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e typically take photos to record moments, monuments and communities that speak to us in some way. Our photos reveal the things we believe in. Mhong Thao understands the power of images and is making contributions to his community of South Sacramento using a digital SLR. Mhong Thao is part of the Building Healthy Communities Youth Media Team, which records local events and addresses local issues through social media. Funding for the program comes from the California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities (BHC) initiative. It’s clear that with the BHC Youth Media Team, Mhong has found his niche and a message. Mhong has lost two uncles to drugs, and he has seen many of his classmates’ interest in education wane due to substance abuse. At the events he attends for the Youth Media Team, Mhong utilizes his vantage point as a photographer to educate youth on the dangers of drug use and the benefits of getting an education “There isn’t much happening in Sacramento, but drugs aren’t the thing to do,” he says. “Your mom feeds you, gives you a house and roof, and a room to live in — and all you can pay them back with is an education.” The recent Luther Burbank High School grad fi rst heard about the Youth Media Team through yearbook club. He remembers his fi rst time out with the team at an event at the Fruitridge
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Though Mhong recognizes that photography is an art, it would be an empty one without the subject. He’s proud to document the faces he sees at events in South Sacramento. “I just really want to promote my community. I try to talk to them, too, have their sons and daughters heard,” he says. “I am trying to bring them out there, and make sure they have a voice, too.” See the Youth Media Team’s coverage on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ SacramentoBHC, on Twitter @SacBHC and at the Sacramento BHC blog at www.sacbhc.org/blog.
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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. Mhong Thai, right, was trained in photography and social media skills as part of the Building Healthy Communities Youth Media Team. Alberto Mercado, left, helps train youth interns in the program. Photo by Louise Mitchell
Alberto Mercado, who organizes the BHC Youth Media Team, has mentored many young interns in the program. Team members are trained in photography, video editing and production and sent out to document and publish what they see through social media. Though the interns are passionate about multiple issues, each gravitates toward a topic that they then examine more deeply. “We don’t recruit kids that are already on their way to be successful — we open it up to anyone,” Mercado says. “There are life skills here and tools for use in social media. Instead of having those tools be used for a negative impact, they can be your ally.”
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Re “Being Mark S. Allen� by Jonathan Mendick (SN&R Feature Story, August 28): I stopped watching Good Day Sacramento because letter of at 4:30 in the morning I want news and weather, not the week Mark S. Allen in high-heel pumps and a black micromini. Maybe at 2 in the morning, but not at 4:30. For God’s sake. Victor Morales
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Re “Ferguson’s lessons� (SN&R Editorial, August 28): The lesson I draw from your dreadful editorial is that you folks are either very stupid or very dishonest. Anyone who wants to go to the trouble of looking at the Wikipedia article on the Michael Brown shooting will find that there are claims for evidence that would support the police narrative as well as the narrative that you uncritically endorse. When the eyewitness and physical evidence is carefully examined, it will be time to form firm opinions on who did what. Certainty  online buzz at this time is unjustified. After the insurrection following On leSSOnS tO be drawn frOm the first trial of the officers who beat Rodney King—and being ferguSOn: old enough to recall the riots in SN&R did high-quality reporting big cities every summer—I do not regarding Ferguson. I had not upbelieve that a firm response to riotdated myself on the unfortunate ing should be called a “militarizastory, and I am saddened to read the news and the editorials that tion� of the local police. Failing to will allow me insight into what control rioters was a big reason we happened. wound up with Nixon and Reagan. Lindsey Young We have seen how New York City via facebook went from crime-ridden to the safest big city in America with a firmer On the auguSt 28 cOver featuring hand by the police. The harm to the citizenry by crime totally eclipses mark S. allen: that of real and imagined police It’s awesome, although his legs misconduct. Reasonable efforts to are more muscular than this pic keep the police playing by the rules shows. Just saying. Don’t ask me are fine, but I seriously doubt that’s how I know that. what you want. Kenneth Rudulph via facebook Frank Grober Carmichael lol, it makes him look 30 years younger than he actually is.
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Did K.J.’s behind-thescenes strong-mayor moves lead to the firing of local union leader Bill Camp? One thing you’d expect the Sacramento Central Labor Council to get right: following labor rules. by Yet Bill Camp, the labor council’s Cosmo Garvin outspoken executive secretary, was fired without warning or reason last week—then co s mog@ newsr eview.c om reinstated after the AFL-CIO said his firing was illegal. Meanwhile, Camp’s supporters are now calling for the ouster of the labor leaders who tried to fire him. All this is apparently due to Mayor Kevin Johnson’s efforts to peel off labor support for his strong-mayor initiative. If the mayor’s plan was to divide and conquer, he is halfway there. The Sacramento Central Labor Council, or CLC, is made up of dozens of local labor unions, all coordinating to influence the political process and take action on issues important to labor. The people who fired Camp were CLC board president Lino Pedres, with the SEIU United Service Workers West union, and Margarita Maldonado, the labor council board’s recording secretary, who represents SEIU Local 1000. Camp said he was not told why he was fired. “They just told me ‘You’re fired, clean out your stuff.’” But events leading up to Camp’s dismissal suggest a power struggle in the local labor movement over the divisive strong-mayor proposal Measure L, which will appear on the ballot this fall. Since Johnson was elected in 2008, the CLC has taken a position against strong mayor. And, as executive secretary, Camp successfully sued to get a strong-mayor initative kicked off the ballot in 2010. This time, however, Johnson convinced enough members of the council’s executive board—Camp’s bosses—to recommend that the larger CLC membership vote to endorse Measure L. SN&R broke this But on August 19, at a subsequent meetstory on its blog, ing of the larger body of delegates from Page Burner. Follow: more than two dozen local unions, Measure www.newsreview.com/ pageburner. L again failed to get enough votes for an endorsement. Unions supporting strong mayor included SEIU Local 1000 (state workers), the local firefighters, sheet-metal workers, and grocery workers with the United Food and Commercial Workers union. Opposed were the stationary engineers (city workers), teachers and electrical workers, among others. SEIU Local 1021, which represents classified employees in the Sacramento City Unified School District, was also opposed. B E F O R E | N E W S | F E AT U R E
Bill Camp has always been against Kevin Johnson’s strong-mayor pitch. Did Johnson get Camp fired last week over the upcoming Measure L strong-mayor ballot initiative?
The votes were weighted according to the number of members in each union, but even with the advantage of SEIU Local 1000’s 24,000 members, the largest bloc in the labor council, the pro side came up short. Camp was vocal in his opposition. And delegates who attended the meeting said SEIU’s Maldonado was visibly upset about the outcome.
Instead, it appears that a phone poll had been taken the day before Camp was fired. Pedres told The Sacramento Bee that there was a unanimous decision by the labor council’s executive board to fire Camp. But CLC Vice President Dean Murakami, who represents the Los Rios College Federation of Teachers, said he was never included in that decision, and he resigned in protest over the firing. Since, Camp has been reinstated and Murakami’s resignation has been rescinded, too. Another executive board member also told SN&R they were not included in the vote to fire Camp. The CLC’s handling of Camp prompted a letter from AFL-CIO officials in Washington, saying that the labor council had violated Camp’s rights. Camp has been reinstated, but is now on paid leave pending an investigation into his work performance. The 70-year-old Camp—who has been in the job for 15 years, and who has become the face of the local labor movement—says he intends to retire next year. Pedres, Maldonado and SEIU Local 1000 president Yvonne R. Walker did not respond to interview requests. Pedres said in a prepared statement that Camp’s firing and the current investigation are a personnel matter. He also told the Bee the firing was not about Measure L, though the timing and the personalities involved suggest a connection to many.
Union member and democratic activist Eric Sunderland countered that some of those cheering Camp’s removal “want a more corporate-friendly labor council lined up with developers and corporate interests.” Sunderland is among those now trying to remove Pedres and Maldonado from their leadership positions, calling their activities an attempted “coup.” “I think the labor council will be better On the same day as the council’s Measure off in the long run, once we clean house a L vote, Grantland Johnson—local progresbit,” Sunderland said. sive hero and also a former labor-council Harold Fong, a chapter president for employee—died. Camp was one of the SEIU Local 1000, joined Sunderland in people to deliver a eulogy at Johnson’s handing out fliers in support of Camp at memorial service, attended by many politithe annual Labor Day gathering of labor cal figures, including former Mayor Heather activists and political candidates in Land Fargo and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Park on Monday. Fong said members of his Steinberg. union have not been asked for their opinion During his comments, Camp mentioned on Measure L. And he objected to the treatthat one of Grantland Johnson’s last politiment of Camp by SEIU leaders. “There was cal acts was to sign his name to the ballot no due process at all. It’s totally contrary to argument against Measure L. This caused what unions fight for.” a stir among the supporters of Measure L Like many picnic attendees, Fong wore present, who complained Camp’s remarks an “L No!” sticker. And like many, he has were inappropriate. also done battle with Camp over political According to Camp, Pedres came issues. But Fong said CLC’s clumsy to Camp’s home on Monday night and handling of Camp will likely increase the attempted to deliver a letter telling him labor leader’s popularity. “He’ll just be he was fired. But Camp refused the letter, more of a folk hero now.” saying he had a right to have representation Another popular figure, Mayor Johnson, present. has been advocating for his strong-mayor “They screwed up big time,” says plan since being elected in 2008. It has Tamara Rubyn, with the Office and arguably been the nastiest and most divisive Professional Employees International Union issue in Sacramento city politics for many Local 29, the union that represents Camp. years. Sacramento City Council member “These unions would never let an employer Camp’s firing was applauded by some. Steve Hansen, one of the most vocal oppodo that to one of their members.” Another City Councilman Jay Schenirer, who helped nents of Measure L, suggested the Camp letter of termination was affixed to Camp’s loosen rules on big-box stores, a move affair hints at what is to come. office door Tuesday morning. which Camp opposed, told The Bee, “I “Is this what Measure L is going to There was no meeting of the CLC don’t think Camp’s leadership style was bring to Sacramento? When you disagree, executive board to vote on Camp’s removal. effective in today’s environment.” you get fired? It’s a mess.” Ω S T O R Y | A R T S & C U L T U R E | A F T E R | 09.04.14 | SN&R | 9
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Health scare Affordable Care Act still lags in signing up Latinos, who fear deportation because of enrollment When Victoria Perez wanted health insurance for her son, she went to a community clinic to sign him up for Obamacare. Perez and her husband are undocumented residents, but by Momo Chang their son is a U.S. citizen, and he’s eligible for coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Jane Garcia, CEO of La Clínica de la Raza, a federally qualified health center with clinics in Northern California, said the next day Perez’s husband came in and was upset. “‘What have you done?’” she says he asked. “‘If something happens to us as a result of this, I’m going to hold you guys responsible.’” Perez (not their real last name) and his family are not alone. Many children of undocumented immigrants remain uninsured after the first season of Obamacare enrollment because their parents fear they will be deported if they sign their kids up for coverage. Although California has led the nation in sign-ups under the Affordable Care Act, the number of Latinos who have signed up has lagged. Although 46 percent of Obamacareeligible Californians are Latino, only 28 percent of those who have enrolled so far in subsidized health insurance under Covered California are Latino. Latinos also make up the majority of people who are still uninsured in the state, 62 percent, according to a recently released report from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Large and small nonprofit organizations received about $40 million in funding to target key populations for signups. Covered California also ran an aggressive, $80 million marketing campaign that included PSAs, billboard ads, and a socialLatinos also make media presence. Latino enrollment up the majority of improved after a slow start, going from about 19 percent of all Covered people who are still California enrollees by December to uninsured in the 36 percent in March. But it’s still slow-going. “We’re state, 62 percent. aware that some applicants may be afraid to sign up for fear of other family members not in the country legally,” Roy Kennedy, a Covered California spokesperson, wrote in an email. “We’ve reinforced the fact that the information provided to us only determines eligibility and nothing else. We don’t share this information.” Widespread misconceptions about immigration may also be impacting Latino enrollment. Under U.S. law, an immigrant can be barred from receiving a green card if he or she becomes a “public charge,” i.e., goes on welfare. According to a consumer survey sponsored by Covered Read SN&R’s cover California that was released in May, Latinos were the story on undocumented most likely racial or ethnic group to mistakenly believe immigrants and that Covered California is a welfare program: Seventy-five health care at percent of Latinos thought this, compared to 30 percent of http://tinyurl.com/ African Americans. sacramento undocumented. Translation issues may have also impacted sign-ups. For example, Covered California initially used the term cobertura to mean “coverage” in its Spanish-language literature. But many Spanish speakers don’t use that word when discussing insurance, according to Alvaro Fuentes, executive director of the Community Clinic Consortium. Fuentes said asegúrate, which means “sure” but is also the term used for “insurance,” would have been a better choice. Ω
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“No one really knows how much water is being used.” Ted Grantham former UC Davis researcher now with the U.S. Geological Survey The current drought has underscored the problem of California’s overallocated water supply, since authorities intending to cut back water rations don’t always know exactly how much a given user is consuming. Grantham says watersheds, small creeks and fish tend to lose out under such uncertain conditions. Environmental groups want officials to take more accurate notes on where water is going and how much is left for natural resources. “They need to develop a transparent accounting system for the water,” said Zeke Grader, a board member with the Golden Gate Salmon Association, a group immersed in a constant battle to maintain sufficient river flows for Chinook salmon. Grantham told SN&R that “it’s hard to maintain stream flows in a lot of places because no one really knows how much water is being used.” And unless new state laws crack down on unregulated groundwater use, developing an accurate accounting system for the state’s water supply cannot be fully accomplished, according to Stranko. “We’ve recognized that we’ve overalloacted our surface water,” he said. “Now, we need to think about the groundwater.” Each, he says, is an important part of the equation. Ω
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Drive-by flasher Those must be some icky seat cushions. A naked guy drove up beside an unsuspecting woman walking down Ninth Avenue with her dog Sunday night and exposed himself, according to an incident summary from the Sacramento Police Department. The subject in question, described as a thin white male in his 40s, was behind the wheel of a blue Honda Civic or Accord, police believe. Call him the thin white spook. (RFH)
License larceny Undocumented immigrants may receive more protection when applying for their driver’s licenses, after a new bill passed the state Assembly on August 19. The legislation, written by local Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, would make it illegal for third parties to charge for assisting with driver’s license applications. “It sends a strong message that predatory behavior toward immigrants will not be tolerated,” Dickinson said in a recent release concerning the new bill. Dickinson presented Assembly Bill 852 as a preventative measure to ensure that people filling out applications would not be subject to potential predatory practices. The licenses will be available for unauthorized immigrants on January 1, 2015, as a result of legislation that allows them to apply for state issued driver’s licenses, which was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown last year. The governor has until September 18 to sign the new bill. (Jeff Gonzales)
PG&E payout On Tuesday, the California Public Utilities Commission fined PG&E $1.4 billion over that San Bruno pipeline explosion from four years ago. It’s the largest safety-related penalty the commission has ever issued, the CPUC said in a release. The administrative-law judge who heard the case determined that PG&E had committed nearly 3,800 separate violations of “state and federal laws, rules, standards, or regulations” relating to how it operates its gas transmission pipeline. PG&E shareholders were previously ordered to fork over another roughly $600 million to upgrade the natural gas pipeline. (RFH)
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The real Dill Congrats again to Sacramento mixed-martial-arts fighter T.J. Dillashaw, who defended his Ultimate Fighting Championship belt this past Friday with a fifthround knockout of Joe Soto. Good work, enjoy those pizzas and ice baths.
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Knudson had been working out of the Tahoe area, where he lives. He told media watcher Jim Romenesko that “after more than two decades of in-depth, prize-winning reporting from the field, they wanted me to return to the newsroom to focus more narrowly on environmental news in and around Sacramento—and generate a lot more of it. I declined.” Knudson was listed in the Bee staff box as part of the investigations team, and he had only a handful of stories appear in the Bee over the past year. Another member of the investigations team writes only about the Bay Bridge. Was the Bee trying to get more investigative bang for its buck? Is there an investigative team anymore? Dinsmore wouldn’t say, other than, “We did give [Knudson] the opportunity to continue his work in Sacramento.”
[editorial] board and campaigns donations and support in here Sacramento area,” Dell wrote. The firing came months after the fact. But Dell’s note makes it sound serious, and potentially damaging to Lopez’s reputation. Whatever happened, it was bad enough that Lopez got fired for it. What really did happen? Dell’s note is actually quite vague. Lopez didn’t respond to Bites’ request for an interview. One of her friends, retired Sacramento State communications professor Barbara O’Connor, says Lopez was careful and conscientious about potential conflicts. Everything she did related to the Read campaign—including the leave of absence and attending a Sacramento fundraiser for Read’s campaign—was approved by her bosses at the Bee. “I don’t think she ever perceived herself as doing anything unethical,” O’Connor said, adding that she believes there was no real conflict of interest. At worst, it was the appearance of one. “There were many options besides firing,” she added.
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Steady diet of cheesecake Doug Ose’s plan to replace Obamacare isn’t leadership. It’s ridiculous. Would you like to lose weight, but you hate going on a diet of fruits and vegetables? Then you will love the new dessert diet, where you can stuff yourself all day long with delicious cheesecake, ice cream and cookies. How about investments? Would you like a risk-free investment that guarantees to pay you a 25 percent return every year, or even more, depending upon what happens to the Nigerian exchange rate? Then this special, riskfree, high-return investment is tailor made for you. If after hearing about these two great ideas, you reached for your fork or your wallet, then you are l by Jeff VonKaene going to love Congressional candidate Doug Ose. I heard Ose describe his plan at a recent j e ffv @n e wsr e v ie w.c o m Sacramento event. The Republican for the 7th Congressional District seat wants to get rid of Obamacare. The question is: what to replace it with? Ose wants to get rid of government mandates. He wants to make sure that individuals with pre-existing conditions are not denied coverage. He wants people to keep their current policies. He wants health care to be more affordable. He wants parents to be able to keep their kids on their policies. He wants individuals to be able to choose their own doctors. He does not want insurance companies interfering with the When asked how he patient-doctor relationship. He wants more doctors. He wants will accomplish his money restored to Medicare. what about those people plan, Ose says, “by whoBut did not have health insurleadership. Real ance previously, but who do now with expanded Medi-Cal? leadership.” Should we take that away from them? Ose doesn’t say. If Obamacare is repealed, should hospitals continue to treat individuals without insurance? And if Obamacare is repealed, what should we do about the increasing number of Americans without health insurance? Ose doesn’t say. His plan still includes all the popular features of Read more about Doug Ose’s Obamacare, such as mandatory coverage of those with plans here: pre-existing conditions and allowing children to stay on their www.dougose.com/ issues. Find parent’s policy until age 26. But these very popular aspects his opponent, are also some of the more expensive ones. So, under this new Congressman Ami plan, how will health care become more affordable? Bera’s plans here: One of the ways that Obamacare provided less-expensive www.berafor health care is that it negotiated much lower prices from drug congress.com/ issues. companies; not as low as other countries, but much lower than prices before the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans, who have been the major beneficiaries of pharmaceutical companies’ campaign donations, have fought to allow drug companies to charge Americans much higher prices than Jeff vonKaenel Canadians and Europeans. If Ose toes the Republican party is the president, line, how will his new health plan be more affordable? CEO and When asked how he will accomplish his plan, Ose says, majority owner of the News & Review “by leadership. Real leadership.” Looking at polling data, and keeping only the popular newspapers in Sacramento, features and eliminating the unpopular ones, is not real leaderChico and Reno. ship. It is ridiculous. I am worried about my weight, so please, give me a couple of extra scoops of ice cream on my cheesecake. Ω
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Bag ban, please We did it! Correction: We’re close! California is poised to become the first state in the country to ban single-use bags at major grocery stores. Both houses of the state Legislature passed a bill last week that would prohibit bags, and now Gov. Jerry Brown has until September 30 to sign it into law. Our gut says he’ll likely ink it, and we urge him to do so. It’s 2014. More than ever, we need to be good stewards to the environment. This means not just eliminating items like single-use plastic bags from our lives, but also being responsible for the life cycle of so many consumer items that end up in landfills and waterways like batteries, prescription drugs, oil and paint. More than ever, Banning plastic bags, and therefore making it a habit we need to be good for consumers to bring reusstewards to the able canvas-type bags to the supermarket, is a smart law that environment. changes people’s habits for the positive. SN&R looks forward to more green-friendly legislation that will sustain this beautiful Golden State for years to come. Ω
Military not the answer It’s been a couple months since our last Iraq editorial. Then, we wrote about the growing threat of the ISIS. That’s only increased in recent weeks, as ISIS is a major force in northern Iraq and parts of Syria. America’s recent involvement with those countries seems like a surreal nightmare. As Max Fisher, writing in the online news magazine Vox, points out, the United States is now bombing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of high-tech military equipment that we provided to the Iraqi military in the decade following the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The reason we gave the Iraqis all that expensive weaponry was, of course, that we had destroyed the weapons they already had. But the Iraqi army failed, fleeing from ISIS and leaving all those weapons behind for them to use. Not only did the weapons fail to make Iraq secure, they now are being used by a new group to terrorize. In Syria, America chose not to give weapons to the moderate rebels, fearing they might fall into the hands of ISIS. As Fisher writes, “that made it easier for ISIS to overpower the underfunded moderate rebels, and now ISIS has seized, in Iraq, much better versions of the weapons that we were so worried they might acquire in Syria. So now we’re bombing the guns that we didn’t mean to give ISIS because we didn’t give guns to their enemies because then ISIS might get guns.” Got that? In light of recent air strikes in Iraq and the potential for more troops being sent to the country, it’s time (again) to remind that military action is not and never has been the answer. Ω
On bicyclists and blame Fellow Sacramento cyclists, we need to have a talk. traffic and blast ahead full-speed on sidewalks. We all want to live in a city where biking (I was recently bowled over by a bike while by is a safe, viable form of transportation. Yet the walking downtown on K Street. For the Jacob Waters possibility of a dangerous accident is undenirecord, yelling “Behind you!” while barreling able. And when our 20 pounds of aluminum toward a pedestrian isn’t a very effective way meet 1.5 tons of high-speed steel, there are no to avoid a collision.) fender benders. That may not seem like a big deal. But This is partially a matter of public policy. every time a cyclist flouts the law or is otherJacob Waters is a political writer and And Sacramento, with its ample, well-marked wise unsafe, it further builds an adversarial sacramento newbie. bike lanes, does better than many cities in relationship between drivers and bicyclists. Follow him at this area. You might feel totally in @jacobwaters. But as the recent rash control while playing your For Sacramento of bicycle-automobile live-action game of Frogger, collisions shows, we’re to be a truly but drivers are (rightly) frusnot a bike utopia. And trated, anxious and angry. And bike-friendly city, the city certainly can since a bike will always lose a we cyclists have and should do more to battle with a car, the last thing protect cyclists. It’s a we need is more nastiness. a responsibility worthy endeavor: An Now, I’m not implying that to ride safely and increase in cycling has bikes are to blame for most, or social, public health and even many, collisions. I also follow the rules of environmental benefits. don’t think that bikes need the road. An online version of this But that’s not to act exactly like cars all the essay can be found at enough. For Sacramento time—logical adjustments, www.newsreview.com/ to be a truly bike-friendly city, we cyclists like having bikes treat red lights as stop signs sacramento/ and stop signs as yield signs—are in everypageburner/blogs. have a responsibility to ride safely and follow the rules of the road. A bike can be one’s interest. a legitimate form of transportation that is But every time you bike in a needlessly protected and subject to the law, or it can be a risky or lawless way to save a couple minutes, two-wheeled toy—not both. know that somebody else may end up bearing Yet cyclists routinely ride the wrong way the cost. Ω on one-way streets, weave dangerously in BEFORE
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there’s one common thread weaving its way through this year’s batch of fall film releases it’s that—wait, actually there’s not much linking these flicks together. Except, perhaps, that they’re more highbrow than the average summer flick. A bit more serious. A bit more Academy Award-worthy, if you will. ’Tis the season, after all: The Oscars will be handed out in early 2015 which means now’s the time for the movie companies to start trotting out the contenders for our consideration. Which also means now’s the time for films based on books, period pieces and brainy, conversation-heavy ensemble pieces (i.e., fewer special effects or things going “Boom!”). In anticipation of the season, SN&R film critics Daniel Barnes and Jim Lane have each selected their five most anticipated upcoming films. The weather probably won’t cool off in Sacramento until at least Halloween, but, lucky you, movie theaters are always air-conditioned to icy temps. Grab a cozy fall sweater and start planning that cinema hibernation now. S pi r i t ua l e m p t i n e S S , S u r r e a l i S m a n d C h a n n i n g tat u m
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tion of the 2012 Gillian Flynn novel is half as creepily exhilarating as its advertising campaign, this could be the director’s best film since Zodiac. At the very least, Gone Girl appears to pull at those same threads of senseless murder, fractured perspective and self-destructive obsession that made Zodiac so captivating. Yes, there is a major red flag here—a lead acting performance by Ben Affleck—but Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder showed that Affleck’s mannequin blandness can be used to effectively portray spiritual emptiness. I trust that Fincher can do the same. birdman (october 17): Mexican filmmaker
Daniel Barnes and Jim Lane share their most anticipated films of fall; plus Oscar bait, literary aspirations and Ben Affleck’s blandness
Alejandro González Iñárritu racked up accolades and Academy Award nominations for grimly self-important films like Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel throughout the 2000s. However, the heavyhanded symbolism and relentless suffering of Iñárritu’s films ground audiences and critics alike down to a nub, and his 2010 drama Biutiful was met with worldwide apathy. Cut to the ultimate Iñárritu change of pace: Birdman, a surrealist, darkly-comic satire about a washed-up actor (Michael Keaton, pictured, left) attempting to reinvigorate his career while maintaining a tenuous hold on his sanity. It could be a definitive career reinvention, or it could be the next An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn. I can’t wait to find out.
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Oscar bait is in the water, you can be sure that it’s the season for physical transformations. Just as Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto racked up trinkets through to the Oscars by losing weight for Dallas Buyers Club, Steve Carell (pictured, left) seems positioned for acting nominations simply for the weight he gained in order to play real-life wrestling coach, millionaire philanthropist, paranoid schizophrenic and murderer John du Pont. However, I’m more heavily anticipating the lead turn from Channing Tatum, an actor who has been working hard to steadily improve with each performance in a manner similar to a young Tom Cruise. Is this his Born on the Fourth of July? INhereNt vIce (December 12): Any new
Paul Thomas Anderson film is circle-it-on-your-calendar appointment viewing for cinephiles. The details of Inherent Vice are still enveloped in Anderson’s usual cloud of secrecy, but we do know a few things. It’s based on a Thomas Pynchon novel with the most ridiculously cool title imaginable. It’s a shaggy dog detective story set in 1970s Los Angeles. It reunites Anderson with The Master lead actor Joaquin Phoenix, playing a gumshoe with Elliott Gould muttonchops. The insanely talented supporting cast includes Josh Brolin, Benicio del Toro, Owen Wilson, Eric Roberts, Martin Short and Maya Rudolph. Anderson’s core group of off-camera collaborators are present, including composer Jonny Greenwood, cinematographer Robert Elswit, editor Leslie Jones and costume designer Mark Bridges. I am literally about to have a heart attack from anticipation. mr. turNer (JaNuary 2015): Although he
is best known for updating the British kitchen-sink drama to the age of the hand-held camera, my favorite Mike Leigh films have been his period dramas like Topsy-Turvy and Vera Drake. The phony verisimilitude that often feels quite common and condescending in his contemporary-set films actually makes for a unique perspective on the past. Longtime Leigh collaborator Timothy Spall (pictured, left) won the Best Actor award at Cannes for his lead performance as eccentric English painter J.M.W. Turner.
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I’m always up for something new from Kristen Wiig (pictured, left). An incredibly busy supporting actress— everything from SpongeBob SquarePants to Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues—I always wish her roles were bigger. Her deadpan quirks greatly amuse me. As a star, she’s one for two. She had a huge hit in 2011 (Bridesmaids, more than $288 million at the box office) and a quiet flop in 2012 (Girl Most Likely, less than $1.4 million). Still, Girl Most Likely was even better than Bridesmaids, and I hope the arc continues. Here she’s teamed with Saturday Night Live colleague Bill Hader as estranged twin siblings. Writer-director Craig Johnson is an unknown quantity, but I’m banking on Wiig and Hader. thIs Is where I leave you (september 19): The trailer for this one has been in
theaters for months, and it’s one of the most tantalizing of the whole year. It features Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne and Kathryn Hahn as a family with issues forced to spend a week together sitting shiva for their deceased patriarch. With that kind of talent stewing in their juices, even a director as clumsy as Shawn Levy can deliver the goods. Jonathan Tropper wrote the script, from his own novel. INterstellar (November 7): Frankly, I’m
no great fan of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, but after 2010’s Inception, I’d follow him almost anywhere. This science-fiction epic has what sounds like a grand vision—humanity migrating to beyond the stars—which would be refreshing after the endless parade of Mad Max-style ruined-future sci-fi we’ve had for the past 30 years or so. And what a cast: Matthew McConaughey (pictured, left), Anne Hathaway, Casey Affleck, Michael Caine, John Lithgow, Ellen Burstyn, David Oyelowo and Jessica Chastain. I try never to say never, but I don’t see how this one can miss.
mainly because of the subject: Stephen Hawking. Probably the most brilliant mind since Albert Einstein, Hawking was diagnosed with a motor neuron disease in 1962 and has now lived 50 years beyond the 24 months his doctors predicted. The movie tells the story of Hawking’s marriage to his first wife Jane (which foundered in 1995 under the pressure of his genius), his illness and his attachment to one of his nurses, who became his second wife. It’s quite a story, and I can’t wait to see what the movie makes of it. And having Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne (pictured, left), David Thewlis and Emily Watson in the cast certainly doesn’t hurt. INto the wooDs (December 25):
Songwriter Stephen Sondheim has already kicked up a storm on social media, telling tales out of school about the changes being made in his (and librettist James Lapine’s) 1986 fairy-tale musical. Outraged cries of “How dare they!” went bouncing from Facebook to Twitter to Tumblr and back again, driving director Rob Marshall into damage-control mode. Well, Marshall made changes and cut songs from Annie, Chicago and Nine too. Personally, I trust him—and Meryl Streep (pictured, left), Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine, Emily Blunt, Christine Baranski and Tracey Ullman—more than a mob of hotheaded fankids going off half-cocked. Into the Woods always strained at the limits of the stage; a movie should be just what the doctor ordered.
—JIm laNe
SN&R’s fall-movie coverage continues on page 22 with 2014’s best flicks (so far) and Oscar predictions.
-DaNIel barNes
“FALL FORWARD” continued on page 22 The Skeleton Twins
The Equalizer
The Judge
Kill the Messenger
St. Vincent
Interstellar
Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig in the quintessential anti-Saturday Night Live spinoff. Wayne’s World on dabs?
Denzel Washington and his Training Day director do what U.S. soccer couldn’t: beat hella ass.
Hollywood’s two Roberts (Downey Jr. and Duvall) bitch at each other for two hours. Then, hugs.
Jeremy Renner as journalist Gary Webb, who briefly worked at SN&R. (Nothing snarky to say, sorry.)
Let’s imagine that your neighbor is Dr. Peter Venkman ...
2001: A Space Odyssey meets The Notebook. Called it!
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Awards, Blue Jasmine star Cate Blanchett was considered such a massive favorite to take home the Best Actress trophy, the sports-betting site Bovada put her odds to win at -3000, or 1/30. That means you would have had to bet $3,000 on Blanchett to earn back only $100, a sure bet (she won, after all) for anyone with a spare few-thousand bucks lying around, which would presumably exclude everyone except for fat cats with bigger fish to fry than Oscar bait. In the Nate Silver era of ridiculously accurate election forecasting, the outcomes of the major Academy Award categories are often a foregone conclusion. Any old fool can pore through the mountains of Oscar gossip and up-to-the-minute odds that pile up around awards season in order to win their office pool. But it takes a real fool to predict the major winners when no one has even seen most of SN&R film critic makes some the contenders. I believe that not-so-crazy predictions about I am that fool—although my the 2015 Oscar race methods of prognostication are logically rooted in the mistakes of Oscar past.
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Keys to victory: First, be serious—even The Artist, the only
ostensible “comedy” to win Best Picture in the last few decades, ended with its hero contemplating suicide. Next, be at least superficially edgy and important, without telling us anything new—last year’s 12 Years a Slave was a formal and emotional triumph, but outside of the Ferguson Police Department, no one could possibly take issue with its depiction of American slavery as a mortal sin. Lastly, don’t revolt the core demographic in the opening act—the majority of awards voters are older white men and women feverishly working through Academy screeners, and they have no problem switching off a film that isn’t working for them.
E x p E r i E n c E b Ec o m E s m E m o ry Under the sKin: Many sounds and images from Jonathan Glazer’s film continue to haunt me, especially that slow, oblivious sink into the inky abyss. But the film endures longest as an unsettling take on the nature of identity. Leaving the universe of this film was like being suddenly snapped out of a hypnotist’s trance, and I feel as though I have been half-living in its reverie ever since.
AnAlysis: The grand experiment of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood
seems like the only major contender among the films already released, although I suspect it will be compensated in other categories. The Martin Luther King biopic Selma (due in theaters December 25) is a tempting choice, given its timely subject matter of protests and police force, but the film is still being shot, and little is known of director Ava DuVernay. The all-in-one-shot Birdman could sneak in to the mix, but that technical marvel is more likely to snatch a Best Director prize for Alejandro González Iñárritu. There is an outside chance that Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice or David Fincher’s Gone Girl could go all No Country for Old Men on Oscar voters, blowing them away with high cinematic quality and a tightly coordinated campaign. However, my presumed frontrunners are all biopics—Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper and Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken.
Boyhood: In Richard Linklater’s achingly beautiful film, a child goes to bed one night and wakes up a year older. Ask any parent: It happens. There is the feeling throughout that the protagonist Mason (Ellar Coltrane, literally growing
up on camera) is simultaneously living and remembering his childhood, just as experience becomes memory the moment it occurs. This is Renoir and Truffaut on their best days. strAnger By the lAKe: Alain Guiraudie’s insidious thriller is the homoerotic flipside to the gender-gaze politics of Under the Skin. The explicit and erotic gay sex scenes are all anyone talks about, but Gauraudie’s ability to sustain a discomforting suspense is worthy of Hitchcock or Haneke, keeping the film balanced on a knife’s edge of orgasm and murder. the grAnd BUdApest hotel:
Wes Anderson has been retreating into the shoebox project of his imagination to increasingly alienating effect, so it’s a pleasant
—dAniel BArnes
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Rosewater November 7
Jon Stewart ups his big-screen game post-Half Baked cameos with this directorial debut.
Dumb and Dumber To November 14
Predicting jokes as dead as a parakeet.
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 November 21
Milking every last dollar out of Hunger Games fans by splitting the third book into two films? For shame!
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Apparently the original earned enough moolah from TV to make a sequel, which proves that zoning out and watching crap on cable isn’t a victimless crime.
Animated penguin spies: Another argument for birth control.
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Paul Thomas Anderson adapts Thomas Pynchon or riffs on The Big Lebowski. Either way, I’ll abide.
Exodus: Gods and Kings December 12
Ridley Scott gets biblical? Christian Bale as Moses? Hard to keep the faith.
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surprise that his best film in a decade is also his most elegantly detailed diorama to date, with a great lead performance from Ralph Fiennes.
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Snowpiercer had bigger ideas and Edge of Tomorrow was funnier, but The Raid 2: Berandal provided the purest action high of the year. Gareth Evans expands his claustrophobic The Raid: Redemption into an epic of sleazy grandeur, featuring gloriously over-the-top fight scenes announced with the operatic fanfare of a Sergio Leone gunfight.
—daniel BaRnes
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies December 17
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Quirky filmmaker Wes Anderson may be an acquired taste, but movies like this one make it easy. Simultaneously funny and sad, this tale of a European luxury hotel between the World Wars was a melancholy valentine to
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lost (and maybe imaginary) elegance, with a nearly bottomless bag of comic tricks and a hilarious change-of-pace turn by Ralph Fiennes. loCke: It sounded like the worst idea for a movie ever—a man in a car on the phone—but this was the riveting story of a man throwing his life away out of a misguided sense of duty. Brilliantly written by director Steven Knight, with a powerhouse performance by Tom Hardy (greatly aided by unseen phone voices) and beautiful, almost abstract cinematography by Haris Zambarloukos. MuppeTs MosT WanTed: The
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even better than that. A parade of guest stars, clever songs by Bret McKenzie, and a riot of groan-and-guffaw jokes from Nicholas Stoller and director James Bobin. There was more pure fun here than in any movie all year. TiM’s VeRMeeR: If the Oscar for documentary feature still meant anything, this one would win. Comic magicians Penn (producing and narrating) and Teller (directing) follow inventor Tim Jenison as he seeks to duplicate a painting by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, testing his theory of what made Vermeer so great. A fascinating examination of the relationship between art and technology.
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Muppets’ eighth theatrical feature was the best one since the very first—and maybe
The Interview
Into the Woods
Big Eyes
Unbroken
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s This is the End follow-up, whereupon they go Errol Morris on Kim Jong-Un. Dennis Rodman cameo?
Fairy tale mash-up that at one point had musician Girl Talk attached as director. (OK, not really.)
Tim Burton gets serious (sans Johnny Depp) about artist Margaret Keane’s annoying doe-eyed paintings. Merry Christmas!
Angelina Jolie directs the true story of Forrest Gump? Reagan revolutionites reloading!
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Nevada City Film Festival Thursday, sepTember 4, Through sunday, sepTember 7 There’s hardly enough room in this preview to explain how big this festival is, despite it taking place in a small town. It’s got short and FILM FESTIVAL feature-length films, art, music, workshops and a live comedy performance by Marc Maron. Seriously, that’s all the space there is for explaining. $7-$9 for individual screenings, $89-$99 for festival passes; various times at Miners Foundry Cultural Center, 325 Spring Street in Nevada City; and Haven Underground, 226 Broad Street in Nevada City; www.nevadacityfilmfestival.com.
—Jonathan Mendick
Brazilian Independence Day saTurday, sepTember 6 Even after the horrible defeat in the World Cup, Brazilians both in Sacramento and abroad have maintained their devotion to their native country. This weekend’s event, spearheaded by capoeira master Caboclinho Aruanda, offers up a plethora of live music performances, dancing, soccer activiPARTY ties, a children’s parade and lots of Brazilian food. Free, 2 p.m. at 20th Street between J and K streets; http://tabcat.org/ brazilian-day-sacramento-2014.
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few weeks ago, I got an email saying that as a member of the media, I might be able to fly in a plane in advance of the California Capital Airshow. I never replied, partially because I’m a huge chicken. Also, because nothing says “wasteful government spending” to me better than a $412-million F-22 Raptor flying around in circles, guzzling thousands of gallons of fuel. OK, so if that’s how I really feel about combat planes, then why am I still previewing the event? Maybe because Top Gun was one of my favorite guilty pleasures as a kid? Maybe because I wouldn’t even be here if my dad didn’t join the Air Force and meet my mom while he was stationed in Taiwan?
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Caffeine Crawl saTurday, sepTember 6 Unless you’ve been living inside a Folgers can for the last couple of years, the fact that Sacramento has a flourishing, much-respected COFFEE coffee scene is no secret. Take a tour of local coffee purveyors such as Insight Coffee Roasters, Old Soul Co., Temple Coffee Roasters and several others in proper Sacramentan fashion: by bike (or car, if you prefer four wheels). $27-$32, 10:30 a.m., various locations, www.caffeine crawl.com/sacramento--september-6.html.
—Deena Drewis
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However anyone feels about expensive war machines, there’s no denying the marvels of engineering (and physics, and world-class piloting) that will be on display at the California Capital Airshow this weekend. Happening at Mather Airport (10425 Norden Avenue) on Saturday, September 6, and Sunday, September 7, the show features “aerobatic performances,” vintage aircraft, interactive displays, videos, a photo gallery, a BMX bike team and a kids’ zone. Airshow performance highlights include a parachute demonstration, a flight demo from the aforementioned F-22 Raptor, and the colorful and daring Patriots Jet Team. Single-day tickets cost $7.50 for kids and $15 for adults online, $20 at the gate, and $30 for a shaded seat. Gates are open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with shows from noon to 3:30 p.m. each day. If you, like Maverick and Goose, “feel the need for speed,” then fly over to www.californiacapital airshow.com for more information.
Everyone loves a good death story. So why not take a tour of a cemetery and get the true morbid tidbits on how the people under each tombstone met their demise? The Old City Cemetery Committee TOUR offers just this at the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery, one of the oldest graveyards in the area, revealing how early Sacramentans left their mortal coils. Free, 10 a.m. at Sacramento Historic City Cemetery, 1000 Broadway; www.oldcitycemetery.com.
—Aaron Carnes
R.O.C. Race saTurday, sepTember 6 Watching contestants eat it on Wipeout is some good old-fashioned schadenfreude, sure. But participating in a 5K “ridiculous obstacle challenge” designed to mildly beat you up? That’s next 5K RACE level. At the very least, if you survive the wrecking balls and “the sweeper,” you get to go down a giant water slide—and the race benefits the Challenged Athletes Foundation. $69-$82, start times begin at 8 a.m., Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Boulevard; www.rocrace.com/sacramento.
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A tasty slice of Italy Il Pizzaiolo 6696 Lonetree Boulevard in Rocklin, (916) 899-6944, www.ilpizzaiolowoodfiredpizza.com A few months ago, my brother emailed me a link to a New York Times article on how to quickly, cheaply and easily make an “Italian-style” pizza at by Jonathan home. I read it over, agreed with the author’s Mendick tips, and then promptly forgot about it. In my mind, excuses for still not attempting said j o nathanm@ news re view.c om homemade pizza have included: “I’ve been too busy” and “It’s been too hot this summer to fire up the oven to the ‘broil’ setting.” And now, Il Pizzaiolo in Rocklin basically cancels Rating: out the need for me to ever cook my own HHHH pizza. Ever. Driving to Il Pizzaiolo is quick, dinner for one: easy and cheap, too—and they might just $8 - $15 serve the best pie in town. Sacramento is lucky to already boast a wealth of pizza spots slinging great Neopolitan pizza—a.k.a. the kind made with a relatively thin crust cooked in a 900-or-so-degree oven in which you can see flaming wood, and fully cooked in just about 90 seconds. OneSpeed, Hot Italian, Masullo and Pizza Rock specialize in this style, and that’s the kind Il Pizzaiolo also serves at its three locations. The pizzeria started in Colfax in 2012, before opening two locations earlier this year in Loomis and Rocklin. I dined H at the Rocklin location a handful of times fLawed simply because it was the closest. It’s a small HH shop in a clean, relatively new strip mall where has moments diners order from a simple one-page menu at a HHH counter and take a number. appeaLing There are four “red” pizzas (with crushed HHHH tomatoes) and four “white” pizzas (without authoRitative tomatoes) on the menu, so my dining partner HHHHH and I started off by trying one of each: the epic Cinque Terre (red) and the Pancetta (white). The Cinque Terre (anchovies, capers, mozzarella, olive oil) packed a powerful, salty, fishy flavor that might surprise the uninitiated. But it’s certainly a good choice for people who are used to eating fish sauce in Southeast Asian cuisine. The Pancetta was more muted with a simple earthiness from mushrooms, pancetta, Parmesan cheese and olive oil. Each pizza cost only $8. Still hungry? A quick side note on the lovely crust: it’s search sn&R’s flat and wasn’t as thin as most of the pizzas I “dining directory” to find local had on vacation in Italy earlier this year. But restaurants by name it’s pillowy soft and thoroughly doughy—as or by type of food. if to convert fans of American pizza over to sushi, mexican, indian, Neopolitan. italian—discover it The Salsiccia was my favorite of the eight all in the “dining” pizzas on the menu, with sweet fennel sausage, section at www.news and pickled peppers. It felt the most balanced review.com. with its combination of spicy (from the pepper), sweet (both from the sausage and the tomato sauce) and sour pickles. There’s also an option to create your own pizza from a few dozen topping choices—some of which turned out good, due to smart choices on my part, but others not so much. Tip: ordering “arugula” as a topping seems to yield arugula, shaved Parmesan and olive oil, all at once.
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Even a simple Caesar salad impressed. It came with chopped romaine, Parmesan cheese and what tasted like soft, homemade croutons— all topped with a dressing that wasn’t too heavy on cream, but instead carried hints of lemon and a little anchovy paste. Desserts options were simple but good, too. House-made gelato tasted like one you’d get while taking a leisurely stroll in an Italian piazza. There was also a dessert pizza, which is essentially an entire pizza topped with Nutella, mascarpone cheese and bananas. Warning: only get it if you’re still hungry, or else you’ll have leftovers. Otherwise, order the tiramisu.
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There’s also a small fridge with some good soda options (including Mexican Coke and Cock and Bull ginger ale), plus a small selection of local and imported beer and wine. Perhaps my only gripe about the restaurant is that it could expand its beer and wine menu. I’d also like to see an over-easy egg as a topping option. Nevertheless, it’s a great low-key spot not too far away from Sacramento, but still far enough away to feel like a mini-vacation to Italy. Ω
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On August 22, raw-food restaurant The Green Boheme announced it’s closing its cafe doors. Which is too bad, because I was in the middle of reviewing its fare. It’s not going out of business altogether, though, just tweaking its model. For the past few years, I hypothesized the little eatery in north Sacramento was staying afloat mostly because of its demo cooking classes and meal-plan service: “Most of our energy, cost, and time at this point is being spent on our cafe.” I’ll take that as validation. Now, it’s focusing on being a learning center, and it’s joining forces with yet another new juice bar, Liquidology in East Sac—scheduled to open sometime this month—to sell food there. Diners can still eat at the Boheme (1825 Del Paso Boulevard), though, for Friday-night prix fixe dinners. Keep up with the changes at www.thegreenboheme.com. —Shoka
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Here are a few recent reviews and regional recommendations by Janelle Bitker, Ann Martin Rolke, Garrett McCord, Jonathan Mendick and Shoka updated regularly. Check out www.newsreview.com for more dining advice.
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.
Midtown Block Butcher Bar This place  serves the holy trinity of  European cuisine: meat, cheese  and alcoholic beverages. Most  of its boards and plates are balanced using three basic tastes:  salty (meats and cheeses),  sweet (honey and jam) and sour  (pickles and vinegar). The charcuterie boards impress visually  and on the tongue. A recent  selection included shaved  almonds, neat piles of meat, 
mustard, pickled cauliflower and  beets, served with small slices  of bread. The ’njuda sandwich  is startlingly spicy and salty,  with rich melted cheese and  ground meat spread between  pressed slices of bread. Or  try the pressed serrano ham,  manchego cheese, arugula and  salsa sandwich—it’s like a cross  between a cubano, a breakfast  panini and a torta. Elsewhere on  the menu there are fine cocktails, an intimidating whiskey  list, and a small but diverse  selection of beer and wine,  both regional and international.  European. 1050 20th St.,  (916) 476-6306. Dinner for one:   $10-$20. HHHH J.M.
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.  Theâ€ƒĂŠpicĂŠâ€ƒmussels 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 
and welcome, pairing well with  numerous dishes. French.   1226 20th St., (916) 447-3300.  Dinner for one: $25-$30.   HHHH G.M.
Der Biergarten This spot is a  slightly quirky, low-key place  with only nine food items on  the menu: four appetizerstyle options, four sandwichtype 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. 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 medium-thick 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  sautĂŠed in oil and tossed with  Parmesan and Gorgonzola. For  dessert, try the tiramisu. If  you’re feeling generous, order  the caffĂ¨â€ƒsospeso (“pending  coffeeâ€?), 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 
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. The pulled-pork  sandwich is moist, smoky and  falling apart with tenderness. The half-chicken 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 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.  The mac ’n’ cheese is creamy,  with a bit of beer in the sauce  and a crunchy topping of  herb-flecked breadcrumbs.  The sliders are gorgeous little  mouthfuls with Tillamook  cheddar and house-made  pickles. The main-course  cheeseburger, one of the best  we’ve had in ages, is 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
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,  house-roasted peanuts  and jagged pieces of faux  beef. The “beef� actually is  slightly sweet, plenty umami  and pleasantly inoffensive,  as far as fake meat goes.  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  sunset-orange broth that  teems with a tomatoey and  citrus flavor, chunks of pineapple, semicircles of trumpet  mushrooms, cubes of fried  tofu and slices of faux crab.  Or, try the stir-fried Eight  Fold Path. It features al dente  celery, red bell pepper and  triangles of the most savory,  salty, dense tofu perhaps  ever.  Vietnamese. 6511 Savings  Place, Ste. 100; (916) 428-4160.  Dinner for one: $10-$15.  HHHH S.
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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. The sushi rolls here are Western style—a.k.a. loaded with toppings. Try the Mufasa roll. With crab and avocado on the inside and salmon and sauce outside, it’s particularly tasty, seasoned in sesame oil and baked—a somewhat unusual technique for sushi. Japanese. 2992 65th St., Ste. 288; (916) 455-0288. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH J.M.
Zazon Guadalajara Grill This place offers a fun experience for learning more about food native to the state of Jalisco, where the city of Guadalajara resides, with an extensive and eclectic menu. The tacos here 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 subtle spice, while the carnitas are flavorful but tend toward dryness. There are also fried fish tacos here. The Guadalajaran influence also shows in several shrimp dishes. We tried the grilled and garlic preparations, both served with buttery rice studded with corn, peas, carrots, and plenty of sautéed peppers and onions. We loved the slightly charred flavor of the grilled
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.
shrimp, while the garlic ones were marred by an off-flavor that indicated they were past their prime. The beans that accompany many of the entrees are Jalisco-style peruanos. These little yellowish beans were perfectly al dente and served in their own flavorful broth alongside expertly cooked plain rice. Mexican. 2386 Fruitridge Rd., (916) 393-9090. Dinner for one: $5-$10. HHH AMR
Arden/ Carmichael Dad’s Kitchen The cooking at this Guy Fieri-approved joint is consistent and at times technically terrific. Try the Dad’s Burger (lettuce, red onion, tomato, Aleppo chili aioli, and a beef patty encrusted with blue cheese and bacon). With a firm and chewy bun and a sauce with kick, it’s one of Sac’s best burgers. Or get the Hot Blonde. It’s like a subtle, healthier version of a club sandwich, with organic chicken, avocado, spinach, cucumber, roasted onion and Swiss cheese—all set between sourdough bread and grilled on a panini press. It boasts a crunchy texture from all the veggies, a light boost of piquant flavor from a “pepper plant sauce,” and won’t leave you feeling overly stuffed after eating it. American. 8928 Sunset Ave. in Fair Oaks, (916) 241-9365. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHHH J.M. Launched by the same team that raised Shady Lady
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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 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
Sheepherder’s Inn, housed in an early 1900s-era building that used to be a hotel and a brothel and many eateries, is now Fire Rock Grill. The menu here features comfort-food favorites that don’t push any boundaries; the execution is impressive. A simple cup of New England-style clam chowder, for instance, is served chunky with potatoes, clams and bacon in a silky cream base, without a hint of gumminess. Try the Fire Rock Burger—it’s one of the better burgers we’ve eaten recently. Half-a-pound of Angus beef cooked perfectly mediumrare, it required at least three napkins to soak up the fingerlicking juices. Caramelized red onions, pepper jack cheese, pickled jalapeños and chili mayo, plus tomatoes and lettuce, made for a big stack of flavor. Vegetarians are just as lucky: The grilled portobello sandwich arrives layered with that high-end mozzarella, roasted peppers, onions and basil mayo on a focaccia bun. Unlike many mushroom “burgers,” this one is just as swoonworthy as the beef variety. American. 11275 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova, (916) 638-4584. Dinner for one: $15-$30. HHH1⁄2 AMR
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Pizza Rock recently announced its first ever Pizza Box Art
Contest, which will have tie-ins with Artober, Sacramento’s annual October citywide celebration of the arts. Through September 21, artists can stop by the pizzeria (located at 1020 K Street) from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, to pick up a blank box. The top 10 pieces of box art will be on display throughout October, and grand prize winners will win a lifetime supply of pizza—at the rate of one free pizza per month. More details about the contest are are at www.pizzarocksacramento.com. In another pizza promotion, last month Pizza Guys—a national chain headquartered in Sacramento—announced its new Sriracha Pizza by inviting fans into its Rancho Cordova test kitchen for sriracha-themed challenges. The Sriracha Pizza (which also features red onion, Canadian bacon, jalapenos and pineapple—all on a thin crust) can now be ordered online at www.pizzaguys.com. —Jonathan Mendick
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Love is love The people InsIde Eisner Award-nominated Ray Fawkes goes inside our outer differences to explore what our lives are like at BOOK their emotional core in a new graphic novel, The People Inside (Oni Press, $24.99). Everything including “traditional” hetero couples and an S/M partnership, love is love, and Fawkes draws it that way. He shows us love both true and false; broken hearts; forgiveness; grief; children, no kids and lost children; fame and obscurity; suicide, accidental death, murder and natural causes. Human existence is a narrative of our loves and desires, romantic and sexual. With simple black-and-white line drawings, as well as some overlap between the couples, Fawkes has built the world in the stories of 24 people. —Kel Munger
Seriously, WTF MaRc MaRon Comedian Marc Maron’s résumé is lengthy—he’s done hosting gigs for Air America radio and once helmed Comedy Central’s Short Attention Span Theater. In 2009, he launched WTF with Marc Maron, on which he’s interviewed fellow comedians such as Conan O’Brien and the late Robin Williams. On his IFC show Maron, the comedian plays a fictionalized version of himself. But whatever the gig, Maron’s humor is sharp, often political and often deeply personal. Check it out for yourself when Maron stops in the area for two shows at the COMEDY Miners Foundry as part of the Nevada City Film Festival. $25-$35, 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on Friday, September 5; at the Miners Foundry, 325 Spring Street in Nevada City; (530) 362-8601; www.wtfpod.com. —Rachel Leibrock
Goes down easy old foResTeR bonded bouRbon & WaTeR Tired of all the artisanal dashes of this and exotic muddlings of that? Cleanse your palate with Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co.’s Old Forester Bonded Bourbon & Water. Just two ingredients, this refreshingly simple mix ($8) tastes COCKTAIL like a lesson in drunk physics. Pour a shot of bourbon into a tall glass, fill to the rim with cold water and ice, and presto chango, booze that previously went down hard and biting transforms into the smoothest of nightcaps. This is how they take their evening drink in Scotland, so order up a round and imagine the winds whipping through the Highlands. Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co., 1630 S Street; (916) 442-4885; www.hookandladder916.com. —Rachel Leibrock
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RolleR deRby playoffs Local roller-derby leagues, the Sac City Rollers and the Sacred City Derby Girls, were both recently invited to compete in this year’s Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Division 2 Playoffs, scheduled to take place in Duluth, Minn., and Ontario, Canada. Both teams chose to decline the opportunity EVENT because of the high cost of travel expenses and competition fees. The silver lining, however: The Sacred City Derby Girls will host a Division 1 Playoff series at the Memorial Auditorium instead. Here, 10 of the 40 qualified Division 1 teams will compete for a spot at the national championship games. The WFTDA is an association of roller derby leagues that represents and ranks 243 member leagues and 114 apprentice teams around the world from Colombia to Japan, Germany to New Zealand. For this upcoming playoff series, WFTDA-registered teams, including New York City’s defending champions, the Gotham Girls Roller Derby, and Colorado’s Denver Roller Dolls, will lace up skates and tighten up knee guards for the chance to claim the championship title in Nashville, October 31-November 2. $18- $25 at varying times on Friday, September 5, through Sunday, September 7; at the Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J Street; www.wftda.com/sacramento. —Steph Rodriguez
I work in an oppressive environment where critical thinking, creativity and healthy boundaries are not valued one iota. In many other ways, it’s a good job. The work itself aligns with my skill set, I enjoy my colleagues and have been with this employer long enough to have collected significant vacation time. But we have a new boss who is even more controlling, angry, opby Joey ga pressive and tyrannical than rcia our three previous bosses. I don’t think I can take much a skj o ey @ n ewsreview.c om more of his micro-managing, but I don’t see any options for Joey myself outside of this office. I have met novelist RenÊe tried over the years to find another Thompson at Hawks job but have had no luck. I have no Restaurant. idea where to turn (I am single and my parents are deceased. I have no siblings and few real friends). I hope you can give me some advice. You sound depressed, and that’s understandable. It appears that you are experiencing employment as indentured servitude instead of as an opportunity to contribute your talents to a living-giving enterprise.
Reframing your employer’s role in your life allows you to invest less of your hopes, dreams and expectations into the workday. I don’t know why. I do know that being a wage slave breaks a person’s spirit. That is especially true for creative people skilled at thinking through a problem and arriving at a unique and clear-minded insight or solution. Given your feelings and your circumstances, can you think of yourself as having a j-o-b, instead of a career or vocation? A job provides a paycheck and camaraderie but does not offer opportunities for advancement. Jobs don’t usually engage our passions, either. A job is simply necessary work that allows us to earn necessary income. Reframing your employer’s role in your life allows you to invest less of your hopes, dreams and expectations into the workday. In the meantime you can continue to seek more meaningful work in a company that values its employees and behaves accordingly.
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Here’s another option: If you can’t find a position within a company where you would enjoy working, create something fresh that feeds you. Pour your creativity and critical thinking skills into a sideline business that could eventually become your exit ticket. The process of exploring this possibility will reveal strengths you might not realize you own. Seeing yourself differently will inoculate you against your employer’s inability to respect you and your co-workers. And, yes, that would be a well-earned bonus. I tend to get sad when I listen to co-workers and friends going on about their happy coupled lives. I don’t want what they have, but I feel badly anyway. I know I can’t ask them to stop talking about things that are important to them. What advice can you offer about how to embrace being single without being ashamed of it? Date yourself. On Friday and Saturday nights, take yourself out to a film, play, or a romantic dinner for one. Plan a dream vacation and go solo. Enjoy long walks with your cell phone turned off. Don’t listen to music either. Immerse yourself in the sound of reality. Meditate. Contemplate. Journal. The more often you practice silence and solitude, the more pleasure you will discover in the single life. And please consider clipping the branches of your belief system that lie to you. It’s not true that the single life is shameful or that being coupled is living right. The single life and the married life are simply different lifestyles, both featuring an equal number of challenges and blessings. Few people are comfortable enough in their own skin to enjoy the single life. Their personal discomfort compels them to disparage things they don’t understand or can’t handle. When you cling to shame or embarrassment, you avoid evolution. So, step away from the mainstream to live, and love, fully. Ί
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What will become of Sacramento’s classical music scene? September is the month when many symphony orchestras launch their new concert season. But at Sacramento’s Community Center by Jeff Hudson Theater, the Sacramento Philharmonic and the Sacramento Opera will be silent this fall. And thereby hangs a tale.
Teatro Espejo’s production of Rubén AmavizcaMurúa’s play is sharp-edged, emotional and difficult to watch as it tells the story of a woman abducted and trafficked from Mexico for sex work in the United States. Featuring Yesenia Lopez, Berman Obaldia, Ruben Oriol-Rivera and Gladys Imperio-Acosta, it includes graphic descriptions of violence, off-stage sexual violence and a forced abortion. Representatives from WEAVE and My Sister’s House are in attendance with information about local programs, and the goal is definitely education rather than entertainment. F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 9/7. $12-$15. Teatro Espejo at the California Stage, 2509 R Street; www.enslaved. brownpapertickets.com. K.M.
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2015,” according to a July statement. This review may or may not involve a revamp of the organization’s long-standing business model. The Community Center Theater is an expensive hall and they could conceivably try another venue, although no good alternatives downtown spring to mind. How they’ll recruit a competent new manager after Tannenbaum’s walkout remains to be seen. But while symphonic music is apparently going dark downtown, at least for now, the Mondavi Center at UC Davis is bringing in the San Francisco Symphony and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra this fall. And the Harris Center for the Arts at Folsom Lake College is hosting Branford Marsalis with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and the Prague Philharmonic Choir. What’s more, the region’s four semipro orchestras—the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, the Camellia Symphony Orchestra in Sacramento, the Auburn Symphony and the Folsom Symphony—are all rolling out seasons of four-to-seven programs each. These will be presented in newer venues that are (for many people) closer to home than the Community Center Theater downtown, and with better sound as well. All four of these orchestras have grown in artistic stature in recent years, and they’re drawing crowds that sometimes rival attendance at Sacramento Philharmonic’s downtown concerts. So what becomes of the Sacramento Philharmonic and Sacramento Opera merger? Can they figure out a better game plan? Can the City of Sacramento, after doing nothing to fix up the Community Center Theater as better venues opened up nearby, develop a plan to provide a better hall for music? Or will a complacent community conclude that the combination of touring orchestras at the Mondavi and Harris centers, plus the four semipro orchestras in their respective quadrants, is good enough? Will downtown Sacramento, which already hosts dramatically fewer concerts compared to decades past, consolidate its emerging status as a “cultural flyover zone” as far as music is concerned? Stay tuned. Ω
This irreverent comedy “reinvents” Molière’s 1668 classic The Miser in crazy, contemporary SoCal terms, spicing the bawdiness with gay and straight relationships, references to cocaine, immigration, deportation and blazing summer wildfires threatening expensive homes. It’s a wellexecuted, rowdy romp, with a slightly sharp edge. F, Sa 8pm. Through 9/6. $12-$17.50. Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre, 1127 N. Main St. in Jackson; (209) 295-4499; www.mstw.org. J.H.
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This is a grand oldschool operatic musical which burst onto Broadway in 2005 amid lighter fare and special-effects-laden shows. Based on a novella by Elizabeth Spencer, the story is set in the 1950s and revolves around a mother-daughter trip to Italy and explores past, present and future loves of both women. Under a tight directing crew, the cast is a swirl of musical and acting talents—most notably Carly Giroux as the mother, who achingly coveys hope and heartache while belting out impressive vocals. Every member of this cast combines noteworthy acting and musical talents, backed up by pure skill. F, Sa 8pm; Su 7pm. Through 9/7. $18. Green Valley Theatre Company at Grange Performing Arts Center, 3823 V St.; (916) 736-2664; www.green valleytheatre.com. P.R.
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The day after the funeral of a friend, four women get together for a round of golf in her honor. Friendships are made and tested, secrets spilled and truths revealed in the latest comedy
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A year ago, the Sacramento Philharmonic and Sacramento Opera tooted the trumpets as they announced their merger—under a new umbrella organization called the Sacramento Region Performing Arts Alliance, with the catchy slogan “Two In Tune.” They hired an executive director with years of experience managing arts groups in Europe, Robert Tannenbaum. Things didn’t work out. Tannenbaum departed abruptly in the spring. Sources indicate that the problems included an inherited budget that had financial holes and certain board members from the two organizations who weren’t necessarily singing in harmony. To make matters worse, there has been no resolution in the long-running debate about whether to renovate the frowzy, technologically obsolete, 40-year-old Community Center Theater (which has bad acoustics, inadequate restrooms and lobby space, and dismal accessibility for disabled people) or launch what would be a decadelong effort to build a better venue (on a yet-to-be-determined site, with yet-to-beidentified funds). Facing more uncertainties than answers, the alliance opted for a fall hiatus: No performances. They are now conducting “a three-month review of all available opportunities to preserve the opera and philharmonic for the community, including the possibility of a modified or partial season that would be presented in early
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from prolific Canadian playwright Norm Foster. Tu 6:30pm; Wed 2pm &
Sacramento’s Michael O’Connell will perform in the third round of the festival’s stand-up comedy competition this year.
Hella humor Sacramento Comedy Spot hosts the fourth annual Sacramento Comedy Festival this weekend. The festival showcases the Comedy Spot’s various improv troupes and sketch-comedy shows. It also features a stand-up comedy competition, Bay Area sketch and improv troupes, British comedy troupe the Cambridge Footlights, and a reunion show by the Free Hooch Comedy Troupe, a sketch group that performed in Sacramento from 2001 to 2005. Some Free Hooch members went on to appear in shows such as Key and Peele, Parks and Recreation and America’s Got Talent. But perhaps most importantly, the troupe’s founder, Brian Crall, went on to create a venue called the Sacramento Comedy Spot. Sacramento Comedy Festival, $8-$15 per show, $45-$55 for an all-festival pass; various times Friday, September 12, through Saturday, September 20; Sacramento Comedy Spot, 1050 20th Street, Suite 130; www.saccomedyfest.com. —Jonathan Mendick
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As many people know, Elvis Presley had an identical twin brother Jesse, who was stillborn 35 minutes before Elvis was born on January 8, 1935. But by Jim Lane say, what if Jesse had lived? What if Vernon and Gladys Presley decided they simply couldn’t afford to raise two boys, and gave one of them to a childless couple to raise as their own? That never happened, of course. But something like it happens in the new movie The Identical, written by Howard Klausner and directed by Dustin Marcellino. Deep in the Great Depression, cotton farmer William Hemsley
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(Brian Geraghty) is torn when his wife Helen (Amanda Crew) gives birth to twin boys, Drexel and Dexter, in their tiny shack. They can barely feed even one baby; with two they might all starve. Looking for guidance, he attends a tent revival presided over by the Rev. Reece Wade (Ray Liotta). Oversharing a bit, preacher Wade tells the congregation that he and his wife Louise (Ashley Judd) suffered a miscarriage “over Thanksgiving.” This, by the way, is the first of several jolts in The Identical’s chronology. The voice-over narration tells us that the twins were born in October, which would make Louise’s miscarriage at least 11 months ago, but the Wades speak and act as if it happened only yesterday. But I digress. The Rev. Wade says that the doctors warned them that another pregnancy could cost Louise her life. William sees the hand of God in this news. He persuades his wife Helen to offer one of their twin boys to the childless Wades, and he extracts a promise from the Wades to say nothing to their adopted son until both he and Helen are dead. Then, after the Wades have driven away, the Hemsleys bury an empty box under a grave marker with the name of their son Dexter, who supposedly lived only one day. After a brief stop in the 1940s, the scene moves to sometime in the early 1950s—again, chronology is vague—and little Dexter has grown into Ryan Wade (Blake Rayne), groomed
to follow in his father’s footsteps as a man of the cloth. But Ryan hears the siren call of this new music called rock ’n’ roll, especially as personified by the sensational singing of a young boy from Alabama, none other than Drexel “the Dream” Hemsley. In time, after a stint in the Army and much conflict with his conservative father, Ryan will hit the road touring state fairs and concert halls as “the Identical,” an uncanny Drexel impersonator. The premise is intriguing, and it might have been made into one of several interesting movies—a hilarious comedy of mistaken identity, a touching drama of brothers separated at birth, a toe-tapping tour of ’50s-to-’70s pop music seen from both top (Drexel) and bottom (Ryan). To be any of those, however, it would have to have been crafted by hands far less sloppy than Klausner and Marcellino’s. For starters, The Identical is careless about those dates. On a visit to Drexel Hemsley’s (and his own) birthplace, Ryan sees a historical marker giving Drexel’s birth date as February 12, 1932. Not two minutes later, baby Dexter’s gravestone gives his birthdate as October 24, 1935. Still later, when Drexel dies in the crash of his private plane (that’s not a spoiler; Elvis died young, too), his years of life are given as 1936-1972. There’s no excuse for that sort of thing.
There are a few good entries in this parade of amateurishness: fine performances from Ashley Judd and especially Ray Liotta. There’s probably never been a movie that looks less lived-in than The Identical. Everybody looks like they just stepped out of the shower. Their clothes look like they’ve never been worn until that moment. Even the paint on the vintage cars looks like it’s still wet. There are a few good entries in this parade of amateurishness: fine performances from Ashley Judd and especially Ray Liotta, from Joe Pantoliano as a garage mechanic who first notices the resemblance between the separated brothers, and Seth Green as Ryan’s drummer pal. As both Drexel and Ryan, Blake Rayne (once an Elvis impersonator in real life) is earnest and appealing, but it takes more than just looking and singing like Elvis. There was only one Elvis. There are no identicals, only counterfeits. Ω
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A band of explorers, led by a scholar specializing in the history of alchemy (Perdita Weeks) and guided by a Parisian street hustler (François Civil) ventures into the catacombs under the streets of Paris in search of the philosopher’s stone, that mystical rock that can turn base metals to gold. Then all hell breaks loose—literally. Or apparently? Frankly, it’s hard to tell. The script by director John Erick Dowdle and his brother Drew is so murky, and the brothers’ grip on their narrative is so shaky. Even murkier and shakier is Léo Hinstin’s cinematography, recycling yet again the insufferable cliché of found video footage. (Dear God, will we never be rid of The Blair Witch Project?) The movie boasts little suspense, few scares, and no stars—only a gang of hungry unknowns eager to be in a hit. J.L.
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Guardians of the Galaxy
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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John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary asks some challenging questions about the nature of sin and redemption. Are the priests who ignored sexual abusers in their own church just as guilty of their crimes? When Jesus died for our sins, was it tantamount to suicide? If we’re just actors in a play that has already been written, do sin and virtue even exist? “Do you know what felching is?” That last question, asked by an unworldly young priest (“I had to look it up”), is a perfect example of the way that McDonagh balances expansive philosophical ideas against naughty-boy shock humor. Much like McDonagh’s 2011 debut The Guard, Calvary traffics in that borderline surreal dichotomy between the existential and the vulgar. It is a tough trick to pull off, and while there is a lot to like here, too often the results more smugly suited to the proscenium arch than the letterbox. D.B.
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Boyhood
A seemingly limitless stream of pure empathy runs through Richard Linklater’s transcendental movie event/social experiment/life-affirming 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.
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A talented teenage cellist (Chloë Grace Moretz) lies in a coma after an auto accident kills her family. She has an out-of-body experience, reliving her past and her budding romance with a local rock star (Jamie Blackley) while deciding whether she wants to live or die. Adapted by Shauna Cross from Gayle Forman’s novel and directed by R.J. Cutler, the movie (like the book) uses the out-of-body gimmick to inject suspense and a supernatural charge into what would otherwise be a pretty bland
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Woody Allen continues his Western European tour of pretty sunsets with Magic in the Moonlight, yet another in his now two-decade-long series of mediocre gimmick comedies. After dabbling in hypnotism (Curse of the Jade Scorpion), hysterical blindness (Hollywood Ending), ghosts (Scoop), fortune-telling (You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger) and time travel (Midnight in Paris), Allen’s latest concerns a snobbish magician (Colin Firth) attempting to expose a button-nosed American mystic (Emma Stone). The problem is not that such supernatural gimmickry is beneath Allen—classics like Sleeper and The Purple Rose of Cairo are as high-concept as they come—but that it’s just window dressing for another of Allen’s wafer-thin, low-pulse drawing-room comedies. At least Allen’s script serves his stars well—Stone is so faithful to the page that she rarely indulges in her usual cutesy, eye-crinkling mannerisms, while Firth gets to show a rarely seen testy cynicism. D.B. and unexceptional story. But only churlish folks will pick nits: The movie is an efficient and satisfying teen tearjerker, well-acted by beautiful people wearing beautiful clothes and speaking sensitive thoughts. Joshua Leonard and Mireille Enos play Moretz’s loving parents, Stacy Keach her distraught grandfather. J.L.
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A retired surgeon (Earl Lynn Nelson) treats his ex-brother-in-law (Paul Eenhoorn) to a vacation in Iceland. We learn in time (spoiler alert!) that the surgeon was forced to retire because he was an unpleasant jackass who couldn’t respect personal boundaries— but by that time, we’ve already had our fill of him ourselves. It’s easy to understand the man’s former co-workers; why did they even put up with this jerk long enough for him to retire? He badgers strangers with nosy questions and dominates his brother-in-law, who lacks the personality to stand up to him. Written and directed by Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens, the movie has pretty scenery, but it’s a crashing bore—95 minutes of uninteresting people doing nothing. It’s like a travelogue about Iceland with an obnoxious narrator who won’t shut up. J.L.
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The November Man
Pierce Brosnan slips comfortably into the espionage thriller The November Man, playing an aging but still deadly international spy chased by both crooked Russians and his own people. If anything, Brosnan is far too comfortable here, and the same goes double for director Roger Donaldson and screenwriters Michael Finch and Karl Gajdusek. The November Man is so comfortable, in fact, so content to reprocess the familiar and predictable, the film practically dozes off on a recliner in the living room of your mind. A certain level of reliance on familiar tropes is expected in a spy film, but even by the laxest standards, The November Man is half-assed and interchangeable. Brosnan is rumored to be in the next edition of the execrable The Expendables franchise. If he is going to keep churning out by-the-numbers duds like this, then that cinematic wax museum is the perfect place for him to rest. D.B.
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
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over a three-day weekend. Once again, it’s based on Frank Miller’s Dark Horse comic-book universe, and Miller is also credited with the film’s script and co-direction, so perhaps it’s no surprise that this Sin City more closely resembles Miller’s awful 2008 film The Spirit. Of course, it’s also a sign of how little Rodriguez cares that he can’t even rip himself off with conviction. All the moral ambiguity, sexual depravity and outlandish style of the first Sin City has been boiled down into a flavorless gruel of tacky hard-boiled dialogue and self-conscious posturing, and only a lusty Eva Green keeps the film from flatlining. D.B.
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A med-school dropout (Daniel Radcliffe), licking his wounds after a failed relationship, becomes infatuated with the cousin (Zoe Kazan) of his college roommate (Adam Driver)—but she’s in a stable relationship with her longtime boyfriend, leaving our hero “just a friend.” Filmed in Canada as The F Word (a better title), the movie plunges deep into When Harry Met Sally… territory, yet it survives thanks to crackling dialogue (by Elan Mastai, from a play by T.J. Dawe and Michael Rinaldi); brisk, light direction (Michael Dowse); and, most of all, the effervescent chemistry between Radcliffe and Kazan. Kazan, who should have hit it big with Ruby Sparks two years ago, is particularly good—quirky, charming, a true original. What is it going to take to make this delightful woman the star she deserves to be? J.L.
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it let him unload all his feelings about a bad relationship. Meanwhile his first single, “Check My Resume,” is about not being taken seriously as an artist. Geter says a lot of rappers assumed he had familial help—his older brother is TAIS from Righteous Movement—when he’s worked hard on his craft for years. That said, he was first exposed to hiphop because of his brother. Geter would go to Righteous Movement gigs and scribble song title ideas in a little notebook to show his brother later. In middle school, he started writing poetry, hoping crushes would read his rhymes on MySpace. Poems evolved into lyrics in high school. Sophomore year while attending Inderkum High School, Geter met Brown, who was already on his own beat-making journey. “Music is my way to vent— I just wanna touch everybody, hit every emotion,” Brown says. The two became close friends, then music partners. They recorded a mixtape in 2012 but laugh about it now. Since then, Geter’s elevated his writing and Brown became a certified audio engineer. Now the collaboration is effortless. “[Geter] can pick up on whatever mood is in my beat and flows to it perfectly,” Brown says.
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“I didn’t get mad at him,” Geter says. “I got mad at hip-hop as a whole. Rappers don’t realize they’re role models. They don’t take responsibility.” Hence Geter’s whole rap philosophy: “I don’t wanna make music I can’t show my nephews, or I can’t show my mother,” he says. With his debut full-length Revivolution, which drops Monday, September 8 at Sol Collective, Geter has 15 recorded songs he can show his family. The album art depicts Geter as a doctor and producer Vincent Brown, a.k.a. Freekwenzy, as Frankenstein with a boombox for a head. It’s a metaphor. And the title is wordplay: Revivolution is about Geter and Brown working to “revive” and “evolve” the art of hip-hop. Radio listeners might say hip-hop is dead. Geter and Brown say it’s back and better than ever—if you know where to listen. For Geter, the core of great hip-hop is honesty. It’s storytelling. Geter has lots of stories. “Everything on my album is personal—something I’ve gone through, something important to me,” he says. “I only write about things that come from the heart.” His opener “Legend” stems from that moment watching his 11-year-old nephew’s recital of “Fuckin’ Problems.” “Agony” is Geter’s personal favorite, partially because
“ Everything on my album is personal—something I’ve gone through, something important to me. I only write about things that come from the heart.” Avery Geter a.k.a. hip-hop artist Aerial The two don’t perform side-by-side onstage—yet, anyway. Brown’s soundscapes are all original, but he’s never played them live. A year ago, Geter was nervously performing in front of audiences for the first time. With mentors in the local hip-hop community, he’s quickly honed his confidence and stage presence. “People come up to me a lot, ‘You’ve been doing this a long time, huh?’ I’m like, ‘Since October,’” he says, laughing. “I think it’s a compliment.” Ω
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The raw and the romantic: Nearly halfway into her band’s Labor Day set at Witch Room, Natalie Ribbons made a confession. “I keep trying to write these loud, fast songs but I keep pumping out jams that are slow and romantic,” the Tele Novella singer said. That’s OK, of course. Longtime fans of Ribbons’ old band Agent Ribbons adored, after all, that band’s swingy, baroque-tinged cabaret pop. With Tele Novella, Ribbons—who relocated to Austin a handful of years back—now makes music that’s a bit more rock, a bit rawer, definitely more danceable. Witness the way bassist Jason Chronis, for example, bounced like a pogo stick throughout the set. Still, whatever the rhythm, Tele Novella nonetheless showcases Ribbons’ charms: That husky voice and lyrics that tell full stories in short time. The Texas band, which played to a crowded house, was preceded by Silver Spoons, a trio that seems to have perfected the art of droning stoner indie rock, and Oakland’s Shannon and the Clams. The latter ensemble is so loved for its by-the-numbers take on ’60s surf pop that people literally ran to the stage as the band launched into its set. There was lots of retroesque dancing, but eventually one couple helpfully brought the night back into the 21st century, taking the opportunity to indulge in a bit of mock, playful grinding. Raw and romantic, indeed.
A purple, sparkly trip: Sacto pop group Soft Science just debuted a new video for its single “Light” (from the full-length Detour, released earlier this year on Test Pattern Records). Filmed by Tyler Kinney, the clip’s a bit of a mind-trip: The quartet (featuring past and present members of Holiday Flyer, Welt, Forever Goldrush and the English Singles), shot it while playing and lip-syncing at what was essentially double speed. Kinney then slowed down the footage to half-speed. There’s also a fog machine and lighting effects, and everything appears all purple and sparkly and magical. Until the end, when suddenly it’s not (I’m not going to explain that further, you’ll just need to watch). Kinney describes it this way: “The concept was to shoot a really flashy-looking video, then pull back the curtain and just show how DIY it actually is.” The result (like the band’s sound) is super shoegaze, i.e. very ’90s throwback. The Big Takeover, a New York-based
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music magazine, premiered the video online (www.bigtakeover.com), cementing its love for the band. In February, the mag praised Detour, writing that “the hunger and drive in this classic indie pop dreampop, a massive treat for Ride and Lush fans … is palpable.” Soft Science, incidentally, will play Friday, September 12, at the Starlite Lounge (1517 21st Street, 9 p.m., $5, www.facebook.com/softscience music). Dead Leaf Echo, All About Rockets and Slowness are also on the bill.
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Sign up on the list: Open-mic nights at bars and nightclubs are as ubiquitous as the Pabst Blue Ribbon served at such establishments. That said, there’s a new one in town worth checking out. James Cavern, the singer-songwriter who did a quick stint on The Voice earlier this year, just launched a series at one of Midtown’s newest spots, Goldfield Trading Post (1630 J Street). Each week, Cavern herds wild cats—err, budding hopefuls—and says that so far attendance has been “awesome” and feedback “great.” OK, but what sets it apart from the million other open mics around town? Well, for starters, Cavern, who also hosts a Thursday night “open jam” at Pour House (1910 Q Street), is about to launch a video series for which he’ll shoot clips at Goldfield and later post to the bar’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ GoldfieldTradingPost). On that note, Cavern says there are also plans to revive Porch Sessions, his popular YouTube series featuring acoustic performances from local artists including Autumn Sky, Century Got Bars and Musical Charis. Anyway, back to the open mic—it’s free, happens every Monday night at 9 p.m., and is 21-and-over only, obviously.
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Blue Line Arts, 7 p.m., $35
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Step back in time as Rachel Lauren sings tunes like “Stars Fell on Alabama,” a 1930s jazz standard that’s been performed by some of the biggest names in jazz and pop: Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Kate Smith, Jimmy Buffett and Ricky Nelson. Lauren retains the core of what makes her jazzy repertoire selections classic, but adds her own style, creating a contemporary JAZZ sound. It’s no surprise she’s been featured on Late Show with David Letterman; her smooth voice is a perfect fit on any jazzy track, which makes her music easy to listen to. 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100 in Roseville; www.rachellauren.com.
Goldfield Trading Post, 9 p.m., no cover
If you’re super hip to the San Francisco psych-pop garage scene, you’ve probably heard of Tim Cohen. And even if you’re not, you still may have heard of him. The frontman’s concurrent project is the Fresh & Onlys, and in the past he’s played with Black Fiction, Sonny & the Sunsets and the Forest Fires Collective, in addition to releasing solo GARAGE ROCK work. Fans of looselimbed, ’60s and ’70s psych-pop like the Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop and the Kinks will dig Cohen’s latest offering with Magic Trick, which released its latest album, Ruler of the Night, in 2012. 1815 19th Street, www.facebook.com/ magictricktheband.
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Old Ironsides, 9 p.m., $7
If you’re the type who deeply believes it takes guts to like country music, wears 10-gallon cowboy hats and talks about the “good ol’ days”—all unironically—then there’s a new venue for you to check out: Goldfield. Located in the former Hamburger Patties space and self-described as “Sacramento’s newest country bar,” it recently started hosting live music. This Friday, Vacaville’s Buck Ford (who traveled to Nashville to record his second album in 2010) and his backup group (billed as “the COUNTRY Pure Country Band” in some instances) takes the stage to perform nostalgia-tinged songs such as “Somethin’ Bout Those Cowgirls.” 1630 J Street, www.buckford.com.
Old Ironsides first opened its doors in 1934. Let that sink in for a second. That means the venerable venue has survived the inventions of smooth jazz, disco and grunge. It also claims to be the first local ROCK bar to legally sell alcohol after Prohibition. So to celebrate its 80th anniversary, it’s hosting several events in September. The big two-day finale will be near the end of the month, but this Friday is just as special because it’s the first of the bar’s anniversary parties. The lineup includes Sacramento rock groups Jackpot (pictured), Grub Dog and the Amazing Sweethearts, Milwaukee and Fatso. 1901 10th Street, www.theold ironsides.com.
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THURS 09/04 // 8PM // $5
COSMIC FAMILY PRESENTS FRI 09/05 // 9PM
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Harris Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m., $12-$39
The Boardwalk, 8 p.m., $20-$24
DakhaBrakha seems to exist where theater and music collide. That’s no surprise given that the quartet, made up of three women and one guy, was created a decade ago by Vladyslav Troitskyi, founder of the DAKH Centre of Contemporary Arts in Kiev, Ukraine. The history of the center is almost as interesting as this band, which terms its music “ethno-chaos.” The music’s rooted in Ukraine’s folklore and features a lot of instruWORLD ments, from India (tabla), Africa (djembe), Russia (garmoshka) and Australia (didgeridoo). And the vocal ranges never cease to amaze. DakhaBrakha creates a contemporary sound, with world and punk sensibility. 10 College Parkway in Folsom; www.dakhabrakha.com.ua.
—Trina L. Drotar
After the release of Faster Pussycat’s self-titled debut album on Elektra Records in 1987, it seemed the band was on track to become one of hard rock’s biggest names. However, the band peaked with its second album, the gold-certified Wake Me When HARD ROCK It’s Over. Then the band broke up shortly after after the release of the ill-received Whipped. Although vocalist Taime Downe is now the only original member from the classic lineup, his current band can play the old stuff just as good as it was done on record, if not better. Opening the show are Garden of Eden, Roswell, Crazy Dogs, Terra Ferno and Resurrection of Ruin. 9426 Greenback Lane in Orangevale, www.fasterpussycat.com.
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Midtown Barfly, 8 p.m., $15
The Hackney brothers made an odd discovery in 2006: Their dad and uncles were in Death, PUNK one of the first punk bands ever— certainly the first black punk band ever, predating Bad Brains by six years. The group was all but forgotten until their story was captured in the 2012 documentary A Band Called Death. Rough Francis started in 2008 by the three Hackney brothers as a tribute act, playing Death tunes to a new audience. Since then, Rough Francis started writing its own material, and now rips through some energetic garage-rock tunes, influenced by bands like MC5, the Stooges, and of course Death. 1815 19th Street, www.facebook.com/ roughfrancis.
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Most fans of Earth found out about guitarist and songwriter Dylan Carlson’s magnificent song craft after the release of its debut album, Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version, in 1993. Now, after the release of more than a dozen albums (including both in-studio and live), it seems there is no way to pigeonhole the band’s sound as simply “drone.” The current band is rounded out by Adrienne Davies on drums and Bill Herzog on bass. Expect to hear a great portion of the fantastic Primitive And Deadly album, which comes out just six EXPERIMENTAL days before the ROCK show. Seattle’s King Dude plays the support slot and Wreck and Reference opens. 1119 21st Street, www.thronesanddominions.com.
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2708 J St., (916) 441-4693
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Dragalicious, 9pm, $5
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LUCKY LASKOWSKI, MANDOLIN AVENUE, BANJO FIDDLE; 8:30pm, $5
Jazz session, 8pm M; DRY COUNTY DRINKERS, JENN ROGAR; 8:30pm W, $5
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Top 40 Night w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9pm, $5
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670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731
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614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586
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2030 P St., (916) 444-7914
SHADY LADY SALOON 1409 R St., (916) 231-9121
TESSIE MARIE & POOR MAN BAND, 9pm, no cover
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The Glenn Miller Orchestra 7pm Sunday, $30-$75. Center for the Arts Jazz and swing
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2574 21st St., (916) 832-0916
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SPAZMATICS, 4pm, call for cover
Comedy open-mic, 8pm M; Bluebird Lounge open-mic, 5pm Tu, no cover
TORCH CLUB
904 15th St., (916) 443-2797
X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; HOT CITY JAZZ, PETER PETTY; 9pm, $6
PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm, no cover; AC MYLES, 9pm, $7
MURALI CORYELL, 9pm, $8
Blues jam, 4pm; THE SOUL SHINE BAND, FUNKTOPUS, 8pm Tu; Open-mic, FAILURE MACHINE, 8pm, $5 5:30pm W; KERI CARR BAND, 9pm W, $5
WITCH ROOM
HIVE DWELLERS, LE KELTON; 6:30pm, $7
MAGIC TRICK, LUKE SWEENEY, SAD NUMBERS, ELECTRO GROUP; 8pm, $8
ROUGH FRANCIS, CHARLES ALBRIGHT, CELESTIONS, MONSTER TREASURE; 8pm
BE CALM HONCHO, BROTHER GRAND, SEA KNIGHT; 6:30pm, $7
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1417 R St., (916) 448-3300
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1400 E St., (916) 551-1400
FUTUREWANG, NOW! MILES, DREW WALKER, WES STEED; 8pm, $5
ROACH GIGZ, BAEZA, THE GOOMBAS; 7pm, $20-$50
TRIBAL SEEDS, NEW KINGSTON, THE EXPANDERS; 7pm, $18
RUBBIDY BUPPIDY, NATHAN KALISH, THE LASTCALLERS; 8pm, $5
ONE SHARP MIND, BRADEN SCOTT BAND; 8pm, $5
Classical Revolution, 7:30pm M, $5; Open jazz jam, 8pm Tu; Poetry, 7pm W
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I want to open a cannabis dispensary. What should I do? —Ann Trapenoor Good luck. There are so many dispensaries already. I mean, it’s not like 2009, when you couldn’t swing a dead blunt without hitting a cannabis dispensary. But there are still plenty of spots in the cities that allow them. What do you know about running a business? How good is your lawyer? Are you prepared to BEALUM go to jail? Jail doesn’t happen nearly as often by NGAIO as it used to, but it is still a possibility. Maybe you should take a class. Oaksterdam University in Oakland still teaches classes, and I know 420 ’13 a sk420@ ne wsreview.c om College does seminars in the Sacramento area. I sat in on a 420 College class a few months ago and found it very informative. You may also want to think about an ancillary marijuana business. Perhaps a packaging company or a lab, or perhaps you could develop some sort of newfangled point-of-sale system. Not everything has to be a pot shop. Have fun exploring.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I don’t usu-
ally do this kind of thing, but I’m going to suggest that you monitor the number six. My hypothesis is that six has been trying to grab your attention, perhaps even in askew or inconvenient ways. Its purpose? To nudge you to tune in to beneficial influences that you have been ignoring. I furthermore suspect that six is angling to show you clues about what is both the cause of your unscratchable itch and the cure for that itch. So lighten up and have fun with this absurd mystery, Aries. Without taking it too seriously, allow six to be your weird little teacher. Let it prick your intuition with quirky notions and outlandish speculations. If nothing comes of it, there will be no harm done. If it leads you to helpful discoveries, hallelujah.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Peter the
Great was the Tsar of Russia from 1682 until 1725. Under his rule, his nation became a major empire. He also led a cultural revolution that brought modern European-style ideas and influences to Russia. But for our purposes right now, I want to call attention to one of his other accomplishments: The All-Joking, All-Drunken Council of Fools and Jesters. It was a club he organized with his allies to ensure there would always be an abundance of parties for him to enjoy. I don’t think you need alcohol as an essential part of your own efforts to sustain maximum revelry in the coming weeks, Scorpio. But I do suggest you convene a similar brain trust.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In
Roald Dahl’s kids’ story James and the Giant Peach, 501 seagulls are needed to carry the giant peach from a spot near the Azores all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to New York City. But physics students at the U.K.’s University of Leicester have determined that such a modest contingent wouldn’t be nearly enough to achieve a successful airlift. By their calculations, there’d have to be a minimum of 2,425,907 seagulls involved. I urge you to consider the possibility that you, too, will require more power than you have estimated to accomplish your own magic feat. Certainly not almost 5,000 times more, as in the case of the seagulls. Fifteen percent more should be enough. (P.S. I’m almost positive you can rustle up that extra 15 percent.)
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Dutch
word epibreren means that even though you are goofing off, you are trying to create the impression that you are hard at work. I wouldn’t be totally opposed to you indulging in some major epibreren in the coming days. More importantly, the cosmos won’t exact any karmic repercussions for it. I suspect, in fact, that the cosmos is secretly conspiring for you to enjoy more slack and spaciousness that usual. You’re overdue to recharge your spiritual and emotional batteries, and that will require extra repose and quietude. If you have to engage in a bit of masquerade to get the ease you need, so be it.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): So
far, 53 toys have been inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame. They include crayons, the jump rope, Mr. Potato Head, the yo-yo, the rubber duckie, and dominoes. My favorite inductee—and the toy that is most symbolically useful to you right now—is the plain old cardboard box. Of all the world’s playthings, it is perhaps the one that requires and activates the most imagination. It can become a fort, a spaceship, a washing machine, a cave, a submarine, and many other exotic things. I think you need to be around influences akin to the cardboard box because they are likely to unleash your dormant creativity.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): When
James Franco began to learn his craft as an actor, he was young and poor. A gig at McDonald’s paid for his acting lessons and allowed him to earn a living. He also used his time on the job as an opportunity to build his skills as a performer. While serving customers burgers and fries, he practiced speaking to them in a variety of different accents. Now would be an excellent time for you to adopt a similar strategy, Cancerian. Even if you are not doing what you love to do full-time, you can and should take stronger measures to prepare yourself for that day when you will be doing more of what you love to do.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here are a few of
the major companies that got their starts in home garages: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mattel, Amazon, and Disney. Even if you’re not in full support of their business practices, you’ve got to admit that their humble origins didn’t limit their ability to become rich and powerful. As I meditate on the long-term astrological omens, I surmise you are now in a position to launch a project that could follow a similar arc. It would be more modest, of course. I don’t foresee you ultimately becoming an international corporation worth billions of dollars. But the success would be bigger than I think you can imagine.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m not
opposed to you fighting a good fight. It’s quite possible you would become smarter and stronger by wrangling with a worthy adversary or struggling against a bad influence. The passion you summon to outwit an obstacle could bestow blessings not only on you but on other people, as well. But here’s a big caveat: I hope you will not get embroiled in a showdown with an imaginary foe. I pray that you will refrain from a futile combat with a slippery delusion. Choose your battles carefully, Aquarius.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): During the
next six weeks, I suggest you regard symbiosis as one of your key themes. Be alert for ways you can cultivate more interesting and intense forms of intimacy. Magnetize yourself to the joys of teamwork and collaboration. Which of your skills and talents are most useful to other people? Which are most likely to inspire your allies to offer you their best skills and talents? I suggest you highlight everything about yourself that is most likely to win you love, appreciation, and help.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I have a
hypothesis that everyone is born with the same amount of luck,” says cartoonist Scott Adams. “But luck doesn’t appear to be spread evenly across a person’s life. Some people use up all of their luck early in life. Others start out in bad circumstances and finish strong.” How would you assess your own distribution of luck, Virgo? According to my projections, you are in a phase when luck is flowing stronger and deeper than usual. And I bet it will intensify in the coming weeks. I suggest you use it wisely—which is to say, with flair and aplomb and generosity.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When my
daughter Zoe was seven years old, she took horseback riding lessons with a group of other young aspirants. On the third lesson, their instructor assigned them the task of carrying an egg in a spoon that they clasped in their mouths as they sat facing backwards on a trotting horse. That
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seemingly improbable task reminds me of what you’re working on right now, Libra. Your balancing act isn’t quite as demanding, but it is testing you in ways you’re not accustomed to. My prognosis: You will master what’s required of you faster than the kids at Zoe’s horse camp. Every one of them broke at least eight eggs before succeeding. I suspect that three or four attempts will be enough for you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In English,
the rare word trouvaille means a lucky find or an unexpected windfall. In French, trouvaille can refer to the same thing and even more: something interesting or exceptional that is discovered fortuitously; a fun or enlightening blessing that’s generated through the efforts of a vigorous imagination. Of course I can’t guarantee that you will experience a trouvaille or two (or even three) in the coming days, Taurus. But the conditions are as ripe as they can be for such a possibility.
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For the week of September 4, 2014
Go to sleep, little babe Stephanie Carslake wants your child to take a nap. Honestly, you probably need one, too. Carslake founded her sleep-consulting business, Sleep Tight, Good Night, to help parents learn to support their babies and toddlers in getting the rest they need. “Our society really commends those who can get a lot done on not a lot of sleep,” she says, “but everyone suffers when the little ones can’t sleep. Yes, the parents are sleep-deprived, but really, it’s the children who suffer, because they have all these brain connections and development taking place.” Carslake traveled to Florida last spring to train with sleep expert Dana Obleman and become Northern California’s first certified Sleep Sense consultant. Now, she’s bringing her sandman skills to sleepless families on the West Coast. Read on, if you can keep your tired eyes open.
Your baby daughter had trouble sleeping? It got to the point where my daughter was waking every two to three hours and had to be nursed back to sleep. I was back at work, a full-time teacher, and exhausted. My husband was exhausted. Our relationship was suffering. Our communication was almost nonexistent. The easiest tasks, like getting my daughter and myself ready to leave the house, I would be in tears. I was just so exhausted. I came home from work one day and my husband said, “I found our answer. We’re taking apart her crib and she’s going back in her room tonight.”
What did he find? 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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What he found was a program called The Sleep Sense Program. It’s originally from Canada. It was started by a woman named Dana Obleman in the early 2000s. We implemented the program that night and I even have it on my phone still—I keep a log of her sleep schedule. After three nights,
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on the fourth night she was sleeping 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Twelve hours straight.
What’s the Sleep Sense technique? You’re working with your child as they learn good sleep habits. Children attach to what is called “sleep props.” That is something external, like nursing. It can be a pacifier, rocking, swaying. It’s basically anything a child needs outside themselves to make the journey to sleep. Our goal is to work with a baby, a toddler or a young child, to establish independent sleep skills so they don’t require mom or dad or bottle or pacifier in the middle of the night to take that last step to sleep. We work with the parents and explain how they can guide their child in learning these skills. It’s not “Close the door, let baby cry it out.” You get to be in the room with your child while they’re learning these skills. You get to touch them. You get to talk to them. You get to comfort them.
Do babies’ personalities change when they get more sleep? Parents have said that they do. They say, “Oh, I have such a happy baby. They’re so well-behaved.” And then they go through the program and they’re like, “Wow.” It can be a whole new baby.
What age range do you work with? We work with newborns up through young school-age, about 5. With newborns, it’s not a training. It’s “What are some strategies we can implement as newborns so there isn’t a sleep problem down the road?” They still nurse as often as they need and sleep as often as they need, because with newborns, it’s just all about what they need.
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whether it’s for a kiss or a hug or to go to the bathroom or a sip of water, once you use that one pass, it’s gone. We use a lot of rewards with a 3-year-old. Rewards charts and immediate rewards the next morning if they were able to stay in their bed and not visit mommy and daddy in the middle of the night. There’s a lot of commending them for a job well done, because they like to be praised.
Are you pro-nap? Yes. Naps are vital. There’s an author who says, “Sleep begets sleep.” So if a child gets really wonderful sleep during the day, you can pretty much guarantee they’re going to have really wonderful sleep that night. … Often parents think that if they remove the last nap of the day, baby will sleep longer. Actually the opposite is true. When babies are overtired, it’s very hard for them to fall asleep. It’s similar for adults.
When a child wakes at night, how do you get them back to sleep? In the middle of the night, everyone, adults and children alike have what’s called a “partial arousal.” A partial arousal is at the end of a sleep cycle. We very briefly wake up. We fluff our pillow. We throw the covers over. We might accidentally kick our spouse. We do things that happen in a brief amount of time, but for adults we have the skills to go back to sleep. It’s such a small amount of time we don’t even realize it’s happening. Babies go through partial arousals, too. They make noises, they squeak and they grunt. As parents, we assume that they are awake. We rush in to offer whatever support we’re using. Three minutes is ideal. Give them three minutes and see what they’re going to do. It very well could be that they fall right back to sleep. Ω stephanie Carslake will lead a free baby-sleep workshop at Babies R Us, 1248 Galleria Boulevard in Roseville, at 6:30 p.m. on september 14. To learn more, visit www.sleeptightgoodnight.com.
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