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$5 a day Or $35 a week. A Sacramentan on food stamps receives just about that amount. The aid is supplemental, in theory. But we all know that, between bills and gas and whatever, the money is crucial: It’s often all that’s left.

I’ve done the “food-stamp challenge” thing before, and I’ll be partaking in it again this week, beginning on the 16th and going up until the day before Thanksgiving. Hunger coalitions statewide often promote these types of challenges, the goal being to remind us that food insecurity is very real, that the nutrition gap keeps growing.

I invite all my colleagues and readers to also live on a food budget of $5 a day from November 16 to 25. I’ll be blogging about this challenge and interviewing hunger and nutrition advocates on our website, www.newsreview.com. I’ll also be posting photos and costs of my meals, and commenting on food-insecurity issues, as well, on Twitter (@NickMiller916). Keep me accountable, please. But also join me.

Can you sustain a healthy diet on such little? Would you resort to dollar hamburgers or abundant and affordable processed foods? Will you ever see a head of broccoli or an apple in your kitchen during the 10 days because you can’t afford fresh, natural foods?

Earlier this year, in April, online trolls ridiculed actress Gwyneth Paltrow for failing her personal food-stamp challenge after just four days. Her failure was pretty weak—but it’s also easy to take shots at a celebrity. Let’s see if you can make it longer than four.

Millions of Californians don’t have a choice. These CalFresh recipients are mostly women, mostly Hispanic. And most have jobs. They don’t stay on government aid for longer than five years, either. The least you could do is try to live in their fridges for 10 days.

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Sac’d State Re “State of Sac State” by Jeff vonKaenel (SN&R News, November 5): Sac State was so impacted that as a transfer student with a prior degree, I would have had to wait over a year to begin my studies, so I went to Sonoma State. I am so glad I did!

No crime, no fights, no assaults, great teachers and beautiful landscape. I now live in Sacramento again and will commute to Sonoma until my degree is completed. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Hopefully Sac State can get their s!&t together soon.

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We’re not jerks Re “The jerks next door”

by Rachel Leibrock (SN&R Feature Story, October 29): Yawn. As Gertrude Stein once said about Oakland, “There is no there there.” I started the Nextdoor group in my neighborhood in

Sacramento (Holyoke), which currently has 114 neighbors.

To date, it has been a positive experience. I have used it to find a reliable handyman and a babysitter. We have advertised our garage sales and used it to promote neighborhood gatherings (our last was an ice-cream social). And, yes, we do post

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Nextdoor naturally takes on the personality of the active members. It’s not perfect because we’re not perfect.

But the implication that us members are jerks is a poor generalization and not true.

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Mitch Weiss (right) and Susan Mills examine transportation improvement proposals at City Hall this past Monday. They both said that additional bike lines were a step in the right direction.

Extreme grid makeover City pitches ambitious central-city transportation overhaul, including more room for bikes, less for cars

by Graham Womack

Part of the charm of Sacramento’s central city is its simplicity. You don’t need to use GPS, or even a map, to get around the streets, which run north-south, east-west. Laid out in the mid-1800s, Sacramento’s “grid” is one of the few things in the capital city that has stood the test of time.

But leaders say the grid has long needed updates. Much of the traffic-flow plan was devised half a century ago to serve commuters. While three times as many people still commute into the central city than live in it, city officials are beginning to prioritize transportation improvements for downtown and 8 | SN&R | 11.12.15

Midtown bicyclists, pedestrians, bus riders and more.

Enter the Grid 2.0 project, perhaps the most ambitious city-sponsored effort in years to improve the central city’s streets.

Plans distributed by the city call for a mix of improvements, including: reducing lanes from three to two on thoroughfares such as J Street in Midtown, adding bike lanes for a number of streets, such as 15th, 16th and J; enhancing bus stops; and implementing the streetcar system, which residents failed to vote for earlier this year.

During a very early morning press conference touting Grid 2.0 this past Friday, Councilman Steve Hansen stood

in Fremont Park, flanked by maps and designs of the improved city streets, and touted the project. “I’m a huge proponent of making these improvements,” he told SN&R after the 7:30 a.m. event. “It makes the grid more efficient, first, so it takes better advantage of the resource we have. But it makes it better for the users right now, who kind of get the short end of the stick, bicycle users and pedestrians.”

But these dramatic changes won’t happen overnight. The project is currently in the planning phase. The city has been holding stakeholder meetings and held an open house on Monday at City Hall

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to offer the public a firsthand look at the plans. The city has also contracted with DKS Associates for $791,246, and AIM Consulting, to promote Grid 2.0, including a website, www.sacgrid.com.

“We’re trying to identify 20 years’ worth of projects here,” said city principal planner Fedolia “Sparky” Harris, who’s been on the project over a year.

He explained that a lot of the changes will be as simple as re-striping lanes and adding fresh paint to streets. “The harder ones are doing enhanced bus stations or bus stops, things like that, which really take a little more engineering and environmental analysis and money,” he told SN&R. An older version of Grid 2.0, called the Central City Two-Way Conversion Project, was scaled back in 2006 partly due to a lack of funding. Money could be an issue again, as well.

Harris said the Sacramento Area Council of Governments’ long-range regional-transportation plan has $100 million earmarked for downtown improvements. He’s positive that won’t be enough.

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He explained that there haven’t been any discussions about raising sales tax to pay for the improvements. The city could consider redirecting tax funds.

Local author and Preservation Sacramento president William Burg said Sacramento allocates one-sixth of a cent from sales tax to transit funding, trailing San Francisco and San Diego, which allocate half a cent each, and Los Angeles, which allocates a full cent.

Burg doesn’t expect everything the project calls for to be implemented.

“Essentially, it’s a package of ideas,” Burg said. “Some of them will happen, and some of them won’t.”

Harris sees grant money as the solution.

“This is going to be a very expensive plan, but the reality is there’s a lot of different funding sources out there that I think we’ll be eligible to chase.”

He hopes that the $100 million in local money can be used to leverage additional state, federal and private funding.

Hansen agrees. The city often will apply for Active Transportation Program funds, which are at the state level, and also federal grants through SACOG, he explained. Projects that enhance biking

and pedestrian safety, and that get people spoke out in 2006 against the two-way out of cars and curb emissions, qualify for conversion project, told SN&R that the many of these grants. “it’s probably overdue for us to look at how “We should be looking at ‘cap and people are navigating in the downtown.” trade.’ We should be looking at using an Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates enhanced infrastructure financing district.

Executive Director Jim Brown said his There’s all these different methods we can group submitted a 10-page white paper and use,” Hansen said. has been noticing things from it in the plan.

For instance, city leaders currently are “We’re pleased with the direction that we’re exploring the formation of a special seeing things go,” he said. infrastructure financing Brown also noted that a district, which would tax regional project has been commercial property underway for the owners to help past three years to fund construction implement a bikeof a streetcar share program route. in downtown The city Sacramento, already has Davis an approved and West ATP grant Sacramento. to improve And Kirin 12th Street, Kumar, a the main project manager thoroughfare for pedestrianMichael Ault heading south advocacy group Downtown Sacramento Partnership into downtown.

Walk Sacramento, Maps for the project said he appreciated the call for reducing 12th city’s efforts to prioritize from four lanes to three and pedestrians and biking and adding protected bike lanes. bringing stakeholders into the planSo far, stakeholders and others involved ning process. in the planning process, which will wrap up “My ultimate hope is that a lot of the in the spring, have been supportive. great things we’re seeing are implemented,” Downtown Sacramento Partnership Kumar said. Ω Executive Director Michael Ault, who

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After weathering criticism for doing little to address the state’s ballooning catalog of prohibited gun owners, the California Department of Justice has whittled its naughty list to an almost six-year low.

On Monday, the California Attorney General’s Office announced that dozens of state agents and Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies seized 82 firearms and arrested 10 people during a three-day operation that targeted county residents whose names appear on the armed prohibited persons System.

The joint operation brought the state’s tally of prohibited gun owners down to 13,918 names, the lowest since January 2009.

The automated system flags people who bought guns, but “later became prohibited from legally owning them because they were convicted of a felony or a violent misdemeanor, placed under a domestic violence restraining order or suffer from serious mental illness,” the state Attorney General’s Office explains on its website.

“The database was completed in November 2006, and instantly created a queue of thousands of investigations.”

The A.G. credits additional funding from two state bills, including a $24 million appropriations measure, for helping state agents chisel their backlog. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

Dying young A recent report on youth homicide victims left Sacramento County out of the top 10, but reiterated stubborn disparities when it comes to race and gun violence.

According to the Violence Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.based research nonprofit, homicide was the second leading cause of death for Californians between the ages of 10 and 24 in 2013, the last year for which data was available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Of California counties with at least 25,000 residents in the above age group, Sacramento county ranked 13th, with 29 homicide victims between the ages of 10 and 24. That’s equal to 9.58 homicides per 100,000 10-to-24-year-olds, a rate that fell behind Monterey County, which ranked a dubious first with a 23.48 homicide rate, despite having fewer youth homicides.

Elsewhere in the region, San Joaquin County ranked 10th, El Dorado 27th, Yolo 31st and Placer tied for last place at 32nd.

While the statewide youth homicide rate continued its 13-year decline, a stark racial disparity remained intact. Gun violence was responsible for 91 percent of black youth homicides, compared to 56 percent of white youth homicides. (RFH)

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California’s first two flu victims of the season died within days, but decades apart. On November 6, an infant died of flu-related symptoms in Stanislaus County, two days after an adult in Santa Clara County became the state’s first reported influenza fatality.

The state’s public health officer used both occasions to remind Californians of the importance of vaccines, even when it comes to a baby who was too young to get one. “to protect babies who cannot yet be vaccinated, we should get our flu shots,” Dr. Karen Smith said in a statement.

On Thursday, November 12, the Sacramento County Immunization Assistance Program hosts its final free adult and family flu clinic at Rusch Park in Citrus Heights. (RFH)

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Pay, dirt Labor activists continue push for $15, claim city minimum-wage increase amounts to less money for workers

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Nearly 200 activists—and one menacing ronald McDonald—marched to the capitol from city Hall this past Tuesday in support of a $15 minimum wage.

health-care plan will be able to deduct $2 an hour City electeds approved a plan to raise the from employee pay. minimum wage last month, but a couple hundred The catch is that most of these low-wage workers activists showed up at City Hall this past Tuesday are already eligible for Medi-Cal health care. The at noon to ask for more money. Their beef? The new bronze plans would be more out of pocket for workers want $15 an hour, not the city’s proposed $12.50—and they say the city’s plan ultimately would low-income workers; Labor Council attorneys estimate annual deductibles could be as high as $10,000. amount to a pay cut.

“If you’re making $10.50, which someone who Here’s how: Sacramento passed a minimumhas the health-care credit will be making, what’s wage ordinance, negotiated at the 11th hour. Under the benefit of having this type of health-care plan?” the plan, businesses and nonprofits would raise Sasso asked. wages incrementally each year until 2020, The union is checking into whether when the minimum would reach $12.50 the city plan would exempt or preclude an hour. any kind of Medi-Cal eligibility if The catch is that businesses “It doesn’t an employer is offering a plan. with fewer than 100 employees At Tuesday’s rally, workers would be allowed to delay pay even buy you a shouted for $15 at City Hall bumps by a year. And busilight-rail pass.” before marching to the Capitol. nesses that offer satisfactory “I’m a women studies major, health insurance could deduct Fabrizio Sasso so I’m passionate about this, $2 from the total bottom wage: labor leader, on the city’s the betterment of my people, for example, $12.50 to $10.50. minimum-wage plan of women, of people of color, Sacramento Central Labor of marginalized communities,” Council head Fabrizio Sasso says explained Natalia Serrato. The 21-year98 percent of workers would see wage old Sacramento State student works at In-Nbumps delayed under the city plan.

He also argued that, because of the $2 health-care Out Burger, where she currently earns more than minimum wage—but she could see fewer dollars in exemption for business, wage increases would be her pocket under the proposed city wage plan. insignificant: $10.50 an hour is only 50 cents more The union-dominated event comes nearly a than what the statewide minimum wage will be on year before the November 2016 election, when there January 1 of next year, he noted. might possibly be two competing SEIU minimum“Fifty cents, and if you work eight hours, that’s wage initiatives on the ballot. four bucks. It doesn’t even buy you a light-rail pass,” Sasso says two initiatives isn’t an issue. “This is a Sasso said. good problem to have. … It means that the momenThe city has yet to release language on its tum is in favor of the workers.” Ω minimum-wage ordinance even though it was passed on October 27. But it’s rumored that, under the new plan, local businesses that offer a “bronze” level

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Scorekeeper will miss preservationist and Midtown advocate Dale Kooyman, who passed away this past week. He and this paper disagreed often—but we share a strong passion for the city. Rest in peace.

Little League World Series pitching star mo’ne Davis appeared at Underground Books in Oak Park on Sunday, where she signed autographs. That’s right: At 14, she’s breaking down gender barriers in sports, inking books—and K.J. even gave her a key to a city she’s only visiting. We love it.

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Golden One Center and the Sacramento Kings announced the new arena’s debut concert: maroon 5. It won’t be the first show, but the group will play during opening week. Scorkeeper asks: What happened to bringing in new entertainment?

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time are the result of a lack of housing.

The days are getting shorter. The For example: illegal camping. For weather is getting colder. We are example: being drunk in public. turning on the heater and adding that When was the last time you heard extra blanket. And for thousands of our of someone arrested for camping in a Sacramento neighbors without a dwellstate park, or being drunk inside their ing unit, it is time to prepare for life on house or apartment? the streets in the rain and the cold.

And there are worse results. One While it is difficult to get an accurate number of those who will be living of our homeless neighbors dies on the street every seven days. Obviously, on the streets, a recent survey counted a lack of shelter beds and affordable around 2,600 total homeless. Homeless housing will increase this number. advocates suggest that many people We need to do more. At press who are out in the weather are simply time, the Sacramento County Board of not counted.

Supervisors is considering a measure to This number is greater than the provide more support for shelter beds, number of shelter beds. During the motel vouchers and housing. It is summer, we have roughly 800 an important first step. But, beds in our shelters and we even if this passes, it add another 235 during won’t be enough. We the winter months. It must do more. is not enough. That We need to is why there are When was the last time push for a more waiting lists for you heard of someone comprehensive the shelters. arrested for being drunk solution to this The colder problem. It’s weather and the inside their house or possible that rain make a bad apartment? taking care of our situation worse. It homeless neighbors is one thing to sleep would end up costing in your car in August. about the same as housBut imagine sleeping in ing them in hospitals and your car in January, when the jails. The long-term benefit to our evening temperature is below freezcommunity would be huge. And, of ing. It is one thing to sleep outside on a course, it’s the right thing to do. clear, warm night. But imagine trying to When you curl up under that extra stay warm in the freezing rain. blanket tonight, know that within a If you have ever suffered from the few miles of you, or perhaps a few flu in a warm bed, then it is easy to hundred yards of you, someone is imagine how sleeping in the elements looking for extra cardboard as shelter could lead to worse health problems. from the rain. Ω Many of our neighbors without dwelling units will be hospitalized this winter with illnesses caused more by the lack of housing than by disease.

If you’d like to get involved with organizations helping And many will end up in jail. In a our neighbors without dwelling units, consider previous century, the novelist Anatole Sacramento Steps Forward, http://sacramentosteps France said, “The law, in its majestic forward.org, and Loaves & Fishes, www.sacloaves.org. equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.”

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We deserve And, given the long history of the DOU’s mismanagement—and, worse, answers. And we corruption—we’re demanding that deserve them now. the city call for an investigation of the department and its leadership.

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All this, and we’re still years behind other cities on metering water use.

The unsafe-drinking-water scandal and meter-install problems come on the heels of years of unchallenged rate increases, reports of nepotistic DOU hiring practices (8 percent of DOU staff meet the definition of a relative, according to the city auditor), and even federal bribery charges against the department’s former superintendent (he pleaded guilty in 2008 to accepting kickbacks and profiting off the sale of used water meters).

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Day 23 of the 40 Days for Life campaign, and director Susan Money is showing off her collection of plastic fetuses.

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In a black velvet case she keeps close, she cradles three finger-sized models of babes in utero. A nearby crate holds three more “Touch of Life”-brand figurines.

It doesn’t matter that a fertilized human egg resembles more glop than form at the early stages that these carefully crafted dolls are meant to depict. To this group of activists, muttering prayers outside of the Women’s Health Specialists clinic in Sacramento, opinion can be molded like untempered plastic.

“Basically, we’re here showing the love of God,” says Money, a devout Catholic with cotton-white hair and a soft trill.

God may be her co-pilot, but it’s conservative lawmakers Money should thank for advancing her crusade.

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woman’s right to choose, that right is being challenged in great swaths of the country. California remains a progressive holdout, but that doesn’t mean it’s a reproductive-rights utopia. It’s more like an outpost, where the barriers are nuanced and disproportionately insurmountable to the state’s impoverished and socially vulnerable. California isn’t exempt from potential encroachment if a Republican reclaims the White House next year, either.

“The anti-choice campaign has really stepped up their shaming,” says Amy Everitt, state director of NARAL Pro-Choice California.

“Today, abortion care is really hard to access.”

The tide started turning against reproductive autonomy following another Supreme Court decision 23 years ago. In Planned Parenthood v.

Casey, the court yielded states broad discretion to restrict access to abortion. States didn’t hesitate, cobbling together what the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization that aims to promote reproductive health through birth control, marvels is a “latticework of abortion law.”

In July, a Davis-bred activist elevated the fight to the national stage. Videos produced by David Daleiden’s anti-abortion group, the Center for Medical Progress, insinuated dirty dealings between the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and biomedical companies

that collect fetal tissue for medical research, including one in Placerville (see sidebar, page 15). No wrongdoing was uncovered, despite four—and counting—GOP-led congressional investigations, including the most recent, held in September.

But no matter. Those are just facts. And facts don’t hold up against dollhouse provocations.

Founded in 2007, 40 Days doesn’t traffic in graphic images or lob Molotov cocktails through clinic windows. Money says the campaign aims to evoke a softer tone, even though its solution is just as final: Abortions should be illegal, even in cases of incest or rape. Outside Women’s Health, she and her faithful crew nest that message in hymns and prayers, toys and smiles.

A gold sedan bounces over the lumpy entrance. Before Money can hold out her flier, a voice from inside shouts, “I’m keeping my baby!”

“Super duper!” Money exclaims.

Why shouldn’t she be happy? Her side is winning.

Crisis Centers of ConsCienCe Lynn and her boyfriend found out she was pregnant in a Target store bathroom in Rancho Cordova.

Then 19, she says this feeling came over her amid the fluorescent lights and popcorn-seasoned air. She

just knew. The couple beelined to the pharmacy, purchased a couple of home pregnancy kits and took them straight to the lavatory. Minutes later, Lynn stared at the blue plus sign wondering what to do next. If she shut one eye, it looked like a fork in the road.

That was approximately 12 years ago. At the time, she was working at a restaurant, but without health insurance. Her boyfriend didn’t want the baby. Neither, she decided, did she.

“It was scary,” Lynn says now. “I was obviously kind of in shock.” (“Lynn” is her middle name. Like other women in this story, she agreed to speak to SN&R about her abortion on the condition that her full or real name not be used.)

At home, Lynn’s younger sister split open a phone book and found a place in Sacramento that advertised free pregnancy tests.

It didn’t turn out like they expected.

Once inside, Lynn was asked to repeat the low-fi pee test she had done at Target. That made her suspicious.

Then she was led to a small room, where an older woman invoked God and pressed her to have the child.

That shut her down.

“I kind of felt cornered,” she says, “because I knew I didn’t want to have a baby.”

Lynn didn’t realize it at the time, but she had wandered into the orbit of so-called crisis pregnancy centers.

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LOSE These bait-and-switch fronts for anti-abortion activists look like fullservice medical clinics, but aren’t.

Most aren’t licensed by the California Department of Public Health, and, though they may advertise free pregnancy or STD tests, that oftentimes translates to pee sticks and referrals.

“They have only one goal—to stop women from accessing abortions,” Everitt says.

NARAL tested that hypothesis with a yearlong investigation. What its members encountered during 49 in-person visits, Everitt says, were people who dressed like doctors but behaved like anti-abortion activists.

In the majority of cases, NARAL says, women were incorrectly told that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer, infertility, miscarriage and depression. Staff at these places also tried scaring women away from contraceptive use with similarly dubious claims.

The influence of such crisis centers extends outside their walls.

According to a national survey of clinic violence that the Feminist Majority Foundation published last year, medical clinics that were located near crisis-pregnancy centers reported more than double the rates of violence and harassment than clinics that weren’t.

It’s these centers that Money and her fellow volunteers advertise while standing outside of Women’s Health in Sacramento, at a legally

mandated distance and under the watchful eyes of a clinic escort and sheriff’s deputy. Near the top of her list, printed on pink fliers, is the Alternatives Pregnancy Center on Howe Avenue, which is where Lynn believes she went.

Among the services advertised on APC’s website are free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds and “Biblically based” counseling for people who regret getting an abortion. In a recently added parenthetical, the site states, “Alternatives does not provide or refer for abortion.” The postscript might have been inspired by new legislation.

When he signed Assembly Bill 775 in October, California Gov. Jerry Brown targeted the centers’ false advertising by requiring that they be upfront about what they do—and don’t—provide. The Reproductive FACT Act, as it’s called, is the first of its kind in the nation, and is poised to affect more than 170 crisispregnancy centers around the state beginning in January, according to NARAL. That is, as long as the legislation survives a legal challenge.

Attorneys from the Sacramentobased Pacific Justice Institute last month sought an injunction in federal court on behalf of two religion-based centers, in Marysville and Redding.

Plaintiffs’ attorney Kevin Snider called AB 775 “an existential threat to pro-life clinics” in a phone interview.

“You’re telling pro-life clinics to refer women and girls to places where they can get free and cheap abortions.

That’s preposterous on its face.”

A spokeswoman for Attorney General Kamala Harris, who co-sponsored the legislation, promised to “vigorously defend the state law in court.”

When asked about the Reproductive FACT Act, Money almost does something that seems uncharacteristic for her—swear: “It’s a piece of,” she says, falling silent.

For Lynn, however, the legislation would have spared her an unwanted lecture. “They did kind of corner me and put kind of a guilty conscience in me that abortion wasn’t an option if I wanted a relationship with God,” she recalls.

Whatever ends up happening in court, the rise of crisis-pregnancy centers reveals something about the anti-abortion movement’s approach in California: Here, the most effective attack is the indirect one.

‘T wo s T e p s f o rwa r d, o n e s T e p b a c k’ Megan didn’t learn she was pregnant again until well into her second

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a hOmEgROwn ScandaL How one Davis resident reignited the national anti-choice movement it’S a quiEt wEEkday at Bistro 33 in El Dorado Hills’ upscale Town Center shopping district, a seemingly unlikely point of origin for the reignited crusade against reproductive rights. But it was here where a local boy-turned-activist manufactured the controversy that swept up Planned Parenthood and returned the anti-choice movement front and center on the national stage.

One late afternoon in May, David Daleiden, a 2007 Davis High School graduate and son of a former Davis school board member, convinced managers from a Placerville biomedical company to meet with him and another member of his antiabortion nonprofit, the Center for Medical Progress. Only Daleiden told the StemExpress reps he was Robert Daroud Sarkis, and that he and his associate were from Biomax Procurement Services LLC, a sham company. As its name suggests, Biomax was ostensibly in the procurement business, namely of fetal tissue.

Daleiden had spent months secretly recording conversations at Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation conferences and clinics in other states. In July, the Center for Medical Progress began unleashing this footage, along with claims that Planned Parenthood illegally profits from fetal tissue donations to companies like StemExpress.

Daleiden’s own edited footage, however, shows those allegations to be exaggerated at best: He and his hired actors can be heard trying to coax their marks into implicating themselves. But the marks don’t bite. Rather, they only discuss abortion procedures in context to patient need and laws, not profits.

The same pretty much happened when Daleiden and a woman posing as a “buyer” met with StemExpress CEO

Catherine Dyer and her colleagues on May 22. Then, the conversation mostly revolved around how difficult it is for Dyer’s company to secure intact livers for research purposes.

Daleiden’s supporters say their allegations hinge more on a StemExpress brochure that promises “a financial benefit” and “fiscal growth” to potential clients.

Those terms are troubling to Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Casey Mattox, whose group is helping Center for Medical Progress defray legal expenses as it fends off multiple legal injunctions. “It’s very difficult for me to see how ‘financial benefit’ and fiscal rewards were anything other than profit,” he said. “I can’t believe [StemExpress] just did that out of nowhere.”

That speculation hasn’t been substantiated, but Daleiden nonetheless managed to stir up real peril for his targets.

Six states have since tried to withdraw funding from Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards faced four congressional hearings. There’s also been a seemingly related surge in fire bombings and other attacks against Planned Parenthood clinics in Thousand Oaks, Calif., and in other states.

According to a company spokesman, Dyer has experienced multiple death threats, one of which reportedly prompted Placerville authorities to contact the FBI. Placerville Police Department spokeswoman Lt. Kim Nida confirmed the agency was investigating threats to Dyer and her company.

The Center for Medical Progress didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment.

For now, Daleiden is letting his work speak for him.

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Samara Azam-Yu is co-director of ACCESS Women’s Health Justice in Oakland, which helps women surmount barriers to sexual and reproductive health care.

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trimester. The 21-year-old Santa Cruz woman had given up a newborn baby for adoption less than two months earlier and was still recovering from labor when her boyfriend sexually assaulted her.

It was a dark time and getting darker.

“He would force me to have sex with him, which is the only reason I got pregnant so quickly,” she wrote in an email to SN&R. “I couldn’t go through another adoption, but I also knew that I couldn’t take care of a child.”

Megan was 16 weeks along when she discovered the pregnancy. That put her in a small and increasingly ghettoized subgroup of women who seek abortions.

As of November 1, a dozen states had gestational age limits in place to prevent most abortions for women who are more than 20 weeks pregnant, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

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A federal ban on later-term abortions is also one of the top legislative priorities for the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life political lobby, and has elicited support from the cream of the Republican presidential crop, including frontrunners Ben Carson, Marco Rubio and Donald Trump.

But the data on women who terminate pregnancies after 20 weeks reveals a fragmented system that blocks abortion access at the front end, and then vilifies the women who eventually soldier through.

By the time she discovered her pregnancy, Megan knew she was running out of time. None of the local providers would perform a second-trimester abortion.

The one clinic she was referred to was 30 miles outside of town, which meant she had to arrange—and raise money for—travel and lodging, along with the actual procedure.

“Since I was working for minimum wage with no savings and an insurance policy that wouldn’t cover an abortion, I had to pull the money together before I could schedule the appointment,” she explained.

Megan’s experience took place in 1992. But, in some ways, it’s more common today.

Samara Azam-Yu is co-director of ACCESS Women’s Health Justice in Oakland. Over the past eight years, she says, callers to the help line have gone from describing single-issue barriers, like prohibitive costs or distances, to “all of the above” quagmires similar to Megan’s experience.

“The poverty rate is a real problem in California,” Azam-Yu says. “There are definitely people traveling every day for care,” some for hundreds of miles. “As someone in the movement, it can be hard to think it’s not two steps forward, one step back.”

While the state only prohibits abortions of viable fetuses that don’t pose health risks to the mothers, individual hospitals can deny abortions on religious grounds. That’s becoming a larger issue as Catholic hospitals gobble up more of the health-system marketplace, says Phyllida Burlingame, the reproductive justice policy director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.

Still, only 5 percent of abortions take place in a hospital or

private physician’s office, Guttmacher data says. The vast majority occur in clinics, whose staff members can choose to impose restrictions beyond what the law requires. When they do, it’s often due to the availability of trained physicians and facility regulations.

But Azam-Yu says clinics aren’t immune to pressures both economic and political, especially in rural or conservative counties with limited support.

The obstacles can manifest in subtle, agonizing ways. A clinic that’s suddenly closed its doors. Or shortened its gestational eligibility. Or stopped accepting Medi-Cal. Or doesn’t provide general sedation. Or rejects anyone with a “highrisk” pregnancy, which can mean women who are obese, have asthma or had an earlier caesarian birth.

It just happens such factors are more common among women who are poorer and geographically isolated than they are the general female population.

“It’s really heartbreaking when you hear the barriers that people are dealing with,” she says. “If you’re stretched thin, the outcomes are really the same.”

Other states have it even worse.

According to Guttmacher, 42 states presently allow health institutions to deny abortion care, 38 have parental notification laws, 35 restrict private or state insurance from covering

abortion and 28 employ waiting periods. Along with proliferating gestational limits, such policies can create a fait accompli: Stall women from accessing reproductive care early in their pregnancies so that by the time they do, it’s too late.

Today, abortion restrictions force more than 4,000 U.S. women to carry unwanted pregnancies to term every year, according to new data from UC San Francisco’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health project, which completed a seven-year survey of abortion-seekers earlier this year. They also compel an unknown number of women to risk health and freedom by taking matters into their own hands.

“Abortion doesn’t go away,” says ANSIRH project director Rana E. Barar. “It happens … in varying degrees of safety.”

For Megan, a former foster child of limited means with a menacing partner, it was the right decision. She was able to get her abortion at 20 weeks.

Not everyone can say the same.

Turning back The clock on r o e v. Wa d e One month after she was raped by her employer, Katharina mustered the courage to return to his South Sacramento office and demand money for an abortion.

Rana E. Barar (center) is project director of the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health program at UC San Francisco’s Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. The center just completed a seven-year survey of abortion seekers that is producing surprising new findings.

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The man ran a copier business that took up one half of a building suite on Fulton Avenue. Aside from Katharina’s brief employ there—she was hired one day, assaulted the next and quit two days later—he was the only person in that large, gray space.

“I said, ‘I’m pregnant. I need money for an abortion,’” Katharina recalls of the brief meeting. He told her to come back a couple of days later for the money. When she did, the place was cleared out. The renters next door said the man moved to another state.

That was November 1967, roughly six years before the Supreme Court struck down state-by-state prohibitions against abortion. The procedure was illegal in California, too, but that didn’t matter to the 20-year-old Katharina, a broke single mother to a 3-year-old boy.

For her, there were two options: Terminate the pregnancy or die trying.

“I would have killed myself, I wouldn’t have had that child,” she says.

This might sound like ancient history from a less-evolved time, but it’s not. For Ben Carson and groups like 40 Days for Life and Californians for Life, it’s a glimpse into the future. “[Abortion] isn’t illegal yet— and I say yet,” says Wynette Sills of Californians for Life. “You have to change hearts and minds first before you change the law.”

But the law has already changed across much of the country, despite Gallup polls that show more Americans consider themselves prochoice than pro-life.

And there are warning signs that Katharina’s story is happening today.

A Guttmacher policy review cited “at least half a dozen” cases in which women were prosecuted after they attempted to abort pregnancies using illegally obtained abortifacient drugs. It happened to a South Carolina woman in 2004, a Massachusetts woman in 2007, a Pennsylvania woman who obtained the drugs for her daughter in 2013 and a Georgia woman this year.

Women suspected of lying about their miscarriages were also charged, including an Indiana

17 woman sentenced to 20 years in prison earlier this year.

After her attacker fled town, Katharina tossed herself from countertops, off tables and high stairs, hoping to miscarry. She ingested quinine tablets and whiskey on the advice of an older woman. When that didn’t work, she asked her sister to insert a sewing needle into her womb, to see if they could force the issue. But the pain was too great.

When she finally terminated her pregnancy, she labored alone in a doublewide trailer in South Carolina. A man she never met had stuffed gauze into her uterus to induce an unnatural birth. Hours later, when it was time, she passed the tissue in a toilet and flushed without looking.

Nearly 50 years later, in a suburban Folsom cafe, Katharina

peeled for passersby with lost expressions.

This resistance is easy to miss.

It’s early evening at Pre-Flite Lounge, a speakeasy-style bar located in a nondescript alley wedged between J and K streets on the 10th Street side of the block. On this late-September weekday, the bar has been overtaken by a fundraiser for a local affiliate of Planned Parenthood, the beleaguered health entity that was plunged into a fabricated crisis over its handling of aborted fetal tissue.

The optics are fitting. With God supposedly on their side, the opponents of choice have pushed women into the back alley once again.

Congressman Ami Bera doesn’t get it. Reached by phone, the Democratic representative from California is among the legislators who have, thus far, turned back repeated attempts to strip Planned Parenthood of financial support from two federal programs— Medicaid and the Title X Family Planning Program.

Congressional Democrats currently have a backup goalie in President Barack Obama, who promises to veto any legislation that withdraws funding. But he’s not long for his office, and Republican presidential aspirants have made no bones about wanting to reverse that support.

“For years, you’ve seen it at the state level,” Bera says of attempts to dismantle reproductive rights. “In addition to fully defunding Planned Parenthood, I think they’re [Republicans] looking for other ways.”

To Bera, this is a departure from the Republicans of old, of the ’60s and ’70s, who understood that helping women plan for families wasn’t a bad thing. “To me, it’s an issue of individual rights,” he says. “We should not be limiting this access, but talking about expanding it.”

California is one of the only states to actually do that. In 2013, the state legislature deputized nurse practitioners and other trained clinicians to perform first-trimester abortions, which is expected to cut delays, especially in rural counties.

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She speaks in the past tense, as if that time is over.

But it’s not. In 2009, a 17-yearold Utah girl paid a man $150 to beat her into a miscarriage when she couldn’t access abortion care due to the state’s strict policies.

For her desperation, the girl was charged in juvenile court with solicitation to commit murder.

The righT choice Draped in a pink frock and trading perforated tickets for cash, Kim Borden stands at the doorway to a back alley that’s quickly losing the light. Outside, a handful of her associates keep their eyes

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“It was a really significant statement

by California in terms of our commitment to reproductive health care,” the ACLU’s Burlingame says. “What we really see is California leading the nation.”

But how long can it hold its own?

In solidarity with other cities around the nation, Borden says she co-organized September 29’s Midtown Pink Out “because Planned Parenthood has done something for each of us for the better part of our lives.”

It’s where Lynn went after her surprise run-in with a pushy pro-lifer.

Unlike her visit to the crisis center, she says Planned Parenthood staff gave her a blood test confirming her pregnancy and walked her through all of her options. After thinking it over for a few days, she opted for a medication abortion—an effective cocktail of mifepristone and misoprostol that accounted for 23 percent of nonhospital abortions in 2011, a Guttmacher policy review found.

“My experience with Planned Parenthood was very positive,” she says. She’ll even voice that publicly now, whenever someone bad-mouths the health-care provider within earshot: “I had a very pleasant experience with Planned Parenthood when I got my abortion.”

Happy endings are more common than abortion opponents want the public to think.

According to the UCSF survey, women who obtained abortions were

healthier in the short term and better off socioeconomically than those who were forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term—and less likely to remain in abusive or undesired relationships.

“The reasons that women give for having an abortion are very prescient,” says Barar, who piloted the Turnaway Study. “There are very tangible effects [of having a child] and women know what these effects are going to be.”

The study found out something else, Barar says: Of the women who obtained abortions, 95 percent said it was the right choice, and did so when asked multiple times over the ensuing five years of the survey.

The seven women who shared their stories with SN&R belong to that majority.

“I have two beautiful children and an amazing grandson,” says Megan, now 44. “I don’t believe that I would have any of them if I had made a

different decision. My son that I gave up for adoption wouldn’t be who he is. So I don’t regret my decisions.”

It’s not something that gets stated out loud often, even though approximately one in three women will terminate at least one pregnancy by the time she’s 45.

When two women recently tried to embolden others to share their abortion stories on Twitter, their hashtag, #ShoutYourAbortion, was nearly

co-opted by antagonists declaring vitriol and threats.

The ugliness reinforced an old pattern: There are many people who talk about women getting an abortion, but not many women who feel safe sharing those stories themselves.

That’s one shame among many to NARAL director Everitt.

“We would do well to start talking and [understanding] women who do access abortion care,” she says, “because it’s all of us.”

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It may sound like just another week on Game of Thrones, but for some, the fantasy world isn’t regulated to what happens on a screen.

In Sacramento, fantasy enthusiasts gather weekly—in the flesh, without the aid of a screen—to try on a new character, test their strength at arms or attempt to cast down their rivals on, or off, the field of battle.

Oh … and don’t forget about leveling up. This is a game, after all.

The kind of game that brings a person’s physical presence into a story. It’s a dedication to a medium that isn’t just about watching a screen or reading a book. It’s LARPing.

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LARP—or live action role-play, for the uninitiated— is similar to tabletop role-playing games (think Dungeons & Dragons), except with, yes, real life role-playing. Simply put, players interact while physically acting out the actions of their characters.

It’s like a video game, but one in which the person’s hands are actually the character’s hands.

And Sacramento is no stranger to LARPing communities, knightly battles and vampiric plots going on weekly.

Halloween is over—and for most that means putting costumes away. For others, however, the dress-up and characters are year-round dedications to continually playing, world-building and epic adventures.

Sometimes to have fun, you have to escape into another world, another person.

‘It’s a game of finesse’ If someone were to trace the borders of the state of California on a map, they might not realize it, but they’d also be tracing the borders of the Kingdom of Westmarch.

Westmarch is part of a worldwide fantasy game known as Amtgard, in which players compete and battle in a medieval game-world setting.

The dragons, and swords and shields, might not be real, but the combat is.

There are two main Amtgard groups in Sacramento; the Duchy of Thor’s Refuge and the Shire of Mistyvale.

“The amount of overlap we have here in Sacramento is unique,” said Marcus Bergman, the Regent of

Thor’s Refuge. As a regent, he’s in charge of the arts and sciences for his kingdom. He’s also Westmarch Board of Director’s Treasurer.

“Most communities don’t home two [LARP groups]. So, it’s rare to find two lands that close together.”

Bergman and his wife Teresa (a baronet of the Shire of Mistyvale) were introduced to Amtgard after their youngest son discovered it at a Rocky Horror Picture Showthemed event in 2008.

“We did it and we’re like, ‘This is amazing, why doesn’t everyone know about this?’” Bergman said.

Two lines of people, some costumed, some not, wildly brandishing and swinging and hitting each other with what appears to be

some type of sword-like weapon.

What’s not to love?

And once Teresa learned she could hit Marcus with a foam bat, she was on board as well.

Have no fear though, wary traveler. There’s no reason to be worried about losing life or limb.

The weapons used in Amtgard are “boffer” weapons. They aren’t the sharp swords or realistic weapons of the days of old—rather, they’re padded to prevent injuries and players are taught the appropriate way to hit people.

It’s also not a battle royale of brute strength. Players must follow specific rules about just where on an opponent’s body they can hit.

“It’s a game of finesse, not power,” Bergman said. “There [are]

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Alisa K. (left) and Morgan H. take a bite out of boring. This page: Rory F. (left) and Dave O. discuss game details. (All LARPers requested to not use their last names.)

people out there who if they just swung for the rafters every time they’ll win every fight, but that’s not the idea … it’s a lot of finesse, parrying and proper footwork and other things.”

The head, neck and throat, for example, are all off-limits.

Attending weekly battles and participating in other activities all net players points and levels, which can lead a person to knighthood.

You can hold office in the game by showing off your skills. To that end, the Bergmans host a Wednesday night arts and sciences meeting at Great Escape Games, where players can learn how to sew costumes, make weapons or gain other skills needed to get more involved with the game.

Playing is free, and newcomers can go to a game and have the necessary weapons provided for them.

While it may have its roots in swords and sorcery, Amtgard says it isn’t just about killing people.

“You build a community, it’s like a little village of people,” Teresa Bergman said. “You have the same problems as you do in the real world, only on a much smaller level. It’s just, everyone works harder to try to get along, everybody enjoys themselves so much.”

But even if it isn’t all about killing people, there’s still something to the physicality of it all.

“I like to get out on to the battlefield and just swing foam and have the cathartic release of killing everyone around me,” Marcus Bergman said.

The darkest nights

Ultimately, it’s the connections with people, and the community that’s built, that keep players coming back, game after game. regard,” said Kristen Estrada, a local game organizer.

Vampire: The Masquerade is one of the flagship games in the World of Darkness setting, which also includes options that focus on supernatural creatures including werewolves, changelings and mummies, and other various bloodsucking creatures of the night. Vampire is particularly big in Sacramento.

Locally, there are approximately 10 different groups in the area, with two main ones that get the most activity: the local chapters of the Mind’s Eye Society and One World By Night.

OWBN meets on the second, fourth and fifth Saturday of the month at Sacramento State. MES runs each of its different games once a month, moving between the second Friday, fourth Friday and fourth Saturday.

Both organizations are also worldwide, meaning that characters and players can interact across the game world—at least digitally through email—and interact with games and settings across the globe.

Unlike many of the other options, Vampire is more about long-term world building—some players have been building their stories for the past 15-20 years—and the more subtle, interpersonal politics of characters interacting.

The “combat” here is resolved with rock, paper, scissors—similar to dice

rolls in tabletop games, not actually hitting an opposing player.

And who would want to hit somebody when they could nest inside their mind and really do some damage, anyways? Just because its players aren’t as focused on the physical aspects of LARPing, that’s not to say that they can’t display abilities that are superhuman in nature. Depending which clans a player picks, he or she can access disciplines such as superspeed, superstrength, stealth powers and even the ability to morph into animals.

“If there’s an enhanced thing you can think of, then vampires probably have some kind of access to it, depending on their clan,” Estrada said.

“Superpowers, basically.”

But, ultimately, it’s the connections with people, and the community that is built, that keep players, both of Amtgard and World of Darkness, coming back, game after game, year after year, building relationships and characters together.

“I think what I enjoy is kind of the consistency of seeing people,” Estrada said. “I’ve made a lot of friends over the last several years, [I like] going someplace and knowing you have something in common with the people there … even if you have nothing else in common with them.” Ω

“Do you want to see a Marg Wahlberg?”

Hell yes. And that’s when James (no last names for this one) placed a lime wedge in the cranny between his bicep and forearm, then flexed and groaned. “Ahhh.” Nothing happened—but I think the lime’s juice was supposed to drizzle down his arm and into a margarita glass. Dry limes. No Marg Wahlberg for this funky bunch.

I’m referring to the 11 of us seated at R Street’s newly opened Dos Coyotes patio this past Friday. Dos is a chain of Sacto’s ’burbs, a place where margarita “pitchers” are actually liter tequila bottles, and the nachos come blanketed in an impermeable sheet of cheese, leaving no chip unsmotherered.

This was the crew’s fourth plate of nachos that evening.

Occasion? The second annual sacramento national nacho Day Crawl, the inspiration of local deejays Shaun Slaughter and Adam Jay. This year’s crawl featured stops at (in order) Taqueria Maya’s, Pancho’s, Chitas, Dos, Vallejo’s, Mayahuel’s on K Street—and Joe’s Crab Shack (the wild card visit).

There can only be a single winner. The losers are those so unwise as to consume seven plates of nachos in a night.

It actually started in the afternoon, 3 p.m., on Broadway at Maya’s. A server delivered thoughtfully plated nachos—sourcream zigzags, zesty grilled peppers, plus the requisite cheese and chips, beans, guacamole and such, for 9 bucks. This first offering had the crew philosophizing as to what makes a nacho. But that exploration was fleeting, and perhaps Adam’s insight was sufficient: “When the cheese hits the chip.”

A quick rundown of the crawl’s contenders and pretenders.

Vallejo’s takes the basement slot—skimpy cheese, cold chips and shredded lettuce (a no-no). Pancho’s is nearly last place, what with its stale triangles and weak cheese-to-chip ratio.

At Chita’s you can get a sixer of Tecate and a nacho plate with zesty and clutch shredded adobada beef for $22, and that rules. Mayahuel is too damn busy for a drunk-and-dirty dozen crawlers, so we scratch that otherwise reliable spot.

Maya’s wins the NND Crawl for the second straight year.

The Crab Shack’s nachos probably should’ve been the worst—dubious cubed Dungeness atop meh chips dressed with flavorless pico and canned yellow corn. But the intoxicating (in all ways) “Shark Attack” cocktail proffered bonus points: a blue Curaçao booze-and-sugar bomb served in a giant cauldron with a grenadine floater, inside a toy great-white’s mouth. Pour the syrup over the drink, blood in the water. Hilarious.

Nacho lessons? The dish is Leave no chip sadly an afterthought in Sacraunsmothered. mento. For instance: How is it that Or else.

Tres Hermanas nachos suck so hard?

(We left that spot off the crawl.)

Why not painstakingly plated tweezer nachos, each chip a balanced and perfect nibble? “It should be a fiesta in every bite,” Shaun issued as a challenge to local chefs. I couldn’t agree more: all nachos matter. Hashtag that.

And no unmelted cheese. Ever.

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Knights and wizards may be some people’s fantasy cup of tea, but for others, LARPing needs a darker framework: A world that isn’t based on knights, but rather nights.

Enter World of Darkness, a parlorstyle LARP that’s quite different from the heavy-hitting and medieval style world of Amtgard. “[World of Darkness is] not as big into the actual action aspect, so there’s no physical hitting or anything like that.

It’s all based on interpersonal interactions, and the role-play element in that

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Phosphene fantasy The amount of detail in Kerry Cottle’s large paintings is mesmerizing. The Sacramento artist’s work, which is oftentimes is 5 feet square, contains subtle layers of gradation, Painting shapes and patterns, resulting in a mandala-like image—or a phosphene fantasy: This must be what the brain’s electric energy looks like when having a happy thought.

Cottle is exhibiting her paintings in An Arch Is a Circle Given Up along with photography from Laura DeAngelis’ To Herself at Shimo Center for the Arts through December 5.

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“MIssing Information #4” by Kerry Cottle, oil on canvas, 2015.

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“Dahlias” by Tofu, 2015.

Back to pink

Amy Chan’s résumé is dominated by exhibitions in East Coast galleries, which makes sense, since she’s based on that side of the country.

But En Em Art Space brought Chan’s work to Sacramento in 2014, and is Mixed Media doing so again this month for her solo show Moon Bounce. Her work is inspired by organic, natural materials, such as protozoa or coral reef, but then she simplifies the shapes into straight lines and perfect curves and amplifies the colors into controlled, airbrushed hues.

The pieces offer, as she calls it, “pop nostalgia” and a “cheap plastic goods” feel that are reminiscent of logos or ’80s packaging—or Pee-wee’s Playhouse props for protozoa and coral reef.

Where: En Em Art Space, 1714 Broadway; (916) 905-4368; www.enemspace.com.

It’s time again for everyone’s favorite week of the year. No, not Shark Week. OK, it’s time for everyone’s second favorite week of the year: Pink Week! Local hometown pink hero grouP SHoW Gioia Fonda began the hue-appreciation week more than two decades ago, and this year, the hub of activities takes place at WAL Public Market.

The group show will include work in blushing tones by Fonda and other Sacramento creatives such as Melanie Bown, Sarah Detweiler, Jeff Mayry, Mary Mortimer, Joel Michael Smith and Bay Area artist Tofu.

Visit www.pinkweek.org for more details on this show and its other event, ArtMix at the Crocker Art Museum on Thursday, November 12. The show at WAL will be up through December 10— more than a week means more opportunity to pink.

“Pinpoint” by Amy Chan, gouache and acrylic on panel, 2015.

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The festival kicked kicked off last weekend, but it’s not too late to enjoy the free event and take part in classes and more intimate performances.

See student performances by the Sacramento State Percussion Group and catch the Student Artists Performance Competition. Additional concerts by the Lydian String Quartet, the Festival Ensemble and Keith Bohm and John Cozza are also on offer.

On Friday, November 13, at noon, composer and violist kurt rohde will be giving the keynote address titled “Running in Place—Reconciling the ‘Solitary Composer’ Myth,” and on Sunday, November 15, the festival rounds out with a performance from the Sacramento Jazz orchestra at noon, followed by the eco ensemble for the closing concert at 8 p.m. A full schedule and more information can be found at www.csus.edu/music/fenam.

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ThURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Right on time with all the hubbub surrounding the issue of who will and won’t run for the next mayorship, Steve and Susie hiStorY Swatt, co-authors of Game Changers: Twelve Elections That Transformed California, will discuss their comprehensive take on the politics that shaped the state over the last 165 years as part of the California State Archives Speaker Series. Free, 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at 1020 O Street; www.sos.ca.gov/archives.

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Beautiful veggies: Liquidology started serving food last month in addition to its cold-pressed juice.

No surprise, chef Jackie Howard says the food and drink options pair together exquisitely.

Naturally, Howard got her start at the vegan, raw pioneer Green Boheme. Though she primarily belonged to the front-of-the-house and community engagement worlds, she dreamed of making her job feeding people. She launched a pop-up dinner series earlier this year called “Dinner in the Garden” in Grass Valley and, as soon as she heard Liquidology was purchasing an off-site commercial kitchen, approached the owners about creating Liquidology’s first food menu.

“We’re focusing on this whole fast food mentality in a very healthy,

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nutritious way,” Howard says. “A beautiful plate, but quick.”

Currently, everything is grab-andgo: seasonal salads, mojobols (quinoa topped with a bean, local veggies and a creamy sauce), veggie spring rolls with an almond-ginger dipping sauce, protein bites and almond-milk yogurt turned hot pink thanks to dragon fruit.

Meals go for $7-$12. Howard said she expects to introduce more hot food, like soup, in the near future.

Everything is gluten-free, soy-free and, for the most part, vegan. There’s an option to add feta cheese to the mojobols, for example.

“I’m vegan, but I don’t want people to feel like that’s all we serve,” Howard said.

Ready, set, gyro: State workers have yet another Mediterranean lunch

option. The former owner of Gyro Supreme is back downtown with Vela Cafe (1000 I Street), which opened last week. In addition to gyro and falafel sandwiches, Vela Cafe offers several egg-based breakfasts, deli sandwiches, soups and a hot-food-slash-salad bar.

As far as the bar goes, think international: lasagna, teriyaki chicken, rice pilaf, pot stickers. The sandwiches are similarly diverse: eggplant parmigiana ($6.99), avocado B.L.T. ($6.99) and roasted carnitas with queso fresco and salsa ($7.99).

Good, cold news: It’s that unfortunate time of year when the weather starts getting legitimately chilly and Ginger Elizabeth removes frozen treats from its menu. Goodbye, frozen hot chocolate. Goodbye, monthly ice cream sundaes. Goodbye, macaron ice cream sandwiches. Oh wait! For the first time, Ginger Elizabeth is offering its salty caramel macaron ice cream sandwiches year-round. And, just in time for the holidays, Ginger unveiled an online store for chocolates, sauces, candies and boxed gift sets. Happy shopping! Ω

Because it’s from the birthplace of boba, we expect Taiwanese company ShareTea to craft pretty legit tapioca drinks, even amid its rapid expansion across the United States.

Luckily, the Davis post meets those lofty expectations.

The soft, chewy pearls feel freshly made, and the tea tastes like quality tea—not sugary mystery fluids. ShareTea specializes in creamas, which are teas topped with a thick layer of white, fluffy foam. Texturally, the cream mixes beautifully with the mellow, slightly roasty High Mountain green tea. And after you’ve sucked up every last boba pearl, you’re left with a little leftover salty, frothy goodness. 207 Third Street, Suite 110 in Davis; www.facebook.com/shareteadavis.

—Janelle Bitker

Tough to crack Black walnuts They’re kind of old fashioned and a bit of work, but black walnuts’ fleeting flavor is worth the trouble. They grow mainly in the Eastern states, but we have a few old trees here.

If you can find them, harvest now. Download an app like Grabafruit to see if anyone has registered a tree.

Otherwise, look for the rather ugly blackish fruits on the ground—and wear gloves. Pick the less mushy ones and scrape off the hull.

Use a hammer to open the shells, then rinse the nuts well. Once they’re toasted, add to fudge, cookies or your morning oatmeal.

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It’s easy to complain about the lack of a legit izakaya-style dining option in Sacramento. We crave the sort of casual but buzzing place that serves skewers of chicken hearts alongside delicate albacore topped with ponzu gel. We want to challenge our notions of Japanese cuisine, a vast catalog of flavors and textures far beyond saucy sushi rolls.

The kicker: that very legit izakaya-style dining option has been open for one year in Davis.

Yakitori Yuchan transformed what used to be a Beach Hut Deli into a hip evening destination with burnt orange walls, modern bamboo light fixtures and tables decorated with Japanese newsprint. It specializes in skewered meats—and other foodstuff—grilled over imported binchotan charcoal, but the menu includes elegant small plates and larger meal options like Japanese curry and ramen.

The latter section was a particularly wise move in making the restaurant accessible to the abundant college crowd. A feast comprising small plates can add up—expect at least $20 per person—but choosing milky tonkotsu ramen ($9.95) makes for an affordable night out.

That ramen is solid, with springy and thick yellow noodles and a luxurious soft-boiled egg.

It’s probably the best ramen in Davis, though not worth specifically hunting down from Sacramento.

My favorite hearty, starchy option is actually the omu soba ($8), a thin omelet wrapped around a chow mein-like filling of pan-fried egg noodles,

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pork, caramelized onions, cabbage and a sweet gravy. The whole thing gets doused in mayo and bonito flakes. Rib-sticking, wondrous comfort food.

But if finances aren’t an issue, ordering more food is always more fun.

The Take-5 chicken sampler ($9.50) is a great way to start, with five skewers of juicy, tender chicken thighs in five different sauces: tare (a sweet soy-based sauce), shio (salt), wasabi cream, mustard and roasted garlic. They’re all delicious and distinct, but the shio stood out for pure, unadulterated chicken flavor. Ditto on the two skewers of shio chicken hearts ($4), which were the most succulent, rich and wonderful hearts I’ve ever eaten. And I nearly leaked tears of joy upon trying the rice cake thinly wrapped in pork ($5): elastic, melty, gooey textural satisfaction with a light, tare-induced sweetness.

The revelations continued. For example, why isn’t nori deep-fried more often? Noriten albacore ($8.95) creates brilliant, salty chips out of tempura seaweed, which hold mounds of spicy albacore tartare dressed in sesame. Also, why don’t I grill avocados? Yakitori Yuchan serves them halved, warm and covered in homemade mayo and ponzu ($5). The smokey, creamy flesh mixes beautifully with the tang of the ponzu; an instant classic.

Yakitori Yuchan’s cooks have a way with the deep-fryer as well.

Takoyaki ($5), little fried bulbs of flour, egg, dashi and octopus, feel like creamy, sashimi-grade potato puffs. Juicy nuggets of Japanese-style fried chicken ($7) wear a light, crisp exterior.

There’s a reason why Tokyo boasts a mind-blowing 226 Michelin-starred restaurants while the runner-up, Paris, holds 94. There’s a reason why so many Michelin-starred menus in the United States feature Japanese techniques and ingredients. And there’s a reason why American chefs continue to visit Japan for inspiration year after year.

The answer is not sushi rolls. And, OK, it’s not necessarily the izakaya either, but dining at Yakitori Yuchan might give you some hints. Ω

I nearly leaked tears of joy upon trying the rice cake thinly wrapped in pork.

N E V E T N A C I Tap takeover Oregon giant Deschutes Brewery deemed Sacramento’s beer thirst great enough to be one of its six roving “Street Pub—Crafted for the Community” tour stops in the country. Hooray! From 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, November 14, the stretch of Capitol Avenue between 17th and 19th streets will be blocked off to host Deschutes’ giant, 400-foot bar.

Such a large bar is expected to hold a large number of taps, pouring both standard Deschutes favorites like Mirror Pond Pale Ale as well as rare offerings like the Abyss. Deschutes Brewery’s chef Jeff Usinowicz will also be in tow, teaming up with locals Brock MacDonald of Block Butcher Bar and Wesley Nilssen of de Vere’s Irish Pub to create dishes to pair with those brews. You’ll have to purchase food and drinks, but entrance to the Street Pub is free.

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Bully bait slAdE housE Compared to David Mitchell’s previous work, Slade House: A Novel (Random House, $26) might be— at a mere 256 pages—what he’d call a novella, but one that fits nicely with the rest of his epic oeuvre.

Book Slade House is the home of a pair of teenaged soul-sucking shapeshifters, the twins Jonah and Norah Grayer. Young Nathan, bully bait if such a thing exists, is dragged there by his pill-popping mom, and the novel throws in some ghost-hunters and a bit of reporting from an expert on the case of the Grayers, as well as a cameo appearance of Iris Marinus-Levy, a character from Mitchell’s previous novel, The Bone Clocks. It’s a combination ghost story and intertextual romp, with the language and careful plotting that has made Mitchell both popular and respected.

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color us impressed ThE All-AmEriCAn ArT unwind In a November 4 article titled “The Zen of Adult Coloring Books,” the Atlantic magazine went nuts over the idea that grown-ass men and ladies are now picking up crayons and coloring books—as a way of finding inner peace. art “There’s something satisfying about seeing your thought and effort create a tangible, pretty thing at a reasonable, predictable pace,” writer Julie Beck mused. “That rarely happens in real life.”

Skeptical? You could steal a kid’s activity book. Or you could attend the All-American Art Unwind this Saturday, November 14, at Barnes & Noble stores nationwide.

Customers (adults and kids alike) will have the chance to color in the works of Millie Marotta, the artist behind the Animal Kingdom and Tropical World coloring books. Participants who upload their masterpieces to Instagram or Twitter with the #BNArtUnwind hashtag will have the chance to be included in a “national digital art mosaic.” See, don’t you feel happier already? Free, noon-5 p.m. at participating Barnes & Noble stores, www.bnartunwind.com.

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AkrAm khAn CompAny The Akram Khan Company, founded in 2000, is the brainchild of its namesake choreographer and dancer. Since taking his works to a larger stage and bringing a new troupe of dancers under his wing, the accolades and rave Dance reviews have poured in for the London-born Bangladeshi performer.

Khan is known for how he pushes at the boundaries of traditional Indian dance and this performance is no exception. Kaash, which Khan originally staged in 2002, revisits the choreographer’s first full-length routine with five dancers performing Kathakstyled dance, one of the first types of classical Indian dance that the Akram learned.

The soundtrack will be provided by composer Nitin Sawhney, whose works feature elements of jazz and electronica. His previous collaborations include pairing up with the likes of Sting, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Jeff Beck and Paul McCartney among others. The show’s set is a backdrop created by the acclaimed sculptor Anish Kapoor.

Khan’s company is the perfect starting point for those who’ve never watched Indian dance. Worth a mention: The show will not feature an intermission but, rather, will be performed as one, elongated piece. $13.50-$51, 8 p.m. Thursday, November 19; Mondavi Center, One Shields Avenue in Davis; www.akramkhancompany.net.

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Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh is often described as a masterpiece, but not often staged because it is utterly bleak—the story involves downand-out drunks passing time (and passing out) in a grubby saloon and rooming house in 1912. O’Neill’s script also calls for a huge cast—19 characters. And it’s l-o-n-g: the much acclaimed Goodman Theater revival in New York this year, which included the B Street Theatre’s Tara Sissom in the cast, ran four hours and 45 minutes (with three intermissions).

This modestly mounted production—staged by Ed Claudio’s Actor’s Workshop of Sacramento—is possibly the first time Iceman has been staged locally since 1956 (at the then-new campus of Sacramento State).

Claudio has trimmed the epic script a bit—the show runs three hours, 30 minutes, with one intermission.

Claudio directs, and plays the role of Harry Hope, the proprietor of the saloon. Harry acts gruff, but he allows the dead-end denizens in his establishment to linger. The inmates include Larry (Sean Morneau), a leftie anarchist who’s become disillusioned with The Cause. There’s Joe (Wayne Cook), who once ran a “Negro” gambling house. And there are three streetwalkers (Claire Langton, Keiko Deaver, Taylor Fleer) who pop through between engagements with clients.

The much anticipated arrival of the dapper salesman Hickey (Sean Williams) upends the daily routine of drinking all day (and promising to quit tomorrow).

The performances aren’t always flawless—some of the actors were momentarily reaching to remember lines during the final hour on opening night—but they are largely on the mark. And it’s a rare chance to experience this legendary script up on its feet, living and breathing. Ω

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4 Rhinoceros Out of nowhere, on a sunny day in France, a rhinoceros thunders through a small town, jolting the cafe patrons and leaving them to question where the animal came from. And then the rhinos start to multiply as the town’s people begin to disappear.

What’s happening to his fellow townspeople is the quandary that presents itself to the main character Berenger in Eugene Ionesco’s avant-garde classic Rhinoceros, now being staged by the Falcon’s Eye Theatre at Folsom Lake College.

Rhinoceros is a lot of heady talk about philosophy, morality, conformity and mob mentality, with quirkiness in dialogue, plot and storyline. Most the time Rhinoceros works, sometimes not so much.

But the people at Falcon’s Eye Theatre bring enough acting chops and production values to make Rhinoceros worth checking out. Since the main weakness in this production is its first act, if they tighten it, the audience could get pulled into the absurdity much sooner. Wesley A. Murphy brings a haunting humanity to Berenger, a man struggling with life, but wanting to hang on to reality.

A special shout-out to the production team for its colorful costumes, creative props, effective lighting and sound design. This production has all the earmarks of what’s made Falcon’s Eye Theatre one of the leading local theaters in technical stage design. The slanting stage thrusts the action into the audience, while the walls, created from window shutters, and the wooden-slate floor begin to fall apart as Berenger’s life starts to crumble as well.

—Patti RobeRts

rhinoceros; 7:30 p.m. friday and saturday; 2 p.m sunday; $15-$20. falcon’s eye theatre, harris center for the Arts, 10 college Parkway in folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.harriscenter.net. through november 22.

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Known for its gutsy, provocative approach to theater, it’s no surprise that KOLT Run Creations’ newest production by playwright Lojo Simon holds nothing back. This is the story of Dora Maar, a pioneer in the field of artistic photography who becomes enamored with painter Pablo Picasso, and he with her, resulting in a mad melding of art, sex and inspiration. It’s cleverly written and produced in a surrealistic style, where art, politics, sexuality and sensuality swirl around the story of Maar and her struggling relationship with her art and her lover. This is an all-female theatrical offering and the result is a gutsy, avant-garde production of a thought-provoking, though at times convoluted, play. It’s a portrayal of Dora, as well as her inner self-reflection and the catty and chatty Parisian cafe women, the changing

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A Doll’s House

Janis Stevens directs this superb adaptation (by Capital Stage’s founding artistic director Stephanie Gularte) of Henrik Ibsen’s classic. Long (three acts running to almost three hours with two intermissions), it takes the time it needs to tell the story of a family’s unraveling as the heroine begins to assemble an authentic life. Brittni Barger and Ryan Snyder play the troubled couple, with strong support from Scott Coopwood, Elena Wright, Chad Deverman and

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Torch Song Trilogy

Shawn B O’Neal is perfect in the role Harvey Fierstein wrote for himself in three plays and assembled into one massive production that tells the story of a gay, Jewish drag queen in New York in the late 1970s and ’80s. It’s his play all the way, with Jon Jackson, Anthony Raddigan and James Hayakawa giving strong support. The play is long—too long. Nevertheless, the play remains an admirable, groundbreaking piece of theater. F, Sa 8pm.

Through 11/21. Resurrection Theatre, 1723 25th Street; (916) 223-9568; www.resurrection theatre.com. J.C.

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Saturday, 1 pm Sunday; $19-$88. Broadway Sacramento, Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street; (916) 808-5181; www.broadwaysacramento.com. Through November 15.

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a Hardy Boys mystery. It’s a curious, white-guilt inversion of the whodunit, since we’re unraveling a mystery where we already know the murderers, My love of movies started through a love of the and it’s the investigators rather than the perpetrators writing, through worshipping “strong voices” in the who are forced to atone for their terrible crimes. most literal sense, and the last quarter century of my We’re always dozens and dozens of steps ahead cinephilia seems like a re-education from that initial of the characters, and in the face of such ignorance, notion. More and more, it feels like a perfectly polished subtlety might as well go out the window. The script from a screenwriter with a recognizable “voice,” plot points are so plain and predictable that I kept whether it’s by Woody Allen or David Mamet or expecting characters would turn to the camera Aaron Sorkin, can only be directed one way—the way and say, “Looks like we’re lost in a labyrinth … a that it’s written. A more stripped-down script offers a labyrinth of lies, that is!” It never happened, which world of possibilities to a smart director, letting them in the context of the film qualifies as restraint. tailor their art to the blank slate of a mannequin rather Ricciarelli and crew counter the blandness of the than the exactitudes of a model. narrative with filmmaking that is blunt and Take the German-language Labyrinth efficient, with brusquely sensuous camera of Lies—wide-eyed and sincere, it movements and a hyperactive editing exudes a childlike confidence akin to rhythm. a Rousseau painting, and whatever The film is a As lead prosecutor Johann it lacks in nuance and cleverness it Radmann, Alexander Fehling is curious, whitemakes up for in its mix of heart-onanother beautiful blank slate. With guilt inversion of sleeve moralism, pulp drama and his softened Hitler youth looks and classic movie forms and rhythms. the whodunit. slowly melting stare, Fehlig captures The script by first-time director Giulio the deflowered devastation of a TK Ricciarelli and co-writer Elisabeth devoted lawman who realizes that his Bartel is almost doltish at times, and the parents helped perpetrate the Holocaust. A protagonist’s journey from cartoonish straight lack of self-awareness is a running theme here, arrow lawyer to cartoonish cynical drunk practically one that Ricciarelli feels compelled to underline ad invites laughter. And yet the film is engrossing and nauseam (cue German newsboy shouting headlines pragmatic and hard to resist, thanks mostly to its about the anniversary of Hiroshima), as though the elements of design. dopiness of the storytelling were an expression of Labyrinth of Lies opens in Germany 1958, just the infantile denial of the post-war Germans. far enough removed from World War II for an entire In a weird way, that’s great writing. Ω generation to grow up blissfully ignorant of the Nazi atrocities. The story centers on the exposure of the horrors at Auschwitz, a real-life investigation that ended in the conviction of numerous unrepentant Poor Fair Good Very excellent guards, but the film has all the complexity and guile of

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A former superstar chef (Bradley Cooper), fallen from Parisian haute cuisine to shucking oysters in a New Orleans joint, plans a comeback in London, taking over a tony restaurant on the strength of his brilliant talent. Steven Knight and Michael Kalesniko’s script never really establishes this guy’s supposed genius; it just shows him furrowing his brow and/or throwing abusive tantrums, counting on us to make the jackass-equals-genius connection, abetted

by Cooper’s star power. Cooper delivers the goods right enough, with help from Daniel Bruhl as his business partner and Sienna Miller as his sous-chef-cum-love-interest.

Other talents, especially female ones (Emma Thompson, Alicia Vikander, Lily James, Uma Thurman) are underused, even wasted. John Wells’ direction is dutiful, if uninspired. J.L.

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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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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 Last Witch Hunter

A medieval warrior (Vin Diesel, in a silly wig and beard) slays the Queen of Witches (Julie Engelbrecht). As she dies, she curses him with immortality; 800 years later, he’s living in New York, clean-shaven but still tracking down wicked witches and turning them over to a secret society for incarceration. The answer to the inevitable who-writesthis-crap question is Cory Goodman, Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, the latter two of whom wrote last year’s equally crappy Dracula Untold. Ineptly directed by Breck Eisner (who would probably have a flourishing career as a Starbucks barista if he weren’t the son of ex-Disney chief Michael Eisner), the movie is a dull mix of superstitious mumbo-jumbo and CGI folderol. Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie, Michael Caine and Diesel are all wasted—and so is our time. J.L.

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In 1912 England, a laundry worker (the chameleon-like Carey Mulligan) is drawn gradually into the fight for women’s votes. As the intransigence of the male power structure grows ever more brutal (personified by Brendan Gleeson’s implacable police inspector), she is moved to militancy in the cause of simple social justice. Abi Morgan’s script smoothly mixes fictitious characters like Mulligan’s—and a pharmacist played by Helena Bonham Carter—with historical figures like Emmeline Pankhurst (a star cameo by Meryl Streep) and Emily Davison (Natalie Press), whose death in a demonstration at the 1913 Epsom Derby helped galvanize support for the cause. Under Sarah Gavron’s firm direction, Edward Grau’s gritty cinematography and the sometimes murky accents (to American ears) add an aura of documentary realism. J.L.

Christmas dinner, with the gene pool varied by adding a few others (Jake Lacey as a date for Wilde, Amanda Seyfried for Arkin, Anthony Mackie as a cop arresting Tomei for shoplifting). Grudges get massaged, secrets revealed, resentments flaunted, all punctuated with lame comedy and ending in the inevitable group hug. Steven Rogers’ script is smugly contrived and pseudo-profound; virtually every big moment rings false, but the talented cast strives gamely to sell them. Jessie Nelson’s direction is as unfocused as the script is phony, as if she had as much trouble keeping the characters straight as we do. J.L.

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Miss You Already

Two lifelong best friends (Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette) grapple with the crises and conflicts that arise as one (Barrymore) tries to get pregnant and the other (Collette) battles with an aggressive and fast-moving cancer. Barrymore and Collette make engaging use of their considerable star chemistry, while Paddy Considine and Dominic Cooper (as their respective husbands) and Jacqueline Bisset (as Collette’s mother) offer stalwart support, with young actors Honor Kneafsey and Ryan Lennon Baker (as Collette’s children) adding an agreeable dash of domestic clamor to the proceedings. But Morwenna Banks’ script has the excruciating familiarity and predictability of a gal-pal tearjerker we’ve seen a hundred times already; all that’s missing is to have Barrymore burst into a chorus of “Wind Beneath My Wings.” J.L.

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The Peanuts Movie

The adventures of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy and the rest of the gang.

The two stars are a pity-rating for old times’ sake; in fact, the movie is a near-total dud, endless at 93 minutes, useful only as an intro to the strip for the benefit of those who have been in a coma since 1950. Limply written by Craig and Bryan Schulz (son and grandson of creator Charles M. Schulz) and Cornelius Uliano, the movie has no reason to exist except as a ploy to keep the characters from falling into the public domain. That may actually have been the point, since the Schulzes and Uliano include several characters (Patty,

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Spectre

James Bond (Daniel Craig) is on the trail of a shadowy crime organization just as he, M (Ralph Fiennes) and the Double-Oh program are falling into disfavor with higher-ups and threatened with retirement. Craig’s fourth outing as 007 will please the fans despite several drawbacks: it’s wildly overlong at 146 minutes, the opening sequence (which used to be a sample of more and better fun to come) is by far the best scene in the movie and the theme song (sung tooth-and-nail by Sam Smith) is one of the worst of the whole series. Saving the day (well, more or less) are the assets: Craig and Fiennes (naturally), Lea Seydoux as a particularly appealing Bond girl, and Christoph Waltz, who was born to play a Bond villain.

Sam Mendes’ direction is workmanlike, but the derivative script needed brutal editing. J.L.

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Truth

One year after the Gary Webb biopic Kill the Messenger, here comes another preachy, pandering, ripped-from-the-headlines story of old-guard journalists persecuted by the federal government for their doggedness, dammit. Solemn and walnut-stained as though being fitted for a mantle, Truth is more concerned with delivering a finger-pointing, tongue-clucking civics lesson than with anything resembling journalism. Prolific screenwriter James Vanderbilt makes his directorial debut with this draggy and self-righteous look at the 2004 scandal that ended the careers of CBS anchorman Dan Rather (Robert Redford) and producer Mary Mapes (Cate Blanchett).

It’s a worn-out cliché, but Truth feels like a screenwriter’s first film, as Vanderbilt tends to favor windy sermons and bullet-point conversations over visual concision and formal intellect. Vanderbilt tries to show us the TV news reporting process from inside the fishbowl, but he doesn’t so much walk us through the world as talk and talk and talk us through it. D.B.

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The Sacramento supergroup Contra gets existential

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But how did Contra come to be—or, more appropriately, kind of be?

It started with Daniel, Brian Gogineni and Charles Caskey, who used to play in Davis-based rock band Shayna and the Bulldog. When that group broke up in 2013, they approached vocalist Kris Anaya—Daniel had played in Anaya’s Doombird for a while—to jam and write some songs together. Caskey had recently gotten a new keyboard, and they let those synthy sounds “We were here, but we disappeared.” guide them.

That was the initial band who played that first show, wrote all of the current band’s material and attempted but failed to record an Contra is at odds with itself. album way back when. But things progressed, sort Twice, the indie Sacramento group earned Sammie nominations. Last year, it was one of a hand- of. Caskey moved to Nashville, so fellow former Doombird member Daniel Block tagged in. Local ful of local acts honored with playing the inaugural electronic pioneer Dusty Brown joined initially as a TBD Fest—and among them, Contra drew one of the one-night substitute, but soon became a permanent biggest crowds. In that realm, Contra sounds like one fixture. Then his cousin Zac Brown started appearof the most promising bands in the local music scene. ing with Contra whenever he wasn’t too busy with Yet, only 160-ish people “like” the group on Tycho, with Sacramento expat Scott Hansen. When Facebook. It’s a silly measure of popularity, but Zac Brown’s around, Contra morphs into the figure does seem extraordinarily low “Super” Contra. The Contra performing for a band with such aforementioned at the Submerge party will, in fact, be successes. Meanwhile, Contra’s Contra’s Super Contra. website hasn’t been updated for Between Doombird, Dusty sound more than a year; the band descripBrown’s many projects, Tycho is synthy, tion simply reads: “garzoop.” and even Daniel and Gogineni’s And Contra has only performed ’80s-inflected indie kids band the Hoots, Contra’s exactly once in 2015—a gig at members do not have time for rock with a sunny, Sophia’s Thai Kitchen in Davis Contra.

It’s funny, and sad, because booming powerlast month—but that’s not because Contra’s sound is so great: synthy, bandmates have been hunkered down pop feel. ’80s-inflected indie rock with a sunny, in writing or recording mode. There booming power-pop feel. It sounds so are approximately zero intentions to do carefree, probably because the songs were either of those things ever again. created in a carefree state. The band was, after all, Bassist Joel Daniel explains it best: “We’re kind only supposed to play them once. of a band and we’re kind of not a band,” he says. “[Writing] was super-easy, because no one really When Daniel started Contra, the intention was to cared,” Daniel says. “I bet this band would have play one show and one show only. But the set went sold more albums than a lot of our various projects, over better than expected, and people kept asking for because every time we play a show, someone asks, the band to play again. And again. And again.

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Pow, wow Music, dance, revolution: A Tribe Called Red capped off a full day of art, culture and activism with a deejay set boasting art, culture and activism— and a raucous dance party.

I can’t think of a more perfect booking for Sol Collective’s 10-year anniversary celebration last weekend.

The Canadian trio specializes in “electronic powwow,” blending dubstep with traditional Native American chanting and drumming.

The result is intensely visceral: you’re ecstatic, you’re angry and your body needs to thrash.

Why angry? “Woodcarver” opened with a police officer shouting at a Native American woodcarver to put down his knife. Then, gun shots. Then, news reports. Repeat.

“Burn Your Village To The Ground” tackled Thanksgiving with a powerful monologue over a powerful beat, made more powerful by a young girl’s unwavering voice: “Years from now, my people will be forced to live in mobile homes and reservations. Your people will wear cardigans and drink highballs.”

Still, the set’s party atmosphere jived well with its messages. The Tribe relied on hip-hop, reggae and other samples—everything from Kanye West’s “Stronger” to Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”—to shake up its sound.

The crowd was already warmed up by two Sol Life artists, local Afro-Latin duo World Hood, who performed with two live percussionists this time, and Los Angeles emcee Seti X. And the room thinned out quite a bit over the course of the Tribe’s nearly 90-minute set, becoming suffocatingly hot for some.

But that created the necessary room for our own powwow, led by the Tribe’s hoop dancer, who charged the stage with as many as eight hula hoops at a time. He told stories by rapidly manipulating the hoops into shapes—he became a bird, he created a planet—before gathering everyone into concentric circles. We grabbed strangers’ hands and walked around, stumbling over wires, the stage, stray cups. Finally, we ran into the center, threw our hands into the air and cheered for A Tribe Called Red, ourselves, Sol Collective, justice.

The Tribe watched, dressed in all black behind their sample pads,

turntables and laptops. Ian “DJ NDN” Campeau’s sticker, “YOU ARE ON INDIAN LAND,” stared me in the face as he grabbed the mic: “That was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen.” And as if to prove he was serious, they launched into an encore.

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Destroyed: Last week, the local metal and punk scenes leveled the city with a huge spread of shows. Really.

Kinda strange that you didn’t notice Sacramento’s flat now.

It started last Monday at Starlite Lounge, with Horseneck, Fight Amp and Kowloon Walled City. Horseneck makes heavy rock so sharp and tonally perfect that I’m almost surprised that every person who loves guitars isn’t demanding it on the radio at all times.

Tuesday, same time, same place, Sacramento received Modern Man, Chrch, Seven Sisters of Sleep and Full of Hell, an eclectic bill of thought-provoking intensity. Modern Man continues to be one of the most technically astounding and idiosyncratic local bands with its meld of prog, tech and grind.

Friday, Sacramento was lucky enough to have the likes of Beastmaker, (waning) and He Whose Ox is Gored at Cafe Colonial. I like the local (waning) more every time I see them, and it seems like they keep getting heavier and more determined to dwell in prog-sludge nightmarescapes.

Also, don’t sleep on the other two acts from that bill, lest you miss out on some bands starting out on what should be rather impressive careers.

What’s saddens me—and also inspires— is that even with hitting three incredible shows last week, I missed some great stuff: the F%$# Cancer benefit shows, which brought out tons of local punks for a good cause; the Punks Give Back benefit for the homeless at The Colony; and the Crowbar, Will Haven and Armed for Apocalypse show at Starlite on Wednesday.

Even with that list, I’m still scraping at what really went on last week.

Too many good shows, Sac. Keep tearing it down.

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After years (OK, decades) on the scene, Sacramento electronica artist Martin Birke continues to craft sublime textures and offbeat compositions. Sometimes he plays under the name Genre Peak, sometimes it’s just under his name. Over the ELECTRONIC years Birke, who originally performed with the well-received local band Casualty Park, has played with the likes of acclaimed bassist Mick Karn. This particular show, for which the musician opens for the jazz band Idle Fret, will find Birke playing some selections from Genre Peak’s latest EP, which features Birke performing music with Palestinian-American artist Manal Deeb.

1400 E Street, www.genrepeak.com.

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ICYMI, JNCO proclaimed the reemergence of excessively wide-legged jeans in the last few weeks with plans to bring back their original styles. Alas, attendees to the album release party for Sun Valley Gun Club’s eponymous LP will have to settle for donning Birkenstocks and a choker to supplement their evening of ’90s revival, because the jeans are currently ROCK only available for preorder. The latest release from the slacker-rock band will be played from front to back and will be available for purchase in vinyl and cassette. Ghost Pines, Couches and Ghostplay open up the evening. 1901 10th Street, www.facebook.com/sunvalleygunclub.

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How about a Saturday of dark disco dance music polished off with indie-pop whimsy?

Gardens & Villa return on the INDIE ROCK heels of a THIS Midtown blockparty appearance in September, and arrive with fellow Los Angelenos De Lux to recapture the dance-party essence at Harlow’s.

Both bands are fresh off summer releases on en vogue labels: Gardens & Villa with Music For Dogs on Secretly Canadian and De Lux with Generations on Innovative Leisure.

Both offer the bite of intelligentsia in their rhythm-driven songwriting. It will inspire equal parts movement and zen-pop nihilism.

Sure to go down smooth with a craft cocktail.

2708 J Street, www.gardensandvilla.com.

lowbRau, 5 p.m., no coVeR DLRN quietly released its official debut full-length Neon Noir (Deluxe) in September.

Rapper Sean LaMarr said the duo wasn’t going to bother with a record release party because of its unfortunate timing with TBD Fest. Though this particular event is technically celebrating the 200th issue of Submerge Magazine, it’s also your chance to HIp-HOp celebrate Neon Noir (Deluxe) with LaMarr and beats master Jon Reyes. Despite being stocked with songs familiar to DLRN fans, Neon Noir (Deluxe) sounds super-fresh, with dynamic lyricism and booming, synthy soundscapes. Plus, it includes two badass tracks featuring the soulful crooning of Stevie Nader. 1050 20st Street, www.dlrn.co.

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Some bands have drama—the singer quits because the bassist snorted his coke, that sort of thing. Then you have bands like Mayhem, where one of the former band members straight up murdered a bandmate. Mayhem was one of BlAck METAl the most important bands in the early black metal scene, and despite missing a few members due to standard black-metal shenanigans such as murder and suicide, it’s still solid enough to wreck Ace of Spades alongside Rotting Christ and Watain, a bunch of theistic Satanists with a habit of flinging pig blood at shows. Don’t wear your favorite shirt. 1417 R Street, www.thetruemayhem.com.

Both New Found Glory and Yellowcard have been in the pop-punk music game for almost 20 years now and were backed POP-PUNk by the same record label, Drive-Thru Records, in the beginning stages of their careers. Now NFG, recognized for its fast and energetic music heard in classic songs like “My Friends Over You” and “Hit or Miss (Waited Too Long),” continues to stay true to its pop-punk roots with its latest album, Resurrection, released last year. The eighth studio album proves pop-punk’s not dead and is filled with songs reminiscent of the days NFG’s music blasted from the car stereos and house parties of your youth.

1417 R Street, www.newfoundglory.com.

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Fans of progressive rock giants Yes need little introduction to Jon Anderson, the group’s former crooner of 35 years and current singer of the Anderson Ponty band.

If you heard Anderson’s early collaborations with Vangelis and Kitaro, the pairing with violinist Jean Luc Ponty makes perfect sense. After a lengthy absence from touring, Anderson said, “A breakthrough feeling came as I sang with Jean Luc’s music. To be in a band again is very exciting on many levels. We will play and sing our way around the world and have fun, for music is pleaNEW AGE sure: Music is all that is.” Come see what makes the group tick. 1013 K Street, www.facebook.com/andersonpontyband1.

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Local funk-soul ensemble Joy and Madness had a bit of a tumultuous past. It formed in early 2013 as the original Nibblers lineup was falling apart at the seams. Joy and Madness’ formation was both a time of celebration and a time of pure craziness, hence what SOUl is obviously a perfect band name.

The band’s members have always been solid soul players who breathed new life into many an obscure ’70s soul-funk tune, but they’ve also penned some originals, and presently they are celebrating the release of their new EP, Little Bright World, as they open for the great Ozomatli. It’s a fun, emotive and at times crazy dance record. 1013 K Street, www.joyandmadness.com.

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texts him every day, and the one before her calls him regularly. I don’t want to break up but I think that’s what is going to happen. He isn’t honest or very trustworthy but I love him. What should I do?

Accept the truth: Your boyfriend’s connection with his exes doesn’t mean he is cheating, or likely to cheat. It does It’s painful to realize that our choices mean he doesn’t care as much about your directly impact, and often create, our feelings as you wish he did. Here’s how reality. The beauty in your realization it should unfold: Once we share valid is the willingness to take 100 percent concerns with a partner, he or she ought responsibility for attracting partners to care enough to find a mutually agreewho cannot meet you in love. By not able solution. It doesn’t sound like that acting like a victim, you unlock your happened. Did your boyfriend listen to ability to understand the situation from a your fears, then blow them off? He might new perspective. Like this: Is your believe that once he loves someone, partner’s emotionally abusive that love should last a lifetime. behavior related to an I agree that genuine love unloved aspect of your is eternal. But when a You have a own personality? In other committed relationship decision to make: words, do you explode ends, the intensity at yourself, spewing of contact must shift be in your man’s criticisms and judgaccordingly. So on a harem and don’t ments? If so, the situscale of 1 to 10, with complain. Or ation you are in might 10 as the highest level be an outer reflection of of emotional intimacy, a opt out. your interior experience. post-relationship connecBut that doesn’t mean you tion should be at 1, 2 or 3. should stay with a partner who Otherwise it tends to interfere screams at you. It was smart to leave, with the primary dating relationship. and it’s smarter to stay away.

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So the initiative to legalize weed in Ohio failed. What next?

—Marion Dayton Columbus Get another, better proposal on the ballot for 2016 would be my advice. The problem with Ohio’s Issue 3 was that it granted exclusive cannabis production rights to only 10 companies. Not just granted, but enshrined into the state constitution. This was such a bad idea on so many levels that it prompted the citizens of Ohio to propose and pass an initiative to prohibit monopolies and oligopolies in the Buckeye State.

Listen: Monopolies, oligopolies and cartels are about as un-American and anti-free enterprise as you can get. Giving money-grubbing capitalists (as opposed to socially responsible capitalists) exclusive control over something as cool and profitable as a marijuana plant does nothing to end prohibition (if you really think the people who grow weed illegally are going to stop growing because you passed a law, you are hella obtuse) and ensures that you will end up with shitty I am mass-produced commercial weed. Weed drained of glad this love, full of chemicals and pesticides, grown with no regard for flavor or quality. Ask Colorado. Sad, initiative badly flushed buds grown only so the investors can failed. make money may be cool for some folks, but trust me, Ohioans did the right thing. All this blather about “This was our last best chance to legalize in Ohio! Now we will never have legal pot!” is ridiculous. Oregon tried two or three times to pass a good cannabtis legalization law. Colorado had to try more than once as well. The discussion has been kicked into overdrive, with more legislators talking about creating a good medical cannabis law, and activists regrouping to maybe get something on the ballot for 2016. So while I have empathy for the people in Ohio who will still be subject to harassment and arrest because they choose to use cannabis, I am glad this initiative failed.

What’s this I hear about a 420-friendly speakeasy?

—Bob S. Yorunkle Aw, yeah. These things are popping up all over the place. I know of at least two in Sac and a few more in L.A. plus two “cannabis social clubs” in Portland. There is also a group called “PopUpSesh” (find it on the Instagram) that produces roving pot and dab events all over California. So dope. These events are usually a combination weed bar and farmers market. Attendees can sample products from various clubs and growers, kick back and enjoy cannabis freedom in the 21st century. There’s usually food and music and way more dudes than chicks.

Marijuana is a social drug, and while all these new laws allowing personal use are cool, there aren’t very many places for stoners to go and share fellowship. Washington state has gone so far as to make it a felony for anyone to create a space for folks to smoke. Asshats.

We need marijuana social clubs the same way people who like booze need bars. Support your local speakeasy. Ω Ngaio Bealum is a Sacramento comedian, activist and marijuana expert.

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Katie Musillani of Sacramento collective CC101 says many medical marijuana patients seek topicals for pain relief, without any psychoactive effects. b y e va n T u c h i n s k y

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or many patients with cannabis cards, the symptoms they seek to alleviate are skin deep, or just below the surface. Those individuals, particularly among the senior set, may hesitate to try a product they need to inhale or ingest, then await relief to radiate out.

Holly Rasmussen can relate. In her “60th year,” as she likes to say, Rasmussen has suffered arthritis pain. She’ll use topicals — cannabis remedies applied directly to the skin — at the point of discomfort. More often, she’ll help others, taking patients to dispensaries and crafting infused oils for them to try.

“Topicals ... give you that option to not get those [psychoactive] effects while still getting that pain relief that the same time.”

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“Topicals can be a good bridge. With no psychotropic effects, it takes away the whole connotation of drug use,” she says. “That’s my primary interest in this. I’ve never been that interested in cannabis as a mind-altering substance.”

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the Sacramento collective where she works, CC101, “don’t want the same psychoactive effects from all the products we have, so I feel topicals are super-awesome because they give you that option to not get those effects while still getting that pain relief that the same time.”

Musillani recommends topicals for acute pains, such as joint- or headaches. She’s tried the items CC101 carries, as well as samples of Rasmussen’s creations.

Rasmussen does not sell her oils, nor manufacture in bulk. Rather, she’ll make small portions with patients’ own cannabis to introduce them to essential oils, which she feels compose the best medium for a topical.

“If you really want to use this as medicine, why not mix it with things that will go deep into the skin, go quickly into the skin?” she says. Among her favorite ingredients: Brazilian rainforest oils copaiba and andiroba, clove oil, and oils from borage and meadowfoam seeds.

As for various cannabis strains, Mussilani says “it’s not like a huge, super-noticeable difference” in topicals, versus inhalation or ingestion, “but I think it should be taken into consideration.”

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FOR THE wEEk OF NOVEMBER 12, 2015 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I demand unconditional love and complete freedom,” wrote Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun. “That is why I am terrible.”

In accordance with the astrological omens, I’m offering you the chance, at least temporarily, to join Šalamun in demanding unconditional love and complete freedom. But unlike him, you must satisfy one condition: Avoid being terrible. Can you do that? I think so, although you will have to summon unprecedented amounts of emotional intelligence and collaborative ingenuity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have the

answers you need, but you keep sniffing around as if there were different or better answers to be had. Moreover, you’ve been offered blessings that could enable you to catalyze greater intimacy, but you’re barely taking advantage of them—apparently because you underestimate their potency. Here’s what I think: As long as you neglect the gifts you have already been granted, they won’t provide you with their full value. If you give them your rapt appreciation, they will bloom.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) tried to earn a living by selling pencil sharpeners, but couldn’t make it. In frustration, he turned to writing novels. Success! Among his many popular novels, 27 of them were about a fictional character named Tarzan. The actor who played Tarzan in the movies based on Burroughs’ books was Johnny Weissmuller. As a child, he suffered from polio, and rebuilt his strength by becoming a swimmer. He eventually won five Olympic gold medals. Burroughs and Weissmuller are your role models in the coming weeks, Gemini. It’s a favorable time for you to turn defeat into victory.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Artist Andy Warhol

had an obsession with green underpants. In fact, that’s all he ever wore beneath his clothes.

It might be fun and productive for you to be inspired by his private ritual. Life is virtually conspiring to ripen your libido, stimulate your fertility and expedite your growth. So anything you do to encourage these cosmic tendencies could have an unusually dramatic impact. Donning green undies might be a good place to start. It would send a playful message to your subconscious mind that you are ready and eager to bloom.

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

special notice of the jokes and humorous situations that prompt you to laugh the loudest. They will provide important clues about the parts of your life that need liberation. What outmoded or irrelevant taboos should you consider breaking?

What inhibitions are dampening your well-being?

How might your conscience be overstepping its bounds and making you unnecessarily constrained? Any time you roar with spontaneous amusement, you will know you have touched a congested place in your psyche that is due for a cleansing.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): For each of the last

33 years, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Los Angeles has selected a “National Hero Dog.” It’s an award given to a canine that has shown exceptional courage in helping or rescuing people. In 2015, the group departed from tradition. Its “National Hero Dog” is a female cat named Tara. Last May, she saved a 4-year-old boy by scaring off a dog that had begun to attack him. I’m guessing you will soon have an experience akin to Tara’s. Maybe you’ll make a gutsy move that earns you an unexpected honor. Maybe you’ll carry out a dramatic act of compassion that’s widely appreciated. Or maybe you’ll go outside your comfort zone to pull off a noble feat that elevates your reputation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Elsie de Wolfe

(1865-1950) was a pioneer in the art of interior design. She described herself as “a rebel in an ugly world.” Early in her career she vowed, “I’m going to make everything around me beautiful,” and she often did just that. In part through her influence, the dark, cluttered decor of the Victorian Era, with its bulky draperies and overly ornate furniture, gave way to rooms with brighter light, softer colors and more inviting textures. I’d love to see you be inspired by her mission, Scorpio. It’s a good time to add extra charm, grace and comfort to your environments.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): At the age

of 36, author Franz Kafka composed a 47-page letter to his father Herman. As he described the ways that his dad’s toxic narcissism and emotional abuse had skewed his maturation process, he refrained from lashing out with histrionic anger.

Instead he focused on objectively articulating the facts, recounting events from childhood and analyzing the family dynamic. In accordance with the astrological omens, I recommend that you write a letter to your own father—even if it’s filled with praise and gratitude instead of complaint. At this juncture in your life story, I think you especially need the insights that this exercise would generate. (P.S. Write the letter for your own sake, not with the hope of changing or hurting or pleasing your dad. You don’t have to give it to him.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Shizo Kanakuri

was one of Japan’s top athletes when he went to compete in the marathon race at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Partway through the event, fatigued by sweltering heat, bad food and the long journey he’d made to get there, Kanakuri passed out. He recovered with the help of a local farmer, but by then the contest was over. Embarrassed by his failure, he sneaked out of Sweden and returned home. Fast forward to 1966. Producers of a TV show tracked him down and invited him to resume what he’d started. He agreed. At the age of 74, he completed the marathon, finishing with a time of 54 years, eight months. I think it’s time to claim your own personal version of this opportunity, Capricorn. Wouldn’t you love to resolve a process that got interrupted?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In most sporting

events, there’s never any doubt about which competitor is winning. Each step of the way, the participants and spectators know who has more points or goals or runs. But one sport isn’t like that. In a boxing match, no one is aware of the score until the contest is finished—not even the boxers themselves. I think you’re in a metaphorically comparable situation. You won’t find out the final tally or ultimate decision until the “game” is complete. Given this uncertainty, I suggest that you don’t slack off even a little. Keep giving your best until the very end.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): One night as you

lie sleeping in your bed, you will dream of flying through the sunny summer sky. The balmy air will be sweet to breathe. Now and then you will flap your arms like wings, but mostly you will glide effortlessly. The feeling that flows through your body will be a blend of exhilaration and ease.

Anywhere you want to go, you will maneuver skillfully to get there. After a while, you will soar to a spot high above a scene that embodies a knotty problem in your waking life. As you hover and gaze down, you will get a clear intuition about how to untie the knots. Whether or not you remember this dream, the next day you will work some practical magic that begins to shrink or dissolve the problem.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to cartoon

character Homer Simpson, “Trying is the first step towards failure.” I don’t agree with that comic advice. But I do think the following variant will be applicable to you in the coming weeks: “Trying too hard is the first step toward failure.”

So please don’t try too hard, Libra! Overexertion should be taboo. Straining and struggling would not only be unnecessary, but counterproductive.

If you want to accomplish anything worthwhile, make sure that your default emotion is relaxed confidence. Have faith in the momentum generated by all the previous work you have done to arrive where you are now.

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

Home base Baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby famously said, “People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” One veteran member of Sacramento’s baseball community wants no part of this. Though it’s offseason for the team he broadcasts for, the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats, Leon Lee is a busy man.

The 62-year-old Sacramento native, one of the first Americans to star in Japanese baseball, is an owner of a new collegiate summer team called the Sacramento Stealth that begins play next June. Lee took some time to chat about getting more kids into baseball, supporting inner-city youth and inside baseball about, well, baseball.

You’re going to be the owner of the team?

Yes. I’m one of the owners of the league and CEO of our group that has started.

It’s called SIBA, Sacramento International Baseball Association, which is the ownership group and which will be running the summer college league wood-bat franchise here in Sacramento. Right now, I’m in the process of hiring managers, coaches, general managers, and we’re recruiting players from Division I and Division II colleges and getting everything prepared and ready to go for the league.

There’s other franchises. There’s Lodi, Sacramento, Yuba City, and Chico and then Medford, Oregon and Portland, Oregon.

Does the west coast have a summer collegiate league right now?

Not a good one. A few years ago, I managed a team in Lodi called the Lodi Grape Sox, and they were part of a new Sierra League. But the Sierra League couldn’t survive. It wasn’t very strongly financially backed. And it was pretty competitive, but it still fell short of what we’re doing here with the Great West League.

As far as your coaches go, do you have anybody in mind?

My manager of the ball club is Larry Wolfe.

Larry was an ex-major league player, played in the big leagues with Boston and Minnesota, Cordova High School product, played a few years in the big leagues, played in Japan, great knowledge of the game. His pitching coach is Randy Lerch, who was a first-round pick out of Cordova, pitched about 10 or 12 years in the major leagues.

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Do you have any kind of special focus on recruiting minority players?

Our whole [concept], with our program and creating our own league and everything, is to have each team coached by an ex-professional player … All the college players and all of our amateur players will be completely surrounded by ex-professional players so they’re getting the proper instruction, so there’s not the stress of having to win ball games but to develop talent.

Is this the busiest offseason you’ve had in awhile?

Yeah, it is. It’s been really busy, can’t really commit to anything. But it’s fun. I think just being involved when the city had asked me to do the renovation of an old historic park like Renfree [Field, located in Del Paso Heights], it was interesting in that we’re bringing a lot of interest in baseball back. But also, part of it is reaching into the inner cities and getting more kids playing baseball, being able to scholarship in the baseball programs without dealing with the high cost of baseball now. Travel cost has become really expensive, very exclusionary, and a lot of kids aren’t playing because they can’t afford it. [When] we grew up, we didn’t have to pay all that money to play baseball, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to play. What we’re trying to do is bring some of that back.

I got involved with Major League Baseball.

Jerry Manuel brought me in. He’s on the task force for Major League Baseball called Elite Development Invitational. The idea is Major League Baseball’s made this huge commitment, a huge budget to get more kids playing baseball for free. And that includes everybody, but especially inner-city kids. We’re implementing that concept here in Sacramento because historically, back in our day, there was a lot of great baseball players.

Jerry Royster. Rowland Office. Dusty Baker. Your brother Leron Lee. You. Looking at the major league stats, in our day, you were looking at about 28 percent African Americans playing Major League Baseball. Now, it’s somewhere down in that 5-and-a-half percent [range]. Even here, like around the country, we’ve literally taken a whole culture out of the game. Where we used to play tons of ball, now you don’t see a lot of African Americans playing baseball.

They’re moving more into football, basketball, more sports. Not only do you give them extra options, because there are not a lot of baseball scholarships out there for college, but our hope and our goal [through a partnership between EDI and the woodbat league] is to where we can supplement some scholarship money to encourage the kids to go to college and play baseball, not always football or basketball. Ω

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