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K.J.’s million-dollar baby What do Comcast and AT&T have in common? They offer Internet, yes.

They both specialize in F-bombinducing brands of customer service—you know it! Neither is based in Sacramento, but they both donated five-figure sums to pro-Measure L committees this past month.

How about Lyft, or billionaires like Michael Bloomberg, Ron Burkle or Steve Jobs’ widow? They too are out of town, yet forked over major donations to Mayor Kevin Johnson’s crusade for more executive power.

I don’t use the term crusade lightly. K.J.’s been damn-near messianic, what with his rabid canvassing of neighborhoods and rotating cast of Yes-on-L shirts. His team’s organized more town halls for Measure L than there were for the Kings-arena subsidy or the Sac City school closures—combined.

Fellow local journalists are going to need a Measure L recovery group, no doubt (Jamie’s on Broadway at noon on November 5?).

Anyway, this was expected. After six years of coveting the strong-mayor crown, Johnson’s campaign was surely going Rove (as in Karl) this fall.

I did not, however, expect this benchmark: Committees aligned with Johnson’s strong-mayor manifest destiny should exceed $1 million in fundraising soon. Some of the wealthiest individuals and companies worldwide are writing checks so that Johnson can ascend to Sistine-esque heights at City Hall.

One million dollars.

What does that number mean?

What do these almighty donors want from Johnson? If Measure L is really about accountability and transparency, then why the hell does a company like Comcast give a damn? What does that lovable communications Goliath want for its $45,000 tithing?

There’s an acronym in journalism: JDLR, or “just doesn’t look right.”

And something is definitely JDLR with K.J.’s million-dollar Measure L baby.

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Re “Does UC Davis have a rape problem?� by Janelle Bitker (SN&R Feature Story, October 16): As the UC Davis provost and executive vice chancellor, I want to assure your readers and the public at large that at the university we have a policy of zero tolerance when it comes to sexual violence.

Sexual assault is a very serious crime of violence that each and every one of us has a responsibility to combat. The women about whom you wrote have our deepest sympathy.

When there is an allegation of sexual assault, our campus is committed to investigate thoroughly and professionally. We are likewise committed to doing our very best to treat any victims with the utmost letter of respect and dignity and to hold perpetrators fully acthe week countable. We want every member of the community to know what resources are available to support victims of sexual assault, and we want to ensure that any victim or witness is willing to come forward and report a crime.

As your article points out, sexual assaults are a problem around the nation. A great deal of attention has been focused on colleges and universities.

At UC Davis, we will never stop striving to do everything we can to keep all of our students safe and to educate all members of the UC Davis community about how we must work together toward that end.

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Re “Does UC Davis have a rape problem?� by Janelle Bitker (SN&R Feature Story, October 16): Every week, me and my partner make sure to grab a copy of SN&R. This week, I was surprised to see the shock-and-awe cover story about rape at UC Davis. As much as I think the story and interviews were salient and good reading material, I would recommend, as a survivor of assault, placing a warning or note to readers that the content of the article may trigger or cause a trigger for survivors of assault.

I couldn’t read the first paragraph without feeling trauma return, and I’m sure I wasn’t the only reader who felt so.

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Re “Topsy-turvy: An analysis of the Sacramento city school board races, part one� by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Bites, October 16): Your story about the Sacramento city school-board election in Area 1 focuses mostly on the involvement of the teachers’ union. But what caught my eye was the outrageous statement made by Jay Hansen about his opponent, Anna Molander. Did he really say, she’s “a nice person, but she couldn’t think her way out of a box on some of this stuff�? What?

Does he really think all those “raging hormones� or kids or some other woman-thing messes up our brains?!

How contemptuous and sexist is that?

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Re “Does UC Davis have a rape problem?� by Janelle Bitker (SN&R Feature Story, October 16): I in no way want to diminish the importance of charging and prosecuting rape. However, a couple of things in Janelle Bitker’s piece are problematic. In her first example, she cites a rape that occurred at 3 a.m. at an off-campus apartment. It’s rape, but why would that be UC Davis’ responsibility? That belongs to the police. That they happened to both be students is irrelevant. What if they both worked at the same pizzeria?

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Four for eight Of the candidates looking to succeed Bonnie Pannell on city council, three struggle to be heard over frontrunner Larry Carr For the first time in 22 years, someone not named Pannell is about to be elected to represent by south Sacramento’s District 8 on city Cosmo Garvin council. The frontrunner is Larry Carr, who has the money, the experience in co smog@ newsr evie w.c om office and the Pannell blessing to take the seat. The others—a pastor, a judge and a teacher—are struggling to be heard, but they have a lot to say about the future of this underserved, often overlooked part of the city.

Bonnie Pannell held the seat for 16 years, before retiring last summer for health reasons. She followed her husband, Sam Pannell, who represented the district from 1992 until his death in 1997.

During those 22 years of Pannell leadership, Carr was an ally and sometimes partner. He has served on the board at the Sacramento Municipal Utility District since 1998. And he has been executive director of the Florin Road Partnership for 13 years. He is presenting his candidacy as something of a continuation of the Pannell legacy. “We want to make sure the great programs that Bonnie and Sam built will continue,” he says.

His opponents include Ronald Bell, a south Sacramento pastor who is critical of Pannell’s record and says the city needs to do more to make sure local development results in jobs for local residents.

And Ted Ware, a retiree who’s worked in criminal justice and at the Capitol who is running on pro-business ideas and the slogan “new ideas for the same old problems.”

And Toni Colley-Perry, a teacher and education consultant. Perry ran for school board in 2008, and even captured the endorsement of The Sacramento Bee, but came up short in votes. Colley-Perry says one of her strengths is that she has faced many of the same economic challenges as other District 8 residents in the last few years. She lost a house, and was without a vehicle for several years. “I’m a single mom. We don’t have connections. We’re just normal people running to make a difference in our community,” she says of herself and fellow challengers.

Pannell encouraged Carr to run before announcing her resignation. Colley-Perry doesn’t like the idea of anointing a candidate. “I don’t think it’s wrong to ask your friend to run for city council. I just think the community ought to have the chance to decide who is going to be in that seat.”

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While Carr promises to continue Pannell’s work, he also draws distinctions.

For example, “I’m going to have a very different relationship with the mayor than Bonnie had.”

Pannell and Johnson often clashed, and two years ago Johnson tried to get rid of Pannell by backing and directing donations to her election opponent, Betty Williams.

Pannell was firmly against Johnson’s repeated attempts to pass a strong mayor measure—she felt it took power away from neighborhoods.

Carr is not vocally against Johnson’s strong-mayor proposal, but says, “It’s not my preference.” He’s a fan of the “policy governance” model that works at SMUD, where the elected board agrees on written policies and requires the manager to show they are carried out.

While a big change in the form of city government may be unlikely, Carr says he’d like to bring in some of SMUD’s approach to city services. “We are not measuring customer satisfaction, with the police force or any other services. I will work with my other council members to put metrics in place so we are measuring these things.”

They have a lot to say about the future of this underserved, often overlooked part of the city.

Ware and Bell are enthusiastic supporters of strong mayor. Bell says of Johnson, “I think he has a vision that is going to put us on the map as the capital of California.

Let’s see what he can do.”

Colley-Perry has taken the strongest stand against Measure L, saying, “I’m concerned about the loss of neighborhood voice.”

There are differences between the candidates on development issues as well.

Ware supports the city’s subsidies for a new Kings arena and wouldn’t change a thing about the current plan. Bell also strongly supports the arena, but would push for more minority-owned businesses to be involved in the construction.

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Renditions of District 8’s candidates (clockwise from top left): Toni Colley-Perry, Ted Ware, Larry Carr and Ronald Bell.

the arena. The city failed to negotiate any timelines for the arena’s ancillary development. Carr would also like to see guarantees of jobs for District 8 residents in that surrounding development.

Likewise, Colley-Perry is concerned that the economic benefits of new arena won’t reach District 8. “I would add transportation. If my 20-year-old son gets a job at the arena, it will be very hard for him to get home from work. Unless I woke up at 2 a.m. to go pick him up.”

All four candidates said District 8 needs better public transit. “Bus services, bus service, bus service. We need to bring back bus service,” said Ware. In recent years, Regional Transit made deep cuts to service in south Sacramento routes. That budget is not under city control, but Council members sit on the RT board.

Carr also says District 8 lacks connection to emerging job centers, like Rancho Cordova. He’s interested in the possibility of new dedicated bus lanes and rapid transit to get residents to jobs.

The candidates also showed differences in their approach the planned Delta Shores development south of Meadowview. Carr calls Delta Shores a “wonderful project.”

He says, however, that Delta Shores “doesn’t really pencil out without big retail.” Meaning a Wal-Mart and other bigbox stores planned for the area.

But Bell says the city should do an economic analysis of any new big-box stores like Wal-Mart. Such analyses were required by the city until the council changed the rules last year—partly to accommodate Delta Shores developers.

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Aside from a long list of political endorsements from local elected officials and neighborhood associations, Carr has several times as much campaign cash as his opponents do—combined.

Why are real estate interests, unions and other groups making big contributions in such a lopsided race? Carr acknowledges that some donors want access in exchange for their money, but he says, “No matter who calls me, I answer the phone.” And he says his wide-ranging support—including financial support—means he doesn’t owe anyone in particular. “I can be an honest broker. I don’t have to cater to one set of interests.”

Ware says he thinks the city should bring back the city’s system of public financing of campaigns, which would provide matching funds to candidates who agree to certain spending limits. “It costs entirely too much to run a campaign. Public financing is a better way.” After the recession, the current city council cut the public financing program—making it harder for non-incumbents and candidates without deep-pocket backing to compete.

Bell says he thinks his word-of-mouth campaign can compete, despite being heavily outspent. “The power of the people can overpower the people in power.” Ω | 10.23.14 | SN&R | 9

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Crunched for a day Activists shut down Sacramento’s Nestlé plant, accuse corporation of exploiting local water during drought Apparently it’s pretty easy to close Sacramento’s largest water-bottling plant. At least for a day.

As early as 4 a.m. this past Thursday, protesters by Nick Miller started arriving at south Sac’s Nestlé headquarters in hopes of turning off the water. A skeleton crew of Nestlé ni c k a m@ workers was already there at the main gate, inside the ne w s re v i e w.c o m Florin Fruitridge Industrial Park, when the activists started taping off the driveway to block access to the facility. Employees then casually made a few phone calls and locked the main gate.

“And just like that, nobody else got in to work that day,” explained James “Faygo” Clark, who helped organize the protest.

Turns out, Nestlé had caught word of the shutdown on October 16, which organizers had planned on Facebook weeks in advance and on Twitter with the hashtag “#CrunchNestle.”

Clark says that, at the peak of the day, about 100 protesters took part in the action.

Teams monitored the front and back entrances to the plant, holding signs that read “Water for people not profit” and “Wake up! We’re in James “Faygo” Clark holds up a sign at the a drought!” while preventing all trucks from entering. entrance to south “And only two truckers got mad,” Clark said. Police Sacramento’s Nestlé observed the happenings, but there were no arrests. water-bottling plant The protesters accuse Nestlé of gross profiteering off last Thursday. of city-owned water. “They’re pumping water out of our local aquifer, between 50 million and 116 million gallons a year,” Clark said, “and they’re paying dirt-cheap prices, then turning around and selling it back to us at 1,000 percent profit.”

Currently, the corporation pays the city just under a dollar for every 750 gallons of water it pulls from Sacramento’s aquifers, according to city documents.

That same amount of water is worth more than $1,500 on the shelves when sold as Nestlé’s Pure Life water brand (based on SN&R’s calculations).

Another way to look at it, activists say, is it makes tens of millions of dollars off of a few thousand bucks worth of tap water.

A Nestlé spokesperson told a local TV station that the company pays a competitive price. “We’re just an industrial water user like everyone else,” he said.

Mayor Kevin Johnson celebrated Nestlé’s arrival in 2009, but others immediately accused the company of turning public water into a private commodity. Now, Clark and others don’t just want Nestlé to pay a fair price: They want the company out of Sacramento for good. Ω

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Don’t cross the streams Pervy spirits, nighttime seances and the search for Sacramento’s undead We sit in a circle in an attic and pose questions to the dark. In the center, a digital audio recorder by awaits sounds from the dead.

Raheem It’s just another spooky night for F. Hosseini the Sacramento-based outfit known as California Haunts, which says it ra h e emh@ newsr evie w.c om “provides creative solutions to complicated questions.” In plain English, the 13-year-old club aims to prove the existence of ghosts and, by extension, the afterlife.

Founded by an ex-journalist (!), the group has investigated alleged hauntings as far south as Fresno County and east into Nevada. Tonight, the team descends on a tiny inn on the remote outskirts of southern Sacramento County, where employees report spectral sights and sounds they believe related to the establishment’s Gold Rush roots.

Tagging along for this private ghost hunt, I hope to unpack more earthly mysteries: Like, are these supernatural sleuths harmless? Or do they feed into the delusions of the mentally unwell?

California Haunts founder Charlotte Kosa acknowledges the tricky balancing act, but believes she’s got the footing to manage it.

She says her company averages two to three investigations a month, mostly in rural, residential settings, and determines supernatural activity in roughly half the cases. “The majority of the time, it’s a [dead] relative that’s checking out the family,” she says of the mostly benign haunts. “We do have a lot of debunking going on; don’t get me wrong.”

Before agreeing to investigate, Kosa has potential clients fill out a 100-item questionnaire that attempts to evaluate their mental state, among other things.

Additionally, a team member will inspect A longer version of clients’ premises for electrical or structural this story can damage—anything that might provide be read online at a non-supernatural explanation for the www.newsreview.com/ weird occurrences. Kosa says she brings sacramento. in a certified counselor for consultations whenever she suspects underlying psychological issues, as she did in Placer County earlier this year. In that case, investigators ultimately concluded that their client’s marriage troubles prompted night terrors in which the woman thought she was molested by dark spirits, and recommended counseling.

“Sometimes people can create poltergeist activity in their minds,” Kosa says.

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Ghost-hunting groups like the Sacramento-based California Haunts are after the unusual suspects.

But who’s to say when that happens— and when it doesn’t?

Take a recent case in Colusa County, where a woman claimed entities were sexually assaulting her. While investigating, the team became convinced of a malicious presence. “It was something to be reckoned with, let’s put it that way,” Kosa says.

She says three investigators puked on the premises, while another saw a notebook float through the bathroom.

She also says the team’s shaman glimpsed the apparition of a penguinshaped man with glowing eyes, and ended up performing a cleansing of both the home and its sole occupant. The process involved incantations, oils, holy water, the whole nine. The team is still working with the woman, and Kosa says their initial supposition is that she invited the incubus into her home by mucking around with black magic.

If all this sounds super-irrational rather than supernatural, then this tale might not be for you.

Like a pebble on a forgotten bridge lies the historic Sloughhouse Inn. A whistlestop holdover from the Gold Rush, back when it lodged mud-caked fortune seekers, the restaurant reopened in February of last year under new ownership. Proprietor George Lee says his staffers see shadows on the mirrors, hear footsteps in the attic and even once seated a phantom patron.

“I don’t particularly believe in these types of stuff. The couple of times I’ve seen something, I try not to think about it,” he laughs.

California Haunts is the third paranormal group Lee’s hosted in his brief tenure, always during this time of year. Go figure.

Perched behind a bank of monitors in an outdoor nook, Kosa orders her mostly female crew to set up recording gear in and around the establishment. Field psychic Stefanie Paige-Belson leads me upstairs, where first contact will be attempted.

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Near a small window that overlooks the restaurant’s parking lot, she registers the presence of a woman with a large man standing behind her. “I feel like there was a lot of abuse of women at this space, young women,” she says.

Tonight’s lead investigator, Valerie Delgadillo Lum, holds what looks like a purple baby monitor in her hand. A tapedon label reads “Ghost Meter.” Lum, a state employee, has been with this outfit for a year, but isn’t yet a believer. “I don’t think I have that gift,” she demurs. “As far as being on these investigations, I haven’t seen anything.”

So why is she here?

She says three investigators puked on the premises, while another saw a notebook float through the bathroom.

“It’s kind of fun,” she shrugs.

The order comes from downstairs to snuff the lights and get started. I ask whether ghosts are shy. “It’s just so you can feel things better,” says Lum, ignoring the sarcasm.

After introducing ourselves to the spirit(s), the seated investigators ask their questions: “Is there anyone in here with us at the moment?”

“How old are you?”

“Do you not want us here?”

After 10 minutes of Q-and-no-A, we crowd into a dank storage room piled high with plates and do it again. Sometimes the motion sensor blinks, mostly it doesn’t. At

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one point, investigator Janet Delgadillo, Lum’s mother, freaks out. She pulls back a forearm patched over in thick goosebumps and says something grabbed her. Long cobwebs waft in the doorjamb.

Investigator Laura Montez turns her head to the storage room on the opposite side of the attic, where she thinks she heard one of the rusty filing cabinets lurch.

Moments later, investigator Michael Spiker huffs into the room. “Why did you turn your head?” he demands.

Montez doesn’t answer at first. Spiker explains that, on the monitors, they all saw a large orb pass by Montez and into the room with the filing cabinets. They swear it didn’t move like the car headlights passing outside.

“I knew it!” Montez exclaims, vindicated.

Nobody else sees anything.

As the next batch of investigators tries their luck with the stand-offish ghost, the last four diners trickle out, a little buzzed.

“That’s definitely not a bug; it’s an ‘orb,’” a bald guy cracks, pointing at the monitor.

“Any dead children?” another man asks.

If Kosa knows they’re teasing, she doesn’t let on. “You’re getting a good show tonight,” she tells me.

As the team resets the equipment inside the restaurant, owner Lee tries coaxing his employees to hang around another hour. “I want to go night-night,” mutters a kitchen worker.

Heeding the mood, Kosa calls it a wrap.

But she’s convinced. “There is definitely something going on there, no doubt about it,” she says days later.

For Kosa, it’s proof that there’s a life beyond this one. “Somewhere along the line, we’re going to exist somewhere else,” she says. She then imagines her departed self roaming Disneyland. The happiest place on earth—and possibly beyond it. Ω

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Kill the Messenger, Jeremy Renner’s new flick about investigative journalist Gary Webb’s work exposing the link between Nicaraguan Contras, crack cocaine and the Central Intelligence Agency, hit theaters nationwide last week. And so did the bastions of the traditionalmedia ivory tower. They returned to mid-’90s form in their redux trashing of Webb. Jeff Leen, an investigations managing editor at The Washington Post, gave Webb a posthumous rough-up for what he called lazy and incomplete reporting in his San Jose Mercury News “Dark Alliance” series. Scorekeeper says: Give it up for Gary, who scooped you fair and square nearly 20 years ago because you were too lazy (or too beholden to government sources) to dig in and report with teeth. For shame, WaPo.

Friday night was more than a bit wild on downtown’s all-new K Street strip. According to witnesses, a hip-hop and deejay gig at a nightclub went awry just before midnight when two individuals started fighting. Friends joined in and soon it was a full-on brawl. Drinks were thrown. Blood was shed. A woman leaving the club pulled out a Taser and zapped those blocking her escape route.

Officers responded just after midnight because of gunshots near J and 11th streets, according to a police report. “The passengers of two separate vehicles had exchanged gunfire. One of the cars was discovered to be abandoned in the area after striking a light pole,” the police crime log explained.

Thankfully there were no injuries— except for a drunk man near K and 10th streets, who got “combative” and threw a punch at an officer.

Three cops put him in his place.

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Back to school Another look at the Sacramento City school board races There have been too many personal and political agendas at work on the Sacramento City school board.

We need a board that better represents the neighborhood public-schools agenda.

Especially in Area 7—representing south Sacramento, Hollywood Park and Oak Park. Area 7 has some of the lowest voter-participation rates in all of Sacramento County. No coincidence that this area was hit ArvIn hard by the district’s mass school closures

by CoSMo G last year. cos mog@ n ewsrev iew.c om Candidate Linda Tuttle was a teacher in the SCUSD for two decades, and she spent eight years as president of the Sacramento City Teachers Association. The teachers union is a boogeyman to some. Well, mostly The Sacramento Bee. But Tuttle says she “can bring teachers on board in partnerships with the district, which hasn’t been happening.”

In fact, Sac City schools have lately seemed like a front in the ideological “teacher wars” over tenure, layoffs, charters schools and school closures.

While Tuttle is likely to be an ally for the teachers union on these issues, she almost didn’t get their endorsement.

It almost went to Jonathan Tran, one of the leaders of the group Hmong Innovating Politics, who worked with south Sacramento neighborhoods to oppose school closures last year.

Tran also fought against the “California Office of Reform of Education” or CORE. Former Superintendent Jonathan Raymond was advancing his own education-reform agenda—including tying teacher evaluations to student test scores—when he had the district join CORE, without a vote of the school board.

It was one of several bitter conflicts during the Raymond’s tenure, which the school board couldn’t or wouldn’t stop. “The constant fighting going on within the district is pretty tiresome. I think citizens are ready for someone to step in and do some actual work,” says Tran.

The third serious candidate is Jessie Ryan, who works with a nonprofit called the Campaign for College Opportunity. Ryan is supported by the California Charter Schools Association, which says in its pitch to voters that “Jessie is firmly in the charter school camp.” The association has also made independent expenditures to pay for campaign mailers for Ryan.

Good charters can be an important part of a school district’s portfolio. But there’s no doubt that the rapid expansion of charter schools in Sac City has hurt enrollment and drained resources from neighborhood public schools.

(The usual disclosure: I’m married to a Sac City teacher, have kids in the district and generally hope public schools will survive.)

Ryan is also getting support from former school board members Jay Schenirer and Patrick Kennedy. Those guys are definite red flags, and examples of the kind of backroom dealing and personal agendas that have been too common on this school board.

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Moving from south Sacramento to East Sacramento, and the Area 2 race between incumbent Jeff Cuneo and challenger Ellen Cochrane.

Cuneo is also backed by the charter-schools association, but says charter schools are a “caseby-case” proposition. “I don’t want to charter the public school system.”

Four years ago, Cuneo ran for school board on the promise of bringing a comprehensive high school back to East Sacramento. The neighborhood lost its high school when Sacramento High was given to St. HOPE charter schools (by Schenirer) more than a decade ago.

Sac City schools have lately seemed like a front in the ideological “teacher wars” over tenure, layoffs, charters schools and school closures.

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Cuneo managed to bring a small International Baccalaureate high-school program to the area. But his opponent, Ellen Cochrane, says that’s far short of having a school with the full menu of curriculum for English learners, special-ed students or those who don’t have the grades, or the desire, to join an IB program. She says Cuneo “gave up.”

“East Sacramento still doesn’t have a high school. I’m not willing to give up.”

Cochrane is supported by the teacher’s union and is also a teacher at a south Sacramento middle school on the edge of the Elk Grove school district. “My first and foremost thought is for public schools, not charter schools,” said Cochrane.

Cuneo acknowledges some major problems with the school-closure process, though he still says it was the right policy. He says he regrets not having a better relationship with the leaders of the teachers union. His desire to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores is bad policy and won’t help.

But unlike some school-board members, Cuneo seems motivated by his beliefs for what’s best for schools, not the advancement of his personal business or political career. Bites could be wrong. Wouldn’t be the first time.

Cochrane echoes the concerns of several challengers when she says she’s “really concerned about the communication between teachers, parents and the school board. It hasn’t been happening.”

It hasn’t. But Bites thinks either candidate in Area 2 could help fix that. Ω

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SimCity South Oak Park Phil Serna drives neighborhood improvements There is a SimCity computer game where you act as the all-powerful city manager. You are an omnipotent official with total say over zoning, housing, police and virtually everything in your city. The computer game takes your input and then forecasts how your city does in the virtual world.

Then there is South Oak Park. It’s not a game, not virtual, but actual. A place where real people raise their families. Where real crime is happening. Actual trash is not being picked up. Carbon-based human lives are being destroyed because of a lack of governmental services. l

by Jeff VOnKaene And we have Sacramento County Supervisor Phil Serna, who does not have SimCity powers but has j e ffv @n e wsr e v ie w.c o m elected official powers. The power to call attention to issues. The power to call for department head meetings.

The power to grease the squeaky wheel.

Several weeks ago, Serna drove me around South Oak Park. We saw abandoned, boarded-up houses. We saw illegal trash piles. He showed me a crime report map for the area with numerous assaults and robberies marked on it. He told me that he was going to change It was a gigantic things in the unincorporated South Oak Park. billboard saying to the Recently, I was back in neighborhood, “We do South Oak Park again for the of Next Move’s not care about you.” groundbreaking expanded Family Shelter Campus. Working with North State Building Industry Association’s nonprofit HomeAid Sacramento, Goodwill Industries and various government agencies, Next Move will expand their facility by almost 50 percent. This larger facility will be able to house many more families. Families who would often be homeless without the shelter.

Jeff wrote about Serna then took me for my second drive around the Phil Serna’s efforts neighborhood. He pointed out the LED energy-efficient, in South Oak Park brighter streetlights. Replacing 150 old lights will certainly back in August: tinyurl.com/ brighten up the neighborhood. He told me how the county SoakPk. To read department heads have been regularly meeting to discuss more about the improvements for South Oak Park. He told me that there future of Oak Park, had already been an increase in sheriff’s patrols and building go to tinyurl.com/ FutOakPk. code enforcement.

Excited as young boy with a new baseball glove, Serna pulled up to a vacant lot. Several weeks ago, there was an unsafe house on the same lot. An abandoned house littered with drug needles. A house that stood in clear violation of code and safety regulations. Yet the building was standing. It was a gigantic billboard saying to the neighborhood, “We do not care about you.”

The newly cleared lot now says, “Give us another chance.

Jeff vonKaenel is the president, While it’s true that we, the officials who were supposed to CEO and play SimCity South Oak Park, have been asleep at the wheel, majority owner of the News & Review we have finally woken up. And we will change things.”

Serna pulled up to another empty house with a chain-link newspapers in Sacramento, fence. He asked me if I remember this house. He then pulled Chico and Reno. out his phone to show me the picture of this house the last time we visited. The entire yard had been filled with dumped garbage.

It was impressive how much had been accomplished in such a short period. SimCity South Oak Park. Playing for keeps. Ω

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SN&R’ S e N d oR S e me N tS foR e le c tioN day it’s crucial that you vote this november 4! here’s some help: Measure L

sacraMento city unifieD schooL District, area 2

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The political system in the city of the Sacramento—where council members represent neighborhoods, the mayor sits on council and operates as our de facto leader, and the city manager runs the business side of things—has worked for decades. Everyone agrees it’s working great now. And Sacramento is changing for the positive. Let’s not mess with a good thing by giving Kevin Johnson and future mayors unprecedented, unnecessary and potentially dangerous new powers. Vote no on L. sacraMento city counciL, District 3

Jeff Harris

This district—which includes East Sacramento, south Natomas and the River District—has two sharp and passionate candidates to choose from. Cyril Shah has impressed in this election season’s second leg; he boasts smart ideas when it comes to boosting the local economy, and his establishment support and endorsements far exceed those of Harris. But we’re sticking with the guy we stood behind this past spring. Vote Jeff Harris. sacraMento city counciL, District 8

Larry Carr

Carr has the experience, knowledge and connections to step in and continue where Councilwoman Bonnie Pannell left off after retiring this past summer. He’ll do fine representing District 8. sacraMento city unifieD schooL District, area 1

Ellen Cochrane

Candidate Jeff Cuneo is a good, honest guy.

But he voted yes on the school closures last year, in addition to supporting the CORE waiver and making student test scores part of teacher evaluations. We don’t support these policies. So, we can’t support Cuneo—although we would be disappointed to see him go. sacraMento city unifieD schooL District, area 6

Maria Haro-Sullivan

Haro-Sullivan’s opponent, Darrel Woo, supported the school closures, hence her endorsement. sacraMento city unifieD schooL District, area 7

Jonathan Tran

Up-and-comer Tran has been pivotal in south Sacramento when it comes to speaking out against SCUSD policies that are bad for the neighborhood. He’d be a tremendous school-board member for Area 7. state senate, District 6

Roger Dickinson

Current Assembly member Dickinson has been an important progressive voice in the community. As we wrote in our endorsements this past spring, he fought at the statehouse for more transparency when it comes to the dangerous—and potentially explosive—Bakken crude-oil train shipments that pass through our central city and neighborhoods each day. Dickinson has earned your vote.

Anna Molander

Last year, SN&R said it would not endorse any candidate that voted yes on the school closures. We’re holding true on that promise in our endorsement of Molander over Jay Hansen.

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state asseMbLy, District 7

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Kevin McCarty

John Garamendi

McCarty questions the status quo. We liked him on city council, where he kept the mayor’s “strong” majority in check. He’ll be an effective Assembly member.

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Doris Matsui

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Ami Bera

Darrell Fong

Like McCarty, Councilman Fong belies a herd mentality when it comes to popular issues at City Hall. What people don’t know is that he also worked hard to make the city more business friendly. SN&R supports his Assembly bid.

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Alex Padilla

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Gavin Newsom Jerry Brown

Tom Torlakson

This is the hot statewide race, and while we agree with some of candidate Marshall Tuck’s ideas and accept the necessity for new solutions in the world of education, we also worry (as we wrote this past spring) that his charterschools vision will incite war instead of change. What California needs is gradual, smart, progressive education reform. We hope that Torlakson will bring that in his next term.

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I n S a c r a m e n t o ’ S t I g h t- k n I t r e S t a u r a n t S c e n e , t wo b u d dy c h e f S S ta n d o u t In the kItchen wIth theIr jokeS , jabS a n d a f I e r c e l o ya l t y

he pots and pans were banging a little hard in the large kitchen of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in East Sacramento. Aimal Formoli, one of Sacramento’s top chefs and owner of Formoli’s Bistro, did not seem happy.

“Bill ran off. I gotta do his prep,” Aimal groused to a friend who’d walked in. “He didn’t tell me anything. I don’t cook his style.”

“Bill” would be Billy Ngo, another of Sacramento’s top chefs. They were cooking a dinner for a few hundred people last year to benefit Downtown Sacramento Young Life, something they do together every April. Ngo had left a few ingredients at his restaurant, Kru, and ran back to get them.

While Formoli banged around, Ngo walked in. He had a big, friendly smile, as he often does. “What?” he said to Formoli. “Didn’t you finish yet? What have you been doing?”

Formoli looked at Ngo hard. He couldn’t hold it. They both giggled, as they often do when they’re together.

Formoli and Ngo have one of the most distinctive, steadfast and charming friendships in Sacramento’s restaurant community. And because of their cooking skills, their success and their personal style, they’ve become two of the more influential chefs on the scene.

And, as Sacramento continues to grow as a food town, everyone from foodies to longtime veterans such as chef Patrick Mulvaney cite them as examples of how to do it right.

“You look at both those guys,” said Mulvaney, owner of Sacramento cornerstone Mulvaney’s Building & Loan, “and you say, ‘here’s what it looks like. Here’s how you make it work if you have the gumption and the sweat and the talent to do it from the ground up.’”

The pair’s friendship, it turns out, is part of their success.

And that friendship starts with high-level cooking skills and with a similar devotion and approach to craft. But, there’s also a healthy dose of Lucy and Ethel between them and, oddly enough, a yin and yang to their styles, personalities and career arcs.

Suzanne Ricci, Formoli’s wife and business partner, has enjoyed/endured years of watching the two.

“They are really different. Billy is quiet. Aimal is not.

But when they’re together, they’re just goofy,” Ricci said.

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“They’re always messing with each other. It’s fun to see these two great chefs be such great friends, and still have such different venues for food.”

Ngo’s Kru on J Street in Midtown serves Japanese and sushi, and his food has the flavors and subtle layers that can make such food hypnotic. In the kitchen, he’s quiet, meticulous and contained. And he has ambitions.

He’s about to expand to three restaurants.

Formoli’s Bistro on J Street in East Sacramento is a neighborhood bistro with bold flavors, yet elegance.

The food has international influences, but if you had to narrow it, it’s Mediterranean style. In the kitchen, Formoli is loud and energetic.

“I need noise and I’m handsy,” he said. “I’m patting people on the back, touching things.”

His goal is to make his one restaurant a community touchstone.

Because they are moving in different directions, that makes their friendship as intriguing as it is noteworthy.

“Their connection is the most unique of two chefs I’ve ever seen,” said Nguyen Pham, owner of Sunh Fish Company in Midtown, a seafood market and provider to more than 100 restaurants. “Those two have a genuine love for each other.”

On a recent afternoon, Mike Thiemann, another highly-regarded chef and a partner in K Street eateries Mother and the planned Empress Tavern, wandered into a happy hour at Ella Restaurant and Bar. He found Ngo and Formoli there with Michael Passmore, the owner of the Passmore Ranch fish farm, and another friend.

Theimann’s face lit up. He said he always gets a kick out of hanging with Ngo and Formoli.

“The bond between them is just obvious,” said Thiemann, who washed dishes at Taka’s Sushi in Fair Oaks in 1999 when Ngo was cutting fish there.

“They just mesh. Just look at them.”

A steady stream of people—chefs, Ella regulars, foodies—came by to say hi to Ngo and Formoli.

People respect the two, and even more, people like them.

They are easy to like. Both seem to be perpetually smiling, and there’s a graciousness about them. Both are on the short side, have dark hair, wear dark-framed glasses and tend toward T-shirts.

Formoli is squarely built.

Ngo lean. Both have clearly spent time in the tattoo chair.

Formoli has the most noticeable tat between the two. It’s the name Giovanni, Formoli’s 4-year-old son, across dad’s lower throat. Ngo has a wisp of a beard on his chin.

Formoli’s beard is thick, neatly trimmed and mostly tracing c o n ti n u e d his jaw line until it becomes a on p a g e 18 goatee. It’s got flecks of gray.

Aimal Formoli (left) and Billy Ngo met in 2008 and in the years since have forged a friendship centered on similar backgrounds and a shared philosophical approach to food.

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Where they are very similar is their shared, surprisingly gentle countenance for guys who live in rough-and-tumble restaurant kitchcontinued ens. And when from page 17 they’re together, there’s something in the air.

Some of it is the ease between them, in the way of brothers. They’re comfortable and genuinely happy the other is in the room, and that makes other people comfortable. Their friendship is welcoming, not exclusive, as if people in their orbit are part of it.

And they’re entirely un-macho, though there’s an inner toughness and a quiet confidence in both.

That mix gives them the confidence to both show their affection and to share it.

“When I’m around them,” Passmore said, “I always end up thinking, ‘I’m glad these guys are my friends.’ I forget they’re two of the best young chefs I know.”

“Young?” Ngo chimed in. “Aimal’s not young.” (Formoli is 35. Ngo 33.)

“I think Bill is lying about his age,” Formoli said. “I want to see paperwork on it.”

“The creaTiviTy beTween Them is insane.”

Nguyen Pham

owner, Sunh Fish Company

They met in 2008, not long after Formoli’s Bistro opened. Kru, which opened in 2005, was getting big press by then. Formoli wanted to taste the food and meet the chef.

“From what I heard, I expected this monster chef a-hole,” Formoli said. “It turned out, I was totally right, but just in a compact package.”

Ngo laughed. “I’m fun-size,” he said.

“No, seriously,” Formoli said, “I walked in and there’s this humble, quiet, enthusiastic guy. It was instant respect from me.”

And an instant connection. They shared similar food philosophies, backgrounds and general outlooks.

Both men revel in their industry. But they’re not out to conquer it, they simply embrace it.

What they want is to be really good cooks and restaurant owners.

“Cooking is a craft you do over and over until you have the skill,” Ngo said. “And you have to figure you’ll screw it up at first.”

“I don’t think I’ve gotten anything until I’ve screwed it up three times,” Formoli said. “At least. You have to take your ego out of it.”

As for ego, Pham says they share what he called “fake humbleness.”

“They both have an unshakeable belief in themselves,” he said. “And the creativity between them is insane. But they both do that extreme fake humble in front of people, which, I guess, is the real definition of humble.”

Ngo and Formoli said there is a lot to be humble about.

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They didn’t know each other then, but Formoli and Ngo took classes at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco at the same time.

“We’re just cooks,” Ngo said.

“We both think this is a craft that needs to be honed, but we’re not saving lives,” Formoli said.

“Chefs aren’t rock stars. I hate that term, ‘rock star chef.’ But we love people who work at this.”

Still, “rock star chef” is an apt description. And the stories of Ngo and Formoli, taken together, paint a picture of what it’s like to succeed in the roll-of-the-dice restaurant business and in Sacramento’s rapidly blossoming food scene.

Ngo and Formoli were both born outside the United States. and came to Sacramento when they were very young. Formoli was born in Iran.

His mother is Iranian, his father is Afghan. The

family moved to Rancho Cordova when he was five. Ngo was born in Hong Kong—and named Buu Ngo. His parents came to south Sacramento when he was 18 months old.

Ngo’s parents owned a Chinese restaurant on Folsom Boulevard near the Rosemont area, but he can’t remember its name. It’s long since gone.

“One of my first memories is sitting there while my parents worked,” Ngo said. “They’d pick me up from school and I’d hang out there, or wash dishes and do small stuff.”

Even before he graduated from Valley High School, Ngo got a job at Fuji Restaurant on Broadway as a busboy and dishwasher. When he was 17, a chef quit and they asked Ngo if he wanted to learn sushi.

“I said, sure, but it was just a job,” he said.

He moved to Mikuni not long after. “They were blowing up,” Ngo said. “It was fun and exciting, and they were crazy busy. But I was just a kid. I didn’t want to work that hard.”

He eventually found his way to Nishiki Sushi on 16th Street and to Taka’s, where owner Taka Watanabe became a mentor and friend. That’s when Ngo decided he wanted to be a chef.

“I really liked it,” he said. “I put my head down and worked hard and learned from him.

But I was young and dumb and wanted to work for myself. I needed to learn how to cook a lot more styles and techniques, so I went to culinary school.”

That was 2002. He attended the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, taking afternoon classes and living in Daly City. He worked at Taka’s on weekends, and graduated in 2004, then moved back to Sacramento where he got an externship at The Kitchen and became a student of chef and owner Randall Selland.

“What I learned from Randall was don’t skimp on the ingredients,” Ngo said of his time there. “Always source the best.”

With Watanabe as a partner, Ngo opened Kru in 2005 and it became an almost instant hit for its blend of Japanese flavors and European technique.

“I was 24,” he said. “I was just full speed ahead. I didn’t stop to think about it.”

Formoli was only slightly older when he started in restaurants. Like Ngo, his first reaction was, “it’s just a job.” But in his case, a woman, not sushi, sent him to culinary school.

Formoli’s father was an engineer for the California Department of Transportation.

Formoli didn’t find his way into a restaurant kitchen until he graduated from Rancho Cordova High, got intrigued with the city of Portland, Ore., and attended Portland State University.

A friend’s stepdad was a chef consultant and got Formoli glamorous jobs like washing dishes and peeling potatoes. No surprise, he did not fall in love with restaurants.

But when he came back to Sacramento, he fell in love with Ricci. He was living with his brother in Elk Grove while attending Cosumnes River College. He met Ricci in a humanities class.

“We did projects together. First night we hung out, I told my brother, ‘I’m gonna marry this girl,’” Formoli said.

Hanging out meant Formoli cooked for her, a lot. He loved being in the kitchen.

About a year into their relationship, Ricci started encouraging him to make cooking his career.

“I resisted,” Formoli said. “I didn’t want to be another home cook who thinks he’s great and gets his butt kicked.”

He decided culinary school was the way, took out a loan and enrolled in the CCA in 2002, same year as Ngo. But Formoli took morning classes and lived in Sacramento.

“Suzanne said I should live in the City, but there was no way I was going to be away from her for two years,” he said.

So until he graduated in 2004, this was his routine: Up at 3:30 a.m., drive to San Francisco, classes until midday—“I had to be on the bridge by noon,” he said, “or I wouldn’t get back in time because of traffic”—go to work, first at Vic’s IGA Market in Folsom, then at Fins Market and Grill in Fair Oaks. He’d get off late, study, sleep a couple hours, and hit the road to San Francisco again.

“It taught me about working hard,” Formoli said. “Turns out, it also taught me about restaurant hours.”

When he graduated, he worked full time for Fins and learned how to open restaurants, starting two new Fins outlets. Formoli and Ricci married in 2005. She was working at Short Center South, an organization for adults with developmental disabilities. They talked about opening their own restaurant, and in 2008, opened Formoli’s Bistro at J and 33rd streets, with Ricci managing the front of the house and the marketing. Not long after, Aimal met Ngo. “They were both really young men when they opened their restaurants,” Ricci said. “They were self-sufficient and strong, but they were young. They bonded over that.”

And over their shared dopey humor, work ethic, love of food, and vision for their industry as well. But most of all, they bonded over an instant sense of trust.

“We both kept saying, ‘we need to do something together,’” Formoli said. “We came up with beer dinners.”

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they used Formoli’s place, which, if you pushed at its capacity limits, sat 35 people. Their first food-and-beer pairing meal drew more than 60 people.

“It was packed,” Ngo said. “No one could move, but it was so fun.”

“We both said, ‘anytime.’” Formoli said.

“Anytime you want to do an event, let’s do it together.”

That led to the charity events, probably more than they planned, and gave them even more opportunities to cook their different styles together—Ngo careful and meticulous, Formoli loud and energetic—and to mess with each other.

“You look at both those guYs, and You saY, here’s ... how You make it work if You have the gumption and the sweat and the talent to do it from the ground up.”

Patrick Mulvaney chef-owner, Mulvaney’s Building & Loan

“Whenever I bust out the tweezers, Aimal gives me crap,” Ngo said about his dish-plating method. “Or he comes around and knocks over things.”

“I can’t rattle him,” Formoli said. “He just stays with it, and makes fun of me while he’s working.”

As both men grew as chefs—and in stature on the Sacramento scene—they shared something else: an understanding of how to focus their restaurants. But that came with a touch of irony. Many of their fans didn’t see their range.

Ngo and Kru had become synonymous with great sushi, but Ngo was doing so much more in the kitchen with nuanced dishes and Asian flavors. (The desire to expand his style was one reason he opened Red Lotus.) And Formoli, who delivers so many different approaches within his Mediterranean framework, has one of the best-known hamburgers in town, his Whiskey Burger, a rich, thick, extremely juicy cheddar cheeseburger with habanero aioli and a whiskey demi-glace.

The thing is, Formoli said, “I never wanted to do a burger. I didn’t want to be a burger place.”

When they first opened in 2008, Ricci argued they needed a burger on the menu. It was not an artistic statement, it was a demand of survival.

“We fought about it because, basically, I was stupid,” Formoli said. “Then in a temper tantrum, I went back and threw a burger together. I had a bottle of Gentleman Jack

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Suzanne was right again.”

Since their full ranges are not universally well-known, just ask Formoli and Ngo to describe each other’s cooking chops.

“I have never seen a guy open so much ramen in my life,” Formoli said.

“He’s the burger king,” Ngo said. “Seriously, everything he does has layers. At the restaurant, it’s comfort with layers. Away from it, he can do anything.”

“Bill is my favorite chef in Sacramento,” Formoli said. “Everything he does is executed to perfection, and he one of the most organized chefs I’ve ever watched. Aside from showing up late to everything with me.”

Even with all of Ngo’s skills and organization, Red Lotus closed in 2011. It was a blow, though he’s philosophical about it now. It didn’t work for a bunch of reasons, but Ngo said the biggest issue was Red Lotus’ bar. He had no idea how to run a bar.

“I learned way more with that failure than I did in all the years before with Kru’s success,” Ngo said. “I was cocky. I wanted to do more and more stuff. I needed to fail at least once. During that time, I hung out with Aimal a lot.”

“I remember there was a lot of talk about our businesses,” Formoli said. “I also seem to remember there was a lot of alcohol.”

Passmore, who was selling fish to Ngo at both his restaurants then, said he was impressed by how Ngo responded to the situation.

“Lots of people go out of business with outstanding balances,” Passmore said. “Some just move on. Bill paid back every dime. He sold off quite a few things, put his head down and worked, and never mentioned it.”

Red Lotus’ failure affected Formoli, too, in ways besides the hangovers. It made him more cautious. That year, he swapped restaurant buildings with Gonul Blum and moved six blocks east. His bistro took on a bigger room and a new personality.

“It was like opening a new restaurant,” Formoli said. “When it’s your money, everything you have, and you have a family, you get nervous. Bill kept telling us we weren’t doing the dumb things he did.”

The new Formoli’s Bistro has been, if anything, more of a hit. But it took constant attention, Formoli said. In 2012, he and Ngo both learned more about paying attention to their home bases.

That’s when they opened—together—Pork Belly Grub Shack in Natomas. Ngo found the spot and the deal. Ngo, Formoli and Ricci started planning.

“Developing it was the best part,” Ngo said.

“We’d sit around at night with wine, cigars, cigarettes and just talk about it.”

“It was an exciting time,” Ricci said. “These two best friends were going into business together.”

Both chefs said they may have talked a lot, but Ricci really developed the concept and the menu.

“That’s why it was so good when it opened,” Formoli said.

Pork Belly was a casual eatery, and Formoli and Ngo gave everything layers and twists. It got good buzz, great press and a steady flow. But

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they sold it in 2013 for what they put into it. The chefs could see they were neglecting their own restaurants.

“You have to have everything in control and you can’t let things slip,” Ngo said. “I learned that at Red Lotus. We both needed to spend the time at our places.”

Formoli and Ngo continue to work together on special events whenever they can, but their restaurant careers have moved onto different tracks.

Since selling Pork Belly, Ngo said he has gotten Kru under control. He hired Ricky Yap, a chef Ngo trusts, and now has substantive expansion plans. In 2015, Kru will move nearby to a bigger building —he’s not saying where just yet—and his J Street location will become a pure sushi restaurant. And he plans to open a casual, fast sushi spot called Fish Face on R Street near 11th Street by the end of the year.

“I think I understand managing the time better now,” Ngo said. “I have good people, too.

I want to try it while I can.”

“Bill has that in him,” Formoli said. “He wants to try new things, he wants to see everything in this business. And that’s him. If there’s a pond, he’s the guy with the smile who says, ‘Let’s jump in.’”

“Bill is just game,” Passmore said.

That partly explains his appearance in February on the Food Network’s Cutthroat Kitchen. (Ngo made it to the final round but finished second.) Some food pros called Ngo too talented for such stunt shows, but Ngo didn’t mind. He wanted to take a swing at it.

“It wasn’t a cooking contest, it was a game show,” he said. “It was the most anxiety, stress and adrenaline I’ve had at one time, but it took 17 hours. It was fun, but I don’t know if I’d do it again.”

Ngo’s life is now at a point that lets him jump into ponds, whether it’s game shows or new restaurants. Formoli is in a different place, because he has a family, and because he sees his restaurant differently.

“My restaurant is my wife and I,” Formoli said. “I want Formoli’s to be something we can give Giovanni, whether he takes it over, or it pays for his college, or something. And I want to hone what I do right here.

“I’ve been called a ‘neighborhood chef,’ and I think that’s really cool,” he said. “This is my town, this is my neighborhood. I want to get better and better and do it right here. I look at people like Patrick [Mulvaney] and Rick [Mahan] and others, they’ve established a place.

I aspire to that.”

Mulvaney said Formoli and Ngo have both found the formula for success and for adding to their community—they’ve become a part of the city around them.

“Restaurants aren’t just food,” Mulvaney said. “Good ones become that third place for people, after home and work, where they feel they belong. Both those guys are those kinds of chefs. They make people feel welcome. They’ve built those kinds of places.”

Formoli and Ngo were both, frankly, thrilled to hear about Mulvaney’s compliment—for a minute. Then they went back to Lucy and Ethel.

“Really?” Formoli said. “Bill? He’s so quiet.”

“I’m just letting you talk,” Ngo said.

“The thing about Aimal and Billy,” said Ricci, “is their souls are similar. They’re both very sweet, and they’re true chefs. There’s no candy coating. People love the idea of Aimal and Billy.” Ω

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During last year’s Academy Awards run, four of the nine films nominated for Best Picture had played the previous fall at Mill Valley, including the eventual Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave. In addition, 10 of the 20 performers nominated for an acting Oscar last year were in films that showed at the 2013 festival, with three of them—12 Years a Slave’s Lupita Nyong’o and Dallas Buyers Club’s Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto—taking home the trophy.

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Unlike the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival does not hand out jury prizes, only audience awards.

These audience prizes have become increasingly accurate awards barometers —in 2013, both 12 Years a Slave and Dallas Buyers Club were singled out by MVFF audiences, with Steve McQueen’s slavery drama named Overall Audience Favorite.

That bodes well for the Oscar hopes of this year’s MVFF Audience Favorite The Imitation Game, a crowd-pleasing biopic about British genius Alan Turing, as well as its star, and presumptive Best Actor favorite, Benedict Cumberbatch.

The festival’s audience lapped it up, but I thought that the film was doltish, sentimental, and easy, a shallow portrayal of brilliance with less brains than A Beautiful Mind. In other words, I expect it to win 10,000 Oscars.

Another British biopic with Oscar aspirations that should be encouraged by its Mill Valley reception is James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything, which was awarded the World Cinema Gold honor. The film follows physicist

Stephen Hawking from his puppy-love youth and early successes through his fight with motor neuron disease and eventual celebrity. It’s no more intelligent than The Imitation Game, reducing Hawking’s theories to an insipid argument about the existence of God, and insinuating that his greatest contribution to mankind is overcoming odds. However, The Theory of Everything has the uncanny technical brilliance of Eddie Redmayne’s performance—he becomes Stephen Hawking, body and soul.

Reese Witherspoon is already generating awards-season buzz for her star turn in Wild, the follow-up film from Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallee. Wild is based on the memoir by Cheryl Strayed, who in the ’90s exorcised personal demons by hiking more than 1,000 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail. Witherspoon is very good, as is Laura Dern in a supporting turn, and the scenery is gorgeous, but the film as a whole is a little too Hike, Pray, Love for my tastes.

Foxcatcher is a darker film, teeming with the sweat-lodge claustrophobia

of a wrestling room, and as such it will probably be a much harder sell to the senior-skewing Academy (the senior-skewing MVFF audience voters ignored it). Directed by Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball), Foxcatcher tells a far less inspirational real-life story, that of the disturbing relationship between billionaire John E. DuPont and Olympic wrestling brothers Mark and Dave Schultz. Bennett keeps the film wound tighter than a magnet’s coil, and he is blessed with three powerhouse performances. Steve Carell is transformative as the paunchy DuPont, but Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo give just as much of their bodies to the film.

In the long shot categories, Bill Murray will likely generate goodwill for his near-iconic turn in St. Vincent, but the film itself is inescapably lightweight. Juliette Binoche reaches beyond luminescence towards something truly personal and profound in Clouds of Sils Maria, playing a high-maintenance actress who agrees to appear in a new production of the play that made her famous, only this time as the older woman instead of the ingenue. Director

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Olivier Assayas’ film wound through my mind like a cloud snake, but many festival-goers I talked to were put off by its deliberate pace.

Timothy Spall in Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, however, towers above them all. This is a tactile and unconventional biopic of the great British painter J.M.W. Turner. Mr. Turner kicked off the festival’s inaugural Friday night program, and the film was the winner of my own personal audience prize. This is a deeply personal story of an ultimately unknowable man—a gentleman, a beast, a restless traveler, a lover of domesticity, a celebrity dandy, a phlegmatic wretch.

Spall won an acting prize at Cannes, but he might be a little too raw for the selfie-snapping Oscars set (sample quote: “Ggrrlhrghhghrlghhgh!”).

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Beyond spotlighting some of the odds-on favorites for the major Academy Awards, this year’s Mill Valley Film Festival also served as a showcase for frontrunners in the Best Foreign Language Film category. According to Academy rules, every country is allowed to submit only one film per year for consideration, and this year’s selections featured 10 of the films that were singled out by their home countries. These included entries from Taiwan (Ice Poison), Israel (Gett: The Trial of Viviane Ansalem), Germany (Beloved Sisters), Mauritania (Timbuktu), Spain (Living is Easy with Eyes Closed), Australia (Charlie’s Country), and Croatia (Cowboys).

Two Days, One Night was the best of the bunch; this is another bleak slice-of-life from Belgian masters Luc

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The Theory of Everything was doltish, sentimental, and easy, a shallow portrayal of brilliance with less brains than A Beautiful Mind. In other words, I expect it to win 10,000 Oscars. and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. The Dardenne brothers have been making features for over a quarter century, but with its star performance (Marion Cotillard, shattering) and tighter, 12 Angry Men-style narrative, this could be their breakthrough.

Mommy is already the fifth film from 25-year-old French Canadian auteur Xavier Dolan, and while it is probably too insane for Academy voters to embrace, it does feature a complex lead performance from Anne Dorval, and a gonzo use of slow motion, aspect ratio, and 1990s pop songs.

Sweden’s Oscar submission is Force Majeure, a chilly, pitch-black comedy

about a seemingly tight-knit family that comes unraveled on a luxurious ski vacation. It’s a slow burner, more interested in picking at loose psychological seams than with momentum or payoff, but it creates a sense of unspeakable disappointment and doubt that creeps into the pores like frostbite.

I watched another 15 or so films beyond those mentioned above, mostly documentaries, foreign films, and indies without distribution deals. Only a few of them merit serious consideration, but with roughly 100 features showing over the course of the 11-day festival, it’s quite possible that I just made some bad scheduling decisions. Ale Abreu’s charming animated feature The Boy and the World was an exception, as it turned simple pencil drawings and musical refrains into a kaleidoscopic world of childlike wonder.

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However, my two great discoveries of the festival were both live-action films, and both were highly impressive debuts from filmmakers to watch. Brazilian writer-director Fernando Coimbra’s prickly A Wolf at the Door is a vicious modern noir set in Rio de Janeiro, a poison-tipped artichoke with a rotten heart. British director Yann Demange’s ’71 is even better, a night-in-hell thriller set in Belfast during The Troubles, the conflict that emerged when the city was split into Catholic/Irish Republican Army and Protestant factions.

It has no chance in hell of winning an Oscar or making a lot of money, but it’s the sort of under-the-radar festival discovery that drives one to return year after year.

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SCENE& HEARD Dear Giants fans It’s Halloween inside the Oakland Raiders stadium, as it is at every Sunday home game. To my right, there’s a cute woman dressed like some kind of pirate Wonder Woman princess. To my left, a grisly man with dreadlocks and a black top hat, silver face paint, and chains and skulls draping his shoulders. I’m in the “Black Hole,” or the notorious end-zone seats. It’s actually not as disreputable and thug-like as people say. There are old-school fans wearing jerseys emblazoned with Raider greats like Alzado and Stabler. You know, Baby Boomers who’ve probably had the same haircut since 1974. There are even young kids.

Plus, lots of hugs and friendly catching-up. No fights, no shankings.

The most violent moment is by the dude behind me, who gives really painful high-fives: The Raiders sneak in for a touchdown, their only one of the day, and the Hole blows, and this brick-house guy wants some skin, so I hold up my arm and he slams it so hard I worry it’s going to rip from my shoulder. It’s sore until halftime.

Earlier that day, the parking lot of the Oakland Raiders stadium appeared to be on fire, smoke trickling into the Sunday morning sky in a few dozen hot spots. It was 9 a.m., more than four hours until the kickoff of the game against the Arizona Cardinals. Our small twodoor snuggled into a spot amid monster trucks and pop-up tents. It’s cliché, but the scene—hundreds of tailgaters already!—really did have the feel of some Giants in six. post-apocalyptic Mad Max flea market.

The tailgaters directly across from us were pros: two large barbecues, three tables, five crock pots filled with chili and nacho dip, speakers that blasted Digital Underground and ’70s funk, and even a generator and a TV to watch the morning NFL games. We looked decidedly amateur, what with our lone blue tent and mini-Weber ’cue.

The opening of AC/DC’s “Hells Bells” rang a few cars down, and some young dudes wearing skeleton bandanas over their faces strolled by chanting “Raaaiderrrrs!”

When people yell that, it’s a cocky, who-gives-a-damn, creepy cackle. It’s like they know they’ve been the worst team in the NFL for more than a dozen years, yet still take pride in shit-eating.

The Raiders play at the same stadium as the Oakland Athletics, and so I spent a lot of time during Sunday’s game reflecting on the A’s wasted season. To recap: They had the best record in baseball in July, but went on to choke it away. During this summer, I remember saying things like “Too bad the Giants are terrible this year, because an A’s-Giants World Series would’ve been awesome.” In August, I also wrote in this paper: “Any selfrespecting Giants fan (anyone?) knows their team is done.”

Gulp. I’ve many Giants-fan friends, and to them and the others I owe an apology. I’ll also leave you with a prediction (not that you want me to prognosticate in your team’s favor, what with my ignominious track record): Giants in six.

—Nick Miller

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The Haunted Fort Friday, OctOber 24 thrOugh Saturday, OctOber 25 Sutter’s Fort has a long, important local history. And with that past comes a lot of death—and ghosts.

The Haunted Fort is a fun, educational event for the family, in which the “spirits” of the original pioneers visit the fort to talk about their lives and the peculiar HISTORY details of their deaths. $6-$8, tours are every 15 minutes starting at 6:30 p.m. nightly at Sutter’s Fort, 2701 L Street; http://hauntedsuttersfort.bpt.me.

—Aaron Carnes

DogtoberFest Saturday, OctOber 25 DogtoberFest seeks to answer one of the great philosophical questions of our age: At what point is a dog so ugly that it’s cute? Cash awards will be distributed to canines named cutest, ugliest and PETS best-costumed, and humans can participate in a hot-dog-eating competition so as not to feel left out. Free ($10-$20 to participate), noon at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, 7839 Center Parkway; www.ugliestdogsacramento.com.

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Shannon McCabe’s Vampire Ball Saturday, OctOber 25 What happens at a vampire ball? This one’s themed around the HBO show True Blood. Hopefully there will be less deaths than in the show, although the show’s vibe and ambience are really what they’re going for.

There will be deejays, bands, dancing and some scary interactive entertainment.

HALLOWEEN $20-$25, 8 p.m. at the Placer County Fairgrounds, 800 All America City Boulevard in Roseville; www.shannonmccabe.com.

—Aaron Carnes

California Capital Book Festival Saturday, OctOber 25 thrOugh Sunday, OctOber 26 No offense to Santa and the Mayflower pilgrims, but I think we can all agree Halloween is pretty much the best holiday. It lacks the heartburn of Thanksgiving, the awkward-uncle interactions of Christmas and the obligatory smooshing together of mouths on New Years’ Eve. And the biggest upside of all is that Halloween-candy calories don’t count.

This year, Sacramento boasts an abundance of activities geared at freaking people out (none of which are Ebolathemed, we promise). The Sacramento History Museum (101 I Street in Old Sacramento) presents its Ghost Tours, which depart every half hour from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on October 24

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Train and/or zombie enthusiasts can partake in the two-hour Zombie Train (400 North Harbor Boulevard in West Sacramento) for $35. An upgraded ticket at $50 gets you a laser gun so you can take an active part in the Apocalypse (Friday and Saturday, October 24 and 25 at 6:30 and 9 p.m.; Thursday, October 30 and Friday, October 31 at 7 and 9:30 p.m.).

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If you’re looking for something a little more intense, the Heartstoppers Haunted House takes over the unoccupied Mine Shaft off Highway 50 (2300 Mine Shaft Lane) on Friday and Saturday, October 25-26 and Friday, October 31 from 7:30 to 11 p.m.; Sunday, October 26; Wednesday and Thursday, October 29-30; and Saturday, November 1 from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.; tickets are $15-$35. On an even larger scale, Scream Park California (4909 Auburn Boulevard) offers three haunted houses and live entertainment (October 23 through November 2, except for October 27; 7 to 11:30 p.m. on weekend nights and 7 to 10 p.m. on weeknights; $25-$40).

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In an effort to get folks reading again, the 2014 California Capital Book Festival will feature a veritable who’s who of popular authors and illustrators READING displaying, reading and signing their works. For folks with children, there will be a “Kid’s Alley” and a special “All Things Pets” exhibition. Free, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Sacramento Convention Center, 1400 J Street; www.ccbookfestival.com.

—Eddie Jorgensen

Boo at the Zoo thurSday, OctOber 30 thrOugh Friday, OctOber 31 What could be better than trick or treating and getting to see a bunch of cool, exotic animals— at the same time? How about games, costume HALLOWEEN dance parties and magic shows? All of this will be at the Sacramento Zoo, with 25 candy stations set up for kids and families to celebrate Halloween. $8-$10, 5 p.m. nightly at the Sacramento Zoo, 3930 West Land Park Drive; www.saczoo.org.

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5131 Freeport Boulevard, (916) 455-1687, www.bobacafesacramento.com There are several places in town that serve the kind of regional mixture of Chinese food popular in Taiwan. Yang’s Noodle (see “Taiwanese by Jonathan Mendick Steez,” SN&R Dish November 11, 2013) is one.

Boba Cafe is another. It’s located on a section j o nathan m@ of Freeport Boulevard that’s home to a bunch newsreview.c om of other great Asian food offerings including Oto’s Marketplace, Mahoroba Japanese Bakery and Blue Moon Cafe and Karaoke.

Boba Cafe’s Chinese name translates to something like “Shandong Noodle Shop.” Yes, there are indeed noodles (and tons of boba milk tea or “bubble tea” options featuring the drink’s rating: chewy “pearls”), but those namesake items only HHHH actually comprise a small part of the menu. dinner for one: According to Chinese-food history—which $5 - $15 can differ greatly depending on the source— Shandong cuisine often offers more grain-based dishes than rice-based ones. So we started there, ordering a thousand-layer pancake, a scallion pancake, a pan-fried beef bun, and a sesame bread with ham and egg.

The thousand-layer pancake resembled deep-fried roti bread, which is found in South Asian or Southeast Asian cuisine. It had lots H of texture, but not much flavor. In contrast, Flawed the scallion pancake was salty, crunchy on the HH outside, chewy inside, and featured a lingering has moments scallion aftertaste. The pan-fried beef bun with HHH its doughy, crunchy wrapping strangely resemappealing bled the texture of a Taco Bell Crunchwrap HHHH Supreme, but it’s smaller, with a much richer authoritative flavor. Likewise, the sesame bread with ham HHHHH and egg seemed like something an American epic fast-food chain might serve—if it actually baked fresh, flaky flatbreads in-house. Of the four, the scallion pancake was the tastiest.

Switching regions, Boba Cafe’s Taiwanese-style beef noodle soup is made with a slightly spicy, vinegary, hearty and starchy broth that’s replete with thick chunks of beef and skinny alkaline noodles.

Compared to Yang’s homemade noodles, however, these don’t quite stack up.

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This eatery may be one of the only places in town that carries the Shanghainese dish called cifantuan which, here, is billed as “rice cake with fried bread stick and shredded pork.”

Essentially, it’s a giant cylinder of rice filled with dry shredded pork, fried dough and diced pickled veggies. They’re heated in a steamer and kind of look like rice burritos once they’re done. Boba Cafe’s version is a bit dry, but that was remedied easily with a little dollop of hot sauce and soy sauce.

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Speaking of dishes popular in Shanghai, we tried a dish the restaurant called “Taiwan Style Stewed Pork Over Rice,” but it more closely resembled Shanghai’s hong shao rou dish (redbraised pork). Boba’s version is a tender, deepred colored pork marinated in earthy aromatic spices (ginger, garlic and star anise, maybe?) and copious amounts of soy sauce. Paired with an egg and a heaping pile of rice, it’s one of the most comforting rice plates in Sacramento.

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On our way out, we sampled the black sesame milk tea and several “Delight” drinks including the Strawberry Delight, Mango Delight and Mango & Coconut Delight (all ordered without boba, because we were already full). The black sesame milk tea was grainy, slightly sweet and quite hearty—not a good choice if you’ve already eaten a ton of bread-based food. Each of the “Delights” was a smoothie topped with jelly and fresh fruit. The Mango & Coconut was the best, but all were sweet and refreshing.

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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.

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

A recent selection included shaved almonds, neat piles of meat, mustard, pickled cauliflower and beets, served with small slices of bread.

The ’nduja 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.

some meat loaf, that’s for sure: slabs of beef ground with bacon are glazed with a sweet sauce, served atop the cheesiest mashed potatoes this side of Wisconsin. The Gold Panner’s Pork Chop was flat-out fantastic, oozing juicy flavor from its fire-kissed crust. House-made cinnamon applesauce for dunking was a perfect accompaniment.

Any good country bar worth its salt pork has chili on the menu, and Goldfield is no exception. It’s made with chunks of tender chicken rather than ground beef, with plenty of nuggets of gold corn and black beans to boot. American. 1630 J Street, (916) 476-5076. Dinner for one: $5-$10. HHH1/2 AMR

might be the best burger in town. American. 1801 L Street, Suite 50; (916) 443-1010. Dinner for one: $15-$25. HHHH G.M.

Der Biergarten This spot is a slightly quirky, low-key place with only nine food items on the menu: four appetizer-style options, four sandwich-type offerings and a sausage platter, plus about 30 cold ones on tap.

Patrons order from a building that was built from a couple of cargo containers and dine outdoors on communal benches, traditional German biergarten style. The Derfinater Dog is a gussied-up hot dog, and despite its seemingly excessive number of toppings, everything serves a tasteful purpose. The mayo and garlic sauce help moisten a somewhat dry roll, and the bacon adds saltiness, which balances the sweetness of cream cheese and barbecue sauce. The pretzel disappoints by being a bit on the flaky and brittle side. The sausage platter is 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.

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Capital Dime Restaurant With a new chef and menu, this Midtown eatery has transformed into a farm-to-forkthemed place for smart bar bites and appealing sandwiches and salads. Try the bacon lollipops, perhaps the tastiest little creations ever put on a stick. Here, salty rib bacon is slathered with melted brown sugar and whispers of cayenne and cinnamon more hushed than the juiciest of rumors.

Sweet-potato pierogis are tasty, puffy packets of potato drizzled with sour cream and shredded-duck confit. A duck burger with fig jam and plenty of crispy onions makes for a gamy change of pace, but the rib bacon whiskey burger—with crunchy lumps of house-made pickle, cheddar and a landslide of crispy fried onions—just

barbecue joint ups the ante with attentive table service and high-end 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.

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So, sorry diners with soy allergies—it can’t even be escaped in the papaya salad. Not an issue?

Soldier on with the Hot & Sour soup, a not-too spicy sunsetorange broth that teems with a tomatoey and citrus flavor, chunks of pineapple, semicircles of trumpet mushrooms, cubes of fried tofu and slices of faux crab. Or, try the stir-fried Eight Fold Path. It features al dente celery, red bell pepper and triangles of the most savory, salty, dense tofu perhaps ever.

Vietnamese. 6511 Savings Place, Ste. 100; (916) 428-4160. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHHH S.

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—aka loaded with toppings. Try the Mufasa

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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 housemade 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.

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Arden/ Carmichael Dad’s Kitchen The cooking at this Guy Fieri-approved joint is consistent and at times technically terrific. Try the Dad’s Burger (lettuce, red onion, tomato, Aleppo chili aioli, and a beef patty encrusted with blue cheese and bacon). With a firm and chewy bun and a sauce with kick, it’s one of Sac’s best burgers. Or get the Hot Blonde. It’s like a subtle, healthier version of a club sandwich, with organic chicken, avocado, spinach, cucumber, roasted onion and Swiss cheese—all set between sourdough bread and grilled on a panini press. It boasts a crunchy texture from all the veggies, a light boost of piquant flavor from a “pepper plant sauce,” and won’t leave you feeling overly stuffed after eating it. American. 8928 Sunset Ave. in Fair Oaks, (916) 241-9365.

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Danielle’s Crêperie This eatery, which specializes in French and American, serves a ton of breakfast and lunch options (pancakes, waffles, omelets, quiches, crepes, sandwiches) and diners can order them at

any time of day. A chocolate crepe is huge and could make for an entire (sugary) meal itself. A Nutella filling option would also be nice. Savory crepes are a good option; try the Crab and Spinach Crêpe.

With crab meat, spinach, garlic and a cheesy French Mornay sauce, this is rich haute cuisine at a bargain price. French and American. 3535 Fair Oaks Boulevard, (916) 972-1911. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH1⁄2. J.M.

giant dinner party, dining on seasonal dishes such as chilled, minty pea soup, served with creamy pea pudding, cured scallops and Sterling Caviar.

The offerings, which include the likes of lamb, steak and pasta, change monthly, but the highlights are the chefs’ tasters—small bites scattered throughout the dining area. A recent visit included oyster, faux lasagna bites, citrusy duck, and “kettle corn” cones of puffed wild rice, amaranth and corn with black-truffle caramel, which tasted sweet, salty and positively deadly.

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

Field House American Sports Pub Launched by the same team that raised Shady Lady Saloon, this spot brings a bit more culinary hope to an often forgotten part of Sacramento. The whiskey burger is a mighty sammich of perfection with smoked Gouda cheese and bacon that serve as excellent counterpoints to the achingly sweet maplebourbon glazed red onions.

Fries-slash-chips arrived pencil-thin and fiercely crispy.

If you visit for brunch, don’t miss the signature bloody mary: a 32-ounce bloody mary that doesn’t skimp on the horseradish. It’s served with skewers of beet-pickled egg, sausage and bacon, tiger prawn, pickled veggies, and the most amazing slider.

American. 1310 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-1045. Dinner for one: $15-$25. HHHH G.M.

Roseville Rose Garden Chinese Restaurant Service here is eager and friendly, and the food is flavorful. Chicken chow mein is a standout. The restaurant really does noodles well. They are chewy and fresh, tossed with tender breast meat and well-cooked vegetables. Try the Kung pao chicken. It’s packed with large, tender chunks of white meat offset by crunchy peanuts and water chestnuts. Toothsome diced zucchini and a well-balanced sauce complete the dish.

Vegetables are a strong point, always fresh, expertly cooked, and varied. A prime example is the broccoli with garlic sauce. The large florets retain some crunch and swim in a slightly sweet broth that’s perfect with steamed rice.

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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.

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Another fine choice is the moo-shu vegetables. While the pancakes are not as tender as they could be, the filling is a garden full of variety.

Sauced and rolled, these juicy morsels are fun and tasty.

Chinese. 1079 I Sunrise Avenue in Roseville, (916) 781-3823.

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Rocklin Il Pizzaiolo This Rocklin place 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 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.

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As I write this, it’s a sweltering 90-degree afternoon in autumn.

The upside is that means it’s the perfect weather to grab a cold boba drink (bubble tea, tapioca, pearl milk tea, or whatever the heck you want to call it). Its origins are a bit murky, but a CNN Travel article written in 2012 (http://travel.cnn.com/ explorations/drink/inventor-bubble-tea-885732) pinned the drink’s invention down to a Taiwanese tea shop in 1988. Apparently, the original boba drink consisted of large tapioca balls immersed in cold tea. These days, some local tea shops serve 100 or more flavors, and other just serve a handful of specialties. Whatever the case, boba seems to be picking up popularity in South Sacramento and Elk Grove with a host of new shops recently opening. Among the best of the new spots are Cool Tea Bar (5555 Sky Parkway, Suite 207; www.coolteabar.com), Snowbee Tea Station (6905 Stockton Boulevard, Suite 250) and Moo Moo (8698 Elk Grove Boulevard, Suite 2B in Elk Grove).

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For its third album, the contemporary jazz quintet Nagual has crafted a collection of original tunes that reflect the band’s diverse influences and talents and skills.

The album, from which the band will play during its record release show Saturday, October 25 at Gold MuSic Lion Arts, is called Second City—a reference to how Chinese immigrants used to describe Sacramento during the Gold Rush era.

The band’s name arrives via Carlos Castaneda, the PeruvianAmerican New Age author. Fittingly, perhaps, the band’s sound is best described as ’60s-era Blue Note Records meets the Latin jazz of Eddie Palmieri as filtered through a lens of musical self realization.

Nagual is led by guitarist Victor Contreras, whose guitar work is unforced and fluid but still omnipresent. On the new album, Contreras opens up, at least a bit, like the rawedged treble on the ode to local arts aficionado and cafe owner Art Luna, aptly called “The Art of Luna.”

On three tracks, potent contributions from tenor saxophonist Scott Anderson get additional muscle from guest trombonist Clifford Childers. A rhythm section comprising Ron Ochoa (drums), Paul Relvas (bass) and Harold Muniz (congas) provides not only stable backdrop to the improvisations but also a balance to the overall sound.

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Date smarter, not harder Whenever I meet a man I like, the relationship never goes anywhere. I spent a lot of time with each of the last three guys I dated. We hung out, had dinner three times a week, played music, and checked out bands. The relationships were emotionally honest but never went beyond friendship and hugs. When I would bring up my desire for something more, the guy would

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Maybe you believe that if you hang around long enough, he will eventually change his mind.

Unfortunately, in the process you become a lady-in-waiting, a woman who puts her unrequited heart on hold, hoping that the man she desires will suddenly realize how amazing she is, and fall wildly in love with her. It’s the plot of plenty of Lifetime movies and Harlequin romance novels but it’s rare in the nonfiction world of real life.

While you are hoping to be anointed as the woman a man can’t live without, he’s scouting the dating pool for the woman he can’t live without. Hmmm, after dragging yourself through three of these scenarios, aren’t you ready to charm your ego into smarter choices?

If you really want to change, deconstruct the filters inhibiting your listening process. When a man isn’t into you, don’t hang around waiting for him to change his mind.

Most importantly, be aware that the recently separated or divorced are often hungry to avoid being alone.

They will even re-enact activities

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I have a girlfriend I am no longer attracted to but she is emotionally dependent on me. I used to love her but as time went by I knew she was not the one I wanted to be with.

However I feel responsible for her.

She’s lonely, has few friends and no family support. I have been going out with other women while being with her but the thought of breaking up makes me feel guilty. What should I do?

Realize that you feel guilty because you believe that you are abandoning this woman. What if, by letting go, you are supporting her in learning she can depend on herself? And what if, while leaning into her inner resources, she learns how to reach out to others for support whenever she needs it? Loneliness results from not appreciating solitude. Enjoying solitude occurs when we have peace of mind. Peace of mind thrives when we are content to savor the beauty in the world and in ourselves. So tell your girlfriend that your feelings have changed. Don’t be afraid of her sadness or anger. Emotions are a natural response to experiences.

Say you are afraid she will be lonely without you. Add that you know she can heal and grow stronger, if she chooses. Explain that you can shift into a friendship after nine months or a year of no contact. Accept that your feelings of guilt mean you think breaking up makes you a bad person. The truth is, pretending to be attracted or in love with her is unkind. So is cheating. Choose integrity instead. Ω

Meet Joey Garcia: Isn’t it time you met the woman you trust with your heart? Yes, that would be me! My book When Your Heart Breaks, It’s Opening to Love: Healing and Finding Love After An Affair, Heartbreak or Divorce will be featured at the California Capital Book Festival, which takes place October 25-26 at the Sacramento Convention Center (1400 J Street).

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Irish bloom Outside Mullingar Is Outside Mullingar a romance, like the B Street Theatre’s recent Provenance? Or is it a romantic comedy?

(Rom-coms have long been a B Street staple, by Jeff Hudson after all.)

I’d say “romance,” though there are plenty of laughs stemming from caustic comments by salty parents nearing the end of life, and fumbling overtures between socially awkward adults who’ve never married. Perhaps you could call this one a “comedy of hesitation.”

One thing for sure, Outside Mullingar is Irish—and that’s a category that has always done well on the B Street stage under Buck Busfield’s deft, sympathetic direction.

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4Frankenstein God, it is said, created man in his own image. But what if man—out of arrogance or envy—attempted creation?

Would that creature be in his image? And what if it were?

Local actor and playwright Jes Gonzales has taken on a monster of a project in adapting Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein into a play. And, for the most part, he succeeds very well. Gonzales posits that Victor Frankenstein (a superassured Nicholas Gailbreath) grew his own Creature (the striking Drew Struck) rather than stitching one together from parts of the deceased.

Otherwise, Gonzales mostly follows Shelley’s plot—the story opens with mariner Captain Walton (the dependable Don Hayden) and his crew rescuing a nearly frozen Victor from the near-Arctic ice. Walton provides narration, as does Victor, whose story is acted out on a separate section of stage (very ingenious, and very effective, thanks to set designers Margaret Morneau, Laura Gonzales and Adrienne Sher, who also directs).

We learn of Victor’s fiancée Elizabeth (Elizabeth Holzman), his father Alphonse (the remarkable Marcus Daniel), and his young brother William (Dawson Brody), whose death raises many questions.

This Frankenstein is a bit too long. It’s wordy and overly melodramatic in parts (a trial scene is particularly so), but it surely entertains. And it raises thought-provoking questions: Is science the key to creation, and between scientist and his creation, which is the real monster?

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and doesn’t hesitate to express herself. Rosemary lives with Aoife (Jayne Taini), a widow with a lively tongue who totters around on bad hips.

The play runs about 90 minutes, straight through—the early scenes involve delightful Irish banter, the latter scenes focus on the first, uncertain steps in a late-blooming romance. Ω

Outside Mullingar ; 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; 6:30 p.m Tuesday; 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday; $25-$35.

B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreet theatre.org.

Through November 23.

Mullingar premiered on Broadway earlier this year, and the script is a likely contender for awards. It was written by John Patrick Shanley—you may recall B Street’s 2008 production of Shanley’s Tony-winning drama Doubt, which tells the story of a charismatic, athletic priest suspected of sexual misconduct involving a young male student. The play culminates in a famously ambiguous ending (with the audience left to decide “innocent or guilty?”).

Nothing vague about Mullingar: it’s a sweet story involving boy likes girl (but he can’t get up the nerve to tell her), and girl likes boy (but she swears she’s held a grudge against him since childhood).

However, the boy in this case is a 42-yearold with a touch of gray, and the girl is six years his junior, and they’re hardscrabble farmers in a rural Irish village where family conflicts simmer for generations. (A spat over a scrap of land fuels many conversations in this play.)

David Pierini, wearing a comfy, wellworn white sweater, plays the unconfident, long-suffering Anthony, dutifully caring for his cantankerous old dad (Greg Alexander), a widower who misses few opportunities to remind Anthony that he hasn’t accomplished much in life. And the neighboring farm is home to the attractive but sometimes sharp-tongued Rosemary (Dana Brooke), who puffs a long pipe

—Jim Carnes

Frankenstein; 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday; $20.

Wilkerson Theatre at California Stage, 1725 25th Street; (916) 223-9568, www.resurrectiontheatre.com. Through October 31.

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The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck’s panoramic novel about dirt-poor, Depression-era Okies still packs a punch and Sacramento Theatre Company’s production delivers the goods.

Laura Kaya and Matt K. Miller play Ma and Pa, using every resource at their disposal to hold the fracturing family together.

Kirk Blackinton (son Tom Joad) displays an idealistic gleam in his eyes and a tendency to lose his cool in the heat of the moment.

Original music by Sam Misner and Megan Smith (who also play cameo roles) is a significant plus, and director Michael Stevenson manages to use the smallish STC stage to focus the intimate conversations, the cramped ride on the California-bound truck, etc. W, Th 6:30pm; F, Sa 8pm; Sa, Su 2pm. Through 10/26. $15-$38.

Sacramento Theatre Company at the Wells Fargo Pavilion, 1419 H Street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. J.H.

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The Flying Machine

There is everything right about this imaginatively written, wonderfully acted and amazingly creative recollection of the Wright Brothers’ adventures—which includes an almost-to-scale replica of the brothers’ first airplane, as well as actual historic black-andwhite photos and film. Written by B Street’s Jerry R. Montoya, this story tells the tale of these two bicycle-building brothers. It’s gripping, funny and presented by a four-person cast of B Street regulars: John Lamb, Jason Kuykendall, David Silberman and Casey McClellan. Not only is this recommended for children and young adults, it will also be enjoyed by anyone who loves history, bicycles, airplanes, engineering, inventions, or a well-told tale. Sa, Su, 1pm & 4pm. Through 11/9. $15-20. B Street Theatre’s Family Series Stage, 2711 B St.; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. P.R.

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There’ll probably be plenty of “jazz hands” in this one.

Sweet dance moves It’s time to long for that green light across the lake once again, as the Sacramento Ballet offers an encore of Ron Cunningham’s The Great Gatsby. If ever there were a 20th-century literary classic made for dance, it’s this one, with the elegance of the Roaring Twenties amply displayed in both traditional ballet and jazz dance. What’s more, this production includes live music from Billy Novick’s Blue Syncopators. There’s nothing like a bit of lust, excess, power and desire to kick off Sac Ballet’s 60th season. And Jay Gatsby, the Buchanans and Nick Harroway—as well as their period-garbed party pals—will provide. Fresh off a performance at TBD Fest earlier this month, the Sacramento Ballet seems poised to prove, once and for all, that ballet is “cool” with this one. The Great Gatsby, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 23 through Saturday, October 25; 2 p.m. Sunday, October 26; $17-$57.

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All the OK moves 23 Blast Over the last few decades, football biopics have emerged as the predominant form of male-geared tearjerkers, taking over the spot once held by baseball by Daniel Barnes movies and westerns. Even as the sport has taken on a more sinister edge in light of recent off-thefield incidents, as well as increasing awareness of and scientific evidence about the long-term effects of concussions, the big screen portrayals of football have only grown rosier. It’s rare these days to see a film that portrays the sport as inherently corrupt, as we’ve seen in previous decades with North Dallas Forty, Against All Odds, and The Last Boy Scout, among others. More often these days, the movies portray football as the ultimate healer.

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Fictional football movies such as the recent Kevin Costner vehicle Draft Day, which treats NFL draft preparation as though it were a midlife crisis therapy session, can be just as macho and saccharine, but “based on a true story” football tearjerkers have been reproducing like rabbits. The ancestor of the movement is the 1971 TV movie Brian’s Song, about the friendship between Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers and teammate Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer at age 26. However, the current mold was forged by the 1993 basic cable staple Rudy, which was “based on a true story” of an undersized but persistent Notre Dame walk-on who finally made it on to the field in the closing minutes of his final game.

The triumph of the protagonist in Rudy was not that he helped Notre Dame win a championship or defeat their rivals; it was that he got on the field at all, even if his role in the outcome of the game was meaningless. That’s a common theme in these “based on a true story” football tearjerkers—the importance of playing through adversity, whether it’s a lack of physical stature (Rudy), racial intolerance (Remember the Titans), tragedy (We Are Marshall), inexperience (Invincible), poverty (The Blind Side), juvenile delinquency (Gridiron Gang), or Cuba Gooding Jr. (Radio).

Besides proliferating on the big screens, such “based on a true story” football biopics have also been easy ratings grabbers on television.

Dylan Baker’s 23 Blast falls somewhere in between—it’s getting a run in theaters, and it has the family-friendly, faith-based credentials to pull in an audience, but the production values and cast are decidedly television-sized. This is the directorial debut of the noted character actor Baker, still probably best known as the pedophile dad in Happiness, and he has a good touch with actors and tone without ever establishing a visual sensibility or deviating too far from the tropes of the genre.

23 Blast is “based” on the “true story” of Travis Freeman (Mark Hapka), a star athlete in the football-obsessed town of Corbin, Ky., who lost his sight when he developed a bacterial infection. Overnight, he turns from a beloved and driven BMOC into a morose, self-imposed outcast. His mother is told, “You no longer have a normal son,” and she is encouraged to enroll him in a school for the blind. But with the support of his family and an Anne Sullivan-esque, tough-love mobility coach, Travis returns to high school. When the football team struggles, he’s even recruited by his old coach (Stephen Lang, very good) to rejoin the team. Not only does this demand immense courage and dedication from Travis, but it also inspires some of the more selfinterested players to become better teammates.

Dylan Baker keeps the focus on believable adolescent shenanigans despite casting some of the oldest-looking teenagers since Porky’s 3: Revenge.

One of the executive producers on the film is Washington Redskins owner Daniel M. Snyder, a man not exactly famed for his sensitivity and tolerance, yet 23 Blast does a nice job projecting sincerity without crossing over into sentimentality.

Along with screenwriters Bram and Toni Hoover, Baker imbues the film with a warm and welcome sense of humor, keeping the focus on believable adolescent shenanigans despite casting some of the oldest-looking teenagers since Porky’s 3: Revenge. For the most part, the film also takes a soft enough touch with the religious elements, keeping the hardcore proselytizing to a relative minimum. Rather than jerk at your tears, 23 Blast just gives them a gentle tug. Ω

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Two high-school sweethearts (James Marsden, Michelle Monaghan) are reunited after 21 years when they return home for the funeral of an elderly mentor (Gerald McRaney). Flashbacks show their younger selves (Luke Bracey, Liana Liberato) and trace their starred-crossed romance. Directed

by Michael Hoffman and adapted by J. Mills Goodloe and Will Fetters from Nicholas Sparks’ novel, the movie is the standard Sparks threehanky sob-fest and will no doubt pass muster with his fans. The stars are attractive, but two of them (take your pick) are miscast: Bracey and Liberato look nothing like Marsden and Monaghan, nor do they look 21 years younger.

The idea that this is the same couple past and present is not credible; we’re watching two romances, not one, and the mismatch sinks the movie. Pretty scenery, though. J.L.

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The Book of Life

The rulers of light and darkness in the afterlife make a bet as to which of two childhood sweethearts (voiced by Diego Luna and Channing Tatum) will win the hand of a Mexican girl (Zoe Saldana). The script for this animated phantasmagoria by Jorge R. Gutierrez and Douglas Langdale, like the movie’s riotous design, is often as cluttered and kitschy as a roadside curio stand, and it deeply indulges producer Guillermo del Toro’s penchant for the grotesque. Yet it all works, using the background of Mexico’s Día de los Muertos holiday as the setting for a complicated story with echoes of legends, myths and fairy tales from around the world, from Orpheus to Sleeping Beauty to The Wizard of Oz. Additional voices include Kate del Castillo, Ron Perlman, Christina Applegate, Ice Cube, Hector Elizondo and Danny Trejo. J.L.

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Dracula Untold

It should have stayed that way. Directed by first-timer Gary Shore and written by first-timers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, the movie is a clumsy mash-up of distorted history, CGI demo reels and horror-movie mumbo jumbo in which the 15th century Balkan ruler Vlad Dracula (Luke Evans), in order to protect his realm from invading Turks, makes a desperate bargain with a demon vampire (Charles Dance). This, of course, will eventually turn him into the vampire we all love to fear. The murk of John Schwartzman’s cinematography (those nighttime scenes help to stretch a visual effects budget) matches the muddy writing, and the movie overflows with groan-inducing dialogue (did you know that 15th century people said things like “OK”?). A modern-day coda threatens us with a sequel. Quick, where’s the garlic? J.L.

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Fury

In a 1995 episode of The Simpsons entitled “Lemon of Troy,” Bart prepares to lead a group of Springfield children behind enemy lines to retrieve their precious lemon tree.

Before they leave, Bart assigns their roles: “I’m the leader, Milhouse is my loyal sidekick, Nelson’s the tough guy, Martin’s the smart guy, and Todd’s the quiet religious guy who ends up going crazy.” The weary WWII tank crew at the center of David Ayer’s Fury is similarly programmed— there’s a leader (Brad Pitt), his loyal sidekick (Michael Pena), a tough guy (Jon Bernthal), a smart religious guy (Shia LaBeouf), and a quiet guy who ends up going crazy (Logan Lerman). All that’s missing is the lemon tree. Of course, the familiar nature of the characters is appropriate for a film that spends 134 minutes retrofitting WWII-era clichés for the age of CGI spectacle and body horror. D.B.

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Gone Girl

When a Missouri wife (Rosamund Pike) mysteriously disappears on the morning of her fifth wedding anniversary, police suspect foul play—and her husband (Ben Affleck) soon falls under suspicion. Director David Fincher and writer Gillian Flynn (adapting her novel) flip back and forth between the husband’s present-time doings and the wife’s diary entries recounting their courtship and marriage, raising questions and increasing our sense of dread as they peel away layers, like pulling moldy leaves from an artichoke that is rotting from the inside out.

Flynn’s book was a compulsive read, and this is the movie equivalent. The whole cast is strong, but Pike stands out in the kind of role that makes stars and, with luck, wins Oscars. J.L.

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The Guest

Adam Wingard’s genre-defying The Guest is a trickier movie to dance around than Gone Girl, not due to any

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A high-powered Chicago defense lawyer (Robert Downey Jr.), long estranged from his judge father (Robert Duvall), goes home for his mother’s funeral—and has to stay to defend the old man against a charge of first-degree murder (his suitcase isn’t the only baggage that gets unpacked). Director David Dobkin (who co-wrote with Nick Schenk and Bill Dubuque) goes light years beyond anything he’s done before (Shanghai Knights, Wedding Crashers, Fred Claus) with a sharp, subtle, many-layered examination of legal ethics, family dynamics and festering regrets. The script feels like it was well-adapted from an excellent novel. The two Roberts are little short of brilliant—it’s a titanic matchup. J.L.

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Kill the Messenger

In 1996, Gary Webb’s San Jose Mercury-News report on the link between the Nicaraguan Contras, the CIA and the American crack epidemic caused an unprecedented institutional retaliation. On the surface, it makes a meaty film story, a globetrotting tale of intrigue and corruption about a flawed but noble man who took on an unbeatable system when everyone told him to stand down. But director Michael Cuesta and screenwriter Peter Landesman are less interested in the messenger than the message. Their Gary Webb says things like “This is America!” and “I believe in due process!”

As Webb, Jeremy Renner has the mustache, sunglasses, cigarettes, untucked shirt, journalistic passion, and devilish smirk, but he mostly talks and behaves like a character in a silly movie. It only shows how much more interesting an intelligent documentary about Webb would be than this weak and warmedover biopic treatment. D.B.

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It’s to his credit that Murray is wide awake and close to great in Theodore Melfi’s St. Vincent, especially since the script is loaded with enough tranquilizing indie-quirk tropes to take down Dan Aykroyd. Murray is Vincent McKenna, an acerbic, alcoholic slob who earns extra cash by babysitting the precocious, bullied child of his new next-door neighbor (Melissa McCarthy, somehow the only person not overacting here).

Very little rings true in St. Vincent—not the boy, not the pregnant Russian prostitute played by Naomi Watts, not Terrence Howard’s bookie, and not the ending that is almost literally removed from Rushmore. Yet for all of his clowning, Murray gets under this character’s skin like a deer tick, bringing a lot of soul to a film that can’t match him. D.B.

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As British coal miners begin a long and bitter strike in 1984, unexpected support comes from a motley group of London lesbians and gay men, led by activist Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer); Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton play Welsh villagers who welcome their aid.

Director Matthew Warchus and writer Stephen Beresford turn their inspired-by-true-events tale into a celebration of solidarity in the face of adversity—a thoroughly enjoyable piece of power-to-the-people populism, but without the sour righteousness that so often makes lefty agitprop go down like medicine. Uplifting without irony, the movie sends you out of the theater with a spring in your step; it’s like Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty mixed with The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. A Broadway musical is only a matter of time. J.L.

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Director Jason Reitman and his co-writer Erin Cressida Wilson (adapting Chad Kultgen’s novel) explore the Internet’s effect on a group of suburban families: a mother’s (Jennifer Garner) protective urge toward her daughter (Kaitlyn Dever) morphs into control-freak obsession; a bored couple (Adam Sandler, Rosemarie DeWitt) troll for sex, each unaware of what the other is up to; a wannabe actress/model (Olivia Crocicchia) and her mother (Judy Greer) let her Web site slide into porn, etc. Meanwhile, texts and IMs pepper the screen like Shakespearean asides, adding layers of secrecy. Over it all is a God’s-eye-view narration by Emma Thompson that makes the movie feel at times like an illustrated audio book, telling things Reitman doesn’t show. The movie is well-acted but inconclusive—which may be the point. J.L.

Director Blair Treu turns documentarian to look at the lives of a diverse group of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: an African-American bishop in Atlanta, a Hawaiian football coach at the U.S. Naval Academy, an amateur kickboxer in Costa Rica, a 92-year-old veteran of the Berlin Airlift, an engineer and humanitarian in Nepal, and a Salt Lake City housewife. An unabashed charm offensive by the LDS Church, the movie is slickly made, with cinematography (by R.J. Hill and Brian Sullivan) as sharp and crisp as the mountain air of Utah (or, for that matter, Costa Rica or Nepal). The subjects are all personable and articulate (sometimes in voice-over translation), and the see-we’re-just-regularpeople-like-you tone is relentlessly cheerful— and, at times, a bit condescending. J.L.

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world-shattering plot twists, but because The Guest so resolutely resists the comforts of context. In an anonymous small town, a soft-spoken, steely-eyed ex-soldier named David appears at the door of a grieving suburban family, claiming to have known their recently deceased son. When pictures confirm his identity, the family invites David to stay, but their guest comes under suspicion when bodies start piling up. There is a stony ambivalence to the way that the film refuses to build a coherent mythology, and the script weaves intimations of PTSD-related horror into the story in interesting ways. But most of that is dropped in the final stretch, and while you can practically hear Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett giggling with self-satisfaction from behind the camera, the ending feels like a shrug. D.B.

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grunge bands such as Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and Foo Fighters.

But, unlike the those acts Del Chiaro grew up on, The Royal Jelly plays songs that have a looser feel—ones that are rich with a sense of open space. The musician credits his bandmates with the shift.

“There’s structures to the songs ... but there’s a lot of room for interpretation,” he explains. “The people I’ve put together, and the way they play with one another, allows for sonic space. It’s almost like jazz in a way, where there’s space for people to step up and make cool things happen and everyone can hear it.”

When The Royal Jelly started playing again last year, the musicians largely worked off their frontman’s songs. Now, as they’ve played together longer, they’ve started writing new material as a group. There’s no album yet, but Del Chiaro hopes that changes soon as they take their individual influences— heavy alt-rock, folk, indierock—and distill them down into a single unique sound.

“I don’t have any qualms with making a super diverse record [that confuses] people … as to what to call this band,” Del Chiaro says.

And when it does comes out, he adds, he’s actually excited to actively promote it—a noted departure from how Del Chiaro felt about that solo endeavor. In fact the once-shy musician’s even decided to “bite the bullet” and make a web page. pHoTo couRTeSy oF THe Royal Jelly

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Local musician Marc Del Chiaro had always wanted to make a solo record—something on which he could play just about every instrument and by Aaron Carnes vocal part. And after 15 years of playing in local bands, he finally accomplished just that with the folk-influenced rock album Dreams v. Reality, released in 2012. For the album release show, Del Chiaro gathered up some musician friends to back him up and make a big event of it because even though the record was billed under his name, Del Chiaro found he wasn’t comfortable playing by himself.

The Royal Jelly opens for Saint Solitaire at 8 p.m. Thursday, November 6 at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2706 J Street. Tickets are $8. For more on the artist, visit www.facebook.com/ theroyaljellyband.

“A solo CD release show would have been a drag,” Del Chiaro says now. “It was billed as ‘Marc Del Chiaro,’ but in all fairness, it was The Royal Jelly.”

The band’s name was inspired during rehearsal banter, and after that initial show, it’s the name Del Chiaro started using for performances. They played a handful of shows, with an ever-rotating lineup, until 2013 when Del Chiaro had the opportunity to travel through South America with his girlfriend. The trip lasted four months and after he returned to Sacramento, Del Chiaro discovered many of the musicians with whom he’d previously played were now busy with other projects.

All but one that is: Shawn Tindall, the bassist who’d played his release show—and whom the musician really barely knew at the time.

“Everyone had lost steam, but I was still in tune with [Tindall],” Del Chiaro said. “He [told me], ‘We got to revive this.”

Eventually, the pair recruited guitarist Colin Viera and drummer Spencer Mowery to play in The Royal Jelly reboot and the band played its first gig last October.

The band’s new incarnation featured a heavier, more driving sound—something closer to Del Chiaro’s primary influences: ’90s

“ There’s structures to the songs ... but there’s a lot of room for interpretation.

The people I’ve put together, and the way they play with one another, allows for sonic space.”

Marc Del Chiaro singer-songwriter, The Royal Jelly “I want the music to be more accessible and I want my friends that I play with to shine,” he says. “I want to put out a really solid product and that’s what I want people to know about.” Ω

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Rad-tastic noise and kitschy classics Not burger: I thought I was going to a barbecue.

The Facebook event read, “BUR GUR & HABITS.” And me being me, I scanned it quickly and assumed it had to do with burgers and silliness. Alas, it was actually a promotion for an intimate Midtown house show last Monday night, starring Los Angeles bands Bur Gur and Habits.

There were no hamburgers and no, these bands aren’t even signed with Burger Records. Silliness did abound though—mostly in titles.

Bur Gur’s latest album, for example, is Alligator Cheesecake.

Bur Gur involved two dudes— one with bare feet, one with mismatched socks—on samplers, synthesizer, guitars barely used and a standing drum. Sometimes it got psychedelic, and even tropical, like in the jam session track called “Jamzzsz.” Rad-tastic.

I was less wild about Habits, mostly because of the dining room’s acoustics. Listening to Habits’ record Unselves in Arrival, though, is a huge treat—Dustin Krapes layers crazy samples, synth and drums into a distorted, metaphysical world of sound. The music is eclectic and challenging, all while maintaining definable song structures.

Live, in that house, the drums overtook all and Krapes ran around mumbling and screaming whoknows-what. Impressive energy though. And hair. I didn’t see his eyes until he finished the set.

Tap and swing: Attend a Hot Sardines concert and you’ll hear a pianist who evokes the 1920s, while smoking an E-cigar.

This is New Orleans-reminiscent hot jazz, served with a wink. With fantastic musicianship—and some kitschiness—the New York-based, eight-piece band manages to make old classics sound fresh and new.

The Hot Sardines performed at the Mondavi Center at UC Davis for four days last week—Wednesday through Saturday—in the smaller, cabaret-style theater. The setting was ideal—dark, intimate and with a bar accessible all night—and the band looked the part, donning suits, ties and pocket squares.

Piano, drums, upright bass, trumpet, saxophone, washboard and cowbell were all expected from such a large band, but there was also a surprise percussionist: a tap dancer.

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Paris-born Miz Elizabeth sings in a deep, old-timey style, and as if she’s been perfecting it for years.

Remarkably, she’s totally untrained and the Sardines is her first band.

And the band’s current tour is its first national tour ever. In Davis, it nearly or completely sold out every show.

Hopefully a band like The Hot Sardines—young, energetic, fun—can draw a new generation of jazz lovers out of hiding. I was one of maybe four people in the room under the age of 50 last Wednesday night. Let’s just say few laughed when the pianist showed off his tall, red sock, emblazoned with the word, “Naughty.”

Purple beats: If the color purple were to have a sound, it might be something like NastyNasty. At least, that’s what George Galea is banking on for his heavy bass event production company’s two-year birthday party scheduled for Friday, October 24. Just like last year, Galea will deck out the Head on High Productions event in purple. Purple drinks, purple costumes—if you show up dressed in purple, you get in for $12 instead of $15.

Local producers and Head on High residents—Tzolkeen, Zypher, Crescendo, Fifth Bar Drop—also play. But the guest talent, Jasper Reed a.k.a. NastyNasty, is seriously exciting. The San Jose-based producer started out by decking out alternative hip-hop and Southern rap with crazy synths, releasing music as NastyNasty about five years ago.

His work is intricate and futuristic, and live, he mixes his originals with regional booty bass styles—Baltimore club, Philly club, Miami booty and Chicago ghetto house, if we want to get technical—along with grime, hyphy and trap. Being Galea’s party, you can expect it to be crazy with bass—NastyNasty also used to play Grimey in its heydey. He describes his own sets as “some kind of sonic jambalaya.” Tasty.

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If you have a penchant for putting on a freaky Halloween costume and getting down to some world-class funk, jam and bluegrass FESTIVAL music, then the Hangtown Halloween Ball is the place for you. This year’s stellar line-up includes slam grass pioneers Leftover Salmon, and New Orleans funk legends The Meter Men. Mandolinist Jeff Austin, formerly of Yonder Mountain String Band, and improvisational funk group The Motet will also perform during the four-day festival. Sacramento’s the Nibblers (pictured) are back after playing a great set at last year’s festival. Each night has its own costume theme—such as Saturday’s “Straight Off The Mothership” and Sunday’s “Zombie Prom Disco.” 100 Placerville Drive in Placerville, www.hangtownhalloween.com.

Witch Room, 8 p.m., $8-$10

Bay Area rap icon Husalah will be spitting old-school hip-hop-influenced raps this Friday. Just make sure you show up dressed in your Sunday best or you might not get in.

Why? Because of an absolutely absurd dress code: “NO HATS. NO SPORTS ATTIRE. No Visible Tattoos. No Shorts.” This description excludes just about everyone in Midtown that might be interested in attending, so it’ll be interesting to see how it’s enforced. The shorts-wearing community of Sacramento could be up in arms. If you’re tattooed anyHIP-HOP where other than the inside of your eyelids, find something else to do Friday night, unless you plan on wearing your mummy costume a week early. 1815 19th Street, www.twitter.com/ iamhusalah.

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Crest Theatre, 8 p.m., $35-$55

The third (and latest) album by London indie-pop quartet Allo Darlin’ is the most mature, confident, and well-produced effort the group has released. It brings to mind the bittersweet pop recordings of Camera Obscura and Belle and Sebastian. Interestingly, INDIE-POP the songs just flowed out of band leader Elizabeth Morris in a whirlwind, during a time when she was getting married and moving to Italy. Originally, she fronted the band as a ukulele player (bringing a much more wistful, twee-pop vibe), but now the group’s sound leans a lot heavier on a lush, undistorted electric guitar.

It encapsulates youthful joy and contemplative melancholy with some of the most hummable melodies possible. 1819 19th Street, www.allodarlin.com.

Call him the “Duke of Uke.” Jake Shimabukuro has spent much of the last decade completely redefining our notions of what the ukulele should sound like through a series of exquisite and adventurous albums that have featured everything from covers of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” to his own creations, like “Missing Three”—which he recorded on a three-stringed ukulele. An award-winning documentary, Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings, came out in 2012, and that’s no small honor given that Shimabukuro will only be turning 38 next month. Using the ukulele WORLD to navigate the worlds of pop, rock, jazz, folk and even orchestral music? That’s truly masterful.

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Brothers Mark and John Gallagher started Raven 30 years ago. It’s just one of a few New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands to persevere. Rounded out by drummer Joe Hasselvander, who has been in the band since 1987, the band has not been as prolific as fans would like. Still, its catalog includes more than a dozen albums, and the band helped pave the way for bands such as Metallica and Anthrax to get major-label record contracts. Even the band’s grossly overlooked 2009 release, Walk Through Fire, METAL is better than 99 percent of metal releases since then. Make no mistake, you will never see the band in a venue this size again. 1400 Alhambra Blvd, www.ravenlunatics.com.

Witch Room, 7 p.m., $12

Taking its name from a passage in Don DeLillo’s postmodern classic White Noise, the Airborne Toxic Event’s sweeping, majestic, ROCK very literate music particularly recalls Arcade Fire for its moody drama. The Los Angeles quintet was birthed during a bad, mortality-weighing week for fiction writer Mikel Jollett, during which he turned his distress into songs. ATE’s selftitled 2008 debut did well enough to earn a deal from Island Records. It released 2011’s All at Once and last year’s Such Hot Blood, which dials back the pomp. This affords the group room to rock a bit harder, though that’s not always its strength. 1417 R Street, www.theairbornetoxicevent.com.

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Ace of Spades, 7 p.m., $21

Vermont’s Kyle Thomas is a strange dude.

Known better as King Tuff, he’s released three albums in the DIY, underground scene—the latest, September’s Black Moon Spell, a fuzzy, distorted dive into ’70s glam rock. It hits notes from more time periods— the psychedelic ’60s, rock ’n’ roll ’50s, even some metal from the ’80s—while still sounding, very much, like an artist on Sub Pop and Burger records. Still, Black Moon Spell GARAGE ROCK carries Thomas’ heaviest stuff yet (past albums could’ve fallen under the lowfi, indie rock or even indie-pop label). Don’t show up too late: La Sera, the latest project of ex-Vivian Girl Katy Goodman, also plays.

1815 19th Street, www.kingtuffworld.com.

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—Janelle Bitker

As one of the first acts in the horrorcore rap genre, Brotha Lynch Hung would probably be Sacto’s most chilling and shock-worthy kept secret—if he hadn’t sold tons of albums and been inducted into the Sammies Hall of HORRORCORE RAP Fame. Not so hush-hush.

The emcee’s latest album, Mannibalector, released last February, is the last part of a trio of albums filled with stories of a demented cannibalistic serial killer. Many of Lynch’s lyrics flirt with topics of misogyny, violence and dining on human flesh, but that hasn’t stopped artists like Snoop Dogg, Tech N9ne and Yelawolf from collaborating with him. Playah K and Reign open this Halloween-eve performance. 1417 R Street, www.facebook.com/ therealbrothalynchhung.

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All the trimmings How much money can you make harvesting marijuana during this time of year? My friend says there’s work for me up north but I wanted to know what you think.

—Mike Grant-Labor Yes. You can make good money. But the money is not particularly easy to get. It requires long hours and hard work, like being on an Alaskan fishing boat, except you probably won’t be thrown overboard or washed out to sea.

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Plus, trimming can be boring as hell. You basically sit in a cabin and trim until your muscles cramp up, then you switch hands and trim some more. Perhaps if you are with some cool folks, there may be good conversation and decent food. But really, you just sit and trim and trim and sit. It can be a bit meditative if you have the right mindset, but it’s like working an Don’t just show mostly assembly line.

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emp is mostly known for being the “non-psychoactive” parts of the cannabis plant. But could it also be the solution to all our problems? In the book “Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution,” New Mexico-based author Doug Fine makes a compelling case that the U.S. is on the verge of the next agricultural revolution with hemp. But thanks to more than 70 years of misguided drug policy, we’ve been denied access to this plant and its incredibly versatile uses, including food, fiber, energy and even building materials in the form of hempcrete (a mixture of hemp fiber and lime used as construction material). Fine even uses hemp as fodder for his goats on his ranch.

“When you talk about hemp and all its uses, you’re in danger of sounding like the roommate you had with the lava lamp,” says Fine, who will appear during this weekend’s California Capital Book Festival. “But it will have a bigger and more positive impact than most people realize. In the next 5-10 years, you’re going to see a massive ramp up of hemp used in food, industrial and energy applications in the U.S.” In the book, Fine traces hemp’s pre-revolutionary origins in the U.S. to its prohibition in 1937. He interviews several hemp industry experts, including one of the largest hemp seed producers in Canada, and energy executives, who speak about hemp as a carbon-friendly energy source. He also speaks to politicians lobbying for hemp’s return. With congressional legalization of hemp

for research purposes this year, Fine concludes that it is only a matter of time before it becomes a common and profitable harvest crop. Just this year, Congress added hemp research to the U.S. farm bill — the first time since the movie “Reefer Madness” was released — and is even considering a bill to allow full commercial cultivation.

“In 1942, the United States Department of Agriculture released a film produced during the war called ‘Hemp for Victory’ that basically says everything people are saying now — what an important crop hemp is for national security,” Fine says.

“It acknowledges that it’s important to get hemp back into our soil and there is absolutely room for hemp to fit into our agricultural model.”

“ When you talk about hemp and all its uses, you’re in danger of sounding like the roommate you had with the lava lamp.”

Doug Fine, author of “Hemp Bound”

Fine will appear at the California Capital Book Festival at 1 p.m. Saturday and will join a panel discussion with fellow author Peter Hecht at 1 p.m.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The driest

place on the planet is the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. It gets about a half-inch of rain per year. And yet in 2011, archaeologists discovered that it’s also home to a site containing the fossilized skeletons of numerous whales and other ancient sea creatures. I’m detecting a metaphorically comparable anomaly in your vicinity, Aries. A seemingly arid, empty part of your life harbors buried secrets that are available for you to explore. If you follow the clues, you may discover rich pickings that will inspire you to revise your history.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

Businessman Warren Buffet is worth $65.1 billion, but regularly gives away 27 percent of his fortune to charity.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates owns $78 billion, and donates 36 percent. Then there are the members of the Walton family, owners of Walmart, where 100 million Americans shop weekly. The Waltons have $136 billion, of which they contribute .04 percent to good causes. You are not wealthy in the same way these people are, Taurus. Your riches consist of resources like your skills, relationships, emotional intelligence, creative power, and capacity for love. My invitation to you is to be extra generous with those assets—not as lavish as Buffet or Gates, perhaps, but much more than the Waltons. You are in a phase when giving your gifts is one of the best things you can do to bolster your own health, wealth, and well-being.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You have

two options. You can be in denial about your real feelings and ignore what needs to be fixed and wait for trouble to come find you. Or else you can vow to be resilient and summon your feistiest curiosity and go out searching for trouble. The difference between these two approaches is dramatic. If you mope and sigh and hide, the messy trouble that arrives will be indigestible. But if you are brave and proactive, the interesting trouble you get will ultimately evolve into a blessing.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Astronauts on the International Space Station never wash their underwear. They don’t have enough water at their disposal to waste on a luxury like that. Instead, they fling the dirty laundry out into space. As it falls to Earth, it burns up in the atmosphere.

I wish you had an amenity like that right now. In fact, I wish you had a host of amenities like that. If there was ever a time when you should be liberated from having to wash your underwear, make your bed, sweep the floor, and do the dishes, it would be now. Why? Because there are much better ways to spend your time.

You’ve got sacred quests to embark on, heroic adventures to accomplish, historical turning points to initiate.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What are those

new whisperings in your head? Are they messages from your inner teacher? Beacons beamed back through time from the Future You? Clues from the wise parts of your unconscious mind? Whatever they are, Leo, pay attention. These signals from the Great Beyond may not be clear yet, but if you are sufficiently patient, they will eventually tell you how to take advantage of a big plot twist.

But here’s a caveat: Don’t automatically believe every single thing the whisperings tell you. Their counsel may not be 100-percent accurate. Be both receptive and discerning toward them.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the

English-speaking world, a sundae is a luxurious dessert that features ice cream topped with sweet treats like syrup, sprinkles, and fruits. In Korea, a sundae is something very different. It consists of a cow’s or pig’s intestines crammed with noodles, barley, and pig’s blood. I expect that in the coming week you will be faced with a decision that has metaphorical similarities to the choice between a sundae and a sundae. Make sure you are quite clear about the true nature of each option.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The average

serving of pasta on a typical American’s plate is almost 480 percent bigger than what’s recommended as a healthy portion. So says a research paper titled “The Contribution of Expanding Portion Sizes to

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Children

are the most desirable opponents at Scrabble,” declares Scorpio author Fran Lebowitz, “as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.” I don’t wholeheartedly endorse that advice for you in the coming days, Scorpio. But would you consider a milder version of it? Let’s propose, instead, that you simply seek easy victories to boost your confidence and hone your skills. By this time next week, if all goes well, you will be ready to take on more ambitious challenges.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

You are entering a phase when you will have more luck than usual as you try to banish parasitic influences, unworthy burdens, and lost causes. Here are some projects you might want to work on: 1. Bid farewell to anyone who brings out the worst in you; 2. Heal the twisted effect an adversary has had on you; 3. Get rid of any object that symbolizes failure or pathology; 4. Declare your independence from a situation that wastes your time or drains your resources; 5. Shed any guilt you feel for taking good care of yourself; 6. Stop a bad habit cold turkey.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Are you ready to be as affable as a Sagittarius, as charismatic as a Leo, as empathetic as a Cancerian, and as vigorous an instigator as an Aries? No? You’re not? You’re afraid that would require you to push yourself too far outside your comfort zone? OK, then. Are you willing to be half as affable as a Sagittarius, half as charismatic as a Leo, half as empathetic as a Cancerian, and half as inspiring an instigator as an Aries? Or even a quarter as much? I hope you will at least stretch yourself in these directions, Capricorn, because doing so would allow you to take maximum advantage of the spectacular social opportunities that will be available for you in the next four weeks.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the

coming weeks I hope you will find practical ways to express your new-found freedom.

All the explorations and experiments you have enjoyed recently were fun and provocative, but now it’s time to use the insights they sparked to upgrade your life back in the daily grind. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. I love it when you are dreamy and excitable and farseeing, and would never ask you to tone down those attractive qualities.

But I am also rooting for you to bring the high-flying parts of you down to earth so that you can reap the full benefits of the bounty they have stirred up. If you work to become more well-grounded, I predict that you will be situated in a new power spot by December 1.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The heavy

metal band known as Hatebeak broadened the definition of what constitutes music.

Its lead singer was Waldo, an African Grey parrot. A review by Aquarius Records called Waldo’s squawks “completely and stupidly brilliant.” For Hatebeak’s second album, they collaborated with animal rights’ activists in the band Caninus, whose lead vocalists were two pitbull terriers, Basil and Budgie. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I’d love to see you get inspired by these experiments. I think you will generate interesting results as you explore expansive, even unprecedented approaches in your own chosen field.

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.

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Gin and blossoms When someone offers homemade alcohol, it’s usually a bad idea to accept. However, it’s actually a great idea when the person asking is Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar’s Ian Young, and he’s offering up a sample of his homemade jenever, an old-time juniper-flavored spirit which eventually evolved into gin. Earlier this year, the bartender worked as an intern at a jenever-based cocktail competition in Amsterdam called the Bols Around The World 2014 Bartending Championship. Now he’s working with a partner to create a Northern California-made brand of jenever (the name’s still to-be-determined).

After a recent weekday bartending shift, SN&R asked Young about crazy drunks, and what it takes to make his fancy booze.

What’s your craziest bartending story?

Last year when I was working at the Shady Lady Saloon, a young lady came to the bar with two young gentlemen. All three had a drink each and shared some small happy-hour appetizers. After that the two gentlemen left and the young lady had a couple more drinks. She was very nice and very personable from the beginning. She seemed kind of the shy type but very intellectual and smart. But anyway, she started getting a little buzzed, I could tell. And then she goes, “Can I get another drink?”

And I was like, “let me pour you a glass of water and I’ll get you another drink in a minute.” And so I got her a glass of water [and then] I said “Hey, I’m going to have to cut you off, I apologize, but I’ll get you another glass of water, and if you need me to call you a cab, great.”

I made some drinks for some other people. She was right in front of my well.

I put down my tins, and I go over and put drinks down in front of other people. She bends over and grabs the tins I made the drinks in, and drinks the leftover liquid and puts it down.

I was like, “Did you just drink from my tin?”

And then I could tell she was really drunk. All of a sudden, she just started speaking sloppily and was like “You shouldn’t have left it there in front of me to drink, then,” or something like that.

What happened next?

I was like “OK, I’m going to have to ask you to leave now. Would you like any help out or a taxi?” [She said] “No, thank you” [and] I was like “OK.” And I waved at the door man, George, and she paid her bill and he escorted her out and we got her a cab and it was totally fine.

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It’s the first spirit he produced under Dutch and Dewey Distillery. He was curious, so we had a ... tasting, and I told him about the distillation process and the ingredients, and I told him stuff I learned about Bols from working with them. He was really intrigued and really liked their product. He knew I was really enthusiastic about it, and I told him about my Dutch background and heritage and everything. Then, he was like “I’d really like to get into doing this one.”

How did you get started?

Over the course of about a month-and-ahalf, I became his consultant on jenever.

We had conversations over the phone about sourcing the ingredients, researching distillation and how to go about it.

About a month ago, we volumed out all of our botanicals, and did a whole day of running a batch out. It took us a whole day to get about three-and-a-half bottles out and figure out the flavor profiles that we like. I now have two bottles that we made.

How would you describe its taste? And how do you make it?

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Traditionally rye is the main grain used in malt wine, plus corn, wheat and malted barely. Then that’s blended with what is essentially a botanical distillate, which is essentially what a gin is. But unlike gin, there’s less juniper with jenever. You can get as crazy as you want to get with the jenever distillate, though. Ours also has coriander, Cascade hops, fresh grapefruit peel, fresh orange peel, fresh lemon peel, star anise, regular anise, dill seed, celery root, caraway, cloves, allspice and cinnamon. But everything [tastes] a little bit less intense than a traditional gin.

So how do you make it?

Once [the distillate is] made and you have the malt wine, then you blend both and let it marry, and let it sit for about a week or so, and then it’s probably good to go. Let it age for about one to two years and it’s about 90 proof.

When will it be out?

Right now we’ve been doing tastings with industry professionals to get feedback and really fine tune the recipe. As for the release day, the goal is December, right before the holidays, for the young jenever.

And it’ll take about another year for the aged one to be out.

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