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Fake golden age It’s the first Sunday of February and LowBrau’s patio is bustling. My brother is wearing shorts, like so many others, and flip-flop sightings abound. It might as well be July.

Earlier on the bike trail, the 70-degree sunshine belies any winter crispness, and families are out exploring nature, which already is in bloom. I swear I see a polar-bear enthusiast dive into the American River’s icy current. Later on Twitter, a friend jokes how they even turned on their office’s air conditioning.

Welcome to climate change’s golden era!

That’s a joke. A depressing one.

Unfunny. But I can’t help but laugh.

Because it’s scary, this new California normal.

It’s also a little bit unbelievable.

More so than Jermaine Kearse’s big Super Bowl juggling act. (Or the fact that the Patriots somehow won.)

It’s not supposed to be summer in wintertime. You’re not supposed to throw a pick on the 1-yard line! What the hell is going on here?!

This double-edged weather is bogus news dressed in nice clothes.

My buddy, who works in energy, reminds that it not only won’t last, but it shouldn’t even be.

Are these lovely Sacramento afternoons just an 11th-hour tease, the final salad days before a darker climate-change reality? These must be the death-rattle years before drought really kicks in and global warming truly gets ugly.

Or is it OK to still hold hope, to think that we can reverse course?

Gov. Jerry Brown’s vision for renewable energy will matter. And that President Barack Obama, what with his new budget’s focus on climatechange programs and increased EPA funding, will move the needle. Maybe adaption won’t be that unbearable.

But then I look outside, and it just doesn’t look right.

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chools can have a big impact on preventing juvenile crime. Just ask Sacramento County Juvenile Court Presiding Judge Stacy Boulware Eurie.

Boulware Eurie says not being at school is one of the factors that cause many youth to become involved in the juvenile justice system, both as perpetrators and victims. School suspensions and expulsions leave many young people alone without supervision for most of their day. While parents or guardians are working full time, youth may get involved in activities that put them in contact with law enforcement.

Boulware Eurie became part of the Restorative Justice Collaborative of Sacramento City Unified School District to demonstrate to educators, parent organizations and students how important participation in school is from the court’s perspective.

“For me, education is one of the most effective preventive tools to juvenile justice involvement,” she says.

The restorative justice approach actively involves offenders in repairing the harm done by a crime, instead of subjecting them to an arbitrary punishment. In schools, using restorative justice in lieu of exclusionary disciplinary practices, such as suspensions and expulsions, can lead to better outcomes and reduce exposure to crime.

“We are focused on the rehabilitation of the youth, and part of that is going to be through educational access and success,” Boulware Eurie says.

Youth that become involved in the juvenile justice system may have experienced trauma, problems at home, and other issues that affect their feelings of safety and stability. Behavior in the classroom should be used as an opportunity for learning, not as a reason for expulsion or suspension, Boulware Eurie says. Teachers and administrators should be able to identify students who need support and services, helping them to stay engaged and enrolled. The results can be dramatic. Studies have shown that not finishing high school can increase the likelihood of incarceration, as well as affect future earning potential and physical health.

“FOR ME, EDUCATION IS ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE PREVENTIVE TOOLS TO JUVENILE JUSTICE INVOLVEMENT.”

“It’s been enriching to see and hear directly from parents and students what their perspectives are on disciplinary practices and how it impacts them,” she says. “They want to be a part of the process and how policies are developed … It’s an important two-way street.”

The collaborative includes parents and students as well as teachers, administrators, other school staff, law enforcement, and social service and community agencies. Boulware Eurie says the collaborative has provided an important chance for these groups to interact outside of the legal system.

Through restorative justice and a holistic approach, Boulware Eurie hopes more youth can be kept out of her court.

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

Sacramento County Juvenile Court Presiding Judge Stacy Boulware Eurie is part of a collaborative focusing on keeping kids in school to reduce juvenile crime.

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Stacy Boulware Eurie, Sacramento County Juvenile Court presiding judge

Boulware Eurie feels the role of a juvenile court judge includes going into the community to find appropriate ways to support youth and their families. The Restorative Justice Collaborative, which started in 2013 through a grant from The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative, has allowed her another opportunity to connect with the community.

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New Year’s in Old Sac. We had five bottles at least, like Hennessy, Grey Goose, Patrón and more. I was so fucked up. We went to Mel’s Diner afterward, but to be honest that night was kind of blurry. ... All I remember was everyone kept asking if I was Kid Cudi and I just went along with it for the ladies.

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Death with dignity Everyone who is reading this is going to die.

That’s a simple fact, however uncomfortable. No one needs to be in any particular hurry to get there, but it’s the inevitable end point.

And none of us want to suffer unnecessarily when our time comes. Nor do we wish that on our loved ones. The question of what constitutes “unnecessary suffering,” though, is a deeply individual one. It’s certainly not something we have the right to dictate to others.

And that’s precisely why the California Legislature needs to pass Senate Bill 128 this year, which addresses aid-in-dying policy and pain-management options for end-of-life care.

Death with dignity and legislation allowing such isn’t a new idea. Not only has aid-in-dying been broached before in California, it’s been successfully in practice in our neighbor to the north for years.

Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act, in place since 1997, requires that state residents with a terminal illness seek the counsel of two separate physicians, who must agree on the terminal diagnosis. The patient then has the option of using prescription medicine to end his or her own life at a time of personal choosing, before the pain and stress of dying becomes too great.

In addition, the law requires that the Oregon Health Authority None of us want to gather and publish statistical data about the patients and physicians suffer unnecessarily who participate in aid-in-dying. when our time comes.

It’s not done in secret; instead, the public is included in the process.

One of the more interesting facts about Oregon’s Death with Dignity program is that roughly a third of the patients who seek prescriptions to hasten death opt not to use those drugs. More often, they let their illness take its full course.

Just knowing that one has the power to end one’s suffering is often enough to make that suffering bearable.

It’s important that SB 128, which was co-authored

by Davis-based state Sen. Lois Wolk, ends up including some broad standards guaranteeing that appropriate pain management for those with terminal illnesses is available. It’s one thing to choose to end one’s life, but it’s not really a choice if the option of pain relief isn’t available. No one should suffer when relief is available.

It’s also worth noting that California already assists people in hastening death. We prescribe powerful narcotics to the dying to alleviate their pain, knowing full well that the drugs will suppress a patients’ ability to breathe. It is a choice to be compassionate, and it is in many cases the right choice.

But death, like life, is not “one size fits all.” No one should ever feel pressured, either by the cost of care or by family members in a rush, to hasten their own death. So this law needs to also include guarantees that insurers will not be able to deny medical care to dying patients in favor of speedier and cheaper prescription aid-in-dying.

But the bottom line is that adequate pain management for the terminally ill will reduce the number of patients who request aid-in-dying in the first place, and the experience of Oregon shows that the number of patients who actually need it is quite small.

This is not a solution for everyone. But it is a solution for some people, and we ought not deny them the ability to take control of their own destiny. SB 128 is a dignified way to show compassion for those about to leave us. Ω

Re “Jeff Bridges abides Crest crowds with chill vibes� by Kimberly Brown (SN&R Page Burner, January 28): I was disappointed to read “And now, a sober night of country-rock.� I love country-rock and a lot of other music, but I don’t understand why it’s important to have alcohol in order to enjoy a concert. I letter of read about the joint being passed, and “the bar goof is the week forgiven,� and was reminded again why I don’t attend many concerts or outdoor events. If drinking makes the music better, I’m guessing that the music wasn’t very good to begin with.

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Re “Up in smoke� by David Downs (SN&R News, January 29): Or they could just get behind the finest cannabis-legalization initiative in the world and make this simple for everyone. Jack Herer wrote The Emperor Wears No Clothes and followed that with a brilliant legalization initiative titled the California Cannabis Hemp Initiative (#CCHI2016), which ensures fair and equal access to the “new trillion-dollar crop� focusing on protecting existing medical laws and enabling personal and industrial uses to become the bedrock of a new economy. Hemp can save the planet, but only if we have widespread and fair access to it.

We’re talking about hemp fuel, fiber, plastics, food and medicine— a real game changer, while they just keep trying to control, dominate, tax and regulate weed sales. Californians aren’t stupid and we won’t settle for less than we deserve. As Herer said, “If you can’t grow it, it ain’t legal!�

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Now I can’t even walk to Watt and El Camino without often being asked on each block for money by panhandlers or seeing people strolling by pushing full carts taken from supermarkets packed with old clothing. Or the homeless and mentally ill screaming at the air, standing in parking lots. Or, more often, at the cross-section of the heavily trafficked El Camino and Watt as I approach the shopping areas.

Like a lot of us older homeowners in Arden Arcade, when I purchased my home 17 years ago, the area was a quiet, middle-class neighborhood.

What I longed for was a vegan restaurant and organic vegetable stores, and I wished there was a close-by senior center easy to walk to. I write a daily blog, including information/essays on projects of interest to senior citizens in the area. You may wish to check out my essay about what some of us elderly pedestrians see as we stroll down the streets of Arden Arcade.

My blog is at: http://anne-hart-writes. blogspot.com/2015/01/drifting-intoblight-as-new-litter-each.html.

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Re “’Den of distress� by Raheem F. Hosseini (SN&R News, January 22): One continuing issue in Arden Arcade is the accumulating litter of fast-food wrappers on the sidewalks along Marconi Avenue, primarily, and sometimes also along Watt Avenue.

Another issue is bikers and skaters on narrow sidewalks. They tailgate us slow-walking senior citizens on our way to shopping or various necessary appointments.

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A carpenter can be a health-care worker. So can a bus driver or a teacher. Even a banker. This was my takeaway from a Safety Net Learning Institute seminar last month, sponsored by the Sierra Health Foundation.

Fixing our safety net so that our citizens have food to eat, receive necessary health treatment and have shelter is important work. And there is limited funding for these goals. The purpose of this seminar was to bring together government agencies, financial institutions and health organizations to have a discussion on how to get the biggest bang for limited dollars. l

by Jeff VonkAene What do we need?

First, we need more community health clinics, j ef f v@ ne wsreview.c om which can provide more efficient and less expensive medical care. If set up correctly, community health clinics receive higher federal Medi-Cal reimbursement rates, making it feasible to treat low-income patients. This is crucial because more people have Medi-Cal now, due to the Affordable Care Act, but there are not enough health providers who are willing to accept Medi-Cal patients.

Secondly, we need more supportive housing with on-site health services. This has been very effective, both at keeping mentally ill people off the streets reducing costs. It is cheaper Paying carpenters to and and more humane to provide build safe, affordable supportive housing than to pay housing may do more for emergency-room visits, hospital stays and jail time. to improve health Citing health-care data, outcomes than hiring seminar speakers pointed out that ending poverty is key to more doctors. improving health care. Horrible housing, inadequate food, polluted air and water, and lack of jobs—these problems are correlated with health problems and early death.

And, by far the best solution for diabetes, asthma, obesity, mental illness and hundreds of other diseases is simply to avoid being poor.

In fact, paying carpenters to build safe, affordable housing To see life expectancy by zip may do more to improve health outcomes than hiring more code in Sacramento doctors. More farmers growing fruits and vegetables may County, see page 5 of the Healthy improve health statistics more than nurses.

It makes sense. But how do we end poverty? How do we Sacramento Coalition’s report establish a real safety net? It seems overwhelming. But it is “The Chronic important to remember our country’s wealth. It is important to Disease Experience of Sacramento remember that European countries are doing it. It’s all about County Residents” priorities. They spend more of their resources on housing and at tinyurl.com/ food, and less on health-care expenses.

LifeExpByZip. It is possible. And our country clearly has the resources.

The problem is that the top 1 percent of our population receives too many of those resources. But we can change that.

Jeff vonkaenel Just as we changed our tax laws to give the rich more, we can is the president, change them back. We can stop corporations from avoiding CEO and their fair share of taxes by canceling offshore tax loopholes. majority owner of the News & Review We can end energy-company tax breaks. We can increase the newspapers in minimum wage. We can have hedge fund operators pay the Sacramento, Chico regular tax rate instead of the lower capital-gains rate. and Reno.

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State and county health officials debunked a suspected case of Ebola last week in south Sacramento, around the same time that a Disneyland-fueled measles outbreak broke through California’s borders.

The lesson is clear: Get vaccinated against the stuff that can actually kill you, and stop sweating the overhyped crises.

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did the right thing last week when she spearheaded her board’s 5-0 vote in favor of an affordable-apartment complex despite some constituents’ wishes and accusations.

After all, their opposition had less to do with the 148-unit low-income project than the overall condition of their Arden Arcade neighborhood, which has suffered from political neglect and cheap commercial developments, they argue. Peters got this vote right, but now’s the time to extend an olive branch and prove she listens to residents, not just donors.

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That’s the least he could do after Sacramento “subsidized” a cool $300 million for DMC’s future home.

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A movement as smart as the birther brigade puts us all at risk Maybe they don’t know what they’re messing with, these parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids.

Because if they understood the possible complications of a disease like measles— including deafness, brain damage or death—or even heard someone describe the agony of a normal case of measles, they wouldn’t take the chance. And perhaps because measles, mumps, whooping cough n vi AR G and other preventable illnesses haven’t o

by CoSM been so prevalent for a while—thanks to cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om widespread immunization—some parents seem think the danger somehow isn’t real.

So we are having to relearn, the hard way, what folks a generation ago understood well: that public health is a shared responsibility. “They wanted to take care of their children, but also everyone else’s children. I think we’ve lost that a little bit,” says Catherine Flores Martin, director of the California Immunization Coalition.

We’ve lost it, as evidenced by the dropping vaccination rates at public schools over the last decade, driven by parents who—because of bad information and the same of kind of socialsorting weirdness that gives us birthers and “rolling coal”—believe that the vaccines are somehow more dangerous than diseases they prevent. We’ve lost it, as seen in the entirely predictable outbreaks of those diseases following the “opt-out” fad. The Disneyland measles being the most recent, most headline-grabbing example.

But so what if vaccination rates are low at your kid’s school? As long as he has his shots, no problem, right?

Also, sadly, not true. “Even if your kids are completely up to date, they are at an increased risk” when the kids around them are not vaccinated, says Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases for UC Davis Health System.

And the danger is higher for babies too young to be vaccinated, and kids who have any kind of health issue that compromises their immune system. That’s because “herd immunity” only works when the vaccination rate, to take measles as an example, is up around 95 percent.

That’s why California state Senator Richard Pan, who is a pediatrician, wants to let parents know if vaccination rates are dipping too low at their schools.

“I believe parents should know what the vaccination rates are at their school, so they can protect their children,” says Pan. Earlier legislation by Pan required parents who want to opt out of vaccinating their kids to first talk with a physician about the risks. The rate of these “personal belief exemptions” has dropped 20 percent in the year since the law went into effect.

Pan’s new idea would require schools to send information to all parents letting them know the vaccination rate at their school, along with some basis of comparison, like the statewide average.

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That’s not the way it works at most schools.

In the Sacramento City Unified School District, administrators will typically communicate with parents if there is a problem, like the potential of an infectious disease at a particular school. But district spokesman Gabe Ross says, “Currently, there isn’t specific district policy requiring schools to alert parents of a particularly low vaccination rate.”

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Parents can find that information now, if they know where to look. One place to check is the website www.shotsforschool.org. For example, in Sacramento city schools, Alice Birney Elementary, a Waldorf-inspired public school, is listed in the “most vulnerable” category with a vaccine opt-out rate of 32 percent and only 66 percent of kindergartners “up to date” on their shots. At Caleb Greenwood Elementary, the up-to-date rate is just 77 percent, putting it in the “more vulnerable” category. But Ethel I. Baker Elementary is in the “safest” category, with 95.7 percent of kids vaccinated. Spot the pattern?

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Pan’s legislation could make it a lot easier for parents to get vaccination rates. The details are still being worked out, but he thinks the vaccination rate could be sent home with the regular enrollment materials. Bites thinks it should be posted on the schoolhouse door, with the word “Warning” in big bold letters when necessary.

But then what? What are parents supposed to do with this information?

“It’s a tool. If parents are looking at a school, and they are looking at test scores or some other ratings, then immunization rates may be another deciding factor,” says Flores Martin.

And what if your kid is already enrolled at a school, and you find out that school is an anti-vaxxer hotbed?

“Parents may want to talk to their school, to try and raise the vaccination rate,” said Pan. “Or they may want to talk to their school board.

Or they may want to transfer their student to another school.”

Only you can decide the right option for your family. Bites is not exactly shy about confrontation, but the thought of tangling with anti-vaxxer parents at the next PTA meeting is pretty scary.

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Death race You’re much more likely to be murdered in Sacramento if you’re black Question: When is the minority actually the majority?

Answer: When referring to murder victims. by According to an SN&R analysis of unpublished Raheem Sacramento County Coroner’s Office data, at least 57 F. Hosseini of last year’s murder victims hailed from local minority communities. r a h ee mh@ newsr evie w.c om Of the 97 deaths ruled a homicide in 2014, the coroner’s office identified 35 victims as black or African-American and 15 as Hispanic. Five were of Asian descent and one was Middle Eastern. The remaining 41 homicide victims were identified as Caucasian, a category that includes individuals of Russian or Slavic descent, coroner Kimberly Gin confirmed.

Blacks were the only minority group to be overrepresented as victims of homicide—by a landslide. They represent 10.8 percent of the county’s population, but 36.1 percent of homicide victims last year.

That disproportionality was even starker in 2013, when 54.6 percent of the county’s homicide victims were black.

“It is indeed a national crisis,” said Kaile Shilling, executive director of the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles.

The coalition is part of the Violence Policy Center, which recently drew a big, red circle around the epidemic murder rates among black Americans. The center examined census and FBI data from 2012, discovering that In California, blacks made up only 13 percent of 84 percent of black the country’s population but half of all homicide victims. homicide victims In California, 84 percent of died from gunfire. black homicide victims died from gunfire, the report states. More than half of these victims were killed by someone they knew, and 72 percent were not engaged in felony activities at the time of their deaths.

So no victim-blaming, in other words.

Meanwhile, survivors of minority homicides and hate crimes remain underserved.

The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office recently accepted a $125,000 grant to help continue funding employees in a program that helps survivors of violent crime navigate a jarring new reality set in courthouses, hospital rooms and, sometimes, funeral homes.

But when clients hail from one of Sacramento’s richly diverse minority communities, advocates have additional obstacles to surmount—language and cultural barriers, distrust of law enforcement, fear of deportation and general isolation among them.

“They’re very busy, unfortunately,” program manager Kerry Martin said of the two advocates assigned to minority clients.

In the federal fiscal year that ended September 30, 2014, advocates offered services to 478 new victims, 20 fewer than the previous year.

Overall, California ranked ninth among states with the highest rates of black homicide victimization.

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Triple vision K.J. describes a very different ‘Sacramento 3.0’ at his yearly State of the City extravaganza The Vivekification of Sacramento is coming.

Or at least that was the take-home from by Mayor Kevin Johnson’s State of the City Nick Miller speech last week. His annual address, given this past Thursday evening at the Memorial ni c k a m @ ne w s re v i e w . c o m Auditorium, zeroed in on the city’s future as “Sacramento 3.0.”

“In this era, the city is a hub of innovation, entrepreneurship and technology,” the mayor began. He spoke of a city blanketed in wireless technology, and residents who buy and sell things in a paperless community (this after giving the night’s legacy award to a local newspaper publisher). He described a “cashless” business world and a city where the largest hotel is Airbnb.

“In version 3.0 of our city, we have more cellphones than land lines, more tablets than desktops, more smart devices than toothbrushes,” Johnson explained. “In Sacramento 3.0, the world’s largest music company has no records—Apple. The world’s largest bookseller has no bookstore—Amazon. The world’s largest taxi company has no cars—Uber. … And very soon, the world’s largest university will have no campus.” This last prediction drew some gasps from the estimated 1,500-strong Memorial crowd.

If any of this sounds familiar, it’s because Johnson was riffing on Vivek Ranadive’s “NBA 3.0” talk, in which the Kings majority owner’s espouses his vision for global and tech-driven professional basketball.

The unspoken here is that Johnson is going to work harder to bait Silicon Valley and to seduce blue-chip tech giants. But despite this aggressive new talk about embracing digital innovation, what will Sacramento 3.0 actually look like?

As per the K.J. way, the mayor’s yearly State of the City was more than just a speech.

It was about reaffirming that Sacramento’s winning. About sexy headlines and tent-pole theatrics. Cover band Hip Service opened the show with a Macklemore song. Performance artist David Garibaldi splattered paint. Kings announcer Scott Moak, who served as emcee, roared. The Sacramento Bee likened Johnson’s gathering to a “hip-hop show”—but that’s a flawed comparison, given the State of the City was devoid of marijuana and booty bass. Yet point taken: This was not a speech steeped-in State of the Union tradition. This was a party.

There were hype men, to the Bee’s credit, in the form of elite corporate sponsors.

Thursday’s affair was made possible by Western Health Advantage, Wells Fargo, the Kings and about a dozen other corporate donors. Politicians and business-community

players rubbed elbows during a pre-event VIP hour, and nearly 10 minutes of the evening was dedicated to thanking sponsors. Media sponsor Fox40 was given preferential access at the speech—until a Capital Public Radio reporter complained and equality prevailed.

Donors were given preferred seats on the Memorial’s main floor; the general public was relegated to the nosebleeds.

Johnson began his speech with a humblebrag, recounting his first-ever “State of the Cities” address in Washington, D.C., which he delivered as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors on January 21. The mayor said his message during that speech was similar to what he wanted to share with Sacramento: “We’re on a roll. The state of our city is strong. And that’s the theme of my address today, ‘Sacramento Strong,’” he told the Memorial crowd.

Not-so-subtle Boston biting aside, Johnson’s theme also was a backdoor nod to last fall’s Measure L defeat. With a twist: The mayor never mentioned directly his ballotbox shortcoming, but his State of the City talk was most certainly a blueprint for how he intends to become a strong mayor despite an actual constitutional green light.

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Mayor Kevin Johnson gave but quick lip service to his arena successes at last week’s State of the City—yet the future Kings home loomed large in his vision for Sacramento.

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Consider his new budgetary scheme.

“We will hold forums throughout the city that will allow the public to weigh in on the city budget,” he said. For the first time, he will also present his own budget priorities to city council, who will then deliver a budget recommendation to the city manager. For years, Johnson has criticized that the city manager drives the budget process devoid of council and mayoral input; this is his latest attempt to have more say over Sacramento’s dollars and cents.

How would he spend City Hall’s coffers? Johnson introduced a smorgasbord of projects and issues—some quotidian and rehashed, most titillating and exciting—for the near future during his nearly 40-minute speech.

He wants to usher the UC Davis World Food Center into the downtown Railyards site, which he also envisions as a micro version of Silicon Valley.

He wants citywide Wi-Fi and the installation of high-speed Internet infrastructure.

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He hopes to add 10,000 more centralcity housing units in the next decade.

A committee will explore raising the minimum wage.

He’s pushing for body cameras on police.

Johnson is going to work harder to bait Silicon Valley and to seduce blue-chip tech giants.

How to pay for all this? The irony of Sacramento’s tight purse strings was not lost considering that, two days earlier, City Treasurer Russ Fehr warned the mayor and council that money was by no means flowing and urged that they “might want to take a little break” from assuming more debt after the Kings arena bonds.

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Speaking of the Kings: While the mayor’s two previous State of the City speeches focused primarily on the team and its new arena, this year’s included but a fleeting mention of Johnson’s flagship accomplishment, less than a minute of lip service, in fact. Instead, he parlayed his King-sized mojo into a new sport: soccer.

This year, his top priority appears to be bolstering the city’s effort to secure a Major League Soccer franchise and a new Railyards-located stadium. The evening’s big surprise, as reported by most local media outlets last week, was that the San Francisco 49ers will be investing in the Sacramento Republic team.

How does soccer fit into Sacramento 3.0? Turns out Kings owner Ranadive was also announced as a team investor last week.

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It’s not always easy to tell by looking if someone is experiencing homelessness, but that’s what volunteers aimed to do last Wednesday, January 28, during the Sacramento Steps Forward point-in-time count.

The biennial count is designed to account for as many homeless Sacramentans as possible. Volunteer-guided surveys collected info about the age, race, gender identity, veteran status, disability or addiction, and frequency of homelessness for several individuals. A $5 McDonald’s gift card sweetened the deal for some survey participants.

Anyone outside during the count—from about 7:30 p.m. to midnight—was offered the survey.

According to Maya Wallace with Steps Forward, more than 350 trained volunteers participated, including Sacramento City Councilman Jeff Harris, whose district includes the River District and downtown railyard. He told SN&R that the risk of flooding and homelessness were two of the city’s biggest concerns.

Around 60 homeless individuals were counted by Harris’s group of volunteers on their seven-block trek past Union Gospel Mission on Bannon Street and the Sacramento Police Department facility on Richards Boulevard.

“This is the roughest area,” said Todd Reiners, executive director of Homeless Outreach Program Effort. Volunteers covered 79 separate mapped areas.

Preliminary count numbers should be available in March, with a full report expected early this summer, Wallace said.

(Brooke Purves)

Republic is back The city’s champion minor-league soccer squad announced the kickoff date for its regular season this past Monday.

Matches start in March, when the Republic FC visits the Seattle Sounders on the 21st. And the first Bonney Field home match will be Saturday, March 28, versus the L.A. Galaxy II. This year’s schedule is 28 games, half of them at home, where the stadium is expanding by nearly 50 percent to 11,000 capacity. A press release states that the Republic currently boasts more than 8,300 season ticket holders. (SN&R staff)

Minimum feelers The Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce sent an email to members last week asking for thoughts on upping the minimum wage. Questions were multiple choice and included asking how much of a wage bump would be supported, if at all, and how it would impact local businesses.

Mayor Kevin Johnson and others have put raising the minimum wage in the cross hairs this year. It’s presumed that the Chamber will not endorse any sort of pay hike, but nevertheless its email is a testament to the group’s willingness to explore what members might find acceptable. (SN&R staff)

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social-media experts and as president of Selvage Media, a local consulting and strategy firm that’s also worked with Regional Transit and the Asian American Chamber of Commerce.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, Dodson woke the next day exhausted, physically and mentally.

“I literally had a hangover—an emotional hangover,” Dodson said.

“To work for months and months on a singular focus and then it’s like a burst … and then you’re left thinking, ‘Wow, did that really happen?’”

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For Dodson, it also represented a personal victory. The 40-year-old former TV news reporter and model has spent the last several years staking out a claim in the wild, everchanging digital frontier. Although the Stop the Power Grab Twitter and Facebook pages attracted only nominal followers, it didn’t matter, because Dodson is a veritable one-man social-media machine, with in excess of 21,000 Twitter followers and more than 4,000 Facebook friends.

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intently focused on his iPad and iPhone, tweeting and Facebooking results as they came in.

It was a small gathering—at least compared to the bigger party Johnson hosted a short cab ride away at Pizza Rock on K Street. “It was very low key, very reflective of the campaign,” Dodson remembered later.

And when the final poll results were recorded—the measure was defeated 56 percent to 43 percent—the victory marked, at least to date, Dodson’s most prominent success as one of Sacramento’s top

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t was election night and Thomas Dodson sat huddled in the corner of the New Helvetia Brewing Co. on Broadway. City Councilman Steve Hansen was there. So were members of the League of Women Voters and myriad other allies, all on scene to support Stop the Power Grab, Hansen’s campaign opposing Measure L, better known as Mayor Kevin Johnson’s push for a strongmayor initiative.

As others downed beer and chatted, Dodson—who doesn’t drink—remained mostly solitary,

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and Nashville, where his girlfriend lives, launched a new nonprofit, Above the Fray, which aims to educate parents, teachers and kids about online bullying and harassment.

Dodson says it signaled a notable turn in his own Internet behavior. Just two years ago, in fact, he was probably better known as someone who walked the line between funny and inappropriate.

He admits his own social-media history is a bit checkered: sexy photos of scantily clad women posted on Facebook, snarky comments on Twitter.

It’s an image that stands in stark contrast to the one he presents today.

Dodson insists those old posts, that past behavior, no longer represents who he is or what he stands for—even as an anonymous site designed to poke holes at his image threatens to tarnish his reputation.

That site, along with Dodson’s past and present actions, highlights the reality of living online. Most of us don’t think of it in such terms, but anyone who uses social media is cultivating a personal brand—a presence, a voice, an image—built upon layers of posts, likes, retweets and hashtags.

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Ask disgraced politician Anthony Weiner, now out of a job thanks to scandalous online behavior. In fact, ask any public figure—celebrity, politician, high-profile executive, et al.—who’s hired someone like Dodson to help them craft a better social-media profile. A better brand, if you will.

To that end, what is Dodson’s brand?

Is the guy who uses the Twitter handle “@shockthomas” really reformed?

Simply put, is this the guy who should be educating kids—and, by extension, adults—how to behave online?

“My personal brand has really evolved from someone who was just kind of floundering around to try to make a lot of noise and get attention for attention’s sake,” Dodson says.

And now?

“The voice I hope I’m projecting is one of fun, but also it’s about promoting the great things that are happening in Sacramento.”

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A few years back Thomas Dodson found himself in Sacramento, alone with too

much free time. He’d moved to town to be with his wife, but they’d just gotten divorced and, as these things tend to go, his ex kept most of the friends.

“I thought, ‘I gotta meet some people, I gotta get out,’” he says. “I don’t drink, so I’m not going to the clubs or the bars myself, but I wonder[ed] if there [was] an opportunity to get out there in a different way.”

He worked as a marketing coordinator at an architectural firm, but it wasn’t enough, socially speaking. So, to combat boredom, he took a part-time position as a VIP host at a downtown nightclub. It was an easy gig, shuttling the big spenders to booths, making sure they were well-attended to. On slow nights there was a lot of downtime. Idle chit-chat with co-workers.

One night, a cocktail waitress—a part-timer, she also clocked hours as a San Francisco 49ers cheerleader—had a proposition. Take a picture of her— nothing racy, mind you—and post it online.

“Put me on Facebook,” she asked.

“You’re funny, write something.”

Dodson obliged, uploaded the pic to Facebook and captioned it “Hot or Not?” borrowing the idea from the popular site by the same name.

The post blew up. Dodson’s friends commented. So did the cheerleader’s.

Dodson says he found the reaction “interesting” and continued to upload similar photos. A girl’s wild tattoo or funky piercing. A guy dressed funny, a woman dressed provocatively.

“It just became this thing I did on Facebook a lot,” he says.

Each time, Dodson added the hotor-not tag, and each time more people jumped into the conversation. Some comments were funny. Others skewed mean. That kind of thing happens online.

The habit, in a way, launched his current career—although, of course the path took many twists and turns.

With his salt-and-pepper, closely cropped hair, almost translucent blue eyes and smooth features, Dodson has a face for television but a mind for social media: Online and off, he’s quick-witted and personable.

Born and raised in South Carolina, Dodson initially had a very specific plan for his future: Attend college, study finance, follow in the family business by becoming an IRS agent—just like his grandfather and uncle.

The plan didn’t last too long. A year and a half into college Dodson rethought

everything. “It was like, ‘No, this cannot be my life. This is not how I’m going to experience it.’”

From there, he talked his way into an interview at a local TV station and nabbed a part-time job, which eventually turned into a full-time gig. Dodson spent the next decade reporting and producing local news in various TV markets: South Carolina to Idaho, Idaho to Washington.

Along the way he married another TV reporter and the couple had two daughters. When her job brought her to Sacramento, Dodson followed and, subsequently left the business. That was 2004 and, by that point, after a stint at Fox40, Dodson was ready to leave television news. From there he landed a job at Comstock’s magazine editing special project supplements.

Then came the divorce. And life in Sacramento after. The nightclub gig, the Facebook posts—and the resulting blowback.

“I would do the ‘hot or not?’ thing and … even though I never really weighed into the fray, it did get pretty ugly sometimes,” Dodson says now of the comments left by other users.

“Even though in my mind it’s in the nature of good humor … people can be assholes,” he says now. “Given the opportunity, I kind of lobbed these softballs up. And while it was fun, I had to recognize, when I stepped back from it all, it was kind of a dick thing to do.”

Dodson’s own online behavior was arguably also less than stellar. Posts and tweets that objectified a woman’s physical attributes. Reposts of racy Miley Cyrus Instagrams. A Tumblr update featuring a naked woman straddling a motorcycle. Some posts poked fun at someone’s taste in clothing or weight.

“Flight attendant just brought air freshener to one of the fat bastards. not even joking,” Dodson tweeted from a Southwest flight in March 2013. The post was accompanied by a blurry photo of an overweight passenger.

And then Dodson experienced what he describes as nothing short of an “epiphany.”

Three of them, actually.

First, he says he took a hard look at his own social-media image, his brand if you will.

“Was I leading a positive, healthy example? Was I doing things I wanted my daughters to see?” he asked himself.

“Was I doing things I wanted my clients to see? I recognized I wasn’t being the person that I wanted to be or being the example I needed to be.”

His daughters, in particular, served as something of a catalyst during a trip through the grocery store checkout line.

“They were 8 and 6 at the time and I’m putting stuff up on the conveyor belt and they’re just fixated on these magazine covers … fitness magazines, celebrity tabloids, gossip magazines,” he says.

“It felt like this sort of bombardment that happens 24/7 to children through through social media. What I experienced was just one moment—that’s what it’s like for them all of the time, receiving those messages.”

The third epiphany brought everything into sharper focus: What if he’d endured school with the same social media pressures that kids face today?

“That about made me want to throw up,” he says.

His own experiences were fraught with the typical amount of teenage angst: anxiety over not being able to afford all the stuff the cool, wealthy kids had. The usual pains of not fitting in.

Still, back then—unlike now—it was easier to turn off pressures at the end of the day. There was no late-night Instagramming. No endless Facebooking. No ceaseless Kik or Snapchat chatter.

“When I think back on how deeply I felt that [pressure], it does really affect me. And compound how I felt in that moment in my life … by that digital barrage of it never going away, of it always being there,” he says.

As such, these moments, he says, made him examine his own behavior.

A more cynical social-media user, however, might have a different take.

Thanks to screen grabs, once something is posted online it never really goes away. To that end, Dodson’s “three epiphanies” story could easily be interpreted as a marketing tact designed to soften the public’s take.

Certainly, he brings up the narrative repeatedly. Is it just PR hype or is Dodson sincere?

Maybe both. Either way, Dodson says that series of events changed everything, including how he interacts with others online. “[Those moments] made me realize this is path that I’m supposed to be on.

Maybe I have some role to play,” he says “Maybe I have some culpability. Maybe I have something that I’m supposed to be doing now.”

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that allowed him plenty of time to spend with his daughters or to travel to Nashville to be with his girlfriend.

Then came the epiphanies and, in the same week, a conversation with Aja Uranga-Foster, a wellness and life coach who also tutored youth. The onslaught of media, social or otherwise, that she witnessed these kids experiencing, and its resulting effects—social pressures, cyberbullying, poor self esteem, etc.—was extremely troublesome, she told him.

Dodson started researching programs aimed at protecting the online life of kids but came up short.

There were already anti-cyberbullying programs, of course, but Dodson says he found them “reactive”: A sexting scandal breaks out at a school, and two days later there’s someone from law enforcement or an anti-bullying program lecturing to students about the dangers of reckless behavior.

“OK, great—wonderful, positive message, kids need to hear it,” Dodson says. “But there was no proactive conversation happening about what’s happening online.”

Dodson and Uranga-Foster conducted focus groups to better understand what kids and teens faced online.

Those initial efforts were eye-opening, Dodson says now. The conversations they had with kids made them reconsider their goals.

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In late 2013, Dodson was busy with Selvage Media, which he founded after quitting the architectural firm and a subsequent three-month stint living in a Costa Rican treehouse community. He’d worked on the successful Steve Hansen city-council race and kept busy with a client roster that includes the California Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce and the Davis Joint Unified School District. It was a good gig: Dodson spent his days working out of coffee shops with the kind of flexible schedule

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Kids, community, conversation— and snark

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“Once we realized parents weren’t involved … we realized we needed to create a program for parents,” Dodson says. “I didn’t want to be standing in front of a bunch of kids saying ‘Don’t do this, do that.’ I remember that guy from high school and he was an asshole.”

And so the pair broadened their focus to include parents and educators, sharing with them social-media usage facts and the latest trends and apps that their kids were likely already using.

Eventually the project had a name, Above the Fray. With it came a crowdfunding campaign built on a platform that promised educational tools—books, a mobile app, presentations, et al.

Eventually they secured nonprofit status and enlisted Dr. Shawna Malvini Redden Ph.D, a Sacramento State adjunct communications professor, to conduct and analyze results of various focus groups.

Malvini Redden assigned her students to apply qualitative data analysis to various focus groups, research trends and to study parental involvement.

The result was a detailed youth study released last month. An anonymous survey of nearly 200 Northern California teens revealed that 70 percent had “no parental oversight” of online activities and only 18 percent said their parents monitored their social-media use. Twelve percent weren’t sure.

Malvini Redden says she was drawn to the project both by Dodson’s enthusiasm and also his experiences.

“I was really impressed by his passion. He’s a dad, he talked to his girls and saw the world they’re coming into and how shitty high school was for him and how it would have been even worse had there been social media,” she says.

Dodson, she adds, makes a great online ambassador.

“He’s prolific, but not annoying online,” she says.

Rather, she says, Dodson excels at starting conversations. It’s not just about promotion.

“He’s got an established presence in Sacramento … and he makes an effort to develop relationships with people.

If someone has a question or makes a crack [to him], he uses the opportunity to discuss rather than shut them down.”

That’s possibly Dodson’s biggest strength and weakness as a social-media consultant, as a brand: His online persona roller-coasters between feeling authentic and like a public-relations spiel. He logs dozens of tweets daily, with posts running the gamut of lively, off-the-cuff observations to direct questions designed to engage other users. His #sacbrandathon marathons, in which he pokes fun at his adopted BEFORE

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Dodson’s prolific tweeting and engaging voice makes him a natural online leader, she says.

“I like that he uses his social-media presence to engage with the community on issues he cares about,” she says. “I know about marketing folks, they’re constantly selling their services or just tweeting studies. Thomas doesn’t do that, he tweets about things he cares about. His personality comes through.”

Still, she adds, sometimes he almost crosses the line..

“He doesn’t shy from poking fun at Sacramento—sometimes his snarkiness on his Sacbrandathon tweets goes a little too far for my taste,” she says.

Good, who adds that she’s shared that observation with Dodson and he’s welcomed the feedback—“He can definitely take it”—says she sees his overall presence as more positive than not.

“I can secretly admit to giggling at some of his posts, even if I don’t retweet them,” she says. “He still builds community and gets the conversation started in a fun way.”

Dodson sees it this way: “One of the most important things to do to be successful on social media is to be genuine—people can tell when you’re not,” he says. “It’s OK to stir the pot.”

Still, sometimes a stirred pot boils over.

That human touch

It’s just past 7 on a recent Thursday night at the Shriners Hospital for Children, where Dodson is giving an Above the Fray presentation to members of the Third District PTA, a group comprising parent-teacher association representatives from Northern California counties.

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questions. After, several approach him to discuss possible future presentations.

The night’s success isn’t surprising. In person, Dodson is polished and well-mannered. Friendly but professional.

Sometimes, however, he’s also a bit difficult to read. One minute he’s reserved, exceedingly polite. Other moments he swears like a sailor, lets a sarcastic comment (or several) fly.

As such the real Thomas Dodson remains something of an enigma. He doesn’t reveal many personal details and while he posts the occasional photo of his girlfriend, he doesn’t typically mention his daughters.

There are other contradictions as well. Although he says it was daughters who, in part, inspired Above the Fray, Dodson rarely talks to them about their own online habits. His explanation, perhaps inadvertently, explains the dilemma many parents face.

“Our time is so limited,” says Dodson, who shares custody with his ex-wife. “When we’re together, let’s really cherish the time that we have and put our devices away. I do it as well.

Let’s be a family.”

Fair enough. But then also, worryingly, is that anonymous site that squarely aims to damage Dodson.

Below the Fray, named obviously as a dig at Dodson’s program, depicts screen grabs of many of his old “hot or not” posts as well as a few racy Instagram posts and insensitive tweets.

Some are eyebrow-raising, mildly offensive, sexist even. But all are at least two years old, which again raises the question: Is the Dodson of yesterday a different, better man now?

An email to the person or people behind Below the Fray went unanswered as of press time and Dodson declined to comment on the subject.

Still, he’s not entirely quiet on the topic.

“I’m not perfect,” he says. “I’m modeling behavior online [and] I’m getting parents engaged and getting them engaged means getting them to look in the mirror. I’m not trying to preach.”

Sometimes imperfections can prove valuable, too. In social media, says Councilman Hansen, an authentic voice can go a long way toward toward cultivating that brand.

“He’s not only loyal, and certainly he’s not a perfect person, but as a professional he’s [done] an amazing job,” says Hansen.

In social media, Hansen adds, you want someone with a genuine voice.

Snark isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

“He’s got a sharp wit,” Hansen says.

“And sometimes, depending on the audience, that works.

“In the campaigns I’ve worked with him on, he’s used a positive constructive voice, it’s the mark of a professional,”

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“He helped us focus our message … and he put a little more of human touch on it through some of the content he put out there on Facebook and Twitter,” Hansen says. “I’d like to think we could have won without that, but when you only win by 173 votes in a very competitive election, everything matters.”

“My personal brand has really evolved from someone who was just kind of floundering around to try to make a lot of noise and get attention for attention’s sake.”

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Now Dodson aims to make sure it keeps mattering. There are plans to continue his work with the PTA, and there’s talk of taking his Above the Fray presentation to a Philadelphia school district.

Throughout, he says, he’ll continue working on his own online presence, his persona. His brand.

Whether that message is truly authentic or merely spin remains to be seen.

Dodson promises it’s the former.

“What I’ve shared with the world has evolved,” he said. “I think it’s grown up.” Ω

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You may have a few ideas why, but here’s one: there was no Sacramento Area Music Awards, a.k.a. the Sammies, SN&R’s annual celebration of local musicians.

We lasted 22 years, back-to-back-toback. And while we didn’t need a break per se, we did think a springs awards season just made more sense. Release of the Year? We can easily reflect on the

calendar year when we’re nominating in January.

And even with the changed schedule, thousands of votes were tallied for hundreds of nominees in a swath of categories. Thousands of you spoke out and showed your support for your favorite bands and Sacramento’s talent in general.

This year’s ballot represents the great variety of sounds you could hear on any given night: foot-stomping, banjo-wielding Americana; droning, doom-inducing heavy metal; lush yet restrained indie rock; bass-heavy electronic dance music; hard-hitting raps; complex, experimental soundscapes and so much more.

We present to you the 2015 Sammies nominees. Check out the artists, listen to their work online, go see them live.

And vote.

Voting ends March 11 and the awards ceremony, which will feature tons of live music, of course, takes place on Thursday, March 26, at Ace of Spades (1417 R Street) for $10.

Until then, peruse the following nominees and make your picks in everything but the Hall of Fame category—that one’s reserved for artists who, thanks to at least three prior Sammies wins, have been “retired” from the process.

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Artist of the Year Zyah Belle: www.zyahbelle.com James Cavern: www.jamescavern.com The Enlows: http://enlows.com Exquisite Corps: www.face book.com/excorpsmusic G. Green: www.facebook. com/ggreenband Kill the Precedent: www.facebook.com/ killtheprecedent Joe Kye: www.joekye.com Stevie Nader: www.face book.com/stevienader Pregnant: www.danielis pregnant.tumblr.com Sunmonks: www.sunmonks.com

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Americana/ Alt-country 50-Watt Heavy: www.facebook.com/ pages/50-Watt-Heavy/ 308215529202239 Delta City Ramblers: www.deltacity ramblers.com F Street Stompers: www.facebook.com/ FstStompers The FreeBadge Serenaders: www.facebook.com/ discountjazz

Ranell Carpenter Band: www.ranellcarpenter.com The Christian DeWild Band: www.christiandewild band.com Dippin’ Sauce: www.dippinsauce music.com Rick Estrin and the Nightcats: www.rickestrin.com The Hucklebucks: www.thehucklebucks.com Johnny “Guitar” Knox Tessie Marie & the Poor Man Band: www.tessiemarie.com Pailer & Fratis Kyle Rowland Blues Band: www.kylerowlandblues band.com Stillwood Sages: www.stillwoodsages.com Two Tone Steiny & the Cadillacs: www.twotone steiny.com

Cover Band Apple Z: http://applezband.com Cover Me Badd: www.covermebadd.net Groove Thang: www.groovethang band.com Hip Service: www.hipservice.com Mercy Me! Band: www.mercymeband.com

Deejay Cue22: www.facebook.com/ cue22music DJ Billy Lane: www.facebook.com/ djbillylanespage DJ Hektor S: www.djhektors.com DJ Nocturnal: www.facebook.com/ DjNocturnal916 DJ Oasis: www.djoasis.com DJ Zephyr: www.facebook. com/zephyreos J-Kraken: www.facebook. com/jkrakenmusic Jurts: www.facebook.com/ whatsjurts Sam I Jam: www.sound cloud.com/sam_i_jam

Electronic/ Experimental Color the Sound: www.colorthesound.com Dad?: www.facebook.com/pages /DAD/693669104018394 Poppet: www.poppet.us

Pregnant: www.danielis pregnant.tumblr.com Michael RJ Saalman: www.facebook.com/ michaelrjsaalman Saint Solitaire: http://saintsolitaire.com So Much Light: www.face book.com/SoMuchLight Young Aundee: www.face book.com/YoungAundee

Emcee Brutha Smith: www.bruthasmith.com Mahtie Bush: www.mb916. com Century Got Bars: www.centurygotbars.com Dylan Phillip: www.facebook. com/TheDylanPhillip Hennessy: www.thebeatknocks.com JustKristofer: www.face book.com/JustPlayJK Luke Tailor: www.luketailor. bandcamp.com M. Born: www.manilaborn.com Soosh*e: www.facebook. com/hellasoosh Task1ne: www.facebook. com/TASK1ne

Folk Rock Paige Anderson & the Fearless Kin: www.thefearlesskin.com Cave Women: www.cave womenmusic.com Honyock: http://honyock isaband.com

The faceless, shadow-drenched warehouses and alleyways that make up the former McClellan Air Force Base site would be a decent spot to dump a body, Adnan (or Jay) style. I’m sure that’s what my Uber driver’s thinking while navigating these lonely streets on this Friday evening. He keeps asking if we’re going the right way. I just joke about corpses. No laughs. “We’re lost,” he insists. “Might be,” I tell him. But then we see men with beards. Men with beards! That’s our destination: the fourth annual Art of Beer Invitational.

The organizers call it Art of Beer because there’s a gallery featuring artists, some of whom make things out of malt and grain. A nice touch, but really the event last Friday (all the way out in North Highlands!) was about brewing down.

The highlight: Berryessa Brewing Co., out of Winters, and its latest batch of Fruity Rebels. This is an IPA made in collaboration with the du jour Cellarmaker Brewing Company out of San Francisco. Some people call it mimosa meets IPA: five types of citrus including blood oranges, pomelo and meyer lemon, finished off with Simcoe and Citra hops.

The ingredients may not mean anything to you, but let me just say that the end result is unequaled, a gently tropical citrus bomb with a pleasantly dry bitterness. It will likely be on draft in Winters this weekend, along with Berryessa’s new double IPA. You know what to do.

Fantastic and inspiring beers make cameos during my entire weekend.

On Saturday, during a magic hour session at my friend’s Midtown front lawn, we crack a fresh Upright Fantasia: an oak-aged wild beer made with Pacific Northwest peaches, gently tart with a sweet peach kiss.

Budweiser dissed craft-beer Sadly, not a beer easy to drinkers with its $9 million Super acquire, but Mraz Brewing Co. Bowl ad. Maybe Anheuser-Busch in El Dorado Hills just released forgot that, last month, its parent company bought a small brewery that a peach sour brew, so there brews a pumpkin-peach ale. you go.

Cantillon and Drie Fonteinen are considered the two big powerhouse Belgian breweries. So it was funny that, on Super Bowl Sunday, two classic gueuze beers from the latter brewhouses also went head to head at my buddy’s party in East Sacramento. It’s like a beer-nerd fantasy come to life (slightly embarrassing!).

Anyway, gueuze is a lactic, farmhouse-y blend of wild ales brewed in the tradition of the lambic region of southern Belgium. Cantillon Classic Gueuze offers less astringent tooth-coating and light grapefruit notes; Drie Fonteinen Oude Gueze boasts an overall more intense sour character, like accidentally ingesting a dozen Pixie Sticks.

I’m partial to the latter, but really it’s a matter of beersnob preferences.

Or so Budweiser might say: A commercial airs during the third quarter, and ol’ Bud apparently is pissed that craft-beer snobs are impacting its bottom line. They call beer snobs “fussy.” They clown us for drinking pumpkinpeach ales and smelling glasses of brew. The Atlantic later calls Budweiser’s craft-beer diss the Super Bowl’s “riskiest” ad because it might alienate younger millennial beer drinkers. Maybe. But who listens to Bud? The King of Beers is dead, anyway.

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Joseph in the Well: www.joekye.com Salt Wizard: www.salt wizardmusic.com Spangler: www.spanglermusic.com The Westwards: www.face book.com/thewestwards Parie Wood: www.pariewood.com Xochitl: www.xochitlofficial.net

Funk Big Sticky Mess: http://bigstickymess.com Dank Ocean: www.facebook. com/dankoceanband Funk.defied: www.funkdefied.com Groovincible: http://groovincible.com Hans! and the Hot Mess: www.facebook.com/ hansandthehotmess Ideateam: www.ideateamband.com Isaac Bear: www.facebook. com/isaacbearmusic Joy and Madness: www.joyandmadness.com Rendezvous With Cool Beans: www.rwcbmusic.com

Hard Rock California Riot Act: www.facebook.com/ californiariotact Fair Struggle: www.fairstruggle.com FallRise: www.facebook. com/fallriserock

Heat of Damage: www.reverbnation.com/ heatofdamage Korean Fire Drill: www.face book.com/koreanfiredrill A Mile Till Dawn: www.amiletilldawn.com Misamore: www.misamore.com Overwatch: www.overwatchband.net Restrayned: www.restrayned.com Skin of Saints: www.skinofsaints.net Some Fear None: www.somefearnone.com Terra Ferno: www.facebook. com/terraferno Track Fighter: www.face book.com/trackfighter White Knuckle Riot: www.facebook.com/ whiteknuckleriot

Hardcore/ Industrial/ Posthardcore Havenside: http://havenside band.com I Wish We Were Robots: www.facebook.com/ iw3robots Kill the Precedent: www.facebook.com/ killtheprecedent A Lot Like Birds: www.face book.com/alotlikebirds Mercedes Avenue: www.facebook.com/ MercedesAve

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White Minorities: www.facebook.com/ whiteminoritiesband Yankee Brutal: www.face book.com/yankeebrutal

Hip-hop/Rap The Beatknocks: www.thebeatknocks.com Blaquelisted: www.face book.com/blaquelisted California Bear Gang: www.facebook.com/ californiabeargang Destructikonz: www.face book.com/Destructikonz DLRN: http://dlrn.co The Good Samaritans: www.facebook.com/The GoodSamaritansBand Iconoclast Robot: http:// iconoclastrobot.com Tel Cairo: www.telcairo.com

Indie Cold Eskimo: www.facebook. com/ColdEskimo Contra: www.facebook.com/ contraaband Cove: www.covetheband.com Desario: www.facebook. com/desarioband Exquisite Corps: www.face book.com/excorpsmusic Life in 24 Frames: www.lifein24frames.com Soft Science: www.facebook.com/ softsciencemusic Sunmonks: www.sunmonks.com

Hans Eberbach: www.hansrocks.com Kepi Ghoulie: http://kepiland.com JRas: http://jrasmusic. bandcamp.com Kill the Precedent: www.facebook.com/ killtheprecedent Stevie Nader: www.face book.com/stevienader The Nickel Slots: www.the nickelslotsmusic.com Saint Solitaire: http://saintsolitaire.com Screature: www.facebook. com/screaturesound

Metal Black Mackerel: www.facebook.com/ blackmackerelsac Chernobog: www.facebook. com/Chernobog916 Church: www.churchband. blogspot.com Deadlands: www.dead landsmusic.com Drop Seven: www.facebook. com/dropseven Flub: www.facebook.com/ flubmetal Graveshadow: www.graveshadow.com Horseneck: www.facebook. com/horseneckmusic MDSO: www.facebook.com/ MDSO.band Plague Widow: www.plaguewidow.com XTom HanX: www.facebook. com/xtomhanx Zeroclient: www.zeroclient music.com

New Artist Calling Tempo: www.face book.com/CallingTempo Dylan Phillip: www.facebook. com/TheDylanPhillip I Am Strikes: www.iamstrikes.com Joseph in the Well: www.joekye.com Luke Tailor: www.luketailor. bandcamp.com The O’Mulligans: www.face book.com/theomulligans Rat Stomp: www.ratstomp.com Shoujo Kitten: www.face book.com/shoujokitten

Pop/Rock The Bell Boys: www.bell boysmusic.com Bellygunner: www.facebook.com/ pages/Bellygunner/ 474205012610977 Cemetery Sun: www.cemeterysun band.com Fate Under Fire: www.fufmusic.com Hero’s Last Mission: http:// heroslastmission.com Humble Wolf: www.humblewolf.com Once An Empire: www.onceanempire.com Wrings: http://wringsmusic.com

Punk/ Post-punk The Bar Fly Effect: www.facebook.com/ thebarflyeffect The Croissants: http://croissants. bandcamp.com/ Dog Party: www.facebook. com/dogpartylive The Enlows: http://enlows.com Ghostplay: www.facebook. com/ghostplay.music G. Green: www.facebook. com/ggreenband The O’Mulligans: www.face book.com/theomulligans Rebel Radio: www.facebook. com/rebelradioband Screature: www.facebook. com/screaturesound S.W.I.M.: www.reverbnation. com/swimsomeone whoisntme

Producer Charles Albright Andrew Barnhart Brian Lee Bender: www.brianleebender.com Tony Cale

DJ Loot: www.facebook. com/djloot916 John Glover: www.uprockaudio.com Joe Johnston: www.puscavern.com John Morris: www.tangle woodstudios.com Ira Skinner: www.facebook. com/AlleyAvenue Sean Stack: www.fatcat recording.com Chris Woodhouse: www.thedockstudio.com

R&B/Soul Zyah Belle: www.zyahbelle.com Cash Campain: www.facebook.com/ CashCampainMusic?

James Cavern: www.jamescavern.com Ayanna Charlene: www.ayannacharlene.com Thai Nicole: www.facebook. com/ThaiNicoleMusic Shadia Powell: www.soulsandsounds. com/shadiapowell.html Rashell: www.diamond ndarough.com Tey Yaniis: www.teyyaniis.com

Reggae/Jam The Bennys: www.facebook. com/thebennysband Eazy Dub: www.facebook. com/EazyDubBand Element of Soul: www.elementofsoul.com Island of Black and White: www.islandofblackand white.com JRas: http://jrasmusic. bandcamp.com King Hopeton: https://soundcloud.com/ king-hopeton Massive Delicious: www.massive delicious.com MAU: www.facebook.com/ MAUBAND The Old Screen Door: http:// theoldscreendoor.com Simple Creation: www.simplecreation band.com The Storytellers: www.facebook.com/ sacstorytellers Street Urchinz: www.face book.com/streeturchinz

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Dances of Universal Peace Friday, February 6 Explore your inner peace and joy by joining this celebratory circle of multicultural dance. Founded almost 50 years ago by Samuel L. Lewis, Zen master and teacher of “walking meditation” and Sufi dancing, Dances of Universal Peace North America gatherings integrate spirituality through dances celebrating Hinduism, Buddhism, DANCE Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and more. $5-$10, 7 p.m. at Sacramento Friends Meeting House, 890 57th Street; www.sacramento dancesofuniversalpeace.org.

—Alan Sheckter

The Year of the Goat Celebration Saturday, February 7 Celebrate Chinese New Year with an afternoon of entertainment, games, food and exhibits at this event sponsored by the Chinese New NEW YEAR Year Culture Association.

Entertainment includes dragon dance, folk dances, a fashion show, tai chi demonstrations, choral performances and instrumental music. $1-$6, noon at Hiram Johnson High School, 6879 14th Avenue; http://cnyca.net/php.

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Let’s start with one that everyone knows: the Crocker Art Museum (www.crockerart museum.org). Earlier this month, arguably the nicest (architecturally speaking) building in Sactown got even nicer when the exhibition Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne: Paris 1880-1910 opened on February 1. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings are perhaps some of the most important in the post-impressionist era, and depict the lively arts and nightlife scene at the time. One of his most famous paintings is an 1887 portrait of Vincent van Gogh, but he’s also famous for his posters. He was also an alcoholic, and possibly the inventor of a

Aziz Ansari may be best known for his role as Parks and Recreation’s Tom Haverford. But before he started acting, he was a stand-up COMEDY comedian—known for his awkward personal stories, tales of harassing his cousin Harris and hilarious social observation. In the last few years, he’s become one of the biggest working comics touring the country. $25.71-$44.76, 8 p.m. at Sleep Train Arena, 1 Sports Parkway; azizansari.com.

specialty “cocktail” called Tremblement de Terre (the Earthquake)—essentially just equal parts absinthe and cognac, mixed together.

But the Crocker will no doubt be incredibly busy on Saturday. So it might be best to take a rain check on that one and try something off the grid a little bit, like the Heidrick Ag History Center (www.aghistory.org), the Aerospace Museum of California (www.aerospaceca.org) or the Sacramento History Museum (www.historicold sac.org)—all of which have special Sacramento Museum Day-only activities. The Ag History museum will have oversized agriculture equipment on display, the Aerospace Museum will have airplane cockpits open for viewing and the Sacramento History Museum will have gold panning.

Here’s how the whole day works: Enter any of the museums any time between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and get in for free (the event is scheduled to end at 5 p.m.). Check out the full list of museums and find out more information at www.sacmuseums.org.

—Aaron Carnes

2015 Oscar-Nominated Short Films Saturday, February 7, through thurSday, February 19 As the Academy Awards approach with their stunning display of nondiversity in nominees (it hasn’t been this white since 1998), it’s a better time than ever to catch up on the shorts, which feature films from a number of different countries and cultures. Documentary, animation and liveFILM action shorts ranging from two minutes to just under an hour will be shown over several nights. $6-$12, 6:30 p.m. at the Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street; www.crestsacramento.com.

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Sacramento Darwin Day Sunday, February 8 The 18th annual installment of Darwin Day features activities, vendors and music by the aptly named Scientific Jam. Mario Livio will be the keynote speaker and will offer a lecture SCIENCE on “Charles Darwin: Curiosity, Blunders, and Brilliance.” $5-$10, 2:30 p.m. at the La Sierra Community Center, 5325 Engle Road in Carmichael; http://sacdarwinday.info.

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A 50-50 deal cHeesy cHarLie’s bake saLe cafe Sacramento Bacon Fest fans take note: Cheesy Charlie’s Bake Sale Cafe, a somewhat grungy diner that opened in December, is serving a burger that’s half ground bacon, half ground beef. Actually, any burger the restaurant serves can be ordered with this meat blend. It’s not the most unique thing in the world (Los Angeles burger joint Slater’s 50/50 has been doing this for years, and Sacramento’s 58 Degrees & Holding Co. offers its own version), but the burger is pretty darn good. It’s not too bacony, and the brioche bun complements the richness of the patty. A standard burger with a 50-50 patty is only $7.95, which makes it a solid good deal compared to 58 Degrees’ $12 version. 2598 Alta Arden Expressway, (916) 485-3300, www.cheesycharlies.com.

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Not your backyard barbecue: Just when you thought Enotria had come to terms with its revamped identity—a fancy event space rather than a cutting-edge, fine-dining restaurant—the Del Paso Boulevard space shocks once again! Introducing Cask & Barrel, a Southern and barbecue restaurant expected to open sometime this month.

Chef Gabriel Glasier, whose resume includes Maranello Kitchen in Fair Oaks, Solcum House and Redbud Cafe in Cameron Park, created the menu, which features a mix of high-end appetizers, homey sides and smokin’ ’cue.

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a beet and pea shoots salad with cured egg yolk, popcorn dressing, carrot mousse and goat cheese. Exciting, surprising stuff. They run $6-$12.

Sides sound traditional, but kicked up a notch: greens braised in beer and ham hock butter; hushpuppies and catfish nuggets with lemon aioli; corn bread with grilled jalapeno pickles.

These go for $5-$8. From the smoker, expect the usual artillery with ribs, brisket and cheese-stuffed sausages— most for about $20 per pound.

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quality, fine-dining experiences at a fraction of the usual cost. I’ve dined at the now-shuttered Cordon Bleu in San Francisco—three-course lunch for $10—and the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in Napa Valley—four-course, obscene dinner for $45.

Enter American River College’s Oak Cafe, with a pretty astounding five-course fixed menu for $15. Its graduates have nonetheless gone on to epic things—Bacon & Butter’s chefowner Billy Zoellin and Ella’s pastry chef Jane Anderson, for example.

The school’s culinary arts facility just got a major overhaul. What was once 2,000 square feet is now more than 13,000 square feet. And that means an expanded, more state-of-the-art Oak Cafe, the hands-on restaurant lab for students. Plus a brand new retail bakery.

This all translates into a potentially even more exciting experience for diners. In its former, cramped space, the restaurant used to turn away as many as 200 diners a month. Oak Cafe holds limited hours and serves lunch Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays when classes are in session.

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A good, kicky ginger beer is, arguably, one of God’s great gifts to humankind—maybe that’s what inspired (at least in part) the name for this cocktail at Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. Made with Cutty Sark Prohibition Scotch, soda water and the restaurant’s own housemade ginger beer, the Presbyterian is light and refreshing, albeit with just enough of a spicy bite to give it some respectful gumption. Unlike its cousin the Horse’s Neck, which typically comprises bourbon and ginger beer, this $8 cocktail has a clean finish and pairs well with just about any dish, particularly Hook & Ladder’s tasty Brussels & Fries small plate. Heaven.

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Eat your greens Leafy greens Had enough kale yet? Sure, it’s nutritious, but there are bushels of other healthy greens this time of year.

How about some collard greens, stewed with a bit of bacon? Don’t forget to enjoy the resulting “potlikker” broth, too. Or perhaps you’d like some rapini, a.k.a. broccoli raab? Along with its relative broccolini, it’s often found at Asian markets and is perfect for stir-frying with garlic.

If you’re bent on green drinks, then puree up some spinach and parsley—it’s not just a garnish! And don’t throw away the leaves of beets and turnips. The greens can be trimmed and cooked just as—you guessed it—kale.

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A bowl of gumbo seemed promising, but arrived soupy with a thick layer of oil resting atop it. The flavor was hot. As in the only discernible flavor at all was cayenne pepper. If fried chicken is the golden fleece 2005 11th street, (916) 382-9722, of food, then gumbo is the golden apple. www.weheartfriedchicken.com The barbecue platter proved to be a Dinner for one: $20 - $25 welcome tray of food. South’s pulled pork Good for: southern food ’n’ fixins slathered in barbecue sauce is some of the Notable dishes: fried chicken best I’ve had in town. The succulent cuts of smoky brisket were equally impressive. The offensive hot links, however, were reminiscent of Oscar Mayer and largely ignored.

Props, though, on the house-made barbecue Truly phenomenal fried chicken—the kind and mustard sauces. I would happily stock with a juicy interior sitting under a perfectly my shelves with bottles of either one. seasoned and crispy shell—is the golden And the fried chicken? fleece of the food world. It’s the stuff of My fellow Argonauts, the golden fleece legends and nearly impossible to find, has been found! If I could eat it every day, I especially when you’re on the West Coast would, and my days on this earth would be of the country. fat and happy.

So I gave another sigh when I heard for While South has its game when it comes the first time that I needed to head to the to chicken, dessert is simply inexcusable. A new restaurant, South, on 11th Street. butterscotch pudding arrived terribly By the second recommendation, I curdled and gritty—no chef was intrigued. By the seventh, Tasting with a tasting spoon nearby well, I was committed to should have sent it out.

South’s corn investigate.

The shortbread cookie This humble openbread, I found that assaulted us tasted seating restaurant is a myself suddenly of raw flour and lacked delight when you enter, the fat needed to give as a friendly vibe and transported back to a it flavor and body. A addicting aroma seduce sweltering Missouri chocolate pie lacking in the senses. Diners will any impactful chocolate summer in my just want to sit down flavor was met with a and linger as long as grandma’s resounding “meh.” possible in the airy and The latter arrived kitchen. welcoming space. doused with a Chantilly The food focus here is cream so beaten it needed to Southern food, something that file a police report. (Note: For your many California restaurants attempt restaurant education, the difference between and usually bomb at. The menu is familiar Chantilly cream and whipped cream is $5.)

Southern with a dash of Creole mixed in— The hits are hits and the misses are think greens, mac ’n’ cheese, corn bread, misses at South. I fear had I not had dessert gumbo, barbecue, catfish, et al. the rating would be higher, but so it goes. In We started the night with the corn the end, I encourage diners to venture forth bread. I grew up with a sweet, cake-like to South and gorge themselves on fried corn bread. Tasting South’s, I found myself chicken and cornbread. Those who do shall suddenly transported back to a sweltering not be disappointed. Ω Missouri summer in my grandma’s kitchen.

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Olive me Ever since a trip to Italy last year, I’ve been using olive oil in nearly all of my cooking. It’s in plenty of Italian recipes already, but it’s also good as a condiment, or as a substitute for cooking oil.

Thankfully for me and other olive oil fans, there’s a newly announced competition and exhibition at this year’s California State Fair that will highlight extravirgin olive oil. The competition will feature EVOOs in more than 15 divisions and classes, including flavored oil, blends and more. The entry deadline for the competition is April 1; winners will be on display from July 10 through July 26 at the fair, where the public can get free tastings and see educational exhibits. Definitely worth checking out, as California produces a staggering 99 percent of the nation’s olive oil, according to a fair press release. Head to www.castatefair.org for more information.

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—Jonathan Mendick

Ambivalent amphibian Frog The narrator in Chinese Nobel laureate Mo Yan’s most recent novel to be translated into English is named “Tadpole,” and he wishes to write a play about his aunt, Gugu. In Frog (Viking Adult, $27.95), Gugu, who BOOk is 70 when the story begins, survives the Japanese occupation, trains as a midwife, becomes a member of the Communist Party, suffers through the great famine, is jilted by a fiancé who defects—and endangers her position in so doing.

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The Crocker Art Museum is going all Incohérent on us in what promises to be a very peculiar event. Taking a SalON cue from the current Henri de ToulouseLautrec exhibit, it calls for the city’s “intelligencia, crackups, [and] crackpots” and will be modeled after the turn-of-the-twentieth-century salons in Paris composed of intellectuals and artists.

There will be a pub quiz, parlor games, improv and of course, drinking. Santé! $10, Thursday, 6-9 p.m., 216 O Street, https://crockerartmuseum.org.

—Deena Drewis

Art Mix ProM Night There are so many upsides to redoing your prom experience; for instance, you probably don’t have braces at this point, no one is going to breathalyze you, everyone has finally realized acrylic French manicures are terrible and you (probably) won’t have that inevitable fight with your mother about EvENt your hair half an hour before the dance.

Plus, the Crocker Art Museum’s Art Mix Prom Night is put on in conjunction with Unseen Heroes, the event-planning duo behind most of the city’s most awesome events.

The night will feature music from DJ Kaprihsun, DJ Eddie Edul and Hero’s Last Mission, and Deeda Salon will have a pop-up station, which means you can leave those ringlet up-dos firmly in the past. There will also be a temporary tattoo station and table where you can create a studded leather bracelet, because rock ’n’ roll. This all suggests that there won’t be many Bryan Adams slow jams played, though we can’t make any promises.

Though the event is listed as having a 5 p.m. start time, happy hour allegedly takes place from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., so eager drinkers should post up early. Regardless, drink specials are under $5 all night, so even if you’re not into re-enacting the most sequined night of your life, it’s still one of the cheapest spots in town to drink. $10, 5-9 p.m., 16 O Street, https://crockerartmuseum.org.

—Deena Drewis

I believe I can fly You’ve never seen anything like the Sacramento Ballet’s Peter Pan—because it’s still in the process of being built by choreographer Ron Cunningham by Jim Carnes and his dancers. It will be ready by the time it takes the stage Valentine’s Day weekend at the Community Center Theater, however.

Cunningham has wanted to create a fulllength Peter Pan for many years, “but I could never find what I thought was the right music,” he says. Well, now he’s found it—in Italian composer Silvio Amato’s score for Peter Pan on Ice. (Skates, pointe shoes—what’s the difference?)

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Local comedian and storyteller extraordinaire Jack Gallagher presents his sixth one-man show, this time tapping into his love of music as a muse to memories. Gallagher lets the audience pick four out of nine preselected songs that are triggers to tales about his childhood, fatherhood and his lifelong comedic career. Stories range from sweet and melancholic to funny and revealing. T 6:30pm;

Everybody enjoys listening to a good story.

Public libraries have long presented storytime events for kids, and since 1985, public radio audiences have enjoyed the syndicated program Selected Shorts, which features short fiction read by professional actors before a live audience. Now there’s a reading series in two cities offering that kind of live performance of short fiction on a monthly basis.

Sacramento’s Stories on Stage series is now in its sixth season, and meets on the last Friday of the month. Its January 30 session was a doozy, featuring a visit by awardwinning author Tobias Wolff, whose stories were read by local actors Janis Stevens and James Wheatley.

The Sacramento series continues on February 27, featuring fiction by Elena Mauli Shapiro (author of the novels In The Red and 13 Rue Therese). She was born in Paris, and moved to the Bay Area at age 13, earning degrees at Stanford University, Mills College and UC Davis.

The February 27 reading will be at the Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street.

Doors open at 7 p.m., the reading begins at 7:30 p.m. and a $5 donation is suggested.

Head to www.storiesonstagesacramento. wordpress.com for more information.

Davis’ Stories on Stage series meets on the second Saturday of the month, which (this month) means Valentine’s Day. Veteran actress Patricia Glass (most recently seen playing Annie Sullivan in the Woodland Opera House production of The Miracle Worker) will read the story Wanderlust by Laleh Khadivi (who was born in Iran on the eve of the Iranian Revolution; she now lives in Northern California, and has published two novels in a planned trilogy). Also featured will be actor Phillip Larrea reading Three, Four, Knock at the Door by author Kathryn Williams, who taught English for many years at UC Davis. The Davis event is at the Pence Gallery, 212 D Street in Davis. Doors open at 7 p.m., the reading starts at 7:30 p.m. and a $5 donation is suggested. Find out more at www.storiesonstagedavis.com.

W 2pm & 6:30 pm; Th, F 8pm; Sa 5pm & 9pm; Su 2pm. Through 3/1. $23-$35. B Street Theatre, 2711 B St.; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. P.R.

Cloud 9

This version of the Caryl Churchill play about colonialism and sexual repression gets a first-rate production as Big Idea Theatre lives up to its name. Directed by Janis Stevens, the ensemble (Jerry Kennedy, Benjamin T. Ismail, Clay Kirkwood, Elizabeth Holzman, Ruby Sketchley, Gina Harrower, Linda Moltalvo and Eason Donner) couldn’t possibly be any more perfectly cast. Don’t miss this one; you’ll regret it. Th, F, Sa 8pm. Through 2/14. $10-$16.

Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.org. K.M.

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Two of Sacramento’s finer actors—Stephen Vargo and Martha Omiyo Kight— star in a deceptively simple tale of two lives intertwined as revealed through a decades-long exchange of correspondence.

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Through 2/21. $10-$20. William J. Geery Theater, 2130 L St.; (916) 448-9019, www.brown papertickets.com. J.C.

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“I did mess with the music a little,” Cunningham said after a run-through of the dance at the Sacramento Ballet’s studios recently. “I trimmed some sections and rearranged some others—with the composer’s permission. I think it really suits the spirit of what I’m trying to do here.” (Search “Peter Pan Silvio Amato” on YouTube to hear portions of the score.)

With the exception of the music and the scenery, which is rented, the production is homegrown. The ballet’s costumer has designed and sewn everyone’s outfits and Sacramento artist Stephanie Taylor has created video designs for various scenes. Yes, Peter (Rex Wheeler), Tinkerbell (Maggie Rupp), Wendy (Alexandra Cunningham) and others will fly. They’re airborne thanks to Flying By Foy, the same company that got the recent Peter Pan television musical off of the ground.

Don’t worry: This one will be better than that one, because—well, it’s got dancers. And it has the wonderful Christopher Nachtrab instead of the wooden Christopher Walken as Captain Hook. Bonus: Sacramento Ballet’s world premiere of Peter Pan will be presented along with George Balanchine’s rousing classic Stars and Stripes. Ω

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drama its first performances outside of its premiere in San Francisco. Playwright Aaron Loeb (First Person Shooter) puts a team of corporate consultants to work on a mysterious and ethically ambiguous project, daring them to confront moral dilemmas and their own consciences in the process. Carrie Paff, Jason Kuykendall, Peter Mohrmann, Jimmy Sidhu and Russell Dow star, and Michael Stevenson directs with clocklike precision.

In Zoolander terms, this press-photo pose might be called “Pink Ice.”

Stage love It’s no secret that Valentine’s Day is pretty commercialized these days. For a more unique Valentine’s Day experience—one that doesn’t involve buying greeting cards, dinner or flowers—why not treat yourself (loved ones optional) to a local Valentine’s Day-themed performance on stage?

One option is a poetry event called The Love Jones Experience Part II ($10, 8 p.m. on Thursday, February 5, at Laughs Unlimited, 1207 Front Street; http://tinyurl.com/lovejones2). Hosted by poet Terry Moore’s T-Mo Entertainment, it features poetry by Taalam Acey (pictured), Bri Blue and Ike Torres; plus live music by LSB, Tone Malone and Shawn Raiford.

Another good idea is a performance of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues ($5-$7, 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 12, at Sacramento State University’s Union Ballroom, 6000 J Street; www.theuniversityunion.com/unique). It’s based on real interviews with hundreds of women who talk about experiences with intimacy, relationships, love, sex, violence and more. Proceeds from this performance go to My Sister’s House, a Sacramento-area nonprofit that helps victims of domestic violence from local Asian and Pacific-Islander communities.

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Angeles. Amid the restaurant chatter, Charlie makes an offhand comment about childhood squabbles between Anna and Lydia, to which Alice retorts, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, my sister and I were very close, actually.â&#x20AC;? When she realizes her mistake, she shrugs it off with a laugh: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know why I said that.â&#x20AC;?

Later, delivering a guest lecture at UCLA, she speaks smoothly and easilyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;until she suddenly halts mid-sentence, unable to think of the next word. She flounders ruefully before finally making an awkward substitution: â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Śthe wordstock of a given language.â&#x20AC;? Later, on her way to to visit her daughter Lydia, she remembers the word she was looking for: lexicon. A worldfamous linguist and she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think of â&#x20AC;&#x153;lexiconâ&#x20AC;?; this is something Alice canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shrug off.

Nor can she ignore her terror days later when, midway through an afternoon run around the Columbia campus, where she has spent a major part of her life, she stops, lost and confused, looking around the walks and buildings as if surveying the alien landscape of some strange planet. She knits her brows and squints her eyes, as if she might somehow wring the knowledge of where she is from her resisting brain, and we see Aliceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anguish in sharp focus against a blurry and indistinct background.

A consultation with a neurologist (Stephen Kunken) and a series of tests bring bad news: Alice has early-onset Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. In the immediate aftermath of the diagnosis, what troubles Alice most is not her own plight, but the knowledge that this rare form of Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

is hereditary, probably inherited from her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and that she may have passed it on to her children.

Still Alice is written for the screen and directed by the team of Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, and the two men carefully avoid the weepy grandstanding of disease-ofthe-week Lifetime Channel melodramas. The movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s low-key naturalism imparts a deeper and more compelling drama (non-â&#x20AC;&#x153;meloâ&#x20AC;? variety) to the progress of Aliceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease and the effect it inevitably has on her family, her career and her entire sense of herself.

Julianne Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance naturally anchors the movie, and this least actressy of actresses is, at this writing, the odds-on favorite to go home with the Oscar later this month. If that happens, it will be a tribute to the subtlety and texture she brings to Alice as she feels herself inexorably sliding from invincible confidence to the bewildered insecurity of a woman who gets lost on her home campus and, months later, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find the bathroom in her own house (â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where I am!â&#x20AC;? she sobs).

From an assured public speaker who needs no notes to one who (addressing an Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s association) must read her speech carefully, highlighting each line as she goes so she wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t read the same line over and over again, who asks and re-asks and re-re-asks questions that have already been answered.

Julianne Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance naturally anchors the movie, and this least actressy of actresses is, at this writing, the odds-on favorite to go home with the Oscar.

Aliceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family flounders almost as much as she does, as bewildered, and sometimes angry, at losing the woman they know as she is at losing herself. At one point, in a striking scene, Alice tears the kitchen apart in the middle of the night, searching desperately for her cell phone; John has to calm her and lead her back to bed.

Immediately following is a scene between Alice, John and daughter Anna; John finds his wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s phone in a cabinet, and Alice exclaims, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was looking for this last night!â&#x20AC;? John turns and whispers to Anna, â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was a month ago.â&#x20AC;?

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American Sniper

The last public image that most people have of octogenarian actor/filmmaker Clint Eastwood is him at the 2012 GOP convention, losing an argument with an empty chair.

There was good reason to fear the worst with his adaptation of the Chris Kyle biography American Sniper, so what a surprise that rather than an uncritical testament to the might of the armed forces (Heartbreak Ridge 2, say), Eastwood delivers this complex, conflicted and profoundly moving look at the military machine, and the toll it takes on the soldiers who keep getting shoveled back into the fire. American Sniper possesses the sweep and scope of Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter, but very little of that movie’s romantic grandeur. Eastwood is after something smaller and more personal—while Cimino turned the Vietnam War experience into myth, here Eastwood undermines the legend of a contemporary American warrior even as he is creating it. D.B.

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A well-to-do, high-powered attorney (Kevin Costner), driven to alcoholic grief by the death of his wife, must try to pull himself together to fight for custody of his mixed-race granddaughter (Jillian Estell) against the girl’s African-American grandmother (Octavia Spencer). Writer-director Mike Binder, who drew one of Costner’s best performances in The Upside of Anger, does it again here, and for good measure, he does the same for Spencer. Binder plays with our expectations, setting up clichés of race and class, then undercutting them with surprises. The movie gives us adversaries but no real villains; even the little girl’s wastrel, crackhead father (Andre Holland) is allowed a full measure of complex humanity. Anthony Mackie also shines as Spencer’s lawyer brother, who presses her case in court. J.L.

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A Russian immigrant in Chicago (Mila Kunis) learns that she is the genetic reincarnation of a long-dead alien matriarch, and she becomes a pawn in a power struggle among her “children” (Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth, Tuppence Middleton). Written and directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski, this delirious sci-fi epic is instant camp, careening in and out of sheer gibberish, as gaudy and flamboyant as a drag-queen fashion show in a Martian whorehouse. Memo to Wachowskis: If you must load your script with bizarre names and concepts, don’t let your actors mumble and whisper, and don’t drown them out with music and explosions. Performances range from decent (Kunis and Channing Tatum as her protector) to wretched (Redmayne is so lousy he deserves to forfeit his Oscar nomination for The Theory of Everything). J.L.

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The Loft

Five married pals (Karl Urban, James Marsden, Eric Stonestreet, Wentworth Miller, Matthias Schoenaerts) share a secret love nest to which only they have the keys; when a dead woman turns up there, they all claim not to know who she is or what happened. Who’s the liar—or is there more than one of them? Director Erik Van Looy presides over an American remake of his successful 2008 Belgian thriller, with Wesley Strick adapting Bart De Pauw’s original script. It makes an intriguing if far-fetched puzzle, releasing plot twists in little driblets, with a cold and rather repellent cast to the characters and action (Nicolas Karakatsanis provides suitable cinematography, dominated by blues and blacks).

As so often in such locked-room whodunnits, the solution is both simple and complicated, and quite satisfying. J.L.

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Mommy

Mommy is already the fifth feature from 25-year-old French Canadian auteur Xavier Dolan, and while his latest film still possesses an overeager youthfulness, it’s also a visually tense, emotionally ecstatic and unforgettable experience. Set “in a fictional Canada” (don’t worry, Celine Dion still exists), Mommy stars Dolan regular Anne Dorval as Diane “Die” Despres, a single mother in bedazzled jeans struggling to raise her blonde, tit-squeezing hellcat son. Die is devoted to her boy (an excellent Antoine Olivier-Pilon, loathsome and strangely charming), but also terrified of his violent mood swings and sexually inappropriate behavior. Dolan shoots most of Mommy in a claustrophobic,

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Nickelodeon TV’s dorky hero (voiced by Tom Kenny) ventures onto dry land (and into something vaguely resembling our universe) in search of a stolen sandwich recipe, the loss of which has brought ruin and devastation to his hometown of Bikini Bottom. The script by Glenn Berger and Jonathan Aibel (the guys behind Kung Fu Panda), from a story by director Paul Tibbitt and series creator Stephen Hillenberg, is wacky cubed, with a nonstop stampede of gags as frantic as those in the Rio and Madagascar franchises—only much, much funnier. Tibbitt and his crew cleverly blend ink-and-paint animation, CGI and live action, and the result is great fun, slyly calculated to convulse the kiddies and keep their parents alternately chuckling and laughing out loud.

Antonio Banderas adds to the fun as the pirate villain. J.L.

1x1 aspect ratio, emphasizing vertical lines in the framing, and he makes gonzo use of slow motion and 1990s pop songs. But the film’s ostentatiousness never overshadows the brilliantly complex lead performance by Dorval, who runs the gamut from tacky gusto to cynical calculation. D.B.

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A Most Violent Year

Considering that the film is fairly humorless, the funniest aspect of A Most Violent Year might be that killer title. Yes, the film takes place in 1981 NYC, a pre-Giuliani time of astronomic crime rates, but the title tees up expectations of intensity and catharsis that writer-director J.C. Chandor has no intention of swinging at. Cinematically speaking, Chandor keeps a tight strike zone, and the measured, confident, almost chilly tone that permeates the film is largely responsible for the cold shoulder it received throughout the awards season. A Most Violent Year shares some stylistic and narrative DNA with Scorsese’s Goodfellas, but Chandor’s film inherited little of that 1990 classic’s energetic, eager-to-please temperament. Goodfellas is about a man who “always wanted to be a gangster,” while the mostly righteous A Most Violent Year is about a man who wants to walk, talk and dress like a gangster, without actually being a gangster. D.B.

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Paddington

A rare specimen of intelligent bear from “darkest Peru” (voice by Ben Whishaw) emigrates to London, where he is taken in by an English family—to the delight of the mother (Sally Hawkins) and son (Samuel Joslin), and the exasperation of the father (Hugh Bonneville) and daughter (Madeleine Harris).

Soon, our furry hero attracts the attention of a cold-hearted scientist with a penchant for taxidermy (Nicole Kidman). Writer-director Paul King preserves the charm and sweetness of Michael Bond’s children’s books, while adding a feature-length plot and an opportunity for Kidman to trot out a serving of delicious, lip-smacking villainy. The movie is an irresistible charmer, endearing, family-friendly and hilariously funny. The DVD is sure to sell millions of copies. J.L.

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Project Almanac

After an overachieving high school scientist fails to secure an MIT scholarship, he discovers a mysterious box in his dead father’s workshop, along with instructions that guide him and his friends toward the construction of a time machine. The easiest and most efficient way to dismiss Dean Israelite’s awful Project Almanac would be to chuck it in the found-footage garbage bin.

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It exists solely to shill Red Bull and other demographic-appropriate products. D.B.

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There is such a powerful convergence of hot-button topics in Ava DuVernay’s Selma, from civil rights to voting laws to police brutality to street protests to government surveillance, that even some of the film’s strongest proponents are positioning the film as a good-for-you, syllabus-ready obligation.

That’s an affront to the intelligence, cinematic flexibility and emotional satisfaction of this rousing film, which tracks the involvement of Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Oyelowo is fantastic as MLK, a perfect mix of humanity and moral authority, and Carmen Ejogo is fine in the underdeveloped role of Coretta Scott King. Enough famous faces ham it up in bit parts that the film threatens to turn into Ava DuVernay’s Lee Daniels’ The Butler (a snarling Tim Roth as George Wallace is particularly distracting), but Oyelowo keeps it grounded and DuVernay keeps it moving. D.B.

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A fairy princess (voice by Evan Rachel Wood) swears off love when she catches her self-centered fiancé cheating; meanwhile, in the neighboring Dark Wood, the insect-like Bog King (Alan Cumming) conspires to wipe out love altogether. Directed by multi-Oscarwinning sound designer Gary Rydstrom from a story by George Lucas (that billionaire master of derivative cinema), this animated musical fantasy is a sometimes uneasy mash-up of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Beauty and the Beast and Glee, with a nonstop parade of jukebox song samples (heavily weighted toward ’50s and ’60s pop), all of them quite well sung.

The animation, which has a look of Arthur Rackham mixed with Maxfield Parrish, is fluid, visually striking and, for some strange reason, vaguely alarming. All in all, there are far worse family movies. J.L.

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There’s not a whole lot of information on the Internet about Woodland punk-rock and altrock trio Cherry Pitt. It does have one song ROCK on its Bandcamp page called “Cut (The Shitty Demo).” It’s weird, noisy and intense. Despite the title, “shitty” isn’t exactly the best way to describe the song. It’s more like a raw, slow-grooving avant-punk primal scream. There is a lot of energy in the song. It has a ton of screaming and emotion, but I wouldn’t be so quick to call it angry—more like unhinged and vulnerable. The singer’s voice falls somewhere in-between Courtney Love and L7’s Donita Sparks. 506 Main Street in Woodland, www.facebook.com/cherrypittband.

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Relatively new on the scene, local quartet Merdog played its first show just last fall. Take note, because its debut four-song EP Holy Yes quickly impresses. It’s delicate, at times sweet, quiet and restrained. Frontwoman Cynthia Elmore sings her contemplative, moody lyrics with a light, airy and quintessentially indie quality—I am reminded of Canadian indie pop songstress Feist, but Elmore’s style is slightly more folky at times. Still, Merdog as a whole definitely reps the melodic alt-rock scene INDIE more than the indie Americana— make no mistake there: Plaid, not cowboy boots. Um, forget I said anything. Two singer-songwriters, Cleopatra Degher and Joshua Macrae, open up the show.

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Elegant harmonies and smooth folk and alt-country licks are coming, as are some harmonious pickin’ and singin’. Now seasoned veterans of the folk and festival circuits, the Wailin’ Jennys are led by three accomplished virtuouso musicians: Ruth Moody (vocals, COUNTRY/FOLK accordion, banjo, bodhran), Nicky Mehta (guitar, harmonica, drums, ukulele) and Heather Masse (vocals, upright bass). With a national following, partially thanks to ongoing guest slots on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, the Wailin’ Jennys exude a country-folk blend reminiscent of such performers as Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch.

The Jennys’ 2014 performance at the Crest was a sellout, so jump on this one in advance.

1013 K Street, www.thewailinjennys.com.

—Janelle Bitker

There’s not much of a better way to celebrate than with an abundance of food, booze and music. That’s what happens this Saturday with Old Sacramento’s Mardi Gras party.

It takes place at more than a dozen venues in Old Sacramento, and features about as many local bands. Dan Whitney, BlackRose (pictured), Zydeco on Our Mind, Yesterday’s News, the Chris Twomey Band, Joey Ventitelli, and more will perform throughout venues in Old Sacramento. The main focus is rock ’n’ roll, jazz and Cajun music, so just pop into venues like Laughs Unlimited, O’Mally’s Irish Pub and Fanny Ann’s ROCK/JAZZ/CAJUN Saloon until you find something good. Old Sacramento, http://oldsacramento.com/special-events/ mardi-gras.

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Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 7 p.m., $15-$20 Steely Dan’s sound is distinct, blending genres long before that was hip.

It’s songwriting is solid, intelligent and unafraid to comment on the times. Then there’s the band’s catalog: “Hey Nineteen,” “Peg,” “Do It Again,” “Deacon Blues,” “Kid Charlemagne” and “Reelin’ in the Years” still rotate on classic rock stations. A game of “name that song” can be played with the first couple of notes of any Steely Dan tune, but a game of “name that band” might be a bit trickier when the 10 members of ROCK Steelin’ Dan (Sammie winner for Best Cover Band in 2011) take the stage at this all-ages show. 2708 J Street, www.steelindan.com.

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Ace of Spades, 6:30 p.m., $22 Hellyeah is a supergroup. Drummer Vinnie Paul played with his late brother, Dimebag Darrell, in both Pantera and Damage Plan ROCK until Darrell was unexpectedly gunned down during a show.

Singer Chad Gray fronted the wildly popular Mudvayne, guitarist Tom Maxwell played with Skrape and Nothingface, bassist Kyle Sanders was in Skrew and Bloodsimple, and second guitarist Christian Brady was in the lesser known Magna-Fi and Überschall.

And while Hellyeah sounds nothing like its members’ previous bands, that’s a good thing. If you’re into groove-laden metal with melodies sans blastbeats and odd time signatures, Hellyeah will deliver. Also on the bill are Devour The Day and Like A Storm.

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Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 8 p.m., $18-$20 Like a twisting fog-shrouded drive up U.S. Highway 1, Pinback offers knotty, rhythmicyet-dreamy guitar rock that’s at once placid and tense. The way the instruments wash over the vocals suggests a less herky-jerky Modest Mouse or more downbeat Clientele.

The emotional remove provides distance on the arty guitar structures but never feels as mechanistic as math rock. It’s sorta the musical embodiment of Pynchon’s “keep cool ROCK but care” aphorism. Formed in ’98, the San Diego act’s released five albums and more than a half-dozen EPs—the latest of which, 2012’s Information Retrieval, made surprising inroads on the modern-rock charts. 2708 J Street, www.pinback.com.

Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 7 p.m., $15 Musicians have it tough: Some fans want you to stay the same and others want you to change. San Francisco duo the Dodos have managed to do both to good effect with the January release Individ, which is INDIE less sweet and folksy than previous efforts (we’ll see if drummer Logan Kroeber still tapes a tambourine to his shoe). The new stuff’s more angular and almost math-rock-esque in the guitar work at times. Vocally, songs ring a touch more world-weary (in a good way). The band has remained refreshingly sincere over nearly a decade, and fans of bands like Beirut and Dr. Dog will especially take to this evolution.

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Trivia Night, 6:30pm M, no cover; Open-mic night, 7:30pm W, no cover

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THE GATLIN, LIQ, THE YOUNG LIIFES, CHARITTE, LACE LENO; 9pm, $5

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FATSO, SAC STORYTELLERS; 9pm, call for cover

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THE BOARDWALK

OTEP, TERROR UNIVERSAL, THIRA,

EARTHLESS, BRUBAKER; 8pm, $12

LONDON RICHARDS, THR3EE, AVRY; 6:30pm, $12

RANELL CARPENTER BAND, 9pm-1am, no cover

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

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MARTY COHEN & THE SIDEKICKS, 8pm, no cover

ELI & THE SOUND CULT, JAY SHANER; 9pm, $5

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1603 J St., (916) 476-5076

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APPLE Z, 9pm-midnight, $5

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Sunday Sinema, 8pm, no cover

Roger Carpio, Tim Matranga, 9pm M; Cactus Pete, 8pm Tu; Trivia, 8pm W

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Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

Twerk and Trap dance, 9pm M; SELFDECAY, 8pm Tu; SETTING SONS, 8pm W, $6

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CRESCENT KATZ, 9pm, no cover

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ARGENTAVIS, BATTLESHOK, SSYNDROM, UNGULATE; 9pm, call for cover

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Open-mic comedy jam w/ Brandon Lee, 7:30pm W, no cover

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JACKSON MICHELSON, 9pm, $2

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

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

Country dance party, 8pm, no cover

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

TORCH CLUB

X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; SACTOWN PLAYBOYS, 9pm, $6

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm; JOY & MADNESS, 9pm, $10

THE STUFF, 5:30pm, no cover

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SEAN LEHE, 8pm Tu; Open-mic, 5:30pm W; KERI CARR BAND, 9pm W, $5

HELLYEAH, DEVOUR THE DAY, LIKE A STORM; 6:30pm, $22

LOGIC, MICHAEL CHRISTMAS; 6:30pm Tu, $20; HOZIER, ASGEIR; 7pm W

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Blank Slate Art Party, 6pm, no cover

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MERDOG, CLEOPATRA DEGHER, JOSHUA MACRAE; 8pm, $5

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WHISKEY & STITCHES, LUCKY LASKOWSKI & THE LIAR’S CHOIR; 8pm, $5

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I think I overshare. I’ve been second-guessing myself about it since a close friend betrayed my trust by letting mutual friends know things that I asked her to keep private. I would like to feel free to be myself regardless of people’s reactions or gossip. But I also feel like becoming a hermit so no one can be mean to me, and so I don’t feel selfconscious about what people know or don’t know about me. Please help!

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Some secrets are overwhelming. The person who holds our secret may find it a burden. Suddenly they’re caught in a web of worry. Or confidants betray us because they lack the skills or right words to assist. In order to release stress, that person tells our secret to others, hoping gain their insight or advice.

I don’t advocate betraying secrets, but I understand that most of us feel better when someone shoulders a burden with us. That doesn’t eliminate the terrible feelings of betrayal that result from discovering, as you did, that someone has revealed our secrets without permission. But rather than swinging between hiding from the world and not giving a whit about what others think, stand in the paradox. Telling a secret to a friend is exposing that secret; so telling a secret is always risky. We betray ourselves by believing our secret is still secret. This doesn’t mean we should never reveal ourselves to others. It does mean that if secrets are clothed by shame or embarrassment, and we bare those secrets, we are moving toward healing those difficult feelings. That’s something to be grateful for. Ω

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Over here in the states, medical marijuana is a sk420@ n ewsreview.c om booming. Nevada is set to open 65 medical cannabis dispensaries throughout the state, and the Legislature is most likely going to address a recreational marijuana law submitted by an initiative this year. If the Nevada Legislature doesn’t approve the measure, the law goes to a vote of the people. Yes. Illinois is having problems getting its medical marijuana program into gear. The new governor, Republican Bruce Rauner, is asking for more studies, but really he’s just being an ass by delaying the inevitable.

Some state senators in Nebraska just introduced legislation to allow medical marijuana use. Yes, the same Nebraska that is suing the state of Colorado over recreational marijuana is looking to have its own marijuana law.

Embrace your dichotomies, I Everyone thinks of guess. Good luck.

South Carolina, where Jamaica as a bastion of theyInalready have a law ganja freedom, but weed allowing some patients to use has been illegal there cannabis-derived medicines containing high amounts seemingly forever. of CBD (Cannabidiol, a compound found in marijuana that has been shown to be very effective at treating certain forms of epilepsy), state Senator Tom Davis and Representative Jenny Horne plan to introduce a bill to allow broader use of the cannabis plant.

The American Academy of Pediatrics just released a position paper asking for marijuana to be rescheduled from Schedule 1 to Schedule 2 to allow for more research. “A Schedule 1 listing means there’s no medical use or helpful indications, but we know that’s not true because there has been limited evidence showing [marijuana] may be helpful Ngaio Bealum for certain conditions in adults,” said Seth Ammerman, is a Sacramento clinical professor in pediatrics at Stanford University, comedian, activist member of the AAP and co-author of the position paper, in and marijuana expert. a recent interview.

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I see the potential of a comparable stimulus in your near future, Aries. Imminent developments could amp up your passion for a good cause that transcends your immediate self-interests.

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film Kill Bill: Volume 1, Taurus actress Uma Thurman plays a martial artist who has exceptional skill at wielding a samurai sword. At one point, her sword maker evaluates her reflexes by hurling a baseball in her direction. With a masterful swoop, she slices the ball in half before it reaches her. I suggest you seek out similar tests in the coming days, Taurus.

Check up on the current status of your top skills. Are any of them rusty? Should you update them? Are they still of maximum practical use to you? Do whatever’s necessary to ensure they are as strong and sharp as ever.

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impressionist painter Claude Monet loved to paint the rock formations near the beach at Étretrat, a village in Normandy.

During the summer of 1886, he worked serially on six separate canvases, moving from one to another throughout his work day to capture the light and shadow as they changed with the weather and the position of the sun. He focused intently on one painting at a time. He didn’t have a brush in each hand and one in his mouth, simultaneously applying paint to various canvases. His specific approach to multitasking would generate good results for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. (P.S. The other kind of multitasking—where you do several different things at the same time—will yield mostly mediocre results.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1849,

author Edgar Allen Poe died in his homet own of Baltimore. A century later, a mysterious admirer began a new tradition.

Every January 19, on the anniversary of Poe’s birth, this cloaked visitor appeared at his grave in the early morning hours, and left behind three roses and a bottle of cognac. I invite you, Cancerian, to initiate a comparable ritual. Can you imagine paying periodic tribute to an important influence in your own life—someone who has given you much and touched you deeply? Don’t do it for nostalgia’s sake, but rather as a way to affirm that the gifts you’ve received from this evocative influence will continue to evolve within you. Keep them ever-fresh.

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to a dream deferred?” asked Langston Hughes in his poem “Harlem.” “Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— / And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? / Or crust and sugar over— / like a syrupy sweet?” As your soul’s cheerleader and coach, Leo, I hope you won’t explore the answer to Hughes’ questions. If you have a dream, don’t defer it. If you have been deferring your dream, take at least one dramatic step to stop deferring it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo author

John Creasey struggled in his early efforts at getting published. For a time he had to support himself with jobs as a salesman and clerk. Before his first book was published, he had gathered 743 rejection slips. Eventually, though, he broke through and achieved monumental success. He wrote more than 550 novels, several of which were made into movies.

He won two prestigious awards and sold 80 million books. I’m not promising that your own frustrations will ultimately pave the way for a prodigious triumph like his.

But in the coming months, I do expect significant progress toward a gritty accomplishment. For best results, work for your own satisfaction more than for the approval of others.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Hall-of-Fame basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon had a signature set of fancy moves that were collectively known as the Dream Shake.

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It consisted of numerous spins and fakes that could be combined in various ways to outfox his opponents and score points.

The coming weeks would be an excellent time for you to work on your equivalent of the Dream Shake, Libra. You’re at the peak of your ability to figure out how to coordinate and synergize your several talents.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1837,

Victoria became Queen of England following the death of her uncle, King William IV. She was 18 years old. Her first royal act was to move her bed out of the room she had long shared with her meddling, overbearing mother. I propose that you use this as one of your guiding metaphors in the immediate future. Even if your parents are saints, and even if you haven’t lived with them for years, I suspect you would benefit by upgrading your independence from their influence. Are you still a bit inhibited by the nagging of their voices in your head? Does your desire to avoid hurting them thwart you from rising to a higher level of authority and authenticity?

Be a good-natured rebel.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

The crookedest street in the world is a one-way, block-long span of San Francisco’s Lombard Street. It consists of eight hairpin turns down a very steep hill. The recommended top speed for a car is 5 miles per hour. So on the one hand, you’ve got to proceed with caution. On the other hand, the quaint, brick-paved road is lined with flower beds, and creeping along its wacky route is a whimsical amusement.

I suspect you will soon encounter experiences that have metaphorical resemblances to Lombard Street, Sagittarius. In fact, I urge you to seek them out.

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

the baseball film The Natural, the hero Roy Hobbs has a special bat he calls “Wonderboy.” Carved out of a tree that was split by a lightning bolt, it seems to give Hobbs an extraordinary skill at hitting a baseball. There’s a similar theme at work in the Australian musical instrument known as the didgeridoo. It’s created from a eucalyptus tree whose inner wood has been eaten away by termites. Both Wonderboy and the didgeridoo are the results of natural forces that could be seen as adverse but that are actually useful.

Is there a comparable situation in your own life, Capricorn? I’m guessing there is.

If you have not yet discovered what it is, now is a good time to do so.

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

1753, Benjamin Franklin published helpful instructions on how to avoid being struck by lightning during stormy weather. Wear a lightning rod in your hat, he said, and attach it to a long, thin metal ribbon that trails behind you as you walk. In response to his article, a fashion fad erupted. Taking his advice, fancy ladies in Europe actually wore such hats. From a metaphorical perspective, it would make sense for you Aquarians to don similar headwear in the coming weeks. Bolts of inspiration will be arriving on a regular basis. To ensure you are able to integrate and use them—not just be titillated and agitated—you will have to be well-grounded.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According

to the Bible, Jesus said, “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Author David Foster Wallace added a caveat.

“The truth will set you free,” he wrote, “but not until it is finished with you.” All this is apropos for the current phase of your journey, Pisces. By my estimation, you will soon discover an important truth that you have never before been ready to grasp. Once that magic transpires, however, you will have to wait a while until the truth is fully finished with you. Only then will it set you free. But it will set you free. And I suspect that you will ultimately be grateful that it took its sweet time.

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Word problems Anthony Barcellos has taught mathematics at American River College since 1987 and was honored by colleagues in 2014 with the American River College Patrons Chair Award for his work within his department, the college and in the greater community. He’s the author of a novel, Land of Milk and Money, co-author of a mathematics textbook and author of the upcoming A Stroll Through Calculus: A Guide for the Merely Curious (Cognella Academic Publishing, $30.95). He’s a math and language guy who entered kindergarten speaking more Portuguese than English and received comments such as “Tony is very good with his numbers” on his kindergarten grade report. In first grade, Barcellos discovered the word “something” in the class reader. “There was this one $5 word right in the middle of everything,” he said. And so began his love of words and rapid rise as a reader.

What is calculus and how does it affect daily life?

Calculus is the mathematics of how things change and how you can measure that.

For technical people, the practitioners, it’s a tool of the trade. They, for example, worked out why canned goods must be a certain size in order to make the best use of raw materials. For consumers, you don’t have to be able to do the math yourself to take satisfaction in the knowledge that optimum can sizes were simply computed—not handed down by legislative decree. The world makes rational sense and you see this in matching can sizes!

Math is also embodied all around us in infrastructure. I rather wish bridges were labeled with their designer’s GPA. I’ll happily drive over 3.0 bridges, but I’d have doubts with 2.0.

A Stroll through Calculus doesn’t sound like it was written by a math professor.

It’s a very personalized way of approaching things and that was very deliberate.

There’s a lot of stuff behind the scenes, which for a mathematician is an important omission, which for the casual reader is a mercy.

I have used it as fodder for the calculus essay that I assign each semester that I teach calculus.

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How do students react?

I get a wide variation in the responses. My favorites, of course, are the students who tell me at the end of the semester that it was an extremely valuable assignment that they hadn’t appreciated initially.

Some of them have recycled their essays in English composition classes.

Reactions from other professors?

My English professor colleagues will root me on. [My math professor colleagues] are very supportive, but they’re not following me. I suppose I could make it look more attractive if I didn’t complain during essay-grading time.

Some people say numbers and words shouldn’t touch.

In terms of subject matter and curriculum, some of the boundaries are artificial. They should be permeable and telling students that you expect them to use their Englishcomp skills in a math class may strike them as wrong, but I think it is perfectly natural. I argue vigorously in its favor.

Is it difficult to move from numbers to words?

It’s very much who I am. If I’m not doing stuff pertaining to my math classes, which is working up cool examples or grading or correcting exams, there’ll be a book somewhere calling to me, a book that needs a reader.

There are bumps in the road because if you wax too excited about something you’ve been reading, it might turn off certain math colleagues. If you’re jabbering with English professors and you get

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too mathy, if you’re talking about some writer and you’re saying, “Yeah and he has this wonderful conceit where he invents this pattern. ...” Ahhhh, you see the veils coming down. Unless, of course, you’re insulting Dan Brown. That’s always good with English professors.

What do you read?

Science fiction. History. Biography. Not too many modern novels. Old novels more often. Of course, I read The Infinite Tides by [Christian] Kiefer and of course, Let The Water Hold Me Down, Michael [Spurgeon]’s book. Yeah, I read both of those. And I’m thanked in Kiefer’s book because he and I had a chat about various mathy things.

Iain M. Banks. The Player of Games is wonderful. I’ve read that a couple of times. Normally I don’t do a lot of rereading.

What about games?

My sibs don’t play Scrabble with me very often. It usually works if we buddy up and I am someone’s adviser. They’ll let me do that, especially if it’s one of my willful nieces who doesn’t take my advice. Love crossword puzzles. It’s a weakness in my math make-up.

So what do you do in your free time?

What is this free time of which you speak?

That’s how my novel [Land of Milk and Money] happened, of course. Ω

Visit the website for Anthony Barcellos’ latest book at http://astrollthroughcalculus.com.

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