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Housing in Balance Advocates hope to spread affordable units across the city

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esidents in South Sacramento and beyond may be better served when affordable housing is spread across the city, according to advocates of an updated policy being discussed by City of Sacramento government officials.

“When you have affordable housing for the low income, you help stabilize their lives and build a foundation to rebuild their lives,” says Darryl Rutherford, executive director of the Sacramento Housing Alliance.

This goal, known as inclusionary housing, allows low-income residents to then use money they would otherwise use for housing instead for things such as buying fresh food or paying health care costs, he explains.

Inclusionary housing ordinances have been adopted in communities across the country to help preserve so-called mixed-income communities. In sum, the policies require market-rate developers to set aside a portion of their new housing units for lower-income households.

Such an ordinance already exists in the city of Sacramento, but it only addresses newgrowth neighborhoods in the Delta Shores and Natomas areas. A new ordinance supported by the Sacramento Housing Alliance and its partners would apply to the whole city, thus not concentrating the poor in one area and providing better access to new schools, as well as retail options.

Policy makers are also moving toward allowing a fee be paid instead. The Alliance would like to see the current ordinance stay in place and be

implemented citywide. However, the political reality is that the ordinance will be revised as a fee-based ordinance with the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency being responsible for allocating the funds toward affordable housing projects. Additionally, the amount proposed is insufficient to make a difference in the lowerincome housing issue, according to Rutherford.

“It’s going to take a lot of time to cobble together funds to build affordable housing,” he says regarding the proposed formula. “It’s going to be just a drop in the bucket. We just want it to be high enough to meet the needs of the community.”

“THERE’S A HUGE NEED OUT THERE FOR MORE LOWERINCOME HOUSING.”

aims to improve the health of 14 challenged communities throughout the state, including South Sacramento.

The goal is for lower income households to not spend more than 30 percent of their monthly income on housing costs. Lower income households include low-wage workers such as restaurant employees, childcare providers and health care aides, according to Rutherford. “There’s a huge need out there for more lower-income housing,” he says.

He hopes Sacramento City can adopt an ordinance that creates affordable housing options throughout the city. The new proposed inclusionary housing policy was discussed at the city Planning Commission meeting June 23 and will go before the Sacramento City Council for a vote in the coming months.

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

Darryl Rutherford, executive director of Sacramento Housing Alliance, stands outside Mercy Housing, one of Sacramento Housing Alliance’s partners in maintaining affordable housing in the community.

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Darryl Rutherford executive director, Sacramento Housing Alliance

The current proposal is to charge developers a fee of $2.58 per square feet; the Sacramento Housing Alliance would like to see an increase to at least $4 per square feet. To build, according to Rutherford, it takes closer to $9 to $13 per square foot.

“Because it’s such a low fee, affordable housing builders are going to be forced to build outside the hot market, which can contribute to further segregation,” he explains.

Sacramento Housing Alliance has been working with The California Endowment as part of its Building Healthy Communities initiative, which

Get involved! Visit the Sacramento Housing Alliance www.sachousingalliance.org, or attend a Sacramento City Council meeting. Agendas and the schedule of council meetings can be found at www.cityofsacramento.org.

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Building better neighborhoods Last week was a big one for the Supreme Court, what with the legalization of same-sex marriage and its upholding of the Affordable Care Act. The justices also decided another crucial case, with its June 25 ruling to uphold a key component of the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

The decision in the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project preserves a 40-year-plus safeguard against housing discrimination that allows plaintiffs to challenge discriminatory housing policies—without the burden of proving that such discrimination is intentional.

The case originated from a 2009 lawsuit filed by the Inclusive Communities Project, a Dallas nonprofit that promotes racially and economically diverse communities. The ICP sued the state of Texas for its distribution of low-income-housing federal tax credits: According to the lawsuit, the TDHCA allocated the majority of affordablehousing tax credits to poorer minority neighborhoods while denying credits to similar developments in affluent, predominantly white communities.

Such policies are harmful, the ICP said, because they perpetuate racial segregation. Five of the Supreme Court justices agreed.

“The court acknowledges the Fair Housing Act’s continuing role in moving the nation toward a more integrated society,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the ruling’s majority opinion.

The victory is significant. In short, the ruling enforces the Fair Housing Act’s decree that state and local governments may not spend federal housing money in a manner that allows them to sidestep racially integrated neighborhoods in favor of subsidized housing in poor, blighted ghettos.

It’s about equality and opportunity.

It’s about building better, diverse neighborhoods—a better way of life— for everyone.

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The perpetrator allegedly called ni c k a m @ the victims “faggots” and mocked ne w s re v i e w . c o m their metro fashion and skinny jeans before slicing them up with a giant knife. Police have prosecuted the case as an anti-gay hate crime (despite the fact that the victims say it isn’t).

And the resulting anger on social media toward suspect Timothy Brownell has been fierce.

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SN&R’s Nick Miller was first to report on the stabbing of three musicians in Midtown. Read his original report here: http://tinyurl.com/ StabbingSkinnyJeans.

But I’ve got to urge my fellow Midtowners and friends of the victims to slow down, breathe, and not project a rage akin to that which drove Brownell to stab musicians in the first place.

This won’t be a popular opinion piece. People like to “liberal-shame” journalists that put a human face on criminals. But I’m going there.

Let’s take a look at what makes Brownell click. And what made him snap on Sunday, June 21, just before midnight.

Brownell, 25, is a U.S. Army and Afghanistan war veteran. His mother—who I learned on Monday from a source is gay, but withheld from sharing in respect of her privacy—has told local media that her son suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Brownell’s acquaintances also have told me that he has anger issues, which manifest as a side-effect of his untreated PTSD. I’ve read a lot of online comments this week dismissing PTSD, calling it a hoax. But let’s be clear: PTSD is very real.

Time to crunch the numbers: The Department of Veterans Affairs—the agency that for years ignored PTSD after the Vietnam War, and so on—estimates that 20 to 30 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan vets suffer from PTSD. Outside groups that advocate on behalf of PTSD victims say these numbers are higher. The Department of Defense has estimated that nearly 3 million members of the

U.S. military served in the war on terror since 2001.

This means that there’s somewhere between 600,000 and 1 million veterans of Bush-era wars out in our communities experiencing PTSD. What sets off PTSD? Lots of things. There was a story last week about a man asking neighbors not to shoot off fireworks during the Fourth of July, because it triggers episodes.

So, yeah, it’s no secret that treatment of PTSD for military veterans is woeful. The VA has been dinged repeatedly for long waits and poor follow-up. Hundreds of thousands of victims are never even diagnosed.

The majority suffer quietly. Brownell appears to be one of those who slipped through the cracks.

Hold on. I’m not saying people should pity Brownell. Or that PTSD is an excuse.

What he allegedly did to the musicians in Musical Charis and Slaves is inexcusable. One hundred percent.

And it’s also scary that he possessed illegal firearms at his Midtown apartment. This guy was dangerous, clearly.

I live less than a block from the scene of the crime. I know some of the victims. Like many, I’ve walked that dark street at midnight to Press Club. It breaks me when I close my eyes and imagine what happened.

But what happened also appears to be yet another side effect of our government’s forays into the Middle East, which continue to haunt our communities.

This will only get worse in the coming years, as untreated PTSD continues to wreak havoc on veterans’ minds. And our cities.

And, as one commenter on SN&R’s Facebook page noted, the victims, too, might suffer from PTSD after this assault.

So, next time you want to rant to a friend or post a missive on Facebook about the Midtown stabbing, take pause. Let’s stop the counter-hate.

Let’s also end the thank-youveterans lip service at sporting events and on holidays and actually move the needle when it comes to helping veterans.

Media attention on this story has been national. We’ve seen “Skinny jeans stabbing” headlines by Time, New York Magazine, Gawker, People, Esquire and the Los Angeles Times.

We’re not going to criticize our colleagues in journalism. But let’s talk a bit about PTSD, too, and why this happened.

There’s more to this tragedy than tight pants. Ω

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Re “What’s the 311?” by Brooke Purves (SN&R Beats, June 25): This is a sad commentary on a program that I, as a city of Sacramento employee, initially developed in the late 1990s. The program at the time of development was never fully staffed and was a sort of stepchild when it came to funding. It could be the most useful program in terms of service the city provides. Just as City Hall is the physical “face” of the city, the 311 number is one of the most important online buzz virtual “faces.” I for one encourage On a new law at the CapitOl tO the city to re-evaluate its priorities regulate mediCal marijuana: in an ongoing process and fully fund and staff this vital program.

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NDs are OK? Re “Uneasy medicine” (SN&R Editorial, June 25): I would like to take the opportunity to clarify some misconceptions in your recently published article.

The author does not distinguish between licensed Naturopathic Doctors (NDs) and traditional naturopaths. Naturopaths do not complete education and training at an accredited medical school and are not eligible to take licensing exams.

NDs, on the other hand, are required to complete a four-year post-graduate medical program at an accredited naturopathic medical school. NDs are required to take a national licensing exam and are regulated by the Naturopathic Medicine Committee under the Department of Consumer Affairs.

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Especially considering its obstructionist reputation.

There have been fundraisers all over town to help the Midtown stabbing victims, all musicians, pay for medical costs. A bartender at Kupros Craft House personally matched all donations at one fundraiser last week, and musicians raised $500 at Pour House on Saturday night. Keep an eye out for more fundraisers in the coming weeks.

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The threat of litigation is meant to force SN&R to agree that the city should not disclose certain emails that the city attorney has determined to be public records.

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by CoSMo G with the Philadelphia-based law firm cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om Ballard Spahr, threatened the legal action last week. “We’re not suing you as a bad person,” he said during a phone call. “But we need to protect ourselves.”

Let’s back up. Regular readers may remember that SN&R filed a public-records request in March in order to better understand how and why the mayor’s staff uses a network of private Gmail accounts to do city business (read “Special Delivery,” SN&R News, April 23, here: http://tinyurl.com/KJsecretemail).

You may also recall that Johnson has used city staff for many of his non-city projects. One of those was a takeover of the leadership of the National Conference of Black Mayors, which was described in a PowerPoint presentation to city staff as a “coup” (read my recent column, from June 11, titled “KJ Inc. strikes again,” here: http://tinyurl.com/KJincStrikesAgain.)

The NCBM takeover resulted in a nasty legal fight involving Johnson and aggrieved NCBM officials. Each of these separate threads—the parallel email accounts for the mayor’s staff, and the NCBM coup—show the remarkable extent to which Johnson uses city resources for non-city business.

In the course of reviewing documents for SN&R’s records request, Deputy City Attorney Michael Benner identified several emails between the mayor’s staff and Ballard Spahr— that’s the firm representing the mayor and the NCBM in the current litigation.

Benner said that if these emails had been between the city attorney and city staff, he would have said they couldn’t be released. The California Public Records Act says that communication between a public agency and its attorney is exempt from disclosure.

But since Ballard Spahr is an outside firm representing K.J. on a private matter, Benner says the city won’t withhold the emails. “As far as I’m concerned, these are public records,” Benner says.

Pittinksy—acting on behalf of Johnson and the NCBM—wants SN&R to take the extremely unusual step of agreeing the city should withhold these records, or be named in a lawsuit to block their release.

“You need to decide if you’re willing to go to court,” Pittinsky said. The mayor’s office, meanwhile, has refused to answer any questions from SN&R about the matter.

The Sacramento Bee was also scheduled to receive some of the same emails, in response to a records request related to the NCBM fight.

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Pittinsky said the Bee has since agreed to his demand, and that if SN&R didn’t do the same, “We will be forced to litigate only with you.”

But, in fact, if Johnson and his lawyers think these emails should be kept secret, then their beef is really with the city, not SN&R. It’s not the reporter’s job to say what’s covered by attorney-client privilege; that’s the city’s job. And if SN&R agrees to the demand, there’s a danger the mayor or his lawyer would use the side-agreement to hide other records where the attorney-client privilege does not legitimately apply.

And of course, it’s entirely inappropriate for a public official or his lawyer to threaten to sue a reporter for exercising his rights under the California Public Records Act and the California State Constitution.

Jim Ewert, attorney with the California Newspaper Publishers Association, says reporters, along with everyone else, are protected from that kind of harassment by California’s “anti-SLAPP” statute.

SLAPP stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. It’s a way for businesses and politicians to silence critics and others involved in unwelcome First Amendment activity.

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It’s entirely inappropriate for a public official or his lawyer to threaten to sue a reporter for exercising his rights under the California Public Records Act and the California State Constitution.

Also, it’s important to remember that the emails in question came from Gmail accounts set up for the mayor’s staff. In order for the city attorney to get the emails, the mayor’s office had to turn them over to the city. It’s pretty weird for Johnson to sue to stop the release of documents that he’s already provided.

At press time, it wasn’t clear if Johnson’s attorney would make good on his threat. But it’s a mess. We wouldn’t be here if, as in other cities, there was some policy requiring city employees to use city email accounts for city business. And it further shows the lack of boundaries between the mayor’s office and his “brand” and many personal enterprises. Johnson may argue, unconvincingly, that his involvement with NCBM raised the city’s profile. But involving city staff in a “coup” and a protracted legal battle is clearly no benefit to Sacramento.

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Coffee talk Debating the Affordable Care Act while in line at Starbucks On a recent Saturday morning, I thought I was going into Starbucks on Broadway to increase my caffeine level and get some reading done. Instead, I got a lesson on America’s political polarization.

I was standing in line to order a “grande” coffee, which, by the way, means “add 40 cents to my bill” in Italian. A tall white gentleman, several people behind me in line, called out to me in a voice loud enough for everyone in our little Starbucks community to hear. He wanted me to know that he was laughing at my book. l

by Jeff VOnKaene I’m reading Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve our j ef f v@ ne wsreview.c om Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System,

by Ezekiel Emanuel. The author was a special adviser to the White House on health-care reform, and is the brother of Chicago mayor and former White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.

I looked at my fellow caffeine addict inquisitively. He continued: “Obamacare will never improve anything. It is a disaster. Look at my hand.”

His hand had a crooked finger.

“This is going to cost thousands of dollars to fix, even though I have health insurance.”

I had just been called out. So, I responded, and in a voice that also could be heard by all in our little Starbucks community. I told him that I was glad that a couple of million Californians now had health-care This would be like insurance, that the cost of healthdiscussing biology with care inflation was being brought under control, and that people someone who did not with pre-existing conditions believe in evolution. could now get insurance.

My fellow patron then tells me that this is all a smokescreen.

Obamacare is just an income transfer.

I assume he means an income transfer from people like him to poor people. Although I’m normally interested in discussing health policy, I instantly became uninterested. This would be like discussing biology with someone who did not believe in evolution.

I took my overpriced coffee and sat down.

Later, my new acquaintance came over to my table. He wanted to click paper cups. We did. We recognized, I guess, that two Homo sapiens living in parallel universes just had an encounter and nobody got hurt.

In my universe, the Affordable Care Act, despite its problems, is working. Emanuel has identified trends which will transform our health-care system, including: • Moving away from fee-for-service payments, which will take away the incentive for unnecessary procedures and tests.

• VIP care for those in the first stages of a chronic physical Jeff vonKaenel or mental illness, which will reduce the expense of treating is the president, these illnesses later on.

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The end result will be a better and less expensive system.

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I know, that sounds ridiculous. But, seriously, watch out.

Not long ago, I had to return something to Amazon. Not drugs. It was an iPod I had bought for my son. The wrong one, so I drove to the UPS Store on Freeport Boulevard to ship it back. There were folks ahead of me in line, it was lunchtime, I was hungry and I didn’t want to wait.

So, I went to the UPS Store on S Street in Midtown. No line, the lady at the counter was supernice and helpful.

Alas, the ramen place next door had a wait, so I decided to look for a quieter lunch spot.

That’s when I noticed the large man in the S.F. Giants cap giving me the stink eye.

I didn’t think too much about it. Midtown is mostly cool, but there is the occasional weirdo.

As I approached my car, however, the big dude called out. “Sir, excuse me. Can I talk to you?”

Now I saw the big dude had something hanging from a lanyard around his neck. As he got closer I could see it said “Department of Fish and Game.”

OK, what is this shit? I thought. Was this guy some kind of cop? Or scammer? What’s Fish and Game doing in Midtown? And, isn’t it called Department of Fish and Wildlife?

The big dude started talking about how he was part of a “marijuana task force,” he’d watched me leave the UPS store on Freeport. He said my car had a brake light out, and so he’d decided to follow me. And, now, he wanted to know why I was going from one UPS store to another. And he wanted to see my license and registration.

“Wait, what? You followed me?” I had no idea what he was talking about, but red flags were flying.

(For the record: I’m not a drug dealer. I don’t even smoke pot anymore, it makes me nervous.)

The big dude was making me nervous, too.

His story didn’t seem kosher. I wasn’t going to

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dfw? open my wallet or my car door for him.

I made to leave.

“You’re not leaving,” he said, moving closer. “You need to understand that you are being detained.”

“For a brake light? Who are you?” I asked. “Where is your ticket book? Where is your car, even?”

The big dude pulled out an ID. It said his name was John Laughlin, and it said Fish and Game. Was it real? I guessed maybe.

How are you supposed to tell?

He said his ticket book was in his car around the corner, that we could walk over there. Uh-huh. “Tell you what,” I said. “You go get your ticket book. I’m going to call the police and we can sort it out with them.”

“And I’m going to warn you that you are interfering with my investigation,” the big dude countered. “And you may be placed under arrest.”

We stood there looking at each other for a while. Me thinking, What the hell? Him telling me he really was a real cop. Then, he called someone on his iPhone. I opened the voice memo app on mine and let him know I was recording. Shortly thereafter, some Sacramento County Probation Department guys rolled up in a marked car.

Laughlin told the probation guys about the UPS stores, the brake light and that I was nervous because I didn’t know who he was. All true. He told them, “I advised him about 148.”

Not true. I didn’t know what “148” meant until I looked it up and learned that’s the penal code for resisting arrest.

The probation guys told me Laughlin really was law enforcement. So, I showed him my license and registration. He gave me a little talk about the millions of dollars worth of marijuana being shipped through the mail. “Do you think that’s all for medicinal purposes?” he asked.

“I don’t know. Are you going to write me a ticket?” I asked. No. Did he have any more questions about me being a drug dealer? No, apparently not. Great. “Can I have the name of your supervisor?” He gave me a name.

The name was bullshit. It turned out Laughlin’s “supervisor” no longer works at the Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Eventually, I got in touch with David Bess, chief of law enforcement at DFW, who told me, yes, Laughlin worked for something called the Mountain And Valley Marijuana BEFORE

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(By the way, Fish and Game did change its name to Fish and Wildlife in 2012. But they decided to keep the old badges around in order to save money.)

Bess saw nothing wrong with the stop and said Laughlin was completely within his authority to follow me across town and question me because of the brake light. Also, he said it was suspicious that I went from one UPS store to another. OK, maybe that’s weird. But Laughlin wouldn’t have known this if he wasn’t already creeping on me.

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Mark Reichel attorney Bess also said that Laughlin observed that I had a backpack with me, and that it “looked heavier when you came out of the store.”

Nope, also not true. It had the same laptop and yellow notepads as when I went in.

I called Department of Justice spokesperson Kristin Ford, who said MAVMIT is tasked with finding and eradicating marijuana grows on public lands. I knew that much from Googling. And it’s true, of course, that illegal pot grows are incredibly damaging to the environment. And dangerous to people, too. A Fish and Wildlife officer working for MAVMIT shot and killed a guy earlier this year at a grow on a wildlife refuge near Elk Grove.

But when did Fish and Wildlife agents start following random people around city neighborhoods? And what are we paying for that? Does MAVMIT have a budget? Does it file annual reports?

Unfortunately, DOJ and DFW officials so far haven’t answered my questions. In fact, it seemed like they were annoyed by my queries, like I was keeping them from the important stuff they had to do. Or maybe

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they felt like I was asking questions that were really none of my business.

Ford at DOJ did give me one interesting detail: Laughlin was not actually with MAVMIT when he stopped me, like Bess said he was.

So I called Bess again, and this time he gave me a different story, about how Laughlin was actually helping this other marijuana task force. “How many task forces are there?” I asked. And what was the name of this other task force? Bess wouldn’t say. “Because the case they are working on is not resolved, I cannot discuss it.”

Uh-huh.

I still have a lot of questions. If the DFW is trying to catch drug dealers, do they know what they’re doing? It seems dumb and dangerous to come at people on the street and say you’ve been following them, and that you’re going to detain them—when you’re not any kind of cop that most people would recognize. And just how often is DFW “detaining” law-abiding citizens on city streets with this sort of flimsy pretext?

Now, while DFW is apparently pretty bad at guessing who’s a drug dealer, what Laughlin said about people moving weed out of state through the mail is true.

Since Proposition 215 and the “medical” marijuana boom, “there’s a glut of pot and no place to unload it,” says attorney Mark Reichel.

So the post office, UPS and FedEx store are conduits for California-grown pot headed for buyers in Maryland, or Pennsylvania, or North Carolina, you name it.

Of course, that means that more than ever cops are hovering around these mail stores, watching people come and go on their daily errands. And, apparently, even something innocuous like a backpack or a brake light can put you under suspicion.

“They are throwing probable cause out the window. It’s just a big dragnet,” says Reichel.

“Ten years ago, nobody was watching you go to the post office. Now they are.

That’s the reality. There’s just way more surveillance on the mail than there was before,” he added.

I don’t want to make you nervous, but definitely don’t send your weed through the UPS Store. Maybe don’t go there at all.

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Jury of sneers Spiking suicide rates, a doubling of jail inmates with mental illness and a revolving door of patients in psychiatric facilities are the result of Sacramento County’s failing mental-health system, according to its grand jury.

In a scalding report released June 24, the grand jury blamed 2009 budget cuts that eliminated half of the county’s inpatient treatment beds and closed its centralized intake center as the primary causes of a deteriorating system. Citing what the report called a “pattern of troubling decisions,” the grand jury claims the county also mismanaged funds and ignored an ominous 2011 independent expert review that found cracks in the system.

The county’s retraction from providing mental-health services shifted that burden to law enforcement and already-strained emergency rooms, says Lt. Santos Ramos of the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department. Residents rely on 911 to request help for someone experiencing a mental-health crisis. Officers take these individuals to local ERs, where a medical evaluation averages one-to-two hours instead of the five minutes it took officers to drop someone at the county’s intake center, he said.

That means fewer officers on patrol.

The grand jury admonished the county to utilize care systems that don’t break the bank and re-establish a 24-hour intake facility along with other pre-2009 programs.

In other grand jury findings, the jury blasted the city of Citrus Heights for “chronically and systematically” mishandling its red-light camera systems; chastised the Twin Rivers Unified School District for violating open-meeting laws in its appointment of board trustee Sonja Cameron; and cleared the Sacramento Fire Department in a narcotics investigation that alleged drug theft and tampering.

County representatives declined comment until they could review the report. (Brooke Purves)

Drum feat Grant Union High School’s drum line did it: Teacher James “Mr. V” Van Buren and his students raised more than $100,000 over the past 10 months, so the line will fly to Washington D.C. this week and play the National Independence Day Parade on July 4. They’re the only drum line invited from the entire state.

The drum line got a big assist from TV personality Robin Roberts, who surprised Van Buren and the kids in Hollywood last November. She invited them on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, then showered them with a $20,000 check, plus funds to pay for hotel rooms in D.C. She also gave Van Buren a new minivan.

Read “Hear them go boom!” SN&R’s August 21, 2014 Feature Story on the line and Van Buren at http://tinyurl.com/ GrantDrumline. (Nick Miller)

Fee for housing An updated mixed-use housing ordinance may give the city of Sacramento the revenue necessary to actually build some of the affordable housing units it says are needed. Forwarded to the Sacramento City Council on June 25, the ordinance centers on a proposed $2.58-per-square-foot impact fee on all new multi-unit building projects that developers would be asked to pay.

The $11.8 million in revenue that’s projected by 2020 would fund just over 150 affordable dwellings, says Sacramento Housing Alliance Executive Director Darryl Rutherford. That number is in line with the city’s goal of leveraging 1,570 affordable homes with $110.5 million by 2035. But Rutherford suggested an impact fee closer to $10- to $13-per-square-foot is necessary to truly meet the city’s housing needs.

According to the ordinance, developers can avoid the fee altogether by incorporating regulated low-income housing into at least 10 percent of any project. That incentive helps foster the mixed-income element of the ordinance. (B.P.)

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Over the past year, they say, that tribe has grown in both size and despair. “I have never in my life seen that many workers in the street,� DiAngelo says.

You’d be hard-pressed to find better authorities on the subject. The two started out as sex workers in the ’70s, surviving rapes, robberies, kidnappings and other callous mistreatment. Decades later, they’ve reinserted themselves into the Sacramento landscape as activists, with DiAngelo fronting a local iteration of the Sex Workers Outreach Project. Along with a platoon of like-minded allies, SWOP has attempted the first scholarly survey of the homegrown sex-worker population.

The findings depict alarming rates of violence, medical neglect and hopelessness.

It’s a public-health crisis disguised as a criminal nuisance.

Sacramento’s unofficial red-light district is a 9-mile stretch of Stockton Boulevard that cuts through the neighborhoods of Oak Park, Little Saigon, south Sacramento and Florin. Across the street from a chapel is a dingy motel where the transgender workers congregate. Fifteen blocks south is the pitch-black mouth to a mobile-home park where underage girls are trafficked, DiAngelo says. Past Mack Road, the older “renegades� solicit.

Along with an area of Watt Avenue north of Auburn Boulevard, it’s one of the county’s busiest open-air prostitution markets. Busier still, since federal authorities raided an online escort operation last summer.

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Authorities say the San Francisco-based website, which primarily served California and Nevada, facilitated prostitution and had to fall. Sex workers say the site provided a meager safeguard against predators, pimps and cops.

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That desperation is what brings DiAngelo and Callahan out night after night. On this Saturday, they’re spreading word about a safety class where they’ll instruct workers how to guard against predators.

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When federal authorities indicted myRedBook’s operators, sex workers lost an online resource they used to warn each other about dangerous clients. Unlike other escortfriendly sites with broader geographic profiles, myRedBook allowed users to access safety information and post certain ads for free.

Monroe says she had a good rating on the site and only worked with clients who were equally well reviewed. “In order for me to see [clients], I had to see that they were reviewing other girls on there. I even asked to call some of the girls that they did see [for feedback],” she explains.

The safe dates were “white-listed” with a star.

The bad ones weren’t.

Workers could also earn enough money through the site to hold down apartments and cars, keep their pimps at bay—or even operate without them, which is rarer on the streets, local detectives say. It wasn’t an ideal existence, by any means—and there are plenty of myRedBook horror stories out there—but it provided a measure of control to those who knew how to use it.

When it disappeared, that all changed.

“I think we all remember that day,” DiAngelo says. “It was sort of like, ‘What are you doing?

It’s our only safe mechanism. What are you doing?’”

In the immediate aftermath, DiAngelo, Monroe and others say pimps forced their workers into a climate they weren’t prepared for.

Here’s how Monroe remembers that time: “A lot of the Ps started to get together and rob, or they started beating up dates, which made it even harder [on us],” she says. “Ps were kidnapping girls. … Dates were even pulling up on girls, taking them, raping them. Pulling us into back alleys, all types of stuff.”

DiAngelo says she interviewed four sex workers who fled the skyrocketing hostility in Oakland in search of safer trespass in Sacramento.

Perverted market principles followed the migration. As the local street supply increased, demand decreased. Whereas workers used to average $100 or more for an online date, they were barely clearing $20 to $40 for a parking lot sex act. That inflamed the transient workforce to accept bigger risks for less money, forsaking condoms and other precautions just so they could make it to another day.

“From a public-health standpoint, it makes us cringe,” says Rachel Anderson, executive director of SANE, an acronym for Safer Alternatives Through Networking and Education or Sacramento Area Needle Exchange.

Federal and local law enforcement officials dispute that any diaspora from the net to the streets is occurring. They say the disappearance of myRedBook may have caused a momentary blip, but contend most of that activity “simply shifted” to other sites.

That’s how Special Agent Maria Johnson, who supervises the Sacramento field office’s child exploitation task force, put it in an emailed statement to SN&R. Because of a federal crackdown against online sites, activists say more sex workers are operating on Sacramento’s streets. SN&R witnessed more than two-dozen women on Stockton Boulevard south of Fruitridge Road on a recent weeknight. (To protect each individual’s privacy, SN&R has blurred out identifying features.)

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On the whole, authorities contacted by SN&R were reluctant to discuss myRedBook.

It’s easy to see why.

In return for dismantling myRedBook and prosecuting its purported operators, Eric “Red” Omuro of Mountain View and Annmarie Lanoce of Rocklin, the federal government didn’t come away with much.

Omuro, 54, was recently sentenced to 13 months in federal prison and handed a $3,000 fine. Lanoce, 41, struck a plea, the details of which have been sealed by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. In fact, much of the case against myRedBook has been sealed upon request by the Department of Justice, including the warrant affidavit, which summarizes the FBI’s investigation and probable cause for making its arrests.

Prosecutors for the DOJ ignored multiple requests for comment, as did attorneys for Omuro and Lanoce.

RetuRn to the mean stReets Seated by the window of a nearly empty fast-food restaurant, a woman scans the parking lot coming through the skin of her reflection.

This sex worker was somewhere out there, talking sweet and hiking up the bloom of her pink dress for a ratty billfold or two. She smells of that work now, and looks worn from a life of it.

She’s nervous, anxious, averting eye contact and concentrating instead on her hands and that window. It’s where she looks when she talks about the first time she was raped.

She doesn’t linger on the details. The man who did it was her first client. He assaulted her, left and that was that. The second rape, that was different. It was another client, an ordinary-looking guy who wouldn’t let her leave his car. She starts to talk about the knife he used, but the memory gets the best of her.

“He told me not to scream and I didn’t,” she says. The whites of her eyes sprout red veins as she turns her face and sobs.

DiAngelo reaches across the table and tells the woman to say no more. She and Callahan know how these stories end.

Since the beginning of this year, DiAngelo and Callahan have conducted emotional interviews like this one. Offering $20 apiece and free pizza—and with crisis intervention specialists on hand—the two women and another former sex worker set up in secluded locations where pimps weren’t allowed and listened as dozens of working prostitutes unpacked their lives.

Mothers selling themselves at the end of the month to feed their kids. Girls who took their first tricks at the age of 12. Women, young and old, who turned to the needle to dull the horrors of the trade—and now sell their bodies to feed that addiction.

“It makes you want to cry,” says Anderson, who observed some of the interviews and helped assemble the report that’s based on them. “It makes me want to cry, and I’m a jaded old bitch.”

The report’s findings are equally blunt.

Of the 44 sex workers interviewed, a staggering 59 percent say they had been raped at least once.

Fifty-five percent report getting beaten at least once, while 27 percent say the abuse occurred at the hands of law enforcement.

Another 48 percent say they’ve been forced into sex work against their will.

Behind these statistics lie stories of chilling depravity. Multiple workers, interviewed separately, told DiAngelo similar accounts of a man in a white pickup truck who drove them to a home in Folsom, held them prisoner for days, assaulted them, poured vinegar in their orifices to conceal his abuse and dumped them near Folsom Lake with threats of death if they reported him. They didn’t.

In fact, though 55 percent of survey participants said they would report a crime to law enforcement, none of them actually had.

DiAngelo interviewed one woman with healed gunshot wounds she sustained during an attack, and another whose attacker slit her mouth from its corner to her ear. Neither woman turned to police, reasoning that they were still alive.

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“They’re thinking, ‘Nobody’s going to believe me. I’m just a drug addict. I’m just a prostitute.

Who’s going to care?’” he says.

The detective would argue that he does, and that law enforcement as a whole has gotten better at determining when someone needs help instead of handcuffs. “So many women and underage girls we encounter, so many of them are not getting arrested,” he says. “But it’s not like you have a bunch of social workers driving around in uniform.”

DiAngelo knows this terrain too well.

On a stormy August night in 1983, she ducked into an old cardroom on J and 21st streets to play Ms. Pac-Man and dry off. A heavyset man crowded the blinking screen and offered her a ride home. DiAngelo accepted.

Instead, the 59-year-old drove to a shabby neighborhood off north C and 16th streets and invited DiAngelo inside while he got something. DiAngelo had called it quits for the night, but entertained the notion that this could be a potential client. The discussion never got that far.

Once inside, the man locked the door and placed a standing fan in front of it. He then produced a badge and made like he was a cop.

“Bullshit,” DiAngelo scoffed, edging toward the exit.

The man grabbed a fistful of blond hair and yanked the 92-pound woman into his orbit. He pounded her face until her eyes swelled shut

and blood filled her mouth. Wet hands drifted around her throat and locked until things went dark. She was strangled and raped repeatedly that night.

The rest is a jumbled collage of images: being dragged down her attacker’s back steps, cutting her leg on a wooden board, hearing the trunk of his car open.

When the man went indoors to fetch the contents of her spilled purse, she dragged herself across the driveway to the end of the street. She crawled to where the streetlights found her, where her shouting attacker refused to follow. Through swollen eyelids, DiAngelo made out the colors of a police car blurring past. It didn’t stop. But a low-rider occupied by Latino men did. They saved DiAngelo’s life.

“I didn’t realize how messed up I was until I saw the look in their eyes,” she recalls. “They were scared to death.”

At the hospital, DiAngelo says two police officers tried to talk her out of filing a report, saying it would only shine a light on her prostitution activities. She went over their heads to the district attorney’s office, which filed a criminal complaint against her attacker.

According to court documents, he received a 45-day sentence of collecting trash on weekends for an unrelated crime.

DiAngelo still carries a faint rasp in her voice—a battle scar from that long-ago attack.

It serves as a constant reminder. “I always tell people, your voice is the biggest thing you have. Scream, make noise,” she tells the

Of the 44 sex wOrkers interviewed, a staggering 59 percent say they had been raped at least Once. woman across from her. Then, smiling, she adds: “It’s not like the movies.”

The woman laughs joylessly. “No,” she agrees, “this is some real shit right here.”

How to end a nigHtmare A teenager in a navy-blue visor calls out the order from behind a cash register. DiAngelo returns with two grease-bottomed paper sacks for the woman and her son, an oversized 3-year-old she’s nicknamed “Baby Shaq.”

DiAngelo says she bought nuggets and a hamburger in case the kid is a picky eater.

“Nah,” the woman sighs, “he’ll eat all of that. You’ll see.”

DiAngelo and Callahan have offered her a lift to the house where she stays, which belongs to an uncle that may not be her uncle—a man whose propensity for sharing needles burrowed an apple-sized abscess into his arm. Other working girls stay there, too. Half of them don’t know another life, the woman says. Sometimes their drama gets to her, but then she reminds herself she doesn’t know what hells they’ve endured.

She only knows hers.

The woman has four children. An adult son lives in San Francisco. Child Protective Services took the youngsters when she tested positive for cocaine at the hospital. She wants to get clean, but says Medi-Cal has only given her the runaround, sticking her on various waiting lists and referring her to multiple dead ends.

“The only thing you can think of is to get high. Even if you do want help, there’s no place to go,” she says. “A lot of us do have homes and do have families, but who wants to be around their kids this way?”

The woman checks off many of the survey’s most marginalized boxes. She identifies as female, as did 96 percent of participants.

She’s black, like 84 percent of them are. She’s over the age of 31, as 71 percent are.

In other words, she’s an adult black woman of scarce means, scraping together a life the only way she can. No wonder the system has ignored her.

Sacramento Area Congregations Together outreach worker Danielle Williams frames sex work as a Black Lives Matter issue. “If there were a bunch of white girls out on the streets like this our city and county leadership would

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The political response has been less decisive.

A representative for Sacramento City Councilman Rick Jennings II, whose district contains half of the affected Stockton Boulevard strip, claimed no knowledge of street prostitution issues.

“We have not had any information about this subject come into the office prior to your e-mail,” chief of staff Dennis Rogers wrote.

Sacramento County Supervisor Patrick Kennedy, who represents the other half, says the county is indeed experiencing “an uptick in prostitution along Stockton Boulevard, particularly near Mack Road where we have a Motel 6 operator who is a real problem and turns a blind eye to what is going on in the establishment.”

Asked whether help is being provided beyond law enforcement crackdowns, Kennedy says his office will be funding

Whereas Workers used to average $100 or more for an online date, they Were barely clearing $20 to $40 for a parking lot sex act. a navigator position through Sacramento Steps Forward to refer people of all ages along Mack and Florin roads into safetynet services.

Then there’s RESET, for Reducing Sexually Exploited & Trafficked, a new diversion court that sounds great—in theory. Adult female sex workers who catch a bust can get their charges dismissed if they complete programs. It’s similar to one already in play for sexually exploited minors and, unlike other diversion courts for drug users and military veterans, this one’s free and not overridden with eligibility qualifiers.

“It doesn’t even matter if you identify as a trafficking victim,” says Assistant Chief Deputy District Attorney Paul Durenberger. “We don’t even ask.”

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before sex workers can enroll in services, which creates trust barriers between participants and the providers. Critics also say these services don’t address the workers’ dire economic or health needs.

“I think diversion courts are often portrayed as a panacea, like we’re going to criminalize these people, but in a compassionate way,” says Sienna Baskin, managing director of the Urban Justice Center’s Sex Workers Project in New York.

SWP has been measuring how the New York courts are functioning. Project director Jessica Peñaranda says the preliminary findings show there’s no congruity in the services provided and no tracking of outcomes. But there is one thing she can say for sure: “We’re definitely seeing an uptick in arrests,” she says.

The motive, DiAngelo suspects, is to artificially boost the need for this new approach, which is being looked at as a model for the country.

At least one Sacramento County employee who worked on developing RESET says increased arrests are a possibility here. The employee spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile, those who fail RESET’s diversion programs are on the hook for “alternative sentences.” And even those who successfully complete the programs will see their charges dismissed—but not thrown out completely.

Here’s why that matters: Any prospective employer searching Monroe’s real name in a court database would still be able to see that she was arrested for prostitution six times during a nine-month span.

That was when she was under the control of a pimp who forbade her from making court appearances, but that context won’t be available.

For Monroe, it likely means crossing off her aspiration of becoming a registered nurse, and possibly some lower-hanging fruit. “I don’t want to keep explaining that the rest of my life,” she says wearily. “I just want it off.”

Sealing the records of adult sex workers and trafficking victims is a matter for state lawmakers to address. A spokesperson for Assemblyman Jim Cooper, whose district includes Stockton Boulevard’s red-light district, says it’s too late in the session to introduce legislation this year.

But the Elk Grove Democrat could be interested.

“He plans to look into this matter, talk to law enforcement and victim’s groups, and research if a legislative fix is needed,” communications director Taryn Kinney writes in an email.

In the meantime, DiAngelo hopes the survey will elevate the visibility of a population that is “just trying to breathe.” She’s identified an old post office in Oak Park where she’d like to open a drop-in center, where workers can safely congregate, shower and stop looking over their shoulders. It’s the perfect spot, right off the main stroll.

Life on the ‘bLade’ During a recent Saturday night on Stockton Boulevard, it becomes clear why streets of illicit sexual commerce get called the “blade”: because they slice long and deep.

By this reporter’s count, approximately two dozen street workers scatter across the torched thoroughfare, milling near fastfood joints, liquor stores, check-cashing parlors, motels and empty warehouses. A few linger as far north as the UC Davis Medical Center. Each one is a black woman or girl.

In one strip-mall parking lot, a woman with straightened hair and a dark skirt makes the decision to approach a car that has drifted down a dark side alley adjacent to a closed discount chain. She leans an elbow on the driver’s window, not far from where a hand-to-hand drug deal is occurring.

In another lot, young men on bicycles cut long, drifting loops for no discernible reason. Cops and sex workers refer to them as “tennis-shoe pimps,” an unflattering term for broke-ass dudes who mistake exploitation for easy money.

For the most part, cops chase other activity. On the side of the road, two officers paint their flashlights through the interior of a stopped car, its four doors pried open like the wings of a moth. Two nights earlier, deputies found a dead body slumped over the steering wheel of a sedan, stalled at the southbound stoplight of Stockton Boulevard where it crosses Florin Road.

Private security is another matter, dispatching SUVs with flashing yellows to chase off the workers who congregate by well-lit businesses, where they’re safer.

But it’s like a sad game of whack-a-mole.

With the SUV in another location, five scantily clad women assemble under the artificial glow of a discount storefront. A line of cars trawls past, brazen, as if they were navigating one of the drive-thrus that are prolific in this battered part of town.

Before any negotiations can start, another car cuts the line and spits a man out of the passenger door. He’s young, with long, ropy arms that spring upward as he raises up on the stocky woman in the middle.

She sinks to the ground, terrified, as the man yanks her hair and barks.

She is led by the arm and disappeared behind a slamming door. The car accelerates down one end of the blade while the johns slink off the opposite direction.

Moments later, the remaining women are back to working the razor’s edge. They stand a little closer.

The Sex Workers Outreach Project of Sacramento will present a panel, “Sex Work, Human Trafficking, and Social Justice,” at Sol Collective (2574 21st Street) on Wednesday, July 8, at 7 p.m. This event is a fundraiser for those who are currently engaged in survival sex and/or are being trafficked locally. Admission is free, but a $20 donation is requested from those who can afford it.

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and soulful singer-songwriter Fantastic Negrito.

Blackalicious got its start in Sacramento. Gab and Xcel met in 1987 at a John F. Kennedy High School home economics class; Meadowview was their stomping ground. After graduation, they moved to Davis, officially formed Blackalicious and met their now-Quannum Projects crewmates Lyrics Born and DJ Shadow. After moving to the Bay Area, Blackalicious rose to legendary status in the underground hip-hop scene—Gab for his quick, tongue-twisting rhymes and Xcel for his deft turntablism.

Sacramento fans have already gotten tastes of the Blackalicious return with a record-setting Concerts in the Park in May and TBD Fest appearance last fall. On Friday, July 3, they can catch Gift of Gab perform a mix of solo and Blackalicious material at the Blue Lamp. They can also expect a full-on Blackalicious tour to swing through town after the record release.

Gift of Gab took some time from a tour stop in Maui to chat with SN&R about his music, health problems and

The team of emcee Gift of Gab (Timothy Parker) and producer Chief Xcel (Xavier Mosley) decided they needed some time apart after releasing The Craft in 2005. Gab made three solo records; Xcel worked with soul singer Ledisi and on other collaborations.

“Those experiences only made the mothership stronger,” Gab said. “Now we have all these other ideas from doing other stuff—we can bring that maturity and that experience back to Blackalicious.”

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review of one of Gift of Gab’s solo records, and you’ll probably see the word “old school.” He’s not a fan of that description. “I don’t think I’m old school at all. I think I’m light-years beyond,” he said. “I think people just look at anything that’s thought-provoking and complex, stylistically and cadence-wise, as ’90s-style hip-hop.”

He added that a lot of music writers are pretty young—Gab is in his 40s—and they don’t necessarily have the same hip-hop reference points. “That’s the beautiful thing about music. It’s almost like religion. Everyone is entitled to their opinions. No one’s really right and no one’s really wrong.”

F a i t h , so me mo r e : A few years ago, Gab suffered kidney failure due to Type 1 diabetes. He’s still waiting for a kidney transplant, but he thinks he’ll have it within the next year or so.

Despite his health issues, Gift of Gab has had no trouble keeping the faith alive. “I’m definitely living proof that you can live your dreams,” he said. “I mean, I’m in Maui for Chrissakes!”

But he doesn’t know—nor particularly care—if his fans agree with his religious views. “That’s personal—I’m not here to make anyone believe the things that I believe.”

Single (and funny) in Sacramento Jen Kirkman had a shitty day.

Her flight to Sacramento was delayed, and she was freaking out about getting into town at the peak of rush hour and arriving late to her own gig at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub.

Yet, no one else at the airport seemed bothered by the delay. They were all chatting, making new friends.

“There seemed to be this happiness about going to Sacramento,” Kirkman told the nearly sold-out crowd last Tuesday. “And I was like, ‘Do they know something I don’t?’”

Kirkman described landing at the Sacramento airport as a terrifying experience. “It looks like you’re crashing on a farm,” she said, proceeding to refer to Sacramento as a “shit town” over and over. And over.

We get it, Jen. We have an inferiority complex. Stop reminding us!

Kirkman has been a stand-up comedian for 18 years, known as a writer for Chelsea Lately and a frequent narrator on the Funny or Die sketch series Drunk History. Her 2013 book I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids became a New York Times bestseller. In May, her name reached new ubiquity with her critically-acclaimed Netflix special I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine).

One of my super #SacramentoProud friends absolutely hated Kirkman’s Harlow’s set. He said she winged it unsuccessfully. I think he was just butthurt over the “shit town” and “fucked-up shit river” comments. Luckily, Kirkman saved herself by making fun of a nearby city that sometimes causes those aforementioned shoulder chips.

“Oh, this is so much better than fucking San Francisco,” she said after realizing that, yes, Sacramento loves to laugh.

“What happened to them in the last years? Was it Google?”

Kirkman took a while to “really start” her One of my super lengthy, 90-minute set. #SacramentoProud Instead, she started picking on some abnorfriends absolutely mally well-dressed men hated Jen Kirkman’s near the front: David and Shawn. Or Sean. I Harlow’s set. didn’t ask.

David said he’s a bureaucrat. (“I don’t know what a bureaucrat is.”) Shawn said he’s a geology engineer. (“A geology engineer? Can’t even do crowd work because the crowd is too fucking smart.”)

Fortunately, David and Shawn are both divorced, which gave David and Shawn and Kirkman something to bond over.

Anyone who has seen I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine) knows that Kirkman is recently divorced. And fine with it, by the way.

Several of the set’s most hilarious jokes stemmed from the Netflix special: the discovery of gray pubic hairs, a future with human-cat weddings and the benefits of dating someone whose family is entirely dead, for example. Plus, quite possibly my favorite line: “When a single woman dies alone, a cat appears.”

Her new material touched on many of the same ideas: why weddings suck, why divorce isn’t so bad, why not having kids is better than having kids. But now she’s got more hilarious single-life stories—told in her neurotic, rambling style—such as getting asked out on a date by a homeless man while volunteering at a shelter. She resolved that single women just can’t help people without unwanted advances. “Jesus could be Jesus because he had a penis,” she said.

Kirkman’s crowdwork, remarkably, never relented—she never forgot about poor David and Shawn. Sure enough, they were the first to flee the club and will probably never choose to sit so close to a stand-up comedian ever again.

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future creative projects. Here are some highlights:

The result will be not one, but three new records, starting with Imani Vol. 1 on September 18. Imani means “faith” in Swahili—a no-surprise theme for Blackalicious, who Macklemore once credited for bringing him “closer to God.” The album art depicts the same warrior from Blazing Arrows. Here, he’s flying—or falling, depending on how you look at it—because Imani is all about “belief, faith, not having limits, going beyond what you think you can do,” Gab said.

And Imani Vol. 1 delivers what Blackalicious does best: blazing quick raps, funky beats, uplifting messages and fun guest appearances.

Among those names are hip-hop artists Lifesavas, Lateef and Lyrics Born; funk band Monophonics; polyphonic Afro-pop singer Zap Mama;

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a dialysis patient—one that travels around the world. “I’m not allowing the fact that I’m on dialysis to prevent me from being an artist,” he said. “I still have my creativity.” That lifestyle will be the subject of a documentary, which Gab hopes to release around the same time as Imani Vol. 1. He wouldn’t elaborate more on the director or other related details, but he did emphasize his focus on his health: exercising as much as he can and eating lots of fish, chicken, kale, asparagus and oatmeal. “Obviously there’s some issues, but I say my health is good. The more I say it, the more I believe it, the more I feel it. I feel great.”

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Perspective Reverence Through Friday, July 3 The wonderfully colorful art of Demetris “BAMR” Washington is on display at White Buffalo Gallery ART for a few more days. Washington creates art in various mediums including aerosol, acrylics and even graphite pencils. This is one artist who draws inspiration from everywhere with reverence for graffiti and the abstract. Free, various times at White buffalo Gallery, 671 J Street; http://white-buffalo-gallery.com.

—Eddie Jorgensen

International Celebration Sunday, July 5 Pick up some new and unusual dance moves at this celebration, which features dance performances of the Chinese lion, Polynesian, Scottish, Mexican folk, Japanese, African and Hmong folk variety. Capital FESTIVAL Public Radio host Kent Teeters will emcee the daylong celebration of art and diversity. Free with $5.50 park admission, 11 a.m. at Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive, www.fairytaletown.org.

—Deena Drewis

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The Red, White, and Brews (http://oldsacramento.com/ special-events/independence-day) event in Old Sacramento will get the party started a day early—on Friday, July 3—with 10 bars offering American beers for $3. Head over to each bar to figure out individual specials; each one is different and has different hours. Pro tip: Sometime between 9:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., head outside to see fireworks at Raley Field following the River Cats game.

Folsom Pro Rodeo (www.folsomrodeo.com) happens Thursday, July 2, through Saturday, July 4—and features cowboys, nightly fireworks shows, motocross, a rodeo queen contest, food, drinks and more. Ticket options vary. It happens at the Dan Russell Arena, 403 Stafford Street in Folsom.

Rancho Cordova Fourth of July (www.ranchocordovajuly 4th.com)—happening on Friday, July 3, and Saturday, July 4— features fireworks, a 5K run/walk, a parade, carnival rides, a kid’s zone and live music from Hip Service and SuperHuey. It runs from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. on July 3, and from noon to 11 p.m. on July 4 at Hagan Park, 2197 Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova.

Tickets are $2 and parking is $10.

Carmichael’s Fourth of July Celebration (www.carmichael park.com) is an entire day full of events hosted by the Carmichael Recreation and Park District, starting with a parade and pancake breakfast at Carmichael Park (5750 Grant Avenue) at 7 a.m., and ending with a fireworks show at the La Sierra Community Center (5325 Engle Road) at 9:30 p.m. Both events are free (but pancakes are extra).

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and attendees can enjoy family activities, information booths and food in the park, located at 2201 Cottage Way. Fourth on the Field (www.raleyfield.com/fourthonthefield) will see Raley Field (400 Ballpark Drive in West Sacramento) open for a block-party-style celebration with food trucks, live music, games and fireworks from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, July 4.

Tickets cost $9.95-$21.90.

Sacramento History Museum’s Fourth of July Picnic and Croquet Tournament (www.sachistorymuseum.org) turns back the clocks and features a “patriotic picnic,” historic re-enactors and, of course, a croquet tournament. The free event happens at the Sacramento History Museum, 101 I Street, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 4.

Cal Expo’s Independence Day Celebration (http://calexpo.com/ independence-day-celebration)—organized by the city and county of Sacramento—is essentially a giant fireworks display.

Admission is free, reserved seats are $10 and parking is $10.

Doors open at 5 p.m. and the fireworks happen at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 4, at Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Parkway.

Elk Grove’s Red White and Blue Festival (www.elkgrove city.org) has vendor exhibits, a bike and stroller parade, dancing, music and fireworks. It starts at 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 4, at Elk Grove Regional Park, 9950 Elk Grove Florin Road in Elk Grove. Admission is free, but parking is $10.

The City of Roseville (www.roseville.ca.us/events/ 4th_of_july_celebration.asp) hosts a handful of Independence Day events, including a 5K run/walk, a parade, carnival games, and fireworks. Head to the website for times, prices and locations—which vary for each event.

—Jonathan Mendick

These days drum corps combine skill, coordination, performance and high-energy entertainment, with music, dance, cutting-edge technology and breathtaking maneuvers. Many California drum corps will show off their best skills this Sunday, including groups PERCUSSION from Sacramento, Santa Clara and Bakersfield. $12-$25, 6 p.m. at Monterey Trail High School, 8661 Power Inn Road in Elk Grove; www.mandarins.org.

—Aaron Carnes

Bat Talk and Walk Through SaTurday, SepTember 12 There’s finally a way to see wild bats in their habitat without having to befriend billionaire Bruce Wayne.

Every summer, an estimated 250,000 Mexican freeNATURE tailed bats gather around the Yolo Causeway. The Yolo Basin Foundation welcomes guests to learn about the animals and view them up close on a walking tour. Various times and prices at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, 45211 County Road 32B in Davis; http://yolobasin.org.

—Jaime Carrillo

Armin Hansen: The Artful Voyage Through Sunday, ocTober 11 Armin Hansen’s use of deep orange, bright yellow and blue in Nino illustrates the power of the ocean and, taking a page from Hemingway’s The Old Man and the ART Sea, provides a glimpse into man’s struggle against nature. This exhibition offers nearly 100 oils, pastels, etchings and watercolors depicting the Pacific Ocean and fishermen. $5-$10, hours vary at Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; https://crocker artmuseum.org/exhibitions/armin-hansen.

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Give us this bread FAlAFel SAndwiCH, tAnOOr HAlAl FOOd It starts with the bread: a pillowy, leaf-shaped flatbread called samoon. Tanoor Halal Food—a familyowned restaurant-market combo that opened earlier this year—bakes the Iraqi bread daily, which is enough of a reason to make the trip to Arden. All the sandwiches are a steal, but at $2.99, the falafel option is particularly outrageous. The bread gets sliced open and stuffed with a couple of fried chickpea balls; lightly dressed lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber; a smear of hummus and thin strips of pickled mango. Creaminess, crispiness, tanginess—it’s all there, and it’s all inside that delightfully chewy bread. 2212 Arden Way, (916) 646-6437.

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Sweet expansion: I love Gunther’s Ice Cream, but I’m still waiting for Sacramento to get a fancy ice cream shop. I hate to say “artisanal ice cream,” but, ya know, a place with cool flavor combinations, olive oil sundaes and stuff. Anyway, maybe I’m the only person who feels this way because we keep hearing about new gelato options instead. Not that I have anything against gelato. Moving on.

Roseville’s Miabella Gelato recently opened a second shop, Miabella Gelato & Coffee (1735 Arden Way) at the Market Square at Arden. It’s a modernlooking spot with dark decor and, unlike the Roseville location, espresso and coffee. That means affogato, and that is very exciting.

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They offer classic gelato flavors as well as seasonal fruit specialties, including nectarine in the summer and pomegranate in the fall. You can also pick up gelato cakes, cupcakes topped with gelato or—exclusively at the Arden location—cannoli.

There are a couple more recent expansions worth noting. Vampire Penguin is adding a fifth location in Rocklin at 6700 Lone Tree Boulevard.

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lunchtime delivery service to private parties of 15 or more. That should start in August, and expect a separate delivery menu to appear online shortly.

Booze news: Yolo County got another brewery on Saturday. Blue Note Brewing Co. (750 Dead Cat Alley) finally opened its doors to the public on Saturday, becoming the second brewery in Woodland. Five beers are currently on tap—founder David Towne recently brewed an oatmeal stout and hoppy saison—but Blue Note plans to focus on ales and lagers, according to the Daily Democrat.

Towne’s brewing credentials include time at Anderson Valley Brewing Co. Over in Rocklin, Dragas Brewing started bottling for the first time last week. Some stores are already carrying 22-ounce bottles of its Kolsch, Weisse Apple and Stout of Fire. Meanwhile, Revolution Wines’ Craig Haarmeyer is releasing a sparkling version of his delicious Chenin Blanc—the 2014 Pét-Nat of Chenin Blanc—this week. Last year’s sparkling sold out prior to it even getting released. This year, he’s giving mailing list subscribers a first chance at snatching up bottles, so sign up fast: http://streyvineyards.com. Ω | A R T S & C U L T U R E

I’ve been known to pick out wine based solely on the bottle’s label design and now I can add beer to my growing alcoholic graphics portfolio. Seriously though, the cartoon kitty on the can for Yo-Ho Brewing Co.’s Suiyoubi No Neko, or “Wednesday Cat,” beer literally stopped me in my tracks during a recent trip to Total Wine & More. Then I realized it was a Belgian style white ale, which meant resistance was futile despite the $6.99 per can price tag.

Described by the Japanese brewery as a beverage “made for Hump Day” and “fluffy and refreshing,” it’s a lovely brew with a light, creamy texture and hints of orange. And with a 5 percent ABV, it serves up a catnip-worthy buzz to get you through those midweek blahs. http://yohobrewing.com/ ec/product/suiyoubi_neko.

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Mediterranean vibes Olive Oil If you need reminding that we live in a Mediterranean climate, notice all the olive trees that grow in the Central Valley. The UC Davis campus is so replete with them that they started their own olive oil production. Two other local oil options are Bariani and Maltese, which makes a Sicilian-style olive oil.

Both can be found at area farmers markets and you’ll learn a lot by talking to the sellers.

Taste-test two varieties or styles side-by-side and note acidity versus buttery-ness. Save extra-virgin oil for cold preps like drizzling on salads and finishing grilled food. Otherwise, you dull all that fresh, olive-y flavor.

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For brunch, both the phone message and the server told us that they don’t take reservations for less than six people. Come Sunday, though, parties of three waltzed to their tables 8230 auburn folsom road in granite bay, while the rest of us cooled our heels and (916) 772-3276, www.farmhausfresh.com stared at empty tables.

Dinner for one: $10 - $15 Then, the hilarity commenced. Could our Good for: well-made food with fresh ingredients server tell us about the honey bun latte? “No, Notable dishes: pastrami fries, blt I don’t really know what that is. Ha ha,” he said. Did he find out for us? Nope.

Curiously, other tables got platters of charcuterie with plates to share and explanations of the selections. Did we? Nope. Well, we did get the platter, but not until our entrees arrived In these days of Instagram and food porn, as well. attractive food is a must for restaurants. How We ordered (regular) lattes with our it tastes is subjective, based on the experience “includes coffee and tea” $25 brunch. Did the of the eater. But how it’s served can elevate server tell us there was an extra charge for a burger to fine-dining status or seemingly those? Nope. relegate the finest handpicked heirloom Was the food good? Yes. The omelette of vegetable to fast-food quality. the day, with chorizo, caramelized onions, Eating out is just as much about the experiapples and goat cheese was a wonder of ence as the flavor. cool vs. warm and spicy vs. sweet. Crunchy Farmhaus, a bright little spot off the paprika-dusted home fries rounded out busy Auburn Folsom Road, has the plate. plenty of flavorful food from French toast with fresh Chef Michael John, but the berries was nicely tootheating experience practiThe house-smoked some, if somewhat shy cally overwhelms it. of custard. A minute Open since January pastrami fries are longer in the egg soak 2014, Farmhaus has a the kind of dish a would have upped its thoughtfully decorated kitchen makes at the end enjoyment. For $16, interior. Farm implethree pieces of toast and ments and whitewashed of the night with odds some berries turned out wood give nods to the to be a bit disappointing, and ends but tons of “farm” aesthetic. A though. Oh, right—we roomy patio out back awesomeness. had that charcuterie to eat doubles the seating. alongside!

During a recent lunch, Their BLT is a nice variathe chicken salad sandwich was tion of the classic, with a basil well-crafted with chunks of meat aioli, bacon that wasn’t too crunchy and butternut squash, though pricey, at $12 or greasy and fresh avocado along with the with no sides. nicely ripe tomato. Sides for $25 and plain The Haus Bowl, a generous helping of brewed coffee included? Nope. chicken, beans, jalapeño and rice, topped by a Again, we didn’t make it to dessert, but tangle of ultra-thin slices of cabbage, was well this time because the server dropped our balanced. check without asking if we wanted more. Too However, it was so cold inside that we bad, because a salted caramel brownie was shivered through the meal and so loud that we tempting. could hardly converse. We skipped dessert Owner Madeleine Faeith owns Coffee entirely to go outside and thaw.

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The California State Fair begins next Friday, July 10—and I, for one, am looking forward to washing down unhealthy food (like chocolate-dipped cheesecake on a stick) with a wine slushie. This year, I’m also looking forward to a handful of cooking challenges that are happening in Exposition Building B at the SMUD Energy Efficient Cooking Theatre and Save Mart Supermarkets California’s Kitchen, including: a snack-baking competition (July 11); a postal-service worker cooking challenge (July 12); an MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) cook-off, which incorporates field rations used by the United States military (July 16); a cooking battle between firefighters (July 23); and of course, a battle featuring professional chefs cooking a three-course meal using a “secret” ingredient (July 24 and 26). Head to www.castate fair.org/2015-cooking-challenges for the full schedule and more information. Also, returning to the fair this year is The Farm, an area that will have an outdoor grill and information about natural food.

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As far as food trends go, the banh mi is old news. While its foodie factor has recently waned, the Vietnamese sandwich is still a classic. Like, a pork-filled classic—which doesn’t leave much room on the bandwagon for vegans. The menu at Huong Lan Sandwiches (6930 65th Street, Suite 109), however, lists a vegetarian sandwich (No. 13) and one called Vegetarian Choice (No. 16).

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A journalist, a postal worker and a socialite walk into a room—and never leave. What sounds like the opening line of a joke is actually the plot by Patti Roberts line to Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic existential play No Exit, an examination of life, afterlife, self-projections, self-recollections and possible self-redemptions.

Big Idea Theatre’s production of No Exit begins as a valet (Jouni Kirjola) ushers three strangers into a rather stark waiting room with three couches and not much else. After a bit of banter, all three come to the conclusion that this is the afterlife, possibly hell, and they wait for fire and brimstone to smite them for their unrevealed sins.

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4Twelfth Night Twelfth Night is one of the most popular Shakespeare comedies. The tipsy midnight revels of Sir Toby Belch, and the gender-bending comedy when Viola (cross-dressing as the handsome young Cesario) gets caught up in misdirected romantic overtures (with awkward results), have kept audiences laughing for centuries.

But there’s a dark side, too. Director Rob Salas adds a shipwreck-in-a-storm pantomime, with twins desperately struggling as their vessel breaks up, at the opening of this Davis Shakespeare Festival production. And several merry pranks launched in mid-play turn out to have unhappy consequences.

The well-chosen cast features Equity professionals, conservatory-trained talent and community actors. Matt Edwards (as Duke Orsino), Susanna Risser (Countess Olivia) and Kristi Webb (Viola) have the vocal chops to deliver Shakespeare’s high-end comedic language in a manner that is both entertaining and understandable. And Feste (Olivia’s “fool”) becomes an accordion-playing street musician—energetic young actor Ian Hopps’ eyes sparkle as he delivers Feste’s curiously wise nonsense lines; he also sings Feste’s songs with an engaging blend of merriment and melancholy (with his squeeze box providing harmony).

The physical humor stems from the clash between the anarchic Toby (Matt K. Miller in fine form, with an omnipresent hip flask) and the pompous, puritanical Malvolio (Tim Gaffaney, ripe for his takedown in the second half). Pablo Lopez (as foppish Sir Andrew Aguecheek) uses his long limbs and a long-haired wig in a goofy dance routine.

The show incorporates attractive work by designers with a university pedigree, including elaborate costumes (Roxanne Femling) suggesting mid-20th Century Italy; a multilevel grape-arbor-and-stairway set (Amanda Patt); a complex sound design (Tim Brown); and dappled night-and-day lighting (Nick Swanson).

Now situated in a 325-seat indoor venue, this ambitious and increasingly professional little festival has come a long ways since its modest beginnings just a few years ago in the UC Davis Arboretum gazebo.

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However, it slowly dawns on the trio that they have been brought together to weasel the truth out of each other, despite the lies they tell when first gathered: that they themselves, as well as their fellow humans, are self-torturers. “Hell is other people,” goes the play’s famous, and sometimes misunderstood, line.

First is the self-grandiose Joseph (Bert Andersson), who tells the group he was executed for being a pacifist, though darker truths are slowly revealed. Then brash, aggressive Inez (Joelle Robertson) not only badgers truths from the trio, she also finally confesses how the love of another woman drove her to drastic and tragic actions. Finally comes flirty and flighty Estelle (Amber Lucito), whose self-centeredness was the catalyst of her secret sins. Philosopher Sartre also seems to be saying that petty bourgeois behavior is high up on the sin scale.

This is a wonderfully in-sync and talented cast, under the impressive and adept direction of Benjamin T. Ismail. All four actors capture the complexity of their characters, as well the taut tension that prevails between them.

Big Idea adds creative video elements to its No Exit production. Though it’s evident the filming took a lot of thought, time and talent, rather than augmenting the story, the videos most often are distracting and lessen the

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Twelfth Night; 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday (shows alternate with The Mystery of Edwin Drood); $15-$25. Veterans Memorial Theatre, 203 East 14th Street in Davis; www.shakespearedavis.org.

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens died before he completed his final novel. This musical adaptation lets the audience vote at each performance, and pick the ending it prefers. The show is staged as a play-within-a-play, as members of an 1880s theater company stage Drood in an English music hall. The clever songs are by Rupert Holmes, who won a Tony for this score in 1985.

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Pajama-clad writer-actor Richard Winters pummels the pillows and paces apprehensively in this solo show about a guy shaken up by divorce, online dating and lingering masculine hang-ups. It’s a portrait of the middle-aged artist as unexpectedly single man.

F 8pm, Su 2pm. Through 7/5. $15-$20.

Wilkerson Theatre in the R25 Arts Complex, 1725 25th St; (916) 451-5822; www.calstage.org. J.H.

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Neuroscientist Claire (Jessica Powell) is retiring and her last project is a big one: augmenting the consciousness, data and memories that have been downloaded into the robotic duplication of a dying multimillionaire Julian (Michael Wiles) whose plan is to stay alive through his mechanical manmade twin. The challenge seems to come down to the philosophical quandary of what constitutes the essence of being human.

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Playwright Nell Benjamin’s farce is the kind of madcap comedy that B Street Theatre does better than anyone else. Buck Busfield directs an extremely talented ensemble cast in the broad comedy about an 1870s London men’s club of adventurers that is thrown into a tizzy when a woman is proposed for membership. Tu 6:30pm; W 2pm & 6:30pm;

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This freewheeling, frequently physical farce retells this Victorian fable through a satirical lens. As in R.L. Stevenson’s original, the respectable Dr. Jekyll actually enjoys becoming the brutish, violent Mr. Hyde when he swigs his mysterious elixir, releasing inhibitions. F, Sa 8pm. Through 7/18. $12-$17.50. Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre, 1105 N. Main St. in Jackson; www.mstw.org. J.H.

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If you’ve never seen a Music Circus production before, you really can’t call yourself a Sacramentan. While being a Sacramento Kings fan can be a bummer during the team’s losing seasons, which seem to never end, we have a plethora of talented stage performers coming to the area on a regular basis performing in award-winning musicals.

Bye Bye Birdie made Dick Van Dyke a huge sensation and won a whopping four Tony awards. If songs like “A Lot of Livin’ to Do” or “One Last Kiss” don’t move you, perhaps “Put On A Happy Face” will do the trick. If not, perhaps you might want to get your head checked. If there ever was a summer tradition worth experiencing for the first time, this would be the golden ticket. Bye Bye Birdie; 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday through Sunday and 2 p.m. Thursday, Saturday and Sunday; $40-$83. Wells Fargo Pavilion, 1419 H Street; (916) 557-1999; www.californiamusicaltheatre.com.

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The movie has story to spare, thanks to the constantly shifting timelines of what has gone before (when time travel is part of your premise, you can get away with stuff like that). The script by Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier distills all four of the previous movies—the 1984 original, 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and Terminator Salvation (2009)—plus, for all I know, bits and pieces of the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and the theme park attractions as well.

It starts out as a high-budget remake of the first movie. We meet young Kyle Reese (Bryant Prince) as a child skulking among the ruins of San Francisco. He’s hiding from the Terminators of Skynet, that sentient global computer system that decimated the human race in a nuclear holocaust. Now, Skynet’s Terminators are hunting down the survivors. The boy Kyle is rescued from one by John Connor (Jason Clarke), who is organizing the Human Resistance.

Some years later, in 2021, Kyle has grown up (now played by Jai Courtney) and the Human Resistance is on the brink of triumphing over Skynet thanks to John Connor’s brilliant leadership.

In a last-ditch move, Skynet uses it secret weapon—a time machine. It dispatches a Terminator back to May 12, 1984, to find and murder John Connor’s mother Sarah before she can give birth to the boy who will grow up to defeat them.

Connor’s forces capture the time machine, but too late. So Connor dispatches Kyle back to

1984 to protect the unsuspecting young Sarah.

Connor knows, of course—as do we in the audience and anyone else who’s seen the original—that Kyle isn’t just a protector. He’s also a sacrifice, doomed to die in Sarah’s defense. Also, he will fall in love with Sarah and become John Connor’s father.

So far, so familiar. But as with J.J. Abrams in his reboot of Star Trek, Kalogridis and Lussier throw a time-warp monkey wrench into the works. Just before Kyle vanishes into the past, he watches as a Terminator seizes Connor in a death grip and hisses, “Did you really think it would be that easy?”

Then Kyle lands in 1984, and nothing is quite what he expected, nor is it anything we’ve seen before. But let’s not get all that far into the new movie’s plot. It’s pretty damn complicated, and frankly, the more complicated it gets the harder it is to keep track of. I’m still not sure it really makes sense.

Not that it matters much.

Under the briskly over-the-top direction of Alan Taylor, the movie is good fun, and the plot, like the “Genisys” of the title, is easier to understand while you’re watching than it is to explain to someone who hasn’t seen it. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns, naturally—it would hardly be a Terminator movie without him —and in a nice touch, we get two of him: his real-life, slightly grizzled self as Sarah Connor’s reprogrammed protector, and a younger-looking version (grafted via CGI onto the body of one Brett Azar) as one of those upgraded, liquidmetal Terminators.

The real secret weapon of Terminator Genisys, however, isn’t its time machines or robot assassins, its countless CGI techies and stunt performers, or even Arnold himself.

The real secret weapon of Terminator Genisys is 28-year-old Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor.

Surprisingly enough, it’s 28-year-old Emilia Clarke (no relation to Jason) as Sarah Connor.

She’ll be familiar to Game of Thrones fans as Daenerys Targaryen (though they may not recognize her without that long blonde wig).

She’s a fine ensemble player in Thrones, but she’s the center of attention here, and she’s dynamite—forceful, tender and sexy as the moment demands, taking command from the moment she appears. Whatever else happens with Terminator Genisys, it just might be remembered mainly as the movie that made Emilia Clarke a star. Ω

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A reclusive falconer living near the Arctic Circle (Cillian Murphy) tags along with a journalist (Mélanie Laurent) when she goes to interview his mother (Jennifer Connelly), an artist and faith healer from whom he’s been estranged for 20 years. Falconers and faith healers at the Arctic Circle? Who writes this crap? Answer: Claudia Llosa, the Peruvian auteur (of two features, two TV episodes and this) who got hot when her The Milk of Sorrow was nominated for a foreign language Oscar in 2009. This is her first venture in English, and let’s not mince words: it’s turgid, inert, pretentious claptrap, so incoherent that you’ll learn more from the studio’s synopsis on IMDb than from actually seeing it.

Llosa jumbles time and has her actors speak in unintelligible mumbles—which, come to think of it, is no loss. J.L.

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is allowed to ruffle the movie’s placid surface; when McCrory raises her voice slightly above a calm conversational tone, it echoes like the wail of an enraged banshee. For the rest of its plodding length, the movie wallows in its rich costumes, sumptuous wigs and stately, dignified repartee. J.L.

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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.

A Little Chaos

In 1682 at the court of Louis XIV (Alan Rickman, who also directed), a widowed landscape artist (Kate Winslet) is hired by the king’s master gardener (Matthias Schoenaerts) to build an outdoor ballroom in the gardens at Versailles. The script by Jeremy Brock, Alison Deegan and Rickman tells us that romantic sparks fly between Winslet and Schoenaerts’ characters, that his philandering wife (Helen McCrory) wreaks vengeance by sabotaging their project and that Winslet harbors a dark, painful secret. But none of this

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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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Steven Soderbergh’s male stripper movie Magic Mike became a leftfield hit in 2012, but the film’s runaway success was largely due to a shrewd marketing campaign that played up the girl’s-night-out sexiness, while Trojan horsing a smart, spare, deceptively stylish, distinctly Soderbergh-ian drama about workplace dehumanization. Gregory Jacobs’ cash-in sequel Magic Mike XXL, on the other hand, is the pandering, eager-to-please sex fantasy that most ticket buyers probably thought they were getting the first time around. Magic Mike is a film about stripping; Magic Mike XXL is a stripper. All in all, Magic Mike XXL is still pretty fun for an unambitious cash-in sequel, more of a rollicking road comedy and omnibus performance movie this time, closer to an R-rated Step Up sequel than anything remotely Soderbergh-ian. The film coasts a long way on star Channing Tatum’s effortless charm; luckily, he has more than enough to spare. D.B.

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The idea that one’s brain must be switched into sleep mode in order to appreciate a film is silly and offensive, but that shouldn’t prevent a fully switched-on brain from enjoying a deeply stupid movie like Jurassic World. Director and co-writer Colin Trevorrow injects the moribund Jurassic Park franchise with new life by pairing the usual dinosaurs-running-amok formula with a seductive, Westworld-style story hook. In a canonically respectful present, John Hammond’s dream of a dinosaur-themed amusement park has come to fruition, with thousands of thrill-seeking families streaming through the Isla Nublar gates every day. Unfortunately, corporations are inherently evil (this message brought to you by Coca-Cola, Verizon, Samsung, Brookstone and Mercedes-Benz), and soon enough the park’s newest, genetically enhanced “attraction” gets loose and starts— wouldn’t you know it?—running amok. Jurassic World offers one-dimensional characters, misused actors, nonsensical motivations, retrograde gender politics, insipid pseudo-science and a whole lot of fun. D.B.

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Inside an 11-year-old girl’s head, conflicting yet complementary emotions of Joy (voiced by Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Bill Hader) and Disgust (Mindy Kaling) vie for control of “headquarters” when the girl’s family moves from Minnesota to San Francisco. The crisis and the conflict threaten to unravel the delicate balance of the girl’s personality, and how the emotions learn to adapt and work together form the core of the script by Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, and co-directors Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen. The result is joyously funny, as good as anything Pixar Studios has ever done. It explores subtle psychological concepts, playing with the limits of what children can absorb and, in the process, giving them—and adults—an insight into what makes them tick. J.L.

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After a police raid on an underground party, an African-American high school dweeb (Shameik Moore) finds himself in possession of a pistol and a fortune in Ecstasy— and in the cross hairs of the gangsters who want it back. Writer-director Rick Famuyiwa’s film is certainly unique—by turns, gritty, funny, harrowing, suspenseful and unpredictable.

It’s a bit too loose-limbed and several minutes longer than it needs to be, but on balance it’s an enjoyable mashup of genres—a sort of John Hughes-meets-Spike-Lee. Moore is a real discovery and, with luck, could become a major star; he gets able support from Tony Revolori and Kiersey Clemons as his geek pals, A$ap Rocky as a friendly drug dealer and Zoë Kravitz as a young lady in the ’hood whom the dealer sends to Moore, Myles Standish-style, to court on his behalf. J.L.

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best friend (Luke Kleintank) is at the root of the dog’s trauma. The script by Sheldon Lettich and director Boaz Yakin doesn’t exactly hold water—it hinges on weapon-running but doesn’t explain how the weapons got from Afghanistan to Texas—and Yakin gets amateurish performances from some of the supporting cast (e.g., Dejon LaQuake as Wiggins’ best friend). Still, if you’re a sucker for a-boy-andhis-dog movies (and who isn’t?), this one is a passable enough example of the genre—though it’ll hardly make you forget Lassie Come Home or Old Yeller. J.L.

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The Sundance Film Festival is a respected institution, a vital showcase and support system for independent cinema that has been operating for nearly four decades. However, a certain type of incredibly annoying American independent film has become synonymous with the festival over the years, to the point that the term “Sundance movie” is almost always used in a pejorative manner. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s oxygen-deprived Me and Earl and the Dying Girl won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and while it’s relatively weightless and apolitical, the double win was inevitable.

This is just about the Sundance-iest Sundance movie that Sundance ever Sundanced, so aggressively quirky and needy and contrived that it makes The Spitfire Grill look like A Woman Under the Influence. Every line, gesture, story beat and camera move comes complete with post-ironic air quotes. It’s like Juno on crystal meth. D.B.

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Cuddly little Winnie-the-Poopy-Mouth (voiced by director and co-writer Seth MacFarlane) is back, but his marriage to girlfriend Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth) is in jeopardy because he’s not legally a person.

With his lifelong pal (Mark Wahlberg) and a tyro attorney (Amanda Seyfried), he sues to prove otherwise. Adding Seyfried—and Morgan Freeman as a wise, old legal eagle—helps, but it’s the old sequel story: without the first movie’s element of surprise the joke goes stale fast, and laughs grow few. Oddly enough, the highlights are two musical numbers: (1) a lavish Busby Berkeley-ish rendition of Irving Berlin’s “Steppin’ Out With My Baby” under the opening credits; and (2) Seyfried’s singing of a new song, “Mean Ol’ Moon,” that just might end up winning MacFarlane and composer Walter Murphy an Oscar. J.L.

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Catch Storm Large at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, July 5, at the Music in the Mountains SummerFest at the Amaral Center at Nevada County Fairgrounds, 11228 McCourtney Road in Grass Valley.

Tickets are $12-$68.

Learn more at http://musicinthe mountains.org/event/ summerfest-2015.

And why not? The punk cabaret singer-songwriter, who performs July 5 as part of the Music in the Mountains SummerFest in Grass Valley, boasts a career that spans 23 years. In addition to fronting bands (Storm & Her Dirty Mouth, Storm Large & the Balls, et al.), she also sings regularly with indie darlings Pink Martini, has performed with symphonies around the world and made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2013. She even went the realitytelevision route during a 2006 stint on the CBS music contest Rock Star: Supernova.

Despite the accomplishments and accolades though, Large says, it’s been an uneasy road as a woman in the music industry.

“I wasn’t hot enough. I wasn’t cool enough.

I just had this voice, but nobody cared about it,” Large says of her early days.

Oh, that voice. Sultry and robust, shot through with confidence and smoky notes of longing and, sometimes perhaps, fury.

She’s been singing since childhood—even when her parents told her not to.

“I always knew I had a really good voice,” she says. “But when I was 5, it was like, ‘Children should be seen and not heard.’ I was constantly being yelled at [for singing].”

Growing up, she says her parents discouraged what they saw as attention-seeking behavior.

Large, who chronicled her experiences growing up with a mentally troubled mother in the 2012 memoir Crazy Enough, started experimenting with drugs and “crazy sex.” At 17 she ran away to San Francisco where she sunk deeper into drugs, but eventually found an

artistic outlet after a friend brought her onstage to sing with his band. She belted out Pat Benatar’s “Heartbreaker” and the club went crazy.

“I thought, ‘I guess I can do this,’” says Large.

Still, there was that matter of not being pretty or sexy enough.

Statuesque with platinum blonde hair and the kind of face that graces ads for all-natural face cleansers, Large says she was just a “fat punk rocker” with a bad attitude.

“I was really angry—and even if I was pretty, that’s the only thing women are [evaluated] on in this industry. In anything.”

In some ways, however, she found such expectations liberating.

“Because I didn’t fit in, I didn’t give a fuck,” she says.

That attitude worked.

“A lot of industry people told me what to do to be successful. They were all fucking wrong.”

Indeed. In addition to the bands and albums, that 2006 run on Rock Star brought Large bigger fame. A semifinalist, her performances of rock classics such as The Who’s “Pinball Wizard” and David Bowie’s “Suffragette City” brought the singer an international audience. It also resulted in a collaboration with one of the show’s judges, the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s Dave Navarro, who played on the song “Ladylike” on her 2007 album Ladylike, Side One. While that record had a decided rock bent, Large’s latest album, 2014’s Le Bonheur, is a showy punk-cabaret modern classic featuring originals as well as covers of Cole Porter’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” and Lou Reed’s “Satellite of Love.”

The album was distributed via Heinz Records, Pink Martini’s label, and marks a slight departure for the artist who until now has only released music through her own Big Daddy Large imprint.

“ A lot of industry people told me what to do to be successful. They were all fucking wrong.”

Storm Large singer-songwriter It’s not that she doesn’t want to work with one of the major labels for more money—she’s just not sure if the right situation would ever exist.

“In order for a label to make money, they want your publishing [rights], they want everything and I’m not willing to give everything,” she says.”

Besides, she’s been doing just fine without them. “I probably make more money than half of the A&R people in L.A. so they can suck me,” she says.

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Sticky-hot for the cause Skinny jeans: Despite the sticky heat, I pulled on my most-constraining pants last Saturday night.

Normally I would never do such a thing in the Sacramento summer, but the dress code was requested for James Cavern’s #iwearskinnyjeans fundraiser for the three local musicians stabbed in Midtown because of their aforementioned fashion choice.

Pour House was completely packed by 10 p.m. Not everyone there was likely aware of the event, why there was music or the significance of Musical Charis’ Blake Abbey mingling around with arm in sling. Still, it was hard not to be proud of the Sacramento music scene rallying to support its brethren. A few fundraisers took place over the weekend and more are slated for July.

Danny Secretion played a solo punk set. Drop Dead Red’s Carly DuHain brought Lindsey Pavao up for a cover of “Hang Me Up To Dry.” James Cavern & the Council reunited temporarily for the evening, bringing up a slew of fantastic performers to join, including Century Got Bars, Erica Ambrin and Kim Henderson. Joe Kye fiddled alongside. It felt like the most wonderful, free-form open mic, with milk crates passed around to collect donations.

According to Cavern, the event raised just over $500.

(“Little Sea”). Even the addition of a horn section doesn’t mean Baenziger avoids sparse vulnerability entirely (“Monk”).

Unfortunately for us, there’s no hometown release show booked. Yet. —Janelle Bitker

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High times: The biggest thing happening in Quincy every year is the High Sierra Music Festival.

During Fourth of July weekend, thousands of music lovers descend on this sleepy, Gold Rush-era town and transform the Plumas County Fairgrounds into the site of one of

the best small music festivals in the country.

Thursday, July 2, through Monday, July 6, High Sierra celebrates its 25th anniversary, and the original mission remains intact.

“High Sierra is the ultimate intimate festival experience,” said spokeswoman Rebecca Sparks. “You can reach out and touch the artists, yet at the same time, there is world-class music everywhere around you.”

The camp-out festival features three stages with music lasting from morning to almost midnight.

Then, two additional stages open up for jams that last until 4 a.m. It’s not unusual for a kickball game to start at the crack of dawn when the music ends. Hours later, the cycle starts again.

The festival proudly touts its history of featuring acts just before they got huge—My Morning Jacket and Bassnectar are two notable examples. This year’s headliner, The String Cheese Incident, took off after playing the festival in 1997 and 1998.

Away from the stages, there’s still lots to do, such as yoga, crafts, nature walks, music classes for kids or artist workshops led by festival performers. There’s also the unofficial tradition of renegade camp jams—uninvited bands show up with instruments, plug in and play among the tents. Sometimes it goes so well that a band will get invited to join the official lineup in the future—local band the Nibblers has managed to do that twice, and this year it’ll bring along Davis’ Big Sticky Mess.

Tickets are still on sale, with single-day passes starting at $85.50.

Learn more at http://highsierra music.com.

Bees return: We’ve been waiting quite some time for the next Sea of Bees album. The wait is just a little bit longer: Build a Boat to the Sun drops Tuesday, July 7.

The hype is warranted. Julie Ann Baenziger released her debut Songs for the Ravens in 2010 to almost universal praise. Critics described Baenziger as a rare voice with rare promise. That excitement faded with 2012’s Orangefarben, a too-gentle breakup record. Sea of Bees went on hiatus.

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Times is premiering Build a Boat to the Sun while Sea of Bees completes a

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Husband and wife Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst form South Carolina’s folk duo Shovels & Rope. Where many bands FOLK/PUNK have failed before, Shovels & Rope artfully blends folk sound with punk sensibilities.

The characters and stories in the ditties dolled out by the duo are both tragic and memorable—such as the titular love-struck and battle-scarred veteran and his lover in “Mary Ann & One Eyed Dan.” The melancholy subject matter in the group’s repertoire—especially in its latest album, 2014’s Swimmin’ Time—might be missed by your ear, because its tunes and time signatures could fit right in at a hoedown. 1417 R Street, www.shovelsandrope.com.

Whether they’re classified as heavy metal, sludge or even stoner rock, Big Business is surely loud, grimy and unapologetic. In addition to their association with bands like Karp and Murder City Devils, Big Business’ Jared Warren and Coady Willis also double as rotating members in the Melvins, filling in on bass and drums when needed. The band’s latest album, Battlefields Forever, is its first full-length release on its own label, Gold Metal Records. The nine-track album was recorded in the spring of 2013 in an abandoned Los ROCK Angeles mansion that is “currently haunted by Jeff Goldbloom,” according to a press release. Sacto’s Black Mackerel and Church will also perform.

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

—Jaime Carrillo

—Steph Rodriguez

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

On the surface, Corner Laughers are overflowing with gooey sweetness. The group is led by ukulele (I know, ukulele!) player Karla Kane, who weaves bubble-gum pop, ultracatchy melodies and her sugary-sweet voice.

But there’s more to Corner Laughers than INDIE POP ukuleles and earworms.

Kane writes lyrics that are sassy, whip-smart and at times melancholy.

Belle and Sebastian and Camera Obscura are obvious influences, even if Corner Laughers’ tunes seem more upbeat on the surface. The Redwood four-piece has a diverse sound that brings to mind the complexity of late ’60s Beatles and indie-pop bands from the ’80s and ’90s, and it really has a knack for penning addictive hooks. 1400 E Street, www.facebook. com/CornerLaughers.

What does the Grass Valley country-music scene have that Nashville or Austin doesn’t? Bragging rights as the home of debut singer-songwriter Colleen Heauser, that’s what. The 25-year-old may only have one song officially released so far, but “Don’t Bring Me Flowers” is an impressive start—catchy and poppy without overglossy production, and simple yet evocative lyrics. Fans of Sara Evans and Alison Krauss won’t want to miss this sneak peek POP COUNTRY at what’s next from this Sac State grad (backed by fellow Sac State alumn!).

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Boston-born folk-punk singer Bryan McPherson sings dusty, dirty and downtrodden (and at times, poignantly political) songs about the people living in between the cracks and crevices of the American political landscape. His most recent album, Wedgewood—named after the Wedgewood stove that warmed the ranch in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he put the album together—was inspired by his own experience in Occupy Oakland in 2011. He’s toured with the likes of Dropkick Murphys and FOLK/PUNK Chuck Berry, blending politics with the sounds of his harmonica and acoustic guitar along the way. Kevin Seconds and Louise Distras round out the bill. 3520 Stockton Boulevard, www.bryanmcpherson.com.

Palms Playhouse, 8 p.m., $20

Hailing from Los Angeles—where the lengua tacos are plentiful—La Lenguas delivers on mixing sunny surf pop with gritty, low-fi GARAGE POP garage rock. It’s an expected combo for a Burger Records band, but La Lenguas takes it a step further with its ’50s rock ’n’ roll vibe and ’70s punk edge. It calls its sound “dirty doo woop.” Still, the originally New Orleansbred band is definitely a Burger band in terms of its DIY aesthetic and ironic adorableness. La Lenguas is on tour supporting its debut, three-song pink cassette Tears In My Milkshake, which dropped in May. Local punk favorites Dog Party and Sneeze Attack make for an awesome bill. 2030 P Street, www.facebook.com/lalenguas.

—Janelle Bitker

Starlite Lounge, 7:30 p.m., $10

Cracker’s latest album, Berkeley to Bakersfield, sounds like Cracker with a twist.

“Beautiful” leads us through Berkeley’s streets with a punkier sound—a bit harder edged than “One Fine Day,” featuring a more pop sound (think Barenaked Ladies). Never fully grunge (or post-grunge), punk, new-wave, or psychedelic and never completely country, blues or folk—these genres all weave throughout the band’s long history as an alternative ALT-ROCK rock band fronted by David Lowery and Johnny Hickman.

“Low,” Cracker’s biggest ’90s radio hit, is way different than the recent “King of Bakersfield,” a country-ish song drawing from the sounds made famous by Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. Victor Krummenacher opens. 13 Main Street in Winters, www.crackersoul.com.

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If any experimental band named after a garbage dump deserves your attention, Norway’s Arabrot certainly fits the bill. After 14 years, the band has released a handful of EP and full-length albums. It recently released yet another EP titled You Bunch of Idiots EP— EXPERIMENTAL METAL in conjunction with Fysisk Format and Eolian Records. Fans of Melvins, Shellac, early Swans and even the Birthday Party will enjoy the music found in Ababrot’s gloriously awkward catalog. If you’re new to the band, check out its self-titled release from 2013 and view the breathtaking video fort “Ha-Satan Dêofol” which redefines the experimental metal world.

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A lot of people are attracted to emotional distraction without ever realizing that frenetic activity is rooted in fear, not love (or even “like”). Relationships that swing from the threat of abandonment to bonding (through sex or emotional intimacy) and back to near-abandonment keep us hooked and unhealthy.

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Jobs under attack Hey, Ngaio. Love the column. My son is interested in a job in the weed industry. What jobs are out there for those looking for employment? Can you please roll up a big fat list of jobs and their respective qualifications? I love him a lot and want him to be successful in his search so I thought your column would be a great place to start.

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I was just down at the High Times Cannabis Cup in San Francisco last week, talking to some friends about how amazing it is to have a career in the cannabis a sk420 @ n ewsreview.c om industry. Ten years ago, no one really knew what was going to happen to the cannabis industry, and now, there are so many employment opportunities, from being a budtender to having a brick-and-mortar dispensary or a delivery service or working in a testing facility, a grow room, or whatever. This is a good time to get involved in the fastest-growing industry in America.

His best bet would be to call around and see what employers are looking for. He also might want to look into taking some classes.

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Hezekiah Allen, the head of the Emerald Growers Association, decried the raids in a strongly worded press release: “This type of activity is ever more concerning because state agencies are hard at work developing new programs. This ‘business as usual’ law enforcement activity squashes this nascent dialog. It makes the hard work of the state agencies ever more difficult.

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California needs a well-regulated cannabis industry. This type of activity keeps us from that policy by marginalizing critical perspectives. And unfortunately, this type of activity is still an everyday reality for families and communities throughout the state.” He is correct. These raids are a black mark on the reputation of the law enforcement community. Ω

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus

singer Sam Smith won four Grammys this year, largely on the strength of his hit single “Stay with Me.” The song has a lush gospel choir backing up his lead vocals, or so it seems. But in fact, every voice in that choir is his own. He recorded twenty separate harmony tracks that were woven together to create the big sound.

What would be the equivalent in your world, Taurus? How could you produce a wealth of support for yourself? What might you do to surround yourself with a web of help and nourishment? How can you amplify and intensify your efforts so they have more clout? Now would be an excellent time to explore possibilities like these.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Born under

the sign of Gemini, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who upset traditionalists. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he wasn’t interested in creating idealistic art based on historical and religious themes. He focused on earthy subjects about which he had direct experience, like the day-to-day lives of peasants and laborers. So even though he became a highly praised celebrity by his mid-thirties, the arbiters of the art world tried to exclude him. For example, they denied him a place in Exposition Universelle, a major international exhibition in Paris. In response, Courbet built a temporary gallery next door to the main hall, where he displayed his own work. As you strive to get your voice heard, Gemini, I urge you to be equally cheeky and innovative. Buy yourself a megaphone or erect your own clubhouse or launch a new enterprise. Do whatever it takes to show who you really are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I am

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your words of wis-

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In her late

twenties, J. K. Rowling was a single mother living on welfare. That’s when she began work on her Harry Potter books. Craig Newmark had turned 42 by the time he founded Craigslist. One of the world’s most oft-visited websites is HuffingtonPost.com, which Arianna Huffington established when she was 54. As for Harland Sanders, creator of KFC: He didn’t begin building the global empire of fried-chicken restaurants until the age of 65. I hope the preceding serves as a pep talk, Virgo, reminding you that it’s never to late to instigate the project of a lifetime. The time between now and your birthday in 2016 will be an especially favorable phase to do so. Start ruminating on what it might be.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I’m a big

fan of science and logic and objective thinking. Most of us need more of that good stuff. The world would be a saner, safer place if we all got regular lessons on how to be more reasonable and rational.

But in the immediate future, Scorpio, I’ll steer you in a different direction. I believe you will benefit from injecting your imagination with primal, raw, crazy, wild mojo. For example, you might read utopian science fiction and fairy tales about talking animals and poetry that scrambles your intellectual constructs. You could remember your dreams and ruminate about them as if they were revelations from the Great Beyond. You may also find it healthy to fantasize profusely about forbidden and impossible and hilarious adventures.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

There are lots of inquiries and invitations coming your way—perhaps too many. I don’t think you should pursue all of them.

In fact, I suspect that only one would ultimately make you a better human being and a braver explorer and a wiser lover. And that one, at first glance, may have not as much initial appeal as some of the others. So your first task is to dig deep to identify the propositions that are attractive on the surface but not very substantial. Then you’re more likely to recognize the offer that will have lasting value even if it doesn’t make a spectacular first impression.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I

find a lot of people physically attractive, but finding people mentally and spiritually attractive is different and much harder for me.” So says 40ozshawty on her Tumblr page. If you share that frustration, I have good news. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re due to encounter a higher-than-usual percentage of mentally and spiritually attractive people in the next six weeks. But I wonder how you’ll deal with this abundance. Will you run away from it, feeling overwhelmed by the prospect that your life could get more interesting and complicated? Or will you embrace it, daringly welcoming the interesting complications?

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

think you will generate good fortune for yourself by choosing between two equally invigorating but challenging tasks: losing your illusion or using your illusion. Both are quite worthy of your attention and intelligence. To succeed at either would fuel your emotional growth for months to come. You probably can’t do them both, however. So which will it be: Will you purge the illusion, or put it to work for you?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you

sometimes imagine yourself to be an underachieving underdog? If so, I suggest you start weaning yourself from that fantasy. Do you on occasion allow people to take advantage of you? It’s time to outgrow that role. Do you ever flirt with being a self-pitying martyr? Say bye-bye to that temptation. Cosmic forces are conspiring to relieve you of tendencies to act in any or all of those ways. I’m not saying you will instantly transform into a swashbuckling hero who knocks people over with your radiant self-assurance. But you will, at the very least, be ready to learn much, much more about how to wield your vulnerability as a superpower.

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

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Off the bench When LaSalle Thompson got fired just over a year ago as an assistant coach of the New York Knicks, he did what a lot of Sacramentans will do at some point: He came back. The former Kings center and power forward moved with the team from Kansas City to Sacramento in 1985 and has lived in the capital city off and on ever since.

At different times an NBA assistant coach and real estate salesman in recent years, Thompson’s now preparing for his latest venture: opening a textiles recycling business in Del Paso Heights. If all goes well, the company will open in September. He took some time to talk about his new textile venture, Kings trade rumors and playing in the old arena back when it was new.

You played for the Kings when they built Arco Arena. What do you remember having a new arena built?

I was with the Kings in Kansas City. When they moved the team here, they didn’t have [permission] from the league to move yet.

They started building that arena before the league gave them approval. I think they knew they were going to get the approval, but when we first came here, they really literally just built a warehouse. When you went inside, there was nothing in there, just a big box. They wouldn’t let anybody in it, because they knew what they were doing. When we got here, when I saw it, I don’t think they had started building the bleachers yet. It was just a shell. They started slowly filling it in. It was all wooden ’cause they knew at some point, they were going to build a bigger arena and that was going to convert into something else, to a big office building, which it is now.

Because it was wooden, I just remember even though it only held 10,000 people, the fans would start stomping … and it was just this thunderous noise, just loud.

The Kings have had some upheaval in their assistant coaching staff. Have you inquired with the team at all about any sort of coaching or scouting?

I’ve talked to ’em a little bit, let ’em know I was interested. But see, I don’t know George [Karl]. I know him just from playing against his teams, saying hi to him, but he doesn’t know me. I would imagine he’s probably going to hire guys that he knows, and I would imagine that he’s going to keep some of the guys that are on the staff right now. I think he likes some of them. I know [assistant coach] Corliss Williamson, he has a great relationship with DeMarcus Cousins. I wouldn’t be surprised if they keep him. He’s a good guy, too.

Do you see yourself coaching again in the future?

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What does recycling work entail?

You pick someone, like, let’s say Goodwill for instance. You drop all your clothes off at Goodwill and they sort through ’em and they say some of them they’re gonna sell, they’ll put on their racks for sale. Everything else they throw in the garbage. What’s happening in this country is 85 percent of all recyclable clothes are thrown in the landfill. So our feedstock, the way we’re looking at our business, our feedstock is that 85 percent that goes in the landfills: clothes that people throw out, old linens that people throw out, sheets, towels, that kind of stuff.

What do you do once you get the fabric?

Cotton, you can recycle and you can resell it to cotton manufacturers and clothing manufacturers. It basically is raw cotton again. With a lot of the blend stuff, you can make insulation out of it, home insulation, or I should say building insulation. You can make particle board out of it. You can do fiber, which is used in concrete and asphalt reinforcement.

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Back to the Kings.

I know George Karl had talked a little this year about running DeMarcus Cousins at power forward instead of center. You told me earlier that he should stay a center.

I just think DeMarcus, he’s kind of a throwback. He’s an old school, low-post center. But he’s got the versatility that you can play him at the high post, which I would imagine Karl will do that some. I just think the biggest advantage with him is to put him low.

What do you think of the possibility of DeMarcus Cousins being traded?

Just based on what I’m reading in the newspaper, if they don’t get rid of one of them, him or Karl, there’s going to be problems.

Do you think the Kings are at the point that one of them has to go?

Nah. We in the summer, so why would we have to decide now that one of them has to go? In December or January, we might be at that point, but that’s six months from now. Ω

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