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Off air and off the mark

By U.S. standards, Canadian radio show host Jian Ghomeshi isn’t particularly famous. The CBC show Q, for which Ghomeshi interviewed artists, celebrities, etc., is syndicated (including weeknights on Capital Public Radio), but never earned him widespread attention here. Still, news of his October 26 firing reverberated across the border.

Reports on the reason for his termination are provocative, but it’s the media’s treatment of such that’s more compelling. And, largely, infuriating.

The CBC, in a news story posted on its web page, reported it had fired Ghomeshi over “information” it received regarding claims from three women, accusing him of violent attacks.

Ghomeshi, for his part, posted a lengthy Facebook message in which he called the allegations “false.”

Rather, Ghomeshi wrote that his proclivity for “mutually agreed upon” BDSM led to his termination because the CBC feared his “private sex life being made public.”

It’s not the first time he’s faced such charges. In 2013, an XOJane writer accused a Canadian radio host of “creepy,” persistent advances.

Ghomeshi wasn’t named but, apparently, was so easily identifiable that he contacted his publicist for advice, according to Toronto Life magazine.

Whatever the truth, some of the most unsettling details so far arrived via the Toronto Star, which interviewed Ghomeshi’s three alleged victims and then described them as: “All educated and employed.”

What the hell? Why are educational background or employment relevant?

Adding such details just serves as a coded signal that it’s OK to believe these women. Oh, lucky them.

A degree and a job (or lack thereof) doesn’t affect credibility, but it’s clear that Ghomeshi’s accusers are on trial here, too.

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No one from California, that is for sure. I would vote for Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers.

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Re “Sacramento’s Specialty Coffee Week is good to the last drop� by Janelle Bitker (SN&R Arts & Culture, October 16): As a former resident of both Seattle and San Francisco and a newcomer to Sacramento, I appreciate (crave!) a cup of well-crafted coffee. I’m happy to see people in the industry who are passionate about their work and process.

But did anyone else find Sean Kohmescher’s comments pretentious? Ironic, given that consumer fear of such “artisinal pretension� is addressed only a few paragraphs later. Maybe his desire to educate the illiterate ’bucks-swilling masses about their linguistic errors came across as more letter of patrician than he meant. But to me, it echoes an overall the week attitude I’ve experienced from many baristas in specialty coffee shops in Sacramento, which I think is unfortunate. It’s great to be passionate, and it’s great to educate. But it’s also great to realize, among other things, a $4 cup a day is not an economic reality for many people. When it comes down to it, many of us just want our coffee with a smile, whether it’s a wellbalanced South American blend or a doughnut-shop hazelnut-flavored cuppa.

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If you had, you would know she is proud public-education recipient and has spent years advocating and fighting for public higher education. The only camp she is in is the “what’s best for the children camp.�

The California Charter Schools Association Advocates independently (that means no contact with Ryan) is fighting against Linda Tuttle (who has stated that there is no place for charter schools) and is spending money on her opposition. Bites, if you had spoken with Ryan, you would have heard that she has not received any money from charter schools. You would understand that Ryan is an independent thinker who cannot be so easily dismissed.

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Re “Another look at the Sacramento City school board races� by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Bites, October 23): Poor Bites. He seems to have lost a few teeth, as he can’t seem to keep reality in his jaws. Clearly, his dislike of Jay Schenirer and Patrick Kennedy has a long history. Who knows if he bothers listening to them? During the looting of parts of Oak Park in the last redistricting process, he certainly did not listen to me, but decided that many fighting the process were in the mayor’s pocket. It never seemed to matter when I assured him that, as the president of the neighborhood association, I was not even communicating with the mayor. Oh well. Listening is not what Bites is about.

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Race to vote Despite diverse candidates like Jonathan Tran, Sacramento’s political establishment leans heavy on white males School-board candidate Jonathan R. Tran is sweating through his plaid dress shirt. But it isn’t by nerves that are causing the first-time politiRaheem cal aspirant to perspire; it’s the damn heat.

F. Hosseini A high orange sun beats down on a neighborhood behind the UC Davis r a h eem@ news r eview.c om Children’s Hospital, near Y and 42nd streets. One of a dozen candidates running for four contested seats on the Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Education, Tran has been jetting to southcity neighborhoods like this one every day after work to introduce himself to prospective voters and, in some cases, explain that there’s an election coming up.

“This time around, I think it’s a much more visceral reason [to vote],” he says.

He’s referring to the school board’s decision last year to close seven elementary schools, a wildly contentious decision that spurred a lawsuit and charges that the fast-tracked process masked a desire to spare affluent, whiter neighborhoods at the expense of poorer, minority ones.

It’s also a big reason why Tran is running. The son of Vietnamese refugees, Tran and his fellow grassroots organizers at Hmong Innovating Politics have been beating the same drum since forming the group a couple of years ago: To help marginalized communities, you need to elect the marginalized.

It’s a bit of a Catch-22, and Tran is the first HIP activist to put his donor money where his mouth is. But he doesn’t expect to be the last. The group is grooming other members for the political stage. Meanwhile, a separate organization is also working behind the scenes to steer people of color and inequality into positions of influence.

The area could do with an injection of diversity. Of the top 39 elected positions in Sacramento County—those governing six cities and the unincorporated county—only nine are held by women. Only five positions are occupied by black individuals.

Asians take up two locally elected seats, while a Latino takes up one.

To put it another way, the county’s top office holders are 79.5 percent white and 77 percent male.

“Wow,” says Veronica Beaty of the Sacramento Housing Alliance. Beaty had actually heard that figure before from a local labor leader. “But,” she adds, “I guess I hoped he was wrong.”

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Candidate Jonathan Tran chats with an unidentified resident about his run for the Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Education.

Beaty’s own work on the Sacramento Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute aims to change this. One of a handful across the country, the BCLI acts as a farm league for getting people from underrepresented communities into leadership roles.

The BCLI does this by hosting a dozen nominees every year for a six-month, 80-hour training program that primes graduates for appointments on quietly influential municipal boards and commissions.

BCLI participants first have to be nominated from underrepresented communities, Beaty says, so that they have neighbors they’re accountable to upon completing the program. “We’re trying to make some coordinated change,” she says.

The county’s top office holders are 79.5 percent white and 77 percent male.

Several grads are already serving on parks-and-recreation commissions, community-planning advisory councils and public-health boards. These positions often serve as precursors to running for elected office, which is the goal, Beaty explains.

“We haven’t had any graduates run for office yet.”

While Toni Colley-Perry didn’t take the BCLI track, she pulled from a similar playbook. A onetime school board candidate herself, the 57-year-old educational consultant enrolled in an 11-week Citizen’s Planning Academy in preparation for her run for the Sacramento City Council’s

District 8 seat. She’s facing off against three men to succeed Bonnie Pannell, who tapped frontrunner Larry Carr to take her place. If Carr wins, that would leave one woman on the nine-member city council.

“It’s so precious to have a woman’s input, especially a woman of color and especially a woman from a low-income background,” Colley-Perry says.

More than the gender imbalance, the formerly homeless Colley-Perry thinks the current council suffers from an economic one that’s disillusioned her south-city district. “Twenty-two thousand registered voters and only 4,000 think it’s worth it to vote,” she says. “I know the issues that people are dealing with. … [Her opponents have] never had a day of hunger. They’ve never eaten beans two days in a row.”

The heavily outspent Colley-Perry acknowledges she may need another election cycle to make that case.

A chain-link fence wraps around a beige house. On the porch, Tran converses with the woman who lives there. It’s not something you often see during these quick-hit, grip-and-grin precinct walks. Minutes pass.

The two actually exchange ideas. Suddenly aware of the heat, the woman says, almost apologetically, “It’s hot out here!”

“It’s very hot right here,” Tran laughs, before making his way down a shared courtyard to knock on more doors.

This may be the 28-year-old community organizer’s first time seeking office, but it’s not his first political rodeo. He worked in the state Legislature under both Senator Sheila Kuehl and Assemblyman Mike Eng. Two years ago, he and his fellow HIP organizers helped Steve Ly become the first person of Hmong descent to win a local

office, for the Elk Grove Unified School District Board of Education.

Now, Ly is trying to move up the ladder, competing for a seat on the Elk Grove City Council against three others. There’s nary a white male face in the bunch.

When it became clear that Area 7 trustee Patrick Kennedy was graduating to the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, HIP organizers gathered with local parents to discuss potential successors.

Tran says the goal then was to convince a parent to run; there was plenty of passion, just not enough time or political experience.

“They wanted someone to run,” he says.

The conch landed in Tran’s lap. He had planned to run for office, just not necessarily this one. Tran turned his home into campaign headquarters, stocked with volunteers working the phones as he solicits endorsements from political organizations and parent groups.

He chuckles at how he’s been portrayed in the media. In its editorial endorsements, The Sacramento Bee reduced Tran to being a “Southeast Asian activist.” Tran points out that the school-closures lawsuit that HIP spearheaded was on behalf of plaintiff families who are 80 percent Latino.

While HIP may have started as a way to educate and empower Sacramento’s Hmong population, it quickly evolved into a crusading group for all underrepresented communities. It’s also closing in on its goal of being an incubator for political leaders who are young, passionate and diverse.

(Read: neither white nor male.)

“We can kick and scream all we want, but unless we can turn out the votes, no one will give a shit,” he says frankly. Ω

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Voter intimidation in Sacramento is real—and not what you think Soon after June’s barrel-scraping statewide primary set the lowest voter-turnout numbers on record, a familiar narraby tive began: Californians are too Raheem F. Hosseini spoiled and too apathetic to participate and in their democracy.

Erin With the November 4 general E. Young election days away—and projections ra heemh@ for another tepid turnout, despite a newsre view.c om stacked ballot with a record number of bond and tax measures—a related question is getting plenty of play: Are the haters right? Do we just not care?

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She believes the key way to counteract this status quo is through community mobilization efforts like the one Haney is involved with.

Another person working on that front is Danielle Williams. An organizer with Sacramento Area Congregations Together, which is taking part in the national “Let My People Vote” campaign, Williams says churches provide great access to non-voting minority residents.

“Imagine the power they would have ILLUSTRATION BY BRIAN BRENEMAN

statewide review of high-school-civics education standards.

The review isn’t mandatory, however, and the bill’s author, former Sen. Darrell Steinberg, acknowledges that it’s just one piece of the puzzle.

“People just need to understand that if you don’t vote, your opinion matters less because you get what you choose or what you fail to choose,” he told SN&R before leaving office.

“I do my very best to talk to fourth graders who visit the Capitol, and I tell them that I work for them.”

Haney wants to bring her women’s center’s clients to the Capitol during planned legislative field trips. Her goal is to increase community involvement in state politics, and make the whitedomed building feel less foreign and inaccessible. In the land of fancy suits and ties, joked Haney, “You can’t say ‘fuck’ at the Capitol.”

“People just need to understand that if you don’t vote, your opinion matters less.”

Darrell Steinberg former President Pro Tem, California State Senate On the contrary, say local civicengagement leaders. “They actually care quite a bit,” said Pam Haney of the Wellspring Women’s Center. “But they’re nervous to give their opinion if they don’t completely understand what they are voting for.”

Haney started a “Vote by Mail Party” this year in an effort to build a voting culture for the center’s minority and underrepresented clients. Volunteers walk the female participants and their families through the crowded ballot, one item at a time, in an effort to take the confusion out of voting.

“It’s not only about voting,” Haney added. “It’s about them feeling like they matter, because they do.”

Ironically, those who stand to lose the most by not participating in elections are the ones most likely to sit on their hands come Election Day, say experts.

“Socioeconomic status is the No. 1 predictor if you’ll vote,” said Mindy Romero, director of the California Civic Engagement Project at UC Davis.

Civic engagement leaders say underrepresented voters can feel intimidated by their own ballots.

Wellspring Women’s Center is offering a Vote by Mail tutorial on November 4.

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locally in Sacramento [if they voted],” she said.

Her goal is to get all church attendees registered and out to the polls—next week and beyond. “It is our moral duty to vote, which has been significantly challenged across the country,” Williams added.

Although voting restrictions and voter-ID requirements have been enacted in other states, they haven’t reached California. And they most likely won’t, says professor Kimberly Nalder, director of Sacramento State’s Project for an Informed Electorate.

“There’s no way that’s happening here,” she said.

But Romero says the system is failing voters in subtler ways. “There’s this attitude, especially from youth, this disconnection that politicians simply don’t care,” she said. “Kids are not really receiving the how, and especially the why, on voting.”

That’s where Senate Bill 897 hopes to come in. Signed into law by the governor last month, it aims to strengthen civic learning in adulteducation programs and encourages a

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But more delicate voting-suppression efforts—from gerrymandered districts to negative campaigning to political candidates who only play to the extremist rafters—have already disillusioned the average voter.

Only 29.6 percent of Sacramento County’s registered voters—less than 204,000 individuals—turned out in June, the lowest figure in at least 78 years, dating back to the 1936 presidential primary, when voter participation numbers first started being tracked. (Sacramento’s participation figure drops to 21.3 percent if you consider the number of residents who are eligible to vote.) Statewide, only 25.2 percent of registered voters, or 18.4 percent of eligible voters, participated.

“If you don’t have a representative elective that really connects with its people, is it a robust democracy? Not really,” Romero said.

Which raises the question: If people stop participating in their democracy, can you still call it that? Ω

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The words “food truck” and “healthy” rarely go together. Yet locally-grown business Granola Girl is going the mobile route, bringing good eats and juice cleansers to Sacramento yogis starting mid-November.

It’s not a de facto vegan, gluten-free truck, but a lot of the options are vegan and gluten-free.

Saba Rahimian, a 24-year-old former yoga teacher, started Granola Girl in February. She’s been selling a line of granolas and snacks online, as well as appearing at yoga classes and special events like TBD Fest. She emphasizes that Granola Girl was born first and foremost out of her love for food.

“I’m Iranian-American and I grew up in a family and household where food was just a huge part of life,” she says.

“But our relationship to food was cultural and not necessarily associated with nutrition. As I grew older, I wanted certain goals for my own body and fitness level, and I started seeing family members get diabetes and have high cholesterol. I felt like I had to work so much harder to reach the goals I wanted.”

She turned to the yoga community and took notes on what fellow athletes ate: raw kale, turmeric, chia seeds, flax seeds, ginger, maca powder. But the way those ingredients were prepared—aka with little preparation—didn’t taste so great. So Rahimian went into the kitchen and experimented.

Out came most of the recipes that will be used aboard the Granola Girl food truck. Her granola is notably crunchy, warmed with spices and loaded with nuts and seeds. An added nutritional boost comes from her syrup, infused with raw hemp protein, turmeric and maca powder.

To make it all happen, Rahimian teamed up with Adam Lovelace, a newcomer to Sacramento with cooking and management experience at Masa’s and Millennium in San Francisco and The Girl and the Fig in Sonoma. Rahimian admits the truck probably won’t be super-popular outside breweries, but she plans to hit festivals and events on the weekends.

Otherwise, find the truck at Granola Girl’s headquarters at 5401 H Street next month. (Janelle Bitker)

Fowl romance A multi-year drought has claimed another cruel casualty— duck love.

According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s waterfowl breeding population survey for 2014, the estimated number of breeding ducks this year is 23 percent below the long-term average.

Not all wintering birds suffered from drought-stricken libidos, however. The breeding grounds up north for several other species of waterfowl were favorable, with the CDFW survey indicating the largest numbers in waterfowl since surveying began in 1955.

Survival may be a different matter. There may not be enough available plants, seeds and aquatic invertebrates in the dried-up wetlands and rice fields for waterfowl to dine on, said Jeff Smith, program coordinator for California Waterfowl.

“Drought puts a strain on waterfowl in general.”

Flooded rice fields in the Central Valley are 16 percent below their normal levels, according to a report from Ducks Unlimited. The two groups recently released a joint statement asking rice farmers to help wintering waterfowl by installing boards to collect rainwater in the fields and to leave the fields minimally tilled, allowing the best chance for food access.

Smith predicted that some wildlife refuges and private hunting clubs will have to eliminate hunts, and that densely populated wet areas will be monitored more closely for outbreaks of avian cholera. The healthy waterfowl populations currently headed south to the Central Valley will probably return home with a smaller-than-normal fat reserve, which may affect next year’s breeding numbers. (Brooke Purves)

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“A knockout violinist.”

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“Spellbinding. A dazzling road trip into the creative imagination of one of our foremost dance artists.”

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Widely recognized as the finest jazz violinist working today, Regina Carter has taken her fans on a fascinating musical journey over the past 25 years. The former MacArthur Fellow has charted a highly personal course through multiple musical landscapes, from tributes to her mother, her hometown of Detroit and Niccolo Paganini, to 2010’s Reverse Thread, a contemporary celebration of traditional African music. The next step in her musical odyssey, Southern Comfort, explores the folk songs and spirituals her paternal grandfather, a coal miner, would have heard as he toiled in Alabama.

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SCORE KEEPER Sacramento’s winners and losers—with arbitrary points

Beers and bankruptcy

Jeb jabs

The New York Times reported this past weekend that former President George W. Bush is urging his younger brother Jeb to run for president in two years. To this, we say what millions of Americans hopefully are thinking: It’s always too soon for another Bush in the White House.

-3 Hollow-ween On Monday, The Sacramento Bee reported that local stores are out of Hazmat suits.

Because, duh, people are doing the Ebola thing this Halloween.

Obviously. Oh, Sacramento, why don’t you just recycle your Jesse and Walt costumes from 2012?

Anyway, this year’s drinking game: Take a shot every time you see a sexy Ebola nurse on Friday night.

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The Gloaming FRI, NOV 14 • 8PM

Folk tradition merged with contemporary takes this Irish supergroup in “fascinating new directions.”

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Reddit saves suburbia An Imgur post made Reddit.com’s front page last week. The story: One Roseville schoolgirl called another schoolgirl’s shoes “disgusting,” a rich guy overheard and gave the mom $50 to get new shoes, making the family’s day. See, Roseville doesn’t totally suck!

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Volunteers and employees at the German-inspired Sactoberfest, which took place earlier this month in West Sacramento along the riverfront, called Scorekeeper last week to complain that organizer and founder Richard Clakeley is pursuing bankruptcy protection and that they won’t be paid what they were promised. Clakeley’s entertainment group is filing because of lackluster turnout at the recent festival—a three-day blowout that just so happened to be the same weekend as Turn Verein’s annual Octoberfest in East Sacramento. Moral of the story: New-school Sacto, respect oldschool Sacto.

- 916 Wins and losses— and more losses The NBA season kicked off this week and Scorekeeper has some predictions for the Sacramento Kings.

Congrats, the team will win more than 30 games.

But not more than 33.

DeMarcus Cousins will be an all-star. But Rudy Gay will shoot below 40 percent during the first half. Will all this be enough for Coach Michael Malone to keep his gig?

Let’s just say Scorekeeper wishes him good luck.

+ 32 Bogus bike moves Last Thursday night, a downtown bike crew gave two wheels a bad name. Two cyclists “riding recklessly,” according to the police crime log, weaved in and out of traffic while heading the wrong way down Tenth Street just after 9 p.m. Officers pursued the dynamically dumb duo, but only one of the bike riders was caught and booked for arrest.

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Final election thoughts on strong mayor, ethics reform and charter schools A couple weeks ago Bites wrote that “the current city council is simply not going to create a strong ethics committee.”

Major California cities—like San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose and Los Angeles—all have “ethics commissions” with the power to enforce ethics and campaign-finance rules. The strong-mayor proposal on the ballot Tuesday, Measure L, only vin Ar G creates an ethics “committee.” It doesn’t o SM

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Measure L spokesman Josh Wood insists, however, “nothing in Measure L precludes the creation of an Ethics Commission.”

So, Bites polled the council members serving on the “ad hoc” committee to implement Measure L: “Do you support an ethics commission with enforcement power?”

Council member Allen Warren didn’t respond.

Jay Schenirer’s district director, Joe Devlin, had a little meltdown and replied to a half-dozen of Bites’ emails with the question, “Are you a journalist?” over and over and over again, cc’ing SN&R CEO Jeff vonKaenel every time.

Mayor Kevin Johnson’s office sent a statement: “If Measure L doesn’t pass, we will have the status quo—nothing.” If it does pass, the council will have 180 days to figure out the details. How ambitious will they be?

“The charter change, as worded on the ballot initiative, requires the committee and the code,” Councilwoman Angelique Ashby explained. “So the focus is to make sure we comply with that requirement. Doesn’t mean we couldn’t do more, but we certainly can’t do less.”

Asked if she would support an ethics commission with enforcement power, she replied, “A commission is a likely logical next step, but before we round second we need to get to first.”

So, it doesn’t sound like a strong ethics commission is in the works. Unfortunately, the ad hoc meetings are not open to the public, and its recommendations so far are exempt from the California Public Records Act.

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And earlier this week, local government watchdog group Eye on Sacramento announced a new campaign for a package of goodgovernment reforms, whether or not Measure L passes—including an independent redistricting commission and a strong ethics commission with enforcement power.

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“If Measure L loses, we’ll see if those council members who put L on the ballot are really serious about adopting ethics, redistricting and transparency reforms, or whether it was just campaign puffery to juice votes for L,” said EOS president Craig Powell.

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Supporters of Sac City school board candidate Jessie Ryan freaked right out over last week’s column. Bites won’t go into all the behind-the-scenes drama. Suffice it to say, they were stunned when Bites mentioned the Ryan campaign is supported by the California Charter Schools Association Advocates.

Couple of things: One, if you choose not to talk to a reporter, don’t complain that the reporter didn’t print what you wanted to say. Two, as of this writing the Secretary of State reports more than $13,000 worth of independent expenditures from the CCSA Advocates in support of Ryan’s candidacy. That’s more than any other single source of financial support for the Ryan campaign.

Ryan has decided not to talk to Bites directly, apparently taking her plays from supporters Schenirer and Devlin (and yeah, Devlin’s tantrum was probably related). She has since told SN&R editor Nick Miller that she “turned down” direct contributions from CCSA Advocates.

That’s interesting. But Bites was clear last week that the charter-schools dough came through an independent-expenditure committee.

It’s understandable that she wants to distance herself from the charter-school money.

Nonetheless, that money is putting campaign mail in voters’ mailboxes right now on her behalf.

And whether the money goes through an IE committee or a candidate’s regular campaign committee, donors generally want something from the people they help to elect. That’s why it’s Bites’ job to report on the major interest groups involved in any election, whether it’s the charter schools association or the teachers union.

It is ridiculous for Ryan or her supporters—like Schenirer and Darrell Steinberg—to act like this reporting is somehow off-limits for her campaign. Ω

There is, however, growing support for real ethics reform at City Hall. District 3 city council candidates Cyril Shah and Jeff Harris both say they support creation of a strong ethics commission, with enforcement power, whether or not Measure L passes. And Measure L’s most vocal opponent on the council, Steve Hansen, says “of course we should create an ethics commission,” though he’s not yet sure of the best model.

And Bites has to credit the Measure L campaign with showing voters just how much special-interest money is flowing into City Hall right now. When even The Sacramento Bee editorial page is wringing its hands about K.J.’s “pay to play” system, you know it’s time for Sacramento to join the majority of major California cities and create an ethics commission with teeth. | N E W S | F E AT U R E S T O RY

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THINK FREE.

Slime-filled TV spots are beneath candidates Bera and Ose I know Ami Bera, who is running for Congress as a Democrat in District 7. And I know his Republican opponent, Doug Ose. They are both smart, hardworking, knowledgeable fellows.

But they take very different stands on critical issues such as health care, immigration reform and the problem of increasing income inequality.

If I lived in the district, I would vote for Bera. But my preference is based on issues, not character.

I personally like both candidates. I would have no problem breaking bread or drinking beer with either. In fact, I have done so, and I look forward to l ne Ae

by Jeff VonK doing it again. I would let Bera, the doctor, treat my family. Or Ose, the developer, work out a real-estate j e ffv @ne wsr e v ie w.c o m deal for my company. There is nothing wrong with either of their characters—except for the fact that they allow their political consultants to run false, slime-filled attack ads against their opponent.

And since this campaign is one of the few close Congressional races, more than $9.5 million, mainly from outside the district, has poured in, allowing each candidate to infect the television airwaves with absurd charges against the other.

Bera charges that Ose is out to serve himself. Ose charges that Bera is free-spending at the same time as he cuts entitlements. The charges make little or no sense. The ads use camera angles, distorted unflattering photos, and unsettling music. Basically, the ads are designed to put a black hat on a candidate so we who the bad guy is.

It is sickening to know The Sacramento Bee, to think of the millions their credit, evaluates political ads, giving them one of four of dollars wasted on rankings: true; somewhat mostly misleading; this political porn. misleading; and outright lie. But when political campaigns lack any discussion of real issues, what is the point of evaluating the truthfulness of their ads? Who cares if Ose’s wealth increased while he was in office? The real problem is that If you’d like to the ad implies that he did something wrong, without providlearn more about ing facts. the candidates’ It is sickening to think of the millions of dollars wasted stands on the issues, you’ll on this political porn. We could have flipped a coin to have to do some determine a winner and built several permanent homeless research. But you shelters. Why has so little been spent on an actual discuscan start by going sion of issues? I would have loved to have sold either to www.berafor congress.com and candidate a publication that would allow them to actually www.dougose.com explain their positions and educate the public about why and clicking on the they were running.

“Issues” links.

The current political process is sickening. There is no discussion of issues, while the attack ads imply that the Jeff vonKaenel candidates would do and have done the lowest, most despiis the president, cable things for their own benefit. The ads do not reflect CEO and the candidates, who are both dedicated, hardworking men majority owner of the News & Review who have made many sacrifices to serve. The attack ads newspapers in do reflect the political consultants, who will apparently do Sacramento, anything for any candidate while making out like bandits.

Chico and Reno.

We have too much at stake not to vote on Tuesday. Please vote. But then you may want to go home and take a shower. Ω

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Diseased minds Ebola seems to have one of those “hair on fire” • Gutting public health at the state, county and fear-producing names. Say “whooping cough,” local level. Here in Sacramento, we lost a true by and Americans aren’t likely to react with the sort treasure in Dr. Glennah Trochet, who resigned Kel Munger of alarm we’ve seen since cases of Ebola started because Sac County kept cutting necessary turning up in the United States. programs and funding. Meanwhile, we’ve But the problem is that more Americans have got a whooping cough epidemic that makes already died of whooping cough this year than us look like a Third World country. This from Ebola, and we have no one to blame but outbreak already resulted in more pertussis ourselves. cases this year than last—and that was back Kel Munger is an sn&r Given that Ebola is much less contagious in May. contributor and an than other viruses—say, • Cutting funding to foundaadjunct professor of tional research and science journalism at American measles, or the current More Americans programs. We can’t cure or river College. Follow enterovirus making the her @KelMunger. rounds—all it’s really treat what we don’t have the have already died got going for it on a money to study. of whooping cough public-relations scale is • Busting unions and allowthis year than an exceptionally high ing so-called “nonprofit” death rate and the fact hospitals to make outrafrom Ebola. that it’s new. geous amounts of money This is not to make while shorting the training light of Ebola. It has catastrophic consequences and support of nursing staff for the people who contract it. But it’s not and their aides. as infectious as, say, the measles, or even a • A rise in anti-science illiteracy that has led common cold. thousands of otherwise intelligent adults to What it does put in stark relief, though, put their own kids—and other people—at risk is just how short-sighted and ignorant we by refusing to vaccinate them against known Americans have been regarding public health. killers that we can actually prevent.

During the “austerity for everyone but the rich” In short, no virus can take us down. We do economic strategy we’ve had, we’ve allowed the it to ourselves. Ebola is a big problem, but it’s following: only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to • Severe budget cuts to the Centers for Disease America’s public health issues. Ω Control and Prevention and national public health programs.

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emocracy.

It trends toward the ridiculous more and more each election cycle.

And you thought it was bad 10 years ago, when Dubya was up for re-election. Remember 2004, and Puff Daddy? He didn’t just ruin a perfectly good mantra, “Vote or die!” He perhaps ruined voter outreach itself. That “Vote or die!” ad campaign, featuring Diddy in a white T-shirt, aforesaid slogan emblazoned on front, and aired ad nauseum on MTV. It was plastered all over bus-stop signs, too, in a misguided attempt to try to get young people to vote. Young people were like, “That’s dumb.” Then John Kerry got his ass swiftly boated by George W. Bush.

People thought Diddy’s “Vote or die” effort was half-hearted and vacuous. Who could take Diddy seriously wearing that damn T-shirt when all of us picture him on a 40-foot yacht, pumping his fist into the azure blue sky, hanging with with 50 Cent and Mariah, rapping to “Kashmir” while Jimmy Page cuts limes and mixes caipirinhas.

It’s ridiculous.

Yet “Vote or die” is still not as warped or twisted as democracy and voter outreach in year 2014. Just visit OpenSecrets.org, the website for the Center for Responsive Politics. This site brims with campaignfinance skeletons. It’s not pretty.

For instance, the wealthiest individuals in the world, plus corporations and outsider political-action committees (or PACs), have spent nearly $700 million running ads for Congressional candidates nationwide. This on top of what candidates fundraise themselves. That’s an outrageous sum—especially for just House and Senate races, and in a midterm election. Outside groups have thrown $72 million (!!) at the nation’s spendiest race— the senate battle in North Carolina between Democrat Kay Hagan, Republican Thom Tillis and Libertarian Sean Haugh. And there was still a week left to raise big bucks when that number came out.

Here in Sacramento, the contest between Democrat incumbent Ami Bera and GOP challenger Doug Ose is the most expensive House battle in the entire state, and No. 2 in the country.

As of this past Tuesday, outside groups had spent $10.48 million attacking each candidate. Perhaps you’ve seen the commercials? They go something like: Bera accuses Ose of getting rich off of his Congressional stint, but then Ose tags Bera with the same get-rich-inD.C. scheme. Oh, you two. Everyone’s getting rich!

Nevermind the candidates’ stances on the Affordable Care Act, or student loan payment relief, or the Middle

This year’s spending is what’s truly ridiculous. give me diddy on a yacht any day.

East, or social-safety-net programs for single moms, or the minimum wage. As SN&R’s publisher Jeff vonKaenel pointed out this week (see “Despicable attack ads,” SN&R Greenlight, page 12), with all this mudslinging, there’s scant airtime for substance or the issues. So goes the PAC attack.

And it’s not exclusive to the national stage.

Sacramento’s two state Senate candidates, Roger Dickinson and Richard Pan, are knee-deep in the costliest same-party state Legislature race in all of California.

Current Assembly member Pan has raised more than $1 million this year from groups including physicians, health-care companies, pharmaceutical interests, gaming tribes and big donors like Sprint, FedEx and Chevron.

His Assembly colleague Dickinson, who prides himself on being less beholden to corporate interests, has raked in just over half as much, nearly $550,000, from individuals like local mega-developer Angelo Tsakopoulos, plus labor groups and PG&E, Wells Fargo, and Facebook.

On top of that, there’s even an independentexpenditure committee of doctors and health-care specialists, Californians Allied for Patient Protection, backing Pan. This same group operates in the shadows and has donated at least a half-million dollars to the no-on-Proposition 46 cause, according to the secretary of state’s website. The group also ran TV ads recently accusing Dickinson of ignoring child abuse during his tenure on the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors.

The spot is, of course, bogus—Dickinson tried his best to clean up Sacramento’s out-of-control Child Protective Services department while on the board—but it nevertheless does damage. Who’s accountable for the committee’s lies? Pan? The secret donors to the CAPP group? Us voters, for allowing such electioneering shenanigans year after year?

This year’s spending is what’s truly ridiculous. Give me Diddy on a yacht any day.

The sad truth is that voters are the underdogs.

As SN&R staff writer Raheem F. Hosseini and Erin E. Young reported in this week’s news section (see “Fear the vote,” SN&R News, page 9), many voters are afraid to vote because—despite the millions that go into “educating” us with mailers and TV ads— they don’t feel up to speed with the issues.

Groups backing Mayor Kevin Johnson will have spent more than $1 million promoting Measure L, but can you tell me just one accomplishment the mayor would like to achieve as strong mayor that he can’t accomplish now? What are Measure L’s issues (and don’t say accountability)?

In East Sacramento, council candidates Jeff Harris and Cyril Shah will spend more than $350,000 on their campaigns (a vast majority in Shah’s coffers), but do the two disagree on any meaningful issues? Can you tell me how they’d stand apart while seated on the dais? I mean, these two agree on everything from ethics reform to campaign finance to mowing public-park lawns.

Is this what it’s come to? Can we only focus on issues when they’re the most polarizing of topics, such as criminalizing abortion or legalizing marijuana?

We voters truly are the ultimate underdogs. How do we stand a chance against the super PACs’ hundredmillion-dollar message machine?

It’s simple: Drink some water, take a deep breath, check out our endorsements for this coming Tuesday, and stay strong. You’re still the voter. And, while corporations may be people, too, at least according to the Supreme Court, they can’t vote. Yet. So, um, vote or die.

Vote with us!

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It’s crucial that you vote this November 4! Here’s some help: Measure L

that he also worked hard to make the city more business friendly.

SN&R supports his Assembly bid.

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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.

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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.

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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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.

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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.

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Haro-Sullivan’s opponent, Darrel Woo, supported the school closures, hence her endorsement.

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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Former President Bill Clinton will return to the Sacramento area this week to stump on behalf of Bera, who’s going to need it, what with all the national GOP money—including funding from a Karl Rove-driven PAC—going toward Bera attack ads this final week. You like that affordable health care? Vote Bera. You want to move the needle in Washington so that we take care of society’s most vulnerable members? Vote Bera. He’s a moderate Democrat that any Republican can like.

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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.

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.

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Across the Sacramento River, Mayor Cabaldon continues to grow and improve West Sac. We look forward to the future to come in that other river city.

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who carpet-bagged his way to Washington years ago. Moore is a good choice for moderates— and even conservatives—fed up with McClintock’s Tea Partyfriendly politics.

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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 charter-schools 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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pair of hazy blue eyes, shielded beneath several layers of gauze, glows behind a curtain of stringy, blond hair.

Their owner, a petite childlike figure, sits on a wooden rope swing that creaks with the slightest nudge from the evening’s Delta breeze. The swing descends from a bulky tree whose branches loom over the street as its ancient trunk hugs the side of an early 1900sera home.

Outside, there’s a black 1958 Cadillac hearse manned by a skeletal chauffeur who has just “dropped off” four pallbearers, who now hoist a six-sided diamond-shaped coffin onto their boney shoulders. The lanky characters slowly inch toward an empty grave. Nearby fresh mounds of dirt, lined up in rows, mark other final resting places as a menacing gargoyle, shackled in chains, mounts a pillar at the top of the porch’s stairs and surveys the scene. For the last seven years, this beast has protected the women who occupy this home’s creepy quarters.

Welcome to the “Gargoyle House” where, normally, passers-by might encounter a variety of familiar friendly scenarios: bicyclists pedaling on their daily commute and pedestrians traveling the sidewalks accompanied by happy

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however, those making their way through Oak Park’s developing Triangle District near 33rd Street and 4th Avenue, also witness a scene that’s more macabre—especially come nightfall.

The home, which looks like something out of the Munsters family hood on Mockingbird Lane, belongs to Aimee Phelps and Danell Eschnaur, who have gone to elaborate lengths to decorate their house each Halloween season since 2007.

This year is no exception: The couple rented a scissor lift to string up more than 1,000 lights (a three-day job), hang more than 200 handmade bats, 24 crosses, 10 skeletons and endless yards of spider webs. And, of course, find the perfect perch for that hauntingly realistic little girl who swings in the tree.

The girl, in particular, has inspired much admiration, speculation and even fear.

“That was the first piece I made last year,” Phelps says of the lifelike figure. “She was hanging in the front yard and swinging during the day when some woman started freaking out.”

Phelps and Eschnaur ran outside to check out the commotion, only to find the woman grabbing at the “child.”

“She’s got the little girl upside down, trying to pull her off of the swing screaming,” Phelps remembers. “[She’s yelling] ‘She’s just a little girl! She’s innocent! You can’t do this to her!’”

Scary, perhaps, but both women say they’re fine with the reactions that their home, and its seasonal decor, have inspired over the years.

In fact, the couple says they’ve heard it all, from the “Gargoyle House” moniker to other tongue-in-cheek names such as the “Witch House” or “Devil House.” The decorations are so popular, they even inspired an exhibit currently on display at Old Soul at 40 Acres, featuring works by local artists that depict the home.

Of all the decorations, the stone statue is particularly special—and not limited to the season of the witch.

“This gargoyle came out the very first year that we decorated and he never left the porch,” Eschnaur says of their year-round companion.

Sometimes people seem genuinely intimidated by the figure—which is just fine by Eschnaur and Phelps.

“He’s part of the house,” Phelps says. “We’re pretty protected [by him], if they’re afraid of it, cool—stay away from our house.”

The couple’s Target-brand beast comes by his reputation naturally: Gargoyles were once used in Medieval-era Catholic churches to scare away evil spirits.

Back in Oak Park, Eschnaur and Phelps’ porch decoration adapts to the changing seasons: At Easter, for example, he can be found biting down on a mouthful of marshmallow Peeps; at Christmas he wears a Santa Claus hat, and on St. Patrick’s Day he sports a shamrock.

The couple views him—and the rest of their efforts—as a labor of love.

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SCENE& HEARD Feel the burn Someone set up a mini-screening room for game three of the World Series. I paused on my way to my tent, curious about the outcome of yet another Giants rally.

A dominatrix appeared, clad in a black corset, fishnets and pleather boots, with a formidable whip in hand.

“You come to Burn the River and you watch baseball?

Bend over,” she commanded in a thick Austrian accent.

I lightly laughed and stood still, thinking maybe she’d also laugh and walk away. She issued the command again. I bent over.

Three strikes. I cried a little.

One does not say “no” to things at Burning Man. There are too many potentially amazing, eye-opening experiences. Maybe, in that moment, I could have discovered I’m turned on by stinging pain. As it turns out, I’m not. It just hurts.

To clarify, last Saturday was not Burning Man. It was Burn the River, Sacramento’s official Burning Man decompression event, but it held the same principles. There was no money exchanged—a gifting economy prevailed instead. It was a pack it in, pack it out event—in other words, leave no trace. It was participatory—the attendees created the event, not some third-party company.

And Burn the River absolutely delivered as a miniBurning Man. Camps were set up along the Sacramento River, just north of the airport, and folks drove in from the Bay Area, Southern California, Nevada and even further. By day, it was a picturesque setting for art

A creepy mummy, Jack Skellington and playful skeletons—these are just some of the, um, lifelike figures on display at Aimee Phelps and Danell Eschnaur’s Halloween-themed Oak Park home.

installations, live music, aerial dancers and crazy costumes.

“Every year that we’ve decorated, it’s been something that we do together,” Eschnaur says. “This year, just seeing these amazing things Aimee’s created and the finished product has been really cool to see.”

Phelps preps for her favorite holiday well in advance.

This past July, for example, she drew upon her background in theater set design, painting and sculpting clay to create, among others, a life-sized Jack Skellington, his ghostly canine pal Zero, and a 6-foot-tall-plus spooky tree.

“Some people are crazy about Christmas. Well, this is my Christmas.

It’s creative, it’s fun and I get to see the smiles on peoples’ faces.”

AimEE PHElPS, owner, the “Gargoyle House” Phelps, who creates all her pieces from the ground up in her garage, says she enjoys making these dark, unconventional pieces.

“I’m not the normal artist. I don’t want to be that artist that paints that bowl of fruit. I want something different. I want to be challenged and inspired,” Phelps says.

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It’s an exhaustive process: For her hand-crafted The Nightmare Before Christmas undertaking, Phelps used a material comprising 75-percent recycled newspaper for the clay mixture and also a simple homemade papier-mâché paste made from cornstarch, water, Elmer’s glue and flour.

“They’re all made out of that clay. I made like a triple batch in a 5-gallon bucket. It shaped Jack and Zero’s head and it also shaped the whole tree,” Phelps says.

Finally, by the time October arrived, Phelps had mixed and sculpted 35 gallons of clay and logged more than 30 hours of work on Jack Skellington alone. In contrast, the tree took 60 hours to create and Zero “only” about 15 hours—including the time required to install electronics behind his glowing, pumpkin-shaped nose.

Now, for the remainder of the season, Skellington, Zero and the spooky tree will be on display alongside various other scenes including a posse of poker-playing skeleton cowboys and a coven of witches brewing potions in a smoking green cauldron.

“Some people are crazy about Christmas, Well, this is my Christmas. It’s creative, it’s fun and I get to see the smiles on peoples’ faces,” Phelps says. “When the cars slow down when they drive by, that’s Check out Aimee awesome. I love that. That’s why we Phelps and Danell do this.”

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By nightfall, it was a wild party, with sweaty, half-naked bodies gyrating in LED-lit domes.

Being a Burning Man event, there was obviously fire as well: fire spinners, fire-adorned art, a fire-lit bar and a very cool, hard-to-describe installation with fire that moved like billowing sheets of silk.

Gifts often came in the form of alcoholic beverages.

One bar was Nicholas Cage-themed. One camp cooked hot dogs at 11 p.m. Another had an impressive assembly line for buttery grilled cheese sandwiches at midnight.

A few offered snacks, cookies and coffee—though one went far above with beans roasted on-site, ground by hand and brewed a la pour over. Meanwhile, one guy in a red kimono gave massages—happy endings sometimes offered—while deejays gifted their talents all evening.

The headliner, Doshy, came all the way from Germany.

Other names were local and familiar, including Ratchet, G.A.M.M.A., Head Soar and StraightNasty.

Again, being a Burning Man event, there were some surprises beyond the dancing and lounges suspended in air. One came in the form of a magic trick—someone would walk into a room as spectators watched them seem to vanish. A giant, electronic platform for Pong was another object of adoration. Players stood on both sides, their digital paddles created by their weight.

I could easily go on. After all, I was there from about 4 p.m. until morning.

Instead, how about a final endorsement? Burn the River will absolutely give people Burning Man flashbacks, in the warmest, fuzziest of ways. For those who have never been to Burning Man before—concerned about handling its week-long commitment or unable to handle its hefty price tag—consider it the ideal introduction to the Burning Man spirit and community. Learn more at www.sacvalleyspark.org.

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Fright Planet Through SaTurday, November 1 Fright Planet is a Halloween-themed event that will feature nine different attractions guaranteed to make you wet your shorts. From Cannibal Cabin to The Little Shop of Carnage, this planet is sure to please those who love to have their hair stand on end. If you can’t handle HALLOWEEN strobe lights or hidden scares, this is not for you. $19.95-$49.95, various times at Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Boulevard; www.frightplanet.com.

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Neon Dash SaTurday, November 1 On an imaginary list of things that don’t normally go together, raves and marathons would probably RUN/WALK be pretty high up there. Yet the Neon Dash is kind of like combining the two. It’s a standard 5K, but participants will do it coated in “Glow Water,” all while listening to some bumping music over speakers. $60, 5 p.m. at Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Boulevard; www.neondash.com/locations/sacramento.

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Old Vine Express SaTurday, November 1 Should you feel the need to go wine tasting in an even more laid-back fashion than standard procedure, the Old Vine Express offers passengers the opportunity to taste Yolo County wines and enjoy the accompanying scenery all from the comfort of a railcar. Taste six wines or upgrade to a VIP ticket and taste 12. $25WINE $50, 2 p.m. at Sacramento RiverTrain, 400 North Harbor Boulevard in West Sacramento; www.sacramentorivertrain.com.

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Día de los Muertos, on the other hand, which takes place from October 31 through November 2, is all about honoring the dead and celebrating life. This year, Sol Collective joins forces with the Sacramento History Museum for a monthlong celebration of family and community. Catch the culminating event on Saturday, November 1,

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with Aztec dancers Kalpulli Maquilli Tonatiuh, pop-up art exhibits, face painting, live music and a lighting of the altar in front of the museum at 101 I Street in Old Sacramento. Festivities begin at 6 p.m. and last until midnight.

The events of Sunday, November 2, feature a final celebration procession at St. Mary’s Cemetery at 6700 21st Avenue at 1 p.m.; both events are free and open to the public. Visit www.historicoldsac.org/ programs/programs-souls.asp for further details.

In Midtown, La Raza Galeria Posada presents the 5th annual Panteón de Sacramento, a two-day celebration for which attendees create their own

altars for departed loved ones and are encouraged to bring various traditional offerings: yellow and orange marigolds, calacas (those cool skeleton figurines) and sugar skulls. On Sunday, November 2, at 2 p.m., the La Catrina y Catrin costume contest will award $100 to the best rendition of artist José Guadalupe Posada’s famous “elegant skeleton.”

Entrants should arrive at 1 p.m. and bring a $10 entry fee. Festivities take place on Saturday, November 1, from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. and Sunday, November 2, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 2020 J Street. Visit www.lrgp.org/wdia-de-los-muertos.html for more information.

—Deena Drewis

The Crocker Art Museum’s current exhibition, Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, which comes from the Smithsonian ART American Art Museum, is a fascinating exploration of national identity, history, and pop culture. Its curator will give people insight to the work with an in-depth lecture on the pieces. $8-$15, 7 p.m. at the Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; www.crockerartmuseum.org.

—Aaron Carnes

Pedal to Plate Culinary Bike Tour ThurSday, November 6 The Pedal to Plate Culinary Bike Tour ups the city’s farm-to-fork bit by getting even more Sacramento about it and adding in a giant bike. Up to 15 parFOOD ticipants will pedal themselves around Midtown, stopping at local restaurants to sample various locally sourced food and libations. $60, 6 p.m. at Sun & Soil Juice Company, 1912 P Street; http://local-food-tours.com.

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The Waffle Experience opened a few months ago in Natomas in an unassuming strip mall, providing an improvement on the usual fare in that area.

The story behind it is unique: Three former Marines joined forces to bring a little-known culinary treat to Sacramento. Chef Michael rating: Donoho had the inspiration, having worked in HHH France and alongside culinary greats such as “Iron Chef” Masaharu Morimoto and Emeril dinner for one: Lagasse. Former corpsman Jeffery Belaski $10 - $15 serves as general manager, and Dominic Dolar contributes coffee knowledge.

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“Cheeses Gone Wild” is a grilled cheese for grown-ups, with four kinds of cheese, bacon, kale, fennel confit and caramelized leek waffles. The rich cheeses are well balanced by the greens and slightly acidic confit.

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Set the dial on the time machine to 1998 as a silver-suited Bob Dylan performs at the Grammy Awards, and an uninvited man with “soy bomb” written on his bare chest spastically dances next to the wrinkly singer. Dylan got too much soy that night, and these days, the rest of us might be, too. Read the labels on protein bars, snacks, whatever: If they don’t have animal products in them, they always seems to have soy—even in unexpected places, like tea bags. (Really, Bigelow?) For years, scientific studies reported soy may prevent heart disease and osteoporosis, but some folks in the medical community say too much soy retards thyroid production.

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Here are a few recent reviews and regional recommendations by Janelle Bitker, Ann Martin Rolke, Garrett McCord, Jonathan Mendick and Shoka updated regularly.

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

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

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

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

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

The ’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.

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

features dishes with names like Grandma’s Meat Loaf.

Grandma knows how to make 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. Housemade 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.

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might be the best burger in town. American. 1801 L St., 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 appetizerstyle options, four sandwichtype offerings and a sausage platter, plus about 30 cold ones on tap. Patrons order from a building that was built from a couple of cargo containers and dine outdoors on communal benches, traditional German biergarten style. The Derfinater Dog is a gussied-up hot dog, and despite its seemingly excessive number of toppings, everything 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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Goldfield Trading Post This new eatery rustles up much nicer chow than your usual cowboy fare with a menu that

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.

The tri-tip is well-smoked, but not as good as the brisket, although it still makes for a very nice addition to the Market salad, with baby greens, grilled zucchini and onions, and cornbread croutons. Barbecue. 7042 Folsom Blvd., (916) 476-4508. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHHH AMR

Land Park/ Curtis Park Boba Cafe For starters, try the scallion pancake; it’s salty, crunchy on the outside and chewy inside. Or, order the pan-fried beef bun, which with its doughy, crunchy wrapping strangely resembled the texture of a Taco Bell Crunchwrap, only smaller, with a much richer flavor.

Also worth sampling: pork dumplings served as a firm dough wrapping filled with a rich pork broth and a small ball of meat. The “Taiwan Style Stewed Pork Over Rice,” a red-braised pork, is a tender, deep-red colored pork marinated in earthy aromatic spices 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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Pangaea Bier Cafe Just as European wines are made to be enjoyed with food rather than sipped alone, the current tsunami of Europeanstyle microbreweries feature drinks often best quaffed alongside a well-crafted meal.

Pangaea Bier Cafe recently stepped up its food game to satisfy that need with a revamped menu that includes an ever-changing rotation of seasonal, slightly upscale pub food. Try the Buffalo wings: They’re deeply flavorful fried morsels with a thick glaze.

The mac ’n’ cheese is creamy, with a bit of beer in the sauce and a crunchy topping of herb-flecked breadcrumbs.

The sliders are gorgeous little mouthfuls with Tillamook cheddar and house-made pickles. The main-course cheeseburger, one of the best we’ve had in ages, is made from a custom blend of brisket and chuck. This is a juicy patty that holds together, yet bursts with flavor. The locally made brioche bun bears up well, and the house pickles and cheddar simply gild the lily. American. 2743 Franklin Blvd., (916) 454-4942. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHH1/2 AMR

South Sac Bodhi Bowl This Vietnamese eatery’s menu is all vegetarian and mostly vegan, with plenty of high notes. The Heavenly Noodle is a can’t-go-wrong salad comprising snow-white vermicelli noodles with cooling mint, cucumber slices,

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 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.

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

2992 65th St., Ste. 288; (916) 455-0288. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH J.M.

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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.

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

American. 8928 Sunset Ave. in Fair Oaks, (916) 241-9365. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHHH J.M.

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The izakaya is to Japan as the tapas bar is to Spain. It’s a casual restaurant that serves small plates, meant to be shared, with a few rounds of drinks. I have no idea why it’s taking so long for the izakaya to get anywhere near as popular as the tapas bar, but that may change locally with Izakaya Daikoku (1901 S Street). Izakaya Daikoku opened in early October, and it boasts a wealth of traditional Japanese dishes that were previously impossible to find on the grid. Particularly exciting is the okonomiyaki, a dish comprising decadent, savory pancakes loaded with meat or fish and topped with salty bonito flakes, a sweet sauce, mayo and pickled ginger. There’s also a line of yakitori—skewered meats, including chicken heart, pork belly and beef tongue—and yakizakana—specialty grilled fish, including rich and tender fish collars. Izakaya Daikoku arrives via the same owners as Akebono and Ryujin Ramen House, and the menu offers some some familiar items. But only the izakaya holds the wildly impressive sake list.

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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. 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.

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Dressed to thrill halloween CosTume Bash This Halloween you could go to a friend’s party and spend the night picking shriveled olives out of the edible “scary graveyard” diorama as PaRty your friends wander by in an endless parade of “ironic” get-ups. Or, better yet, you could attend Verge Center for the Arts’ Halloween Costume Bash. The 18-and-over event, which of course takes place Friday, October 31, promises an “immersive light installation,” as well as live music and some “spooky jam” deejay action. There will also be food trucks and, obviously, a costume contest. Given that Verge is one of the region’s premier art destinations, this means it’s probably time to step up your Halloween game. 8 p.m. 625 S Street; $25 general; $20 for Verge members; www.vergeart.com.

—Rachel Leibrock

Coked up, sexed up The hollywood TriloGy Don Carpenter’s The Hollywood Trilogy (Counterpoint, $18.95) is a reissue of three of the author’s insiderHollywood late ’70s, early ’80s-era novels. A Couple of Comedians follows comedy duo David and Jim from the Bay Area down to Hollywood where they work once a year on a movie, then perform their nightclub act. The True Life of Jody McKeegan is a diptych showing Jody first as a young girl in Portland, where her sister dies from an illegal abortion, then as a 35-year-old failed actress who lucks into romance with a Book producer. Turnaround, the weakest of the three, is most poignant when chronicling the journey of an aspiring screenwriter. All three novels are written with gritty reality; together they make for a coked-up, sexed-up bender of a collection.

—Heather Partington

Home, not-so-sweet home sCream Park California Already a big hit in other cities, Scream Park California has expanded its operations to include SacramenHalloweeN to. The set-up includes three different haunted houses as well as live musical entertainment. Although all ages are welcome, word is this event is graphic and not suitable for wee little ones. That said, Scream Park, which will be open through November 2, is easily one of the best haunted houses in the area for your buck. $20-$40, various times, 4909 Auburn Boulevard, www.screamparkcalifornia.com.

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It’s been said that the geek shall inherit the earth and a new locally produced television show only furthers that prediction.

Beyond Geek, a TV show “about people who take geek to the next level” recently debuted on PBS stations around the country, including KVIE2 in Sacramento.

Each half-hour episode is an adventure in meeting people who study, televiSioN explore and push at the intersection of science, technology and pop culture.

For example, in “8-Bit of Fun,” which airs at 6 p.m. Saturday, November 1, host Dan Reynoso (pictured and who, locally at least, is perhaps better known as a member of the punk band The Secretions), introduces viewers to people who keep the ’80s alive via old computers and video games—including a group that make games for the NES video game system, which hasn’t seen an officially released game in more than two decades.

The show features a rotating cast of Sacramento-based hosts and other episodes tackle pro wrestling, junk-car racing and “battle gamers”—people who engage in full-contact, fully costumed Medieval-era role-playing “combat.”

Throughout, the tone is fun and lighthearted and yet respectful of the interesting characters and innovative ideas that make the term “geek” seem impossibly cool.

Visit www.beyondgeek.com for more information on episodes and air times.

—Rachel Leibrock

Open and shut I don’t know how this happened, but I’m in an open relationship. I started dating a guy I really like and after a few dates he told me he sometimes still hooks up with his ex-wife.

He said he loves her but can’t be in a relationship with her. He said he could be in a relationship with me because I really get who he is. He says I have to understand that he will always be in her life and she

by Joey ga rcia in his. I didn’t feel weird until I confided in my best friend. a s kj oey @ ne wsreview.c om Now I’m freaking out. I love him. Do you think that if I wait it out, he will give up his Joey ex-wife? loves @Large: Ai Of course not, honey, and neither Weiwei on Alcatraz, do you. The man you are dating artist Ai Weiwei’s has been honest with you about human rights exhibit, who he is. He has told you the currently on display on Alcatraz Island. truth about his plans for his heart.

You know he will never be fully engaged with you. He will always reserve a portion of his attention, affection and sexual intimacy for his ex-wife. Which makes me wonder: What evidence do you have that they are divorced?

When the man you are dating announced that he would never be emotionally or sexually yours alone, you didn’t balk. You didn’t end the relationship, either. Why not?

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You seem confused about how you ended up in an open relationship. Consider this: When the man you are dating announced that he would never be emotionally or sexually yours alone, you didn’t balk. You didn’t end the relationship, either. Why not? You deserve a partner who is fully present to you. Don’t put your heart on hold waiting for a man who already knows what he wants.

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Please help.

Breathe. Fear is inviting you to slow down and process what is happening in your inner life. You are likely afraid of a loss in the connection you enjoy with your husband. You may have residual worries from your own illnesses. And you don’t trust yourself to give wholeheartedly. Here’s the antidote: Focus on extending love and kindness in ways that are natural for you. Ask family and friends to assist with the tasks you fear you cannot do.

Or hire help. All the while, push yourself to give love in ways that are not as easy. Heck, challenge yourself to offer love in ways that are uncomfortable for you. In other words, practice what your husband has taught you about love.

I have a sister who is constantly in competition with me, gossiping, and manipulating. If I dared to address any of my feelings with her, it would get ugly. I struggle with the fact that most people cannot handle true feelings. It seems the more that I grow spiritually, the more of a threat I become. I try to hold on to my authentic self, always. Any advice?

You are expanding into a consciousness that many people cannot grasp. Be compassionate toward anyone who has not yet risen into that enlightened perspective. After all, you were there once. And take care when saying that most people can’t handle true feelings. If you withhold your feelings to avoid your sister’s reaction, you are struggling to handle true feelings, too. Ω

Meditation of the Week “I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other,” wrote poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Does silence fill your empty places?

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Edmundson’s adaptation moves the character of Constantine Levin—usually an afterthought in stage and film versions, though he is in many ways Anna’s doppelgänger—to a position just slightly less central than the woman who is the ultimate tragic heroine. While hitting the major plot points, this production, directed with a deft

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hand by Stephanie Gularte, moves swiftly and without unnecessary baggage. It’s aided in this by a stark and flexible set, designed by David Nofsinger, which manages to suggest everything from train stations to Russian opera houses with a minimum of fuss. Shannon Mahoney, who directed the choreography and movement, gives us elements of ballet that reveal just how carefully arranged society is, and the choreography of a crucial scene at a horse race is amazing.

But the heart and soul of Anna Karenina comes from the performances. Lenne Klingaman’s Anna is smart and beautiful, but completely overpowered by emotion and overwhelmed by expectation; her disintegration is physically painful. She is counterpointed by the morally centered—and somewhat slow to catch on—Levin, played to earnest perfection

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by Brian Patrick Williams. As Karenin, Scott Coopwood lets us feel empathy for his position, then undercuts it with hypocrisy. Vronsky is played as beautiful, vain, truly in love but oblivious to the cost to his beloved by Rob August.

Excellent supporting performances from Misty Day, Carissa Meagher, and Michael Stevenson round out the major roles.

For those afraid of tackling Tolstoy’s novel— and who isn’t?—this production is an excellent entrée to the power of a story to reveal society’s fracture points. But more important—and more relevant—is Capital Stage’s ability to make a classic story accessible and understandable while retaining the very things that make it classic. Ω

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Mame Dennis is an eccentric bohemian type living the high life in Manhattan just before the Great Depression when her brother dies, leaving her to raise his 10-year-old son, Patrick. Does she give up her “Live! Live! Live!” lifestyle for solemn guardianship?

Are you kidding? She welcomes the boy to her fabulous world, telling him, “Life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death.” She intends to feed him well.

The story progresses through what is essentially a series of anecdotes. There’s the time she scared off a bigoted family of interlopers by serving pickled python and sheep spleen as hors d’oeuvres. And the time she sent little Patrick off to a school where students and teachers alike studied in the nude. The humorous shock value of those two stories is diminished these days by fears of food allergies and sexual predators.

It is clear a lot of hard work went into this production. The dancing (choreographed by Darryl Strohl-De Herrera, who also directs) is impressive and the live orchestra (a little ragged at times) is another plus.

Ruth Robbins-Phillips, an excellent singer who conveys her character’s unfailing joie de vivre, is outstanding as the outsized Mame.

Lauren Ettensohn is endearing as young Patrick’s nanny, Agnes Gooch. And Brent Null is a standout as the stuffy estate executor Dwight Babcock. Nathaniel Grandinetti is game as the young Patrick, though his inexperience shows.

The stronger Travis Hoffman has considerably less stage time as the older Patrick, but brings some dimension to his role.

—Jim Lane

Mame, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; $18-$25.

Runaway Stage Productions at the 24th Street Theatre, 2791 24th Street; (916) 207-1226; www.runawaystage.com.

Through November 16.

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When man plays god, does he elevate himself or denigrate the almighty? Does a scientist, who, out of arrogance, seeks to create life deserve whatever creature he might sire?

Local actor and playwright Jes Gonzales crafts an entertaining and thought-provoking drama in his original adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein.

Nicholas Gailbreath stars as Victor Frankenstein, Drew Struck plays the Creature, and Don Hayden is the seafaring explorer who saves the haunted and nearly frozen scientist and elicits his frightful story. Th, F, Sa 8pm.

Through 10/31. $20. Resurrection Theatre at California Stage, 1725 25th Street; (916) 223-9568, www.ressurection theatre.com. J.C.

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However the boy, in this case, is a 42-year-old 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. The story gets 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. It’s also very Irish, a category that has always done well on the B Street stage under Buck Busfield’s deft, sympathetic direction. Th, F, 8pm; Sa 5

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Janis Stevens performed a selection from Kate at a fundraiser in September.

From screen to stage Few stars lit up the silver screen like Katherine Hepburn.

Nominated for a dozen Academy Awards, she won four— including one for Best Actress for her role in the popular 1967 rom-com Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Now— thanks to the writing talents of playwright Rick Foster (of Sonora, Calif., in the foothills)—her life will light up the stage in Sacramento Theatre Company’s Kate, a one woman-show starring Janis Stevens. It’s set on New Year’s Eve in 1999, as a 92-year-old Hepburn reflects on fond memories from her life, and looks ahead to the future. It’s being presented in partnership with Sacramento’s Area 4 Agency on Aging. Full disclosure: Last year, SN&R theater critic Jeff Hudson heard Stevens read from the script and was asked to comment on an early version of it. Kate, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday, Sunday; $15-$40. Sacramento Theatre Company at Wells Fargo Pavilion, 1419 H Street; www.sactheatre.org.

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know intimately is Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton)—and if anything, that’s a little too intimate. We can’t throw up our hands and leave the dressing room, or the stage, or the bar, the way the other characters do when Riggan’s obsessions drive them to it—characters like his best friend/lawyer/producer Jake (Zach Galifianakis), or his daughter Sam (Emma Stone) or ex-wife Sylvia (Amy Ryan). Sometimes it feels like we’re as trapped inside Riggan’s head as he is. Our consolation, and part of what makes Birdman such a wild ride, is that Riggan is no more comfortable in there than we are.

Riggan’s obsession is his last-ditch effort to salvage his career. Twenty years ago he starred as Birdman in three comic-book superhero movies, blockbusters that have defined him ever since; people accost him for photos and autographs though he’s long since washed his hands of the franchise. Now he’s washed up and desperate to prove himself by directing and starring on Broadway in his own adaptation of Raymond Carver’s short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” Almost everyone—maybe even Riggan himself— expects the play to flop.

Certainly the production seems to be in trouble. When the other actor in the fourcharacter play is put out of commission by a falling lighting instrument, Riggan confides to Jake that it was no accident: “I made it happen.” We see Riggan destroying objects

with Birdman’s super-powers—but whenever anyone else enters the shot, we see only Riggan trashing his dressing room. We see Riggan flying to rehearsal, swooping among the Gotham skyscrapers—then a cabbie chases him through the doors of the theater shouting, “Sir! Sir! You forgot to pay me!” We hear the voice, and sometimes see the presence, of Birdman himself, alternately encouraging and taunting Riggan (the voice is Keaton’s; the presence is an unbilled actor named Benjamin Kanes). No doubt about it, Riggan Thomson is losing his grip.

Things don’t improve when Mike Shiner (Edward Norton) arrives to replace the fallen actor.

Mike is one of the hottest actors in the business right now; when Riggan’s co-star Lesley (Naomi Watts) suggests him, Riggan and Jake wonder how she can bring him aboard (“We share a vagina,” she explains). But Mike also turns out to be a total pain in the ass, an arrogant prima donna who scoffs at Hollywood stars and their “cultural genocide” but insists on his own tanning bed in his dressing room, who wants to get drunk on real gin on stage and wants Riggan to point a real gun at him because the prop gun isn’t threatening enough.

This simmering clash makes a shambles of the show’s preview performances; combined with Riggan’s loveguilt-and-resentment relationship with daughter Sam, it threatens to send him over the edge, and to take us with him.

Sloshing around in a madman’s mind means we’re never sure what’s happening and what isn’t.

Whether it does or not is one of Birdman’s tantalizing ambiguities; sloshing around in a madman’s mind means we’re never sure what’s happening and what isn’t. The sheer brilliance of Iñárritu’s technique fills us with stunned admiration, even as the messy state of Riggan’s head and Keaton’s taut pugnacity inspire shock and awe.

I was reminded of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd. Not only because of the has-been-nutcase-movie-star theme, but because poor Gloria Swanson, after giving the most brilliant performance of her career, spent the rest of her life trying to convince people she wasn’t really Norma Desmond. Now Michael Keaton, with the performance of his life, faces 30 years of insisting to people that he’s not really Riggan Thomson. Did he not think that one through, or did he figure it was worth it? Ω

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Even by the already shoddy standards of the talking-heads-and-stock-footage documentary subgenre, the passionate but risible Awake: The Life of Yogananda is a standout dud. The film has the starry-eyed gaze of a true believer, and most of the film is comprised of cheap, Ed Wood-level reenactments, filled out with an alternately deceptive and absurd use of clips. It’s the sort of film that defines the America of 1920 through a brief montage of wing-walkers and flappers doing the Charleston with Amelia Earhart. Awake tells the story of the spiritual guru Yogananda, author of the influential Autobiography of a Yogi and a factor in introducing Eastern practices such as meditation and yoga to America. Beyond its general lifelessness, Awake repeatedly insinuates that anyone who ever stared into his eyes or practiced yoga or meditated or listened to some of George Harrison’s more sitar-based stuff is a Yogananda disciple. D.B.

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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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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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Football biopics have emerged as the predominant form of male-geared tearjerkers, taking over the spot once held by baseball movies and westerns. Even as the sport has taken on a more sinister edge in light of recent off-the-field incidents, as well as increasing awareness about the long-term effects of concussions, the big screen portrayals have only grown rosier. Besides proliferating on 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 televisionsized. This is the directorial debut of the noted character actor Baker, and he has a good touch with actors and tone without ever establishing a visual sensibility or deviating too far from genre tropes. D.B.

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An ex-hitman (Keanu Reeves) comes out of retirement to get revenge on the guy who stole his car and killed his dog; complicating things is the fact that the culprit (Alfie Allen) is the son of his crime-lord former employer (Michael Nykvist). The movie starts out as almost a guilty pleasure, a deadpan, blood-soaked spoof of those underworld shoot-’em-ups where everybody’s a player, there’s an elaborate culture of professional killers, and both police and innocent bystanders are all but nonexistent. It’s like a Quentin Tarantino movie with wardrobe by GQ and sets by Architectural Digest. But the mordant humor of Derek Kolstad’s script quickly dries up, the movie starts taking itself seriously, and the pleasure gives way to the guilt. First-timer Chad Stahelski directs like the veteran stunt man he is. J.L.

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.

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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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 controlfreak 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.

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Five teenagers use a Ouija board to try to contact a friend who recently died, an apparent suicide. Their tinkering unleashes an evil spirit that … zzzz … Hmm?! What?? Where was I? The script by Juliet Snowden and director Stiles White is a muddled mélange of the usual gee-I-wonder-what’s-in-this-dark-room horror movie tropes, with all the usual cheap scares and boogeyman music. The only suspense comes from idly wondering who will die when, and how White and Snowden will set up the inevitable sequel. The cast is, predictably, a collection of blankly pretty faces eager to build their résumés. It’s always possible you’ll be hearing from some of them again—if they’re very, very lucky. J.L.

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Sixteen years removed from Rushmore, Bill Murray could play the curmudgeonwith-a-heart-of-fool’s-gold role in his sleep.

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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Chew on this Cannibalism, gangs and weed: Brotha Lynch Hung’s horrorcore still puts the scare on hip-hop Brotha Lynch Hung’s seminal Season of Da Siccness, released in 1995, was originally lauded as the introduction of horrorcore, a rap subgenre. by Blake Gillespie But such coinage led to a pigeonholing of Sacramento’s lone rap beacon as a gangaffiliated cannibal, stifling a chance at mainstream success.

Despite this, Lynch, born Kevin Mann, released 11 solo albums as an independent artist—ever faithful to his niche market and committed to operating on his own terms.

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In reality, the 45-year-old artist is quiet and humble, lives with his family in Rocklin (including an 18-year-old son who builds haunted houses), and is learning to be patient with his career.

And he’s also far removed from gang life and cannibalistic habits. The only gross habit Lynch has, in fact, is out of his control. Before every show he vomits backstage—a ritual he shares with Adele.

Overall, he’s satisfied with his stature, issuing this report from the road on his current Sicc of Da Industry tour: “I’m not the biggest artist in the world. I kind of just enjoy cruising where I’m at. It makes it easy to just appreciate the loyal fans and support that I get.”

Still grateful for his home turf, Lynch will celebrate Halloween in Sacramento on October 30 at Ace of Spades, a special night he says he considers a “second birthday.”

“I just want my people to be in a Halloween mood,” he said. “However they [want to] do it; paint their faces, wear masks … I’m going to

do a little something different than I’m doing on this whole tour because Sacramento knows me so well.”

His fanbase still craves the classic cuts— requests that he’s become increasing likely to oblige. But although Lynch will curate his Sacramento date to please hometown fans, his career obligation remains foremost to Strange Music, a label run by rapper Tech N9ne.

In 2009 Strange Music signed Brotha Lynch to a three-album deal, which he fulfilled via a conceptual trilogy about a cannibalistic serial killer. The series launched in 2010 with Dinner and A Movie, followed by 2011’s Coathanga Strangla, and wrapped in 2013 with Mannibalector.

The trilogy has provided a second wind for Lynch and although he’s satisfied his contractual obligations, he says he’s considering one more record with Strange Music.

“My career could have been a little better because of the past record companies that I’ve dealt with, but I’m pretty satisfied,” he said. “I told [Strange Music] in January I’m going to take a year off to do some thinking.”

He also hinted at numerous projects that aimed to satisfy hardcore fans. For years the rapper’s early albums such as 24 Deep, Season of Da Siccness, and Loaded, weren’t available due to a feud with Black Market Records founder Cedric Singleton, who refused to turn over rights to Lynch’s back catalog. In 2015, however, Season of Da Siccness will celebrate its 20th anniversary, an event Lynch says he intends to mark with a tour and reissue.

“It’s going to kill me to relearn all that stuff, but I’ll be ready by next year,” he said.

“ I’m not the biggest artist in the world.

I kind of just enjoy cruising where I’m at.”

Brotha Lynch Hung He’s also got a new album in the works— one that harkens back to his past, specifically 1997’s Loaded, which was considered a departure from Brotha Lynch’s horrorcore roots with a sound and aesthetic that’s associated more with a 420-friendly creed than the ultraviolent sect. Now that Colorado and Washington have legalized the once controlled substance, Lynch plans to revisit that sound on an album titled Kevlar—a slight pun on his government name Kevin.

“Loaded was kinda unplanned,” he said. “I didn’t know weed was going to go wild like this. Now that people like the Loaded album, the Kevlar album is going to be on that level too. In certain states weed is legal now, so I want to move in that direction.” Ω

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neighborhood in 2016, now seemed like a particularly good time to sell, Swanigan told SN&R. “Anticipating it would be another two years before the arena is completed and the housing and retail construction will be ongoing, made it easier to consider our lease options for the club,” she wrote in an email.

But for the underground venue, which first opened on 12th and K in 1998 and moved to its current location in 2005, this weekend is an opportunity to revisit the glory days and invite regulars to play one last time.

The big farewell affair is Saturday.

Doors open at 11:30 a.m., and the live music may start as early as 1 p.m. At press time, Marilyn’s was still finalizing the lineup.

Among those slated to play: New Orleans-inspired brass collective City of Trees Brass Band, classic rock band Playback the Hits, zombified Black Sabbath tribute band Children of the Grave, funk band Mercy Me!, rockers the Denver J Band and live karaoke band You Front the Band.

Plus, a special one-time set with members of the Diva Kings and Cuesta Drive.

The live music will go all night— well, until 1 a.m.—so drop by in the afternoon, leave, return, leave, return, etc. With no cover, there won’t be much fuss at the door.

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Farewell Marilyn’s: Sacramento must wave goodbye to another live music venue on Saturday, as Marilyn’s on K is closing its doors for good.

The announcement came a couple weeks ago. Linda Swanigan told The Sacramento Bee that attendance had fallen and she had been looking to sell for about a year. A San Diego company will use the location for a bar arcade with old-school games and craft cocktails.

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Over the last few weeks we’ve received many emails and phone calls from readers inquiring about this year’s nominations process and awards ceremony.

After all it’s been nearly a year since the 2013 awards were handed out at Ace of Spades. By that calendar, we should have already been deep into the voting process by this point.

The Sammies are happening— just not next month. Instead, for various logistical reasons, they’ve been pushed to March 2015. Voting will start in January.

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Almost Halloween: The Hangtown Halloween Ball returned to El Dorado County Fairgrounds in Placerville last weekend much to the delight of thousands of returnees. The three-day festival, which featured a bevy of bluegrass, jam and boogie woogie bands, completely sold out on Saturday.

Now in its fifth year, Hangtown showcases some of the best regional and national acts around, and creates an environment that feels much like a Grateful Dead parking lot—except in an elaborately decorated fairground setting. Show-goers were mostly dressed in Halloween costumes. There were even two different guys dressed like deviled eggs.

While there was a huge downpour of rain from the first night, that simply meant all of Saturday’s scheduled Main Stage performers before 5 p.m. were relegated into a smaller, standing-room-only, indoor concert hall.

Acts like North Lake Tahoe’s Dead Winter Carpenters filled the room to capacity with high-energy sets.

Saturday night also featured Colorado’s Leftover Salmon, a raucous bluegrass band who seemingly always skips the Sacramento Valley on their own tours. The crowd favorite, who had everyone on their feet and dancing, threw down a ferocious set on the Main Stage—even joined by local favorite Joe Craven on violin.

The highlight of the day came from San Francisco’s Brothers Comatose. This finely-honed string group delivered wonderful bluegrass fare replete with gorgeous harmonies, courtesy of bandleaders and brothers Ben and Alex Morrison. The band’s appearance on the much smaller Gallows Stage was packed to the rafters.

The annual event looks like it’s bound for yet another year. Start packing now and plan ahead.

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Twenty bands—including Fudi! (pictured), The Polymers, Lights and Sirens, and 50-Watt Heavy—perform tunes by rock stars no lonROCK ger rockin’ among the living at this annual show, a tradition for more than a decade now. This year, it features a midnight costume contest and no cover before 9 p.m. Here’s the deal, gals and guys: Bust out the skin tights, zombie threads, ghoulish attire and comfy dancin’ shoes to groove well into the night. Last year, the Other Brittany stole the show with a medley featuring Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Michael Jackson. Seriously, they killed it.

1901 10th Street, www.theoldironsides.com.

For those who are just kind of over Halloween (read: girls dressed as sexy ketchup bottles, dudes dressed as LMFAO), take refuge with post-punk rockers Bear Hands. At its best, this group resembles a little bit of the Cure and Devo mixed with pop sensibilities reminiscent of Young the Giant. The New York City band has opened up for the likes of Passion Pit and GZA (of Wu-Tang Clan), and its breakout single “Giants” charted in the top 10 on ROCK Billboard’s Alternative Songs list earlier this year. Seattle-based indie-rock group Fences opens up this Halloween-night show. 1417 R Street, http://bearhandsband.com.

—Steph Rodriguez

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Goldfield Trading Post, 9 p.m., no cover

Although a band’s origin isn’t always relevant, Iron Reagan hails from Richmond, Va., a town which also spawned such notable acts as Lamb Of God, Gwar, and Alabama Thunderpussy.

Unlike its counterparts, this band has built a massive buzz touring as support for acts PUNK/THRASH such as Ghoul and from its hilarious “Miserable Failure” video that went viral more than a month ago. Music fans who appreciate a little humor with their metal and punk— à la Red Fang and, more recently, Mastodon’s much-talked about video featuring a bevy of shaking booties—will appreciate this band, featuring members (or former members) of Municipal Waste, Darkest Hour and Cannabis Corpse. 1517 21st Street, www.facebook.com/ ironreagan.

Red Bluff native Chad Bushnell thinks he has what it takes to become an American country star. Really. Just last weekend, he performed in the top 12 of American Country Star, a lengthy Nashville, Tenn., talent competition. He’s also auditioning for America’s Got Talent’s 10th season. And though the singersongwriter is unsigned and entering competitions, Bushnell isn’t exactly undiscovered.

He’s already opened for enormous names in country music, including Billy Currington, Tracy Lawrence, Mark Wills, James Otto and Robert Earl Keen. If you bump into him at the show and nervously want to COUNTRY strike up conversation, try these topics: rodeo, hunting and fishing.

1630 J Street, www.chadbushnell.com.

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Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 9 p.m., $10-$12 Though now based in Oregon, Zuhg is a Sacramento institution. The group not only brings a unique blend of reggae, funk, soul, classic rock and improvisation to its music (always with good vibes and a laid-back sensibility), it’s also still deeply entrenched in the local music scene with its annual festival (Zuhgfest)—and frontman Bryan Nichols still books tons of Sacramento shows for other local bands. After forming in 2007, the group released several albums, toured nationally, and played in several California music REGGAE/ROCK festivals. Knowing all of this, who in Sacramento wouldn’t want to spend what is arguably the most fun night of the year (Halloween) with Zuhg? James Cavern opens.

2708 J Street, www.zuhgmusic.com.

Assembly Music Hall, 6 p.m., $17 This publication has been pretty kind to Some Fear None. Still, after being nominated for a Sammie in the Hard Rock category HARD ROCK last year, the group’s certainly been putting some hard work in to impress fans, too. If you’ve listened to SFN’s last release—2013’s Break Hold & Elevate—it’s easy to see what all the fuss is about. When the quartet isn’t killing it with driving rock riffs on the unrelenting single “Exit Wound,” singer Nathan Giguiere turns in solid performances on weighty tracks like “Painstaking,” giving the songs added weight. Some Fear None brings the rock like nobody’s business. Bonus: Oleander headlines this one. 1000 K Street, www.somefearnone.com.

Ace of Spades, 6:30 p.m., $19

Sleep Train Arena, 8 p.m., $32.50-$67

With eight full-length albums under its belt—its latest, Resurrection, released October 7—pop punk four-piece New Found Glory and its devoted fans continue to prove their long-term commitment to four-chord song structures. Formed in 1997, NFG released dozens of underground hits like “Hit or Miss (Waited Too Long)” off of its debut album, Nothing Gold Can Stay; and “My Friends Over You,” off 2002’s Sticks and Stones. Now, the POP-PUNK guys hit the road for the fifth annual Glamour Kills Tour with supporting bands We Are The In Crowd, Fireworks and Better Off. Check out NFG’s newest single (and an accompanying music video) “Ready and Willing” on its website.

1417 R Street, www.newfoundglory.com.

—Brian Palmer

Humble kids from the land of LeBron, The Black Keys come out of the same grimy, fuzzsoaked blues footsteps of The Gories and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. But after following Wilco to Nonesuch Records, they BLUES ROCK proved capable of much more. Their music rests on marrow-deep grooves, soulful vigor and a traditionalist streak that also honors experimentation. They proved that by teaming with producer Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley) for 2008’s wooly psychedelic Attack & Release, a collaboration they revisit to even better effect on new disc Turn Blue. The keenly detailed textures and background noises amplify the duo’s bounce and funky allure.

1 Sports Parkway, www.theblackkeys.com.

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1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

Gabi’s Costume Dance Party with DJ Step Rock, 8pm, no cover

Halloween party with Ween tribute band, THE REPTILE HOUSE, 8pm, call for cover 9pm, call for cover

THE BOARDWALK

ADRIANAN, OCCUPY THE TREES,

SHORELINE, DEAD BY NIGHTFALL, DECIPHER THE FALLEN; 8pm, $10-$12

2003 K St., (916) 448-8790 101 Main St., Roseville; (916) 774-0505

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 DEATH N TAXES; 8pm, $10

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Sin Sunday, 8pm, call for cover

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

TRASH MAGIC, WANDERN, RGB; 8pm, no cover

DISTRICT 30

Uz: Top 40, mashups, 10pm, $7

Heaven and Hell: house and electronic music, 10pm, $10

FACES

Kamikaze Karaoke, 9pm-2am, no cover

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

’80s deejay mixes, 2-7pm, no cover ; Hip-hop and Top 40

FOX & GOOSE

CHICKEN & DUMPLING, 8pm, no cover

A Very Scary Garage Rock Halloween Party, 9pm, $5

EARLY TIMES, 9pm, $5

G STREET WUNDERBAR

DJ Julius Pleaser, 10pm, no cover

DJ Mouf, 10pm, call for cover

WILD AND UNTAMED THINGS Rocky Horror Tribute, call for time and cover

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

CHAD BUSHNELL, 9pm, no cover

HALFTIME BAR & GRILL

Halloween Bash with PARTY RUMOR, 9pm, $15-$17

SUPERLICIOUS, 9pm, $5

Harloween Bash with ZuhG, 9pm, $10-$12

LIFE IN THE FAST LANE, 7pm, $12-$15; MUSTACHE HARBOR, 9:30pm, $12-$15

1603 J St., (916) 476-5076

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

HARLOW’S

INK Comes out at Night with DJ Julian Pierce and Philter, 10pm, $10

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR

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

1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931

OLIO, MELODIC MINDS, RAT STOMP; 8pm, $5

THE NEARLY DEADS, THE ANIMAL IN ME, IT LIVES IT BREATHES; M.

Deejay dancing, 9pm, $5-$10

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5 Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu; Northern Soul and Cornhole!, 8pm W.

GOLDFIELD TRADING POST

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

Mad Mondays, 9pm M, call for cover Trivia Night, 6:30pm M, no cover

THE COZMIC CAFÉ

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

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 11/3-11/5

Nell Robinson’s The Rose Of No-Man’s Land, 8pm, $22-$25

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

2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

Hey local bands!

SUNDAY 11/2

BADLANDS

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Want to be a hot show?

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SATURDAY 11/1 OLEANDER, SOME FEAR NONE; 6pm, $17

MARILYN’S ON K

MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME, 8pm, $12-$14 Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M, $5-$20 ; Open-mic comedy, 8pm Tu, no cover;

THE FORESOCKS, ABBY NORMAL, REVOLVER; 9pm, $10

908 K St., (916) 446-4361

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

Marilyn’s Farewell Party, 1pm-1am, no cover

Marilyn’s Talent Showcase, 6pm, no cover

Darling Clementines Burlesque, 8pm M, $10

MIDTOWN BARFLY

Panik: deejay dancing w/ Angels of Kaos, Electronic, house, nu-disco, techno, dub- Goth, darkwave, industrial, electronic 9pm-2am, $5 step deejay dancing, 9pm-2am deejay dancing, 9pm-3am, call for cover

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

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN

DICK LARSON, STEVE KOTAREK; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz session, 8pm M; NOVELISTS, AMERICAN NOMAD, 8:30pm W, $5;

1119 21st St., (916) 549-2779 1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

XOCHITL, THE STAND OUT STATE; 8:30pm, call for cover

ICARUS ACCOUNT, JAKE STREETE, TOM SQUIRES, CHASE COY; 8pm, $10

1000 K Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

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FRIDAY 10/31

OLD IRONSIDES

DRIVE-THROUGH MYSTICS, 8pm, $5

Dead Rock Stars Show, 9pm, $5

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 11/3-11/5 HEATH WILLIAMSON, 5pm M, no cover; Karaoke, 9pm Tu; Open-mic, 9pm W

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SPAZMATICS, 10pm, call for cover

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

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Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

SHADY LADY SALOON

JIMMY SPERO, 9pm, no cover

PETER PETTY, 9pm, no cover

SHENANIGANS

Comedy Night and DJ Selekta Lou, 9pm, $5

Halloween bash with DJ Reese Roundtree, 10pm, $5 with costume

1409 R St., (916) 231-9121 705 J St., (916) 442-1268

The Foresocks with Abby Normal and Revolver 9pm Friday, $10.

Marilyn’s on K Red Hot Chili Peppers tribute

MERCY ME!, 9:30pm, $10

ALEX JENKINS, 9pm, no cover

HARLEY WHITE JR., 9pm W, call for cover

SOL COLLECTIVE

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2574 21st St., (916) 832-0916

STARLITE LOUNGE

BILL MYLAR, 5:30pm, no cover

STONEY INN/ROCKIN’ RODEO

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

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

MIDTOWN CREEPERS, 5:30pm, no cover; Blues jam, 4pm, no cover; KEVIN RUSSELL, 9pm, $8 ICE AGE JAZZTET, 8pm, $5

1517 21st St., (916) 706-0052 1320 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 927-6023

TORCH CLUB

X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; ISLAND OF BLACK & WHITE, 9pm, $6

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm; Halloween bash with MIND X, 9pm, $12

WITCH ROOM

CLYDE MOORE, PESO HARLEM, SEAN LAMAR; 9pm, $5 with costume

WILD AND UNTAMED THINGS, 9pm, $10-$15

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

Miss MouthPeace with Olio and Robin Reyes 8pm Saturday, $8.

Shine Soul

Acoustic open-mic, 5:30pm W; BRIAN ROGERS ALLSTAR BAND, 9pm W, $5

JEFFREY LEWIS, DOOFY DOO, BE BRAVE BOLD ROBOT; 8pm, $6

All ages, all the time ACE OF SPADES

BROTHA LYNCH HUNG, IANC; 7pm, $21-$50

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BEATNIK STUDIOS

BEAR HANDS, FENCES, STAND OUT STATE; 7pm, $12

NEW FOUND GLORY, WE ARE THE IN CROWD, FIREWORKS; 6:30pm, $19

Undead Media presents “MK Ultra Mind Control and the CIA Conspiracy”, 6pm

723 S St., (916) 400-4281

SHINE

MISS MOUTHPEACE, OLIO, ROBIN REYES; 8pm, $8

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—Reggie Stardvotar I am glad you asked. Of course I do. Voting is the most important thing you can do as an activist and as an American. Never let anyone tell you that voting doesn’t work. We got medical marijuana through LUM A the vote. Voters legalized the recreational use E B IO A G

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Anyway, yes. In California, the only real drug-related initiative on the ballot is Proposition 47, which would change the law so that some lowlevel, nonviolent crimes (drug possession, petty theft, forgery, yada yada) would be misdemeanors instead of felonies. If passed, this bill is expected to save hundreds of millions of dollars in court costs.

That money would then be used to help out schools, mental-health services, and drug treatment programs.

I am all for it. So are Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Senators Mark Leno, Loni Hancock and Darrell Steinberg. Heck, even former Congressman Newt Gingrich (and I can’t stand him) thinks this is a good bill. The opponents are the usual gang of lawCity by city, county enforcement officers that all of our problems by county, state by think would be solved if we could state—we will legalize just put everyone in jail.

Vote yes on 47. marijuana.

Turning to more local matters: In Nevada County, Proposition S is on the ballot. It would replace the draconian-outdoor growing regulations created by the board of supervisors with something way more reasonable. Instead of a grow having to be 1,000 feet away from a school, it would have to be 600 feet away. Instead of having to grow their cannabis on flat land (!?!?), growers would be allowed to grow on terraced property. I don’t even get why the BOS would mandate that all grows have to be on flat land. Do they even know the terrain of Nevada County? Also, the plant limits would be raised and Ngaio Bealum indoor growers would be allowed to have two grow is a Sacramento rooms: one for young and vegetating plants, and one comedian, activist for plants going into flower. Also, outdoor grows and marijuana expert. would be restricted to nonresidential zones and the Email him questions property must be larger than 2 acres. These are all at ask420@ newsreview.com. very reasonable rules and I urge you all to vote hell yes on S. And please, please, please get all of your people that live in Oregon to vote yes on 91. And call your friends in Alaska and tell them to vote yes on 2. And your homies in Florida, remind them to vote yes on 2, too! And if you have peeps in Washington, D.C., have them vote yes on 71.

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terrible tasting. Keeping the humidity at the right level used to be a bigger challenge, but companies like Boveda (formerly known as Humidipak) make great little packets that you can put in your storage jars. These packs will keep your medicine at an optimal moisture level.

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(Alas, Egypt destroyed most of the tunnels in early 2014.) I recommend, Aries, that you be as determined and resourceful to make your longed-for connections as the KFC lovers in Gaza were. Halloween costume suggestion: smuggler, bootlegger, drug dealer, black-marketeer.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s urgent that you expand your options. Your freedom of choice can’t lead you to where you need to go until you have more possibilities to choose from. In fact, you’re better off not making a decision until you have a wider selection. To playfully drive home this point to your subconscious mind, I suggest that this Halloween you consider disguising yourself as a slime mold. This unusual creature comes in more than 500 different genders, at least 13 of which must collaborate to reproduce. Here’s a photo: bit.ly/yellowslime.

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(May 21-June 20): In the animated sci-fi TV sitcom Futurama, Leela is the mutant captain of a spaceship. In one episode, she develops an odd boil on her hindquarters. It has a face and can sing. The actor who provides the vocals for the animated boil’s outpouring of song is Gemini comedian Craig Ferguson, whose main gig is serving as host of a late-night TV talk show on CBS. Telling you this tale is my way of suggesting that you consider going outside your usual niche, as Craig Ferguson did, to offer your talents in a different context. Halloween costume suggestion: Kim Kardashian as a nurse wearing Ebola protective gear; science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson as a male stripper; a cat wearing a dog costume, or vice versa.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Native

American hero Sitting Bull (1831-1890) was a renowned Lakota chief and holy man.

He led his people in their resistance to the U.S. occupation of their land. How did he become so strong and wise? In large part through the efforts of his doting mother, whose name was Her-Holy-Door. Let’s install her as your exemplar for now. May she inspire you to nurture beauty and power in those you love. May she motivate you to be adroit as you perform your duties in service to the future. May the mystery of her name rouse you to find the sacred portal that ushers you to your next big gift. Halloween costume suggestion: a sacred portal, a divine gateway, an amazing door.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This is one of those

rare times when it’s OK for you to just throw out the dirty dishes that you are too lazy to wash. It’s also permissible to hide from a difficult person, spend money on a supposedly foolish indulgence, eat a bowl of ice cream for breakfast, binge-watch a TV show that provokes six months’ worth of emotions in a few hours, and lie in bed for an extra hour fantasizing about sex with a forbidden partner.

Don’t make any of these things habits, of course. But for now, it’s probably healthy to allow them. Halloween costume suggestion: total slacker.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Our

evolutionary ancestors Homo erectus loved to eat delicious antelope brains.

The fossil evidence is all over their old stomping grounds in East Africa. Scientists say that this delicacy, so rich in nutrients, helped our forbears build bigger, stronger brains themselves. These days it’s harder, but not impossible, to make animal brains part of your diet.

The Chinese and Koreans eat pig brains, and some European cuisines include beef brains. I’m confident, however, that your own brain will be functioning better than ever in the coming weeks, even if you don’t partake of this exotic dish. Be sure to take advantage of your enhanced intelligence. Solve tough riddles! Think big thoughts! Halloween costume suggestion: a brain-eating Homo erectus.

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egromenious hilarity of psychadisical melarmy, whether rooted in a lissome stretch or a lusty wobble, soon defisterates into crabolious stompability. So why not be graffenbent?” So said Noah’s exwife Joan of Arc in her interview with St. Crocodile magazine. Heed Joan’s advice, please, Libra. Be proactively saximonious. I’m kidding! Everything I just said was nonsense. I hope you didn’t assume it was erudite wisdom full of big words you couldn’t understand. In offering it to you, I was hoping to immunize you against the babble and hype and artifice that may soon roll your way. Halloween costume suggestion: a skeptic armed with a shockproof bullshit-detector. For inspiration, check out these visuals: http://bit.ly/ bsdetector.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In AMC’s

famous TV drama, a high school chemistry teacher responds to his awful luck by turning to a life of crime. The show’s title, Breaking Bad, refers to what happens when a good person cracks and veers over to the dark side. So then what does “breaking good” mean? Urbandictionary.com defines it like this: “When a criminal, junkie, or gangbanger gets sweet and sparkly, going to church, volunteering at soup kitchens, and picking the kids up from school.” I’m concerned that you are at risk of undergoing a similar conversion, Scorpio. You seem so nice and kind and mild lately. I guess that’s fine as long as you don’t lose your edge. Halloween costume suggestion: a criminal with a halo, a sweet and sparkly gangbanger, or a Buddhist monk junkie.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

I’ve got two possible remedies for your emotional congestion. You might also want to make these two remedies part of your Halloween shtick. The first remedy is captured by the English word “lalochezia.” It refers to a catharsis that comes from uttering profane language. The second remedy is contained in the word “tarantism.” It means an urge to dance manically as a way to relieve melancholy.

For your Halloween disguise, you could be a wildly dancing obscenity-spouter.

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

are at a point in your astrological cycle when you deserve to rake in the rewards that you have been working hard to earn.

I expect you to be a magnet for gifts and blessings. The favors and compliments you have doled out will be returned to you. For all the strings you have pulled in behalf of others’ dreams, strings will now be pulled for you. Halloween costume suggestion: a beaming kid hauling around a red wagon full of brightly wrapped presents.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Two

physicists in Massachusetts are working on technology that will allow people to shoot laser beams out of their eyes. For Halloween, I suggest that you pretend you have already acquired this superpower.

It’s time for you to be brash and jaunty as you radiate your influence with more confidence. I want to see you summon reserves of charismatic clout you haven’t dared to call on before. Costume suggestion: The X-Men mutant named Cyclops or the legendary Native American creature known as the thunderbird, which emits lightning from its eyes.

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

nation of Swaziland has passed a law prohibiting witches from flying their broomsticks any higher than 150 meters above ground. That will a big problem for Piscean witches. There is currently an astrological mandate for them to swoop and glide and soar as high and free as they want to. The same is metaphorically true for all Piscean non-witches everywhere.

This is your time to swoop and glide and soar as high and free as you want to.

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The everything man It’s hard to pin Drew Walker down to any one thing. At any given time he seems to be juggling several creative projects. Some know him as head sound guy at the Witch Room, others for his work with live event sound company Point Source Sound (which he runs with his dad), while still others would recognize him as host of a weekly open mic at Sophia’s Thai Kitchen in Davis. Oh, and Walker, who plays bass in experimental indie-rock band Gentleman Surfer, also has his own solo project called Doofy Doo and plays in a Rocky Horror Picture Show tribute band called The Wild and Untamed Things. But, wait, that’s not all. Walker is an accomplished photographer, too, and his latest untitled exhibit is currently on display at Old Soul at 40 Acres. Walker took a break from his packed schedule to talk art, inspiration and how an embarrassing childhood nickname stuck after all these years.

Why photography?

My mom took photos, and she bought us cameras when we were kids for our road trips. Opening a fresh developed roll of photos has always been one of the most exciting feelings in the world for me. I love to be surprised by what worked and what didn’t. I love the physical one-of-a-kind artifact. I love the act of posing people for group photos. I love the science and logic behind it all.

Some of your photos seem candid, while others are very surreal.

I’m interested in anything interesting, whether it’s because of the personalities in it, or just because of the imagery or the colors, the shapes. My style is dictated by the people in my life, the places in my life, the lens I use. I also use an old film camera.

Something about it—people take it a little less seriously because they might never see the image, and ‘oh look at that, I bet it won’t even turn out.’ More personality comes out with an old film camera in subjects at least.

Which character do you play in the Rocky Horror band?

The last two [shows] I was Rocky. I did the whole costume: fake tan, blonde wig, golden Speedo, golden tennis shoes, and stripped naked on stage, sang … and played bass in the band. This time I don’t want to be Rocky—I haven’t been working out as much.

I’m playing drums and playing Doctor Scott, who is in a wheelchair ... so it’s just natural, I’m sitting down the whole show.

Your solo project is called Doofy Doo— explain the name.

When my little sister was young, she couldn’t pronounce my name, so she would call me “doo doo.” That became my family name. My mom still calls me Doo Doo, embarrassingly, |

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in front of other people sometimes. I just kind of adapted that. Doofy Doo seemed perfectly fitting. The music is eclectic, experimental, and it’s melodic sometimes. I always try and keep it different. ... Typically what I work from now is all record samples, so I’ll search online or I’ll find records, or CDs ... and I’ll think of a theme. And I’ll improvise with the drum machine and the effect pedals, guitar, and microphone or whatever’s at the show.

I’ll include poetry, or some kind of props to get my message across. Around Halloween last year, Satan was the theme. I did death and taxes in April.

Best thing—and worst—about hosting an open mic?

Best thing [are] the surprises, the newbies who blow you away being funny or talented.

Worst thing is having to be “that guy” and [having to] tell people “no,” and tell people they’re done … and generally [having to] manage delicate egos. I try hard to be sensitive with that stuff, but I almost always have something to feel like a jerk about by the end of the night.

Best acts you’ve seen at your open mic?

One time a girl came in a tutu with batons and she put on a Bjork song and did baton twirling and tutu dancing. That was really cool ... I wish more people would think of their quirky ideas as entertainment material. There’s this open mic culture that I see [that’s] so stagnant. There’s no freshness or wacky shit coming in. It’s not all about how well you can sing or how good your jokes are. It’s about the quality of your ideas and how well you share them. |

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What music are you listening to right now?

An old roommate of mine, Troy Mighty, who played by the name of Dead Western, moved to Berlin. I inherited his CD and cassette collection, and it’s mostly stuff from bands he met on tour or in Sacramento. Eighty percent of it is harsh noise and unlistenable freak folk home recording crap, but I’m finding treasure in there too. My most recent happy finds in that collection are Ya Ho Wa 13 which [was] the Source Family band. The Source Family were this infamous cult based around this health food store in L.A. in the ’60s. And they had their own psychedelic rock band.

How do you juggle it all?

Ever feel like you need a personal assistant?

I do have assistance! I’m completely reliant on my girlfriend in most things. She helps me stay on track, her taste and support contribute a lot, she even hand letters my artist statements for my photo shows because my penmanship is so wack—though I would stop short of calling her a “personal assistant” because, you know. I also have a lot of help with Witch Room in Taylor Kohl and Barry Swars, who both have helped there since we opened. Really everything I do is helped along by others supporting me. When I feel overwhelmed it’s more often with gratitude than with stress. Ω Check out Drew Walker’s photography exhibit at Old Soul at 40 Acres, located at 3434 Broadway, through November 7. Or catch The Wild and Untamed Things at 9 p.m. Friday, October 31, at Witch Room, located at 1815 19th Street. Tickets are $10-$15. More info at www.witchroomsac.com.

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“I like to go to a lot of the community events and support what’s happening.

I also take this time to reflect on family members and community members that have passed away and celebrate them.”

“I go to El Panteón de Sacramento. It is a replication of a Mexican cemetery as it occurs during Day of the Dead, where families come and decorate the grave sites of their deceased loved ones.”

“I will be spending Día de los Muertos at the cemetery at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. I’ll be participating in the procession, along with the festivities and mass service that will take place afterwards.”

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“I am looking forward to spending Day of the Dead remembering some of my loved ones. One of my family members that recently passed was my dog. She died last week. One of the ways I’m going to remember her is by making a contribution to the SPCA.”

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ou may be spending late october deciding which “orange is the new black” character to be for Halloween, but there’s another autumnal celebration of the spirit world that deserves notice.

día de los muertos, or day of the dead, is a fusion of native mesoamerican traditions and the Catholic holidays all saints’ day and all souls’ day. Today the holiday is observed on nov. 1 and 2 in mexico and parts of Central and south america and the Caribbean. it’s also increasingly celebrated in the u.s. and around the world, including right here in sactown. día de los muertos is traditionally an opportunity to commemorate the lives of loved ones who have passed on. it’s a recognition of the interconnectedness of life and death, the way our ancestors live on in our memories and continue to be present in our lives.

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The tone is reverent but festive, not mournful or spooky. many believe that the spirits of the dearly departed are summoned from eternal slumber to visit with the living. Favorite foods, drinks and possessions are offered to entice the souls of loved ones to linger. Families spruce up and decorate graves, hold vigils and graveside picnics, build altars in the home and celebrate in the streets of the community. it’s basically a party with your dead relatives. How cool is that?

With its crossover into mainstream american culture, día de los muertos continues to evolve and develop new multicultural layers. Whether you’ll be honoring your abuelita with your whole family, or this is all kinda new to you, there are plenty of ways to celebrate this día de los muertos in sacto.

Check out the event listings on page 9 of this guide, and find the fun in taking death a little less seriously.

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ía de los Muertos altars, built with care for departed loved ones, are often beautiful to behold. use this guide to build your own. or, see the events on page 9 for opportunities to participate in community altars and to admire the handiwork of others.

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This traditional cut paper decoration adds beauty and, when fluttering in the breeze, represents the natural element of wind.

POwDER yOUR NASAL BONE?

Journeys between the netherworld and land of the living call for a little freshening up. An offering of toiletries is always appreciated.

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FAVORITE ThINGS

A few prized objects from the person’s life make the spirit feel at home.

CANDLES

Offer the honored person’s favorite refreshments — they’ll be hungry and thirsty after the long trek back from the afterlife. A glass of water represents this essential element of the natural world.

Candles light the way back home and represent the natural element of fire.

NATURAL BOUNTy

Fruits and vegetables of the harvest symbolize the element of earth.

BONES

Decorated skulls and skeletons are closely associated with the holiday, like the iconic, elegantly dressed La Calavera Catrina popularized by the artists José Guadalupe Posada and Diego Rivera. Skeletons are often portrayed in whimsical poses, enjoying the afterlife.

Sugar skulls are confections of molded sugar that are offered on altars and enjoyed by all.

MARIGOLDS

The scent of this traditional “flower of the dead” is said to be especially attractive to departed souls.

PAN DE MUERTO

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courtesy of Andres Alvarez A costumed participant at last year's El Panteón de Sacramento.

EVENTS EL PANTEóN DE SACRAMENTO Come out for two days of celebration and remembrance of those who have passed away. Presented by Sacramento’s nonprofit Latino art and cultural center, La Raza Galeria Posada, El Panteón de Sacramento is an urban celebration of Día de los Muertos in Midtown Sacramento, featuring 60 large, colorful altares created by families, individuals, artists and local nonprofit organizations.

The event takes place Sat., Nov. 1, 11 a.m.-1 a.m. and Sun., Nov. 2, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. at 2020 J St., Sacramento. Free.

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SOULS Of ThE CITy Join the Historic Old Sacramento Foundation and Sol Collective for a Día de los Muertos community celebration featuring arts and cultural activities for the whole family. Add items to interactive altars

in celebration of your loved ones who have passed on. There will be live music, vendors, food, pop-up art labs and a traditional altar and procession led by Kalpulli Maquilli Tonatiuh Aztec Dancers. The event takes place

Sat., Nov. 1, 6 p.m.-midnight in front of the Sacramento History Museum. 101 I St., Sacramento. Free.

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DAy Of ThE DEAD CELEbRATION AT VALLEjO’S RESTAURANT Vallejo’s Restaurant will host a Day of the Dead celebration, featuring a D.J. and traditional altar. The event takes place Sat., Nov. 1, 7 a.m.-midnight at 1100 O St., Sacramento.

CROCkER ART MUSEUM The Crocker Art Museum will present an altare painted by Anthony Padilla

for community members to honor their ancestors. Visitors are encouraged to leave remembrances, including calaveras (skulls), pan de muerto (bread of the dead), cempasúchil (marigold, flower of the dead) and other personal items. The event takes place

Sat.-Sun., Nov. 1-2, all day, outside the museum. 216 O St., Sacramento. Free.

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f you happened to see a large group of ghouls, ghosts and the undead riding bicycles through the streets of sacramento last weekend, you might want to consider joining them next year. For the last five years, ted florez of sacramento Cyclefest has partnered with the rolling relics to host the annual halloween ride, which takes costumed cyclists on a five-hour ride through Midtown to downtown sacramento, stopping at locales to eat, drink and socialize.

This year the event took on a new theme, becoming the day of the dead Bicycle Cruise and picking up sponsorship by sn&r. Bicycle enthusiasts gathered in late afternoon on saturday, oct. 25, to celebrate the latin american holiday in style. the ride included stops at suzie Burger, Centro Cocina Mexicana, Barwest, Tequila Museo Mayahuel, Pizza Rock, Graciano’s Pizza and Vallejo’s Restaurant. The event brought out more than 250 riders despite the threat of rain.

“It’s all about having a good time,” Florez said.

“People need reasons to get the kids off the video games and enjoy being outside.” the annual ride is open to the public and anyone is welcome to join.

Florez added that people shouldn’t be intimidated if they don’t have the fanciest ride around. all ranges of bike enthusiasts come out — from those with $3,000 custom-built bikes to those with rusted-out huffys.

Barbara Bowman of sacramento brought her vintage Schwinn.

Ted Florez “I am here to ride with a DAy Of ThE DEAD BICyCLE whole bunch of vintage bicycles CRUISE EVENT ORGANIzER and celebrate day of the dead, see sacramento, see some of the small pubs that are around here and have a good time riding at night with lights on,” she said.

Modelo was also a sponsor for the event. Market Development Manager Jose Plasencia said his company supports the ever-evolving and expanding expressions of the latin american tradition of día de los Muertos.

“Modelo Especial is very proud to be associated with this event that is rich in history, true to its culture — and at the same time — enjoyed worldwide, just like Modelo,” Plasencia said.

“It’s all about having a good time.

People need reasons to get the kids off the video games and enjoy being outside.”

Top: Costumed riders head down P Street for the Day of the Dead Bicycle Cruise on Oct. 25. Bottom right: From left, Robert Ruiz, Keith Hodson, Molly Wanless and Carrie Martin enjoy the stop at Tequila Museo Mayahuel. Bottom left: Modelo beer flowed freely at stops during the event, thanks to event sponsorship by Modelo Especial.

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