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87-C) as well as someone that deals with mental illness. You presented the story I believe fairly while still giving those involved in each group an inner glimpse of the circumstances. I have been dealing with mental illness since the end of 1991, one year after the Gulf War. After my wartime service, I medically retired (12 years active service) and settled in Sacramento.

Since retiring I have worked as an advocate for the mentally ill with NAMI [National Allegiance on Mental Illness] and have lead groups for consumers at local mental health clinics (Human Rights Campaign and Placer County Mental Health, Roseville) and within the VA system. My diagnoses has ranged from schizo-affective to complex PTSD. It just translates to “often difficult” to maintain an even life. I also have had interactions with local law enforcement. And as life is always funny at times, I am stepping away after four years as a licensed private detective. Thank you for your work on the story. I do encourage you to write more on the subject as you have a balanced yet still pointed style. Stay safe and balanced yourself and may you enjoy peace. Christopher A.S. via email

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The 1970s was a bleak time for craft beer—but few people even knew it. The colorful rows of small-name brands at local stores enjoyed by modern-day beer drinkers did not yet exist. The nation’s beer supply came almost entirely from just several dozen breweries, which mostly churned out bland lager. Brian Hunt emerged from those barren days with an inspiration to ferment and explore and, in the early 1990s, he launched a brewery called Moonlight. Today, Hunt is a grizzled and highly regarded veteran of the craft beer industry. While his operation, based in rural Sonoma County, has remained small but successful, Hunt has watched the craft beer industry explode over the past 20 years—an incredible economic boom that

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continues to this day, stealing sales from once-dominant global beer companies while also driving fierce competition within the craft brewing community, where struggles to find ingredients and shelf space are growing more rigorous with every month. On Saturday, September 12, Hunt will share his experience as a craft beer pioneer with listeners at the California Craft Beer Summit and Brewers Showcase. This beer industry celebration will essentially take over downtown Sacramento for two days, September 11 and 12. Capitol Mall will be shut down for a finale beer showcase on Saturday night, and the convention center will be handed over to thousands of beer lovers, including brewers, chefs, vendors

and scientists. There will be speeches, seminars, cooking and brewing demonstrations and, naturally, plenty of beer. Tom McCormick, executive director of the California Craft Brewers Association, which is hosting the event, says the idea of the gathering is that many people—brewers of different generations, retailers and consumers, and wholesalers and retailers—will have the opportunity to learn from each other. “We’re cross-pollinating these different layers of craft beer lovers in what is really a hands-on, educational experience,” he said. “It’s much, much more than a beertasting festival.” Charlie Bamforth, UC Davis professor at the Institute of Brewing and Distilling, will deliver a basic “Beer 101” seminar

on brewing. Brewers Vinnie Cilurzo, of Russian River, and Patrick Rue, of The Bruery, will discuss tricks and techniques for making sours, one of the most popular categories of beers around. Hunt will share the podium with Donald Barkley of Napa Smith and Mark Ruedrich of North Coast at a Saturday seminar titled “Meet the Pioneers of the Craft Beer Industry.” The summit and showcase is the inaugural production of what local beer promoters hope will grow into one of the nation’s iconic beer festivals. The Sacramento event will feature only California breweries—but that is hardly a limiting factor. Two new breweries are opening every week in California, and the state is now home to roughly 500 brewing companies, according to McCormick. The explosion of the industry has been a phenomenon unlike almost any other. The 3,500 craft breweries in America have taken a big and painful bite out of the global brewing conglomerates, like Coors and Anheuser-Busch. Nationally, craft beer now represents roughly 12 percent of the beer market—and in California, 25 percent, according to McCormick. It may seem like the best of times for small breweries. However, even as the craft beer category slowly nudges the beer

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“We can’t have beers stuck on shelves for Stone Brewing Co.’s brewmaster. “You’ll months at 80 degrees.” For an IPA, the hop always find a bunch of IPAs.” Steele says aromas that beer drinkers seek out can fade the proliferation of small breweries is rapidly. This process accelerates at higher creating considerable competition—even temperatures, meaning IPAs are best stored for one of the largest and most successful under refrigeration—and hopefully not for craft breweries in the state. “As more and a long time. Graham noted that negative more breweries come onto the scene, we’re experiences with such deteriorated beers finding we need to work harder to keep can not only ruin a single beer’s reputation ourselves relevant in beer drinkers’ eyes,” but also give a lingering black eye to the he said. brewery. Stone, in fact, yanked its once iconic A few breweries with enough pale ale from production earlier this year, reputation and market clout have reformulated the recipe with a new required that any retailers hop profile and more alcohol, carrying their IPAs keep and reintroduced the beer “We the beers cold. Russian as Stone Pale Ale 2.0. get 50 calls River, famed for their The original beer, double IPA Pliny the released first in 1996, a week from new Elder, does this. was cutting edge breweries. It’s really a “But for up-andat the time—one challenge. We only have a coming guys like of the brawniest, us, we couldn’t do bitterest specimens limited amount of space.” that,” Graham said, of its sort, but in the Curtis Mann noting that retailers past decade became Raley’s senior business manager would simply turn to more or less forgotten for wine, beer and spirits another brewery that in the dust of the craft was less picky about how beer boom. Steele guesses its beer must be handled. this is because the increased Some breweries, like Mraz interest in hops, bitterness and Brewing Company in El Dorado Hills, only IPAs has altered beer drinkers’ palates and serve IPAs on draft at the brewpub. This expectations. way, brewers can guarantee that their beer At the beer summit and showcase, hops is served fresh. will be displayed for attendees to handle “Even though we’re popular, I’d be and smell, and there will even be trellises fooling myself to think that all my beer assembled in the venue to give urbanites might be bought and drunk within a two an idea of how this keystone ingredient is month period [if sold to retailers],” said grown and harvested. Mike Mraz, the founder of Mraz Brewing While the beer summit next weekend Company. will give an impression that beer is more But Mraz hardly even makes IPAs, colorful and diverse today than it has ever anyway. His El Dorado Hills brewery been, Hunt believes beer today has actually focuses on beer styles, often aged in barrels, become relatively homogenous. That, he that mature and improve with time. In a explains, is because today’s brews depend crowded retail market, this works out well almost entirely on a single plant species— for Mraz, since bottles that wind up in a the hop, Humulus lupulus—to add aroma shippers’ warehouse for months at room and bitterness to beer. temperature will actually be better thanks Hunt is keen on telling people that it to the holdup. wasn’t always this way. Centuries ago, The abundance of new breweries and before hops became ubiquitous—and long, new beers has fueled the creative brewing long before the triple IPA—plants of all of beers containing herbs and yerba mate other sorts were used to flavor beer. Hunt and all kinds of fruits. Yet the IPA has honors these traditions by brewing beers remained the most popular beer style in spiced with green redwood tips, incense America, with brewers steadily ramping cedar, bee balm, Labrador tea, yarrow, bay up their hop and alcohol content to appease leaves and mugwort. consumer demands. The craze over IPAs “Some people say, ‘Wow, the world of has also pushed other beers off the average beer is more diverse than it’s ever been,” beer menu. Hunt said. The pale ale, for example, has become But if beer drinkers and brewers would all but obsolete. just open their minds to ingredients beyond “You go into a taproom and pale ales, the hop, Hunt says, then the craft beer which were once a mainstay of craft beer, renaissance will truly begin. Ω are hard to find now,” said Mitch Steele,

Emboldened by the Department of Justice’s recent legal brief that says it’s unconstitutional to penalize homeless people for sleeping in public, a semi-local activist issued an ultimatum to the Sacramento City Council last week. West Sacramento resident Andy Conn, of the Crunch Nestlé Alliance and Occupy Monsanto movements, demanded that the council rescind its anti-camping ordinance or he’d be first in line to file a complaint with the federal agency. The DOJ has said that “punishing conduct that is a universal and unavoidable consequence of being human” is a violation of the eighth amendment. Conn complained at the August 25 meeting that police enforce the city’s anti-camping ordinance selectively. This is partly true. While the city ordinance in question does make it illegal to camp or “use camp paraphernalia” on both public and private property, it exempts recreational camping. Still, the statement of interest that the DOJ filed earlier this month in federal district court in Idaho will likely force cities like Sacramento to reconsider their policies. The Justice Department sides with a Los Angeles court opinion, since vacated, that deemed it unconstitutional to enforce an anti-camping ordinance on nights when there wasn’t “sufficient” shelter space to accommodate the city’s homeless residents. As for what “sufficient” means, the DOJ filing appears to take a narrow view: “If a person literally has nowhere else to go, then enforcement of the anti-camping ordinance against that person criminalizes her for being homeless,” it states. Suzanne Hastings said that’s her “constant fear,” as someone living on a fixed income. She asked the council to consider an amnesty area for its homeless residents. The alternative, she suggested, was “like outlawing insulin, and then throwing someone in jail for being diabetic.” (Raheem F. Hosseini)

treatiNg PatieNts, gatheriNg clues On Tuesday, elected officials were slated to approve an agreement between the Sacramento Police Department and Sutter Medical Foundation for the latter to provide forensic medical exams to victims of sexual assault and child abuse. The contract extension, which tops out at $1.25 million for up to five years, would be funded from the police department’s operating budget. Sutter, whose current contract is set to expire September 30, was the only provider to respond to the department’s request for proposals. The contract maxes out at $250,000 a year for a range of services. Medical examiners providing expert testimony bank $150 an hour for court appearances. The forensic exams they provide run from $300 for an abbreviated sexual assault exam to $1,650 per day for an acute evidentiary exam that occurs after standard business hours. These exams serve a dual role in that they render medical aid to the victim, while also collecting evidence for the criminal investigation. The ones for sexual assault and child molestation survivors are especially intensive, according to the scope of service agreement. But there are also exams for victims of physical abuse or neglect, and abbreviated sexual-assault exams for survivors who “request a forensic evidentiary exam, but cannot obtain one by the usual pathways of law enforcement.” Examiners are also tasked with collecting evidence from suspects, primarily by documenting injuries and taking blood, urine, DNA and hair samples. (RFH)

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Tournour, director of the city’s Office Mayor Kevin Johnson was positively of Public Safety and Accountability. It giddy. On August 18, a pair of regular “will not have the authority to look into city council agitators actually voiced officer-involved conduct or [disciplintheir support for an advisory body tasked ary] investigations,” she told council with mending the frayed trust between members. Sacramento city residents and local law That didn’t seem to bother local enforcement. Black Lives Matter chapter founder Unable to process the positive Christina Arechiga or David Andre of feedback, Johnson asked the speakers the Community Dinner Project, which to repeat themselves. “Seriously,” he feeds homeless individuals in violation chuckled at one point, “it’s crazy.” of a city permitting ordinance. Both said And maybe a bit premature. they looked forward to working with After all, the newly established the new 11-person commission, as did Sacramento Community Police members of the paralyzed racial profiling Commission may be better than what commission. came before, but that’s not saying much. Only Mac Worthy, City Hall’s kneeAnd, despite the mayor’s assertion that jerk skeptic, raised a reliable stink. “Why the commission “has some real teeth in can’t you look into the files of the cops it,” it likely won’t have much bite. that are being charged?” he asked. “You “I look at this as very small,” said got a commission, but you ain’t said Berry Accius, a community activist and nothing about subpoena power.” founder of Voice of the Youth. “Some In truth, granting the commission people will clap … but it’s basically the subpoena power was never on same thing as the racial-profiling the table. The idea was a commission.” nonstarter for the police Accius is referring to “There union and lacked support the city’s virtually poweralways has from Tournour, who less Community Racial tracks complaints against Profiling Commission, to be a catch.” the police and fire departwhich was created a Berry Accius ments as head of OPSA. decade ago and ran out of Voice of the Youth Accius likened the end steam soon after because result to a form of appeaseof restrictive bylaws. While ment. “Give them a little SN&R reported on the inacpiece of the pie. Don’t give them tive body, not many paid attention the whole pie. Don’t even give them a until a year ago, when Ferguson, Mo., slice,” he told SN&R. “There always has erupted into civil unrest over the police to be a catch. We always have to keep shooting of Michael Brown. In the pushing.” ensuing 12 months, a seemingly endless Ironically, Councilwoman Angelique proliferation of fatal police encounters Ashby name-dropped Accius as one nationwide, mostly involving unarmed of the people whose input shaped the men of color, has further vexed a commission’s present incarnation. suddenly scrutinizing public. Assigned to a public safety ad hoc The new commission is supposed committee by the mayor, Ashby was to salve those wounds by replacing the responsible for the commission’s racial profiling one and weighing in on accountability piece. “Today is my police hiring and training procedures. favorite day,” she said. Ω But it won’t be allowed to evaluate specific incidents, explained Francine

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-3 Jimboy’s does india Coming this fall to India is Sacramento fast-food institution Jimboy’s Tacos. The Folsom-based company recently expanded domestically with locations in Southern California, Nevada and Texas, but the international plans for New Delhi and eventually Mumbai are major coups for our regional taco supplier. Jimboy’s, in partnership with the India-based Krrish Group, is joining Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald’s and Burger King in the Colonization of India Part II: Fast Food Edition. (P.S., why no Jimboy’s arena love, Vivek?)

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The multicar pileup that is the candidates vying for the GOP presidential nomination will be in our backyard in less than two weeks. Fittingly, this second incarnation of a debate will go down at the Reagan National Presidential Library. The hopefuls surely will be feeling that Gipper spirit in their bones. Thankfully, only 10 candidates will be invited. We here at SN&R don’t expect the Republicans to give us tree-hugging liberals a lick of lip service. But, then again, we don’t anticipate Hillary Clinton or the Dem nominee wannabes to preach to this Commie choir. But if they did … This week, nine News & Review writers from this company’s three papers in Reno, Chico and Sacramento settled on 10 topics. Ten issues. Just 10 things we’d like to see the 2016 presidential hopefuls actually engage with meaningful discussion. Is that so much to ask? Probably. But we’re putting them out there, anyway.

o1 A fAiled experiment There is no greaTer crisis in The counTry,

and no crisis less likely to be addressed by presidential candidates, than the issue of campaign money. We’ve seen the far-reaching repercussions of the decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court back in 2010, Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission. That’s the case in which the court held that the government could not restrict election expenditures by corporations, essentially saying that money is speech, and therefore protected by the First Amendment. The issue is not that money is speech. We don’t disagree with that. The problem is that, with its mandate, the Supreme Court ensconced in law the legal fiction

that corporations are people. This cannot stand. But it will. Democracy has failed. It has been destroyed by the unfathomable amounts of money that corporations wield in politics. While it is true that captains of industry have long forced legislation that does not serve the interests of the American people, in a purely pragmatic way it enhanced that American fantasy that people of merit have a larger voice. It was still a human voice, even if it was corrupt and selfish. But corporations don’t have a human voice. Generally, corporations exist to serve stockholders’ interests. The making of money, when it is not tempered by human conscience, always favors efficiency, shortcuts and quarterly profits over people. Candidates recognize this reality, and that’s why candidates can’t discuss it in a meaningful way—because they’ll lose if they don’t “earn” corporate money. Campaigns will spend $4.4 billion on television advertising in 2016. The greatest amount of formal political

discussion—debates and such—will take place on television. For many voters, this will be the primary method of education on political issues and which candidates stand on what side of the issues. Advertising money changes how those who receive it treat candidates. Would Fox News’ CEO Roger Ailes be kissing Trump’s ass if he weren’t concerned about either ad dollars or influence? Democracies, at their foundation, are about people. Corporations are not people. Corporations, due to their potential immortality and inhuman ability to collect resources, can influence legislation forever, disabling any single human from affecting inhumane laws over a lifetime. The press, which has a responsibility to keep a watchful eye on government, has been bought off. Legislators, who are dependent upon ever growing mountains of cash to get a seat at the table, can’t win if they support campaign finance reform. There is no hope, no foreseeable path beyond this quagmire. The American experiment is over. (D. Brian BurgharT)

o2 like debAting your rAcist uncle At thAnksgiving iT’s DifficulT To have meaningful Talks about immigration reform when Trump spouts off about Mexico sending rapists over the border and Jeb Bush drops a term such as “anchor baby.” It gets worse. Not only has Trump proposed building a 2,000-mile wall to

separate Mexico from the United States, he also wants to deport all undocumented immigrants and end birthright citizenship, a current right that awards legal status to anyone born in the United States, including children of undocumented immigrants. Such verbal bombs and grandiose threats are pure political theater. At best they’re conversation starters. Mostly, they’re just divisive, inflammatory and harmful. It’s time for the other candidates to publicly denounce Trump’s silly grandstanding (and, for that matter, Bush’s ignorance). It’s time to call bullshit on racism. Now is the time for legitimate candidates to shift the political fight away from what’s become the equivalent

of debating your racist uncle at the Thanksgiving table and pledge support for a clear path to citizenship. Immigration reform proposals must center on how all lives, undocumented or otherwise, can be improved by creating legal processes through which people become taxpaying, economy-boosting and productive members of society. There needs to be discussions on educational resources, housing and job opportunities, training programs and other forms of integration. We need to discuss how to be inclusionary—not the opposite—because immigration reform benefits everyone. Even Donald Trump. (rachel leiBrock)

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directly engage with the country’s immigration policies or wars overseas. They won’t necessarily come face-to-face with the government’s budget or Obamacare. But every single American does confront one political issue every single day: food. Even though so many problems plague our food system and millions of American families can’t access food on a daily basis, the F-word is never brought up during presidential campaigns or debates. It’s never a bullet point on a list of talking points. Yet, there’s so damn much to talk about. There’s the health factor—about 78.6 million adults, or 34.9 percent of the American population, are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We need better education about food, nutrition and health, and we need better, easier-to-understand labeling in our grocery stores and fast-food joints. And let’s not forget the prolific use of antibiotics in the animals we eat. There’s also big agriculture’s enormous carbon footprint and, with looming effects of climate change, it’s only a matter of time before our food system is in danger. And the White House is doing very little about it.

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until election year and start the sophistry after Labor Day, or July 4. Happy Birthday, America: a clown car for you! As polling data from the last three presidential cycles has shown, a majority of Americans think the entire process is too long. We don’t get the best candidates. We get survivors who’ve raised the most money. And as long as the electorate is a sucker for rhetoric over reason, hyperbole over sanity and delusion over reality, we’ll fall for empty suits like Sarah Palin and Donald Trump and get exactly the government we deserve. (Bruce maiman)

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all he’s worth. Late-night TV hosts and Saturday Night Live writers are thanking the comedy gods. Media outlets denouncing big money in politics are happily soaking advertisers looking to cash in on higher ratings, circulation spikes or swollen web hits. Meanwhile, the increasingly longer campaigns—Bobby Kennedy announced his 1968 presidential bid in March of 1968—require even more money to participate, which only further shuts out the average citizen, who can’t cut a check for $10,000 to buy his “free speech.” Viva democracy. The solution, perhaps the desirable alternative regardless, is to end these ludicrous marathons and shorten the campaign season. Wait

But what’s most appalling is that approximately one in seven households were food insecure in 2013, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That’s 49.1 million people who weren’t always sure where or how they’d obtain their next meal. Among food issues, this is rightly the one that sometimes gets some attention. Unfortunately, the one thing helping out hungry Americans is also under attack. Last February, President Barack Obama signed the 2014 Farm Bill, which is cutting $8.7 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over 10 years. That translates to 850,000 households losing an average $90 per month in food stamps—a major cut, considering the average household received $256.97 per month and the average person received less than $1.50 per meal last year. In March, the House Budget Committee introduced a budget plan that would cut SNAP funding by $125 billion between 2021 and 2025. Republicans have been after SNAP for a long time—will anyone defend this vital program? In the coming years, more and more Americans are expected to go to bed hungry night after night—and Washington, D.C.,

is actually helping this health crisis unfold. (Janelle BiTker)

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and manufacturers burn fuels to make their products. These are products you use every day, from cars to plastic furniture in your backyard. What a carbon tax does is put a value on each unit of greenhouse gas emitted by a polluter, and the company either has to pay to pollute, or pollute less. A carbon tax would transform America. It would generate new revenue from old-way corporations that can’t quit dumping CO2 and more into the atmosphere. It would force the energy industry to focus on more efficient and climate-change friendly models. And, most importantly, a tax will reduce emissions. This could be the single most transformative policy by any president in the past 50 years. But will the candidates look to California—or other nations like Sweden and Australia—and adopt a carbon tax? Please. I’ll believe that the day Trump pulls his hair out. (nick miller)

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ever believed blacks when they recounted the violence they experienced just for living in their black skin. As the poet Claudia Rankine has written, “The condition of Black life is one of mourning.” Some candidates are willing to discuss the movement. When Black Lives Matter interrupted a Bernie Sanders campaign event, that candidate issued a policy statement on institutional racism. Similar attempts to get attention from candidates Martin O’Malley and Hillary Clinton got a response, though not as welcoming as with Sanders. Black Lives Matter activists were shown the door by Jeb Bush’s security team. We’d like to see the Black Lives Matter movement be part of the national dialogue. But we’re not hopeful. Meanwhile, every 28 hours, another hashtag with another black victim’s name begins trending on social media. (Kel munger)

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reveals a philosophy long on ideology and short on credibility. Such social conservatives typically rail against big government meddling, yet have no trouble telling people how to live their lives. Defeated in their sanctity-of-marriage cause, they’ve rekindled the sanctity of life as a campaign issue, with calls to defund Planned Parenthood, an organization that spends not a single federal dollar on abortion services. And claims it sells fetal tissue for profit have proven completely baseless as well. Planed Parenthood’s primary focus is contraception, sex education and STD testing and treatment, services that are vital to comprehensive, preventive health care for women, yet are condemned by numerous pro-life organizations as immoral, harmful and demeaning. According to the Guttmacher Institute, the overwhelming majority of women obtaining abortions do so because they haven’t the means or resources to raise that child in a nourishing environment. Sounds pretty family value-ish, yet those insisting we force the ill-equipped

to be mothers also support reducing the services upon which such mothers depend. In other words, in Family Values Land, the pre-born zygote is a beautiful child, but upon birth, the little rugrat is a parasite eating up my tax dollars. If pro-lifers want to prevent abortions, they should stop kidding themselves about “abstinence only”—it doesn’t work—and instead support comprehensive contraception use. It’s the main factor driving the long-term decline in teen pregnancy. They should also support vigorous sex education in public schools, currently mandatory in just 22 states (California isn’t one of them.) Only 13 require the information to be “medically accurate.” Otherwise, put up or shut up: You can ban abortion, but you have to adopt every unwanted fetus when it comes to term as a child. You’ll still be an invasive nanny-stater, but at least you’ll finally be living up to your pro-life name. (b.m.)

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recent campaign speeches centering on Wall Street reform. Candidates’ silence speaks to their ties to the big banks. But in Clinton’s case, specifically, there’s the added awkwardness that the law was repealed back in 1999, during her husband’s administration. To be fair, GlassSteagall had been weakened since the time it was enacted by Congress in 1933, so by the time President Bill Clinton signed the Republicans’ deregulation Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which hammered the final nail into its coffin, the law had a lot less teeth than in prior decades. Bill Clinton has denied that the demise of Glass-Steagall had anything to do with the financial crisis, and several prominent economists back him up. Others, however, point out that there’s a major omission in that claim. Sure, there may have been a perfect storm of factors in play, including the housing and credit bubbles, but most experts agree that the broad deregulation efforts, both during Clinton’s administration and those preceding it, did greatly contribute to the financial meltdown. What’s more, the nation is still susceptible. In other words, Glass-Steagall is only a small part of the conversation that ought to take place to protect taxpayers from the wolves of Wall Street. (melIssa daUgherty)

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manipulating Congress when it comes to war. They either avoid getting permission for going to war altogether, or they somehow suspend Congress’ critical faculties and get what they want. There are many examples, but here’s a couple: In June of 1950, President Harry Truman shocked Washington by effectively declaring war (“I have ordered United States air and sea forces to give the Korean government troops cover and support”). And, in 1991, President George H.W. Bush had deftly obtained a United Nations authorization for war before asking Congress for permission, putting members of

legalization, and initiatives to do just that may appear on the 2016 ballot in 11 states, including California. Even given that groundswell of support—the majority of Americans, 52 percent, now favor legalizing weed, according to the General Social Survey—there’s been little movement at the federal level. The Obama administration has said it will respect state laws as long as certain conditions are met, but marijuana remains a Schedule 1 drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970, right alongside heroin. Considering the relatively benign effects of marijuana on human health and safety compared with other Schedule 1 hard drugs or, say, alcohol, there’s no sense in locking people up for using or possessing their recreational drug of choice. That’s not to mention a variety of potential benefits of regulating marijuana like tobacco or alcohol—increased tax revenues, for instance, and kicking the legs out from under a black market for pot that drives violence, environmental degradation and other truly criminal activity. Most Americans and an increasing number of state governments believe it’s time to end the oppressive prohibition on marijuana. Will the stances of presidential hopefuls reflect that? (howard hardee)

across the country—at least outside of Colorado, Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Washington, D.C.—still get arrested and charged for something as simple as having a joint in their pocket. According to marijuana reform advocacy group NORML, about 750,000 people in this country were arrested for marijuana violations in 2012, and the overwhelming majority—87 percent, or 652,500 people—were charged with just possession. Even so, most presidential candidates don’t favor reform of this failed federal policy. Hillary Clinton has stated that she’d like to see how legalization plays out at the state level. Others, such as Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee, say they support states’ rights to legalize it without federal intervention. At the state level, there is a clear movement toward legalization. On top of the four states that have fully decriminalized pot, 24 have approved marijuana for medical uses and some have decriminalized possession of small amounts. And polls show that majorities in 25 states favor

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s summer turns into autumn and autumn into winter, our cinematic thoughts increasingly turn away from the base pleasures of superheroes and hit men, and towards the more austere pleasures of Hollywood’s prestige season. SN&R film critics Daniel Barnes and Jim Lane have selected their most hotly anticipated movies left on the 2015 release schedule, and offer their picks for the best films of the year to date. Don’t expect any Star Wars nostalgia trips from these two cinephiles.

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TaranTino’s reTurn, True DeTecTive reDempTion anD oTher warm fuzzies the hateful eight (December 25 in select cities and nationwide on January 8, 2016): I tend to base these picks on the directors that I trust the most to deliver something unique and interesting. The always intriguing Quentin Tarantino returns with this long-gestating blend of Sergio Leone Western and Agatha Christie murder mystery, and while the details sound juicy—Eight bloodthirsty strangers! A snowed-in cabin! Revenge! Jennifer Jason Leigh! Murder! Jennifer Jason Leigh!— the truth is that Tarantino could be making Paul Blart: Mall Cop 3 and I would still be losing my shit right now.

Carol (November 20 in select cities): The first theatrical feature from writer-director Todd Haynes since his 2007 magnum opus I’m Not There would be

cause for celebration under any circumstances. It gets even juicier when you consider that Carol stars awards magnet/perfect human Cate Blanchett, and yet it was her co-star Rooney Mara who came away with an acting award when the film premiered at Cannes. Adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel, Carol appears to place Haynes back in his Far from Heaven comfort zone, as it follows the illicit love affair of a closeted lesbian couple in 1950s New York.

Crimson Peak (October 16): In his first film since Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro directs Tom Hiddleston and Mia Wasikowska as secretive lovers haunted by an unsettled past, and tormented by the ice-eyed and indomitable Jessica Chastain. While I would be perfectly content if del Toro churned out Pacific Rim sequels until the sun refused to shine, the trailer for this film looks amazing and there’s no denying that the man excels at haunted-house tales. His previous efforts The Devil’s

Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth have already set a high ceiling for Crimson Peak.

Beasts of no nation (October 16 in select cities and via Netflix): After Nic Pizzolato’s hate-watched season two of True Detective solo-effort crapped on HBO’s bed, his estranged season one collaborator Cary Joji Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) gets a chance to rub his nose in it with this highly anticipated Netflix production. The film offers a meaty, awards-baiting role to Idris Elba, who officially reached “Good in Everything” status after transcending the debacles of No Good Deed and The Gunman, and here plays a warlord who enlists child soldiers to fight in the civil war of an unnamed African country.

the Walk (September 30 in select cities and nationwide on October 9): While I’m not certain that the sublime 2008 documentary Man on Wire actually needs a 3-D movie adaptation, they couldn’t

have cast a better actor for the role of puckish tightrope walker Philippe Petit than the lithe and likeable Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The French daredevil Petit dreamed of walking a tightrope slung between the Twin Towers, and in 1974 he instigated a dangerous, illegal and heist-like scheme of espionage and trespassing, all in the service of whimsy and magic. It helps that director Robert Zemeckis knows better than anyone how to commingle groundbreaking special effects with complicated characterizations and story beats.

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scoTs, seafarers anD silver’s sTars PaWn saCrifiCe (September 16): The 1972 chess tournament between the brilliant, unstable American Bobby Fischer and the Soviet Union’s world champion Boris Spassky ignited a media frenzy at the time—unprecedented for a chess match, but that sort of thing could happen during the Cold

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War—and it’s the stuff of legend now. I’m curious to see what director Edward Zwick makes of it.

The MarTian (October 2): Have you read Andy Weir’s gripping novel of an astronaut marooned on Mars, scrambling to survive while the folks back at NASA scramble to mount a rescue expedition? If not, then for heaven’s sake do, and you’ll be as eager for the movie as I am. Ridley Scott directs a starstudded cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Sean Bean, Chiwetel Ejiofor. The preview trailer suggests that Weir will have no cause to complain, and I don’t think I will either.

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large sperm whale when the whale turned the tables, ramming the ship and sinking it. The ordeal of the surviving crew’s efforts to reach safety is a litany of horrors—starvation, madness, cannibalism—better listened to or read about than experienced. The tale was well-known in the 19th century (and inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick), but was largely forgotten until Nathaniel Philbrick turned it into a book in 2000. Now director Ron Howard has turned it into a movie that (surely) can’t miss.

Joy (December 25): I have no idea what this one’s about. The studio’s beasts of no nation

BeaStS of no nation offerS a meaty, awardSBaiting role to idriS elBa, who haS officially reached “good in everything” StatuS. MacbeTh (December): My first exposure to Shakespeare was Orson Welles’ 1948 Macbeth at the age of 8. It rattled my young bones, and I’ve been a sucker for the Scottish play ever since. This new version stars Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard as the ruthless Mrs., with Elizabeth Debicki, Sean Harris and David Thewlis in support. With a cast like that, I’ll chance the relative inexperience of director Justin Kurzel and the trio of writers tackling the Bard’s text.

in The hearT of The Sea (December 11): Here’s another thing I’m a sucker for: a harrowing seafaring adventure from the days of sail—and in this case, a true one to boot. In 1820, the whaling ship Essex was pursuing a particularly

publicity says it’s a four-generation family saga about a woman who becomes the founder of a business dynasty—which makes it sound like a novel by Edna Ferber or Danielle Steel. The preview trailer is tantalizing but uninformative. All I know, really, is that it’s directed by David O. Russell and reunites him with the stars of Silver Linings Playbook —Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro—and that’s good enough for me. (Frankly, I’d line up to see Jennifer Lawrence play Batman or King Lear.) The supporting cast includes Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini and Virginia Madsen as well, and that can’t hurt.

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The Duke of burgunDy: This luxurious and beguiling love story ostensibly follows two women living in a dominant/ submissive relationship, but writer-director Peter Strickland confounds notions of role-play and power in almost every scene. MaD Max: fury roaD: After years of wasting his time on motion-captured singing penguins, George Miller triumphantly returns to the Mad Max-verse, delivering a relentless action ballet choreographed in fire and metal.

cinDerella: Walt Disney’s 1950 animated version was flawless, and this live-action remake just about matched it. It was sumptuous and lovingly directed by Kenneth Branagh, with a radiant Lily James in the title role and Cate Blanchett curdling the blood as her stepmother.

while struggling to resolve the 30-year-old case that drove him into retirement. Director Bill Condon made this layered mystery a sublime elegy, while Ian McKellen reminded us once again—in case we needed it—that he’s one of the best actors alive.

iT followS: One of the best horror films of the millennium, an unsettling and nightmarishly lucid expression of sexual paranoia, akin to Texas Chainsaw Massacre-era Tobe Hooper helming Under the Skin.

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liSTen To Me Marlon: Marlon Brando, in his own words, reflecting on his unusual life and how it shaped him as an actor and public figure; hypnotic and stunning.

inSiDe ouT: Pixar did it again with this adventure comedy about the emotions wrestling inside the head of an 11-year-old girl. The movie played around with subtle psychological concepts that almost–but not quite–went over the heads of its target audience. Paradoxically, it expanded kids’ horizons by taking them inside their own heads. Mr. holMeS: The aging Sherlock Holmes rages against the dying of the light

Spy: Just when I thought I’d had enough of Melissa McCarthy, along came this gem from writer-director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids), and the star shone like never before, in a movie that was both brilliantly plotted and hilariously funny. while we’re young: Writerdirector Noah Baumbach’s comedy of lost youth and disillusion melded its acute perceptions with a light and compassionate touch, wry and warmly incisive.

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The magic of Ryan Kane Friday, September 4 One of the hottest up and coming magicians in San Francisco right now, Ryan Kane, is a Sacramento native. He’s been wowing folks at clubs, Magic private parties and corporate gigs with his casual demeanor and a blend of masterful slight of hand and crazy screwball antics—or as he puts it on his website: “There’s going to be magic and there’s going to be comedy in this act. If you can’t tell the difference you’re going to be really confused.” $20, through Saturday, September 5, at Green Valley Theatre, 3823 V Street; www.ryankanemagic.com.

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Brazilian independence Day Sacramento Saturday, September 5 If you were celebrating this event in South America, the festivities most certainly would not start and end at their scheduled times. Because this is in Sacramento, however, expect FeSTival things to kick off on time. There’ll be members of Sacramento’s varied Brazilian communities in attendance and you don’t need the back story of Brazilian Independence Day to attend, just a healthy appetite for South American food, dance and music, and a love for bright colors. Free, 4 p.m.-9p.m. at the MARRS Building, 1050 20th Street; http://tinyurl.com/q2wge9e.

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we near the end of what feels like a nearly endless parade of festivals this year, Sacramento would like you to know that’s it’s not tapping out of the party the same time all the rest of the squares are putting away their white pants: This town is a whole mess of festivals this week. Of course, there’s the biggest and baddest iteration of TBD Fest yet coming up midmonth, but in the meantime, Sacto is partying hard with a plethora of cultural festivities. Over in Old Sac, the annual celebration of the city’s history as a brutal place to strike it rich, gold Rush Days, kicks off on Friday, September 4. Take part in a country-western dance party, a beer crawl, a screening of Paint Your Wagon and other events through Monday, September 7. Meanwhile in Midtown, the 27th annual Sacramento Rainbow Festival will

be taking place on Sunday, September 6, to celebrate Sacto’s vibrant LGBT community, with entertainment from Ty Herndon, Luciana, Lorena Herrera and others. The outdoor festival at 20th and K streets is open to all ages. General admission tickets are $10; visit www.facebook.com/SacRainbowFest1 for more info. If you’re looking for an all-day party of sorts, be sure to head over to Miller Park (2710 Ramp Way) on Saturday, September 5, for the fourth annual R&B Festival. Hosted by the NAACP Sacramento Branch 1060, it’ll feature food, vendors, kid activities, plus music from the likes of the Midnight Players. The fun starts at 11 a.m. and goes until 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 or $40 for VIP treatment. Call (916) 856-0155 for more information. In keeping with the theme of vastly disparate events taking place Labor

Day weekend, September 4 through 6, is the Sac greek Fest at the Sacramento Convention Center (1400 J Street). Dancing lessons, cooking demonstrations, music and even Greek language lessons abound. General admission is $5; visit http://sacramentogreekfestival.com for more information. Lastly, Fiesta en la calle, a celebration of Latin American independence, will be taking place at Southside Park on Sunday, September 6, from noon to 6 p.m. with performances from Jorge Santana, Latin Touch, Cora Sol and others, and a bounty of food and drink vendors; admittance is free. Visit http://fiestaenlacalle.com for more info.

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Many styles of Latin music originated in the United States. Tejano, for example, which is a blend of European polka music and traditional Mexican music. The style evolved over the years in Mexican-American communities in FeSTival Texas, reaching its commercial peak in the ’90s with Selena, the “Queen of Tejano.” Sacramento’s ninth annual Tejano Conjunto Festival should be heaven for lovers of the sound. There will be live music, food, drinks and, even, a Selena singing contest. $25, 1 p.m. at Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I Street; www.facebook.com/ TejanoConjuntoFestivalSac.

—aaron CarneS

Free Day of Yoga celebration monday, September 7 Labor Day marks the unofficial start of fall, This year instead of knocking back a few beers at yet another backyard barbecue, why not kick off the season right with some lovely de-stressYoga ing? The Yoga Seed Collective is hosting a daylong schedule of free classes that include vinyasa and inversion sessions at the beginner’s level. Plus, learn more about the studio’s 300-hour teacher training program. Free, 9:15 a.m.–6:30 p.m. at the Yoga Seed Collective, 1400 E Street, Suite B; www.theyogaseed.org.

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Go, go Ricezilla riCezillas, lou’s sushi What’s best in life? Some may say it’s the crushing of your enemies and seeing them driven before you. But for the less barbaric, it’s actually a big ball of rice with a hunk of wasabi in the center, fried to a thick crisp and placed in creamy garlic sauce. The Ricezillas ($5) at Lou’s Sushi are a hefty little appetizer that’ll stomp your taste buds with a dense, rich flavor before a swath of burning wasabi cleans up your palate. Plus, the garlic sauce left behind goes great on the Midtown roll, just saying. 2801 P Street, www.lousushi.com.

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Meat sweats: Start making your reservations now. Empress Tavern—the meat-centric restaurant from the Mother team—is finally open, but it’s already booked solid until next week. Those earliest reservations were snatched up by friends and industry folks who attended a preview gala last Saturday night—and understandably so. The space is stunning. It feels undeniably, well, cool. The vaulted brick ceilings make Empress feel like an old European tavern, but shiny gold wallpaper, modern light fixtures—like upsidedown dandelions—and playful accents keep the restaurant fun and quirky. Empress does not take itself too seriously. Photos have been circulating the Web for quite some time now, though, so I won’t dwell on the

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design. Let’s talk food. Most of Saturday’s offerings came from the kitchen’s huge rotisserie. Both the showstopping porchetta, served with pickles and cracklings, and brisket, topped simply with mustard, instantly melted in my mouth. Smoked, juicy prime rib paired beautifully with sharp horseradish and sweet bordelaise. The turducken—a stuffed wonder of chicken, duck and turkey—made me giggle purely for existing, but I was more wowed by the two other chicken preparations: incredibly tender chicken hearts with a bright chimichurri, and roasted chicken atop rich chicken liver mousse. I ate way more than my fair share of chicken hearts. Don’t even bring up the sweetbreads. All around, the flavors were simple but spot-on; the execution flawless. What can your vegetarian friends

eat? Some appetizers, salads and sides—and maybe items off the Mother menu. Empress is still figuring out whether bringing food down from Mother would violate any codes. It could happen, but don’t show up next week and expect to order a carrot nut burger. With the bustling open kitchen, large and striking full bar and ridiculous beer bottle list of something like 40 rare brews, Empress promises to be one of the hottest destinations in town. My only question: Can you eat too many chicken hearts? Burly, bold: At night, you might find Gabriel Aiello playing with Carly DuHain’s band Drop Dead Red. During the day, working production at Preservation & Co. But eventually, he wants his main gig to be bubbly drinks: ginger ale, chai root beer, shrub sodas. Last week, he kickstarted his business Burly Beverages via Indiegogo campaign. I recently tasted Aiello’s lemon-jalapeno shrub soda, which impressed with a bold heat that lingered in your throat while remaining sweet and refreshing. Ω

I’m an unabashed fan of suicide sodas, those horrible mixes of all of the options at the fountain. When I’m feeling a bit refined, I tone it down with an Arnold Palmer, and it’s good to know that Insight Coffee Roasters has a Palmer ($3.50) for us mixed-up sorts. I got iced hibiscus tea with a touch of house-made lemonade on top, but you can choose any tea for a personalized concoction. It was smooth and refreshing—not too acidic, not too sweet. Although, maybe the next time I’m there I’ll ask for all of the teas instead of just one. 1615 16th Street, www.insightcoffee.com.

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Drought defense DanDelions So your garden is lagging and your lawn is dead— welcome to drought farming! One hardy plant that continues to thrive is the dandelion. Your only defense is to eat them. Gather the sunny blooms and ferment some dandelion wine like your granny did. Or look for huge bunches of the greens at the farmers market. They’re even healthier than kale and have been used medicinally for centuries. The leaves and roots are prized as a blood cleanser, digestive aid and liver tonic. Young, tender leaves are less bitter, so eat them raw in salads or on sandwiches. Older leaves can be steamed or sautéed.

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Greek out Meant to resemble a Greek village block party, the 52nd annual Sacramento Greek Festival features lots of music, dance lessons, games and other live performances. But the food is an undeniable highlight. From Friday, September 4, to Sunday, September 6, feast on delicacies from every region in Greece—all at the Sacramento Convention Center (1400 J Street). At the meze and gyro booths, graze on saganaki, cheese lit on fire with lemon and brandy; loukaniko, spiced Greek sausage on pita; or strips of crispy calamari. In the main dining court, try spanakopita, a flaky spinach and feta pie; moussaka, layers of eggplant, beef and a creamy bechamel sauce; and roast lamb. Then there’s pastries— so many pastries—such as loukoumades, madeto-order Greek doughnuts. And don’t forget the Greek coffee station or hands-on cooking demos—there are two classes per day. Check out the full schedule at www.sacramentogreekfestival.com.

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that douses the vegetables with the stank of fish sauce, but it’s misleading. Some of the confusion can be attributed to individuals who use the term to define their specific animalinclusive diet that don’t align with the word’s actual definition. (Flexitarian was coined just for you guys!) Egad. Orchid did not return SN&R’s calls about the menu, but it would be more accurate to call it a pescatarian menu—or make a vegan fish sauce, like the one at www.thekitchn.com/ recipe-vegan-fish-sauce-130535, because vegetables can have stank, too.

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Eat friendlier Meatless MonDays at olD IronsIDes There are lots of good reasons to be a vegetarian. It’s healthy. It good for the environment. And, of course, there’s the whole not-killing-animals part. That’s why many participate in Meatless Mondays, which advoctes that abstaining from meat even just one day a week makes a positive impact. Local FooD chef Gabriel Aiello adopted that ethos a while back by preparing healthy vegan or vegetarian meals for folks at home. Now he’s moved it to Old Ironsides, serving up $5 plates every second Monday. 6 p.m., Monday, September 14, $5. 1901 10th Street; www. theoldironsides.com.

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Team laughs seCret hanDshake soCIety Sketch comedy is hilarious live theater with jokes covering all things slapstick, absurd, intellectual, highbrow and lowbrow. The Sacramento Comedy Spot now has its own team, the Secret Handshake Society, which performs the first Friday night of ComEDy the month. The group compares its style to the likes of what you’ll find on Saturday Night Live and The Whitest Kids U’ Know. Interested in joining up? The Comedy Spot holds sketch classes also. 9 p.m. Friday, September 4, $12. 1050 20th Street; www.facebook. com/comedyspotsketch.

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Chalk-It-Up! FestIval The Chalk-It-Up! Festival turns 25 this year, which means two things: (1) You really are getting old, and (2) That the city comes together every Labor Day Weekend to raise money for kids’ arts education is a pretty cool thing. In keeping with the big anniversary, this year promises to be the biggest ever, FESTIVAL with sprawling chalk art and performances from an extensive lineup of local acts. To name just a few: Mondo Deco, Kevin Seconds and The Brodys are all playing on Saturday, September 5, and on Sunday, September 6, there will be performances from Century Got Bars, Lauren Wakefield and Maddy Sipes and the Painted Blue. Monday, September 7, catch Esteban Villa, Rat Stomp and the Off Years, plus a closing performance by Drop Dead Red (pictured). For those who want to get their chalk on, it’s easy to claim your square of the sidewalk for a sponsorship of $150. Artists will receive a box of 24 chalk pastels, a T-shirt and free refreshments. A number of community squares will also open to the public, and for the first time ever, the festival is offering a numminigrants of $500 to young artists and youth-arts organizations; applications can be filled out online. The festival will be chock full of craft vendors, food trucks and additional activities for the kiddos, so warm up that chalking elbow and support the heck out of some arts education. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday, September 5, through Monday, September 7; free. Fremont Park, 1515 Q Street; www.chalkitup.org.

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The Glass Menagerie; 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday; $15-$20. resurrection Theatre, 1723 25th Street; (916) 223-9568; www.resurrectiontheatre.com. Through September 12.

In his classic play The Glass Menagerie, playwright Tennessee Williams unveiled a beautifully fragile intensity that permeated his dialogue, his story and his now-iconic characters. The Glass Menagerie is a thinly-veiled autobiography of Williams’ early life as the struggling writer Tom who is supporting his desperate mother, Amanda, and emotionally delicate sister, Laura—and the story is presented to the audience by Tom, who is both narrator and protagonist. However, in Resurrection Theatre’s production of Williams’ 1944 classic, it’s Lee Marie Kelly’s powerfully poignant portrayal of Amanda that shifts the focus from Tom to Amanda, and allows the audience to rediscover this story of a dysfunctional family teetering toward collapse. Kelly is mesmerizing as the fading Southern belle who lives on the memories of better days while frantically trying to save herself and her daughter from an increasingly bleak future. She makes you ache for her and her daughter, and provides an unsettling understanding of her strange behavior and life choices. Director Margaret Morneau carefully keeps the action to a minimum so that the characters and language are central to the story, and pulls out hearttugging moments from her cast. Matt Rives, a relative newcomer to the Sacramento theater scene, gives the audience a realisticly conflicted Tom through his emotional swings (though he needs to slow down his dialogue so we can savor Williams’ words). Katie Kemp skillfully balances her portrayal of Laura so she doesn’t come across as clichéd while Eric Craig breathes life into a welcomed gentleman caller. 32 | SN&R | 09.03.15

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Special thumbs up to the beautiful production elements of this Glass Menagerie— period costumes, music and a set dotted with lit glass figurines, all enhanced by dramatic lighting choices. Ω

5 Bars and Measures After the success of Idris Goodwin’s How We Got On at B Street in 2013, Buck Busfield commissioned the playwright to create a new work for the theater. The result, which is now getting its world premiere here, is Bars and Measures and it is jump-up-and-clap brilliant stagecraft at its best. The terms “bars” and “measures” are musical references, but they have a simultaneous second meaning in this fascinating tale of two AfricanAmerican brothers. One is an incarcerated jazz genius (Jani Kearse), a recent convert to Islam and a bit of a firebrand. The other brother is an aspiring classical pianist (Darian Dauchan), a Christian and supporter of his kin. In regular visits, the two explore the saving—and freeing—graces of music. And when serious disagreements arise (involving faith, commitment and actions taken or contemplated), the brothers try to reconcile those differences through music. Bars and Measures is a B3 play—one of the company’s edgier, more experimental productions—but it is presented on the Mainstage, where small-cast comedies are usually the rule. It’s good to break the rules sometimes, especially with something as fine as this. It never disappoints. —Jim Carnes Bars and Measures; 7 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Thursday; 1 p.m. Sunday; $23-$35. 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. Through September 27.

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Angel in the Night

Angel in the Night, by playwright Joanna H. Kraus, is based on the true accounts of a Polish teenager who risked her life by hiding a Jewish family from Nazi soldiers during World War II. It’s the compelling story of Mary Szul—named Pawlina in the play—who later in life was honored for sheltering Jewish families. Angel in the Night is directed by Michael RJ Campbell, who brings out nice performances from actors including Tara Cartozian, a Sacramento State drama student making her Sacramento theater debut as Pawlina, Daniel Dorofeyev as the Nazi officer and Sabrina Fiora as the Jewish mother. Fr, Sa 8pm;

Su 2pm. Through 9/13.

$15-$20. California Stage Theater, R25 Arts Center, 1723 25th Street; (916) 451-5822; www.calstage.org. P.R.

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Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical

It’s December 12 in north Florida’s Armadillo Acres mobile home park and that means plastic pink flamingos amidst the hokey holiday décor. There’s a bout of amnesia, a lot of deception and F-bombs flying like fish in a sharknado. (The show is recommended for those 16 and older.) This companion piece to the Great American Trailer Park Musical is from the same creative team and features some of the same characters as the previous show. Strong singers and actors play out the usual antagonisms of neighbors and friends and the dearly and nearly departed. F, Sa, Su 8 pm. Through 9/6. $12-$18. Veterans Memorial Amphitheatre, 7991 California Avenue, Fair Oaks Village; (916) 966-3663; www.fairoaks theatrefestival.com. J.C.

Three Days of Rain

Siblings Walker (Eric Baldwin) and Nan (Beth Edwards) are the central figures in Richard Greenberg’s engrossing drama, directed by Shaleen Schmutzer-Smith. The play chronicles Walker and Nan’s beliefs about their family history, particularly what goes on in the mind of their emotionally distant, worldfamous architect father. The actors also play their character’s parents, giving the audience answers to some of the story’s questions. The play boasts strong acting and, though the second act seems rushed, it’s nonetheless a compelling drama.

Th, F, Sa 8 pm. Through 9/12.

$10. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 960-3036; www.bigidea theatre.org. B.S.

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The kids are alright Spring Awakening, based on a once-banned 1891 play by German playwright Frank Wedekind, was resurrected by Duncan Sheik (music) and Steven Sater (book and lyrics) as a Broadway musical in 2006. Teenage angst and agony, the discovery of self, sexuality and child abuse, rape, homosexuality, suicide and abortion rage through it. Ryan Warren directs this energetic production, casting teenagers as teenagers (brilliant, but risky) and scoring a hit. Leads Michael Wells, John Novotny and Courtney Clark shine, but the entire cast (including two adults who play multiple roles) is excellent. 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; $15-$20. Flying Monkey Productions, West Sacramento Black Box Theater, 1075 West Capitol Avenue in West Sacramento; www.flyingmonkeyproductions.org. Through September 5.

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The pitch meeting must have been a nightmare— “It’s like … they’ve traveled the whole world, but they’ve never really found themselves … it’s The When Robert Redford signed on to play the villain in Bucket List goes Wild … it’s The Best Exotic Captain America: The Winter Soldier, he reportedly Marigold Campsite … it’s Butch Crotchety and told directors Joe and Anthony Russo that he had no the Sundance Grandpa!”—and yet the film is not interest in the material, but that he would “do it for my without its intermittent charms, and eventually grandkids.” Hollywood liberal fat cats: always blaming hits its own version of a stride. The incomparable the children. Redford’s latest I-could-care-less vehicle Kristen Schaal shows up as a pretentious hiker, just is the Ken Kwapis-directed cue-card comedy A Walk in long enough to make me wish that she’d been cast as the Woods, a moldy, unairable, two-hour sitcom pilot the lead in Wild instead of Reese Witherspoon. that I would downgrade cable plans in order to avoid. Still, the script is almost shockingly unfunny, It’s so lackluster and musty that Redford may as well and all attempts at substance fall flat. A Walk in the have made it for his grandparents. Woods hits a succession of depressingly expected A Walk in the Woods is based on a memoir notes, right down to the pouring-out-theby travel writer Bill Bryson, but everything booze-on-the-mountainside-because-youabout the film feels artificial and don’t-need-it-anymore-because-hiking forced. It opens with Redford (as moment. It borrows the nature-asNolte’s Bryson) hawking his latest volume therapy conceit of Wild, but mostly wind-beaten of rehashes on a Boston morning uses it as a springboard for bodyramshackleness and show, wincing considerably while double pratfalls and pandering exchanging laugh-track-dependent vulgarity. smashed-cornet squeal quips with the show’s snooty Redford succumbs to the of a voice are the film’s British host. To be fair, the Rick dreck, literally at one point, but only finger holds on Kerb and Bill Holderman script Nolte keeps it real. What choice provides the cast with plenty of does he have? There’s not enough authenticity. wince-worthy moments, including CGI in the world, and besides, a scene where Nick Nolte claims to his wind-beaten ramshackleness and be a “panty-ologist” that could be used as smashed-cornet squeal of a voice are the abstinence education. film’s only finger holds on authenticity. A Walk Bryson needs a new challenge, and so he in the Woods may be little more than a collection determines to hike the 2,000-plus miles of the of lowbrow hijinks, but Nolte’s image becomes a Appalachian Trail, all the way from Georgia to riveting documentary on the debilitating effects of Maine, despite his general lack of hiking experience the Hollywood spanking line. He’s a shot of cold, (cue obligatory REI product placement). Bryson’s hard reality in a film that possesses all the depth of a worried wife (Emma Thompson, transcending this postcard. Ω garbage, as she does) insists that he bring a hiking companion, and when everyone else turns him down, his estranged and overlooked ex-travel buddy Stephen Poor Fair Good Very excellent (Nolte) re-emerges and offers to come along. Good

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American Ultra

In 1970s San Francisco, a 15-year-old aspiring artist (Bel Powley) begins her sexual awakening by launching an affair with the boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgård) of her boozy mother (Kristen Wiig). Actress Marielle Heller makes her writing and directing debut adapting Phoebe Gloeckner’s novel (which Heller previously adapted for the stage). The result is lightfingered and assured (if a trifle overlong), with Heller neither exploiting the situation nor sitting in judgment on the characters. The heroine’s growing artistic talent is illustrated with charmingly naughty animated sequences by Sara Gunnarsdóttir (serving much the same purpose as Gloeckner’s art in the novel). Powley’s commanding performance (she’s seldom off-screen) is nuanced and well-rounded, and the movie’s hopeful ending is honestly earned. J.L.

The End of the Tour

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. 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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Mistress America

After the entertaining mixed bag of While We’re Young, Noah Baumbach gets back to top form with the utterly charming Mistress America, cowritten with and starring Greta Gerwig. She gives a towering, all-the-awardsworthy performance as Brooke, an ambitious, pretentious, blindly outgoing and borderline bipolar free spirit who draws her prospective sister-in-law, Tracy, (Lola Kirke, also excellent as this lonely and impressionable college student) into her tractor beam of self-delusion. As played by Gerwig, Brooke is a hipster Holly Golightly for the Twitter age with the theatrical bluster of Auntie Mame and the fashion sense of Annie Hall—anyone who doesn’t find her absolutely delightful here can go fly a kite. Mistress America combines the millennial narcissism of Frances Ha with the jaundiced observation of Greenberg and pitches it at the breakneck speed of screwball comedy, resulting in a sharp, funny, endlessly quotable movie about female friendship dynamics. Also: Hot Chocolate! D.B.

ing for her long lost father (Ciarán Hinds). She is first protected by a mysterious stranger (Zachary Quinto)—then suddenly, for no good reason, the assassin is her protector and the stranger is trying to kill her. And it’s all because of some top-secret program to create an army of superassassins. Who cares? Don’t try to make any sense of this incoherent, repellent hunk of Eurotrash. What we shall laughingly call the script, written by Skip Woods and Michael Finch, is supposedly based on some video game. Woods gets credit for story, but there isn’t any. Let’s not mince words. The movie is garbage, somehow simultaneously boring and irritating. J.L.

Meru

The vivid but strangely uninvolving adventure documentary Meru follows skilled mountain climbers Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk on their years-long journey to conquer the seemingly unconquerable Shark’s Fin of India’s Mount Meru. More dangerous than Everest, the so-called “Meru Wall” requires each member of the team to lug 200 pounds of equipment for over a week, and the immense pack weight forces them to largely forgo food rations along the way. Co-directed by Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Meru features some stunning, fly-on-the-mountain-face climbing sequences, most of them captured on the climbers’ helmet-mounted cameras, and the deathbaiting madness of elite life-riskers has never been more real. However, the human element is sorely lacking, even as the team is touched by tragedy and near-death, and the film annoyingly overexplains every detail (Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jon Krakauer will literally never stop talking) without offering any substantial insight into the climber mind. D.B.

No Escape

An American contractor and his family (dad Owen Wilson, mom Lake Bell, daughters Sterling Jerins and Claire Geare) arrive in an unnamed Southeast Asian country for his new job, only to find themselves suddenly in the midst of a violent revolution, with the rebels murdering every foreigner they find. Written by brothers Drew and John Erick Dowdle (and

directed by John Erick), the movie is nothing if not brutally effective. Performances are strong (the two little girls are especially intense) and the tension is relentless, but the suspense is not particularly pleasurable, the action set pieces not particularly exhilarating. The Dowdles get a little sloppy at the climax, when Asian characters suddenly start speaking English for no good reason—but by then we’re so anxious for it to be over we don’t mind. J.L.

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“It’s impossible not to fall in love with ‘Mistress America’.” Joe Neumaier,

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 performances in the film. In many respects, Eazy-E is the only tragic figure in the N.W.A. story, since the rest of the main players are alive, crazy-rich and produced this movie. A few electrifying moments aside, this skillfully made but painfully skin-deep film feels like a winners’ history of the gangsta rap glory days. D.B.

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A strong cast led by Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart and supported by Connie Britton, Topher Grace and John Leguizamo elevates this lame-brained, fidgety actioner written by Max Landis and directed by Nima Nourizadeh. Eisenberg plays a sweet but psychologically shaky West Virginia stoner who discovers that he’s actually a Jason Bourne-like, deep cover supersoldier, and he gets activated into a one-man killing machine just as CIA hitmen descend on him and his girlfriend (Stewart). Nourizadeh keeps the story wheels chugging at a pace that’s fast enough to distract you—it almost feels like you’re flipping through comic book pages rather than reading them—and there’s throwaway style and hard-R splatter to burn, but some of the nonsensical second-half twists feel like studio-mandated compromises. American Ultra is just as unfocused, hazy and nihilistic as its hero, which is a good thing, until it isn’t. D.B.

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When a couple’s marriage begins to come apart, the husband (T.C. Stallings) contemplates an affair, while his real estate agent wife (Priscilla C. Shirer) comes under the wing of an older, wiser woman (Karen Abercrombie) whose home sale she is handling. Written by brothers Alex and Stephen Kendrick and directed by Alex, this is the latest in their string of Sunday-school movies, ardently preaching to the converted. That audience will respond to the movie’s sunny, squeaky-clean look (courtesy of cinematographer Bob M. Scott) and the fervent sincerity of the performances. Let others be warned: the sermonizing is nonstop, beginning with the very first lines of dialogue and continuing through the movie’s several endings. J.L.

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Hardcore hijinks and musical time travel Weirdos: Stringing together every performance in a two-day festival is hard work. I’m not even talking about putting it on—I mean attending it. Not to say that I didn’t enjoy Weirdo Fest III, an overwhelming event that took place at Midtown Barfly last weekend. It’s just that when you’ve got more than 30 heavy-as-hell acts in a 24-hour period, at some point your body breaks down and forces you into emergency nap mode somewhere on the second day. Kudos to the organizers for keeping it together. While turnout was decent both Saturday and Sunday, there was a clear split between the two days. The difference could be seen in the pits. On Saturday, there was hardly any moshing until the festival was already four hours deep, and they were mostly small circle pits. On Sunday, you were lucky if your face didn’t catch a whirling fist from the first band forward, with vicious arm flailing and flying spin-kicks marking off a large open space in front of the stage. That shift could also be attributed to the deeply different lineups. Death metal ruled the first day; Bay Area hardcore owned the second. Saturday saw thinner audience numbers until later in the night. Local tech-death band Alterbeast took arguably the largest numbers, filling up the main stage and bar areas of Barfly despite being four notches down from the top of the bill. As cool as it is that a local band drew people out among solid competition, a huge chunk immediately took off afterward, leaving Will Haven and Warbringer just a small sample of the crowd. What’s up with that?

It got worse for the headliner, Nekrogoblikon. I’m not sure if there were even 30 people in the room by then—and one person who left turned out to be the sound guy, who was double-booked Saturday night. The frustrated band grappled with heavy feedback throughout the set, and while the mistake was understandable, it still marked a strange end for the night. Day two’s attendance proved much more solid, and they showed up earlier to boot. The big draws, the Warriors and Lionheart, played the kind of hardcore that got bodies flying real high while frenzied fans stormed

the stage to scream their favorite lyrics into a commandeered mic. People stuck around in solid numbers for bands like Mastiff and Havenside, but they ditched the act I found most interesting, the prog-grind Entheos. Between it all, some hip-hop and burlesque acts kept things moving, providing quick doses of fresh air amid all the raging. No matter what people took from it, Weirdo Fest III should be called a success. The fest, organized by Trigga Productions, came from a DIY local ethos, and it brought out a diverse and respectable lineup with lots of options for varied tastes. The fourth edition of the fest, however, has already been announced for the Bay Area after three years of duking it out in Sac. So it goes.

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What year is it?: Nick Waterhouse is often touted as being part of today’s soul revival, along with Sharon Jones and Leon Bridges. He certainly sings with soul—reminiscent of ’60s R&B—and on recordings, he’s joined by stellar backup singers and a horn section. But at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub last Tuesday night, Waterhouse brought straight-up rock ’n’ roll right out of the 1950s. It was obvious before he even took the stage—Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” blared through the sound system as the small but enthusiastic crowd teemed with anticipation. Waterhouse walked out with his horn-rimmed specs, slicked-back hair, vintage attire and his Gibson hollow-body. His band wore suit jackets. Waterhouse, though engaging, looked more hard-boiled than joyful. The band evoked a time period of conservatism, of seriousness. Music ain’t all fun and games, but the organ sure did soar. Most striking was Waterhouse’s unwavering commitment to his time-travel quality. He said things like “This was on my last 45,” and introduced his bandmates as “the fellas.” Perhaps more telling: He once compared people who vehemently advocate for CD over vinyl to anti-vaxxers.

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Beth Bombara Shine, 8 p.m., $6 According to the weekly in St. Louis—and we all deeply care about what weekly newspapers think, of course—singer-songwriter Beth Bombara has been that city’s best Americana artist for the past two years. Her lyrics are simple and AMERICANA frank, with some surprising instrumentation. Upright bass, fiddle, banjo, lap steel, mandolin and trombone all play a role on her newest self-titled record. Sounds potentially cluttered, but Bombara tends to keep things sparse, highlighting her storytelling, instead. Bombara actually opens up this show for locals Boneyard Rattlers and Hair of the Dawg, so get there early. 1400 E Street, http://bethbombara.com.

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Chances are most of the patrons attending this Saturday’s Rewind Fest 2015 gathering will still be trying to fit into their ’80s garb while Anabella Lwin and her band take the stage. After being discovered by a friend of fashionista extraordinaire Malcolm McLaren, she was consequently offered a gig in what would later become Bow Wow Wow. And while she hasn’t been a member of the band since 1983, Lwin legally can use NEW WAVE her own name preceding the original moniker. Also on this purposely date-stamped bill are the Psychedelic Furs, A Flock of Seagulls, the Tubes and Dramarama. 1200 Athens Avenue in Lincoln, www.annabellalwin.com.

—Janelle Bitker

LIVE MUSIC. DRINKS.

Sleep train arena, 7:30 p.m., $52-$468

The Get Up Kids celebrate their 20-year anniversary with stops throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. The band still features founder and original EMO vocalist-guitarist Matt Pryor. The album Something to Write Home About gained recognition in the ’90s Midwest emo scene and built enough momentum for the band to tour with groups like Green Day and Weezer. Still, members aimed to distance the band from the emo term and released On a Wire in 2002, which introduced fans to a deeper alternative-rock sound. The band’s latest work, There Are Rules, was released on its own label, Quality Hill Records, in 2011. 1417 R Street, www.facebook.com/thegetupkids.

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Things I learned while listening to Ariana Grande all week include: You need a good girl to absolutely, truly blow your mind. Bad girls won’t cut it. They’re apparently the new basic. Also, a girl always wants to go home with you one last time. Even POP if you’re a jerk. But be ready: After, she’s gonna break free, because she’ll have one less problem without you. I know, this was a grande knowledge drop—especially for a dude long out of the dating scene. But then I listened to “Right There,” Grande’s single with her ex, Big Sean. I call bullshit! This young diva can’t be trusted. One Sports Parkway, www.arianagrande.com.

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Media Jeweler is a rock band, they’ll have you know. Their press release says, “The nuance lost with the variety of modifying adjectives that can precede ‘rock’ is priceless.” While I emphatically agree, I feel this, in practice, would be very confusing. Record-store clerks would riot in the streets, and Big Hyphen would use all its lobbying money to bring us back to the old system. Anyway, I’d compare the band’s sound to a few hyphenROCK rock bands—post-rock outfits like Tortoise and Slint with proggier moments like Don Caballero. God, no one tell them about this. With Pregnant, Woodwose and Warm Tape. 946 Olive Drive in Davis, www.mediajeweler.org.

STarliTe lounge, 8 p.m. call for cover.

When you’ve got a hit like “Carry on Wayward Son” that’s been openly loved by bros and secretly loved by everyone else for ROCK more than four decades, it’s safe to say you’ve achieved a bit of timelessness. Further bolstering Kansas’ claim of immortality is Will Ferrell’s character in Old School famously belting out “Dust in the Wind.” A No. 6 Billboard hit in 1978, the song has been and will continue to be played at funerals until the end of time. But the five-piece classic rock band isn’t content to stop there: it’s currently touring in the wake of a documentary about its history, Miracles Out of Nowhere, which came out in March of this year. 1013 K Street, http://www.kansasband.com.

—Brian Breneman

North is not from the north. The band is from Tuscon, Ariz., which is definitely southeast of Sac. Unfunny spatially relative commentary aside, North is a three-piece prog-sludge band that blends heaviness and distortion with disorienting noise soundscapes. Its latest EP, Through Raven’s Eyes, is in and out with SLUDGE two songs definitely worthy of investigating if you have any love for shoegaze and doom. Also worth checking out are Name and Mini and The Bear, the other two bands filling out this somewhat experimental bill. 1517 21st Street, (916) 704-0711, http://northband.us.

—anThony Siino

GET UP KIDS

THE HOTELIER - JOSH BERWANGER BAND THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

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The late ’70s post-punk movement was less about genre and more about bringing a spirit of experimentation and adventure to the music. One of the lesser-known groups from this era was the Nightingales, who between 1979 and 1896 jumped all over POST-PUNK the place under the banner of “dissonant pop.” They re-formed in 2004, and since they never had a significant fan base or much in the way of rules governing their sound, they’ve emerged as a fresh creative force rather than a trip through the nostalgic ’80s underground. The latest record, Mind Over Matter, is a baffling, eclectic, danceable alt-rock affair. 1517 21st Street, http://thenightingales.org.uk.

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ACE OF SPADES SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

STarliTe lounge, 8 p.m. $6-$8

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2003 K St., (916) 448-8790

THURSDAY 9/3

FRIDAY 9/4

#TBT and 5 Card Stud with throwback video requests, 8pm, call for cover

Fabulous and Gay Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

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1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400 9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247

COUNTRY CLUB SALOON

4007 Taylor Rd., Loomis; (916) 652-4007

BURN HALO, A MILE TILL DAWN, MADISON AVENUE; 6:30pm, $12

CEMETERY SUN, ONCE AN EMPIRE, LOST THINGS, ALTESSA; 6pm, $10

DIRK LAND BAND, 9pm, no cover

LOOSE GRAVEL, 9pm, no cover

House party Sundays, 8pm, $10

Open-mic, M; DRAG THE RIVER, 8 pm Tu; ANGI3, J. LATELY; 8pm W

FLIGHT MONGOOSE, HEADPOP; 8pm, $5

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Ian Bluestone, 10pm, $5

Louie Giovanni, 10pm, 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

MARTY COHEN AND THE SIDEKICKS, 8pm, no cover

BRIAN WATSON, PAT REILLY TRIO; 9pm, $5

ANTON BARBEAU, MASON HOFFMAN; 9pm, $5

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

GOLDFIELD TRADING POST

TOREE MCGEE, 9pm, call for cover

BRODIE STEWART BAND, 9pm, call for cover

Open mic, M, no cover; Tacos and Trivia, 7pm Tu, no cover

HALFTIME BAR & GRILL

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

GROOVE THANG, 9pm, $5

Trivia night, 7:30pm Tu; Bingo, 1pm W

IN THE NO, THE REGGIE GRAHAM PROJECT; 9:30pm, $8-$10

TOM RHODES, 7pm, $15-$18; FRANKIE AND THE DEFENDERS, 10pm, $10-$14

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825 1603 J St., (916) 476-5076

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

HARLOW’S

DEVON ALLMAN, THE BAD JONES; 8pm, $13-$15

THE HIDEAWAY BAR & GRILL

Trash Rock Thursdays, 9pm, no cover

LUNA’S CAFE & JUICE BAR

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

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

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

HUSALAH, DJ Eddie Z; 8pm, $20

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

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

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KHAM RAW, MAHTIE BUSH; 10pm, call for cover

THE COZMIC CAFE

1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931

Trivia Night, 6:30pm M, no cover; Open-mic night, 7:30pm W, no cover

314 W. Main St., Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384

2565 Franklin Blvd., (916) 455-1331

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 9/7-9/9 Feel Good Mondays happy hour all night, M; Trapicana, W, call for cover

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

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BANJO BONES, CHARLES GUNN, MATT & ANNIE; 8pm, no cover

THE BOARDWALK

1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

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SUNDAY 9/6 Sunday Tea Dance and Beer Bust, 4-8pm, call for cover

ALEX VINCENT, 9:30pm, call for cover

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

BLUE LAMP

SATURDAY 9/5 Spectacular Saturdays top 40 and high energy dance, 9pm, call for cover

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Labor Day party, call for time and cover Sunday Mass with heated pool, drag show, 2pm, no cover

KEITH MURRAY, LUNIZ, JERMAINE DUPRI, RICHIE RICH; 9pm, $25-$30

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

SPIRITUAL REZ, ONE LEG CHUCK, TWO PEACE; 7pm Tu, $7

Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M; Open-mic comedy, 8pm Tu That Thing on Friday, EDM, 10pm-2am, $5

Salsa Wednesday, 7:30pm W, $5

THURSDAY 9/3

FRIDAY 9/4

SATURDAY 9/5

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN

INSTAGON, HIGH PROFILE TRANSIENTS, CIAO CINECITTA; 8:30pm, $5

NICE MONSTER, BAND OF LOVERS, SPANGLER; 8:30pm, $5

HEADPOP, FLIGHT MONGOOSE; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz session, 7:30pm M; MOLLY PAUL, THE CLEARWINGS; 8:30pm W, $5

OLD IRONSIDES

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Old Ironisides Anniversary Week, 9pm, $5

Lipstick weekender, 9pm, $5

Karaoke, 9pm Tu; Open-mic, 9pm W

PISTOL PETE’S

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

S.W.I.M., BRI, NOVA SUTRO; 8pm, call for cover

POWERHOUSE PUB

SWEET REVENGE, 10pm, call for cover

JOY AND MADNESS, 10pm, call for cover

THE PRESS CLUB

1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

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

SUNDAY 9/6

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 9/7-9/9

ON THE Y

670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

13 Main St., Winters; (530) 795-1825 140 Harrison Ave., Auburn; (530) 885-5093

City of Trees Brass Band 8pm Saturday. Call for cover. Starlite Lounge Jazz

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, W, no cover Grant’s Blues Extravaganza, 3pm, call for cover

Live band karaoke, 8pm Tu, call for cover

BUlLDINGS BREEDING, ARTS & LEISURE, VASAS; 7pm, $7

LOVE MOON, NO FUTURE, PRAYING; 5pm, call for cover

I KILL CAMERON, 8pm M; DEAD DADS, 8pm Tu; POLLUTION CIRCUS, 8pm, W

SHADY LADY SALOON

TESSIE MARIE, 9pm, no cover

ALEX JENKINS, 9pm, no cover

SOPHIA’S THAI KITCHEN

HEY MARSEILLES, WILDING; 9pm, $7

614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586 2030 P St., (916) 444-7914 1409 R St., (916) 231-9121

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

THUNDER COVER, 10pm, call for cover

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

STARLITE LOUNGE

TRIKOME, STREET VILLAGE, SPACE RABIES; 8pm, call for cover

CITY OF TREES BRASS BAND, 8pm, call for cover

SWABBIES

NUNCHUCK TAYLOR, call for time and cover

COVER BANDITS, 3pm; HIT PARADE, 6pm, call for cover

LINT TRAPPERS, TAIL TONE RAMBLER; 4:20pm; DIPPIN’ SAUCE, 9pm, $7

BOB WOODS, PETE KMETO; 5:30pm; BIG Blues jam, 4pm, no cover; EARL AND THE CRYIN SHAME, 9pm, $7 DAD’S LIPS, 8pm, $5

1517 21st St., (916) 704-0711 5871 Garden Hwy, (916) 920-8088

TORCH CLUB

X TRIO, 5pm, call for cover; WHISKEY AND STITCHES, 9pm, $6

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

NORTH, MINI AND THE BEAR, NAME; 8pm Tu; GENTLEMEN SURFER, 8pm W THE SPAZMATICS, call for time and cover

FOUR BARREL, 3pm M, call for cover MICHAEL RAY, 8pm Tu, no cover; KERI CARR BAND, 9pm W, $5

All ages, all the time ACE OF SPADES

1417 R St., (916) 448-3300

THE COLONY

DEATH ROGEN, END THE FIGHT, CONCEIVED IN CHAOS; 6:30pm, $5

3512 Stockton Blvd., (916) 718-7055

SHINE

1400 E St., (916) 551-1400

Angi3 with Corina Corina and J. Lately 8pm Wednesday. Call for cover. Blue Lamp Pop

GET UP KIDS, THE HOTELIER, JOSH BERWANGER BAND; 7pm, $19.99

Jazz jam with Jason Galbraith, 8pm, no cover

HAIR OF THE DAWG, BONEYARD RATTLERS, BETH BOMBARA; 8pm, $6

VINNIE GUIDERA & THE DEAD BIRDS, EDWARDS CROSSING; 8pm, $6

ALLE Y K AT Z PRESENTS

2708 J Street Sacramento, CA 916.441.4693 www.harlows.com 9/3 7PM $13ADV

DEVON ALLMAN THE BAD JONES

9/6 9PM $25ADV

KEITH MURRAY LUNIZ, JERMAINE DUPRI 9/8 7PM $7

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FRANKIE AND THE DEFENDERS, CALIFORNIA RIOT ACT, DENVER J WITH FLYIN COWBOY

COMING SOON

9/11 8PM $10

DISCO REVOLUTION

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URBIE Showcase Majickat: A Tribute to Cat Stevens Carl Verheyen Band Adrian Bellue Natural Vibrations Kamasi Washington Steelin’ Dan Matt Schofield Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers Mr. Vegas Mike Love Honeyhoney Papa’s Culture (early) Monophonics (late) Cream of Clapton Saved by the 90s 2015 Sac Blues HOF Joe Ely The Oh Hellos Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin Jason Wright & Sara Maria Mustache Harbor

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Sierra BrewFest

An epic afternoon of sun, suds and fun

Saturday, September 5

Northern Mono County’s towns of Walker, Coleville & Topaz invite you to come explore their valley and wonderful surrounding area. Grab a map & explore the many trails. See the beautiful Sierra mountains in an entirely different way.

Come & enjoy the birds in Sonora Pass & Antelope Valley. Your entry gives you the chance to catch a bird‘s eye view of the variety of birds there are to see in Coleville, Walker, Topaz. & more.

Package includes Guided Hikes, Maps for self guided tours and 2 breakfasts. $25 Donation

Packages includes Guided Walks & 2 Breakfasts. $25 Donation

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Produced by the MIM Alliance

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

$40 at the door $10 non-tasters

Call 530-208-6078 to register for either event. You can combine both the Hiking the Valley & Birding the Valley events. Visit www.northernmonochamber.com for information on lodging, RV parks, dining & more.

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Sponsored by the Northern Mono Chamber of Commerce, Mono County & local merchants of Coleville & Walker. Proceeds go to the NMCC Community Projects. www.monocounty.org • 800-845-7922

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Sexual attraction stirs big feelings but those feelings have nothing to do with love. Juicy sex ignites big feelings but those aren’t love, either. Big feelings are exciting but too vague to build a committed relationship on. That’s why you and your man swing from connection to disconnection. There’s nothing between you strong enough to last. It’s not possible for the relationship to He knows it; he’s moved on. The continue, honey. Your girlfriend smartest move you can make has opted to obey her is to get yourself together parents. Don’t hold that You know mentally, emotionally and against her. Let it inspire spiritually. Stop focusing real love is you into a realistic on him. Stop lying to possible. You just assessment of their yourself by pretendsituation. Your girlneed to accept that ing you have lost friend’s parents have something valuable. true love can happen a vision of the college Become a woman who many times in a experience she should knows how to let go of have, and they hold lifetime, not things that are no longer the purse strings. Maybe working. Try this: invest just once. that’s why your girlfriend 20 uninterrupted minutes agreed to be single. Don’t take journaling about why you are it personally. You’re still amazing. attracted to chaos in romance. Keep Her compass is just pointed in a different writing daily until the truth shows up on direction than yours. your page. When it does, forgive yourself Very few people start college with for dragging your heart through relationship authentic personal knowledge about hell. Forgive anyone who has contributed to healthy romantic relationships. You will. your idea that love means chaos. Afterward, You know what it means to be selfless. your heart will be free to love. Ω You know how to make someone happy, how to be understood and how to work to understand. You have learned how to be deeply intimate with another person, MedItAtIon of tHe Week sharing minds, bodies and spirits. The “People have a hard time past two years taught you everything you letting go of their suffering. need to know to move forward into a Out of a fear of the unknown, life that many people fear isn’t possible. they prefer suffering that But you know real love is possible. You is familiar,” says Thích Nhat just need to accept that true love can Hanh, a Mahayana Buddhist happen many times in a lifetime, not monk. Whose suffering can you just once. And, when you stop believing alleviate today? that your ex-girlfriend is your destiny, you will accept that your time together is complete. Embracing that reality will Write, email or leave a message for Joey at the News & Review. Give inspire your pain to lessen, then very your name, telephone number quickly end. After seeing how much you (for verification purposes only) and question—all have gained by loving well, you will open correspondence will be kept strictly confidential. your heart again. That’s love in action. Write Joey, 1124 Del Paso Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95815; call (916) 498-1234, ext. 3206; or email askjoey@newsreview.com.

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FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Excess is the common

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Going with the flow”

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you happy,” said movie star and ex-California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. “I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.” Despite his avowal, I’m guessing that extra money would indeed make you at least somewhat happier. And the good news is that the coming months will be prime time for you to boost your economic fortunes. Your ability to attract good financial luck will be greater than usual, and it will zoom even higher if you focus on getting better educated and organized about how to bring more wealth your way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I stand up next

to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand.” So sang Jimi Hendrix in his raucous psychedelic tune “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).” We could view his statement as an example of delusional grandiosity, and dismiss it as meaningless. Or we could say it’s a funny and brash boast that Hendrix made as he imagined himself to be a mythic hero capable of unlikely feats. For the purposes of this horoscope, let’s go with the latter interpretation. I encourage you to dream up a slew of extravagant brags about the outlandish magic powers you have at your disposal. I bet it will rouse hidden reserves of energy that will enhance your more practical powers.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s the phase of

your cycle when you have maximum power to transform yourself. If you work hard to rectify and purify your inner life, you will be able to generate a transcendent release. Moreover, you may tap into previously dormant or inaccessible aspects of your soul’s code. Here are some tips on how to fully activate this magic: (1) Without any ambivalence, banish ghosts that are more trouble than they are worth, (2) identify the one bad habit you most want to dissolve, and replace it with a good habit, (3) forgive everyone, including yourself, (4) play a joke on your fear and (5) discard or give away material objects that no longer have any meaning or use.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I hope you’re not

getting bored with all of the good news I have been delivering in recent weeks. I’m sorry if I sound like I’m sugarcoating or whitewashing, but I swear I’m simply reporting the truth about the cosmic omens. Your karma is extra sweet these days. You do have a few obstacles, but they are weaker than usual. So I’m afraid you will have to tolerate my rosy prophecies for a while longer. Stop reading now if you can’t bear to receive a few more buoyant beams. This is your last warning! Your web of allies is getting more resilient and interesting. You’re expressing just the right mix of wise selfishness and enlightened helpfulness. As your influence increases, you are becoming even more responsible about wielding it.

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

16th-century Spanish invaders arrived in the land of the Mayans, they found a civilization that was in many ways highly advanced. The native people had a superior medical system and calendar. They built impressive cities with sophisticated architecture and paved roads. They were prolific artists, and had a profound understanding of mathematics and astronomy. And yet they did not make or use wheeled vehicles, which had been common in much of the rest of the world for over 2,000 years. I see a certain similarity between this odd disjunction and your life. Although you’re mostly competent and authoritative, you are neglecting to employ a certain resource that would enhance your competence and authority even further. Fix this oversight!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you have ever

fantasized about taking a pilgrimage to a wild frontier or sacred sanctuary or your ancestral homeland, the next 10 months will be an excellent time to do it. And the best time to plan such an adventure will be the coming two weeks. Keep the following questions in mind as you brainstorm: (1) What are your life’s greatest mysteries, and what sort of journey might bring an awakening that clarifies them? (2) Where could you go in order to clarify the curious yearnings that you have never fully understood? (3) What power spot on planet Earth might activate the changes you most want to make in your life?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When he died

at the age of 77 in 1905, Aquarian author Jules Verne had published more than 70 books. You’ve probably heard of his science fiction novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He was a major influence on numerous writers, including Jean-Paul Sartre, J. R. R. Tolkien and Arthur Rimbaud. But one of his manuscripts never made it into book form. When he finished it in 1863, his publisher refused to publish it, so Verne stashed it in a safe. It remained there until his great-grandson discovered it in 1989. Five years later, Verne’s “lost novel,” Paris in the Twentieth Century, went on sale for the first time. I suspect that in the coming months, you may have a comparable experience, Aquarius. An old dream that was lost or never fulfilled may be available for recovery and resuscitation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I enjoy using

the comedy technique of self-deprecation,” says stand-up comic Arnold Brown, “but I’m not very good at it.” Your task in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to undermine your own skills at self-deprecation. You may think they are too strong and entrenched to undo and unlearn, but I don’t—especially now, when the cosmic forces are conspiring to prove to you how beautiful you are. Cooperate with those cosmic forces! Exploit the advantages they are providing. Inundate yourself with approval, praise and naked flattery.

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Festival double-agent Usually when an actress returns home to Sacramento, it means her career isn’t going so well. Not so for Marion Kerr, who comes back bearing a celluloid gift. On September 11, she will premiere the short film she wrote and starred in, Une Libération, during the Sacramento Film & Music Festival. Judging by its trailer, the World War II pic looks like a thriller in which Kerr plays ... someone mysterious. The daughter of a local theater actress and an alum of Sacramento Country Day School, Kerr keeps a busy schedule in Hollywood, with roles in movies, television shows and commercials. But there ain’t nothing like some home cooking—and stupid questions from the local rag.

The short film you wrote and starred in takes place in France near the end of World War II. What interested you about that period? Well, the history around World War II has always fascinated me. And there are so many stories from that era, some of which aren’t as well known as others. I thought the liberation of Paris might be one of those stories for American audiences.

Who do you play? I play Juliet, an American who was living in Paris with—well, I don’t want to give too much away—but with someone very important to her when the Nazi occupation of Paris began. She didn’t get out in time so she has been working for the Resistance, trying as best she can to help.

It’s titled Une Libération, which Google Translate tells me means “a release.” Why do so many French expressions sound borderline sexual? Perhaps it’s just Google Translate that makes everything sound sexual. It’s actually a play on “La Liberation,” which is what the French call this period when Paris was liberated.

Is this your first time participating in the Sacramento Film & Music Festival? I actually went for the first time about five years ago. I had a film playing in a latenight shorts block, so I came down for the evening to see the film with my parents. It was very surreal seeing a film I was in at the Crest, a movie theater that I went to regularly during high school.

PHOTO COuRTEsY OF MARiOn KERR

What are you most looking forward to about returning to Sacramento? Sacramento is just a wonderful oasis for me, so I love coming back whenever I can. Maybe I’ve just been in L.A. too long, but the air in Sac seems so much cleaner. It’s green everywhere, traffic is better and everyone is just nicer. I’m most looking forward to being in that kind of environment and connecting with family and friends.

You’re screening your movie in the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium’s Jean Runyon Little Theater, which is named for your mother’s mentor. That must be special. Yeah, I couldn’t believe it when I saw it was the Jean Runyon Theater. She was such an amazing woman and so kind to my mother when she first moved to Sacramento. She always kept tabs on me and was always so supportive of my career.

You’ve appeared on some pretty big shows, including How I Met Your Mother and Criminal Minds. Our millennial readers want to know: What’s TV? Well, boys and girls, once upon a time there was a magical box where, when you pressed a button, television shows would appear at certain times on certain days. There was no binge-watching. You had to sit through all the commercials. And if it was a rerun, you said “Aww, man,” and then sat and watched it anyway. The end.

You’re proficient in stage combat and real CPR. Does that mean you can fake hurt me and for-real save me? Exactly. Which is really the skill set any person wants to have. Right?

Your resume also lists one of your special skills as “ice stalking.” Why won’t you take the hint and leave ice alone? Um, it’s ice “staking,” thank you very much. It basically means I’m a cross between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Elsa from Frozen. Also, I can’t spell.

You were in a Jenna Jameson movie called Zombie Strippers! How much hand sanitizer did you go through during that shoot? Well, I was nowhere near the zombie strippers at any time, actually. I was too busy being a lab assistant who is torn limb from limb in the first five minutes. C’est la vie.

The movie’s tagline was, “They’ll swallow your soul, anything else will cost you.” With marketing that good, how come I hadn’t heard about it until now? You are behind the curve, my friend. It’s just waiting for you on the Internets. Ω

For festival information, visit www.sacfilm.com. To see what’s next for Kerr, follow her on Twitter @MarionRKerr.

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