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Ain’t no sunshine Good government. Accountability.

Transparency. Ethics. Let’s call all this GATE, a hot-topic acronym in Sacramento this year.

Months ago, concerned citizens started holding town halls to discuss GATE reforms. They were motivated after Measure L, which they say would have implemented half-assed changes.

In fact, the mayor and his coterie are still working toward their own tweaks, but this is all going on behind the scenes, in “ad hoc committees”—an irony not lost on these citizens.

And people keep knocking on the GATE. This past Sunday, Sacramento Bee executive editor Joyce Terhaar dinged City Hall, demanding more transparency and communication when it comes to her reporters’ public-records requests.

All this talk—is the city even listening?

Doesn’t appear so. Last week, SN&R contributor Joe Rubin acquired a city email announcing a new policy when it comes to deleting records.

These changes were made behind closed doors, without public dialogue.

The city isn’t doing anything illegal, though. An attorney from the California Newspapers Publishers Association told me that most cities keep records for less than two years.

But shouldn’t the city hold conversations about changing its recordsretention policy with the public?

Shouldn’t the GATE be wide open?

Rubin, who exposed mismanagement (and worse) with the city’s costly water-meter program last year (See “Flushing money,” SN&R Feature, November 13, 2014), says the new rules will make it harder, if not impossible, to do his job.

All this reminds why we need ethics and good-government commissions at City Hall. We need sunshine on city decision-making. The public deserves to know. They’ve been demanding as much for months.

Are city GATEkeepers that tone deaf?

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In other downtown cities, things seem more vibrant than in Sacramento. Places need to stay open longer, later. Everything here closes down early.

I would like to see more family restaurants, more family activities. I would like to have places stay open later. We need everything, we need American food, like steak and potatoes. I would like to see this area cleaner.

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Budget bust The city of Sacramento must be listening to a lot of Rae Sremmurd and Nicki Minaj, because leaders are definitely in “Throw Sum Mo” mode when it comes to this year’s budget.

The next fiscal-year’s spending plan, which was poised to be approved by city council this week, calls for nearly $7 million more in expenditures than the city manager suggested. That’s not a big deal; it’s the kind of spending— on unfunded long-term obligations, on the mayor’s staff—that That’s at least might potentially leave the city a $77 million with historic deficits. deficit by Let’s fast-forward a few years, to 2019. Based on this year’s budget, the city will be in year 2019. a $35 million hole in 2019.

This is not to mention that, in 2019, the city’s yearly contribution to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System is forecasted to go up at least $15 million. Add that to the tab.

And let’s not forget the new Kings arena. The city’s bond payments are scheduled to bump up to $17 million a year in 2019, according to the term sheet. Add that to the bill.

In case you need help with the math: That’s at least a $77 million deficit by year 2019.

SN&R is concerned by the majority of council’s decision to use Measure U sales tax monies, a temporary revenue source that eventually expires, for long-term obligations.

This past week, the city’s budget committee figured out some trickery to avoid deficits in the next few years. But by pushing all of the deficit to 2019—by paying for things like new police officers, firefighters and parks workers with Measure U revenue—politicians are just doing what they do best: kicking the can down the road.

Another contentious bit of spending is adding 70 percent to Mayor Kevin Johnson’s payroll.

The five new positions amount to just $700,000 in spending; that’s a very small piece of the pie. Yet it is disconcerting that, on the heels of Measure L’s “strong mayor” defeat, the council would vote to end-run the will of the voters and expand the mayor’s powers.

Equally concerning are reports, in this paper

by Cosmo Garvin and on website Deadspin.com, that Johnson continues to use public employees and resources for his private endeavors, such as work with the National Basketball Players Association and fundraising for his private groups and nonprofits.

Despite all this, the new budget likely will pass with a 6-3 vote, Council members Larry Carr, Jeff Harris and Steve Hansen being the nays. We’d like to thank those three leaders for showing at least some consideration for the city’s fiscal house in the long game. These three were left off the city budget committee, so it’s crucial that they speak out even though they have limited say on the matter.

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Each essay was better then the next, and I was bowled over by their experiences and insights. Thank you, SN&R, for running this contest. letter of Your May 28 issue made my day. the week P.S. Would it be too much to ask for the same essay writing contest for the seniors in our community?

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Staff is recommending that the Planning Commission approve a new 16-pump fuel center at the new Curtis Park Village. A vote was scheduled this Thursday night. Scorekeeper has no love for Safeway gasoline and hopes that the city monitors the design of and traffic near the fuel center— because those things are ugly and get busy.

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K.J. Inc. strikes again National media takes a look at mayor’s public-private network Bites has been banging pots and pans for a while now about Mayor Kevin Johnson’s use of public resources to advance his many personal and political interests.

K.J.’s network of nonprofits slurp up millions from business interests. These “charitable behests” don’t go to charity; they go to promote Johnson’s political brand, they go to consultants and cronies. Johnson then arvIn G promotes the policy interests of those big o sM Co by donors. And there’s practically no line cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om dividing the mayor’s office and the private organizations.

The Sacramento media is pretty blasé about K.J. Inc. But not D.C.-based reporter Dave McKenna, who writes for the Gawker site Deadspin. Read his recent stories, “How Kevin Johnson used public money to his own personal ends,” and “How Kevin Johnson Destroyed Black Mayors Group to Promote His Brand.”

The themes are pretty familiar, but McKenna fills in some important blanks about what our wandering mayor is up to when he’s out there “raising Sacramento’s profile.”

Like using city staff to screw around in the internal politics of the National Basketball Players Association. And having public employees help wage his power struggle for control of the National Conference of Black Mayors.

In 2014, Johnson wanted to be a player in picking a new head for the National Basketball Players Association. He was ultimately rebuffed, but McKenna writes, “The labor for this project came right off the Sacramento municipal payroll,” and included chief of staff Daniel Conway and spokesperson Ben Sosenko.

Bites contacted the mayor’s office for a response; none came. But, as McKenna notes, it’s not like the mayor’s staff hides their involvement in Johnson’s outside projects. Mayoral aide Andre Breaux says on his LinkedIn profile that he “managed project tasks for the Mayor’s role as Chairman of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) Executive Director Search Committee.”

The story of Johnson and the Conference of Black Mayors is longer and way more bizarre.

K.J. is being sued by former NCBM executive Read Cosmo Garvin’s 2012 cover story director Vanessa Williams for defamation.

“K.J. Inc.” here: By all accounts, the organization was a mess, http://tinyurl.com/ financially mismanaged and deeply in debt when MayorKJinc.

Johnson got himself elected NCBM president in 2013. But some mayors resented Johnson’s tactics and attempt to seize control. For example, a PowerPoint presentation was distributed to the mayor’s City Hall staff, in Sacramento, about the NCBM takeover titled “Annual Meeting ‘Coup.’”

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One of the main coup participants was Mariah Sheriff, Johnson’s director of government affairs and education, now deputy chief of staff. Another was Stephanie Mash, another of mayor’s directors of governmental affairs.

Johnson eventually grew frustrated with the NCBM fight and resigned. He immediately started a new nonprofit, called the African American Mayors Association, and installed Mash as executive director and himself as president. Johnson has since used AAMA to solicit big contributions from folks like Wal-Mart, CocaCola and Uber, and then push policies favorable to the donors. (Read my column on this from last year: http://tinyurl.com/MayorKJUber.)

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Also on the NCBM coup team was Aisha Lowe, who was executive director of Johnson’s education reform advocacy group Stand Up. When Mash left, Lowe took Mash’s job in the mayor’s office, simultaneously holding positions in City Hall and at Stand Up. Three years ago, City Manager John Shirey said of Johnson’s various extra-curricular activities, “The people who are here need to be engaged in city work,” and he showed Johnson’s nonprofits the door. (Read more about this here: http://tinyurl.com/KJ-Shirey.)

Apparently it was a revolving door. When Bites contacted the City Manager and the City Attorney’s offices last week to ask, “Is it OK to use city employees in this way?” neither responded.

Jessica Levinson, professor of election law at Loyola Law School, says Johnson’s use of city employees “is blurring lines, for sure.”

“The baseline is that you can use public funds for public purposes, period,” she explains. And using city employees is the same as using city funds. Lots of mayors do things to try to raise their profiles on the national stage.

And Levinson says that’s all to the good, if there’s a real benefit to the constituents back home. “You have to ask, ‘Is this just for Kevin Johnson’s benefit, or is it for the benefit of the people of Sacramento?’”

So that’s the question: How does using city employees to play politics in the National Basketball Players Association and the National Conference of Black Mayors benefit the people of Sacramento?

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Dope-sick kids Sacramento’s foster children could benefit from anti-drug legislation A lengthy campaign to end the forced drugging of California’s foster children inched forward on a state Senate vote last week. by But advocates worry that the comprehensive legislation Raheem won’t make it past Gov. Jerry Brown’s frugal veto pen.

F. Hosseini “We think our biggest issue is going to come down to money,” said National Center for Youth Law policy analyst r a h ee mh@ newsr evie w.c om Anna Johnson. “The governor has a history of not signing children’s initiatives. It’s not really part of his legacy.”

The startup cost for implementing the four-piece package of bills would be $5 million in the first year, and then $4 million annually after that. Considering the state spends north of $25 million a year on doping its foster population, Johnson foresees making up the price tag, and then some, through The state spends reducing prescriptions, especially for north of $25 high-power psychotropic medications that have been linked to overmillion a year on doses, suicides, organ failure—and boys developing breasts. doping its foster evenLocally, 12 percent of Sacramento County’s 3,744 population. foster children—age 20 and younger—were on psychotropic meds last year, according to data from the state Department of Social Services. That’s down from 14 percent the year prior—though the number of medicated children actually increased by more than a couple dozen—and is on par with California’s top-populated counties.

This February, California lawmakers convened a joint oversight hearing on the matter and lambasted a fragmented system that struggles to track what happens to its most vulnerable youths.

Listing diabetes, obesity, heart disease and death as a sampling of the serious health effects associated with doping foster kids with drugs not developed for them, state Senator Jim Beall cited an urgent need to educate caregivers about alternative treatment methods and create avenues to report abuse. “We can’t use psychotropic drugs as a crutch to modify behavior,” he said. “Thousands of children are counting on us to do a better job.”

More than half of medicated foster children reside in group home settings, state data shows.

That’s what happened to Ashley Drake, who rotated through 13 group homes around the Sacramento area during her youth. She says staff ignored her unless she made attempts on her life. “They were just throwing me inside the An extended version of mental hospital,” she said. “You were always doped up in thi story is available at www.newsreview.com/ there. That’s kind of their way of handling things.” sacramento.

While Johnson viewed the Senate vote as a significant step forward, she’s not convinced the bills will survive the Assembly and Brown, even with the potential cost savings they bring. “Politicians don’t really like cost-savings analysis,” she said. “While this seems to be a priority in word, it might not be a priority when it comes to our wallet.”

During the joint oversight hearing, Senator Mike McGuire acknowledged that past reforms died in appropriations or by not getting signed. “That’s where we have faced challenges as a state,” he said. “These foster youth don’t have the time. And the longer we wait, the worse the outcome is for the foster youth.” Ω 10

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Tipping point Can local restaurants survive a major increase to the minimum wage?

Zocalo is one of Midtown’s most hopping restaurants.

You’ve probably seen the lively patio on Saturday nights, with the servers ushering by Nick Miller margaritas and nonstop baskets of chips, and the ever-churning salsa music. It’s a scene. ni c k a m @ ne w s re v i e w . c o m But at the end of the shift, things calm down and Zocalo servers count out their tips, just like tens of thousands of other restaurant workers in the Sacramento area. Some of these servers earn $35 an hour between their base wage and gratuity—and more And, lucky them, it looks like they might be getting a big raise this year.

Last week, the state Senate passed a bill that would up California’s minimum wage to $13 an hour (it’s currently at $9, but goes to $10 in January 2016). That proposed law, Senate Bill 3, has yet to make it to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk for final approval. But it has momentum.

Meanwhile, a few blocks away at City Hall, Mayor Kevin Johnson will soon unveil a task force that will explore raising the city’s minimum wage, perhaps as high as $15 an hour.

That’s a 60 percent jump over the current rate.

The prospect of payroll shooting to unprecedented heights has restaurant owners like Jimmy Johnson concerned.

“We’re already thinking about it. We Read Nick Miller’s see it coming down the pipe already,” said April 2015 cover Johnson, who runs the show at Zocalo. story on the He explained that, between looming wage minimum wage here: http://tinyurl.com/ increases and new health-care requirements, SactoMinimumWage. because of the Affordable Care Act, there’s a “double whammy” poised to wreak havoc on California restaurants’ bottom lines.

“And that really, really hurts. We’re terrified,” Johnson admitted.

Consider: For every dollar increase in wages, he says Zocalo incurs an extra $1,000 in payroll costs. Each week.

“Any increase in labor costs for restaurant owners … can have devastating impacts,” explained Jot Condie, president and CEO of the California Restaurant Association, an advocacy group. “Such a drastic increase would force many to raise prices, cut hours and jobs, and in some cases, close their doors,” he wrote in an email.

Phil Courey is worried about how he would keep his business open if wages go up.

The owner of Opa! Opa! in East Sacramento used the same word as Condie to describe a minimum-wage increase, and its singular impact on his micro-business: “devastating.”

Courey employs 21 workers, all of them earning some kind of tips. He says that if the minimum wage ticks higher at mom-and-pop restaurants like his—which make up half of all the restaurants in California—we’re going to see a lot less of them.

But he’s convinced that the Legislature, and even the CRA, don’t care about his brand of small businesses, places that own only one location.

“They’re in bed with the Chipotles and the Starbucks,” he argued. He thinks that wage increases at micro-businesses will lead to higher costs for food, and customers will flock to corporate chains, which are better suited to absorb significant payroll costs.

“That food dollar will migrate to an increased dollar share for the corporate food chains,” he said. Courey is also prepared to sue the city of Sacramento, in a class action on behalf of the independent operators.

Restaurant owners like Courey and the CRA do agree on some issues, such as capping wages for tipped employees, as is done in 43 other states across the nation.

In Texas, for instance, servers who earn at least $30 a month in tips only need to be paid $2.13 per hour. That’s a super-low wage compared to New York, where this cap on tipped wages is slated to go up to $7.50 an hour, from $5.

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Restaurant owners say wage increases uniquely impact them, because servers already make significant earnings through tips. Many want to see a cap on wages for tipped workers.

Without a cap, the choices for restaurateurs are a dire, they say.

“You either have to raise prices, or you have to cut employees,” Johnson explained. “I’m not even sure the servers like” the proposed wage increases, he added, because it could cost them hours— or their job.

There are hundreds of restaurants in the Sacramento area, and more than 450 are members of the CRA, which estimates some 1.6 million restaurant employees in the entire state. Profit margins are infamously slim at restaurants, so big changes in costs can be disruptive and worse.

Yet restaurants are up against a tsunami of national change. Last year, five states—Alaska, Alabama, Illinois, South Dakota, Nebraska—increased their minimum wages. San Francisco voters upped the city’s minimum to $15 this past November, and Los Angeles recently voted for $15, as well. Even Wal-Mart and McDonald’s have agreed to raise their wages.

Here in Sacramento, Mayor Kevin Johnson has put increasing the minimum wage on his list of yearly goals.

Economists say they have little clue as to how these significant wage bumps will effect local businesses.

“ If it goes up to $15, that really is a huge impact. We can’t absorb it.”

Jimmy Johnson owner, Zocalo Ann Huff Stevens, a UC Davis economics professor and director of the Center for Poverty Research, told SN&R earlier this year that “we know virtually nothing” about how a $15 minimum wage would impact small businesses. “We really don’t know, and so there’s a risk,” she said.

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This is why the CRA prefers prolonged implementation of wage hikes, instead of quick jumps like what we’ve seen in Los Angeles or San Francisco.

This way, businesses have time to adjust to new payroll realities. The CRA also advocates for a “teen wage,” for entrylevel workers.

“Such measures are critical to the success of any minimum wage increase,” Condie argued.

A bill to cap the minimum wage in California for tipped employees stalled in the Assembly this year. This means that, in the city of Sacramento, higher wages at restaurants might very well be a reality this year.

Is the $20 cheeseburger coming soon to a restaurant near you?

Restaurateurs like Johnson say they’ll have to somehow pass the increased operating costs on to customers.

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A fragile truce between law enforcement and one of its most successful rehabilitation groups is fraying once again over money.

On Tuesday, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors delayed a request from the probation department to renew two funding contracts worth $1.2 million. The agreements would continue services provided by Leaders in Community Alternatives and Strategies for Change at the probation department’s three adult day reporting centers. These “ADRCs” are where the county has centralized its recidivism-fighting efforts by contracting with outside providers to conduct reentry and transition services, job placement and counseling for its offender population.

Meanwhile, Ascend, an offender rehabilitation provider with a sterling track record codified by Sacramento State University, was hoping to double its comparatively modest contract with probation to $200,000. But the $710,000 earmarked to Leaders in Community Alternatives and $510,000 for Strategies for Change crowded out Ascend’s request.

That frustrated co-founder Toni White, who worried about laying off staff while the only rehabilitation provider that’s independently proven dissolves in Sacramento County. “The one program that has outcome measures that caused Sac State to tout it as a ‘model for the nation’ receives only a token amount of funding,” she said.

Chief Probation Officer Lee Seale acknowledged the frustration, and pointed out that Ascend’s funding has increased twice under his watch since he took over the department in 2013. “So from my perspective, that shows my commitment to continuing to increase their contract,” he emailed SN&R. “The problem is that they have been pushing for this for years before I arrived.”

Seale said while there is no planned funding increase for Ascend this year, he’s hoping to change that—and to use the Sac State data to make his case. “I’m asking for their patience as we work together to steadily bring their contract up,” he added. “I’m optimistic we’ll work things out.”

Supervisors obliged by letting him pull the contracts from their consent calendar, and didn’t reschedule them to return. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

Eating during class An Oakland-based food policy nonprofit is trying to make schooltime meals more accessible to low-income California children.

California Food Policy Advocates is promoting Assembly Bill 1240, which would require schools with more than 60 percent of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunches to serve a breakfast after the start of the school day.

Sacramento City Unified School District already offers free breakfast to all of its students—not just the 70 percent who qualify for free or discounted meals. About one-third of the district’s students take advantage, says spokesman Gabe Ross, who notes that school meals may be the only ones some students have all day.

But CFPA argues that many kids don’t make it to school early enough to eat before class, or simply aren’t hungry when they do get there. The group also argues that the bill would mean additional food prep jobs and federal funding for the schools.

While the proposed legislation could increase participation in federal meal programs, Ross suggests there are logistical obstacles to providing meals after instruction has already begun, including a disruption in the learning environment. It’s not clear how the additional requirement would affect mandated instructional hours.

Sacramento children could conceivably receive three meals a day through the district as it is. SCUSD serves about 6,500 “at risk” suppers daily, according to nutrition services director Brenda Padilla, and more than 225,000 summer lunches at 55 Sacramento-area sites, including several public pools. Approximately 5,000 California schools would have to comply if AB 1240 passes. This year’s summer meal program starts June 22.

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“Every Sunday morning I would wake up and tell myself, ‘I am not going to go to happy hour tonight. I’m going to stay home and plan my week.’

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“I got into my car and I just said, ‘I don’t like the way I feel. I’m going to stop drinking.’ And I did.

That was it,” von Geldern says.

Since that day, von Geldern hasn’t had a drink. But he says his recovery didn’t really happen until later when he started attending Alcoholics Anonymous. It was then that he started to unmask the feelings and fears that ultimately caused his drinking.

“It’s great to not drink, but there’s so much more to why we drink. Recovery is when we can start looking inward,” von Geldern says.

Today, von Geldern is the executive director of River City Recovery Center. This past April he celebrated 27 years of sobriety.

As a recovered alcoholic and provider of substance abuse treatment services, von Geldern says overcoming any addiction first requires letting go.

“Just be willing to look at your drinking and drug use and don’t be afraid to ask for help,” von Geldern says. “Willingness and surrender are the keys. Then you can celebrate, one day at a time.”

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Broderick Roadhouse founder Chris Jarosz may hold the throne, but he would be nothing without his team (from left to right): Lauren Fields (bar manager), Michael Williams (general manager at Saddle Rock), Christopher Barnum (chef at Localis), Kevin O’Connor (chef at Saddle Rock).

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smartly dressed Randy Paragary mills about his namesake restaurant for its swanky, buzzing preview party. Platters of hors d’oeuvre circle: beef tartare, crab beignets, chicken liver mousse, chocolate macarons.

The crowd? Young businesspeople, trendy socialites and the occasional industry player paying respect to the godfather. After all, Paragary had been the one and only food emperor of Sacramento for years.

He owns and operates 13 restaurants and bars—including his eponymous Midtown restaurant—and is a behindthe-scenes partner in several other Sacramento spots.

That’s no easy feat—the restaurant business is notoriously risky and expensive. Urban legend goes that 90 percent of restaurants close in their first year. Despite that hyperbolic-but-stillfrightening figure, a group of young entrepreneurs has emerged in the past few years—and they’re transforming the city’s dining landscape. It’s earning Sacramento shoutouts in national publications—it’s made the central city’s restaurant scene one to seriously watch.

And it’s all happened so quickly.

Just look at Broderick Roadhouse’s Chris Jarosz. In less than four years, he went from owning one food truck to four restaurants—soon to be six— with a licensing deal in the works. He says he works 14 hours a day, seven days a week.

“There’s always a million things going on, but I feel like I can never get enough of it,” Jarosz said.

Another prime example: the owners of perennial favorite cocktail haunt Shady Lady Saloon—Jason Boggs, Alex Origoni and Garrett Van Vleck— are gearing up to transform what was once a one-restaurant operation in 2009 into a seven-part empire by the end of the year. Then there’s Kimio Bazett and Jon Modrow, of the Golden Bear and Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co., with two hotly anticipated launches later this year.

These guys—and yes, these downtown empire-builders are all men right now—are taking big financial risks to make their mark on Sacramento. But as their empires grow, will Sacramento lose the culinary diversity that makes going out so fun?

The next Paragarys?

Jarosz was broke when he launched his Wicked ‘Wich food truck in 2011. The

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Pennsylvania native had bounced all over the country, dabbling in the corporate world, photography, hairdressing, nightclubs and, yes, restaurants and bars before landing in Sacramento. Seeking a stable paycheck to support his family, he went into real estate. Then the market crashed.

Urged to finally follow his passion for food, Jarosz managed to get a truck with the help of a friend, but he didn’t actually have enough money to buy ingredients for those East Coaststyle sandwiches he wanted to sell on the truck.

“I basically wrote a check to some suppliers and then just started driving, hoping I could make enough money that day to cover the check,” he said. “It was definitely a sketchy couple of years.”

But popularity grew and created restaurant opportunities, and those opportunities created more opportunities. The first Broderick Roadhouse opened in 2012; another is expected in Midtown later this summer; and next month, his new concepts Saddle Rock and Localis will replace Capital Dime and Trick Pony, respectively.

Jarosz’s tale is a little unorthodox. His whole approach is a little unorthodox.

“If it was just about money, we’d sit back on every deal and really analyze it and make sure it’s a productive, profitable venture,” he said. “But a lot of times, it’s just like, ‘I know we can make this work. It’s awesome. Let’s do it.’”

The Shady Lady guys have been far more careful with their empire expansion. They opened Shady Lady in 2009; Brewsters Bar & Grill in Galt in 2011, which they sold about a year later; and Field House American Sports Pub in 2014. Soon, their makeover of the old Monte Carlo Club, B-Side, will open.

Amaro Italian Bistro & Bar and Sail Inn Grotto & Bar in West Sacramento should both open by the end of the year.

They’re also partners in LowBrau; Van Vleck is a silent partner in Bottle & Barlow, the upcoming bar-slash-barber shop on R Street.

“It is a lot,” Van Vleck admitted. “[Expanding] completely depends on the opportunity presented. We’ve turned down tons of things, but some are too good to pass up.”

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It just so happens that a lot of toogood opportunities popped up in a short period of time.

The Wong family approaches business a little differently—steadily. Mason Wong and his brothers tend to open a new concept roughly every three years.

Their next restaurant, Iron Horse Tavern on R Street, holds its grand opening on Sunday, June 14.

“We get to a point where we’re really busy for a year or two, and once we get that project running relatively smoothly, the itch comes back,” Wong said. “It’ll be at least two years until we think about doing something else.”

Wong isn’t exactly part of this new generation of restaurateurs—his family opened its first place, a Luau Gardens in the Arden area, in 1976—but his presence in Sacramento’s urban core only dates back to 2005 with the now-shuttered fine dining restaurant Mason’s. And Wong’s downtown empire has grown to six establishments, including Cafeteria 15L and Firestone Public House.

The basic steps, according to Wong: find a niche, pick a great location, do a cool build-out, provide excellent service and food. Simple enough?

“The longer you’re in it, the more you learn, the better you get at it,” he said.

Boggs agreed that running the restaurants got easier over time—knowing how to do profit and loss statements, getting projections together, developing relationships with contractors.

And once you know how to do all that, why not do more? That’s Bazett’s motto. In addition to co-owning Bottle & Barlow, he’s helping out with Kru’s move to the former Andiamo site.

“If you’ve had success once or twice, it’s enough of an impetus to keep going,” Bazett said. “You do what you know.”

That drive is painting an exciting, rapidly changing restaurant scene. But it also means many of Sacramento’s hottest restaurants are owned by the same, small group of people. As they add more and more concepts to their rosters, will our favorite dining destinations start feeling the same? Is this the start of the homogenization of the local dining scene?

“Even having a designer in common, these places all feel different,” Bazett argued, pointing out that interior designer Whitney Johnson worked on Hook & Ladder, LowBrau, Shady Lady, Bottle & Barlow and others.

Other restaurateurs agreed.

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Money, money, money Van Vleck’s fears have more to do with those profit and loss statements.

That said, the urban legend that 90 percent of restaurants close within their first year isn’t close to being true—at least here in Sacramento.

Valerie Mamone-Werder, senior manager of business development at the Downtown Sacramento Partnership, has been tracking restaurant openings and closures downtown since 2011 and found that roughly 27 percent of new restaurants couldn’t last that time-frame. Success is clearly

But those loans aren’t always ideal, either. Wong prefers to save and self-finance, since a loan could mean putting up your home as collateral, he said.

“A lot of times a bank is really skeptical of making a restaurant a loan because people think less than 10 percent of the [restaurant industry] actually survives,” he said. “I think it just goes to show you that a lot Wong’s Iron Horse Tavern at R of people try to open a restauand 15th streets. In that case, the rant that don’t really get what it restaurateur gets some say in the takes to open a restaurant.” build without having to pay for But if you want to make a all of it. decent living, you need to start For a secondexpanding after that generation restaurant, initial hurdle, according Marchand starts the to Bazett. bidding at $50 per “Profit margins are square foot for basic notoriously slim—if retrofitting. For a you’re doing 10 percent, reference, LowBrau you’re doing really is 3,700 square feet well,” he said. “It’s and Hook & Ladder hard with just one is 4,800 square feet— restaurant; there’s so both were secondmuch overhead.” generation restaurants Now, Jarosz wants with facelifts. But to treat his business like what might seem like a business. His empire a minor redesign can has been mostly selfadd up, too. financed at this point— “It depends,” with plenty of early Marchand said. “Is debt—and he’s actively it the whole experiseeking out new invesence—spending tors. He’s also hammerJason Boggs co-founder, Shady Lady Saloon tens of thousands on ing out the details on a tables and furnishlicensing deal with a Bay ings—or are you just Area group that could about the food?” open as many as a dozen So where does a random Nutting and Hargis hope Brodericks. “We might be able person with a cool idea get to build up their credit to to actually make some money,” more than $100,000 to open that eventually take out traditional Jarosz said, laughing. dream restaurant?

Small Business Administration Jarosz firmly states that Grandma, sometimes. loans—that’s how Bazett he wants 100 percent control “Most startup restaurateurs funded Hook & Ladder and over the brand, even though are tapping into their friends, Bottle & Barlow. It was good day-to-day operations would family and community,” said old-fashioned relationships with generally be out of his control.

Clay Nutting, co-owner of a couple of small banks.

Other local restaurateurs are less LowBrau, Block Butcher Bar “Your business credit is a and the Barn project scheduled lot like your personal credit: to open next year in West it’s your history, your name, Sacramento. “I think restaurants your reputation,” Bazett said. have a reputation for being hit “Money for restaurants isn’t or miss so that makes fundraisdead, it’s just not everywhere.” ing a challenge.” d on

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“I have a lot of fears in this business,” Van Vleck said.

“That’s not one of them.”

Jason Boggs lines up his shot. It’s no secret that he and fellow Shady Lady Saloon co-founder Garret Van Vleck are bar-centric.

possible, but it’s also definitely tough.

“I owned a [retail] business—running a business is very hard. I think running a restaurant is 10 times harder,” Mamone-Werder said. “You’re talking about food costs and payroll and tons of employees—people who are showing up or not showing up. I think there’s a lot they try to keep in their control, but I think there’s a lot out of their control.”

Not to mention a flood of other costs: insurance, licensing, advertising, rent, utilities, repairs and so forth.

And that’s just maintenance.

Want to open a restaurant in Sacramento today? Finding a space that’s restaurant-ready is challenging enough.

According to broker Aaron Marchand of Turton Commercial Real Estate, making a restaurant out of a warehouse, office or some other building that wasn’t already a restaurant would probably cost $100 to $150 per square foot.

“If there’s no hood, grease trap—and you have to deal with zoning, code enforcement—these costs add up significantly,” he said. “A first-generation restaurant is so expensive that you almost never see it.”

It’s a different story, though, if a restaurateur signs on with a brand new development—like

Nutting and his business partner Michael Hargis didn’t have any money when they wanted to open LowBrau—and they still call themselves “starving artists.”

“There would be times we were out actively fundraising for LowBrau where we were both pulling lint out of our pockets, trying to figure out how to pay for the coffee or happy hour cocktail for the person we were trying to woo,” Nutting said.

Despite the lint, they eventually found investors and partners, like the Shady Lady guys.

In the ’90s, you saw talent leaving town. If you wanted to make your mark in the culinary world, you had to leave Sacramento. Now I think we’re over that hump.

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Clay Nutting and Michael Hargis

Jason Boggs, Alex Origoni and Garrett Van Vleck Shady Lady Saloon

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LowBrau

Amaro Italian Bistro & Bar

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Kimio Bazett and Jon Modrow The Golden Bear

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interested in creating multiple outposts of the same concept. Nutting said he could have opened 10 different LowBraus by now—and another LowBrau is still “definitely on the table”—but none have been the right fit. The Shady Lady team has similarly rejected many offers as far

as Long Beach—the guys want to focus on Sacramento’s urban core.

“Once you start moving out to places you don’t really know, you’re just plopping something down and hoping it’ll work,” Boggs said.

Wong has a Cafeteria 15L in the airport—and he’s adding an Iron Horse

Tavern as well—but he doesn’t imagine opening restaurants any further away, say in Roseville or Folsom.

“It gets back to how much time you want to spend working,” he said. “You could hire good managers but you still have to work with your managers. How

much do you think you can handle, and still do it well?”

Then there’s the matter of a stagnant restaurant. How do you save it? Wong argues you don’t—you start over with a new design, a new menu and a new brand.

For Kru’s chef-owner Billy Ngo, it’s all part of the game. Despite critical acclaim,

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his Asian fusion restaurant Red Lotus barely lasted a year-and-a-half, closing in 2011. He sold off his Pork Belly Grub Shack in Natomas because it was too far to manage well, he said.

“One success, one closed, one sold,” he recounted, as he gets ready to relocate Kru, place a new concept in that spot and open Fish Face on R Street any day now. “Of course it’s scary. I think to be a restaurateur, you have to be a gambler at heart.”

world, you had to leave Sacramento.

Now I think we’re over that hump.”

For Jarosz, it’s being in the right place at the right time.

“More people are moving into the market, and the people here are realizing what type of region we live in,” he said. “The farm-to-fork movement hasn’t necessarily been a catalyst for us to want to do more, but it’s helped the general populace want to help support this movement.”

Chefs are also just rock stars now—the popularity of restaurants is a product of the times.

“This industry is one of the only things the Internet can’t provide,” Van Vleck said.

“Going out and eating and drinking and being social is one of the few experiences you can’t get digitally.”

It’s also where the city’s creatives are channeling their energy, Nutting argues.

“People lament the local art scene—‘People aren’t buying art, they’re just going to bars and restaurants’—I say that is where art is happening,” he said.

And these creatives are fueling each other—it’s a tight circle.

“We’re all homies,” Boggs said.

“That’s one of the main reasons why the Sacramento restaurant scene is different from other cities. We don’t really look at each other as competition—well, friendly competition—but

‘Friendly competition’ What’s fueling Sacramento’s restaurant boom? Theories abound.

The Shady Lady team points to a bunch of factors all culminating at the same time: Sacramento simply needing new, cool stuff; their generation of now-30-somethings coming into their own; people wanting to live downtown instead of in the suburbs.

And unlike San Francisco, Sacramento is a place where you can afford to be a young, risk-taking—nottech—entrepreneur. Now we see those who fled Sacramento return, like Michael Thiemann, who left Tyler Florence’s Wayfare Tavern to open up Mother in 2013.

“In the ’90s, you saw talent leaving town,” Boggs said. “If you wanted to make your mark in the culinary

we’re just trying to get the overall scene better.”

But are these empire builders making it harder for newcomers to carve out their own niches? Is the market for trendy cocktail bars and rustic farm-to-fork restaurants oversaturated?

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Many of Sacramento’s hottest restaurants are owned by the same, small group of people. Is this the start of the homogenization of the local dining scene?

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Mamone-Werder argues no, that anyone can put a unique spin on any subgenre and find an eager audience.

But she is fearful of a different kind of saturation.

“It’s when we start to only look at putting restaurants and food concepts downtown. It’s when we start to be so myopic that we don’t realize to really balance out what we

have here, we have to have retail,” she said.

“We’re a victim of our own success at this point. We want people to come downtown, eat, shop, eat again, shop, then go home. Right now, they’re just coming in and eating.”

It’s a worry for Van Vleck too, though not as much as population density.

“The restaurant industry is outpacing the population here, and it’s great to see [16] Powerhouse and [the Warehouse Artist Lofts] open, and I know there are going to be more things, but I just hope it comes through fast enough,” he said.

And sure, people hope that the arena will ramp up the number of people moving downtown. But Jarosz worries the arena will actually hurt the restaurant scene, as he witnessed in Denver when Coors Field opened in 1995.

“Something like 50 restaurants opened right at the beginning.

Two years later, 20 restaurants were still standing,” he said. “I think everyone feels that because there’s an influx of growth, there’s going to be an influx of business. But what we found was if there was a game going on, the traffic got really bad and people were like, ‘Maybe I don’t really wanna go out tonight.’”

The arena and the surrounding restaurant spaces are mostly attracting interest from restaurateurs outside of Sacramento, according to MamoneWerder. But that doesn’t mean these empire builders don’t want to take the bet—the Shady Lady team, Ngo and Bazett are all hoping to put concepts near the arena.

So who is the next Paragary? That may not be an appropriate question.

“It’s a different era,” said Boggs, who worked for Paragary for 12 years. “Randy is always going to be Randy. He’s always going to be the godfather.”

For one thing, Paragary owns a ton of buildings in prime locations—these young restaurateurs were born too late to take advantage of Sacramento’s once dirt-cheap real estate. Furthermore, there was no one else trying to build an empire when Paragary got his start.

As Boggs said: “Everyone worked for Paragary.”

As for Paragary, the veteran says he’s fully aware that he’s bred his new competition.

“I’m really proud of that,” Paragary said. “I like to see them succeed and start their own businesses.”

Regardless, restaurateurs agree that there will never be another Paragary.

“He is unmatched in his ability to build restaurants, community, business,” Nutting said. “But all of us can be our best selves, and that’s what I hope Sacramento is known for.” Ω

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ven homeless, Common Cider Co. is cleaning up at international cider competitions.

Fran Toves approves of her Lemon Saison: dry, flavorful and food-friendly.

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Founder Fran Toves currently produces her nectar at Drytown Cellars in Amador County. The grounds are beautiful, studded with colorful rose bushes, friendly dogs and giant tanks of fermented goodness. Toves herself sort of lives out of a hotel room, constantly traveling for her rapidly expanding business.

But that will soon change. This fall, Common Cider Co. will open as a cidery and taproom in Auburn down the street from Knee Deep Brewing Company—a soon-to-be obvious destination street for craft beverage enthusiasts. Inside a shipping container or out on a sunny patio, sip on Common Cider’s award-winning Hibiscus Saison or Blood Orange Tangerine ciders.

Ah, bliss.

Granted, those ciders are pretty easy to track down in Sacramento.

In a matter of weeks, we’ll start seeing the Hibiscus Saison and Blood Orange Tangerine in slim, sophisticated cans on grocery

shelves. Then there are the 100 regional spots serving Common Cider on draft. For just two-anda-half years in business, Common Cider has really taken off.

“We saw a niche for more foodie-type ciders that are more approachable, not sweet and full of flavor,” Toves said.

Hard cider is the fastest-growing alcoholic beverage in America.

Most attribute it to the rise of craft beer and growing interest in all things artisanal and experimental.

The recent demand for gluten-free everything helps, too.

Common Cider’s “foodie” ciders are dry, subtle and delicate—you can easily imagine them pairing with lots of cuisine even better than beer or wine. On the Brix scale measuring sweetness, Toves’ ciders reach about 2.2, while most commercial ciders hit 8, Toves said.

Among recent accolades: Common Cider’s Hibiscus took home a gold medal and cider of the year award at the New York International Beer Competition this year. And a few weeks later at the Great Lakes International Cider & Perry Competition, Common Cider won five awards—one for each of its ciders.

As beer manager at Nugget Markets, Michael Taylor stocks Common Cider at all his stores.

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He said he was immediately drawn to Common’s flavor profiles.

“They’re very unique—everyone else is doing apple, pear, cranberry,” he said.

“They’re also using a Belgian beer strain of yeast, which adds nice complexity and nuance.”

That yeast is typically found in saison beers. The result pours hazy and provides a fuller mouthfeel than ciders made with champagne or ale yeast.

“It takes longer to ferment, so I think we’re able to retain more flavor from the fruit,” Toves said. “Champagne yeast?

Yeah, you can ferment the cider in four days, but it’s stripped of a lot of flavor.”

Some of Toves’ special creations sound like a chef’s work of art: toasted coconut cream cider with pineapple and vanilla, served on nitro; apple infused with rose petals and lemon; or blackberry “sangria” with mango, citrus and red wine. The latter is a seasonal offering that should hit the shelves this month.

Sure enough, Toves boasts a culinary background. She spent years taking food products from concept to market in the organics world. Her website has a section devoted to cider and food pairings— cheese being the guaranteed winner with ciders—and she plans to add an e-book with cider cocktail recipes. Think Blood Orange Tangerine cider with elderflower liqueur, orange bitters and mandarin vodka shaken over ice. She hopes to start BEFORE

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producing barrel-aged ciders in the near future as well—but not your usual apple cider in bourbon barrels.

“We could do a chardonnay-style cider—throw in pineapple, banana and cloves in a chardonnay barrel to get the oakiness,” she said. “It’s not just throwing the cider into the barrel. We’re taking more of a wine approach.”

But why cider?

“I didn’t want to open a brewery,” she said, laughing.

The short story is that Toves entered three ciders into a home brew competition in 2012, and all three placed in the top 10. Clearly, she had a talent.

The longer story starts with uterine cancer hitting Toves at age 27. She wanted her life to change; she wanted work for herself.

“I worked for Sutter Health and Hewlett-Packard, and I just didn’t want to do that anymore,” she said.

“I wanted to do something I was passionate about and I wanted to direct my own time.”

She toiled away as an information technology consultant for years—she got her degree from Sacramento State University—before getting tired of the restless computer crunching. She had always loved cooking—she grew up in Guam, the second oldest of eight children—and went into food.

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And as a cancer survivor, Toves chose to make Common Cider Co. all about spending time with loved ones.

It’s in the company’s tag lines and marketing materials, and she truly believes it. “Life is just too short,” she said.

Now, Common Cider produces 30,000 gallons a month and gets distributed throughout California, Nevada, Utah and Hawaii. Toves is focusing on warmer states—there are already rich cider scenes in the Northwest, Northeast and Midwest. A lot of that has to do with the region’s apples—cider is hot all over the country, but there’s a scramble for fruit. Toves purchases locally from Barsotti Family Juice Co. in Apple Hill, but some of Barsotti’s apples actually come from Oregon.

Why the struggle? Before Prohibition, everyone drank cider—it was safer than water. Legend goes that President John Adams drank a tankard for breakfast every day. According to Michael Pollan in The Botany of Desire, 99 percent of apples were drunk before 1900. After the turn of the century, 99 percent were eaten—cider apple trees got chopped down with Prohibition. And this bit of history is actually where Toves got the name for Common Cider Co. “All that was left were your common apples: Fuji, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious,” she said. “We can take whatever common apple you have and make amazing ciders.”

Look for Common Cider Co.’s future home at 12856 Earhart Drive, Suite 103, in Auburn. Learn more at www.commoncider.com.

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My wife and I heard about it a few months ago and finally made the trek out east to investigate this new dystopia.

Surprisingly, the first impression Studio Movie Grill gave us during our Friday date night was one of nostalgia. This stemmed from their outdoor speaker system blasting Jay-Z’s “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem).” The upbeat, classic club banger seemed at least to be a positive sign that Rocklin isn’t merely longing to return to its Gold Rush glory days anymore—it’s moved all the way into the late ‘90s.

But its lyrics were also probably somewhat inappropriate, we thought, given the fact that there were a bunch of kids running around the lobby waiting to watch a couple of PG-rated films dominating the box office recently—including We were Dreamworks’ Home and Disney’s Cinderella. We were here surrounded to see the latter film, after by kids, and reading several good reviews.

Like Jay-Z’s solid flow, we the only adults pressed on only to discover 99 in sight were more problems with our date night experience. We got to our either drinking seats relatively early, ordered huge fishbowla dinner special (two entrees and an appetizer for $25) and sized cocktails a few $10 drinks. That’s when or tallboys of we realized we were surrounded by kids, and the only PBR. adults in sight were either drinking huge fishbowl-sized cocktails or tallboys of PBR. Stuck behind swiveling personal dining tables attached to our armrests, I suddenly felt a terror akin to being trapped on a plane filled mostly with screaming kids headed to Disneyland. We prepared for turbulence, kicking and screaming, dug into our Chevy’sesque giant margaritas and chicken nacho appetizer, and hoped for the best.

The previews started at about the same time our burgers arrived. I got through about half of my black-bean barbecue burger (with strips of paradoxical bacon) when the film started and the house lights went out on us. Instead of glimpsing into the future, that’s when we realized what it probably felt like to dine in the Gold Rush days. Apparently, before Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, people were left to grope around blindly in candlelight in effort to dip their french fries into ketchup. They must have also had huge laundry bills from constantly spilling barbecue sauce all over their expensive new date-night dress shirts.

In the end, the kids behaved themselves—for the most part. Plus, the movie was pretty good. Still, we felt that given the ‘90s throwback music and retelling of the Cinderella story, our evening might have been even more fulfilling if we’d watched 1998’s Ever After (starring Drew Barrymore), and smuggled a bottle of wine and some sandwiches into an old-school (and better lit) drive-in movie theater.

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Summer is heating up at the Crocker with art, music, and film.

The Crocker takes inspiration from the sea and all its beauty, delights, and danger. Sacramento’s favorite film historian, Matías Bombal, guest hosts each outdoor screening.

A new twist on Sacramento’s longest-running summer jazz series. On 3rd Thursdays, enjoy great music curated and hosted by Vivian Lee, regional jazz matriarch and aficionado. Jazz Night makes the Crocker the cool place to be this summer.

Houseboat

Sacramento Jazz Orchestra

Moby Dick

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(1956, 116 MINUTES, NR) THURSDAY, JULY 2, 8:30 PM

(1975, 124 MINUTES, PG) THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 8:30 PM

The Sea Hawk

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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 6:30 PM CAFE STAGE: Virginia Ayers-Dawson

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Third time’s another charm Latitudes is Micah Crandall-Bear’s third solo show at Elliott Fouts Gallery, and, PAINTING the gallery hopes, also his third show there to sell out.

In 2013 and 2014, all of Crandall-Bear’s dreamy, abstracted landscape paintings were taken home by someone other than the artist, which is a rare feat.

Latitudes features about 40 of Crandall-Bear’s signature whizzing-by-fromthe-window-of-a-train distant horizon views, sometimes with pungent sunrise saturation, and sometimes with cloudy whispers. It won’t be too surprising if this show proves to be a three-peat sellout for the painter.

Where: Elliott Fouts Gallery, 1831 P Street; (916) 736-1429; www.efgallery.com.

Second Saturday reception: June 13, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Through July 2.

Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“Praxis 15” by Micah Crandall-Bear, acrylic and modified oil on panel, 2015.

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Master of Arts harvest

Despite being “[b]orn in a taxi on Yoyogi Street in Tokyo,” John Yoyogi Fortes found his way to Sacramento, as have the other artists in Axis Gallery’s Art in Motion exhibiGROUP SHOW tion. Fortes, Omar Thor Arason, Anne Gregory and Craig Martinez all have lived or worked in the capital city (some still do) and all have diverse contemporary styles, but with the show’s name and Fortes’ origin story, it would make more sense if Arason was born on a ship, Gregory on a plane and Martinez on a train, and day jobs as professors and videographers only mask their superpowers of making amazing art.

The beginning of summer means it’s finally that time of year to harvest stone fruit. But instead of sinking its teeth into the sweet sarcocarp of peaches, JayJay has harvested the talent of current and recent Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts recipients from GROUP SHOW Northern California and Nevada universities to feast our eyes upon.

Expect to see a variety of mediums and points of view from the lineup of artists: James Angello and Angela Willetts from UC Davis; Ka Yi Leung from Sacramento State University; Rachelle Reichert from Mills College; Quynh Tran and Bahareh Shahrabi Farahani from the University of Nevada, Reno; and Jon Lynn McCallum and Jennifer Tancreto from California State University, Chico.

“House Head” by Jon Lynn McCallum, digital photograph, 2012.

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Second Saturday reception: June 13, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Through July 23.

Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (or by appointment).

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Where: Axis Gallery, 625 S Street; www.axisgallery.org.

Second Saturday reception: June 13, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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Alpha K-9 pairs dogs with those struggling with civilian life

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hether it’s figuring out how to sit, heel or roll over, dogs often learn from their masters. Sometimes, though, it works the other way around.

When Army veteran Dave Singh was asked what Nala, his Belgian Malinois, has done for him, his response was simple: “Basically, she taught me how to love again.”

He adopted the dog through Alpha K-9, a Sacramento-based nonprofit that pairs dogs with veterans. Many of these veterans are struggling with the transition back to civilian life and are able to adopt the dogs free of charge with the help of corporate sponsorship.

“The majority of the dogs in the program are rescue dogs,” says Jackie Pfister, Director of Operations for Alpha K-9. “So they both benefit from this. It’s a beautiful process.”

“She taught me how to love again.”

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Veteran Dave Singh and his dog Nala, a Belgian Malinois, have been inseperable since they were matched up thanks to Sacramento nonprofit Alpha K-9.

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“She didn’t like me much at first,” he says. “Now, we’re inseparable.”

veteran and dog recipient from Alpha K-9

How has he benefited?

The dogs are not service dogs as most people know them. But they are more than simply companions.

“These dogs are able to pick up on changes in a person’s body chemistry,” Pfister says. “They’re able to identify stress and even distinguish between good and bad stress. They are able to comfort the veteran and get their minds off situations that can be negative.”

Alpha K-9 is the beneficiary for Collective Giving, a collaboration of Sacramento-area medical marijuana dispensaries to benefit local charities. Collective Giving founder Kelsi White chose Alpha K-9 because medical marijuana dispensaries are very supportive of the veteran community.

“Well, she has pretty much eliminated my road rage,” he says. “When my anxiety level gets up high, she picks up on that. Based on her reactions, I realize I have to check myself and evaluate my emotions. Sometimes, she senses I’m feeling something I’m not even really aware of.”

Pfister says she’s seen Singh and so many other veterans improve after being paired with canine companions.

“They’re able to work through the day and not have to leave because of stress,” she says. “It just helps them get through the day.”

“Many veterans are able to find relief from so many problems — from PTSD to cancer — through medical marijuana, so the dispensaries have a lot of veterans coming through their doors,” she says. “I was impressed with the unique service Alpha K-9 provides for veterans and that it’s a local charity doing good in our community.”

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Singh, who lives in Sacramento, was a volunteer for Alpha K-9 before realizing how much he could benefit from it. That’s when he and Nala became a team.

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SacSings will bring together some of the greatest choral talent the region has. Each day offers a plethora of choices for the concertgoer, including Renaissance Choir Sacramento, Davis Chorale, Grass Valley Male Voice Choir, Cantare Chorale MUSIC and the wonderful Sacramento Women’s Chorus. You really can’t go wrong choosing any day. $20, times vary at Harris Center for the Arts, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; www.sacsings.org.

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That Is Midtown Saturday, June 13 This Midtown, the summer block-party-style concert series which happens on Second Saturdays, just PARTY announced a sister event called That Is Midtown (2 p.m. to 9 p.m.)—bridging the gap between the Midtown Farmer’s Market (8 a.m. to 1 p.m.) and This Midtown (4 p.m. to 9 p.m.). It offers live music, games and local vendors. Free, 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the MARRS building, 1050 20th Street; www. facebook.com/thismidtown.

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Croatian Extravaganza 2015 Saturday, June 13, through Sunday, June 14 The Croatian Extravaganza has taken place since 1982 when it began as a small family-style picnic.

The 2015 extravaganza, one of the largest Croatian CELBRATION festivals on the West Coast, features a bocce tournament, a parade of national costumes, lamb and pork dishes on Saturday, Croatian mass on Sunday, nut rolls, kifle, Zrinski Band and kolo dance performances. $10 on Saturday, free on Sunday; times vary at the Croatian American Cultural Center, 3730 Auburn Boulevard; www.croatiancenter.org.

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Fresh paint: After 15 months and $1 million in renovations, Paragary’s will reopen for dinner Friday, June 12.

The space looks amazing—and amazingly different. What once felt like a dark pub is now open and bright, with higher ceilings, larger windows and a Parisian flair. Randy Paragary’s wife Stacy was highly involved in the design, inspired by travels to create a “riff on a French bistro meets English pub meets California modern,” she said. Floor tiles came from Vietnam; modern light fixtures from Los Angeles and Montreal; the walnut hostess stand is actually made from the restaurant’s old walls. The fireplace is gone; instead, indoor diners can appreciate a BEFORE | NEWS

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Randy Paragary said he started planning the reboot five years ago.

“I always felt our food was high-quality,” he said. “But we certainly fell behind with decor and atmosphere, and that’s definitely part of why people go out to eat.”

That said, the menu got a major overhaul as well. Some staples remain: wood-fired pizzas, hand-cut rosemary pasta with chicken and pancetta, the sliced mushroom salad. But with chef Scott Ostrander (previously at Esquire Grill) heading the kitchen, Paragary’s menu—still Californian with Mediterranean influences—skews more French.

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to show technique and appreciation for food and ingredients,” Ostrander said.

Think chicken ballotine, cherry tarte tatin and crab beignets. And speaking of crab, expect much more seafood at the new Paragary’s— something of a rarity at Sacramento restaurants.

“I’m getting to use more and more obscure ingredients, which I love and farmers love,” Ostrander said, such as slightly sour, leafy purslane; borage, a blue flower.

As for price point? Let’s just say there’s a $16 burger.

News on MARRS: Pizzeria Urbano is finally back open after suffering a fire in March. And over at the neighboring Block Butcher Bar, you can expect a slightly revamped menu coming soon.

Yes, items change seasonally, but the menu has largely stayed the same since Block opened—even though its original chef, Michael Tuohy, left months ago.

Now, A llyson Harvie is the culinary director of Block and LowBrau, and she’ll be adding a few new dishes on top of two desserts she started serving a few weeks ago. Harvie has held posts at formidable San Francisco restaurants, such as Citizen Cake, Ragazza and Absinthe. Ω | A R T S & C U L T U R E

The line between wine and beer tastes fuzzy. Not literally fuzzy, of course, but Cudera is the product of grape must and wort co-fermented with both wine and beer yeast. The coppery, rosecolored beverage pours like champagne, and like wine, becomes fruitier and mellower as it sits and breathes. Instead of a tannic aftertaste, you’re hit with bready beer. You’ve probably never tasted anything quite like it. The grapes come from Napa Valley vineyards; the brewing pioneered by Ruhstaller is a collaboration with wine guys from Napa County and Italy. Find a wax-dipped and corked 12-ounce bottle $7.50 at BevMo right now—just 150 cases were released in May for this limited-edition brew. http://ruhstallerbeer.com.

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A sweeter stone Apricots Stone fruit season in California is glorious, and apricots are some of the first to appear. Look for blushing orange fruits with a distinct fragrance.

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The risotto-sunflower seed burger is touted as “award-winning,” and it is good for a vegan burger. The risotto holds things together nicely and the seeds add a welcome textural contrast.

2315 K street, (916) 706-3302, www.gardenThe western version comes smothered in a togrill.net very sweet barbecue sauce that drowned the Dinner for one: $10 - $15 patty flavor. Chili fries on the side were limp Good for: fresh vegan and gluten-free meals and soggy.

Notable dishes: sweet potato-avocado panini, california The Fiesta Burrito is a reasonable size and risotto burger, creamies griddled after filling, unlike Mission-style behemoths. The filling is well balanced, with tofu or soy “chick’n” rolled with black beans, brown rice and pico de gallo. It’s not bad, but you’re left to wistfully imagine the flavors that I am not vegan, nor am I gluten-free, but I do could be had with well-seasoned veggies instead try to eat as much produce as possible. Even of soy products. those who are carnivores need fresh, flavorful The day we tried it, the vegan pizza came on food to fuel their tank, and with the rise of such focaccia, with a choice of toppings in addition to themes like Meatless Monday, many people a fresh tomato sauce and soy “cheez.” Seasonal choose to eat vegan or vegetarian at even a few veggies included zucchini, summer squash and meals every week. bell peppers. While the sauce was underseaSo a vegan restaurant needs to satisfy not soned, the vegetables were almost raw; a longer just the meatless crowd, but a broad range of bake time would add flavor and better texture. customers. With that in mind, we sampled a The California Chop salad makes variety of the menu items on offer, with for a large portion, but at $10.25, mixed results.

Slices it should be. The vegetables First, Sugar Plum Cafe are quite fresh and plentiof cooked originally opened in this ful, with the addition of location, then it became sweet potato layer sunflower seeds and just Plum Cafe; Garden tempeh bacon. upon fresh avocado, to Grill began the buildMost evenings, ing’s newest chapter this caramelized onion, the restaurant is only spring. Baked items origtomatoes and a poppyopen until 8 p.m.. inally produced in-house Friday and Saturday are now supplied by seed aioli on springy hours go until 10. local Sun Flour Baking ciabatta bread to Brunch is available on Co. Everything is vegan, Sundays with tofu fritcreate a great but you’ll need to ask for tata, pancakes, biscuits specifics if you want glutenflavor combo. and salads. free as well.

While the savories are I’ve never been a big fan of fake hit or miss, the baked goods meat, and with the restaurant’s motto, are really pretty good. Enormous “Real food. Real delicious,” it seems odd that “Creamies” feature two large cookies sandwichso many menu items rely on fake bacon and the ing a vegan “cream” filling. The chocolate-mint like. Meals that celebrate what you have, rather version is a satisfying pairing. A creamsiclethan what you don’t, seem better—see Mother flavored cupcake one day had vanilla filling and as a fine example. a light orange-flavored frosting. One benefit It follows that the best thing on the menu of gluten-free baking is that sweets are usually at Garden to Grill is the sweet potato-avocado quite tender. panini. Slices of cooked sweet potato layer Garden to Grill also carries a wide variety of upon fresh avocado, caramelized onion, beers and wines, as well as a rotating selection tomatoes, and a poppy-seed aioli on springy of kombuchas. The Pink Lady apple is a lightly ciabatta to create a great flavor combo that sweet one to look for. stands on its own without subbing in a It’s pretty good, but with so many mainstream processed ingredient for something “missing.” places offering more creative vegan options, It’s served with a small organic salad, which is Garden to Grill needs to step up its game. Ω lightly dressed.

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And there is even chia lemonade. It’s going to take a few months to try all the variations, but the weather is warm, and the shop is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. That’s ample time to get fruit-bombed.

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Now in its fourteenth year, the Juneteenth Ball, presented by Sacramento Juneteenth Inc. and the Sacramento Juneteenth Black Chefs Collaborative, aims to please. The event, part of the holiday celebrations to commemorate the end PaRty of slavery in the United States, will feature culinary concoctions from area wineries and chefs. The festivities are part of a broader threeday event that will also include a gospel ball and a parade. 7 p.m., Saturday June 20, $50. The California Museum, 1020 O Street; www.sacramento juneteenthinc.org/festival/juneteenth-ball.

—Eddie Jorgensen

Conferencing for change teDxSacramento TED talks are a little bit like kale—trendy, and no matter what it’s dressed up with, they’re probably good for you. The theme of this year’s local TEDxSacramento is “This Changes Everything” and will feature numerous speakers, including big-shot business leader Judy Robinett, CoNFeReNCe “bionic pancreas” developer and diabetes researcher Edward Damiano and Sirolli Institute founder and community organizer Ernesto Sirolli. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday, June 12, tickets start at $45. Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street; http://tedxsacramento.com.

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Splatoon The “online competitive shooter” genre isn’t generally known for its innovation—start with steroidal homunculi murdering each other, add some gray-brown locales ripped from the headlines, add a drone or something and boom!

1.5 million units sold. Splatoon ($59.99), Nintendo’s first squadVideo game based online shooter, takes the cliches and adds a series of typically Nintendo-esque twists: Instead of some muscle-bound grunt, you’re an inkling—a young squid-like humanoid creature.

Instead of bullets, your weapons shoot ink. Instead of hunting your opponents, your goal is to cover as much of the level in ink as possible. If it sounds weird, different and intriguing, that’s because it is.

Nintendo has offered up the first shooter in years that actually feels new.

The game is simple and lighthearted enough to be a child’s first shooting game (The game even goes out of its way to point out that the competitors are all friends at the end of the day, and that the ink magically goes away on its own) but deep enough to offer a satisfying experience for more competitive players.

I don’t even have space here to detail the bizarre squid-centric world, the brief but fun singleplayer campaign, the giant cat that announces the winner of each match, or the dozens of seafood-related puns. A week out from launch and the community is still surging, with Nintendo adding more levels, weapons and gear throughout the summer. http://splatoon.nintendo.com.

—Brian Breneman

Catch it if you can Catch Me If You Can If you want to see what a genuine stage star looks like, go see Catch Me If You Can at Runaway Stage. Alex Greenlee is handsome, talented and by Jim Carnes perfectly in tune with the magical reality/unreality of this well-mounted show. He has a voice that was made for musical theater.

Director Bob Baxter latches onto the fantasy of the musical, keeping a light but tight hand on the story and the large cast. Based on the movie of the same name, Catch Me If You Can has a book by Terrence McNally (Master Class, The Full Monty, Ragtime), music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray). This play, about the real-life teenage con man Frank Abagnale Jr., isn’t up to the (very) high standards of those plays, but the acting, singing and dancing—lots of dancing— elevate it a great deal.

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When Closet Door Theatre’s Kenneth Figeroid decided to adapt and modernize his favorite play, Moliere’s The Misanthrope (The Cantankerous Lover), he wanted to update the characters and storyline while staying true to the playwright’s original intent of shocking and mocking French aristocrats.

Figeroid was struggling to duplicate Moliere’s sly and biting portrayal of royal court hierarchies, politics and mannerisms in a modern setting when he finally found the answer while sitting in a Sacramento bar.

“As I was observing the bar regulars at The Bolt, I suddenly realized similar characteristics to characters in Moliere’s play: the flirt, the chatterbox, the egotist, the caretaker, the clown, the lover,” said Figeroid.

“I could also poke fun of social mores and court behavior, which are also on display in that environment.”

Figeroid said he also wanted to represent the LGBT community, which The Closet Door Theatre Company (morphed from the Lambda Players) is dedicated to portraying in their productions. So by making all characters gay men of different generations, he could explore modern-day issues he saw emerging within his social circles and LGBT acquaintances.

The result is Misanthrope Re-Imagined, set in a Sacramento apartment, and focusing on a relationship between an older man and his young lover, with friends and controversies swirling in and out.

“I feel my adaptation lies close to the heart of what Moliere was saying—it’s about truth, lies, hypocrisies and perceptions in relationships,” Figeroid explained. “It also pokes fun at society, mocking and winking at familiar traits and behaviors.”

Figeroid’s version experiments with poetry, prose and rhyming couplets, another nod to Moliere’s original, while also interjecting modern language and mannerisms. With the 350th anniversary coming up of the first performance of Moliere’s The Misanthrope (June, 1666), Figeroid hopes to keep refining his version, keeping an eye toward a production of Misanthrope Re-Imagined at San Francisco’s Fringe Festival next year in recognition and honor of his favorite play.

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Sometimes, really strong performances make up for a weak play. That’s exactly what happens with Celebration Arts’ production of Levee James, by playwright S.M. Shephard-Massat. The two main actors—Alexandra Barthel (seen locally onstage at Folsom’s Falcon’s Eye Theatre and Capital Stage) and James R. Ellison III (Celebration Arts)—elevate a muddled storyline and manage to thoroughly engage the audience throughout this production. Barthel and Ellison breathe life into their characters while also dealing with Southern accents and backcountry dialogue. Their strong performances, along with a third minor character Fizhugh (nicely portrayed by Nathan Marlow), make us care what happens to these two—despite the script and story challenges. Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 6/28. $8-$15. Celebration Arts, 4469 D St.; (916) 455-2787; www.celebrationarts.net. P.R.

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Greenlee plays the young Abagnale with the kind of ease and confidence that makes you believe he really could get away with stealing millions of dollars masquerading as an airline pilot, a doctor and a lawyer. Greenlee sings and dances his way through the life of a young man to whom everything comes easily, except for that one thing he most desires: the security of a family. Constantly on Abagnale’s trail, like Javert on Jean Valjean’s, is FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Darryl Strohl-De Herrera, who also choreographed). Hanratty is a stiffish, by-thebook fed, outrun by the check-kiting imposter until the end. It is interesting to watch Strohl-De Catch Me If You Can; 8 p.m. Friday and Herrera, who choreographed such authenticSaturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; looking and energetic dancing for the show, $18-$25. Runaway Stage make the moves he gave himself appear to not Productions at quite fit.

24th Street Theatre, 2791 24th Street; Since it’s set in the ’60s, when feminism (916) 207-1226; —Patti Roberts was not yet in vogue, the play is peopled with www.runawaystage.com. women in short skirts as stewardesses, nurses, Through June 21. dancers and the like. It must be said they Misanthrope Re-Imagined; 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, with a look right for the time and spirit of this romp special benefit performance at 7 p.m. on Sunday, June 21; $21-$25. (costumes by Hal DuBiel) and their HullabalooGeery Theater, 2130 L Street; www.closetdoortheatre.org. Through ish moves are spot on. There’s some energetic June 27.

Motown-inspired music, too (Glenn Disney conducts the orchestra) and Matt Lozada’s fine scenic design works as airport terminal, hospital hallway, hotel and Southern home equally well.Ω B E F O R E | N E W S | F E A T U R E S T O R Y | A RT S & C U LT U R E Move over Leo, Alex Greenlee is here.

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James R. Ellison III and Alexandra Barthel star in Levee James.

This guy is serious—serious about being funny.

Clever comedy There was a time years ago when Eddie Izzard was a weird, manic English comic who liked to wear dresses on stage (he self-identifies as a transvestite), and mumble out bizarre Monty Python meets Robin Williams free-associative comedy. Izzard has since shown his acting chops, starring in a number of movies and television shows, and he doesn’t seem to be wearing dresses much these days, but his humor is still odd, though a bit more refined (only a bit). Now Izzard brings his Force Majeure tour to the states, which he began in Europe in 2013. Force Majeure discusses such topics as human sacrifice, the worship of gods, a story about spoons and a guy named Steve.

If this all seems random and unrelated, any fan of Izzard knows that he will connect them with ease, and a lot of high brow (and low brow) absurdist humor.

Force Majeure, 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 16; $44.50-$72.25.

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The wrath pack Entourage About 15 minutes into writer-director Doug Ellin’s Entourage, a limp cinematic expansion of the canceled HBO show of the same name, a by Daniel Barnes beloved character remarks, “Fun is when you forget a girl’s name while you’re fucking her.”

I’m usually a copious taker of notes at screenings, especially when I know I’ll be reviewing the film, but at this point I put my pen and pad away. It was bad enough that someone put these words to paper even once without me committing the same sin.

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Entourage has already received a lot of blowback from (mostly male) film critics for its objectification of women, but that’s really missing the forest for the stems. Yes, the portrayal of women here is as juvenile as you would expect—females are either the lip-licking assgrinders that you anonymously screw, or they’re the super-annoying wives and girlfriends who roll their eyes and patiently wait for you to grow the fuck up—but Entourage is far uglier in its portrayal of men. I’m not qualified to determine if that’s regress or progress; I just know that Entourage is an extremely poor movie.

It wasn’t always this way. The series debuted on HBO in 2004, and for the first couple of seasons it played as mostly harmless, relatively self-aware insider baseball. The show followed the ascent of the mercurial and magnetic young actor Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), who set out to conquer Hollywood with his old neighborhood buddies—pizza thrower turned manager Eric (Kevin Connolly), motormouth driver Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) and overshadowed actor brother Johnny (overshadowed actor brother Kevin Dillon, in a clever bit of meta-casting)—as well as his walking hate-crime of an agent, Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven).

The series provided an irresistible, cameofilled glimpse inside the petty hedonism of young Hollywood, but there was also a sense of self-mockery, as though the creators understood their protagonists’ shallowness all too well (the

show is loosely based on the early Hollywood adventures of Mark Wahlberg, who makes an extended cameo here). Very quickly, though, that formula curdled and fossilized, and suddenly we were supposed to find these loathsome douchebags likeable and relatable, people to actively root for rather than merely accept.

Entourage the movie also believes that we’re emotionally invested in seeing these Hollywood shitheads fall ass-backwards into their dreams. Maybe that’s why there doesn’t appear to have been any attempt to make something a unique or compelling (or even funny) film.

Nothing and no one gets satirized in Entourage, and Ellin has the litany of shit-eating celebrity cameos to prove it. The parade of smug and self-congratulating guest stars gives the film its only real shot of energy, but we’re also left to watch Grenier and Connolly and Ferrara get outacted by nonprofessional actors like Russell Wilson and Warren Buffett and David Arquette.

Piven and Dillon can actually act, but their characters are so buried in “fan-friendly” shtick by this point, it doesn’t even matter.

As the film opens, Vincent is celebrating his quickie divorce with a babe-filled boat party off the coast of Ibiza, but like every unsatisfied actor, what he really wants to do is direct. Fast forward a year, and agent-turnedstudio-head Ari has greenlit Vincent’s overbudget passion project Hyde, and the gang fears that they may have an expensive dud on their hands. While Vincent and Ari protect the film from ravenous Texas investors, Johnny frets that his part will get cut, Turtle celebrity-stalks MMA fighter Ronda Rousey and Eric indulges in casting couch conquests while trying to reconcile with his pregnant ex-girlfriend.

The parade of smug and self-congratulating guest stars gives the film its only real shot of energy.

The best joke in the film is unintentional: Hyde, which appears to be an unwatchable ego trip about a shape-shifting disc jockey in a police-state dystopia, is totally awesome somehow, beloved by audiences and critics and festooned with awards. Ellin genuinely seems to think that great movies get made without any effort, which explains why Entourage feels like four TV episodes lazily assembled into a featurelength afterparty. Unfortunately, spending more than a half hour at a time with these characters only makes them more nauseating. Entourage isn’t a binge watch, it’s a purge watch. Ω

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The 100-Year-Old Man who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

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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A military contractor (Bradley Cooper) lands in Hawaii with his career under some unspecified cloud; now he’s serving as liaison between NASA, an eccentric billionaire (Bill Murray) and local natives, while being distracted by an old girlfriend (Rachel McAdams) and his gung-ho Air Force minder (Emma Stone). Writer-director Cameron Crowe pounds another nail in the coffin lid of his career, with a story that (like the dismal Elizabethtown) takes place on some strange planet that exists only in his head. The movie is a lumpy, half-baked mix of Hawaiian mythology, soggy soap opera, strained magic realism and hard-nosed politics. A decent cast (John Krasinski and Alec Baldwin also get stuck in the goo) gamely goes along, but little rings true, and suddenly Jerry Maguire is looking like a very long time ago. J.L.

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An elderly widow (Blythe Danner) sees her comfortable single life expand in surprising ways when she strikes up an unlikely friendship with her young pool cleaner (Martin Starr) and a romance with a new neighbor (Sam Elliott). Director Brett Haley and co-writer Marc Basch give this easygoing dramedy an air of knowing it’s their ticket to the big time, and they seem determined not to blow it; the movie is sweet and carefully made.

Best of all, they give a well-earned showcase to Danner; after 40-plus years of being one of the unsung treasures of the American acting profession, she finally has a movie almost all to herself. She’s in just about every shot, and she infuses the whole film with her ageless, downto-earth beauty. Rhea Perlman, June Squibb and Mary Kay Place add spice as Danner’s best friends. J.L.

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Despite its title, Insidious: Chapter 3 actually takes place before the events of the first two Insidious films, but rest assured that this horror prequel is a cheap rip-off all the same. Insidious screenwriter Leigh Whannell makes his directorial debut, basically telling the origin story of Lin Shaye’s psychic medium supporting character, thus answering a number of questions that no one in the audience ever cared to ask. When a teenage girl (Stefanie Scott, a budding star if she ever escapes this sort of dreck) attempts to contact her dead mother, she awakens a malevolent spirit that traps her soul between

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Mad Max: Fury Road

The first Mad Max movie in 30 years has Tom Hardy stepping in for Mel Gibson as the cop-turned-vigilante-loner roving a postapocalyptic world. Here our antihero teams up cautiously with a female warrior (Charlize Theron) as the two seek to escape from a savage warlord (Hugh Keays-Byrne), taking the tyrant’s five wives with them to freedom. The script by Brendan McCarthy, Nico Lathouris and director George Miller wastes little time on subtlety—or dialogue, for that matter; its few words are often mumbled or bellowed into unintelligibility. But it hardly matters; the movie is one long-running battle scene expertly staged and paced by Miller, with a judicious use of CGI that doesn’t insult us with the blatantly impossible. All we really need to know is who the good guys are, and Miller gives us that. J.L.

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Bill Pohlad’s biopic about Brian Wilson takes a fairly bold approach, concurrently telling two stories of the Beach Boy’s troubled genius in two different eras, covering both his 1960s meltdown and his 1980s recovery. It’s especially bold in that the two actors playing Wilson—Paul Dano in his youth and John Cusack in middle age—look absolutely nothing like each other, and yet they mesh seamlessly, like two instruments playing in different keys making an unexpectedly beautiful sound. Dano’s entire career of affected oddballs now feels like a mere warmup to playing the socially awkward young Wilson, and the scenes of Wilson crafting Pet Sounds, creating a masterpiece out of the sound collage of his subconscious, are utterly riveting.

The 1980s scenes aren’t quite as successful, but Cusack perfectly captures the ghostly sincerity of Wilson from that era, and there are fine supporting turns from Paul Giamatti and Elizabeth Banks. D.B.

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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

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the mortal world and an undead kingdom called The Further. I leapt out of my chair at least half a dozen times, but only because of the punishingly loud soundtrack spikes that accompany every jump-scare. The terror that will truly stick with me is Dermot Mulroney’s “How-did-I-get-here?” performance as the girl’s father. D.B.

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If this patently unnecessary but extremely well-made remake of Poltergeist was presented as one of the innumerable rehashes of the 1982 PG-horror classic instead of as a full-on remake, it wouldn’t have received nearly the critical drubbing it got this week. As in the Tobe Hooper original, a middleclass family moves into a quiet suburban neighborhood, and finds that their home is haunted by an angry presence that takes the youngest child hostage. In almost every sense, Gil Kenan’s version falls short of Hooper’s, and doesn’t do enough to differentiate itself, other than updating the technology and changing the parents (Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt) from hippie sellouts into credit cardwielding Gen X-ers hit hard by the recession.

But for all of the script’s tentativeness, Kenan (Monster House) brings a high level of craft to his haunted house film, matching recent overhyped ghost stories like The Conjuring and Insidious. D.B.

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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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In 1775 England, a hired assassin for the East India Company (Andrew Cheney) wants out of the business, so he’s betrayed and left for dead by his evil boss (John RhysDavies). Worse, he falls for the man’s niece (Kara Killmer) and longs to atone for his wicked career—so he moves to America, gets a job with Benjamin Franklin and discovers a plot to blow up the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. Written by Paul McCusker and directed

by Chad Burns, this laughable would-be epic is even more ridiculous than it sounds, a terminally silly farrago of 18th century James Bond derring-do, dewy-eyed Harlequin romance and masked-superhero exploits—with just a dash of simpering Sunday-school preaching.

Nice sets, though—and Killmer is appealing, reminiscent of Uma Thurman at the beginning of her career. J.L.

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A CIA desk-jockey (Melissa McCarthy) goes into the field to infiltrate a nuclear arms deal—and avenge the death of the agent who was her secret crush (Jude Law). Writer-director Paul Feig, who guided McCarthy to an Oscar nomination for Bridesmaids, does her an even bigger favor here: He’s given her the movie and the role for which she’ll be remembered. The result is both a riotous spoof that grows funnier by the minute and a stylish example of the genre it’s spoofing, with a clever plot full of twists and surprises—for example, a hilarious turn by Jason Statham (who knew he had such a flair for comedy?) sending up his ultra-macho persona. Rose Byrne, Miranda Hart, Bobby Cannavale and Allison Janney round out a swell supporting cast. Sequels are inevitable—and if they’re this good, they’ll be welcome. J.L.

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When a swarm of massive earthquakes devastates Los Angeles, Hoover Dam, San Francisco and all points in between, an L.A. fire department chopper pilot (Dwayne Johnson) rescues his estranged wife (Carla Gugino), and the two fly north to find their daughter (Alexandra Daddario) in the City by the Bay. This is 1974’s Earthquake on steroids, with 3-D and CGI replacing Sensurround—and, to be honest, with Johnson and Gugino making a livelier team than Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner. Otherwise, there’s not much difference, and in 40 years this one will probably look as lame as Earthquake does today. But that’s still plenty of time for it to make carloads of money, and it surely will; say what you will, the movie is critic-proof, and even the most cynical will have to admit it delivers what you bought your ticket to see. J.L.

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“I had been playing guitar for a very long time, and I had no idea what I was listening to, so I was immediately intrigued,” Roberts says.

A lot of those early songs were instrumental, and they were pretty out there. Both musicians played acoustic guitars but shortly before recording their second album, expanded into a four-piece. Eventually Roberts and Gerken both switched to the electric guitar, giving the songs a harder rock edge than before. The current lineup is rounded out by Chad Wilson on bass and Greg Aaron on drums.

Lately, the focus hasn’t been on getting more complex, but learning how to create better cohesion and flow in their songs—in a sense, disguising some of the technicalities of the music in order to make it easier to digest.

“The music on this new record is the most evolved state we’ve ever been in. Before, we would have these songs, trying to put these songs with a part I’d written with a part Matt has written, and sometimes cramming them together,” Roberts says. “The record has the best blend of the two worlds. We figured out how to smooth out the edges.”

Finding that balance has been an ongoing pursuit. As lead songwriter, Gerken came to the band with a big interest in ’90s math-rock bands such as Heavy Vegetable and Don Caballero, but he also always loved the gorgeous melodies of artists such as the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel.

“It upsets me to hear the same rhythm over and over again, so I like to have somewhat unpredictable rhythms, but always with melodic parts. I felt like if you put those two things together, you got something that’s exciting, unpredictable and vocally engaging, because you have that catchy hook to listen to,” Gerken says. phoTo by aLeC MoReNo

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Catch Nice Monster at 9 p.m., Friday, June 12, at Fox & Goose, 1001 R Street.

The cover is $5.

Learn more at www.facebook.com/ nicemonstermusic.

“We thought an unreasonable amount of time [about] the ordering of songs,” says singer-guitarist Matt Gerken. “We’ve thought a lot about pacing. There are much tighter arrangements, with all the fat cut, where you might say, ‘oh that sounds pretty, but do we need that much pretty?’”

The foursome, founded in 2002 as a duo with just Gerken and guitarist Jason Roberts, dug in deep on this record. The songs here sport a similar blend of the technical math-rock chops and hook-laden melodies that have defined the band’s sound in the past; this time however, they’ve also deconstructed every aspect of the music, paying attention to little details such as which instruments should drop out at any moment, and when they should be brought back in to build dynamics.

“We removed a lot of parts entirely, because the ear is not ready to hear everything at once,” Gerken says. “It might be fun for everyone to start together, but it’s more interesting to add melodic content over time and build something.”

The band members have always thought a lot about their sound, but in the beginning the songs more overtly flaunted their atypical approach.

For example, when Gerken started Nice Monster, he placed an ad in the SN&R and subsequently connected with Roberts. When the two first met, Gerken played some demos of tunes that were full of weird time signatures and odd guitar tunings. Roberts admits he was initially confused—but in a good way.

“I like to have somewhat unpredictable rhythms, but always with melodic parts.”

Matt Gerken singer-songwriter, Nice Monster This songwriting philosophy in fact inspired the band’s name. Nice refers to the easy, catchy melodies. Monster is the more offbeat, prog-rock instrumentals that back them.

“The idea is to introduce complexity at a rate that is engaging, but not turning people off,” Gerken says. “That’s where the balance comes in.” Ω

Beautiful chaos and more Death Grips mystery New styles: We’ve reached a poignant moment in Zac Nelson’s life.

The Sacramento experimental musician turns 33 next month. His first-ever business, Zeal Kombucha, is finding success. His workmusic balance doesn’t really exist anymore, because he’s just about given up on performing for a living.

He’s seeking stability. And that’s a good thing for his music, too—it can be just for fun.

Yet, it’s at this point in his life that Nelson nabs a two-to-three record deal with Brooklyn label Styles Upon Styles. He’s scheduled to release the first, New Once, on June 16 and is already looking forward to recording the next album—it’ll be his first time creating in a professional studio with professional support as a solo artist.

Though still plenty experimental and avant garde, New Once is Nelson’s most catchy pop record yet.

“I just wanted to create something concise, unique and fresh,” he said. “I’ve listened to it for years and I still love it—that’s a good sign.”

Clocking in at a short and sweet 21 minutes in length, the nine-song collection has been sitting with Nelson for about three years.

Thoroughly impressed, Styles Upon Styles signed Nelson and brought on Rusty Santos to polish off the mixing. Santos used to be the mixing engineer for Animal Collective.

If you’re not familiar with Nelson’s solo work, you may know him from the electro-pop trio Biosexual. He’s also performed with ALAK and collaborated with Death Grips’ Zach Hill on the project CHLL PLL. New Once’s decidedly more pop sound stems from—again—this poignant moment in Nelson’s life.

For the first time, he’s making music beyond purely internal artistic desires.

“Do I just want to make some statement like, ‘Look how weird I can get?’ Or do I want to make something people will actually listen to? I’ve already made tons of material for myself,” he said. “Now I’m thinking about other people.”

The result is rich, textured and attractively chaotic, with relatable themes such as “dying, love, friends,

his dynamic drumming stands out.

It makes sense, as Nelson starts with drums when he writes songs and layers on top of that.

Grab the record at http://styles uponstyles.bandcamp.com, but don’t expect a Sacramento release show.

Nelson hasn’t performed live solo in three years and doesn’t plan to start up again—apart from a label showcase in New York this summer—but you can try bugging him about it at the Midtown Farmers Market’s Zeal Kombucha stand.

Truth: If straight-up, no-frills rock ’n’ roll is your jam, do check out the debut record from Lee Bob & the Truth. Available on vinyl and other formats, The Truth is a raw, foottappin’ pleasure that channels both old-school and modern rock vibes.

Plus a couple of bluesy ballads.

Lee Bob is Lee Bob Watson, a Sacramento expat best known for his stint in Jackpot. Steve Wyreman and Josh Lippi—another Sacramento expat—round out the Bay Area band’s core.

That last detail is important.

The Truth is a Bay Area album—an uncompromising reflection of San Francisco in its dramatically shifting times. Watson’s lyrics—particularly on the first two tracks “Mission Breakdown” and “El Dorado”—are full of enjoyable snark. An example on the latter: “Silicon Valley pastures of plenty / Payments are many in the promised land / Up a spiral staircase they’re counting the money / Saying, ‘Thank you kindly, you can keep the pen.’”

Death Grips strikes again: Last week, the alternative hip-hop group known for keeping the world on its toes befuddled the masses once more. A Death Grips-related Twitter account dropped a download link— no explanation, obviously—for I’ve always been good at true love, an album by the I.L.Y.’s.

Who are the I.L.Y.’s? No one really knows, but let’s assume it’s a Death Grips side project. No hip-hop here, though. Drummer Zach Hill— we think—is singing on most tracks over grunge, experimental pop, power punk, synths and a whole lotta other sounds. We’re going to guess he’s the lead songwriter, too, with the mathy Hella style sort of going on. But again, with Death Grips, we can only guess.

being baffled by being on a planet in outer space,” he quipped. Nelson’s

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Center for the Arts, 8 p.m., $10-$12 Nevada City’s Pinnacles started in 2013 and released the album Automaton in 2014. Fans of well-crafted art rock and harmonies will enjoy EXPERIMENTAL ROCK the vocal interplay between Justin Hunt (sBach, Them Hills, The Bears) and guitarist Robbie Landsburg (Ghost Pines) on standout tracks like “Johnstone” and the ever-so-catchy “Nocturne.” If you’re a fan of Them Hills, By Sunlight or simply smart, angular rock, you are hereby summoned to check out this show. It’s one of the many local showcases dubbed “The Discover Series” by the Center for the Arts—a great way to kick off the weekend. Opening are Number Station and Bull Goose Loony. 314 West Main Street in Grass Valley, www.facebook.com/ pinnaclesband.

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Palms Playhouse, 8 p.m., $15 Yolo Mambo celebrates its fifth year together, but its members have solid musical roots dating to the mid 1960s. Welsh-born Phil Summers has influences spanning Irish music and Latin jazz. Carla Campbell’s Cuban and West African drumming is the group’s heartbeat. Yolo Mambo’s third album, Twist of Fate, drops at this show. “Your Life,” “Feeling Good” and “Caterpillar” feature a light pop sound, yet are still grounded in this quartet’s unique world-fusion style where Brazilian sounds, Gaelic jigs, Spanish flamenco and French revWORLD erie meet Etta James. Whether Catherine LeBlanc sings in English, one of two French dialects, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Maori or even Gaelic, the music is solid, sultry and sometimes haunting.

13 Main Street, www.yolomambo.com.

—Trina L. Drotar

MARRS building, 4p.m.-10 p.m., no cover Summer Second Saturdays are officially kicked up a notch: the This Midtown summer block party series returns Saturday and runs through September. The first edition features locals Exquisite Corps, Mr. Erik James and DJ Epik, plus one hell of a headNU-DISCO liner. One of Luxembourg’s hottest young electronic dance music producers, Cherokee, is at the forefront of the latest “French Touch” wave. His brand of house is a synthy, upbeat nu-disco that pairs perfectly with a sunbleached summer. Get hyped via his latest single “Teenage Fantasy”—a sweet, dreamy, smile-inducing track—and get ready to dance and dance until you can’t dance no more.

1050 20th Street, https://soundcloud.com/ cherokee-official.

—Janelle Bitker

Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 6:30 p.m., $25 It’s been nearly two decades since Mason Jennings put out his eponymous debut, an eight-song, super lo-fi gem. He’s flown relatively under the radar all the while, touring steadily and putting out a dozen albums, playing often with longtime friend Jack Johnson. Early fans of his mellow, folksy pop will recall Jennings’ resolutely political and even spiritual streak—though SINGER-SONGWRITER his latest release, 2013’s Always Been, draws heavily on nature, and, surprisingly, contemporary works of literature ranging from Patti Smith’s biography Just Kids to the fiction of Haruki Murakami and Louise Erdrich.

2708 J Street, http://masonjennings.com.

—Deena Drewis

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Tesla

Melt Banana

Odd Future

Fox & Goose 40th anniversary

Thunder Valley Casino Resort, 6:30 p.m., $32.75-$169.75 Say what you want about Sacramento’s Tesla, but this group of guys has been doing things their own way ever since their debut record, Mechanical Resonance, on Geffen Records. Although unceremoniously lumped in with the hair bands that dominated the scene at the time, this band proved it’s staying through sheer determination and a bunch of solid records. And while it may be best known for an acoustic version of Les Emmerson’s “Signs,” the group’s catalog is quite impressive on its own. Tesla’s latROCK est record is called Simplicity and was released yet again on its own Tesla Electric Company Recordings label. Bay Area hard rockers Y&T open the festivities. 1200 Athens Avenue in Lincoln, http://teslatheband.com.

Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 9:30 p.m., $13-$15 Japanese noise rock band Melt Banana has released seven studio albums and dozens of EPs since forming in 1992. The duo’s latNOISE-ROCK est album, 2013’s Fetch, had to postpone its initial recording sessions due to the Tohoku earthquake and subsequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Members Yasuko Onuki (vocals) and Ichirou Agata (guitar, effects) create chaotic, erratic, and extremely fast-paced grindcore-esque music. Agata layers multiple guitar tracks that simulate lasers, sirens and sounds of disorder with myriad effects pedals. That’s all paired with high-pitched shrieks and quickly delivered lines (in English) courtesy of Onuki.

Hot Nerds and xTom Hanx will also perform.

2708 J Street, www.harlows.com.

—Eddie Jorgensen

Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 6:30 p.m., $20-$25 Is Odd Future underground or mainstream rap? That’s actually a tough question to answer. When the collective first emerged a decade ago, it was rapping over some surreal, next-level beats and brought a strange sense of humor to its lyrics. In no time, OF had a significant influence on mainstream rap—with some of the group’s rappers becoming part of it. But it never lost sight of its weird vision, and still released HIP-HOP some cutting edge records like Earl Sweatshirt’s recent I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside. Odd Future also still fosters new creative talent.

This tour features Mike G, Left Brain, Speak, Bizarre, Pyramid Vritra and Mind Gone Larry. 2708 J Street, www.oddfuture.com.

Fox & Goose, 4 p.m., no cover Forty years ago, a cool little English pub opened in downtown Sacramento. That pub is, of course, Fox & Goose, which has become a favorite watering hole for people looking for British bites, brew, games and live music.

The folks at ROCK/AMERICANA Fox & Goose want to have a big party for their big fourdecade milestone, so they’re starting the festivities at 4 p.m. and going all the way till midnight. There are going to be some throwback specials and guest speakers. And for music, they’ll have Steve McLane (acoustic), Mike Justis Band (Americana), Blue Moon Boys (rockabilly), and closing out the evening will be Be Brave Bold Robot (indie-folk, pictured). 1001 R Street, www.foxandgoose.com.

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Sacramento’S Premier 21+

SPortS bar 16 pool tables!

thurSday, June 11 bad motor scooter

friday, June 12

foo fighters unauthorized

Saturday, June 13

ufc 188 followed by remix

Saturday, June 20 a train

Saturday, June 27 blackwater

Saturday, July 11

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101 Main St., Roseville; (916) 774-0505

THURSDAY 6/11

FRIDAY 6/12

STRANGER, PASADENA; 9pm, no cover

SANDRA DOLORES, 9:30pm, call for cover

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9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 Johnson, 9pm, call for cover

UPON THIS DAWNING, ESKIMO CALLBOY, OUTLINE IN COLOR; 6pm, $12

SUPERSUCKERS, KRYPTIC MEMORIES, BROKE DOWN WASTED; 7pm, $15

CABANA WINERY & BISTRO

DR. ROCK & THE STUFF, 6:30pm, $5

THE SWINGIN’ CABANA BOYS, 6:30pm, $5

THE BOARDWALK

DJs Nick Peezy, Jason Davis and Chase

5610 Elvas Ave., (916) 476-5492

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Sierra Dance Institute presents SDI In Concert, 7pm, $12-$15

STEVE SMITH AND VITAL INFORMATION NYC EDITION, 8pm, $24-$27

Sierra Dance Institute presents SDI In Concert, 1pm and 7pm, $12-$15

COUNTRY CLUB SALOON

’80s music, 9pm, no cover

KMZ BAND, 9pm-1am, no cover

MOCKUPS, 9pm-1am, no cover

DISTRICT 30

JOCHEN MILLER, 10pm, call for cover

EC TWINS, 10pm, call for cover

STYLES & COMPLETE, 10pm, call for cover

DIVE BAR

Deuling Pianos, 9pm, no cover

THUNDER COVER, 9pm, no cover

FACES

Kamikaze Karaoke, 9pm-2am, no cover

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

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

FOX & GOOSE

STEVE MCLANE, 8pm, no cover

ODAMÉ SUCKS, NICE MONSTER, DEVIN FARREN; 9pm, $5

THIS BODY WANTS TO LIVE, ATLAS PARK, JACKSON GRIFFITH; 9pm, $5

G STREET WUNDERBAR

Celebrity Lip Sync, 10pm, call for cover

DJ Mouf, 10pm, call for cover

STREET URCHINZ, 10pm, call for cover

GOLDFIELD TRADING POST

KENNY FRYE BAND, 9pm, no cover

URBAN OUTLAWS, 9pm, no cover

HALFTIME BAR & GRILL

TAKE OUT, 9pm-midnight, $5

PLAYBACK, 9pm-midnight, $5

OH! THE BAND, 6:30pm, $10; DARK SIDE OF THE ABBEY ROAD, 9:30pm, $10-$12

MASON JENNINGS, 6:30pm, $25; MELT BANANA, HOT NERDS; 9:30pm, $13-$15

RAUL MIDON, 7pm, $20-$25

DOG PARTY, 7pm M, $8; MIKE G, LEFT BRAIN; 6:30pm Tu, $20-$25

COLONEL JIMMY AND THE BLACKFISH, PINE BOX BOYS; 9pm, $7

Sunday Sinema, 8pm, no cover

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

4007 Taylor Rd., Loomis; (916) 652-4007 1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

228 G St., Davis; (530) 756-9227 1603 J St., (916) 476-5076

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

HARLOW’S

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN, 7pm, $20; ELECTRIC SIX, WHITE REAPER; 9:30pm, $15

THE HIDEAWAY BAR & GRILL

Trash Rock Thursdays, 9pm, no cover

2565 Franklin Blvd., (916) 455-1331

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR 1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931

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

MIDTOWN BARFLY

1119 21st St., (916) 549-2779

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN 1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

BIKEWHEEL, HEATHER BECHTEL, JOSIAH GATHING; 8:30pm, $5

ORANGE MORNING, JENN ROGAR & TRAVERS CLIFFORD, JOHN GRUBER; 8pm, $5

That Thing on Friday, EDM, 10pm-2am, $5

The Midtown Moxies Burlesque, 8pm, $10-$15

ANNE-MARIE SANDERSON, JUSTIN FARREN, JEFF CAMPBELL; 8:30pm, $6

JILT VS JONAH, TRIKOME, PLOTS; 8:30pm, $5

Coming Soon

6/11 5:30Pm $20

Hot club of cowtown

6/13 6Pm $22.50ADV

MaSon JEnningS

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PHOEBE BRiDGERS

6/11 9Pm $12.50ADV

ElEctric Six WHiTE REAPER

6/13 9:30Pm $13ADV

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CEMETERY SUN, 9pm Tu, no cover

GOPAL, LETA, ROGER AITON; 8:30pm, $10

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 6/15-6/17 Trivia Night, 6:30pm M, no cover; Open-mic night, 7:30pm W, no cover

APATHY CYCLE, PETS, THE HARBOR; 3pm, ONOFF, ROSWELL; 8pm, call for cover $6; PLAYAH K, STATUS GOES; 9pm, $10

2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

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SUNDAY 6/14

Reggae w/ Wokstar and special guest deejays, 9pm, $5

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

1022 K St., (916) 737-5999

Hey local bands!

SATURDAY 6/13

Odd Future Tour Orgone / The Nth Power Eric Lindell Johnny Cash Tribute Whiskey N’ Rye Super Huey Duran Duran Duran Vetiver Jen Kirkman Glen David Andrews Jonathan Richman Fairground Saints Tainted Love Andy Allo Talking Heads Tribute The Ting Tings Big Business B Side Players The Aristocrats Built To Spill

Kamikaze Karaoke, 9pm M; Latin night, 9pm Tu, $5; DJ Alazzawi, 9pm W, $3

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu; Northern Soul and Cornhole, 8pm W

Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M; Open-mic comedy, 8pm Tu; Comedy night, 8pm W, $5

Jazz session, 8pm M; TIGHTROPE, THE SHAFTS, PILGRIM; 8:30pm W, $5

live MuSic

June 11 reggae rock bands Pasadena (baltimore, md) stranger (san diego) June 12 Sandra doloreS June 14 alex Vincent * June 19 SatiSfi June 20 the Soul Shine Band June 21 andrew caStro * June 26 Simple creation June 28 Sandra doloreS * July 03 Sea legS july 10 Brian pi’ikea July 18 fiSh out of water *acouStic SeSSionS from 2-5pm

27 Beers on Draft trivia mondays @ 6:30pm open mic wednesdays sign-ups @ 7:30pm

101 Main Street, roSeville 916-774-0505 · lunch/dinner 7 dayS a week fri & Sat 9:30pm - cloSe 21+ faceBook.com/Bar101roSeVille

THURSDAY 6/11

FRIDAY 6/12

1901 10th St., (916) 442-3504

ON/OFF, GHOSTDANCE RADIO, RADIO ORANGEVALE; 8pm, $5

MUSICAL CHARIS, MAJOR POWERS & LO- BELLY GUNNER, THE KELPS, CALLING FI SYMPHONY, DROP DEAD RED; 9pm, $8 TEMPO, SAM OUTLAW; 9pm, $7

ON THE Y

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

THE BAND AT HAND, 9pm, call for cover Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

OLD IRONSIDES

670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

SATURDAY 6/13

SUNDAY 6/14

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 6/15-6/17 Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover; Open-mic, 9pm W, no cover

Open-mic comedy, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover

YOLO MAMBO, 8pm, $15

COCO MONTOYA, 8pm, $25

THE INFAMOUS SWANKS, VINTAGE VANDALS; 9pm, $5

THE CHICK P’S, 9pm, $5

NOVA SUTRO, TERRA FERNO; 9pm, $5

PASADENA, DRAWING OUT LIFE; 9pm, $5

WHISKEY MAIDEN, 10pm, call for cover

DAZE ON THE GREEN, 10pm, call for cover

CHRIS GARDNER, 10pm, call for cover

DANIEL CASTRO, 10pm, call for cover

DJ Alazzawi, 10pm Tu, call for cover

2030 P St., (916) 444-7914

DR. KNOW, PSYCHOSOMATIC, THE STRANGE PARTY; 8pm, $10

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

SAC STORYTELLERS, PICTUREBOOKS; 5pm; DJ Larry Rodriguez,9pm, $5

Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

LOWBROW, YANKEE BRUTAL; 8pm M; MUNECHILD, 8pm Tu; CONTINENTAL, W

SHADY LADY SALOON

TYSON GRAF TRIO, 9pm, no cover

JACAM MANRICKS, 9pm, call for cover

ELEMENTAL BRASS, 9pm, call for cover

EMILY KOLLARS, 9pm, call for cover

13 Main St., Winters; (530) 795-1825

PISTOL PETE’S

140 Harrison Ave., Auburn; (530) 885-5093

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

PJ’S ROADHOUSE

5461 Mother Lode, Placerville; (530) 626-0336

POWERHOUSE PUB

614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586

THE PRESS CLUB

1409 R St., (916) 231-9121

SOPHIA’S THAI KITCHEN

CITY OF TREES BRASS BAND, 9pm and 11:30pm, $5

129 E St., Davis; (530) 758-4333

STARLITE LOUNGE

STONEY INN/ROCKIN’ RODEO

DJ Patrick, 9pm, no cover

SWABBIES

5871 Garden Hwy, (916) 920-8088

TORCH CLUB

904 15th St., (916) 443-2797

X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; RED’S BLUES, 9pm, $6

Anne-Marie Sanderson with Justin Farren and Jeff Campbell 8:30pm Friday, $6.

Naked Lounge Downtown Dream folk

Trivia Night, 9:30pm Tu, call for cover; Open-mic, 8pm W, call for cover DEKE DICKERSON & THE ECCO-FONICS, SUPER MEGA EVERYTHING, KB & THE SLINGTONES; 8pm, $12 GHOST COLOR; 8pm, call for cover

1517 21st St., (916) 704-0711 1320 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 927-6023

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, W, no cover

GIANT SQUID, SHADOW LIMB, AEQUOREA; 8pm W, $10

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

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

Country dance party, 8pm, no cover

LONG TIME, 6:30pm, call for cover

THE 8 TRACKS, 1pm, $5; HIT PARADE, 5pm, $5

LIFE IN THE FAST LANE, 3pm, call for cover

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm, no cover; STEVEN ROTH, 9pm, $8

MERCY ME!, 9pm, $12

Blues jam, 4pm, no cover

MICHAEL RAY, 8pm Tu; Open-mic, 5:30pm W; PETER PETTY BAND, 9pm W, $5

ANTAGONIZERS, THE WEST LORDS, CLASS SYSTEM; 7pm, $8

Retrogen916 game night, 6pm Tu; SNIPER 66, DEAD WEIGHT; 7pm W, $5

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

All ages, all the time ACE OF SPADES

STORY SO FAR, FOUR YEARS STRONG, TERROR, SOUVENIRS; 6:30pm, $20

CAFÉ COLONIAL

HERD MINDSET, THE KELPS, GOOD NAME GHOST TOWN REBELLION, OF TRUTH, KILL THE CUTE; 8pm, $5 THE THREE WAY, FUDI; 8pm, $5

THE COLONY

GOMORRAH, FUBAR, JOSH MOSH & THE BABY SHAKERS; 7pm, $7

ASTRAL CULT, EBBTIDE, CALIFORNIA CHILD; 8pm, $8

DYSENTERY, COGNATIVE, STILLBIRTH, PLACENTA POWERFIST; 8pm W, $8

SHINE

WATCH YOUR STEP, ADVENT HORIZON, LUCID POPSICLE; 8pm, $6

TAO TARIKI, FABULOUS FUNKYBAND, THE BUMP TRIO; 8pm, $6

Open-mic, 7:30pm W; Open jazz jam w/ Jason Galbraith & Friends, 8pm Tu

1417 R St., (916) 448-3300 3520 Stockton Blvd., (916) 718-7055 3512 Stockton Blvd., (916) 718-7055 1400 E St., (916) 551-1400

RED, ADELITAS WAY, BAD SEED RISING, MCCLINTON; 6:30pm, $18

AcE OF SPADES

1417 R street, sacramento, 95814 www.aceofspadessac.com

All Ages Welcome!

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THE STORY SO FAR

Friday, June 26

ROBIN TROWER

FouR yeARs stRong – teRRoR - souveniRs

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THE ENGLISH BEAT la noche oSkura

Saturday, June 20

THE ORIGINAL WAILERS natural VibrationS

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He didn’t want to be “arbitrary” or “mechanical” in his efforts. I invite you to make this perspective one of your specialties in the coming weeks, Aries. Pick out a tweaked situation you’d like to mend or a half-spoiled arrangement you want to heal. Then pour your pure intelligence into it. Investigate it with a luminous focus.

Use all your tough and tender insight to determine what needs to be transformed, and transform it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Drug

expert Jonathan P. Caulkins estimates that Americans are stoned on marijuana for more than 288 million hours every week. A U.N. report on global drug use concluded that Canadians consume weed at a similar rate. Among Europeans, Italians are No. 1 and the French are fourth.

But I encourage you to avoid contributing to these figures for the next 12 to 14 days.

In my astrological opinion, it’s time to be as sober and sensible and serious as you ever get. You have the chance to make unprecedented progress on practical matters through the power of your pure reasoning and critical thinking.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I think it’ll

be better if you don’t engage in much sacrifice, compromise or surrender in the next two weeks. Normally they are valuable tools to have at your disposal, but for now they may tend to be counterproductive. Judging from the current astrological omens, I suspect you need to be more commanding than usual, more confident in your vision of how to take action with maximum integrity. It’s time for you to draw deeper from the source of your own power, and express it with extra grace and imagination.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You will

soon be escaping—or maybe “graduating” is the right word—from your interesting trials and tribulations. In honor of this cathartic transition, I suggest you consider doing a ritual. It can be a full-fledged ceremony you conduct with somber elegance, or a five-minute psychodrama you carry out with boisterous nonchalance. It will be a celebration of your ability to outlast the forces of chaos and absurdity, and an expression of gratitude for the resources you’ve managed to call on in the course of your struggle. To add an extra twist, you could improvise a rowdy victory prayer that includes this quote adapted from Nietzsche: “I throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘Here is my thanks to the monster who did not devour me.’”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I propose a Friends Cleanse. It would be a three-week-long process of reviewing your support team and web of connections. If you feel up for the challenge, start this way: Take inventory of your friendships and alliances. If there are any that have faded or deteriorated, make a commitment to either fix them or else phase them out. Here’s the second stage of the Friends Cleanse: Give dynamic boosts to those relationships that are already working well. Take them to the next level of candor and synergy.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): After Walt

Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he made sure it would get the publicity he wanted. He wrote anonymous reviews of his own book and submitted them to several publications, all of which printed them. “An American bard at last!” began the glowing review that appeared in one newspaper. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Virgo, you now have license to engage in similar behavior.

You will incur no karma, nor will you tempt fate, if you tout your own assets in the coming weeks. Try to make your bragging and self-promotion as charming as possible, of course. But don’t be timid about it.

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Break every meaningless rule that tempts you to take yourself too seriously. Explore the art of benevolent mischief. Here’s the third: Clear out space in your fine mind by shedding one dogmatic belief, two unprovable theories and three judgmental opinions. Give yourself the gift of fertile emptiness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the 16th

century, roguish French author Francois Rabelais published a comic novel entitled The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel.

In the course of his satirical story, a learned teacher named Epistemon takes a visit to the afterlife and back. While on the other side, he finds famous dead heroes employed in humble tasks. Alexander the Great is making a meager living from mending old socks. Cleopatra is hawking onions in the streets. King Arthur cleans hats and Helen of Troy supervises chambermaids. In accordance with the Rabelaisian quality of your current astrological aspects, Scorpio, I invite you to meditate on the reversals you would like to see in your own life. What is first that maybe should be last? And vice versa?

What’s enormous that should be small?

And vice versa? What’s proud that should be humble? And vice versa?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

There’s no better time than now to ask the big question or seek the big opening or explore the big feeling. People are not only as receptive as they will ever be, they are also more likely to understand what you really mean and what you are trying to accomplish. Which door has been forever locked? Which poker face hasn’t blinked or flinched in many moons? Which heart of darkness hasn’t shown a crack of light for as long as you can remember? These are frontiers worth revisiting now, when your ability to penetrate the seemingly impenetrable is at a peak.

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

writer Donald Barthelme once came to see the artist Elaine de Kooning in her New York studio. Midway through the visit, loud crashes and bangs disturbed the ceiling above them. De Kooning wasn’t alarmed. “Oh, that’s Herbert thinking,” she said, referring to the metal sculptor Herbert Ferber, who worked in a studio directly above hers. This is the kind of thinking I’d love to see you unleash in the coming days, Capricorn. Now is not a time for mild, cautious, delicate turns of thought, but rather for vigorous meditations, rambunctious speculations and carefree musings. In your quest for practical insight, be willing to make some noise. (The story comes from Barthelme’s essay “Not-Knowing.”)

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

Lumet was an American director who worked on 50 films, including 14 that were nominated for Academy Awards, like Network and Dog Day Afternoon. Actors loved to work with him, even though he was a stickler for thorough rehearsals.

Intense preparation, he felt, was the key to finding the “magical accidents” that allow an actor’s highest artistry to emerge.

I advocate a similar strategy for you, Aquarius. Make yourself ready, through practice and discipline, to capitalize fully on serendipitous opportunities and unexpected breakthroughs when they arrive.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “It is not

only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too,” said American writer Josh Billings. I agree with him. It’s not impossible to solve the mystery of who you are, but it can be hard work that requires playful honesty, cagey tenacity and an excellent sense of humor. The good news is that these days it’s far less difficult and inconvenient than usual for you to deepen your selfunderstanding. So take advantage! To get started, why don’t you interview yourself?

Go here to see some questions you could ask: http://bit.ly/interviewyourself.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you carry

out the assignments I recommend, you will boost your charisma, your chutzpah and your creativity. Here’s the first one: Try something impossible every day. Whether or not you actually accomplish it isn’t important. To merely make the effort will shatter illusions that are holding you back. Here’s your second assignment:

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Dog Party is Lucy (left) and Gwen Giles.

Sounds like teen spirit The members of the rock ’n’ roll sister duo Dog Party keep pretty busy with the day-to-day responsibilities most teens and young adults face: school, prom, relationships, etc. Still, Gwen and Lucy Giles, who’ve been making music together since they were preteens, keep adding to their schedules. Over the years they’ve managed to fit in a few cross-country summer tours and even traveled to Europe to play Italy and Berlin. Gwen, now 19 and studying graphic communication at Cal Poly, says scheduling band practice is tougher these days but she still enjoys the nights she and her sister reunite to perform. Meanwhile, Lucy, on the edge of her 17th birthday, says she’s looking forward to celebrating the release of the band’s latest album, Vol. 4, at Harlow’s on Monday, June 15. SN&R caught up with the siblings at a recent show to discuss important adolescent milestones, makeup and making music via the band’s new partnership with the Southern California-based Burger Records.

Lucy, how was prom? I hear you were also featured in your school’s newspaper, how did that come about?

Lucy: They were just going around taking photos at prom and they just took a picture of me. I thought it was pretty cool because people at my school— Gwen: Lucy doesn’t consider herself popular.

Lucy: Because I’m not. People at my school don’t really know what I do as a band. So, it was cool to be in the paper.

Your eyeliner is always on point. Got any makeup tips?

Lucy: Primer is so important, like eye and face primer by Smashbox or bareMinerals. I also like Kat Von D’s Tattoo Liner and I don’t pull my eye, I just kind of follow the shape of my eyelid and then connect the point.

What’s next now that you’ve joined Burger Records?

Gwen: Now that we’re signed with Burger, we look forward to being a part of more of their showcases like Burger Caravan of Stars and Burger a-Go-Go [in Santa Ana]. We’re also stoked to be a part of the Burger family with many of our friends and bands we love.

What inspired the new single “Peanut Butter Dream”?

Lucy: “Peanut Butter Dream” was about how I got together with my boyfriend.

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Your parents seem highly supportive of Dog Party.

Gwen: Writing the songs still comes from the heart. Even when the lyrics seem like they’re random, there are still hidden meanings behind everything.

Lucy: I think it’s weird because when I was younger writing songs [and] I listen to my lyrics [now], a lot of them have a ton of meaning, but I was just singing. Honestly, I wasn’t thinking about what I was doing.

Lucy: Yeah, it’s really weird because our family works so much differently. It’s very team-oriented, there [are] no secrets, there’s no weirdness. We all do our part. It’s like, communism! [laughs.] We all do our part and we’re all really close to each other. We’re not like normal teens that try to be a million feet away from their parents at all times.

Gwen: I’m working at KCPR, Cal Poly’s radio station, and people will start playing a band and I’ll walk in and say, “Oh, this is one of my dad’s favorite bands right now,” or like, “Oh my gosh! My mom really likes King Tuff.”And they’re like, “Your parents are cool.”

Do venues treat Dog Party differently because of your age?

Was it your parents who introduced you both to music?

What’s different about writing songs now versus when the two of you were 9 and 11 years old?

Lucy: We like to be treated with respect.

And, it’s totally a bummer when we play a show and we don’t get treated with respect by sound men, or people that put on the shows. There are people that are kind of like rude to us at first, but then after we play, they’re like, “Ohhh!”

How do you deal with that?

Lucy: I try not to get too angry about it.

Gwen: At least afterward, they kind of understand. Even though it’s irritating that their first opinion wasn’t as cool as their second opinion after hearing us, at least we justify ourselves. Then, they might rethink their thoughts like, “Why would I think they’d be bad just because they’re girls?”

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They just shared their love of music with us. We were so inclined to play music and express ourselves musically that it just all kind of happened. They always supported us and always tried to supply us with the means that we needed.

Gwen: We never felt any pressure like, “You need to play, or you need to practice.” That was never a thing either.

For me, education is good for the mind, exercise is good for the body and music is good for the soul. Ω Catch Dog Party at 7 p.m., Monday, June 15, at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J Street.

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