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Cut the K.J. hero worship I was 14 the first time I saw Kevin Johnson take to the podium. I was a freshman at Sacramento High School and Johnson, then a basketball player at UC Berkeley, had returned to Oak Park as a hometown hero.

Although it would be a few years before Johnson joined the NBA, students and faculty treated the future mayor like a celebrity. And why not?

While at Sac High, he’d led the state in scoring and in 1983 was named the Northern California Player of the Year.

Decades later, long after his NBA stint, Johnson’s celebrity status endures, even as he’s been dogged by numerous scandals.

Some highlights: In 1995, a 16-yearold girl accused Johnson of molesting her. Johnson denied the allegation and settled out of court. In 2008, Johnson faced similar accusations while at St. Hope Academy, the former Sacramento High School campusturned-charter school he founded. No charges were filed.

Then last week another scandal emerged after news broke that a city employee had filed a sexualharassment claim against the mayor.

Specifically, she alleged Johnson had harassed her repeatedly and that her supervisors had failed to take action.

Johnson has denied the charge and the matter was settled internally—safe from the glare of public scrutiny: On May 12, the city council voted unanimously in a closed-door session to approve city attorney James Sanchez’s recommendation to reject the woman’s claim.

Whether one holds credence in the old saying “where there’s smoke there’s fire,” it’s time to stop with the closed doors and settlements. There should be a full and independent public investigation into this latest charge.

It’s time to cut the hero worship and start asking the hard questions.

It’s time to hold Johnson accountable.

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Photos posted to Facebook late last month showed the “rough” detention of two black teenagers at the 29th Street light-rail station. Based on the smartphone pics and people’s reaction online, it would be quite easy to categorize the Sacramento Police Department’s arrest tactics as overreacting.

It would also be reasonable—especially given the widely reported instances of police violence against black men—to assume that the officers’ behavior is just another example of the institutional racism that permeates so much of our culture.

But both of these assumptions leave out one major factor: The officers were responding to a call from a light-rail rider, who reported that a black man was threatening a woman with a lead pipe. The only thing the responding officers knew was that there was a potentially dangerous situation.

Turns out, the incident was merely young black kids playing with a stick.

This introduces another disturbing problem: The rider These days, we’ve who reported this crime was no doubt being a good citizen. But, substituted “thug” in this case, this rider looked at for the N-word. a pair of teenaged boys horsing around with a stick—an annoyance to those of us in the “get off my lawn” stage of life—and saw instead a violent crime in progress.

The persistence of racial bias, which manifests unconsciously more often than most of us realize, led this person to see the teenagers as a threat.

A study published in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2014 demonstrated that black boys as young as 10 were perceived to be both older and more threatening by both police officers and white citizens.

No wonder, then, that 12-year-old Tamir Rice, shot by a police officer in Cleveland while playing with a BB gun, was mistaken by the person who called police as “a black man waving a gun.”

And that a couple of black teenagers horsing around with a stick could be mistaken for black men Read Raheem attacking a woman with a lead pipe.

F. Hosseini’s story on We don’t just have a problem with instituexcessive use of force tional racism. We—all Americans, including during a light-rail arrest of two black Sacramentans—have a problem with individual racism as well, and that supports and protects institu- youth at http://bit.ly/1Ga9lLP. tional racism in a feedback loop that keeps us mired in discrimination.

These days, we’ve substituted “thug” for the N-word and we say “urban” to code for “black and poor.” Those are cosmetic changes only; they’re the result of coming to see racism as the equivalent of bad manners or low morals.

It’s not black Americans who need to do the work to end racism. It is not the responsibility of the victim to change. It’s the responsibility of those of us who, whether we intend to do so or not, perceive black people as more threatening and less worthy.

In short, America’s race problem? It’s white people. And it’s way past time we did something about it. Ω

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Re “Bin laden, redux” by Nick Miller (SN&R Editor’s Note, May 14): In regards to Seymour Hersh, it sounds like your hero has been un-heroed. letter of I’m sorry. Maybe the world needs to remember how evil the week people can really be.

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Re advertisement in SN&R on vaping (SN&R Summer Guide, May 14): When you only have one daily newspaper in Sacramento, it is refreshing to have an alternative weekly. I look forward to getting city government and local business information that the local paper will not cover, which in my opinion is because the paper is “bought and paid for” by local developers and private businesses.

Imagine my surprise, then, when I turned to pages 16 and 17 and saw two full-page ads for a Sacramento-area vaping company. The author of what can only be called an “editorial” (since there is nothing noting that it is an advertisement) tells the reader of the positive aspects of vaping when trying to quit smoking cigarettes. The author then argues that “if we start being taxed like the government taxes large tobacco companies, it can push us out of the market because we won’t be able to compete.” My question is, compete with whom? The large tobacco companies? The “dealers of death”? Many of the same arguments the author uses to defend his selling of this addictive product sound eerily familiar to what Big Tobacco told us years ago.

Oh, by the way, does anyone at SN&R find a problem with the fact that right beside this “editorial” was a full-page ad for vaping stores? In other words, SN&R gave two whole pages to selling an addictive nicotine product. I thought only our daily paper was this beholden to local special interests.

Michael Shaw Sacramento Editor’s note: The story in question is a paid advertisement, not an editorial piece, and is labeled as such in the top-right corner on page 16 of the May 14 issue.

Re “Twist in the tunnels” by Alastair Bland (SN&R News, May 14): More than fish and ecosystems are at stake in the battle to stop the Delta water grab. Chinese pioneers built the first Delta levees and helped carve some of the richest farmland in the world from vast swamplands south of the capital city. The town of Locke’s 100th anniversary this year celebrates the accomplishments of the first generation of tenant farmers, farm laborers and labor contractors who populated a string of vital towns up and down the river: Courtland, Walnut Grove, Locke, Isleton. From 1872 well into the 20th century, white mobs from Seattle to San Diego brutalized Chinese immigrants in a paroxysm of violence known as “The Driving Out.” The Sacramento Delta was the only place in the West where Chinese and whites coexisted peacefully. By draining the Delta and shipping the water South, the remnants of these Chinese communities and the lands they helped shape will be decimated by a new scourge: “The Drying Out.” Let’s not forget the “culture” part of agriculture.

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lthough born in Mexico, Angela Velazquez always considered herself “all-American” — that is, until she started noticing certain rites of passage weren’t available to her.

The county discontinued primary health services to the undocumented in 2009, after Supervisors Don Nottoli, Susan Peters and Roberta MacGlashan voted to cut the program during the worst of the recession. The intended savings: $2.4 million.

“I started feeling my limitations when my friends began driving at age 16 and I couldn’t,” said Velazquez, now 26.

Now, with the economy rebounding, Board Chairman Phil Serna has expressed cautious confidence that it will be re-established, “though probably not in the same form as before.”

Velazquez was denied a driving permit because she’s been undocumented since early childhood.

She’s faced other exclusions, too, including not having access to medical insurance.

It is estimated that more than 1 million undocumented Californians are uninsured.

Despite the success of the Affordable Care Act, undocumented residents are unable to obtain coverage through the state’s health insurance exchange, Covered California, due to their immigration status.

At 22 Velazquez was diagnosed with cancer. After beating the disease — she underwent state-funded surgery — Velazquez became an advocate for health care for undocumented immigrants. Twice she has testified before the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors pleading for safety net services that ensure this vulunerable population has access to a basic human right.

A government major at California State University, Sacramento, Velazquez draws encouragement from one of America’s founding fathers.

“As a student of government history I’ve often heard the words of Thomas Jefferson, that we are all ‘endowed with the right to life,’” she said, “and I think I deserve to live as much as anybody else.”

That’s good news to Kelly Bennett-Wofford, executive director of Sacramento Covered, a nonprofit dedicated to connecting Sacramentans with affordable health coverage and health services. Its health navigators, including Velazquez, help families apply for Medi-Cal or buy insurance through Covered California. Sacramento Covered has received a grant from The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative.

nearly 3,000 positions were eliminated from the county workforce (and) hundreds were laid off,” she said.

Even now, the county cannot afford “a major new program with unknown future costs,” MacGlashan said of undocumented-immigrant health care.

Nottoli, however, said he’s open to considering “doing something equivalent or better than what we had before, through the primary clinic system, for people from all walks of life, irrespective of immigration status.”

Velazquez finally obtained a driver’s license, but she remains medically uninsured. Serna said restoring primary health services to undocumented county residents will be considered as part of budget hearings in mid-June.

Sacramento County was in crisis in 2009, when the Board was tasked with cutting $150 million from the general fund, MacGlashan said. “Cuts were made to almost every department and service,

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Study the data Can we improve mental-health outcomes and save money?

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How do you know if something is working? Study the data.

But often the data is not so clear. Collecting data is expensive. And sometimes what matters cannot be counted, and what can be counted does not matter. Nevertheless, we want to understand the impact of programs such as the Mental Health Services Act (or Proposition 63), which will raise $1.7 billion this year.

Because California is a pioneer in significantly increasing funding for mental-health services, we cannot look to other states. We have to come up with our own criteria for evaluating programs. l

by Jeff VonKaene And data often seems to generate more heat than light. Hearing the call for data to understand mentalj ef f v@ ne wsreview.c om health outcomes, I was skeptical at first that we’d be able to get good information. But now I am more optimistic.

A recent Steinberg Institute and County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California study showed convincingly the impact of mental-health programs on 35,000 Californians who received “Whatever-It-Takes” intensive services. These services dramatically reduced hospitalizations, jail time and out-of-home placements for children. Implementing this program clearly saved lives as well as dollars.

The costs of these preventative programs were small, compared to the benefits to the recipients as well as the reduced costs of other services And sometimes, what such as jail or hospitalization that would have had to be matters cannot be provided otherwise.

Last month, at a Cap-to-Cap counted and what can be event in Washington, D.C., counted does not matter. Darrell Steinberg proposed the creative approach of using data to provide direction. He suggested asking questions that would help to establish a clear path for the counties to implement best-practices mental-health plans.

Here are the questions that he would like to learn the answers to: (1) In our six-county region, how many mental-health To read the final report authored outreach and assessment workers are stationed at emergency by the Steinberg rooms, jails and social service facilities to identify those with Institute for Advancing severe mental illness in need of crisis intervention?

(2) How many mobile outreach units are available to Behavioral Health Policy & intervene with children or adults having a mental-health crisis Leadership and the in their own residences?

County Behavioral (3) How many crisis beds are available county-by-county Health Directors Association of and within our region to help stabilize people triaged out of the California, go to settings described in the first question? http://tinyurl.com/ (4) How many longer term treatment slots of various intenMentalHealthData. sity and supportive housing units exist in our region for people who transition out of crisis housing?

(5) How quickly do people move through the steps described above?

(6) What are the medium- and long-term outcomes of reduced hospitalizations, arrests, psychiatric interventions and other reduced consequences for people who get help through Jeff vonKaenel the continuum of care described above? is the president, The answers to these questions could provide clarity and a CEO and direction for the county staff to follow. A better understanding majority owner of of best practices would likely result in significantly less people the News & Review newspapers in suffering from untreated mental health problems. And hopeSacramento, fully, it would also result in lower overall costs, if factors such Chico and Reno. as the costs of incarceration, institutionalization, hospitalization and loss of productivity due to mental illness are taken into account. That is data that is worthy of being counted. Ω

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Just when you thought George W. would go down as the Bush clan’s biggest bozo, enter Jeb. Last week, Dubya’s older brother waffled three times on the Iraq war, ultimately saying that George was misled into starting the conflict because of bad intelligence. (Actually, Jeb, it was your bro who misled the entire world.)

But never mind that: Jeb Bush recovered from his Iraq war campaign blunders by going hard-line on gay rights. He even told the Christian Broadcasting Network this past Sunday that businesses should be allowed to deny services to same-sex couples, if that’s what their religion says is right.

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Harassment at work

Huzzahs to SN&R for its five big wins at the annual California Newspaper Publishers Association’s “Better Newspapers Contest” last week. This paper won for Best Page Layout and Design, Best Writing, Best Editorials, Best Feature Story and Best Reporting on Local Government.

This week’s Bites column dings our mayor for last week’s news (see the page on the right for Cosmo Garvin’s breakdown), but Scorekeeper wants to take this moment to slap city officials on the wrist. Why? Well, apparently when the mayor’s accuser went to city leaders to get something done about his alleged harassment, they were initially— and seemingly for a while—unresponsive.

That’s unacceptable. Period. Do we really have to remind that it takes a lot of courage to challenge harassment in the workplace, and that the city needs to address all reports promptly and with the utmost seriousness?

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Boggles the mind K.J.’s latest moves and mishaps prove more than worrisome Good for Sacramento City Councilman Steve Hansen, calling out Mayor Kevin Johnson’s backdoor budget buster—a proposed 70 percent increase in personnel for K.J.’s office.

Johnson has been obsessed with expansion of the office since he first got elected, and realized his staff just didn’t measure up to those of other big-city mayors.

Indeed, the whole interminable strong-mayor ViN AR G thing seemed mainly driven by K.J.’s o Sm

by Co size envy. cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om At a May 12 city council meeting, Hansen pointed out that voters had already rejected the Johnson’s strong-mayor ambitions, when they voted down Measure L last fall. That’s when Vice Mayor Allen Warren tried to stop Hansen from talking and warned him to “be mindful of what you’re saying.”

Hansen wasn’t having it. And called on the city attorney to explain that, no, Hansen did not have to shut up. Warren was left looking like a bully, or maybe vice-bully.

Johnson still has plenty of yes-folk on the council—he may yet get to supersize his staff.

But if he doesn’t, if he learns that in this case no really does mean no, here’s a suggestion for the mayor: Redirect the people who work for you now to do actual city business.

A large portion of the mayor’s current staff is dedicated to supporting the mayor’s various nonprofit organizations and running initiatives that have nothing to do with the job of mayor of the city of Sacramento.

For example, Cassandra Jennings—K.J.’s special assistant and wife of Councilman Rick Jennings—is there to coordinate with the mayor’s various nonprofit initiatives.

It’s not clear why that job is allowed on the city payroll. Certainly moving that job out of City Hall and off the taxpayer dime would free up resources.

Starting in 2012, the mayor’s staff also included a Director of Governmental Affairs and Education. Why would this job exist in City Hall? The mayor does not set policy in the Sacramento City schools.

And what does a Director of Governmental Affairs and Education do?

Well, one project was convincing other mayors, like Christopher Cabaldon in West Sacramento, to sign on in support of the controversial Vergara lawsuit, aimed at removing some of the union protections currently enjoyed by California teachers. Why are city taxpayers footing the bill for this activity?

In fact, documents show the mayor has an entire “OMKJ Ed team,” comprised of city employees and employees of his privateeducation nonprofit, called Stand Up. Emails obtained by SN&R show the OMKJ Ed team held meetings at the offices of Students First, the education-reform lobbying group founded by Johnson’s wife, Michelle Rhee.

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Johnson could probably stretch his payroll dollars further by using less public money for his private business.

About those emails: SN&R has mentioned before that the mayor’s staff uses private emails for city business (see “Special delivery,” SN&R News, April 23). The mayor’s office has refused to answer questions about why these email accounts are used, and the emails are hard to get hold of.

Nevertheless, a good one comes through now and again. For example, there’s the March 2013 email from Kunal Merchant, then-head of the mayor’s nonprofit arena booster organization Think Big, to Johnson, his staff and attorney Jeff Dorso, summarizing a discussion with Kings minority owner John Kehriotis.

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Merchant wrote: “Mayor absolutely refuses to consider locations other than downtown.

He’s been promised $12-15 M from downtown interests for his run for governor.”

From the context of the email, it looks like Merchant is relaying a complaint from Kehriotis that Johnson wouldn’t listen to his plan for an arena in Natomas.

But when Bites asked Kehriotis, he said he knew nothing about the conversation, or any developer money. And when Bites emailed Merchant for clarification, there was no response.

Rumors of K.J.’s ambition for higher office have been around for many years. It’s not implausible that developers who have bankrolled Johnson would keep backing him.

But a run for governor does seem implausible—mostly owing to the other rumors that have followed Johnson the last 20 years. Those would be the rumors about his inappropriate behavior toward women.

Last week, we learned that a woman working in City Hall had recently come forth with a complaint that Johnson sexually harassed her.

The allegations about Johnson’s behavior—the latest of many—are disturbing enough. Equally worrisome is the charge that, when the woman asked for help, the people in city government who were supposed to help her did not.

The Sacramento Bee hinted that a settlement may have been reached already. So we probably won’t find out if the allegations were true. If they are not, then surely Johnson is an unusually unlucky man. To be falsely accused by so many women, so many times, it boggles the mind. Ω

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A different arena story Lawsuit unearths new emails, documents that suggest illegal collusion and gift of public funds to the Kings Mayor Kevin Johnson and friends traveled to the Tribeca Film Festival last month for the premiere of the ESPN-produced documentary Down in the Cosmo Garvin Valley, which recounts Team K.J.’s triumphant co smog@ campaign to keep the Kings in Sacramento. For newsre view.c om many, that is the only version of the Kings arena story that needs telling.

But a different story is spooling out in Sacramento Superior Court right now. Three Sacramento residents and their lawyers are suing the city, claiming Sacramento officials committed fraud by giving Kings investors as much as $100 million worth of “sweeteners,” including the rights to build digital billboards, and the cityowned parking garage beneath Downtown Plaza.

The city gave these assets to ensure the team’s profitability, while never disclosing the real costs to the public.

In this version of the story, the mayor, the city and the Kings colluded to shift millions of dollars in costs away from NBA owners and onto taxpayers, without the public catching on.

The city of Sacramento’s attorneys call this story “salacious,” “slanderous” and a “work of fiction.” But emails and other documents submitted to the court show the Kings’ majority owner, Vivek Ranadive, did ask the city for millions in additional revenue, above and beyond the city’s contribution to the arena, because he felt he overpaid for the team.

And while city officials told the public that assets like the billboards and underground parking garage had no monetary value, court documents show these assets were worth tens of millions to Kings investors. Those court documents also suggest the mayor and other city officials believed the assets were worth considerably more than the public was told.

Judge Timothy Frawley has agreed to hear the plaintiffs out in a trial starting on June 22.

Ironically, if the city loses the lawsuit, it could come out ahead: If Frawley agrees there was fraud, plaintiffs say the Kings may be forced to return millions of dollars to city coffers.

Ranadive became the majority owner of the Kings two years ago, in a deal which valued the team at $534 million. The price set an NBA record at the time. But the city of Sacramento insisted it could contribute no more than $258 million to a new arena—the same amount offered to the Kings’ previous owners, the financially struggling Maloof family.

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Natomas and downtown. Officially, the city’s entire contribution to the arena deal is $255 million.

But the city also agreed to give the Kings its parking garage under Downtown Plaza. And the city agreed to lease six city-owned parcels of land to the Kings, along with the rights to build jumbo-sized digital billboards on each site. (The Kings would pay nothing for these leases for 35 years.)

The city acknowledged giving these assets, but at the time claimed they had no monetary value. According to the plaintiffs, the assets amount to a hidden subsidy for the Kings.

Why did the city give these assets to the Kings? Ranadive may have summarized it best, in an email to other potential investors Mark Mastrov and Ron Burkle, in February 2013: “The problem is that while 525m may be a justifiable price for the Seattle market it is not for Sac … Leaving aside our ask on the arena we have to make the Kings price tag more in the 325m to 350m range. So we need almost 200m in value separate from the arena.”

The evidence shows that the city wasn’t negotiating with the Kings, so much as colluding.

An internal city memo explains: “Investor group wants $258 million plus additional City assets (land, entitlements, etc.) to offset the difference in the purchase price of the Kings vs. their perceived value of the Kings.” The memo goes on to say that the investors “may want the 3,700 parking spaces at the Downtown Plaza.” But this request was never disclosed to the public.

Patrick Soluri and Jeff Anderson, attorneys for the plaintiffs, say the city fulfilled the request, thereby making an illegal “gift of public funds.” It’s one thing for the city to contribute money to a project like an arena, with a public benefit, says Soluri. But government may not give money or property to an individual or business to help make a profit.

“I can’t just ask the city for money so that I can buy a McDonald’s franchise,” Soluri said.

Assistant City Attorney Matt Ruyak told SN&R earlier this year that the city’s financial help “had nothing to do with the purchase of the team.” (Calls and emails to the city attorney for this story went unreturned.)

Still, the Kings’ request, and the reason for it, was known around City Hall—though never disclosed to the public.

Assistant City Manager John Dangberg testified that the Kings owners explicitly asked for more than the $258 million for the arena, because Ranadive and company, “felt that the overpayment for the team might require the city to play a larger role,” Dangberg explained. “We said, ‘That isn’t going to happen,’” he added.

But plaintiffs say it did happen, because those revenue-producing assets were in fact given to the Kings, on top of the city’s contribution needed to build the arena.

The city claims its contribution to the arena deal was only $255 million, because the additional assets offered by the city had no value.

According to the city, the Downtown Plaza parking had no value because the garage needed to be refurbished.

Likewise, city officials claimed that the digital-billboard rights had no value because the land isn’t making money for the city now, and the billboards might not ever be built.

But Soluri and Anderson point out Johnson’s handwriting on an internal memo, noting the underground parking spaces are worth $30 million to $40 million. The handwriting also says, “Can’t put in writing. Politically tough.”

In an April 2013 email to Ranadive, Kings arena developer Mark Friedman says the value of city’s assets given to the investment group were, “worth well in excess of $100 million.”

In the email, Friedman writes that the city’s land in Natomas was likely worth $40 million, much more than the $19 million value disclosed to the public. Friedman goes on to say the revenue from the gifted parking garage could be worth $60 million or more.

He said the billboards had a potential value of $18 million to $24 million.

Friedman declined to answer SN&R questions about his estimates, saying, “Unfortunately, I cannot discuss pending litigation.”

Another email prepared by an employee at Burkle’s Yucaipa Co., sent to Burkle, Ranadive and Mastrov, says revenue from the city’s additional assets could help ensure a return on their investment for the team. Soluri and Anderson say this shows the direct relationship between the city’s sweeteners and the profitability of the team.

The mayor drew a similar connection when he went to plead Sacramento’s case before the NBA board of governors in May 2013. Johnson’s notes for that presentation state that the Kings would “not be a significant revenue sharing recipient,” in part because the billboards, land and parking spaces provided by the city would “preserve long-term economic viability” of the team.

If the Kings agreed not to take advantage of revenue-sharing, that would boost the bottom line for other team owners.

And that helped convince the NBA to block the planned sale of the team to Chris Hansen in Seattle, and to hand the team to Ranadive.

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Newly acquired documents and emails from the lawsuit against the city imply that the city and the Kings colluded on an arena deal instead of negotiating.

The city also agreed to give the arena-naming rights to the Kings, even though the city technically owns the arena. Arena-naming rights may be worth as much as $120 million.

Vivek Ranadive asked the city for millions in additional revenue because he felt he overpaid for the team.

Naming rights present something of a chicken-and-egg problem. There would be no naming rights if there was no arena.

Still, the naming rights belong to the public, because the arena does. “To me, the naming rights are just another case of there being no real attempt to fight for the city,” says Anderson.

Anderson and Soluri have hired an economist who puts the value of the billboards at $10 million to $18 million.

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The Downtown Plaza parking lot, he says, is worth $46 million to $59 million. These numbers are close to, or a bit lower, than Friedman’s estimates mentioned above.

Emails obtained by SN&R show a close working relationship between the mayor, his staff and attorney Jeffrey Dorso, who served as a go-between between the city and the Kings. Immediately after the deal was struck between the city and Kings, Dorso went to work representing the Kings on several arena matters. This tight-knit group also included Kunal Merchant, who headed the mayor’s nonprofit organization Think Big, which was funded in part by the Kings. Merchant later parlayed his role in the arena deal into a job with the Kings.

Dorso and Merchant helped city staff craft talking points and brainstormed with them about how to outmaneuver opponents.

For example, the group joked about how arena critic Councilman Kevin McCarty should be made to “feel the Eye of Sauron.”

According to testimony from Councilman Jay Schenirer, Dorso attended “ad hoc” meetings with city council members to discuss the arena—meetings which were closed to the public. Dorso also wrote language that later appeared in city staff reports on the arena deal.

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(The city council has been criticized for its extensive use of ad hoc committees to do city business. The Sacramento Bee editorial board recently called the committees an “affront to open government.”)

Soluri says the evidence shows that the city wasn’t negotiating with the Kings, so much as colluding. “This collusion between the city and Kings meant it was almost impossible to negotiate a fair deal.”

City officials have warned that the lawsuit could cost the city millions because it will delay issuing bonds and cause the city to miss out on low interest rates. There is also the threat that if the arena isn’t built by 2017, the NBA could yank the Kings away from Sacramento.

Anderson says that’s not realistic.

“Sacramento is not going to be left with a hole in the ground. This is a simple accounting problem.”

The attorneys say the Kings should return the sweeteners, or compensate the city for their value, and the arena project can still go forward. Then the value of the additional assets can be used by the city for other projects or programs. “There are a lot of ways this can be solved to the benefit of the city,” said Soluri. Ω

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Juveniles stalled Local kids are languishing in juvenile hall longer than their adult counterparts spend time in jail, the Sacramento County Probation Department reported on Tuesday.

Through the first part of 2015, minors detained at the county’s Youth Detention Facility are spending an average of 31 days in custody, representing a three-day increase from the year before and eight days longer than in 2012.

By comparison, the average adult inmate spends slightly more than 30 days in a California jail, according to data from California’s Board of State and Community Corrections.

The reasons for the 10 percent increase over last year are numerous. With 38 minors in out-of-state placement settings, Sacramento ranks second among California counties with limited local options for children in custody. Sacramento also has the third-highest placement rate overall. “More serious cases typically require a longer period of time for the case to resolve and complex cases with mental health or family issues may take longer as well,” explained Assistant Probation Chief Michael Shores.

Probation officials reported these findings during a law enforcement workshop hosted by supervisors Tuesday afternoon.

The department is hoping to reopen its shuttered youth center to minors with sub-acute mental health needs and substanceabuse issues, sexually exploited girls, and kids who require short-term removals from their homes as they and their families receive intensive reunification services.

Repurposing the center was one of the recommendations of last year’s grand jury report. Chief Probation Officer Lee Seale told SN&R there isn’t yet a dollar figure associated with reopening the center. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

Farm league A new farming project aims to turn idle inner-city land into agricultural pathways.

The Winters-based Center for Land-Based Learning, in partnership with the city of West Sacramento and area businesses, is turning vacant city lots into urban farm incubators, providing access to three things new farmers need most—land, capital and infrastructure.

Ground broke May 15 with a ceremonial planting on the newest farm, located behind the Yolo Education Center. Graduates from CLBL’s California Farm Academy program will operate and lease the land at a low rate.

Raley’s has promised to purchase 25 percent of the harvest for their local food-bank program, Food For Families. Almost onefifth of Sacramento and Yolo county residents are food insecure, according to state public health data.

The Raley’s money helps support the harvest distribution in other markets, including a new Farm Stand site at a vacant lot at 5th and F streets in West Sac, opening in June. Christine McMorrow, CLBL’s director of development, says more than seven acres of these farms should be up and running by the end of the year. (Brooke Purves)

Cop money Sacramento police Chief Samuel Somers Jr. asked the city council on Tuesday to boost his budget 2.5 percent to $125.2 million for the fiscal year that begins July 1. That includes $1 million to create a hiring pipeline intended to bring teens and young adults onto a force that is overwhelmingly white and male.

City resident and department critic Laura Rubalcaba doesn’t support the plan. “I would like our police department to recruit a mix of ages to best serve the needs of our community,” she wrote via email before Tuesday’s meeting.

Also on Tuesday, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors hosted a workshop with budgetary implications for the sheriff’s department, district attorney’s office and probation department. (RFH)

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hile patients in California have access, cannabis remains a prohibited substance for medical use in 18 states and for recreational use in all but four. How did this ban bias begin? Here is a timeline showing the evolution.

1906: Three centuries after hemp production was not only encouraged, but legally mandated in parts of what was to become the United States of America, Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act, requiring that any over-thecounter remedy maker list its cannabis content on the label.

1930: The U.S. government established the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN).

to $20,000.) Most of these minimums got repealed in 1970, in conjunction with the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. 1973: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) formed, merging two agencies: the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNND) and the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE).

1986: Amid the “War on Drugs” of the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act that, with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, increased federal penalties for possessing and dealing marijuana. A subsequent amendment set the “three strikes” sentences (life for repeat offenders and death for “drug kingpins.”)

1989: President George H.W. Bush proclaims a new “War on Drugs.”

“[Starting in the ’50s] a first conviction for possessing marijuana carried a minimum sentence of two to 10 years’ incarceration and a fine up to $20,000.”

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1932: With marijuana — linked by anti-drug campaigners to Mexican immigrants during the Great Depression — banned in 29 states, the FBN adopted the Uniform State Narcotic Act to put the onus for action on state governments.

1936: The film “Reefer Madness” by French director Louis Gasner got released, in the same year that the Motion Picture Association of America prohibited its member studios from depicting narcotics use in movies.

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n a warm afternoon in April, Sacramento artist Anthony Padilla balances precariously atop a 10-foot ladder. He shakes an aerosol paint can, then sprays fresh coats of color onto a mural outside of the Warehouse Artist Lofts building in downtown Sacramento. The bright jungle landscape scene appears as if it’s bursting from the concrete. Padilla’s career is kind of a balancing act, too. To pay the bills, he’s simultaneously working on a handful of murals, but those will all be put on hold if he’s commissioned to create a site-specific piece of public art for the new downtown arena.

Padilla is part of a group of area artists that hopes to get a portion of a $1.5 million fund set

aside for local art at the new downtown arena, which will be home to the Sacramento Kings’ home games in fall 2016. A million dollars of that was donated by artist and philanthropist Marcy Friedman, and the rest by the Kings—all to purchase art for four sites: a long wall on L Street, an open-air plaza on J Street, escalator wells inside the arena and the LED screens at the arena’s entrance.

Padilla’s idea: a solar-powered poppy sculpture that stores energy during the day and provides light and lets people charge their phones at night.

“Doesn’t that sound way better than a shiny pig?” he asks.

Padilla’s referring, of course, to the city and the Kings’ $8 million March purchase of a sculpture by New York artist Jeff Koons for the new arena. Koons is a polarizing figure in the art world, having sold works—which many think are merely low-brow kitsch—for millions of dollars.

Whether or not Koons’ “Coloring Book No. 4” sculpture, inspired by a cartoon pig, is “good” art has been debated by local artists and observers over the past few months ad nauseam.

That controversy is old news by now, but one thing’s for sure: By the time the new arena opens, downtown Sacramento will have a ton of new public art.

And there’s still $1.5 million worth of art— with preference going to local artists—set to be selected in June by a panel put together by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.

Even though she’d like to see artists such as Padilla apply, SMAC’s executive director, Shelly Willis, says that ultimately it’s not her call to decide what art should be in the new arena, or even to select certain artists. That’s up to the panel.

“My job is not to imagine what will happen on L Street. My job is to make art opportunities possible and open it up so that people might imagine things I could never even comprehend,” she says. “To me that’s brilliant when that happens.”

Artist David Garibaldi says he’d like to see Padilla apply (and Padilla will, once SMAC releases the application as early as this month). But Garibaldi, best known for his speed-painting performances that have been showcased at NBA games and on the TV show America’s Got Talent, says the application process needs to change.

“I think it’s still important to have a vetting process, but I think what would be even cooler was if there were subjects given to the artists,” he says. “Artists are obviously inspired by themes, stories, surroundings, so look at the whole of who we are, where we’ve been and where we’re going, break that theme up into sayings or words or things and give that to the artist to play with as inspiration, so that you’ll get artwork telling our story.”

Artist Marco Fuoco—whose punk-rock inspired performance art and video work back in the ’80s was recently featured in a new history book called Midtown Sacramento: Creative Soul of the City—agrees. Whatever art goes into and around the arena should reflect Sacramento, he says.

“Our community deserves better than Jeff Koons,” he says. “Jeff Koons is not a bad artist, but he does not represent our culture.”

Art for all and all for art Other artists say they don’t care whether or not the subject of the art is about Sacramento. They just want to see local art that makes people feel proud and connected.

“While I don’t think that it’s necessary for effective public art to be about the city or

community in which it is placed, I think it’s important that the art is unique to that environment,” says artist and educator Joy Bertinuson.

“Just as one today cannot imagine Paris without the Eiffel Tower, if one thinks of Chicago’s Millennium Park, the hugely popular ‘Cloud Gate’ comes to mind,” Bertinuson says of the British artist Anish Kapoor’s public sculpture.

In other words, monumental pieces of work, like the one Fuoco imagines putting next to the arena.

for the arena. He describes his own artistic style as having a “kind of psychedelic effect where patterns are emerging from other patterns, whether they be repetitious or going from one pattern to another.”

“Like any artist, [I] feel strongly about my aesthetic and how a space could be activated with my own work, so if I were to pick one of the spots at the arena, I’d choose the LED installation,” he says. “Going from gradient colors to celestial landscape, I think it’d be a really interesting thing for the viewer to see,

Sofia Lacin and HenneSSy cHriSopHeL’S “contagiouS coLor” muraL brigHtenS up a popuLar pedeStrian waLkway on 12tH Street in Sacramento.

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“i want to do a video monoLitH Like tHe waSHington monument, 300 feet in tHe air, made out of video ScreenS … everybody in tHe worLd couLd put SometHing on tHere.”

Marco Fuoco on his vision for public art at the arena “I want to do a video monolith like the Washington Monument, 300 feet in the air, made out of video screens … everybody in the world could put something on there,” he says. “It would be on top of a big cement block covered with papyrus panels that people could paint on and do graffiti art, so everybody that came to town could even write their life story.”

Local artist Jose Di Gregorio says he may also do something with video. The veteran artist, whose work has appeared at events such as TBD Fest and places like the Warehouse Artist Lofts, will also be applying to create art

especially on a scale like that, especially outside, it does something—it’s kind of like a sensory experience.”

Di Gregorio says he’s going to look at the opportunity as a positive thing, but not stake too much hope in the outcome. Worstcase scenario, since he already lives in the Warehouse Artist Lofts downtown, he’s just looking forward to strolling by to look at all of the arena’s public art with his daughters. Of course, if his work is a part of that, that’ll be “icing on the cake,” he says.

Another pair of artists living in the Warehouse Artist Lofts is seemingly a natural fit for the project: Sofia Lacin and Hennessy Christophel, who own LC Studio Tutto (formerly LC Mural & Design).

The pair has many large-scale murals around town, including a recent one called “Contagious Color,” which they painted underneath a bridge on 12th Street, between B and C streets. It’s a work of abstract art bringing light, bright colors to what was formerly a dark tunnel leading into downtown Sacramento from the Dos Rios Triangle neighborhood.

“Since the downtown arena area is kind of going to be the new official urban core of Sacramento, I’m really interested in seeing artists explore what urban means here,” says Christophel. “We’re really excited about different ways that we’re seeing artists really step up in the community.”

“We want to see more art, period,” adds Lacin. “That’s why we called our recent piece

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SN&R suggests some good (and pretty bad) public-art concepts for the new arena

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color or appearance (see Boston’s “Light Blades”). Sure, this is gimmicky and kitsch—but we’re talking about public art at an arena, remember?

Also, why not be cheap. Along L Street, for instance: How about a vertical version of Chalk It Up!, a giant concrete wall that people can tag? Public chalk art is always fun, whether it’s Ground Chuck outside Rubicon Brewing Co. in Midtown, or waiting for a table inside Mother. This would also function as a temporary art installation, since you could clean the chalk off every so often and start fresh. (You might think this is too pedestrian, too amateur.

But, really, we’d rather have a wall of chalk than Damien Hirst’s “Virgin Mother.”)

A lot of people are fixated on verticality when it comes to public art. But let’s not forget that Sacramento is flat—and we should embrace this flatness. Downtown’s history also exists underground— the city flooded numerous times. Is there a way that public art can go down—go low—instead of obsessing over up, up, up?

But, if we have to go north, perhaps—as one SN&R scribe suggested—we do so with a statue of our fearless leader, Mayor Kevin Johnson, as he single-handedly saved the Sacramento Kings from the ogreish Maloofs. It’s befitting of the fairy tale surrounding the Kings arena’s coming-to-fruition (see “A different arena story” by Cosmo Garvin, SN&R News, page 14). Also, it will be a reminder years from now of how we built the damn thing. And, if you’re not a fan of K.J., look at this art as something for pigeons to poop on.

In conclusion, we’re recommending chalk art, Kanye West album art, iPhone gimmicks, tunnels and K.J. Does that mean we’re fired?

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ven though the Koons is bought, the city will still spend another $1.5 million on public art at the new Kings arena site. The talent won’t just be from locals, however, as the pool could draw from more than a dozen Northern California counties. Everyone will submit ideas for consideration during the summer, and the art ultimately will appear in four different locations: near the escalators inside the new arena, on digital screens at the arena’s main entrance, at a plaza near J Street, and on a long wall facing L Street. SN&R isn’t applying, but we want in on the public-art pitch game, too.

We’Re RecommeNdiNg chalk aRt, kaNye WeSt album aRt, iPhoNe gimmickS, tuNNelS aNd k.J. doeS that meaN We’Re fiRed? Invariably, there will be new murals downtown. We’re not about to pick favorites or suggest locals for the gig. But, as a guiding rule, it would be nice to bring in an artist who speaks to youth culture, a muralist who can capture the wild energy of, say, a Takashi Murakami.

The new arena art also should embrace interactivity and technology—and it likely will, given that Kings owner Vivek Ranadive has christened our new arena “Downtown 3.0.” We’re not against this, and we like how art can interact with smartphones, especially at night, when people’s phones can dictate an artwork’s

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‘Contagious Color’; we want it to be something that really catches on and keeps spreading throughout the city.”

The pair is waiting to decide on an arena idea until after they choose the site with which they’d like to work.

“Our work is very site-specific, so once we narrow it down to a space we’re applying to, that’s when we begin to develop our design ideas and concept,” says Christophel. “I think that we’re going to think really big.”

Big certainly fits what the artists are doing with their next site-specific mural at the downtown farmers market, “Bright Underbelly.” Here, their aim is to have the 70,000 square-foot piece reflect the seasons and agriculture, and brighten up the market, they say.

The hope is for the piece to be complete before the Farm-to-Fork Festival in the fall.

But public art isn’t all about just large-scale murals and sculptures. Other artists say they want to see more platforms for temporary art, performance art and street art, too. Artist Danny Scheible, founder of Tapigami, a medium that uses masking tape to create art installations, says he wants to see a dedicated public performance space incorporated somewhere around the arena.

“Almost every major city has a street artist program where there’s street performers and there’s artists selling wares on the street,” he says. “And in Sacramento, you can’t sell your art on the street,

you can’t play music on the street without pulling a permit. It’s very difficult.”

Scheible points to Gather: Oak Park and This Midtown as examples of cool local events that incorporate artists. He imagines a Sacramento where the Concerts in the Park series at Cesar Chavez Plaza, the downtown farmers market and perhaps even events at the arena can make space for artists, too. He’s worried that if there aren’t enough public outlets for artists, it’s not healthy for the city.

“One of our biggest problems is we lose our best artists every year to bigger cities,” says Scheible.

“And part of that is that we don’t have any outlet for the artists to be seen directly by the public.”

Sophisticate the landscape In addition to street art and performance art, some also want to make space for temporary art. Artist and professor Rachel Clarke, originally from England, points to one particularly effective temporary public art project she witnessed in 1993. Created in response to London’s redevelopment efforts, artist Rachel Whiteread’s “House” reacted to high-rise buildings quickly changing the fabric of an East London neighborhood.

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(Left) Artist DAnny scheibLe, creAtor of tApigAmi, wAnts sAcrAmento Artists to be AbLe to seLL their works in pubLic. (right) Liv moe, executive Director of verge center for the Arts, wAnts the city to invest more in ALL types of Art.

“A resident of one of the terraced Victorian houses refused to move, and while the remaining houses were demolished, his house alone was left standing on the street,” Clarke explains.

“Eventually he agreed to move, but before it was demolished, Whiteread took a cast of the entire interior, creating a ghost of the building.”

Danny Scheible “House” artist was eventually demolished, but not before it left a lasting impression on Clarke and many others—and sparked numerous public conversations.

Now, Clark says, she’d like to see something similar here.

“I would like to see Sacramento support an ongoing, temporary [commissioned] public art program, also including social practice,” Clarke says. “I believe this program would greatly enhance the city’s cultural growth.”

Sacramento artist Gioia Fonda, whose work can be seen at the Verge Center for the Arts, agrees. She envisions art on bus stops around the arena, or even maybe painting some buses orange—anything that’s kind of memorable or surprising.

Fonda says she’ll apply for the arena commission, too, perhaps designing something for the long wall on L Street.

“I’m primarily a 2-D artist, so I have a couple of challenges I have to wrap my head around,” says Fonda. “But the research

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Di Gregorio thinks Fonda is a perfect fit for public art.

“She does really colorful stuff, she has a quirky style and she has an aesthetic where she’s real versatile in utilizing different materials,” he says. “I can see her coming out with something crazy and people are really tripping out because it’s provocative.”

Whatever Fonda decides on (she doesn’t want to reveal specifics yet), she says she’d like to see other artists create something interactive.

“Interactive doesn’t have to mean you get in it, or you ride it—that’s called a playground—but I think that things being tactile, or being able to engage with a person who walks through it or under it or to be able to touch it, are things that should be welcomed,” Fonda says.

Graphic artist Ben Della Rosa, who previously worked on a public art project called “Words on Walls” in 2013, also wants to see Fonda’s work around town.

“Her stuff is always really interesting and thought-provoking,” he says. “There’s a rich community at Verge of artists in a wide variety of disciplines and mediums, and any one of them, I think, would be an amazing fit for that project.”

But maybe, some artists say, one of the best things we could do isn’t necessarily to have one overarching specific vision of the art downtown, or even name specific artists or types of projects that we’d like to see. Rather, just invest money in good art—whether local, national or international, says artist Liv Moe, executive director of Verge Center for the Arts.

Ironically, the city that almost nabbed the Kings franchise might be a good example of that, and why it’s important.

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that were not from Seattle that were probably commissioned in the millions of dollars—not about Mt. Olympus, about orcas or coffee,” she says. “It was just art.

They’re investing in good art, you know?

For civic identity, the willingness to invest in internationally recognized artists is a turning point—you’re actually sophisticating the landscape of the city.”

If it were up to her, Moe adds, she’d want to see a diverse amount of artists using a diverse amount of mediums at the arena.

“Between sports events and live entertainment and everything else that’s going to be going on downtown, you’ll get this breadth of humanity, and it would be great to expose these people to new media and art forms that they wouldn’t be exposed to otherwise.”

In a way, it sounds like she could be describing Padilla’s work.

On a recent weekday afternoon, Padilla walks around town to check up on some of his work. Many of his murals are located in unusual places like alleys, parking lots and on otherwise blank walls in office buildings—places where people wouldn’t normally be looking at art.

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Walking through Midtown, Padilla notices that some amateur tagger has sprayed sloppily over one of his murals of a bright urban cityscape with the name “Mable.”

It’s just one of the perils—or benefits, depending on how you look at it—of public art, of course.

“Oh man, this dude painted over my work,” he says. “I’ll have to fix that when I have time.”

Unless, of course, he gets chosen to create something for the arena.

“It would be something where I dedicate the next year of my life to get done,” he says. “I would quit all other things and focus on one thing,” If not, he just hopes the art selection panel chooses those with innovative ideas.

“A really unknown artist could come up with a great idea, and that idea should take precedence over a well-known artist’s shitty idea.

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since the “summer movie” concept was created with the runaway success of 1975’s Jaws, the season has become synonymous with name-brand blockbusters and sequels. To be sure, there is no shortage of sequels, prequels, reboots, preboots, remakes, premakes, and make-boots coming to theaters this summer. But warmweather months are also about major-label animation, ribald comedies, unbranded action flicks, under-appreciated auteurs, arthouse alternative programming and the always ubiquitous horror movies and biopics. In that spirit, SN&R’s resident film critics Daniel Barnes and Jim Lane organized the summer’s release calendar into eight different categories and picked the one film in each that they’re most excited to see.

Sequels, remakes and reboots Magic Mike XXL (July 1) and Ted 2 (June 26) follow up hit 2012 films, while Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation (July 31) is Tom Cruise’s fifth go-round as Ethan Hunt. The Fantastic Four (August 7) reboot hopes you’ll forget all previous movie versions, while The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (August 14) prays that someone remembers the 1960s TV show. Meanwhile, Vacation (July 29) and Jurassic World (June 12) appear to simultaneously sequel-ize and reboot their franchises, and God only knows what’s going on in the timeline of Terminator Genisys (July 1).

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summer movie sea Impossible—Rogue Nation. This is possibly the most auteur-driven franchise in film history, and I’m curious to find out what Cruise sees in Jack Reacher director Christopher McQuarrie.

J.L.’s pick: Ted 2. The original Ted was such raunchy, irreverent fun that I have high hopes that Seth MacFarlane (and co-writers Alec Sulkind and Wellesley Wild) can do it again.

Adding Amanda Seyfried, Morgan Freeman and Liam Neeson to the mix can’t hurt.

Comedy, laughs and other funny things Entourage (June 3) brings the HBO series to the big screen; video game characters wreak havoc in Pixels (July 24); Kristen Wiig and Zach Galifianakis organize a bank heist in Masterminds (August 19); Lily Tomlin plays a feisty you-know-what in Grandma (August 21); Melissa McCarthy falls down a lot in Spy (June 5); sex addicts Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis form a platonic bond in Sleeping with Other People (late August/early September); and Amy Schumer headlines Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck (July 17).

D.B.’s pick: Trainwreck. I’ve had my issues with Apatow as a director, but it’s great to see Schumer in a lead

role, and check out the supporting cast: former Sacramento resident Brie Larson, Tilda Swinton, Randall Park, Method Man and LeBron James.

J.L.’s pick: Entourage. I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never seen the HBO series (I plan to play catchup via Netflix), but the buzz and the talent involved—plus a sharply funny preview trailer—make the big-screen feature look like a thinking-person’s comedy and a sure bet. Besides, I’m a sucker for parodies of Hollywood pretensions.

Arty arthouse fare Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (June 12) swept the top awards this year at Sundance, where the comingof-age comedy Dope (June 19) also received praise, and the shot-oniPhones Tangerine (July 10) played the Next program. Infinitely Polar Bear (June 19) stars Mark Ruffalo as a manic-depressive trying to win back his family; Adam Driver plays a new father in Hungry Hearts (June); Ian McKellan assumes the role of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s great detective Mr. Holmes (July 17); and Jennifer Connelly reconnects with her abandoned child in Aloft (May 22).

D.B.’s pick: Aloft. The bleak trailer for Claudia Llosa’s drama makes it seem like the perfect vehicle for Connelly, a

great actress who hasn’t had a decent role in nearly a decade.

J.L.’s pick: Mr. Holmes. It’s too bad Ian McKellen, in his prime, never got to play Sherlock Holmes. But the venerable Sir Ian as the aging Holmes may make up for that, especially as directed by the meticulous Bill Condon. Who knows, they may even wash away the nasty taste of those travesties with Robert Downey Jr.

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Paul Rudd is Ant-Man (July 17), one of the most expensive meta-jokes in cinema history; a resourceful boy protects President Samuel L. Jackson in Big Game (June 26); Rupert Friend plays a genetically engineered killer in Hitman: Agent 47 (August 21); The Rock battles earthquakes in San Andreas (May 29); Ethan Hawke stars in Good Kill (May 15) as an ethically challenged drone pilot; and American Ultra (August 21) reteams Adventureland co-stars Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart.

D.B.’s pick: Hitman: Agent 47. I have liked Hitman star Friend in smaller parts in Starred Up and the Showtime series Homeland, and I’m happy he’s getting a starring role here.

J.L.’s pick: Big Game. For this genre it’s easier to say which title I’m

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with Arnold Schwarzenegger as an anguished father watching daughter Abigail Breslin slowly succumb to a zombifying virus. It could be a powerful metaphor for any disease, and I suspect our former governor (like Gov. Ronald Reagan before him) is a better actor than his critics—or his fans and vehicles—give him credit for.

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A couple of sequels highlight the summer horror slate—Sinister 2 (August 21) and Insidious: Chapter 3 (June 5). Joel Edgerton directs himself as a mysterious stranger in The Gift (July 31); Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson star in Regression (August 28); Arnold Schwarzenegger headlines the zombie movie Maggie (late May); exorcists battle satanic forces in The Vatican Tapes (July 24); and The Gallows (July 10) concerns a play that awakens a malevolent presence.

Several Oscar winners from decades past re-emerge—Woody Allen’s Irrational Man (July 17) features Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone, Cameron Crowe directs Bradley Cooper in Aloha (May 29), and Jonathan Demme helms the Meryl Streep musical Ricki and the Flash (August 7). Elsewhere, indie director Joe Swanberg courts mainstream acceptance with Digging for Fire (August 21); the visually arresting filmmaker Tarsem returns with Self/ less (July 10); David Gordon Green directs past Oscar winner Al Pacino in Manglehorn (June 19); and Antoine Fuqua directs future Oscar winner Jake Gyllenhaal in Southpaw (July 24).

D.B.’s pick: Maggie. I am in a distinct minority here, but I think that Schwarzenegger was positively soulful in last year’s unfairly maligned Sabotage, and I’m genuinely excited to see what he does next.

D.B.’s pick: Manglehorn. After the formally bold and fitfully successful Prince Avalanche and Joe,

J.L.’s pick: Maggie. The zombie movie is an all-but-debased genre, but this one has an intriguing twist,

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I’m curious to see where Green is going with this, and the trailer for Manglehorn is a singular piece of cinema.

J.L’s pick: Aloha. Writer-director Cameron Crowe may have come a cropper with We Bought a Zoo and Elizabethtown, but he’s still the guy behind Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire, Say Anything… and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Besides, this time he’s got a dynamite cast (Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, John Krasinski, Bill Murray, Alec Baldwin, etc.).

I highly hope.

Be more animated Most of the heavy hitters in the animation game are here—Pixar offers the inner-life comedy Inside Out (June 19); Minions (July 10) spins off from the hugely popular Despicable Me films; When Marnie Was There (June) is the latest from Japanese legends Studio Ghibli; and

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D.B.’s pick: When Marnie Was There. This was a no-brainer—I’m a fan of Pixar and Aardman, but their films pale next to those of Studio Ghibli, and although scion Hayao Miyazaki has apparently retired, the studio continues to churn out touching and beautiful works like last year’s Tale of the Princess Kaguya.

J.L.’s pick: Inside Out. After misfiring with Cars 2 and Brave, Pixar—if Inside Out’s trailers are any indication—looks to be firing on all cylinders again, and Pixar at its best is the best there is, period. (Still, you can’t discount Shaun the Sheep Movie from quirky, off-the-wall Aardman. Personally, I’m looking forward to both.)

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Biopics and other somewhat true stories Straight Outta Compton (August 14) follows the ascent of 1980s rap group N.W.A.; The End of the Tour (July 31) stars Jason Segel as writer David Foster Wallace; Love and Mercy (June 5) tracks the breakdown of Beach Boy Brian Wilson; Ken Loach directs Jimmy’s Hall (July), about Irish communist Jimmy Gralton; Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent (May) played last year at Cannes; and Max (June 26) tells the story of a traumatized dog who served in the U.S. Marines.

D.B.’s pick: Love and Mercy.

While Segel and The End of the Tour have received rave reviews, I can’t resist a biopic about the brilliant and fragile Wilson, played here by both Paul Dano and John Cusack, with support from Paul Giamatti as Dr. Eugene Landy.

J.L.’s pick: The End of the Tour.

The brilliant but troubled David Foster Wallace’s novels have proved resistant to filming—but what about his life? Give director James Ponsoldt credit for taking a whack at it, and for giving Jason Segel what could be the role of his life (so far).

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How to choose? No worries, here’s SN&R’s little roundup to help make that decision.

One option is the Sacramento Music Festival (www.sacmusic fest.com). This year, it’s more of a ’90s rock one-hit-wonder nostalgiafest, at least for one day: Everclear (“Santa Monica”) and Eve 6 (“Here’s to the Night”) play on Saturday and Shawn Mullins (“Lullaby”) all perform Saturday, May 23. There’s also more timeless music from the likes of Tower of Power (Friday), Malo (Sunday), plus a bunch of local music spanning genres as diverse as jazz, rock and blues (everyday). It happens from Friday, May 22, to Monday, May 25, and ticket options include day passes and festival passes.

A second option is First Festival (www.first festival sacramento .com). It’s a one-day festival, with all local bands playing many

genres (Humble Wolf, Dylan Phillip and Slaves of Manhattan are among the artists getting top billing), plus local arts and crafts vendors and food trucks (including Krush Burger, Drewski’s Hot Rod Kitchen and Smokers Wild BBQ). Tickets cost $15$20 for general admission ($35 for a VIP ticket), and it happens from noon to 10 p.m. at River Walk Park, 651 2nd Street in West Sacramento.

If you feel like taking a bit of a road trip, the Strawberry Music Festival (www.strawberrymusic.com) in Grass Valley offers a unique festival experience. It’s super kid-friendly, with a children’s stage, music workshops and an eclectic lineup.

Headliners include blues legend Bonnie Raitt, Nashville Americana and bluegrass outfit Sam Bush Band, and Tex-Mex-Americana hybrid group the Mavericks. It happens from Thursday, May 21, through Sunday, May 24, at the Nevada County Fairgrounds, 11228 McCourtney Road in Grass Valley. Ticket prices vary, and some include camping.

Over to the west, the folks at UC Davis-based independent radio station KDVS host Operation Restore Maximum Freedom Festival XV from noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday, May 23. Hear lots of different types of rock, hip-hop and experimental music from the likes of Pedestrian, Male Gaze, Dad?, Ancient Aliens and more—plus eat food by Raja’s Tandoor and Redrum Burger, drink brew from Sudwerk Brewing Co. and browse through crafts from the Sacramento Indie Craft Fair. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/1606548. It’s at Third Space Art Collective, 916 Olive Drive in Davis.

The Art Theater of Davis will present three classic one-acts: The License, written in 1919 by THEATER Luigi Pirandello; Playing with Fire, written in 1892 by August Strindberg; and Swan Song, written in 1888 by Anton Chekhov. All three playwrights are towering figures in their field, and their work is rarely staged in these parts. $20, 7 p.m. at Veteran’s Memorial Theatre, 203 East 14th Street in Davis; www.playingwithfire.brownpapertickets.com.

—Jeff Hudson

International Kids Festival saTurday, May 23 Keep little ones occupied with bounce houses, magic shows, pony rides, train rides, face painting and more. Also, see performances displaying Asian, Hispanic, African-American and Indian cultures, among others. Learn about different (yet similar) FESTIVAL people in a way that won’t put anyone to sleep. Free, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at William Land Park, 3800 South Land Park Drive; www.russianamericanmedia.com.

—Eddie Jorgensen

Mr. Black Sacramento saTurday, May 23 This event aims to reverse negative stereotypes. This was the idea behind its initial run from 1993 to 1995, and the reason they’ve brought it back in recent years. The kind of traits they are looking for in contestants include “courageous, nurturing and producCONTEST tive.” Last year’s winners were Saul McCoy for Mr. Black Sacramento and Demaje Muhammad for Jr. Black Sacramento. $10-$15, 5 p.m. at Luther Burbank High School, 3500 Florin Road; www.mrblacksacramento.org.

—Aaron Carnes

Xoso Beer Run saTurday, May 23 How could this not be fun: 30 minutes to complete four laps around a park, and a beer rewarded upon completion of each lap? If you play your cards right, you will be sporting a serious buzz by the time you cross the finish line. It’s not a BEER/RUN race. It’s just a bunch of people having fun and drinking—but not in a bar. $30, 5:30 p.m. at Raley Field, 400 Ballpark Drive in West Sacramento; www.xososports.com/page/events.

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Trio of tastiness: The fabrics of Midtown and downtown are changing. It feels like there’s a lot of creative energy in the air, cool things are starting to happen and there’s a sense of anticipation for a number of future projects and changes. The food scene is certainly a part of these shifting landscapes.

Just in the past two weeks alone, three eateries opened on the grid: Coin-Op Game Room, Brasserie Capitale and Noodles & Company.

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wouldn’t they be? The bar sports an industrial design, 42 retro arcade games that take quarters (including Donkey Kong, Street Fighter and Super Off Road), a full bar with plenty of beer handles and pizza with dough made by nearby French bakery Estelle’s Patisserie.

In other words, it’s kind of like a Chuck E. Cheese’s for hipster bro-children.

Speaking of French, Brasserie Capitale (1201 K Street), now open in the space that formerly housed The Broiler, might be a good choice for hardcore Francophiles.

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brewery—which this isn’t—but it’s also a French term for a for a relaxed, sit-down restaurant that offers a menu of single dishes (as opposed to more traditional French restaurants with prix fixe menus).

It’s got a bar in the middle, traditional French food (bouillabaisse, coq au vin, cassoulet) made by chef Scott McNamara (formerly of The Kitchen, Ella and Bistro Michel), an extensive wine list with 80 varieties, and a sister spot next door called Café a Côté, which is a fasterservice, more casual spot.

Rounding out the trio here is Midtown’s new Noodles & Company chain (1420 16th Street), which seemed like it was under construction on 16th Street for forever, but is now finally open. It’s kind of hard to peg this one, but it’s basically a fast-casual spot that calls itself a “world kitchen” and serves noodle bowls of all kinds (Italian pasta, pad Thai, mac and cheese)— plus soups (chicken noodle, tomato bisque and Thai curry), salads and sandwiches. The chain eatery has 150 locations nationally; this is the second one for Sacramento.

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Good medicine Purslane Purslane is an edible succulent in the portulaca family that is rampant this time of year. You may need to ask for it at regular markets, but Asian markets sell it as a medicinal herb. The crunchy tearshaped leaves are slightly sour and taste somewhat of cucumber. Purslane is often considered a weed, since it’s so droughttolerant and hardy. It’s a great addition to a spring greens salad. A traditional Greek dish mixes purslane with feta, tomatoes, onions, oregano and olive oil. Enjoy it for a nutrient power shot of lots of omega-3 ALAs, calcium, potassium and vitamin A.

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It is less assertive than the beef, but has some tang from the citrus marinade and slaw.

The Sandwich de Chola sports braised pork Wicked ’Wich was one of the first modern-day shoulder, Jack cheese, Fresno aioli (surprise!), food trucks on the local scene, circa 2011. carrots and onions, hot sauce, cabbage, radish They made memorable mile-high, Pittsburghand cilantro. It’s a lot of flavors layered style sandwiches laden with French fries. together and comes off so spicy that it’s hard Then the brand expanded to include Broderick to eat the whole thing. If you’re a chile head, Roadhouse and a brick-and-mortar Wicked though, have at it. ’Wich downtown.

All the panini are $8 to $11, without sides, Now, the truck is no more, but the which is a bit pricey for their size. There are Broderick restaurant group includes Trick several options for upscale chips and sodas.

Pony, Capitol Dime and a future For cold sandwiches, the choices Midtown roadhouse in the are lackluster: portobello mushThe old Wahoo’s location. The room and avocado, ham and Downtown Plaza cafe is Sandwich cheddar, turkey and Jack. gone, but a new Wicked Don’t miss the PB&J, de Chola sports a ’Wich opened in the West though. You can order Sacramento Community lot of flavors layered crunchy or smooth PB, Center in early March. wheat or white bread, together and comes off Oh—and the grape or mixed-berry restaurant group is also so spicy that it’s hard to jam, and get it grilled in the works to open a or cold. A crunchy with eat the whole thing.

If spot called Cascara in berry on wheat is just fun you’re a chile head, Carmichael. It’s a lot to to eat. keep track of. though, have There’s a daily soup, Which may explain why but a cream of mushroom at it. the current Wicked ’Wich didn’t wow us. Another option is seems like a bit of an afterthought. a salad. The Cobb with blue cheese It’s ideal to have a little coffee and vinaigrette is a good version, with mixed sandwich cafe in the new community center, greens, moist chicken and perfectly fresh what with City Hall across the street and the avocado. Oddly, the hard-boiled egg and Los Rios college campus next door. But on all tomatoes were missing from ours. of our visits, the cafe lacked customers.

The cafe makes its own gigantic Rice Wicked ’Wich is open only on weekdays, Krispies Treats. We tried a savory version from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. It offers breakfast with peanut butter and bacon, but there was so pastries from the Village Bakery in Davis and much bacon that the other flavors were absent. coffee from Lavazza. With all our area roastI hardly ever want less bacon, but in this case, ing options, it seems odd not to have a more it was necessary. local brew available. However, they do have a Since the panini are the best items, how clever “happy hour” from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. and well will they sell when it gets hot out? again from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., when diners can You’d think they might have learned a bit enjoy a free coffee with any pastry purchase. about quick service from running a food Hot breakfast items include a breakfast truck, but it’s really slow for a place that’s so panini with frittata, cheese and a spicy Fresno deserted. Right now, Wicked ’Wich seems a chili aioli. Or, you can start the day with a bit of an afterthought in the otherwise praisesugar jolt via the Nutella-and-banana panini worthy Broderick group. Hopefully, they’ll with cinnamon sugar. Steel-cut oats in two find their niche. Ω sizes are also offered, with seasonal fruit and brown sugar.

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A big, fat Greek celebration Summer is a great time to explore Mediterranean food. It’s healthy and often cool and refreshing. Memorial Day Weekend is upon us—the unofficial start to the summer—and also the St. Anna Greek Food and Wine Festival (http://festival.saintanna.org). The festival will of course have plenty of traditional Greek food to sample, including souvlaki (meat and sometimes vegetables on a skewer), pastitisio (a pasta dish that somewhat resembles lasagna) and moussaka (a casserole dish that usually includes ground meat and potato or eggplant). Vegan and vegetarian options will also be available. In addition to food, there’ll be music and dance (opa!). Tickets are $2 per day; it happens at the St. Anna Greek Orthodox Church, 1001 Stone Canyon Parkway in Roseville on Friday, May 22 (5 p.m. to 10 p.m.); Saturday, May 23 (noon to 10 p.m.); and Sunday, May 24 (noon to 10 p.m.).

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like the green beans in Vegan #2, are fried in the same oil as the tempura shrimp and eel. Food for thought, as the saying goes. The kitchen offered to swap out the fried items in my roll, so check with the server when ordering.

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Acclaimed young adult author Courtney Summers excels at crafting what she calls “difficult girls.”

The protagonists in books such 2012’s This is Not a Test are deeply flawed and intense. In All the Rage Book (St. Martin’s Griffin; $18.99) Romy Grey carries on the lineage, but to mixed effect. Raped at a party by a popular classmate (and the son of the town’s sheriff) Romy is bullied by peers who don’t—or simply don’t want to—believe her. Later, another awful night and a missing classmate elevates the stakes. Summers has a deft touch with language, characterization and themes that explore teenage isolation and slut-shaming.

Rage’s timeline and structure, however, ultimately prove confusing—too often jumbled and “edgy” at the expense of solid storytelling. Then again, that’s not much different than the state of being a teenage girl, so perhaps she’s onto something here.

—Rachel Leibrock

Under the influence skEtchcrAwl Take those cocktail-napkin doodles to the next level with professional artists who will guide attendees through the Crocker Art Museum as they aRt instruct on basics of linear perspective, color theory and gestural sketching with a live model. Beer and wine will be provided at each lesson along the way for inspiration. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday, May 28; $20-$25; 216 O Street; www.crockerartmuseum.org.

—Deena Drewis

Bear witness to an old war sixth AnnuAl rEAding of thE nAmEs Whatever your opinion on the Vietnam War and its aftermath, it’s good to honor the men and women who fought over there.

MeMoRial Day In a war where success was measured by death toll rather than foreign diplomacy, the battle between South and North Vietnam took many of California’s youth. The Vietnam Veterans of America Charter 500 have not forgotten any of this. All 5,823 soldiers, either killed or missing in action, will be remembered starting at 7 a.m., Sunday, May 24. Free; California State Capitol Park, 13th and L streets; www.norcaltrav.com/vva500.htm.

—Eddie Jorgensen

Before the Internet, when people used to hunt for VHS tapes in thrift stores in search of bad home movies and poorly acted instructional videos, it’s likely only their friends would see those gems. Now all the weirdness of the world is available to everyone, thanks in no small part to the website Everything Is Terrible.

It was launched by a group of friends in 2000 who started collecting videos that were surreal and hilarious: cat massage instructional videos, VaRiety Show drug addiction after school specials, an early ’90s video instructional explanation of the Internet, et al.

Now, there’s also a corresponding live show. The Everything is Terrible team takes its videos on the road, but they up the ante with some psychedelic puppet shows, rapping Christmas trees and depressed robots. They’re also on a strange quest to collect VHS copies of the movie Jerry McGuire, so if you have one, bring it.

The clips and live performances are always changing. This go-around, they are bringing Legends, their latest movie—oh yeah, they make movies, too. Their films sometimes feature compilations of collected clips, and sometimes are made from bizarre editing of found footage.

Bonus: This time around, the show, which happens Wednesday, May 27, in Nevada City, will sport a “choose your own adventure” element, which means the crowd votes on the night’s direction.

Don’t disappoint, locals, and stay weird. 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 27; $10. Stonehouse Old Brewery, 107 Sacramento Street in Nevada City; www.everything isterrible.com.

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories Mark Twain walked the streets of Sacramento (which he dubbed the “City of Saloons”) back in the 1860s, and wrote articles for the late, lamented by Jeff Hudson Sacramento Union. There’s a local elementary school that bears his name, and students still read Twain’s stories in school. Kinda makes you wonder why the B Street Family Series (launched in 2002) is only now taking advantage of the local connection and doing an omnibus show based on Twain’s book The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (and six other short tales penned by Twain).

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God’s Ear is a story of grief: grief over the death of a young child, grief expressed by a mother surrounded by memories, grief expressed by a father fleeing from his grief, grief at home, grief at airports, grief at bars.

Grief expressed through short emphatic statements makes up the dialogue of God’s Ear, by Jenny Schwartz.

God’s Ear is an edgy, nonconforming drama that gives voice to the pain and agony of parents after the tragic death of their young son leaves them bereaved and confused on how to deal with their emotions—both as parents and as a couple. The couple, though sometimes sitting side by side, never speak face to face. They speak over the phone—with Mel, the mother, taking care of their daughter and dealing with the daily reminders of their son, while father Ted is traveling on business which allows him to bury his grief under meetings, drink and women.

The play is both fascinating and frustrating. Schwartz eloquently and cleverly drops the curtain on inner pain, but also adds elements that are needless and distracting, such as bringing the Tooth Fairy and G.I. Joe to life, or inserting quirky songs.

Resurrection Theatre, known for its willingness to tackle eccentric, bold plays, brings its usual creativity to this production, along with a most memorable and heart-wrenching performance by Kellie Yvonne Raines as the mother wracked by grief. Ed Gyles Jr. supports her with his solid portrayal of a distracted-but-grieving father. Clever set designs include walls with cascading pillows, action figures and suitcases, along with phones dangling from the ceiling.

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For a play that is 50 years old, Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming is as shocking and troubling today as it was when it premiered in London’s West End in 1965. It dramatizes the human condition in a way that should make audiences uncomfortable.

Janis Stevens directs the Capital Stage production of this play that helped define “Pinteresque” as an adjective in the theater-world lexicon. W 7pm; Th, F 8pm; Sa, 2pm & 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 5/31. $22-$38.

Capital Stage, 2215 J St.; (916) 995-5464; www.capstage.org. J.C.

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This is a violent, unsettling play that, while compelling and intriguing at times, unfortunately loses its way. Part of the problem lies in the jumpy and uneven storyline and characters, while the other problem is fluctuating tone and genres. It’s a Southern Gothic murder mystery—part film noir, part dark

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Veteran pro Ed Claudio and four members of his Actor’s Workshop of Sacramento assay Eugene O’Neill’s monumental family drama—and they do a respectable job getting this classic on its feet. The production values are strictly “no frills,” but the acting ranges from “worthy yeoman” to “high caliber.” F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 6/7. $15-$17. The Actor’s Workshop of Sacramento at Three Penny Theatre in the R25 Arts Complex, 1721 25th St.; (916) 583-4880; www.actinsac.com. J.H.

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This odd yet compelling 90-minute play is set in a classroom complete with blackboard and lectern, with the audience becoming the students and being addressed by two professors of William Blake’s poetry. The dialogue is performed Blake-style in romantic and passionate rhyming couplets. This clever, daring play presented in poetic prose is a pure theatrical treat. Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 5/31. $15-$20. The Wilkerson Theater in the California Stage complex, 2509 R St.; (916) 454-1500; www.koltruncreations.com. P.R.

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David Garibaldi stands in front of a portrait he painted of John Lennon.

Performance, painting and police David Garibaldi is an incredible painter with a knack for quickly painting celebrity portraits: Bob Marley, Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Slash, Mick Jagger and countless others. The most amazing thing about his work is that he does it in front of a live audience. He’s opened for the Blue Man Group and Snoop Dogg, and he’s performed as halftime entertainment at numerous NBA games. Now, he’s bringing his show to the first ever Law Enforcement Memorial Ball, a formal USO-themed fundraiser here in Sacramento. Craig Johnson will host the event, and Garibaldi’s work will be auctioned off at the end of the performance. The proceeds go to families of fallen police officers as well as law enforcement officers who are undergoing serious illnesses and have fallen on other personal hardships. It’s a good cause, and you might leave with a giant portrait of Bret Michaels.

Law Enforcement Memorial Ball, 6 p.m. Saturday, May 23; $75. Aerospace Museum of California, 3200 Freedom Park Drive; www.2015ball.com.

—Patti Roberts

God’s Ear, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; $15-$20. Resurrection Theatre at California Stage, 2509 R Street; (916) 223-9568; www.resurrectiontheatre.com. Through May 30.

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The great author is played by Greg Alexander in a wild wig, and he emcees what amounts to a variety show, with segments focusing on topics from a stolen elephant to a brutal barber. There are also stories about a good little boy (who gets blown sky high because he was carrying nitroglycerine) and a bad little boy (whose penchant for playing pranks and telling lies leads him to become a legislator as an adult).

It should be noted that some of the adaptations are a bit freewheeling, but then again, that’s in the spirit of Twain’s originals (which were generally tall tales).

Plenty of costume changes, sound effects, country cousin accents and all manner of jokes—even a few short songs—feature in this fast-moving, family production. Director Lyndsay Burch keeps her cast—big Rick Kleber, skinny John Lamb, rubber-faced Amy Kelly, comic specialist Greg Alexander and promising intern Meaghan Macy—on the go throughout.

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comedy, part social commentary.

If only we could give two ratings: one for the script and one for the execution. This production of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Coriolanus (adapted by Laura Kaya) at Big Idea Theatre would get a 3 for script and a 5 for execution.

Instead, it gets a 4, because both script and execution are part of the whole package. Adaptor Kaya places the action in a fictional Slavic state plagued by political and social turmoil, regime changes and shifting borders. Th, F, Sa 8pm. Through 5/30. $10-$20.

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

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of the dead daughter he couldn’t save (in the original Mad Max it was a son, but even Miller himself may not remember that), he is taken prisoner by the War Boys, the army of Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne), a masked tyrant who keeps his subjects in line by doling out water to them only in fitful streams. Max, deemed a universal donor, is designated a “blood bag” for one Nux (Nicholas Hoult), an ailing War Boy. Immortan Joe dispatches his trusted commander Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) in a “war rig”—one of those bizarre Rube Goldberg vehicles that are a trademark of the series—to fetch fuel, but when she veers off course, Joe becomes suspicious. Investigating, he finds that Furiosa has liberated Joe’s five wives and is making a break for freedom, heading to “the green place” she remembers from her childhood, before she and her mother were kidnapped into slavery in Joe’s citadel.

Joe roars off in pursuit with his War Boys, including Nux, who drives with his blood bag Max strapped on the front of his vehicle like a hood ornament (presumably, the back seat, while safer, would be less picturesque).

In the running battle between Joe and the fleeing Furiosa, Max gets free of his restraints (exactly how that happens remains a hazy blur, but it seemed to make sense at the time). In a brief respite before Joe resumes his pursuit, Max and Furiosa form a wary alliance, each agreeing, in a trust-but-verify way, to help the other out of Joe’s clutches for good. Over time, the mutual trust and respect between them grows.

Not that Mad Max: Fury Road lingers long over such things. The whole movie is essentially one long running battle—literally running, shot among and alongside vehicles thundering across the desert (the picture was filmed in Namibia) at what seems something near the speed of sound. Dialogue is sparse and chiefly delivered in one of two modes: raspy mumble and wild bellow, both delivered in varying degrees of unintelligibility. Even names are given short shrift. We know Max’s name because it’s on the poster. Furiosa is identified fairly clearly, and I suppose Immortan Joe and Nux must have been mentioned somewhere along the line. Otherwise, you may have to read the credit crawl at the end or resort to IMDb to learn that there are characters with names like Rictus Erectus, Slit and Toast the Knowing.

None of which matters a damn. Immortan Joe’s the bad guy, Max and Furiosa are the good guys, and they’re trying to get away; that’s all you really need to know. (Also, at some point, Nux switches from bad guy to good, but exactly how is, like Max’s escape from hood-ornamentdom, a little hazy; I think maybe Nux gets a crush on one of Joe’s fugitive wives). Director Miller knows how to throw these chase scenes together

Mad Max: Fury Road uses CGI, but it’s not to insult our intelligence with the blatantly impossible. and to up the stakes from one scene to the next.

Fury Road uses CGI, but it’s not to insult our intelligence with the blatantly impossible. The wild R-rated stunts here could actually happen in real life—if you could find stuntmen crazy-stupid enough to undertake them.

And one last thing: Fury Road’s editing is so, well, fast and furious that the 3-D doesn’t really register and becomes a needless frippery. Save the extra bucks and see it in 2-D. Ω

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An aging married couple (Morgan Freeman, Diane Keaton) run the gauntlet of selling their Brooklyn apartment, finding a better one and dealing with their beloved dog’s health crisis, even as all of New York is paralyzed by a possible terrorist incident. The script by Charlie Peters (from Jill Ciment’s novel Heroic Measures) is lightweight; with any two other stars it might be downright forgettable, but Freeman and Keaton couldn’t be forgettable if they tried, and they lift the movie into something tender and almost moving. Adding a dash of urban frenzy is Cynthia Nixon as their niece and real estate agent, while flashbacks sketch in their past, with Korey Jackson and Claire van der Boom flawlessly cast as Freeman and Keaton’s younger selves.

Richard Loncraine’s sure-handed direction is another plus. J.L.

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An uptight by-the-book Texas cop (Reese Witherspoon) is assigned to escort the wife of a key witness (Sofia Vergara) safely to the trial in Dallas, but a series of betrayals and misadventures make her look like a rogue cop who has abducted the woman; a statewide (wo)manhunt and supposed hilarity ensue. David Feeney and John Quaintance’s script is scattershot and silly (beginning with that sniggering double-entendre title), and Anne Fletcher’s direction is often sloppy. Still, it’s good to see Witherspoon doing a comedy again, and she and Vergara have a charming comic rapport, taking turns playing straightwoman for each other. Here’s hoping this encouraging misfire does well enough that they’re teamed again in a vehicle more worthy of their talents. J.L.

Clouds of Sils Maria

Oliver Assayas directs Juliette Binoche as an insecure actress who agrees to appear in a new production of the play that made her famous, only this time in the older woman role instead of the ingénue part.

Although Clouds of Sils Maria is essentially a three-woman picture, with Kristen Stewart as an overworked personal assistant and Chloe Grace Moretz as the TMZ-gen Eve to Binoche’s Margo Channing, the narrative is incredibly dense, and it takes Assayas the

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The dork of the class of ’94 (Jack Black) decides he can turn his upcoming 20year reunion into a success by getting the most popular guy (James Marsden) to attend; after all, the guy’s a “big star” now—even though his stardom consists of a single commercial for Banana Boat sunscreen. On a trip from Pittsburgh to L.A. to make his pitch, the dork’s plans take an unexpected turn, with complications once the reunion weekend arrives. The script by writer-directors Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul swings back and forth between wickedly clever insights and glaring false notes, with a slight edge to insight. It’s a dual portrait of two different but equally unlikeable losers, so the movie is lucky to have Black and Marsden, whose basic likeability makes us wish them well if they can only learn their lesson. J.L.

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The original Pitch Perfect was a surprise hit—and, though trivial, pleasant enough. But in three years, writer Kay Cannon could think of nowhere to take this gang of one-dimensional stereotypes than to toss them into yet another variation on the old underdogs-at-the-world-competition story.

The result, under the arrhythmic direction of the otherwise talented Elizabeth Banks, is a near-disaster—a comedy that isn’t funny and a musical that isn’t tuneful (and once again, this supposed a capella group doesn’t sing unaccompanied). The net effect is wincing sympathy for Anna Kendrick and Hailee Steinfeld, who deserve better. Most of the rest of the cast, having no discernible talent, can count their blessings to be working at all. (And what’s with Rebel Wilson? Aren’t her 15 minutes about ready to run out?) J.L.

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more illogical when that band became The Who. Although they had never managed or produced anyone before, the combination of the welltravelled, Oxford-educated Lambert and the suave Cockney con man Stamp (brother of actor Terence) meshed with The Who’s dysfunctional family dynamics—their lack of musical sophistication fostered a try-anything environment, and their long-form storytelling ambitions nudged Pete Townshend towards Tommy. James D. Cooper’s documentary is superficial but heady, a breathless ride through 1960s mod culture driven largely by the irresistible personality of Stamp and the propulsive, wall-to-wall Who music. D.B.

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entire first act just to unpack it all. As Binoche and Stewart retreat to a mountain villa, the separation between performance and reality grows blurry—are they running through lines, or picking at the scab of their own older woman/ingénue dynamic? The film explores the psychology of female role-play with depth and intelligence, and the performances are outstanding—Binoche brings her expected ethereal complexity, and Stewart cuts through her aura like vinegar through grease. D.B.

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Thomas Vinterberg directed half a dozen features, a few TV movies and a handful of music videos in between the time he made his 1998 breakthrough The Celebration and his 2012 “comeback” The Hunt, but he’s gained such a stern, quiet confidence since then that his new stuff feels like the work of a changed man. The Hunt was a study in cruel suspicion in which a small-town schoolteacher’s life and reputation are destroyed by the innocent lie of a child, and Vinterberg tills similar soil in his adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1874 serial Far from the Madding Crowd, creating another small-town hothouse where propriety is challenged and everyone exists on the razor’s edge of fate. Far from the Madding Crowd is maybe not quite an equal to The Hunt, but it’s the more impressive achievement—a beautifully mounted, fiercely intelligent, bracingly alive literary adaptation that remains an unabashed crowd-pleaser. D.B.

The movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are designed to be selfperpetuating sequel machines, soulless products whose only purpose is to set up the next several films in a never ending series of sequel machines. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Marvel “solo” movies like Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier conquer the global box office, and the Avengers movies serve as de facto victory laps/bro-outs. That’s a solid formula, for printing money and hypnotizing a generation of helpless youth into believing that these films count as entertainment if nothing else, and Avengers: Age of Ultron doesn’t deviate from the formula for a second.

Writer-director Joss Whedon is pretty much locked into an overarching storyline and a bland house style here, so instead of bucking the system, he dutifully serves up more of the same bubble-brained gibberish and wanton destruction. D.B,

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On the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, a Los Angeles theater director (Simon Abkarian) prepares a play commemorating the horror, but is beset by demonstrators, literally on all sides: Turks denying that the atrocity ever happened, and Armenians outraged that the play shows an Armenian woman (Angela Sarafyan) surviving by abandoning her family for a Turkish soldier. Worse yet, a series of eerie accidents suggests the presence of ghostly protesters. First-time writer-directors Garin Hovannisian and Alec Mouhibian grapple valiantly with their theme, but it seems too vast for their fledgling talents and their limited budget. There are many solemnly striking images, thanks in large part to the haunting faces of the actors, but the story is muddled, unfocused and pounded across with sledgehammers. J.L.

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This Swedish offering is about as lighthearted and inconsequential as a dark comedy dealing with mass murder and nihilistic destruction can possibly get. While escaping both the police and a cartoonish biker gang, centenarian Allan Karlsson (50-year-old Robert Gustafsson) flashes back to his youthful discovery of “how good it feels to blow things up,” a proclivity that led him to fateful meetings with Franco, Stalin and Robert Oppenheimer, and into inadvertently becoming the architect of the Cold War. If that’s not weird and wacky enough: oompah music! In the flashback scenes, director Felix Herngren seems to be going for a Forrest Gump-like historical fable, but in the more manic present-day scenes, Herngren leans on glib violence and weak screenwriting clichés. It’s an unusual ride to say the least, a mouthful of a title and several fistfuls of ideas, often quite inventive and funny, but a little too flippant to fully recommend. D.B.

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Taking its cue from the sort of pandering nostalgia that usually gets peddled to Baby Boomers, Mat Whitecross’ irritating Spike Island follows a teenage gang of the Stone Roses’ superfans in 1990 Manchester. While getting their own Stone Roses-influenced group off the ground, the boys try to score tickets to the band’s legendary concert on Spike Island, which the film naturally insists “defined a generation.” At least the music licensing is impeccable—every song from the Stone Roses’ self-titled debut album gets played here.

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Times are good for local indie-rock quartet Sun Valley Gun Club. Its track “Hey Collapser” got some radio airplay last year on various San Francisco and by Aaron Carnes Sacramento radio stations, and the band is now on the cusp of releasing its sophomore LP on the S.F.-based 20 Sided Records, as well as a cassette on Pleasant Screams.

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When they first started playing together, they were mostly performing songs Bailey had written prior to SVGC’s formation. They wanted to get an album out as quick as possible, so they recorded some of those songs, and even took recordings Bailey had previously made, titled it Into the Valley Sun and released it in 2013.

Since then, the band’s original bassist departed, replaced by former Der Spazm member Ashley Maiden. The new record’s music was all written, arranged and recorded by the current lineup.

The result is a better album, the band’s members say.

“It’s more concise. The first album had songs, some Bailey had for years before the band formed,” drummer Travis Quinn says.

The foursome has also taken the ’90s inspired heavy-alt rock sound they’d been crafting and refined it. A lot of their influences include “slackerrock” bands such as Pavement and Superchunk, but rather than imbedding a loose, lazy, apathetic energy to the songs, the musicians craft the complex arrangements, trilling guitars, arpeggios, shifting dynamics and driving rock ’n’ roll beats, and play it all with precision.

Their influences aren’t exclusively ’90s alt-rock but they don’t deny the genre’s significant influence. In fact they are set to release an homage to the year 1994—a mixtape (on cassette, no less) of cover songs from that year, each song collaborating with a different musician. The artists covered run the gamut and include Madonna, Cake, Blur and Ween.

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Things weren’t always so great, however. In fact, they got a scathing review after playing an early show at a sushi restaurant in Natomas.

The review came via Gary’s Reviews, a YouTube channel in which its host—the aforementioned Gary—critiques music, books, movies and food. Gary’s take on Sun Valley Gun Club: “This band won’t be around for very long,” and “I hope they all get hit by a car.”

SVGC singer Evan Bailey doesn’t deny that it was a particularly bad gig.

“It was a really weird vibe because it was a sushi bar. I was probably being a dick and he picked up on that,” Bailey says. “If people aren’t paying attention, I become a toddler and I start picking at them on stage. But his review was pretty extreme.”

That show happened in early 2012, and was technically the first show they’d played as Sun Valley Gun Club; previously they’d just played under the name “Evan Bailey.”

Rather than wallow in the negativity, however, the band posted the review on its Facebook page.

Now, unlike the reviewer’s prediction, Sun Valley Gun Club has lasted, and it’s earned a buzz around Sacramento and the Bay Area— the band claims both Sacramento and Oakland as its hometown, as guitarist Justin Butler lives in Oakland, while the rest live here in town.

The band’s upcoming self-titled LP, which it plans to release in August, is technically its second, but the band considers it to be more or less their first. That reasoning works like this:

The band crafts complex arrangements, trilling guitars, arpeggios, shifting dynamics and driving rock ’n’ roll beats. “[The compilation is] our fucked-up version of being an elementary school kid and making a mixtape of those bands,” Bailey says.

The group is also excited about its upcoming album. In the years since they’ve started, they’ve made some more radio station connections they hope will get the record some traction. There’s even talk about reaching out to that guy at Gary’s Reviews.

“He could be a really nice guy,” Bailey says.

“We should probably get him to review the record. I’d be down with that.” Ω

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’80s metal, Sunday fun-day and TBD Fest returns Get your ’80s metal on: Thrash metal was on the menu during the May 12 performance at Ace of Spades with Brazil’s Sepultura and Germany’s Destruction. And while many of their faithful fans were waiting anxiously to take a few trips around the circle pit, most die-hard fans got warmed up with spirited sets by openers Arsis and Boris the Blade.

When Destruction finally took the stage at 8:30 p.m. (do remember, these are strict curfew-enforced shows), they opened with “Curse The Gods” and set the bar for the night.

Vocalist-bassist Marcel “Schmier” Schirmer and guitarist Mike Sifringer were in rare form and played with a renewed vigor and energy not seen in recent years alongside drummer Wawrzyniec “Vaaver” Dramowicz, who has been doing a splendid job since taking the drum throne in 2010.

One listen to new(er) tracks such as “Nailed To The Cross” was proof-positive that these lads can still write quality songs long after their glory days in the late ’80s.

The circle pit went crazy during songs such as “Bestial Invasion” and “Eternal Ban” and for the band’s brief 45-minute set, Ace Of Spades resembled a club scene from the late ’80s with fans thrashing about and headbanging in unison.

Although the night’s headliner was Sepultura, who boast 30 years together, the band’s name couldn’t have been any more misleading.

Now absent of original singerguitarist Max Cavalera and his brother, drummer Igor Cavalera, this is not the same beast that rose to great fame in the late ’80s and early ’90s.

Original guitarist-bandleader Andreas Kisser was still a force to be reckoned with alongside bassist Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr., but singer Derrick Green’s voice didn’t carry the same ferociousness and tenacity as Cavalera’s once did.

And Green did do justice to older material by inciting the crowd to sing along on songs like “Territory” and “Propaganda.”

However, the band always seemed to be taking two steps backward each time it launched into newer material such as “Kairos” and “The Vatican,” which paled in comparison to Sepultura’s older catalog staples like “Arise” and the night’s highlight, “Refuse/Resist.”

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Sunday, not-so-lazy Sunday: The May 17 opera recital with bassbaritone phenomenon Philippe Sly and guitarist John Charles Britton was a wonderful respite from the normal lazy Sunday tradition, and classical music lovers were out in force. The afternoon recital was the last of the season in the intimate Vanderhoef Studio Theatre at the Mondavi Center in Davis.

Sly did not hold back and took on many of Schubert’s tougher works, including “Du Bist die Ruh,” which saw him helping guitarist Britton with some one-handed fret work while turning pages to read with the other.

Aided by little more than two screens—one with pastoral landscapes and the other with translated lyrics—the two showcased their ability to translate Schubert’s original works with great effect using a simple guitar and vocal duo format.

Other highlights included “Wohin?” and “Standchen,” which were both delivered with respect to Schubert’s fans and classical aficionados alike. After closing their set with “Don Quichotte à Dulcinée”

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Mark your calendars: Last year’s TBD Fest was a critical hit with glowing reviews from the likes of Nylon and Billboard. If you’ve been waiting around with bated breath for the festival’s organizers to finally release this year’s lineup, then go ahead and breathe.

The three-day roster officially dropped, at least in part, on May 15.

The event, which will take place in West Sacramento, September 18 to September 20, is set to feature Death Grips as well as Pretty Lights, Cut Copy, Tyler the Creator, Black Lips, Purity Ring, Ty Dolla Sign, Ladyhawke and, for the Gen Xers, Tears for Fears. Local(ish) acts include (so far) Chuwee, Jonah Matranga, Two Sheds, Doombird and Rasar. There are tons more acts scheduled, of course, but we just don’t have room for all that awesome.

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Lions Gate Hotel, 7 p.m., $15

Sol Collective, 7:30 p.m., $12

Blues on the Patio opens its 2015 season with Coco Montoya, one of today’s great contemporary electric blues artists. His rendition BLUES of “Slow Blues” lasts a quarter of an hour with him on lead guitar and vocals. He knows how to make his guitar sing, talk and weep, and he knows how to take the audience on that long journey to experience what the blues can be. After all, his mentors include Albert Collins and John Mayall. “Last Dirty Deal” is a more rockbased blues while “You Don’t Love Me” pulls directly from the roots of Delta and Chicago blues. Val Starr and the Blues Rocket will open. 3410 Westover Street, www.coco montoyaband.com.

—Trina L. Drotar

Old Ironsides, 9 p.m., $10

Originally from Boston, Sactown rapper, spoken-word artist and educator Paul Willis is set to release his 13-track album, Rough Draft, just in time for Hip-Hop Appreciation Week, celebrated each year the third week in May. “I am a man that believes in the power of young people, and the power of communities coming together to do some really positive things, and that’s what my music and poetry is about,” says Willis in a recent YouTube video.

Rough Draft features songs like “The Quiet Don’t Come” with lyrics that reflect Willis’ HIP-HOP positive message. The album’s title track features communityoriented values and conscious lifestyle content with smooth R&B vibes. 2574 21st Street, https://paulwillis.bandcamp.com.

Starlite Lounge, 8 p.m., $10

Ah, the Brodys: a staple at Concerts in the Park for a whopping 18 years, but—somehow, for some reason—no longer. The pop-rockers aged, and so did their loyal fans, but who doesn’t crave the excuse to belt out “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” in a mass of sweaty ROCK people every so often? Karaoke just won’t do it—the Brodys always win in energy and spirit. Since you can’t get your free fix at Cesar Chavez Plaza this year, head to the Brodys’ 20th anniversary party, where the band just might unveil some new tunes. Get there early to catch the Knockoffs opening. 1901 10th Street, www.facebook.com/ thebrodys.

—Janelle Bitker

—Steph Rodriguez

The malevolent spirits comprising Battle Hag just finished up a five-song, self-titled demo CD in March recorded by doom metal band (waning)’s Jim Willig. Battle Hag invokes the sludge and doom aspects of metal, but also summons shamanic metal nuances with its thunderous, long-form songs that seep into crowds and wrap listeners into a trance-like state. This summer, Battle Hag is also set to perform at Festum Carnis 2015, an outin-the-woods, three-day metal festival in Wilseyville, Calif. with more than 40 bands, including Sacto’s Black Majik Acid. Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Serial Hawk METAL and Needs will also perform at this show at Starlite. 1517 21st Street, www.facebook.com/battlehag.

—Steph Rodriguez

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Founding member and bandleader Bill Manspeaker (a.k.a. Moronic Dicktator) probably never expected his comedy rock band would be around for 34 years. The band was called Green Jellö before the litigious losers at Kraft Foods stepped in and made them drop the “O” for fear it would tarnish the Jell-O brand name. What started as basically a joke recording in Manspeaker’s bedroom turned into an official DIY release, the “Let It Be” 7-inch single. Come see a crazy band donning ridiculous costumes. If you don’t COMEDY ROCK smile at this one, you’re probably already dead. Also on the bill are Sour Diesel, Korean Fire Drill, California Riot Act and ATALA. 7925 Arcadia Drive in Citrus Heights, www.facebook.com/greenjellosuxx.

Most likely the name “Tree Village” is a reference to the group being out of Grass Valley. Style-wise, the group is tougher to ROCK/METAL figure out. It plays a genre that is prog rock meets metal meets math rock.

It’s packed with a ton of technical chops, shredding licks, constantly shifting grooves and thoroughly epic guitar leads. The band is an instrumental four-piece, and formed in 2011. Each of TV’s songs feels more like a journey than anything resembling pop music. The sections can be driving, triumphant, spaced-out or emotional—though usually all of those are in one tune. The Strive and Chris Glass also perform.

315 Richardson Street in Grass Valley, www.facebook.com/treevillageband.

—Eddie Jorgensen

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This Memorial Day show takes place after you’ve likely returned from multiple hours of cursing in hellish traffic. Hubris is a blackmetal band from Buffalo, New York, that released a ferocious self-titled album in 2012.

It has a new album on the way but will be touring the states to bring nauseating riffs to the ears of any willing participants. Like any good East Coast black-metal band, the band members’ true identities are hidden by nearly BLACK METAL unpronounceable names like Hellskald, Melkorpse, Lichfiend and Deragore. This all-ages soiree features Murrum, Valley of Thorns, Cataclysmic Assault and Electrocuted

By The Third Rail. 3512 Stockton Boulevard, www.facebook.com/thetruehubris.

Electro-indie-pop trio MRCH is as about as sleek as its vowelless name suggests, and while there’s not much material out yet with which one can form a full impression, the group’s debut single “Validation” is pleasELECTRO POP ingly catchy—like a more chill cousin of the similarly vowel-averse, pro-all-caps CHVRCHES. On top of a solid first single, a slick website, gorgeous press shots and a charming stop-motion music video suggest MRCH is primed to make a move. They don’t appear to be playing a ton of shows, so all you aspiring electro-indie music bloggers and I-heardthem-first types, take note of this one.

1050 20th Street, www.mrchmusic.com.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): James

McNeill Whistler was an influential painter in the latter half of the 19th century. He advocated the “art for art’s sake” credo, insisting that the best art doesn’t need to teach or moralize. As far as he was concerned, its most important purpose was to bring forth “glorious harmony” from chaos. But the immediate reason I’m nominating him to be your patron saint for the coming weeks is the stylized signature he created: an elegant butterfly with a long tail that was actually a stinger.

I think you’ll thrive by embodying that dual spirit: being graceful, sensitive and harmonious and yet also feisty, piquant and provocative. Can you manage that much paradox? I think you can.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Renowned

author George Bernard Shaw was secure in his feeling that he did good work. He didn’t need the recognition of others to validate his self-worth. The British prime minister offered him a knighthood, but he refused it. When he found out he had been awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature, he wanted to turn it down but his wife convinced him to accept it.

The English government also sought to give him the prestigious Order of Merit, but he rejected it, saying, “I have already conferred this order upon myself.” He’s your role model for right now, Taurus.

Congratulate yourself for your successes, whether or not anyone else does.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Aha!”

is your mantra for the coming weeks, Gemini. Keep it on the tip of your tongue, ready to unleash. This always-ready-tobe-surprised-by-inspiration attitude will train you to expect the arrival of wonders and marvels. And that will be an effective way to actually attract wonders and marvels! With “Aha!” as your talisman, all of your wake-up calls will be benevolent, and all of the chaos you encounter—or at least most of it—will be fertile.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Do you

chronically indulge in feelings of guilt? Do you berate yourself for the wrong turns and sad mistakes you made in the past?

These behaviors may be sneaky ways of avoiding change. How can you summon enough energy to transform your life if you’re wallowing in worries and regrets?

In presenting the possibility that you might be caught in this trap, I want you to know that I’m not sitting in judgment of you. Not at all. Like you, I’m a Cancerian, and I have periodically gotten bogged down in the very morass I’m warning you against. The bad news is that right now you are especially susceptible to falling under this spell. The good news is that right now you have extra power to break this spell.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the TV

comedy-drama Jane the Virgin, the fictional character known as Rogelio de la Vega is a vain but lovable actor who performs in telenovelas. “I’m very easy to dress,” he tells the wardrobe supervisor of a new show he’ll be working on. “Everything looks good on me. Except for peach. I don’t pop in peach.” What he means is that his charisma doesn’t radiate vividly when he’s wearing peach-colored clothes. Now I want to ask you, Leo: What don’t you pop in? I’m not simply talking about the color of clothes that enable you to shine, but everything else, too. In the coming weeks, it’s crucial that you surround yourself with influences that make you pop.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Are you

willing to entertain an outlandish possibility? Here’s my vision: You will soon be offered unexpected assistance, either through the machinations of a “guardian angel” or the messy blessings of a shapeshifting spirit. This divine intervention will make it possible for you to demolish a big, bad obstacle you’ve been trying to find a way around. Even if you have trouble believing in the literal factuality of my prophecy, here’s what I suspect: It will at least come true in a metaphorical sense— which is the truest kind of truth of all.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Glory” is

the theme song of the film Selma. It’s an anthem about the ongoing struggle for equal rights by African-Americans. I want to borrow one of its lines for your use in the coming weeks: “Freedom is like a

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religion to us.” I think those will be good words for you to live by. Are you part of a group that suffers oppression and injustice? Are you mixed up in a situation that squashes your self-expression? Are you being squelched by the conditioned habits of your own unconscious mind? It’s high time to rebel. The quest for liberation should be your spiritual calling.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you’re

planning on breaking a taboo, sneaking into a forbidden zone, or getting intimate with an edge-dweller, don’t tell boastful stories about what you’re doing. For now, secrecy is not only sexy; it’s a smart way to keep you safe and effective. Usually I’m fond of you telling the whole truth. I like it when you reveal the nuanced depths of your feelings. But right now I favor a more cautious approach to communication.

Until your explorations have progressed further, I suggest that you only discuss them sparingly. As you put your experiments in motion, share the details on a need-to-know basis.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

There are many possible ways to create and manage a close relationship. Here’s one of my favorite models: when two independent, self-responsible souls pledge to help each other activate the best versions of themselves. If you don’t have a partnership like this, the near future will be a favorable time to find one. And if you already do have an intimate alliance in which the two of you synergize each other’s quest for individuation, the coming weeks could bring you breathtaking breakthroughs.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s a challenge to drive a car through Canada’s far north. For example, if you want to get from Dawson in the Yukon Territory to Inuvik in the Northwest Territory, you take Dempster Highway. It’s gravel road for the entire 417-mile trip, so the ride is rough. Bring a spare tire and extra gasoline, since there’s just one service station along the way. On the plus side, the scenery is thrilling. The permafrost in the soil makes the trees grow in odd shapes, almost like they’re drunk. You can see caribou, wolverines, lynx, bears and countless birds. Right now, the sun is up 20 hours every day. And the tundra?

You’ve never seen anything like it. Even if you don’t make a trip like this, Capricorn, I’m guessing you will soon embark on a metaphorically similar version. With the right attitude and preparation, you will have fun and grow more courageous.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Aquarian author James Joyce wrote Ulysses, one of the most celebrated and influential novels of the 20th century.

The narrative is both experimental and tightly structured. Its chaotic stream-ofconsciousness passages are painstakingly crafted. (Anyone who wonders how the astrological sign of Aquarius can be jointly ruled by the rebellious planet Uranus and the disciplinarian planet Saturn need only examine this book for evidence.) Joyce claimed he labored over Ulysses for 20,000 hours. That’s the equivalent of devoting eight hours a day, 350 days a year, for more than seven years. Will you ever work that hard and long on a project, Aquarius?

If so, now would be an auspicious time to start.

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

writer and caricaturist Max Beerbohm moved away from his native land when he was 37 years old. He settled in Rapallo, Italy, where he lived for much of the rest of his life. Here’s the twist: When he died at age 83, he had still not learned to speak Italian. For 40 years, he used his native tongue in his foreign home. This is a failing you can’t afford to have in the coming months, Pisces. The old proverb “When in Rome, do as the Romans do,” has never been so important for you to observe.

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

And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.

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Growing together There’s something growing in Oak Park, and it’s more than just vegetation. It started a few years ago, when Earl Withycombe inherited the lot at 3733 Broadway, a vacant lot at the time. He enlisted Cara Jennifer Solis to help him transform it into a useful space for the community, and eventually a whole nonprofit formed around it—Oak Park Sol. The organization aims to continue creating new, useful community gardens in Sacramento in the future, and helping to bring about that vision is board chair Randy Stannard.

He’s an avid gardener and works at Soil Born Farms for his day job, so he knows a few things about how to plant a vegetable.

What is a community garden?

It can be a lot of things to a lot of people.

When you usually say “community garden,” what comes into people’s minds is that idea where you have all these plots and everyone’s got their little square that they do their thing in. … Here we have kind of that mix of “you can have your own plot if you want,” but then we also have a lot of just everybody working together to maintain, manage, water, weed and tend some of these areas. Other components of this garden like the outdoor kitchen and the children’s garden space are having it be a community gathering space that would ideally be free and available for people to have birthday parties or outdoor meetings or whatever.

How did you get involved?

I do garden community development and food production, right now primarily focused in South Sacramento. That is my work, doing garden food production, urban ag and community organizing. … They know that I do that work and I live in Oak Park. It made sense to at least invite me to be on the board to be a part of it if I wanted to be. I thought there was a lot of potential for this site. It’s still not perfect. I would like to put energy into this and have it become something cool.

For new spaces, do you plan to stay in Oak Park?

We’ve talked about that and we haven’t come to a 100 percent answer, but I think we’re thinking city of Sacramento boundaries, maybe go into county of Sacramento, but this generally, city of Sacramento would be the area we would be looking at working in, not just Oak Park. If a property and neighbors came together, wherever it was in Sacramento, we would love to facilitate that process.

Could it lead to more than gardens?

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which was to create this piece of property into a community garden and to show native plants—very focused on this piece of property. If we’re doing to develop a board and a nonprofit, it makes sense to go beyond just this piece of property. This is a great model of what could be done on a vacant lot, but not the only thing, so let’s create an organization with a mission to take vacant lots and/or other underutilized spaces, and have them become functional, productive, community managed green spaces, whatever that may be. If it’s a basketball court, and that’s what people really want, then we should help facilitate that.

Do you help people learn to garden?

We’ll have composting classes, and gardening classes, and those will be all free for people to come. We aren’t doing it consistently now, but we want to do potlucks and just get people together. Ultimately, what we want is for people to not be reliant on us, the organization. … If we can just bring people together, the novice gardener that lives next to the professional, awesome gardener that’s just been doing it for a long time, then that’s ultimately what we want. It’s a sustainable system when it’s the neighborhood taking care of itself.

What’s a good starter plant for novice gardeners?

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Do you have any gardening tips?

A lot of people want to get everything on a timer so they don’t have to spend any time in the garden. ... The hard reality is it takes some time and energy and focus. My tip would be, go ahead and hand-water your plants because that means you have to go out to your garden, you’re going to watering them and you’re going to have your eyes on your garden, which I think is the most important skill—your observational skills, being in the garden, you learn by direct experience.

What grows well in Sacramento?

What doesn’t grow well is almost a better question. We live in this amazing hyperMediterranean climate. Other than tropical stuff—mangos, avocados, papayas, pineapples—we can grow most things. In the summer, you can get amazing tomatoes and eggplants and squash and cucumbers and melons, and that sort of stuff. In the spring we get incredible strawberries and stuff growing around here. We have this great environment for growing fruit: peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots, pomegranates, kiwis, and you can go year-round, oranges, citrus. And we can grow nuts here. We live in this really incredible place. Ω

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