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DEPORTATION GAMES

Sacramento sheriff earns millions from tough deportation policies, even as California leads way on immigration reform. Whose side is Scott Jones on?

by RAHEEM F. HOSSEINI

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acramento County Sheriff Scott Jones has a trust problem.

Sorry, make that “TRUST” problem.

We’re referring, of course, to the TRUST Act, which Gov. Jerry Brown approved two years ago and went into effect on January 1 of last year. Jones has no faith in it.

The TRUST Act severely disrupted the partnership between federal immigration authorities and local law enforcement, one that began during the Bush administration in 2008. Basically, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were getting jails to keep immigrants locked up past their release dates.

They did this so agents had time to take noncitizens into federal custody and put them on a path to deportation.

These ICE agents accomplished this by issuing detainers—short little documents that said, “Hey, hold this person an extra 48 hours (not counting weekends or holidays, of course).”

The detainer program, called Secure Communities, was supposed to target criminals and high-risk aliens.

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Instead, it swept up victims of crime, undocumenteds who faced minor infractions—and at least one local tamale lady. It also made immigrants even less likely to trust the cops.

In short, Secure Communities proved a spectacular mess.

Jones fought hard against the TRUST Act—and still fights, even though he says he begrudgingly complied with it last year.

Civil-rights watchdogs are highly skeptical and suspect the sheriff of rolling out the red carpet to federal immigration authorities in other clandestine ways. They contend ICE agents get VIP access to Sacramento jails and its locked-up immigrants.

Saira Hussain is a staff attorney at Asian Americans Advancing Justice— Asian Law Caucus, which represents immigrants in wrongful detention claims. She told SN&R that jail officials conspire with the feds to deport undocumented immigrants, violating state and federal laws.

The sheriff rejects the accusation, but acknowledges he does want to roll back the clock. In July, Jones asked a congressional subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security to overrule TRUST and policies like it.

Meanwhile, his department receives millions of dollars annually through a federal contract that reserves local jail beds for immigrants processed by ICE. The sheriff says the issue for him is about public safety, not money. And

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Place to make you Sacramento’s buzzword of the moment, the latest elbow-rubbing lube at cool metro gatherings, is “placemaking.” This highfalutin jargon deals with the effort to revitalize “neglected” urban space by injecting it with creative and innovative public-private projects. It’s about urban renewal, and that’s a good thing.

The problem is that the locals waving this placemaking flag are on team “Sacramento as the next great American city.” Many of these preachers just arrived in town.

They’ve got clear eyes and full hearts—but they’re gonna lose.

They’re gonna lose because, when they pontificate, they sound entitled, as if they know what’s best for the city, as if Sacramento hasn’t been “placemaking” for decades. As if we’re not already great.

Modern urban revival shouldn’t only matter when its embraced by politicians, developers and Chamber of Commerce types. Placemaking shouldn’t only be when the business community figures out how to commodify youth culture. And Sacramento doesn’t need a rebirth or “renaissance.” We’re fine.

I’m not here to rebel against an Ivy League deconstruction of the city’s urban milieu. And I get that old school Sacramentans aren’t the most welcoming bunch. But neolocals waxing on about this city’s “live, work, play” credentials often are more than just a little dismissive of the people who’ve made Sacramento exciting and vibrant for decades. It’s insulting to those talented thinkers and artists, engineers and musicians who’ve put the city on their shoulders.

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I turn mine off on a plane because I don’t want to be the cause of any interference, so definitely when I am flying. My phone is always on silent. I don’t have a ringer for it, so it is always on silent or vibrate. I might put it in “sleep” mode if I am taking a nap.

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I turn it off at night so I can get some rest. That is the only time, other than that it is on vibrate. As soon as I get up, I have to turn it on. I get a cup of coffee, check my messages, check into social media. … I sleep better when it is off.

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Re “What would Jesus say about poverty?” by Jeff vonKaenel (SN&R Feature Story, October 8): Jesus, Isa bin Maryam (Jesus son of Mary) is a prophet referred to 93 times in the Quran. Zahah, helping the poor and needy, is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. Might it not have been fitting to include a Muslim voice among those interviewed for this article? If not, why not? Oversight?

Simple ignorance? Indifference? Or?

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Do something about guns, now Re “Outrage” (SN&R Editorial, October 8): I too am outraged by yet another senseless firearm attack on innocent people. Since the mass shooting at Umpqua Community

College in Oregon, at least two other shootings have taken place in colleges across our country. And only several weeks ago, a shooting took place at nearby Sacramento City College. Across our country, especially in cities like Chicago,

shootings are the norm now. Many of us have become desensitized by frequent shootings. Our leaders (both sides of the aisle) seem clueless on how to tackle the shooting epidemic. Aside from stricter gun-control mechanisms, we the people must put pressure on our representatives and the creators of gun-violence movies and violent video games to cease making them. Easily influenced minds tend to become easy prey to violent movies and violent video games. Having fallen prey to them, the easily influenced minds move a few notches closer to carrying out what they see over and over again—shootings—and coupled with mental health deficiencies, this makes a shooting of any kind more likely. We, as a society, should not wait until one of our loved ones is shot before we wake up and act.

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Re “Outrage” (SN&R Editorial, October 8): Instead of moaning about how outraged you are, why don’t you just read the Constitution, study the Supreme Court jurisprudence on gun rights, and start doing what the Constitution tells you directly about changing its contents. You’ll have to convince the majority of the American people that there aren’t meth heads, criminals and terrorists who want to harm them.

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A scene from Down in the Valley, ESPN’s documentary about Mayor Kevin Johnson saving the Kings. The film may never air on the cable network after sexual-molestation allegations resurfaced. photo FRoM DoWN IN thE VALLEY

dirty for dirty Deadspin hounds K.J., molestation allegations re-emerge, ESPN dumps Johnson’s national-spotlight moment— what’s it all mean for the mayor’s political aspirations?

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If Kevin Johnson was bummed, he sure didn’t let on this past Monday night at the Crest Theatre. SN&R wasn’t invited to the premiere of his ESPN “30 for 30” documentary, Down in the Valley, but by all accounts the mayor was in full-on fête mode: high-fiving fans, posing for pictures, smiling. Which was odd, because just hours earlier, K.J. received some of the worst news of his political career: ESPN was canceling his big movie because of resurgent sexual-molestation allegations.

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issues,” is how ESPN vice president John Dahl explained to Sports Illustrated the reasoning for shelving the film.

By “certain issues,” the ESPN boss means sex crimes allegedly committed by the mayor while an NBA player in Phoenix during the ’90s. Dave McKenna, a former weekly-paper scribe in Washington, D.C., and now staff reporter for Deadspin, has hounded Johnson for years, covering everything from the mayor’s repeated sexual-misconduct accusations to his forays into education reform to his lawsuit with this paper.

But last month, McKenna published an interview with K.J. accuser Amanda

“Mandi” Koba. Now 35 and living in Virginia, this was the first time Koba had ever spoken to media about Johnson, who she claims molested her during the ages of 15 and 16, when she was just a 95-pound high-school girl in Phoenix.

Both Deadspin and The Sacramento Bee have reported in the past that Johnson paid Koba $230,000 to keep quiet. But 19 years later, Koba told McKenna that, after years of subsequent allegations against K.J., she couldn’t stay silent. “I just felt like I wasn’t doing anything but protecting him,” Koba told Deadspin.

Accusations against Johnson grabbed even more media attention last Thursday,

when Deadspin published police video of a teenaged Koba describing K.J.’s sexual abuse. A transcript of this interview with police already existed, but seeing the actual video proved unsettling: At its conclusion, the detective interviewing Koba tells her that he thinks Johnson “is probably taking advantage of other young people.”

At Monday’s movie premiere, which could be the final time the ESPN film screens for the public, the mayor dismissed Koba’s claims. “There’s no there, there,” he told media outside the theater before the screening.

After decades of accusations, however, there is at least something.

‘I’ve been afraId to speaK’ Mandi Koba was 15 years old in 1995 when she met Kevin Johnson, who was then 29 and one of the biggest stars in the NBA. A year later, in a Phoenix police report, she’d describe their relationship as anything but appropriate: She says Johnson fondled her breasts and vagina, showered with her, rubbed his penis on her body and,

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Johnson allegedly paid her to never talk about the alleged incident again. But this summer, Koba started blogging on her website, www.mandikoba.com, about her experience 19 years ago.

“I am every victim of sexual assault by a celebrity, a professional athlete, a politician that has been silenced. I’ve been afraid to speak, come forward and tell my story,” the now mother of three wrote. “But no more.

It’s time.”

Her June 7, 2015, entry is confessional: “I’ve lain in silence, accepting the unwanted touch of a grown man I trusted, believed in, thought believed in me. An adult mentoring me, grooming me, promising me the world if I would just trust, trust in him. I learned to leave my body, not feel the sensation of touch, not notice the passage of time, my brain protecting me from the trauma.”

Koba finally spoke this summer to Deadspin, who published her interview on September 25. “Part of the way they got me to go along with the agreement was they told me it would protect me from his attorneys saying mean things about me,” Koba told McKenna about K.J. paying her off to keep quiet. “Well, I’m a grown-up now. They can say mean things about me if they want.”

The Deadspin feature lays out everything, from how Johnson and Koba met during a commercial shoot, to how her mother told K.J. that she couldn’t be her daughter’s boyfriend, to how Johnson gave Koba the nickname “Whiskey.” “And when he hasn’t seen [me] in a while or talked to me,” Koba told police in 1996, “he’d leave a message telling me that he needed a shot of whiskey.”

McKenna also resurfaced disturbing allegations against Johnson stemming from their relationship. About how the mayor allegedly took young Koba to many of his properties, where he would molest her.

Deadspin also cited the ’96 police report, which SN&R has reported on in the past: “At [Johnson’s] home on Camelback Mountain, Amanda said she and Kevin were watching television on a big circular couch. Kevin began acting as if he were looking for a quarter and ended up on top of her. She said the two went to the guest house portion of Kevin’s home where he then fondled her breasts and vagina. Kevin did this while the two were naked, lying on the bed. The only clothing Amanda recalled having on was possibly her socks.

ESPN says it’s going to “revisit” the “Later the two would shower together film. Its director, however, did not visit as Kevin lathered soap on his body and Sacramento for the premiere. SN&R was hers. The only thing said between the two, told by a reliable source that ESPN told according to Amanda, was Kevin telling him not to come to town, but the director her not to talk. It should be noted that while denied this. Sources also told SN&R and on the bed with Kevin, Amanda said she other outlets that Sacramento Kings brass, felt his penis with her hand as it brushed up including Vlade Divac and Peja Stojakovic, against it and as it was against her leg.” was urged not to attend Monday’s Valley Other incidents followed, according to premiere. the report, but charges were never filed, and Sex-abuse and harassment claims Johnson denied any wrongdoing. have followed the mayor since On Monday night, the mayor Phoenix, from reports of told a pool of reporters that sexual impropriety with “this is a story that’s a student in 2007 been investigated while at St. HOPE time and time and Sacramento again. It goes back High, to this 20 years. That’s year’s allegations been a reality. that he sexually It’s unfortunate assaulted a city that stories like employee. this continue to That come forward.” employee, It’s a he said/ Estrellita Ilee she said case— Muller, filed a claim except for one Mandi Koba in April saying that phone call, which from her blog post Johnson called her to the this paper has reported mayoral library, where he in the past: a discussion allegedly pushed up against her between Koba and Johnson body while rubbing her, attempted to kiss recorded by Phoenix police. It suggests and then asked her if she “felt it.” Johnson that something was there: “Well, I was naked and you were naked, held a press conference in May denying the claim, and city council voted not to and it wasn’t a hug,” Koba told Johnson. investigate.

“Well, I felt that it was, you know, a Now, months later and on the heels of hug, and you know, I didn’t, to be honest, the Deadspin video release and ESPN’s remember if we were both naked at that yanking of his flick, Johnson finds himself time …” he replied. at a crossroads: Koba: “… Why would I be upset if it Does he run again for mayor, which if was just a hug?”

Johnson: “Well, I said the hug was more he won would make him the first three-term mayor in Sacramento history? intimate than it should have been. But I Or does he step aside, raise funds and don’t believe I touched your private parts in polish his image for a run at an office like those areas. And you did feel bad the next lieutenant governor? day and that’s why we talked about it.”

Sources tell SN&R mixed messages.

Koba: “Well, if it was just a hug, why Some say that, after Johnson’s “strong were either one of us naked?” mayor” defeat, he will bow out of City Hall Johnson: “Again, I didn’t recall us being after next year’s Kings arena opening and a 100 percent naked.” leave on a high note. To run for lieutenant governor, he’ll need to announce early, soon JoHNSoN’S Next move? after departing the mayor’s office, anyway.

Johnson recently also hired a former Capitol Deadspin’s Koba feature clearly was damaging to Johnson, but it was last week’s staffer, in theory to bump the profile of his K.J. brand for a statewide campaign. But video of Koba’s police interview that likely others argue that, if he leaves City Hall prompted ESPN to dump the mayor’s now, it’ll appear as if he was run out of movie. The rumor is that, if ESPN aired the Sacramento.

Johnson-aggrandizing Down in the Valley And that would be very un-K.J. Ω on Tuesday, Deadspin would be relentless in its attacks on the sports-media goliath.

“I’ve lain in silence, accepting the unwanted touch of a grown man I trusted.”

Citing the need for more information, prosecutors tabled charges against a former American River College student arrested last week for making what police alleged was a “credible threat” to carry out a violent act against the campus.

Kristofer Wayne Clark, 21, was first taken into custody around 6:10 p.m. October 8. Police say a student overheard Clark making the threat at American River College’s Student Center last Thursday.

The student reported the incident to a faculty member, who in turn reported it to campus police. Police say a search of Clark’s residence turned up weapons registered to his parents, which were confiscated. No motive has been identified, and the case has now stalled.

At his arraignment Tuesday, prosecutors dismissed charges pending further investigation. Clark was released from jail Tuesday afternoon.

A Facebook group titled “truth for kristofer clark” had amassed 601 followers as of Tuesday, with messages of support for Clark pouring in, alongside updates from his parents. “Anyone who knows Kristofer knows the accusation against him is false. Kris is a lover and doesn’t have violence in him,” Clark’s mother, Holly DavisClark wrote. “Kris is extremely scared right now. We all believe he is being used as an example. … The only consistent thing we have heard is there doesn’t seem to be much if any proof of the claim.”

News of Clark’s arrest came just hours after shootings at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz. and Texas Southern University in Houston each claimed one victim, and days after a mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon left 10 dead and nine wounded. It also comes one month after a Sacramento City College student was shot dead on campus.

Four teenagers were arrested in Tuolumne County earlier this month for an alleged plot to carry out a mass shooting at Summerville High School. Similar to the incident at American River College, the Tuolumne plot was uncovered when a student reported suspicious activity to the school’s administration. (Barbara Harvey)

ambuSHiNg a coP The two men implicated in the reportedly unprovoked attack on a Sacramento police officer have different criminal histories, in that the guy who allegedly authored the attack has none and the guy who supposedly egged him on has a lengthy one.

According to the Sacramento Police Department, one of their officers was sitting in his patrol vehicle outside of Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento when Juan Emilio Gomez approached and asked for the officer’s help.

Police say the 21-year-old Gomez floated the lie that there was an armed man in the area to lure the officer out of his cruiser.

When the cop stepped out of his car, police say Gomez pounced, sucker punching him to the ground and hitting him in the face repeatedly. Gomez, listed at 5-foot-10 and 190 pounds, also reportedly tried to grab the cop’s gun out of his holster, without success.

Police say while this was going on, Jamaral Reken Lee stood by encouraging the assault while he videotaped it. It’s not clear whether the two men knew each other.

Gomez has no prior charges or convictions in Sacramento County. Lee, on the other hand, is well acquainted with the Sacramento Superior Court system. According to online court records, the 35-year-old has been convicted on five separate occasions.

Both men remained in custody at the main jail downtown on Tuesday. Gomez appeared in court for a bail review hearing on October 9, but the judge left it at $500,000. Lee was next scheduled to stand before a judge on October 15. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

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employment in the news media, this The FBI wants you to know two things: was simply a case about a disgruntled (1) Journalist Matthew Keys is going employee who used his technical to federal prison. skills to taunt and torment his former (2) It has absolutely nothing to do employer,” Wagner’s statement read. with him being a journalist.

“Although he did no lasting damage, Keys is the former Web producer for Keys did interfere with the business Sacramento’s KTXL Fox 40, which, like of news organizations, and caused the the Los Angeles Times, is owned by the Tribune Company to spend thousands of Tribune Co. Two months after he left the dollars protecting its servers.” company, in December 2010, the feds A day after the jury’s decision, say Keys gave his still-working log-in Keys told SN&R he went from feeling credentials to self-proclaimed members disappointed about the verdict to angry of the hacker group Anonymous, and that the case was ever brought against told them to “go fuck some shit up.” him. “I think it’s clear to anyone who A few days later, a story on the L.A. has followed the progression of events Times website was futzed with, showing that this case was nothing more than the altered headline: “Pressure builds in the government’s attempt to send a House to elect CHIPPY 1337.” message to journalists that if they do Administrators took it down after not comply with investigations roughly 40 minutes, but the into sources, they can face damage was done. Now, criminal prosecution,” Keys faces up to 25 years he wrote. in federal prison for his “I did not Keys’ attorney transgressions, though a commit the told the L.A. Times U.S. Attorney’s Office crime alleged.” they would appeal the spokeswoman told the verdict.

He is tentaL.A. Times her office Matthew Keys tively scheduled to be would likely suggest no journalist sentenced in January. more than five.

Meanwhile, the verdict But that’s no comfort to was met with an outpouring Keys, who told SN&R he was of reactions on social media, and was innocent and that he was prosecuted even tweeted by exiled NSA whistlebecause he refused to give up his blower Edward Snowden. sources.

Perhaps that means Keys has a couch “I did not commit the crime alleged,” to crash on in Russia if he ever leaves the Keys wrote in an email. “I worked as a country. But it doesn’t sound like that’s journalist observing a hacker group, and the plan. when I refused to comply with an FBI His boss, Levi Notik, co-founder of request to have my computer scanned the online news outlet Grasswire, had for their investigation into Anonymous, I this to say in a statement: “Matthew is a became a criminal suspect.” very capable and talented individual and A jury didn’t buy that argument. On we have no concerns about his integrity October 7, following a seven-day trial in as a journalist. He will remain employed Sacramento, it convicted Keys of three separate counts, all relating to the server- at Grasswire as the judicial process runs its course.” hacking conspiracy. After the verdict, Keys, who remains free on his U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Wagner own recognizance, said on Twitter released a statement that sought to dispel that he would be back at work on the idea that his office came down hard Columbus Day. Ω on a journalist who rebuffed them.

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What can we learn from Chicago?

That is the question that I and 105 other Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce members wrestled with last week, during our four-day study mission in the Windy City.

We can learn a lot. Chicago has been successfully developing its riverfront with beautiful new condominiums, upscale restaurants and office space.

Old unused manufacturing buildings have been transformed into hip new spaces. These spaces would look great in Sacramento and West Sacramento.

Receiving significant corporate and city support, Chicago’s art scene of festivals, parks and music venues has helped bring in both tourists and the everdesirable college-educated millennials. Chicago believes these young people will attract high tech and other cutting-edge industries.

During our study mission, the need for business and government collaboration was repeatedly driven home. This scene was only made possible by all parties contributing funds, ideas and a willingness to overcome obstacles.

The government played a key role, both by funding as well as by having a process that did not discourage initiative.

Sacramento, with its NIMBY objections, could take a page from Chicago’s playbook.

But all was not roses. Like observing a powerful relative who has accomplished much but has left a wake of family and business disasters, one needs to learn from both the good and the bad.

And Chicago has both good and bad.

With power concentrated in the mayor and business elites, things get done quickly. Throughout the study mission, virtually every speaker mentioned the mayor. Nothing happened without the blessing of the mayor. While this can

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be good, it is not so good when the mayor takes no interest in your project or neighborhood.

For years in Chicago, under Mayor Richard J. Daley from the 1950s to the ’70s, African-Americans were only allowed in certain parts of town. These parts of town did not receive their share of city services and jobs. These neighborhoods are still extremely segregated, poor and crime-ridden. In one of the neighborhoods I visited, there were 60 percent fewer people than 40 years ago.

So few people and so many vacant lots that the innovative program we studied in this neighborhood was urban farming.

One of the high school boys I met here hoped to be the first of his brothers to graduate from high school. His dad was long gone, his mom was dead and both of his brothers were in trouble. His area is so dangerous that he could not venture far from home.

We should be proud that we live in one of the most integrated cities in the country. Chicago and Sacramento have similar average household incomes, but income inequality is much worse in Chicago.

This is the fourth Chamber study mission that I have participated in. All had excellent speakers, insightful tours and incredible walks. The Chamber staff did a wonderful job putting together the program and kept us busy from 7:45 a.m. until late in the evening. Having business leaders, elected officials and government employees coming together to learn about another city is a superb way to bring innovative, thoughtful projects to Sacramento.

We learned from Chicago and each other. Ω

Chicago has both good and bad.

Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority owner of the News & Review.

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The chief attorney at the state Legislature released a legal opinion last week dinging Mayor Kevin Johnson’s minimum-wage ordinance and calling the “total compensation” carve out illegal. The study, released by Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, shows that even though the former council member no longer resides at City Hall, he can’t help but throw a jab at K.J. when it presents itself.

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DEPORTATION Sacramento sheriff earns millions from tough deportation policies, even as California leads way on immigration reform. Whose side is Scott Jones on?

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acramento County Sheriff Scott Jones has a trust problem.

Sorry, make that “TRUST” problem.

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We’re referring, of course, to the TRUST Act, which Gov. Jerry Brown approved two years ago and went into effect on January 1 of last year. Jones has no faith in it.

The TRUST Act severely disrupted the partnership between federal immigration authorities and local law enforcement, one that began during the Bush administration in 2008. Basically, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were getting jails to keep immigrants locked up past their release dates.

They did this so agents had time to take noncitizens into federal custody and put them on a path to deportation.

These ICE agents accomplished this by issuing detainers—short little documents that said, “Hey, hold this person an extra 48 hours (not counting weekends or holidays, of course).”

The detainer program, called Secure Communities, was supposed to target criminals and high-risk aliens.

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Instead, it swept up victims of crime, undocumenteds who faced minor infractions—and at least one local tamale lady. It also made immigrants even less likely to trust the cops.

In short, Secure Communities proved a spectacular mess.

Jones fought hard against the TRUST Act—and still fights, even though he says he begrudgingly complied with it last year.

Civil-rights watchdogs are highly skeptical and suspect the sheriff of rolling out the red carpet to federal immigration authorities in other clandestine ways. They contend ICE agents get VIP access to Sacramento jails and its locked-up immigrants.

Saira Hussain is a staff attorney at Asian Americans Advancing Justice— Asian Law Caucus, which represents immigrants in wrongful detention claims. She told SN&R that jail officials conspire with the feds to deport undocumented immigrants, violating state and federal laws.

The sheriff rejects the accusation, but acknowledges he does want to roll back the clock. In July, Jones asked a congressional subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security to overrule TRUST and policies like it.

Meanwhile, his department receives millions of dollars annually through a federal contract that reserves local jail beds for immigrants processed by ICE. The sheriff says the issue for him is about public safety, not money. And

it’s personal: Last October, a shooting rampage left two area deputies dead and a four-time-deportee behind bars.

“That was really the tipping point for me,” Jones told SN&R. “That event, and finding out what I found out—and not even knowing who the guy was for several days while he’s sitting in my jail for killing two of my cops—really kind of pushed me into action.”

That action has propelled Jones to the center of a national debate, one that revs up each time GOP frontrunner Donald Trump opens his mouth. When Jones testified before Congress, he sat beside Jim Steinle, whose daughter was killed on a San Francisco pier in July. Like last year’s local tragedy, the suspect was another formerly deported Mexican citizen. It’s the worst-case scenario that haunts Jones, a point he says the advocates don’t get.

“They’re seeing a person arrested for selling tamales outside of Wal-Mart. I’m seeing dangerous felons,” he said.

But data on immigration and deportations suggests there are way more tamale ladies than felons. According to a recent report by the American Immigration Council, immigrant residents are actually less likely to break the law than native citizens.

But this is an issue that feeds off of emotion and distrust. Sorry, make that dis-TRUST.

Deportations, inc.

It begins with fingerprints.

Each time an individual is booked into jail, the person’s prints are scanned and transmitted to a central FBI database, which other federal law enforcement agencies can access. At ICE, agents compare the biometric records with what’s in their immigration history database. If there’s a match, it means there’s a person in jail somewhere who ICE once encountered and possibly deported.

Under Secure Communities, agents notified sheriffs’ departments that they wanted these people by issuing detainers.

Jones says they functioned like probablecause declarations that local officers use to justify arrests. He said detainers contain “very cursory” information about who ICE wanted the jails to hold onto and why.

Because local authorities don’t have access to ICE’s database, Jones says they can’t verify the information contained in the detainers. Nor are these brief documents reviewed by federal judges.

That became a seismic problem last year. Here’s why: According to the Secure Communities initiative, ICE agents were supposed to focus detainers on

undocumented immigrants “who have also broken criminal laws.”

Instead, the opposite occurred. ICE agents used detainers indiscriminately to collect immigrants who faced minor infractions and, often, had yet to be formally charged with any crime at all. Despite promised reforms, there are signs they’re still being misused.

According to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, for instance, only 19 percent of the nearly 8,000 detainers that ICE issued as recently as April concerned someone with a felony conviction. “Fully two-thirds had no criminal conviction of any type,” the nonpartisan data-research organization found.

This is what prompts advocates like immigration attorney Angela Chan, with the Asian Law Caucus, to label ICE a “rogue agency” that doesn’t even observe its own standards.

But it’s not just advocates who are complaining.

In April 2014, after the TRUST Act became law, a federal magistrate judge in Oregon ruled that a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated when Clackamas County jail officials delayed her release due solely to an immigration detainer.

Jones says he pleaded with federal immigration officials to contest TRUST and the court decision, but was told the administration would let them, and a slow-growing number of other challenges, stand. Versions of the TRUST Act have been adopted by Washington, D.C., and state houses in Illinois, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and popped up in counties in 11 other states.

“So, having no federal backing, no partners in Washington willing to stand with us, myself and every other sheriff in this state, and many sheriffs in the country don’t honor any ICE detainers,” he said.

Between January 1, 2014, and June 19, 2015, state and local law-enforcement authorities in California declined to honor 10,516 detainers, ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice says. That figure rises to 17,193 declined detainers nationwide, illustrating how critical California was to the federal government’s deportation practices.

In June, the Department of Homeland Security replaced its Secure Communities initiative with the Priorities Enforcement Program, or PEP. It’s sort of different, but sort of the same.

PEP supposedly narrows its scope to terror suspects and serious felons, for real this time. And it directs ICE agents to stop issuing detainers, in most cases, and instead ask to be notified when jailed immigrants will be released. Detainers

are still permitted under “special circumstances,” however, a term that has yet to be defined.

“PEP is sort of the new dawn,” Kice said.

For Chan and other civil-rights watchdogs, PEP is more like New Coke—a failed rebranding of an earlier product.

“PEP is really just Secure Communities with different clothes on,” she said.

Critics say it still bequeaths too much authority to individual ICE agents, the so-called priority categories can broadly apply to anyone who’s served more than 90 days for a misdemeanor, and fingerprints are still transmitted to ICE at the point of booking—prior to a first hearing and before local prosecutors have decided whether to bring charges.

The supposed improvements, Chan fears, are skin-deep, and will provide ICE the cover it needs to keep meeting its deportation quotas.

“There are just not enough people who are removable who have these serious convictions,” she added.

ICE’s own removal numbers illustrate her point.

Of the 315,943 removals that ICE conducted last fiscal year, 20 percent involved immigrants with “Level 1” criminal convictions (these comprise violent crimes, major drug offenses and national security crimes). Most removals—almost 68 percent—involved people who were apprehended while attempting to enter the country.

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If advocates are skeptical that the sheriff has scaled back his cooperation with immigration authorities, it’s partly because they have multiple clients with different stories to tell.

Hussain provided summaries of a few cases her office has taken on or considered to show how Jones skirts state law: In September 2014, she says, a Mexican immigrant was arrested for allegedly possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia, and for allegedly being under the influence of a controlled substance. Booked into the main jail downtown, he was scheduled to be released that same day. But the deputy who provided the man his clothes told him to wait inside a small hallway within the release area, effectively stalling him, she contends, until an ICE agent arrived and took him into custody.

In July 2014, a Guatemalan immigrant was pulled over and arrested for allegedly driving under the influence. Hussain says the man was taken through the booking

process at the main jail, but never informed that he could post a roughly $1,500 bail and be released. Instead, he spent the night, which gave ICE enough time to intercept him the next morning, while he was standing in the same hallway, clutching his personal items and clothes. Several months later, Hussain said, “he was ordered deported.”

In April 2014, a Mexican immigrant was booked into jail after he was picked up for allegedly driving under the influence.

Hussain says an ICE agent interviewed the man inside the jail and took him into custody. The father of two American-born children, Hussain says the man spent months in federal detention facilities in Texas and Arizona before he was deported that October. Without their primary breadwinner, the family was evicted from its home, she says.

“they’re seeing a person arrested for selling tamales outside of wal-mart. i’m seeing dangerous felons.”

Asian Law Caucus filed administrative complaints regarding the last two cases, which are still pending.

In each of the above cases, Hussain says jail officials conspired with ICE agents to undercut the intent of the TRUST Act by stalling immigrants’ scheduled releases long enough for the agents to take them into custody on sheriff’s property.

In the September and July 2014 cases, she said, jail paperwork listed both individuals as released from county custody before ICE agents took over, even though “neither were allowed to leave the jail.” “[T]here is a high degree of collusion and facilitation that takes place to ensure that the individual ends up in ICE custody,” she wrote in an email.

The sheriff denies that any collusion takes place. “I can tell you that’s never happened,” he told SN&R. “Everybody that’s getting released is in a release tank.

If ICE is there and wants to take custody of one of them, and they have the appropriate paperwork, they get to take custody of them. If they’re not there and this group

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15 gets called for release, those people go out the door. And that happens a lot.”

Jones says he complied with the TRUST Act in April 2014—three months after its passage— after first appealing to federal Homeland officials to contest it, and says he stopped honoring all detainers following the Oregon court ruling a few months later. But, he adds, there’s a reason advocates might think that’s not the case.

While he says the jail declines every detainer that it receives, it still files them with inmates’ paperwork. “This caused a lot of confusion,” Jones said. “This caused a lot of advocates to say, ‘Well, they’re still honoring ICE detainers.’

Never was true.”

For his part, local defense attorney Jesse S. Atwal says ICE officials have eased their zero-tolerance approach to undocumented immigrants over the past couple of years, at least in Sacramento County.

“Two years ago, it was extremely, extremely difficult to get [an immigrant] client just bonded out through the Sacramento jail,” he said. “Two years ago, it was all the Mickey Mouse stuff” for which immigrants were being arrested and denied bail. “Now, my business has died down.”

Atwal believes that’s an indication that authorities in Sacramento are serious about focusing on criminals, not law-abiding immigrants. But he acknowledges the story may be different for those who can’t afford his services.

“If people can afford an attorney, they will get their day in court,” Atwal said. “The kicker here is there is no public defender for [undocumented immigrants]. These guys don’t have the right to an attorney.”

And that leads to predictable results.

Atwal says he’s represented clients who went through deportation proceedings the first time around without attorneys—and suffered for it.

He’s also heard stories where people have been apprehended and told to sign papers they can’t read or understand. These are voluntary deportation documents.

“They sign their life away,” Atwal said.

“If they’ve been deported before, that’s it,” he said of his clients. “There’s nothing an attorney can do.”

Profiting off DePortation Indeed, the complicated issue of deportations adds another onion layer with the fact that the sheriff has a budgetary stake in stricter immigration enforcement—and has for 15 years.

It was in 2000 that the sheriff’s department agreed to set aside jail beds for immigration detainees. It used to do this at its main jail downtown, where people are booked and held before they’re convicted. Then, in 2013, it inked a new five-year contract that moved the local

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undocumented-immigrant detainee population to the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in Elk Grove, where local offenders serve their sentences after conviction.

Under the current deal with ICE, there are 165 beds at RCCC that are reserved for federal detainees going through deportation proceedings.

The sheriff’s department receives $100 a day for each detainee it houses, as well as $40 an hour for staff time.

On average, that pencils out to slightly more than $6 million a year in extra revenue. But, when enforcement is up and there’s more people to deport, the money is better.

During the 2013-14 fiscal year, the arrangement translated into a little more than $7 million in revenue for the sheriff’s department, the most in four years, according to the chief deputy of correctional services, Phil Brelje. Revenues reached $5.2 million last fiscal year.

It’s a profitable arrangement, notes attorney Chan, one she suspects of motivating Jones’ tough immigration stance. “That appears to be what’s driving him,” she said.

The sheriff calls that “an easy criticism,” saying his department has no control over how many detainees end up in his care. “It’s not like

we’re data-mining these folks and giving leads to ICE to boost our own numbers,” he said. “The population is entirely controlled by ICE.” He also makes the argument that his jail contract is good for immigrant detainees, because he’s able to hold them where their families and attorneys reside. “So I don’t feel bad at all about having a contract with ICE.” Be that as it may, it was the financial side that reared its head during recent budget talks.

Over the summer, county officials predicted the sheriff would lose much of his ICE revenue, since the federal government opened its own 400-bed detention facility in the Central Valley, and because local authorities were no longer honoring detainers.

County budget documents pegged the loss at $8.8 million, which overstates the contract’s value. Brelje said he wasn’t sure where the higher estimate came from.

Either way, the sheriff’s department parlayed the anticipated loss—and some other projections —into an extra $20.9 million in county funding.

Detainee numbers have yet to drop, however, and are instead near capacity.

On September 24, the jail held 158 ICE detainees, said sheriff’s spokesman Deputy

Tony Turnbull. That’s up from 118 detainees on July 23, and 120 in late December.

“From our perspective, nothing’s changed,” said ICE spokeswoman Kice. “We’re still paying our bills.”

At least through 2018. That’s when the contract is, once again, up for renewal.

In the meantime, the sheriff and civil rights groups are locked in an antagonistic relationship.

Jones complains his critics don’t acknowledge the concessions he has made and keep moving their target.

“The advocates have changed what they’ve wanted over time,” he said. “So now, instead of just saying ‘thank you,’ now their request is, ‘we don’t even want ICE in your jail. We don’t want you to talk to ICE at all.’ And I’ve told them repeatedly, ‘I will allow ICE in my jail, just like I allow access to any other law enforcement agency.’”

Much of this comes down to what role, if any, local authorities should play in enforcing federal immigration laws.

Critics of the Secure Communities program say turning cops into deputized immigration enforcers tears a rift between them and the immigrant communities they’re sworn to protect.

No one wants to call 911 if they think it means they’ll be deported, the argument goes.

A lot of cops—mostly police chiefs— subscribe to that very argument. In July, police Chief Richard S. Biehl in Dayton, Ohio, argued that entangling local authorities in federal immigration functions endangers communities.

In an op-ed he wrote for The Hill, he said the distrust that’s created “has true costs, allowing dangerous criminals and criminal organizations to prey on immigrant communities, as well as the community at large.”

The sheriff doesn’t entirely subscribe to that argument, but he stressed that his officers don’t perform immigration checkpoints and never ask about immigration status.

Julia Harumi Mass, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, thinks some of the friction between immigrant communities and local law enforcement can be resolved if the federal government requires its immigration authorities to obtain a judge’s signature before issuing a detainer, similar to requiring a warrant prior to arrest. External oversight, in other words.

And Jones agrees—in part. In his ideal world, detainers would be mandatory for local constables to honor and they would be reviewed by federal judges. But after—not before—he’s handed someone over into ICE custody.

“Me and the advocates, we’re not that far off,” he said. “As much as they’d like to think I’m the devil in a uniform, it’s just not that way.” Ω

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A new legion of labels, artists and record stores is giving cassette culture a total rewind

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orget about the vinyl revival. Instead, it’s time to get out that old Walkman, because cassettes are back. Or so have proclaimed numerous music and pop culture writers for the likes of Vice, AV Club and, even, Newsweek.

It’s not just hipster buzz or speculation.

Even as streaming options such as Spotify, Pandora and Apple Music gain users, more titles are going old-school with myriad artists putting out cassette releases and even major labels Sony Music and Universal Music Group getting in on the game. Tape manufacturer National Audio Company reported selling 10 million units last year, with 70 percent of that number going to label releases and 30 percent sold as blank tapes.

In this post-digital era while some are still marveling at the growing interest in vinyl—in 2014 vinyl sales were at 9.2 million, a 54 percent increase

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from the year before, according to Nielsen—cassettes are thriving.

One of the top sellers on this year’s Record Store Day was Metallica’s cassette re-issue of early demo No Life ’Til Leather, which sold nearly 3,000 copies.

But tapes don’t always have to share the spotlight. Like its vinyl counterpart, the format also has its own retail holiday: This year International Cassette Store Day lands on October 17 and will boast more than a hundred special tape releases including AWOLNATION’s Run, Motorhead’s Bad Magic, Gaslight Anthem’s The ’59 Sound and Green Day’s Dookie.

There are plenty of tape-only labels, including several Bay Area-based imprints such as Two Thousand Tapes and Beach House Tapes, both of which specialize in noise and experimental cassette releases.

Locally, they’re having a moment, too, with some bands switching to the format, area tape labels putting them out and local record shops stocking new and old releases to sell.

And they are selling. Music fans and musicians alike, it seems, have varying reasons for choosing the analog format.

Dal Basi, owner of Photo Select, says certain genres sell better than others when it comes to the cassette revival.

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“I love the disposable quality of tapes,” explains Scott Miller of the Sacramento indie trio Bananas. The band is getting its entire catalog re-pressed on cassette by the Fullerton-based Burger Records.

“It’s just tactile enough. It’s almost like it hits this weird bull’s-eye between something you have and can look at and being sort of disposable,” he says.

Miller says one of his favorite aspects of cassettes is also the medium’s biggest restriction: How cumbersome it can seem to fast-forward through to a specific song—an act that potentially forces the listener to hear an entire album instead of cherry-picking their favorite songs.

“That to me is a lost experience,” Miller explains. “Listening to music on tapes, it taps into what it was like getting into music when I was younger.”

While some may point to nostalgia for the format’s resurgence, that’s certainly not the whole story.

Unlike vinyl, which obsessive music fanatics continue to collect for its supposed superior audio experience, tapes are generally associated with lower audio quality and hiss. But it’s not just older folk with fond memories fueling the uptick in sales, many new buyers are too young to have had much (or any) experience with them in the first place.

Local punk band Dog Party falls into that category. The band, which features sisters Lucy and Gwen Giles, recently released a cassette version of its album Vol. 4 with Burger Records. The sisters say they’re fans of the format they call “mini-VHS.” “[Cassettes] are a nice, cheap way to listen to music,” says drummer Lucy Giles, still a high schooler.

Although the format’s been growing in popularity among ska, reggae and even New Age artists, ground zero for the tape revival arguably lies with garage-rock and other underground genres. Burger Records, a low-fi bubblegum-pop label, was one of the first to re-embrace the analog format when it launched in 2007.

At the time almost no other artist or label was putting out cassettes, but Burger’s founders say they realized many cars still had tape decks. Plus, there were still all of those old stereos and boomboxes, easy to find in thrift stores or on eBay. Now Burger has released approximately 800 tape titles to date—compared to only 100 on vinyl. The label is even developing its own version of the classic Walkman, dubbed the “Burger Buddy.”

Burger co-founder Sean Bohrman cites the risk versus expense factor as key.

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“It cost less to make them, we can sell them for cheaper. That’s how some people discover new music, by taking a chance. They can’t do that with $20 records,” says Bohrman.

Burger’s success has inspired many smaller label owners, like Hans White who decided to exclusively release tapes for his Sacramento-based label Pleasant Screams.

Since Pleasant Screams’ 2010 launch, White has released tapes mostly by local bands such as Pets and the Sun Valley Gun Club, as well as cassette pressings of previously released albums by bigger national acts such as the Phoenix-based duo Andrew Jackson Jihad’s Can’t Maintain.

“I like to find an album that I really like, and … if the artist is interested, I talk to the label and make sure it’s cool,” White says.

“Even my kid, who doesn’t even buy rEcords, collEcts tapEs. he just thinks thEy’rE rEally cool.”

Dal basi owner, Phono Select The response is usually the same, he adds.

“They’ll [tell me] … ‘If you’re crazy enough to put it out on tape, go ahead,’” White says.

Burger and White aren’t the only ones that understand the financial advantages of cassettes. Dal Basi, who owns the local record store Phono Select, says that over the last few years bands—some local, some out-of-towners—have come by to drop off their tapes. And shoppers have come in to buy them.

“It’s a slow-building underground trend in the DIY community,” Basi says.

“It’s probably the most affordable physical format you can get. Let’s face it, CDs are nice, but they’re kind of sterile.”

Still, he adds, he didn’t expect younger generations to take up the format.

“I’m surprised they would gravitate to something so old. I figured it would seem prehistoric to them,” says Basi, adding

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that his teenage son has embraced the medium. “Even my kid, who doesn’t even buy records, collects tapes. He just thinks they’re really cool.”

The resurgence is at least partially a result of the vinyl revival. Not only is it cheaper to make tapes, but thanks to the scarcity of pressing plants, the wait time to manufacture vinyl records can stretch out to five or six months.

In contrast, the typical turnaround time for a cassette release is less than a week.

And, as more bands release new music on tapes, the demand for used cassettes has also gone up. In recent years Basi says he’s watched the resell value for used cassettes double, even triple, depending on the title.

“No one is coming in and asking for Billy Joel on tape. But punk and alternative [cassettes are] the biggest driver,” he says. “It’s all outsider music—whether it’s reggae, metal, arty rock—it all falls into the outsider stuff. I like to call it rebel music.”

But with easy, cheap or free access to streaming music via the likes of Spotify and YouTube, some wonder if the cassette revival is just a passing fad.

Local garage-punk musician Charles Albright doesn’t think so. Albright, who runs a small, cassette-only label called Charles Albright Records, says he sees the resurgence as a direct response to the effect all that streaming convenience has had on music, particularly among diehard music fans.

“The cassette, like other old timey stuff, it’s a pushback against digital availability. There’s something lost in the digital-only existence of music,” Albright says. “As people become less interested in music, it’s directly correlated with the accessibility of music.”

Albright has a point: If you no longer have to dig through record stores or attend weird or obscure basement shows to stay up on what’s new, fresh or cutting edge, then what else is there to define your musical obsessions? The cassette revival may eventually unspool—again—for mainstream listeners, but the consumers fueling both the tape and vinyl revivals are primarily fanatics, not casual listeners.

As such, perhaps—at least to an extent—hardcore musical fans and outsiders are no longer defined so much by the style of music that people listen to, but how they listen to it, and cassettes, like vinyl, have become a way for people to illustrate that music is their life, not just background noise. Ω Learn more about International Cassette Store Day at www.cassettestoreday.com.

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crazed maize the panic starts when your fingers meet the map.

It’s not so much a map as a green grid stamped with white shapes: circles, rectangles and, strangely, a sacramento kings logo. The white shapes form a path— with many, many dead ends—through 44 acres of corn.

Oh dear.

I braved my first corn maze last year and was not mentally prepared. At all. For example, I did not bring a writing utensil, so I couldn’t mark down a plan of action on my map.

I wound up guessing directions and getting lost immediately.

The map held a note: “Please only call 911 in the event of an emergency. Getting lost in a corn maze is not an emergency.” Deep breaths.

What saved me was hitting up the corn maze late in the season, after fellow lost souls hacked out new paths to freedom. I accidentally chose one of these unmapped roads and found that it cut through more than half of the maze, and I thankfully escaped in less than two hours.

This year, I decided to take the thing a little more seriously. I descended onto Cool Patch Pumpkins in Dixon, home to the Guinnesscertified biggest corn maze in the world, with a team of four. we were team alpha. Our friends on Team Bravo trailed behind.

Team Alpha members who had never been to the corn maze were noticeably freaked out when they first saw the map—and the giant “No Liability” signs.

But this time, we brought pens. Working backward, we quickly figured out the fastest route through the maze— huzzah!—and nervously approached the entrance.

From above, the expanse of corn is both impressive and terrifying and beautiful.

And once you’re inside, it feels pretty cool. Like, dampcool. As your paper maps absorb moisture, you forget about the drought. The moist, humid air feels like a rainforest. The tall corn stalks are a vibrant green, the ears wear poofy pink silk hats. Fuzzy black caterpillars inch along the dirt.

But of course, where there is a maze, there are humans.

And humans ruin everything.

Despite the clear and obvious rules against smoking, cigarette butts and boxes littered the floor, alongside water bottles and soda cans. Come on, humans! Gross.

Anyway, Team Alpha navigated the maze effortlessly. Even with our leisurely pace and relaxed time spent atop lookout points, watching the sky turn from blue to orange to pink, it only took us 37 minutes to find the exit.

I’m not bragging. being so efficient turned out to be pretty boring. Good thing we had semi-melted yogurt-covered pretzels to keep us smiling.

Lessons for next year: bring a pen, but don’t necessarily use it until sense of direction is sufficiently warped and heart is sufficiently pounding.

It’s all about feeling childlike again, which means embracing the thrill of confusion. In the same vein, one Cool Patch unofficial activity I will definitely repeat next year? Wagon races—but carrying fully grown adults instead of pumpkins.

Where there is a maze, there are humans. And humans ruin everything.

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Thankfully, events celebrating the reverent and often visually stunning traditions of Día De Los Muertos seem to be multiplying year after year.

There’s so much excitement, in fact, that there are a few events kicking things off midmonth, ahead of the actual celebration, which takes place October 31 through November 2.

The California Museum (1020 O Street) is going all out this year with its Day of the Dead Party on Friday, October 16, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. in celebration of its current exhibit Day of the Dead: Art of Día de los Muertos 2015, which features installations from California artists Francisco Franco, John Huerta, David Lozeau, Rob-O and Mary Southall, all of whom will be in attendance at the party. Attendees will also be treated to traditional small bites courtesy of Mayahuel Restaurant & Tequila Museum, a dance performance by

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 Davis author Pam Houston (Contents May Have Shifted) headlines the night in the latest installment of this quarterly nonReading fiction reading series and open mic.

Also on the bill, one-time SN&R editor Robin Rinaldi (author of the acclaimed memoir The Wild Oats Project: One Woman’s Midlife Quest for Passion at Any Cost) and poet Gabriel Callahan. Arrive early to sign up for the openmic. $6, 7 p.m. at Shine, 1400 E Street; www.tellatruestory.com.

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FRiDAY, OCTOBER 16 Immerse yourself in the singular pre-DoCo pleasures of the city with self-proclaimed “Ambassador of Americana” Charles Phoenix, whose live comedy slide show perforSHOW mance at the California Automobile Museum will touch on the back stories and cultural significance of all things Sacto nostalgia: Pancake Circus, Jim Denny’s, Gunther’s Ice Cream, Sam’s Hofbrau, Tower Theatre and much more. $29, 8 p.m. at 2200 Front Street, www.charlesphoenix.com.

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Danza Azteca Kalpulli Maquilli Tonatiuh, face painting and a costume contest. Tickets are $5 in advance and $10 at the door. More information can be found at www.california museum.org/dotd-party-2015.

On Saturday, October 17, and Sunday, October 18, the California Museum is hosting a number of Sugar Skull Workshops wherein specialist Rob-O will instruct participants ages 5 and up in creating their own calavera de azúcar. A material fee of $20 and advanced registration is required; register at www.californiamuseum.org/ event/sugar-skull-workshop-0.

In conjunction with the Sacramento History Museum, Sol Collective will host the Día de los Muertos Art Labs at the Stanford Gallery (111 I Street in Old Sacramento). On Saturday, October 17, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., attendees will have the opportunity to create traditional arts and crafts such as sugar skulls, mini-altars and paper cempasúchil marigolds.

On Thursday, October 22, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., community members will come together for the “Honoring Our Past” lecture at the museum (101 I Street) about the history and current cultural significance of the holiday ahead of the big celebration event on Sunday, November 1. For more information, head to http://sachistorymuseum.org/ dia-de-los-muertos.

The Franklin Community Branch of the Sacramento Public Library hosts a screening of the documentary Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story which takes on the subject of food waste and food rescue. The film FiLM is meant as a companion discussion piece to the library’s current One Book selection, Dan Barber’s The Third Plate. The Grant Baldwin-directed film examines eaters’ unnecessary obsession with expiration or “best by” dates, among other bad habits.

Free, 5:30 p.m. at 10055 Franklin High Road in Elk Grove. www.saclibrary.org/Locations/ Franklin.

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Miller was once the chef de cuisine at Mulvaney’s B&L. He’ll open his first butcher shop V. Miller Meats (4801 Folsom Boulevard) with Matt Azevedo, who was once the chef de cuisine at Restaurant Thir13en, at the end of October.

V. Miller Meats aims to be Sacramento’s first exclusively whole-animal butchery, focusing on super-local meats—Miller’s furthest source is about 100 miles away, his closest borders Natomas—and pasture-raised, grass-fed beef. Plus, pork, lamb, chicken and, if there’s enough demand, goat. Expect unusual cuts, offal and bones—for soup or your dogs.

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Sausage and charcuterie will start out pretty basic—sweet Italian, spicy Italian, pepperoni, coppa, lardo—but Miller anticipates experimenting in the future. And because Miller and Azevedo are chefs, they’ll also prepare some ready-to-eat meals weekly utilizing the shop’s smoker and rotisserie. Customers won’t see that action when they walk in, but they will be able to watch butchering and sausage pressing.

Mad dough: Sacramento’s current doughnut landscape doesn’t contain enough gore and kitsch for ya?

Behold: Donut Madness is now open at 2648 Watt Avenue.

From one of the founders of the insanely popular Psycho Donuts in San Jose, Donut Madness draws inspiration from horror movies.

Doughnuts start at $1.75 and take on silly concepts. Examples: Children of the Cornflake (peanut butter, Karo Syrup and cornflake cereal), S’mores Stalker (marshmallow cream, graham cracker and chocolate) and Apricot Plot (apricot-laced fritter).

Foie bar: Pair oysters with basketball at the new Triple Double Sports Bar and Grill located in the former Zokku nightclub space (419 J Street) across from the upcoming Kings arena.

Brightly colored murals of athletes and an abundance of flat-screen televisions contrast the sports bar’s restaurant elements, like cloth napkins and lemongrass-scented mussels.

The chef and ownership team have roots in New Orleans, and southern influences dot the menu: pork cheeks arrive over grits; fried brussel sprouts over pimento cheese; and caprese salad with fried green tomatoes.

One last note: deep-fried Oreos stuffed with foie gras. Ω

Instead of milk and cookies before bed, try a soothing milk punch. Popular since the 17th century, they usually comprise a mix of bourbon or brandy, milk and nutmeg. The Red Rabbit has a version called Harvey Milk Punch ($9) that includes Galliano liqueur as a nod to that ’70s tipple, the Harvey Wallbanger. The vanillaanise flavor of bright yellow Galliano makes the punch taste even more like a milkshake. It also reminds me of the countless Harvey Wallbanger bundt cakes my grandmother once made. 2718 J Street, http://theredrabbit.net.

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Naturally gluten-free Spaghetti SquaSh There’s a great gluten-free high-fiber pasta at farmers markets right now, and it’s called spaghetti squash.

The flesh shreds into long strands that look remarkably like their namesake. Halve and roast the squash, then mix the shreds with garlic oil and Parmesan. Paesanos (1806 Capitol Avenue) offers spaghetti squash as a sub for wheat pasta, and it’s especially good with the restaurant’s roasted vegetables and chicken. It also makes nice little cakes when mixed with egg and herbs, then pan-fried until golden. Top it with marinara and tell your kids it’s a new noodle. They might just like it!

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When you cook, it’s like a conducting a symphony: One missing melody can mar the effect. Restaurants are similar. A virtuoso performance can be dampened by a flickering light or other annoying distraction.

It’s all the more apparent when the food is, indeed, outstanding. Our culture places high regard on local, beautifully presented food, and Localis chef Christopher Barnum delivers just that. However, off-key elements such as the restaurant’s cramped tables and lackluster patio make it slightly less spectacular.

Localis (Latin for “local”), opened two months ago in the revolving door corner once occupied by Tuli Bistro, then briefly Trick Pony. It’s a very small space dependent on the semi-open patio for most of the seating.

When we tried to find out the days and times of service, neither the eatery’s incomplete website nor its Facebook page provided the necessary details. Instead, we had to turn to a third-party site for such useful information.

(Word of note to owner Chris Jarosz, who is opening several other concepts simultaneously: Potential customers want to know when your places are open and what they serve, so they can go.)

However, the food is worth seeking out. Barnum, most recently at Cibo 7 in Roseville, presents food with the eye of an artist. The menu changes daily, dependent on local and regional ingredients, as well as “curated” planters of herbs alongside the patio.

Recent standout dishes included the Farm Plate ($11), a board of the freshest produce arranged carefully. Yellow wax beans, lightly pickled baby beets, and chunks of carrot reveled in a light dressing of piquant lemon vinaigrette.

The bacon and eggs ($11) included a golden-fried square of fine-grained polenta in which a raw duck egg was nestled. The heat of the polenta barely cooked the egg, which combined with the pesto to make a creamy sauce. Crisp jamon serrano and pea shoots rounded out the dish.

Less perfect but still intriguing was a fire-roasted tentacle of octopus ($17). While the pimento and spice-crusted meat was flavorful, it was a bit too chewy. Tangy pickled fennel balanced the spice, though, and arugula pesto added a bright green flavor.

For a produce-driven menu, it leans heavily on meat. My vegetarian companion had to special-order a risotto ($12), as the only listed item available was the Farm Plate. This seems somewhat short-sighted, given the chef’s dexterity with vegetables.

The resulting risotto came perfectly cooked and flavored with pureed acorn squash and a lively walnut-lime-pineapple-sage gremolata. With the juicy pop of pomegranate seeds and fried sage leaves, the textural contrasts were nicely balanced.

For those who want to sample many dishes, there is a $77 five-course chef’s tasting menu that stretches to eight small plates with additional tastings.

Ours included beets three ways: shaved raw, pickled and fried, with a goat cheese foam and micro-beet greens. Other courses were spice-crusted seared albacore, tiny slices of rare duck breast with demiglace, and a meltingly tender pile of coffee-braised lamb shank with pear cubes.

The desserts continue the theme of creative multi-ingredient presentations. A croissant-based bread pudding with salted caramel sauce ($12) was accompanied by some of the creamiest, most indulgent brown sugar and buttermilk ice creams we’ve tried.

There is a rather pricy wine list, although you can choose from 3- or 6-ounce pours. Beer is available on tap, but not listed, so ask your server.

Localis’ service is already well-honed. The wait staff is attentive to details and well-educated on the menu.

It’s a shame that the miniscule tables and rather drab and chilly patio take away from what is otherwise an amazing—although somewhat expensive— dining experience. Ω

Chef Christopher Barnum presents food with the eye of an artist.

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Pizza my heart We love pizza. You love pizza. SN&R dedicated an entire issue to pizza last year.

Yet, no Sacramento pizza festival? Federalist Public House & Beer Garden’s owners have taken matters into their own flour-dusted hands. Saturday, October 17, through Sunday, October 25, will see the city’s first pizza week, officially known as “SLICED: A Celebration of All Things Pizza.” Look for exciting nightly pizza specials—Chicago-style deep-dish, perhaps? Calzones, hopefully?

Does stromboli count?—and pizza-related cooking competitions between heavyweights like Bob Masullo, Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co.’s Brian Mizner and Federalist’s Shannon McElroy. At press time, there were also still tickets available for pizza crawls via Sac Brew Bike with stops at Masullo, One Speed, Hot Italian, Formoli’s Bistro and others. Each tour includes a slice and beer at three different joints for $50 plus service fees. Find tickets at www.sliced pizzacrawl.eventbrite.com and more information on SLICED on Facebook.

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The Sacramento-born Optic Nerve author (and New Yorker illustrator) Adrian Tomine has a new graphic novel—well, a collection GrapHic noveL of stories, actually, in Killing and Dying: Six Stories by Adrian Tomine (Drawn & Quarterly, $22.95). “A Brief History of the Art Form Known as Hortisculpture” explores a gardener’s dream to create a “vital new artform”—a dream that is, in turn, mocked, derided and questioned by others. The book’s title story examines parental dynamics and their effect on a stuttering, would-be high school comic, and in “Amber Sweet,” a college student discovers—thanks to the Internet and the bullying of her classmates— that she looks just like a famous porn star.

Throughout, the painfully funny stories exhibit, wonderfully, Tomine’s signature moodiness and emotionally exacting attention to detail.

—racheL LeiBrock

too real aL WeiWei: The Fake case The Folsom Film Society presents this documentary about activist Ai Weiwei and his battle against the Chinese government. The film, directed by Danish filmmaker Andreas Johnsen, chronicles Weiwei’s access to secrets that find him placed in solitary confinement and, ultimately, under house arrest with police agents and cameras followDocumentary ing his every move. What information could he have that would make authorities want to wage a lawsuit against him? Free, 1 p.m. Sunday, October 18; Folsom Public Library, 411 Stafford Street in Folsom; http://thefakecase.com.

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Artist Lucy Puls, who teaches sculpture at UC Davis, is renowned for the way she takes neglected objects and photos Lecture depicting household ruin and transforms them into pieces of introspection-worthy art.

Her latest exhibit Lucy Puls: [just you], on display at the Verge Center for the Arts through October 25, amasses 40 objects collected between 1987 and 2015.

Individually, each piece offers a microcosmic glimpse into domestic bliss and unrest. As a whole, the exhibit is physically unsettling for the way it occupies space, sparsely—and intellectually stimulating for its focus on seemingly banal items and antiquated household staples. Pieces include the simple light switch and a mysteriously fabric-draped 1950s-era lamp.

There’s also an outdated rotary phone and the shell of an old, bulky television set.

The Berkeley-based artist, whose works have been featured in collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum and the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, will be on hand Thursday, October 22, at the Verge for an artist discussion with the exhibit’s curator. “In Conversation: Lucy Puls and Dena Beard” will focus on form, pointof-view and the modern aesthetic. $5 general admission, free for Verge members; 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Thursday, October 22; 625 S Street; www.vergeart.com.

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Other dances sampled include Etosha, the earliest work on the program; and Hamlet, with Calka and Nachtrab alternating in the title role and Maggie Rupp and Lauryn Winterhalder as the tragic Ophelia.

Moultrie created his playful but revelatory Mix to showcase the strengths and personalities of company members. Highlights include “Bloodline,” in which Alexandra Cunningham not only dances exquisitely but talks about the difficulties of striving for perfection and being the daughter of the directors; “Investigation of the Third,” danced by Keane, Smith and Chatterson; and “Cellular Imprints,” impressively delivered by the strong, assured trio of Calka, Nachtrab and Richard Porter. Ω

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Snap Shots; 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Friday, 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday; $57. Sacramento ballet Studio, 1631 K Street; (916) 552-5800; www.sacballet.org/tickets. through october 24.

The Sacramento Ballet has launched its 2015-16 season—one that will see the company move from its longtime home to a new one, at the E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts—with a program that looks both backward as well as forward.

Snap Shots is a show in two parts. The first features excerpts from six shows choreographed by Ron Cunningham, the ballet’s co-artistic director, and the other is a newly commissioned work, Mix De Moultrie, by New York dancer-choreographer Darrell Grand Moultrie.

The program opens with scenes from Cunningham’s 2004 story ballet Dracula. Richard Smith (alternating with Dylan Keane) dances the role of Harker, the lawyer handling details of Dracula’s move to London. Christopher Nachtrab and Stefan Calka alternate in the role of the fangy fellow, while Ava Chatterson, Julia Feldman and Kaori Higashiyama create a feeling of menace with their sensuous long legs and sinewy spider moves as Three Vampires.

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Somewhere in Middle America, in 1956, a time when we built bomb shelters and there was shame in the “love that dare not speak its name,” a group of “widows” are meeting for the annual Quiche Breakfast of the Susan B. Anthony Sisters of Gertrude Stein, in the very funny 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche now at the B Street Theatre.

Director Buck Busfield has assembled five of the funniest ladies in the Sacramento area— Elisabeth Nunziato, Amy Kelly, Amy Resnick, Stephanie Altholz and Tara Sissom—and each is in top form in this hilarious comedy, which features innuendo, double entendres, metaphor and repressed sexual tension.

The group’s board of directors, those selfdescribed “widows,” are costumed and coiffed like the most extreme Stepford Wives and there to make sure things run smoothly.

But what begins as a simple quiche-judging contest, morphs into an atomic bomb blast, long-held secrets revealed and the funniest quiche-eating scene ever. By the end of the evening you may never look at the breakfast dish in the same way again.

This comedy may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but judging by audience reaction opening night, it has the potential to become a real cult classic.

—Bev SykeS

5 Lesbians eating a Quiche; 8 p.m. thursday and Friday, 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, 6:30 p.m. tuesday and Wednesday; $23-$25. b Street theatre, 2711 b Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. through November 15.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

In Victorian times, common belief was an individual was inherently and wholly good or evil, with only slight variations. And then came Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which literally took a stab at presenting the duality of a person, a good doctor with an evil internal twin, the creation of the split- personality concept.

Here, Big Idea Theatre has embraced a recent adaptation of this classic story. Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher has added layers to this dark tale of gruesome murders and social mayhem, including a love interest and variations of Mr. Hyde brought out by rotating actors. Directed by Benjamin Ismail, the story here is stylized and dark. Very dark.

Th-Sa 8pm. Through 10/31. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.org. P.R.

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Playwright August Wilson took on the daunting and creative idea of writing 10 plays that explore African-American experiences through 10 different decades in the 20th century.

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the issues and challenges faced in each era, and in particular geographical areas, and dramatizes them through personal stories.

Celebration Arts has staged most of the plays in this 10-story theatrical library, and now is tackling Gem of the Ocean, set in 1904 Pittsburgh, when slavery is still fresh in both the experiences and memories of its characters. The play presents many challenges along the way with its word-weighty script that often gets bogged down with lengthy, pontificating monologues. Still, there is a fascinating story that unfolds and some beautiful portrayals. Th-Sa 8 pm, Su 2pm. Through 10/31. $8-15.

Celebration Arts Theatre, 4469 D Street, (916) 455-2787; www.celebration arts.net. P.R.

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Sense and Sensibility

Adapting a thick novel makes for a busy play, and that’s the case with the Sacramento Theatre Company’s take on Sense and Sensibility.

The show has numerous scene changes but director Shannon Mahoney adeptly choreographs and makes emotional sense out of this story’s intricate comings and goings. Credit also to costumer Jessica Minnihan,

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and 8pm, Su 6:30pm. Through 10/25. $34-$38. Sacramento Theatre Company, 1419 H Street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. J.H.

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Three Sisters

Adrienne Sher directs this melancholic production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters at Sacramento City College’s Art Court Theater. Over four scenes, we watch the three sisters of the Prozorov family, and the others who inhabit the house, run the gamut of emotions, from the sheer joy of young Irina (Samantha Hannum) on the morning of her 20th birthday to the overwhelming depression of the whole household five years later. This is a powerful, moving, sometimes funny production with an excellent cast. F 8pm, Sa 2pm

and 8pm, Su 2pm. Through 10/18. $15. Art Court Theater at Sacramento City College, (916) 558-2228, http://city theatre.net. B.S.

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Spidey sense Drawing from a collection of folk tales from Ghana, Dave Perini has created four stories about Anansi, one of the great folk heroes of the world.

In Anansi the Spider, the title character is a rogue, a mischief maker and a wise, lovable creature who learns the value of friendship and cooperation. The children’s show boasts a wonderful cast that includes Aja Houston in the title role, and Ed Claudio as the King of the Lions. Additionally, the tricks and chases on Samantha Reno’s beautiful set, as well as the periodic interaction with the audience, aim to keep children enthralled.

Bonus: The show’s second act has several in-jokes adults will love as well.

1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; $15 adults; $10 children. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; www.bstreettheatre.org. Through November 18.

—Bev SykeS

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suffer after the trial, as the movie snidely implies.

Abel was tried, convicted and sentenced to 30 years. End of story.

To Americans of a certain age, the image of the 1962 Except the story wasn’t over, of course, and exchange of Soviet spy Rudolf Abel for American once Powers (Austin Stowell) is shot down on his U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in the dead of night (ahem) “reconnaissance mission” over Russian across the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin has a gut-level air space, Bridge of Spies leaves its ’50s-bashing potency. The potency comes from the fact that it has behind in favor of a closer hewing to history, to be imagined; there were no news photographers which anyhow fits better into the cloak-and-dagger present at the exchange, and nobody was reckless mold than the trial did to the Red Scare-hysteria enough to bring along their Kodaks. In Bridge of template of the movie’s first half.

Spies Steven Spielberg imagines the moment for us, The narrative presented in the movie is leaner, pretty much exactly as we picture it in our minds, like more tensely dramatic, and in its moments of wry a scene from one of John le Carré’s chilly, comic relief, more amusing than the story ominous novels of Cold War espionage. told in Donovan’s 1964 book Strangers Tom Hanks plays James Bridge on a Bridge (which was surely an B. Donovan, Abel’s court-appointed uncredited source for the script). In of Spies nicely attorney at his trial in 1957, who a nifty piece of dramatic license, captures the aura later negotiated the exchange after the movie has Donovan’s covert Powers’ 1960 conviction for espioof frosty suspicion trip to Berlin to negotiate the nage against the U.S.S.R. Spielberg swap coincide almost exactly with at the heart of the and writers Matt Charman and Joel the building of the Berlin Wall— Cold War. and Ethan Coen cast the first half of a bit of a stretch, but only by a few Bridge of Spies as a sort of Cold War months, and it neatly underscores the To Kill a Mockingbird, with Donovan as difference between the frank and open the Atticus Finch plucked from obscurity to society Donovan enjoys back home and defend Abel (a scene-stealing Mark Rylance), the the bleak, shifting nest of foes and frenemies into hated defendant already tried and convicted in the which he has been thrust. press. Donovan was hardly obscure (he’d been a prosHere, Spielberg is in his element—for that ecutor at Nuremberg and a key player in the wartime matter, so is Hanks—and Bridge of Spies nicely Office of Strategic Services’ transition into the CIA), captures the aura of frosty suspicion at the heart of nor was his conscientious defense of Abel the lonely the Cold War. This is likely to be the final version crusade the movie portrays. In fact, while the governof the story in the public mind for some time. For ment’s evidence against Abel was overwhelming all its liberties and little distortions, things could and conclusive, the idea of Abel’s right to a fair trial have been worse—the job might have gone to wasn’t as hard to grasp in 1957 as the movie suggests: Oliver Stone. Ω no night riders shot up Donovan’s house during the trial, no cop said that he had it coming and there was no near-riot in the courtroom when Abel escaped the death penalty. Donovan’s wife (Amy Ryan) didn’t call the foreign citizen Abel a “traitor” (she wasn’t Poor Fair Good Very excellent Good that dumb), nor did Donovan’s career at his law firm

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A hot property and Guggenheim Fellowship winner in the last decade after the 1-2-3 neo-realist nudge of Man Push Cart, Chop Shop and Goodbye Solo, IranianAmerican filmmaker Ramin Bahrani stumbled with his first star-heavy production, 2012’s At Any Price. His follow-up film 99 Homes, starring Andrew Garfield as a single father willing to do anything to protect his family home, even if it means evicting other struggling Orlando homeowners, shows a slightly more assured hand, although a strong and complex first half gets undermined by an overly tidy finale.

Michael Shannon does a tremendous slither as Rick Carver, an ethically challenged, cash-rich realtor making a killing on human misery, a 21st-century demon dressed in cream-colored suits who first evicts Garfield’s desperate day laborer, then takes the young man under his vulture’s wing. 99 Homes passes inspection as an emotional tour of the housing crisis, but as a drama it’s structurally unsound. D.B.

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Coming Home

Once a firebrand dramatist from the post-Cultural Revolution “Fifth Generation” of Chinese filmmakers who was responsible for movies like Raise the Red Lantern and Ju Dou, director Yimou Zhang has been tied to more populist genres in recent years. He spent most of this millennium wrapped up in Wuxia with films like Hero and House of the Flying Daggers, and he’s also dabbled in international productions (the ill-conceived The Flowers of War) and reached beyond the Chinese borders for source material (the Blood Simple remake A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop). His latest film Coming Home is something of a return to his roots, a family drama seething with undertones of sociopolitical frustration, more reserved than his early work but with characteristic gushes of emotion. The incomparable Gong Li plays a damaged woman whose psychic amnesia prevents her from recognizing her own husband, a recently released political prisoner. D.B.

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Freeheld

A New Jersey cop (Julianne Moore), dying of cancer, fights to secure her pension rights for her registered domestic partner (Ellen Page), seeking equality with heterosexual couples. The story of Det. Laurel Hester, subject of a 2007 Oscar-winning documentary, gets big-movie treatment from writer Ron Nyswaner and director Peter Sollett. The story is righteous and Moore and Page are strong (as is Michael Shannon as Moore’s police partner), all to the movie’s credit. On the debit side: The script feels too derivative of Nyswaner’s Philadelphia 22 years ago, and padded out with romance-movie clichés—the meet-cute, the walks along the beach at sunset, etc. Sollett sets an uncertain tone—Steve Carell as Moore and Page’s flamboyant supporter plays almost like a Saturday Night Live parody of gay activism. J.L.

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He Named Me Malala

This middling media tour documentary from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim is another triumph of subject over substance and style. The film follows Malala Yousafzai, a smart, outspoken, thoroughly endearing Pakistani girl who in 2012 was shot by the Taliban for fighting for her educational rights. Malala survived, whisked to the West with her family and went on to write a bestselling book about her experiences, using it as a springboard to take on other causes related to female education. Guggenheim fits Malala’s story into a slick, press kit ready package, tossing in everything from animation to the obligatory Jon Stewart clip, and getting the most out of Erich Roland’s cinematography and a score by Skyfall composer Thomas Newman. We get a few glimpses of Malala the hormonal teenager behind Malala the Nobel Peace Prize winner, but this rarely feels like anything more than a press junket in movie form. D.B.

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Belgian filmmakers Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz bring us this moody chiller, a largely silent and often grisly story of twin brothers who come to believe that their mother has been replaced by an impostor.

Decked in matching ratty tank tops, Elias and Lukas (played by real-life brothers Elias and Lukas Schwarz) while away the hours burning bugs and romping through the fields that surround their upscale country home, but they sense something wrong with the heavily bandaged woman who claims to be their mother (Susanne Wuest). Goodnight Mommy conjures cinematic references ranging from Michael Haneke to Georges Franju, and there are a number of powerful images and surrealist red herrings, but the film is more icky than creepy, with a final third that gets a little too “torture porn”-y for my taste.

At least Fiala and Franz possess a striking vision, as cold and severe as that country estate. D.B.

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The Intern

A retired widower (Robert De Niro) decides to go back to work, and lands a job as a “senior intern” at an online clothing retailer, where the workaholic boss (Anne Hathaway) wasn’t really sold on this internship idea to begin with. Writer-director Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, The Holiday) once again deploys her regrettable penchant for cute contrivances and cheap forced gags—Linda Lavin as De Niro’s man-hungry neighbor particularly suffers in that department, but nobody really escapes unscathed. An episode of De Niro and his co-workers (Adam DeVine, Zack Pearlman, Nat Wolff) breaking into Hathaway’s mother’s house to delete a nasty email is simply ridiculous. Meyers’ direction is careless, too—pacing is limp and shots don’t match. Hathaway and De Niro save the day; they’re wonderful together. J.L.

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The Martian

When astronaut-botanist Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is struck by debris and presumed dead during an emergency evacuation of Mars, he’s stranded on the red planet with limited supplies and no means of communication, only surviving through scientific ingenuity. The Martian has an irresistible premise—Cast Away in space without the FedEx product placement— but director Ridley Scott and screenwriter Drew Goddard tell it in the most plodding and predictable manner possible. It doesn’t help that every character is a glib, Sorkin-lite sassypants devoid of emotional complexity, or that the best parts feel lifted from better movies. Most maddening, though, is the film’s compulsion to dumb down and overexplain, from Damon’s direct-to-camera video diaries to the abundance of onscreen titles to the copious establishing shots of Earth and Mars, just so we don’t get them mixed up. It’s a film that respects the concept of intelligence; I just wish it respected my intelligence. D.B.

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Pan

This is the alleged back story of Peter Pan, telling how Peter (Levi Miller) and Hook (Garrett Hedlund) started out as best pals.

Let’s not mince words: This movie stinks. Jason Fuchs’ witless, charmless script is as ignorant of J.M. Barrie’s original as if he had never heard of it, while Joe Wright’s graceless direction and the gaudy, vulgar CGI fail to provide any real magic.

Young Miller is a cipher, Hedlund struts around like a bad Harrison Ford impersonator and Hugh Jackman camps it up as the villain Blackbeard.

Rooney Mara’s Tiger Lily preserves some dignity, but she fails to avoid the general train wreck.

Worst of all is the thought that this travesty (and its sequel) may pre-empt a movie of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s Peter and the Starcatchers, which treats the same idea with all the wit and fun that’s missing here. J.L.

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When a film works, the critical tendency is to praise the director and move outwards from there, but the palm-sweat intensity of Sicario feels more like a triumph of brilliant actors and collaborators over a gaseous auteur. Sicario was directed by Denis Villeneuve, and he brings the same heavy-handed pomposity to this story of an upright FBI agent (Emily Blunt) thrown neck first into the moral swamp of the Mexican drug war that he brought to Prisoners and Enemy.

And yet even as I was frequently annoyed by the film, I still found Sicario tense and nightmarishly immersive from its opening frames. Villeneuve deserves credit for crafting some gripping sequences, but the film would be unimaginable without the vivid and tactile cinematography of Roger Deakins, the bruising Johann Johannsson score and the gripping performances of Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro. D.B.

In 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit and a loose gang of accomplices secretly slung a wire across the just-completed World Trade Center in New York, and Petit walked the void between the Twin Towers for nearly an hour. This story has already been told to great satisfaction in the magical 2008 documentary Man on Wire, and Robert Zemeckis’ uneven biopic The Walk just runs its needle over the same narrative grooves. The Walk exists only to get to the Twin Towers sequence, where the technical mastery of Zemeckis and his special effects team takes over. That vertiginous, nearly real-time tightrope sequence is certainly lucid and entrancing, but Zemeckis spends 90 minutes grasping at straws to get us there. Zemeckis leans heavily on the charm and physicality of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but his Pepe Le Pew accent wears down any goodwill. D.B.

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During his solo career Turner has released records at a blistering pace—six in the past eight years, not counting compilations and EPs. Still, despite such speed, the singer-songwriter maintains a certain air of secrecy, mysticism and hallowed respect for the art form.

“Songwriting is still quite a mysterious process to me,” Turner says. “I just … sit in darkened rooms until I have finished songs and I can’t really tell you more than that.”

After that birth of a song, he and the band work up and test different arrangements (“We’re arrangement machines,” Turner said), running them through the paces with a fast, rock feel, or maybe a Contemplating the mysteries. more traditional folk arrangement. Some songs may go through 19 different stylistic arrangements that may never see the light of day, while others come together immediately.

Frank Turner collects skeletons.

“Songs are kind of living, breathing things, His skeletons though, are songs. And over the past they’re skeletons that you can hang, slash up in 11 years, he’s dug up quite a few. different ways,” Turner said. “Songs kind of tap you Turner cut his chops in London’s hardcore band on the shoulder, ‘This is me, I’m ready to go.’”

Million Dead before the group called it quits in 2005.

Though the title of the album reflects positivity Then the musician picked up his acoustic guitar and (a title, Turner added, that hopefully comes across as went solo with fiery punk-inspired folk strummings. tongue-in-cheek), he doesn’t actively try to pigeonSince then, Turner has gone from playing tiny bars hole his songs while writing. to some of the U.K.,’s largest venues, including “I try quite hard not to pre-direct or prejudice Wembley Stadium, and performing during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Summer Olympics. songwriting,” Turner said. “I try not to be a music critic before I’ve been a musician. I suspect that He’s come a long way from those solo that’s the reason why a lot of bands lose troubadour days. Turner now travels with a their mojo; that they start trying to full band—the Sleeping Souls—and is imagine what the reviews are going to currently on tour supporting his latest “Songwriting say before they’ve finished writing and sixth studio album, Positive is still quite a the song almost.”

Songs for Negative People.

Currently on a self-imposed “It was quite a sort of long and mysterious process writing break to clear his head after difficult birth on this album and it’s to me.” wrapping the last album, Turner nice to have it out there,” Turner says he’s now knee-deep in country Frank Turner said during a recent interview, music, and learning about Africansinger-songwriter conducted while the artist was stuck styled guitar-playing, And, as always, in traffic in a New York City taxicab. he’s starting to collect bones for future For this record, Turner decided he skeletons. wanted something that sounds like a band’s “I’m kind of interested in the idea of something debut album, with a live, raw feel. Previous efforts, of a stylistically left hand turn for the next record,” he felt, hadn’t quite managed to capture the full he says. “At the same time I never have—and I don’t band’s live presence. want to start—forcing what I do creatively.” Ω After struggling to find a producer that would make his idea a reality, he landed on working with Butch Walker, best known for his work with Southgang and Marvelous Three.

“A common and often-made fair comment made Catch Frank turner & the Sleeping Souls at 6 p.m. on Monday, october 19, of my stuff is that we’re a better live band than we are at ace of Spades, 1417 R Street. tickets cost $20. Learn more at on record, and I wanted to change that,” Turner says. http://frank-turner.com/home.

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Consider the mushroom Funky town: The first time I met Ideateam drummer Joey Carusi was at a hazy, raucous George Clinton concert. So when I see him outside of the Torch Club the night his lotsa-piece funk group and hometown weird-ass favorites Big Sticky Mess

are playing a benefit concert for California fire victims, I’m expecting the funk in its purest primordial form: A confluence of tight, technical tunes dripping with that amalgam of mud and forest floor, where spores rise of their own accord and you have no choice but to sit and sully your blue-and-white dress to consider the mushroom, to heed the nearby placard reading: “Eat me.”

The best thing about the Torch is its varied clientele: broke Midtown youth ready to groove alongside suburbanite mamas and papas out for one evening to prove they’ve still got it.

Big Sticky Mess takes the stage clad in Star Wars onesies and frat-boy plastic sunglasses. The bassist plods around barefoot, and the funk commences. It’s not just the weird outfits and spaceship energy that make these guys so magnetic—their lyrics are punchy and fun, demanding the gyrating crowd participate: “I met some aliens / I tried their drugs.

“And I liked it.”

In the end, Big Sticky Mess serves up two gooey sets, ending its finale with the pleasing affirmation that “everybody’s freaky.”

When Ideateam starts, Torch patrons are already intoxicated with booze and grooves and the unfettered joy of having found a babysitter for the evening.

The band’s style of funk knows no brand, but one thing is true: it’s a party and everyone’s invited onstage. On this night they’re a seven-piece set with two brass players and a bongo man. Now there are nine, a soul collective with two singers rising from the ether to woo with a cover of “Love and Happiness.”

The singers recede backstage and now there are 10 and—where did that tuba come from?

Ideateam’s crowd-pleasers are its classics, in which the brass section serves up would-be lyrics through melody and each member onstage knows, by the resonating sound of

their instruments, precisely what the others are doing and how they’re feeling—a veritable funk family.

—Dave Kempa

All in the family: Goodbyes are never easy, but for Big Mike and the Rhythm Section it was a rather emotionally incendiary occasion.

With a move to Los Angeles next week, Michael “Big Mike” Hart Jr. and his band put on a solid farewell show to a sold-out Harlow’s Restaurant & Night Club last Thursday night.

Hart’s uncle, Jimi “Bottom Hammock” Morris, worked in conjunction with the nightclub to send his nephew off “in high fashion,” as Hart relayed to the crowd.

Morris is a founder of the popular cover group Mercy Me!, and he helped expedite Hart’s tuneful trade early on.

The original plan for Big Mike was to shift down south and pursue a career revolving around production, songwriting and session work.

But with the release of his debut album Young Man Old Soul, he has sparked a fresh smooth-jazz sound and his calling as a full-blown artist.

Highlights from the show included “Hybrid,” with a traditional jazzy arrangement that showcased extended solos from the band. Also, a collaboration with Morris and his wife Julie Morris on a song called “Midnight Love.” This neo-soul love ballad, sung between the longtime couple, lit up the stage with undeniable chemistry. But the most enjoyable cry of the night, for Hart especially, came with the rendition of “Blessed” with his cousin Ja’Net N. Miller on vocals. His philosophy especially rang true here: “Inspire people no matter who they are, no matter what they’re doing, and no matter what they’re going through to remember they’re blessed despite the circumstances,” he said.

Big Mike and the Rhythm Section’s finale showed an assured familiarity both onstage and off. It let folks see his impending expedition to L.A. ought to have as much in store as the Sacramento prelude that’s gotten him here.

—DereK Kaplan

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Ever want to get your groove on at a quaint park concert in Natomas? No, you say?

C’mon, what’s your problem. Let the suburban folk have their moment, eh? That’s POP what’s going down this Saturday night in South Natomas Community Park: Mumbo Gumbo (pictured), veteran pop act and second-favorite band of Bee scribe Ailene Voisin, is the Pops in the Park entertainment for the evening. Will its magic be so potent as to get Councilwoman Angelique Ashby to “nae nae”? Unlikely; this is a Councilman Jeff Harris party, yo! Bonus: Track 7 Brewing Co. will have a pop-up beer garden. No excuses now, hipster. BYO blanket or chair. 2901 Truxel Road in Natomas, www.mumbogumbo.com.

the ColoNy, 8 P.m., $10

On its last album, Foxygen dug through the ashes of ’70s soft rock, lounge and B-grade psychedelic space rock to expand the boundaries of its psych-pop sound. The band also expanded into a whopping nine-piece touring unit. Two of those new members, Nina Joly and Justin Nijssen, happened to have their own group called Holy Komodo, based out of Olympia. They pull from a lot of the same influences as Foxygen 2.0. But where IndIE Foxygen took these sounds and made chaos out of them, Holy Komodo creates gentle, laid-back, spacey grooves, with an offbeat post-punk edge. 946 Olive Drive in Davis, www.facebook.com/holykomodo.

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Everybody may be getting all excited about the evolution of black metal, with stuff like the blackened shoegaze of Deafheaven slipping into the mainstream. Let’s take this moment to remember that the olden kvlt ways never die. Coming fresh off BLACK METAL California Deathfest, Goat Torment, from Ghent, Belgium, will bring the blasphemy as it tours with a new album, Sermons to Death, a record full of the undying blast beats, shredding guitars and low-fi pandemonium you crave. Just check these song titles: “Hierarchy of Negligence,” “Abusing the Weak” and “Satanic Necrolust.” Hails. 3522 Stockton Boulevard, www.facebook.com/Goattorment.

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There’s a certain type of music-just-isn’twhat-it-used-to-be baby boomer that still won’t shut the eff up about how righteous Woodstock 1969 was (and OK, it does seem like it was pretty awesome). While the group of Classic Album Live musicians that are recreating Hendrix’s iconic Are You Experienced note for note probably aren’t going ROCK to be lighting any guitars on fire, the meticulous live reproduction of the album front to back seeks to be the closest thing to the real thing, and to let the incendiary songs speak for themselves. 10 College Parkway in Folsom, http://classicalbumslive.com.

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Center For the Arts, 7:30 p.m., $34-$40 Dar Williams fans can rejoice after a seemingly endless wait. Not only does she have a new album, called Emerald, she’ll also be touring in support of it throughout the year—and then some. If you’re a fan of smart, well-crafted singerFOLK songwriter fare and thoughtful lyrics, look no further than Williams’ back catalog. A strong proponent of liberalism and a great storyteller, her fan base has grown exponentially with each successive release. With her collaboration with Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky, she’s proven there are no limits in the normally constricting folk scene. 314 West Main in Grass Valley, http://darwilliams.com.

—eddie Jorgensen

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hArlow’s restAurAnt & nightCluB, 8 p.m., $18-$22

Chicago-bred indie rock band Young Jesus made the move to Los Angeles, as many bands do, to begin writing new iNDiE material with the addition of two new members. Its latest album, Grow/ Decompose, received quite the online buzz from music blogs like SpinMedia’s Stereogum and San Francisco-based Turntable Kitchen.

The 10-song album captures the group’s Midwestern charm and showcases each song’s novel-like narrative that’s catchy and provocative. The band’s song “G” uses steady beats and upbeat guitars to introduce listeners to a character named Neil and the more intimate details of his daily life. 1517 21st Street, www.facebook.com/youngjesus.

Believe it or not, Sir Mix-A-Lot still mixes a lot. True, he hasn’t dropped a record since 2003, and he’s best known for a song that came out in 1992. But he’s still active in the music industry, and at age 52, he still goes on tour. Believe it. That aforementioned smash hit is, of course, the perpetually enduring “Baby Got Back.” It’s been featured in Jackass: the Movie, Shrek, Futurama, Friends and even Spongebob Squarepants. It’s the basis for Nicki Minaj’s super successful single “Anaconda.” Some argue “Baby Hip-HOp Got Back” was instrumental in changing perceptions about curvy women—a driver of today’s booty fever. So, thanks, Sir. I guess. 2708 J Street, http://sirmixalot.com.

—steph rodriguez

CAFe ColoniAl, 8 p.m., $5 Brooklyn post-punk outfit Lushes arrives at the Cafe Colonial fresh off the release of its sophomore effort, Service Industry. While bands on the Felte label traditionally fit within the Le Twist Tuesday vibe, Lushes bring a harsher ’tude apropos of the pOST-pUNK off-grid debasement of fringe punk shows. Assisting with the menacing sonics will be locals Grave Lake, comprised of exDarling Chemicalia dudes, and Xoblique. While Darling Chemicalia will be sorely missed, the visceral dirge bubbling from Grave Lake’s live set suggests a renewed vigor for jet-fueled punk reminiscent of Velvet Underground and Sonic Youth. 3520 Stockton Boulevard, www.facebook.com/events/1690460171189272.

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Fabulous and Gay Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

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

HONEY B, 9:30pm, call for cover

SIMPLE CREATION, 9:30pm, call for cover

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BLUE LAMP

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

SCRATCHPAD, 8pm, call for cover

SKIPPER of HBK Gang, 8pm, call for cover

CLIFF ’EM ALL, SONS OF SATAN; 8pm, call for cover

THE BOARDWALK

ESCAPE THE FATE, A SKYLIT DRIVE,

HEAT OF DAMAGE, A MILE TIL DAWN, DECIPHER, URD-OM; 6:30pm, $10

JAYTEKZ AND JEFF TURNER, 7pm, $15-$20

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 SWORN IN; 6:30pm, $20-$22

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

DIPPIN SAUCE, 5pm, call for cover; DR. ROCK AND THE STUFF, 9pm

BLACK WATER, 6pm, call for cover

THE COZMIC CAFE

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

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Dirtcaps, 10pm, $5

NASA with DJ Oasis, 10pm, call for cover

Styles and Complete, 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

JOHN GRUBER, 8pm, no cover

PARTED BANDS, THE LEAN-TO WRECKING CREW; 9pm, $5

BLAME THE BISHOP, HER SIX DAUGHTERS, DOLORES WARREN; 9pm, $5

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Sunday Tea Dance and Beer Bust, 4-8pm, call for cover

Feel Good Mondays happy hour all night, M; Trapicana, W, call for cover Trivia Night, 6:30pm M, no cover; Open-mic night, 7:30pm W, no cover

LE KELTON, THE SHRIKE, ATLAS PARK, POMEGRANATE; 8pm, call for cover

MoxieCrush Variety Show, 8pm Tu, $10; COMMA ZERO, MAJIA DOT; 8pm W

DAR WILLIAMS, JENNY O.; 7:30pm, $34-$40

The Giver, 10am Tu, $8-$12 SIMRIT, 7:30pm W, $25-$35

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

EDM and karaoke, 9pm M, no cover; Latin night, 9pm Tu, $5 Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub quiz, 7pm Tu; All Vinyl Wednesdays, 6pm W, no cover

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

NYLON LYONN, 6:30pm, $5-$8; WONDERBREAD 5, 10pm, $12-$15

MIDNIGHT PLAYERS, 10pm, $12-$15

SIR MIX-A-LOT, 8pm W, $18-22

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HARLOW’S

MUDHONEY, THE TROUBLE MAKERS, SLA; 8pm, $20-$25

THE HIDEAWAY BAR & GRILL

Trash Rock Thursdays, 9pm, no cover

LUNA’S CAFE & JUICE BAR

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

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

5 Year Anniversary Party with REBEL PUNK, WEST LORDS; noon, no cover

Sunday Sinema, 8pm, call for cover

Record Club, M; Cactus Pete’s 78 RPM Record Roundup, 8pm Tu

Sit n’ Spin Poetry Slam, 8pm, no cover

Flamenco del Oro with Kelly Rivera, Leta, Roger Aiton; 8:30pm, $15

Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M; Openmic comedy, 8pm Tu; STAB!, 8pm W, $5

Tricks, Treats & Beats with Lancelot, 10pm, $10

Tricks, Treats & Beats with Synclan, 10pm, $5

Salsa Wednesday, 7:30pm W, $5

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LILY QUINTERO, COOPER PRAWALSKY, HEATHER BECHTEL; 8:30pm, $5

PANDOVAL, BAD OUTLETS; 8:30pm, $5

MARTIN PURTILL, JULIE AND AIYANA, SAM SHARP; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz session with Naked Lounge Quintet, M, no cover; CULLEN ELY, W, $5

OLD IRONSIDES

Open acoustic folk jam, 7:30pm, no cover

WHOOPIE QAT, MAU, S.W.I.M.; 9pm, $7

Lipstick, 9pm, $5

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

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Open mic stand-up comedy and karaoke, 8pm, no cover

Saturday Night Karaoke, 8pm, no cover

SHIFTER, 9pm M; Karaoke, 9pm Tu; Movie night, 7pm W, no cover

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TANNAHILL WEAVERS, 8pm, $20

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PIEDMONT MELODY MAKERS, 8pm, $20

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RITA HOSKING, 8pm, $20

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The tidal wave of emotion you feel is more than disappointment, honey. You are grieving the death of a dream. It’s not just the loss of an experience you hoped to share with your husband; it’s also the fulfillment of a role you longed to embody in life. Your disappointment, disbelief, fears, anger, hurt and shock are all normal responses. So is your sweet desire to protect your marriage. That inclination proves that love is the ground of your being. Let this reality inspire you to be tender with your broken heart, while you focus on what you love about your husband. Love will keep the channels of communication open— within yourself, and between you and your man.

It’s likely you refuse to accept your husband’s decision because you think he might change his mind. Or should I say, change his mind, again? That’s the deeper challenge here. When we spoke by phone you admitted that before the wedding, you assured your husband you didn’t want children. After the wedding, you changed your mind. If you have that right, so does he. Yes, I know it feels different because he already has children. But the core reality remains: You changed your mind. He tried to accommodate your wish, and gave up.

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You might change your mind if your parents learned to disagree like adults, instead of fighting. But that would require both of them to change. They would need to do three things: develop listening skills, give up the need to be right and remember what they love about each other.

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My mom keeps leaving, saying she can’t stand my dad anymore. She comes back for a while, they fight and she leaves again. This has been going on for a year. I hate being at home but my dad won’t let me stay with a friend. My brother is away at college and doesn’t have to deal with this. It’s not fair.

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Psych! These rules will create a huge demand for lawyers and consultants, but the game won’t change much. People who don’t want to be involved in the medical cannabis industry can still grow marijuana for their personal needs. Folks who want to sell weed will have to sign up and pay fees and be regulated. You know, like any other industry in America.

It gets a little complicated because there are like 17 different classifications of licenses (http://tinyurl.com/ncof3l7). One of the goals of the new law is to keep marijuana businesses from becoming huge monopolies, so they have it set up like Washington, where you can either be a grower, a processor or a distributor.

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FOR THE WEEk OF OCTOBER 15, 2015 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here’s actor Bill

Murray’s advice about relationships: “If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just say, ‘OK, let’s pick a date. Let’s get married.’ Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of.

And if, when you come back, you’re still in love with that person, get married at the airport.”

In the coming weeks, Aries, I suggest you make comparable moves to test and deepen your own closest alliances. See what it’s like to get more seriously and deliriously intimate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some firefighters

use a wetter kind of water than the rest of us.

It contains a small amount of biodegradable foam that makes it 10 times more effective in dousing blazes. With this as your cue, I suggest you work on making your emotions “wetter” than usual. By that I mean the following: When your feelings arise, give them your reverent attention. Marvel at how mysterious they are.

Be grateful for how much life force they endow you with. Whether they are relatively “negative” or “positive,” regard them as interesting revelations that provide useful information and potential opportunities for growth.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Jonathan Strange

& Mr. Norrell is a BBC TV min-series set in the early 19th century. It’s the fictional story of a lone wizard, Mr. Norrell, who seeks to revive the art of occult magic so as to accomplish practical works, like helping the English navy in its war against the French navy. Norrell is pleased to find an apprentice, Jonathan Strange, and draws up a course of study for him. Norrell tells Strange that the practice of magic is daunting, “but the study is a continual delight.” If you’re interested in taking on a similar challenge, Gemini, it’s available.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): We humans have put

buttons on clothing for seven millennia. But for a long time these small knobs and disks were purely ornamental—meant to add beauty but not serve any other function. That changed in the 13th century, when our ancestors finally got around to inventing buttonholes. Buttons could then serve an additional purpose, providing a convenient way to fasten garments. I foresee the possibility of a comparable evolution in your personal life, Cancerian. You have an opening to dream up further uses for elements that have previously been one-dimensional. Brainstorm about how you might expand the value of familiar things.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You would be wise to

rediscover and revive your primal innocence. If you can figure out how to shed a few shreds of your sophistication and a few slivers of your excess dignity, you will literally boost your intelligence.

That’s why I’m inviting you to explore the kingdom of childhood, where you can encounter stimuli that will freshen and sweeten your adulthood. Your upcoming schedule could include jumping in mud puddles, attending parties with imaginary friends, having uncivilized fun with wild toys and drinking boisterously from fountains of youth.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): While still a young

man, Virgo author Leo Tolstoy wrote that “I have not met one man who is morally as good as I am.” He lived by a strict creed. “Eat moderately” was one of his “rules of life,” along with “Walk for an hour every day.” Others were equally stern: “Go to bed no later than 10 o’clock,” “Only do one thing at a time,” and “Disallow flights of imagination unless necessary.” He did provide himself with wiggle room, however. One guideline allowed him to sleep two hours during the day.

Another specified that he could visit a brothel twice a month. I’d love for you to be inspired by Tolstoy’s approach, Virgo. Now is a favorable time to revisit your own rules of life. As you refine and recommit yourself to these fundamental disciplines, be sure to give yourself enough slack.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Many astronomers

believe that our universe began with the big bang.

An inconceivably condensed speck of matter exploded, eventually expanding into thousands of billions of stars. It must have been a noisy event, right? Actually, no. Astronomers estimate that the roar of the primal eruption was just 120 decibels—less than the volume of a live rock

concert. I suspect that you are also on the verge of your own personal big bang, Libra. It, too, will be relatively quiet for the amount of energy it unleashes.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): For now, you are

excused from further work on the impossible tasks that have been grinding you down. You may take a break from the unsolvable riddles and cease your exhaustive efforts. And if you would also like to distance yourself from the farcical jokes the universe has been playing, go right ahead. To help enforce this transition, I hereby authorize you to enjoy a time of feasting and frolicking, which will serve as an antidote to your baffling trials. And I hereby declare that you have been as successful at weathering these trials as you could possibly be, even if the concrete proof of that is not yet entirely visible.

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

afternoon in September, I was hiking along a familiar path in the woods. As I passed my favorite grandmother oak, I spied a thick, 6-footlong snake loitering on the trail in front of me.

In hundreds of previous visits, I had never before seen a creature bigger than a mouse.

The serpent’s tail was hidden in the brush, but its head looked more like a harmless gopher snake’s than a dangerous rattler’s. I took the opportunity to sing it three songs. It stayed for the duration, then slipped away after I finished.

What a great omen! The next day, I made a tough but liberating decision to leave behind a good part of my life so as to focus more fully on a great part. With or without a snake sighting, Sagittarius, I foresee a comparable breakthrough for you sometime soon.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Canadian author Margaret Atwood has finished a new manuscript.

It’s called Scribbler Moon. But it won’t be published as a book until the year 2114. Until then, it will be kept secret, along with the texts of many other writers who are creating work for a “Future Library.” The project’s director is conceptual artist Katie Paterson, who sees it as a response to George Orwell’s question, “How could you communicate with the future?”

With this as your inspiration, Capricorn, try this exercise: Compose five messages you would you like to deliver to the person you will be in 2025.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every hour of

your life, millions of new cells are born to replace old cells that are dying. That’s why many parts of your body are composed of an entirely different collection of cells than they were years ago.

If you are 35, for example, you have replaced your skeleton three times. Congratulations! Your creativity is spectacular, as is your ability to transform yourself. Normally these instinctual talents aren’t nearly as available to you in your efforts to recreate and transform your psyche, but they are now. In the coming months, you will have extraordinary power to revamp and rejuvenate everything about yourself, not just your physical organism.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The coming weeks

will not be a favorable time to seek out allies you don’t even like that much or adventures that provide thrills you have felt a thousand times before.

But the near future will be an excellent time to go on a quest for your personal version of the Holy Grail, a magic carpet, the key to the kingdom or an answer to the sphinx’s riddle. In other words, Pisces, I advise you to channel your yearning toward experiences that steep your heart with a sense of wonder. Don’t bother with anything that degrades, disappoints or desensitizes you.

you can call rob Brezsny for your expanded weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785. and don’t forget to check out rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.

PHOTO COurTesy Of laura HOHlwein

Moving pictures Painter, poet, photographer, filmmaker and Sacramento artist-of-all-trades Laura Hohlwein will take the stage this weekend for the Davis Jazz and Beat Festival. While jazz groups improv, she’ll improv her brush strokes on canvas. Observers will get to see an abridged version of Hohlwein’s creative process, which to her, is everything. She says putting a painting on the wall is kind of like having a concert where the audience just hears the last chord of a song. Meaning comes from the process of painting, not the finished painting itself. Makes sense coming from Hohlwein, whose work often deals with the experience of consciousness and other heady explorations. These days, she teaches full-time at the Art Institute of California—writing, drawing, art history, design—as well as digital video editing at American River College. Hohlwein took a few minutes to chat about stage anxiety, existentialism and colors.

for friends or family in my studio. I’m very very private. I don’t share my art-making with anyone. Ever.

Do you relate to existentialists?

You’re performance painting—

That’s totally fine. I was just having a conversation the other day about how, after a certain age, we’re never asked about our favorite color.

I do. … Understanding the world, and how we process it, is of endless fascination to me.

That’s true. I think when I was young, I said brown just to be different.

Through art, have you gotten any closer to finding out what it means to be alive?

Were you an eccentric kid?

(Laughs.) I have to laugh out loud. It just cracks me up that I’m even talking to you for that.

Why is this so funny?

On every level. Because I’m a spectacularly introverted person, so that I would ever do anything like this just cracks me up.

Do you have much experience with performance painting?

No, I don’t. The year before last, I was part of the Jazz and Beat Festival [for the first time] … I just did it, and I had no idea how I thought I’d survive. Really, no experience whatsoever—not even painting

that sort of thing. Terrible at sewing. But I just love working with all different mediums—there’s so much to do and so much to work with, and when you mash them together, that’s another interesting thing.

What was that like for you?

First I think I was just afraid about not hurting myself because the stage was really shallow and 3-and-a-half feet off the ground. There was no backup room. It’s kinda good, I think, when you’re nervous about something to have something you’re more nervous about, like falling down.

Someone says, “I don’t get abstract art.” You say …

(Laughs.) Gosh. Well I guess my answer would be, “What do you get about music?” I think they’re very similar. I think people are really comfortable listening to music, and I don’t think anybody just stops a CD and says, “Well, what does that mean?” But with art, they just can’t get past that. It takes people a long time to accept the dynamics of the composition, the color, the space.

I find what it feels to be alive when I do it.

When I’m in my studio and painting, I just feel really vividly alive. Whether I know what that means any more deeply, I don’t know.

It’s very much an experience of the present that’s pretty undiluted—and really, really fun.

Have you ever tried an art form that just didn’t connect with you?

Besides the domestic arts? (Laughs.) I don’t think I’m very good at ceramics,

What’s the best color?

I’m trying to close my eyes and see the best color. I can tell you the best compliment I’ve ever gotten about color. A dear friend of mine I just trust so much said, “When I see the red in your paintings, I know that I’m alive.” I just loved that. But what’s the best color? Isn’t that funny, it’s like if I had to answer that question to get into heaven, I don’t know if I could. They’re all so beautiful, they’re all so different. Just looking at the blue sky, there are so many different blues. You can’t just say blue is a particular color—there’s just so much there. I’m just totally avoiding the question.

Probably, yeah. I’ve always been kind of a misfit, kind of a loner, but happy. … I think I’ve always just been fascinated with puttering around in life. It’s just amazing to me. It’s funny, you really are always the person you’ve always been. Ω

The eighth annual Davis Jazz and Beat festival takes place friday, October 16, and saturday, October 17, at the John natsoulas Gallery, 521 first street in Davis. laura Hohlwein performs 1-3 p.m. saturday.

More at www.natsoulas.com.

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