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Forgotten art Dozens of multicolor acrylic balls with LED lights inside brighten and burst, then dim, then explode again. They dangle from the ceiling inside a space no larger than a bedroom. Mirrored panels cover the walls. The effect is endless luminosity, not unlike a futuristic cityscape stretching for miles. It’s at once humbling and inspiring— and, these days, it’s the most popular art exhibit in Los Angeles. Titled Infinity Mirrored Room, the wait to stand by yourself inside artist Yayoi Kusama’s exhibit for just 45 seconds is hours. If you can even get tickets to the newly opened Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles. It’s the proverbial hottest show in a town that craves the latest thing. And it’s art—not a sports game. I get that Sacramento isn’t L.A., and I also get that Sacramento doesn’t have One Percenter philanthropists like Eli and Edythe Broad, billionaires who can dump millions into a firstrate contemporary art museum. Still, Sacramentans rich and poor kind of suck at supporting local arts. This past week, the mayor announced he was giving up on his effort to build a new downtown performing arts center. Disappointing. It’s not his fault the project couldn’t get off the ground. But … we’re lined up to spend some $400 million in public monies, assets and infrastructure on a new basketball arena and soccer stadium. The Kings investment alone prompted the city treasurer to say we shouldn’t borrow any more money for other projects. So, no large arts investments. Yes, the private sector makes some great contributions to the arts. Think the WAL building or the new Crocker. But it’s not enough. We need to light the region’s art scene anew.
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I say yes to the raising of the minimum wage. Is $10 enough? No, I say no. I think $12.50 is better, but I think we need to make it at least $15. Fifteen is still not enough because how can people pay for a place to live, the high cost of food and gas to get to work?
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It is like a two-sided coin. One: Maybe we should raise it, but it may hurt businesses. When wages go too high, businesses start hiring people part-time. I don’t know if that is going to help at all. The other is that it is expensive to live in California. I think it should go to $10 or $12.
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percent of those on the street are mentally ill enough to not be able to take care of themselves. Darrell Steinberg has even said he likes the homeless out on the street, because he does not want to “hide” them. Also, the left wants the shootings, hoping they can use the shootings to destroy the Second Amendment. If gun-free zones don’t make people safer, why do we have them at the White House and the Capitol? If fences don’t work on the borders, why do we have them at the White House? Ken Lauszus via email
And more crazy talk? Re “Home terrors” by Rachel Leibrock (SN&R Editor’s Note, December 3): I wonder if nature is culling the herd. The earth has not had a major population
decimation since World War II. The planet is suffering due to man’s presence, and in any ecosystem when a population gets out of control, natural selection steps in and takes over, whether with a virus, infection, or as with rats, they start eating their own. We keep asking, “Why do these things keep happening?” and at the same time we destroy the very planet we are a part of. Man is the only species on the planet that actually has no particular use. We are unnecessary for the existence of other species. Even a flea provides more benefit to an ecosystem than man. We are a terrified, stupid, self-aggrandizing, egotistical organism that acts as though we are why everything else is here. We don’t deserve to be here, we have not earned the right to be here, we have proven ourselves unworthy and unnecessary to be here. Louis Warfield Sacramento
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Firearm violence claimed 62 lives in Sacramento County this year. Did anyone notice? by RAhEEm F. hossEini
Read this week’s Editorial on Sacramento, gun violence, access to firearms and, specifically, assault rifles on page 12. TK GALLEY
On the same day the nation shifted its attention to Southern California for America’s latest mass-shooting horror, gun violence quietly claimed its 62nd life this year in Sacramento County. The coroner’s office identified the 22-year-old male victim as Octavio Rodriguez. Emergency responders pronounced his death not long after they found him sprawled out on a south Sacramento street from a single gunshot wound on the night of December 2. Investigators are still searching for a suspect and a motive, a sheriff’s department spokesman said. But it seems like “why?” is a question that stopped getting asked some time ago. As the country wrestles with difficult questions about firearm availability, and the definitions of the terms “terrorism”
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and “mass shooting,” a not-so-secret truth has emerged about gun violence: Sacramento, like many communities, hasn’t dodged tragedy. It’s just taking longer to count the bodies. And, for the most part, they belong to young men of color. “The majority of homicides are gunrelated,” noted Deputy Tony Turnbull, a sheriff’s spokesman and former homicide detective. Indeed, firearms were used in approximately 72 percent of the homicides that authorities investigated this year so far in the cities of Sacramento, Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, Rancho Cordova, Isleton and the unincorporated parts of Sacramento County, according to an analysis of data gathered by SN&R. (No homicides
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were reported in the cities of Folsom and Galt.) In the city of Sacramento, the victims are disproportionately young, male and black. Of the 26 people who died from gun violence inside the city, including one killed during a fatal encounter with police and one who may have accidentally shot himself, all but one were male. In the cases where race could be determined, by comparing police reports and coroner records, 48 percent of the victims were black, 28 percent were Hispanic, 16 percent were white and 8 percent were Asian. The ages of the dead ranged between 16 and 56, though most were under the age of 30. Nineteen percent were in their teens, 31 percent were in their 20s, 23 percent were in their 30s and 27 percent were 40 or older.
In the troubling era of the mass shooter, these everyday tragedies draw even less notice than they used to, say gun control advocates. “It seems like the incidents have to be more and more outrageous to get any public attention,” said Nick Wilcox, a legislative advocate for the local chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. “It is a disgusting state of affairs.” That’s one reason the local Brady chapter assembled on the northwest side of the state Capitol this past Friday evening: to connect gun violence that results in mass casualties to the unsolved killing of 17-year-old Jaulon “JJ” Clavo on November 13. The Grant Union High School senior was fatally shot while driving his teammates to a playoff football game in Del Paso Heights. “The common thread is the availability of firearms,” Wilcox said. “The root causes may differ, but the results are the same.”
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beSt Foot ForwarD On Tuesday, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors planned to contribute $5,000 to a reward fund for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Clavo’s killer, boosting the total amount to $40,000. It’s the rare instance where the public hasn’t moved on to the next provincial tragedy. But other victims threaten to get lost in the shuffle. On November 27, gunfire struck four men in the parking lot of south Sacramento’s Vientiane Cafe, following a physical altercation inside. Paul Xiong, 26, and Xang Thao, 32, died in the earlymorning shooting; another man suffered what the sheriff’s department described as life-threatening wounds. The Hmong New Year shooting is believed to be gang-related. Two days earlier, the bullet-riddled body of 26-year-old Matthew Caquelin was discovered in a field not far from the Sacramento International Airport. Authorities aren’t sure whether he was killed there or brought there. On November 7, a shooting near the neighborhood of Arden-Arcade claimed the life of 42-year-old Eugene Carlisle and 30-year-old Nicholas Tyrone Gibson. Rodriguez was the county’s 18th victim of gun violence since October 1. For law enforcement, the pace of gun homicides has been steady and unremarkable. For the public, the fatalities can blur together, indistinguishable from the next and soon forgotten. “The investigator almost becomes the hope and the conduit for the family,” Turnbull said. “A murder is a murder. It doesn’t matter what their lifestyle was or wasn’t. No one has the right to take another life, unless it’s justified.” Turnbull called homicides “the most complex investigations” that law enforcement conducts. “No homicide is ever solved the same way and no homicide can be investigated the same way,” he said. Along with combing though evidence and digging up witnesses, Turnbull says investigators have to anticipate possible legal defenses by ruling out other suspects and by figuring out the motive. “That’s a huge part of the investigation, trying to figure out that story,” Turnbull said. “But we’ll never know why it ever happens.” Soon after the ambush at a San Bernardino office gathering, America engaged in the five stages of political grief: horror, outrage, prayers, calls for change and back to business as usual.
This year, armed assailants have also hear a request from its police department delivered carnage to an abortion clinic, on to increase the penalty for discharga college campus and inside of a church. ing a firearm from an infraction to a In a joint statement, Americans for misdemeanor. Responsible Solutions co-founders Since June, the department has been Gabrielle Giffords and husband Mark apprehending more people for the offense Kelly, personally acquainted with the toll due to its “Shot Spotter” sensor system, of gun violence, acknowledged the nowwhich scattered approximately 100 audio common cycle. “We wish we could use sensors around 3 square miles of the Del words like ‘unimaginable’ and ‘unthinkPaso Heights neighborhood. able’ to describe the horror that unfolded Police say they’ve been able to today in San Bernardino. But it is not. apprehend individuals “who simply Not in our country,” they said. “We want discharge firearms for no lawful reason,” to repeat something we said just last week but that the Sacramento County District after the tragedy in Colorado Springs: As Attorney’s Office is reluctant to prosecute a country and a people, we must reckon them due to the low level of the offense with the fact that these types of gun and the evidence needed to prove more tragedies simply don’t happen as often in serious negligence. other countries. Police think they may be able to “America is an extraordinary place. prevent gun violence before it happens. But these tragedies make us stand out in With nearly a month left in 2015, the the worst of ways.” 38 homicides investigated by city According to a scholarly police represent a seven-year paper submitted to the high, dating back to 2008, Congressional Research when there were 49 “It seems like Service in July, the homicides. Nearly rate of mass public 66 percent of the the incidents have shootings—in which homicides were to be more and more at least four people gun-related. outrageous to get any public are murdered by “Guns give firearms in a single weak people a attention.” event—has inched sense of power,” Nick Wilcox upward over the Wilcox said. legislative advocate, Brady Campaign last 40 years, from “We’ve had firstto Prevent Gun Violence, 1.1 incidents per year hand experience.” Sacramento chapter during the 1970s to Wilcox and his 4.5 incidents per year wife lost their 19-yearbetween 2010 and 2013, old daughter to gun the last year that the researchers violence in 2001. Laura Wilcox considered. was volunteering as a receptionist at a The paper’s authors called for better Nevada County mental health clinic when data collection, so that “policymakers a man who had refused care gunned her would arguably have additional vantage down. Her death led to the passage of points from which to assess the legislative “Laura’s Law” the following year, allowproposals that are inevitably made in the ing counties to force treatment on certain wake of these tragedies.” people with severe mental illnesses. The National Rifle Association has But that kind of political will doesn’t successfully blocked such data collection. exist when it comes to gun laws. More A congressional summit on gun than a decade later, the Brady campaign violence is scheduled to take place on and other gun-control advocates are December 14 at the Capitol. still calling for assault weapon bans and Barring a national sea change, there universal background checks. A day are regional correctives. after the San Bernardino attacks, the U.S. California employs some of the stricter Senate voted against expanding those gun laws in the country, and operates a checks. unique database in which registered gun If everyday gun violence and mass owners are flagged if they develop a public shootings aren’t enough to spur criminal status that prohibits them from a national legislative response, Wilcox owning firearms. Statewide authorities wonders what will. “I don’t know the currently have a list of nearly 14,000 answer to that,” he said. Ω names they still need to vet. Locally, a Sacramento City Council subcommittee was scheduled Tuesday to
According to a top soccer official, it may only be a matter of when, not if, Sacramento joins the big leagues. Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber stopped just short of guaranteeing a franchise slot for Fc republic, now with the United Soccer League. “I think Sacramento will be very high on our list of next clubs to come into the league,” Garber said in an answer to an SN&R question during a December 3 conference call. “We’re going to continue to monitor what goes on there.” Two days before the call, the Sacramento City Council unanimously approved a nonbinding term sheet to build a $226 million stadium at the railyards if Republic FC is awarded an MLS franchise. Republic FC President Warren Smith, who helped get Raley Field built for the Sacramento River Cats 15 years ago, told SN&R that the stadium can be built in 15 months if MLS gives the green light. “Obviously, it’s their decision, and we fully respect that,” he added. “But at the same time, we’ve taken all the risk out for them so it makes it a lot easier for them to award us.” Smith envisions a stadium near the Golden 1 Center that’s currently being constructed. MLS currently has 20 teams. The league announced a couple of years ago that it would expand to 24 teams by 2020, with new franchises approved in Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta and Minneapolis. Sacramento narrowly missed getting one of these slots. But on December 5, MLS announced that it will eventually expand to 28 teams, though Garber didn’t announce a timetable. Councilman Jeff Harris, whose district includes the railyards, expressed guarded optimism. “Is it guaranteed? No. Is it extremely likely? Yes.” (Graham Womack)
getting higher A report on drug and alcohol services in Sacramento County laid bare an overburdened system fighting to meet an ever-increasing demand for substance abuse help. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, which presented its report to the board of supervisors last month, 83 percent of the men booked into county jail between 2013 and 2014 were under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Additionally, an average of one person was arrested every two hours in 2013 for driving under the influence, while 60 to 80 percent of all substantiated child abuse and neglect allegations involved substance abuse by one or both parents that year. The county also experienced an increase in hiV cases, which the report attributes to increasing intravenous heroin and methamphetamine use. It’s against this backdrop that the report calls for quicker change. For instance, the county has the 10th highest rate of opioid poisoning deaths in the state. Despite prescription drug abuse being declared an epidemic by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2011, Sacramento hasn’t created a task force to address the problem, which is one of the recommendations of the DHHS report. Medi-Cal currently doesn’t cover detox or residential treatment, but California is expected to address that through a waiver program available to counties. Opting into the program would mean more administrative work for the county, as it would have to ensure local facilities meet certain requirements set by the state. But the alternative is unsustainable, says the report: “The service capacity is not currently able to meet the community need.” (Jason Smith)
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Sacramento and other cities statewide have 80 days to figure out how to regulate medical cannabis cultivation—this after 19 years of legislative inaction.
The nitty-gritty: City staff recommends changing After 19 years of practically zero guidance or land-use rules to allow for cultivation of medical oversight of California’s estimated $1.3 billion cannabis in industrial and agricultural zones. This medical-pot industry, the state passed a bowlful of would be a departure from current law, which only marijuana laws this year—and now cities such as allows grows indoors in residential areas. Sacramento are on a tight deadline to comply. If approved, the city would require permits for “All of the sudden, there’s just this flurry” of commercial grows, limit the size of grow buildnew rules, explained Chris Lindsey, an analyst with advocacy group the Marijuana Policy Project. ings to 22,000 square feet, and require that they be at least 600 feet from schools or parks. The Lindsey described the new laws, which he city also recommends limiting the number of praised, as putting pressure on cities “to do permits, similar to how there is a cap something before the clock runs out.” on the number of medical-cannabis For instance, if Sacramento “It’s dispensaries. doesn’t figure out the basics for how pretty Do the new rules mean to regulate medical-cannabis cultithat Sacramento will become vation in the next 80 days, the crazy.” a major hub for commercial California Department of Food Brad Wasson marijuana gardens? and Agriculture will take over city manager, on state“Right now, I don’t see that and make the rules for the city. imposed deadlines for new happening,” Wasson said. “I “It’s pretty crazy,” said medical-marijuna don’t think Sacramento wants to Brad Wasson, the city’s revenue rules be a big California cultivation city.” manager who oversees some mediAfter the city passes basic zoning cal-cannabis projects. rules for pot operations, it will revisit reguBut Sacramento appears poised to move latory issues later in the year. At that time, the city forward, and fast. This past Tuesday, a committee will comb details such as manufacturing of edible was scheduled to begin discussions on how to regulate commercial marijuana grows, and the goal marijuana and transferring flowers to dispensaries. In the meantime, the city continues to collect is for a new cultivation code to go into effect by $2 million annually from a 4 percent tax on February 26, 2016, just days before the deadline. medical-cannabis-dispensary sales. The city is That timeline is bold, but Lindsey reminded projecting another $1 million in tax revenue from that cities had nearly two decades to come up with cultivation business. There are also discussions their own policies on matters such as cultivation. for a city ballot measure to tax recreational They simply chose not to act until after the state. marijuana, if passed by voters next year, and to “And now the state’s done it,” Lindsey said increase other pot taxes. of this year’s Medical Marijuana Regulation and Meanwhile, the state of California has set a Safety Act, which includes three new laws that two-year deadline to finalize its own framework establish a framework to oversee California’s and rules on various medical-cannabis industries.Ω medical-cannabis industry.
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The question of whether it’s legal to resist arrest for a crime one didn’t commit was answered in the negative last week when a jury convicted a Sacramento couple following a yearlong standoff over personal liberties. On November 30, Patrick Lee O’Kane and Melissa Jean Andrews were found guilty of two misdemeanor counts apiece of willfully resisting peace officers. The verdict arrived one year and a month after they refused to surrender to the Sacramento Police Department’s SWAT team. O’Kane, 57, and Andrews, 69, say they were confused and frightened when bullhorn-amplified calls commanded them to exit their home on the morning of October 30, 2014. Sacramento police believed O’Kane, a felon, was in illegal possession of firearms, which didn’t turn out to be accurate. “They were A 45-minute stalemate ensued, in here to shoot which authorities explained that they somebody.” had a warrant to search the premises. A skeptical O’Kane demanded to know Patrick O’Kane exactly what, or who, they were looking North Sacramento for. It ultimately resulted in officers resident sneaking onto the property to forcibly take the couple into custody. While no shots were fired, O’Kane’s recollection of that event has only intensified. “They were here to shoot somebody,” he told SN&R. “There’s no doubt about it.” It’s unusual for a misdemeanor case to result in a jury trial. The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office averages between 150 and 200 a year, said spokeswoman Shelly Orio, who declined further comment on the case. The claim that O’Kane possessed guns originated from an unnamed city Department of Utilities employee, who alleged that O’Kane promised to guard his home with a shotgun if the city shut his water off. But water service had already been terminated. Citing nonpayment, the city turned off the couple’s water without incident on July 15, 2014, more than three months prior to the SWAT team’s arrival, according to a DOU spokeswoman. Andrews says the judge didn’t permit the jury to hear evidence that the search proved fruitless, but believes it would have swayed the verdict. O’Kane wasn’t convinced that would have mattered, but indicated he was unhappy with his public defense attorney. “He called no one and did nothing,” he said. A probation and sentencing hearing has been scheduled for mid-January. Husband and wife each face a maximum two years in prison and $2,000 fines. Andrews said she and her husband could appeal the verdict, but didn’t indicate whether they would. O’Kane said he expected the judge to sentence him to the maximum. “It’s all bullshit,” he said. “It’s the most heinous thing I’ve seen in my entire life.” Ω
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Only two months have passed since our last editorial on gun control. Such is the world we live in. Sadly, we could write something every day about tragic gun-related violence right here in Sacramento. Raheem F. Hosseini’s news story this week attests to that fact (see “Numb to the gun,� page 8). It’s true that, after decades of homicides—mostly involving young black males in oft-neglected local neighborhoods—we’re very much desensitized to death by firearms. The shock is, sadly, quotidian. That’s not good. Let’s feel again. And, as we wrote in our October 8 editorial, let’s be angry and outraged. Consider: The guns used by the shooters in San Bernardino last week included two modified semiautomatic assault rifles. California has a ban on assault weapons and rifles, dating back to 1989, when the state prohibited the Colt AR-15, and 2000, when it expanded its assault-weapons ban. But this didn’t stop them. It is yet to be determined precisely how the San Bernardino killers acquired their assault rifles (all we know is that they did legally, but that the weapons were modified to work with reloadable, largecapacity magazines). The unfortunate reality is that the rifles were manufactured specifically to get around California’s ban. Companies target the state’s market with end-around assault-rifle products that can be easily modified to work with magazines that carry more ammunition rounds. Or that can be made fully automatic. Enough. The state should enact a zero-tolerance policy for weapons of war and terror, such as
the sale of assault rifles that can be modified with equipment that enables the faster reloading of ammunition magazines. Gov. Jerry Brown has, in the past, vetoed legislation that would have banned assault rifles with detachable magazines. This week, he stated that he’d like to see the federal government enact stronger laws, and that, without the fed intervention, California action would be toothless. He also pointed to weak laws in neighboring Nevada and Arizona as creating difficulties for gun regulation here in the Golden State. That said, Brown also has stated concern over violating gun-owner rights. Time to change this tune: California is ahead of most of the country, and even the world, when it comes to climate-change policy. And we should be leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the United States when it comes to stringent gun and ammunition laws. This issue is also about public safety, and gun owners need to make a sacrifice and forgo their weapons of war. We understand that people enjoy recreational shooting such as target practice with assault rifles, and that many equate gun ownership with self-defense. But the future of gun control needs to be about self-sacrifice for the betterment of society. Assault rifles and weapons of murder and terror, they just don’t belong in society. A comprehensive and meaningful ban on them and their end-around accessories in California is the next and necessary step. Let’s show the rest of the country how it’s done. Ί
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deserving of high praise. It depicts a “U.S. Citizen Mass Shooting Report Form” for reporters to fill out, offering a Mad Libs-style format of fill in the blanks: who was murdered where (school, shopping center), who the National Rifle Association blamed, what the president called for and whether or not a consensus was reached (yes, no, or “yeah, right”). It’s hard to laugh about mass shootings—but it also hurts so much, we need the catharsis and biting self-criticism.
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Say goodbye to $1.25 an hour for parking this week. A 50-cent hike is likely in effect as you read this—and it’s only the beginning in changes to be made as part of the city’s “parking modernization” program, a.k.a. the “we need to pay for this $225 million arena” plan.
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foot in tHe dooR Despite Mls commissioner don Garber delivering the bad news that the next Major League Soccer expansion team would be Miami, Sacramento received some good news in the form of this announcement: The league plans to add four additional franchises. Garber said “Sacramento will be very high on our list of next clubs to come into the league.” Now, someone please explain to me why we should care about pro soccer (we keed, we keed).
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When it comes to undocumented immigrants, Davis is for ‘dreamers’—but Sacramento is for deportations
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As a child, UC Davis student Ana Maciel was taught to look out for the green buses. Immigration agents drove them around her California hometown of Soledad, picking up the undocumented and transporting them to holding facilities for deportation. “When your parents tell you those aren’t the buses you want to be on— and when your parents tell you ‘Let us know if you see one so we can get out,’—it’s terrifying,” she said. “We’d see the green buses and lock ourselves in our apartment.” Maciel was instructed not to go places with school friends where she might be asked to show ID. She was told not to go out at night, period, as it was believed this was when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were more likely to be on the prowl for undocumented migrants. Her parents’ rules and warnings have had lasting impact. “Even seeing a cop sometimes really scares me,” Maciel said. “You see a cop and you immediately panic. The panic is not going to go away. My body knows what fear is.” Maciel, 21, is a so-called “dreamer” a college student who grew up in the United States, but in the country’s shadows. She had been brought north from Guanajuato, Mexico, by her parents when she was 1 year old but her legal status remains undocumented. In theory, she is a “dreamer” or a part of the DREAM Act, a program that would, if it were passed into law, give citizenship consideration to children of undocumented immigrants.
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Despite a fear of ICE and other government agencies, over the past few years Maciel has pushed herself into the spotlight at UC Davis. The senior, double-majoring in women and gender studies, and Chicana/o studies, successfully campaigned for the creation of an on-campus center to cater to the needs of undocumented students. She feels she has helped create a safe space for people in a similar situation. The city of Davis also declared itself a “Sanctuary City” in the ’80s. Now it’s one of more than two dozen cities statewide that have ordered their law enforcement agents to back off of going after the undocumented. Sacramento, however, hasn’t followed Davis’ lead, which means local law enforcement still works with ICE up to a point. Sheriff’s deputies, while no longer holding people arrested for low-level offenses on detainer requests, do still invite deportation agents into jails to conduct interviews. Local law enforcement also informs ICE on when an undocumented immigrant will be released from jail—in case they want to be there to arrest them. And the city’s head lawman, Sheriff Scott Jones—who’s running for Congress in 2016—wants to keep it this way.
In other words, in Sacramento it’s still not safe for “dreamers,” for undocumented immigrants like Maciel.
Sacramento, de facto Sanctuary city? The American Community Survey recently estimated that 4.6 percent of Sacramento County’s population, or 65,000 people, are undocumented; that’s a huge number of people living on the county’s legal periphery. And, although it’s not a sanctuary city, something has changed in recent years. In 1994, California voters passed Proposition 187, which—had it not been struck down by the courts— would have barred the undocumented from virtually all public services, including access to the education system. Twenty-one years on, California’s electorate is in a very different place, at least in part because young people like Maciel have told their stories and, in doing so, have tapped into a vein of local empathy. As a result, the state’s political process has swung against draconian anti-immigration measures and closer toward tolerance and inclusion. In the wake of a series of court rulings, memos from California’s Attorney General Kamala Harris, the signing into law of California’s TRUST Act in 2013, and directives from President Barack Obama that make sheriffs’ cooperation with ICE detainer requests optional instead of mandatory, law enforcement has significantly ratcheted down its relationship with ICE.
As a result, argues Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones, who opposes the drift toward state immigration policy crowding out federal law, Sacramento is increasingly a “de facto” sanctuary city. When California passed the TRUST Act, which mandates local law enforcement not hold minor offenders on detainer requests while ICE gets around to sending in agents to pick them up, Jones and other sheriffs asked the Obama administration to challenge the law. “The clear message I got back,” Jones said in an interview with SN&R, “was there would be no challenge under this administration. So I came back and started complying with the TRUST Act. I would much rather be complying with federal law than state law, knowing it’s a federal issue.” Those opposed to amnesty for the undocumented argue that providing sanctuary-city status only provides support to a demographic that, by definition, is in some way outside of the law. Jones is more circumspect, instead arguing it takes away a valuable tool from law enforcement officers fighting to keep the city and county safe. “I’m not against the undocumented population,” Jones said. “We have a huge population here and most of them are great. They’re part of what makes Sacramento diverse.” But, he adds, the sanctuary movement makes it harder for him, as a sheriff, to get serious criminals with undocumented status off the streets and into the hands of the feds.
“I couldn’t care less about people’s immigration status,” the sheriff says. “But I think criminals should be held accountable.” In the past, however, Jones has taken a more hardline approach. As such, activists don’t buy this softer stance, arguing one reason local law enforcement opposes sanctuary status is that the sheriff still accepts federal dollars to house undocumented detainees in local jails. “We went in and met with the sheriff and his deputies and they gave signals they were trying to move away from their very close relationship with ICE,” says Eric Vega, an activist with the Sacramento Immigration Coalition, as he sits in the art gallery space inside Sol Collective near Midtown. “Our feeling is they have not gone far enough.” After all, Congress mandates that upwards of 30,000 immigration detention beds have to be filled every night nationally, and they put a lot of money into local law enforcement to make sure that goal is realized. For Vega, Jones’ motive is less about high political principle and more about dollars and cents. “They have,” he says in frustration “a vested interest in having beds occupied,” since the federal government pays sheriffs’ offices a per diem to house immigration detainees. On any given day, the sheriff acknowledges, Sacramento-area jails house between 50 and 150 immigration detainees, people arrested by
the feds but housed locally while they await deportation hearings. On the other end of the causeway, the conversation about how to protect the local undocumented population is one Davis residents have been having for years. For Rev. Elizabeth Banks, of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis, stories such as Maciel’s help explain why she and her congregants have been so active in the movement in recent years. They’ve pushed city council to reaffirm sanctuary status and are also working with the Yolo Immigration Network, holding immigration workshops at the church and journeying down south to the borderlands with Mexico to experience firsthand the conditions faced by those who try to walk across the border. The city of Davis first declared sanctuary status in the mid-1980s, when U.S.-sponsored civil conflicts in Central America were killing hundreds of thousands of people and sending countless more into self-imposed exile. Some fled north as refugees; many more illegally entered the country and joined the shadowy ranks of the undocumented. In the ’80s, many cities and churches declared support for these immigrants and announced their intention of providing material resources as well as—in the case of some churches—the moral cover of sanctuary. Davis counted itself among such cities, passing a resolution in 1986, specifically
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SN&R’s 2nd Annual Santa Crawl A charity pub crawl to support Shriners Hospitals for Children — Northern California. Help support the Claus by dressing up and attending …
Saturday, December 19 • 1-5 p.m. Downtown Ice Rink St. Rose of Lima Park, 7th & K Sts. The first 500 people who visit us at the Downtown Sacramento Holiday Ice Rink will receive a special Santa Crawl gift bag and hat. Look for the SN&R tent. These establishments are on Santa’s Nice List and are designated stops, so be sure to park your sleigh and check out what specials they have for the day …
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nyone who has ever cared about a child can imagine the nightmare of watching that child suffer. Add the crushing financial burden of treatments, and you may see what many families face while caring for a child with serious medical needs. Shriners Hospitals for Children — Northern California is there for families in just such a time of need. “We are one of the region’s leading pediatric facilities for children who need special care,” says Special Events Coordinator Joseph Ramos. “These are lifechanging procedures that we’re able to provide children that will increase their mobility and their ability to thrive.
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services regardless of a family’s The hospital provides specialized care and rehabilitation ability to pay, thanks in part to the to children with congenital generosity of its donors. “Without the community, we conditions and complex medical needs. Services would not be here,” Ramos include care for “Without the says. “The burns, spinal community, we would community and cord injuries, cleft their interest palates, orthopedic not be here. The conditions and community and their in the hospital specialized plastic interest in the hospital keeps it alive, not only in surgery. keeps it alive.” Opened fundraising but Joseph Ramos in awareness. in 1997, the Special events coordinator, Shriners Sacramento The more Hospitals for Children — Northern people who medical center is California know that we’re the only facility within the here, the more likely that we’re going to find that Shriners network of 22 hospitals child who has a need that we can to cover such a wide scope of treatments. Shriners provides all address.”
To support Shriners, SN&R will be collecting donations at the second annual SN&R Santa Crawl on Saturday, Dec. 19, from 1 to 5 p.m. Start your tour of participating local hotspots at SN&R’s booth at the Downtown Sacramento Holiday Ice Rink in St. Rose of Lima Park, and give generously to support Shriners. The first 500 participants to check in will also receive a gift bag loaded with free goodies and a Santa hat. The event offers the perfect opportunity to get into the festive spirit, while giving back to a worthy cause. “We are so thankful that the community takes such an interest in our hospital,” Ramos says. Supplement to SN&R Produced by N&R Publications division of News & Review
HeLP a CHiLD. DonaTe oR VoLunTeeR. There are lots of ways to support Shriners: Join the fun and festivities of SN&R’s Santa Crawl on Saturday, Dec. 19 from 1 to 5 p.m. Check in at SN&R’s booth at the Downtown Sacramento Holiday Ice Rink to receive a free Santa hat and swag bag and make a donation to Shriners. Go online at shrinerschildrens.org to donate and find out about other upcoming fundraisers and special events. Mail a donation check to 2900 N. Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, FL 33607. Volunteer — from special events and fundraising to therapeutic recreation and child life services, your help is always needed. Contact the volunteer services office at 916-453-2087 or visit shrinerschildrens.org.
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Andrea Grayton, director of UC Davis’ AB 540 and Undocumented Student Center, says there are roughly 300 DREAM Act students on campus.
providing sanctuary to El Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees. More recently, in 2007 and again in 2014, the city council passed resolutions reaffirming its sanctuary status—this time no longer for fleeing full-scale civil wars and military dictatorships, but instead for undocumented residents who’ve traveled north in recent decades mainly to escape poverty and drug wars. “More than anything, it’s symbolic,” explained Nathan Ellstrand, co-chair of Davis’ Human Relations Commission. “It’s saying as a city, ‘You live in Davis; if you’re not committing crimes, law enforcement won’t turn you in to ICE.” It is, however, also far more than just an empty gesture. In places where law enforcement routinely cooperates with ICE, the undocumented don’t report crimes and are reluctant to be called as witnesses or cooperate with police. Take ICE out of the equation, and law enforcement finds that many locals are suddenly more willing to step forward. That’s why the Yolo County Sheriff Ed Prieto was one of the first law enforcement officers to publicly voice support for the California TRUST Act, the 2013 legislation authored by Tom Ammiano, which limits cooperation with hold requests. It’s also why big-city police departments in Los Angeles and San Francisco started expressing opposition to the federal Secure
Communities Program—which mandated local law enforcement honor detainer requests for all undocumented people held in their jails—years before it was eventually dismantled. The Davis police, says Ellstrand, “don’t see [the undocumented] as a threat to our community. They’re seen as essential to the economy here and to the culture at Davis.” “It’s a humongous commitment,” Maciel said. “It gives me a sense of security, of knowing that if something were to happen they would advocate and do something to support us. That’s what the sanctuary city means to me.”
“The moral imperative is [big]. We’re making a statement against the way current immigration laws are enforced.” Kevin Johnson dean, uc davis school of law
‘It makes a dIfference’ For local activists, council ordinances have been hugely significant. “I really wanted Davis to be a sanctuary city,” Banks explains. “I’d met the students. And I knew the fear the undocumented live in if they’re not in a sanctuary city. For institutions such as churches that can speak to the rights of people, speak to the government, it makes a difference—as a part of a larger movement, it’s important. It’s one thread. It makes a difference to that family, that person.” Seeking to broaden support for the undocumented in Davis, Banks went to the city council on their behalf.
“I talked about how I had been down to [the humanitarian border group] No More Deaths, and had visited the shrines where the immigrants had died in the desert,” she said. She also talked about seeing would-be immigrants, caught in the desert, paraded before courtrooms in chains, and of visiting inmates in detention centers in the Sacramento region. “People have been very emotionally moved,” Banks says. For Maciel, Davis’ approach to the undocumented has provided a rare opportunity—to succeed in an academic setting that, for generations, has been virtually inaccessible to the
undocumented. Historically, those without legal residency status have fared dismally in the upper echelons of the state’s education system: Few graduated high school, even fewer attended college and hardly any left university with a four-year degree. In recent years, however, as debates over immigration and the status of the undocumented have roiled one state after another, much has changed in California. In 2001, California’s legislators passed Assembly Bill 540, allowing undocumented California residents to go to public universities in the state as in-state residents rather than having to pay far higher out-ofstate tuition fees. Then, in 2011, Governor Brown signed the California DREAM Act into law, extending state financial assistance to the undocumented. Suddenly, university education became something far more than a pipe dream for hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented Californians. Add into the mix Obama’s recent executive actions regarding immigrants, especially the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals order, and opportunities for California’s young, undocumented students started to blossom. When Maciel arrived at UC Davis, she was part of that first cohort of “dreamer” students. But, despite the political space that had opened up with the passage of the Dream Act, the university itself didn’t really have an infrastructure in place, or trained advisers, to help these students navigate the campus and the complexities of bureaucratic systems their families had, generally, spent a lifetime avoiding. As a result, information was often hard to come by, or wrong information was provided; and, frequently, the undocumented still felt vulnerable and alone. In her second year at the university, Maciel and some of her friends on campus started meeting to discuss
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ways to improve the environment for undocumented students. They came up with the idea of an AB 540 and Undocumented Student Center. that would cater primarily to the needs of this group of young men and women on campus, providing mentoring, advice on how to apply for assistance without a permanent Social Security number, suggestions on how to travel to conferences without a form of identification valid for U.S. air travel, etc. In fall 2013, five of the students formally submitted their proposal. Shortly afterward and with the UC system under President Janet Napolitano looking for ways to make the system more accessible to the undocumented,
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the college committed funds for such a center to be created. Today, says the AB540 Center’s director, Andrea Gaytan, there are roughly 300 DREAM Act students at UC Davis—up from only 78 two years ago. “The bottom line is all of our students are admitted under the same guidelines,” Gaytan says. “It behooves us as an institution to make sure every student has the opportunity to thrive and grow and graduate.” Gaytan attended UC Davis as an undergraduate in the early 1990s. Early in her career, she worked as an ESL instructor in Japan and in Mexico and, she says, has always made a point to get learn her students’ stories.
“People are starting to understand the contributions of immigrants to California and to our communities,” she said. “Those six degrees of separation have really shrunk. Maybe we can only get three degrees of separation now before we meet somebody deeply impacted by immigration. Change happens based on personal interactions and shared experiences.” Slowly, that change is occurring in Sacramento, too. Throughout the greater region there are many hundreds, possibly thousands, more “dreamers”— at Sacramento City College, at Sacramento State University, where the financial aid office estimates more than 800 have applied for assistance this past year; and at the many community
colleges that dot the region. Recently, Assemblywoman Patty Lopez (D-San Fernando) put forward AB 1366, a bill that would have established AB 540 resource centers at campuses around the state. So far, however, it hasn’t gone anywhere. Yet, campus by campus, similar centers are now being set up in Sacramento, to reach out to the undocumented and to provide them access to a growing number of state resources—as well as to help them navigate the federal programs created over the past few years by Obama’s executive actions. Many of California’s largest metropolises, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, have now declared themselves sanctuary cities.
As part of the immigrant-rights group Alianza, Rhonda Kravitz helps undocumented students get financial assistance.
Eric Vega and other Sacramento-based activists, including members of the faithbased group Area Congregations Together, and a coalition of unions led by the local chapter of the SEIU, hope that they can soon convince Sacramento to join the list. There has been, says Vega, “a paradigm shift” in how Californians think about the undocumented. Were Sacramento to pass such an ordinance, there would be some impact on how the county sheriff’s department cooperates with ICE, but, more significantly, there would be a change in the culture. In part, this debate is one of symbolism, about moral statements of opposition to a set of policies and values. In particular, there’s opposition to the post-9/11 Secure Communities Program. Until it ended in late 2014, the program mandated that if local law enforcement arrested an undocumented immigrant, even for a crime as petty as trespassing, or selling produce on the street without a license, they had to hold them until ICE officers came to pick them up. In that regard, declarations of opposition to cooperation with harsh federal policies is somewhat akin to cities in the ’80s declaring themselves to be “nuclear-free zones,” more in opposition to the vast buildup of nuclear weapons than out of any real expectation that the cities could genuinely opt out of the nuclear era. “There’s no real thing as a ‘sanctuary city,’” argues UC Davis School of Law Dean Kevin Johnson. “What there are are policies regarding state and local cooperation with the feds regarding immigration enforcement. [But] the moral imperative
is a bigger one. We’re making a statement against the way current immigration laws are enforced.”
“Our main purpose is comprehensive immigration reform,” says Rhonda Kravitz, who works with the immigrant-rights group Alianza. In addition to other services, the group helps young “dreamers” apply for scholarships and other financial assistance. Absent legal reform, she says, sanctuary cities are “crucial.” “I look at the dreamer movement as one of the most important civil-rights movements right now,” Kravitz says. Earlier this fall semester, using grant money from the campus’s student leadership organization, Sac State did set up the small Dreamer Resource Center, somewhat modeled on the AB540 Center at Davis. Run out of a small campus office, it holds workshops on financial assistance and trains staff and faculty on difficulties experienced by their undocumented students. It’s also launched a small fellowship program that provides stipends to students who want to research related social issues. “One of the goals of the Dreamer Resource Center is to create a campus culture of knowledge and sensitivity to the issues faced by undocumented students,” explained Viridiana Diaz, director for Sac State’s College Assistance Migrant Program.
Throughout the greater region there are many hundreds, possibly thousands, more “dreamer” students—at City College, at Sac State, where the financial aid office estimates more than 800 have applied for assistance this past year.
Next year, funds permitting, the center will be able to hire a full-time coordinator; until then, it relies on the efforts of a handful of students and the volunteer work of many current and retired faculty. Meanwhile, back in Davis, the AB540 Center now employs seven students, some of them undocumented, others not, to run its programs. Students come in or, if they prefer to preserve their anonymity, meet staff off-site and ask their questions. They see other students in the same situation as they are in, facing the same challenges, trying to navigate 21st-century America’s immigration maze. “It takes away a little bit of the stigma,” explains Gaytan. In mid-September, shortly before the quarter’s classes began, Davis police officers —working under sanctuary city guidelines—came to the center to take part in staff training. A local police officer is even on the center’s advisory board. “It’s the institution working very hard to be holistic in how we support our students,” Gaytan continues, as she explains how activists are hoping to convince every town in which a UC campus is situated to become a sanctuary city. “Who else on campus loses their rights when they step off a campus property? For undocumented students, that’s definitely a concern.” For Banks, the reverend, such support for these shelters—from schools, from law enforcement, from average citizens—isn’t just about legal action, it’s about respect and basic human rights. “The sanctuary movement is a part of the change,” Banks said. “Like civil disobedience. It humanizes people. They are not criminals.” Ω
Rev. Elizabeth Banks, along with members of the Unitarian Universalist Church, has pushed the Davis City Council to reaffirm its sanctuary-city status in recent years.
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How James Wheatley’s Celebration Arts theater company fosters creativity to forge a community
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In rehearsal for Just in Time … For Christmas (left to right) Deon Taylor, T. Jackson, Shaquarrius Calloway (hidden), Carla Fleming, Gloria Wadud and Jannette McCoy.
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That brief interaction reveals a lot, both about the somewhat belowthe-radar way in which Celebration Arts operates and the spirit of inclusiveness with which it operates. Celebration Arts is an all-volunteer, nonprofessional theater and arts organization. The company’s latest production, a holiday themed musical, Just in Time … For Christmas, runs through December 20. Wheatley, whose youthful appearance belies the fact that he retired from working with the state of California more than a decade ago, has been dancing since he was 10 but realized “pretty early” that he didn’t want to pursue it for a living. “I was around the people who did it, and they didn’t look healthy to me,” he says. “That didn’t appeal to me at all. It’s always been a hobby.” A pretty all-consuming hobby. Wheatley trained in modern, contemporary dance in the Los Angeles area, and studied voice at the prestigious USC Thornton School of Music. In 1971 he moved to Sacramento for a job, commuting to Los Angeles on weekends to perform with a small dance company there as well as several singing ensembles. He followed that routine for seven years. “Airfare was very cheap,” he says now with a laugh. Along the way Wheatley started staging dramatic poetry readings that incorporated dance in Sacramento, found some kindred-spirit performers and formed the Celebration Dance Company in 1976. Ten years in, choral and drama were added. Celebration Arts board member Peggi Wood says the goal was to “meet an unfulfilled need in the [African-American] community for multicultural, multidisciplinary arts. Decades later, Celebrations Arts has produced more than 141 plays, as well as numerous dance and music performances, all based upon the African-American experience. Wheatley has kept to his dance roots; teaching an all-level dance class every Saturday at the Oak Park United Methodist Church.
“It’s not an easy class … you work, but if you don’t work you can’t improve.” That’s the same work ethic Wheatley brings to theater, including the six “ethnocentric” plays that the company produces each season. There’s also an ambitious plan to complete all 10 of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle plays—so far, they’ve staged eight. Still, Wheatley says, he views Celebration Arts as more of a “training organization” than a theater company.
the front row—close enough, as Wheatley says, to “see the beads of sweat or tears, it puts the responsibility on the actors to be in the moment.” During rehearsal, the ensemble cast of 13 struggled with being in the moment, frequently calling “line” to Denise Taylor, a sevenyear veteran of the company who is doing lighting and sound for this production. But spirits remained high as the run-through started with the opening song, which calls for an eight-part harmony.
“We bring people out of the community—many have little or no experience in the theater. I’m just looking to see what kind of imagination they have.” JAmeS WheATLey // founder and artistic director, Celebration Arts
“We bring people out of the community, many have little or no experience in the theater,” Wheatley says. “I’m just looking to see what kind of imagination they have, what do they do with what they are reading, how do they adapt to my suggestions.” And, he adds, as he works with actors over time, it’s gratifying to see them evolve. “[Theater] makes a change in a person’s self-concept. … you watch the growth.” That spirit was on display during a rehearsal for Just in Time … For Christmas, a musical penned by Wheatley. The theater space itself is very small, less than 50 seats, with a shallow stage with no side entrances only a few feet from
Wheatley leaned on a piano and watched intently from the side of the stage, betraying no impatience with the frequent gaps in dialogue and false starts. Cast member Dann Mead, who has several film credits to his name, including Unbelievers, a post-apocalyptic thriller currently in post-production, praises Wheatley’s thoroughness and patience. “He takes a lot more time with everybody than other directors … he’s legendary,” Mead says. “A lot of people do come here for the experience and they aren’t looking for a career, but if you do well here, it matters.” Mead serves as comic relief playing a deadpan, homeless man in the musical. The show is a reprise of sorts—Wheatley prefers that
term to “sequel”—of last year’s Christmas production A New Song For Christmas. The plot, as with last year, revolves around a choir practice and the various interruptions that ensue. One of the characters is a wayward young man, played by 13-year-old Malakai Husbands, who complicates things for his grandmother, a choir member, by running away three times in the course of the play. Husbands, a slim, laconic youth with oversized black glasses, says that he’s not nervous despite this being his theater debut—he’s been performing since age 3 with his church choir. Indeed, the young actor projected a calm presence during a poignant rehearsal duet with
Betty-Jayne Hare, who plays his grandmother. In a clear, high voice, he sang about his insecurities in the face of his sudden abandonment by his mother, who has dropped him off at his grandmother’s with a note. The songs, all 19 of which were composed by Wheatley, are spare and serve mostly to advance the action—it’s not likely that audience members will be humming them post-production. When composing, Wheatley says he starts with the lyrics then composes the tunes on a keyboard and uses a computer program to add orchestration and strings. As he elaborates on the creative process, Wheatley laughs. He could almost be referring to the entire, organic history of the multidisciplinary arts institution he’s created “I never know what’s going to happen. Some people know before they start something what the climax or ending of the book or play will be,” Wheatley says. “I don’t know, but I’ll figure it out. We’ll get there.” Ω Catch Just in Time … For Christmas through December 20 at Celebration Arts. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $15, $13 for students and seniors, and $8 on Thursdays. Learn more at http://celebrationarts.net.
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fter years of caring for others, Dr. Mollie Fry found herself on the other side of the examination table when the former family practice doctor was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997. After enduring a bilateral mastectomy and the debilitating effects of chemotherapy, Fry turned to medical marijuana for relief. “I was very weak and very sick and cannabis increased the quality of my life,” she says. “It gave me an appetite [and] it enhanced my spirituality by decreasing my anxiety and depression about being the mother of three small children [and] facing a death sentence.” Fry’s personal cancer experience led to her professional advocacy of medical cannabis as a means to help patients through many conditions and diseases. Despite attempts to comply with local ordinances, she was convicted in 2007 of federal charges of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana and was sentenced to a prison term of five years, of which she served three and a half. Even under the threat of federal prosecution, she continued to advocate for patients’ rights.
“I was very weak and very sick and cannabis increased the quality of my life.”
Dr. Mollie Fry has seen both sides of the medical cannabis issue, both as a doctor and as a cancer patient. Photo by Anne Stokes
on uninsured and underinsured women through educational and outreach programs, research efforts and grants for local service providers.
Dr. Mollie Fry Physician consultant and breast cancer survivor Fry’s advocacy encompasses the same mission embraced by many in the medical marijuana community: to provide patients with alternative forms of treatment and compassion. In that spirit, Collective Giving, a charitable collaboration of Sacramento area medical marijuana industry organizations, will collect monetary donations on behalf of Susan G. Komen for the Cure this holiday season. “The medical marijuana community in Sacramento is really aware that a lot of cannabis patients are cancer patients and survivors, a lot of whom are breast cancer survivors,” says Kelsi White, who founded Collective Giving and organizes benefit drives twice a year. “The dispensaries want to give back to that community since those are the people they’re serving every day.” Every three minutes, a woman in the U.S. is diagnosed with breast cancer. Every 13 minutes, one of those women dies. The good news is that if diagnosed early enough, the five-year survival rate is nearly 98 percent. Susan G. Komen for the Cure Sacramento Valley helps provide access to breast health services throughout 19 Northern California counties, focusing
According to Fry, medical marijuana can help alleviate myriad ailments associated with cancer and its treatment because it mimics the body’s endocannabinoid system, which regulates many aspects of the body, including the nervous system, metabolism, appetite, mood and the sensation of pain. Preliminary studies have even indicated that cannabidiol, a compound found in marijuana, may be able to stop metastasis in some cancers. “It [can replace] pain drugs, I think it can eliminate many anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medicines, and medicines for insomnia,” Fry says. “That’s taking a lot of drugs out of the population and making [patients] healthier and with a better quality of life.”
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE COLLECTIVE GIVING HOLIDAY DONATION DRIVE benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure Sacramento Valley, visit any of the Collective Giving member organizations listed below. If your organization would like to be the next charity beneficiary of Collective Giving, please contact Kelsi White at kelsiw@newsreview.com, 916-498-1234, ext.1328 or visit collective-giving.com.
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Building a painting mystery Like Sarah McLachlan, Eric Jensen is building a mystery. Look at his painting, “Without Title.” Not giving anything away with a name like that, right? But the painting itself looks like a redo of “The Last Supper” with painTinG oversized glittery Helvetica letters over it. And those three letters on the bottom half of the canvas, “UCK,” are likely to lead viewers to think it spells out, well, you know, “lucky.” What else? Also showing at Artspace1616 with Jensen are ceramics by Jon Stevenson.
Where: Artspace1616, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 849-1127; www.facebook.com/artspace1616. Second Saturday reception: December 12, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Hours: Wednesday, noon to 5 p.m.; Thursday through Saturday, noon to 8 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 3 p.m.; and by appointment. Through January 3.
“Without Title” by Eric Jensen, fabric collage, 2014.
The triple don’t-miss threat If you absolutely can only visit one gallery this month in between the numerous winter solstice celebrations and Festivus pole parties, or whatever it is you have lined up, do not miss Axis Gallery’s 2015 Invitational Exhibition with Heather Engen, Jennifer Lugris and Deborah Group SHoW Salomon. All three artists are Californiabased, and all three have very different styles, but all make work that will please the eyes, challenge the intellect and drum up emotion: Yeah, the triple threat. For example, take Lugris. Her undergrad education in sociology informs her paintings of death row inmates. In her series Forgiven, she paints a portrait of a child with the last words of an executed inmate. The juxtaposition was chosen because everyone starts out with innocence as children. In her portraits, the child often looks a little distorted in the shape of his or her face and has an uneven, unhealthy complexion not associated with youth. They look like pages torn out of a children’s book gone wrong. These paintings, along with her other series, were inspired by restorative justice, which she explains as “an alternative approach in which criminals apologize to those they’ve harmed and seek forgiveness.” See her work along with Engen and Salomon’s at Axis through December 27.
“Eternal Impression” by Kevin Ptak, aluminum and wood, 2015.
Throw no shade Kevin Ptak’s show this month at Shimo Center for the Arts is called The Underlying Aspiration to Cast More Shade, and luckily not The Underlying Aspiration to Throw More Shade. So rest SculpTureS assured, gallerygoers, you may enjoy Ptak’s scultures, which consist of repurposed materials, without any dirty looks.
Where: Shimo Center for the Arts, 2117 28th Street; (916) 706-1162; http://shimogallery.com.
Where: Axis Gallery, 625 S Street; http://axisgallery.org.
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“Monster” by Jennifer Lugris, oil on canvas, 2015.
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or many, the pleasures of the holiday season rely on the sameness of traditions year to year. But real talk for a minute: Nobody likes fruitcake, and I’d wager that few people hear the word “carolers” and think, “Rad!” For those looking to veer off the idyllic, snow-dusted path, there are a number of quirky, holiday-related activities taking place around the city this week. On Friday, December 11, catch the Sacramento Ballet’s production of the nutty nutcracker, which only comes around once every 10 years and puts a looney spin on the classic Christmas ballet. Rubber chickens! Shirtless men in tutus and Davy Crockett hats doing the Tropak! Tickets range from $19-$75 and can be purchased at www.sacballet.org. Federalist Public House (2009 Matsui Alley) turns 1 this weekend and is celebrating with ugly Sweater Sing-Along Brunch Bingo—a lot of kitschy holiday bang for your buck, in other words. The party takes place on Sunday, December 13, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and more
LITTLE HOLIDAY information can be found at http://federalistpublic house.com. For those in search of some one-of-a-kind gifts, the WAL Public Market (1104 R Street) is hosting an opening reception for 10 under 100, a group show featuring 10 local artists with work that can be purchased and taken home the very same day for less than $100. Festivities kick off on Saturday, December 12, at 6 p.m. The show will be up through January 7, but obviously, the early bird gets the artsy worm. And finally, what could be more nontraditional
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than holiday treats that are healthy (well, OK, not healthy, per se, but healthier)? The Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op has you covered with its wholesome holiday Desserts class on Saturday, December 12, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., which will teach you to swap out refined sugars for coconut sugar and brown rice syrups in desserts like gingersnap cookies and chocolatecovered marzipan drops. Registration is $45 and can be completed at www.sac foodcoop.com.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 Pigskin Peanuts is a traveling exhibit on display at the California Museum which celebrates Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and the whole gang. The exhibit runs through January 3, but for an extra special (Christmas-y) way to get your Peanuts fix, stop by this Saturday for the Charlie Brown Christmas Party. hoLIDAy There will be lots of fun activities like an appearance by Snoopy, snacks, games and a puppy mobile adoption van by the Sacramento SPCA. Free, noon at California Museum, 1020 O Street; www.californiamuseum.org.
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Low End Theory Collaborative, a local nonprofit dedicated to community development and educational services based around hip-hop culture, presents Learning in Five Elements, a workshop that MuSIC showcases performances and hosts artist discussions with the aim of developing strategies for using the genre as a tool for creative expression and social change among students. $30, 10:30 a.m.- 2:30 p.m. at 216 O Street; www.letccrew.org.
The Sacramento Antique Faire starts early, but the crowd doesn’t really get jumping until around noon. However, if you’re a collector looking for that ultra-rare Hamm’s sign or Christmas ornaments that date ShoPPIng back to the 1950s and beyond, you may want to come during the wee morning hours. The event is held on the second Sunday of every month and draws a big crowd of hoarders, eBay sellers and curious shoppers. $3, 6:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at 2400 21st Street; www.sacantiquefaire.com.
Thomas Edison’s Secret Lab is a new cartoon series that premiered earlier this year on PBS. It’s a fun romp filled with comedy, adventures, hijinks and, of course, science! SCIenCe The show also has a tie-in with Home Buffet, of all places, which is maybe good thing for parents with lots of hungry kids.. This Thursday, at the restaurant chain’s Florin Road location, families who come will get to also participate in a science-related activity, like learning why people dream or why certain objects float. Free, 5 p.m. at Hometown Buffet, 4300 Florin Road; www.hometownbuffet.com.
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Vino: Despite being blacked out on the restaurant’s black awning, you can still just make out the word “Michel” at the now-shuttered Bistro Michel (1501 14th Street). There’s no new signage yet, but its replacement TableVine officially opened today. The exterior has been painted fern green. Inside, there’s a new cream-colored limestone wall, a pervading neutral color palette and vases full of burgundy-stained wine corks. It looks brighter, more open and gives off a wine country vibe, which is exactly TableVine’s goal. First off, TableVine isn’t a fine-dining restaurant. Owner Dan Sneed is going for something more comfortable and less stuffy. He has a fine-dining background though, having worked at Gary Danko and the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco as well as, more
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grilled salad topped with Spanish anchovy ($9). A pork chop veers toward Germany with Alsatian-style potatoes, sauerkraut, apples and mustard ($19). And, naturally, there’s a fancy burger ($12). At last: Two long-discussed, much-delayed businesses should be open any day now. Hawks Provisions and Public House (1525 Alhambra Boulevard) is the casual gastropub sibling to the fine dining Hawks Restaurant in Granite Bay. It promises the same Hawks dedication to seasonal, locally sourced ingredients but with simpler Italian dishes for lunch and dinner. Though Hawks Provisions isn’t taking reservations during its soft opening period, you can snag a table starting Monday, December 21, via OpenTable. On the drinking end of things, the Shady Lady Saloon team’s B-Side (1430 S Street) is taking over the old Monte Carlo Club space. Though there won’t be live music, there’s an emphasis on sound via deejays spinning records, which matches the vintage 1970s decor. Ω
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striking 12: the Groove lily musical; 8 p.m. thursday and saturday, 7 p.m. sunday; $18. Green Valley theatre company in the Grange Performing arts center, 3823 V street; (510) 682-5813; www.greenvalleytheatre.com/tickets. through December 20.
The narrator says it straight up at the beginning: Striking 12: The Groove Lily Musical is a nonextravaganza, nonspectacular kind of holiday show. The narrator lies. This trippy musical—an amalgam of jazz, pop, rock, rap and show tunes—is nothing but spectacular. On New Year’s Eve, a New York minion who’s slogged through another depressing run of the annual rat race decides he’s had enough. (The character is The Man Who Has Had Enough, and Kevin Caravalho is amazing in the role.) The Man vows no parties, just a quiet night at home, until a woman (Andrea Eve Thorpe) comes to his door selling special “full-spectrum holiday light bulbs” that are said to alleviate Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD. Up pops the subject of the Little Match Girl in the Hans Christian Andersen story and before you know it (with the help of Jennifer Morrison, Scott Scholes, Kristi Webb and John Haine—all excellent), we’re backand-forth-ing in time and space between Denmark and Manhattan and someplace in The Man’s head. Striking 12 was written by members of indie pop group Groove Lily, featuring Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda, with help on the book from Rachel Sheinkin. Christopher Cook directs the minimalist production (actors walk among and interact with the live band that’s stationed about the stage). They don’t break the fourth wall between performer and audience because there’s no wall to break. It’s totally open and inviting. Ω 32 | sN&R | 12.10.15
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4 Cinderella Cinderella is home for the holidays—not the first time this British panto musical has returned since its inception in 2000. In this production, Cinderella is a hometown gal —first conceived and delivered here in Sacramento by local composer Gregg Coffin and the Sacramento Theatre Company. This bawdy, ballsy adaptation of the shoeless lass fairy tale has made a couple of return visits over the years, though it’s been six years since STC last staged it as its holiday play. Not much has changed with this year’s production. It’s still a fun, naughty-and-nice mashup that appeals to both kids and adults. It still has the scene-stealers including genderbending Evil Stepmother Mrs. Baden-Rotten (a magnetic, magnificent Michael RJ Campbell), brassy stepsisters (the very funny team of Tara Sissom and Alexandra Ralph), the Good Fairy (the sassy Miranda D. Lawson), and the narrator Buttons (Ryan Blanning). In addition, there’s a three-piece live band, plenty of chances for audience participation (including Prince Charming running up the aisles trying the slipper on giggling girls), and extra characters such as a marauding bear and the prince’s wingman Knickers. There’s also a guest appearance by Bo Peep and her naughty sheep. And of course, Cinderella herself, complete with a beautiful gown and tiara. Fun for all. —Patti RobeRts cinderella; 7 p.m. Wednesday, thursday and friday; 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. saturday; 2 p.m. sunday; $20-$40. sacramento theatre company main stage, 1419 h street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. through December 27.
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have been adapted by Christine Nicholson, under the direction of Luther Hanson. British panto, for the uninitiated, is theater that incorporates song and dance with broad slapstick humor and audience participation. Though the show is mostly aimed at a young audience (especially the matinees), older audience members will be kept entertained by the show’s double entendres and risque jokes. Warning: audience participation is not just a bonus here—it’s basically required. F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 12/13. $10-$18. City Theatre, Sacramento City College Performing Arts Center, 3835 Freeport Boulevard; (916) 558-2174; www.city theatre.net. P.R.
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Extra nuts Ron Cunningham’s take on The Nutcracker is a holiday tradition in this town—hundreds of kids join professional dancers on stage to tell the story of Clara and her magical Christmas gift: a doll that comes to life to take her on a wonderful adventure to exotic lands. This year—for the first time in about 10 years—Cunningham is staging The Nutty Nutcracker, a fantastical upside-down sendup of the classic. The show will be performed only once, at 7 p.m. on December 11. Tickets cost $19-$79. The regular version of The Nutcracker will be performed numerous times through December 22. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m and 5 p.m. Sunday; $19-$90. Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street; (916) 808-5181; www.sacballet.org.
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It’s Christmas Eve and grandma’s body is missing—and has to be found in 24 hours so her granddaughter can ship it back to Israel for a proper Jewish burial. The story here is presented in both English and Hebrew dialogue. This light romantic comedy is filled with irrational coincidences, improbable plot lines and unlikely love connections. But in
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the director approaches every single scene with the same one-note intensity, and his overwrought visual style all but strangles a fine lead performance from Macbeth is Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, and Fassbender. one of his most cleanly diagrammatic plays, which Whether in 12 Years or Slave and Shame or the makes it a natural fit for cinematic adaptations. Movie X-Men films, Fassbender is at his best when tightenversions have been produced since the silent era, with ing the gap between control and madness, and his the “Scottish play” adapted and updated by auteurs like Macbeth perpetually teeters on that knife’s edge Roman Polanski and Akira Kurosawa, with the title (almost literally, in one scene). Cotillard gets stuck role played by actors such as Orson Welles and Sam playing a high-concept, low-energy Lady Macbeth, Worthington. It’s been reimagined as a samurai film so she’s largely wasted here, but she rallies late with and a gangster film and a black comedy; the 2001 movie a withering monologue that becomes one of the Scotland, PA even moved the action from the foggy film’s high points. The supporting cast is rounded moors of Scotland to a fast-food restaurant in 1970s out with familiar faces such as Paddy Considine and Pennsylvania. Sean Harris, all growling in a diversity of Now director Justin Kurzel (The burrs from underneath thick, mud-caked Snowtown Murders, the upcoming beards. Assassin’s Creed) takes his stab at this The film’s fire-eyed intensity There’s a story of the regicidal Scottish Thane works for a while, and there are lot to like on a and his aiding and abetting wife. The always interesting ideas peeking adaptation is fairly straight, with a conceptual level, through the gloom. Rather than lot of the language left intact, but bestowing the Macbeth family but the execution screenwriters Jacob Koskoff, Michael with its traditional castle in is monotonous. Lesslie and Todd Louiso still take some Inverness, for example, the film interesting chances—Macbeth (Michael makes them tent people, Bedouins of Fassbender) is a battle-scarred soldier the Scottish Islands. That’s an interesting disintegrating from PTSD, Lady Macbeth divergence, but like so much of Macbeth, (Marion Cotillard) is less hysterical than depressed, the it’s just an underdeveloped concept swimming three witches might be war refugees—while Kurzel and against the tide of Kurzel’s stilted storytelling and cinematographer Adam Arkapaw strive to balance heav- dreary visuals. The interminable finale kills a lot of ily stylized visuals with a heavily intimate tone. the goodwill built up by Fassbender’s performance, Mostly, it’s just heavy. There’s a lot to like on a as Kurzel attempts to tap emotional wells he never conceptual level, but the execution is monotonous, like dug while bathing every image in a Cheetos-like Zack Snyder without the comic book zeal. The film orange. Out, damned Cheez-It! Out, I say! Ω even opens with a splashy, slo-mo battle sequence that plays like an excerpt from 300, as the warlord Macbeth slashes through the armies of the traitor Macdonwald against an omnipresent background of CGI smear. Backed by his brother Jed Kurzel’s overbearing score,
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A young Irish émigré in the 1950s (Saoirse Ronan) is just beginning to feel at home in America, with a good job, better prospects and romance with a local boy (Emory Cohen), when a death in the family draws her back to Ireland, where she begins to feel the nostalgic (and romantic) lure of the ould sod. Ronan delivers gloriously on the promise she showed as an adolescent in Atonement, playing a timid, almost hopeless young woman coming to full flower, paradoxically, as a stranger in a strange land. Expertly directed by John Crowley and adapted (equally well) by Nick Hornby from Colm Toibin’s novel, this is one of the smallest, most intimate and best movies of the year, with an aching suspense that bigger, brasher movies can only dream of. As Ronan’s sweet-faced suitor, Cohen gives a breakout performance. J.L.
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Ryan Coogler’s alternately thrilling and deflating Creed marks Sylvester Stallone’s seventh go-round as Philly palooka turned heavyweight champ and Red scourge Rocky Balboa, and it’s easy to see why Stallone can’t quit this character. Rocky is Stallone’s soul and legacy, and while the part still fits him like a fingerless glove and pork pie hat, he was wise to take a supporting role here. Creed reinvigorates the franchise by introducing a new lead character and threading him into the Rocky-verse, and Stallone’s onscreen “blessing” is essential to making that transition legitimate. Even better for a franchise that has indulged in its share of racism, the film focuses on a young AfricanAmerican (Michael B. Jordan), and invests him with the same common-man toughness and rough-edged likeability that made Rocky so popular in the first place. Unfortunately, after an astonishing centerpiece fight sequence, the film plummets into tired convention—Creed proves just good enough to be disappointing. D.B.
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The Good Dinosaur
Pixar’s latest feature wonders what life would be like if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hadn’t hit Earth. According to writers Peter Sohn (who also directed), Erik Benson, Meg LeFauve, Kelsey Mann and Bob Peterson, it would be like a western movie, with dinosaurs as farmers, cowboys and outlaws. That’s not a story, it’s an idea, and a half-baked one at that. Sohn and company, whose prior credits consist mainly of grunt work for Pixar (animator, storyboard artist, “additional voices,” etc.), were pathetically unready for prime time, and the result of their blown opportunity is an unrelieved disaster. First and foremost, it’s an excruciating bore, a nonstory inhabited by dull noncharacters. The only variety comes when it’s even worse than boring, with nasty flashes of cruelty, sadism and ugliness. J.L.
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2
Theseus wept. An alternately grim and goo goo-eyed wrap-up to the Hunger Games film franchise, Mockingjay—Part 2 reaps the mistakes sown by the previous entries. The gravest mistake, of course, was splitting the final book in Suzanne Collins’ teen-lit trilogy into two parts. Born of pure greed, this mercenary move resulted in two diluted storylines, a scarcity of action and an insane amount of screen time spent loitering in living rooms and unlit tunnels. Jennifer Lawrence returns as the mercurial and courageous Katniss Everdeen, caught between her hatred of the near-future fascist government of Panem and her mistrust of the rebel leaders guarding her back. Beyond its simplistic political allegory, Mockingjay—Part 2 is supposed to be the emotional crescendo to an epic love triangle, but due a complete lack of chemistry between Lawrence and her callow male co-stars, it’s all hollow, and the gold-embossed Super Happy Ending feels fraudulent. D.B.
“Cheers—maybe?”
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Legend
Writer-director Brian Helgeland (adapting John Pearson’s book) traces the squalid careers of real-life identical twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray (both played by Tom Hardy), who ran the organized crime scene in London during the 1950s and ’60s before Scotland Yard finally brought them down. Helgeland tells his tale with brutal aplomb, but if he meant to show what made these psychos tick, he doesn’t succeed here; there may be no explaining these guys anyhow. Still, the glimpse of Swingin’ London’s seamy underside is inherently fascinating, and Hardy’s bravura dual performance is a stunner, sure to make everyone’s short list when award time rolls around. As Reggie’s emotionally fragile wife, Emily Browning is an oasis of sympathy amid the squalor, the only person in the movie we really give a damn about. J.L.
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The Night Before
Three lifelong pals (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie) get together for the last iteration of a ritual that dates from their teen years: a night of Christmas Eve revelry, this time to wind up at their Holy Grail of parties, the legendary and mysterious Nutcracker Ball. The script by Kyle Hunter, Ariel Shaffir, Evan Goldberg and director Jonathan Levine is disorderly, often obnoxious and rather too strenuous in its efforts to out-Farrelly the Farrelly brothers. But by golly, it’s pretty damn funny more often than not (Rogen does an extended riff on being strung out on too many drugs that’s a classic of its kind), with an engaging air of a circle of friends having larky fun. And for a holiday movie that’s absolutely not for the whole family, it’s surprisingly sweet at heart. J.L.
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Room
Director Lenny Abrahamson brought a hazy commingling of whimsy and psychosis to last year’s Michael-Fassbender-in-a-fakehead quirkfest Frank that never worked for me, yet that same approach proves essential to the success of Room. Adapted from a novel by Emma Donoghue, who also wrote the screenplay, Room views the world through the wide-shut eyes of Jack (an eerily good Jacob Tremblay), a precocious 5-year-old boy who lives with his mother in what appears to be a heavily secured garden shed. As Jack’s mother, Brie Larson stands on the shoulders of her 2013 film Short Term 12 and establishes herself as one of the top craftspeople in her trade, laying out years of unspeakable horror with a gesture or a tremble. The sound, design, cinematography, story structure and performances are all impeccable; if the film were 15 percent less focused on the fuzzy-wuzzy, it might have even been great. D.B.
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Spotlight
Writers Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy (who also directed) tell the story of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer-winning investigation into the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests and the cover-up by the Archdiocese of Boston. The movie is a self-conscious throwback to crusading-reporter flicks of the past, but it’s also a taut story well-told, suspenseful despite the fact that the world knows how it all turned
out, and energized by an authentic sense of the dogged research and footwork at the heart of serious investigative journalism. The stellar cast is a major asset: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and Brian d’Arcy James as the Globe’s team of reporters, John Slattery and Liev Schreiber as their editors, plus Stanley Tucci, Billy Crudup and Jamey Sheridan. J.L.
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Trumbo
Long-winded, dreadfully noble and blithely slanderous, Trumbo is the sort of film that gives liberal pap a bad name. Bryan Cranston stars as screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, an avowed Communist and American patriot whose career was sent underground by the House Un-American Activities Committee and the Hollywood blacklist. After serving an 11-month prison term, Trumbo reemerged as a highly prolific pseudonymous screenwriter of B-movies and Oscar-winning prestige pictures, eventually helping to crack the blacklist by receiving screen credit on Spartacus. It’s a great story, but with John McNamara’s flabby script and the direction of Austin Powers overseer Jay Roach, the film feels like a two-hour Saturday Night Live sketch without any jokes, all bad impressions and self-important speechifying. D.B.
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Victor Frankenstein
A clever but clunky riff on the Mary Shelley classic, Victor Frankenstein tells the story from the point-of-view of an unnamed, hunchbacked lab assistant who assumes the identity of Igor (Daniel Radcliffe). As it turns out, the horribly abused circus clown who becomes Igor isn’t even a hunchback—he just suffers from an untreated abscess that the eponymous mad scientist (James McAvoy) fixes in seconds. Cured of his afflictions, Igor begins assisting Frankenstein with his scientific experiments, a path that inevitably leads to the creation of a human monster. Director Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number Slevin) and screenwriter Max Landis (American Ultra) possess an ambition far beyond their range, attempting to graft together pieces of gothic horror, dark comedy, costume drama, existentialist philosophy and CGI adventure. The stitches don’t hold, and while Radcliffe does a fine job in the lead, an overacting McAvoy is an ill fit as the mad doctor. D.B.
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Everything new is old again The Dustbowl Revival time-travels and genre-hops
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It’s a hodgepodge, but one that allows the group to jump through genres—and time periods— swiftly. Lupetin also says he likes the idea of updating the songbook while still keeping the reverence for the traditional sound. “I wanted to write new standards,” Lupetin said. “My idea was like, ‘I’m listening to all these songs from these artists, and the songs are great, but they’re all the same song.” And just because the music may sound old, doesn’t mean it Wanted: a bigger porch. can’t have fire and energy. “I wanted to play this vintage style but in a more rock ’n’ roll mentality,” Lupetin said. “Like young people doing it as dance party It all started with Craigslist. In 2007, Zach Lupetin music, not as like grandparents-sitting-there-fallingmoved from Chicago to Los Angeles, and posted an asleep music. I feel like this music—through the ’30s, ad for musicians looking to play “folk and bluegrass the ’40s,—it’s the most rocking music that’s ever been and gospel blues stuff.” The result ended up becommade and people don’t realize that or appreciate that.” ing something of a collective of like-minded people. But, it’s also important not to just try to recreate Then, about four years ago, the group started the past. “It’s tricky to pull off sometimes,” Lupetin playing and touring more seriously, and settled on said. “You want to be someone whose revering the the current eight-piece lineup comprising Lupetin past but telling your own story.” (guitar, vocals), Liz Beebe (vocals, washboard, These stories have been collected into now four ukulele), Daniel Mark (mandolin), Connor Vance albums, including 2015’s With A Lampshade (fiddle), Matt Rubin (trumpet), Ulf Bjorlin On, which was recorded mostly live— (trombone), James Klopfleisch (bass) and a first for the group. Joshlyn Heffernan (drums). “We pride ourselves on creatThe resulting band, the ing this time-travel-throughDustbowl Revival, makes a stop at music experience, where you Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub can go to a show and let loose this Sunday. and feel like you’re back on a “We kind of operate under front porch in 1938,” Lupetin the [idea of] the more the said. “That’s something merrier,” Lupetin says. “If the that I think has been hard Zach Lupetin instruments are in the canon of to capture in a sterile, studio singer-songwriter, the folk or jazz traditions and environment.” Dustbowl Revival they fit with our music, let’s do it.” And that time-traveling, In the past, they’ve even incorpofront-porch sound is working. The rated tuba and accordion players, and group just returned from a threealbums have featured upward of 25 people. week United States Embassy musical “It’s been fun to have a large paint box to ambassador tour of China. experiment with,” Lupetin said. “Getting young people to actually appreciate And while the instrumentation allows for a divermusic that was being sung in the ’20s and ’30s, sity of sounds, it also makes figuring out the band’s and then we sort of update it in our own way, style a little tricky—even for its lead singer. I think it’s really cool,” Lupetin said. “It’s the “I joke that I’ve given up attempting to pin down evolution of folk.” Ω what Dustbowl’s sound is,” Lupetin said. “We can be musical chameleons, where we go in and out of a New Orleans funk groove into a straight-up stringcatch the Dustbowl revival at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, December 13, at harlow’s restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J Street. tickets are $15-$18. band song from the 1800s, and then we’ll go into Learn more at www.dustbowlrevival.com. some weird folk love song.” Photo by becca Murray
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Experimental vibes and heavy metal Xmas That thing you doo: It was a good night for folks who helped fund local avant-garde artist DoofyDoo’s Kickstarter campaign earlier this year. The band’s sole member Drew Walker threw an album release show for The Tourist, which also happened to be the opening reception for his gallery exhibit (also called The Tourist) at Blackbird Kitchen + Beer Gallery on Sunday. The exhibit was a virtual recreation of his Tourist tour, with photos, notepad entries and listening stations for music from most of these shows. Those who helped to financially launch the project enjoyed a private pre-show dinner. DoofyDoo performed a set in a room adjacent to the upstairs gallery—it was an ideal room for the oddball music, as artwork and moving lights were everywhere. Dan Trudeau (Pregnant) and Jon Bafus (Gentleman Surfer) kicked off the night. Trudeau started the evening with what can only be described as a truly weird set. His solo music is a mixture of lo-fi keyboards, drum machines, computerized samples and guitar playing, along with his almost-cartoonish lead vocals. It sounded like the soundtrack to a strange ’70s sci-fi film. Bafus played second with an incredible solo set—on the drums. He started very quietly, looping some of his rhythms with pedals, and playing his kit with sticks, mallets and his hands. Partway through his set, he put on a headset and added spoken word and vocal noises over the drumming. He built up as he progressed and by the end it was an orchestra of fantastic tribalrock-arena beats. DoofyDoo closed the night. Before the set, Walker premiered a 12-minute video that is meant to accompany the entirety of his Sacramento EP. The video is a mixture of YouTube clips, animation and funny footage depicting Walker. Walker kept the theme of Sunday’s set a secret until it was time to perform. Appropriately enough, it turned out to center on his Tourist tour. Walker recorded himself thanking people for supporting him, then telling tour-related stories. Live, he improvised music
along to it. Even though it was spontaneous and experimental, Walker did an amazing job of creating different moods using guitar, pedal board and random instruments. The results were dark and dissonant one minute and ethereal and gorgeous the next. —AAron CArnes
Ghostly cheer: It’s getting close to Christmas time and that means one thing for symphonic rock and metal nerds alike: It’s time for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra to make the rounds in arenas across the United States. This year is no different— although the group is also promoting a collection of music that was released last month, Letters From the Labyrinth. TSO was founded nearly 20 ago by composer-producer-lyricist Paul O’Neill, who eventually brought Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli (both from the heavy metal band Savatage) into the fold along with keyboardist Robert Kinkel. Since then, the group has become a headlining sensation. Wednesday’s show at Sleep Train Arena drew a sizable yet decidedly Caucasian crowd for the early 4 p.m. show. Many of the attendees were couples well over 50 years old with just as many middleaged women, who traveled in groups, taking selfies throughout the night. This particular tour, dubbed “The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve,” found the band playing many fan favorites as well as songs from its latest opus as part of a Christmas-themed rock opera. The marvelous light show was replete with lasers and an ornate castle backdrop of sorts. As customary, the TSO institution sends two different versions out on the road in different parts of the country, in an effort to capture that small window of time where the show—and records—can get the most exposure. For those who love Christmas music with a little extra distortion, heaps of keyboards and operatic vocals, there’s little doubt the TSO brand will be routing yet another stop here next year. And the paleskinned 50-plus crowd will likely be ready.
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SN&R’s 2nd Annual Santa Crawl A charity pub crawl to support Shriners Hospitals for Children — Northern California. Help support the Claus by dressing up and attending …
Saturday, December 19 • 1-5 p.m. Downtown Ice Rink St. Rose of Lima Park, 7th & K Sts. The first 500 people who visit us at the Downtown Sacramento Holiday Ice Rink will receive a special Santa Crawl gift bag and hat. Look for the SN&R tent. These establishments are on Santa’s Nice List and are designated stops, so be sure to park your sleigh and check out what specials they have for the day …
Federalist Public House • Capitol Garage • 3 Fires Lounge Tequila Museo Mayahuel • The Coconut Midtown • Streets Santa’s elves are still getting more locations and collecting cool items for the gift bag, so visit our Facebook page and website for more details.
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Rock for Tots
Tommy Castro and the Painkillers
Would-Be Train Robbers
American Bach Soloists
Blue lamp, 8 p.m., $10
haRlow’S ReStauRant & nightcluB, 9 p.m., $22-$25
Deck the halls with rock ’n’ roll and toys! The annual Rock for Tots fundraiser celebrates its 11th season giving back to Sacramento children and families who need it the most. Performances and support from Lonely Kings, Fudi (pictured), ROCK Rebel Punk and Burning Landscapes will ring in the season with all donations raised going toward the Salvation Army. Attendees who bring a toy for the cause will receive a raffle ticket for the chance to win a variety of prizes from local vendors like Spanish Fly, GettaClue, Lowbrau and much more. Rock out and give back with the kids in mind. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.facebook.com/fudimusic916.
—Steph RodRiguez
DANCING WITH THE STARS FRIDAY, FEB. FRIDAY FEB 12
After a couple of decades and 16 albums, you could say that Bay Area guitarist and singer Tommy Castro knows a thing or two about the blues. Fresh off the release of his latest album, Method to my Madness, Castro’s four-piece band riffs on classic blues rock in the vein of Creedence Clearwater Revival, B.B. King and ZZ Top. Despite going for a more stripped-down, raw sound in recent years, the newer stuff sounds pretty similar to the older stuff, which isn’t BLUES ROCK a bad thing: There’s no fixing what isn’t broken, and Castro’s music continues to be as down-home and comfortingly familiar as ever. 2708 J Street, http://tommy castro.com.
—deena dRewiS
FRIDAY, FEB. 26
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Sure they would be train robbers, but who wouldn’t, under the right circumstances? Let’s focus instead on what they ROCK actually are, which is a loose, loud, bare-bones rock ’n’ roll trio. They have swagger and attitude, and harken back to the early ’70s glam rock/proto-punk era of T-Rex, Bowie, ’70s-era Stones, the Stooges, New York Dolls and a million other too-cool-for-school rock ’n’ roll bands. The group has been around in various forms for a decade, but things are just starting to get cooking. It has a debut LP coming out this Friday on Mechanical Bull Records and is already planning for a second. 1901 10th Street, www.wouldbetrainrobbers.com.
—aaRon caRneS
SATURDAY, FEB. 27
Under Jeffrey Thomas, the American Bach Soloists ensemble will present a special Christmas-themed concert featuring the works of (you guessed it!) J.S. Bach. This gathering features the splendid Christmas Oratorio and celebrates CLASSICAL the group’s 27th season of live performance. This particular matinee show precedes a handful of dates at San Francisco’s lovely Grace Cathedral where classical fans and Christmas lovers alike can enjoy Messiah. Whether or not you’re fluent in classical music makes little difference, as Bach’s pieces tend to tease and titillate most everyone’s ears. 1 Shields Avenue in Davis, http://americanbach.org.
—eddie JoRgenSen
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Harlow’s restaurant & nigHtclub, 7 p.m., $40
press club, 8 p.m., $8
This isn’t the first time Nick Lowe or his annual Yuletide band Los Straitjackets have appeared in Sacramento, but it will be the first time they’ll share the stage together. If you’re a bit put off by the notion of mature pop musicians performing holiday tunes, check out the aptly named The Quality Holiday Revue Live featuring Lowe and his erstwhile bandmates from last year’s minitour. Los Straitjackets aren’t strangers to hooking up with ROCK other lively acts to compliment their vocally muted garage-surf rock. The mix of these two veteran acts should provide a proper amount of holiday cheer. 2708 J Street, http://nicklowe.com.
Legend goes that L.A. Witch’s original drummer left for a trip to New York and never came back. Creepy, GARAGe ROCK but fitting for the all-girl trio. L.A. Witch’s garage rock is fuzzy, low-fi, psychedelic and haunting. Some tracks lean punk rock, others operate in spooky, minimalist slow-motion. Imagine droning, ghostly surf rock—an in-line antithesis to the expected and prevalent sunny Los Angeles jangle. The band is on its Kill My Baby tour, named after the first reverb-drenched single off the upcoming full-length, “Kill My Baby Tonight.” Feels and local post-punkers NMBRSTTN open the show. 2030 P Street, http://lawitch.tumblr.com.
—mark Hanzlik
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torcH club, 9 p.m., $6 Among the many fantasies the world holds about Los Angeles, there’s one where the Sunset Strip is filled with cool, worn-down rock music venues where any given weeknight you can catch rising (or declining-yetstill-dignified) rock stars. This isn’t the case anymore, but So Cal natives Hunter & the Dirty Jacks fit that notion of carefully glamorous, House of Blues rock perfectly. Fans of the Black Crowes and Aerosmith will ROCK find much to like in frontman Hunter Ackerman’s gravelly vocals and the band’s raucous, retro stye. The band is on the road in the wake of “Rock & Roll Soul,” the latest single released in October. 904 15th Street, www.hunterandthedirtyjacks.com.
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Harlow’s restaurant & nigHtclub, 9 p.m., $20 California rap legacies have consistently been parading through town lately. Now based in Pomona, Suga Free came up in Compton rapping over production from DJ Quik in the late ’90s. His seminal legacy put him in the company of fellow L.A. icons RAP like Snoop Dogg, Xzibit and Oakland’s Mac Dre. Suga Free is joined by B Legit, who also carries considerable clout as a member of E-40’s The Click and was featured on 2pac’s All Eyez On Me. Both artists’ most popular songs, B-Legit’s “M.O.B. (Money Over Bullshit)” and Suga Free’s “Why You Bullshittin?”, pretty much guarantee no phony sets in Harlow’s. 2708 J Street, www.facebook.com/staysugafree.
—Deena Drewis
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SKRATCHPAD, 9pm, call for cover
Rock for Tots XI with LONELY KINGS, REBEL PUNK, FUDI; 8pm, call for cover
Joints and Jams, 9pm, $5
DOUG C AND THE BLACKLISTED, HEATHEN APOSTLES; 4pm, $5
THE BOARDWALK
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DEVIN THE DUDE, POTLUCK; 7pm, $20-$22
METRO STATION, ZACH VAN DYCK, THE COLOR WILD; 6:30pm, $14-$16
CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Holiday open house, 4:30pm, no cover
ROY ROGERS & THE DELTA RHYTHM KINGS, 8pm, $27-$30
COUNTRY CLUB SALOON
KMZ BAND, 5pm, call for cover
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FACES
Everything Happens karaoke, dance and swim; 9pm-2am, no cover
Absolut Fridays dance party, 9pm, $5-$10
Party Time dance party with Sequin Saturdays drag show at 9:30pm, $5-$12
FOX & GOOSE
STEVE MCLANE, 8pm, no cover
BANJO BONES, HALFPENCE & HAYPENNY, PINE STREET RAMBLERS; 9pm, $5
CLAYDOGS, THE DIVA KINGS; 9pm, $5
GOLDFIELD TRADING POST
MICHAEL BECK BAND, 9pm, $5
BRANDED, 9pm, $5
HALFTIME BAR & GRILL
GROOVE THANG, 9pm, $5
FUNK ROCKERS, 9pm, $5
HARLOW’S
TOMMY CASTRO AND THE PAINKILLERS, STRANGELOVE, SORTA LIKE HEAVEN; 9pm, $22-$25 9pm, $15-$18
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Second Saturday with Billy Lane, 10pm, call for cover
THE HIDEAWAY BAR & GRILL LUNA’S CAFE & JUICE BAR
Joe Montoya’s Poetry Unplugged, 8pm, $2
MIDTOWN BARFLY
Stilldreamin’ Holiday Sweater Party, 9pm, $5
1119 21st St., (916) 549-2779
MR. P CHILL’S Hip-hop Helps Toy Drive, 8pm Tu, $5; DEE ROQ, 8pm W, $10
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I have been using the Iolite and the Pax vaporizers. Now I find the oil/ wax vaporizers much more convenient. What are your recommendations for the best and least expensive oil/wax vaporizers today? —P.A. Man, I totally forgot to mention that art glass and cool pipes and vaporizers and all that groovy stuff also make great gifts. The Pax is still my fave flower vape, and I really like OG Pens and Dabstix for oils and concentrates. OGPens is a Sacramento-based company, so if you are into that whole “support the locals” type of thing, they would be a great option. Check them out at www.ogpens.com. OK, that’s it for real. Happy holidays. Ω Ngaio Bealum is a Sacramento comedian, activist and marijuana expert. Email him questions at ask420@newsreview.com.
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FOR THE WEEk OF DECEMBER 10, 2015 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Happiness sneaks
through a door you didn’t know that you left open,” said actor John Barrymore. I hope you’ve left open a lot of those doors, Aries. The more there are, the happier you will be. This is the week of all weeks when joy, pleasure and even zany bliss are likely to find their ways into your life from unexpected sources and unanticipated directions. If you’re lucky, you also have a few forgotten cracks and neglected gaps where fierce delights and crisp wonders can come wandering in.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What state of mind
do you desire the most? What is the quality of being that you aspire to inhabit more and more as you grow older? Maybe it’s the feeling of being deeply appreciated, or the ability to see things as they really are or an intuitive wisdom about how to cultivate vibrant relationships. I invite you to set an intention to cultivate this singular experience with all your passion and ingenuity. The time is right. Make a pact with yourself.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Like Metallica jamming
with Nicki Minaj and Death Cab for Cutie on a passage from Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute, you are redefining the meanings of the words “hybrid,” “amalgam” and “hodgepodge.” You’re mixing metaphors with panache. You’re building bridges with cheeky verve. Some of your blends are messy mishmashes, but more often they are synergistic successes. With the power granted to me by the gods of mixing and matching, I hereby authorize you to keep splurging on the urge to merge. This is your special time to experiment with the magic of combining things that have rarely or never been combined.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): I hope you can figure
out the difference between the fake cure and the real cure. And once you know which is which, I hope you will do the right thing rather than the sentimental thing. For best results, keep these considerations in mind: The fake cure may taste sweeter than the real one. It may also be better packaged and more alluringly promoted. In fact, the only advantage the real cure may have over the fake one is that it will actually work to heal you.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There’s a sinuous,
serpentine quality about you these days. It’s as if you are the elegant and crafty hero of an epic myth set in the ancient future. You are sweeter and saucier than usual, edgier and more extravagantly emotive. You are somehow both a repository of tantalizing secrets and a fount of arousing revelations. As I meditate on the magic you embody, I am reminded of a passage from Laini Taylor’s fantasy novel Daughter of Smoke & Bone: “She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.”
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I bought an old
horoscope book at a garage sale for 25 cents. The cover was missing and some pages were water-damaged, so parts of it were hard to decipher. But the following passage jumped out at me: “In romantic matters, Virgos initially tend to be cool, even standoffish. Their perfectionism may interfere with their ability to follow through on promising beginnings. But if they ever allow themselves to relax and go further, they will eventually ignite. And then, watch out! Their passion will generate intense heat and light.” I suspect that this description may apply to you in the coming weeks. Let’s hope you will trust your intuition about which possibilities warrant your caution and which deserve your opening.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Ducks are the most
unflappable creatures I know. Cats are often regarded as the top practitioners of the “I don’t give a f---” attitude, but I think ducks outshine them. When domestic felines exhibit their classic aloofness, there’s sometimes a subtext of annoyance or contempt. But ducks are consistently as imperturbable as Zen masters. Right now, as I gaze out my office window, I’m watching five of them swim calmly, with easygoing nonchalance, against the swift current of the creek in the torrential rain. I invite you to be like ducks in the coming days. Now is an excellent time to practice the high art of truly not giving a f---.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): My old
friend Jeff started working at a gambling casino in Atlantic City. “You’ve gone over to the dark side!” I kidded. He acknowledged that 90 percent of the casino’s visitors lose money gambling. On the bright side, he said, 95 percent of them leave happy. I don’t encourage you to do this kind of gambling in the near future, Sagittarius. It’s true that you will be riding a lucky streak. But smarter, surer risks will be a better way to channel your good fortune. So here’s the bottom line: In whatever way you choose to bet or speculate, don’t let your lively spirits trick you into relying on pure impulsiveness. Do the research. Perform your due diligence. It’s not enough just to be entertained. The goal is to both have fun and be successful.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Ancient
Greek philosopher Epicurus was a pioneer thinker whose ideas helped pave the way for the development of science. Believe nothing, he taught, unless you can evaluate it through your personal observation and logical analysis. Using this admirable approach, he determined that the size of our sun is about two feet in diameter. I’m guessing that you have made comparable misestimations about at least two facts of life, Capricorn. They seem quite reasonable but are very wrong. The good news is that you will soon be relieved of those mistakes. After some initial disruption, you will feel liberated.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian inventor Thomas Edison owned 1,093 patents. Nicknamed “The Wizard of Menlo Park,” he devised the first practical electrical light bulb, the movie camera, the alkaline storage battery and many more useful things. The creation he loved best was the phonograph. It was the first machine in history that could record and reproduce sound. Edison bragged that no one else had ever made such a wonderful instrument. It was “absolutely original.” I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because I think you’re due for an outbreak of absolute originality. What are the most unique gifts you have to offer? In addition to those you already know about, new ones may be ready to emerge.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here’s an
experiment that makes good astrological sense for you to try in the coming weeks. Whenever you feel a tinge of frustration, immediately say, “I am an irrepressible source of power and freedom and love.” Anytime you notice a trace of inadequacy rising up in you, or a touch of blame, or a taste of anger, declare, “I am an irresistible magnet for power and freedom and love.” If you’re bothered by a mistake you made, or a flash of ignorance expressed by another person, or a maddening glitch in the flow of the life force, stop what you’re doing, interrupt the irritation, and proclaim, “I am awash in power and freedom and love.”
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The secret of being
a bore is to tell everything,” said French writer Voltaire. I agree, and add these thoughts: To tell everything also tempts you to wrongly imagine that you have everything completely figured out. Furthermore, it may compromise your leverage in dicey situations where other people are using information as a weapon. So the moral of the current story is this: Don’t tell everything! I realize this could be hard, since you are a good talker these days; your ability to express yourself is at a peak. So what should you do? Whenever you speak, aim for quality over quantity. And always weave in a bit of mystery.
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Ears to the ground Antuan Jackson is Sacramento’s Worm Whisperer. He sells worms, worm bins and other garden services. Doesn’t sound like a business with high demand? Think again. As a one-man operation, Jackson breeds and ships out up to 100 pounds of worms every month to as far as Alaska and New York. Locally, he straddles the worlds of green waste management and the farm-to-fork movement, which he says need to go hand-in-hand for Sacramento to really be an agricultural leader. He also provides necessary vermicompost, essentially super-soil. It contains five times more nitrogen, seven times more phosphorus and 11 times more potassium than regular soil, which results in a higher yield of better tasting produce. No chemicals. Just regular old composting stuff— cardboard, food waste, poop—and earthworms, doing their earthworm business. Jackson sat down with SN&R to talk the food system, guerrilla worm farming and eating bugs.
Do people ever think you’re actually a worm psychic? Yeah. Absolutely. But once they start realizing what we do and what these worms do, they start getting an idea of what I mean about being the Worm Whisperer. Because intrinsically it sounds easy—you feed ’em manure and cardboard—but to do it on a large-scale basis, anyone will tell you it’s gonna be a trick.
How’d you come up with the name, anyway? Playing around, trying to get something catchy. I was gonna go with the Worm King, but someone already took that. Then I was thinking about how many different whisperers there were. I said, “Would it be dumb to call it the Worm Whisperer?” I mean, essentially, it’s a pretty quiet business. (Laughs.)
Why should the average person care about vermicomposting? In terms of land, God ain’t making no more. We need to try to preserve it. So if the farms are getting sick and getting the supermarkets sick and getting you sick, there’s gotta be a better way. Something is going wrong in our ecosystem. You need a way to clean your waste, to keep that stuff out of the landfill, and then you need a way to know where your food is coming from. Essentially you’re gonna get a combination of all those things using the worm.
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What’s your workspace like? We grow on patches. I’ll grow my my bait worms in a garage system, but the actual Red Wigglers—the fruit of the business— I grow them everywhere: your friend’s backyard; my backyard. We’ve got a little patch of land. I’ve got patches of land in Southern California. Any of my friends who know my business will open up areas for me. We’re trying to find one consistent farm now, but for the most part in the past five years, I’ve grown them in various backyards and places that you would not believe. Little empty lots around [Del Paso Boulevard], I’ll grow worms. I’ve started a lot of guerrilla gardens around here.
No such thing. Even those little roly-polies, they’re really useful. Even the gnats and the flies. The maggots play an essential role in anything. They make a decent casting as well. Plus, the worm will eat that poop.
Let’s say you’re in your house and a fly is pissing you off. Do you kill it? When it comes to flies, I find them fairly disgusting like anything else, but I’ll give it a chance because I know its life cycle is so short anyway. As long as it’s not in my daughters’ bedrooms, it has a chance of getting outside.
The U.N. recommends we eat more insects for eco-friendly protein. Thoughts? I think that’s cool. If you see an insect’s life cycle, you know they stick to what they eat. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not rushing to have a maggot taco, but I’ve had them in Mexico. … They make good snacks. I used to dip them in chocolate and peanut butter just to freak friends out. Ω
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