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Playing while female Earlier this month, Little League player Mo’Ne Davis published her memoir, Mo’ne Davis: Remember My Name: My Story from First Pitch to Game Changer. Just last week, the Disney Channel announced plans for a biopic chronicling the athlete’s life. Pretty amazing stuff for a 13-year-old.

Then again, amazing is what Davis does: Last August, she became the first girl to throw a Little League World Series shutout. She was also named Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year for 2014. Impressive.

Too bad another athlete chose to treat Davis like she’s not worthy of respect.

Over the weekend, Joey Casselberry, a Bloomburg University baseball player, tweeted “Disney is making a movie about Mo’ne Davis?

WHAT A JOKE. That slut got rocked by Nevada.”

A reminder: Davis is 13.

Casselberry has since apologized; he’s also been kicked off his team.

Davis asked the school to reinstate him, noting that “everyone deserves a second chance. I know he didn’t mean it in that type of way.”

Perhaps that’s not how Casselberry meant it (although it’s really difficult to think of alternate meanings for the word “slut”), but unfortunately his tweet just underscores the treatment female athletes face.

Serena Williams, for example, recently discussed the years of bodyshaming she’s endured from those who prefer their female tennis players delicate and small-boned.

I have a 14-month-old niece who, if she turns out anything like her mother, will someday be a force on the athletic field. Soccer maybe.

Definitely softball. Here’s hoping she’ll never have to face the sort of casual, persistent sexism that Davis, Williams and scores of other female athletes have experienced.

I’m sure you’d expect no less for your nephew, son or brother.

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If you were a police officer, would you wear a camera?

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Yes. It would give the community transparency.

It would allow the police administration to see if what they are doing is actually working in dealing with the public. It would give the public some trust because they would see actually what the police officer is doing and how they are treating people in the community.

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If I were a police officer I don’t know that I would like it, not anymore than anyone else would want a camera on them. It shows a level of distrust. As a taxpayer, I think it is a good idea—to protect the officers and the public. … Give us some real accountability as to what happens.

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I would. I think they should be made mandatory, just so there is always proof of the situation they are in. It might be a good learning tool as well. It keeps the public and the officer safer.

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Yeah, I would. Police officers should wear cameras. It serves the public and the citizens. It would keep people honest, the police and the people.

There are enough cellphone cameras out there already. Why not have them on the police?

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Yes. We have everything else: the Tasers, the nightsticks, the cuffs and a weapon, lots of extra gear.

So I don’t think a little camera on the shoulder is going to be too much more added weight. … It would help the officer because he is supposed to write everything down and now he will have it on tape.

Yes. I think it is a good idea.

It makes people feel good about what [the officers] are doing as they are taking responsibilities for their actions. It would show better in court when they are arguing about beatings. … It would show good intent instead of somebody’s cellphone bit that was taken out of context.

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Let’s give it up for HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the smartest and most hilarious 30 minutes of news on TV these days.

Consider a recent Sunday episode that zeroed in on March Madness, which is upon us. A lot of you know all about the Madness because you ditched work recently to watch your alma mater play in the annual NCAA basketball tournament.

You might have noticed the endless corporate sponsorships during the games on TV. As Oliver’s show pointed out, corporate support and TV deals are making the universities involved in the tourney, and the NCAA itself, pretty damn wealthy. Everyone’s getting paid—more than ever.

Except the athletes.

This is because, for decades, the NCAA has considered athletes in college sports amateurs. The organization says students are compensated with a college education.

But, as Oliver pointed out, many student athletes don’t have meaningful time to study during their college experience. Or they take easy degree-track courses that won’t necessarily help them after graduation. Some get injured and lose their scholarships (and incur expensive medical bills because, hey, no workers comp). And hardly any of the student athletes become professionals and rake in big paydays. Fewer than 2 percent, actually.

Meanwhile, universities are building new field houses, stadiums and arenas. Deans and coaches rake in sevenfigure salaries. And the financial stakes keep rising.

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Extreme water woes It’s frightening sometimes how two headlines on the same day can have such resonance. The Bee’s Friday, March 13, edition (and yes, we did note the date with trepidation) featured two such headlines, right next to each other, on the front page: “L.A. water agency offers cash for Valley allotments� and “Natomas building activity ready to resume.� “ We’re not just up We can only hope that other readers noticed the disconnect. a creek without a Our water situation is so dire that paddle in California, Southern California is paying big bucks to buy up water allotments we’re losing the that would normally be used to creek, too.� plant rice. Yet, at the same time, it seems that a building boom— Jay Famiglietti which will take plenty of water UC Irvine professor during construction and even more for a long time to come—is about to begin.

The day before, Jay Famiglietti, a professor of Earth science at UC Irvine and a senior water specialist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, penned an op-ed for the L.A. Times in which he pointed out that California is, quite simply, running out of water. “We’re not just up a creek without a paddle in California, we’re losing the creek, too,� he wrote.

His question—“Will you ration now?�—is a good one, given our dire state following this extremely dry season.

We can only continue to urge our readers and local officials: Don’t build what we can’t sustain. Consider the realities of our water resources before giving the go-ahead to further development. We can’t keep going on this way.Ί

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Pomer for council Re “Vote Eric Guerra” (SN&R Editorial, March 19): Shame on a free-thinking paper to encourage racial partiality of one minority. Government run by deal-making is exactly letter of what needs to get cleaned out of government. We need the week lionhearted champions like Bruce Pomer to challenge the status quo that keeps the poorest of the poor in Sacto from getting food stamps. Pomer will be just the beginning of government for and by the people.

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Don’t forget the suburban scene Re “The music scene is dead, long live the music scene” by Rachel Leibrock (SN&R Feature Story, March 19): Harlow’s frequently books allages shows and is a beautiful venue for bands that might have played the Witch Room had it remained open.

Also, as long as you’re including Davis in the article, there are several good live music venues in Roseville as well, including Bar 101 and the Roseville Opera House Saloon. In addition, Back 9 Bar & Grill is an all-ages venue in Citrus Heights.

And, your article also left out Powerhouse Pub and Folsom Hotel Saloon.

Discussions about the “scene” should encompass all these outlying areas. All of these diverse venues and communities come together to make the “scene” a vibrant, and yes, constantly evolving entity that should garner more respect and attention.

Lisa Walters Antelope

Guerra for council Re “Vote Eric Guerra” (SN&R Editorial, March 19): I attended two different candidate forums, where Eric Guerra and Bruce Pomer had the opportunity to state their cases and answer questions from the audience. While I found both of them to have good experience and a sincere desire to represent the district, there was a clear distinction between their visions and preparedness, and Guerra came out on top. In simplistic terms, Pomer came across as the retired guy looking for something to do. Despite his best efforts to play that up as a strength (no work obligations to distract from serving the district), it really came across as though this city council seat opening was a spontaneous afterthought for him to fill the time.

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Libtard 101 Re “‘Dumb white libtards’” by Anonymous (SN&R Letters, March 19): Can I assume that if I don’t know what a “libtard” is, I am one?

Has anyone assembled a dictionary of Fox News slurs, portmanteaus and conflations? It would help those of us who feed at the liberal teat. Do they still always include Obama’s middle name, Hussein? Do they still pretend it’s the Democrat Party instead of the Democratic Party?

If conservatives think and behave as first-graders, then do they still observe the old playground rule of “I’m rubber and you’re glue; everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you?” I know, I know, I should get out more.

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Hopefully, the incentive of reduction in property tax will draw in some private property landowners to the Urban Agriculture Incentive Zone program to allow tenant urban farmers to tend their fields.

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SN&R’s resident softball team, the Blazers, kicked off its season this past Thursday as part of the city of Sacramento league in Tahoe Park. The bad news is that the field at Tahoe Park is in poor condition: rocks in the infield, weeds growing near third base and dangerous holes and mud pits in the outfield. Measure U surplus, anyone?

Last Tuesday, a handful of city council members got cold feet about a new law that would allow people to sell homegrown produce two days a week in neighborhoods. They’re worried that the Urban Agriculture Ordinance will create more blight and trouble in already struggling communities—despite research that suggests otherwise. Scorekeeper says: Look, if you want to be the damn Farm-toFork Capital of Friggin’ America, then pass the ordinance. (It was scheduled for vote this past Tuesday before deadline.)

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Nice park job The Downtown Sacramento Partnership released its annual Concerts in the Park music-series lineup last week—and they nailed it. Hip-hop this year? Check. A smart mix of worthy locals and interesting out-of-town acts? Yup. SN&R has been critical of the series in years past; well, excellent work and see you this summer!

+ 95,811 R.I.P. Celso We’d like to give it up for a Sacramento legend: Celso Brida, who founded Luigi’s Pizza Parlor on Stockton Boulevard and for decades served up some of the city’s best pie. He passed away this past weekend. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends.

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Everybody put your hands together and give it up for Sacramento Bee scribe Marcos Breton! Seriously, we’re not kidding. First, His Blowhardness got soft and shaved his head for children’s cancer charity St. Baldrick’s on March 16. And then, in this past Sunday’s column, he put pressure on the county to end its discrimination against undocumented immigrants by providing them health care.

More, Marcos, more!

Cops have been getting beaten up a lot in the media lately, so let’s shine a light on one of the really good ones. Lt. Norm Leong of the Sacramento Police Department runs security operations for the Regional Transit system. He also rides light rail a lot, just to see how things are running. On March 17, he encountered a youth without a ticket. Here’s how that encounter went down, according to Leong’s Twitter account (@LtNormLeong): “Let kid ride w/out fare on promise he buy a discount fare (only had $1.75) b/c he was going to a job interview. Saw him later w/fare & a new job.” Now that’s community policing.

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The money story Sacramento still lags behind rest of state in every way when it comes to campaign-finance disclosure Last year, a talented Seattle high-schooler named Nick Rubin got deserved media attention and praise for his browser plug-in “Greenhouse,” which scans websites for the names of U.S. senators and Congress members, and provides a quick thumbnail of their major campaign donors.

You can see the utility of this, when you read a news story in which a rep is railing aRviN about climate-change policy, and the little

by CoSMo G box pops up showing his main benefactor cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om is the oil and gas industry. Rubin says his invention “allows people to see the money story behind the news story.” (Did Bites mention that he was 16 at the time?)

Now, would someone whip up some code to do the same for local Sacramento politicians?

It would have been helpful for anyone perusing the coverage of Mayor Kevin Johnson’s efforts on behalf of the Sacramento Republic FC soccer team the last couple of weeks. The Republic hopes to be included in Major League Soccer’s expansion sometime in the next few years. Their MLS appeal is connected to the possibility of a new revenue-generating stadium. The club’s hopes seemed to dim last week when, at press time, it looked like MLS was going to invite a Minneapolis team into the big leagues.

Sports Mayor is on the case, however. He held a press conference promising city help for a new Republic stadium, and branded his yet to be explained strategy as “Operation Turnkey.”

Local media outlets covered the story pretty much as told. And they left out the fact that mayor K.J. has received nearly $1 million from Sac Republic owners over the last two years.

Kevin Nagle, the Republic’s biggest local shareholder, pumped $100,000 into Johnson’s strong-mayor campaign last year. Since 2013, he’s donated $370,000 to Johnson’s nonprofit political brand, the Sacramento Public Policy Foundation. Another $325,000 went from Nagle to Johnson’s charter school organization, St. HOPE Academy.

Is that information important to know when considering what kind of help the city of Sacramento should offer, or where the mayor should focus his energies? You bet.

Does including the money angle make for a less boosterish piece? Bites supposes. Still, there ought to be a way to get the money story behind the news story.

Sacramento County took a giant step into the 21st century last week, announcing that its new online campaign-financing disclosure system is live.

Soon candidates for every county office— from school board to supervisor to sheriff—will be able to report online who is funding their campaigns.

More importantly, the public will, hopefully, find it much easier to suss out who is trying buy influence over local officeholders.

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Until now, Sacramento was woefully behind, the only one among California’s 10 most populous counties not to provide this kind of campaignfinance disclosure on the Web. There’s just one very important catch: Candidates aren’t required to use the new system.

That’s because the county board of supervisors decided to make online filing for candidates voluntary, at least for the next year.

Next spring, the county registrar of voters will report back to the board, letting them know how many candidates are using the new system, and how many prefer to stick with the old paper system.

The board can then decide whether to make online filing mandatory, or even scrap it all together. “If only two people are using it, it might not make sense to do online filing,” said Assistant County Registrar Alice Jarboe.

There’s just one very important catch: Candidates aren’t required to use the new system.

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In that context, it was interesting to hear Koons’ description of his work, given to Sacramento Bee reporter Ryan Lillis. Koons was talking about why he likes to use reflective surfaces: “When you walk by it, you realize that everything is really dependent on you. … It affirms your existence and the importance of your involvement in every moment in life.”

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And the volunteer trial period means we’ll go into the 2016 election cycle with a confused picture, in which some candidates file online and some don’t.

The board of supervisors should change the policy, and require mandatory filing before the next election cycle. Of course, that would mean more public scrutiny of their own campaign donors.

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A grim opportunity This year’s first fatal officer-involved shooting will reveal whether Sacramento’s DA is serious about oversight When Jose Roberto Leon succumbed to the wounds he suffered from a patrolman’s sidearm last week, he left behind a grim by opportunity for the county’s new district attorney to put her Raheem campaign promise into gear.

F. Hosseini On March 17, a California Highway Patrol officer reportedly shot Leon when a traffic stop turned physical in ra h eemh@ newsr eview.c om Rio Linda. According to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, Leon fled the scene by carjacking a blue Ford Bronco and made it inside a Natomas residence, where the 22-year-old was found dead two hours later.

Because the shooting occurred in the sheriff’s jurisdiction, the department is leading on the investigation. For the first time in three-and-a-half years, the DA’s office is actually providing oversight.

In January, her first month in office, DA Anne Marie Schubert restarted the office’s independent investigations of officer-involved shootings for the first time since her predecessor halted the practice in July 2011 in response to budget cuts.

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Those numbers have since come back down.

“We cannot have the In a four-page report on the new police investigating protocols, released March 4, the DA’s office states it “will conduct indepenthemselves.” dent reviews of all officer-involved Anne Marie Schubert shooting incidents that results in injury Sacramento County District or death,” as well as other uses of Attorney force resulting in death. “This includes sending District Attorney investigators to the scene as well as [providing] an independent legal analysis as well,” Schubert told SN&R via email.

The protocols provide greater authority than in the past, but stop shorter than some law-enforcement critics might want. For instance, under these new protocols, the DA’s office may choose not to send an investigator to the scene of a shooting or death-in-custody incident. The word “may” crops up a lot, in fact, providing conditional authority for DA investigators to observe witness interviews, attend autopsies, request their own crime scene analyses or even conduct a wholly separate investigation that the jurisdictional agency may or may not know about.

Or none of those things.

Before she was elected in June, Schubert highlighted the problem with not sending DA investigators to officerinvolved shooting scenes. “We cannot have the police investigating themselves,” she wrote to SN&R’s editorial An extended board. “It’s time to return to full-scale independent review version of this story of officer involved shootings.” appears online at But the DA’s policy shift likely won’t result in addiwww.newsreview.com/ tional prosecutions for wrongful shootings. sacramento.

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See lions in Sacramento The marine mammals keep encroaching on local waterways—and stirring up trouble About a year ago, boat skipper Barry Canavero was fishing in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta with a deckhand and several customers.

People pay veteran guides like Canavero by Alastair Bland a healthy fee to catch, and mostly release, striped bass, catfish and sturgeon. That morning, a client hooked a small striped bass and reeled the fish to the side of the boat, where the deckhand lifted it from the water to remove the hook. Then, the water exploded with spray, fur, teeth and claws. A bear-sized beast seized the fish, almost biting the man’s hand, and flopped back into the water with an orca-like splash and vanished.

That was the moment that Canavero lost his last shred of sympathy for the California sea lion. The big predators have always been eyed with disdain by ocean anglers, who regularly lose fish—especially salmon—to the

animals. But in the past decade, California sea lions, whose numbers are booming, have become established residents of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and, increasingly, even the river itself.

Canavero, who has guided sport anglers for almost 44 years, says sea lions upstream of San Francisco Bay are becoming more numerous and more aggressive every year.

“I was in Steamboat Slough the other day, and there were six sea lions,” Canavero said. “They’re there every single day, and there are always two or three more where the Sacramento splits into Cache Slough.”

Sacramento resident Mark Wilson, a 73-year-old retired fishing guide who has plied local waters all his life, says California sea lions first began showing up in the Sacramento Delta system about 15

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Sea lions are showing up on Sacramento waterways like never before— and are also showing signs of aggression.

years ago. Since then, he says, they have pushed farther and farther upriver.

Wilson has seen sea lions chasing salmon in the Feather River, and three years ago he took a photo of a sea lion in the Delta tearing a 6-foot-long sturgeon to pieces.

Alan Fong, a recreational fisherman in Sacramento, says sea lions now routinely enter shallow, marshy areas, where they didn’t go just several years ago, to hunt striped bass during spawning events.

Dave Hurley, a fisherman and freelance outdoors writer, remembers fishing with his grandfather in the sloughs and backwaters of the Delta in the 1970s.

“My grandfather said the sea lions would never come into the river,” Hurley said. “Now they’re here.”

The population of California sea lions— different than but related to Steller sea lions and fur seals—has skyrocketed in the last few decades. There may have been as few as a thousand in the 1940s, following an era of aggressive hunting.

BEATS The animals were killed for their pelts, while their meat was turned into pet food and their whiskers used as pipe cleaners.

Protections allowed the species to recover. It started crawling back, gained traction and, finally, exploded. By the 1970s, there were roughly 50,000 California sea lions along the California coast, according to Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.

Today, she said, there are more than 300,000, and the population, it appears, may be pushing the marine habitat’s carrying capacity.

Not only are the sea lions encroaching into freshwater, but up and down the coast of California, newborn pups are starving. Almost 2,000 emaciated sea lion pups have struggled onto California beaches this winter. The animals, according to scientists, are abandoning their rookeries when their mothers spend longer than usual at sea hunting fish.

The sea lions have inundated rescue centers, which saw similar events in 2014 and in 2013.

Adult sea lions are opportunistic feeders and can survive on a wide array of fish species, as their success in the Delta has shown. But when they are rearing babies, lactating mothers may need high-fat species like anchovies and sardines. Sardine numbers are currently at their lowest estimated level in decades, with the West Coast biomass calculated by scientists at 165,000 tons—down from 725,000 tons just two years ago. Anchovies, meanwhile, are said to be holding in deeper water than usual, possibly because of unusually warm surface temperatures.

“ My grandfather said the sea lions would never come into the river. Now they’re here.”

Dave Hurley fisherman “[The ongoing starvation event] is basically the environment and its resources checking the [sea lion] population growth,” Melin said.

While federal protections prohibit people from harassing or harming sea lions, the protected species has become as much a nuisance in places as raccoons or, more comparably, campground black bears.

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In Berkeley, an aggressive sea lion became notorious for ambushing fishermen on the dock in the marina harbor in 2009. “It was basically mugging people for their fish,” said James Smith, captain of the California Dawn party boat.

Eventually, the sea lion attacked the boat’s cook. It bit her on the leg, and according to Smith, attempted to haul her off the dock into the water.

Shortly thereafter, he said, it nearly bit a child. To his frustration, officials did not euthanize the animal. “If a dog or a mountain lion had attacked a person, they would have put it down in a second,” Smith said. “But no one wanted to touch a marine mammal that had attacked multiple people.”

That dilemma resolved itself, however, when the sea lion disappeared.

On Sunday, a 5-year-old boy was bitten in the face by a sea lion in La Jolla. In the Central Valley, there may not have been any sea lion attacks yet, but it seems only a matter of time before someone gets hurt. Wilson said he was almost bitten when a sea lion burst from the water beside his boat to snatch a striped bass from his hand. Wilson says a friend of his even had to resort to violence, whopping a sea lion on the nose with a billy club, after the animal leaped onto the rear of the boat. Hurley said an angler must reel madly to get a fish to the boat, as sea lions are very often furtively stalking nearby, sometimes unseen until appearing an arm’s length from the boat.

Ocean fishing-boat captains, ever at war with the marauding sea lions that stalk their nets and lines, used to fire guns at the animals. Such behavior certainly occurs today, but is generally shunned in the fishing community.

While it is legal for some ocean fishermen to shoot sea lions with paint balls to protect their livelihoods, according to Smith, shooting at them with firearms draws the wrath of the law.

In 2010, a Sacramento man was sentenced to 30 days in jail for shooting a 650-pound sea lion in the face with a shotgun because, he told authorities, it had taken his fish. The animal was rehabbed at the cost of $51,000.

Hurley feels the sea lion population has ballooned out of control. He suspects the animals are having at least some negative effect on depressed Chinook salmon populations—especially at narrow pinch points where the migrating fish become easier to hunt.

“It’s definitely become a problem, but it’s one of those things no one wants to talk seriously about,” Hurley said.

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This was the second time in the past six months that local protestors sat in front of the plant’s gates and stopped operations. This past October, nearly 100 activists stopped shipments from arriving and leaving at the Florin Fruitridge Industrial Park location.

Nestlé pays Sacramento just under a dollar for every 750 gallons of water that it uses, according to city documents. That water in bottles, sold as Nestlé Pure Life, is valued at more than $1,500 in stores. (Nick Miller)

Homelessness solutions Zero: 2016 is well on its way to meeting a lofty goal: ending veteran homelessness in Sacramento by December of that year.

The program, which links providers and tracks homeless services, placed 40 homeless veterans into permanent housing in January, the latest month that numbers are available. With an estimated 495 homeless vets in the Sacramento area, this puts the program right on schedule, according to Michele Watts, deputy director of Sacramento Steps Forward.

“Zero: 2016 was something we definitely went after as a community,” Watts said. Sacramento was one of 71 localities across the country chosen by Community Solutions to participate.

The program, which requires no additional funding, is part of a shift in thought about how to address homelessness. It focuses on communication among various service providers and tracking of services for each person served. This helps eliminate duplicate efforts and streamlines the process.

A followup to the 1000,000 Homes Campaign, Zero: 2016 also aims to end chronic homelessness by December 2016. (Brooke Purves)

Homeless youth fee’d Even though overall high-school dropout rates are dropping, about 75 percent of homeless youth still leave school without graduating.

That’s why homeless-youth-services providers were excited to support Senator Mark Leno this month in announcing Senate Bill 252, which would prohibit testing agencies from charging high-school-equivalency exam fees to (verified) homeless children and youth.

The $120 test and occasional $20 administration fee would be absorbed by the testing agencies. (No government reimbursement. No taxpayer money.)

But it’s not clear how this would all play out. Charlie Linebarger, principal at Folsom Cordova Adult School, said that his smaller testing facility could lose about $35 per eligible person, money that pays for staffing and electricity for the seven-and-a-half hour computer-based test.

And will national testing agencies give the test away for free, because California said so? Testing facilities could be on the line for that, too.

Previous bills guarantee homeless Californians no-cost birth certificates starting July 1 and free government-issued ID cards starting January 1, 2016. (B.P.)

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Sacramento’s business elite want to rebrand bus and light rail as hip and attractive—but they could leave behind regional transit’s best customers

Avondale Glen Elder, on the southeast edge of Sacramento, is a diverse community, but not a wealthy one. It’s a neighborhood of smallish 1950s tract houses, and a lot of residents rely on public transit. Otherwise, without a car, it’s a long walk to anywhere in particular.

Brenda Bean used to take the Route 8 bus into Glen Elder in order to visit her parents. But in 2010, the Sacramento Regional Transit District cut the No. 8 to save money.

With no other bus in the area, Bean had to make a 45-minute walk from the Power Inn light-rail station to her parents’ house. Later, when they got sick, “I walked it three times a week,” she says.

Every quarter mile or so, she’d pass one of RT’s blue bus-stop signs, stenciled over with the words “NO BUS.” Route 8 wasn’t the only bus cut in 2010. Hammered by economic downturn, falling sales-tax revenue and cuts in state funding, RT slashed bus service from 92 routes down to 62. Light-rail service was cut, too, especially at night.

Fares went up the year before, but worse was the elimination of transfers, which riders could use to connect from one bus to another, and from rail to bus.

And RT got rid of the popular central city fare of $1 inside the downtownMidtown grid.

And so, ridership plummeted. RT quickly lost 7 million riders per year.

About 3 million riders have been lured back. But RT is at something of a crossroads now, as it tries to decide the best way forward.

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Local electeds and business leaders want RT to focus more on those commuters who normally drive cars but might choose transit to avoid parking costs downtown, or to feel they are being a bit more green.

“What we’re doing is building a special system for special people,” says Michelle Pariset, with Capital Region Organizing Project, a nonprofit that helps low-income communities organize to change public policy. “And proposing to

“This sounds like a loT of folks who don’T ride TransiT geTTing upseT ThaT They see poor people on The Train.”

Veronica Beaty Sacramento Housing Alliance

“We really have an opportunity to influence ‘choice riders,’” says RT board member and Sacramento County Supervisor Phil Serna.

The business group is also keen to get these choice riders to take light rail and a proposed new streetcar system to the Kings arena, under construction, and spend money in the surrounding sports bar and restaurant district that is planned.

Advocates for the poor and “transit dependent” worry that the downtown business group has hijacked RT’s policy agenda, and are trying shift resources away from the people who need transit most.

fund its operation on the backs of families who need the bus to get to work, school and the grocery store,” she adds.

WAItInG fOr thE buSES The good news is that Avondale Glen Elder will finally get bus service back, sometime in September. “It has taken us five years to get this one bus route back,” says Pariset, who helped neighbors agitate for the return of their bus. “Eventually we just created enough noise that they had to negotiate with us.”

The bad news is RT isn’t anywhere close to restoring bus services elsewhere.

In fact, RT staff recently announced, somewhat quietly, that bus service won’t return to 2008 levels until sometime in 2023. That’s a lost decade-and-a-half for Sacramento bus riders.

RT is not just stuck. It’s falling further behind every year.

“We have not responded to growth,” explains RT general manager Mike Wiley. “When you have new development on the periphery, that takes new service to address it.”

In 2012, RT began the first phase of its Transit Renewal plan. Despite the hopeful name, Transit Renewal doesn’t mean anyone is getting a bus route back.

Instead, RT has mostly returned night service, and shortened “headways”—or the time between buses—on some routes.

Even so, a full third of RT’s weekday buses run on 60-minute headways.

Wiley says RT targeted the routes with the lowest ridership for elimination.

When—and if—a particular neighborhood’s bus service is restored, Wiley says, it won’t be the old route, but rather a new and more efficient route.

In September, Avondale Glen Elder’s new bus will be called Route 65. And it will have a slightly different alignment, and hopefully a higher ridership, than the old No. 8.

However, the 65 still won’t connect to the Power Inn light-rail station. And the station will still only have one bus connection, where it used to have three.

Comparing the RT system map of 2014 to the map just a few years ago, you see just how much connectivity was lost. The Fruitridge light-rail station

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her, there were no visible notices letting riders know their service was about to be eliminated.

Still, over several weeks, Pariset whipped up enough interest to convince the RT board of directors to keep one bus running on La Riviera. Bus service in the neighborhood will be reduced from every half-hour to every hour, but it’s better than nothing.

The lack of funds creates a zero-sum game for neighborhood bus service. “I expect we’ll see more of these kinds of cuts, as RT robs Peter to pay Paul,” says Pariset. had five bus connections; now it has one.

Meadowview station went from six feeder buses to three. The 65th Street station, serving Sacramento State, dropped from nine buses to five. And so on.

And even though RT eliminated the “least productive” routes, the cuts are having a deep and lasting impact on ridership. Bus ridership dropped from 17.6 million to 13.6 in the space of a year, from 2009 to 2010. It’s not expected to recover until the early 2020s.

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For example, RT planners recently proposed rerouting the Route 80 and 84 buses away from La Riviera Drive in order to provide a faster commuter service along Watt Avenue. But that change meant eliminating service through a neighborhood dense with houses and apartments.

Pariset went into action, handing out fliers and asking bus riders to come to an RT board meeting and speak out against the cut. On the day that SN&R joined

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Chasing ChoiCe riders Light-rail service, on the other hand, was restored comparatively quickly. RT projects that light-rail ridership will recover and surpass bus ridership for the first time sometime in 2016. RT is extending its “Blue Line” south to Cosumnes River College. It’s also looking for funds to extend a “Green Line” through Natomas and on to the Sacramento airport.

The shift to rail is partly due to RT’s effort to protect its “backbone” service. But RT policy is also being driven by a desire to appeal to more affluent choice riders.

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It’s a shift that’s happening all over the country, says UC Los Angeles urbanplanning professor Brian Taylor. In a 2014 paper, Taylor explains that transit agencies have seen their mission change over time.

For many decades, public transit was an important part of life for working- and middle-class people. As the automobile took over, and private bus and streetcar systems folded, mass transit became more of a social program for those who couldn’t drive.

Today, mass transit has a more complicated and more expansive mandate.

It’s supposed to get people to work and school and the doctor’s office. But it’s also enlisted to fight air pollution and climate change, accommodate and encourage new development, and even produce an urban aesthetic (as with streetcars).

Taylor says a two-tiered system has developed. Bus riders as a group, Taylor says, tend to be more poor and more nonwhite compared to rail riders, who on the whole are more affluent and more white. Poor people are happy to ride rail, of course. The split has more to do with light rail’s usefulness for downtown commuters, and the aversion that choice riders have to buses.

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Finding a Better Way Man’s life changes for better with marijuana and alternative therapy

by Mike Blount

“When I turned 14, I was still in a wheelchair and I was told by doctors I would never walk again,” Henderson says. “My father passed away that same year, and I knew I had to get out of the chair and teach myself to walk again. I did so, but walking caused me a great deal of pain. I’ve lived with that pain my whole life.”

With no health insurance, Henderson was saddled with medical bills. He lost his job and became homeless before ending up in Sacramento in search of help. On a chance walk down a street, he passed by A Therapeutic Alternative and was drawn to the dispensary.

It was another life-changing moment for him.

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n Valentine’s Day in 1961, 9-year-old Eddie Henderson’s life was changed forever when he was struck by a drunk driver while crossing an intersection. The hit-and-run accident shattered his right femur and caused him to be in and out of the hospital for treatment for four years. Though he eventually recovered from the accident, he suffered from debilitating pain for most of his life.

In 1969, Henderson was enrolled in his first year of college when he was invited to a friend’s birthday party. It was there that an acquaintance told him to try marijuana for dealing with his pain. Henderson says it saved his life.

“With alternative therapy combined with marijuana, my pain management is as good as it’s ever been in my life.”

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Kellyann Conway, a sound therapist at A Therapeutic Alternative, uses various tools to create tones and notes that help Eddie Henderson manage his painful life more comfortably

“Doctors have tried to manage my pain with a number of different pharmaceuticals in my life,” Henderson says. “But they come with a number of side effects. Over time, you have to take more of them to continue being effective. You can become addicted. You can easily go too far. Marijuana does a better job of allowing me to manage my pain without those other risks.”

“The people there are involved in their own healing … and they are there to help people in an inspiring way,” Henderson says. “They’re using ancient wisdom and medicine that I’ve never been exposed to that are absolutely wonderful, and they’ve introduced me to new things to help me manage my pain — things like yoga. With alternative therapy combined with marijuana, my pain management is as good as it’s ever been in my life.”

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Michelle Pariset, with Capital Region Organizing Project, says it took five years to get just one bus route to Avondale Glen Elder, a poorer Sacramento neighborhood.

“Eventually, we just created enough noise that they had to negotiate with us.”

So perhaps it’s not surprising that light rail and The RT board is made up of a collection of city streetcars tend to have more political support than council people from area cities, along with county buses. A related issue is that there is more federal supervisors. They are not, for the most part, RT funding for capital projects—building things—than riders. Neither are the business folks on the ad hoc there is for operations, and this favors high-cost rail committee. systems, too.

And while RT’s rules say the quarterly meetings As a result, “transit spending priorities have been of that ad hoc committee must be open to the public, shifted away from bus service, and toward commuter RT board chairman and city councilman Jay Schenirer oriented rail service, favored by the wealthier general announced that the committee’s main work would be voting public, although most members of this group done in “working groups” that would not be open to rarely, if ever, ride transit,” Taylor writes. the public.

A group of Sacramento business leaders is trying Several transit advocates asked for representation to steer RT hard in the direction of choice riders. This on the committee, but they were refused. group includes folks like downtown developer David “We need to have a very clear business focus,” Taylor; Warren Smith, president of the Sacramento says RT board member and city councilman Steve Republic Football Club; and Mark Friedman, the Hansen. “The one group we don’t usually hear from developer of the downtown arena. are choice riders.”

At the invitation of county supervisor and RT This left transit advocates shaking their heads. board member Serna, “It’s clear that riders and the business group members of organizations recently submitted will not be allowed to sit at a five-part list of the working group’s table,” recommended changes. laments Barbara Stanton, And they were invited who has for years watch“If you had to join Serna and dogged RT for her group, three other RT board RiderShip for the Masses. the abIlIty to members on a special Stanton says no one is “ad hoc” committee opposed to cleaner or safer attract more to consider system stations. Those are the kinds choIce rIders improvements. of problems she has been Some of the changes focused on for years. But and reduce they are asking for she also wants to know include tighter security, fare evasIons, where the money will come a crackdown on fare from to accommodate the now we’d have jumpers and more business group. frequent cleaning of bus It’s important to note more money shelters and light-rail some changes were already to restore stations. in the works. Wiley is negoThese are not so tiating a new contract for servIce.” surprising. Most regular bus shelters to include more phil serna RT riders have at some regular maintenance and county supervisor point encountered refurbishment. The agency and regional transit board member intoxicated or mentally has already ordered 96 new ill passengers. As buses. Wiley is talking with with transit systems the Sacramento Downtown in most cities, there Partnership about contractis sometimes raucous ing out the cleaning of behavior, sometimes downtown bus and rail. crime. Sometimes even But Wiley acknowledged serious violence; there were two separate fatal shootthe business group’s wish list will further strain the ing incidents on RT trains last year. budget. Where will the money come from?

But the business group is also asking RT to get “Right now, I don’t know. They haven’t had that more focused on serving the new downtown Kings conversation yet.” arena, and to consider special fares for arena events.

They want a ban on “large bags of recyclables.”

Is RT neglecTIng ITs besT cusTomeRs? They are even calling for a “zero tolerance policy for civil disobedience” on RT property. (Ironically, this In a lot of ways, Sacramento’s streetcar plan was included in the same January RT staff report that encapsulates the tension between choice riders and commemorated a “Season of Civil Rights” and the the transit dependent. importance of public transit in the civil rights moveCity Councilman Hansen, a streetcar supporter, ment. That movement, you may recall, made effective pitched the project to downtown business owners as use of civil disobedience.) appealing to “people who would not ride a bus.”

In their letter to the RT board, the business group Streetcars fit in with the business community’s also suggest “rebranding” RT to make it “more RT rebranding plan, too. But there are important hip/cool, targeting the urban downtown residential trade-offs. If voters approve construction of the line in market,” and adding, “RT is often thought of as a May, it’s likely RT will be asked to operate it and pick social service and not relevant to choice riders.” up a large portion of its operating costs. The agency The RT board and staff have been accommodating could be on the hook for as much $2 million a year to to the business folks. Wiley agreed to dedicate a fullrun the streetcar, money that could be spent elsewhere. time employee to serve as a liaison.

(The agency scraped together $685,000 in next year’s Outside groups are skeptical. “To me, this sounds budget to run a bus to Avondale Glen Elder.) like a lot of folks who don’t ride transit getting upset that they see poor people on the train,” says Veronica Beaty with the Sacramento Housing Alliance.

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“Ultimately, what we’re talking about is diverting money from neighborhood buses and the transit-dependent to a streetcar for choice riders.”

Wiley argues that the streetcar will increase business activity downtown, thus increasing RT’s share of sales taxes. And he says he’s also considering funding the streetcar with new money that will be allocated under California’s cap-and-trade system for new transit service.

That doesn’t sit well with Pariset, who says that cap-and-trade money should go to shore up basic transit service. “I don’t think the community will stand for it. Not when there’s so much need in the neighborhoods for public transportation.”

Serna argues that appealing to choice riders will increase revenue for the RT system. “If you had the ability to attract more choice riders and reduce fare evasions, now we’d have more money to restore service,” says Serna. “I think what is going to be good for choice riders is going to be equally good for those who depend on the system.”

But Taylor at UCLA told SN&R that the emphasis on choice riders may do more harm than good in the long run.

“I worry that we’ll start to see these stories about the empty streetcars. There’s going to be a backlash from voters. And that’s going to hurt the people who need transit.”

And while RT may attract new riders with streetcars and light rail, it may lose more of its best customers because of cuts to bus service and high fares.

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Cutting bus fares is Pam Haney’s No. 1 mission. She works with Wellspring Women’s Center, an Oak Park nonprofit that provides services to low-income women. “One of the biggest issues I hear about at Wellspring is transportation, transportation, transportation,” Haney says. So every week, the center hands out a limited number of free bus passes to clients, first come, first serve.

Haney has been campaigning for a more affordable transit system, organizing groups of women to testify to before the RT board.

RT offers half-price fares to seniors, students and the disabled. But Haney is also asking for the return of bus transfers, for free transit for all riders under 18 and for fare-free zones downtown.

The cuts to service and the higher fares have hit Sacramento’s most vulnerable the hardest, Haney says.

“It’s created this box, where people are stuck and they can’t access the things they need.”

She is also pushing for a “meanstested” fare for RT. This is an idea that is about to be tried out in Seattle, where riders with household incomes less than 200 percent of the poverty level pay half-price to ride.

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Destination unknown The word “rebranding” can sound a little phony. But RT is up to some genuinely interesting things.

For example, the Seattle fare experiment is possible in part because of new smart-card technology. And RT is about to introduce something similar, called the Connect Card, which it plans to roll out this summer.

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Nidhi Kalra RAND Corporation researcher

It could be used to create more discount fares, and distance-based fares, too. “We lost a lot of riders with the elimination of the central city fare,” says Wiley. “I see some real opportunity with the Connect Card for the short-hop rides.” And Wiley says distance-based fares could work anywhere, not just in the central city.

RT is also experimenting with dedicated bus lanes and traffic signals which allow buses to “queue jump” ahead of cars at some intersections.

These innovations are a little futuristic, but Wiley’s vision for RT is grander still. For many years now, he has been pitching a system that offers “full access and full mobility for all.” | A R T S & C U L T U R E

It’s called the Transit Action Plan. It’s ambitious—and expensive.

It includes extension of light rail to the airport, Citrus Heights and Elk Grove. It features circulator streetcars downtown and around Sacramento State, Cal Expo and Rancho Cordova. And it proposes a network of “Hi Bus,” or highfrequency buses and Bus Rapid Transit systems, running up major roads like Bradshaw and Watt Avenue. And it includes more neighborhood buses and shuttles, too.

Much of Transit Action could be become reality with the passage of a one-half-cent sales tax dedicated to transit.

That’s what the Bay Area spends on transit.

In Los Angeles it’s a full cent. In Sacramento, just one-sixth of a cent is dedicated to RT. Wiley had hope for a ballot measure to increase funding. But the recession dragged on and Gov. Jerry Brown’s Proposition 30, and the city of Sacramento’s Measure U, beat RT to the punch.

And Wiley says internal polling also showed that a transit-only sales tax was unlikely to hit the two-thirds voters approval threshold necessary for passage. Voters tend to be more supportive of measures that mix transit with money for road construction and maintenance.

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Much of the money would go to build and maintain streets and roads.

That includes construction of the Capital Southeast Connector highway linking the suburbs of Elk Grove and Rancho Cordova. Some money would also be put into the construction of Sacramento’s intermodal transit station downtown.

Some fraction of the half-cent— it’s not clear how much—would be available to RT. Can RT find the funding to grow?

Who benefits from the agency’s scarce resources? There are even more existential questions on the horizon for RT. New technologies like ride share, and eventually self-driving cars, may one day—perhaps not too far away—eat into RT’s market share.

“Choice riders in particular may have a more appealing alternative to public transit. And that may reduce demand,” says Nidhi Kalra, a researcher with the RAND Corporation who has been studying the possible impacts of autonomous vehicles, or AVs. For example, long commutes in the car might be a lot more appealing if you can read or surf the Internet while your Google-powered personal vehicle does the driving for you.

On the other hand, AVs will likely be expensive, at least for a while. She thinks it’s not too soon for transit agencies to start thinking about how they might introduce AVs and “on demand” technology into their systems.

“I can imagine a transit service that picks you up at your door, without any additional cost,” Kalra says.

These technologies have tremendous implications for transportation, for land use and for the ability to provide transit to those who need it most. “But agencies may need to rethink what public transit means.” Ω

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midway through a week of madness at the annual South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. Chris Haislet, lead singer of the Sacramento blues-rock band Island of Black and White, is laying down a signature solo on his Hammond XK-1c, an electric organ with a gritty, sweet sound.

Passersby on raucous E. Sixth Street in downtown Austin peek inside the corner bar for a listen.

Upon finishing his jam, Haislet encourages those watching to “Grab some free shit or shwag!” from the purple bin filled with the band’s CDs, T-shirts, sunglasses and other goodies.

For many Sacramento-area artists, SXSW represents just that: an opportunity to reach a huge, untapped audience. Check local art community Sol Collective, which earned its first official SXSW showcase and brought a team of more than 20 artists, the proclaimed “Sol Team,” to help announce the launch of its new co-op record label Sol Life. Local artists Native Children, Dre-T, Eric Tagg and World Hood were also in attendance, spreading their art, culture and activism mantra.

The organizers behind local brand TBD, who brought a three-day festival to West Sacramento in October, teamed up with San Francisco promoters Beautiful Buzz to recreate those festival vibes with TBD Austin, a fourday, two-stage minifest crammed into a local Austin beer hall on the west side of downtown.

SXSW also provided an outlet for some Sac artists to reach an already established fan base. Sacramento-area native Jackie Greene rocked out to a packed Continental Club.

Sacramento State alumna Butterscotch, a nationally acclaimed singer/beatboxer, pleased the crowd with her silky, soulful voice.

Of course, one of the main reasons people flock to Austin every year is to experience one of the wildest party scenes around. And local reggae-rock group Arden Park Roots knows this too well, as they were on their fourth SXSW trip. The band’s combination of groovy music and energetic personalities proved to be a perfect fit for the crowd and kept the party rolling over the course of three performances. Check out photos of the band—and other Sac artists—here and online at www.newsreview.com/sacramento.

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A nonprofit that is focused on building up low- to moderate-income neighborhoods, ACCE received a grant from the California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative and assistance from other nonprofits and community organizations to transform several alleyways and empty lots in Oak Park.

Amelia Garduno, lead community organizer at ACCE, grew up in Oak Park and is proud to see these previously neglected areas revamped.

“Instead of needles and dirty condoms and trash, we have meetings and celebrations there,” Garduno says. “It’s just amazing what they’ve done.”

For one project, ACCE replaced a previously open space with an edible garden that is now brimming with fresh produce and maintained by the neighbors. ACCE also revitalized an alley, now called Inspiration Alley, that serves as another community garden.

Other alleys and vacant lots have been cleaned up by the City of Sacramento in preparation for the makeovers. Work has begun

on three additional empty lots and another alley. How the spaces will be transformed is up to the neighbors, who may choose to install park benches, tables for board games or vegetable and flower gardens.

“Each one is unique to what the neighbors living around it want,” Garduno says.

“It buIlds a communIty that kIds can play In and parents can be proud of and famIlIes can thrIve In.”

Garduno says the improvements at Inspiration Alley and the other projects have made her even more excited for the future efforts.

“When we brought in the good — the growing of food, or kids coming to play a game, or people walking around and meeting there for positive, healthy activity — that naturally started pushing out all of the negative, illicit, dangerous activity,” Garduno says.

“It builds a community that kids can play in and parents can be proud of and families can thrive in.”

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. amelia garduno (center), lead community organizer for alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, partnered with local residents like (from left) andrew gillespie and Edgar Hilbert to transform empty spaces in the neighborhood. Photo by louise mitchell.

Amelia Garduno, Community organizer

While the project is spearheaded by ACCE, it is the effort of the entire community that is bringing the idea to fruition. The nearby Home Depot has committed to donate $100 in product each month to ACCE. Residents have also pitched in. One community member collects scraps from fine dining restaurants to make compost. He has also agreed to give participating families small containers to collect their kitchen scraps to donate to the compost pile. He’ll then exchange their scraps for compost that is ready to be used in the gardens.

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21 (Left) Sacramento hip-hop artist JustKristopher performs with Dre-T on stage at the Sol Collective showcase.

(Right) Jackie Green and his band rocked the Continental Club for their late night SXSW performance.

(Left) A typical SXSW night in downtown Austin means big crowds.

(Right) Sol Collective’s Salvin Chahal (far left) and other members of the Sol Life team hang out in front of the Austin Convention Center.

(Left) Chris Haislet and Timmy Picchi took to the sidewalk in downtown Austin to show off their musical chops to a crowd of onlookers.

(Right) Antoinette Clinton, better known by her stage name Butterscotch, found some focus before her SXSW showcase. .

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he Paris Saint-Germain Football Club is through to the quarterfinals of the prestigious UEFA Champion’s League soccer tournament, the Alliance Francaise de Sacramento will get a new house in the E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts and the Sacramento French Film Festival is hosting the sixth annual Serge! Fête de la Musique party this week. In other words, it’s a good time to be French in Sacramento—or at least it’s a good time to party like a Francophile.

If it’s anything like last year’s shindig, this year’s Serge!

Fête de la Musique party—doors open at 7 p.m. at the Verge Center for the Arts on Saturday, March 28—is likely to be one of the hippest events of the year. At 7:30 p.m. the multimedia party inspired by French pop icon Serge Gainsbourg will start screening short French musical films. Then the Harley White Jr. Orchestra performs at 9 p.m., followed by French-pop-filled DJ sets from DJ Roger and DJ Christophe from 10 p.m. to midnight.

All this will be accompanied by “sceneography” (a.k.a. a badass stage light show) by Sean Christopher. There will also be a no-host bar with beer, wine, champagne, Pastis and Perrier. Not to mention food truck Cichy Co. (which specializes in “gourmet sandwiches and gourmet french fries”) will be on hand to dish out good eats all night long. All this costs $10 at the door, located at 625 S Street. Gainsbourg would turn 86 this year. Head to www.sacramentofrenchfilm festival.org for more information.

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Who doesn’t need a good (free) hug? If you’ve never hugged a building, this is your opportunity to help set a record and be one of more than 3,500 people joining hands to hug California’s State Capitol. Sacramento is the first stop on a 50-state capital tour. Hugs Revolution founder Janet Tocatlian HUGGING believes hugs can bridge gaps, heal and build friendships, especially across generations. Free, 9 a.m. at the State Capitol, 1315 10th Street; www.hugsrevolution.org.

Sunday, March 29

Ever felt the urge to much on a corn dog while watching a bunch DOGS of wiener dogs race?

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Sunday, March 29 The Crest Theatre has been showing a lot of beloved films of yesteryear like Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Goonies, King Kong, etc. That’s all FILM well and good, but for anyone who wants something totally new—and possibly ahead of its time—this Sunday’s film selection is a collection of two dozen or so shorts by local filmmakers. They cover all genres, plus there could be a potential future star director in the midst somewhere. Free, 6 p.m. at the Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street; www.crestsacramento.com.

—Aaron Carnes

Monday, March 30, and tueSday, March 31 After the untimely passing of keyboardist Richard Wright in 2008, any rumor of a Pink Floyd reunion was immediately squashed. While Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters have enjoyed successful solo careers, nearly all Pink Floyd fans would agree the band was (and is) where it’s at. Next best option? The MUSIC/LIGHTS Pink Floyd Experience in wonderful quadrophonic sound with an amazing light show. $29-$69, 7 p.m. nightly, at Harris Center for the Arts, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; http://thepink floydexperience.net.

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No salsa required HuaracHe, ciudad nezaHualcóyotl For some reason, it’s way easier to find sopes than huaraches in this town. The main difference is shape and size—sopes are tiny, tidy circles and huaraches are larger, long oblong shapes. Though not as absurdly giant as Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl’s wellknown tortas, the taqueria’s huaraches ($6.75) are definitely worthy of a full meal. It starts with a thick, pleasantly chewy base of fried masa, then a smear of refried beans, meat of choice, strips of cactus, crunchy romaine and queso fresco. It’s all about the layered textures here, but for a nice flavor contrast against the sweet cactus, go for the smoky, chipotle-stewed chicken tinga. Salsa bar? Sure, but not needed. 6035 Franklin Boulevard, (916) 393-7353.

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A real motherpucker HiGH West WHiskey aMerican Prairie reserve Warmer weather means it’s time to forgo complicated drinks in favor of a summery treat. There’s probably a fancy name for this cocktail but let’s not get pretentious, OK? Instead, pick up a bottle of High West Whiskey’s American Prairie Reserve ($42.99) and pour one to two ounces (depending on what kind of day you’ve had) over crushed ice in that Pinterest-worthy mason jar. Alone, this aged bourbon whiskey is smooth with crisp, floral notes, but we’re not done yet: squeeze in the juice from a half-lemon and give the drink a swirl to distribute the tartness. Otherwise expect to make the biggest motherpucker! face. High West is a Utah-based distillery and 10 percent of its proceeds benefit the American Prairie Reserve, a wildlife preserve in Montana. Available at Corti Brothers and Taylor’s Market.

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Blue velvet: South Sacramento doughnut shop Baker’s Donuts recently partnered with Dutch Bros. Coffee in Elk Grove (8610 Elk Grove Boulevard), giving you one more place to find the shop’s tasty treats. On a Saturday morning, you can avoid waiting in line if you just drive a little bit further. Maybe.

But there won’t be any croissantdoughnuts—and most likely not your favorite doughnut—at Dutch Bros., which carries just three Baker’s creations: standard glazed, vanilla glazed with Fruity Pebbles and blue velvet. The blue velvet doughnuts will be sold exclusively at Dutch Bros., and Baker’s Donuts owner Douglas Hem says they taste just like their red velvet doughnuts.

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Hem also said Baker’s has no plans to partner up with any other Dutch Bros. locations. Sorry, Davis!

Gelato wars: Sactown Magazine reported that Italian deli and gelato shop Eatuscany will open at 1801 L Street, sometime this April.

That’s just a couple of blocks away from Devine Gelateria.

Eatuscany is also supposed to stock imported Italian goods and serve lunchtime sandwiches, much like Italian Importing Co., which is also just a couple of blocks away.

This should be interesting.

New taproom: You’ve probably had Jackrabbit Brewing Co.’s saison by now—it’s a regular in Sacramento’s bar scene. But starting Friday, April 3, you can finally

try it at the West Sacramento brewery (1323 Terminal Street).

Yes, it’s finally, actually, for real happening. Jackrabbit’s taproom will open up from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. April 3 and again the next day from noon to 9 p.m.

There will be 10 beers on tap, including its well-known saison and other Belgian- and Englishstyle ales. Expect to taste some new territory for Jackrabbit too, like an oatmeal stout and IPA.

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Lil’ sprouts

Same farm: For the third year in a row, the Ruhstaller Farm & Yard Taproom opened up to the public last weekend for sunny good times.

To find the farm, look for signs beckoning about 15 miles west of Sacramento and take the Kidwell Road exit.

Ruhstaller’s farm will be open from noon to 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday until the end of harvest season. Or whenever, if ever, it rains. Bring the kids, dogs and a picnic for some wholesome family fun. And beer. Ω

Green Garlic For a short time in the spring, you can find green garlic and garlic scapes at farmers markets. They look a lot like green onions, but they’re actually just immature sprouts pulled early to make room for mature heads. They taste milder than garlic cloves, but zestier than green onions. Use them as you would onions or scallions, trimming the roots and slicing the white and light green parts. Scapes are actually the flower stalks of the garlic bulbs, and often have a gentle curve to them. They’re crunchier than the green garlic—chop them up for stir-fry or salads with a mild cheese.

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On our way out, we ordered a chicken Duke’s Plates & Pints may be located in salad to go—which was a lot like the house the Arden Town Center strip mall that’s salad, with the same delicious vinaigrette, located in the far southwestern corner of the but with added grilled chicken breast and Arden Park neighborhood, but on a recent avocado. weeknight it felt a little more like Midtown.

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The event’s sponsored by the Moustache and Beard Social Club of Sacramento. 5 p.m., Saturday, March 28; $8-$25. California State Railroad Museum, 125 I Street; www.tinyurl.com/mbscsac.

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All hail the rooster sauce Sriracha It may sound like hyperbole to say that say Sriracha is not so much a sauce as a way of life, but I once saw a framed illustration of a Sriracha bottle with a caption that said “Sriracha is like my family” for purchase. If Film one is so inclined, a sexy Sriracha bottle costume can be ordered online for about $20 and Sriracha high heels and flats were once a real thing (they appear to have sold out online). During the great Sriracha shortage scare of 2013, someone tried to sell a single packet for $10,000 on eBay. No one bought it, but still.

Sacramento takes a turn celebrating this iconic hot sauce with a showing of Sriracha: A Documentary Film by Griffin Hammond.

Dedicated to the origin story of the Sriracha phenomenon and its creator, David Tran, the 33-minute documentary was funded by a Kickstarter campaign that raised more than $21,000 (the initial goal was to raise $5,000). It was recently declared “Best Short Film” at both the NYC Food Film Fest and the Chicago Film Fest.

Attendees of the showing will be treated to brunch by chef Matt Brown of Forrester Food as well as bloody marys featuring Preservation & Co.’s award-winning mix. For those who are so deeply in love with Sriracha that the aforementioned perks are simply not enough, VIP tickets come with early admission and a bottle of Preservation & Co.’s bloody-mary mix made on-site by owner Jason Pool. 11 a.m., Saturday, March 28; $25-$35. Preservation & Co., 1717 19th Street; http://food literacycenter.org.

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Swan Lake Love, lies and heartbreak will haunt the Sacramento Ballet’s upcoming production of Swan Lake opening Thursday, March 26. Tchaikovsky, by Jim Carnes who wrote this as his first ballet score, died thinking it a failure because of its first disastrous production in 1877. A reworking by choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov—whose 1895 re-imagining of the ballet has inspired Sacramento Ballet artistic directors Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda’s choreography—resurrected the dance.

Now, it is considered probably the greatest ballet of all time.

with some buddies and aims to shoot a swan, which turns out to be the beautiful Odette, condemned by the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart to swandom in the daytime, only allowing her to be human at night. Only a virgin prince can break the spell—and guess what? Yes, he is.

Boy falls in love, gets duped by another of Von Rothbart’s tricks and loses the girl, but not for want of trying to win her back. It’s a story of love, loss, and redemption but (spoiler alert!) his (and her) happiness can only come in the afterlife. Ω

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Swan Lake; 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; $19-$70.

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B Street Theatre’s newest Family Series production showcases four fables with Latin flavors. It also shows off the theater’s strong storytelling skills—both in the staging and in the writing, since all four tales are scripted by current company members.

The four fables, highlighting cultural stories found in Spain, Mexico and New Mexico, may be familiar to those who know the general tales, but are given life

3Oblivion Is this play a comedy, a drama, or both?

Mostly, Oblivion is playwright Carly Mensch’s provocative snapshot of an affluent, welleducated family at the present time.

The parents are urban professionals and secular intellectuals. Mom (Elisabeth Nunziato) is management at HBO. Dad (Kurt Johnson) was formerly a high-powered lawyer, but quit all that to stay home and write a book.

Teenage daughter Julie (newcomer Julie Balefsky) is college-bound. She and classmate Bernard (a buddy, not a boyfriend) theoretically attend an orientation at Wellesley College. But when Julie returns, her account of the trip is sketchy, and Mom gets suspicious. Dad schmoozes with nerdy Bernard (newcomer Arthur Keng) and learns the truth: Julie tagged along with Bernard’s church’s youth group on a prayer retreat.

Mom, an agnostic, would have been OK if her underage daughter was quietly experimenting with alcohol or sex. But she’s aghast that Julie is memorizing Bible verses in her room.

Much of the early humor (handled with breezy style by director Buck Busfield) comes from watching the “tolerant” parents twist themselves into pretzels, as they try to set boundaries for their daughter (but not themselves). Julie accuses them of making no distinction between right and wrong—and not without cause. Mom and Dad gradually realize that by having been reluctant to discuss religion, they’ve created an opening for Julie’s teenage curiosity. Complications involve the stressed-out mom’s overbearing manner and the rudderless dad’s sputtering work ethic. In the final analysis, the play is primarily about the self-deluding parents coming to grips with themselves. Along the way, the show transitions from comedy into something resembling drama (with mixed results), but several scenes are a kick.

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In playwright Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn, the subject matter of life choices is offered up in a thought-provoking and hilarious dark comedy that includes three generations’ takes on women’s issues. Capital Stage’s Shannon Mahoney, in her directorial debut, expertly guides her gifted cast through this Pulitzer Prize-finalist play that includes fascinating examinations of gender politics as well as drink-infused conversations and escapades. Be prepared to have great discussions and debates afterward.

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Dancing for NPR lovers It goes without saying that radio journalism and dance are two mediums that rarely have any overlap.

Yet these are essentially the two main ingredients in Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host. The three players in this production are choreographer Monica Bill Barnes, professional dancer Anna Bass and This American Life host Ira Glass. Glass will be the most recognizable name for most patrons, but this is an equal collaboration between the three artists. Each person in the trio does what he or she does best.

Barnes and Bass tell stories via dance and Glass via spoken word and audio clips. It is homespun, silly and a little experimental. What should keep it charming are its loosely stitched-together structure and Glass’s self-deprecating humor. The themes of the stories are simple and easily relatable: love, loss and mortality. Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host; 8 p.m. Saturday, March 28; $32-$60. Mondavi Center, 9399 Old Davis Road in Davis; www.mondaviarts.org.

Oblivion; 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday, 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday; $23-$35. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org.

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Every ballerina grows up wanting to dance the roles of the White Swan Queen, Odette, and the Black Swan, Odile, two creatures as different as night and day. So says Alexandra Cunningham, who gets her shot at the demanding roles. She follows in the footsteps—en pointe—of such ballerinas as Margot Fonteyn, Nina Baratova and her mother, Binda. Binda even served as Rudolf Nureyev’s ballet mistress, rehearsing and coaching the company when that quintessential Prince Siegfried and the Boston Ballet toured a production internationally in the early 1980s.

This weekend’s run of Swan Lake will be the company’s first performance of the ballet in 15 years. “It’s something we don’t bring out often, obviously, because it’s a huge undertaking,” Ron Cunningham said. The ballet calls for 18 dancer-swans rising from fog—and that’s just one scene in the four-act tale.

The story, simply put, is this: On his 21st birthday, Prince Siegfried goes hunting

And this bird you cannot change.

Moises Kaufman’s play about a musicologist looking for the source of Beethoven’s obsession with a minor waltz receives an outstanding production at Big Idea Theatre. Directed by Benjamin T. Ismail, Ruby Sketchley plays the professor and Scott Divine is the maestro himself. Fantastic production values and excellent performances make this a show that ought not be missed. Th, F, Sa 8pm. Through 4/11. $10-$18. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 960-3036; www.bigidea theatre.org. K.M.

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If 2013 was the year of the American Dream film (The Wolf of Wall Street, American Hustle, Spring Breakers, Pain and Gain, The Bling Ring, by Daniel Barnes Nebraska), then 2014 was most definitely the year of the revenge movie. The quest for righteous vengeance in a world devoid of moral centers spurred the plots of studio blockbusters (The Equalizer), midlevel genre pictures (John Wick), foreign films (the excellent Georgian movie The Notebook), and indie releases of the major (Calvary), minor (Blue Ruin) and virtually invisible (Heli) variety. Even the two most popular films at the domestic box office in 2014—American Sniper and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1—were about characters struggling with and paralyzed by their urges to dole out some payback.

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All of those films were just appetizers to the main course of Wild Tales. Argentinian writerdirector Damián Szifron’s black comedy anthology, which played festivals throughout 2014 and was nominated for a Best Foreign Film award at the 2015 Oscars, is the godfather of contemporary revenge films, the granddaddy, the boss, the Great Pumpkin. Wild Tales is the revenge film to end all revenge films, a glorious and bonkers blast of visual creativity and storytelling energy, and one of the most purely entertaining films of the year. If the naughty-boy, early-1990s ouevres of Pedro Almodovar (who also produced) and Quentin Tarantino were somehow able to copulate, then Wild Tales would be their grossly beautiful sextuplet offspring.

Wild Tales shuffles juvenile amorality and hand-of-God sermonizing into the same deck, but it’s perfectly pitched, as though the funniest kid in your high school became Scheherazade for two hours, regaling you with darkly humorous stories of corruption and retribution. Like a vicious predator, Wild Tales sinks its claws into your neck before you even see it coming—the opening story, a hilariously evil chamber piece set aboard an in-flight airplane, is one of the great precredits “grabbers” in recent cinema.

Szifron lures us into a defenseless posture by focusing on banalities—a rolling suitcase, a question about mileage points, the muffled roar of the engine, an older professor making time with the runway model sitting across the aisle—until a casual conversation reveals that the disparate passengers are linked together by a malevolent figure from their pasts.

It’s a sublime sequence, like Lost without all the ghosts and angels nonsense, and it culminates in an uproarious freeze frame that assures the viewers that they’re in perfectly fucked-up hands.

If this opening sequence doesn’t have you perking up in your seat in anticipation of a great time, then you’re not on this film’s wavelength and you never will be, and the remaining five stories will have little to offer. The miracle of this scene, and of Wild Tales as a whole, is that despite the reprehensible and inhuman behavior on display, it is always more funny and self-assured than stomachturning and vile.

Nothing else quite matches the impact and concision of that first sequence, but the stories progressively expand the film’s notions of justice while redefining its position on the righteousness of revenge. Szifron keeps finding new variations on the same theme, and although the film lacks the moral fiber and narrative overlap to form a grand “idea,” most of the stories are rooted in the concept of Argentina as a hotbed of corruption and class war that singes everyone it touches.

The final story of the six, a delirious tale of a joyous wedding reception that becomes hell on Earth, seems to offer a ladder into a world of reconciliation and acceptance, but not before a little more blood gets shed.

If the naughty-boy, early-1990s oeuvres of Pedro Almodovar and Quentin Tarantino were somehow able to copulate, then Wild Tales would be their grossly beautiful sextuplet offspring.

I know very little about the 39-year-old Szifron or his future prospects—this is his third feature, although only his first since 2005, and he has spent most of his career working in Argentine television—but I believe that Wild Tales heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent. Ω

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TV and music-video director Yann Demange makes an extremely promising debut with the harrowing thriller ’71. The film takes place over the course of one hellish night in Belfast during “The Troubles,” when the city was split into Catholic/IRA and Protestant factions warring even within themselves. Demange’s film follows a British soldier (Jack O’Connell, more magnetic here than in his supposed breakthrough role in Unbroken) trapped behind “enemy lines” after a riot separates him from his platoon. The Bloody Sunday meets Escape from New York set-up provides the film with a gutseizing, action-thriller hook, but Demange makes it clear that everyone is trapped in the crossfire.

The violence in ’71 is sudden and devastating and immediate—you feel it—and although the characters are often a little light, Demange navigates this 1970s urban war zone with the intensity and clarity of a born filmmaker. D.B.

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After a drifting suburban Detroit teen sleeps with her new boyfriend, she learns that he has “passed on” to her a malevolent presence, one that will never stop its slow but deadly pursuit. In just his second feature, writer-director David Cameron Mitchell (The Myth of the American Sleepover) produces one of the best horror films of the millennium. The story touches on themes of venereal disease, rape, contagion fears, PTSD and more, while combining cinematic influences from zombies, ghosts, slashers, J-horror, conspiracy thrillers, exorcisms, Robert Altman, teen sex comedies, apocalypses, John Carpenter, chase films and the first five minutes of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening into something deeply unsettling and nightmarishly lucid. Imagine if Texas Chainsaw Massacre-era Tobe Hooper directed a Richard Linklater rewrite of Under the Skin. A few clunky special effects and easy jump scares aside, It Follows is intelligent and terrifying, an instant genre classic. D.B.

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Israeli brother and sister writer-directors Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz deliver this riveting movie about the torturous, borderline Kafkaesque procedure that one woman takes to obtain a religious divorce in Israel. Ronit also stars as Viviane, a beautiful and independent middle-aged woman who seeks to legally end a loveless marriage to her estranged and emotionally distant husband. As depicted in Gett, the legal system entirely favors the whims and rights of the male—Viviane is mostly a silent spectator at her own divorce proceedings—and so the husband is allowed to endlessly waffle and delay, outrageously dragging the case out for years. The film is minimalist but moving, A Separation meets Anatomy of a Murder, a methodical and emotional process film fused with a potent legal drama, as well as a fascinating look inside a religious bureaucracy where male supremacy is written into law. D.B.

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Amy S. Weber wrote and directed this earnest but self-righteous look at highschool bullying, a sluggish life lesson that keeps tripping over its own good intentions. On the same day that her high school gets celebrated as one of the best in the nation, tormented teenager Jessica swallows a bottle of pills, ending up in the hospital on life support while her fellow students struggle to make sense of the suicide attempt. Meanwhile, a documentary crew hired to profile the school is given free rein to roam the halls playing gotcha journalism with troubled minors for some reason, and they discover that Jessica had a tormentor (Hunter King, a potential force of nature) with a complicated personal life of her own. A Girl Like Her goes for an ill-conceived blend of found footage and faux documentary that never works, while the script is rarely subtle and often shameless. D.B.

Get Hard

An investment banker (Will Ferrell), framed for embezzlement and headed to prison, hires a casual acquaintance (Kevin Hart) to prepare him for life in the joint—after all, if the guy’s black, he’s obviously been in prison, right? Hart’s character, needing the money for his daughter’s private school, plays along. The premise is dumb, the writing slapdash, leaning heavily on voice-over narration at the ending, a tell-tale sign of sloppiness by writers Jay Martel, Ian Roberts and director Etan Cohen. Cohen’s direction, meanwhile, matches his writing. Still, there are some good laughs here and there. Ferrell gets top billing, and his remaining fans will be satisfied, but his shtick is getting pretty stale; Hart carries him much of the way here,

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… in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? That’s the second half of the question posed by the title, as Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon’s script follows a mixed bag of characters, all of them in various crises—both worldly and spiritual. Konzelman and Solomon are two of the writers behind last year’s God’s Not Dead, and this one mirrors the earlier movie’s mix of melodrama, cardboard characters, clichéd dialogue and heavy-handed preachifying. The cast is a motley mix of the known (Mira Sorvino, Sean Astin, Delroy Lindo, Ted McGinley, Alexa PenaVega, Lee Majors, Cybill Shepherd) and unknown (Liam Matthews, Andrea Logan White, Arthur Cartwright, Madison Pettis, Mackenzie Moss), all doing their best to deliver Konzelman and Solomon’s awkward sermon, under Jonathan M. Gunn’s equally awkward direction. J.L.

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Walt Disney’s definitive 1950 animated classic gets a live-action, nonmusical remake, elegantly directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by Chris Weitz with wit and graceful fairy-tale simplicity. This new version can’t improve on perfection, but it can stand beside Uncle Walt’s original and complement it—a gloriously sumptuous confection, played miraculously straight without irony, revisionism or cynicism, telling its familiar story as if for the first time. The casting is spot-on, headed

by Cate Blanchett as an icy, imperiously cruel stepmother. In the title role, Lily James is a revelation: sweet without being sugary, simple without being simple-minded and beaming with what must be the most radiant smile in movie history. Dante Ferretti’s breathtaking production design adds to the general wonder. J.L.

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Given the tendency of technological advances to accelerate over time, the visual effects of Neill Blomkamp (District 9; Elysium) will someday look old-fashioned and ridiculous.

Until then, I can’t help but be a little dazzled by his films, and a little charmed by his pompous ineptitude—he’s a Michael Bay who really, really believes he’s a Stanley Kubrick. Blomkamp muse Sharlto Copley provides the motion-capture performance and voice of the titular robot, a South African police android installed with artificial intelligence. Reborn as the childlike Chappie, he is forced to choose between the moral teachings of his creator and the questionable influence of his “parents,” a couple of slimy criminals.

Think Short Circuit meets Robocop meets American History X meets 58 other things. It’s a scrap heap of undeveloped ideas and conflicting tones and Hugh Jackman mini-mullets, but I was never bored. Insulted, confused, embarrassed, sure … but not bored. D.B.

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Although the “angry old action hero” phase of Liam Neeson’s career initially held some promise, he quickly fell into a rut of dumb scripts and hack directors, and the effort level plummeted accordingly. There is nothing wrong with Neeson reinventing himself as a 21st-century Charles Bronson, it’s just that he skipped directly from Death Wish-era Bronson to Death Wish V: The Face of Death-era Bronson without tackling any of the interesting stuff in between. Neeson reunites with Jaume Collet-Serra (he also directed Neeson in last year’s terrible NonStop) for Run All Night, once again playing a seemingly washed-up alcoholic and deadbeat dad who secretly possesses a special set of skills, most of which revolve around the ancient art of wasting fools. With its taut action, relatively ambitious screenplay and a credibility-lending supporting turn from Ed Harris, Run All Night is actually a solid 97-minute thriller. Unfortunately, it runs 114 minutes. D.B.

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Keeping it fluid, keeping it fun Butch vs. Femme smashes gender stereotypes, the patriarchy and other outdated expectations “Which one are you?”

This was not the question that Chavez D’Augustine and Kim Aparicio expected to hear by Aaron Carnes when they formed their high-energy, spastic, punk-rock queercore band Butch vs. Femme in 2003. And yet they’ve been asked this question several times over the years.

The band may be a duo, but it seems some have missed the point. They weren’t assuming nicknames when they chose their name—instead, they were commenting on gender issues and stereotypes they’d witnessed within the queer community.

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“When I was growing up, I felt like I had to be either butch or femme,” Aparicio says. “I never felt like there was anyone in the middle, especially on TV, there’s always this femme woman with a butch lesbian.”

The whole notion of gender, D’Augustine adds, is something more fluid than such narrow stereotypes typically allow for.

“We fall somewhere in the center of that spectrum—and I think that a lot of people do,” D’Augustine says.

Gender identity comes up in the band’s songs, but it’s not the full extent of what they sing about. Rather, their songs are mostly about having fun, being themselves and engaging with the things that make them passionate.

Their simple keyboards and drums lineup might bring to mind indie bands such as Mates of State and Quasi, but the pair plays with pure, unhinged punk-rock fervor. D’Augustine plays keys and sings lead. His vocals are frenetic rather than hook-driven. On the drums, Aparicio takes on the more melodic parts, which complement D’Augustine’s keyboards.

Their biggest connection to punk is the collection of their influences, which from day one has always been ’90s-era riot grrrl bands such as Sleater-Kinney and Bikini Kill and queercore bands such as the Need. Bands that waved the punk flag with a combination of driving energy and rebellious spirit against

patriarchal standards. Bands that always took an eclectic approach to music.

“I felt like a huge connection to those bands and relate to those bands. I think it’s important to both of us to say that we are queercore because there are probably kids who are looking for queercore bands to relate with, like I did when I was 15,” Aparicio says.

The pair’s chemistry as musicians was instantaneous. Even though both were very new to their instruments when they started, they say they were able to feed off of each other and create songs for which their parts were closely stitched together.

Together they’ve been able to keep the energy high, but still be experimental. Some songs even clock in at eight minutes long.

“We try to be epic sometimes. Punk is such a broad spectrum. We fall on the eight-minute side of it,” D’Augustine says.

Butch vs. Femme’s initial run lasted until 2007. During that time they played a lot of shows, and even toured. They never put out an album, however—something that will finally change this Saturday when they release an LP, Eat Yr Heart Out, which seems to officially mark the end of their hiatus. Now, D’Augustine and Aparicio say they’re ready to keep the band going for the foreseeable future.

Still, as much fun as they are having again, both admit they’re a little surprised to be doing this again. Though the band’s initial run ended with the pair still close friends, there was no intention to reform. The reunion happened after D’Augustine created a Butch vs. Femme Facebook page to archive old photos and fliers. That inspired him and Aparicio to meet up and jam.

“ It’s important to say that we are queercore because there are probably kids who are looking for queercore bands to relate with.”

Kim Aparicio Butch vs. Femme “It just came so easy. It was like it was meant to happen,” D’Augustine says.

A lot has changed in the years since that initial break. They’re older, better musicians and have a much stronger idea of how the business side of music works. What hasn’t changed lies at the core of who they are as people, just the two of them.

“We’ve tried to jam with other people but it’s never worked out. The synergy that happens, like when we first jammed, was instant,” D’Augustine says. “It’s hard when that dynamic is already set in place, to add another element. It just happens so easy.” Ω

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Caving: A rave without the rave kids.

Or the deejay. OK, it wasn’t a rave at all. But at times it felt like one. Hands reaching toward the sky. Bodies thrashing and convulsing. Hearts vibrating. Sweating and sweating.

Brooklyn trio Moon Hooch got its start in a Williamsburg subway station, launching underground raves until police caught on. But instead of beats and synth, Mike Wilbur and Wenzl McGowen employed saxophones. James Muschler pounded on drums. And that’s it. They had to stop for “safety reasons,” but by then had grown such a fan base that packing nightclubs became no problem.

Though the classicallytrained New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music graduates now utilize some synth and amplification, Moon Hooch brought a similarly wild dance party to Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub last Thursday night.

They call it cave music: like electro house, but too primal for the electronics. Unlike anything you’ve heard before, yet intrinsically familiar.

Same slow builds and drops, but with contemporary jazz interludes. That dark, crunchy, dirty feel of dubstep, but saxophones.

The dancing was fabulous; the crowd diverse and smiley; the experimentation widely appreciated.

McGowen occasionally breathed rap into a distorted microphone, other times sounds were more akin to whale songs. He also detached his sax mouthpiece and played that for a while during a particularly industrial, noisy jam—a totally unexpected move, and weird, but appreciated. Wilbur busted out a contrabass clarinet and threw a traffic cone into his sax, which everyone of course whipped out their cameras to document. The orange cone had been sitting on stage the whole time, but everyone who had already watched Moon Hooch’s Tiny Desk Concert on NPR knew it was coming.

Despite not addressing the audience until the very end of the set, the members of Moon Hooch engaged remarkably well with just their eyes and body language—Wilbur in particular darting back and forth constantly and making it a point to get directly into people’s faces, and cameras.

But my favorite moment of the evening was the “Star Spangled Banner,” a song I can’t say I have ever, ever enjoyed singing. But here we all were, screaming patriotism to McGowen’s beautiful, soaring sax line, and then, more beautifully, BEFORE

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We won’t badger you about attending the 23rd annual Sacramento Area Music Awards show Thursday, March 26. After this little bit.

The Sammies isn’t just a ballot and list of awards. It’s a concert—a party!—dedicated to the local music scene. Doors open at 6 p.m. at Ace of Spades (1417 R Street) and tickets cost $10.

Hall of Fame inductee Musical Charis will start things off at 7 p.m., followed by folk band the Westwards, cutesy anime-inspired pop rockers Shoujo Kitten and experimental indie rock band Cove. The evening will also host acts such as global bass duo World Hood, funky jammers Massive Delicious, rock group Lite Brite and pop band Bellygunner. Catch soul singer James Cavern, emcee Century Got Bars, the bluesy Kyle Rowland Band, the country sounds of Chris Gardner Band and New Orleans-style jazz ensemble Element

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First-name basis assault: For the sake of anonymity, the members of Rat Damage (Ken, Jay, Jason, Thomas and Cyril) only use their first names and, similarly, do their best to shield themselves from pop culture. Last Friday’s show found the vicious, DIY punk-metal hybrid holding court at the Colony.

From the moment the band started playing, attendees were treated to a raucous set ignited by frontman Ken’s antics. He ran amok while the band’s guitarists, Thomas and Jay, lit the place ablaze with a dual guitar assault.

To date, the band has only released a handful of releases including a split 7-inch with Crucial Cause and a fulllength album, Cursed, on F.Y.B.S. Records.

Until the band releases another single or album, catch them April 22 at a house party in Davis.

Additionally, they’re scheduled to play the opening slot on June 19 at the Blue Lamp on a bill that includes the legendary Poison Idea.

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A wizard with a tenor saxophone, Donny McCaslin settles in with a trio for a cozy four-day residency at the Mondavi Center, JAZZ Wednesday night through Saturday.

As creative as he is skilled, the 48-year-old paints a colorful sound that blends modern jazz with discernible components of funk, rock and electronica. McCaslin is touring in support of Fast Future, set for release on March 31 as a follow-up to Casting for Gravity, which earned the horn man a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Jazz Solo. Performing with different players on every stop of the tour—including the El Cerrito High School Band in May—McCaslin has enlisted keyboardist Jeff Babko and bassist Matt Clohesy. 9399 Old Davis Road, www.donnymccaslin.com.

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Kay Marie has the sass, sex appeal and glamor of the likes of Lorrie Collins, Wanda Jackson, Brenda Lee and Patsy Cline—and the talent to back it up. Marie’s vocals and stage presence would have landed her a spot in one of the 1950s or 1960s girl groups. Her rendition of Bill Monroe’s “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (also interpreted by Elvis Presley, Ricky Skaggs and Patsy Cline at different times), has a contemporary twist that feels just right. Although influenced by Presley, Cline, Johnny Cash, Fats Domino and the Everly Brothers, Marie ROCKABILLY also penned originals like “Doghouse Daddy,” “Cry Baby Blues” and “I Won’t Be Scared” on her 2014 self-titled album. 904 15th Street, www.kaymariemusic.com.

—Trina L. Drotar

The Hideaway, 5 p.m., $8

Portland psychedelic band Eternal Tapestry does not create the sort of psychedelic music that you jam to, or rock out to, or even nod your head along to. These are not songs, they are impressionist sonic tapestries. They are sounds crafted together, often improvised, PSYCHEDELIC in weird, experimental, freewheeling ways. Eternal Tapestry’s latest album, Wild Strawberries, for example, was recorded in a cabin under Mount Hood in Zigzag, Ore. Better yet, the sessions were taped over 700 Phish cassettes via eight-track recorder.

Prepare to stand completely still and have your mind blown—more or less sober, though. No booze allowed inside this all-ages venue. 946 Olive Drive in Davis, www.thrill jockey.com/thrill/Eternal-Tapestry.

—Alan Sheckter

One of San Francisco’s latest indie buzz bands, Tiaras, actually has strong roots in Sacramento. Not only are a handful of its members originally from here, but the group released its debut record on local label Mt. St. Mtn. Tiaras plays dream-pop with bright guitars, surreal sunny melodies and gentle waves of garage rock. This is all well-covered territory. What makes the group unique is how earnest and offbeat it manages to be. Tiaras’ influence palette covers bands like Tears For Fears and Wire. The band is only two years old, but the members are veterans, coming from Ganglians, INDIE Blasted Canyons and a slew of other San Fran indie groups. 2565 Franklin Boulevard, www.facebook.com/tiarasxo.

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Dixie Dave, bassist and vocalist for North Carolina’s Weedeater, is touring again and the group will be debuting new material from its soon-to-be-released album on French label Season Of Mist. For those unfamiliar with the sludge and stoner-rock outfit, the band has released only four albums since its inception in 1998. However, one listen to any of the band’s records and you’ll know that filthy metal of this kind takes time. After all, there’s dope to be smoked, cough syrup to be mixed with hard alcohol and lots of SLUDGE extracurricular partying to be done. If recent single “Hot Doughnuts Now” is any indication, the new album will be worth the wait. 1517 21st Street, www.weedmetal.com.

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East Coast rapper and producer Pete Rock bridged the distance between hip-hop’s golden age and its grittier late-’90s sucHIP-HOP cess. He scratched and sampled obscure jazz albums, fashioning gritty minimalist tracks with droning horn-driven hooks. Rock debuted as a deejay to CL Smooth on two albums in the early ’90s before they broke up, and he focused on production (Nas, JayZ, Wu Tang Clan). A star-studded lineup of emcees keys his ’98 solo debut, Soul Survivor, but it failed to break through commercially. Rock kept producing and releasing music, putting out an even better Soul Survivor II in 2004. Rock revealed last year he’s working on a third Soul Survivor.

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LowBrau, 9 p.m., no cover

Mondavi Center, 8 p.m., $13.50-$77 German crooner Max Raabe has been releasing albums since 1988 and has become a force to be reckoned with. After learning much about German music and dance from his parents, Raabe attended Berlin University of the Arts and eventually formed Palast Orchester to see his songs realized. Although much of the material during the ensemble’s beginnings WORLD came from Raabe’s flea-market finds, the group morphed into something much greater. He also writes his own music in addition to paying respect to German and American standards. Come dressed to the nines and get a babysitter if you have kids. 9399 Old Davis Road in Davis, www.palast-orchester.de/en.

After a brief respite, Exquisite Corps plays its first show of 2015 next Thursday. Even better news: It’s a free show at LowBrau, and the first of a new monthly residency that will continue the first Thursday of every month.

ROCK Sure, LowBrau might be a bit of a concrete echo chamber, but that kind of suits Exquisite Corps’ dynamic, anthemic walls of sound, which sometimes include a keyboard and couple of violins, but are more often just vocals, guitar, bass and drums these days—a straight-ahead rock sound with a tinge of psych-rock and blues. Check out the group’s Bandcamp page (www.exquisitecorps. bandcamp.com) to listen to the group’s excellent 2014 record Vignettes. 1020 20th Street, www.facebook.com/excorpsmusic.

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My girlfriend and I have lived together for six years. We both have children from our previous relationships, but none together. I raised my sons to be independent and resourceful, and they are. My girlfriend’s oldest daughter has a criminal record and expects her mother to hand out cash whenever asked. Her middle boy is on academic probation at college. The youngest girl is in

by Joey ga high school and my girlfriend rcia has promised her a new car and a summer trip to Europe. a s k j o e y @ne w s re v i e w . c o m My girlfriend expects me to pay for all of it. My girlfriend’s daughter lives with us half-time, Joey and with her father half-time. He is contagious: spring is capable of paying for these extra fever, cabin fever and expenses, but my girlfriend doesn’t boogie fever. want to have to deal with him. She seems incapable of understanding that I am not responsible for her daughter’s expenses. Or am I wrong?

Ah, there it is! Guilt so large you can lose yourself in it. But you haven’t done anything wrong, so why feel guilty? I’m sure that you care for your girlfriend’s daughter, and want the best for her. You’ve probably even stepped in to be the father she needed at home. Refusing to bankroll your girlfriend’s promises to her daughter seems reasonable, unless you owe her money and haven’t paid. If that’s the case, pay her back.

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I graduated from college last year but cannot find anybody willing to hire a fresh graduate. Living at home is suffocating. My parents think I’m lazy just because I don’t rise at 6 a.m. I know I’m not the only college graduate who is facing this hardship. The other thing is that high school and college were so stressful academically that I just want to slow down my life for a while and take care of myself. How can I get my parents see that it’s not my fault no one will hire me?

Actually, let’s sharpen your lens: the companies you applied to have not hired you. Isn’t that a more accurate statement? Now let’s tackle the problem. In order to be hired, you must build your resume. To build your resume, you need skills that are not often learned in university courses. So apply for an internship (yes, even an unpaid one) or volunteer in the community to gain the specific skills you need for the jobs you desire. But wait until your resistance to work is over. That’s right, you’re burned out. Pick a reasonable time period (21 days?) to rest fully without worrying about a job. When the deadline is up, search relentlessly until you are hired. Ω

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I was just at the Oregon Medical Marijuana Business Conference. I noticed more than one black person in the audience this time. That’s a good step. Steve DeAngelo from Harborside Health Center in Oakland gave Marijuana is still a two talks, and reminded gray-market industry, people more than once that diversity should be and law-enforcement viewed as a strength, not officers go after a grudging obligation. I minorities first. also had a chance to meet Jesce Horton from the Minority Cannabis Industry Association (www.minoritycannabis.org) and talk to him about ways to create more diversity in the industry.

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spring of 1754, Benjamin Franklin visited friends in Maryland. While out riding horses, they spied a small tornado whirling through a meadow. Although Franklin had written about this weather phenomenon, he had never seen it. With boyish curiosity, he sped toward it. At one point, he caught up to it and lashed it with his whip to see if it would dissipate. This is the kind of adventure I advise you to seek out, Gemini. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. I don’t really believe you should endanger your safety by engaging in stunts like chasing tornadoes. But I do think that now is a favorable time to seek out daring exploits that quench your urge to learn.

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Heed this warning, Leo. Tame your lust for self-expression. APRIL FOOL! I was making a little joke. The truth is not as simplistic as I implied. I actually think it’s important for you to be able to declare “I did it my way” and “I’ve been true to myself.” But for best results, do it in ways that aren’t selfish, insensitive or arrogant.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): No matter

what gender you are, it’s an excellent time to get a gig as a stripper. Your instinct for removing your clothes in entertaining ways is at a peak. Even if you have never been trained in the art, I bet you’ll have an instinctive knack. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I don’t really think you should be a stripper.

But I do recommend you experiment with a more metaphorical version of that art.

For instance, you could expose hidden agendas that are causing distortions and confusion. You could peel away the layers of deception and propaganda that hide the naked facts and the beautiful truth.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Give yourself obsessively to your most intimate relationships. Don’t bother cleaning your house. Call in sick to your job. Ignore all

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your nagging little errands. Now is a time for one task only: paying maximum attention to those you care about most. Heal any rifts between you. Work harder to give them what they need. Listen to them with more empathy than ever before.

APRIL FOOL! I went a bit overboard there.

It’s true that you’re in a phase when big rewards can come from cultivating and enhancing togetherness. But if you want to serve your best relationships, you must also take very good care of yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s after

midnight. You’re half-wasted, cruising around town looking for wicked fun. You stumble upon a warehouse laboratory where zombie bankers and military scientists are creating genetically engineered monsters from the DNA of scorpions, Venus’ flytraps and Monsanto executives. You try to get everyone in a party mood, but all they want to do is extract your DNA and add it to the monsters. APRIL FOOL! Everything I just said was a lie. I doubt you’ll encounter any scenario that extreme. But you are at risk for falling into weird situations that could compromise your mental hygiene.

To minimize that possibility, make sure that the wicked fun you pursue is healthy, sane, wicked fun.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

If you were a ladybug beetle, you might be ready and eager to have sex for nine hours straight. If you were a pig, you’d be capable of enjoying 30-minute orgasms. If you were a dolphin, you’d seek out erotic encounters not just with other dolphins of both genders, but also with turtles, seals and sharks. Since you are merely human, however, your urges will probably be milder and more containable. APRIL FOOL! In truth, Sagittarius, I’m not so sure your urges will be milder and more containable.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The past is not only another country where they do things differently,” says writer Theodore Dalrymple, “but also where one was oneself a different person.” With this as your theme, Capricorn, I invite you to spend a lot of time visiting the Old You in the Old World. Immerse yourself in that person and that place. Get lost there. And don’t come back until you’ve relived at least a thousand memories. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating. While it is a good time to get reacquainted with the old days and old ways, I don’t recommend that you get utterly consumed by the past.

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

Aquarian readers have been complaining.

They want me to use more celebrity references in my horoscopes. They demand fewer metaphors drawn from literature, art and science, and more metaphors rooted in gossipy events reported on by tabloids. “Tell me how Kanye West’s recent travails relate to my personal destiny,” wrote one Aquarius. So here’s a sop to you kvetchers: The current planetary omens say it’s in your interest to be more like Taylor Swift and less like Miley Cyrus.

Be peppy, shimmery and breezy, not earthy, salty, and raucous. APRIL FOOL! In truth, I wouldn’t write about celebrities’ antics if you paid me. Besides, for the time being, Miley Cyrus is a better role model for you than Taylor Swift.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Annie

Edson Taylor needed money. She was 63 years old, and didn’t have any savings.

She came up with a plan: to be the first person to tuck herself inside a barrel and ride over Niagara Falls. (This was back in 1901.) She reasoned that her stunt would make her wealthy as she toured the country speaking about it. I recommend that you consider out-of-the-box ideas like hers, Pisces. It’s an excellent time to get extra creative in your approach to raising revenue. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied.

It’s true that now is a favorable time to be imaginative about your financial life. But don’t try outlandish escapades like hers.

You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785.

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Beastly reading Christian Kiefer’s bio is simply too long: Musician. Novelist. Professor.

Publisher. Former SN&R music columnist. His second novel, The Animals (Liveright, $25.95), is set in Reno and Northern Idaho and is about a man’s efforts to cut himself free from a wasted youth and a boyhood friend that he wronged. A novel of the West in the traditional sense, where the landscape is a character and the human characters are all desperately seeking a way to reinvent themselves, it’s also far more action-oriented than his debut, the well-received The Infinite Tides.

Kiefer took some time to discuss his book and the soundtrack he made to accompany it.

The Animals is so different from The Infinite Tides. Is this deliberate?

It’s definitely deliberate. The Infinite Tides purposefully has to do with velocity in that Henry James, contemplative sort of way. In this one, I wanted to see if I could do velocity at all. I didn’t know if I could. A guy looking out a window, eating a bowl of cereal, I could do that all day. But put a gun in his hand and have him actually do something serious that takes actual physical effort outside of his head? That’s hard for me.

I watch movies like Mission: Impossible, and I’m like, “How do you do that?” It seems impossible to me. The velocity. It’s just not what I do. And I don’t really read that kind of thing. In reading things like Henry James, I think I learned the wrong lesson: that nothing should happen. Not that nothing can happen, but that nothing should happen.

Reno and Northern Idaho are also characters in this book, and Reno is not a terribly sympathetic character.

Reno in the ’80s in particular was really a cocaine trafficking hub for the United States, because it was easier to get it through Reno than through Las Vegas or L.A. or anywhere else. Reno is such a weirdly tiny town for how big and loud it seems when you’re on Virginia Street. In the ’80s, there was a lot of money there, but it was still full of really broken people. It was still very much a cash culture, so payday rolls around or Friday night rolls around and everybody’s walking around with a huge wad of bills. It’s a town entirely based on the myth of luck, so you stay up all night from Thursday to Sunday playing slots or whatever and then you’re broke and Monday you go back to work.

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That possibility is what your characters are desperate to find, right?

But that’s also a myth. There’s a scene early on in the book where it’s 1984 and the elections are going on and Reagan is sweeping the country. They have a little discussion about the politics and Nat won’t tell anyone who he voted for, and the takeaway for me is that it really doesn’t matter who you vote for if you’re broke. The president is irrelevant. Is it Mondale or Reagan? Who fucking cares? You’re broke, and you just spent all your money on cocaine and the rest of it you gambled away and you’re broke. It just doesn’t matter.

And you’ve got a soundtrack for the book that’s also about to be released. Is this original music?

Well, it’s not all me. I almost made a soundtrack for Infinite Tides, and then didn’t end up doing that. But with this one—I listen to a lot of music as I write, instrumental music of a particular kind, and I had a kind of a mixtape for Infinite Tides that I listened to a lot and a similar mixtape for this one, which included a lot of wordless acoustic blues and finger-pickin’ guitar, but also Morton Feldman and people like that.

You specifically reference Rush’s “Tom Sawyer,” Van Halen, “Jessie’s Girl.” But

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that’s not what the book sounds like.

No, that’s what those kids think the book sounds like. For them, driving around in the desert listening to Rush on a boombox.

When I was collecting musicians for the soundtrack, Jason Roberts, my longtime friend and guitarist and writer, he asked me, “So, you don’t want me to deconstruct Van Halen’s ‘Eruption’ for this, right?” And I said, “No, no, it’s a totally different thing.”

I wanted to get at the sonic texture of the words themselves.

The record is called a “Christian Kiefer Production,” which is to say that some of the tracks I’m not even on. I just assembled—I took Ross Hammond’s guitar, and I added something to that, or I used Kevin Corcoran’s percussion track that he did in my studio, but I stuck Jeff Pitcher’s kalimba playing over the top and assembled.[ It’s just this really beautiful sonic, droney, acoustic-sounding thing, with some moments of real musicality—Ross and Jason Roberts do this beautiful guitar duet that I put on it.

So it comes out on vinyl this month, on Jealous Butcher [Records]. The digital version is a little different. It’s a little longer, and I actually read some passages on it, but the vinyl version is just music, no words.

It’s exciting. I get so busy with the novel that I actually forget sometimes that I’ve got a record coming out, too. Ω learn more about the author and his work at www.xiankiefer.com.

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