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Sometimes it hurts to be a Sacramento Kings fan.

It’s a respect thing. Take that recent Rolling Stone column headlined “The Sacramento Kings’ Completely Insane Plan to Save Basketball.” In it, the writer snarked that the team is a “glorious train wreck” whose players “just stand there, completely uninterested, hands on knees, because sometimes you just get tired and basketball games are kind of long, you guys.”

Ouch.

Then there’s the new arena— scheduled to make its tax dollareating debut in 2016. And, of course, Mayor Kevin Johnson’s shady attachments to both the building and efforts to keep the team out of Seattle’s greedy, sticky hands.

OK, fine, but whatever. I refuse to be a Kings apologist.

I love the team because even at its ball-dropping, no-passing, lockerroom-drama worst, it’s still fun. It’s fun whether I’m sitting in the nosebleed seats sipping $10 beer, or sitting in my living room, yelling at the TV. It’s fun screaming over squandered leads, painful overtime stretches and, sometimes even, energetic runs and jaw-droppingly graceful slam dunks.

The King’s 2015-16 season gets its jump ball Wednesday, October 28, at Sleep Train Arena in a match-up against the once equally pitied Los Angeles Clippers. In the meantime, turn to page 16 to read Blake Gillespie’s insight on the new season—the highs, the lows and all the George Karl/ Boogie Cousins/Willie Cauley-Stein questions in between.

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The rent was a lot less than now, but then the property values were a lot less. I am comparing 2002 to now. I would say it is at least 30 percent more than it used to be. … I had to rent due to my divorce, and it’s so much more than it used to be.

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On H and 17th, the monthly rent five or six years ago was roughly $400 or $500 for a one-bedroom. If you put a paint job on an apartment complex nowadays, they can go for $700 or $800 a month. With the stadium coming … rents have gone up. I just know I will no longer be taking the J Street exit.

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Keep Sacto authentic Re “Place to make you” (SN&R Editor’s Note, October 15): Thank you for stating what’s been stuck in the back of the throats of many long-time central city residents. A fresh new group of self-appointed “cultural leaders” have planted their flag on our shores, much in the same manner as Christopher Columbus. Their good intentions barely mask the disregard they hold for the tribes that have long held Sacramento 1.0 as our happy home. While the need for housing has been obvious for decades, this garish “portal” to a future of towering, market-rate condos and trendy nightclubs denies the true foundation of that elusive world-class status: authenticity.

Having lived downtown for over 20 years, I’ve seen the failings of the many civic-minded schemes driven by developers, the city and business groups. One can only hope that as the “new” Midtown and DoCo take shape that we don’t lose our most precious assets—our much-touted cultural diversity and a sense of place that acknowledges and respects all that has come before.

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Re “Place to make you” (SN&R Editor’s Note, October 15): Isn’t “placemaking” just the same B.S. as putting a fence up in Rancho Cordova and calling it “Gold River”?

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K.J. needs to resign Re “Dirty for dirty” (SN&R News, October 8): Thank you for your tireless efforts in exposing the disgusting misconduct of Mayor Kevin Johnson. As a further public service, could you please post this address, so citizens can write to the mayor and ask for his resignation?

Mayor Kevin Johnson 915 I Street, Fifth Floor Sacramento, CA 95814

You can reach your city council member at the same address, if you’d like to urge them to call for the mayor’s resignation as well. Thank you.

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Re “Exit Afghanistan for real” (SN&R Editorial, October 8): The Taliban shot up the city where the Doctors Without Borders hospital was located.

They were just down the block from the hospital, busy shooting people in the name of Allah. While it is unfortunate the hospital got bombed, that is what happens in a war. If you think we should go home and abandon that war, then what are you going to do when they pull the next Twin Towers or worse?

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First Look Media wrote that, if Mayor Kevin Johnson keeps his emails private, it “could set a precedent that undermines the public’s right of access to governmental information.”

K.J.’s other problem SN&R challenges the mayor’s secret email policy in court

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Kevin Johnson sued SN&R in July. Read our challenge and response to his litigation online at www. newsreview.com/ sacramento.

Help fund SN&R’s legal defense at www. gofundme.com/ SNRlegalhelp.

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This week, media outlets all over the country are piling on Kevin Johnson.

Esquire Magazine’s Charles P. Pierce even wrote on Tuesday that the mayor was a “truly awful human being,” a “grifter,” and that President Barack Obama needs to “cut him loose.” Ouch.

There are also rumblings of investigations into K.J.’s sexual misconduct by the likes of The New York Times and HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.

This resurgent attention on mayor’s molestation allegations and inappropriate sexual behavior is crucial. But it’s not the only challenge Johnson faces as his political future floats in limbo.

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There’s also K.J.’s secrecy problem.

This is where SN&R would like to update readers on its ongoing litigation with the mayor. A lot has happened since Johnson sued this paper in July. For instance, last week, SN&R filed a major challenge in the case.

A quick recap: K.J. sued SN&R earlier this year to stop the release of emails that he says are private conversations between himself and his attorneys. SN&R disagrees with this claim.

In fact, after reviewing a log of the emails, we now know that these are not special or protected communications

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between a lawyer and a mayor. These are email messages that include everyone from interns to PR experts, staffers and volunteers.

It’s worrying that the mayor would want to hide these emails from the public. And it’s also disconcerting that all of his employees—paid city workers, private volunteers with his education nonprofit, and so on—spend an inordinate amount of time working on non-city-of-Sacramento business.

In the past months, Johnson’s attorneys at Ballard Spahr, who represent the mayor pro bono, have not sufficiently proven that these emails and documents

in question are privileged. And so, on October 7, this paper requested that the city of Sacramento provide the court with copies of all the records so that a judge can review them privately and determine if they should be made public.

We expect a day in court sometime next month.

Coups, ThreaTs and seCreT Gmail “This is an extraordinary lawsuit,” our attorneys wrote in a summary of our case, filed with the Superior Court of Sacramento earlier this month.

The bizarre drama and conflict dates back to May 2013, when Johnson completed his self-proclaimed “coup” of the Atlanta-based National Conference of Black Mayors and was elected president of the organization. The NCBM challenged Johnson’s election, however, and that’s when Ballard Spahr ended up representing K.J. and his interests.

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DyING of exCItemeNt Things came to a head on April 30, 2014, when Johnson declared bankruptcy for NCBM—and then, the next day, May 1, launched the African-American Mayors Association, a competing national group in direct conflict with the NCBM. Johnson also resigned from NCBM that month, and Ballard Spahr went on to represent him at AAMA, as well.

If you’re keeping score at home: Ballard Spahr in theory represents AAMA and NCBM, two adversarial groups.

It’s complicated because Ballard Spahr, as attorney for Johnson and AAMA, ended up suing NCBM. This litigation has been ongoing since June 2013.

But now Ballard Spahr also claims to represent NCBM and Johnson in its suit against SN&R—even though current NCBM leaders say that Ballard Spahr doesn’t speak for them.

If you’re confused, so are we: How is it legal for the mayor’s private attorney to represent a group that they’ve filed a lawsuit against? How can Ballard Spahr represent both groups at the same time?

That’s now up for a judge to explain.

Meanwhile, fast forward to June 23 of this year: Ballard Spahr threatened to sue SN&R writer Cosmo Garvin if he kept asking for emails relating to the NCBM and Johnson’s private “Office of Mayor Kevin Johnson” Gmail accounts.

K.J.’s secret Gmail use was a red flag to us at SN&R, as it clearly was a way for the mayor to circumvent transparency and hide his office’s doings from the public.

SN&R had requested the city to turn over these private Gmails, since the accounts are being used for public work, but so far the city attorney has said they do not need to comply with this request.

Anyway, when Ballard Spahr threatened us, Garvin told them to buzz off—and their threat of litigation became a reality on July 1, when K.J. sued this paper.

DeaDSpIN vS. k.J. Lawsuits are expensive. Kevin Johnson knows this. His attorneys work for free.

SN&R’s do not.

During the summer, this paper worked to resolve its lawsuit with the mayor informally. But it’s clear that both K.J., his attorneys and even the city of Sacramento attorneys were not interested in any resolution. They want to prolong this case, they worked to delay and obstruct—and they want to make things more costly for us.

day in court, which possibly will be Attorneys at Deadpsin, for instance, next month. wanted to join our suit. Deadspin has Upon review of a log of the emails the been covering Johnson and the NCBM mayor wants to keep secret—a list showfor a while and has submitted similar ing who sent them and received them, public-records requests as SN&R here in and so on—it’s clear that the records in Sacramento. They’re a news organization question should be made public. and have a vested interest in the case.

These emails and documents have And the city, as is their duty, should be been sent, received and read by a wealth responsive to Deadspin and allow them to of K.J. staffers, volunteers, interns and become a “real party” in the suit.

PR employees, including many with Deadspin joining would also mean the mayor’s private education nonprofit that SN&R would not have to bear all the Stand Up. legal costs alone.

Our attorneys argue that courts It’s disconcerting, then, that the consistently view these kinds Sacramento City Attorney of disclosures to staff and has sided with Ballard employees as a waiving of Spahr and Johnson, not attorney-client privilege. us—their co-respondent Johnson’s attorneys in the case—and has have not proven that blocked Deadspin attorney-client privilege from joining as a real exists, either. party. When asked by Our case received our attorney, the city international attenwould not give us a SN&R’s attorneys tion this past Monday, reason why. when First Look Media This, of course, was announced a $15,000 grant to a huge red flag: Why does support our legal defense fund. the city attorney care if Deadspin “Although the media and political joins the case? Does the mayor have some reach of this case may be regionally leverage over the city attorney? What’s focused, it bears a significant public going on here? interest,” First Look wrote in a blog post It’s worth noting that Deadspin and on Monday. “If the mayor succeeds in its writer Dave McKenna has been at the blocking public review of emails sent in forefront of criticizing and investigating his capacity as mayor that relate to the use the mayor’s sexual misconduct, includof public resources, it could set a precing a recent interviewer with Johnson’s edent that undermines the public’s right then-15-year-old accuser. Deadpsin also published a police video of K.J.’s accuser, of access to governmental information.”

First Look’s Press Freedom Litigation which prompted ESPN to cancel the Fund has also assisted the legal defense of mayor’s high-profile “30 for 30” docuArmy intelligence whistleblower Chelsea mentary last week.

Manning, among others.

This week, it was also revealed that SN&R’s readers have also given Ballard Spahr attorneys attempted to more than $15,000 in support of its legal place a gag order on a former NCBM defense at a Go Fund Me site. executive director, preventing her from And so, even though this paper speaking further to Deadpsin. remains legally marooned, the grant and SN&R also has learned that, while support from our readers shows that the Ballard Spahr represents the mayor public cares about issues of transparency for free, the firm has made attempts in government. That people care bout a to acquire paid work with the city of mayor who uses private email to hide Sacramento. For instance, Ballard has public business from those who put him pitched its services on the mayor’s Think in office. That voters will do more than Downtown housing initiative—at the raise an eyebrow at an elected official same time it was urging the city attorney who blurs the lines of public and private to not release Johnson’s emails. work. And that Sacramento no longer trusts Kevin Johnson. Ω

“This is an extraordinary lawsuit.”

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Here we are, nearly four months and $48,000 in legal fees later, awaiting a

A man yelling for help from inside a south Davis motel died in police

custody early last Thursday morning.

According to the Davis Police Department, officers responded to reports of a male subject screaming at the La Quinta Inn. When officers arrived, they heard a man yell for help, but also make statements that made officer think there was a gun and possibly another person in the room. Those two things didn’t end up being true, but police wouldn’t learn that until later.

After failing to establish communication with anyone inside, officers breached the motel door. The police department says it took six officers to restrain the 54-year-old man they found inside, who “violently resisted being taken into custody.” When they finally gained control, he stopped breathing. Though medical personnel was on the scene, they were unable to revive him and the man died.

The death is in the early stages of being investigated by Davis and Woodland police, but, on the surface, it appears similar to a February 4 death in the city of Sacramento, one that highlights the potential risk of encountering people with unseen health conditions.

In the latter case, an officer was alerted around midnight to a man tampering with vehicles near 19th and H streets. The man, identified by the coroner as 49-year-old Thomas Ramirez, grew agitated when a second officer arrived on scene and resisted attempts to be detained. Francine Tournour, director of Sacramento’s Office of Public Safety and Accountability, says the two officers were able to wrestle Ramirez to the ground and put him in the back of the cruiser.

At the jail, some 10 blocks away, deputies had to pull the resisting Ramirez out of the car and place him on the ground so they could swap out restraints. It was during this time that Ramirez stopped moving. Deputies flipped him over and began CPR, but Ramirez expired.

Tournour reviewed jail footage of the incident. It looked to her like “excited delirium syndrome,” or ExDS. Take a person with acute psychiatric symptoms and elevated temperature, add stimulants and then add the cops. The end result is a person whose central nervous system spikes into the red zone, then flatlines.

Severe agitation coupled with aggression are common traits, but exact signs and symptoms can be difficult to detect, even for forensic pathologists, according to an article in the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Sacramento County Coroner Kimberly Gin said an official report on Ramirez’s cause of death is still forthcoming.

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On Monday, a pro-business coalition called Keep Sacramento Working said it now opposes any raise for city workers, after reluctantly supporting a five-year march to $12.50 an hour that came with many loopholes for restaurants and other employers.

The disavowal comes after a pro-labor group called Unite Here announced it would seek a ballot measure raising wages to $15 an hour for workers employed in the downtown arena district.

The Sacramento City Council is still tentatively set to consider the $12.50 proposal from its Task Force on Income Inequality on October 27. But with everyone involved in that process washing their hands of it, it’s hard to think the council won’t, too. (RFH)

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At the start of the school year, Sam Alavi greeted fellow UC Davis students with T-shirts. One of them read “I just want the D.” No, not that D. In smaller letters, it spelled out “destruction of rape culture.”

Though students designed and distributed the shirts—an effort to spread awareness about sexual assault on campus at its peak period, the first six weeks of school—the university paid for them.

University of California President Janet Napolitano wants to be a national leader when it comes to preventing sexual assault on college campuses. In July, she testified before the U.S. Senate on a litany of policy changes that have been going into effect over the course of the year.

But are those changes actually being felt by college students? At UC Davis, not really.

And that’s according to both students and also UC Davis spokesman Andy Fell. “It’s not so much that we changed a great deal so much as there’s policy now behind what we’re doing,” he said.

One big focus is prevention education. This fall, incoming UC Davis students received in-person training about sexual assault and campus resources, a significant shift from last year’s online-only version. Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi also, for the first time, sent students an email the first week of school specifically about the issue.

“That’s a very small first step—and I wouldn’t say that’s at all enough,” said Alavi, the director of UC Davis student government’s office of advocacy.

Alavi wants to see more mandatory in-person education about sexual assault for all students throughout their years at UC Davis, not just when they step on campus for the first time.

Ivon Garcia, who spearheads the gender and sexuality division of student government, echoed Alavi’s desires for more education. And while there are new committees—both at the student and administrative level—dedicated to the

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issue, Garcia believes minority groups are being left out of the conversation.

“We have students who fit the victim trope: they’re largely young, cis-gender women, white, straight, able-bodied,” they said. “Everybody else has special, unique needs and they’re completely left out.”

Additional, optional education campaigns will be rolled out this year— including ones targeting trans, queer and specific cultural communities—but the administration isn’t sure how these will take shape yet, according to Fell.

Several studies suggest minority groups—specifically Native American women, disabled and trans women—are most likely to be victims.

In 2014, 23 sexual assaults were reported on the UC Davis campus, a nudge fewer than the 24 reported in 2013. According to the widely cited 2007 Campus Sexual Assault Study conducted for the Department of Justice, one in five women experience sexual assault before graduation—likely, many rapes go unreported at UC Davis. Fell pointed to a new website as a systemwide attempt to make finding information and filing a report an easier, clearer process.

Still, there’s plenty missing from Napolitano’s list of ways to combat sexual assault, including how universities investigate sexual assaults and determine discipline—the most extreme being expulsion—for those found guilty.

Instead, students who are accused of sexual assault now receive extra support: A coordinator has been hired on every campus specifically for the task.

“The recommendations are a very bare minimum,” Alavi said. “It’s unfortunately the students’ job and the tudents’ burden to push for something that’s actually a lot more accountable.” Ω

Read Janelle Bitker’s 2014 cover story “Does UC Davis have a rape problem?” at http://tinyurl.com/UCDavisRape. Read a longer version of this story on our website.

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Still honorable Darrel Steinberg would make a tremendous mayor by jeff vonkaenel

At an interfaith Breakfast with Clergy event last week, the former president pro tem of the California state Senate, Sacramento’s own Darrell Steinberg, said he appreciated his kind introduction particularly because it did not include the phrase “the formerly honorable.”

After serving on the Sacramento City Council, the State Assembly and then as the head of the Senate, Steinberg clearly misses not being in public office.

He loves policy. He loves getting things done. He loves being in the thick of things. And he is good at it. In fact, The Wall Street Journal picked him as one of 13 people nationwide to watch in 2013.

The Breakfast with Clergy, held at Moe Mohanna’s The Grand Ballroom, is not a big event. There were a dozen or so clergy members and numerous homeless individuals, all enjoying a free breakfast. I showed up to listen to Steinberg.

There are certain politicians who are great performers. They make you laugh. They make you cry.

Nothing is wrong with that, but that is not Steinberg.

I enjoy him because he is so damn brilliant. At the breakfast, Steinberg, who is no longer in office but has set up a foundation to continue his work on mental-health issues, explains his new idea.

As you know, in America, we allow our mentally ill citizens to sleep on the streets—when we’re not throwing them in jail for the crime of being homeless and mentally ill.

An obvious solution would be to provide housing with supportive services for these people who are unable to take care of themselves.

The question is, “How?” Steinberg was the author of Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act. From 2005 on, this act placed taxes of 1 percent on all income

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over $1 million a year. California millionaires are having a good year, so the expected assessment to support mental health programs is $1.8 billion this year.

Steinberg explains that we could take a fraction of this money, $130 million a year, to make payments on $2 billion of government bonds, which would be used to purchase supportive housing. But wait, there’s more.

Supportive housing usually doesn’t get built because the rent payments alone aren’t enough to cover the costs of building it. This $2 billion will fill in that gap. So, the anticipated rents plus the government bonds will actually generate as much as $8 to $10 billion worth of new supportive housing.

Listening to him speak, I started to do my own calculations. This kind of money could house most of Sacramento’s mentally ill homeless population.

Steinberg’s recommendation is that the California county mental health directors use their Prop. 63 money to support this housing program, or that the Legislature passes a bill to do it.

After his remarks, Steinberg took questions. Someone asked what he would do about this proposal if he was the Sacramento mayor. The crowd laughed. Apparently some believe that he is thinking about running for mayor.

Steinberg says he would work regionally with neighboring counties. I believe he would be able to put it together.

No more “formerly honorable.”

I’m ready for the Honorable Darrell Steinberg, but this time, the Honorable Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg. Ω

I enjoy Darrell because he is so damn brilliant.

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Don’t run, K.J. Local developer-advocacy group Region Builders, which recently expanded its reach to represent everything from restaurants to hotels and renamed itself Region Business, has been a staunch ally of Mayor Kevin Johnson. So much so that, last month, the group came out to pre-emptively endorse Johnson for a historical third term.

SN&R, too, would like to pre-emptively make an endorsement. Sort of: Dear mayor, please do not run again.

During your seven years inside City Hall, you’ve been divisive. Your present-day colleagues on city council are either on your team or working against you—often to the detriment of progress (see minimum wage). And the city manager, city attorney and others operate knowing that you have the votes to put them out of work. This isn’t how you lead a city.

The public no longer trusts you, either. You experienced your first big political defeat, with Measure L, yet proceeded to increase office’s budget and hire more staff anyway. You asked Councilwoman Angelique Ashby to drive home good-government reforms—yet you and your staffers continue to use secret Gmail accounts to circumvent public transparency. You raise millions of dollars via your private groups—and then hide the donors. These private groups and nonprofits work inside City Hall on a dizzying mix of city and nonpublic work, efforts that have gotten your office in all sorts of trouble, from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., to your own back yard.

Your spokespeople proclaim you as the most accountable mayor in Sacramento’s history—but everyone views you as tone deaf on ethics and sunshine.

And then there’s the sexual misconduct.

Earlier this year, a fellow city staffer filed a claim against you for sexual harassment. Lawyers working on that case say you’re too “flirty,” so much so that it has been advised you shouldn’t hug colleagues. And then there’s the resurgent Phoenix allegations, and the video of your accuser speaking to law enforcement in Arizona.

Not to mention accusations stemming from your time at St. HOPE and Sacramento High School. You say you have a target on your back, that these recurring allegations are because of your celebrity? But that just doesn’t add up.

We could go on and on. But we won’t. And you shouldn’t, either.

It’s time to call it quits. Ω

The public no longer trusts you.

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Comedian patton oswalt live-tweeted his viewing of the Good Day Sacramento morning show while staying at a local hotel on his way to San Francisco. In a matter of minutes, he learned Sactown is stabby, the hosts only yell and getting a private parts wax followed by a trip to eat barbecue is what passes for entertainment in the 916. It’s funny because it’s true!

When more than one local news source asked the question, “What is Deadspin?,” eyebrows raised to the possibility that Sacramento is trapped in 2005. To answer that question: Deadspin is the sports arm of multimillion-dollar online media corporation Gawker. We expect dumb questions like this from Fox40, but not from the Sacramento Business Journal.

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Attorneys investigating a city sexual-harassment claim involving kevin Johnson advised that the mayor was too “flirty” and should cease hugging other co-workers inside City Hall. Damn. Scorekeeper be like “First bump, bro, fist bump.”

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Rolling Stone recently paid a writer to piss on the Sacramento Kings. The article purports the Kings will save NBA basketball through front office naivete, aversion to data analysis and indifference to proper floor spacing. Irony at its finest. This was all funny in 2014, but the article fails to address that Coach George Karl produces winners, the Kings hired data-guru Roland Beech and wisely kept the Rajon Rondo signing to a one-year deal to test the waters. Feels like Rolling Stone panned us strictly for the hate-clicks.

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Vlade Divac is far-and-away the Kings most feel-good general manager. But will those good vibes translate to wins?

It’s media day and Coach George Karl sits on a stool, his

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back against a black promotional banner inside the Sacramento Kings practice facility. Reporters’ point boom mics, handheld recorders and an obsidian void of video cameras at his face. It’s an interrogation by a local media that wants to know more on the status of his relationship with all-star center DeMarcus Cousins, after a rocky offseason. Unfortunately, that’s just one concern in a crab barrel of questions for a franchise that just once would like to make SportsCenter instead of the tabloids.

For a while now, the Kings, from the roster to the front office, have been musical chairs on ice. Everyone responsible for last season’s meltdown is presumably gone. Former King Vlade Divac was hired as top brass to restore order. His familiar face was at the very least a nostalgic win for a franchise in need of some positive spin.

But then Karl’s declaration this summer that “no player is untradeable” threw oil on the ice. A whirlwind of unfounded rumors, and threats of Karl’s firing, ensued. Peak chaos was Cousins’ emoji tweet—tall grass fronds, snake, tall grass fronds, an impressionistic take on Karl.

Somehow, Divac cleaned up the entire mess—wearing a hard hat, no less—and here we are on media day with Karl. A Kings spokesperson steps in and says “final question.” Divac himself enters the

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journo-scrum and asks Karl the big one: “Coach, are they gonna make the playoffs?”

To which Karl playfully fires back: “I feel good about that challenge, but the puzzle hasn’t been put together yet.

“You just threw all these pieces on the table.”

The repartee plays with such gusto it feels rehearsed. But it goes to the heart: Can the Kings make the playoffs?

Fans’ unwavering optimism, despite a decade-long playoff drought, is at once endearing and depressing. They’re hungry. But insiders are more guarded about the team’s chances. Former Kings columnist for The Sacramento Bee Marty McNeal says any forecasts are conjecture.

“And I ain’t a speculative guy. I’ll wait and see,” he told SN&R. Even Kings TV color commentator Jerry Reynolds is prudent: “I’m cautiously optimistic.”

But this is SN&R; ain’t no pussy-footing here. We are keeping tabs on the Vegas odds, because if the Kings prediction remains at 30.5 wins this season, we’re taking a personal day to drive to Nevada.

It’s also the farewell season at Arco Arena—err, Power Balance, err Sleep Train—and the Golden 1 Center’s imminent arrival downtown means the team has to get good again. If the Kings are going to keep this oil spill on ice from igniting in flames, SN&R must tackle some of the big questions going into opening night tip off. Here are 10:

1 Does VlaDe DiVac actually Know shit about running an nba team?

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down corrosive rumors of trading Cousins or firing Karl, but his flavorful aplomb and deftness at firefighting are but peripheral to the core skills needed for the job.

The consensus is Divac keeps good company. He held onto Mike Bratz as an assistant general manager despite him being a hire of his predecessor, a widely supported move. He brought in sabermetrician Roland Beech as the vice president of basketball strategy and data science. Beech is the kind of hire that only the nerdiest of hoops analysts might value, but his resume includes time on the coaching staff during the Dallas Mavericks’ championship run.

SN&R spoke to a few local reporters that cover the Kings, and the early Divac report card by insiders like James Ham, of Comcast SportsNet, and writer Akis Yerocostas, of Sactown Royalty, amounts

to high points for charisma and magnetism. Ham even went so far as to declare Divac’s summer as “a better offseason than any other GM the Kings have had in the last decade.”

Kings broadcaster Jerry Reynolds sees Divac as a natural leader who’s equipped to learn on the job. He’s patient and egoless and will defer when required.

Bee columnist Ailene Voisin’s take is concise: “Vlade knows what he doesn’t know.” To her, his international résumé is integral in making the team better. “We were the dominant franchise internationally,” she said of his player tenure with the Kings. Having him in a GM role offers our small market stronger, proactive international scouting.

Our take? The Golden 1 Center need to tweak its construction blueprint to include more smoking patios for Divac to satisfy those nicotine cravings.

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during Media Day: “We demand to be a winning team. We demand to be a serious, accountable team.”

There are championship rings on this roster; when was the last time the Kings could say that? Barring a locker-room implosion of egos that ignites a fire sale at the trade deadline, or injuries that sideline our starting five in business suits, the Kings on paper appear to be a sneaky threat.

“That’s an impressive leap for a team that hasn’t won 30 games since 2007,” Yerocostas said.

Ham’s of the opinion that last year’s team was a 37-win caliber roster—with coaching changes, illness and injuries accounting for the missed mark. He sees this year’s as well constructed, and therefore capable of 40 wins without a doubt. Sentiments echoed by Reynolds and Yerocostas.

“The added depth the Kings acquired this summer, and more familiarity with George Karl’s system, will help propel this team to a .500-or-better record,” Yerocostas said.

It being enough to break the playoff drought depends on the health and volatility of eighth-seed competitors like the Suns, Jazz, Pelicans and Mavericks. The Kings potential will at the very least raise the stakes in April and ignite some high drama down to the wire.

But 42 wins is the type of serious, accountable play rewarded with a playoff berth—in the Eastern Conference. Is it too late to move to Virginia Beach?

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leaving, as he’s wont to do, saying we should hope to have that problem. “I’d rather have him play so well that a bunch of teams are trying to get him, than at the end of the year nobody wants him.”

Flashes of vintage Rondo wowed fans at the preseason home matchup against San Antonio. He exited the game after a dominant third quarter two rebounds and four points shy of a triple-double. It’s the type of play that confirms Cousins’

when it comes to the controversial acquisition of veteran point guard Rondo.

Yerocostas noted that the Kings have a reputable history of retaining free agents. It’s led to jerseys retired in the rafters, and kept Rudy Gay on the roster. Sacramento is a Never Never Land for crestfallen superstars in need of a second chance.

But Reynolds put a twist on Rondo

Rajon Rondo, looking thrilled to be here.

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Is he the next MVP?

declaration that Rondo is a “flat-out genius on the court.” It also had Ham invoking the 2001 Kings roster.

“He has an ability to get people open in a way that the Kings haven’t had since Jason Williams probably,” Ham said.

Rondo has also said all the right things so far. Things like he’s here to play with the best big man in the league.

But the point guard has also trolled our anxiety, because he’s well aware of

cousins wants to be MVP.

But how to get there?

The consensus is simple: win first.

Karl has already graded his starting center for delivering an A+ summer, noting he’s less that problem child of preceding reputation.

“I see a different player,” Karl said at media day. “I see a different substance of character.”

Rondo confirmed the same: “He can control the game in so many different areas and, not to put any pressure on him, but I expect him to be the best big man in the game.”

Does that translate to leadership? It certainly needs to. Statistics show last year Cousins was more dominant posttechnical foul—but playing angry is not MVP material. His on-court demeanor, according to Yerocostas, is a defining setback in the conversation. “He needs to become a better and more trusting teammate, and he can’t let frustrations with officials or other players affect his game,” he said.

The big man is clearly applying the “aim for the stars and at worst land on the moon” philosophy this season. And the Kings will need an MVP-worthy year from Cousins just to finagle an eighth seed.

There’s no such thing as an MVP who won 29 games.

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former Bee writer McNeal said it best: “The fuck is a team mom?”

The topic was most notably, albeit suggestively, breached on a CowbellKingdom.com podcast when Ham, in his final episode, asked Lieberman if her motherly instincts factor into her interactions with the players.

“I am a mom. I am a woman. It’s my natural instinct to nurture somebody and put my arm around them,” Lieberman responded. “Men are more vulnerable to show if something is bothering them to us because they won’t be judged.

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those eggshells. His dry humor made it appear as though an off-court meltdown with Karl would arrive before the season opener. Thankfully, it was a false alarm.

Rondo must be a big Andy Kaufman fan.

But what if next time Rondo isn’t kidding? That will come down to chemistry and the win column. Hopefully that $27.7 million in cap space next season is an added carrot to keep Rondo around.

What does nancy LIeberMan Mean to the teaM?

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They’ll just be loved. … The bonus here is I can coach the game and I can teach the game.”

Anyway, when it comes to glass ceilings, Lieberman breaks them like Shaquille O’Neal breaks backboards.

The Kings’ Reynolds described her as the Pistol Pete of her time. She played at a level that was ahead of everyone else in her era. The world is still catching up with Lieberman.

Is anyone saying she’s team mom?

That’s an emphatic hell no, no matter who you ask.

Voisin noted it’s not about media reaction; what matters is player reaction.

“They act like it’s not a big deal having

obtained during their crummy run in the Western Conference for nine seasons, only two remain: Cousins and Ben McLemore. Reynolds philosophy is be patient with young players—but not forever.

Reynolds also says weaker teams tend to keep their first-round picks.

Well, we’ve moved many and we’re still waiting to be considered a strong team.

This year, the Kings selected Willie Cauley-Stein with the sixth pick in the draft. Already, the center is turning heads with his preseason minutes and general adaptability to the rigmarole of professional basketball.

Yerocostas loved this pick in June and continues to sing praise.

“He is the most polished rookie I’ve seen in a Kings uniform in a long

time and yet he still has a lot of things he can improve, which speaks to his potential,” he said.

Karl is notorious for limiting minutes of young players, but Cauley-Stein’s been so much better than advertised at rebounding and defending that the old coach has suggested changing his tune. It’s worth noting Karl expects far more defense this season, and Cauley-Stein flat out loves himself some defense.

There were some bad picks in the past (Jimmer Fredette, Thomas Robinson) that proved tough to shed.

We also traded a rookie for cash once (Robinson). But that was one of the final Maloof goofs before the boys sold the farm. Cauley-Stein is making us look smart for once. That alone seems like a prospect worth coveting.

her there. That’s the most important element. At practice she’s got droopy, baggy shorts, a sweaty T-shirt and hair.

She looks like any other NBA coach after good practice.”

Only the second woman to hold an NBA coaching position, her role has yet to be defined, but many take notice that she’s embraced by the team without question. She’s definitely reaching the players on a personable level that’s unlike her male counterparts on staff.

“She’s won at every level and she’s already coached men,” Voisin said. “That gives her a huge advantage over any woman coming into the NBA.”

As Ham put it: “He’s 7 feet tall.

He’s got a 9-foot-3-inch standing reach. He’s got a 42-inch vert. That tells me that he can almost touch 13 feet. He’s a freakish athlete that league hasn’t seen in a long time in the post.”

Rookie Willie Cauley-Stein could surprise.

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Third-year shooting guard

McLemore gained 12 pounds of what looks to be pure muscle in the off-season. Ask any insider, it’s widely understood McLemore is a hard worker. No one is calling into question his ambition to up for consideration as Most Improved Player of the year.

Last year’s winner was Chicago Bulls’ Jimmy Butler, who stepped in as a starter for the injured Luol Deng in 2013 and never looked back. Butler recorded career numbers across the board and earned his first All-Star appearance.

The Kings already picked up the option on McLemore’s fourth year of his rookie contract. Smart move considering the tremendous strides he made while enduring three coaches with different

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systems in a single season. He doesn’t have to play for a contract and he started all 82 games last season—but early Most Improved chatter has been followed by timid preseason performances. Third seasons are when players tend to define their worth in the league.

Voisin says that, when it comes to shooting mechanics, McLemore is a marvel specimen. “His form is beautiful, but it’s got to go in,” she said. “He’s got to convert more and get to the foul line.”

He’s not a combo-guard like Collison, so his off-ball play needs to encourage honest defense that creates floor spacing for Rondo’s playmaking. “Rondo is basically a nonthreat to the perimeter. If Ben is erratic, if he’s not not moving without the ball, not cutting, and at-

tacking the basket, it raises a lot of questions. You’re basically playing five against three,” she said.

When it comes to McLemore’s defense, Reynolds will tell you that “if you base anything off preseason, then you’re an idiot.” So, the young guard will need to be a shutdown defender to keep James Anderson off his heels, a lights-out shooter to keep Marco Belinelli at bay and have crunch-time smarts to stay on the court in the fourth quarter.

In a post-game interview McLemore addressed every shortcoming here, proving the young man’s hard work is matched with self-awareness. By 10 games in, we’ll know whether McLemore is delivering a Most Improved-worthy season—or ‘za for Pizza Guys.

What the hell is 9 GeorGe ‘tuff juice’ — Get canned? and do the Kings have it? veteran forward and off-season acquisition Caron Butler wrote an autobiography and actually titled it Tuff Juice. Don’t try to take this literally; it’s not Butler’s recipe book for how to make a tasty smoothie from volcanic rock. (Seriously, that’s what tuff is.) So what the hell is tuff juice, Caron?

We asked a bunch of insiders to help define it, and the only answer worth sharing comes from Yerocostas of Sactown Royalty: “Tuff Juice is what Vlade drinks to curb his nicotine habit.”

McNeal’s philosophy is you can never have too much toughness. But it’s unlikely 13-year veteran Butler will play a major role. So who’s making us tough?

“The one thing this team lacks is thick skin,” said Ham. “They’re going to face scrutiny. They’ll have time where the wheels fall off the bus and they lose three or four games. If they can pull themselves together and get through those times as a team, they’ll be just fine.”

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with prostate cancer in 2005. In 2006, he recorded his 800th career win as a coach. Four years later, he’s diagnosed with neck and throat cancer. He beat that, and became one of seven coaches in history to win 1,000 games. Karl is 13 wins shy of surpassing Phil Jackson as the fifth most winningest coach of all time. In two seasons, he could catch Pat Riley and Jerry Sloan. This is likely his last stop as long as Vivek trusts in Divac.

It’s his last stop as long as Cousins isn’t provoked again to emoji-art tweets. It’s his last stop as long as Rondo’s complaints are flip.

“I don’t know if Karl will be with this team long enough to get us to

the promised land, but I could see him having some successful seasons before finally retiring and possibly grooming a successor,” Yerocostas said.

It’s worth noting Karl’s entire coaching career was lived out in small markets like Sacramento. He took the Milwaukee Bucks to the playoffs, narrowly missed championships in Seattle and never missed the playoffs in Denver despite Carmelo Anthony’s shot chart. “Wherever George goes, George wins,” Voisin said. “It was ‘88 the last time he had a team finish sub-.500. That’s an amazing run of 22 years. And he’s had very, very different teams.”

Karl writing the names of Cousins, McLemore and Gay on a white board, then saying, “Vlade, you need to fill in [the holes].” Three names on a 15-man roster makes for a lot of holes to fill. It’s not just about high-profile signings, either; there can’t be square pegs in round holes. Translation: We need better perimeter shooting and defense.

Ham thinks Divac supplied the goods. “He brought in a lot of talent, he brought in winners, he brought in experience at every position. He’s filled all the little holes on this roster.

It’s a well-constructed team,” he said.

Expectations are high. Lieberman predicted a playoff-caliber team on the Cowbell Kingdom podcast. At Media Day, Cousins said his goal was “to make the playoffs. We’re extremely talented this year and so we have a chance to surprise people.”

McNeal thinks the Kings have enough talent to play with any team in the league. “That hasn’t been the case in quite a few years.”

Karl is rightfully diplomatic: “The challenge of us being a winning team is the first step. I think we’ll become that. Then, of course, the next challenge is to make the playoffs.”

His track record suggests great possibilities. He took ragtag Bucks and Nuggets teams to the playoffs.

Shouldn’t he fare better with an MVPcaliber center, a healthy premiere playmaker in Rondo, Gay playing his most aggressive ball in years and a deep roster of defenders and perimeter shooters?

Divac admits it looks good on paper, but the court is where it matters. “We want to make sure we say thank you to an arena that hosted this franchise for a long time,” he said.

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Sacramento’s Deftones, however, were one such band—and to great success.

Upon the initial release of its debut album 20 years ago this month—1995’s aptly-titled Adrenaline—the band came screaming out the gate with ferocity. The album may have peaked at No. 23 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart but it ultimately went on to sell more than a million copies and paved the way for its legacy.

Over the years, the Deftones, who play this weekend’s Monster Energy Aftershock Festival, experimented and dabbled with electronics and ambient, among other sounds. The result was a loyal and fervent following and seven very different records, including 1997’s Around the Fur which went platinum, and 2000’s White Pony, which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 album chart and nabbed the band a 2001 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for the track “Elite.”

The Deftones were dealt a heavy blow, however, when a 2008 car crash left the band’s founding Chi Cheng in a coma. Cheng ultimately died from related complications in 2013.

Still, two years after his death, the band’s core remains strong with drummer Abe Cunningham, singer-songwriter Chino Moreno, and guitarist Stefan Carpenter. Longtime keyboard-turntablist Frank Delgado, who joined the band in 1999, and bassist Sergio Vega, who joined in 2009, round out the lineup.

The band is currently in the midst of putting finishing touches on an upcoming new record; Cunningham sat down to chat with SN&R about the new album and tour plans, the impact of Cheng’s death and his enduring love for Sacramento.

there’s been some misleading information in the press about the new album and its release date. What’s the status?

To be completely honest, we still don’t have a title yet. Our label came to us and said we could wait wait until the first quarter of the new year—which works much better for us. That’s the plan right now but don’t hold me to it. We don’t even have song titles nailed down yet. I couldn’t even tell you one now if I tried. the Deftones stayed with Warner Bros. even after the band fulfilled the terms of its initial contract. Why? Like any new band that started at the bottom, we had everything good and bad thrown our way. We’ve had ups and downs and had some pretty brutal times on Maverick [the Madonna-helmed subsidiary label of Warner Bros.].

There’s some good people still around in our industry that have been working at the label or distribution forever and we’ve seen regimes come and go. The fact is we have known many people there for years and have developed some great, lasting relationships. We’re a

“ We’re a pretty simple, straightforWard band from sacramento and just like associating With good people.”

Abe Cunningham drummer, Deftones we do once in awhile. I see a lot of stuff on social media of people complaining about not hearing older songs and we definitely don’t want to be that band that just phones it in. What people don’t know is there’s also a lot of different tunings and we’ve finally figured out which blocks of songs work together for a good show flow. Believe me, when it’s our headlining show for the new album and we have much more time, there will be a lot of other songs getting worked in from the past.

The Deftones circa 1997, when they were on the Madonna-founded Maverick Records.

pretty simple, straightforward band from Sacramento and just like associating with good people.

Did you get much pressure to change anything when you first released adrenaline ?

Believe it or not, our first three records we wrote, recorded and mixed without anyone’s input. It was quite nice to have that kind of freedom which many bands didn’t. It was a great time to be in a band. After White Pony came out and was a big success, the industry was starting to change and we had to learn how to adapt.

What impact did chi cheng’s passing have on the band artistically or even personally?

Chi’s passing has, no doubt, had a tremendous impact on us on so many levels. It wasn’t like he was in this accident and was killed. He held on for five years. Seeing him fight for that long and then losing him really put things into perspective. It taught us to be grateful, to be immediate, to respect each other and

respect what we have created, to laugh and enjoy, and most importantly to be thankful of the time we have and that we are still able to rock. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of him. how was this year’s tour with incubus? the show at the Shoreline amphitheatre show was sold out—or at least very close to it.

The whole Incubus tour was a killer run.

The shows were huge and all the bands on the package including Death From Above 1979 and The Bots were our friends or are now. the band has many songs in constant rotation in its live sets—any songs you’d like to add into the mix besides new material?

Dude, this is something we talk about all the time that we really need to work on. It’s very easy to get into a groove and play the same stuff over and over: on a run where we’re are not the headliner—such as the recent Incubus tour, you really don’t get to play a lot.

It’s definitely time to switch it up and

What do you do in between the long periods between album tour cycles?

I should be practicing drums a lot more but I’m not. Really, I’m happy just enjoying my sons and my family. I enjoy checking out new places around Sacramento that I haven’t seen or missed and cruising around on my bike. Of course, I still love going to shows a lot in Sacramento and hanging with my buddies. it’s been a minute since Deftones last played Sacramento at the 2012 aftershock festival. any plans for a local headlining show?

That’s pretty much it for this year. We have a few Southern California shows, one in Vegas and an Arizona date before we head overseas to play France, Germany and the U.K. We don’t ever come here. It’s really odd that we’re a Sacramento band but we rarely play this town. With proper planning, this can and will be attained. We’re putting things together slowly for 2016 and when the new record drops we will be everywhere. At least now we’re able to pick and choose what we want and we most definitely love Sacramento. It will happen sooner than later. Ω Catch the Deftones Sunday, October 25, at the Aftershock Festival. Tickets for the two-day festival, which launches Saturday, October 24, are $114.50$134.50. It takes place at Gibson Ranch County Park, 8556 Gibson Ranch Park Road in Elverta. For more information, visit http://aftershockconcert.com. For more on the Deftones, visit www.deftones.com.

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CYMI, over the last few years there’s been some controversy surrounding of the razing of the Downtown Plaza in order to make room for a new high-rise hotel, Chain Restaurantlandia and a casual new spot for our local sports team to do sports. To put it another way: The city’s skyline is changing quickly and dramatically. What better time to immerse yourself in the history, future and present culture of our local architecture with the 2015 Experience Architecture Week put on by the American Institute of Architects Central Valley Chapter?

Events kick off on Thursday, October 22, at noon with the Top of the City New “sites” Tour; participants will head out on a self-paced tour that stops in at the Warehouse Artist Lofts, the aforementioned sports complex and more. Tickets are $10 and architects will be present at each site to provide information. That evening, head over to a 6 p.m. screening of the short film No Time For Ugliness in Mariposa Hall at Sac State (6000 J Street), which touches on cases of urban renewal and preservation of historical buildings in cities like Detroit and Washington, D.C.; tickets are $20, free for students.

On Saturday, October 24, architecture experts Bob Chase and Peter Saucerman host the Tour d’Architecture Bike Tour, which will lead participants to various local stops where they’ll have exclusive access to architects and developers; the tour begins at 10 a.m. at the AIA Central Valley Chapter office (1400 S Street) and tickets are $15. At 7 p.m. the offices will host the Architectura Obscura photo exhibit, which comprises contest entries centered around the theme of “looking up.”

Tickets are $10 and include snacks and beer from New Helvetia Brewing Co. Bringing the event to a close is a screening of the documentary Making Space: 5 Women Changing the Face of Architecture, which follows the work of rising international stars Annabelle Selldorf, Farshid Moussavi, Odile Decq, Marianne McKenna and Kathryn Gustafson. A panel discussion comprised of local women architects will follow. Tickets are $8-$14 and the screening will take place at 3 p.m. at the Crocker Art Museum (216 O Street). To purchase tickets for all events and for more information, visit http://aiacv.org/da-exparch.

While zombies continue to be the Kardashians of the horror world, Sutter’s Fort is keeping it real with old-timey horror stories of how HALLOWEEN early California settlers lived and died.

Attendees will go on a lantern-led tour of the shadowy fort and be regaled by tales of death by infected musket wound or that bummer of all bummers, dysentery. $6-$8, 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 2701 L Street, www.suttersfort.org.

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Night of 1,000 Pumpkins Friday, OctOber 23 Wholesome Folsom does family-friendly Halloween to the max with an evening of lit-up pumpkins carved by the community, trick-orFAMILY treating at the shops on Sutter Street, a costume parade, dance performance and outdoor screenings of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and Back to the Future II. Free, 4 p.m. at 200 Wool Street in Folsom, www.historicfolsom.org.

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Lion Cub’s Birthday Saturday, OctOber 24 Have you ever gone to the zoo and just stared at one of the lions? It’s exhilarating and kind of frightening. (Imagine those eyes fixated on you with no wall separating you. Yikes!) The other cool part of such an exhibit is seeing the cubs, who are adorable, and insanely (and deadly) similar to the playful kittens at your local shelter.

ANIMALs The Sacramento Zoo has a lion cub and he’s turning 1 year old this weekend. The zoo is celebrating and those who join in are invited to sign a giant birthday card, and even watch the little guy eat a piece of birthday cake. Free with admission, $11.75 adults, $11 senior citizens, $7.75 children, ages 2-11, free children under 2; 10:30 a.m. at Sacramento Zoo, 3930 W Land Park Drive, http://saczoo.org.

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The Art of Brewing Sunday, OctOber 25 Devotees of all things alcoholic and foamy should check out this beer discussion via Fork ‘N Road Productions, a new Placer County outfit that describes itself as an “epicurean education.” company. The event, which will take place at the Monk’s Cellar, will feature four local brewers talking shop.

Better yet, attendees will have the chance BEEr to sip on beer samples and tasty bites.

Plus, there’ll be a question-and-answer session. $40, includes samples and small plates. 4 p.m. at the Monk’s Cellar, 240 Vernon Street in Roseville. http://forknroadproductions.com.

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Cornflower also boasts a full espresso bar—utilizing Temple beans—and sells Bella Bru pastries and housemade to-go sandwiches and salads.

Most excitingly, Cornflower is open until 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Hello, nighttime cravings that can finally be satisfied.

Happiest: Bottle & Barlow has formalized its happy hour offerings.

Draft beers go for $4, cocktails for $6. While these aren’t fancy-shmancy creations like the Ponzu Scheme, they’re much higher quality than your expected well drinks. The whisky sour is topped with egg whites; the cucumber gimlet ramped up with elderflower, prosecco and orange bitters. Where else can you buy a $6 Manhattan? Or Sazerac? Best of all, happy hour is 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Like, when you actually get off from work.

TV chef: Since May, Blackbird Kitchen + Beer Gallery has been closed for renovations. On Friday, October 23, the restaurant will reveal its makeover during its second art- and music-filled alley party, West End Wonderland, though it won’t officially open until December 1. Blackbird fans should mark their calendars for Sunday, October 25, as well: executive chef Carina Lampkin will

Even more poke: Elk Grove just got into the poke game with Hokee Poke (8698 Elk Grove Boulevard, Suite 7), a new build-your-own-pokebowl restaurant in a similar vein to Billy Ngo’s Fish Face. One big difference is that Hokee Poke starts with a base—rice, salad, wonton chips. The other is price: a large costs $10.95 and gets you all five available proteins (if you want) and unlimited free toppings.

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I scream: At last, downtown Sacramento’s only ice cream shop is open for business.

Cornflower Creamery held its grand opening celebration over the weekend at 1013 L Street, in what used to be Cafe Roma. The walls got a fresh coat of neutral paint, but otherwise, the interior looks about the same.

Now, Cornflower is scooping 11 ice creams and five sorbets in sizes costing $2.50-$5. As promised, Cornflower’s “farm-to-scoop” experience features ingredient-driven modern flavors, such as walnut oil, baklava, lavender plum and strawberry balsamic. I tasted—ahem—a few, and recommend the salted caramel peanut brittle with caramel swirl. A mouthful in name, yes, and also a mouthful of velvety-smooth ice cream with bursts

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Thankfully, Liquidology has a new seasonal juice, the What’s Up, Doc? ($5 for 12 ounces, $8.75 for 17.5 ounces). Carrot, orange, apple, lemon and ginger make for a bright but subtle drink that still puts that thick, silky carrot juice taste and texture right up front. Can I get a guarantee that no angsty teens suffered in the making of this? 4601 H Street, http://liquidologybar.com.

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Red jewels Pomegranate Many people have a love/hate relationship with pomegranates—those seedy, leathery fruit bombs that grow abundantly here. Originally from Spain via China, pomegranates are known for their plethora of jewel-red seeds. Choose heavy, plump fruits that aren’t dried out and pick out the seeds under water to prevent them from staining your hands. Or roll the whole fruit to release the juice and cut off one end. Whole arils add an astringent crunch to salads and risottos. Historically the symbol of the Spanish city Granada, they’re also the source of grenadine syrup used in cocktails and Shirley Temples.

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Some eye rolls ensued when Sai Wong replaced his Izakaya Daikoku with a ramen house across the street from his other ramen house.

After all, ramen is dead. Didn’t you hear?

New York City chef David Chang—the man who popularized ramen stateside back in 2004 with his Momofuku Noodle Bar—is sick and tired of mediocre, unoriginal, overpriced ramen popping up everywhere.

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Immediately.

Consider Ramen House Raijin, which opened in July, the more modern-looking, formal-feeling annex to Ryujin.

It’s also the best spicy ramen spot in town—half of the restaurant’s 20 ramens arrive in some shade of fiery red and deliver on whatever desired level of heat.

The karashibi ($8.95) is particularly strong.

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Can’t say the same about the gekikara ($8.95), a one-dimensional soup covered in so much chili oil that your tongue actually feels slick after each sip. The less spicy kimchee ($8.95) broth is more successful: bright, funky and nuanced, just like kimchee.

On the milder side spice-wise, the kakuni ($8.95) stands out. It’s the meatiest option on the menu, with two glistening hunks of fatty, braised pork belly atop a sweet, soy sauce-flavored tonkotsu. It’s as rich and decadent as ramen gets.

The garlic-miso tonkotsu ($8.95) is excellent as well—spoonful after spoonful of intense umami, with salty nori, a perfectly creamy softboiled egg, scallions, crunchy garlic chips and disappointingly thin slices of barbecued pork. But if you’re a Ryujin fan, then you already know what that’s about.

Some of Raijin’s bowls come with the familiar thick and eggy noodles from Ryujin, but others are filled with a thinner variety—less chewy, still springy. They work well to offset heavier dishes like the kakuni, but elsewhere, the chef’s noodle choice seems more arbitrary.

Similarly, the noodle-to-broth-tostuff ratios sometimes seem off.

The garlic-miso, for example, could have used much more soup; the kimchee could have used much more stuff.

Elsewhere on the menu, there’s carryover from its Izakaya Daikoku days, including the popular okonomiyaki. Wong was smart to keep the egg-andcabbage pancakes, which were tough if not impossible to find in Sacramento prior to Daikoku.

Topped with bonito flakes and mayo, Raijin’s okonomiyaki are forceful with savorysweet flavors but less so with texture—the edges only look crispy around the soft, custardy center.

Among the izakaya-style dishes are hotate mayoyaki ($6.95), mayo-covered whole scallops; gyutan ($6.95), grilled slices of beef tongue; and yaki onigri ($3.50), grilled rice balls. The scallops impress in sheer size, but unfortunately they’re served in a piping hot cast iron and quickly become overcooked and rubbery. All around, the small plates fail to dazzle—ramen is easily the way to go. No surprise at a ramen house. Ω

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Happy Oktober In Munich, Oktoberfest began in September. In Sacramento, most events took place a couple of weeks ago. If you’re feeling like you’ve completely missed out, there’s still one more Oktoberfest celebration happening Saturday, October 24, in Roseville. A dozen mostly-local breweries will pour samples, including Auburn Alehouse, Track 7 Brewing Co. and the less-local Karl Strauss Brewing Co. Enjoy brews with bratwurst on a pretzel bun with sauerkraut, courtesy of the Monk’s Cellar. The fun lasts from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Vernon Street Town Square, 311 Vernon Street, and general admission costs $35. Learn more at http://roseville. ca.us/events/oktoberfest.asp. Now, if you’re more of a hard cider person and are totally sick of all this beer talk, take note that local urban winery Revolution Wines (2831 S Street) will celebrate its first-ever cider on Saturday, October 24, as well. From 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., grab a pint paired with pulled pork sliders for $15. More at http://rwwinery.com.

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By Shoka It’s time to thank Animal Place for making the dream we didn’t even know we had come true of dressing up like a pig and feeding a pumpkin to an actual pig on Halloween. It’s called Oink-a-ween, and it takes place at the animal sanctuary (at 17314 McCourtney Road in Grass Valley) on Saturday, October 31. It sounds like a potentially more satisfying way to treat yourself—and some adorable animals—than the alternative: scooting around a parking lot and asking for candy from the backside

of rando “trunk-or-treat” cars while wearing a store-bought polyester disturbing “sexy” Minion getup. But at Oink-a-ween, the human visitors will get treats, too, plus, there’s a costume contest. People who dress up as barnyard critters get “bonus points.” And since the event begins at 11 a.m. and ends at 1:30 p.m., there probably is plenty of time to visit the candy-stuffed trunks at your favorite parking lot. So go ahead, pig out. Oink-a-ween details are at http://animalplace.org.

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Unseen Heroes, the same team that launched Oak Park’s monthly summertime jam Gather, has opened a new Oak Park storefront Display: California. Described as a “pop-up concept...that connects retail Store with community to create amazing experiences,” it offers rotating art installations and merchandise including home goods, accessories, graphic art prints (“West Coast Best Coast”, $30), totes, T-shirts (“Beers in Sac”; $25), and way, way more.

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A do-good opportunity sACrAmenTo FooD bAnk revoluTion In December, the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services merged with Senior Gleaners to become the county’s only food bank center. Tuesday, October 27, the bank will host the Sacramento Food Bank Revolution. It’s a tour of its new facility, and a great opportunity for potential volunteers.

Volunteer Interested? Call to reserve a spot. Free, 11 a.m., Tuesday, October 27, 1951 Bell Avenue, (916) 456-1980, www.sacramentofoodbank.org.

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try, try again FAilure Stuart Firestein explains scientific thinking and process for the nonspecialist in Failure: Why Science Is So Successful (Oxford University Press, $21.95).

Concentrating on the difference between the way that most of us define failure. Firestein makes clear that failure is an expected part of the scientific process, so integral that without failure, science wouldn’t BooK work. Negative results are still results, as any scientist knows. It functions as a checks-and-balances system, and unlike the one our government uses, it actually works.

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Almost anything is deliverable: Pizza, books, and appliances—now, how about a live comedy show?

Sacramento comedians Keith Lowell Jensen and Johnny Taylor are set to offer just that November 6 and 7.

For just $20, you can get 20 minutes’ worth of a full live comedy experience, complete with the two comedians, a stool, Comedy microphone and a sound system. The pair will visit nearly anywhere: your living room, in the park, a strange van, just so long as the set can happen within the designated zip codes in and around Midtown. Though they might make an exception if you ask really nice.

Jensen says there’s a reason for the ultra cheap price.

“We made it $20 in order to give ourselves less control. For $20, some guy might pay us to come perform for him, and him only,” Jensen says. “He might decide he wants to heckle us for 20 minutes, and pay $20 for that.”

Jensen and Taylor say they like finding new, offbeat ways to present their not-quite-mainstream jokes. Jensen’s last comedy special, Atheist Christmas, covered his complex relationship with Christmas, and Taylor’s 2014 debut album, Tangled Up In Plaid, discussed topics such as accidentally finding his mom’s sex toys as a kid.

Advance reservations required; call (470) 839-5653. Learn more at http://keithlowelljensen.blogspot. com or www.johnnyisntfunny.com.

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Familiar flowers

by Bev SykeS

“Lassie, go get more coffee, please.”

Steel Magnolias

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Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias has been a popular staple of community theater since its thousand performance-plus run in New York between 1987 and 1990. Based on the real life and death of Harling’s sister, the story (made even more popular by the 1989 film) showcases the friendship of six women in Chinquapin, Louisiana, who meet regularly at Truvy’s Beauty Salon to chat and gossip.

Now at the Woodland Opera House, this show gets yet another staging. Here, directed by Jason Hammond, it’s held up by good acting. Deborah Hammond is exceptional as salon proprietor Truvy, full of charm and charisma. Lenore Sebastian shines as Clairee, eager to share gossip, but with a heart full of compassion. She particularly relates to cantankerous Ouiser (Nancy Agee), very definitely her own woman, with lots of walls built up to keep emotions at bay.

Patricia Glass is Annelle, the timid new hire, who finds strength as she becomes a born-again Christian.

But it is the relationship between M’Lynn (Emily Delk) and Shelby (Danielle Barnett) as mother and daughter in a complicated relationship primarily due to Shelby’s chronic illness, which dominates this story.

In lesser hands, this could be come a sappy situational comedy with maudlin overtones, but these actors give it a life and reality that will engage anyone who has ever needed a group of friends with whom to share her joy and sorrows. Ω

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The Rocky Horror Show It’s “Time Warp” time again for Green Valley Theatre Co.’s artistic director Christopher Cook.

This is the seventh year that Cook has directed Green Valley’s annual production of the contagious, campy and much-beloved musical The Rocky Horror Show, and Cook says he couldn’t be happier.

“I love the show and its attitude,” Cook says.

Rocky Horror lovingly combines silly science fiction with overly dramatic old-fashioned horror movies. First produced as a film in 1975 that famously starred Susan Sarandon and Tim Curry, The Rocky Horror Picture Show quickly became a midnight movie classic during which audience members would throw rice and dance during pivotal scenes.

On stage, The Rocky Horror Show retains classic numbers such as “Time Warp” and “Sweet Transvestite” and the participatory audience aspect, but at Green Valley, instead of throwing objects, the audience is encouraged to sing and dance.

“The feeling of total acceptance and inner rebellion rock star—bring it to the show and let it out,” he says.

Each year Cook spices up the show by choosing different themes and eras. Past incarnations have included glam rock and circus themes. This year’s rendition, which will feature a 10-member orchestra, embodies a Baroque motif, with powdered wigs and elaborate set designs.

“This year is 1700 Italy with opulence, heightened glamor, powdered wigs, wide dresses, high heels and even higher hair,” Cook says.

—Patti RobeRts the rocky horror show; Midnight, friday; 8 p.m. saturday. tickets are sold out; check with the box office for openings. Green Valley theatre co., the Grange Performing arts center, 3823 V street; (916) 736-2664; http://greenvalleytheatre.com; through october 31.

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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 splitpersonality 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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This very funny story of friendship, pastry and forbidden love is rife with

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in-jokes, a not very subtle metaphor and big revelations following a nuclear attack, which threatens to keep the women locked in a bomb shelter for years.

Ridiculous, absurd silliness, but lots of fun; this is a show that keeps the audience in stitches. Th, F 8 pm; Sa 5pm

and 9pm; Su 2pm. Through 11/5.

$23-35. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street, (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org.

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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.celebrationarts.net.

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Gem of the Ocean

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.

Each play takes on some of 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

This is a show in two parts: the first features excerpts from six shows choreographed by Ron Cunningham, including Dracula and Hamlet; and the other is a newly commissioned work, Mix De Moultrie, by New York dancerchoreographer Darrell Grand Moultrie. Highlights include “Bloodline,” in which Alexandra Cunningham not only dances exquisitely but talks about the difficulties of striving for perfection. F 6

and 8:30 pm; Sa 5pm and 7:30 pm; Through 10/24. $57. Sac-

ramento Ballet Studio, 1631 K Street; (916) 552-5800. www. sacballet.org/tickets. J.C.

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of them did) from store clerk to vice president or director of this or that in the corporate hierarchy. It’s remarkable, though hardly surprising, what an ad There’s no way I can write a detached, impersonal hoc seat-of-the-pants operation the whole thing was review of director Colin Hanks’ All Things Must Pass: from the start, how closely the corporate personality The Rise and Fall of Tower Records, and I’m not Solomon fostered mirrored the hang-loose, no-dresseven going to try. Watching it put me unavoidably in code attitude customers saw and reveled in. One of mind of two things: rooting through the record racks the most amusing and telling anecdotes Solomon in the cramped back-end of Tower Drugs at 16th and shares recounts how he impetuously decided to Broadway in the early ’60s; and 20 some years later, expand Tower into San Francisco when he glimpsed watching Colin Hanks, then age 3 or so, throw a tantrum a for-lease storefront one morning while badly hung in Disneyland, to the consternation of the rest of our over from a one-night stand with a manicurist whose party, including his parents and me. Both the drugstore name he doesn’t even remember. and the fussy toddler are gone now. All things must Other Tower personalities—many of them indeed pass. familiar faces to longtime Sacramento To grow up in Sacramento almost customers, like the sassy Heidi Cotler This anytime in the last decades of the 20th and the sage Mark Viducich (who is an century was to have Tower Records as looks like Dave Crosby)—attest a home away from home. From that to the booze-and-drug-festooned intensely perspective, the tale Hanks recounts party atmosphere at Tower, both bittersweet in All Things Must Pass—how Russ on the retail floor and in the documentary that Solomon’s used record business in back-offices; Cotler hilariously a corner of his dad’s drugstore grew informs us that “hand truck plumbs deep wells into a billion-dollar business, then fuel” (read “cocaine”) frequently of nostalgia. collapsed in bankruptcy—looks almost showed up on store budget sheets— like a sidebar, something happening “Hand truck Fuel: $285.” somewhere else. But Tower on Broadway or All Things Must Pass is an intensely Watt—or Sunrise Boulevard or (for a while) Florin bittersweet documentary that plumbs deep Road—that happened to us. wells of nostalgia in those who remember Tower It’s the greatest strength of Hanks’ documentary that Records in its long yet fleeting heyday, while at the he and writer Steven Leckart tap into that nostalgia for same time it offers compelling testimony to those the free-and-easy social center Tower Records became. who don’t, letting them know that they missed one It happened in Sacramento first, but it was much the hell of a party. I’ve been thinking for some time same when it happened in San Francisco, then Los that Colin Hanks may in time prove to be an even Angeles, New York, Tokyo and so on. So when Hanks better actor than his father. Now I suspect that that shows Elton John, David Geffen, Bruce Springsteen and fractious kid from Disneyland might be the better Dave Grohl reminiscing about their days shopping or (in director too. Ω Grohl’s case) working at Tower, it both universalizes the experience and humanizes the superstar.

The octogenarian Solomon is the centerpiece of the gaggle of talking heads who share their memories Poor Fair Good Very excellent Good of Tower’s salad days, and of rising (as virtually all

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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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Crimson Peak

In Buffalo, N.Y. circa 1890, a freethinking young woman (Mia Wasikowska) is swept off her feet by a mysterious Englishman (Tom Hiddleston); returning with him to his remote, sinister estate, she is alternately haunted by ghostly visions and tormented by his equally mysterious sister (Jessica Chastain). Director Guillermo del Toro (who co-wrote with Matthew Robbins) serves up an amusing, sometimes hilarious parody of a Victorian Gothic horror story—think Rebecca crossed with The House That Dripped Blood. Alas, the parody seems to be mostly unintentional, though it’s not easy to tell. Certainly everybody manages to keep a straight face (god knows how). The ghostly apparitions are like nothing ever seen outside del Toro’s movies, and the director’s bizarre bug fetish is once again on flagrant display. J.L.

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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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Goodnight Mommy

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 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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Sicario

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.

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The Steve Jobs that we meet in Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs is a master of prioritizing the package over the product, of putting grand ideas over gritty details, and this sleek biopic subscribes to that same hollow ethic.

It’s all beautifully designed and arranged, with a hyper-literate Aaron Sorkin script, a great cast and impeccable technical elements from top to bottom, but the end result feels shiny and obsolete, closer to the Cube than the iMac. Michael Fassbender oozes narcissistic charm as Jobs, giving a strong performance without ever fully inhabiting the character, and he’s given excellent support by Kate Winslet, Jeff Daniels, Michael Stuhlbarg and Seth Rogen.

Sorkin structures the film like a three-act play, showing us the contentious lead-ups to a few of Jobs’ most famous product launches, but the formula curdles in the final third, as Sorkin and Boyle strain to make Jobs seem like a swell guy. 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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way for quieter moments with Baenziger’s magnetic, vulnerable voice. Songs tell stories, real or imagined.

“It’s kind of endless what I’m writing about, if it’s about people in my life, people I made up or people I want to meet,” she says.

Baenziger spent a few weeks this summer completing two separate residencies in New York City, but the shows paled in comparison to spending time with former Sacto artists like Angel Deradoorian (Dirty Projectors) Flight of the song bee. and Robby Moncrieff (The Advantage), or Kyle Field (Little Wings). Prior to that, her two-month tour in the United Kingdom would have been nothing without Local Sea of Bees fans have been through some seeing all her buddies from Heavenly Records, which tough times. Julie Ann Baenziger’s NPR- and signed her immediately after Songs for the Ravens.

BBC-approved project went into full-on hibernaAnd that’s why recording Build a Boat to tion mode shortly after the release of Orangefarben the Sun—at John Baccigaluppi’s Dock studio in in 2012.

Sacramento and his Panoramic House perched over Feeling worn down, Baenziger says she needed Stinson Beach—felt like such medicine. It was her time for personal growth, for learning how to enjoy first album featuring so many pals, including her making music again. Writing seemed like an unbeatmanager Baccigaluppi, tour mate Amber Padgett, able challenge.

Geoffrey CK (Sunmonks), Jason Quever (Papercuts) “I couldn’t sing. I couldn’t think of any stories. and James Neil (the Golden Cadillacs).

I couldn’t make-believe,” she says. “Didn’t Willy Baenziger laughs while explaining why she Wonka say, ‘In pure imagination, there you will be always says “Sacto” instead of “Sacramento.” free’? I couldn’t imagine anything.”

(Essentially, it’s Baccigaluppi’s fault.)

That was incredibly frustrating, She laughs harder while describing her Build for obvious reasons. Sea of Bees’ and Padgett’s stubborn insistence critically-acclaimed debut Songs for a Boat to the on getting around New York by the Ravens was born out of a caresubway—even with 50 pounds of Sun is filled with free and spontaneous and highly equipment strapped to their backs whimsy, sweetness, imaginative time in Baenziger’s and stuffed in their armpits. After life. She was in her early 20s, had fun and just the stowing herself away for the past just moved out of her parents’ place few years, connecting with friends right amount of in Roseville and everything seemed and other artists is Baenziger’s current ache. possible. Orangefarben was a straightjam and musical priority. forward breakup album. To rekindle At last, good news for Sea of Bees fans: her relationship with that childlike creative Baenziger probably isn’t entering another threefreedom, Baenziger collected more life experiences year retreat. She’s already writing, exploring, trying and kept good people around her. The result is Build new things and listening to foreign sounds. a Boat to the Sun, released in June via 3 Loop Music “When I look back on the first album, there were in England. no limits,” Baenziger says. “I don’t want to have “The main thing was not over-thinking it,” she limits. If you feel limited, you’ll never grow.” Ω says. “This album, I think, was kinda like a dock. I photo by lauran fayne worthy

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Like TBD Fest—only not Day one: Now that Sacramento has its own indie/Pitchfork-style festival, the urge is to compare TBD Fest to every other festival one attends. And that’s exactly what I’m going to do!

In its eighth year, San Francisco’s Treasure Island Music Festival bears much in common with TBD. The acts are EDM, indie and hip-hop centric; there’s artsy shit like glowing mushroom-like sculptures. In fact, the only difference is the dust: At Treasure Island, there’s instead a sea of grass, an inimitable San Francisco Bay view and a welcome coastal breeze. When is Sacto gonna get some of that?

Gorgon City is a U.K. house duo that played a live set with a real drummer and stuff, but couldn’t escape the trappings of being a boring live house band playing at 2 p.m. in the afternoon. So, I bailed on that for comedians, including Kate Berlant, whose bio says she is what you would see “if David Lynch did stand-up,” which is total crap, and John Early, a hilarious gay Brooklynite who joked about masturbating on the wall for dudes he met on Grindr.

In general, the comedy tent— new this year, presented by Funny or Die—was a welcome reprieve from some of the oddly dark and disconcerting EDM acts (Cashmere Cat) and the Burning Man jam band vibe-killers (STS9). Tim Heidecker, of Tim and Eric, was skull-numbingly odd and awkward.

Moment of the day was FKA Twigs intoxicating set. She’s a former dancer, now EDM artist with a strong industrial/“weird Bjork thing” going on—and her visceral and unfiltered passion kinda blew me away.

I ultimately give the edge to TBD Fest: more opportunities to explore and discover, more exciting food, the West Sac layout feels less like a state fair than TI, there are more acts and stages at TBD, and the artists that performed were generally more festive. And, of course, hometown bias.

—Nick Miller nic kam@ new s r ev i ew . com

Day two: Per usual, Treasure Island’s lineup nicely split into electronic day and indie rock day, and Sunday felt hangover-chill. Similar to

TBD Fest, there was that moment of, “holy crap, there are a lot of people here.” And that moment arrived during Father John Misty’s set.

Playing almost exclusively material from his newest release I Love You, Honeybear, Father John Misty’s set was about as annoying as that album title. His self-righteousness glowed from his sexually-charged shimmying, and particularly when he slowly swept his hair into man bun, requesting fashion input from the crowd. Then, completely deadpan, he called the festival “an orgy of illicit pleasures” and “vomitorium.”

Anticipation ramped up—but the energy ultimately fell flat—for the War on Drugs. After all, the band’s 2014 release Lost in the Dream topped countless music critics’ top albums of the year lists. The clouds darkened, the sun set and rain drizzled

down. Casual listeners fled for shelter, and understandably so. The set wasn’t exactly captivating. But much like on Lost in the Dream, the War on Drugs’ revealed its greatness slowly. By the time we heard “Under the Pressure,” the band reminded us why we love its lush, moody, dreamy rock. Then, frontman Adam Granofsky swung his guitar around his neck and threw it to the floor for a classic DGAF exit.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was CHVRCHES who delivered the liveliest set of the day—and perhaps the most coveted, given the Scottish electro-pop trio’s last-minute canceled set at Outside Lands last year. It was also the first set all day with an arsenal of sweet lights, smoke and beats. Plus, legitimate charm and crowd engagement from singer and tutu-wearer Lauren Mayberry. At last, my heart throbbed with the bass and I realized I had missed it all day.

A music festival just doesn’t feel complete without that bass.

Away from the dual stages, I dabbled in some silent disco, crafts and good eats. I also talked to God via a janky phone booth/Burning Man art installation. I asked the voice why he couldn’t be a woman. He replied, “because God is a chill-ass bro.” Hard to argue, particularly when I declined an offer to be God minutes later.

—JaNelle Bitker jan el l e b @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

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Harlow’s restaurant & nigHtclub, 8 p.m., $20-$23 How’s this for a few degrees of random separation? Luna frontman Dean Wareham has appeared in two movies with Sacramento actress Greta Gerwig, including this year’s Mistress America, in which he played an asshole neighbor. OK, enough IndIe pop trivia. Here are the important deets: Luna, which formed in 1991 from the ashes of Galaxie 500, has finally emerged from its decade-plus hiatus. The quartet, which includes Wareham’s wife’s, bassist Britta Phillips, still makes chill, intellectual indie pop with enough interesting musical flourishes. 2708 J Street, https://luna. bandcamp.com.

—racHel leibrock

el DoraDo county FairgrounDs, 8 p.m., $70-$220.50 Celebrate Halloween early with New Orleans favorite Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, headliner at the fifth annual Hangtown Halloween Ball. Equal parts funk, jazz and hiphop, the band is a dance party-guarantee— make sure you’re free to groove in whatever costume you choose. Hangtownfeels like High Sierra Music Festival’s little sibling, with a similarly festive, laid-back FunK and family-friendly vibe. The lineup leans toward rootsy jams, but maintains diversity: Railroad Earth, Beats Antique, Yonder Mountain String Band, Lettuce and many more will perform over the four-day period. 100 Placerville Drive in Placerville, http://hangtownhalloween.com.

tHirD space art collective in Davis, 8 p.m., $5 Cult Babies’ new album, Off to See the Lizard, is seven tracks that alternate between thick, fuzz-heavy progressions to more upbeat, surf-rock moments, such as those found in the song “On a Roll”. The Vancouver band incorporates pSYCh a theremin into its moodaltering ranks, which adds nice organ tones throughout the entire album. And then there are more dreamy, ’60s-inspired garage rock on heavier moments on Sleep (listen to the song “Yes We Cannibal”).

Cult Babies embodies the true potential of psych. Join the Cult in Davis with Pastel Dream and Kaz Mirblouk. 946 Olive Drive in Davis, www.facebook.com/cultbabies.

—Janelle bitker

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I was into Dreamdate, Yea Ming’s former duo, and I’m currently into the Hideaway for local shows, so this matinee gig pretty much can’t be beat. Yeah-Ming & the Rumours are fun Bay Area guitar pop with some indie-folk chill vibes. They’ll go well with IndIe pop a cheap shot and a beer at the Hideway, which has become probably my favorite nonvenue venue in town. Opening is Arts & Leisure, whose lineup was recently tweaked with the addition of drummer and rec-softball extraordinaire Ed Carroll. And there’s a set by 2015, likely their last show before possibly evolving into 2016. Possibly.

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It’s unlikely the Zombies foresaw how undead their music would be over the span of a 50-plus year career. But is there a song more perennially hip than “Time of the Season”? The band’s still at it, touring in support of the CLASSIC ROCK aptly titled Still Got That Hunger, released earlier this month. Even more remarkable: For the first time since its release in 1968, the surviving four members of the original lineup will be coming together to play Odessey & Oracle, which was named No. 100 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. 1013 K Street, www.thezombies.net.

—Deena Drewis

the Colony, 7 p.m., $10

Sacramento has become quite the destination for seminal touring acts and this Monday’s show is certainly no exception to the rule. If you don’t own Subhumans U.K.’s The Day The Country Died (1983), perhaps you need to update your collecPUNK tion. Singer Dick Lucas can still belt ’em out, as evidenced on their last fulllength patter, Internal Riot (2007). Hardcore fans living here can rejoice in a short commute to the venue and, more importantly, an early start and end time. Also on this fantastic all-ages bill are the Bay Area’s own La Plebe and Oakland’s Love Songs. You could do much worse. 1119 21st Street, www.facebook.com/Subhumans-UK-137812882953527.

press CluB, 8 p.m., $8

Screw everything, it’s time to get fuzzed out as hell and celebrate misery with some obsessively downbeat bands. This show at the Colony is stacked: the gloomy post-punk of Heat Dust, the mutilating grindcore of Theories, the vicious SLUDGE METAL raging of the Infamous Gehenna and, finally, the crushing, soul-deadening sludge of Thou and the Body, two bands performing pieces from their joint albums Released from Love and You, Whom I Have Always Hated in a collaborative set. Since space is limited, you’ll likely want to buy tickets in advance at https://atlanteancollective. queueapp.com. 3512 Stockton Boulevard, www.facebook.com/events/1451888805117661.

—eDDie Jorgensen

Aussie indie-punkers Dune Rats filmed a video for their song “Fuck It” by literally smoking weed for three minutes (which is oddly captivating). And—no surprise—the word “marijuana” comes up in several of their songs. Despite the copious INDIE amount of weed and cheap beer they consume, the members seem to be constantly on uppers. The music is fast-paced, upbeat, super-fun surf-influenced indie rock, and any footage you find of them online shows them to be a state of constant partying and pranking. Have a healthy meal before heading out and be prepared to go the distance.

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Fear also makes it hard to appreciate the other layers of your situation.

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Regrets? We all have a few, hopefully not a few too many, or so the song goes.

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Not from your husband, although that could definitely happen. You will have to risk embodying a new life, one that could be the answer to your prayers. The end of your marriage could be a fresh start that challenges you beyond your comfort level. Divorce might be an invitation into a life that stirs your passions, and turns your fears into fuel for new adventures. When you stop obsessing about mistakes, you will discover opportunities and freedom. Ω

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Weed is different than alcohol, and so far there is no way to tell if a person is incapable of driving if they have a little THC in their system, because having THC in your bloodstream doesn’t necessarily mean you are high. THC sticks around long after the effects have worn off. There a few companies looking to create some sort of cannabis breathalyzer (http://tinyurl.com/cannabuster), but a truly accurate method seems to be a few years away. Perhaps we should do what comedian Marc Maron suggested years ago: When you go to the DMV, you tell them you smoke pot. They let you burn one, then you go take your road test. If you pass, you get a sticker on your license that says “Pot OK!” He was kidding, but still. Anyway, getting stoned and driving is generally not a good idea. Operating a motor vehicle should be done with a clear head and an open heart. Be careful out there.

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THC, the psychoactive component of marijuana, is fat-soluble, so you can’t steep marijuana like tea or eat it raw and expect anything trippier than a stomachache. You need to make it into butter (or oil or flour), and all you’ll need is a saucepan, a coffee grinder, and some cheesecloth, all of which can be obtained for less than $50.

The better your marijuana, the better your butter, so have your favorite budtender recommend some potent options that won’t break the bank. Grind an ounce of cannabis until fine, combine it with an ounce of butter and a few cups of water, and simmer it on the lowest possible heat for several hours, stirring consistently to keep the marijuana from burning.

From there, pour it through a cheesecloth into an airtight container, wringing out the cheesecloth to extract as much butter as possible, then cover the container and leave it in the refrigerator to cool overnight. After about 24 hours, separate the butter from the water and break it into pieces, leaving some in the fridge and the rest in the freezer.

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FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 22, 2015 ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to an online etymological dictionary, the verb “fascinate” entered the English language in the 16th century.

It was derived from the Middle French fasciner and the Latin fascinatus, which are translated as “bewitch, enchant, put under a spell.” In the 19th century, “fascinate” expanded in meaning to include “delight, attract, hold the attention of.”

I suspect you will soon have experiences that could activate both senses of “fascinate.” My advice is to get the most out of your delightful attractions without slipping into bewitchment. Is that even possible? It will require you to exercise fine discernment, but yes, it is.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): One of the largest

machines in the world is a “bucket wheel excavator” in Kazakhstan. It’s a saw that weighs 45,000 tons and has a blade the size of a four-story building. If you want to slice through a mountain, it’s perfect for the job. Indeed, that’s what it’s used for over in Kazakhstan. Right now, Taurus, I picture you as having a metaphorical version of this equipment. That’s because I think you have the power to rip open a clearing through a massive obstruction that has been in your way.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Filmmaker Alfred

Hitchcock did a daily ritual to remind him of life’s impermanence. After drinking his tea each morning, he flung both cup and saucer over his shoulder, allowing them to smash on the floor. I don’t recommend that you adopt a comparable custom for long-term use, but it might be healthy and interesting to do so for now. Are you willing to outgrow and escape your old containers?

Would you consider diverging from formulas that have always worked for you? Are there any unnecessary taboos that need to be broken?

Experiment with the possible blessings that might come by not clinging to the illusion of “permanence.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Terence was a comic

playwright in ancient Rome. He spoke of love in ways that sound modern. It can be capricious and weird, he said. It may provoke indignities and rouse difficult emotions. Are you skilled at debate? Love requires you to engage in strenuous discussions. Peace may break out in the midst of war, and vice versa. Terence’s conclusion: If you seek counsel regarding the arts of love, you may as well be asking for advice on how to go mad. I won’t argue with him. He makes good points. But I suspect that in the coming weeks you will be excused from most of those crazymaking aspects. The sweet and smooth sides of love will predominate. Uplift and inspiration are more likely than angst and bewilderment. Take advantage of the grace period! Put chaos control measures in place for the next time Terence’s version of love returns.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming weeks, you

will have a special relationship with the night.

When the sun goes down, your intelligence will intensify, as will your knack for knowing what’s really important and what’s not. In the darkness, you will have an enhanced capacity to make sense of murky matters lurking in the shadows.

You will be able to penetrate deeper than usual, and get to the bottom of secrets and mysteries that have kept you off-balance. Even your grimy fears may be transformable if you approach them with a passion for redemption.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): New friends and

unexpected teachers are in your vicinity, with more candidates on the way. There may even be potential comrades who could eventually become flexible collaborators and catalytic guides. Will you be available for the openings they offer?

Will you receive them with fire in your heart and mirth in your eyes? I worry that you may not be ready if you are too preoccupied with old friends and familiar teachers. So please make room for surprises.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): More than any other

sign, you have an ability to detach yourself from life’s flow and analyze its complexities with cool objectivity. This is mostly a good thing. It enhances your power to make rational decisions.

On the other hand, it sometimes devolves into a liability. You may become so invested in your role as observer that you refrain from diving into life’s flow. You hold yourself apart from it, avoiding

both its messiness and vitality. But I don’t foresee this being a problem in the coming weeks. In fact, I bet you will be a savvy watcher even as you’re almost fully immersed in the dynamic flux.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you an inven-

tor? Is it your specialty to create novel gadgets and machines? Probably not. But in the coming weeks you may have metaphorical resemblances to an inventor. I suspect you will have an enhanced ability to dream up original approaches and find alternatives to conventional wisdom.

You may surprise yourself with your knack for finding ingenious solutions to long-standing dilemmas. To prime your instincts, I’ll provide three thoughts from inventor Thomas Edison. (1) “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” (2) “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” (3) “Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.”

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

unraveling is inevitable. What has been woven together must now be partially unwoven. But please refrain from thinking of this mysterious development as a setback. Instead, consider it an opportunity to reexamine and redo any work that was a bit hasty or sloppy. Be glad you will get a second chance to fix and refine what wasn’t done quite right the first time. In fact, I suggest you preside over the unraveling yourself. Don’t wait for random fate to accomplish it. And for best results, formulate an intention to regard everything that transpires as a blessing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “A waterfall

would be more impressive if it flowed the other way,” said Irish author Oscar Wilde. I appreciate the wit, but don’t agree with him. A plain old ordinary waterfall, with foamy surges continually plummeting over a precipice and crashing below, is sufficiently impressive for me. What about you, Capricorn? In the coming days, will you be impatient and frustrated with plain old ordinary marvels and wonders? Or will you be able to enjoy them just as they are?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Years ago, I

moved into a rental house with my new girlfriend, whom I had known for six weeks. As we fell asleep the first night, a song played in my head: “Nature’s Way,” by the band Spirit. I barely knew it and had rarely thought of it before. And yet there it was, repeating its first line over and over: “It’s nature’s way of telling you something’s wrong.” Being a magical thinker, I wondered if my unconscious mind was telling me a secret about my love. But I rejected that possibility; it was too painful to contemplate. When we broke up a few months later, however, I wished I had paid attention to that early alert. I mention this, Aquarius, because I suspect your unconscious mind will soon provide you with a wealth of useful information, not just through song lyrics but other subtle signals, as well. Listen up! At least some of it will be good news, not cautionary like mine.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When I advise you

to get naked, I don’t mean it in a literal sense.

Yes, I will applaud if you’re willing to experiment with brave acts of self-revelation. I will approve of you taking risks for the sake of the raw truth.

But getting arrested for indecent exposure might compromise your ability to carry out those noble acts. So, no, don’t actually take off all your clothes and wander through the streets. Instead, surprise everyone with brilliant acts of surrender and vulnerability. Gently and sweetly and poetically tell the Purveyors of Unholy Repression to take their boredom machine and shove it up their humdrum.

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Casting stones Everybody wants to talk about baseball, basketball or football.

Where’s the love for curling? If you’re unfamiliar with the sport, here’s the gist: Your team tries to do the best job of sliding granite stones across ice into a set of painted concentric circles. Also, there’s brooming involved. Bob Kuhl has done a lot of brooming in his time as president of the Wine Country Curling Club, a group that formed in Vacaville in 2007 but now curls at Skatetown Ice Arena in Roseville. We hassled Kuhl to learn if all that brooming makes you better at cleaning house and whether wine and curling truly mix.

How did you start curling?

My dad got me into it in 1961 when I asked if I could have some money to join a bowling league. He went, “Bowling league? You gotta be out of your mind. You gotta go curl.” I went, “Curl? What the hell is that?” He curled in a Thursday afternoon league with his buddies, so he took me down there and I played on his team there and I just fell in love with the game immediately. It takes a while to get the skill set in place, but once you do—it’s like golf, as soon as you can get to the point where you’re surviving on a golf course, you can really enjoy it more.

What sort of people come to play?

We seem to be attracting the engineers and the architects and the IT people and stuff—they like the technical side of this game. I do, too—I’m a salesman, I dunno how in the hell I get worked up about it.

How serious does it get on the ice?

It’s pretty casual. In California, everybody’s out there because they’re having a good time and the skill set isn’t quite up to the level that it is in other states.

Granted, people are getting better and better, but we only have maybe a dozen curlers that are at a competitive skill set. We distribute those skilled curlers around to the whole team to take the new people that are coming in and teach them the game. … I never get too worked up in league, because you have at least two players who are rookies on every team and you can’t expect them to make every shot the way they’re supposed to.

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So it could get heated, but right now it’s not.

waist, running down the ice, sweeping in front of a rock … It’s very anaerobic.

A good time is the most important thing.

In curling, if you beat a team, you’re obligated to buy them the first round of drinks afterwards.

But it’s not too physical, right?

That’s a great rule.

After every game, the teams are sitting there visiting, getting to know each other.

Any place in the world, you play another team, you’re going to go sit with that team you just played with. And once you’ve curled against somebody any place in the world, you’re on their best-friend list for the rest of your life.

So curling and wine mix well.

Yes, it does. The definition of a tournament is a bonspiel, and in my opinion, clearly how I see it, bonspiel means “curling with wine.” … We allow them to drink beer, but most of the time we try to get them to drink wine.

Curling is an Olympic sport, but people aren’t watching.

Do you think it’ll get big?

I do. There are people who didn’t know the game existed a year or two ago and now they’re just absolute zealots. It’s because the game offers so much. It’s got a cardiovascular level to it that’s huge. You think about this: you’re bent over the ice at the

You know, you could put a team of junior high school kids against a team of 80-yearolds and it’s an even game. I mean, the 80-year-olds won’t have the flexibility that the kids do. We’ve got two people in our club right now that are wheelchair curlers.

You’re saying anybody can do it?

You can be a little girl, an older man, an athlete, a non-athlete, you can be from band camp, you can be whatever you want and you can compete against each other. … Can you play hockey against the guys who just won the Stanley Cup without getting your ass kicked? Probably not. So curling is kinda a level playing field. When you go on the curling ice, there’s only so many things you can do for advantage and those are usually strategy.

Are you a master sweeper around the house?

My wife won’t allow me to sweep because I’m such a, how should I say, I’m a sloppy sweeper in the kitchen. I think that’s by design. Ω

Learn more about curling and the club by emailing Kuhl directly at bob.kuhl.curling@gmail.com.

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