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25 Our Mission To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages employees to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare. To have a positive impact on our communities and make them better places to live. Co-editors Rachel Leibrock, Nick Miller Staff Writers Janelle Bitker, Raheem F. Hosseini Assistant Editor Anthony Siino Editorial Coordinator Becca Costello Editor-at-large Melinda Welsh Contributors Daniel Barnes, Ngaio Bealum, Alastair Bland, Rob Brezsny, Jim Carnes, Deena Drewis, Joey Garcia, Cosmo Garvin, Blake Gillespie, Lovelle Harris, Jeff Hudson, Jim Lane, Garrett McCord, Kel Munger, Kate Paloy, Patti Roberts, Ann Martin Rolke, Shoka

37 Creative Director Priscilla Garcia Art Director Hayley Doshay Associate Art Director Brian Breneman Ad Design Manager Serene Lusano Production Coordinator Skyler Smith Designer Kyle Shine Design Services Manager Anne Lesemann Contributing Photographers Lisa Baetz, Evan Duran, Wes Davis, Luke Fitz, Taras Garcia, Michael Miller, Bobby Mull, Shoka, Darin Smith, Lauran Worthy Chief Marketing Officer Rick Brown Director of Sales and Advertising Corey Gerhard Senior Advertising Consultants Rosemarie Messina, Olla Swanson, Joy Webber, Kelsi White Advertising Consultants Joseph Barcelon, Meghan Bingen, Teri Gorman, Dusty Hamilton, Dave Nettles, Matt Richter, Lee Roberts, Julie Sherry Sales Assistant Matt Kjar Director of Et Cetera Will Niespodzinski Custom Publications Editor Michelle Carl Custom Publications Managing Editor Shannon Springmeyer Custom Publications Writer/Copy Editor Mike Blount Custom Publications Writer Brittany Wesely

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Cold-hearted snakes Sacramento’s housing market is, by all accounts, on the upswing. According to figures from the Sacramento Association of Realtors, July sales in Sacramento County were up 12.3 percent over the same month in 2014, and the median price increased 7.4 percent in the same time period, from $272,000 to $292,000. My husband and I recently lucked out with a nice home at a cheaper price than what we paid for a home in 2005. We short-saled that property after I lost my job and our home lost more than half its value. We tried to hold on, but it proved impossible after being denied a loan modification through the Home Affordable Modification Program, a government plan designed to help lenders revise loans for borrowers who faced the same hardships we did. Our bank, however, refused to play along. The decision to sell was tough, but ultimately it made sense from a cold-hearted business perspective. What about those who didn’t walk away, however? Many are still way underwater, unable to sell without a loss. Many also sought help without success. According to a recent story in The New York Times, HAMP was designed to help millions. To date, more than 4 million have applied for relief but only 887,001 borrowers have been awarded a modification. The big banks—the same ones that received government bailouts— are simply opting out of the chance to pay it forward. Cold-hearted business decisions, indeed.

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This time [the class] is online so, since I am at my computer so much, it should make it easier for me. I won’t have to constantly travel back and forth. I mean I do like coming here and I like to see my friends. The problem is that when I see my friends I get distracted.

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Bernie yes! SN&R no! Re “Summer of Sanders” by Paul Heintz (SN&R Feature Story, August 6): Bernie Sanders doesn’t stand a chance for president? Really? This is just lazy, uninspired writing. Ironically, I picked up this issue on the day a poll shows him leading in New Hampshire. As soon as I finished lunch I stuck the paper back in the box. Try harder, SN&R.

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Sacto’s rap bias Re “That’s a rap” by Raheem F. Hosseini (SN&R News, August 13): Lavish D has been convicted of a crime he has not committed, and his right to free speech has dealt a punishing blow to him, his career and society. If we can send a man to prison because he might commit

a crime, then start building more prisons. Curtis T. Kangas Woodland

Vote Bernie! Re “Summer of Sanders” by Paul Heintz (SN&R Feature Story, August 6): Whoever is responsible for the content of “Summer of Sanders” should get a

grip on reality. Maybe your editor or the person writing this article is a Hillary supporter, but you are not paying attention to what is going on nationwide as relating to the growing support for Bernie Sanders! There is a groundswell of support for Bernie, and Hillary cannot just stand still and hope that things work out for her. If she ends up being the Democratic candidate for president, I would vote for her as the lesser of two evils. I hope that this not the case, because she is tainted! Roy Graham Carmichael

Bernie ain’t dead yet Re “Summer of Sanders” by Paul Heintz (SN&R Feature Story, August 6): A new poll, co-sponsored by the Boston Herald, shows that when likely voters were asked “Who would you vote for in the Democratic primary if it were held today?” they chose Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton by a seven-point margin, 44-37. He has now closed the gap and then some. It’s only August. Are you sure he “doesn’t stand a chance for president?” And by the way, did you have to use such an ugly and unrecognizable portrait on your cover last week? The smooth outline of his skull took away his signature sparse-but-tousled hair, and his skin tone was that of a bleached-white zombie.

Bernie may be old (74 next month), but he ain’t dead yet. Julie A. Maahs & Walter Rhoads Sacramento

Don’t discourage democracy Re “Summer of Sanders” by Paul Heintz (SN&R Feature Story, August 6): I was pleasantly surprised (ecstatic, actually) when I saw Sanders’ picture on the cover of your August 6 issue. My feelings immediately turned to disgust, however, when I saw the subheading: “Bernie doesn’t stand a chance for president”? I wonder why you would do anything to discourage potential supporters, particularly in the formative stages, of a candidate who represents (by far) the best hope

we have for addressing society’s ills and who you would undoubtedly endorse if the election were held tomorrow. Riz Koross Sacramento

Corrections In our August 13 issue, the wrong interview was published in our 15 Minutes section. This was due to a production error. The correct interview can be read on page 67 of this issue. In our Dish review from the August 6 issue, we used an incorrect name for Thai Orchid in the headline.

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Climate Change Causes farmers to experienCe reCord early harvests. how will this impaCt saCramento’s farm-to-fork breadbasket? by Al a st a i r B l a nd

On July 24, winemaker Abe Schoener began picking his first pinot grigio grapes. It was the earliest start of harvest in Schoener’s grape-growing career. Other Sacramento and California farmers also have experienced record early harvests, thanks to exceptionally warm weather during the winter, spring and summer. Some say these changes offer farmers and scientists a glimpse of what could become the norm as climate change trends advance. In February, for instance, balmy winter weather caused rapid ripening of oranges. This coincided with a dockworkers’ strike at coastal ports, so millions of pounds of fruit destined for Asia rotted before or during the transPacific voyage. 8 | SN&R | 08.20.15

Later, in April, farmer Ed George, of The Peach Farm in Winters, harvested his first cherries late in the month— weeks earlier than usual. In Corning, fig farmer Bob Steinacher of Maywood Farms usually begins harvesting his main crop of fruit in early- to mid-August. But this year, Steinacher was in his 170-acre orchard picking figs on July 6. Early harvests are not necessarily a bad thing. However, they are significant because they are among the first visible symptoms of what will probably lead to a dramatic rearrangement of California’s agricultural geography and water-use policies. Decreased snowpack in the mountains will mean less late-summer stored water. As water supplies become increasingly

stressed, agricultural industries will wither in places. Growing regions will probably shift northward, arid regions will become less productive and measures will likely be taken to regulate use of water. Will climate change alter Sacramento’s farm-to-fork breadbasket of veggies, fruits, nuts and more? In some cases, the global-warming phenomenon that is causing sea level rise and, recently, deadly Asian heat waves actually may be creating benefits for local farmers. While winter chill hours are required by many temperate fruit trees—such as most stone fruits—in order to produce large, healthy crops, George says the absence of

cold this year actually resulted in a better crop: The fruits were fewer, but bigger. “It made it easier for me,” he said. “I was harvesting bigger fruit and less of them. If your crop is too big you get a bunch of marbles.” Schoener, who grows grapes in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region for his Vacaville-based winery The Scholium Project, may also be enjoying a sweet spot of climate change. While global warming is expected to make areas currently known for good wine unsuitable for grape growing in the future, the heat has allowed Schoener to produce wine with lower alcohol levels than usual. This is because high temperatures in recent years have accelerated summer maturation of his fruit, making it possible

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nEvEr-nudE SacramEnTo to harvest early—and in doing so produce full-flavored wine with less alcohol, an increasingly marketable quality in the wine business. For Phil Rhodes, a farmer in Visalia, the unusually warm year has produced one of his best fig crops in memory. He has more fruit than usual, and the figs are fatter and sweeter. However, the near absence of frost during the winter didn’t help Rhodes’ Asian pears. The trees, like cherries and peaches, need cold weather to set blossoms, and so they largely failed to bloom. Now, Rhodes expects a harvest volume just 30 percent of normal. Indeed, the overall effects of warming on California’s most lucrative fruit crops are likely to be negative ones. The pistachio industry, for one, is starting to suffer. After the balmy winter and spring of 2014, the state’s pistachio crop was thick with blanks—empty shells that result when erratic temperatures throw male and female trees out of sync during bloom time. Gurreet Brar, the UC Extension farm adviser for nut crops in Fresno County, says samplings of pre-harvest 2015 pistachios are showing a high percentage of blanks, as well. Brar says the almond industry may also be facing troubles as winters and springs become warmer. Although almond trees are a heat-loving plant with a low requirement for chill hours, Brar says the trees pollinate less effectively during heat spells. He also says there is evidence that bees may be less effective as pollinators during warmer weather. Bees are essential for almond farmers, who pay to have millions of beehives shipped into the state from around the world during the winter bloom period. The almond industry, in cooperation with the UC Extension system, is conducting trials of about 30 new almond varieties that could be used to replace those that lose productivity under long-term warming trends. Some of these varieties show increased tolerance for high salinity levels in the soil. “And about 10 of them are self-fruitful,” Brar said. That means they will selfpollinate, without the assistance of bees. While one or two anomalously hot years don’t prove anything about global climate change, the evidence that the Earth is warming seems to be stacking up as 2015 blazes by on the heels of other very warm years. The 10 warmest years ever recorded have occurred in the past 17 years, and in California, the average April-to-September temperature has increased about 2.5 degrees

Fahrenheit in the past century, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Temperatures have climbed about 1.5 degrees in the Sacramento area, while the southern deserts and coast are now 3 degrees warmer than they were in 1900. Gregory Jones, a climatologist with Southern Oregon University, told SN&R he believes the record early harvest in the West Coast wine industry is one of the early manifestations of global warming. He notes that just three years in California since 1995 have been cooler than the long-term statewide average, while most have been a little warmer. 2010, he says, was a cooler one, while 2012, 2013 and 2014 were all warmer than average. Now, 2015 is pacing to be the hottest year in recorded global history, Jones says.

even farmers growing such efficient crops are already in trouble. Rhodes’ current well reaches just 150 feet of depth, and with the region’s water table now at 130 feet and dropping about a foot per month, he guesses he will be sucking dry air by the end of summer. So the fig farmer drilled a new one 300 feet deep. “That should get me another 10 years,” he says. For now, the effects of warming on many farmers are almost negligible, resulting only in earlier harvest schedules. “Harvest date is not a big deal when we have warning,” said Daniel Sumner, a professor of UC Davis’ Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Picking fruit earlier in the year is a cheap and efficient way to adapt to warming trends, he says. The long-term solution to adapting to warming and drought may be more complex and expensive. Breeding new fruit varieties with more tolerance of aridity, pests and other adverse conditions will be important, says Katherine Pope, orchard adviser with the UC Extension program in Woodland. However, breeding resilience into crops will take a very long time. “It takes at least 10 to 25 years to really have confidence in a new variety,” Pope said. That, she says, is because of the slow growing pace of trees, and the fact that with most fruit tree species it takes several years just to produce the first fruits. On top of that, fruit varieties that go through successful trial runs in, say, the Davis area may fail in a slightly different climate. Pope explains that many traits which could be valuable in a drier, warmer future—like drought- and heat-tolerant rootstocks—already exist in many wild and cultivated varieties of tree crop species. “The genes are out there,” she said. “It’s just going to take a while to get the solutions to market.” Ω

The overall effects of warming on California’s most lucrative fruit crops are likely to be negative ones.

it may hardly be a coincidence that the state’s warmest years have come with its most severe drought, and water supply problems are likely to plague farmers in the future. Roger Boulton, a professor of enology at UC Davis, says creating a water market in which all users pay a fair rate would be a first—and very big—step toward long-term water use sustainability, since it would incentivize intensive users—like growers of alfalfa and almonds—to improve their water use efficiency. “Under the current system, smaller communities and cities pay a lot for water so that big growers in agriculture can get water very cheaply,” Boulton said. “If people who use lots of water had to pay more for it, they’d probably think harder about how to use less of it.” Agricultural industries, Boulton predicts, will shift geographically if a water market is created. A vineyard in Bakersfield, he explains, might need two or three times the applied water of a vineyard in Mendocino County—and farmers who must pay fairly for their water will move out of arid regions. Such a purchasing system will select for crops that use relatively little water—like figs, which generally require about half the applied water that almonds take. Still,

Paging Arrested Development’s Tobias Funke: The city of Sacramento wants to know where you got your cutoff shorts. Next week, the Sacramento City Council is poised to consider a much-ridiculed public nudity ban that was apparently prompted by a citywide genitalia-spree: According to a city staff report, “Multiple incidents have occurred where” nude or seminude individuals, displaying their hang-downs or hidey-hoos on public sidewalks or rights-of-way, were arrested but not charged with a crime. As for what “multiple incidents” mean numerically, a Sacramento Police Department spokesman didn’t provide that data. The California Penal Code only cares about public nudity if it’s accompanied by some sort of lewd conduct. (Probably because it has “penal” in the title.) But Sacramento is different. It considers the possibility of someone standing naked “on the sidewalk in front of of Cesar Chavez Park while children are present … offensive or socially repugnant,” the staff report says. To redress this, the amended ordinance would forbid nudity in all public areas—and on private property where the nudity is still visible from public property. As never-nude practitioner Funke might say, the city may end up with a mess on its hands. For instance, could neighbors narc on each other for showering or undressing with the blinds open? And what of homeless residents who don’t always have access to private enclosures where they can change? The drafted law offers no grace in these circumstances, exempting only children under the age of 10, breastfeeding mothers and performers. But it does go into hilarious detail defining nudity as “exposure of the genitals, pubic area, anus, or buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering; or exposure of a female breast below a horizontal line across the top of the areola at the areola’s highest point with less than a fully opaque covering.” Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor, and subject to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. The city council is tentatively set to hear the ordinance on August 25. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

copS Who arEn’T copS Do you want to arrest people, but without the scrutiny that comes with being a cop? Then the city of Sacramento has a job for you— or dozens of them. On Tuesday, the Sacramento City Council was slated to deputize three new animal control officers with the power to make arrests and issue citations in certain situations. That will bring the total number of community development and public works employees with this authority to 64. And before anyone freaks out about government outreach, first know that this isn’t a new thing. The city first granted basic law enforcement powers to select employees way back in 1997. As building inspectors, zoning investigators, code enforcers and animal control officers move on or are replaced, the city has to periodically update its list through a new resolution, explained Animal Care Services Manager Gina Knepp. “It’s more of a formality,” she told SN&R. To become sort-of cops, city employees have to pass police background checks and undergo 40 hours of POST-certified training at Sacramento City College, Knepp said. The 64 employees who have passed these requirements are granted the ability to enforce state laws concerning animals, labor and vehicles, as well as provisions of the local city code. (RFH)

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Get out the lead City-owned gun range operated for years with toxic lead levels, Sacramento auditor says by Raheem F. hosseini

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on “virtually every interior surface, as Guns don’t kill people. Lead poisoning well as some areas of the roof nearest the does. A city-owned gun range has exhibited fans that exhaust air from the gun range area,” a separate document states. hazardous levels of lead on multiple Alarming as these findings are, they occasions since at least 2006. While paint an incomplete picture of the true the city knew about the contamination, health risk. The assessment didn’t test it failed to notify users of the potential indoor air quality or soil contamination, health and environmental risks, and Oseguera’s letter notes. But lead primarallowed the range to continue operating ily enters the body through inhalation until recently, according to city docuand ingestion, the U.S. Occupational ments obtained by SN&R. Safety and Health Administration notes. The James G. Mangan Rifle and According to information posted on Pistol Range has been closed since OSHA’s website, exposure can lead to Christmas Eve. The decision was made “neurological effects, gastrointestinal after City Auditor Jorge Oseguera effects, anemia, and kidney outlined numerous concerns to disease.” city officials following a As co-founder of the complaint to his office’s An California Security whistleblower hotline Training Academy, late last year. But the assessment Peggy Seamanrange remained open found lead-dust Caballero frequented to the public for years contamination on the indoor range for with high levels of lead decades. She told SN&R contamination, Oseguera “virtually every she experienced eye irritatold SN&R. interior.” tion and allergies during A claim has been filed the 1990s and early 2000s, against the city, and one reguto the degree that she donned a lar client says her company was mask whenever she entered. But those never told about the exposure. “Pardon my French, but it does piss me off,” Vicci symptoms stopped when her company switched to higher-quality ammunition. Gritz, operations manager at Universal The auditor noted other problems Security Academy, wrote in an email. with how the range was operated. “We used the range for many years and NO ONE ever said anything about having Oseguera’s letter faulted the Parks and Recreation Department for irregularly concerns about the health issues.” collecting fees and not tracking revenue Gritz provided a copy of the letter her until last year. A site visit also revealed company received from the Parks and that the rear door to the range was Recreation Department at the beginning secured by nothing more than a pencilof this year. It makes no mention of lead length slide lock, even though one group levels, saying only that the facility is stored firearms on the premises. being temporarily closed to “implement As for the range, which was built in recommendations” regarding cleanliness 1960, some are hoping it will reopen. A and maintenance. The letter does, however, include links March facility assessment pegs the cost of bringing the one-story structure up to to generic warnings from the California code at just north of $1.7 million. Ω Department of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about surface.” lead exposure at indoor firing ranges. Web extra: An extended According to city documents obtained version of this story is through the California Public Records available at www.news Act, a consultant’s risk assessment found review.com/sacramento. abnormally high lead-dust contamination

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the anti-vaccination phenomenon in California were physicians like pediatrician Alice Kuo. Years ago, mothers began resisting vaccines, asking Kuo to delay, or let them skip altogether, shots for infants and small children that prevent polio, measles, whooping cough, tetanus, rubella, diphtheria and other sometimes deadly or devastating diseases eradicated or nearly eradicated in the United States years ago. Kuo, a classic overachiever, is also chief of a special section at UCLA, where she prepares medical residents dually as pediatricians and internists, and trains them to advocate in Sacramento for children’s health issues and against health disparities among the underprivileged. At her pediatric clinic, which sits between an upscale industrial art gallery and a pricey shopping district for L.A. creatives, Kuo watched warily as an unexpected new imbalance began to emerge: “Affluent parents opting out,” Kuo explains, “by choosing a substandard level of care for their own children—and in turn, a substandard health situation for people who get exposed to their children. They didn’t want vaccines.” Kuo convinced many of her vaccine-fearing parents, mostly mothers, to agree to a pact: They could come to her clinic only if they agreed to fully vaccinate their children before kindergarten. The parental pacts placed Kuo in a position to witness, up close, a compelling drama that was quietly unfolding in pockets across America: the struggles of the “anti-vaxxers”—actually comprising “vaccination delayers” and “hesitaters,” too—whose attitudes baffle many scientists and government officials and anger society. They have weakened America’s “herd immunity,” which requires a high percentage of people, up to 95 percent, to be vaccinated to protect everyone against once-common scourges.

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“For too long, this country has had a system based on sick care, not preventive care,” Kuo says. “Even today, a lot of people who are not antivaxxers have a hard time just with the flu vaccine. Vaccines are ‘treatment before you feel sick’—it bothers people. “But if a kid gets a deadly disease like whooping cough, whose fault is that? It’s the parent’s fault” for not vaccinating. Measles, which killed 500 people and hospitalized 48,000 annually before development of the vaccine in 1963, was eradicated in the United States in 2000. Now outbreaks, set off by foreign travelers but often spread by nonvaccinated Americans, are back. The biggest outbreak of the past decade hit Disneyland in December and spread to about 150 people in the United States and Mexico, plus dozens in Canada, fueling a political upheaval in Sacramento that led to Gov. Jerry Brown’s signing on June 30 of Senate Bill 277. Under SB 277, parents must vaccinate their children before the kids start school, or otherwise get a medical exemption from a licensed physician. Parents who refuse must home-school or set up “public independent studies” programs. The bill was co-authored by Sen. Richard Pan of Sacramento, a noted pediatrician, and Sen. Ben Allen of Santa Monica. Now rising stars in the California Democratic Party, Pan and Allen handled with grace the most wrenching citizen furor since big crowds pressed into the Capitol in 2003 demanding the recall of Gov. Gray Davis. Allen, for instance, explained how “you’ll see swastikas on the Internet, representing what Dr. Pan and I are trying to do.” But what Allen and Pan hoped for may not come to be. California officials recently cleared an anti-SB 277 coalition, led by former GOP Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, to gather signatures for a ballot measure asking voters to overturn mandatory

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vaccinations for children. Experts predict the referendum will make the November 2016 ballot. This means SB 277 can no longer take effect next June; the law must await the results of California’s 2016 election. While medical professionals like Kuo are major supporters of SB 277, a doctor’s own method of persuasion draws from human reasoning and personal trust. The state, by politicizing something as personal as medications and barring children from classrooms, has created unknown and potentially large risks. The government’s intentions could backfire.

CoalItIoN of straNgE bEdfEllows Pan and Allen’s victory rests on its implementation. But some researchers who study the anti-vaxxers think the Legislature and Brown may have poured gasoline on a fire, especially when a much more concerted community approach, probably using nurse and pediatrician outreach to resistant parents, could have improved herd immunity in low-vaccination pockets. “We may pay a significant cost, long-term, in public health, if this victory provokes a backlash,” says Brendan Nyhan, a professor of government at Dartmouth College, who discovered that top-down government vaccine-education messages experience blowback, inspiring wavering parents to say they’re even less likely to vaccinate. “Sometimes there are events that catalyze people in politics, and the Tea Party is not a terrible example,” Nyhan says. “We need all of these people—to protect everybody else.” In her practice, Kuo, the mother of two boys, has unearthed a hodgepodge of parental views: a cold and utterly false fear, stoked by disgraced British scientist Andrew Wakefield, that vaccines cause autism as well as various diseases; a misbegotten belief that prolonged breastfeeding can sufficiently immunize infants; a personal phobia toward needles, which parents project onto their kids; a trend in which children are seen as exceedingly precious— not just plain old precious; an extreme distrust of the pharmaceutical industry; and a conviction that the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is proof of major vaccine injuries. Kuo explained how she had a family that was what she called “vaccine-hesitant. “And they dragged their feet with me for a very long time,” she says. “Then it turned out they wanted to take an African safari, coming up in a few months. All of a sudden, they had to get caught up on the vaccine schedule—they had to get all of their shots for their child. And I was like, ‘OK, where does this antivaccination belief system really come from?’ You would not believe how common that sort of thing is … parents who won’t vaccinate—until that very strong desire gets in the way of another.” She believes the parents who formed Facebook pages and stood in blocks-long lines to speak in Sacramento will not set up home schools, or move, or dream up some omnibus parental-rights initiative for the 2016 ballot. “It’ll turn out to be a lot more work than they expect,” she says. “Ninety-five percent will vaccinate.”

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Laura hayes (top) speaks to fellow anti-SB 277 activists during a Capitol protest earlier this year. Lawmakers were the subject of deep outrage over a bill that would require vaccinations at California schools.

“immUne” CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 But since Disneyland, their ranks have only ballooned, with compatriots as unlikely as anti-physician chiropractors, the Nation of Islam, conservative Republicans, long-term breastfeeders, mothers of children with autism and other disorders, and get-government-off-our-backs libertarians. “There’s an emerging possible rump coalition that’s totally new, people who all distrust government yet who’ve hardly ever intersected,” says a GOP political consultant involved in the 2003 recall of Davis. “But now they’ve intersected on vaccinations.” But among all the groups opposing and questioning vaccines, the driving force, from the moment Wakefield published his trumped-up autism study in Lancet 17 years ago, has been mothers. And that makes Kuo’s question key: Where does their belief system come from?

State Sen. richard Pan (d-Sacramento) (bottom) gives the thumbs up as SB 277 goes to vote earlier this year. Gov. Jerry Brown inked the bill—but a ballot measure for next november could postpone, and even kill, the new law.

AnAtomy of An Anti-vAxxer On April 28, a gasp went up in the anteroom of Pan’s Sacramento office as pro-vaccination moms, waiting to meet with him, got word that the Life Chiropractic College West in Hayward had invited Wakefield to speak—and to slam the scientific community for ruining him. A newspaper was reporting that the chiropractic school had embraced Wakefield’s exhortation that the students act as “pitchforks and torches” to halt SB 277. One pro-vaccine mother in Pan’s anteroom stepped behind an old polio victim sitting in a wheelchair, whispering to the other moms, “He shouldn’t hear this!” Since January 7, when the Disneyland outbreak hit the news, the anti-vaxxers and vaccination-wary have been ridiculed, demeaned and called crazy. In response, they have grown far more organized, raised substantial funds and unleashed a torrent of off-base accusations and headline-grabbing actions. On June 9, at an Assembly Health Committee hearing on SB 277, one mother shouted at San Diego Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, co-author of the bill with Pan and Allen, “My child is more important than yours!” On July 3, several hundred protesters proudly marched through downtown Santa Monica with Wakefield, vowing to overturn SB 277 in court. Jennifer Reich, a sociologist and health-policy researcher at the University of Colorado, has found that many antivaccination parents trust their own judgment over that of scientific institutions, which they feel apply vaccines too uniformly to children, and in some cases strongly oppose government reach into their personal lives. In Reich’s research, she says, “No parent mentioned a fear of their child infecting others, such as people in poor countries where they may travel. Their child was the entire center of their calculus, never ‘What is my child’s threat to others?’” Vaccine opponents, who are mostly white, educated and middle-class or wealthier, have been plugging a racially explosive conspiracy theory that the Centers for Disease Control hid

“We cannot have a partisan War on vaccines.” Brendan nyhan government professor, dartmouth College

data showing that African-American boys in Georgia suffered a 340 percent “increased risk of autism” after getting a measles vaccination. A paper promoting this data, written by an anti-vaccine researcher, has since been retracted, and Snopes.com determined that the allegation was bogus, tracing its roots to data about already-autistic kids who later were vaccinated. But the tale attracted the Nation of Islam, whose leader in late June likened SB 277 to the racist Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which inmates with

the disease went untreated as they horribly deteriorated. Top African-American organizations, including the California State Conference of the NAACP, National Coalition of 100 Black Women and Charles R. Drew Medical Society, immediately struck back at the Nation for sowing vaccine fear among black parents. Nyhan calls the anti-vaxxers’ resurrection of Wakefield, and their conspiracy theory about African-American boys in Georgia, “totally normal” attempts to defend closely

held views. Educated, knowledgeable, creative people, he says, “are good at coming up with stories to defend against information they do not want to hear.” Defiance toward government is another key pillar, and the people who avoid or refuse vaccines are happy to explain why. And then there’s L.A. actor Tisha Banker, who during her first pregnancy was doing her very best to become a vaccine doubter, when she suddenly pulled up short. Banker now is one of 12 parents who act as the public faces of Vaccinate California, a group of volunteers that helped Allen and Pan promote SB 277. She’s kept her sense of humor during an onslaught of sometimes creepy personal attacks, and notes that her Facebook “other email” folder, once peppered with notes from fans who enjoyed her in Criminal Minds or Pretty the Series, now sometimes gets “pictures of dead babies.” Banker was pregnant six years ago when a colleague handed her reams of frightening vaccine info from websites like Natural News. She got scared and interviewed nine pediatricians, seeking one who would let her customize her baby’s vaccinations. Eight doctors refused. The ninth one “looked at me and said, ‘I can take you on a slowed-down vaccine schedule, as you are proposing, but not on an emotional basis because it makes you feel better. Bring me your scientific evidence.’” Banker had an “aha” moment. “I’m a mom banging out a better vaccine schedule than thousands of doctors around the nation have agreed upon? What was I doing? I was caught up in my fear.” Then last December, her extended family of in-laws was at Disneyland during the measles outbreak. On January 7, when news of the outbreak broke, they went into full panic mode, trying to determine if everyone was OK. In February, she helped found Vaccinate California, and by April, she was representing the nonprofit at a rally. Banker figured she’d meet like-minded people. Instead she was alone in a sea of 300 anti-vaxxers and other protesters organized in part by United Teachers Los Angeles activists. “I’m wearing my T-shirt reading ‘I Heart Vaccines.’ Not the best call I ever made,” she says. “I’m videotaping, and the crowd notices me and my shirt.” A human surge pushed her. “One woman gets right up to me and says, ‘Aren’t you afraid of us? And I said, ‘My name is Tisha, I’m a mom and you’re a mom. You’re just trying to do what’s right for your kids, right? So am I.’’’

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63.5% 71.4% 71.8% 73.8% 77.4% 77.5% 78.1% 79.7% Mothers began telling her their stories. Some claimed their children were “vaccineinjured” and left with autism or autoimmune disorders not caused by vaccines. “They were just happy to see someone they could put all their anger on,” Banker says. “What saved me from a more tense situation was saying, over and over again, ‘I respect you, but I don’t want to discuss your medical theories with you. “‘Tell me about your kid.’”

New binders, pens and notebooks—it’s back-to-school season! But are you sending your child into an environment with a higher risk of outbreak? Here’s a list of the eight most vulnerable schools in the region when it comes to being not up-to-date on required vaccinations (as compiled by www.Shots ForSchools.org based on 2014-15 school year data from the California Department of Public Health).

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A growing body of research says the anti-vaxxers and vaccine resisters aren’t unusual. They are among millions of people who take a stand closely tied to their self-identity, which is later proved wrong or harmful, and then can’t let go. Until medical and governmental institutions in the United States figure this out, it may not matter what a California state law requiring vaccinations has to say. Carol Tavris, a social psychologist and expert on cognitive dissonance, talks about the “majority of prosecutors in this country who have put away criminals later proved innocent, then fight for years to keep them behind bars,” and the “large numbers of doctors who defended radical mastectomies after it was time to switch to lumpectomies.”

he says—the anti-vaxxers and more moderate waverers could dig in deeply. That, together with the mostly partisan legislative vote on SB 277, Nyhan says, “has me very concerned about what will happen if other states take a cue from California. We cannot have a partisan war on vaccines.” Andrea Snyder, a commercial actor in Southern California and mother of a 6-year-old, is comfortable within the anti-SB 277 crowd, including its more extreme elements. She sees the battle as one over constitutional and parental rights. “They would rather have us go home to our little lives and pay our bills and watch prime time and carry on as if everything will be fine in our little world,” she says. “Maybe it will. Or you can get involved if you want things done differently.”

Rochelle Fanali, president of the Santa Monica-Malibu PTA Council, offers up a real-life example. In Santa Monica and Malibu, nine school nurses this winter were encouraged by the council to telephone every name on the school district’s personalbelief exemption list after the Disneyland outbreak, to ask them to reconsider vaccines. “Of course, these calls were a very nervous-making idea,” Fanali says. “You aren’t going to change the minds of those who will not believe science. But the calls by our school nurses turned into a very positive experience.” Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District nurse coordinator Lora Morn estimates her team called nearly 500 parents. They ran into loads of resistance, but many vaccinehesitant parents listened. “We

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From doctor to Parent Banker, like Dartmouth’s Nyhan, believes existing institutions have failed to cope with how deeply these mothers’ vaccine views are intertwined with their self-identity as a protective parent. “They fear that if they allow their kids to get the shot, something bad will happen, and the onus will be on them,” Banker says. “They cannot get past that fear. I know because that’s what I feared—before I woke up.”

“Thanks to the mind’s built-in mental biases, you start looking for all the information that minimizes anything that suggests you might have been wrong,” Tavris adds. “It’s such an efficient mechanism, it gets harder and harder to go back. This mechanism entraps all of us—especially if it goes to the heart of how we define ourselves as competent and smart people. And the antivaccination movement has a belief uber alles. Because what is more vulnerable than my view of myself as a good mother or father?” Nyhan, at Dartmouth, says California’s leaders need to see their political win on SB 277 as potential trouble—the precursor to a possible political split that could threaten herd immunity. Because these parents represent “a classic case of ‘motivated reasoning’—the tendency to interpret information based on pre-existing attitudes,”

Snyder has meticulously read vaccine ingredients inserts and vaccine-wary websites, and has chosen to never vaccinate her daughter. Yet as pediatrician Kuo notes, “We in medicine are having national meetings about this! These parents are not making rational decisions based on anything we can hang our hats on.” Of course, the bill might work. The anti-vaxxers might shrink back to pre-Disneyland numbers. The Republicans might not act on their anger over legislative intrusion. The anti-vaxxer fundraising set off by TV images of mothers misguidedly claiming to have “vaccine-injured children” might cool. And Pan and Allen may come up with a second act that promotes bridgebuilding, which their vaccine bill, realistically, could not do. Nyhan and others suggest that a bridge be built to parents by those closest to their kids’ health care.

found that herd immunity was a new concept for most parents who had waivers,” Morn says. “Many who were customizing their vaccine schedules agreed to the measles vaccine.” This spring, the PTA gave the Santa Monica school nurses an honorary award for, Fanali says, “work above and beyond the call of duty.” Kuo admires their efforts. “We have to reach them however we can,” she says. She recently cut a deal with a mother who refused the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine for her sons, 2 and 4. “A lot of doctors simply won’t go along with this behavior,” Kuo explains. But she urged the mother to at least let the boys get their polio shots; they’d renegotiate MMR later. “I scored this as a win,” Kuo says, “because I got a polio vaccine out of her. Health provider to parent—that’s how a lot of this is going to be achieved.” Ω

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Former Sacramento Bee editorial writer Ginger Rutland first adapted her mother Eva Rutland’s 1964 memoir The Trouble with Being a Mama, in 2007.

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here’s no doubt being black in America isn’t easy. Certainly, the community is often portrayed in the media as one plagued by poverty, isolation and violence—serving as a grim reminder that the quest for civil rights remains an ongoing endeavor. Yet while there is no shortage of horrific examples of the brutality inflicted on blacks in this country—headlines involving deadly police force against Michael Brown and Eric Garner instantly come to mind—there is also a wealth of stories that don’t fall into the pit of despair and marginalization. Stories that speak to the strength and courage of those who survived the injustices cultivated by institutionalized racism.

Ginger Rutland was invigorated by the idea that there was more to the story of black America than what was commonly being told.

Such is the story of Eva Rutland and her family. Rutland, a writer whose work appeared in the pages of magazines such as Redbook and Woman’s Day in the ’50s and ’60s, fled the segregated south in 1952 and landed in Sacramento. And in her 1964 book, The Trouble With Being a Mama, she recalled her experiences raising a family while acclimating to a slowly changing world and culture.

In 2007, in homage to her mother’s story, Ginger Rutland republished that memoir under the title When We Were Colored. Now, Ginger, an award-winning journalist formerly with The Sacramento Bee, is bringing that story to the stage with an adaption that will premiere Friday, August 21, at the Pioneer Congregational United Church of Christ. What the younger Rutland discovered in reacquainting the public with her mother’s story was that there was more to Eva than her role as the Rutland matriarch. “What I got out of it was a real appreciation for my mother as a writer,” Rutland said. “I didn’t know how good a writer she was, and I write for living.” With this profound understanding of her mother’s work, Ginger began to contemplate the deeper meaning within the message borne out of Eva’s experience. She was invigorated by the idea that there was more to the story of black America than what was commonly being told. Ginger was further inspired by a 2014 trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, where she says she witnessed a robust catalog of plays that fed into the notion that the black experience was one of woe, where no glimmer of happiness existed. “One of the pieces that I saw was called Ruined,” she explained. “It’s about the black Congo, and it was about rape, and it was really, really horrific—horrifically sad.” It was then that Ginger decided to adapt her mother’s memoir into a play that would celebrate the triumphs and successes within the black community. “I went to the people in Ashland and I said, ‘Hey, guys, I’ve been black all my life and it ain’t that bad,” she explained. “You know, I had a very happy life, and I think you should do happier stories about

black people where it’s not all despair and pain and suffering.” The festival organizers agreed and set Ginger on a mission to transform her mother’s words into a living, breathing story—a feat that she says her professional experience did not exactly prepare her for. Determined to bring the story from the page onto the stage, Ginger took set design and playwriting classes at Sacramento City College to familiarize herself with the world of theater. She also sought out players within the local theatrical community to guide her efforts in transforming the narrative. “Everybody who looked at it said, ‘You’re doing something wrong,’ and I made adjustments based on their advice,” she said. It wasn’t until she found her director, Maggie Adair Upton, however, that the story fleshed out into a piece of work ready for the stage. “Someone directed me to Maggie, and she looked at my script and she massaged it and fixed it,” Ginger said. With a sturdy mentor in Upton, Eva’s ability to bring every word on the page to life through her thoughtful and descriptive prose, and the actors Shawna James (Eva Rutland), Kelton Howard (Bill Rutland) and Brooklynn Solomon (Ginger), the story metamorphosed from a memory to be reborn into the present. Ginger and Upton both say When We Were Colored is a piece that’s constantly evolving. As with any creative endeavor, it’s a living entity that demands nurturing. “There’s such a wealth of information. A lot of people knew Eva Rutland and know Ginger,” Upton explained. “It was a matter of taking it out of a memoir so that it was not a memory, but something that happened, and translating the memories into more a present situation so that it

was happening now, instead of being remembered.” The play tells Eva’s story of a middleclass black family thriving in the dawn of the civil-rights movement. It’s a personal journey with wide-reaching power. For Ginger the work is not only a celebration of her mother’s work, but of a daughter’s appreciation for her talent. “When you’re young, your mom is just your mom, and she doesn’t seem to be particularly special. You know, she’s just mom,” she said. “As I got older, I finally understood she was more.” Ω

Actors Shawna James and Kelton Howard work on a scene from When We Were Colored.

When We We Were Colored premieres at 7:30 p.m. Friday, August 21, at the Pioneer Congregational United Church of Christ, 2700 L Street. Tickets are $20. There will be additional performances at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturdays and 6 p.m. Sundays, through August 30. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/WhenWeWereColored or www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1894078.

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Sacramento SPCA Yappy Hour Thursday, augusT 20 Through the end of August, cats more than a year old at the Sacramento SPCA are up for adoption for only $5. Think of all the cat videos you could soon be making! Another way to benefit shelter animals and yourself is to put away a BENEFIT few pints during Yappy Hour at Track 7 Brewing Co.—but don’t forget to bring in the flier available at http://tiny.cc/yaphour (or at the SPCA, 6201 Florin-Perkins Road) so that 20 percent of beer sales go to the Sac SPCA. 6 p.m.-8 p.m., Track 7 Brewing Co., 826 Professor Lane, Suite 100, in Natomas; track7brewing.com.

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Friday, augusT 21 Some people were a little disappointed with how dark Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom was when it was first released in 1984 but more than 30 years later, the film’s proven to hold up surprisingly well. Besides, who could forget that FIlm monkey-brain eating scene? Yuck! This Friday, relive the horror or discover it anew outdoors at Fremont Park. The night will include a live set by local indie-soul singer James Cavern, and plenty of food trucks in case you get hungry. Free, 6 p.m., 1515 Q Street.

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he idea behind StoryCorps doesn’t sound particularly revolutionary on the surface: Two people—typically family, friends or acquaintances—sit down and have a personal conversation that is recorded and then shared. But in an age where the information stream is near constant in the form of out-of-context soundbites, 140-character tweets and clickbait headlines, the humanity of two people talking—of sharing experiences that are harrowing, uplifting, funny and just about every other emotion—can be striking in comparison. Which is good news for Sacramentans hankering for some of that humanity: The StoryCorps MobileBooth is coming to Sacramento from September 10 through October 9, and they want to hear your story. Here’s how it works: On Thursday, August 27, and Friday, September 11, reservations will be open for a session in the MobileBooth at https://story corps.org/reservations. Then, during your allotted appointment time, the decked-out Airstream will be parked at 5600 South Land Park Drive. A

moderator will be there to help facilitate conversation, which will then be recorded onto a CD and archived on the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Some stories are featured on NPR and its affiliates (Capital Public Radio is Sac’s partner, natch) and the StoryCorps website. Participants are asked to make a donation of $50 or more. The result of over 10 years of StoryCorps is breathtaking portraits of life in America: Maurice Rowland and Miguel Alvarez, the cook and janitor who continued to work at an assisted-living facility after it was shut down; Yusor AbuSalha, a survivor of the Chapel Hill shooting from earlier this year; blind 14-year-old triplets raised by a single mother and eventually befriended by another blind man in the community; President Barack Obama in conversation with an 18-yearold who spent time in juvenile detention. StoryCorps has recorded more than 50,000 stories since 2003; will you be adding yours to the chorus?

Elk Grove multicultural Festival saTurday, augusT 22 This weekend, the city of Elk Grove will host a free festival geared toward uniting various cultures. It’s no secret the region is rich in culture and this event aims to highlight some of the its greatest talents via live music, dance, art and FESTIvAl more. Plus, there’ll be more food vendors than you can probably handle. Free, 10 a.m.5 p.m., 950 Elk Grove-Florin Road in Elk Grove, www.facebook.com/events/1619535981631344.

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On menu: Last week, we talked new menu at Block Butcher Bar. Now, let’s talk about two more Midtown menu overhauls. Formoli’s Bistro radically changed its lunch menu for the first time since, well, ever. The only remaining items are the stuffed dates and—don’t freak out—the whiskey burger. That means there are a whole lotta new dishes to try. I recently sampled a simple salad with perfectly seared salmon ($12); a fried chicken sandwich that surprises with a light tempura-beer batter ($10); and deadly, deadly braised lengua tacos ($9). Sometimes, the taco plate offers pork instead. But when it’s lengua—my goodness—you must.

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There’s a new menu at Revolution Wines as well. Even though chef Rachel Kelley left the urban winery last year to help open up South, Revolution’s sous-turned-executive chef Theodore Gibanov had kept the menu roughly the same. Until now. On Instagram, Gibanov has been teasing some new additions: avocado and Halloumi bruschetta, patatas bravas, vegan sliders and an “American” BLT. And over on Del Paso Boulevard, Cask & Barrel recently added a whole new menu for Sunday brunch. Exciting Southern-influenced offerings include pork belly and buttermilk biscuits with pimento cheese ($8) and cornbread doughnuts with a maple

cheesecake filling, bacon sugar and pecans ($8). The menu moves into surprising places too, though, like with foie gras french toast ($22) and a Scandinavian-inspired plate of potato pancakes, smoked sturgeon, pickled quail eggs and dill ($13). On expansion: Temple Coffee opened its first Davis location on Saturday at 239 G Street. We expect aesthetically pleasing decor from Temple already, but the new outpost is exceedingly sleek and modern. Design alone probably isn’t enough for any Sacramentan to drive out to experience the new Temple, but new drinks? Perhaps. The Davis Temple offers Kyoto-style iced coffee, popularized in the United States by Blue Bottle Coffee. The slow-drip system looks like a science project—but super stylish—and typically creates a sweeter, stronger iced coffee. Also intriguing is the cascara iced tea, which is brewed with the fruit that initially surrounds the coffee bean, then served on nitro. And for a last note, Sweet Dozen unveiled its long-alluded-to food cart last week. Find out more about times and locations at www.sweetdozen.com. Ω

You know how on August weekends you’re likely to to start drinking long before sunset because, hey, summer and YOLO and all that? Ditch the usual cheap, watered-down weekender brew and pick up a six-pack of Anderson Valley Brewing Co.’s The Kimmie, the Yink & the Holy Gose. At just 4.2 percent ABV, it’s got a lower alcohol punch than Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer and volumes more taste. The canned beverage ($8.99 a six-pack at Curtis Park Market) exhibits a bright, slightly spicy tartness that’s refreshing but never overpowering. Pairs perfectly with veggie burgers and lazy porch swinging. https://avbc.com/the-kimmie-the-yink-the-holy-gose.

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God and the girls val breliNsKi readiNg Although brick-and-mortar bookstores seem to be going by the wayside, the folks at the Avid Reader have persevered, thanks in part to great local events. This Friday, the Davis shop will host Val Brelinski, a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford readinG University. Brelinksi will read from her latest offering, The Girl Who Slept with God (Viking, $27.95), which tells the story of how religion altered the course of three girls’ lives. 7:30 p.m., Friday, August 21; free. 617 2nd Street, Davis; www.avidreaderbooks.com.

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Get Gatsbied sacraMeNto WhisKeY, WiNe & spirits Festival The Great Gatsby-themed party lives on (and on and on). In this particular iteration, attendees will mingle in the sumptuous halls of the Crocker Art ParTY Museum while sampling whiskey, local craft beer, wine and bites from The Supper Club. Blackjack, craps and roulette tables will be ready for those really looking to do it up. 6 p.m.-10 p.m., Friday, August 21; $30. 216 O Street; http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/ sacramento-whiskey-wine-spirits-festival-2015.

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Nouvella KicKstarter It seems like everyone’s launched a crowdsourcing campaign to raise money for inventions and albums, tour vans Fundraiser and, even, mac ’n’ cheese. So many good causes, so little time (and cash), right? But did you ever stop to think about how these fundraising platforms might be used for evil? Check this: There’s a new “reverse” Kickstarter campaign aimed at “shutting down” Nouvella, the independent Los Angeles-based press headed by (full disclosure) SN&R contributor Deena Drewis. The micropublisher, known for releasing short works by the likes of Emma Straub (pictured), Edan Lepucki and Matthew Salesses has been targeted by a group of publishers freaked out by what they deem a “weird” and “risky” threat to the very sanctity of traditional white male corporate media: “They are the worst offenders in the industry. They exclusively publish ... unpredictable stories from a diverse group of authors.” What, you’re actually a hater of fresh, tiny bursts of innovative literary fiction? Then by all means join the effort to shut this thing down. Your contribution toward the ruin of fine words will purchase a destroy-worthy gift. For example, one could smash an appropriately bitter coffee mug (“Go Faulkner Yourself”) or burn a copy of local author Christian Kiefer’s upcoming book One Day Soon Time Will Have No Place Left To Hide. For a list of these so-called “gifts” visit www.kickstarter.com/projects/ nicpfost/shut-down-nouvella-nomore-little-literature?ref=category.

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Siblings Walker (Eric Baldwin) and Nan (Beth Edwards) are the central figures in Richard Greenberg’s engrossing drama, Three Days of Rain, now at Big Idea Theater, directed by Shaleen Schmutzer-Smith. The play chronicles Walker and Nan’s beliefs about their family history, particularly what goes on in the mind of their emotionally distant, world-famous architect father, as well as what they hope to discover based on mysterious findings in their father’s journal. When the father’s will gives his prized accomplishment, a famous home once featured in Life magazine, to Pip (Ryan Snyder), the son of his collaborator, it is a blow that none can understand. Act 2 is set 35 years earlier, with the actors playing their parents and giving the audience answers to the some (but not all) of the questions posed earlier. Three Days of Rain boasts a strong trio of actors—Baldwin gives an honest and gut-wrenching performance as Walker, but it is as Ned, his reserved, stuttering father, where he really shines. Edwards is a strong Nan, who loves her brother, but can’t quite trust him, since he has disappointed her so often. As mother Lina, however, she’s less like the described “Zelda Fitzgerald’s less stable sister” and it is difficult to see how she became the mentally needy, alcoholic mother described in Act 1. Snyder is wonderful as the suave handsome TV idol Pip, and also deftly plays the emotionally unstable Theo, whose untimely death will affect everyone forever. Though the second act seems rushed, trying to fit in too much too quickly following the more solid first act, this is a compelling drama throughout that’s certain to satisfy. Ω 32 | SN&R | 08.20.15

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3 The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical Christmas has come early to Fair Oaks as the Fair Oaks Theatre Festival and American River College present The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical, a trashy, tacky season’s greeting. It’s December 12 in north Florida’s Armadillo Acres mobile home park and that means plastic pink flamingos amidst the hokey holiday décor—somebody actually uses the word décor, pronounced “day-core.” There’s a bout of amnesia, a lot of deception and F-bombs flying like fish in a sharknado. (The show is recommended for those 16 and older.) Of course, “keg nog” is the drink of choice. This companion piece to the festival’s hit Great American Trailer Park Musical is from the same creative team (music and lyrics by David Nehls and book by Betsy Kelso) and features some of the same characters as the previous show. Karen Bombardier directs and Sunny Smith choreographs. Strong singers and actors, particularly Deane Calvin, Brianne Hidden-Wise, Corey D. Winfield and Daniel W. Slauson, play out the usual antagonisms of neighbors and friends and the dearly and nearly departed. Among the best “in the spirit” songs are “Christmas Leather Love,” “Black and Blue on Christmas Eve” (a bluesy ballad sung by Slauson) and, uh, “Fuck It, It’s Christmas” by the company. Hey, low-class is better than no-class. —Jim Carnes

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The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s take on this 1960 musical revue about young lovers boasts chemistry between its lead actors, giddy dialogue and zippy production. There’s lots of Shakespeare spoofing but, alas, this show’s better suited to a cozy cabaret than a 1,100seat amphitheater. And while the show scores some points about life and love, its message is undercut by the fact that adult life is represented entirely by men—the only female with lines is a dizzy teenage girl (nicely rendered by Clare Howes Eisentrout). A few ethnic generalities that didn’t raise eyebrows in 1960 seem dated now. Th, F,

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production of her namesake musical was spit-spot, from its massive moveable sets to the opulent costumes. Jori Gonzales is delightful as the enigmatic nanny who arrives to help the Banks family. F. James Raasch as the chimney sweep Bert is new to Woodland and a great addition to the company. Real-life brother and sister Marley and D.J. Michel play the Banks children and are on stage almost all the time. It’s a big show, but one directed skillfully by Angela Baltezore. F,

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My Children! My Africa!

The play consists mainly of dialogues and long monologues, occasionally becoming uncharacteristically teachy-preachy, but the play strongly advances South African playwright Athol Fugard’s belief in the power of hope and the potential of youth. A decade after this play was first

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ended in South Africa. Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 8/29. $8-$15. Celebration Arts Theatre, 4469 D St.; (916) 455-2787; www.celebration arts.net. J.C.

Shockheaded Peter

This odd musical delivers a grim fairy tale in the most dark, creepy and delightful way. An adaptation of an 1845 German children’s book Der Struwwelpeter (“Slovenly Peter”) by Heinrich Hoffmann, the musical made its debut in 1998 and this rendition is fanciful, imaginative and wicked. This is not a production geared toward children, though it is aimed at the inner child who is titillated by dark tales filled with madness and monsters. F, Sa 8pm; Su 7pm. Through 8/30. $18. Green Valley Theatre Company at the Grange Performing Arts Center, 3823 V Street; (916) 736-2664; www.greenvalley theatre.com. P.R.

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The End of the Tour

by DaniEl BarnEs

wind up the Infinite Jest book tour together, following their bull sessions on long, snowy car rides and in mid-level Minneapolis hotels. Their conversation Just as Truman Capote spun an evening with Marlon touches on a wide range of topics, from Wallace’s Brando into “The Duke in His Domain”—a 1957 “normal” childhood to his discomfort with fame to New Yorker profile—and a lifetime of cocktail party an erotic image of Alanis Morissette eating a ham anecdotes, David Lipsky turned a five-day assignment sandwich. It’s not about the writing process as much following Infinite Jest writer David Foster Wallace as it’s about the writing ego, an easily wounded into his 2010 memoir Although of Course You End Up monster that both craves and dreads validation. Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster With his omnipresent tape recorder constantly Wallace and a lifetime of Wallace-related speaking clicking and humming, Lipsky tries to get the shy engagements. Not a bad celebrity sighting exchange rate. and evasive Wallace to open up about his life. Now Lipsky’s memoir has been adapted for the Wallace, meanwhile, seems more concerned with screen by writer Donald Margulies and director James how he’ll be portrayed by Lipsky: almost every Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now), with Jesse one of Wallace’s remarks is followed by a Eisenberg playing the subtly hostile “10 percent joking,” worst-case scenario hero-worshiper Lipsky and Jason Segal of how it could get framed in the Segal as the self-deprecating literary lion pages of Rolling Stone. Then a does great Wallace. Rather than the stuffy struggling novelist himself, Lipsky or self-infatuated film that you desperately coveted the adoring work, resisting might expect, The End of the Tour crowds and universal acclaim the temptation of is an intelligent and infectious that Wallace deflected away, impersonation in order two-hander, a My McDonald’s and he’s nonplussed to find his Breakfast with David explosion unquestioned superior harboring to cut at something of engrossing conversation, and an such profound self-doubts. deeper and more insightful look into the competitive Segal does great work in an personal. insecurities that eat away at writers of atypical role as Wallace, resisting the all statures. temptation of impersonation in order to The film opens in 2008 as Lipsky learns cut at something deeper and more personal— of Wallace’s death by suicide, but quickly flashes he’s a lot more than a bandanna and a scraggly wig. back to 1996, where Lipsky pushes his Rolling Stone Unsurprisingly, Segal is getting awards buzz for his editors to assign him to a Wallace interview. At the time, performance, but Eisenberg is even more impressive the unkempt and perpetually bandana-ed Wallace was as Lipsky, the smirking Salieri to Segal’s awkward red-hot in the literary world following the publication of Amadeus, all needy, nervous laughter and simmering Infinite Jest, yet still maintained a very modest and soliresentment. Their crackling chemistry is essential for tary existence teaching at Illinois State University, living a film that finds all of its action in conversation. Ω all alone in his “literary dorm room” with a couple of slobbering black dogs and piles upon piles of junk food. The End of the Tour follows the hot-and-cold friendPoor Fair Good Very excellent ship that develops between Lipsky and Wallace as they Good

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Cop Car

Whenâ€ƒaâ€ƒcoupleâ€ƒofâ€ƒrunawayâ€ƒboysâ€ƒlookingâ€ƒ forâ€ƒdangerâ€ƒfindâ€ƒaâ€ƒseeminglyâ€ƒabandonedâ€ƒ sheriffâ€™sâ€ƒcarâ€ƒinâ€ƒtheâ€ƒwoods,â€ƒtheyâ€ƒtakeâ€ƒitâ€ƒforâ€ƒ aâ€ƒjoyride,â€ƒbutâ€ƒtheâ€ƒdirtyâ€ƒcopâ€ƒthatâ€ƒtheâ€ƒvehicleâ€ƒ belongsâ€ƒtoâ€ƒwillâ€ƒdoâ€ƒanythingâ€ƒtoâ€ƒgetâ€ƒitâ€ƒback.â€ƒ Thisâ€ƒmarginallyâ€ƒeffectiveâ€ƒspeckâ€ƒofâ€ƒaâ€ƒthrillerâ€ƒisâ€ƒ gettingâ€ƒaâ€ƒlotâ€ƒofâ€ƒattentionâ€ƒbecauseâ€ƒco-writer/ directorâ€ƒJonâ€ƒWattsâ€ƒhasâ€ƒbeenâ€ƒtappedâ€ƒtoâ€ƒdriveâ€ƒ theâ€ƒlatestâ€ƒnailâ€ƒintoâ€ƒtheâ€ƒcoffinâ€ƒofâ€ƒcinemaâ€ƒbyâ€ƒrerebootingâ€ƒtheâ€ƒSpider-Manâ€ƒfranchise.â€ƒThereâ€™sâ€ƒ certainlyâ€ƒaâ€ƒvisualâ€ƒconfidenceâ€ƒtoâ€ƒtheâ€ƒfirstâ€ƒthirdâ€ƒ ofâ€ƒtheâ€ƒfilmâ€ƒthatâ€ƒhintsâ€ƒatâ€ƒgreaterâ€ƒthingsâ€ƒaheadâ€ƒ forâ€ƒWatts,â€ƒbutâ€ƒtheâ€ƒstorytellingâ€ƒisâ€ƒprettyâ€ƒflatâ€ƒ andâ€ƒpredictable,â€ƒandâ€ƒtheâ€ƒentireâ€ƒscriptâ€ƒfeelsâ€ƒ likeâ€ƒaâ€ƒplaceholderâ€ƒthatâ€ƒsomeoneâ€ƒforgotâ€ƒtoâ€ƒ eventuallyâ€ƒwrite.â€ƒItâ€™sâ€ƒniceâ€ƒtoâ€ƒseeâ€ƒtheâ€ƒperenniallyâ€ƒ underratedâ€ƒKevinâ€ƒBaconâ€ƒgetâ€ƒaâ€ƒjuicyâ€ƒheadliningâ€ƒ roleâ€ƒhereâ€ƒasâ€ƒtheâ€ƒkillerâ€ƒcop,â€ƒbutâ€ƒheâ€ƒgoesâ€ƒsoâ€ƒbigâ€ƒ andâ€ƒbroadâ€ƒthatâ€ƒhisâ€ƒperformanceâ€ƒseemsâ€ƒalmostâ€ƒ undirected.â€ƒD.B.

Dark Places

Adaptedâ€ƒfromâ€ƒaâ€ƒnovelâ€ƒbyâ€ƒGoneâ€ƒGirlâ€ƒâ€ƒ authorâ€ƒGillianâ€ƒFlynn,â€ƒwriter-directorâ€ƒ Gillesâ€ƒPaquet-Brennerâ€™sâ€ƒfitfullyâ€ƒcompellingâ€ƒ murderâ€ƒmysteryâ€ƒDarkâ€ƒPlacesâ€ƒstarsâ€ƒCharlizeâ€ƒ Theronâ€ƒasâ€ƒLibbyâ€ƒDay,â€ƒtheâ€ƒloneâ€ƒsurvivorâ€ƒofâ€ƒaâ€ƒ familyâ€ƒmassacre.â€ƒOnlyâ€ƒaâ€ƒchildâ€ƒwhenâ€ƒtheâ€ƒmurdersâ€ƒoccurred,â€ƒLibbyâ€™sâ€ƒtestimonyâ€ƒwasâ€ƒinstrumentalâ€ƒinâ€ƒconvictingâ€ƒherâ€ƒdevil-worshippingâ€ƒ olderâ€ƒbrother,â€ƒandâ€ƒsheâ€™sâ€ƒbeenâ€ƒableâ€ƒtoâ€ƒcoastâ€ƒ offâ€ƒtheâ€ƒresultingâ€ƒnotorietyâ€ƒforâ€ƒmostâ€ƒofâ€ƒherâ€ƒ adultâ€ƒlife.â€ƒWhenâ€ƒtheâ€ƒsympathyâ€ƒmoneyâ€ƒfinallyâ€ƒ startsâ€ƒtoâ€ƒrunâ€ƒdry,â€ƒthough,â€ƒsheâ€ƒacceptsâ€ƒanâ€ƒofferâ€ƒfromâ€ƒaâ€ƒgroupâ€ƒofâ€ƒtrue-crimeâ€ƒfanaticsâ€ƒwhoâ€ƒ wantâ€ƒtoâ€ƒexonerateâ€ƒherâ€ƒbrother,â€ƒforcingâ€ƒLibbyâ€ƒ toâ€ƒreexamineâ€ƒtheâ€ƒeventsâ€ƒofâ€ƒthatâ€ƒnightâ€ƒforâ€ƒtheâ€ƒ firstâ€ƒtimeâ€ƒinâ€ƒdecades.â€ƒDarkâ€ƒPlacesâ€ƒcertainlyâ€ƒ hasâ€ƒtheâ€ƒfeelâ€ƒofâ€ƒaâ€ƒpage-turner,â€ƒsoâ€ƒdenselyâ€ƒ packedâ€ƒwithâ€ƒredâ€ƒherringsâ€ƒandâ€ƒcoincidencesâ€ƒ thatâ€ƒitâ€™sâ€ƒabsurdâ€ƒ(thisâ€ƒstoryâ€ƒprobablyâ€ƒwouldâ€ƒ haveâ€ƒworkedâ€ƒbetterâ€ƒasâ€ƒaâ€ƒTrueâ€ƒDetective-styleâ€ƒ short-formâ€ƒseries),â€ƒbutâ€ƒtheâ€ƒwhite-hotâ€ƒTheronâ€ƒ groundsâ€ƒherâ€ƒwithdrawnâ€ƒcharacterâ€ƒinâ€ƒsomethingâ€ƒrecognizableâ€ƒandâ€ƒrelatable.â€ƒD.B.

BY DANIEL BARNES & JIM LANE

The Gift

Joelâ€ƒEdgertonâ€ƒstarsâ€ƒinâ€ƒ(andâ€ƒdirects)â€ƒthisâ€ƒ intermittentlyâ€ƒeffectiveâ€ƒbutâ€ƒultimatelyâ€ƒ revoltingâ€ƒdomestic-horrorâ€ƒfilmâ€ƒasâ€ƒGordon,â€ƒ aâ€ƒpoorlyâ€ƒgoateed,â€ƒsociallyâ€ƒawkwardâ€ƒmisfitâ€ƒ whoâ€ƒweaselsâ€ƒhisâ€ƒwayâ€ƒbackâ€ƒintoâ€ƒtheâ€ƒlifeâ€ƒofâ€ƒanâ€ƒ uninterestedâ€ƒhighâ€ƒschoolâ€ƒclassmateâ€ƒnamedâ€ƒ Simonâ€ƒ(Jasonâ€ƒBateman).â€ƒNowâ€ƒaâ€ƒcutthroatâ€ƒyuppieâ€ƒsqueezingâ€ƒtheâ€ƒlifeâ€ƒoutâ€ƒofâ€ƒhisâ€ƒpsychologicallyâ€ƒ shakyâ€ƒwifeâ€ƒRobynâ€ƒ(Rebeccaâ€ƒHall),â€ƒSimonâ€ƒrefusesâ€ƒ theâ€ƒcreepilyâ€ƒobsequiousâ€ƒattemptsâ€ƒtoâ€ƒmakeâ€ƒ friends,â€ƒturningâ€ƒtheâ€ƒmild-manneredâ€ƒGordonâ€ƒ malevolentâ€ƒandâ€ƒmakingâ€ƒRobynâ€ƒsuspicious.â€ƒ Despiteâ€ƒanâ€ƒoverrelianceâ€ƒonâ€ƒear-splittingâ€ƒjumpâ€ƒ scares,â€ƒEdgertonâ€ƒtheâ€ƒdirectorâ€ƒmakesâ€ƒaâ€ƒcompetentâ€ƒdebutâ€ƒhere,â€ƒbutâ€ƒEdgertonâ€ƒtheâ€ƒactorâ€ƒisâ€ƒallâ€ƒ wrongâ€ƒforâ€ƒtheâ€ƒpartâ€ƒofâ€ƒGordonâ€”heâ€™sâ€ƒaâ€ƒcoolâ€ƒkidâ€ƒ doingâ€ƒhisâ€ƒimpressionâ€ƒofâ€ƒaâ€ƒnerd.â€ƒEvenâ€ƒworse,â€ƒtheâ€ƒ finalâ€ƒrevealâ€ƒisâ€ƒprettyâ€ƒrepellantâ€ƒforâ€ƒtheâ€ƒwayâ€ƒthatâ€ƒ itâ€ƒturnsâ€ƒtheâ€ƒheroineâ€”upâ€ƒtoâ€ƒthisâ€ƒpoint,â€ƒtheâ€ƒeyes,â€ƒ earsâ€ƒandâ€ƒconscienceâ€ƒofâ€ƒtheâ€ƒfilmâ€”intoâ€ƒaâ€ƒpawnâ€ƒ forâ€ƒtheâ€ƒsakeâ€ƒofâ€ƒaâ€ƒgotchaâ€ƒmoment.â€ƒD.B.

Irrational Man

Aâ€ƒcollegeâ€ƒphilosophyâ€ƒprofessorâ€ƒ(Joaquinâ€ƒ Phoenix)â€ƒconsidersâ€ƒlifeâ€ƒnotâ€ƒworthâ€ƒ livingâ€”heâ€ƒcanâ€™tâ€ƒevenâ€ƒgetâ€ƒitâ€ƒupâ€ƒforâ€ƒsexâ€”untilâ€ƒ heâ€ƒfindsâ€ƒaâ€ƒperfectâ€ƒstrangerâ€ƒwhoâ€ƒdeservesâ€ƒtoâ€ƒ die;â€ƒthisâ€ƒsuddenlyâ€ƒgivesâ€ƒpurposeâ€ƒtoâ€ƒhisâ€ƒlife.â€ƒOhâ€ƒ dear,â€ƒWoodyâ€ƒAllenâ€ƒisâ€ƒgettingâ€ƒallâ€ƒseriousâ€ƒagain.â€ƒOrâ€ƒ maybeâ€ƒnot.â€ƒThisâ€ƒmayâ€ƒjustâ€ƒbeâ€ƒaâ€ƒdeadpanâ€ƒsatireâ€ƒ onâ€ƒtheâ€ƒnarcissisticâ€ƒpretensionsâ€ƒofâ€ƒacademicâ€ƒsociopaths.â€ƒStill,â€ƒAllenâ€™sâ€ƒneverâ€ƒbeforeâ€ƒhadâ€ƒtroubleâ€ƒ lettingâ€ƒusâ€ƒknowâ€ƒwhenâ€ƒheâ€ƒwasâ€ƒkidding;â€ƒifâ€ƒthisâ€ƒ reallyâ€ƒisâ€ƒoneâ€ƒofâ€ƒthoseâ€ƒtimes,â€ƒtheâ€ƒjokeâ€ƒisnâ€™tâ€ƒfunny,â€ƒ itâ€™sâ€ƒpompousâ€ƒandâ€ƒbanal.â€ƒAllâ€ƒtheâ€ƒAllenâ€ƒtrademarksâ€”brightâ€ƒdialogue,â€ƒquirkyâ€ƒcharacters,â€ƒ vintageâ€ƒmusic,â€ƒbig-nameâ€ƒcastsâ€”areâ€ƒmissingâ€ƒ here.â€ƒInâ€ƒtheâ€ƒcast,â€ƒonlyâ€ƒPhoenix,â€ƒEmmaâ€ƒStoneâ€ƒ andâ€ƒParkerâ€ƒPoseyâ€ƒhaveâ€ƒnames;â€ƒotherwiseâ€ƒitâ€™sâ€ƒaâ€ƒ paradeâ€ƒofâ€ƒforgettableâ€ƒnobodies,â€ƒandâ€ƒAllenâ€ƒgivesâ€ƒ themâ€ƒallâ€ƒnotâ€ƒoneâ€ƒinterestingâ€ƒwordâ€ƒtoâ€ƒsay.â€ƒJ.L.

Walk this way.

Straight Outta Compton

Theâ€ƒstoryâ€ƒofâ€ƒtheâ€ƒriseâ€ƒandâ€ƒsort-ofâ€ƒfallâ€ƒ(butâ€ƒmostlyâ€ƒrise)â€ƒofâ€ƒN.W.A.,â€ƒanâ€ƒâ€ƒ L.A.â€ƒrapâ€ƒsupergroupâ€ƒonceâ€ƒsoâ€ƒdespisedâ€ƒbyâ€ƒlawâ€ƒenforcementâ€ƒofficialsâ€ƒ forâ€ƒtheirâ€ƒâ€œFuckâ€ƒThaâ€ƒPoliceâ€?â€ƒrallyingâ€ƒcryâ€ƒthatâ€ƒtheyâ€ƒwoundâ€ƒupâ€ƒonâ€ƒanâ€ƒFBIâ€ƒwatchâ€ƒ list,â€ƒgetsâ€ƒtheâ€ƒlavishâ€ƒHollywoodâ€ƒbiopicâ€ƒtreatmentâ€ƒinâ€ƒF.â€ƒGaryâ€ƒGrayâ€™sâ€ƒentertainingâ€ƒStraightâ€ƒOuttaâ€ƒCompton.â€ƒAllâ€ƒofâ€ƒtheâ€ƒN.W.A.â€ƒmembersâ€ƒareâ€ƒcastâ€ƒwithâ€ƒuncannyâ€ƒ lookalikesâ€”Iceâ€ƒCubeâ€ƒisâ€ƒevenâ€ƒplayedâ€ƒbyâ€ƒhisâ€ƒownâ€ƒson,â€ƒOâ€™Sheaâ€ƒJacksonâ€ƒJr.â€”butâ€ƒ Jasonâ€ƒMitchellâ€ƒasâ€ƒEazy-Eâ€ƒandâ€ƒPaulâ€ƒGiamattiâ€ƒasâ€ƒhisâ€ƒmanipulativeâ€ƒmanager,â€ƒJerryâ€ƒ Heller,â€ƒgiveâ€ƒtheâ€ƒonlyâ€ƒfullyâ€ƒrealizedâ€ƒperformancesâ€ƒinâ€ƒtheâ€ƒfilm.â€ƒInâ€ƒmanyâ€ƒrespects,â€ƒ Eazy-Eâ€ƒisâ€ƒtheâ€ƒonlyâ€ƒtragicâ€ƒfigureâ€ƒinâ€ƒtheâ€ƒN.W.A.â€ƒstory,â€ƒsinceâ€ƒtheâ€ƒrestâ€ƒofâ€ƒtheâ€ƒmainâ€ƒ playersâ€ƒareâ€ƒalive,â€ƒcrazy-richâ€ƒandâ€ƒproducedâ€ƒthisâ€ƒmovie.â€ƒâ€ƒAâ€ƒfewâ€ƒelectrifyingâ€ƒmomentsâ€ƒaside,â€ƒthisâ€ƒskillfullyâ€ƒmadeâ€ƒbutâ€ƒpainfullyâ€ƒskin-deepâ€ƒfilmâ€ƒfeelsâ€ƒlikeâ€ƒaâ€ƒwinnersâ€™â€ƒ historyâ€ƒofâ€ƒtheâ€ƒgangstaâ€ƒrapâ€ƒgloryâ€ƒdays.â€ƒD.B.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Aâ€ƒCIAâ€ƒoperativeâ€ƒ(Henryâ€ƒCavill)â€ƒandâ€ƒaâ€ƒSovietâ€ƒ KGBâ€ƒagentâ€ƒ(Armieâ€ƒHammer)â€ƒareâ€ƒforcedâ€ƒtoâ€ƒ workâ€ƒtogetherâ€ƒtoâ€ƒsmuggleâ€ƒanâ€ƒatomicâ€ƒscientistâ€™sâ€ƒ daughterâ€ƒ(Aliciaâ€ƒVikander)â€ƒoutâ€ƒofâ€ƒEastâ€ƒBerlinâ€ƒatâ€ƒ theâ€ƒheightâ€ƒofâ€ƒtheâ€ƒColdâ€ƒWar.â€ƒDirectorâ€ƒGuyâ€ƒRitchieâ€ƒ andâ€ƒwriterâ€ƒLionelâ€ƒWigramâ€ƒtreatâ€ƒtheâ€ƒ1960sâ€ƒTVâ€ƒ seriesâ€ƒwithâ€ƒmoreâ€ƒrespectâ€ƒthanâ€ƒtheyâ€ƒeverâ€ƒshowedâ€ƒ toâ€ƒArthurâ€ƒConanâ€ƒDoyleâ€™sâ€ƒSherlockâ€ƒHolmesâ€ƒ stories,â€ƒandâ€ƒtheâ€ƒresultâ€ƒisâ€ƒaâ€ƒstylishlyâ€ƒpleasantâ€ƒ surprise,â€ƒaâ€ƒtongue-in-cheekâ€ƒpasticheâ€ƒofâ€ƒâ€™60sâ€ƒspyâ€ƒ moviesâ€ƒjustâ€ƒasâ€ƒtheâ€ƒseriesâ€ƒitselfâ€ƒwasâ€ƒaâ€ƒpasticheâ€ƒofâ€ƒ theâ€ƒSeanâ€ƒConneryâ€ƒJamesâ€ƒBondâ€ƒmovies.â€ƒAsâ€ƒIllyaâ€ƒ Kuryakin,â€ƒHammerâ€ƒisâ€ƒmoreâ€ƒamusinglyâ€ƒstolidâ€ƒandâ€ƒ lessâ€ƒtheâ€ƒboyishâ€ƒheartthrobâ€ƒthanâ€ƒtheâ€ƒoriginalâ€ƒ Davidâ€ƒMcCallum,â€ƒwhileâ€ƒtheâ€ƒusuallyâ€ƒcolorlessâ€ƒCavillâ€ƒ (rememberâ€ƒhisâ€ƒdullâ€ƒClarkâ€ƒKentâ€ƒandâ€ƒSupermanâ€ƒinâ€ƒ theâ€ƒwretchedâ€ƒManâ€ƒofâ€ƒSteel?)â€ƒplaysâ€ƒNapoleonâ€ƒSoloâ€ƒ withâ€ƒgreatâ€ƒpanacheâ€ƒandâ€ƒcharm.â€ƒJ.L.

Mission: Impossibleâ€”Rogue Nation

Withâ€ƒtheâ€ƒpossibleâ€ƒexceptionâ€ƒofâ€ƒtheâ€ƒAlienâ€ƒ series,â€ƒtheâ€ƒMission:â€ƒImpossibleâ€ƒmoviesâ€ƒ mightâ€ƒbeâ€ƒtheâ€ƒmostâ€ƒauteur-drivenâ€ƒmultidirectorâ€ƒfilmâ€ƒfranchiseâ€ƒgoing.â€ƒSoâ€ƒwhatâ€ƒChristopherâ€ƒ McQuarrie-esqueâ€ƒqualitiesâ€ƒdoesâ€ƒnewâ€ƒwriterdirectorâ€ƒChristopherâ€ƒMcQuarrieâ€ƒbringâ€ƒtoâ€ƒtheâ€ƒ latestâ€ƒinstallment,â€ƒMission:â€ƒImpossibleâ€”Rogueâ€ƒ Nation?â€ƒOtherâ€ƒthanâ€ƒaâ€ƒJackâ€ƒReacher-yâ€ƒhigh-glossâ€ƒ gritâ€ƒandâ€ƒaâ€ƒcat-and-mouseâ€ƒdesignâ€ƒtoâ€ƒtheâ€ƒcentralâ€ƒ plot,â€ƒhardlyâ€ƒany.â€ƒRogueâ€ƒNationâ€ƒisâ€ƒpracticallyâ€ƒaâ€ƒ greatest-hitsâ€ƒcollectionâ€”fakeâ€ƒlatexâ€ƒfacesâ€ƒareâ€ƒ rippedâ€ƒoffâ€ƒforâ€ƒdramaticâ€ƒeffect,â€ƒanâ€ƒimpenetrableâ€ƒ fortressâ€ƒisâ€ƒpenetratedâ€ƒandâ€ƒtheâ€ƒglobeâ€ƒisâ€ƒtrottedâ€ƒ toâ€ƒdazzlingâ€ƒeffect.â€ƒItâ€™sâ€ƒfamiliarâ€ƒandâ€ƒfunâ€ƒandâ€ƒexpertlyâ€ƒpackaged,â€ƒandâ€ƒitâ€ƒsettlesâ€ƒintoâ€ƒanâ€ƒeminentlyâ€ƒ watchableâ€ƒformulaâ€ƒthatâ€™sâ€ƒreminiscentâ€ƒofâ€ƒaâ€ƒRogerâ€ƒ Moore-eraâ€ƒBondâ€ƒmovie.â€ƒD.B.

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Anâ€ƒagingâ€ƒrockerâ€ƒ(Merylâ€ƒStreep)â€ƒreturnsâ€ƒ toâ€ƒIndiana,â€ƒandâ€ƒtheâ€ƒex-husbandâ€ƒsheâ€ƒranâ€ƒ outâ€ƒonâ€ƒyearsâ€ƒbeforeâ€ƒ(Kevinâ€ƒKline),â€ƒinâ€ƒorderâ€ƒtoâ€ƒ helpâ€ƒherâ€ƒestrangedâ€ƒdaughterâ€ƒ(Mamieâ€ƒGummer)â€ƒ throughâ€ƒaâ€ƒmessyâ€ƒdivorce.â€ƒDiabloâ€ƒCodyâ€™sâ€ƒscriptâ€ƒ glossesâ€ƒoverâ€ƒitsâ€ƒownâ€ƒironiesâ€”forâ€ƒexample,â€ƒthatâ€ƒ theâ€ƒrunawayâ€ƒhusbandâ€ƒisâ€ƒonlyâ€ƒdoingâ€ƒwhatâ€ƒtheâ€ƒ motherâ€ƒdid,â€ƒandâ€ƒforâ€ƒsimilarâ€ƒselfishâ€ƒreasons,â€ƒorâ€ƒ thatâ€ƒthisâ€ƒagingâ€ƒdivaâ€™sâ€ƒdreamâ€ƒofâ€ƒrockâ€ƒstardomâ€ƒ amountsâ€ƒtoâ€ƒfrontingâ€ƒaâ€ƒthird-rateâ€ƒcoverâ€ƒbandâ€ƒinâ€ƒ aâ€ƒstringâ€ƒofâ€ƒsleazyâ€ƒdivesâ€ƒacrossâ€ƒtheâ€ƒSanâ€ƒFernandoâ€ƒ

Valleyâ€”andâ€ƒinâ€ƒtheâ€ƒendâ€ƒCodyâ€ƒoptsâ€ƒforâ€ƒaâ€ƒfacile,â€ƒ fuzzyâ€ƒembraceâ€ƒofâ€ƒthatâ€ƒmostâ€ƒcherishedâ€ƒmythâ€ƒofâ€ƒ popâ€ƒculture,â€ƒtheâ€ƒhealingâ€ƒpowerâ€ƒofâ€ƒrockâ€ƒâ€™nâ€™â€ƒroll.â€ƒ Whatâ€ƒsalvagesâ€ƒtheâ€ƒmovieâ€ƒisâ€ƒtheâ€ƒrawâ€ƒhonestyâ€ƒ ofâ€ƒtheâ€ƒacting,â€ƒespeciallyâ€ƒStreepâ€ƒandâ€ƒGummerâ€ƒ (mother-daughterâ€ƒinâ€ƒrealâ€ƒlife)â€”that,â€ƒandâ€ƒtheâ€ƒ factâ€ƒthatâ€ƒtheâ€ƒmusicâ€ƒreallyâ€ƒisâ€ƒprettyâ€ƒcool.â€ƒJ.L.

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Itâ€™sâ€ƒaâ€ƒsadâ€ƒcommentaryâ€ƒonâ€ƒtheâ€ƒcurrentâ€ƒ stateâ€ƒofâ€ƒtheâ€ƒcinemaâ€ƒthatâ€ƒfunnyâ€ƒwomenâ€ƒ doâ€ƒtheirâ€ƒedgiestâ€ƒworkâ€ƒonâ€ƒtelevision,â€ƒbutâ€ƒhaveâ€ƒ theirâ€ƒedgesâ€ƒsandedâ€ƒoffâ€ƒwheneverâ€ƒtheyâ€ƒstrayâ€ƒintoâ€ƒ moviesâ€ƒ(Tinaâ€ƒFeyâ€ƒandâ€ƒAmyâ€ƒPoehlerâ€ƒareâ€ƒprimeâ€ƒ examples).â€ƒIfâ€ƒanyoneâ€ƒcouldâ€ƒbuckâ€ƒtheâ€ƒtrend,â€ƒitâ€ƒ wouldâ€ƒbeâ€ƒtheâ€ƒhilariousâ€ƒAmyâ€ƒSchumer,â€ƒtheâ€ƒrareâ€ƒ comedianâ€ƒwithâ€ƒtheâ€ƒtalentâ€ƒtoâ€ƒbeâ€ƒsimultaneouslyâ€ƒ self-deprecating,â€ƒempoweringâ€ƒandâ€ƒraunchyâ€ƒ asâ€ƒshit.â€ƒButâ€ƒevenâ€ƒthoughâ€ƒSchumerâ€ƒwroteâ€ƒtheâ€ƒ screenplayâ€ƒforâ€ƒTrainwreck,â€ƒgivingâ€ƒherselfâ€ƒanâ€ƒ in-the-wheelhouseâ€ƒleadâ€ƒroleâ€ƒasâ€ƒaâ€ƒsexuallyâ€ƒactiveâ€ƒ menâ€™sâ€ƒmagazineâ€ƒwriterâ€ƒwhoseâ€ƒanti-monogamyâ€ƒ worldviewâ€ƒgetsâ€ƒchallengedâ€ƒwhenâ€ƒsheâ€ƒfallsâ€ƒforâ€ƒ Billâ€ƒHaderâ€™sâ€ƒsweetâ€ƒsportsâ€ƒdoctor,â€ƒthisâ€ƒunevenâ€ƒ comedyâ€ƒisâ€ƒguidedâ€ƒmoreâ€ƒbyâ€ƒdirector/buzzkillâ€ƒJuddâ€ƒ Apatowâ€™sâ€ƒbourgeoisâ€ƒmoralâ€ƒcompassâ€ƒthanâ€ƒbyâ€ƒ Schumerâ€™sâ€ƒanarchicâ€ƒsatire.â€ƒInâ€ƒaâ€ƒfilmâ€ƒfilledâ€ƒwithâ€ƒ cameosâ€ƒbyâ€ƒcomedyâ€ƒlegendsâ€ƒandâ€ƒSNLâ€ƒcastâ€ƒmembers,â€ƒLeBronâ€ƒJamesâ€ƒandâ€ƒJonâ€ƒCenaâ€ƒgetâ€ƒbyâ€ƒfarâ€ƒtheâ€ƒ biggestâ€ƒlaughs,â€ƒwhichâ€ƒisâ€ƒmaybeâ€ƒaâ€ƒproblem.â€ƒD.B.

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How Harvester survived the so-called alt-rock revolution by AAron CArnes

Shortly after its release, the label made cutbacks and Harvester was dropped. It was hardly the end, however. The label still paid for the band’s second record, the self-released Camper Van Landingham. From there, Harvester decided to continue as a part-time venture. These days the band members, including bassist Todd Steinberg and drummer Jon Sebat, have full-time jobs, kids and other bands; they’re also spread out over Northern California and Oregon. This is what Harvester looked like back in the day. now the band has a different drummer, but the same ’90s vibe. As such, it’s a little tough to play shows and record albums. For this show, drummer Ario Lynch will fill in for Sebat, who lives in San Diego. The ’90s were a dramatic time for music. Once The band started working on its new record 10 underground alt-rock groups such as Nirvana got years ago when Harrasser wrote a batch of particumajor-label deals and shot up from obscurity to larly passionate songs. At the time he was going megastardom. On the other end of the spectrum, through a lot of painful upheaval: divorce, moving, however, hundreds of other bands also nabbed returning to college and trying to find a new job. coveted contracts—only to go nowhere fast. “When I write songs they’re always some kind of Harvester, an indie four-piece with members from essay or introspect,” Harrasser says. “I have to feel Sacramento and Chico, was one such group. something deeply to discover in order to translate that “We were without question one of the most to song.” wildly unsuccessful bands in the history of The record wasn’t finished until major labels,” says lead singer Sean earlier this year—in part because it Harrasser. took the band that long to finish “We were The band’s 1996 DGC record overdubbing vocals and getting without question Me Climb Mountain bombed, final mixes just right, but but the group has stayed one of the most wildly also because Harrasser’s life together in the nearly two improved to the point where unsuccessful bands decades since and will return it was hard to access its dark in the history of major to Sacramento this Sunday, roots. August 23, with a show at labels.” The timeline’s not the Harlow’s to celebrate its fifth important thing here, though. Sean Harrasser album, the self-released Mt. Rather, the band’s members singer-songwriter, Tallac. say they just want to celebrate Harvester The event will take fans the music as they marvel at the all the way back to 1994 when chemistry that’s kept them together all the group released its demo cassette, these years. Granite …What? The majority of its songs were “It was pretty noisy. It had a special energy to re-recorded and released on Me Climb Mountain. it,” Brewer says. “Obviously we don’t want to stop, Now the band is selling a new CD version. ’cause here we are 20 years later.” Ω “We just really liked that cassette. We thought it captured our sound,” says guitarist Jed Brewer. Even from that early start, it was easy to hear catch harvester at 5 p.m., sunday, august 23, at harlow’s restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J street. tickets cost $8-$10. the toadmortons are also the band’s offbeat and quirky sound. Back then on the bill. Learn more at http://latherrecords.com/harvester. (as with now), the band penned tender, vulnerable indie folk-rock tunes, but also some obnoxious, noisy, goofball songs too. Photo courtesy of harvester

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McMetal: Thanks to social media and lots of curious (and bored) metalheads, Mac Sabbath drew near 200 or so heads at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub on a Sunday night. And while heavy metal shows are usually followed by a late-night stop through a random McDonald’s drive-thru, this was likely the first band anyone had seen that combined the two worlds. The band was fronted by the insane and twisted persona of one Ronald Osbourne and rounded out by a remarkably able costumed band that included Slayer McCheese (guitar), Grimalice (bass), and the Cat Burglar (drums). This show was only rivaled by ones put on by the likes of costumed bands such as Green Jelly and Gwar. With a stage adorned in red, yellow and white, the group tore through a set of Black Sabbath parodies, including “More Ribs,” “Sweet Beef” and fan favorite “Frying Pan.” It was nauseating, fulfilling and weird all at the same time.

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Starlite lounge, 8 p.m., $8 You may wonder why the new album from Trapped Within Burning Machinery is called The Fifth Element. There was that sci-fi movie, but clearly these sludge-loving dudes DOOM who make crushing, anguished doom wouldn’t make a concept album about a Luc Besson vehicle, right? Right? Turns out that’s exactly what they did. But you don’t have to be a fan of the movie—just be ready for some well-crafted extreme music and tasty riffs. They play with local shamanic riffers Battle Hag and prog-grinders Modern Man. 1517 21st Street, www.facebook.com/ trappedwithinburningmachinery.

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Bright Faces’ 2011 album, American Bull, is a fusion of alt-country and catchy power-pop tunes. But the album’s title track stays true to the band’s roots: twangy guitars, steady percussion and bass lines reminiscent of the Tennessee Three. Songs like “All or Nothing,” feature a pop-oriented direction: upbeat guitar work and vocal harmonies. Bright Faces’ lineup boasts members of bands like Hypnotic IV, the Mr. T Experience and the Veronicas, so a few feel-good pop songs ALT-COUNTRY aren’t surprising. This show also features the Polymers, Slattern V and Rag Tag, and all benefits go toward Kirk and Bonnie Larsen’s house fire damages. 1901 10th Street, www.facebook.com/brightfaces.

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Don’t ask me the difference between classic country music and that modern “new country” crap all the Merle Haggard COUNTRY fans complain about (read: Hootie). All I know is that I’ve spent the afternoon listening to some Buck Ford— a former motocross guy turned country frontman—and he seems legit. Slowchurning and twangy ballads? Check. Songs about cowgirls? Done. Tribute to George Strait? He’s got it. You can’t go wrong, then, with a free Ford show this week in Midtown. That’s a crazy deal, even if you’re a new country poseur. (This show is 21-and-over, FYI.) 1630 J Street, www.buckford.com.

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torch club, 9 p.m., $8 Josh Hoyer has been at the blues game for a grip of years, both as a solo performer and session player making his name in Lincoln, Nebraska. But Hoyer may have found his groove jamming BLUES/R&B the pearls of his keyboard and hollering away as head of the ninepiece Shadowboxers. Meshing instruments both expected—drums, bass and guitar, duh—with the esoteric—is that a flute?!—at his best, Hoyer is capable of conducting an R&B-infused sermon on the stage that can sweat out the devil. Pray he feels inspired. 904 15th Street, http://joshhoyer.com.

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Doom en Español—and the language is no barrier for Sacto’s Cura Cochino, which summons an ominous, fuzz-heavy, tenacious energy. The band enlists members from local groups like Knifethruhead, Times of Desperation and more; all of these influences give Cura Cochino (which translates as “the dirty priest”) its darker sound. The band’s self-titled demo, released in 2010, is three tracks that entrance listeners with robust, menacing vocals backed by layers of chaotic feedback, driving bass and loud guitar melodies. Black Cobra from San Francisco DOOM and Sacto’s Bog Oak will also perform. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.facebook.com/cura.cochino.

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Not many people can say this, but I can prove that time travel exists. My evidence: one Nick Waterhouse. Watching the man perform, I don’t believe you can prove that he didn’t just step out of 1950 and on to the stage at Harlow’s. The sound, the threads— they’re all as crisp as the bracing sting of Aqua Velva. His 2014 LP Holly is packed with sonic nods to a bygone era—tight R&B reverb on the electric guitar, slinky organ and spirited saxophone on standout cuts like “This Is A Game,” “Dead Room” and “Holly.” Style profiles in GQ and Lexus commercials would follow. They had Lexuses (Lexii?) in the ‘50s, right? 2708 J Street, http://nickwaterhouse.com.

—Steph RodRiguez

Originally the droney solo project of Real Estate’s guitarist Matt Mondanile, Ducktails has grown into an impressive indie INDIE force. The New Jersey four-piece’s fifth record, St. Catherine, dropped last month, and it’s a great collection of warm, catchy, baroque pop songs. This means sweeping strings, slightly experimental electronic elements and psychedelic fuzz—jangle pop for quiet afternoons on a rope swing, contemplating lost connections. Or, for sipping on tiki drinks on a sweet wooden deck in Davis with friends. Take advantage of these peaceful summertime Sophia’s shows before UC Davis is back in session. 129 E Street in Davis, www.sophiasthaikitchen.com.

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Nothing goes together better than food and music, which is why the weekly Hot Lunch series is a success. And even if you don’t want a pizza from Hot Italian across the street, there are plenty of food trucks to choose from. Closing out this year’s INDIE season is local violinist-singersongwriter extraordinaire Joe Kye, who started out playing violin for anyone willing to have him, but quickly gained attention when he introduced his own group, Joseph In The Well. JITW fuses lush, chamber music, jazz and gentle, emotionally driven indie-folk. This year, he’s already won Sacramento Has Talent, and even sold out Harlow’s last May. 1515 Q Street, http://joekye.com.

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STOLAS, 6:30pm Tu, $10; HUEY MACK, FUTURISTIC; 6:30pm W, $15-$35

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Deejay dancing and Sequin Saturdays drag show, 9pm, $5-$12

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F STREET STOMPERS summer farewell show; 9pm, $5

MERDOG, SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS; 9pm, $5

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CASEY ADAMS, 7pm M, $15-$65; NICK WATERHOUSE, 7pm Tu, $15-$18

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and I hope you will consider it, too—especially in light of the fact that from now until July 2016 you will have more power than ever before to outgrow two of your biggest problems. I don’t guarantee that you will transcend them completely, but I’m confident you can render them at least 60 percent less pressing, less imposing and less restricting. And 80 percent is quite possible.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Hundreds of years

ago, Hawaiians celebrated an annual holiday called Makahiki. It began in early November and lasted four months. No one worked very much for the duration. There were nonstop feasts and games and religious ceremonies. Communitybuilding was a featured theme, and one taboo was strictly enforced: no war or bloodshed. I encourage you Scorpios to enjoy a similar break from your daily fuss. Now is an especially propitious time to ban conflict, contempt, revenge and sabotage as you cultivate solidarity in the groups that are important for your future. You may not be able to make your own personal Makahiki last for four months, but could you at least manage three weeks?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Located

in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Museum of Failed Products is a warehouse full of consumer goods that companies created but no one wanted to buy. It includes caffeinated beer, yogurt shampoo, fortune cookies for dogs and breath mints that resemble vials of crack cocaine. The most frequent visitors to the museum are executives seeking to educate themselves about what errors to avoid in their own companies’ future product development. I encourage you to be inspired by this place, Sagittarius. Take an inventory of the wrong turns you’ve made in the past. Use what you learn to create a revised master plan.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” Virtually all of us have been guilty of embodying that well-worn adage. And according to my analysis of the astrological omens, quite a few of you Capricorns are currently embroiled in this behavior pattern. But I am happy to report that the coming weeks will be a favorable time to quit your insanity cold turkey. In fact, the actions you take to escape this bad habit could empower you to be done with it forever. Are you ready to make a heroic effort? Here’s a good way to begin: Undo your perverse attraction to the stressful provocation that has such a seductive hold on your imagination.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Everything I’ve

ever let go of has claw marks on it,” confessed the late, great author David Foster Wallace. Does that describe your experience, too? If so, events in the coming months will help you break the pattern. More than at any other time in the last 10 years, you will have the power to liberate yourself through surrender. You will understand how to release yourself from overwrought attachment through love and grace rather than through stress and force.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Most people love

in order to lose themselves,” wrote Hermann Hesse in his novel Demian. But there are a few, he implied, who actually find themselves through love. In the coming months, Pisces, you are more likely to be one of those rare ones. In fact, I don’t think it will even be possible for you to use love as a crutch. You won’t allow it to sap your power or make you forget who you are. That’s good news, right? Here’s the caveat: You must be ready and willing to discover much more about the true nature of your deepest desires—some of which may be hidden from you right now.

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The power of positive drinking Somehow, Jayson Wilde exudes infectious positivity even during a 17-hour workday. Maybe it’s easy to be perpetually grinning when you’ve just opened Bottle & Barlow, one of the most gorgeous bars—with one of the most daring cocktail programs—in town. The Sacramento native got his start bartending at Shady Lady Saloon after a 12-year stint at an insurance company, utilizing his generous paid vacation to go on tour with his punk band the Whiskey Rebels. When tour bookings slowed down, he needed a new escape. He found it behind the bar: “It’s very much like music to me in that you have an audience, you have creativity, you can deliver something to that audience and they can like you or dislike you,” Wilde says. His passion led him to manage the bar at Bourbon & Branch, a pioneer in San Francisco’s booming cocktail scene, for four years before returning home.

Someone orders a vodka tonic. Are you insulted? Not at all. We’re actually like, “Thank you!” One less thing I have to shake! Really, we like doing all of it. We just want people being happy with what they get.

I’ve never seen ponzu in a cocktail before. How’d you come up with that? I have a group of friends that think of all these stupid names for drinks and I thought I could throw my name into that hat. I was reading an article about Japanese cooking and … was just looking at all these flavors and ingredients and came across ponzu. I know the American version is soy heavy and it’s not actually the same as the Japanese one, but I wanted to do an umami cocktail that touches all flavor spectrums. I had this dumb name, “The Ponzu Scheme,” so I built the drink around that. We have salty, smoky, juicy, rich, briney—it’s crazy all over the place.

Yum. What’s that cocktail-naming process like in general? I just have lists upon lists of ideas. Everything is an inspiration, from music to eating at my favorite restaurants to talking to my friends about books or characters. With “Cal Worthington,” growing up and seeing that guy on TV all the time, I thought it would be fun

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to do something with that. Now I’m working at the bar and I’ll hear someone laughing about the name, like, “Oh damn! I remember that guy and that dog he always had!”

Any flavor combos or ingredients you find really overplayed in the cocktail world right now? Ginger is super huge. We have a mule variation, a cucumber variation—they’re those things you see all the time. But I don’t know if I think anything is overdone. It’s fun to see people have different takes on things. It’s not all about coming up with something insane and crazy every single time, it’s about having a variety that people are comfortable with. If you have a cocktail with cucumber or elderflower, people are going to think, “Oh, I’m safe, I know this.” Next thing you know, you’re chatting and you can push them to try something else.

What do you predict for the Sacramento cocktail scene? I feel like the diversity will stay. That’s one thing that makes Sacramento unique as opposed to San Francisco, where everything is turning into a cocktail bar. We still have a lot of dives. I don’t see that changing and I think that’s really cool.

Compare Sacramento and San Francisco bar patrons. It all comes down to money, honestly. I’m not saying Sacramento is necessarily frugal but they are more conscious about how they spend their money, whereas in S.F. people just have loads and loads of money and they’ll drop 200 bucks a night and not even think about it. … And people just drink more in S.F., like at lunch, they’ll have a cocktail or a beer. Here, it’s an iced tea with lunch. I think that’ll probably end up changing since we’re getting more and more metropolitan by the day.

Still playing music? Yes, I play in two bands, the Setting Sons and Suburban Threat.

Wow. How do you find the time? I don’t. (Laughs.) Right now, it’s really tough because I’ve been getting this open. As soon as the seas calm a little bit, I’ll get back into it. I miss it already. I need get behind the drums again—I need to get blisters on my hands so I can get them stained with angostura bitters when I go to work! Ω

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