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Walk this way? The Hollywood Walk of Fame is coming to Sacramento. I’m not joking. This week, city council was poised to greenlight a resolution to allow bronze stars commemorating influential Sacramentans on sidewalks throughout Midtown and downtown. Before all you anti-streetcar types choke on your Metamucil: The stars will be 100 percent privately funded. The idea is the brainchild of Lucy and Scot Crocker, of local PR outfit Crocker & Crocker. Their vision is to commemorate five locals each year who’ve made a positive impact on Sacto (sorry, Dorothea Puente). The stars will cost eight grand a pop and will be strategically placed between Fifth and 21st streets. No one seems to have the nerve to offer the Crockers some real talk on this project, so allow me to chime in: This is tacky as ish. Look, I’ve got passion for the 916. But, c’mon, a Hollywood Walk of Fame in Midtown? I’d go so far as to call it embarrassing. Possible star candidates being discussed include Mark “Old Michael Phelps” Spitz, Tom “Sorry, Colin” Hanks and Pat “Karate Kid” Morita. There will also probably be a star for “Trying Too Hard.” Anyway, since this is going to happen some day, I’d at least urge some real central-city street heroes. I’m thinking a Downtown James Brown star in front of Golden Bear. Or Mac Worthy in front of City Hall. And maybe Ground Chuck in front of Rubicon. At least those ideas are true grid—not desperate.

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Vaccine real talk Re “Immune to the truth” by Jill Stewart (SN&R Feature Story, August 20): While I was an ICU nurse working in Oakland I had the misfortune of watching a 14-year-old boy, while on immunosuppressive therapy for kidney disease, die of chicken pox given to him by his unvaccinated cousin who had contracted chicken pox but was not yet symptomatic. I would like to see the anti-vaxxers explain to this kid’s mom how this was a reasonable outcome.

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Big Pharma and vaccines Re “Immune to the truth” by Jill Stewart (SN&R Feature Story, August 20): I am the mother of two children, 4 and 6, fully vaccinated on my preferred schedule. I spent almost a year after their 18-month shots

terrified of autism, yet I believe in and understand the scientific basis of herd immunity. What troubles me about the vaccination debate is that no one is talking about the precedent that mandating vaccinations creates. While I am OK with and trust the capacity of standard vaccinations to protect my child, and society at large, from diseases

once prevalent, like polio and measles, I am not OK with the potential for vaccination mandates to be expanded to include whatever new shot pharmaceutical companies invent and decide is crucial. I oppose Senate Bill 277 not because I disagree with what this bill hopes to achieve now, but because of what it will be used to justify later. Alexandria Keeble-Toll Nevada City

Yellow journalism Re “Immune to the truth” by Jill Stewart (SN&R Feature Story, August 20): Wow, where to begin with this one. Yellow journalism is alive and well in Sacramento. If one wanted to make a fair and truthful argument in favor of vaccination that doesn’t insult the reader’s intelligence, it would have to include some facts. Is there a risk to

vaccination? Yes. Parents who choose not to vaccinate (this is what I call them, not the pejorative “anti-vaxxer”) have also weighed the benefits and risks, and decided that the risks outweigh the benefits. To call these people irrational is demeaning and simply not true. Evan Schulz Grass Valley

SN&R hypocrisy? Re “Immune to the truth” by Jill Stewart (SN&R Feature Story, August 20): When the topic is abortion or using illicit drugs, SN&R will scream from the rooftops that, “It’s my body and it’s my choice!” But you’re going to force people to take vaccinations that other countries like Japan have banned as a threat to public health. You first. Peter Finn Sacramento

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Earlier this summer, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson sued SN&R. The mayor wanted to prevent us from seeing his emails, which he said were protected by attorney-client privilege. But this lawsuit was a smoke screen. The mayor hoped to prevent the public from finding out that city staff was involved in supporting his “coup” efforts to take control of of the National Conference of Black Mayors. It is safe to say that many Sacramento taxpayers would not find this a proper use of their tax dollars. We knew immediately that the mayor’s case had no merit. We knew that the public deserved to know. But we didn’t know how we could afford a lawsuit. The mayor has more money than we do. And he knows it. His attorneys work pro bono. Ours do not. The mayor has more to lose by having his activities exposed than we have to gain by exposing those activities. So, it makes sense for him to threaten expensive legal action. If we had done a cost-benefit analysis of taking on the mayor, we might have second-guessed doing so. Another local newspaper, when faced with the same threat, did back down. We chose not to. And, as a result, many things have come to light: a troubling use of city staff for noncity business, a merging of city business and the mayor’s personal projects and a blend of private and public emails. We expect that there will be more revelations as we continue with our litigation. Legal cases are expensive. Our legal bill is currently approaching $30,000—and rising. So, we are in the

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frustrating position of spending money on legal costs that we would rather spend on reporting. As a result, we have decided to set up a legal fund. On September 16, we’re hosting a fundraising event at Ten22, in Old Sacramento. (See the note at the end of this story for more details.) In addition to this legal-aid effort, we also will be announcing soon a journalism foundation to help fund investigative and watchdog reporting in Sacramento. Over the last four decades, I have repeatedly seen the positive impact of journalism on communities. During most of that period, this paper had a simple economic model: If we wrote interesting stories, more people would read our paper. If more people read our paper, then more businesses would pay us to have their ads in our paper. That model is evolving. Just having a large readership no longer guarantees sufficient advertising. The marketplace has changed, too. Tower Records used to be our largest account. Tower Records is no more. The local businesses that used to be the backbone of SN&R’s advertising have reduced in number, in part due to the growth of giant Internet corporations such as Amazon. As the New Yorker and others have pointed out in recent months, more nonprofits and individual donors who are passionate about their communities are stepping up to pay for quality journalism. That’s a great thing. And it isn’t something new in the world of journalism, either. National Public Radio, for

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instance, thrives under this model: Individuals and organizations contribute enough revenues to enable NPR to do excellent community journalism with real impact. We hope to do the same— although, obviously, we are a for-profit business, unlike NPR. (Sometimes more in theory than in fact.) Nevertheless, it is unusual for a for-profit business to ask for donations. But we don’t need to raise money for our whole operation. We’re just raising money for more journalism, more stories, more reporting. We are only looking to add reporters and increase important news coverage. Investigative reporting and beats like poverty or the environment are critically important. But they are money losers. If we publish restaurant reviews, restaurants want to run ads near those reviews. No business has ever called me and to say that they loved our story on homelessness and wanted to put their ad next to it. So, if you believe that our region would be better with more eyes on politicians and decision makers, then we would like to provide that scrutiny. If you believe that criminal justice and

income inequality need to be covered, we would like to provide that coverage. Contributions to our foundation will enable this to happen. The foundation model helps build a natural firewall between donors and editorial coverage. People contribute, knowing that they cannot control what we write about. The reporters and editors will be independent. Over the last 26 years, SN&R’s chosen to speak truth to power. We give a microphone to people who sometimes never have a voice. And often the powerful do not like it, sometimes demonstrating their displeasure with lawsuits. We hope that our legal-aid fundraiser, and eventually this foundation, will enable us to speak a little louder— truth to power. Ω

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hree years ago a 16 year-old girl did not die in vain.

In January 2012, a car struck Michelle Murigi as she crossed in a marked crosswalk designated by a stop sign at the intersection of 58th Street and Fruitridge Road. Murigi died shortly after the collision. Today there is a traffic light at that bustling intersection. The community nonprofit WALKSacramento was instrumental in galvanizing community support and identifying a solution. The death of the young West Campus High School student – along with the number of pedestrian and vehicle collisions in South Sacramento – was the inspiration behind WALKSacramento adopting Vision Zero, an initiative to improve traffic safety that began in Sweden. “We didn’t want there to be another Michelle Murigi,” says Emily Alice Gerhart, a project manager for WALKSacramento and Vision Zero’s leader. According to the State’s Office of Traffic Safety, out of 13 major California cities, Sacramento ranks eighth for pedestrian/vehicle collisions with 163 victims in 2012. A grant from The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative allowed WALKSacramento to begin planning

Vision Zero’s campaign in early 2015 in order to reduce the number of pedestrian versus vehicle fatalities in the South Sacramento area, many due to speed and lack of lighting, Gerhart says.

Out Of 13 majOr CalifOrnia Cities, saCramentO ranks eighth fOr pedestrian/ vehiCle COllisiOns with 163 viCtims in 2012.

Community support for the initiative to create safer streetscapes is “essential,” Gerhart says. In addition to citizens and other organizations, input via stakeholder committee members includes the Sacramento Police Department, the Sacramento City Unified School District plus Sacramento’s Public Works and the County Planning Department. “We need initiatives like this to bring these issues to light … to educate people,” Macias says. “People are dying on the streets.”

“Just slowing down the traffic is the first thing the initiative can work on,” Macias says. The campaign includes community relationship building, promoting safety for both drivers and pedestrians, identifying dangerous streetscapes with upcoming community walk audits, and addressing street design with the goal of identifying projects to become part of the 2016 transportation programming guide, which prioritizes projects such as major street improvements.

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In 2010, The California Endowment launched a 10-year, $1 billion plan to improve the health of 14 challenged communities across the state. Over the 10 years, residents, community-based organizations and public institutions will work together to address the socioeconomic and environmental challenges contributing to the poor health of their communities. Emily alice gerhart is project manager for WalKSacramento, which has adopted Vision Zero, an initiative aimed at eliminating pedestrian-versus-vehicle deaths. Photo by laura marie anthony

Kendra Macias, 30, a South Sacramento resident involved in Vision Zero, regularly traverses local streets, including the Fruitridge Road corridor. Speed, she says, is an issue, and she would like to see speed detractors such as speed bumps, roundabouts or curb extensions.

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A Sacramento cop guns down a schizophrenic man. Police say it’s justified. Witnesses tell a different story. No matter the truth, it’s a tragic reminder of an ongoing mental-health crisis.

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spills from Paul Cantarutti’s chest and soaks through his charcoal gray T-shirt. The 28-year-old rolls onto his side, arms tucked behind his back, and Sacramento police officers lock handcuffs around his wrists. He buries his nose into the warm downtown sidewalk and lets out a moan: the sound of a man with a freshly discharged bullet searing into his lung. A cop runs to the scene and places a boot atop a pocketknife resting on the ground nearby. Paul’s grunts and gasps are barely audible over the commotion in Cesar Chavez Plaza: the din of rush-hour traffic, distant sirens, screams, a man shouting “Why’d you shoot him? You idiot!” And the inconsolable wailing of Paul’s mom. Linda stands a few feet from her son. “No. No. No,” she sobs, uttering the words quietly, her throat convulsing as she watches medics apply bandages to Paul’s wounds. Minutes earlier, she’d approached a woman police sergeant: “My son is hallucinating really bad and I need help with him,” she told her. Witnesses disagree on what happened next on May 21, at 6:13 p.m. But what is known—based on police-body-camera videos—is that Sacramento cop Henry “Hank” McClusky unloaded rounds from his .40-caliber standard-issue pistol into Paul Zachary Cantarutti’s body, including one directly through his sternum. Even weeks later, Linda can’t believe it. “I came over and asked for help,” she said. “And they shot him.”

According to witness interviews conducted by SN&R and case documents obtained by this paper, McClusky and Paul were somewhere between 5 to 10 feet apart. Paul held the folding knife, with a 2-to-3-inch blade, in his right hand. Firemen and medics just so happened to be on the scene and immediately rendered aid. Paul was in an ambulance and on his way to to UC Davis Medical Center in less than eight minutes. He survived. “It’s a miracle that he’s alive,” his mom said. Now, the hard reality. Paul faces two felony charges, most notably assault with a deadly weapon. The police claim that Paul—5-foot-8 and 170 pounds with a scruffy beard and medium build—“lunged” at the officers with his knife. This alleged move could land him up to five years in state prison. But there are many witnesses in the park that evening who say Paul didn’t make a threatening move before the bullets tore into his flesh. That he never tried to attack the officers. That the cops had no reason to shoot him. That Paul is the victim.

“I don’t know why the cop shot him. He wasn’t doing anything,” said witness Thomas Dean Martin, who was approximately 15 feet away when Paul was shot. Police use of force is, of course, under a microscope. Think Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott. But the shooting of Paul, a mentally ill Asian-American man, has flown under the radar in Sacramento. His parents are frustrated. “It does not matter whether my son was black or white, or was or was not suffering from a schizophrenic episode. The police shooting was wrong. The shooting was a clear-cut case of police abuse and excessive use of force,” said Paul’s father, Michael Cantarutti, an attorney in Santa Rosa. The shooting comes after years of cuts to mental-health resources in Sacramento, which county behavioralhealth deputy director Uma Zykofsky referred to as “catastrophic.” In June, the Sacramento grand jury blasted the county for its mental-health mismanagement, calling its policy a “shameful legacy of neglect.” All the while, jails and emergency rooms became the new

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“shoT in The PArK” continued from page 13 psych wards. Cops working the streets became psychologists on the front lines. “The whole mental-health issue has greatly impacted law enforcement, and we’re trying to handle it the best that we can,” says Deputy Kim Mojica, who coordinates mental-health crisis training for cops throughout the region. Paul is just one of thousands of local men and women who never connected with help. His illness accelerated inside jail cells and ERs. A routine that, Paul says, has become a way of life: “I’m kind of used to the shit end of the stick.”

The hours before The shooTing The sun set on Linda Cantarutti’s home, a quaint two-bedroom on a rural-feeling plot of land in Carmichael. It was around 9:30 p.m. on May 20, and Paul was in the kitchen. He grabbed a knife and started wandering around the house. He told Linda that people were hiding in the attic. That they were hidden in the dishwasher.

clothing or shelter. Cops also know there’s not a lot of space at the hospitals. The deputies decided that Paul did not meet the threshold. Still, they took Paul away. He was dropped off at an In-N-Out Burger at around 11 p.m. Paul doesn’t remember what happened that night on the streets. “They said they just wanted me to go somewhere else,” he said. “He didn’t get any help,” Linda said, frustrated. The next day, Paul returned home. “He had gotten worse,” Linda said. They both got in her car and just drove. At first she thought maybe they’d go to San Francisco. Paul likes it there. She also considered putting him on a bus at the Greyhound station. But while sitting in rush-hour traffic on the freeway, Paul became increasingly agitated. When she stopped the car, he threatened to knock her out and take over the wheel. “I was getting nervous, worried that his mind was melting on us,” she said.

“The whole mental-health issue has greatly impacted law enforcement, and we’re trying to handle it the best that we can.” Kim Mojica sheriff’s deputy and coordinator of mental-health crisis training throughout the region

Paul put the kitchen knife away and grabbed his pocketknife. “I don’t know why you’re not afraid. It’s going to happen. They’re here,” he told his mom. Linda called the police at 9:44 p.m. According to the police report, Paul fled from the house and into the backyard as the deputies arrived at 10:18 p.m. They called for Paul. He came out from the backyard holding the knife in his hand. This was not an issue for the deputies, and Paul was detained by 10:21 p.m. Linda asked them to take Paul away, to place him on a psychiatric hold at a hospital. But law enforcement can only do this if an individual is a danger to themselves or to others, if they’re gravely disabled or if they deny themselves food,

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“But I wasn’t afraid. I wasn’t afraid of my son hurting me.” She finally exited on 10th Street and, as she approached Cesar Chavez Plaza, saw police cars and fire engines. “If I’m going to stop and he needs help, maybe this is a good place,” Linda thought, according to her interview with police after the shooting. Police Sgt. Sherry Bell was in the driver’s seat of her squad car, parked on I Street near the Cesar Chavez statue on the northwest end of the park. Linda approached. She told her that she thought her son was “on some kind of narcotics,” according to a police report transcript of an interview with Bell.

Bell said that Linda also told her that Paul said “something to the effect that, um, they’d both be dead before the end of the night and he was going to blow up her car.” The sergeant told Linda to hang on, and then called for Officer McClusky. Linda began explaining what was up to McClusky, but she says he interrupted her: “Just tell me what his name is. I don’t need to hear all that.” McClusky waved at Paul: “Hey, come over.” Paul jaywalked, inching toward the officers and his mom. Linda says he’s always been a slow walker. In an interview with a detective after the shooting, McClusky explained that he saw a knife in Paul’s hand just as he approached the sidewalk. He described it as “a folding knife with about a 3-inch blade,” which Paul held at his side, pointing outward. Upon seeing it, McClusky quickly backed up, drew his firearm and gave Paul a warning: “Put down the knife.”

The shooTing McClusky stands tall at 6-foot-4. He’s been an officer with the Sacramento Police Department for 11 years. For nearly the past two, he’s been a bike cop. He knows firsthand downtown’s unique struggles with homelessness and unwell people. He’s had a total of eight hours of mental-health-crisis-related training during his career, he said in an interview with an investigator after the shooting. At 6:13 p.m. on May 21, McClusky was face-to-face with Paul on the northwest sidewalk of Cesar Chavez. His gun drawn, the pocket knife in Paul’s right hand. There were some 30 to 40 people in the park. Firefighters and medics were on the scene already, too, dealing with the aftermath of a transient fight. The traffic on I Street was heavy. Bell had seen McClusky back up with his handgun drawn. She’d heard him say something about a knife. So, she threw her door open, jumped out of the car and drew her own gun. She described the knife in Paul’s hand as pointing backward, and his demeanor as “hesitant” with a “blankness.” Officer Bryon Stone, McClusky’s partner, ran up to his right and drew his firearm as well. He said Paul held the knife at “midtorso level” and “in the direction of McClusky.” At this point, McClusky activated his body camera—the bike unit just began wearing these weeks earlier—but the lens was pointing toward the sky, and you can’t see Paul. The audio works,

however. McClusky said, “Stone, get your Taser.” Stone complied. Immediately after, Bell gave an order: “Tase him! Tase him! Tase him!” But there was no Taser. Just gun shots. “You don’t really feel it until afterward. And then you realize that you’re shot,” Paul explained of the moment. “I could just feel my whole stomach and my chest burning.” What prompted McClusky to fire? Stone says that, in the seconds before his partner shot, he observed Paul “lurch” toward them. “When the subject lurched I was in fear for my life,” he explained to a detective after the shooting. “I was scared because I did not have a functional weapon at my disposal.” (His Taser was not yet activated.) “If my pistol had still been drawn I would have fired at the same time” as McClusky, he said. Mojica, the deputy who trains cops on how to deal with mental-health episodes, says that she reminds trainees that “you never sacrifice your officer safety.” “If someone with a mental illness is running at you with a knife or a gun, you need to respond,” she said. But was Paul a threat? Bell said that she had actually taken her eyes off of Paul. She was looking at Stone’s holstered gun the exact moment when McClusky pulled the trigger. She didn’t see what caused him to shoot. McClusky himself said that, right before he shot Paul, he saw something click in the young man. At first, the officer described Paul as having “a weird grin” on his face. But then, “the look on his face kind of changed, like he wanted something to happen. “And he just lurched forward like that, real quick, and started to raise his arm up. … Like he’s going for it. “I just start firing.”

‘Why’d you shooT him?’ Estuardo “David” Mazariegos was heading west on I Street when he looked to his left and saw a person surrounded by police. He stopped the car. Then, gun shots. He says he was stunned that the cops shot Paul, because “he wasn’t making any sudden moves.” “He really wasn’t any threat to the cops, especially with the weapons they had pointed at him. He was just standing there,” Mazariegos explained less than a month after the shooting, during an interview with SN&R at Cesar Chavez Plaza. “He didn’t lunge at them. The guy was just standing there. And they shot him.”

Officer Henry “Hank” McClusky says Paul had a “weird grin” and lunged at him and his fellow officers. Paul and other witnesses say he didn’t move at all.

Mazariegos’ reaction to the shooting was instant, visceral. He’s the loudest person on the police body-camera footage: “Fuck!” Then a pause, then louder: “Fuck! Fuck! Why’d you shoot him? You idiot! You fucking assholes!” He was eventually detained for being “vulgar” and noncooperative, according to police documents. Mazariegos has a different version of how it went down: “An officer grabbed me by the neck, twisted my arm, kicked me in my bad knee and shoved me into the police car.” He also claims that they left him in the patrol car with the heater turned on for three hours. He was eventually interviewed at police headquarters and released just after midnight. Mazariegos filed a complaint over his treatment with city police’s internal-affairs division in June. A police spokesman says the department does not comment on complaints. He is just one of many witnesses in the park that day who say the shooting doesn’t add up. Billy Lee Mueller had been hanging out in Cesar Chavez for a while, sitting on the north side, facing old City Hall. He saw the transient fight earlier in the evening—the attack with a cane, the thrown glass bottle that landed in the street. And he was a few feet away from McClusky and Paul, the closest nonprincipal witness of the entire shooting.

“I came over and asked for help, and they shot him.” Linda Cantarutti

He told a police officer less than an hour after the incident: “I am not sure why the officers fired their guns. I did not hear any yelling from the officers or the subject. I just think that the subject was walking toward them.” Thomas Dean Martin was sitting on the steps near the Cesar Chavez statue and facing west. He had a clear view of the shooting and was about 15 feet away. “All of the sudden one of the cops pulled out his gun and shot the guy four times. The guy didn’t have anything in his hands or anything. I don’t know why the cop shot him. He wasn’t doing anything. Only one of the cops shot. I saw the whole thing,” he told an officer less than a half-hour after the shooting. Martin was taken to police headquarters, where he spoke with a detective at 9:35 p.m. that night. During that interview, he said that, “[Paul] was walking toward the officer at a normal pace. There was nothing in the man’s hands at the time. I was wondering why they had shot him. The man had his hands at his sides, and he did not say anything as he was walking toward the officers.” Witness Wardell Guiton told police that, “It looked like there was more than enough cops to wrestle the guy to the ground or to Taser him. I don’t know why they shot him.”

He also added that, “There was quite a commotion from the people in the park. People were asking why she shot him instead of Tasering him.” Linda herself stood just a few feet from her son, behind McClusky and Bell. “I’m not going to lie. I am a truthful person. I did see the knife,” Linda explained later. “But I didn’t see him lunging at them. “He did nothing violent.” Later at police headquarters, Linda shared an observation with an investigator: “When the deputies called for Paul to come talk to them [on the night before the shooting], Paul came out holding that same knife. … Paul was walking toward the deputies last night and he had that same knife opened up, so I don’t know why they shot him today.” Linda’s nightmare continued for 10 days after the shooting. Police would not inform her as to Paul’s status. She was not allowed to see him. And she didn’t even know what hospital he was at. “We were total basket cases. We didn’t know whether he was dead or alive,” Michael remembered. The police would not comment on the family’s claim that they were denied information about Paul. Paul says he spent those days in the hospital “shackled” to a bed, under 24-hour guard. He remembers attorney

Linda Parisi visiting him, but police turning her away. He also claimed to ask for an attorney, but being denied, when detectives would come to interview him. Paul ended up with gunshot wounds in the center of the chest, the left part of his belly, the upper left arm and the right thigh. Police records state that Paul’s urinalysis was positive for methamphetamine when he arrived at the hospital, but his official medical records are sealed under court order. In early June, Paul was discharged and booked at the jail. “I just barely met the requirements,” he says a woman at UC Davis informed him. His chest was freshly sewed up and still bloody. “I was still in a lot of pain.” At the downtown jail, Paul says he was denied a wheelchair and that they reduced his pain medication. He had to crawl across the floor in his cell to use the toilet. “I’m sitting there with a bullet sticking out of my back, and I can’t lay on my stomach, either.” There’s still a bullet protruding from his lower back, touching his spine. Paul says one day a jail mate pointed at the scar on his chest and told him: “They call that your kill shot. You know, you almost died.”

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A Missed connection The first thing visitors see at Linda’s home in Carmichael is Scarlett, possibly the least ferocious dog in Sacramento. The miniature Chihuahua bounces all over the porch. The yapping’s incessant. The crest of her head is dyed with yellow highlighter, which has her looking like a four-legged Miley Cyrus. Paul sits next to her on the front porch with his shirt off, dragging cigarettes, unfazed by her infinite charms. Life wasn’t always a struggle for Paul. Linda described him as a “really smart, supersweet” kid while growing up. A boy who was fascinated by electronics and video games, and enamored with his older sister, Lacrecia. Linda and Michael divorced when Paul was very young, around 2 years old, but it didn’t seem to have an impact. “Never when he was growing up did someone say ‘Hey, your boy has mental problems,’” Michael said. Both parents agree, however, that things started changing when Paul turned 14. He began sneaking out at night, getting in trouble, taking the car for joy rides. He also began struggling at school, which lead him to enroll at Rite of Passage, a continuation program for “at-risk” kids. That’s when Paul got a large tattoo on his back, of a skull and playing cards. The ace of spades. After a run-in with the law in his early 20s, he was diagnosed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville as schizophrenic. Michael doesn’t remember the year. “‘Your son has schizophrenia and he will never be able to function properly in society. … He’s not going to make it on his own,’” Michael said the physician told him. Paul’s police record, when it appears on dispatches, sometimes lists him as mentally ill or schizophrenic. His illness has led to countless runins with police. Michael says Paul has been incarcerated at least 25 percent of the time since age 18. These incidents often are fueled by alcohol. Linda says he often refuses to take his medication, too. Multiple DUIs. Grand theft. Resisting arrest. An

episode where he broke a window at his mom’s home. During an August 2012 DUI offense in North Highlands, Paul allegedly assaulted a cop in the back seat of a squad car. According to a police report, Paul yelled, “I know you are going to beat the shit out of me!” when an officer tried to sit next to him in the rear seat. He tried to head-butt the cop, failed and then knocked the cop’s head into a

“It’s like a meteor coming through the sky—and it feels like it’s speeding up.” Meanwhile, during the years of Paul’s health meltdown, Sacramento was also experiencing its own mental-health catastrophe. It began in 2008, with the recession, which prompted all sorts of severe budget cuts, on every front, from hospitals to police. Uma Zykofsky, the county’s deputy director of behavioral

Even after the shooting, Paul has yet to get help for his wellness issues. He’s recovering at his mom’s home—relaxing in bed with his miniature Chihuahua, Scarlett.

pole. He was only charged with resisting arrest. Paul welcomed a son into this world in 2012. Weeks after his son was born, his sister, whom he adored, passed away. “After that, he pretty much started going downhill,” said Linda. This year, Michael says his schizophrenia has hit “warp speed.”

health, refers to this as “a painful moment for our community.” The next year, it got worse: Sacramento’s only mental-health crisiscare center for adults shut down, and the county cut its overall behavioral budget by $14 million. “It could not have been a more perfect storm,” is how Jodi Nerell, director of behavioral health with the

local Wellspace clinic, described it. “It was awful. It was like the Armageddon for the poor law enforcement,” who had to deal with all these unwell people on the streets with scant resources. “The ER became the de facto psych treatment centers.” Paul didn’t “make a connection,” as mental-health practitioners call it, during his revolving-door visits to the ER and jail. Statistics show that approximately 20 percent of the calls during a law officer’s single shift are mental-illness related. Mojica with the sheriff’s department thinks that number is low. “I’ve worked the streets for 10 years, and the number is probably 45 to 50 [percent]. I’ve had some days where that has been my whole shift,” she said. Although it’s been a frustrating seven years of cuts, stakeholders aren’t just waving the white flag. Nerell with Wellspace says Sacramento’s turned the corner in the past couple of years. “They are shifting the pendulum back to the other direction” when it comes to reinstating care, she said. Zykofsky with the county agreed, and she called the $60 million that county supervisors voted to invest in mental-health resources earlier this summer “pretty unprecedented.” Mojica’s seeing changes on the front lines. Her job is to coordinate crisis-intervention training for cops in the region, from Elk Grove and Galt to Folsom and the city of Sacramento. Her job came about, she says, after “a rash of officer-involved shootings” in 2012. In the past 18 months, she’s trained more than 2,300 cops on how to better respond during behavioral-crisis calls. “We have six hours of mentalhealth training, which is absolutely not enough. Because our calls for service with the mentally ill have increased exponentially,” she told SN&R. Bike-unit officers are now required to take 24 hours of crisis-intervention training this year, according to police spokesman Sgt. Doug Morse. “This is due to the likelihood of the bike unit having a higher rate of contact with those

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“Shot in the ParK” continued from page 17 suffering from mental health illness,” he wrote in an email. There’s also new state money to pay for mental-health experts to ride along with law enforcement. In downtown Sacramento, a program launched in June put an expert in a patrol car with a designated mental-health officer. The county launched a similar program this month. Mojica says it’s been “really effective.” In the coming years, the county will be granting awards to open 60 residential wellness centers. Each “respite” center will have 16 beds, and while they won’t be hospital facilities, they are places where people can stay for up to 30 days and address crisis issues. “And there’s growing talk of opening up some type of psychiatric urgent care,” Nerell says. This would be huge, something to fill the gap of the drop-in adult center that closed in 2009. It’ll take years, however, for this new model of care to grease the gears. Will Paul make it? On Friday, August 14, the day of Paul’s preliminary hearing, Judge Allen Sumner’s courtroom was buzzing. At least 20 attorneys stood around shooting the breeze, balancing binders full of briefs with coffees and energy drinks. Paul’s lawyer, public defender Tiffanie Synnott, waded through the fray to speak with the prosecutor on the case, Deputy District Attorney Mark Ott. They both sneaked into a side room for a private chat. After about 10 minutes, Synnott emerged. Soon, she was in front of the judge: “We have a situation with Cantarutti.”

Starting at the bottom Paul never showed up for his preliminary hearing. If you’re unfamiliar with the world of justice, this is really bad. And Paul should know this, because it’s not his first failure to appear. The judge could have issued a bench warrant for his arrest, which would send him back to jail, which means all that bail money Linda paid— that maxed-out credit card for $3,000 and all those $300-a-month payments to a bondsman—would be for naught. But this didn’t happen. The attorneys on both sides of Paul’s case agreed to ask the judge for a stay. The judge accepted. Paul got a break.

Afterward, in the hallway outside the courtroom, Linda was flustered—and then she noticed that she was facing McClusky: bald head, sleek suit, shiny dress shoes. They didn’t speak. She later says that just seeing him “shook her to the core.” The day before his hearing, Paul was arrested by deputies out in front of a Raley’s. Three charges—violating probation, resisting arrest, trespassing—landed

more than an hour late. He looked like a man who spent the past 24 hours in a rough patch: greasy hair, ragged T-shirt with a marijuana logo on it, blank face. For a half hour, he sat on the steps next to his mom, smoking, speaking very little. Michael paced and chatted on the phone. Linda remained angrier than ever, asking questions: Does he even realize that he needs help? Does he realize that he needs to be responsible?

was a busy Saturday night, and Paul fell asleep in the emergency room, missed his name being called and didn’t receive treatment for his infected feet and legs until Sunday. He spent a week in the hospital. Paul’s next hearing is this Friday, August 28. In a perfect world, the DA and a judge might agree to place Paul’s case in the county’s mental-health court. It’s not unprecedented for a felony assault to be heard there. But it’s also not common. And unlikely. The DA’s office is not talking, only to say that they are “going forward with the case,” according to spokeswoman Shelly Orio. And even the public defender’s office, after weeks of emails, is now declining to discuss Paul’s situation with SN&R: “Given the state of the case at this time we will refrain from making any statement,” his lawyer, Synnott, wrote in an email. Linda’s afraid. “His father and I are so consumed with fear that something will happen to him before he gets help,” she confided recently via text message. “Michael hugged him for so long and told him many time[s] he loved him before he left last night. Told me he could feel Paul shaking with fear inside.” Michael had hoped that the worse was over. That the week after McClusky shot his son was the rock-bottom moment. “When I found out Paul was alive, and it Paul experienced a mental-health episode, was arrested and was a no show for his looked like he was going preliminary hearing earlier this month—but the judge did not issue a bench warrant for to make it, I thought the his arrest. bottom was [behind us]. But now things are real bad. Being realistic, I can’t tell where the bottom is.” him in county jail around 6 p.m. He After a long rest, Paul pushed himself It’s not clear what Paul believes. The spent six hours in a holding cell before up, then limped with his parents to a thing with schizophrenia is that you can’t getting dumped out onto the streets just nearby cafeteria. Sometimes a warm tell what is real, what’s actually happenafter midnight. He told his mom that he meal is the only silver lining. ing. When asked how he wants this was somewhere near Watt Avenue when It’d be nice to say that Paul’s arrest at story—his story—to end, Paul revealed he was supposed to be inside Department Raley’s was the last straw. It wasn’t. for the first time a sense of understand9 at the courthouse. A week after, Paul found himself in ing and compassion, which Linda says Linda was incredulous. “He needs to custody again. Deputies snatched him up he wore on his sleeve as a kid. He spoke be in a mental hospital,” she says. in Carmichael, took him to jail—but the softly: Outside, the courthouse cast a jail refused to admit him, so the deputies “I don’t want this to happen to shadow on Paul, who finally arrived then drove him to UCD Med Center. It anyone else.” Ω

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Sacramento rapper EnTyce was supposed to die in prison. Instead, he wrote 100 songs that set him free

talking the Shadowinked stage of Blue Lamp, Tyce Jackson pins the microphone to his mouth like an upturned bottle. Outfitted in a basic black T-shirt and gray jeans, the 34-year-old is a decade older than the other rappers in his midst.

Thundering through “All on the Line,” an Eminem-style manifesto, he sketches out the highlights of a hard-knock life: A murdered father, a gang-plagued youth and an adulthood nearly lost to prison. Jabbing at his chest, Jackson performs with the urgency of someone making up for lost time. That’s because he is. Jackson was supposed to die behind bars. At least, that’s what the Tennessee courts decided for him when he was 16 and running with the Vice Lords, a notorious gang that originated in Chicago. Tried as an adult, Jackson was sentenced to multiple lifetimes behind bars. He barely escaped that fate, only to

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get locked up again a couple of years later in Sacramento. Released in February, Jackson adopted “EnTyce” as his stage moniker and is now on something of a redemption tour. He’s hitting up open-mics and releasing his music for free. In the long term, he hopes to develop the upstart label he created with friend Robert Powers into a philanthropic power. “As soon as I went into prison, it was understood that I’m not here to gangbang, I’m not here to sell dope. I’m here to learn whatever lessons there are to be learned and to come out with more than I came in with,” Jackson explained during a recent interview. “And I just knew that I wasn’t going to come out without a plan.” Jackson is now putting that plan into play, but will anyone listen? After all, Sacramento is glutted with aspiring emcees. What makes EnTyce special? To Powers, it’s the man’s “mathematically calculated raps”—and his humanity. “Nobody would ever guess he has spent as much time behind bars as he has,” Powers wrote in an email. He added: “This is really his story to tell.”

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His face busted and bloodied by the dashboard of a stolen car, Jackson finally saw the lights—they were coming from the cops. By the time Jackson was arrested in that lot behind the projects of Montgomery County, Tenn., he had already experienced some painful milestones. At age 9, Jackson lost his father, a heroin addict, to a drug deal gone wrong. The homicide was never solved. After spending three years in Germany with his remarried mother and her Army-enlisted husband, Jackson and the family resettled in Clarksville, Tenn., where the 15-year-old’s rebellious behavior intensified.

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“I was getting more angry,” Jackson admitted. “I was definitely getting way more into the streets. I was way disrespectful to my mom.” At her wit’s end, Jackson’s mother threatened to surrender her parental rights. A printed-up contract with Tennessee’s Juvenile Justice division hung from the fridge, to no avail. Jackson skipped school and sold dope. Soon he graduated from boosting unattended cars to jacking occupied ones at gunpoint. One afternoon in October 1997, Jackson, his younger brother and a friend brought a new recruit to an area behind some low-income apartments where they had stashed three stolen cars. The cars would be scurried to out-of-state chop shops and sold for parts. Personal items, like cash and jewelry, were divvied up and taxed by the gang’s shot-callers.

“We had to get the money, more money, very quickly,” Jackson said of the pressure coming from higher-ups. “It was definitely some debts that needed to be paid.” The teens had barely started the cars when authorities revealed their presence. Sheriff’s department buses swarmed the lot, trained rifles in each window. A helicopter stormed overhead. Jackson didn’t notice right away. He was concentrating on the joint in his fingers when his brother stutter-stepped the pedals, jamming Jackson’s head into the dash. When he looked up, he realized it was over. The ensuing trial lasted about a year-anda-half, with the boys spending most of that time in the isolation ward of Montgomery County’s adult jail. It’s where mentally incompetent defendants and inmates on suicide watch are housed, but the county had no other option then for minors tried as adults. At trial, a jury convicted Jackson and two others on multiple felony counts of kidnapping, carjacking, robbery and aggravated assault—and sentenced them each to 100-plus years in prison. The fourth boy, the new guy, swapped his testimony for immunity. From inside the juvenile dorm at Northwest Correctional Complex, Jackson looked out on the yard where the men recreated. Two weeks shy of his 18th birthday, he knew he would soon join them. Jackson spent the better part of nine years in prison. He only got out early because the group’s fourth accomplice, the one who testified against them at trial, perjured himself on the stand, and because investigators didn’t properly obtain parental consent before interviewing the minors. In 2006, Jackson relocated to Sacramento, near his mother and siblings. He got himself a minimum-wage job, a wife, a son and started making some headway with his music, freestyling songs to people inside Arden Fair mall. But in 2010, neighbors spotted a large bruise on his wife and called the cops. He was initially charged with a misdemeanor count of domestic violence. But then, he says, the local district attorney’s office got a look at his rap sheet. Once again, he faced life in a prison cell. “I didn’t want that on my head,” he said. “So I took the better of the devils.” Jackson accepted a deal for six years. Today, he says the episode taught him he still had a lot to learn about interpersonal relationships, especially with women. “That was probably a greater epiphany than when I was in prison in Tennessee,” he said.

While inside, Jackson got his hands on a contraband cellphone. Besides using it to contact his son, Jackson searched YouTube for production beats. He forwarded the ones he liked to Powers and penned lyrics to go along with them. He wrote about his dad’s travails and his own knuckleheaded youth. Suddenly, the advice his grandfather gave him a decade earlier resonated, and escaped into a song, titled “Date with Destiny”: “Seen a lot of crazy stuff, it broke me but it provoked me to dream. That’s when my g-pops approached me with a karaoke machine and said, ‘Life is life and there’s things in life you don’t like about it. But rather than gripe about it, grab a pen and write about it. Who knows? You may just inspire someone whose life is shrouded in darkness to finally shine and make something bright about it.’” Jackson set himself a mission to write 100 tracks before his release, which sped toward him because of good behavior credits and overcrowding reforms. On the day he got out, a little more than four years into his sentence, he had surpassed his goal. Powers picked him up outside of the highwalled Tracy facility. The two, who had met while working in fast food, drove straight to a recording studio in Sacramento, where they laid down 87 “scratch tracks” in three days. They’re song sketches, Powers explained, “but still, 87.” Because Jackson doesn’t own the beats he sampled for his songs, he’s dedicating them to mixtapes and giving them away gratis. After he’s burned through his catalog, he wants to do a proper album, and eventually share other people’s stories. “This is how I look at it: I’ve done a lot of wrong in my life,” he said. “Whenever there’s an opportunity to do some good, and throw some karma out there, I’ll be first in line for it. Because I’m trying to balance it out before the day, you know?” For now, he’s making the rounds. In July, he gigged a feature slot at Pine Cove Tavern alongside Andru Defeye, who describes him as “hungry.” This past Tuesday, he returned to Blue Lamp, his current home court. Onstage, Jackson follows the words spilling from his mouth, like he’s knitting together his own atonement. Some in the scant crowd nod their heads. They don’t know him yet, but they’re starting to feel this EnTyce. Ω Learn more about EnTyce on Instagram @therealentyce.

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Conversations on Public Art Thursday, augusT 27 Whether you’re pro-Jeff Koons or anti-Piglet, it’s hard to deny that recent local talk on the importance of large-scale public art has DisCussion been stimulating. This week the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission and the Crocker Art Museum will join up for a discussion about the relationship between such art, the people who create it and the community. SMAC Executive Director Shelly Willis will be on hand, as will local artists. Free, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; www.cockerartmuseum.org.

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Third annual CoRE Fundraising Gala Friday, augusT 28 It seems like every sketch comedy show has a joke about interpretive dancing, but how many people have really watched dancers who use this free style of choreography to FunDRAisER express their innermost ideas and emotions? It’s powerful. The dancers with CORE, which stands for Collection Of Real Experiences, aren’t necessarily going totally improv but their performances are very personal and expressive. Celebrate the opening of their 2015 season with food, wine, music and, obviously, lots of dance. All proceeds will benefit future performances and ongoing outreach programs. $70-$150, 7:30 p.m. at Beatnik Studios, 723 S Street; http://core contemporarydance.org.

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ith the recent openings of culinary gems like high-end barbecue joint Cask & Barrel (1431 Del Paso Boulevard), Billy Ngo’s new poke spot Fish Face (located in the WAL Public Market at 1104 R Street) and local-ingredient-heavy Metro Kitchen + Drinkery (also in the WAL Public Market) over the last few months, Sacramento chefs continue to draw attention to their considerable talents in the taste department and pay homage to the natural wonder that is California produce (in case you didn’t notice, the rest of the world is crazy jealous). And while some of us might be content to leave it all up to the pros, for others, there comes a time when

simply Instagramming a photo of some perfect, locally grown tomatoes ceases to be enough; enter Sacramento’s bounty of cooking classes. Whether you’re looking to finally find out what a boning knife is (it’s not a sex position, just FYI) or you want to know the difference between cumin and cardamom, there’s something for everyone, and your first and most obvious resource is going to be the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op (1900 Alhambra Boulevard). The calendar is chock full of classes that fit a range of skills and interests—here’s a sampling from this week: On Thursday, August 27, dive into korean Basics and learn to make classic staples like kimchi and bibimbap

with instructor Mayumi Tavalero ($45, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.); on Saturday, August 29, impress your grandma and hipster friends alike with your preserves know-how in Preserving the summer harvest: Berries ($49, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.); Monday, August 31, gets a little more technical with The Art and science of Cheesemaking: Mozzarella ($49, 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.); and on Thursday, September 3, get ambitious with dishes from China, Japan and Thailand with Asian street Food ($45, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.). There’s a class just about every day from a wide range of experts, so no more excuses next time someone asks you the difference between a chiffonade and a julienne.

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Head out to this tomato-themed event, sample different types of this delicious fruit and cast a vote for your favorite local farmers entry. Plus. FooD there will be a salsa competition—watch contestants sweat it out. There’ll also be a dedicated children’s area with games, contests, crafts and much more. Free, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at Carmichael Park, 5750 Grant Avenue in Carmichael; www.bemoney smartusa.org.

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september Guest Chef Dinner Thursday, sepTember 3 Every month St. John’s Program for Real Change and Plates Catering & Cafe team up for a special Guest Chef Dinner. The meal is served by women who are training in Plates’ vocational DinnER work training program. September’s event will feature dishes cooked by Chef Bret Bohlmann from Boulevard Bistro as well as complementary wine tasting via Moniz Family Wines. The dinner takes place at Plates’ headquarters and gives insight into this employment learning program for formerly homeless mothers with children. $50, 6 p.m. at 14 Business Parkway, www.eatatplates.com.

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Icy fresh Fruit bAsket sorbetto, Devine GelAtAriA Summer demands delicious seasonal refreshment —the colder the better. Devine Gelateria’s Fruit Basket sorbetto is made from fruit in the prime of its season, and the recipe regularly changes to highlight whatever is fresh and delicious. On a recent day, the Fruit Basket boasted lots of pineapple, bunches of raspberries and blackberries, a bit of banana and a hint of rum. Sweet, tart, just a bit boozy and fantastically cold on a sweltering day. Trade in your expensive morning coffee for this treat—a small will run you $4.75. 1221 19th Street, www.devinegelateria.com.

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Now in the Handle District: West Sacramento’s Broderick Roadhouse doesn’t really make sense—and owner Chris Jarosz has repeatedly acknowledged it. The space is weird. It kind of feels like a Western biker bar, but it just happens to serve creative pub fare with farm-fresh ingredients. And the kitchen is crazy tiny. So, what were we to expect from the new Broderick in Midtown (1820 L Street, formerly Wahoo’s Fish Taco)? The restaurant officially opened last week and the menu is identical to the West Sacramento post. But the interior is an entirely different story. It’s Broderick the way Broderick is supposed to be—open and bright; rustic and casual; with a huge bar

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and, more importantly, a much bigger kitchen. The place just feels cool, in large part due to the striking number of vintage Edison-style lightbulbs strewn around. Across the street, Eatuscany Caffe (1801 L Street) recently opened as well. Initial reports suggested that the place would be part gelato shop, part Italian cafe and part market—competing heavily with the neighboring Devine Gelateria and Italian Importing Co. But now it’s clear that Eatuscany is chiefly an Italian cafe, with a sizable menu of antipasti (i.e., burrata salad, bruschetta), pasta (i.e., pesto lasagna, “Italian crepe” with speck), insalate (i.e., Caesar salad), panini (lots of cured meat combos on focaccia or

ciabatta) and desserts (i.e., tiramisu, cannoli). There’s also imported Italian wine and house-made gelato in traditional flavors. And like Broderick, the interior really impresses—it’s intimate, with just a few tables inside, and feels distinctly European. The all-white color palate looks modern and clean. I sampled the Opera gelato, with a base like crème brûlée and airy meringue crumbles on top. Delizioso. About that poke trend: If you’re already hooked on poke thanks to Fish Face Poke Bar, you’ll have another area option come fall. Zuma Poke & Lush Ice will open at G and Third streets in Davis, serving a very similar style of build-your-own poke bowls. If those decisions prove too challenging, Zuma also offers predesigned pokes, poke tacos and poke nachos. On the sweet side of things, there will be Hawaiian-style shaved ice, which is typically light and fluffy. And knowing its collegiate audience, Zuma is creating alcoholic versions, such as Spice Islands (pilsner, ginger beer, lime) and Hawaiian Punch (soju, guava juice, pineapple, lime). Ω

Is your pantry bursting with farm-to-table preserves? Take a tip from Pour House and swizzle them into a cocktail. The bar’s new summer menu capitalizes on fresh produce with house-made jams, syrups and bitters. Try the Lavender District ($9), an of-the-moment gin drink infused with orange oil and blueberry preserves. Herbal syrup and lemon balance the sweet flavors, while lavender bitters add a touch of floral. If you’re there for the whiskey menu, get the Sinatra Smash ($10). It’s Frank’s favorite (Jack Daniels) updated with basil-infused peach preserves and some manly notes of Cointreau and bitters. 1910 Q Street, http://pourhousesacramento.com.

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Spit some seeds Melons Now that stone fruits are waning, the fruit to get is melon. From succulent green honeydew to orange-fleshed Charantais, there is a slew of varieties to try. Watermelons come big or small, pink or yellow; get them seedless or have a seed-spittin’ contest over juicy wedges. Seek out personal-sized tiger-striped melons or football-shaped Canary melons. Dice sweet melons and toss them with feta cheese and red onion for a quick salad. Puree them for aguas frescas or the best rum drinks in town. Melons pair well with salty things, so don’t forget the classic prosciutto and cantaloupe combo.

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Kabob House has been around since I first came to Sacramento back in 2005, and long before that. For years I passed by the big white letters glaring out at Fulton in what had to be one of the most awkward to enter and exit strip malls in the city. An institution in Sacramento restaurant culture, this stalwart has survived economic crashes and who knows how many culinary trends. I decided to pop in and see what the fuss was about. The Greek salad ($5.25 for a small) was a Greek salad. Familiar, inoffensive, unenlightening—a fine display of iceberg lettuce if there ever was one. There’s little more to say. Most dolmas are served from a can and often cold. Here was a particularly unique—in American Greek restaurants at least—twist: the dolmas ($5.95) were served piping hot. Bursting with steam, the piquant and the musky flavor of the grape leaves were given a rare starring role. They begged to be bathed in a squeeze of lemon and you should readily indulge them. The spanakopitas ($3.25), on the other hand, were soggy pillows that brought dishonor to their name. There were no impossibly flaky layers of phyllo dough, and the utterly unseasoned and underspiced spinach filling had all the verve of a comatose DMV drone. The baba ghanoush ($5.95) tasted spicy, if not impossibly creamy, and a thorough plate-licking was certainly in order. Meanwhile, the hummus’ garlicky punch may prove divisive to some, but if

you commute on the train, rest assured that no one will sit next to you the following day, so slather up as much as you can. The shrimp kabob ($15.95) arrived overcooked and tough, though the enamel-suckingly sour parsley-lemon dressing that accompanied it was certainly welcome. The lamb souvlaki ($14.95-$18.95) was the champion of the night. Tender cubes of lamb were marinated in spices, and skewered with chunks of onion and bell pepper. Here, it proved to be one of those delightful culinary practices that focuses on simplicity to deliver. Gyros ($14.95), strips of seasoned beef, are a spiritual affair at Kabob House. They whisper the secrets of meat and fennel to you. Hit them with a creamy tzatziki and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better meal. The pastitsio ($14.95) was terribly underwhelming. What it lacked in salt, it did not make up for in a measured spice. In addition, many Greek cooks would argue that a great pastitsio uses neatly organized bucatini noodles and nothing else, if only for the sake of beauty. This one uses penne, and, though it may be a shallow critique, I find this dispiriting. Furthermore, the Mornay sauce is flat and seems to lack the zing of a heavy hand of kefalotyri cheese. The moussaka ($14.95) was, essentially, the same as the pastitsio but exchanged pasta for eggplant. Second verse, same as the first. We didn’t order the baklava ($2.50) as it isn’t made in house, but rather shipped in from “some place in Texas,” according to the waitstaff. A disappointment for sure and certainly a mark against Kabob House in Sacramento’s current food-obsessed culture. Order a gyro or kabob and you’re likely good to go (this is, after all, Kabob House). What’s served is the definition of classic Greek food as Americans have come to know it. You won’t be surprised, disappointed or blown away. What you’ll have is a reliable meal that—for the most part—satisfies and won’t ever change. Ω

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friendly, offering a generous scoop of soy ice cream—a smooth, definitely not-vanilla vanilla or a chipper mint chocolate chip—smushed between two vegan cookies—banana chocolate chip, chocolate fudge or oatmeal raisin. Their sweetness will take our collective minds off the forthcoming mudslides on California’s thousands of charred acres if the promised heavy rainfall of El Niño comes. Ugh, bummer. Time for another sandwich.

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Summer, on the supercheap WeSt Wind drive-in’S cuStomer appreciation night Send the summer off for super cheap with free showings of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Furious 7, Home and Pitch Perfect 2 at customer MoviEs appreciation night at West Wind Drive-In. In addition to free movies, there will also be live music, activities for the little ones and best of all, $1 nachos, which means you can’t afford not to go. 6 p.m.-11 p.m. Thursday, August 27; free. 9616 Oates Drive, www.westwinddi.com.

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Drink with Humpty Dumpty taleS & aleS: a red Solo cup anniverSary party Fairytale Town gears up for its 56th anniversary with a decidedly adult-themed—or rather, collegeage-themed—celebration with craft breweries providing unlimited tastings served in the iconic red Solo cups of beer-pong fame. Walking Party Spanish will be playing tunes and revelers can nibble on snacks from various food trucks. 5 p.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, August 29; $25-$30. 3901 Land Park Drive; www.fairytaletown.org.

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Blind ambitions landfallS: a novel Davis resident Naomi Williams’ debut is racking up raves, and for good reason. Landfalls: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26), is the story of the Book French expedition to circumnavigate the globe in 1785, led by Jean-Francois de Galaup de Lapérouse. With a multivocal narrative, Landfalls goes beyond the typical purview of either historical or nautical novels; while it succeeds as both, it’s also concerned with the ambitions of empire and the urge to colonization. But ultimately, it’s a rip-roaring tale of what happens when a society that thinks of itself as civilized and technically advanced is pushed face-first into the reality of a world beyond its control, which makes it as contemporary as the front page.

Zombie crush Sacramento Zombie Walk Seems like just about every city has a zombie walk these days—a gathering of people dressed in Walking Dead-appropriate costumes, making their way around the city looking to eat flesh. Or, you know, just have fun. Sacramento’s first such official organized event launched in 2001, coordinated by Trash Film Orgy organizers as a promotion stunt for their midnight EvEnt film fest. In the years since it’s become tradition and this Saturday, August 29, the Sacramento Zombie Walk celebrates its 14th anniversary. In 2014, the event saw the addition of a prewalk Carnival of the Dead, and organizers say the walk attracted approximately 1,500 people. This year they are anticipating that 2,500 people will take part in the carnival and march. To that end, the folks at TFO aim to make this year’s event bigger than ever in scope and raised more than $5,000 via an Indiegogo campaign toward that effort. The carnival, which starts in the afternoon, will include food trucks, vendors, live music, games, makeup booths and a zombie bikini contest. The walk kicks off later in the evening and will feature a “Thriller” flash mob, the West Campus Marching Band and, of course, some zombie attacks. Consider yourself warned. 4 p.m., Saturday, August 29; free. Roosevelt Park, 1615 Ninth Street; http://trashfilmorgy.com.

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The Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe—which has been gleefully staging politically barbed satire-in-the-streets since the 1950s— swings through the region this weekend, performing Friday in Nevada City, Saturday in Sacramento, and Sunday in Davis. The Troupe’s latest outing is Freedomland, a dark musical comedy that explores a highly topical subject: the dangerous situations that develop when young black men, moving through what some might regard as risky neighborhoods, encounter officers who are sometimes a little too quick to draw their weapons. Fear—and how it fuels the sometimes violent outcome of these encounters, is a theme. Characters include a former member of the Black Panther Party, a young black veteran returning from military duty in Afghanistan, a police chief keen on acquiring paramilitary gear and more. Freedomland features a cast of four (appearing in multiple roles), two musicians and a backstage crew. The script is by Michael Gene Sullivan, with music and lyrics by Ira Marlowe. Sullivan’s been with the troupe for 27 years—he also appears as an actor. It’s not a silent performance—here, the term “mime” is defined in the ancient sense: “to mimic.” Expect toe-tapping, up-tempo songs and raucous verbal humor. The show is a community effort in the truest sense: local activists, including Sacramento’s Southside Cohousing Community, will host and feed the touring artists. Ω

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We’re losing a generation of storytellers who, as they die, take their life stories with them—or as California Stage Artistic Director Ray Tatar said on opening night of Angel in the Night, “the tales of World War II are sliding out of the living memories.” Angel in the Night, by playwright Joanna H. Kraus, is one such story, based on the true accounts of a Polish teenager who risked her life by hiding a Jewish family from Nazi soldiers. It’s the compelling story of Mary Szul—named Pawlina in the play—who later in life was honored for her wartime heroism. The play starts with Pawlina as an elderly woman looking back on her life, and the story soon shifts to when she was a young Catholic girl living on her family farm and having to make difficult life-threatening decisions. During World War II, sheltering Jews was punishable by death—a risk young Pawlina faces when she chooses to defy her mother and for two years takes in a Jewish family and a rambunctious teenager. Director Michael RJ Campbell brings out a couple of nice performances from actors including Tara Cartozian, a Sacramento State drama student making her Sacramento theater debut as Pawlina, and Daniel Dorofeyev as the Nazi officer. Set changes need to be smoothed out and quickened, and having the elderly Pawlina (Janet Motenko) onstage watching the action and mouthing dialogue of her younger self proves to be a distraction. —Patti RobeRts angel in the night; 8 p.m., friday, saturday; 2 p.m. sunday; $15-$20. california stage theater, r25 arts center, 1723 25th street; (916) 451-5822; www.calstage.org. through september 13.

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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

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Minnie’s situation nor condemns Monroe as a predator, reflecting the fact that in 1976 such a thing, while certainly frowned upon, wasn’t considered to Before she made Phoebe Gloeckner’s novel The Diary be quite the creepy taboo it would become in time. of a Teenage Girl into a movie, actress Marielle Heller Minnie’s burgeoning, sometimes reckless sex adapted it into a play in which she herself played the life parallels her blossoming talent as an artist, title character, 15-year-old Minnie Goetze. The play influenced by the underground comics of Aline was produced in 2010 to acclaim and now Heller makes Kominsky and R. Crumb. In the novel this is her feature-film writing and directing debut with this illustrated by Gloeckner’s own art, in the movie by screen incarnation of The Diary, and it’s a remarkably sequences charmingly (if naughtily) animated by assured debut. True, it comes within a hair’s breadth Sara Gunnarsdóttir. of wearing out its welcome and could stand to be 10 or These sequences provide a decorative, light15 minutes shorter, but that’s more of a nitpick than a fingered filigree to Heller’s sure-handed distillation serious criticism. of the novel; along with Powley’s commanding In the movie, the role of Minnie is played and confident performance, they give us a by the English actress Bel Powley, a piece nuanced, multidimensional picture of of casting so perfect that Minnie’s Minnie. She’s not just a cauldron of self-description in her diary (“shortish boiling hormones—though she is Minnie’s … with broad shoulders and broad certainly that, and those hormones hips … a squarish face … big eyes often seem in danger of bubbling burgeoning, that are green, a biggish nose that out of control: in a threesome sometimes reckless tilts upward …”) might have been with Monroe and her best friend sex life parallels her written by Powley about herself. Kimmie (Madeleine Waters), in Minnie lives in San Francisco with a larky foray with Kimmie into blossoming talent as her slightly boozy, very divorced casual prostitution, in a fling with an artist. mother Charlotte (Kristen Wiig), the alluring, streetwise Tabatha her 13-year-old sister Gretel (Abby (Margarita Levieva). Wait) and a cat. It’s 1976, that uncertain Learning to control such impulses twilight era of the “Me Decade,” midway is part of growing up, and Minnie manages, between the Haight-Ashbury 1960s and the Age of even if it’s sometimes a near-run thing. She and Disco. The bank-robbing exploits of Patty Hearst are all Kimmie agree that selling blowjobs in a public over the news, but the Symbionese Liberation Army’s bathroom was a mistake, and she pulls back from threatened revolution has been indefinitely postponed. the brink when Tabatha tries to tempt her beyond A spirit of rebellion survives in Minnie, however, her comfort zone. Minnie’s trial-and-error progress and it takes the form of embarking on an affair with through adolescence rings true, and the movie’s her mother’s boyfriend Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård). upbeat ending is well and fairly earned. Ω That’s what prompts her to begin her tape-recorded diary: she remarks that she’s just had sex for the first time, and she wonders if she looks different, if Poor Fair Good Very excellent people can tell. Like Gloeckner, Heller neither exploits Good

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Just as Truman Capote spun an evening with Marlon Brando into “The Duke in His Domain,” David Lipsky turned a five-day assignment following Infinite Jest writer David Foster Wallace into his 2010 memoir Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself. Now that memoir has been adapted for the screen, with Jesse Eisenberg playing the subtly hostile hero-worshiper Lipsky and Jason Segel as the self-deprecating literary lion Wallace. Rather than the stuffy or self-infatuated film you might expect, The End of the Tour is an intelligent and infectious two-hander, a My McDonald’s Breakfast with David explosion of conversation, and an insightful look into the insecurities that eat away at writers of all statures. Segel does great work in an atypical role, and Eisenberg is even more impressive, all needy, nervous laughter and simmering resentment. Their crackling chemistry is essential for a film that finds all of its action in conversation. D.B.

The Gift

Joel Edgerton stars in (and directs) this intermittently effective but ultimately revolting domestic-horror film as Gordon, a poorly goateed, socially awkward misfit who weasels his way back into the life of an uninterested high school classmate named Simon (Jason Bateman). Now a cutthroat yuppie squeezing the life out of his psychologically shaky wife Robyn (Rebecca Hall), Simon refuses the creepily obsequious attempts to make friends, turning the mild-mannered Gordon malevolent and making Robyn suspicious. Despite an overreliance on ear-splitting jump scares, Edgerton the director makes a competent debut here, but Edgerton the actor is all wrong for the part of Gordon—he’s a cool kid doing his impression of a nerd. Even worse, the final reveal is pretty repellant for the way that it turns the heroine—up to this point, the eyes, ears and conscience of the film—into a pawn for the sake of a gotcha moment. D.B.

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A college philosophy professor (Joaquin Phoenix) considers life not worth living—he can’t even get it up for sex—until he finds a perfect stranger who deserves to die; this suddenly gives purpose to his life. Oh dear, Woody Allen is getting all serious again. Or maybe not. This may just be a deadpan satire on the narcissistic pretensions of academic sociopaths. Still, Allen’s never before had trouble letting us know when he was kidding; if this really is one of those times, the joke isn’t funny, it’s pompous and banal. All the Allen trademarks—bright dialogue, quirky characters, vintage music, big-name casts—are missing here. In the cast, only Phoenix, Emma Stone and Parker Posey have names; otherwise it’s a parade of forgettable nobodies, and Allen gives them all not one interesting word to say. J.L.

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Shaun the Sheep Movie

The sheep from a small English farm, joined by their sheepdog, set out to rescue their farmer from amnesia in the big city. The smash-hit TV cartoon show from quirky Aardman Studios makes the leap to the big screen with surprising ease, considering how well the show’s eight-minute TV format fits its farm-animal-life premise—and considering how many of today’s crummy animated features seem to be expanded from mediocre ideas for eight-minute cartoons. Writer- directors Mark Burton and Richard Starzak eschew dialogue—the only vocals we hear are chuckles, grunts, mutters and such—with the result that this droll, sweetly hilarious movie plays like the triumphant return of the silent comedy of Buster Keaton. Throughout its modest 85 minutes, the movie never loses its ingenuity or its focus on pure visual comedy. J.L.

Straight Outta Compton

The story of the rise and sort-of fall (but mostly rise) of N.W.A., an L.A. rap supergroup once so despised by law enforcement officials for their “Fuck Tha Police” rallying cry that they wound up on an FBI watch list, gets the lavish Hollywood biopic treatment in F. Gary Gray’s entertaining Straight Outta Compton. All of the N.W.A. members are cast with uncanny lookalikes—Ice Cube is even played by his own son, O’Shea Jackson Jr.—but Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E and Paul Giamatti as his manipulative manager, Jerry Heller, give the only fully realized

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It’s a sad commentary on the current state of the cinema that funny women do their edgiest work on television, but have their edges sanded off whenever they stray into movies (Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are prime examples). If anyone could buck the trend, it would be the hilarious Amy Schumer, the rare comedian with the talent to be simultaneously self-deprecating, empowering and raunchy as shit. But even though Schumer wrote the screenplay for Trainwreck, giving herself an in-the-wheelhouse lead role as a sexually active men’s magazine writer whose anti-monogamy worldview gets challenged when she falls for Bill Hader’s sweet sports doctor, this uneven comedy is guided more by director/buzzkill Judd Apatow’s bourgeois moral compass than by Schumer’s anarchic satire. In a film filled with cameos by comedy legends and SNL cast members, LeBron James and Jon Cena get by far the biggest laughs, which is maybe a problem. D.B.

We Are Your Friends

An aspiring DJ (Zac Efron) comes under the wing of a respected veteran turntable artist (Wes Bentley), but his ambitions are threatened by his growing attraction to the man’s girlfriend (Emily Ratajkowski) and the aimless lifestyle of his friends (Jonny Weston, Shiloh Fernandez, Alex Shaffer). That aimlessness spreads to the script by Meaghan Oppenheimer, Richard Silverman and director Max Joseph, all three of whom are here making their feature-film debuts in not-ready-for-primetime fashion. At times the movie plays like a sluggish road company of Entourage, with the sterile expanse of the San Fernando Valley standing in for the glitz of Hollywood. Meanwhile, Joseph and company’s efforts to portray the hero’s audio doodling as a musical art form comparable to Bach or Mozart aren’t very convincing. J.L.

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Strange musical brew Flub talks vampires, prog metal and playing Weirdo Fest by Janelle Bitker

janelleb@newsreview.com

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“We already have some straightforward material that’s really in your face,” he says. “This album is a little more listenable— it’s not so brash and abrasive.” With the past two EPs, Montes wrote the music and Alvarez wrote the lyrics. Montes says he’s slowly moving the band into a more collective writing style, which is resulting in a more progressive metal sound. Still, expect to keep hearing that subtle fusion influence under Alvarez’s death growls. “Who you callin’ ‘weirdo’?” “I’m really into Latin music, Mexican music and music from Central America because I grew up in that environment,” Montes says. “I just always had a thing for it, Michael Alvarez is toying around with a lyrical so I thought, ‘Why don’t I incorporate it in some way concept for one of Flub’s new songs. It’s that sounds metal?’” pretty weird. You can mostly hear the cumbia in the bouncy The setting? Transylvania. The subject? A baselines. Sometimes, Montes says, he’ll take the vampire, stalking prey. That prey turns out to be a charango—a South American lute—and apply its family of three; the vampire chooses to feast on the rhythms to metal. He’ll sneak jazz into songs with mother, turn the father into a vampire and watch the covert chord substitutions. But occasionally his father gorge on his own son. tinkering does hit the listener clearly, like during a “But he was kind enough to kill the mother first groovy breakdown in “Last Chance” off Advent. so she would be spared of seeing that tragic Since Flub hasn’t released anything scene,” Alvarez explains. since Advent, the band has a treat for So yeah. Happy ending. “This fans before next year’s full-length. In All the members of Sacramento early September, Flub will re-release album is metal band Flub identify as weirdos its debut EP Purpose with much a little more in some way—even the name Flub higher quality and a full band. is weird—so it’s fitting the band listenable—it’s not so “It definitely sheds some light is slated to play Weirdo Fest on on the songs,” Alvarez says. “It brash and abrasive.” Saturday, August 29, with the likes feels like they’re now where they of Nekrogoblikon, Will Haven, Viktor Hansen should have been.” Alterbeast, Kill the Precedent and J. guitarist, Flub In the meantime, Flub will keep Terrible—an arguably weird mix of navigating and embracing its weirdness. metal, hardcore and rap. Not fitting in perfectly anywhere is just fine, And Flub is in a pretty weird place right Montes says. now. The band started in 2013 with just Alvarez and “It’s kind of funny because we play shows with guitarist Eloy Montes. They made a three-song EP the death metal bands, and we’re too proggy and in one day with $175 and borrowed gear, eventually melodic for the death metal kids. Then we play with recruiting bassist Charles King, guitarist Viktor prog bands and we’re too death metal for the prog Hansen and drummer Jared Klein. In fall 2014, they kids,” he says. “We’re just trying to find the happy released the EP Advent, a stellar collection of highly medium.” Ω technical and experimental death metal, with surprising cumbia and fusion jazz influences. But now, the Flub guys are hard at work on catch Flub at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, august 29, during Weirdo Fest at midtown barFly, 1119 21st Street. passes cost $16-$35. learn more about their first full-length record, due early next year. In the band at www.facebook.com/flubmetal and more on Weirdo Fest at Hansen’s words, it’s “a catchier, more melodic style, http://weirdofestsacramento.bpt.me. while at the same time maintaining the core elements that keep it heavy.” For Alvarez, it’s also just less aggressive. 40 | SN&R | 08.27.15

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Hey, we do rock Old pros: Saxon thinks this town knows how to rock. To be fair, the members of the band said that while performing their song “This Town Rocks,” which I assume that they play in just about every town. But still. Saxon said we rock. Regardless of how much we may or may not rock (we totally rock), Saxon somehow still rocked harder at the band’s Sunday show at Ace of Spades. The legendary purveyors of British steel, still burning bright like their New Wave of British Heavy Metal peers Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, Saxon landed down here as their sixth stop on their North American tour commemorating 35 years since their second album, the classic Wheels of Steel. The mighty Saxon dipped deep into those years for the show, pulling out hits such as “747,” “Power and the Glory,” “Denim and Leather” and “Motorcycle Man,” all without letting on that most of these guys are, what, at least 60 now? Age doesn’t stop the power of heavy metal, of course. These guys are old

pros and they worked the crowd as such, with that blue-collar grace and charm that can only come from decades of living the touring life. Between songs, vocalist Biff Byford alluded to the exhaustion of touring, noting that they’ve got shows in new cities every night and that it might be nice to take a break. But then again, for working musicians, the need to rock sometimes cannot wait, even on days off. “Maybe we’ll just find a park and fucking play anyway,” Byford said in a tone that might have been in jest. Most of the crowd leaned older, like they had been there for Saxon all along, with a healthy amount of young blood raised on NWOBHM showing promise for the next generation. So many Iron Maiden T-shirts; so many Kreator, Angel Witch and Overkill patches on faded denim vests. It was like being in high school with the heavy metal mop-heads all over again, and it was pure. And the hundreds of metal maniacs loved every minute of Saxon’s show, game for all of the highpowered singalongs and nostalgic thrashing with classic tunes. “It’s not too loud, is it? It’s not too hot, is it? Well, it’s not

supposed to be comfortable,” Byford commented near the end of the show before ripping into yet another track. —Anthony Siino an t hon y s @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

Under the weather, still on top: Despite feeling a little under the weather last Wednesday night, Keri Carr and her band put on a memorable show. The Torch Club was packed with folks eager for the local Americana songbird to take the stage, following a soulful set by New Orleans-based Lynn Drury. Drury was also joined live by Carr’s talented guitarist, Steve Randall, even though they’d just met only hours before. Carr opened with “Goodbye” by Sacramento favorite Richard March, who left town in 2014 to join the Peace Corps. It was apparent from the warm love in the room that Carr has developed a dedicated fan base over the years—and has cultivated a strong working relationship with many of the city’s top musicians well. She has even recruited renowned local jazz bassist Gerry Pineda into her onstage lineup. The band kept things roots-rock-oriented and country laden throughout the night. A bit into the set, the bronchitis showed itself in Carr’s faltering voice, however. Luckily, Torch Club owner Marina Texeria came to the rescue with a special tonic—ahem, presumably some booze—which helped as the singer went into a moving and sentimental version of “It’s Not You It’s Me,” by the Little Willies (Norah Jones’ old side project). Carr laced the night with other tasty covers, including Gram Parson’s “Return of the Grievous Angel,” the Everly Brothers’ “Love Hurts,” as well as Carr’s signature versions of Little Feat’s “Willin’” and the Paul Simon classic “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.” Throughout, Carr delivered a lively performance, candidly connecting with the crowd on a personal level by telling lovelorn tales to her fans between songs and reminiscing of good friends gone by. Her sound continues to be vibrant and youthful—Sacramento’s native daughter isn’t going anywhere. —Derek kAplAn

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Cafe Colonial benefit show

Elephant Rifle

Silver Spoons

Avaleya & the Glitterhawks

Cafe Colonial/The Colony, 8 p.m., $10 Interested in pitching in for a cause but unwilling to do it unless it involves dudes screaming at you in higher DEATH METAL fidelity? Wretched Earth Productions is putting on a double-venue, 10-band bill of metal—mostly of the bestial, slamming death variety—all to raise funds for better gear at Cafe Colonial and The Colony. The lineup includes Defecrator (pictured), Wurm Flesh, Embodied Torment, Solitary Priapism, Ungulate and more. If you’ve ever wanted to help out a local venue or just want a sample of Sacto’s heaviest, now’s a good time. Bring the kids for this all-ages intensity. 3512 Stockton Boulevard, www.facebook.com/events/104776946535817.

—anThony Siino

Third SpaCe arT ColleCTive, 8:30 p.m. $5 Can someone call Nevada and ask if anyone there still has a face? Because Reno’s very own Elephant Rifle damn near melted mine off with their new LP, Ivory. Mixing the streamlined post-hardcore of Helmet with gonzo freakouts reminiscent of punks like Death by Stereo, it’s a hell of a ride. The guitars churn, the drums pound, the bass player gets surprisingly loose and the vocals are so confrontational and off-the-chain that you’ll wonder if “Dogs, Wolves, Wolverines” ROCK is just a song title or a list of inspiration for lead singer Brad Bynum. (Full disclosure: His day job is arts editor for RN&R.) 946 Olive Drive in Davis, https://elephantrifle. bandcamp.com.

—Brian Breneman

naked lounge, 8:30 p.m., $5

fox & gooSe, 9 p.m., $5

Welcome Silver Spoons back from tour at the band’s first hometown show since it released its new EP, the aptly titled Four New Songs. The opener “First Impressions (Your Black Hair)” starts with lush cello, and you’re like, “What?” Then the familiar INDIE vocals hit, and you’re like “OK, here’s Silver Spoons.” Silver Spoons already proved its experimental indie rock prowess with its debut self-titled full-length earlier this year, but Four New Songs definitely ups the intrigue. More cool song structures, more ambient electronic sounds, more silly vibes— reminiscent of a less-poppy Islands, for you Nicholas Thorburn fans. 1111 H Street, www.facebook.com/thesilverspoonsband.

Indie twee pop fans, rejoice: it’s a homecoming of sorts for former Crash and Britany member Kelly Slusher. Currently living in Portland, she returns to Sacramento to play with her latest band Avaleya & the Glitterhawks. The band features Rocketship bandmates Jim Rivas and Verna Brock and the sound is as sweet and lovely as one would expect with charming beats and dulcet vocals. The sound recalls the perfection of mid-to-late ’90s indie pop but updates it with a slight electronica twist. In other words the sound is inarguably nosINDIE POP talgic but never pointlessly so. Portland’s A Certain Smile is also on the bill. 1001 R Street, http://avaleya.bandcamp.com.

—Janelle BiTker

—raChel leiBroCk

The 26th Annual

Sierra BrewFest

An epic afternoon of sun, suds and fun A unique, unlimited microbrew tasting experience with more than 100+ microbrews Delicious food from some of the best local food trucks and restaurants Featuring music from Power of 12 | Bagg-O Tournament

Saturday, September 5 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm, Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley

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Tickets and Info: www.MusicintheMountains.org or call (530) 265-6124 Additional ticket outlets at SPD Markets and BriarPatch Sponsored by:

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The Skins and Friends

The Early November

“Weird Al” Yankovic

Hey Marseilles

Harlow’s, 9 p.m. $21-$26

aCe of spades, 6:30 p.m., $17.50

Midtown has changed a lot since the ’70s, of course. Almost unfathomably so. You can read about what the nightlife used to be like back then, or you can come see the Skins play, a Davis rock ’n’ roll and R&B band that played there and across the Causeway all the time. They packed the Crabshaw Corner/ Oasis Ballroom and kept folks dancing ROCK with their boogie-woogie, roots-rock, power-pop sound. They were a band between ’69 and ’79, never scoring a record deal, but not for lack of trying. Watching the Skins play is like literally taking a time machine to this heyday in Sacramento/Davis’ music scene before anyone ever heard of Cake, Deftones, Death Grips or Tesla. 2708 J Street.

—aaron Carnes

Harris Center for tHe arts, 7 p.m., $49-$89

New Jersey indie rock band the Early November released its first EP, For All of This, in 2002, trailed by its debut fullINDIE length album, The Room’s Too Cold, the following year. The band’s pop-driven music led to its partnership with Drive-Thru Records during its earlier career. But 2007 brought on an “indefinite hiatus” that lasted roughly five years before the Early November began performing together again and signed with Rise Records. Now, the band’s fourth studio album, Imbue, with its single, “Narrow Mouth,” released in May 2015, has them on a U.S. tour with Bayside and Better Off that ends at Riot Fest in Toronto. 1417 R Street, www.facebook.com/earlynovember.

—stepH rodriguez

Remember when Weird Al was the funniest thing ever? And then you became a teen and were too cool for parody songs? And then you reached your 20s and had hangovers all the time? And now you’re like a real adult, with debt, and one night you’re plowing through YouTube praying for sleep, and you run across a Weird Al video—maybe the gloriously stupid “Like a Surgeon”—and you realize, “Hey, this is actually really good”? Well, the patron saint of goofball tunes has PARODY brought his Mandatory World Tour to town to remind you. This is the second of a two-night performance. Tickets are sold out, so scrounge where you must. 10 College Parkway in Folsom, www.weirdal.com.

sopHia’s tHai KiCtHen, 9 p.m., $7-$10 The sun seems to be finally setting on that particular brand of millennial folk with bandmates adorned in suspenders and laced with a lot of “Hey!”, “Ho!”, banjos and tambourines. And Seattle natives Hey Marseilles appear game for the evolution. INDIE FOLK Details about the band’s forthcoming third LP are sparse: no release date or title, but the 38-second clip on its website is promising—a little dirtier in its percussive backbone and more inventive with vocal effects. All of which makes sense, considering the band is working with producer Anthony Kilhoffer, who had a hand in Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. 129 E Street, Suite E, in Davis, http://heymarseilles.com.

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

BLUE LAMP

EQUIPTO, NOME NOMADD, DJ STEVIE, MICKEY TILTZ; 8pm, $15

Battle of the Bands, 8pm, call for cover

T.I.P. VICIOUS, ANDRU DEFEYE, BONEYJAY, WISECHILD; 8pm, call for cover

THE BOARDWALK

CHERNOBOG, WHITE MINORITIES, WITHOUT HOPE, NEMESIS; 6:30pm, $10

FORTUNATE YOUTH, TWO PEACE; 6:30pm, $12

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Brazil Independence Day with BOCA DO RIO, SAMBADROP; 7:30pm, $17-$20

MARIA MULDAUR, KIMBERLY BASS; 8pm, $27-$32

COUNTRY CLUB SALOON

MANZANITA MUSIC, 5pm, no cover; WESTBOUND 50, 9pm, no cover

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400 9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 314 W. Main St., Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384 4007 Taylor Rd., Loomis; (916) 652-4007

THE COZMIC CAFE

594 Main St., Placerville; (530) 642-8481

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

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ELIGH THE CROW, DEMATTAS, ANTHOLOGY AND IANC; 6:30pm W, $13

OLD TOWN BOYZ, 4pm, no cover

DJ River, 10pm, call for cover

Panic City, 10pm, call for cover

Monday Mutiny casino and speakeasy, 10 pm M, call for cover

FACES

Everything Happens karaoke, dance and swim; 9pm-2am, no cover

Absolut Fridays dance party, 9pm, $5-$10

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

FOX & GOOSE

THE MIKE JUSTIS BAND, 8pm, no cover

STARRY EYED CADET, AVALEYA, A CERTAIN SMILE; 9pm, $5

JESSICA MALONE, DEVIN FARREN; 9pm, $5

Open-mic, 7:30pm M, no cover; Pub quiz, 7pm Tu, no cover

BLACKWATER, 9pm, call for cover

Open mic, M, no cover; Tacos and Trivia, 7pm Tu, no cover Trivia night, 7:30pm Tu; Bingo, 1pm W

2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

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PAUL’S GARAGE BAND, 8pm, $7

1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

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GOLDFIELD TRADING POST 1603 J St., (916) 476-5076

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POP FICTION, 9pm, $7

REBEL YELL, 9pm, $5

HARLOW’S

LED KAAPANA, FRAN GUIDRY; 7pm, $15-$20

ST. ASHBURY, 6:30pm, $8-$10; SAMBADA, 9:30pm, $10-$12

THE SKINS AND FRIENDS, 8pm, $21-$26

THE HIDEAWAY BAR & GRILL

Trash Rock Thursdays, 9pm, no cover

THE LOSING KIND, GRUMBLER; call for time and cover

KUTZ benefit show, 5pm, call for cover

LUNA’S CAFE & JUICE BAR

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

BILLY BUCKMAN AND FRIENDS, DOCTOR HALL; 8pm, $5

DAVID HOUSTON AND STRING THEORY, JOSIAH GATHING; 8pm, $6

MIDTOWN BARFLY

Stilldreamin with DJEDI, BLUE LOUIE, LAZER TOOTH; 9pm, call for cover

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

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Sunday Mass with heated pool, drag show, 2pm, no cover

OVERDOZ, 7pm, $13-$15

EDM and karaoke, 9pm M, no cover; Latin night, 9pm Tu, $5

MAOLI, PENI DEAN, 7pm M, $12-$15; EMILY KOLLARS, 7pm W, $8

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

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Real Live Comedians, 8:30pm, $5

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Guest chefs serving $5 plates, 6pm M; Karaoke, 9pm Tu; Open-mic, 9pm W

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SAD, THE IRON HEARTS, DEVON GALLEY BAND; 9pm, $5

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THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

Duck’s Breath final reunion tour, 8pm, $22

CHRIS CAIN, 8:30pm, $20

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Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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THE PRESS CLUB

Milk: house, breaks and Northern soul; 9pm, no cover

SHADY LADY SALOON

HOT CITY, 9pm, no cover

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ELEMENT OF SOUL, 10pm, call for cover

CURRENT PERSONAE, 9pm, no cover

DOOFY DOO, SASHA CONDO, VANDALIZE; 8pm, call for cover

SWABBIES

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TORCH CLUB

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

HARLIS SWEETWATER, 3pm, call for cover

HARLEY WHITE JR., 9pm, no cover

X TRIO, 5pm, call for cover; ISLAND OF BLACK AND WHITE, 9pm, $6

Live band karaoke, 8pm Tu, call for cover HELION PRIME, IN THE SILENCE; 8pm M, $7; BLACKOUT!, 8pm Tu; DINERS, 8pm W

Trivia night, 9:30pm Tu; Open-mic 8pm W

DREAM IN RED; 8pm, call for cover CARAVANSERAI, call for time and cover

DEPARTMENT OF ROCK, 6pm, call for cover

LIFE IN THE FAST LANE, call for time and cover

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30pm; JELLYBREAD, 9pm, $10

MIDTOWN CREEPERS, 5:30pm; DANIEL CASTRO, 9pm, $8

Blues jam, 4pm, no cover; Front the Band karaoke, 8pm, no cover

MICHAEL RAY, 8pm Tu, no cover FOLK FAMILY REVIVAL, 9pm W, $5

All ages, all the time ACE OF SPADES

1417 R St., (916) 448-3300

WATSKY, A-1, MIKOS DA GAWD; 6:30pm, $15

THE COLONY SHINE

1400 E St., (916) 551-1400

MOONSHINE BANDITS, JELLY ROLL, PRUNO, CRUCIFIX; 6:30pm, $16

BAYSIDE, THE EARLY NOVEMBER, BETTER OFF; 6:30pm M, $17.50 CYPHER and car show, 7pm, no cover

3512 Stockton Blvd., (916) 718-7055 Jazz jam with Jason Galbraith, 8pm, no cover

Led Kaapana with Fran Guidry 7pm Thursday, $15-$20. Harlow’s Hawaiian

JANE THOMPSON, 9pm, no cover

DANK OCEAN, 9pm, $5

129 E St., Davis; (530) 758-4333 1517 21st St., (916) 704-0711

UNDERCOVER, 10pm, call for cover

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, W, no cover

THE DEAF PILOTS; 6pm, $7-$10

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 8/31-9/2

AMERICAN WRECKING COMPANY, MACHINAGE, JACK KETCH; 8pm

670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731 13 Main St., Winters; (530) 795-1825

SUNDAY 8/30

REBEL RADIO, INSUBORDINATION, END THE FLIGHT; 7pm, $5

EYELET, ALL MY WISHES; 8pm W, $7

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FOR ThE wEEk OF AUGUST 27, 2015 ARIES (March 21-April 19): You like to run ahead

of the pack. You prefer to show people the way, to set the pace. It’s cleaner that way, right? There’s less risk you will be caught up in the messy details of everyday compromise. But I suspect that the time is right for you to try an experiment: Temporarily ease yourself into the middle of the pack. Be willing to deal with the messy details of everyday compromise. Why? Because it will teach you lessons that will serve you well the next time you’re showing the way and setting the pace.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you ready to

revise your ideas about how love works? Would you consider re-evaluating your relationship to romance, your approach to intimacy and your understanding of sex? I hope you will not only be willing but also excited to do these things. Now is a favorable time to make changes that will energize your love life with a steady flow of magic for months to come. To get the party started, brainstorm about experiments you could try to invigorate the dynamics of togetherness. Make a list of your customary romantic strategies, and rebel against them all. Speak sexy truths that are both shocking and endearing.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Querencia is a Span-

ish word with many nuances. At its simplest, it refers to your favorite spot, a place where you long to be. But its meaning can go even deeper. Querencia may be a sanctuary where you feel safe and authentic, or a situation that enables you to draw on extra reserves of strength and courage. It’s a special kind of home: an empowering shelter that makes you feel that you belong in this world and love your life. Can you guess where I’m going with this message, Gemini? These days you need to be in your querencia even more than usual. If you don’t have one, or if you don’t know where yours is, formulate a fierce intention to locate it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The art of effective

communication consists of knowing both what to say and what not to say. It’s not enough to simply find the words that accurately convey your meaning. You have to tailor your message to the quirks of your listeners. For example, let’s say you want to articulate the process that led you to change your mind about an important issue. You would use different language with a child, an authority figure and a friend. Right? I think you are currently at the peak of your abilities to do this well, Cancerian. Take full advantage of your fluency. Create clear, vivid impressions that influence people to like you and help you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Arthur Conan Doyle first

used the term “smoking gun” in a story he wrote over a century ago. It referred to a time the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes burst into a room to find a man holding a pistol that had just been fired, along with the fallen body of a man who had been shot. Since then, the meaning of “smoking gun” has expanded. Now it’s any piece of evidence that serves as compelling proof of a certain hypothesis. If you can’t find the cookie you left in the kitchen, and your roommate walks by with cookie crumbs on his chin, it’s the smoking gun that confirms he pilfered your treat. I believe this is an important theme for you right now. What question do you need answered? What theory would you like to have corroborated? The smoking gun will appear.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): At least for now, I

suggest you suspend the quest for order and refinement and perfection. The wise course of action is to disengage from your fascination with control, and instead give yourself to the throbbing, erratic pulse of the Cosmic Wow. Why? If you do, you will be able to evolve faster than you thought possible. Your strength will come from agile curiosity and an eagerness to experiment. Do you remember when you last explored the catalytic wonders of spontaneity and unpredictability? Do it again!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This is the deepest,

darkest phase of your cycle. The star that you will ultimately make a wish upon has not yet risen. Your pet monsters seem to have forgotten for the moment that they are supposed to be your allies, not your nemeses. Smoke from the smoldering embers in your repressed memories

is blending with the chill night fog in your dreams, making your life seem like a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a taco. Just kidding about that last part. I wanted to see if your sense of humor is intact, because if it is, you will respond resiliently to all the cosmic jokes in your upcoming tests.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): According to the

poet Rainer Maria Rilke, here’s what God says to each of us: “Go the limits of your longing … Flare up like flame and make big shadows that I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” Whether or not you’re on speaking terms with the Creator, this is excellent advice. It’s time to give everything you have and take everything you need. Hold nothing back and open yourself as wide and wild as you dare. Explore the feeling of having nothing to lose and expect the arrivals of useful surprises.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The sun

and the expansive planet Jupiter are currently making a joyful noise in the sign of Virgo, which is your astrological House of Career and Ambition. This does not necessarily mean that a boon to your career and ambition will fall into your lap, although such an event is more likely than usual. More importantly, this omen suggests that you will influence luck, fate and your subconscious mind to work in your favor if you take dramatic practical action to advance your career and ambitions.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): On August 28,

1963, Capricorn hero Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech to a crowd of thousands in Washington, D.C. In that address, he imagined what it might look like if African-Americans were free of the bigotry and oppression they had endured for centuries at the hands of white Americans. In accordance with your astrological potentials, I encourage you to articulate your own “I Have a Dream” vision sometime soon. Picture in detail the successful stories you want to actualize in the future. Visualize the liberations you will achieve and the powers you will obtain.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you have been

patiently waiting for a propitious moment to buy a new yacht, pledge your undying love or get a tattoo that depicts Buddha wrestling Satan, now is as close as you’ll get to that propitious moment, at least for a while. Even if you have merely been considering the possibility of signing a yearlong lease, asking a cute mischief-maker on a date or posting an extra-edgy meme on Facebook or Twitter, the next three weeks would be prime time to strike. Diving into a deep, heart-crazed commitment is sometimes a jangly process for you Aquarians, but these days it might be almost smooth and synchronistic.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Ready for a ritual?

Get a piece of paper and a pen. Light a candle, take three deep breaths and chant “YUMMMM” five times. Then spend 10 minutes writing down the qualities you would like your perfect lover to possess. Identify both the traits that would make this person unique and the behavior he or she would display toward you. Got that? When you are finished, burn the list you made. Disavow everything you wrote. Pledge to live for at least seven months without harboring fixed beliefs about what your ideal partner should be like. Instead, make yourself extra receptive to the possibility that you will learn new truths about what you need. Why? I suspect that love has elaborate plans for you in the next two years. You will be better prepared to cooperate with them if you are initially free of strong agendas.

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Part of her world If you’ve gotten a drink at Dive Bar, you’re likely aware of a fishy presence in the water tank above the bar. Something that looks human, but less dry, and also with a scaly tail instead of legs. On some nights, that mystical mermaid just might be Ashley Rastad, children’s entertainer and new addition to Dive Bar’s roster of mermaids. The job is just part of her plan for growing up: “When I was a kid, I wanted to be everything when I grew up. A firefighter. A fairy. A mermaid. All at the same time.” She graciously helped us understand how that tail feels, what it’s like to swim for a living and whether she can actually see you watching her inside that tank.

how do you go about performing up there? You have to move really slow-motion to articulate. It’s a very different kind of stage. It’s underwater, your audience isn’t particularly—well, I mean, there’s so much going on in the bar. … So it’s better to slow all the actions down so that everyone can sort of catch up with what you’re doing. It’s difficult, but it makes the swims go by much faster if I move in slow-motion, which I think is interesting.

Did it take a lot of training? It takes about four to six weeks. They want to make sure that you’re comfortable in the tank. You do training in the water, usually once or twice a week. The bar opens at 4 p.m., so we’re usually in there swimming at, like, 9 a.m.

Tell me about the tail. It’s amazing. They are manufactured by this company called Mertailor out of Florida.

The type of tail that we use is—I want to say it’s partial silicone. It’s on a neoprene backing so it’s a little bit warmer. It’s got really awesome, intricate scaling and a beautiful paint job. … They weigh about 35 pounds or so. They’re fairly hefty. And they’re a tight squeeze.

Do you have your own tail, or do you have to share? Sometimes, we have to share. … It kind of depends on your size. And how tall you are. Right now I have a tail that I don’t share with anyone else. It’s named Falkor [after the dragon from The Neverending Story]. They all have names.

what’s Falkor like?

I don’t know exactly. They definitely cater to the fish, not to the mermaids, and the fish are much happier in cooler water.

Gotta be good to the fish. They are curious, and super-used-to having mermaids in the tank. They get out of your way, and we take care not to touch them. Or mess with them. Or flap them. Or poke them. Or anything. We don’t want to hurt them at all. It’s sort of like we’re visiting their house every time we swim.

I don’t know. We don’t time ourselves. But I can hold it longer and longer the more I practice.

Do you have nonaquatic passions?

how’s the people-watching in there?

I’ve started doing a little bit of canvas painting. I write a little bit. Eventually, though, I will be a farmer. I mean a self-sustained organic homestead type of farmer. That’s what I really want to do.

Ok, back to the tank. how do you get in there? We have direct access to the tank right there [in the dressing room]. So we suit up and get right in. … Downstairs, they have a really great, big, fancy armchair on rollers with a handle attached to the back so someone can push you around.

We swim for 25 minutes out of an hour. And then, we swim again for 25 minutes

warm up? how cold is it in there?

how long can you hold your breath?

It’s sort of like a frosty white-pinkishpurple. Sort of like Falkor’s colors. Every time I put it on, I go, “I’m a luckdragon.”

how long do you stay in the tank?

out of a separate hour. … You have to have a break in between to warm up.

I can definitely make out when people are doing a Snapchat or a photo—anything with an electronic light. I’ve had friends bring glow sticks so I can pick out where the glow sticks are and stuff. … I wear contact lenses, so I actually can’t see super-well in the tank anyways.

Do you get recognized outside the tank? Yeah. Last night, I went downstairs really quick, and it was probably really easy to recognize me since I was the only one in the bar with sopping wet hair and a shiny bra on. I got a couple high-fives.

would you trade your voice for legs? No. Ω

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