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Ditch the jersey On September 8, a video of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancée in an elevator made headlines. Rice’s team, the Baltimore Ravens, cut him from its roster and the NFL indefinitely suspended him from the league.

But that didn’t stop football fans—both men and women—from showing support for the former running back by donning his No. 27 jersey when the Ravens played the Pittsburgh Steelers on September 11.

“I don’t condone fighting … but they should not have took that man’s job away,” one jersey-wearing female fan told USA Today.

The NFL has faced heavy criticism for its handling of Rice, but clearly we’re to blame, too.

Even as San Francisco 49ers defensive end Ray McDonald is investigated on suspicion of domestic assault against his pregnant fiancée and Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson faces felony charges for child abuse (both players are still active on their teams’ rosters, by the way) we don’t relent in our support.

For years, fans have looked away or made excuses for athletes, celebrities and other public figures—men and women—charged with physically assaulting partners or family members.

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This group, led by Greenwise Joint Venture, is receiving critical assistance from Green For All, a nonprofit based in Oakland and Washington D.C. that aims to create opportunities for people of color and urbanites while building the new green economy. The organization is focusing its Green Pathways Out of Poverty efforts in South Sacramento, who is a grantee of the California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative.

“Our mission is we want to lift people of color and vulnerable communities out of poverty through the green economy,” says Michael Blake, senior consultant for Green For All. The Green Pathways program connects stakeholders interested in green-job training with workforce development to prepare disenfranchised groups for green-collar careers. A working group of national experts is in the process of identifying strategies that work for at-risk communities.

“Green job” is a broad term that can apply to a wide range of professions, such as energy auditor, organic farmer, solar installer, LEEDcertified architect or wind turbine technician.

These jobs contribute directly to protecting our air, water and plants, while improving communities through access to liveable wages and health benefits. According to Green For

All, “If a job improves the environment, but doesn’t provide a family-supporting wage or a career ladder to move low-income workers into higher-skilled occupations, it is not a green-collar job.”

The city of Sacramento has prioritized ecofriendly policies since the city council’s adoption of the Sustainability Master Plan in 2007. Greenwise Joint Venture formed in 2012 out of an initiative launched by Mayor Kevin Johnson to create a regional action plan to turn Sacramento into a hub for clean technology, urban design and green building.

“There is a new, emerging economy all about sustainability and the passion people have around that,” says Greenwise board member Tom Kandris. “There are going to be new jobs that don’t currently exist today that will be brought to bear in the next decade for the green economy.”

Barack Obama’s Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience.

Green For All is also working with the Sacramento Kings to negotiate construction jobs for the new downtown arena and entertainment center — architects aim to achieve LEED Platinum designation.

“We are not only showing these are good paying, quality jobs, but they can be good to the environment at the same time,” Blake says. “Green For All is excited with what’s happening in Sacramento. What we’re clearly seeing is a tremendous opportunity to engage people who are usually left behind.”

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Re “Best Place to Get a Piercing� (SN&R Best of Sacramento, September 11): Hello Nick. I hope this email finds you well. I’m imagining you sitting back, basking in the glow of your expertise of the Sacramento culture and happenings. I can see you holding a giant bedazzled goblet that is emblazoned with “expert� on the side, sipping your favorite beverage as you tell people how amazing you are. It must feel so good to be you.

But, you’ll always have to deal with one simple fact: You are the furthest thing from someone having their finger on the pulse of Sacramento. Set your goblet down, lift your Ray-Bans up, and take notice.

Let’s start with what “Best Of� actually means when it comes to the article you’ve prided yourself on writing for the past 11 years. At first glance, it looks pretty informative. “Where on earth can I find Sacramento’s best tequila ice cream?� I find myself asking this on almost an hourly basis. So many choices.

Thank God I have you. “Where can I find the best guilt-free potato chip?� Such a problem in this day and age.

Obviously the places listed are at the top of their game. I’m sure you’ve spent countless hours going from business to business, tasting all the gluten free Saigon Snacks, and coming to a well-thought-out conclusion of who is best. After 11 years, I’m sure you’re like a robot with this. letter of It just comes naturally. In no way shape or form, would the week you succumb to a bribe, or worse yet, act on uninformed popularity. No way, not after 11 years. After all, you’re an expert. Right?

So, how is it that there is a shop voted Best Place to get a Piercing (third place), and they don’t even offer piercing? How did this slip through your expert fingers? Are you double-fisting your goblets and just not paying attention any more? Have you hired a team of Oompa Loompas and they are spending too much time figuring out where the best pot brownie in Sac comes from?

So what, in fact, does “Best Of� mean to you? Next year will Old Tavern get Best Place to get Lobster? Is Mikuni going to be voted Best Rib-eye? Let me guess, Best Pick-up Basketball Game will be given to East Lawn Memorial Park, right?

Since you’ve anointed yourself an “expert� (yes, you said “maybe,� but the writing on the goblet says it all), could you possibly hand the rhinestone scepter over to someone new? Maybe to someone who actually has the ability to check these places out, or has the ability to sober up the Oompas and get them working properly?

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Sacramento’s army—the sequel Oversight, accountability issues still dog military’s freebie programs

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President Barack Obama’s unfolding plan to expand military operations against the terror by network known as ISIS may cue déjà vu for Raheem a war-weary nation, but the metastasizing F. Hosseini conflict could have one unlikely beneficiary: local cops. ra h e emh@ newsr evie w.c om Just like the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq did a decade before, throwing down with a vaguely defined military threat tends to put the Pentagon in a charitable mood.

Between 2006 and 2008, when the military transitioned its infantries to lightweight M4 carbine assault rifles, local police agencies scored thousands of free M16s and M14s. read our 2012 cover This year and last, as combat forces story on local withdrew from the Middle East, the law-enforcement military handed out mine-resistant, ambushagencies and military freebies, protected vehicles—known as MRAPs—to “sacramento’s army,” small-town police in Davis, Citrus Heights at http://tinyurl.com/ and elsewhere. sactoarmy.

These federal-surplus programs have become the subject of renewed scrutiny ever since August 9, when a white police officer gunned down an unarmed black teenager and turned

the small town of Ferguson, Mo., into a civil-rights flashpoint for the militarization debate.

Yet, long before Michael Brown’s death sparked confrontations between demonstrators and tank-driving cops, budget-restricted police agencies were cashing in on military freebies—and blurring the thin blue line between constable and soldier.

Sacramento’s military bounty In March 2012, the Center for Investigative Reporting’s now-defunct California Watch scoured reams of poorly annotated Excel spreadsheets to report on the 1033 Program.

Using California Watch’s database, SN&R ran a cover story that June (“Sacramento’s army” by Raheem F. Hosseini, June 7, 2012) about all the armory that law-enforcement agencies across the Sacramento region had acquired for free.

Since those reports, the transfer of military hardware from the Pentagon to Sacramento has slowed, according

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to an SN&R review of data. The kind of items arriving in the past few years has also shifted, from firepower and aircraft to bomb-disposal and surveillance toys.

Some local authorities think this reflects both a shift in what law enforcement requisitions and what the military has available.

“I would say it’s a 50-50 split,” said Sgt. Jim Schaefers, who coordinates the 1033 Program for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, one of California’s largest beneficiaries. “I guess it’s because the military is gearing down.”

During the salad days of the Iraq War, when everything was going to shit, law-enforcement agencies benefited from the constant upgrade of military gear.

For instance, Sacramento County-based agencies raked in 1,027 assault rifles and eight grenade launchers between 2006 and 2008, just as the military phased in the M4 carbines.

Only 19 M16s have arrived in the county since then—all procured by the Elk Grove Police Department in 2011.

After loading up on small arms in 2006—to the tune of 287 M16 rifles—the sheriff’s department is now largely preoccupied with maintaining the equipment it has.

Last year, it brought in 10 gun-cleaning kits, six storage racks, 284 pistol holsters, dozens of magazine pouches and some sighting equipment for the firing range.

This makes sense, noted William Vizzard, a Sacramento State University criminal justice professor with a moderate take. “For one thing, if you get 216 M16s, you don’t need 216 M16s again next year,” he said.

The department has also taken in enough tools and camping gear to fill multiple Home Depots, various trucking and hauling vehicles, and an ambulance it’s about to give back. (It already has one.) An armored South African vehicle known as a Mamba arrived in 2011, and looks like something Michael Bay uses for grocery shopping, while the department also obtained one of three large helicopters in the state for search-and-rescue missions.

This year, the sheriff’s department received 20 kevlar blankets, roughly 50 pounds each, that its bomb squad uses to contain shrapnel from controlled blasts, as well as a 4-foot robot that can be mounted with a camera and water cannon for extinguishing possible pipe bombs. It also accepted eight smaller surveillance robots, which look like remote-controlled cars with small cameras mounted on them. It kept two and transferred the rest to other agencies.

All told, the sheriff’s department has cleared north of $11.6 million worth of free tactical gear since 2006. “It has saved millions,” Schaefers said. “These are items

that are very much wanted, but you just can’t afford them.”

No free rides Late last year, a chaotic manhunt brought parts of Roseville to a siren-streaked standstill, as nine different law enforcement agencies tried to coax an armed parolee from a home near Windsor Drive and Sixth Street.

Hours earlier, the attempted arrest of Samuel Duran erupted into a roving shootout that injured six officers and Duran himself. Holed up in a house that wasn’t his, the unpredictable fugitive provided a nearby agency a unique opportunity: That evening in October 2013, the Citrus Heights Police Department deployed its slightly used MRAP for the first time.

“It provided a lot of safe haven for our officers in that and two other SWAT operations,” Citrus Heights police spokesman Sgt. Mike Wells told SN&R last week.

Sacramento County-based agencies raked in 1,027 assault rifles and eight grenade launchers between 2006 and 2008.

With the ability to absorb high-caliber rounds, Wells claimed the armored vehicle can be used as a mobile shield, to get police in close to downed officers or civilians and transport them out of dangerous activeshooter situations.

Others have questioned why vehicles designed to patrol urban combat zones have become the rage with small-town constables.

For Timothy Naccarato, an assistant dean at the McGeorge School of Law and a retired U.S. Army JAG colonel, armored vehicles probably make better sense for firefighters battling forest blazes than cops. “Even as a show of force, using an MRAP vehicle designed to save lives from IEDs seems out of proportion to demonstrators and even looters (who generally are unarmed),” he wrote in an email.

The Citrus Heights Police Department uses its MRAP for SWAT training and recently sent it on a less dangerous mission: idling down Sunrise Boulevard for the city’s Fourth of July parade.

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The idea of police agencies evolving into paramilitary forces casts as far back as World War II, says Sac State’s Vizzard.

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Those responsible for the program already know this.

The federal government’s ability to track its goods has experienced “serious flaws” since 2005, according to an unaudited financial report from the Defense Logistics Agency, which oversees the donation-centric 1033 Program.

Even with repeated warnings, however, participation in the program was allowed to grow. In 2011 and 2012, the Law Enforcement Support Office sent out $546 million worth of equipment comprising 68,000 individual line items, representing a nearly 60 percent spike in requests from the previous year. But the federal government couldn’t account for all the guns and ammo it dispatched to local communities.

In California, nine agencies are currently suspended from the program after auditors were unable to locate automatic rifles and handguns procured from the military.

“Essentially, it’s poor recordkeeping,” said California Office of Emergency Services deputy director Kelly Huston, whose office acts as a liaison between federal militarysurplus programs and 355 statewide law-enforcement agencies.

Huston said most agencies were eventually able to find the missing firearms. But not all of them did.

The California Highway Patrol unit in Sacramento, the Stockton Police Department, and sheriff’s departments in Sutter, Napa, Stanislaus, San Mateo and Siskiyou counties are among those suspended from the program.

It’s now easier to know which agencies have stumbled and which ones haven’t.

Flooded with multiple requests for data since the events in Ferguson, Cal OES last week uploaded the contents of Uncle Sam’s war chest to its website. Huston acknowledged the role that Brown’s death played in the office’s decision to make information on surplus programs more widely available. “Because of the increased amount of inquiries, it makes sense for us,” he said. “It’s of greater public benefit.”

“Two years ago,” he added, “nobody cared.”

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Vizzard suggested the problem has less to do with the supply than the demand, saying certain small-town agencies exhibit something akin to short-guy syndrome. “There’s going to be some chiefs and some sheriffs who are going to be enamored with having more toys,” he said. “It’s pride of ownership.”

Along with Citrus Heights and Davis, there’s an MRAP in rural Amador County. Kern County cops have five. The West Sacramento Police Department received an unspecified item valued at $65,070.

That price corresponds with an armored vehicle.

With President Obama marshaling support for expanded air strikes against ISIS, could hand-me-down drones be next?

Law enforcement already uses them in limited capacity. Whether more arrive through military-surplus programs or are developed via civilian contracts depends on the costs of maintaining and operating the technology, Vizzard surmised. “I guarantee you, drones are going to get used.”

There’s a bill currently before the governor to restrict how law enforcement uses the notorious remotebombing machines. But Vizzard thinks reigning in military-surplus programs rests with cost-minded local officials—namely city councils, county boards of supervisors and their chief administrators, who will want to know the associated costs of accepting that shiny new drone or helicopter.

Case in point: The Sacramento Police Department is pursuing a $300,000 federal grant so that its surplus-supplied helicopter unit can add flight hours and expand “surveillance of potential terrorist targets,” a staff report states. “If adequate funding is not obtained, the helicopters will have to be grounded.”

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California Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Diehl’s job was to prosecute banks. Now he works for them.

It’s a familiar story in Washington, D.C.: Government lawyers that are supposed to zealously protect the by public from Wall Street’s sophistiDarwin BondGraham cated frauds gain inside knowledge and connections, then jump over to the private sector, taking lucrative jobs at law firms that defend the same companies they previously were supposed to prosecute.

that helped cause the economic crash in 2008.

As a supervising deputy attorney general, Diehl had influence over which investigations would advance, and whether to prosecute, or seek pre-trial settlements with companies accused of financial crimes. But last October, Diehl quit his post and, in November, began a new job as special

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conference in New York that they were both attending.

In May 2013, at another legal conference in Chicago, Diehl again arranged a private meeting with Strickland. And in another email exchange from September 2013, Diehl arranged a lunch meeting with Strickland near Stroock’s Los Angeles offices.

Strickland and Diehl have known each other since at least 2006. That year, Strickland defended Chase in a lawsuit brought by then-California Attorney General Bill Lockyer. The lawsuit alleged that the bank was running “a massive debt collection mill that abuses the California judicial process.” Diehl was on the state’s prosecutorial team, and helped negotiate a settlement with Strickland and Chase.

“Homeowners deserve accountability and transparency.”

Carlos Marroquin homeowners’ rights activist This revolving door happens in California, too. And homeowners and activists are concerned that the banks that crashed California’s economy have evaded justice partly because state regulators have sought jobs with law firms that defend Wall Street.

They point to one top attorney who recently left the California Attorney General’s office as an example. Benjamin G. Diehl, a supervising deputy attorney general in the California Department of Justice, was on the front line of the state’s effort to protect homeowners during the foreclosure crisis, in which more than 1 million homes in California were seized and sold by banks—often illegally.

Diehl supervised civil prosecutions brought by Attorney General Kamala Harris’ mortgage-fraud strike force.

He helped negotiate the National Mortgage Settlement between California and five of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers. Diehl assisted in drafting state legislation that has been called the Homeowner Bill of Rights. And previously, Diehl helped prosecute mortgage-industry giants Ameriquest and Countrywide for predatory and fraudulent lending BEFORE

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counsel at the Stroock Stroock & Lavan law firm.

Stroock is not just any firm. A March 2014 brochure explains that they have “extensive experience” representing financial institutions in actions brought by state and federal agencies, “including state Attorneys General.” Stroock represents Bank of America, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase and other companies in their legal battles against consumers.

Watchdog Craig Holman, of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, said that in situations in which a government regulator goes to work for companies that he used to regulate, “the first question that comes to mind ... is whether the prospect of lucrative employment in the private sector influenced that regulators’ official actions while in government.”

Emails obtained by this writer show that Diehl had arranged private meetings with Stroock lawyers at least six months before he announced his decision to leave the California Justice Department. In one email exchange from April 2013, Diehl wrote to Stroock partner Julia Strickland, asking if she would “have a moment to talk privately” during a legal

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Activists are concerned he may have allowed his desire to obtain a job at Stroock affect his decisions regarding investigations and lawsuits.

“Homeowners deserve accountability and transparency,” said Carlos Marroquin, a homeowners’ rights activist who has criticized Harris’ handling of financial- and mortgagerelated fraud cases.

Representatives from the California Attorney General’s Office did not respond to requests for comment for this report. Diehl, who is by no means the only former government attorney now working at Stroock, did not respond to interview requests.

Robert Hawley, deputy executive director of the State Bar of California, said that the movement of attorneys between government and the private sector itself is normal and not necessarily bad. “Lawyers go to work for the SEC all the time to gain the experience, and to eventually work for Wall Street, and lawyers work for the National Labor Relations Board, and leave that to go to major-union-side, or management-side firms.” Ω

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Kids everywhere are back in school and their dads are back to their … porn?

So says an adult website that’s tattling on its customers. According to Jasmin.com, which claims to be the largest webcam operator in the naughty market, traffic spiked sharply during the first two weeks of the new school year—especially for live feeds and during the 8:30 a.m. time frame, right around first bell.

One-week tracking showed a 92-percent increase in private show purchases compared to the August average, which the site attributed to pent-up demand among fathers who finally have the kids out of the house. “Teen” models were the most sought-after.

Give that a minute to sink in.

Asked how the company determines who’s accessing their live shows, Jasmin spokesman John Weller said the figures are based on historical data, credit card information and partial IP addresses (because using full IP addresses would be invasive).

“Now, we’re not saying that 100% of the users are dads, but a large majority very well appear to be,” he wrote in an email.

Jasmin’s biggest audiences were in Florida, New York and California, where Sacramento County came in a distant third after Los Angeles and San Francisco counties in terms of pure clickage. Over a recent 30-day period, local users clicked on the site more than 25,000 times, with nearly half of those occurring in the city of Sacramento, where users seemed to favor Asian women and divas, according to data provided by Weller.

In Citrus Heights, the more popular search terms involved large women and breasts, whereas users in Folsom and Rancho Cordova favored 18-year-old models. Site users in Elk Grove and Galt were more driven by ethnicity, and searched mostly for black, Asian and Latin models. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

Help mom with the groceries State-assisted moms are about to have a slew of new options for their grocery purchases.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday further loosened a moratorium that prevented new grocery stores from participating in the state’s Women, Infants and Children program, better known as WIC, for more than two years.

The USDA partially lifted the moratorium in June to allow stores that already had WIC contracts in place to serve clients at additional locations.

Since that time, 167 stores joined the program, the California Department of Public Health says in a release. The department estimates than another 100 stores will be added statewide during this second phase. An unspecified number of stores will be allowed to take part in the WIC program following an anticipated third round of moratorium-lifting.

About 4,400 stores currently take part in the state’s WIC program, which spends $86 million each month on food alone, according to the department. WIC provides pregnant women and new mothers with supplemental foods, healthcare referrals, nutrition information and other services.

The moratorium was put in place to contain rising food costs. (RFH)

Glutton for victory A Sacramento County man defied math and likely ticked off repeat lottery losers by hitting the jackpot for his second time last week.

According to the California Lottery, Rajwinder Kaur scored a $1 million return on his investment after buying a $10 ticket at the Economy Liquor & Food convenience store in Elk Grove.

Kaur previously won $12,000 playing MegaMillions, California Lottery states. He probably always takes the last slice of pizza, too. (RFH)

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First, just before 10 a.m. near Front Street, a man drove his car onto the train tracks, got stuck, and the California Department of Parks and Recreation had to help him get off. Then, a guy stole a tip jar from a K Street business, but was apprehended. Then finally, later that afternoon, police intercepted a bicyclist near Second Street, busted him for weed, and tagged him for violating his parole.

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All 850 tickets to this Thursday’s Sacramento Burger Battle are gone.

The event, which benefits the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, features burgers from 15 local eateries. SN&R’s Nick Miller will try them all as one of the evening’s judges. Pray for him.

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On net neturality, fast lanes, potholes and the Internet’s future Rivkah Sass has one of the better job descriptions you’ll ever hear. “It is my mission to provide access to information for people, in a way that can transform their lives,” she says.

That’s the Lord’s work, as far as Bites is concerned. And the institution she’s in charge of—she’s director of the Sacramento Public Library—is the Temple.

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by CO tion and, of course, because of public cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om libraries, where she realized early on that she “could read and discover absolutely anything.” Libraries helped to put her on an equal footing with kids in more affluent, cosmopolitan communities. (Recall that Andrew Carnegie, patron saint of public libraries, called them the “people’s universities.”)

Fast forward a few years. Libraries are different in a lot of ways. There may not be as many books on the shelves, but they still help to equalize access to knowledge, especially through access to the Internet. That may sound highfalutin. After all, there’s some pretty un-edifying stuff being browsed on publiclibrary computers on any given day. But for Sacramento County residents who have no Internet access at home, the library can be a lifeline.

And Sass says that mission is threatened by the possible end of “net neutrality.”

“Libraries have always been about providing access to people. The idea of putting limits on that access is scary,” Sass says.

On September 24, U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui is holding a public forum on net neutrality, here in Sacramento. She’ll be joined by current Federal Communications Commission commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel.

Aside from having fantastic names, Clyburn and Rosenworcel will be key votes on the FCC’s net-neutrality rules, to be decided later this year.

Sass will be at the forum to testify, along with other locals like David Lowe, president of KVIE Public Television, and Chris Kelly, former Facebook executive and Sacramento Kings minority owner, among others.

The FCC’s proposed rule, put forth by Chairman Tom Wheeler, would set enforceable rules on how Internet service providers manage traffic on their networks. The proposal would also allow ISPs—like Comcast, Time Warner Cable and AT&T—to create fast lanes for certain preferred content and companies.

Internet providers want to be able to make deals with some companies—think Netflix— to charge premium prices to “prioritize” their content. Consumer advocates and folks like Sass fear the end of net neutrality will set up a two-tiered system (or three-tiered or worse) for Internet access. Those who can pay the highest prices will get on the information superhighway.

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Critics of the paid-prioritization plan also say it will make it harder for start-ups and small companies to innovate and compete with bigger, deep-pocketed companies.

Since July, the FCC has received more than 3 million comments on the new rules (thanks in part to encouragement and agitation by satirist John Oliver, whose audience briefly broke the FCC website). That surpassed the previous record of 1.4 million comments to the FCC, which flooded in after Super Bowl viewers caught a glimpse of Janet Jackson’s nipple shield.

Wheeler argues his plan would maintain the open Internet we have today, and would allow Internet companies to invest in a faster, more robust service. And Wheeler says he supports standards to protect competition and free speech, and prevent Internet providers from giving priority service to companies that they themselves own. Comcast, for example, owns a jaw-dropping array of TV networks, stations and other media properties, including NBC, Hulu, and Universal Pictures. That list will only grow longer if Comcast is successful at acquiring Time Warner Cable—pending approval from the FCC and the Department of Justice.

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Matsui co-sponsored legislation with Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy to force the FCC to ban Internet fast lanes. The bill is not moving forward in the legislative process; it’s more of a message bill. The five-member FCC board is expected to vote on net-neutrality rules by the end of the year. Observers expect the two Republican commissioners—Ajit Pai and Michael O’Reilly—to vote against any new regulations on net neutrality. That means Internet companies would be free to create fast lanes and make paid-prioritization deals.

Any tighter regulation will likely come from an agreement between Wheeler and the other Democrats, Rosenworcel and Clyburn.

The net-neutrality forum will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, September 24, in hearing room 4202 in the Capitol. Seating is limited in the room, so stream it live at www.matsui.house.gov.

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Bad ads Sacramento-area residents who’ve been watching TV recently have no doubt seen the numerous advertisements taking aim at U.S. Rep. Ami Bera.

His seat in California’s 7th Congressional District is one that has been targeted by both the Democratic and Republican parties as an essential component of their long-term planning. This means that, in addition to the typical nice-guy political advertisements, we’re also getting a whole bunch of attack ads.

The first of these Bera hit pieces, which began appearing several weeks ago, announced in very small print that they’re being paid for by Crossroads GPS. Unless you’ve been on a political timeout for the last decade, you’ll recognize Crossroads as former “Bush brain” Karl Rove’s outfit.

The ads ding Bera for everything from failing to vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act to being personally responsible for a rising federal budget deficit.

Neither is true.

In short, the ads are exactly what we’ve come to expect from the guy former President George W. Bush nicknamed “Turd Blossom.”

All the hot airtime isn’t on the GOP side, however.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has weighed in with some equally scurrilous attacks on Bera’s challenger, former Rep. Doug Ose. These Dem ads accuse The ads attacking Ose of using his public-service positions to enrich himself, which Ami Bera are exactly is the very definition of an ad what we’ve come to hominem attack. expect from the guy Our point here is that it remains business as usual when President George it comes to political-ad warfare.

W. Bush nicknamed It’s incomprehensible that even in 2014, with the world’s vastly “Turd Blossom.” efficient and sophisticated communications platforms, our elections rely on such base and outrageous examples of money-as-speech. If for no other reason than that these commercials are annoying—let alone that they are not subject to any sort of fact checking—it’s got to stop, before we have an entire electorate with their fingers on the “mute” button.

Overturning Citizens United seems to be beyond the ability of a Congress reliant on money for re-election, so perhaps an organized campaign for responsible advertising is in order. Shouldn’t there be some consequence for using false or misleading statements in a political ad? Is there an online watchdog community that can hold these electioneerists accountable?

Sometimes there are consequences—if you’re the candidate. The Federal Elections Commission monitors ads that are paid for by the campaigns, and candidates are required to approve messages, thereby taking personal responsibility for their statements.

Why not hold all political speech to the same standard?

At the very least, given that the Supreme Court has ruled that money is speech, shouldn’t all the people funding Crossroads, the Chamber of Commerce and the DCCC be transparent? Should they be required to stand up at the end of the commercial and give their names, followed by the phrase “I approved this message”?

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The national football lie A number of pundits have suggested that the NFL’s recent Meanwhile, we’ve lost slightly less than policy changes on domestic violence—not to 10,000 soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan by mention video of former Baltimore Ravens combined.

Kel Munger player Ray Rice punching his then-fiancée in So, where’s the terror? Right in your the face—will “raise awareness” about the issue own home. of domestic violence.

Women are not the only victims. Domestic Is there really anyone who didn’t know that violence happens in our closest relationships, Kel Munger is an sn&r contributor and an women get punched in the face by intimate though we usually don’t include child abuse in adjunct professor of partners? Did you need to see a video to know that category, and we should. If anything sets the journalism at American stage for further domestic violence, it’s violence river College. Follow it happens?

There’s a lot of irony against children—including her @KelMunger. here, starting with the spanking, which teaches the Between 1999 fact that the NFL, a assaulted child that using size supposedly nonprofit and strength on a less-powerful and 2010, almost organization, makes a is a perfectly normal 17,000 women were person boatload of money by response to being displeased killed by spouses or encouraging the sort of with that person’s behavior. aggressive behavior that I’ve got a relative who intimate partners. so often leads to intimate insists, “I got beat, and I turned partner violence. It’s out OK.” I’d suggest that, at simply not reasonable to tell people to “man the very least, he turned out to be someone who up” and dish out the hits, then expect that all of thinks it’s OK to beat children. But for many them will stop once they’re off the field. people, the real lesson that comes from this first But most people haven’t got a clue about violence is that violence is always an option. how widespread the problem is, if only because And therein lies the problem. It’s not just we tend to save our outrage for when somestern penalties, but a complete change in thinkone’s dead—or when there’s video. Here’s a ing that needs to occur. We need to change the clue: Between 1999 and 2010, almost 17,000 way we think about violence—which is really women were killed by spouses or intimate about power and control. partners.

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“if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” i have a similar observation about marijuana activists: if you ask them how to make a pie, they will tell you how to grow a tree. Most of their stories are full of tangents, sidebars and digressions. it’s not that they ramble and are unfocused, but that they feel you need to have the whole story so you can form your own ideas. i will try not to ramble too much, but i have been a pot activist for more than 20 years, so rambling is kinda my thing.

I am headed to the Seattle Hempfest to entertain the crowds, smoke the herb and see some friends. The plan is to try some of this new, legal recreational grass up there in Washington, too, and get a feel for the current state of activism on the West Coast.

My first stop is supposed to be at the CannaCon in Tacoma, which bills itself as the nation’s largest “cannabusiness and lifestyle expo.” But, honestly, the real first stop is at the Main Street Marijuana dispensary in downtown Vancouver, Wash.

And when I say downtown, I mean smackdab in the heart of it. Right next to a used record store and across the street from a pizza place. That’s a stoner trifecta, and big ups to the city of Vancouver for allowing a marijuana dispensary in such a central location.

I really want to try some of this legal weed, hunt through some records and get a slice, but the store is closed for the weekend because they ran out of grass.

Sigh. So, I buy a Slim Harpo CD from the record store and drive up to Tacoma Dome for the CannaCon.

One bad thing about legal weed Before I leave Vancouver, I actually put all my cannabis in the trunk of my car. It’s not that I’m worried about getting caught with weed; marijuana is legal to possess in Washington state and the police can no longer use a phrase like “I smell marijuana” as an excuse to search your car.

But the law also states that all it takes to be convicted of driving under the influence of cannabis is a THC blood level of 5 nanograms or higher. This is what is known as a “per se” DUI. There’s no trial.

If you have 5 nanograms of THC in your bloodstream, you are guilty. In fact, according to Initiative 502—that’s the law that voters passed last year to legalize weed—if you are under 21 and you have any THC in your system at all, you are automatically guilty of driving under the influence.

It’s up for debate how much THC it takes to create impairment. One big problem with enforcement is that THC stays in your system long after the high has worn off. In 2013, after marijuana was legalized but before the shops were open, cops arrested more people for marijuana DUI than they had in the two prior years, according to a report in The Christian Science Monitor.

The thing is, pretty much anyone that uses marijuana every day has at least 5 nanograms in their system.

The Seattle Times also has reported that some law-enforcement officials are still a bit sore about cannabis being legalized, and some police officers are looking for excuses to arrest people for cannabis driving under the influence. Some friends in Seattle told me about a guy that got pulled over by a state trooper and was arrested for suspicion of DUI because he had a “green film” on his tongue. We were all pretty stoned and I thought they were kidding, but

I looked it up, and sure enough, it was true.

A TV station reported on it. At least in California and Oregon, if you get arrested for suspicion of DUI, the police have to prove you were impaired. Washington cops don’t have to do that.

I ask my friend and superhero cannabis activist lawyer for the people Douglas Hiatt about Washington’s DUI laws. He put it like this: “If you are under 21 and you have any THC in your system at all, you’re fucked.”

“DUIs aren’t like possession charges; you can’t make them go away,” Hiatt explains.

Damn. “Don’t give them an excuse” is my new mantra.

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Some friends friendS some called WaShington’S washington’s verSion of version Weed legal weed “pot for the privileged.”

After an uneventful yet pleasant drive (Slim Harpo is a boogie master and a King Bee), I pull up to the Tacoma Dome (free parking—nice!) and head to the convention. CannaCon is definitely all business. There are booths with every sort of cannabisrelated product you can imagine.

Dirt, seeds. Lights.

Packaging.

Security. More dirt.

Nutrients. Point-of-sale systems. Security.

Lawyers. I was reminded of the saying: “When everyone is looking for gold, it’s a good time to be in the pick-and-shovel business.”

I’m surprised to see more than a few marketing experts and brand cultivators at the convention, and this is because I am used to the marijuana industry being somewhat decentralized and anonymous.

In fact, in the early days of dispensaries in California, it was the people with recognizable brands that got busted.

Tainted Edibles immediately comes to mind. My homie Mickey Martin was arrested and convicted in federal court for making and selling cannabis-infused chocolate bars in 2007. He was lucky to get

a good judge and only got 24 months: 12 at a halfway house and 12 on home confinement, plus five years probation.

Most of the folks I knew back in the day tried to keep a low profile. Now, everyone wants you to know who they are. I suppose this is cool, but I worry about what will happen if the laws change, or if the new president in 2016 decides that the feds aren’t going to allow the states to regulate marijuana. We have been lucky so far, but I remember the medical-cannabis dispensary boom after Barack Obama was elected— and the Drug Enforcement Administration crackdown that happened shortly afterward.

Legal cannabis is not yet a done deal.

During the first two months since legal-weed sales kicked off on July 8, Washington dispensaries sold $12.1 million in cannabis, according to the state’s Liquor Control Board. Not bad at all, considering that only 18 of the 40 approved pot shops have opened so far. What’s even crazier, sales doubled in August over July. The state projects nearly $2 million in taxes.

That’s all a lot of green, but my lawyer friend Hiatt calls Washington’s weed “pot for the privileged.” That’s what my pal (and cannabis lawyer) Jim Steinborn calls it, too. It’s not true legalization, they say.

“Recreational marijuana is about $25 a gram. But you can go down the street to the medical dispensary and buy the best cannabis in the state for about $8 a gram if you’re a patient,” Steinborn says.

Indeed, one of the big sticking points in the lead-up to the 2012 vote on I-502’s legalization was that the recreational clubs were going to force the medical clubs to close. That hasn’t happened yet, but the state is looking hard at the idea. Of course Washington wants to maximize profits, but at what cost?

And don’t forget: Marijuana has been an underground commodity for decades.

If the taxes are too high, people will just go back to the underground. All of the states looking to legalize would do well to recognize that reality.

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Dabs of activism Whenever someone tells me that stoners are lazy, I tell them to go to the Seattle Hempfest. It is consistently one of the biggest and most well-run festivals on the West Coast. Started in 1991 as the Washington Hemp Expo with a handful of volunteers and about 500 attendees, the Hempfest has grown into a three-day event with seven stages, thousands of volunteers and over 250,000 attendees. Not only that, it is a cannabis-activism incubator.

Activists from all over the world show up to cross-pollinate and share ideas about how to re-legalize (marijuana was legal in the United States until 1937) cannabis.

As I walk through the park enjoying the sights and sounds and smells, I bump into hard-core cannabis activists from all over the country. There’s Keith Stroup, one of the founding members of NORML, or the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. I talk to him for a little bit, but being an East Coast guy, he’s not really up on what’s happening on the West Coast, although he is very excited about all of the legalization movements catching fire across the country. There’s author and raconteur Ed Rosenthal, the “Guru of Ganja.” And Don E. Wirtshafter, a fantastic lawyer and advocate from Ohio, is also on the grounds.

Most of the serious activists and advocates hang out at the Hemposium, a big tent at the front of the fest. The Hemposium hosts various panels and discussion about marijuana and hemp and the best ways to go about legalizing—and how to avoid arrest, how to talk about pot with the media, the medicinal properties of cannabis, and on and on.

I wander a little deeper into the fest, past the minidoughnut and fried PB&J stands. Not too far from the main stage is the THCF, or The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation, booth. Sitting inside are Paul and Theresa Stanford, who’ve been instrumental in Oregon’s cannabis-legalization movement. They produce the Portland’s Hempstalk, run a cable-access TV show dedicated to pot, and they were behind the 2012 effort to legalize cannabis in Oregon.

Since they are sitting in the shade and it is about 90 degrees outside, I sit down next to Paul to smoke a joint and ask him some questions.

He says he’s fired up about Measure 91, the ballot measure to legalize marijuana in Oregon, that voters will chime in on this fall. “I think this initiative is the best in the country so far. Way better than Washington or Colorado. You can possess 8 ounces.

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involved in the cannabis industry is only $1,200.”

I ask him about the taxes, which have been a bit of a sore spot in Washington. He calls the solution simple: Tax “five bucks per plant” and charge “$35 per ounce for buds and $10 an ounce for shake.” He also points out that “Oregon doesn’t have a sales tax, so that’s it,” and there shouldn’t be any more fees on top of that. We finish the joint, and I merge back into the crowd.

Myrtle Edwards Park in Seattle is very narrow, but hella long. From tip to tip, it’s about a mile and a half. The air is thick with smoke, but I seldom see any cops.

In fact, the police seem to be going out of their way not to hassle anyone.

I remember the early days of the festival, when pot smoking not only was not allowed, it was actively discouraged. The cops would show up early and arrest a few people for smoking at the beginning. That would scare people into refraining for a while, but by the time 75,000 people have gathered to celebrate cannabis, there’s no way they can arrest all of us.

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By the way, the marijuana in Seattle is plentiful and delicious. No one seems to have anything from the two legal pot shops that have opened so far (as I mentioned above, apparently they have run out of supply), although representatives from the Caviar Cone Company (branding!) are handing out samples backstage. They are promoting their line of flavored joints. Two flavors: raspberry and green apple. The smoke is thick like hookah tobacco, and the flavor of the joints more than a little sweet, but I can’t really taste the weed itself.

The effects were pretty good, though, and other people seemed to really enjoy them.

Clockwise from top left: Ngaio poses with Internet cannabis celebrity Coral Reefer, activist John the Freak rolls up, and Oregon legalization activists Paul and Theresa Stanford relax under their tent, plus other photos from Seattle Hempfest.

I give one to a young man at the fest, and he is very excited. There are plenty of folks walking around trying to sell dime bags and medicated edibles. This is frowned upon by the festival staff, and people that get caught get escorted out.

One of the new attractions this year is the “bring your own dabs” bar. A “dab” is another way to say hash oil. Generally, you scoop a glob of hash oil onto a piece of metal and place it onto a heating source. The heat vaporizes the hash oil, and you inhale the vapors through a tube or a straw. Hash oil is much stronger than weed. It’s like doing a shot instead of sipping a beer.

There are two different areas with hash oil “rigs” set up, and folks are allowed to dab away to their heart’s content. I have a few samples from a concentrates competition in San Francisco on me, so I sit down and d0 a dab or two or three. (It gets a little hazy. I remember trading dabs with the dude sitting next to me. He enjoyed my award-winning Durban Poison from Bliss Edibles, and I enjoyed his whatever it was that he had with him.) We enjoy this at the bar provided by the good people from the Have a Heart Cafe, which is a chain of medical-cannabis dispensaries in the Seattle area. (A chain? My friend Virgil Grant is in prison right now because he had a chain of dispensaries in Los Angeles; times are changing.) I peel myself away from the bar in search of coffee and minidoughnuts.

How California should legalize it Later that night, at the party for speakers and VIPs, California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican from Orange County, steps up to deliver an impromptu speech. First, he talks about how he is enjoying his “gateway drug” of choice: beer. Then, he talks about how legalization is on the way in California, and some other stuff. I am hella faded at this point, so I don’t really listen to all of it, but I am happy and proud that a California politician had come up to Seattle to show support for the cause.

Seeing the congressman gets me thinking about what legalization in California should look like. It’s obvious that the Washington and Colorado laws, while pretty cool as first steps, don’t address some of the issues we will have down here.

California is unique in that we have a decades-old, ingrained cannabis industry.

Saying the words “Humboldt County” to a pot smoker is like saying “Napa Valley” to a wine snob. Any law we pass has to take that into account. We can’t just kick all the people that risked their freedom to grow this plant and build this community to the curb.

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their connections in place, and the pot shop is an expensive convenience. A friend of mine from Portland said she went to the Vancouver shop one time because her connect was out of town and she was headed to the river. She said the pot was very good but very pricey. If California wants a piece of the weed game, they will have to find a way to do it that respects the growers and fosters tourism.

I have a friend in southern Oregon that does “Weed & Wine” tours. They pick you up in Medford, then roll you around the Rogue Valley, stopping at various wineries and medical gardens along the way.

California needs something like that. We can’t stop at recreational pot shops. We need farmers markets and “Bud and Breakfast” hotels and “Weed of the Month” clubs and “doob ranches” and other things to truly bring the recreational-cannabis industry into the future.

I know that legalization in California is on the way. The question is: What will it look like? Steve DeAngelo, the dude behind Harborside Health Center in Oakland, used to talk about “flipping the switch.” His concept: The infrastructure is already in place with the medical clubs; all the Legislature would have to do is flip the switch to make the medical collectives into recreational stores.

Another friend of mine, who has been in the industry longer than I have, is sure that George Soros and his money are gonna do some hard-core polling, and whatever ideas poll well, those are the ideas that will make it onto the ballot. I am not so sure that is the way to go. Like I said, California is unique.

Hell, some growers don’t want anything to change. They like being outlaws. I suppose we will have to wait and see.

Anyway, my final two days in Washington go by in a haze of pot smoke and friendly discussions. A group of activists are trying to get an initiative on the ballot that would amend parts of I-502. Some folks are talking about opening a private, high-end, members-only pot club. I tell myself that one day I will start a Tumblr page dedicated to the T-shirts worn at hemp fests.

Before I drive back to Sacramento, I try to hit the recreational clubs one more time.

The new spot in Bothell has a long line, and the owner of the Chevron next door is upset because people keep parking at the gas station to go to the pot shop—and they don’t buy anything at his convenience store. Since I parked at the gas station, I left before he could call the tow trucks.

The one in Seattle’s south of downtown, or SoDo district, also has a very long line.

It curves around the building like a movie premiere. The club in Vancouver is still closed when I try to go again.

Good thing I have some California weed to tide me over.

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Bill Gainer’s new poetry book contains works that are blunt but warm.

Lois Ann Abraham’s latest is a collection of short stories tackling marriage.

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without the required reading lists of the back-toschool crowd, fall is still a great time to settle in with a good book—or two or three or more. Here are a few additions to consider for your fall reading list. All are recent books with strong Sacramento connections.

Fortunately, there are many choices.

“Sacramento has a deep, varied pool of writing talent,” said Valerie Fioravanti, author of the prizewinning short-story collection Garbage Night at the Opera (BkMk Press, $15.95). “Novelists, poets, short-story writers, memoirists and journalists are all part of an engaged, supportive community.”

Published over the summer—while you were at a fair, an outdoor concert, a farmers market or floating down the river—are collections of short fiction, novels, poetry and a literary take on great food.

In the short-fiction category, American River College English professor Lois Ann Abraham makes her debut with Circus Girl and Other Stories (Ad Lumen Press, $16.95). Abraham’s stories take place over a variety of geographical terrain—from Central California to Texas—but are peopled by salt-of-the-Earth folks with average problems and the normal desires for human connection and to feel at peace in their own skins.

The titular circus girl, raised—quite literally— by clowns, is looking for something she sees in the faces of the audiences who come to their traveling

shows, which leads her to settle down with a “townie.” But he’s exoticized her to the point that he finds it hard to believe that someone raised by clowns can possibly be a competent wife and mother. What’s more, she’s begun to believe it as well. The process by which she comes to find her own way is at the heart of this story.

Many of the stories in this collection are about marriages on the edge, some failing (“A Perfectly Good Marriage”), some succeeding (“Smitty’s Love Story”), and some still in that in-between place where both parties are stepping their way as if on ice, figuring out how to meet each other on solid ground (“Seraphim, Cherubim, and Sally”).

Abraham’s interest in tales of wedded misery (and bliss) comes naturally to her.

“I’ve been married a number of times—now happily—so it’s really very interesting to me,” she said. “When I’m watching television, I’ll think, ‘Well, I sure hope she appreciates his neck,’ or, ‘Wow, they’re bizarre.’ So I’m very interested in watching relationships.”

There are hilarious moments in Abraham’s writing, as when a woman discovers that the therapist she’s seeing has issues that make her own seem mild in comparison (“Therapy”). There are some heart-rending ones as well, such as a little girl who can’t find happiness in her home (“Little Comfort”) and a young woman who learns the price of popularity may be too high (“Donna’s Story”).

Also out with new short fiction is William T. Vollmann, although “short” is a relative term when describing his work. With 32 stories and clocking in at 704 pages, Last Stories and Other Stories (Viking Adult, $36) isn’t his longest work by far, but it is an undertaking.

The good news is that Vollmann, who works from a studio in the Alkali Flat neighborhood, has tackled a genre that many find irresistible: the ghost story. He begins, encyclopedist that he is, by defining “spiritual axioms” which set the parameters for

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Cynthia Linville’s latest poetry collection embodies a quality the writer calls “future nostalgia.”

accepting the concept that there is an afterlife and that those in it must resemble the living.

These stories are set all around the world, although the ghosts themselves are not limited by time and space. The overall theme is one of an urge toward and an embrace of sensuality, even once this particular body is shed. Not horrorfilled genre fiction by any description, Last Stories asks us to question if desire is limited to this particular life span—and that makes it perfect reading for the approach of Halloween and the Day of the Dead.

Sacramento writer and teacher Zoe Keithley’s novel, The Calling of Mother Adelli (CreateSpace, $8.99), at first seems like a feelgood novel with a plot similar to the old movie with Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills, The Trouble With Angels, in which a rebellious Catholic boarding-school student is led to a happy ending by a smart and loving nun.

But Keithley’s book takes a much darker turn. It quickly becomes apparent that Helene, the angry and depressed 10-year-old we meet first, is not the main character. She is, instead, the antagonist to the 27-year-old Mother Adelli, the spark that lights the conflagration that may eventually cost the young nun her vocation.

The Calling of Mother Adelli is a deeply spiritual novel wrapped in a tension-filled narrative that becomes—both because of the setting in a

small Catholic girls’ school and the deep interior lives of the main characters—almost as claustrophobic as the cement drainage pipe where the precipitating event for the novel’s climax takes place. Fortunately, there are some moments of levity to break the meditative nature of a novel that is concerned with such deep matters as what God’s plan is for the non-Christian, the nature of evil, and the suffering that is attendant with life itself. Keithley provides a naturalness to her portraits of prepubescent girls, all of whom are individuals with their own agendas, although still very much children.

Just don’t expect any of these kids to end up in a habit— at least, not after the education in life that they’re getting.

A former graduate student and writing teacher at UC Davis, Stephan Eirik Clark has written a debut novel, Sweetness #9 (Little, Brown and Company; $26), that benefits from the current conflict between online book behemoth Amazon.com and the not-quiteas-large-and-powerful book publishing conglomerate, Hachette Book Group. Clark’s novel—he previously published a collection of stories—has recieved some publicity from Stephen Colbert and other Hachette authors who are trying to break Amazon’s boycott of Hachette titles.

Sweetness #9 hits that seriously sweet spot between speculative and literary fiction—the place where writers like Margaret Atwood live. Put this on the must-read list.

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It also has a very intriguing and frightening premise. What the heck are food additives, anyway, and wouldn’t they be a great way to drug the entire planet? Clark’s hero, David Leveraux, worked for the company that made Sweetness #9, an additive that had some pretty wonky effects on the people who consumed it.

But he’s fired, then committed—and now, the side effects to the chemical are showing up in his own family.

Sweetness #9 hits that seriously sweet spot between speculative and literary fiction—the place where writers like Margaret Atwood live. Put this on the must-read list.

Bill Gainer is well-known to local poetry fans as the host of Red Alice’s Poetry Emporium, a reading and open-mic series held at Shine coffee house on the second and fourth Wednesdays of every month. His latest collection, Lipstick and Bullet Holes (Epic Rites Press, $10), contains poems that, as is his wont, are deceptively simple, almost Zen koans with a sharp undercurrent of dark humor.

For example, “Hello to a Memory”: Everybody weeps for somebody dead.

I got a few tears for you.

So, hurry up.

The poems are not nearly as noir-ish as the collection’s cover and title would suggest, though. Gainer is, as always, emotionally blunt but warm. In fact, these poems would be much happier cuddling a loved one and passing a bottle around the campfire than starting a bar fight.

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Think of them as a teddy bear in a black-leather jacket, read them and chuckle.

In Sacramento State University professor Cynthia Linville’s latest poetry collection, Out of Reach (Cold River Press, $14.95), she once again melds language into something fleshy, warm and sensual, whether she’s describing a lover’s lips or a walk around a lake in lines such as: “I point to cirrus clouds stretched cotton-thin.”

But there’s also an elegiac quality to these poems that Linville describes as “future nostalgia.”

“It’s something we wanted, but know we’ll never have,” she said. “Or perhaps something that exists only in dream time.” In this sense, like her last collection, The Lost Thing, these are also poems of loss. “But some of the things we’re grieving are things we’ve never really had.”

For the reader who leans toward nonfiction, food, or both, UC Davis professor emeritus Sandra M. Gilbert’s The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity (W.W. Norton, $29.95) does for food what she did for grief in Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve.

Gilbert is probably better known as a poet and best known for her trailblazing work of feminist literary criticism with Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination.

In The Culinary Imagination, she funnels food critics, poets, novelists and anyone else who’s ever written about eating into a nourishing stew of cultural commentary. If you’ve ever wondered how Gertrude Stein, the Food Network and Pixar’s Ratatouille all relate to each other, Gilbert can offer some suggestions.

Suggestion: Curl up with some food while you curl up with a good book. There’s nothing better for the fall.

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(September 18), Feast at the Fort 2014 (September 20), and the 2014 Farm-to-Fork Gala Dinner on the Tower Bridge (September 28). Thankfully, there are still three good options for the hungry people of Sacramento.

A Taste of Sacramento ($40-$80, 5:30 p.m. on Friday, September 19 at the Sacramento Convention Center, 1400 J Street; www.myeasterseals.org/ events/a-taste-of- sacramento.html) features food by Hawks Restaurant, Dad’s Kitchen, and Evan’s Kitchen and Catering. There’s also beer from Anderson Valley Brewing Company, American River Brewing Company and

acramento is the capital of California.

California’s state animal is the grizzly bear. Grizzly bears eat a lot in the autumn and then hibernate though the winter.

Autumn begins on Tuesday, September 23. If you’re a crazy person who doesn’t understand deductive reasoning whatsoever, this series of semirelated facts can only lead to one conclusion: It’s the perfect time to act like the state animal and gorge on a bunch of food at one of many foodrelated activities this week.

But first off, big kudos go to three upcoming food events that are already sold out: the Sacramento Burger Battle

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It’s run by, and raises funds for, Easter Seals Superior California, a nonprofit that provides services to people with disabilities.

A Firefighter Chili Cookoff ($5, noon on Saturday, September 20 at Safetyville USA, 3909 Bradshaw Road; http://safetycenter.org/ safetyville-usa/events/firefighter-chili-cook-off) offers a chance to see firefighters face off in a chili-cooking competition. It’s a fundraiser for Safety Center Incorporated, whose aim is to provide safety education.

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September 25 at the River City Food Bank, 1800 28th Street; www.rivercityfood bank.org/events/harvest-forhunger) will have bites from the Drewski’s Hot Rod Kitchen and Rudy’s Hideaway food trucks, music from the Brian Lee Bender Band, beer and wine. It’s run by, and benefits, the River City Food Bank.

Other regional foodrelated happenings related to America’s Farm-to-Fork Celebration can be found at www.farmtofork.com/ event-calendar. Eat well, and may your hibernation be deep, Sacramento.

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Poetica Erotica Thursday, sepTember 25 Shawn Aveningo, Cynthia Linville and Lytton Bell host this ongoing series of fun, irreverent—and, of course, titillating—poetry readings. Examples of POETRY poetry titles include “Another Day at the Dildo Factory” and “Don’t Grocery Shop When You’re Horny.” This is no snooze-fest poetry slam. Free, 8 p.m. at Luna’s Café & Juice Bar, 1414 16th Street; www.facebook.com/PoeticaErotica.

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Lotus 8 in Folsom is a great example and Rose Garden Chinese Restaurant in Roseville is another.

I may be a bit jaded, but I was curious after seeing Rose Garden listed as the top choice Rating: in the “Best spot for Asian eats” category in HHH 1/2 SN&R’s 2013 Best of the Burbs issue (see “Best of the Burbs: Best of Roseville readers’ dinner for one: $5 - $10 picks,” SN&R May 16, 2013). It turns out that it sticks pretty closely to the Mandarin/Szechuan Top 40, but it does so with finesse.

Situated in a somewhat out-of-the-way strip mall, Rose Garden’s brightly-lit dining room is cheerful and welcoming with plentiful tables and an eager, friendly staff. We never went 10 minutes without someone checking our water, food or general well-being.

Meals begin with the requisite tea, but with the welcome addition of complimentary fried H wontons and dipping sauce. The sweet-and-sour flAwed sauce is an alarming shade of fuchsia, but a nice HH foil for the salty snacks. hAS momentS We tried the egg rolls and pot stickers to HHH size up these standard offerings. The egg rolls AppeAlIng are compact and nicely fried. The filling of HHHH shredded cabbage and pork is fine but not noteAuthoRItAtIve worthy. The pot stickers fared better with the HHHHH same filling, encased in tender wrappers with a epIc satisfying crunch on their browned bottoms.

Rose Garden offers four-course combination lunches and dinners for a good price. All of them include wonton soup, which is often somewhat bland. Not here, though. The broth is rich with flavor and the fresh, yielding dumplings would make a Jewish grandmother swoon.

The rest of our combo dinner included large servings of sweet-and-sour pork, chicken chow mein and barbecue pork fried Still hungry? rice. Of the three, the chow mein is the Search Sn&R’s standout. The restaurant really does noodles “dining directory” to find local well. They are chewy and fresh, tossed restaurants by name with tender breast meat and well-cooked or by type of food. vegetables. A bit of soy sauce enlivened Sushi, mexican, Indian, them even more.

Italian—discover it The sweet-and-sour pork is the least all in the “dining” section at exciting, featuring battered meat in that www.news neon-pink sauce. While it isn’t as gooey as review.com. many of its kind, the sauce suffers from too much sweet and not enough sour.

The fried rice, on the other hand, is fantastic. Both the pork and vegetarian versions are full of high-quality mix-ins, but not a lot of grease. Order the vegetarian with egg to complement the colorful variety of perfectly al dente vegetables, including two kinds of peas, carrots, corn and bean sprouts.

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Just go with it, because the creamy cashew cheese mingles with kicky arugula and cooling tomato on a perfectly soft yet firm roll—totally not like the soggy-prone bread at other sandwich shops that shall remain unnamed … twice. I recommend the Herbivore Delight and substituting the soybased mayo for the cashew cheese—and getting a cookie for the road.

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

A burger served with house pickles, seven-day housecured 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. The épicé mussels are served in a thick tomato sauce with a rumbling chili-garlic heat. Coconutbroth 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 triple-digit heat. The puff pastry it sits on is a means to an end.

Branzino cooked en papillote is also a thing of beauty: light,

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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.

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East Sacramento Fahrenheit 250 BBQ This barbecue joint ups the ante with attentive table service and highend ingredients. Chef Jacob Carriker serves Southern staples such as pulled pork, brisket and ribs, plus the very California addition of smoked tri-tip. There’s also chicken and trout—all smoked in a 7-foot hand-forged steel behemoth. 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 wellsmoked, 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

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.

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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

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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.

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

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The whiskey burger is a mighty sammich of perfection with smoked Gouda cheese and bacon that serve as excellent counterpoints to the achingly sweet maple-bourbon 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 beetpickled 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.

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,

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 positively deadly. American.

2225 Hurley Way, Ste. 101; (916) 568-7171. Dinner for one: $100-$300. HHHH J.B.

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.

Rocklin Il Pizzaiolo This Rocklin place

The Kitchen Diners here don’t receive a menu: They receive a program, divided into seven acts, and, yes, there’s an intermission. Guests all eat together, like a reservations-only giant dinner party, dining on seasonal dishes such as chilled, minty pea soup, served with creamy

just might serve the best pie in town.The menu boasts four “red” pizzas (with crushed tomatoes) and four “white” pizzas (without tomatoes). The Cinque Terre (anchovies, capers, mozzarella, olive oil and red sauce) packed a powerful salty and fishy flavor that might surprise the uninitiated. The Pancetta, with white sauce, was more muted with a simple earthiness from mushrooms, pancetta, Parmesan cheese and olive oil. The lovely crust is flat and wasn’t as thin as most of the pizzas I had on vacation in Italy earlier this year. But it’s pillowy soft and thoroughly doughy—as if to convert fans of American pizza over to Neopolitan. The Salsiccia is a must-try. With its sweet fennel sausage and pickled

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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 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 Jaliscostyle 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

peppers, it offered the most balanced taste. There’s also an option to create your own pizza from a few dozen topping choices. Italian. 6696 Lonetree Blvd. in Rocklin; (916) 899-6944. Dinner for one: $8-$15. HHHH J.M.

Rancho Cordova Fire Rock Grill The former 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 medium-rare, it required at least three napkins to soak up the finger-licking 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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Before you go do something stupid like call brick toast “a thing” or “honey toast”—as did a recent Sacramento Business Journal article—first know this: It’s actually a Taiwanese dish known as nai su tu si, which means “milk crispy toast” in Mandarin, and describes a thick piece of white toast slathered in buttermilk. Also, it has nothing to do with San Francisco’s asinine “artisanal toast” trend. It’s been refined (and bastardized) at various Southern California boba spots for at least the past decade (I’ve been eating it for that long, anyway). A few weeks ago, Sacramento finally got its own bricktoast place when Snowbee Tea Station opened at 6905 Stockton Boulevard, Suite 250 (www.facebook.com/pages/SnowbeeTea-Station/1452842061653972). Snowbee—like many Southern California brick-toast eateries I’ve tried—seems to be in some sort of foodie arms race, piling on crazy stuff like macarons, ice cream and wafers atop its toast. Elk Grove has its own brick-toast spot called Tea Culture (8433 Elk Grove Florin Road; www.facebook.com/ teaculture88), with a simpler—but also hella good—preparation.

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Then, her husband announces that he wants an “open marriage.” The fallout leads Fiona to re-examine her entire life in new light. Also weighing heavily on her is the case she’s trying, that of a bright, teenaged Jehovah’s Witness with leukemia who, along with his parents, is refusing blood transfusions on religious grounds. Fiona is, for the most part, restrained and very good at setting boundaries—but one momentary lapse has reverberating consequences.

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Goodbye, cronut! There’s a new dessert in town, an ice cream donut sandwich, also known as the “ice cream puff” at the Parlor. Picture this: a glazed doughnut (or apple fritter) stuffed with ice cream flavors such as Thai tease (a mix of vanilla and Thai tea) or sea salt caramel, toppings and syrup. The concoction is then sealed in a panini press and the result is an FOOD addictingly warm, fluffy doughnut that contrasts with the cold bite and creamy sensation of ice cream. Prices start at $4. 2620 Fair Oaks Boulevard, theparloricecream.com.

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Sacramento SpeakerS SerieS preSentS alice WaterS When it comes to being a pioneer in her field, Alice Waters is the Grandmaster Flash of food activism, the Steve Jobs of the local-produce movement, the O.G. of organic gardening. In other words, she’s a badass. With growing awareness about where our food comes from LECTURE and the increasing popularity of farmers markets, her philosophy—that good food is simple, natural, locally produced food—may not seem so revolutionary nowadays. But she opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley over 40 years ago, right around the time when fast-food chains like Taco Bell were an exciting novelty and not just the place you make your cabbie drive to on the way home from the bar.

The author of more than a dozen cookbooks, Waters was deemed the best chef in America by the James Beard Foundation in 1992.

She convinced first lady Michelle Obama to plant an edible garden at the White House and, in 2009, she was awarded the French Legion of Honor (does it get more badass?).

All this after opening her restaurant back in 1971, at the age of 27.

Chez Panisse is now something of a national landmark in the world of food, and Waters’ Edible Schoolyard project, aimed at teaching school-age children the importance of nutrition and the value of producing your own food, has expanded across the nation. Waters’ insights are sure to be more relevant and timely than ever in the recently minted Farm-to-Fork capital. $210-$450 series subscription only, (single tickets are not available) at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, September 23; at the Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street; www.sacramentospeakers.com.

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School-age children need ageappropriate relationship-education courses that teach about feelings, friendship and fitting in: Feelings: It’s important for children to learn to identify and name the emotion they feel. We want children to understand that an emotion is energy that offers information.

Emotions provide insight into what is happening in our lives. Children need to understand that suffering and healing is life’s natural rhythm.

Emotions come and go, so even painful emotions will eventually leave. Let’s teach children that it’s smart to ask for help from trusted adults when help is needed. And, if that adult is not supportive, let’s

teach children how to keep asking other trusted adults until support is provided. Good communication skills are key.

Friendship: Children need to know that a true friend accepts us, is available and generous, brings out the best in us, and is loyal and honest. Friends can be professional (teacher and student) or unprofessional (peer to peer).

Let’s teach children that it’s natural for friends to enter and exit our lives. Relationship education would include how to end a friendship that is no longer healthy and how to deal with unkindness and bullying, even from adults.

Fitting in: Elementary-school education often emphasizes conforming to a given norm, but it’s also important to celebrate how a child stands out. If a child’s innate genius is honored in elementary school, it will flourish. That grounding allows a child to grow into an adult capable of the creativity, innovation, resilience and productivity that can solve problems in society and industry.

Relationship education is even more essential for teenagers. A teen’s relationship skills predict his or her future success more accurately than the SAT or other academic exams. Teens need to learn about identity, intimacy and isolation (more about that on my blog at www.joeygarcia.com). If we want innovation, intelligence and resilience to rise in our communities, it won’t come from any current trends in elementary or high-school education. Relationship education is the answer to the personal and social problems that concern us. Ω

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The Exit Interview Where would God want me to start this review of The Exit Interview? How about beginning with the cheerleaders (Lizzy Poore, Kaley Saari and by Jim Carnes Jordan Mata) who introduce and frequently interrupt Big Idea Theatre’s production of William Missouri Downs’ academic satire? Or Earl Victorine’s fabulous Fox News reporter whose every interview (whether of a mother whose baby survived being run over, or of the survivor of a mass killing spree) asks, “What do you think God’s plan is for you—in eight seconds or less?”

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It’s hard to imagine a situation in which one of the plays from August Wilson’s “century cycle”—his series reflecting each of the 20th century’s decades in the lives of African Americans in Pittsburgh, Pa.—wouldn’t still be relevant. In the case of Celebration Arts’ masterful production of Jitney, a group of middle-aged black men attempt to make a living as unlicensed cab drivers in the rough economy of the late ’70s, while also coping with urban renewal’s implacable destruction of neighborhoods and the family pressures caused by expectations and incarceration. Except for the rotary-dial payphone on the wall, this story could be ripped from the headlines.

Youngblood (Tory Scroggins, in a shining Celebration Arts debut), a Vietnam vet desperate to build a home for his woman and child, is feeling the pinch both of working two jobs and having the troublesome Turnbo (Andre Ramey) carrying tales on him to his girlfriend, Rena (Alexandra Barthel). Doub (an outstanding Greg Jones) just wants to get along. Philmore (Tarig Elsiddig) wants to get ahead. Shealy (Kelton Howard), the local numbers man, wants to find a woman who can make him forget the one that got away. Fielding (the sly and funny Cameron Johnson) wants to be left alone to drink himself to whatever.

But the real heart of the play is Becker (Preston Collier), who runs the station that these drivers work out of—and who must cope with the release from prison of his only son, Booster (Noah Hayes), after 20 years on a murder charge. As the moral center of the play, the question for Becker becomes: How much moral outrage can a man tolerate without breaking down? Collier turns what could be a one-note role into something with depth as he reveals the reservoir of grief beneath his anger.

This father-and-son dynamic plays out in other ways, too, as Doub steps up to offer muchneeded guidance to Youngblood. We see just how crucial created family can be in the lives of young men on the edge.

Director James Wheatley has once again shown a deft hand with the poetry and emotional ballet of the late Wilson’s work. He’s aided in this by fantastic casting. As always, the “century cycle” brings out actors with a great deal of experience on stage, and it shows. However, the production is plagued by lengthy blackouts that could be streamlined a bit and would no doubt benefit the pacing of the play.

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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

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In Capital Stage’s exceptional production of Nina Raine’s wonderful play about family, disability and the difference between language and communication, we reap the benefits of perfect casting. Led by Brittni Barger and Stephen Drabicki, the ensemble—Elizabeth Holzman, Benjamin T. Ismail, Jamie Jones and Lol Levy—prove the Tolstoy dictum that happy families are all alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Directed

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Directed by Gail Dartez, on an eye-catching set by Brian Watson and under lighting by Alexa Slater and Benjamin T. Ismail, the play is a mostly hilarious, though sometimes a little tedious, riff around knowledge and mythology, science and theology. Or maybe it’s about faith and atheism, or about the commercialization of art, or the horrors of gun violence. Or the oboe’s threat to a relationship. Or maybe it’s about the humiliation of losing one’s job. I vote yes.

Professor Dick (“I prefer Richard”) Fig, played by the excellent Jouni Kirjola, has just lost his university teaching job (he’s an expert on German playwright Bertolt Brecht). He is being subjected to an annoying exit interview by an uber-religious human resources officer named Eunice (the superfine Tara Henry), who counsels: “When God closes a door, somewhere he opens a skylight.”

As they’re working down the list of inane and often loaded questions, there’s a report of a masked gunman (Garrett Bank, very good in his small part) on campus. Shots are heard. Eunice dives under her desk and continues the interview from there.

Brecht reinforced the idea of theater as nonreality by interruption, keeping audiences from becoming emotionally involved in the play and its characters. Downs achieves his “alienation effect” by having the characters suddenly break into song or dance or even into a different play. The strong ensemble, which also includes Shelley Russell Riley, Cameron Rose and Rebecca Scott, fills many roles.

The Exit Interview is fascinating theater, absurd and absurdly funny. If you’re looking for logic and realism, this is not the play for you.

What exit interview isn’t made more cheery by a trio of cheerleaders?

Probably this one.

The secret to the success of any Bonnie and Clyde story is selecting a sizzling pair to portray the doomed guntoting lovers, and Runaway Stage scores big with two talented leads for this production. Jennifer Zimney and David Holmes give winning performances of this captivating gruesome twosome, projecting the perfect pitch of chutzpah, pizazz and chemistry.

The two leads are supported by a large cast and a talented live orchestra, and surrounded by picture-perfect era costumes and creative sets that include historic photos projected onto wooden pallets. F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm.

Through 9/28. $18-$25. Runaway Stage Productions at the 24th Street Theatre, 2791 24th St.; (916) 207-1226; www.runaway stage.com. P.R.

Tracie Nickle plays Snoopy in Sierra Stages’ upcoming production of You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown.

Sierra Stages’ record season Local theater group Sierra Stages had a record season this year. Its version of Avenue Q received the most Elly nominations (12) of any production this year from the Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance.

Its staging of Peter Pan at Nevada City’s Nevada Theatre back in July opened to a record audience for the theater company: 750 people. Now, Sierra Stages closes its record-setting season with the musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, held September 18 through October 12 at Off Center Stage (315 Richardson Street in Grass Valley, www.sierrastages.org). This adaptation of the off-Broadway musical features a halfdozen Nevada City actors, plus a half-dozen Nevada City musicians. Also, returning to the topic of Ellys, to find out how Sierra Stages and all the other community theater groups in the Sacramento area fare, don’t miss the Elly Awards Ceremony this Sunday, September 21 ($25, 6 p.m. at the at the Red Lion Woodlake Hotel and Conference Center, 500 Leisure Lane; www.sarta.com).

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Jitney; 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; $8-$15. Celebration Arts, 4469 D Street; (916) 455-2787; www.celebrationarts.net. Through October 5.

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Director Shawn Levy has been teetering for years on the broad cusp between being a hack (Real Steel, the Steve Martin remakes of Cheaper by the by Jim Lane Dozen and The Pink Panther) and a craftsman (Night at the Museum, Date Night). With This Is Where I Leave You, Levy pulls within shouting distance—albeit a loud shout, from some miles off—of being an artist. At the very least, he has a strong script (by Jonathan Tropper, adapted from his novel) and a stronger cast, and he doesn’t muff it.

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Tropper’s story is the reunion of the four adult Altman siblings at the funeral of their father Mort—and at the insistence of their mother Hillary (Jane Fonda). Mom announces that their father’s dying wish was for the family to sit shiva for him. That means seven days, and the Altmans haven’t spent that long together in years. They’re not estranged, exactly, just not all that comfortable around each other for any length of time.

Jason Bateman plays Judd, still reeling from having discovered his wife Quinn (Abigail Spencer) in bed with his boss (Dax Shepard), a radio shock jock. He learns of his father’s death from his sister Wendy (Tina Fey), the oldest of his siblings and the one who most often plays buffer and peacemaker among the others. Paul (Corey Stoll), who is younger than Wendy and older than Judd, is the businessman of the family; his wife Alice (Kathryn Hahn) is desperate to have a baby. The youngest sibling, who has failed—or refused—to grow up in any real sense, is Phillip (Adam Driver).

As the Altmans converge on their suburban homestead, old flames flicker. For Judd it’s Penny Moore (Rose Byrne), a motor-mouthed pepper pot whose high-school crush on Judd has never gone away. For Wendy, it’s neighbor Horry Callen (Timothy Olyphant). There’s something darker and more complex here, hinted at but not entirely explained: As teenagers they were involved in an accident that left her unscathed but him with mild yet disabling brain damage. That first love, and a lurking sense of guilt, has stayed with Wendy, underlying her

lukewarm marriage to narcissistic Barry (Aaron Lazar). Phillip, for his part, can’t resist hooking up with one of his old conquests, humiliating his former therapist and present girlfriend Tracy (Connie Britton).

Meanwhile, Paul, who stayed in their hometown running the family hardware business while his sister and brothers sailed off in all directions, wants to buy them all out, sparking an argument with the feckless Phillip. And all four carry a slow-boiling resentment against their mother, a best-selling author who became rich and famous washing the family laundry in public print, parading their every childhood and adolescent crisis for the amusement of millions of strangers.

Tropper’s script negotiates all these roiling crosscurrents like an expert kayaker in whitewater rapids. We cringe and laugh, laugh and cringe, so often and in such quick succession that sometimes it feels like we’re doing both simultaneously. And Levy, to his credit, establishes a rhythm that keeps the action, even at its most outlandish, within the bounds of family squabbling— italicized, underlined and bolded, perhaps, but still recognizable to anybody whose relatives ever, even for a minute, drove them nuts.

Tina Fey may never receive an Academy Award nomination, but in a just world, she’d get one for this.

There’s an honest bittersweetness to This Is Where I Leave You that reminded me of Modern Family. Like TV’s extended Pritchett/Dunphy clan, the Altmans may send each other up the walls sometimes, but there’s an affectionate bond they can’t deny—and wouldn’t if they could. (“You may be idiots,” Wendy tells her brothers, “but you’re my idiots.”) And underneath it all—in fact, even on the surface most of the time—they’re all good and decent people.

Finally—though I hesitate to elevate one member of such a well-matched ensemble of equals—a word about Tina Fey. Some talents are so smooth that they can be taken for granted for years, even decades. Cary Grant was one of those, and Tina Fey is probably another. She may never receive an Academy Award nomination, but in a just world, she’d get one for this.

Notice the expression on her face at the end as she’s driven off to the airport. Don’t look now, but that’s great acting. Ω

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The title refers to the odds against Mine That Bird, the 2-year-old gelding that won a surprise victory in the 2009 Kentucky Derby, and the movie tells us how he got to the winner’s circle with owners Mark Allen (Christian Kane) and Leonard Blach (William Devane), trainer Chip Woolley (Skeet Ulrich) and jockey Calvin Borel (playing himself). Everybody loves a good sports movie where the underdog comes from behind, and director Jim Wilson and his co-writer Faith Conroy don’t blow it. They lay it on a little thick, perhaps, in presenting all these New Mexico cowboys as fish out of water among the snooty racing aristocrats of Churchill Downs, but it keeps things amusing while we wait for the big race. Madelyn Deutch adds spice as Ulrich’s spunky assistant—plus a touch of beauty to complement the horses. J.L.

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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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was chronicled in Soul Surfer. The movie is sweet, well-intentioned and family-friendly, like an extended episode of the old Flipper TV series.

Frankly, it’s a little bit dull. But what the he— er, heck; its heart’s in the right place and the Florida sunshine is exhilarating. J.L.

Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?

The three-part film version of Ayn Rand’s massive novel ends with a whimper—and, yet again, with an entirely new cast, director (James Manera) and writers (Manera and producers Harmon Kaslow and John Aglialoro, the latter two the only names to appear in the credits for all three parts). The first two parts (released in 2011 and 2012, respectively) were decent enough, given the circumstances—low budgets and Rand’s wooden characters and polemical dialogue—but this third installment makes a huge belly flop into the pool. Even Rand’s admirers will be shaking their heads in dismay.

The narrative is almost incomprehensible, the sermonizing more indigestible than ever, and the whole thing Scotch-taped together with long speeches from a narrator who just won’t shut up. As protagonists Dagny Taggart and John Galt, Laura Regan and Kristoffer Polaha make no impression. J.L.

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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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Dolphin Tale 2

Winter, the Florida dolphin with the prosthetic tail (who plays herself) languishes when her companion dies of old age. Winter must be paired with another female or she’ll be confiscated by the USDA (what the feds plan to do with her remains unexplained in director Charles Martin Smith’s script). The original cast is back: Nathan Gamble (whose only facial expression is a sullen glare), Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Kris Kristofferson, plus a guest cameo from Bethany Hamilton, the amputee whose life

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A husband and wife (James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain) separate after a family tragedy. The subtitle tells us that this is the third part of a trilogy. The first two, Her and Him, each told from the appropriate perspective, are set for release in October. (Whether Them was edited down from the other two is unclear.) Anyhow, writer-director Ned Benson has a writer’s instincts, but not an editor’s. He smothers us in oblique details, never saying plainly what he prefers to suggest, and he doesn’t know when enough is enough. He shows us nothing in 122 minutes that wouldn’t have been just as clear at 90 or 100. The movie is sluggish, even stagnant, but with an appealing naturalism and firstrate performances from a pedigreed cast (including, besides the stars, William Hurt, Ciarán Hinds, Isabelle Huppert, Viola Davis and Bill Hader). J.L.

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The Drop

A Brooklyn bartender (Tom Hardy), who seems none too bright, works in a bar that’s a money-laundering drop for Chechen gangsters. Behind his back, his boss (James Gandolfini) plans to rip the gang off on Super Bowl Sunday, when the jackpot will be extra high. Meanwhile, the bartender rescues the abused dog and warms to the abused ex-girlfriend (Noomi Rapace) of a neighborhood psycho (Matthias Schoenaerts). Written by Dennis Lehane (adapting his own short story) and tautly directed by Michaël R. Roskam, the movie is interestingly unpleasant. It’s a tense and unsettling, but extremely well-acted and compelling, picture of down-and-almost-outers trying to get by, honestly or otherwise. As a cop investigating an earlier robbery at the bar, John Ortiz has the best line in the movie (which I wouldn’t dare spoil). J.L.

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If I Stay

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 and unexceptional story. But only churlish folks will pick nits: The movie is an efficient and satisfying teen tear-jerker, 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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Innocence

Smuggled into theaters after lying on a shelf for several years, Hilary Brougher’s low-bar hurdler Innocence turns out to be a nifty piece of teenage neo-feminism, at least until the scratch marks from a troubled post-production start to emerge in the final act. Sophie Curtis gives a nuanced lead performance as Beckett Warner (what a name!), a smart and curious girl who gets shuttled off

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Divine interventions Exquisite Corps releases a new record, hits the road and forges its own path Indie rock is a form of music that knows few boundaries.

In an effort to squash any remaining limitations of an undefinable art form, the members by Eddie Jorgensen of Exquisite Corps have built a band that uses two-part harmonies, haunting melodies and strings with great effect.

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band’s new self-released album Vignettes follows that independent path. Recorded with producer Ira Skinner at Alley Avenue Recording Studios in Midtown, Valenzuela said the pairing proved to be a good fit.

“His place has a live tracking room which produces great sounds,” Valenzuela said. “I’ve always thought [Ira] had great drum tones and the timing was perfect.”

As of late, the band plays more dates out of town than in, traveling near and far to the likes of Chico and Nevada City. The latter town’s scene, in particular, Valenzuela says, is one to watch.

“A lot of bands from Nevada City are great, including Mount Whateverest and the Soft Bombs,” he said.

“There’s a cool scene there.”

2014 is shaping up to be the group’s best year yet.

Following Saturday’s release show, the band will embark on a West Coast tour down to San Diego and then head back up to the Northwest for a show in Seattle.

The band, which currently holds a monthly Thursdaynight residency at LowBrau, doesn’t have any big projects lined up—though Valenzuela says they’d love to do another Crocker gig.

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Catch Exquisite Corps on Saturday, September 20, at 9 p.m. at Witch Room, 1815 19th Street.

Tickets are $8 in advance through Dimple Records; $10 at the door. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/ excorpsmusic.

Formed in 2011 by guitarist and principal songwriter Bryan Valenzuela, the band launched rather organically as a solo project.

Over time, Valenzuela worked new musicians into the fold.

“I was just playing around solo and slowly added other members as they became free,” he said.

However, he soon realized less might have to be more. After expanding into a sextet with two violins, the band found it hard to work around the string section’s schedules and eventually downsized to four members.

The current band comprises Valenzuela on lead vocals and guitar plus Robby Dean on drums and vocals, Nathan Webb on bass, and Adam Rice on organ and keyboards. For local events such as their CD release show Saturday, September 20, at Witch Room, the band will be rejoined by original-member violinists Kristin Arnold and Reylynn Goessling.

Exquisite Corps has done things largely themselves. So far it’s been a successful journey that’s included selling out a show at the Crocker Art Museum and drawing nearly 300 people to its 2012 CD-release show. The

2014 is shaping up to be Exquisite Corps’ best year yet. The band will soon embark on a West Coast tour and then head back up to the Northwest.

In the meantime, Valenzuela will continue working on various endeavors. By day, he’s a full-time artist and says he draws inspiration from his work, which includes setting up exhibits for the Crocker Art Museum and working on public-art projects. Earlier this year, Valenzuela won a Leff-Davis Fund for Visual Artists grant— something he says has been a boon to his work.

“I got a $5,000 grant and it’s helped me keep creating” he said.

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1999 metal or folk chaos: Your jams of choice Not so metal: Dexter Holland expressed his gratitude to the sea of sweaty bodies: “It’s fucking a million degrees here, with fucking a million dust pits, and you’re all still here.”

Last weekend’s Aftershock festival apparently impressed the Offspring frontman. But guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman took it one step further: “I’m gonna go on record and say this is the best festival California has probably ever had.”

Well, if your preferred jams are strictly metal and hard rock, then Wasserman is probably right.

California Metalfest in Anaheim called it quits in 2012. Warped Tour books poppy punk bands for a largely teenage audience. For what it is, Aftershock is a big deal.

That said, I was immediately repulsed upon entering Discovery Park. It was mostly the offensive heat—triple digits on Saturday. The air was thick with dust. One could not avoid stepping on trash. The festival reeked of cheap beer, cigarettes and sweat, with 37,000 mostly-tattooed attendees dressed in black. Sunday saw a sold-out mass of 19,000.

Unlike most big festivals, Aftershock featured few diversions.

There were food trucks, and that’s about it. Metalheads apparently only care about the music, and with more than 40 bands across four stages, there was plenty.

And unlike past years, Aftershock offered a whole lot beyond metal.

The Offspring, for example, blasted through hit after hit and played Smash in its entirety, celebrating the album’s 20th anniversary. Electronic rock band AWOLNATION also played Saturday—but the reception was mixed, particularly when Aaron Bruno told everyone to feel the love and put their arms around each other. Yikes.

And Weezer headlined that night. Nothing was more bizarre and heartwarming than seeing people previously rocking out to metal pumping their fists to “Beverly Hills.”

The guy next to me played perfect air guitar to “Hash Pipe” before whipping out his own smoking vessel. In all seriousness, the nerd-rock band put on an excellent, career-spanning set, and I couldn’t believe I still remembered the words to nearly every song.

Sunday was more heavy on metal.

I started my day with Unlocking the Truth, a trio of eighth-graders from Brooklyn, NY. Singer Malcolm Brickhouse’s voice cracked. And being teenagers, they wore apathetic faces. Energy was low. Their manager BEFORE

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kept nudging them—literally— throughout the set. But what the hell were you doing in eighth grade?

Definitely not signing a $1.8 million record deal. Appropriately, children were at the front of the crowd, and Brickhouse was a hero.

Inappropriately, children were on top of Rise Against’s mosh pit.

Seriously, parents? Tiny 6-year-olds perched on shoulders, insanely close to being dethroned by crowdsurfers. I winced at two close calls.

I also couldn’t believe people took selfies while crowdsurfing. In flip-flops.

Anyway, Rise Against’s set was solid. Mastodon sounded tight. Pennywise was wonderfully irreverent.

And I hate to say it, but the real shock all weekend? The band no one could stop talking about? And truly, the name I wanted to avoid acknowledging altogether?

Limp Bizkit.

Aftershock goers worshipped Fred Durst the moment he stepped on stage.

A woman sent up her panties and he inhaled—deeply—before using them as a microphone accessory. Guitarist Wes Borland painted himself black, head to toe. The nu metal, rap-rock act engaged more than any other. And at the end, the Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive” filled the air while Durst silently grooved on stage. Clearly, Sacramento never forgot 1999.

Genre-defying strings: Two Sundays ago, I witnessed a very different stunned crowd. A few handfuls of people at Witch Room, taking in a San Jose-based band’s first Sacramento visit. Still, stunned all the same.

To call Brother Grand “a folk duo” would be a huge disservice to the project’s remarkably huge sound. Sure, folk is certainly present, especially when Ben Henderson and Endika grab their acoustic guitar and upright bass and nothing else.

But with Ben’s dynamic, haunting voice, the result winds toward the psychedelic. It feels old-timey, heartfelt, but then the tempo changes and it becomes a sad, soulful blues.

A floor tom gets pounded, cymbals brushed, a keyboard looped. Endika literally slaps his bass then strikes his bow, hairs permanently shredded apart. Ben works his fingers across a banjo, his foot on a tambourine, his breath into a harmonica all at once.

Usher in the thundering chaos.

—Janelle Bitker

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Linkin Park

Part Time

Bat Guano Fest

Solsa

Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 6:30 p.m., $30-$113.25 It’s been almost 14 years since Linkin Park burst into the music world’s consciousness with Hybrid Theory, an abrasive entry ROCK/HIP-HOP into the thenburgeoning genre of rap rock, and it outlasted most of its peers.

LP’s newest release, The Hunting Party, is its most aggressive album in years, eschewing the more melodic sounds the band had come to embrace. It pummels your ears on rockers like “Keys to the Kingdom” and assaults you punk rock-style on “War.” Chester Bennington shreds his vocal cords more violently than ever throughout the album. Linkin Park is proof that fusing hip-hop and rock still works. 2677 Forty Mile Road in Wheatland, www.linkinpark.com.

—Brian Palmer

Witch Room, 8 p.m., $7

Cafe Colonial, 7 p.m., $6

Part Time started out as San Franciscan David Speck’s weird part-time gig in the ’90s while he played in other bands. In 2011, he got serious, formed a real band and released a full-length album. A year later, a cassette came out on the fantastically irreverent Burger Records. Part Time became full time, with fuzzy, deadpan, low-fi synthpop—like a post-Cure, ’80s throwback sound, but totally not annoying. Now Speck goes by Davida Loca, sometimes releasing music under any of the aforementioned names. It’s confusing, NEW WAVE but we think new vinyl is due soon. Maybe ask him for us at Witch Room. 1815 19th Street, www.burgerrecords.org.

—Janelle Bitker

Torch Club, 9 p.m., $12

If the lineup of Limp Bizkit, Godsmack and Buckcherry at this year’s Aftershock festival didn’t destroy your eardrums, perhaps the punk-rock bands featured at Bat Guano Fest will. Now in its fourth season, the small festival is orchestrated by local PUNK music enthusiast and Bat Guano Productions founder Ken Doose, who also hand selects each performer. Day one of the fest kicks off with horror punks the Left Hand (pictured), followed by the Number Thirteen and Dead Dads. Day two of the festival (Saturday, September 20) offers bands including the Yoohoos from Germany and the kickass sounds of Sactown’s Charles Albright. 3520 Stockton Boulevard, www.facebook.com/cafecolonialsacramento.

Why would a wedding band that was a Weddingwire.com Bride’s Choice Award winner in 2011 and 2012 play at Sacramento’s home for the blues? Simple: The blues have influenced many of the songs Solsa performs. With two lead singers and a three-piece percussion section, this eightmember group performs Latin hits by Marc Anthony, Malo, Santana and Ozomatli. As Gloria Estefan famously sang, “the rhythm is gonna getcha.” Add R&B from DANCE the Commodores, Kool & the Gang, Usher and Stevie Wonder—plus a side of Madonna, Phil Collins, Pink, Maroon 5 and AC/DC—and you’ve got a crazy evening of diverse dance-music fun. 904 15th Street, http://solsaentertainment.com.

—Steph Rodriguez

—Trina L. Drotar

1000 K Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

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Sublime with Rome

The Skins

Fiestaval

Church

Thunder Valley Casino, 7 p.m., $29.75-$84.75 Thirteen years after Bradley Nowell’s overdose ended ska-punk icons Sublime, the trio’s surviving members reunited behind 20-year-old singer and guitarist Rome Ramirez. Sublime’s success was largely posthumous, making Sublime with Rome the first chance many had to see their favorite band.

After two years touring, the group released 2011’s Yours Truly. Ramirez doesn’t possess Nowell’s presence, but his nimble vocals are more than equal to Sublime’s blend of reggae, soul and punk. The band forged on after drumREGGAE/ROCK mer Bud Gaugh was replaced by vet Josh Freese. Concerns it’s debasing Sublime’s legacy are (for the time) overshadowed by enthusiastic crowds. 1200 Athens Avenue in Lincoln, www.sublimewithrome.com.

The Odd Fellows Hall, 8 p.m., $15

Cesar Chavez Plaza, 4 p.m., $37.50

These days there are a lot of local bands for people to choose from, but back in the ’70s it was a totally different story. That’s ROCK why when local rock ’n’ rollers the Skins, who broke up in 1979, announced they are playing a reunion show, it was a big deal. The Skins (originally called the Four Skins) used to pack venues back in the day. The group’s style is reminiscent of the Doobie Brothers, a hybrid of rock, R&B, roots and rockabilly—complete with some excellent, soulful harmonies. The members live all over the country these days, so reunions are infrequent (the last one was in 1994). 415 2nd Street in Davis, http://tinyurl.com/theskinssacto.

—Aaron Carnes

Starlite Lounge, 8 p.m., $8

Logic would have it that a “fiestaval” is what happens when a festival and a fiesta are so festive that they fuse into one big, raucous celebration. Surely, this is a fitting name for a six-hour concert that features the venerable, Grammy award-winning Chicano-rock band Los Lobos (pictured) alongside local acts such as the Rhythm Vandals, Mr. December, Mariachi Los Gallos and Folklorico Calli Dance Academy. The CHICANO ROCK show will honor local philanthropist and Parkinson’s disease activist Chevo Ramirez. Proceeds from the event benefit Children’s Miracle Network hospitals and Blue Heart International, a nonprofit that helps survivors of human trafficking.

910 I Street, http://loslobosconcert.com.

—Chris Parker

If you’re a fan of bands like Pallbearer and Bell Witch, or the earliest Cathedral release, chances are you’ll be converted to this relatively new band formed in 2013. Fronted by the lovely and talented Eva Holland and feaDOOM METAL turing the songwriting talents of Chris Somel, the five-piece plays music for the downtrodden and forgotten. If darkness is on the menu and you aren’t afraid to wallow in your own demons for a night, this doommetal outfit may bring you one step closer to enlightenment. Church is in session and resistance is futile. Seattle’s the Helm and Old Iron are also on the bill. 1517 21st Street, http://churchband.blogspot.com.

—Eddie Jorgensen

—Deena Drewis

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Karaoke Night, 7:30pm, no cover

SIMPLE CREATION, 9:30pm, call for cover

ADAM VARONA, 9:30pm, no cover

BLUE LAMP

WHITE KNUCKLE RIOT, STITCHED UP HEART, ONCE AN EMPIRE; 8pm, $10

RETURN OF THE RED, DJ Wokstar; 9pm, $5

Troma Burlesque Troupe, 8pm, $5

THE BOARDWALK

AYE TEE, LILLY LOVE, E.N.R.I.Q.U.E., POSEI- HATRIOT, DEADLANDS, FORNEVER, WARNRV; 8pm, call for cover

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

CENTER FOR THE ARTS THE COZMIC CAFÉ

DJ Billy Lane, 9pm, call for cover

Open mic, 8pm M; LIVIN GARDEN, COST OF CLARITY; 8pm Tu, $5; Trivia, 8pm W

ANARCHY LACE, INFINITE VASTNESS, ROCK OF AGES, MOON MANTIS; 8pm Community Music Jam, 6pm M, no cover

ARDEN PARK ROOTS, DJ El Conductor; 9pm, no cover

DJ Panic City, 10pm, call for cover

Deuling Pianos, 9pm, no cover

PATRICK WALSH, 9:30pm, no cover

ISLAND OF BLACK & WHITE, Tu; ELEMENT OF SOUL, AWKWARD LEMON; W

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

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

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

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

TENDER AGE, SATSUMA; 9pm, $5

DARYL BLACK, GILLIAN UNDERWOOD; 9pm, $5

DJ Crook One, 10pm, call for cover

DJ Whores, 10pm, no cover

ROCK OF AGES, 9pm-midnight, $5

ESSEX, 9pm-midnight, $5

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

AFROLICIOUS, IDEA TEAM; 8pm, $10

WHISKEY AND STITCHES, ONE EYED REILLY, THE PIKEYS; 8pm, $7-$9

DANIEL CIOPER, LP SESSIONS, MUSICAL MAJICKAT: A TRIBUTE TO CAT STEVENS, CHARIS; 7pm, $5; SHOI, 9:30pm, $7 7pm, $15-$18

MIKE LOVE, M; SEAN HAYES, Tu; PASTOR BRYANT C. WYATT, 7:30pm W, $20-$25

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR

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

PROXY MOON, DR. HALL, MOUNTAIN SHINE; 8pm, $6

Mythology Cafe: Prophecy, Myth & Art w/ Stan Padilla, 8pm, $6

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

MARILYN’S ON K

ZYAH BELLE AND THE FUNKSHUN, CURRENT PERSONAE; 8pm, $5

You Front The Band Live Karaoke, noon, call for cover

THE CHICK P’S, 9pm, call for cover

MIDTOWN BARFLY

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

2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

FOX & GOOSE

THE MIKE JUSTIS BAND, 8pm, no cover

G STREET WUNDERBAR

TOTAL RECALL, 10pm, call for cover

THE GOLDEN BEAR

DJ Shaun Slaughter, 10pm, call for cover

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825 228 G St., Davis; (530) 756-9227 2326 K St., (916) 441-2252

HALFTIME BAR & GRILL

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

HARLOW’S

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

2708 J Street Sacramento, CA 916.441.4693 www.harlows.com COMING SOON

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AFROLICIOUS

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IRISHPALOOZA FEAT.

WHISKEY AND STITCHES ONE EYED REILLY • THE PIKEYS STOUT REBELLION 7PM • $7 ADV

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MOONSHINER COLLECTIVE 5:30PM • $10

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MIKE LOVE

PETTY THEFT

7PM • $13

9:30PM • $15

SAN FRANCISCO TRIBUTE TO TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS

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SEAN HAYES

ERIC AND ERICA 7PM $20 ADV

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THE ENLOWS, ILLUMINATI BY NATURE; 8pm, $7

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

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

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THE EARLES OF NEWTOWN, LONESOME LEASH; 8pm, $20-$35

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Fabulous and Gay Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 9/22-9/24 TRAPT, DARLING PARADE, FIRST DECREE, SELF PROCLAIMED; 6:30pm Tu, $15

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

1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

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Open-mic, 7:30pm M, no cover; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu, no cover

Industry Night, 9pm, call for cover

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Marilyn’s Talent Showcase, 6pm, no cover

GALAXY STAR, 8pm M, $5; SHORES OF OBLIVION, SHIP OF THE SUN; 8pm Tu, $5

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

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

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FRIDAY 9/19

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN

FUKU & THE DEADLY VENOMS, THE COMETTES; 8:30pm, $5

BASKET HOUSE, SWAHILI PASSION, JULIET COMPANY; 8:30pm, $5

MERDOG, SMALLTALK; 8:30pm, $6

Jazz, M; DYLAN MASSIVE, LADYBIRD AND THE UNKNOWN UNIVERSE; 8:30pm W, $5

OLD IRONSIDES

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

Open bluegrass jam, 8pm, no cover

MR. HOOPER, TANG, BLAQUELISTED, THE TIPSY HUSTLERS; 9pm, $8

Fascination: ’80s new-wave dancing, 9:30pm, $5

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

ON THE Y

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

THE GOLDEN STATE, LONE STAR REVUE; CATIE CURTIS, 8pm, $20 8pm, $20

TOM RIGNEY & FLAMBEAU, MICHAEL DOUCET; 8pm, $20

1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

13 Main St., Winters; (530) 795-1825

THE PARK ULTRA LOUNGE 1116 15th St., (916) 442-7222

PARLARE EURO LOUNGE

Top 40, 9pm, no cover

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

PJ’S ROADHOUSE

GRANT LANGSTON, 10pm, call for cover

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

SUNDAY 9/21

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 9/22-9/24

Open-mic comedy, 9pm, no cover

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

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

Top 40, Mashups, 9pm, no cover

DJ Club mixes, 10pm, no cover

THE PRESS CLUB

2030 P St., (916) 444-7914

Daryl Black with Gillian Underwood 9pm Saturday, $5.

Fox & Goose Rock and soul

THUNDER COVER, 10pm, call for cover

8 TRACK MASSACRE, 10pm, call for cover

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

CELEBRATION DAY, 8pm W, $5

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

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

Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

DJs Cue22, Druskee; 9:30pm- Tu; BELLYGUNNER, THE REMOVED; 9pm W, $7

SOPHIA’S THAI KITCHEN

MUSEE MECANIQUE, SUNMONKS; 9:30pm, $5

STARLITE LOUNGE

JOHNNY 5, ZEPHYR, TZOLKEEN, OLD GRIFF; 8pm, call for cover

WOLFHOUSE, HUMBLE WOLF, TELL THE WOLVES; 8pm, call for cover

ATTIK DOOR, FAIR STRUGGLE, I AM STRIKES, STATIONARY; 8pm, call for cover

STONEY INN/ROCKIN’ RODEO

BUCK FORD PURE COUNTRY BAND, 9pm, $5-$7

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

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

Country dance party, 8pm, no cover

MAKA ROOTS, 6pm, $8

BEER DAWG, MR. DECEMBER; 3pm, $10

RACHEL STEELE AND ROAD 88, 3pm, $5

129 E St., Davis; (530) 758-4333 1517 21st St., (916) 706-0052

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): These

horoscopes I write for you aren’t primarily meant to predict the future. They are more about uncovering hidden potentials and desirable possibilities that are stirring below the surface right now. When I’m doing my job well, I help you identify those seeds so you can cultivate them proactively. Bearing that in mind, I’ll pose three pertinent questions: 1. What experiments might stir up more intimacy in the relationships you want to deepen? 2. What could you change about yourself to attract more of the love and care you want?

3. Is there anything you can do to diminish the sting of bad memories about past romantic encounters, thereby freeing you to love with more abandon?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The old

Latin motto Gradu diverso, una via can be translated as either “Continuing on the same road, but with a different stride” or “Going the same way, but changing your pace.” I think this is excellent advice for you, Taurus. By my reckoning, you are on the correct path. You are headed in the right direction. But you need to shift your approach a bit—not a lot, just a little.

You’ve got to make some minor adjustments in the way you flow.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): For years,

Donna and George Lewis used a 33-pound, oval-shaped rock as a doorstop in their Tennessee home. Later they moved it to their garden. Then one day George analyzed it with his metal detector and realized it had unusual properties. He took it to scientists who informed him it was a rare and valuable four-and-a-half-billionyear-old meteorite. With this as our subtext, Gemini, I’m asking you if there might be some aspect of your life that is more precious than you imagine. Now is a favorable time to find out and make appropriate adjustments in your behavior.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’ve got

a radical proposal, Cancerian. It might offend you. You may think I’m so far off the mark that you will stop reading my horoscopes. But I’m willing to take that risk, and I’m prepared to admit that I could be wrong. But I don’t think I am wrong. So here’s what I have to say: There is a sense in which the source of your wound is potentially also the source of the “medicine” that will heal the wound. What hurt you could fix you. But you must be careful not to interpret this masochistically. You can’t afford to be too literal. I’m not saying that the source of your pain is trustworthy or has good intentions. Be cagey as you learn how to get the cure you need.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The prestigious

New England Journal of Medicine published a study with a conclusion we might expect to see in a tabloid newspaper or satirical website. It reported that there is a correlation between chocolate consumption and Nobel Prizes. Those countries whose citizens eat more chocolate have also produced an inordinate number of Nobel laureates. So does this mean that chocolate makes you smarter, as some other studies have also suggested?

Maybe, the report concluded. Since it is especially important for you to be at the height of your mental powers in the coming weeks, Leo, why not experiment with this possibility?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I rarely waste

my time trying to convert the “skeptics” who attack astrology with a hostile zeal that belies their supposed scientific objectivity. They’re often as dogmatic and closed-minded as any fundamentalist religious nut. When I’m in a tricky mood, though, I might tell them about the Crawford Perspectives, a highly rated Wall Street investment publication that relies extensively on astrological analysis.

Or I might quote the wealthy financier J. P. Morgan, who testified that, “Millionaires don’t use astrology; billionaires do.” That brings us to my main point, Virgo: The astrological omens suggest that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to put in motion plans to get richer quicker.

Take advantage!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When

Libra-born Mohandas Gandhi was 19, he moved to London from his native India to study law. Soon he got caught up in the

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He took elocution lessons and learned to dance. He bought fine clothes and a gold watch-chain. Each morning he stood before a giant mirror and fussed with his hair and necktie until they were perfect.

In retrospect, this phase of his life seems irrelevant. Years later, he was a barefoot rebel leader using nonviolent civil disobedience to help end the British rule of India, often wearing a loincloth and shawl made of fabric he wove himself. With this as your inspiration, Libra, identify aspects of your current life that contribute little to the soul you must eventually become.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This might

be controversial, but I suspect that for now your emphasis shouldn’t be on sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Instead, your specialties should be hard-earned intimacy, altered states that are solely the result of deep introspection, and music that arouses reverence and other sacred emotions. You are entering a phase when crafty power is less important than vigorous receptivity; when success is not nearly as interesting as meaningfulness; when what you already understand is less valuable than what you can imagine and create.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

You are entering a phase when you will reap rich rewards by nurturing the health of your favorite posse, ensemble or organization. How is the group’s collective mental health? Are there any festering rifts? Any apathetic attitudes or weakening resolves? I choose you to be the leader who builds solidarity and cultivates consensus. I ask you to think creatively about how to make sure everyone’s individual goals synergize with the greater good.

Are you familiar with the Arabic word taarradhin? It means a compromise that allows everyone to win—a reconciliation in which no one loses face.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

The good news is that America has more trees than it did 100 years ago. Aggressive efforts to replace the decimated old-growth forests have paid off. The bad news is that the new forests have a far less diverse selection of tree species than the originals. The fresh batches are often crowded into smaller spaces, so wildfires are more massive and devastating. And because so many of the forests are young, they host a reduced diversity of plant and animal life. All in all, the increased quantity is wonderful; the lower quality not so wonderful. Is there a lesson here for you? I think so. In your upcoming decisions, favor established quality over novel quantity.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If Pope

Francis isn’t traveling, he comes out to meet the public in St. Peter’s Square every Wednesday. During one such event last January, he took a few moments to bestow tender attention on a talking parrot that belonged to a male stripper. I foresee a comparable anomaly happening for you in the coming days. A part of you that is wild or outré will be blessed by contact with what’s holy or sublime. Or maybe a beastly aspect of your nature that doesn’t normally get much respect will receive a divine favor.

The soft touch International long-drive champion Heather LeMaster graduated from Sacramento State University in 2008 (organizational communications with “a major in golf”), works as an assistant golf professional at Granite Bay Golf Club, and can hit a golf ball 300 yards like it’s no big deal. The long-drive golfer, who boasts the nickname “Longknocker,” has traveled all over the world, winning long-drive competitions and raising money for charity. Oh, and she also likes horses.

SN&R managed to catch up with her between lessons to chat about handicaps, training and how not to be so hypercompetitive all the time.

How does a long-drive competition work?

It’s like home-run derby for golf. We hit simultaneously against 24 other girls. We have two minutes and 45 seconds to hit six balls within a grid approximately 60-yards wide. With all the loud music, and men and women cheering for you, the overwhelming rush of adrenaline and energy transforms my golf swing into “girl-power golf.”

How far can you hit a golf ball?

My career ball is 347 yards, which I hit on the Golf Channel live last year. I qualified to hit in the world championships by hitting 330 yards. My winning drive was 306 yards.

Best part about being a long-drive competitor?

That I can use my talent of hitting a golf ball, and help charities all over the world raise funds for their causes. I’ve found an avenue that I love and am compassionate about, because I can help raise funds and awareness for many causes. There are a few local long-drive professionals in the Sacramento area and we have teamed up to help charities such as the Shriner’s Hospital for Children [Northern California], and Make-A-Wish [Foundation]. My other favorite part about long drive is that I get to travel the world competing.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “My defini-

Coolest thing about the long drive?

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.

My best memories of a match are the preparation. Mental and physical hours of working on my game with swing coaches Tommy Morton and Pat Carroll at Haggin Oaks and Matt Kilgariff from the Butch Harmon School of Golf in Las Vegas. Practicing until my hands callous over and my grips wear down has helped me to become the compassionate, professional instructor and competitive athlete I am today. The coolest thing that has ever happened is that I was given the nickname “Longknocker” before I even started competing in long drive. I also qualified for the [United State Golf Association’s] Women’s Amateur Championship back-toback. I had my first win in golf overseas. I have yet another avenue in golf that keeps the game fun.

tion of a devil is a god who has not been recognized,” said mythologist Joseph Campbell. “It is a power in you to which you have not given expression, and you push it back. And then, like all repressed energy, it builds up and becomes dangerous to the position you’re trying to hold.”

Do you agree, Pisces? I hope so, because you will soon be entering the Get Better Acquainted with Your Devil Phase of your astrological cycle, to be immediately followed by the Transform Your Devil into a God Phase. To get the party started, ask yourself this question: What is the power in you to which you have not given expression?

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What’s your handicap?

My game is great. It may be a misconception that long drivers can’t play golf well, but we do. We just have the advantage of hitting a ball exceptionally far—not always straight, but it’s in some fairway—all while maintaining a soft enough touch to stroke the ball into the hole. I graduated as a plus-two handicap from Sacramento State. I am probably a four handicap now. However, I believe that in no time I could again become a scratch golfer.

I’m more mentally tough, more physically prepared and I play and teach golf now because I am compassionate and truly feel that whether I make it or not, I can go out there and give it my absolute heart and soul one more time and enjoy it, because at the end of the day, it must remain a game.

Sounds like you have a hypercompetitive streak.

I do.

Is it hard not take things too personally on the course?

No. It’s important to remember that it’s called the “game” of golf. It’s not life or death.

Did you always have that attitude?

It took me about five years to grow up. For awhile, I thought that golf was what made me who I was. Now I know it’s just a part of me.

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It’s second to being the best ball striker, er, most pure ball striker. Once someone can hit a golf ball, he or she can learn how to swing fast, but you can’t swing fast and expect to hit it pure before knowing how.

Is flexibility important?

How about youth?

Yes, flexibility is a big part. I like to wind myself up and then uncoil like a spring.

Age has less effect that a person would think. You can be young or old and hit a ball far.

Still looking to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour?

My immediate goals are to defend my Re/Max World Long Drive title this September in Mesquite, Nevada; continue training in fitness, health and life; and then when next year comes, I plan to be ready to go to LPGA [Tour] Qualifying School and qualify for the 2016 ladies’ tour.

Are long-drive competitions a viable career?

I think it’s difficult to call it viable, but it’s certainly possible for a man. Women don’t have enough competitions to make a living competing in long drive. Ω

Heather LeMaster will compete in the Re/Max World Long Drive Championship, September 20-27 in Mesquite, Nev. For more information, visit http://www.longdrivers.com/remax-wldc.

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