleasing stuff. 314 W. Main Street in Grass Valley, www.dustbowlrevival.com.

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Remember Bob Dylan? Like, early Bob Dylan?

Old-school folk music on acoustic guitar with serious wit and serious themes? Rin Tin Tiger plays in a similar style, evoking nostalgia for that time period, while simultaneously reflecting on contemporary society in its lyric-driven music. And live, the San Francisco-based trio is known for its full-throttle, nearly reckless energy (à la later Dylan). Cue foot-stomping and hand-clapping from the audience—hopefully getting a little reckless, too. Also playing: the Hollow Point Stumblers and its melting pot FOLK ROCK of Slavic, Balkan, Latin and Americana influences, plus lots of instruments and languages; and the West Nile Ramblers, with danceable, garage country. 129 E Street, Suite E in Davis; www.rintintiger.com.

All the cool people listened to it back in the day, but they’d never admit they were closet soft-rock junkies, waiting to get SOFT ROCK their fix of Christopher Cross, Ace, Kenny Loggins, or a number of other musicians and bands whose music was often collected into an early version of a mix-tape and offered for sale under the K-Tel label.

“Escape” with a piña colada from the “Evil Woman” who might be a “Maneater” named “Rosanna” or “Peg” waiting at “Hotel California” when this party band covers these and other soft-rock hits, like Steely Dan’s “Hey Nineteen,” Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” or Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long” for your dance—or sing-along—pleasure.

2708 J Street, www.mustacheharbor.com.

—Janelle Bitker

Assembly Music Hall, 6:30 p.m., $12

Shine, 8 p.m., $5

Los Angeles trio Sir Sly is everything you might expect of an indie-pop band that’s signed to a major label in the EDM era: They’re handsome dudes making polished, highly efficient pop music. It’s shiny, catchy fare that seems tailor-made to serve as the soundtrack to a movie or video-game trailer (in fact, the group’s breakout single “Gold” was on the Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag trailer last year). The band is on an INDIE POP extensive cross-country tour in preparation for the September 16 release of its debut album You Haunt Me. It’s a Wednesday-night show you shouldn’t miss—srsly, it’s going to be awsm.

1000 K Street, http://sir-sly.com.

R&B singer Daryl Black has a lot going for him. He’s got skill, he’s charismatic and he knows how to make a crowd feel good.

When he auditioned for X Factor in 2012, all four judges practically leaped out of their R&B chairs to give him a “yes.” Though he didn’t win the show, he did make it to the top 24, and now even fronts the Gap Xperience, a band featuring original members of the Gap Band. Originally from St. Louis, Black now calls Sacramento home and will play his solo material next week at Shine. His tunes are a mixture of soul, rock and gospel, with spine-tingling poppy choruses—all carried by his dynamic voice.

1400 E Street, www.darylblack.com.

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

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SPREADCREAM, SHARKS FROM MARS, THE AUXILLARY, O’MULLIGANS; 8pm, $5

ZEROCLIENT, NEVER AWAKE, MISAMORE, MADISON AVE; 8pm, $7

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CAGE, SADISTIK, MAULSKUL, MAX BUNDLES; 8pm, $12-$15

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9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 GHOST, ALEX VINCENT BAND; 8pm, $14

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DJ Whores, 10pm, no cover

UNDERCOVER BAND, 9pm-midnight, $5

THE FUNK ROCKERS, 9pm-midnight, $5

CATHERINE RUSSELL & HER TRIO, HOT CITY; 7pm, $27.50

MUSTACHE HARBOR, 10pm, $12

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Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693 2431 J St., (916) 448-8768

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RACE TO THE BOTTOM, VANISHING AFFAIR, ALEX VINCENT BAND; 8pm, $10

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Marilyn’s Talent Showcase, 6pm, no cover

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

The Drop, house and ’90s hip-hop w/ DJ Jonathan, Funktion; 9pm-2am, $3-$5

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

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

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CASEY GROAT, MEETING JOE SUMMERS, ERIN JARVIS; 8:30pm, $5

BELLE NOIRE, IDLEHANDS, ANIMALS IN THE ATTIC; 8:30pm, $5

SCOTT IVEY, JORDAN MCDOUGAL, VALEMBROSA; 8:30pm, $5

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Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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MOURNING MOUNTAIN, WOLFGANG VEGA, HUMBLE WOLF; 9pm, $5

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HELLFIRE, KINNEFRET, AMONG THE TORRENT, IMPERIAL OMEN; 8pm, $7

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Open-mic comedy, 9pm, no cover

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

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SUNDAY 8/10

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

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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

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Top 40, 9pm, no cover

PJ’S ROADHOUSE

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

KENNY FRYE BAND, 10pm, call for cover

THE PRESS CLUB

2030 P St., (916) 444-7914

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TESSIE MARIE & THE POOR MAN BAND, 9pm, no cover

SOPHIA’S THAI KITCHEN

DELTA CITY RAMBLERS, KEVIN LEE FLORENCE; 9pm, $5

1409 R St., (916) 231-9121

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

STARLITE LOUNGE

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SWABBIES

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TORCH CLUB

904 15th St., (916) 443-2797

Catherine Russell & Her Trio with Hot City 7pm Friday, $27.50.

Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub Jazz and blues

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SPAZMATICS, 10pm, call for cover

COLE FONSECA, 3pm, call for cover

THE DEVILS TRAIN, INFAMOUS SWANKS, GOOD SAMARITANS; 8pm W, $5

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

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

Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

The Deep End w/ DJs Cue22, Druskee and R3lease; 9:30pm Tu, no cover

TWIGHLIGHT DRIFTERS, 9pm, no cover

GOLDEN CADILLACS, 9pm, no cover

EMILY KOLLARS, 9pm, no cover

DJ Crook, 9pm Tu, no cover; THE DELTAS, 9pm W, no cover

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

RIN TIN TIGER, HOLLOW POINT STUMBLERS, WEST NILE RAMBLERS; 9pm, $5 YO DABBA DABBA, TZOLKEEN, ZEPHYR, THE BAD DECISION, FLYTRAPS FOR FREAKSHOW; 9pm, call for cover SUPPER; 9pm, call for cover

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Country dance party, 8pm, no cover

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HEARTLESS, SUPERHUEY; 4pm, $8

URGENT, 3pm, call for cover

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm, no cover; CON BRIO, 9pm, $8

MR. DECEMBER, 9pm, $8

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Bill Mylar, 5:30pm Tu; Acoustic open-mic, 5:30pm W; KERI CARR BAND, 9pm W, $6

COLD BEAT, RANK XEROX, SCREATURE, ODWALLA; 8pm, $6

POWER ALTAR, CLOUD LITE, BEAST NEST, FELIDAE; 8pm W, $5

WATTS & DELZER, BAD CONNECTION, LIZ BENSON; 6:30pm, $5

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FUTUREWANG, CHIKADING!, THE JUNGLE; 8pm, $5

ABBY NORMAL, TOMMY ALTO, PILGRIM; 8pm, $5

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—Norm Madic I can probably think of a few things. Late August marks the beginning of hemp-fest season, and the hemp fests this year should be epic. There’s the Seattle Hempfest, a.k.a. the world’s largest “protestival.” Last year, more than 200,000 people showed up to party for pot, and this year should be an even larger turnout. Expect BEALUM the recreational-cannabis dispensaries to run out of

by NGAIO weed early (August 15-17, www.hempfest.org).

On the same weekend, CannaCon will be at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington. Look a sk420@ ne wsreview.c om for booths and seminars and general trade-show festivities (August 14-17, www.cannacon.org).

The Jefferson State Hemp Expo is always a great time.

Last year, Curtis Salgado and Portland, Oregon, guitar ’13 phenom Scott Pemberton caused a literal rainstorm (dude, like a serious rainstorm: We spent all the next morning putting the stage back together) during a blistering set on the main stage. This year, expect headliners David Grisman Bluegrass Experience to cause a good-natured ruckus. This event, which takes place in Grants Pass, Oregon, is great for the family (August 22-24, Last year, more whole www.jeffersonstatehemp than 200,000 people expo.com).

Portland will be abuzz showed up to party (you heard me) with activities for pot, and this year cannabis-related for about two weeks in should be an even September. First up, the International Cannabis larger turnout. Business Conference. This is definitely more of a conference than a festival, but the lineup of speakers (Andrew Sullivan, Ed Rosenthal, Steve DeAngelo, Laura Blanco de León from Uruguay and many more), combined with the seminars and networking opportunities should be a wonk’s delight (September 13-14, www.internationalcbc.com).

Afterward, you can kick it in Portland for a while and then hit up Hempstalk. This year’s edition will feature a new, easier to access location just south of downtown, and great entertainment. John Trudell and Bad Dog (if you don’t know about Trudell, you are doing it wrong: He is an OG badass activist-poet-musician, and seeing him should be on your bucket list) will be there, plus all kinds of other music and food trucks and a good hemp fashion show (September 27-28, www.hempstalk.org).

Ngaio Bealum Sin City is getting in on the action with its very own Las is a Sacramento Vegas Hempfest on October 4. I think this is the first one. comedian, activist Aside from taking place right at the beginning of harvest and marijuana expert. season (my guess is no one grows outdoors in Vegas), this Email him questions at ask420@ should be a good event. Any festival with a comedy tent is newsreview.com. aces in my book (www.lasvegashempfest.com).

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t just

be smart and articulate, Aries. Dare to be wildly wise and prone to unruly observations. Don’t merely be kind and wellbehaved. Explore the mysteries of healing through benevolent mischief. Don’t buy into the all-too-serious trances. Break up the monotony with your unpredictable play and funny curiosity. Don’t simply go along with the stories everyone seems to believe in as if they were the truth and the way. Question every assumption; rebel against every foregone conclusion; propose amusing plot twists that send the narratives off on interesting tangents.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In your

dreams you may travel to Stockholm, Sweden, to accept the Nobel Prize or to Hollywood to pick up your Oscar. There’s a decent chance that in your sleepy-time adventures you will finally score with the hot babe who rejected you back in high school, or return to the scene of your biggest mistake and do things right this time.

I wouldn’t be surprised if in one dream you find yourself riding in a gold chariot during a parade held in your honor. I’m afraid, however, that you will have to settle for less hoopla and glamor in your waking life. You will merely be doing a fantastic job at tasks you usually perform competently. You will be well-appreciated, well-treated and well-rewarded. That’s not so bad, right?

orazione penetra” is an old Italian idiom.

Its literal translation is “short prayers pierce” or “concise prayers penetrate.”

You can extrapolate from that to come up with the meaning that “God listens best to brief prayers.” In the coming week, I invite you to apply this idea whenever you ask for anything, whether you are seeking the favors of the Divine Wow or the help of human beings. Know exactly what you want, and express it with no-nonsense succinctness.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Every

February, you go through a phase when it’s easier to see the big picture of your life. If you take advantage of this invitation, your experience is like being on a mountaintop and gazing into the vastness.

Every August, on the other hand, you are more likely to see the details you have been missing. Transformations that have been too small and subtle to notice may become visible to you. If you capitalize on this opportunity, the experience is like peering through a microscope. Here’s a third variation, Gemini: Around the full moons of both February and August, you may be able to alternately peer into the microscope and simulate the view from a mountaintop. I think that’s about to happen.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Lake Superior State University issues a “Unicorn Questing Privilege” to those people who are interested in hunting for unicorns. Are you one of them? I wouldn’t be surprised if you felt an urge like that in the coming weeks. Unusual yearnings will be welling up in you. Exotic fantasies may replace your habitual daydreams. Certain possibilities you have considered to be unthinkable or unattainable may begin to seem feasible. Questions you have been too timid to ask could become crucial for you to entertain. (You can get your unicorn questing license here: http://tinyurl.com/ unicornlicense.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your

ethical code may soon be tested. What will you do if you see a chance to get away with a minor sin or petty crime that no one will ever find out about? What if you are tempted to lie or cheat or deceive in ways that advance your good intentions and only hurt other people a little bit or not at all? I’m not here to tell you what to do, but rather to suggest that you be honest with yourself about what’s really at stake. Even if you escape punishment for a lapse, you might nevertheless inflict a wound on your integrity that would taint your relationship with your own creativity. Contemplate the pleasures of purity and righteousness, and use them to enhance your power.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You

wouldn’t sip dirty water from a golden chalice. Am I right? Nor would you swig delicious poison from a fine crystal wine glass or 10-year-old vinegar from a queen’s goblet. I’m sure you will agree that you’d much rather drink a magical elixir from a paper cup, or a rejuvenating tonic from a chipped coffee mug, or tasty medicine out of a kids’ plastic soup bowl you bought at the thrift store. Don’t you dare lie to yourself about what’s best for you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Every 12 years,

the planet Jupiter spends about a year cruising through the sign of Leo. It’s there with you now and will be with you through early August 2015. What can you expect?

Expansion! That’s great, right? Yes and no.

You might love to have some parts of your life expand; others, not so much. So I suggest you write down your intentions. Say something like this: “I want Jupiter to help me expand my faith in myself, my power to do what I love and my ability to draw on the resources and allies I need. Meanwhile, I will prune my desires for things I don’t really need and cut back on my involvement with things that don’t inspire me. I don’t want those to expand.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The

thorn arms the roses,” says an old Latin motto. The astrological omens suggest you’ll be wise to muse on that advice in the coming weeks. How should you interpret it? I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions, of course, but here are a few hints. It may be that beauty needs protection, or at least buffering. It’s possible that you can’t simply depend on your sincerity and good intentions, but also need to infuse some ferocity into your efforts. In order for soft, fragile, lovely things to do what they do best, they may require the assistance of tough, strong, hearty allies.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): TV comedian

Stephen Colbert confesses that his safe word is “pumpkin patch.” Does that mean he participates in actual BDSM rituals?

Is it the code he utters when he doesn’t want the intensity to rise any further, when he doesn’t want his next boundary crossed? I don’t know. Perhaps he’s simply joking or speaking metaphorically. Whether or not you engage in literal BDSM, Virgo, there’s an aspect of your life right now that has metaphorical resemblances to it. And I suggest that you do the equivalent of using your safe word very soon. Nothing more can be gained from remaining embroiled in your predicament.

Even if the ordeal has been interesting or educational up until now, it won’t be for much longer. Escape your bondage.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you’re

planning to hurl a thunderbolt, make sure you are all warmed up and at full strength before you actually unleash it. It would be sad if you flung a half-assed thunderbolt that looked like a few fireflies and sounded like a cooing dove. And please don’t

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interpret my wise-guy tone here as a sign that I’m just kidding around. No, Libra.

This is serious stuff. Life is offering you opportunities to make a major impression, and I want you to be as big and forceful and wild as you need to be. Don’t tamp down your energy out of fear of hurting people’s feelings. Access your inner sky god or sky goddess, and have too much fun expressing your raw power.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Breve

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you go to

an American doctor to be treated for an ailment, odds are that he or she will interrupt you no more than 14 seconds into your description of what’s wrong. But you must not tolerate this kind of disrespect in the coming days, Pisces—not from doctors, not from anyone. You simply must request or, if necessary, demand the receptivity you deserve. If and when it’s given, I urge you to speak your truth in its entirety. Express what has been hidden and suppressed. And this is very important: Take responsibility for your own role in any problems you discuss.

You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785.

And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.

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Keep your feet clean It’s been nearly a decade since Zane Dobson and his wife Pamela moved from Roseville to rural Auburn, where in 2007 they started a microwinery, planting vines with a little help from friends and family.

The rest, as they say, is history for PaZa Vineyard and Winery. Well, if by “history,” one means hands-on field work and constant care. Dobson, originally from Oklahoma—where he nurtured a passion for car racing—also still works a 9-to-5 job as a principal engineering tech. Now, as he juggles that with this return to his salt-of-the-earth roots, Dobson (who admits he’s a bit compulsive) says he didn’t take his jump into viticulture lightly. Instead, he prepared by taking courses to better understand how to run a vineyard and winery, studying topics such as the pH balance in soil and how to operate corking machines. Dobson took a break from picking grapes to chat about foot stomping and how to deal with tipsy tasters.

Why wine?

After I moved [to California], Pamela and all her friends [and] family were into wine, and … I started learning about wine, [because] I hadn’t really had great wine.

I’m from Oklahoma, so it’s mostly just beer and spirits back there. I just really started enjoying it, the lifestyle. You know, you fall in love with the glamorous sides of the wine world, [but] the glamorous times are few and far between as an owner. We do have a lot of fun when we do have those times, but there’s a lot of hard work in between. To be able to create something from the beginning was really a dream, kind of a fantasy at first.

What were your goals?

We wanted to be this—an estate winery.

We wanted to grow our own fruit, we wanted to make the wine and have a direct connection with everything. It was creating something—art, almost. That connection that it was mine. I’m hoping it will shine through [in the wine].

Best part of owning a winery?

Probably all the friends we’ve made. The good times we have between the work.

For us, it’s brought our family even closer together. They always know it’s a good party place for family events. The friends and relationships we’ve developed is the best.

Do you foot-stomp all your grapes?

No, that’s just for fun. There are wineries that do that. They have real expensive wine and swear it is still the best way. It’s usually one of those things that people do for a few minutes, get the photo op and get out.

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Where is the wine made?

We have the old barn that we renovated—it looks a lot better now than when we started. It works out perfect.

Right now ... we have about 450 cases per season. Pamela and I joke, because we are into stainless steel instead of gold and diamonds for anniversaries. A few years ago, we bought each other a press, then a bottler and a destemmer. We’re a little twisted, but I still sneak a little jewelry in there for her when I can.

What is the process?

We love having friends and family [over].

I go through with everyone showing them [how to sort]. It’s really pretty simple. You know, you come across clusters that are not that great: If you wouldn’t want to eat it, you don’t want to make wine with it. So we sort the grapes on the vine. So it’s all hand harvested with a direct connection with the vine. It’s organic. We use only oak barrels; it usually stays in the barrel 12 to 18 months, sometimes even 24 months, so it’s a long-term investment. Then you start to taste when you think it’s getting close, until you make the decision. Pamela usually makes that decision; she has a better palate. Women usually have better palates.

How involved in the tastings do you get?

Very! It’s just the connection we like, it’s all the aspects we like. It’s really fun, and it’s a cool challenge to kind of expose people. |

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Some will say they don’t like cabernet or merlot, and you say, “Well, taste this one, it’s different.” And they kind of open their mind.

Do people try to pretend they know more about wine than they really do?

Occasionally, yeah, and what we’ve learned from it [is] that you let them. Somebody knows, that’s cool. The ones that make you kind of leery are the ones that you can tell really do, and they don’t tell you.

And you’re like, “Hmm, where do you work?” Wine people, overall, are really fun. They are a little adventurous, going on backroads and finding new things, meeting the owners.

Do they ever taste a little too much and get crazy?

Yeah, it’s not too much. It’s always a little bit of an uneasy feeling. You know, how do you cut them off or tell them it’s too much?

But the times you have those folks are usually during big weekend events, where they are trying to go to many [wineries] in one day, and they don’t have a driver, and you’re like, “Really? Eight wineries in one day?” These roads are windy, and there are cyclists and deer that decide to commit suicide. For those, you give them water, then more water and are like, “We have this light wine,” which is water. Ω

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