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Where’s our refund?

I didn’t buy it. But in 2013, the prevailing logic was that Vivek Ranadive overpaid for the Kings.

When he took over the franchise, experts tagged its value at $534 million. Fans hailed Ranadive as a hero who generously shedded millions to keep our beloved cellar dwellers in town.

But because of a citizen lawsuit against the city, we know that Ranadive and his investors pressured City Hall for a larger public subsidy, using the argument that they were overpaying. (There’s no debating this; it’s how the business negotiation went down.) The city acquiesced and gave the Kings cash, property and assets valued somewhere between $300 million and $350 million.

Now, nearly three years later, it’s a different NBA landscape. Steve Ballmer bought the L.A. Clippers for $2 billion. A new Kings ownership group inked a more profitable TV contract. And, late last month, Forbes estimated that the Kings are worth $925 million! The magazine also estimated the average NBA franchise value at $1.25 billion.

I’ve got one question: Where’s our refund?

That’s right: Ranadive never would have purchased the Kings in 2013 without the city’s nine-figure public subsidy. Taxpayer dollars made the difference.

Now the team’s value is up by nearly 75 percent, and Sacramentans deserve a return on their investment. It’s like what Announcer Scott says at every home game: It’s “your Sacramento Kings.”

This spring is refund season, Vivek, and I’ve got the perfect deadline: April 15. We’ll be looking for the check in the mail.

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Re “Online Buzz” by Alison Brennan (January 28): I take serious issue with Alison Brennan when she says, “they [Sacramento city council members] haven’t done much on homeless issues since the last Safe Ground discussion several years ago.” Wrong, because Sacramento City Council members haven’t done squat on homeless issues since the snakes left Ireland. They haven’t done poop on homeless issues since Jesus looked up and said, “Father, why hast thou forsaken me?” They haven’t done diddly about homelessness since a bunch of Greek murderers peeked out of the eye-holes of a big old wooden horse. Are you kidding me? Way back when a nubile young Neanderthal sweetie crawled out of her cave on a bright and frosty morning and said, “Baehlueh!”—maybe on that day there was a Sacramento City Councilman who mused to himself about selling all his real estate and traveling through the land in a motor home, then thought better of it 10 seconds later. That’s how much the Sacramento City Council has done about homelessness, since forever, because THEY! DON’T! CARE!

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Re “The neighborhood force awakens” by Graham Womack (SN&R News, January 28): Thank you for printing this article. The Midtown Neighborhood Association is excited about its reactivation, and is even more excited about the strong and vibrant sense of community that MNA and its diverse partners are working to create. Our reactivation would not be possible without the help of many individuals, including previous MNA members, friends, neighbors, businesses and city servants. The people who’ve been a part of this are too many to list, but their help has not been overlooked. They have been helping us connect with people or services that resolve problems and help lead to a stronger community. So thanks again.

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Re “Sparing paratransit?” by Graham Womack (SN&R News, January 18): Is the RT Board unaware of the FAST ACT signed in early December? There are funds being made available.

It is certainly hoped that new federal funding won’t be diverted to increase admin and board income.

Public transit, because of its benefits, must be subsidized at a higher level, as is done in other countries. Part of the board’s job is to lobby strongly for that local and federal funding, rather than cutting the ground out from under the riding public. RT should be working to get its fair share of the funds.

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The homeless protest inched closer to City Hall’s front entrance this past Friday.

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Camp obvious Debunking five myths about Sacramento’s homelessness debate

by Raheem F. hosseini

With tensions frothing between Sacramento city officials and the local Right to Rest protest movement, SN&R decided to tackle some of the most common—and insulting—misconceptions about the current debate.

Myth No. 1: This is about camping.

We remember camping: Mom smearing us with mosquito repellant, dad wrestling with tent poles—the city of Sacramento’s “unlawful camping” ordinance has nothing to do with that.

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Committee. “And when there’s not [another] option for everyone, that’s like saying you can’t exist.”

As written, city code 12.52.030 prohibits camping on any public or private property—so, everywhere—unless it’s for temporary recreation or events. In other words, it’s OK to sleep outside unless that’s your only choice.

“Making it a crime to live outside doesn’t keep anyone from living outside,” says Niki Jones of Wind Youth Services, the area’s only service-provider for young people experiencing homelessness. “It just makes it harder to change your situation.”

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Myth No. 2: There’s enough shelter to go around.

Not even close, says Joan Burke, Sacramento Loaves & Fishes’ advocacy director. “The most important fact about the emergency shelter system in Sacramento is that the shelters do not have enough beds for everyone seeking shelter and routinely turn away people for lack of space,” she says by email.

All totaled, there are 1,033 slots scattered across more than two-dozen shelter or motel programs in Sacramento County, “each with its own intake procedures and target populations,” Burke says. “The process of getting into a shelter is anything but user friendly or efficient.”

By the city’s own low-ball estimate, 2,659 people experience homelessness on any given night in Sacramento County.

(There are actually way more, but we’ll get to that later.) That right there shows there aren’t nearly enough beds to go around.

The city likes to wave a 5 percent vacancy rate to prove that there’s still room at the shelters, but that’s fuzzy math of the most disingenuous order. Burke says people sometimes don’t show up at the last minute for reservations. Then there are the homeless people with mental and developmental disabilities, physical ailments or substance addictions (it’s often a cocktail) who Burke says simply can’t function in a communal shelter setting. There are few, if any, crisis-placement options for them.

“This handful of unfilled beds is what permits the powers that be to proclaim that our shelters have vacancies,” she says.

Myth No. 3: There are “only” 2,659 homeless people in Sacramento.

That number comes from a biennial tally called the point-in-time, or PIT, survey, and is accepted as the standard when it comes to quantifying how many

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It’s also a massive understatement, say homeless-service providers.

First off, PIT surveys occur every two years on a single winter night when homeless residents are even less likely to dwell in heavily trafficked areas due to the weather.

They don’t account for anyone who’s couchsurfing, staying in a motel or sleeping in a car. These massive undertakings are also undercut by planning shortcomings and inadequate training, say two service providers who participated in them.

“It was really sloppily done,” says one.

Yet the city swears by these figures, saying on its website that the PIT survey “is the community’s best way to estimate the number of people experiencing homelessness, including those in certain subpopulations, such as transition-age youth.”

Worse, we in the media often repeat the PIT figures without qualification, as if they accurately reflect the scope of our housing problem. They don’t.

To put it in perspective, the 2015 PIT count found 291 homeless youth under the age of 24. But the Wind drop-in center for homeless youth served 918 different individuals from this age group last year.

“Youth experiencing homelessness are grossly under reported,” says Wind Youth Services development director Sarah Mullins.

Get ready to have your mind blown.

According to an analysis of federal enrollment data—which does include couch-surfing and sleeping in cars or motels—the California Homeless Youth Project determined that nearly 12,000 local school children lacked permanent housing during the 2012-13 school year. And that’s just kids.

Reconnecting this to the camping issue was PS7 elementary school teacher Erica Talbott, who put the matter in stark relief at a recent city council meeting. “I find it absolutely tragic that the students in my classroom … are unable to learn during the day because they are unable to sleep at night, all due to the camping ordinance that’s in place. Because of this law, my 8-year-olds are criminals,” she told council members. “I respectfully ask you where they are supposed to sleep tonight.”

The council didn’t have an answer. But it’s always been better at counting votes than counting constituents. myth no. 4: “homeless protesters” are the only ones complaining.

Teachers and labor activists. Medical and nursing students. Religious leaders from Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths.

Members of the LGBTQ community and but we can’t allow people to camp in alleys, Black Lives Matter movement. And, yes, camp on the side of houses, urinate and homeless residents and activists. This is defecate wherever they want to.” the rapidly expanding coalition that is This confused us. Does having the legal demanding the repeal of the city’s antiright to sleep cause someone to lose control camping law. of their bowels?

What a real fringe group.

No, it turns out.

Ever since the occupation outside of “They have a demented urge to City Hall began December 8, 2015, officials dehumanize people by painting them as have tried to diminish the Right to Rest one-dimensional barbarians,” says Omar movement as a small band of agitators Sahak, who belongs to a group of UC who rebuff the city’s attempts to help. But Davis medical and nursing students that’s officials are losing that PR battle. joined the Right to Rest coalition. “They While homeless protesters do make up a could rather think about how to meet basic majority of those who have camped on City human biological needs. There is a great Hall’s front porch for two months now, the prototype toilet already developed for the coalition goes beyond those without shelter.

Tenderloin in S.F.” California Homeless Youth Project director Point taken.

Shahera Hyatt explains this has as much Hansen and Bernard made what’s called to do with common interests as it does a false equivalency. The city’s argument compassion. “The privatization of for keeping the camping ban is riddled public space affects us all. with them. Other members of the The militarization of our council, including mayoral police affects us all,” candidate Angelique she says. “It’s just Ashby, keep saying that they’ve felt that repealing the the effects first.” ban would somehow As the Right mean that they’ve to Rest coalition accepted homelesshas expanded, ness as the city’s its opposition status quo. has dwindled Two points: in size, if not (1) That ship has power. At a already sailed.

Erica Talbott recent city council Thank Oprah’s 2009 teacher, PS7 elementary school meeting, specialvisit to Tent City. (2) education teacher Decriminalizing people’s Trina Allen pointed out ability to sleep outside doesn’t the disparity in allies, with mean the city can’t still pursue the politicians, cops and connected busipermanent housing solutions it’s outlined. ness interests on one side, and everyone else In fact, it’ll have more resources to do so on the other. Or, as she put it, “basically the since it will spend less on citing, arresting, people your policies, your police and your booking and jailing people for the crime of ideology currently and have historically making us uncomfortable. subjugated.”

“We can work on solutions while honoring somebody’s human dignity myth no. 5: repealing the anti-camping and allowing them to sleep,” says Wind’s ordinance will increase public defecation.

Jones. “People are going to be going to the Type “Sacramento homeless” into bathroom either way. What’s going to affect Yahoo’s search engine and the first thing that is whether there are accessible public to pop up, thankfully, is “Sacramento restrooms, and there aren’t.”

Homeless Organizing Committee.” But Case in point: The city recently the second result is “Sacramento homeless padlocked public restrooms in city parks defecate.” and inside of City Hall. It justified the deciDisappointingly, poop has become the sion on its website by saying the restrooms central talking point for public officials were being used for illegal activities and clinging to their increasingly unpopular had “become filthy.” But that’s misleading. policy. At a press conference last month, According to a cost analysis document from both Councilman Steve Hansen and Deputy the city, people were using the restrooms to Police Chief Ken Bernard offered variations sleep and bathe. on this theme. Here’s Hansen: “We can’t The camping law prevents public allow people to camp in alleys, to urinate defecation the same way that the city’s and defecate wherever they want.” And public nudity ban erases genitalia: by pushBernard: “We want to solve this problem, ing the crap out of sight. Ω

“Because of this law, my 8-year-olds are criminals.”

drug and alcohol deaths and hospitalizations spiked between 2011 and 2013 locally, especially in two categories.

Fatal opiate overdoses numbered 126 in 2013, representing more than half of all substance-related deaths and an 83 percent increase since 2011. Amphetamine-related deaths rose 89 percent in two years, to 66 in 2013.

Nonfatal emergency room visits for amphetamine users increased 85 percent, while ER visits for opioid users jumped 28 percent. By comparison, the average increase was 13 percent for all users at ERs. These findings were contained in a report that the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors received on January 26, and show that the area hasn’t gone untouched by a resurgent heroin epidemic that has infiltrated the suburbs. While the Affordable Care Act has allowed the county to dedicate more funding to fighting substance abuse through contract awards and medicationassisted treatment—totaling almost $49 million this year—there is a dearth of residential treatment options, including none for youth. The county contracts with a provider that’s interested in opening one, but sustainable funding is an obstacle, the report says.

(Raheem F. Hosseini)

the jones zone Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones, a first-time congressional candidate, is torridly preparing for next year’s showdown with the man who currently holds his desired office, Rep. Ami Bera.

Over the past several weeks, the Republican candidate has gotten his message out in numerous ways, with his campaign issuing position-oriented releases against the iran nuclear deal and trans-pacific partnership, while Jones himself last week introduced a 7-minute YouTube video tutorial about how to react in an active-shooter situation.

While it’s not connected to his congressional bid, the sleek production—featuring a shotgun-toting gunman terrorizing workers in an office building—adds to Jones’ visibility as he introduces himself to constituents of a swing district that includes the incorporated cities of Citrus Heights, Folsom, Rancho Cordova and Elk Grove, as well as several unincorporated communities that the sheriff’s department patrols.

Bera, meanwhile, has struggled to nail down the endorsement of a local Democratic club upset with his voting record, including his support for a refugee-screening measure. (RFH)

half-measUred U According to a hired consultant’s narrow evaluation, the city of Sacramento spent measure U revenues appropriately last year.

The Sacramento-based public accounting firm Vavrinek, Trine, Day & Co., LLP considered expenditures between July 1, 2014, and June 30, 2015, when the fiscal year ended. In a five-page report that the city’s Budget and Audit Committee received on Monday, Vavrinek says the half-cent sales tax brought in nearly $44 million last year, of which the city spent $28.2 million—or 64 percent—on 28 of 30 budgeted projects.

A caveat, however: “Our audit does not provide a legal determination on the City’s compliance with specific requirements or a determination of whether the City used Measure U revenue in an efficient or effective manner,” the report concludes. (RFH)

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Rest and unrest What do protesters and advocates really mean when they talk about ‘criminalization of homelessness’?

BY DAVE KEMPA

Laurence Talbot watched as his partner packed up a tent. It was a dreary Friday morning on Ahern and North C streets. Four police vehicles bookended the block. Along the sidewalk, homeless campers picked up and left for Loaves & Fishes.

A cop standing in front of a patrol wagon explained that officers were there to clear the sidewalk for public safety. They weren’t actually blocking anyone, except maybe other homeless people. But they were in the way.

Since the homeless occupation of City Hall began in early December 2015, Sacramentans have heard much about the “criminalization of homelessness.”

But what does that mean? What does it look like?

Is it simply, as city council members say, divisive political rhetoric? Or have our homeless finally brought our attention to a civil rights crisis hidden in plain view?

According to Shahera Hyatt of the California Homeless Youth Project, people without housing feel targeted by police for doing everyday things like sitting or lying on public property, sleeping in vehicles, accepting food offered to them or even relieving themselves in the absence of accessible restrooms.

“I talk about it in terms of sitting, eating, standing, sleeping,” explained Hyatt. “Taking it out of the jargon helps to show what is actually happening.”

Here in Sacramento, Sarah Sieck of the Tommy Clinkenbeard Legal Clinic at Loaves & Fishes has seen similar cases come through her doors. These “common offenses of the homeless” include evasion of fares on the light rail, open alcohol containers in public, panhandling and illegal camping.

The Clinkenbeard clinic helps homeless residents navigate the legal system after they’ve gotten citations. It began in 2000 after Sacramento public defender Tommy Clinkenbeard noticed the city’s homeless were unable to receive services they needed due to outstanding warrants incurred for offenses they’d committed in relation to their homeless status.

Today the clinic serves as a first step for homeless residents looking to have their citations resolved.

Each month they’ll meet with public defenders, attend a makeshift court at Loaves & Fishes and pay off tickets they’d otherwise be unable to afford with community service hours.

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Sieck affirms that those served by the clinic are better off than in any alternative scenario. But the cycle of homeless people passing through for offenses they can’t help but commit remains.

“I’ve been doing this for two years now and I feel like I’m on the same ride,” she said. “It’s not solving the problem.”

By far, the most common cases coming through the clinic are those for illegal camping. That’s no surprise.

Both Hyatt and the protesters outside City Hall argue that such camping citations are unjust in a region without enough shelter beds to house the thousands of homeless residents in the region on a given night.

The U.S. Department of Justice may agree.

In an August 2015 Statement of Interest, the DOJ looked at cases involving anti-camping ordinances across the country, concluding that law enforcement cannot enforce camping violations against homeless residents when there are no available shelter beds, since it may qualify as a violation of their Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

But the Sacramento City Council and parks officials stand firm on the law and on enforcement.

In response to rising protests, mayoral candidate Ashby recently referred to the “criminalization of homelessness” as a political term coined in Sacramento. Council members say that lifting the anti-camping ordinance won’t solve homelessness in the region and that protesters and homeless residents alike refuse services and shelter beds nightly.

Homeless protesters like David Andre tell a different story. Andre recalls an instance two weeks ago in which a homeless man seeking shelter with the protesters at City Hall took the police up on their offer of a shelter bed. He was back 45 minutes later.

“They gave him a ride in the police car and that was it,” said Andre.

Hyatt says officials need look no further than City Hall’s front lawn to understand they must think more deeply on the issue.

“They’ve got to look inside themselves to see why they’re out of line with the community that they’re ostensibly supposed to serve.” Ω

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FIGHT TO REST This week, homeless protesters begin their third month outside City Hall. Meanwhile, Sacramento leaders ramp up new search for solutions to get people off the streets.

H i gh w a y 160 is Sacramento’s gateway. It’s a route many people will take to get to the much touted “Downtown 3.0,” and the shiny new Kings arena. But it’s also a window into our homelessness crisis.

The sights that greet visitors as the freeway zigzags through the north side, then shoots into the heart of the city, include: men and woman pushing shopping carts, an abandoned gas station, people loitering on street corners, a sex shop, Loaves & Fishes and its homeless-services facilities, and a triangle-shaped lot dressed with weeds and litter. Welcome to Sacramento.

And this is not to mention the things and people you don’t see on the drive into downtown: men—and some women—underneath the freeway and tucked amid the brush and trees of the American River Parkway.

John Quinones is one of those people. He says he’s been homeless in Sacramento going on 13 years. On a recent Friday afternoon, he was readying his campsite underneath Highway 160 for a wet and windy storm on the horizon. He boiled a pot of water atop a small fire. He also cleared the bluff near his tent of sharp metal debris, which he said somebody dumped a few weeks earlier. Heavy winds actually

pluck these sheaths from the parkway ground and shoot them at his campsite, he said.

Quinones had a normal life before he was forced to the streets. He explained something about a family member getting into serious legal trouble. “And then it kind of fell apart.

It’s a long story,” he said, a common refrain.

This past week, Quinones wasn’t alone on the strip of parkway near Highway 160 at Northgate Boulevard.

SN&R counted 57 campsites in the area, most with tents. The majority were out of sight, hidden from main roads or the levees, tidy and clean—but the few eyesore campsites, thrashed and riddled with garbage, leave an impression.

County rangers do come by, occasionally, ushering people to move on.

But not as often as they’ve done in the past. He says he’s done the homelessshelter thing, but it’s never worked out.

And he’s frustrated.

“It’s illegal for us to be homeless,” he said. “We have to lay down. But we can’t lay in the streets.

“No matter what, tonight I will have to lay down.”

DEMANDING A RIGHT TO REST A couple of miles away from the parkway campsites, homeless activists are out front of City Hall fighting for Quinones’ right to sleep somewhere.

This past Monday was the group’s 56th day of protesting on the grounds. And, according to one of the organizers, James “Faygo” Clark, they’re not going anywhere anytime soon.

He says that the only thing that will get him and his fellow activists off of a muddy lawn near Ninth Street will be the voiding of, or significant changes to, City Code 12.52.030, otherwise known as the “Anti-Camping Ordinance.”

Anything else won’t do. Not even a “safe ground” for people to put up tents, or sleep in small sheds. “I think that would be nice of them. But a safe

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ground still would mean thousands of people in Sacramento without shelter,” Clark said. “So, that doesn’t go far enough.

“What we want is an amendment or a repeal of the anti-camping ordinance.”

Clark’s protest began on December 8.

But his effort to kickstart discussion of city and county homelessness policies has been years long.

Before spending his days out front of City Hall, Clark could be seen often at a Midtown coffeehouse on N Street. The 35-year-old holdout from the Occupy Sacramento movement spent a lot of his days organizing protests against the south Sacramento Nestlé Water Plant.

He also launched something called the Community Dinner Project in 2014, on the heels of a newly passed city law that banned nonpermitted feedings of homeless people on public property. These Dinner Projects took place each Tuesday night before city council meetings. Some weeks, there would be only a handful of diners. But after a year, on December 8, Clark announced to the crowd of dozens that they would kick off an occupation of City Hall grounds in protest of the anti-camping ordinance.

“The anti-camping ordinance criminalizes individuals who have no place else to go,” Clark told SN&R that first evening. “If you lay down and go to sleep [outside], that’s illegal. If you have a sleeping bag to keep warm, that’s illegal.”

It is difficult to put a number on the actual citations issued under the anti-camping ordinance. This is because city police, county deputies and park rangers all issue them, and there’s no single source that collects them together.

It’s also challenging because a citation can be charged as either an infraction or a misdemeanor, which means that two different local courthouses process them.

And so, the numbers obtained by SN&R are incomplete.

But the few statistics we acquired show that the number of citations has increased over the years. In 2007, for instance, only 15 were issued by the city.

That number jumped to 152 in 2008.

But, after the realignment of the state’s prison system in 2011, 675 citations were issued in 2012; 721 in 2013; and 1,064 in 2014—and even more in the last year.

When an individual receives a citation, they can either pay the $230 fine, fight it at Carol Miller Justice Center— which is far from downtown—or visit

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places such as the legal clinic at Loaves & Fishes, where they arrange for work service.

Attorney and activist Mark Merin, who has challenged the city’s ordinance in court, is currently taking an inventory of years’ worth of citations. He believes that law enforcement uniquely targets homeless people.

Indeed, poring through the citations at Merin’s office revealed a catalog of offenders without homes. Men and woman camping near Howe Access, or Woodlake Access, or Garden Highway, or Campus Commons. Many of them have 1231 North C Street (a.k.a. Loaves & Fishes) or 400 Bannon Street (Union Gospel Mission) as their listed “home address.”

dozen arrests and detentions have been made, in addition to confiscation of belongings, since January 1. But by all accounts, city leaders will not be tweaking, let alone repealing, the anti-camping ordinance.

The debate came to a head at a council meeting on January 19, when it was abruptly adjourned because of what Councilman Rick Jennings described as disruption by protesters in the audience.

This past Monday, law enforcement showed up in the evening to warn protesters that they cannot camp or possess sleeping bags on City Hall property, as they do on most nights.

Yet the next day, Tuesday, there were dozens of men and women laying on blankets, and even inside sleeping bags,

“It’s illegal for us to be

homeless. We have to lay down.

But we can’ t lay in the streets.

No matter what, tonight I will have to lay down.”

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That’s why City Hall has become home for so many protesters in the past couple of months.

In the beginning, their protest continued for weeks without incident.

In fact, activist Steve Handlin, who is not homeless, said at the time that law enforcement would come around to make sure everyone at the occupation was OK. “They’re nice and friendly,” he said.

Everything changed on New Year’s Day. Just before midnight, police showed up at the occupation. And, by 1 a.m., at least 48 officers, some clad in equipment often referred to as “riot gear,” broke up the protest. Seven activists were detained and cited, and four were taken downtown to jail.

Police enforcement against the protesters continues. More than two

underneath City Hall’s overhang, out of the rain and the wind.

ANY SOLUTIONS? What would it take to bring John Quinones out from camping under Highway 160?

“It’s hard to leave,” he said. “I could use help with housing.”

Same goes for Sean McGlynn, who three months ago was actually employed

by Sacramento Steps Forward, working on homeless outreach, helping to get people housed. Now, he’s living in the parkway, too.

“It’s no reflection on them. I just burned out. There are so many people now, so many people that you can’t help,” he said of his job. He estimated that there are two to three times more homeless people than there were even a few years ago in Sacramento.

Homeless-service and housing providers that SN&R spoke with for this story agree. They also say that the city, county and Steps Forward are doing a lot better job in recent years of getting people into housing.

The challenge is that even more people are becoming homeless.

There are many new factors: loss of funding for low-income housing, the downtown development and new arena pushing homeless people into more visible places, the high cost of housing in Sacramento forcing people onto the streets, and so on.

This doesn’t mean local electeds are sitting on their hands.

For years, Councilman Jay Schenirer has been one of the few leaders actually willing to spend public money to solve homelessness problems. The good news, he says, is that more of his colleagues now agree with him.

“You have a unanimous council that wants to work on these issues, that’s vastly different than five years ago,” he told SN&R. So, what are the solutions?

Sacramento Steps Forward’s plan of assessing local homeless people and getting them into housing as soon as possible is working, he says. “The challenge there is resources for the plan,” Schenirer said. He means money.

McGlynn agrees. “That’s the sad part.

I think it’s just money.” he said. “With money, you get housing. Why am I out here today? Lack of money. I’m just depressed. I’m tired. I’m burned out on the whole thing.”

Schenirer said the city’s new subcomittee will be exploring options for funding projects such as a safe ground.

He thinks that, like in Denver or Salt Lake City, there are ways to work with local hospitals to acquire matching funds for housing. And he’s optimistic about partnering with the county going forward, and using county funding more efficiently.

“In the long term, I feel pretty good about it,” he said.

“But that doesn’t solve the now.”

That doesn’t get Quinones off the river’s edge any time soon. That doesn’t put food on his plate.

“The law in this majestic country prohibits both the rich and the poor from digging through dumpsters,” Quinones told SN&R, his voice hoarse.

“Unfortunately, we have to do it to survive.” Ω

family’s home to be considered not habitable. Sparks’ eight kids were taken away for almost a year until CPS determined the case to be unfounded.

During that time, however, Sparks had to leave her job as a manager at Wal-Mart leaving only her husband as the primary source of income. The family of 10 lived with a family member from January to July in 2015 until things turned sour. That was when the family moved into the Courtyard Inn, and getting out has been no easy task.

reported 238 families living on the streets.

However, according to Cyndi Torres, program director of Maryhouse, a daytime shelter in the Loaves & Fishes complex, that number falls far short in reporting the real data about homeless families.

“We know that families are underrepresented and that there’s more homeless families outside.

You just can’t find them,” Torres said. “Also, when you ask them, many families won’t say that they’re sleeping outside, because

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Raven Sparks leans against the railing on the balcony of her Courtyard Inn hotel room. She tries to keep a close ear on what’s inside, where seven of her eight kids are loudly playing with each other, watching TV or on the phone. This brand of hectic is her normal day— and, with eight kids, the nights aren’t too different, either.

Each evening, Sparks says her sons sleep in one bed and her daughters in the other, while she and her husband are on the floor.

The family has been living like this since July 2015. And while her oldest children aren’t naive to the family’s predicament, the youngest still struggle to grasp the concept of being homeless.

“They don’t really understand how we got into this situation, because they always saw that mommy and daddy have always worked and provided,” Sparks told SN&R. Like most people in her situation, the story of how Sparks’ family became homeless is complicated.

It started with a Child Protective Services case, Sparks said, involving bad plumbing that caused the

To many, the face of homelessness is that of men and women walking the streets. They could be pushing around a cart with all of their belongings, or maybe standing at the center divider of a busy intersection panhandling to get money for the next meal.

An image Sparks thinks doesn’t come up often enough is a family like hers, struggling to make ends meet.

“Sacramento is worried about people sleeping on sidewalks, and there are hundreds of families out there that are homeless,” Sparks said. “There are so many families [at the Courtyard Inn], it’s ridiculous. And the only help they can get is a hotel voucher.”

Sparks is right about one thing: There are hundreds of families walking that thin line between poverty and homelessness.

The most recent Sacramento Steps Forward Point-in-Time Homeless Count, a yearly report required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that reveals the number of individuals who live on the streets or in shelters,

they’re afraid that CPS will remove their children.”

According to Maryhouse’s yearly intake data, the daytime shelter served 2,012 homeless women and 1,310 children in 2015. Although the daytime shelter doesn’t house the families overnight, it does provide women with survival services to help them take the next step in getting off the street, as well as the basic necessities to help them get through the day.

With less than a dozen overnight shelters in the area to house homeless families, many women and children are forced to find other means of lodging.

Whether sleeping in cars, motel rooms or even tents, povertystricken families have different battles to fight than protesting an ordinance targeting homeless camping.

“It’s like they don’t see what’s going on. They’re so busy beautifying Sacramento that they’re forgetting about what’s in the shadows. And that’s us— we’re in the shadows,” Sparks said. “They don’t want us to be seen, but you can’t fix the outer and not the inner, because it’s always going to spill out. Ω

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or his latest work of art, Andy Cunningham required a lift.

As in, a 60-foot extendable boom lift. And someone to operate the lift, while Cunningham inched across the Jade Apartments’ north-facing wall in a neon vest and hard hat. At more than three stories tall, it took Cunningham two fulls days and miles of twine to create “Baling Twine Loops.”

The installation’s sheer size is staggering—a behemoth of yellow lines against brick. His inspiration?

The building. Sacramento. It’s the sort of piece that’s completely unique to its environment. The local artist saw a wall covered with old nails and designed for two weeks with an architect’s eye, noting

time and weather constraints. As for his materials?

“Sacramento is a community that comes from the earth: farming, the dirt, the river, the vineyards. It’s not a city kind of reality,” Cunningham says. “In certain respects, I am articulating the farmer guy here with farming materials: baling twine and tomato twine.”

In other words, farming tool as art medium.

Now, the rest of the Jade Apartments building on Seventh and L streets is similarly covered in inspired, unique art: painting, sculpture, photography, video, installations, sound experiments, film screenings, live performances and more.

All together, it’s called the Art Hotel, and it’s free to explore February 5-13. Different events will take place at the Art Hotel each day—the exact details of the program are being kept a secret until the opening.

Then, the building and the art it contains will get demolished.

How did such an ambitious project even get off the ground? The birth of a new collective, a successful crowdfunding campaign and an overwhelming response from local artists.

It all started with Shaun Burner, a local known for his spray painted murals and mixed-medium pieces. He wanted to paint the side of the Jade Apartments, got a tour last March and realized the entire building could transform into a temporary gallery.

Hallways, stairwells, kitchens, bathrooms and closets? All potential vehicles for artistic expression.

Taking over an abandoned building and briefly filling it with art isn’t a new concept, but it’s never happened on such a big scale in Sacramento.

“This archetype has happened in a lot of big cities,” Burner says. “Like, let’s just

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have a space that lets artists create without barriers.”

That means artists can smash walls, rip carpet, drill holes and otherwise transform their surroundings. They can both add and take away.

Burner linked up with Cathy Kleckner and Seumas Coutts to form M5 Collective with a couple of other local artists. Along the way, they tapped some outside help to aid in crowdsourcing funds. Now, if Art Hotel is well-received, they hope more opportunities will arrive to create ephemeral artistic spaces in Sacramento.

“What we offer is an experience,” Kleckner says. “It’s not commercial. It’s not consumerism. It’s art at its best.”

Clearly other artists agree. M5 received hundreds of proposals from all over the world; Burner says he got 80 pitches just minutes before the project’s submission deadline. Ultimately, the collective chose 50 visual artists plus roughly 40 more musicians, performance artists and filmmakers. Among the local names: musician Drew Walker, painter Jose Di Gregorio, ceramicist Nina Jean Lynch, mixed-media artist Tricia Talle, historian William Burg and abstract artist William Ishmael. The age range is 7 to 78.

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Burner stresses that Art Hotel is a community effort. Not only was it funded by 75 enthusiasts who donated a collective $11,864 via Kickstarter, but Blick Art Materials donated supplies, Lucca Restaurant & Bar delivered food to feed the artists, Seasons Coffee Roasters brought coffee and Ruhstaller volunteered to act as the Art Hotel’s official reception area so folks aren’t waiting in line outside. Though M5 provided the coordination, Kleckner emphasizes that Art Hotel is not about M5.

“It’s about the artists,” she says.

So, why are so many excited to create something that will inevitably vanish?

“I think it adds a bit of liberty, a bit of freedom,” Cunningham says. “Everything is pretty much temporary anyways in the big picture—this is just a little bit more so.”

Plus, many artists are more keen on creating something out of their comfort zone if it’ll wind up disappearing. While Cunningham has worked with twine before, it’s not exactly his forte. He’s an abstract painter, focused on color, shape and movement.

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The New York native says he started taking his affection for doodling seriously after college in the Bay Area. Many art classes and representational paintings later, he moved to Sacramento and made a major creative switch as well.

“I slowly started editing out recognizable imagery,” he says. “It’s not about the narrative or the female form or landscape. … It would be hard to say art doesn’t tell a story, but that’s not my main thing.”

Cunningham admits he’s remained an outsider in his decade-plus in Sacramento— he’s looking forward to meeting more like-minded creators via the Art Hotel.

But Cunningham is no stranger to the art world. He’s shipped pieces off to Germany, France and the Netherlands for a traveling showcase and, a few years ago, curated an art show in town, displaying the work of 25 artists from all over the globe. Like M5 Arts, Cunningham was shocked at the response to his call out for pieces, having to close his window for submissions after just 12 hours.

It proves that there are tons of artists who want to show their work and just need a space to do so—like an abandoned hotel. Ω

Check out Art Hotel, February 5-13, at the Jade Apartments, 1122 Seventh Street.

Learn more at http://m5arts.com.

Andy Cunningham stands outside the Jade. To see his work, you’ll have to stand back and look up.

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ere’s a question for people who celebrate Mardi Gras in a city that is not New Orleans: Why? It’s a holiday so closely tied to a sense of place that attempting to transplant the tradition of drinking excessively and throwing beads at women in hopes of seeing boobs just seems like a shabby excuse to drink excessively and throw beads at women in hopes of seeing boobs. Am I being a total buzzkill? Am I reducing centuries of French Catholic tradition down to a token of appropriation and misogyny?

All right, fine. Fat Tuesday is, historically speaking, a feast day during which revelers eat a bunch of fatty foods before fasting for Lent, and I can get on board with that much. Below, tips for adhering to this time-honored and holy tradition:

2016 PBR Sacramento Invitational FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, AND SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 One might allege that the city was too self-pleased with its craft cocktails and single-origin coffee to ever fully accept Bulls Restaurant & Bar and its mechaniSPORTS cal bull back in 2014. But be still, secretly Podunk hearts of Sacramento: Grown men who specialize in clinging to a provoked bull are putting in two days of work on the road to the Professional Bull Riders World Championship Buckle. See who can hold on hardest and has the best shot at the $1 million grand prize. $36-$101; 8 p.m. on Friday and 6:50 p.m. on Saturday at Sleep Train Arena, 1 Sports Parkway; www.sleep trainarena.com.

—DEENA DREWIS

Ettore’s European Bakery and Restaurant (2376 Fair Oaks Boulevard) is selling lovely King Cakes—a cake with a plastic or ceramic baby baked in it—in cherry, apple or chocolate flavors for $24.50. Whoever gets the slice with the baby wins! Wins what, exactly, is subject to interpretation, and tradition dictates that you have to buy next year’s King Cake, so pick your piece accordingly. Visit www.ettores.com to place your order. (Want to buy all the King Cakes? Check out “Eat Me” on page 20 for more recommendations. You’re welcome.)

As for dinner, there may be no better occasion to try the Monster DD: two beef patties, maplecured bacon, lettuce, tomato, onion and two fried eggs, all sandwiched between two grilled-cheese

49er Flea Market

sandwiches. At $22, this is some holy dedication to putting the “fat” in Fat Tuesday, and it can be found at Cheesy Charlie’s (2598 Alta Arden).

If you’re looking to keep it indulgent but at least a little bit traditional, there’s always the Porch Restaurant and Bar (1815 K Street), which offers southern cuisine and a bourbon library; South (2005 11th Street), where you can get in on some jambalaya, fried catfish, hush puppies and more; and the Shady Lady Saloon (1409 R Street), where you can get a shrimp po’boy alongside a Pimm’s Cup or Sazerac.

—DEENA DREWIS

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Maybe, like some of us, you made a resolution this year to buy less in an effort to be more budget-conscious, environmentally friendly and kinder to your already-cramped home.

Great—but you know that such a resolution doesn’t really count when it comes to cool old stuff, right? This weekend check out the inaugural 49er Flea Market in Auburn. Scheduled to be held most Saturdays, it SHOPPING will offer a wealth of vintage junk (a good thing), antique treasures, arts and crafts and, perhaps most importantly, food vendors. Free; 8 a.m-3:30 p.m. at the Gold Country Fairgrounds, 1273 High Street in Auburn; http://49erfleamarket.net.

There are dozens of museums in the greater Sacramento area and this Saturday you can visit as many as you can fit into a day for free—or half-price admission at Sacramento Zoo and Fairytale CULTURE Town. It’s all part of the city’s 18th annual Museum Day celebration. In addition, some participating locations will also host special activities including free art lessons, hands-on presentations and cake.

Free; 10 a.m-5 p.m. at various locations; http://sacmuseums.org/news-events/ museum-day.

Celebrate the lunar New Year by getting cosmic at the Crocker Art Museum. Inspired

by Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac ART Heads, this month’s Art Mix boasts Chinese lion dancing, magical illusions, the Sacramento Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps, and an East-meets-West fashion show. As always, there will be drink specials all night, happy-hour deals from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. and tunes from DJ Larry Rodriguez. $5-$10; 5 p.m.-9 p.m. at Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; www.crockerartmuseum.org.

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Fatties only KING CAKE If you think Mardi Gras is all about the booze, you’re missing the boat. It’s called “Fat Tuesday” because of the food. You can eat gumbo anytime, but King Cake is just for Mardi Gras. It’s like a super-sweet coffee cake, gaudily decked out in purple, green and yellow sugar.

New Orleans native Charlie Harrison will make one ($15-$25) for Old Soul Co. and Freeport Bakery offers a plain or praline version ($15.95-$20.95). They come with miniature babies baked inside. If you get the baby in your slice, you buy the King Cake next year, chère. Old Soul, 1716 L Street, www.oldsoulco.com; Freeport Bakery, 2966 Freeport Boulevard, http://freeportbakery.com.

—ANN MARTIN ROLKE

Monkish MONK BELLY, JACKRABBIT BREWING CO. ILLUSTRATION BY MARK STIVERS

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BY JANELLE BITKER

Surprise: You wouldn’t expect excellent food in trippy dive bar Back Door Lounge in Old Sacramento.

But now the kitchen belongs to Aaron Anderson, a former fine dining chef with stints at the Ritz Carlton in Arizona and the Hyatt Regency in San Diego. He came to Back Door in October, revamping the dive bar’s usual breakfast and lunch fare with farm-to-fork sensibilities.

Now, he’s getting ready to bring his catering project Purple Pig Eats to the masses. In late March, it’ll reside as a permanent pop-up inside Back Door Lounge on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Watch out for some previews in February.

“Fine dining is great, and it gives you to the tools to do cool stuff,”

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he says. “But this reaches more people.”

Purple Pig Eats specializes in what Anderson calls “Californiastyle barbecue,” with Asian and Mexican influences. For example, pork butt is cooked carnitas-style for 10 hours, then smoked; lamb ribs come with a yuzu mint glaze; and tacos are filled with char siu-style pork. A note for true ’cue nerds: Anderson primarily uses cherry and almond wood.

In season: Between restaurants in Davis and Winters—plus catering and farmers markets—Tony and Rhonda Gruska have spent several years exhibiting the farm-to-fork lifestyle. Their restaurants have been co-owned by Jim Eldon of Fiddlers

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Green Farm in Brooks, which in turn supplies the Gruska’s restaurants.

The latest? EastSMF (3260 J Street, Suite B), which softly opened two weeks ago. That’s the original Formoli’s Bistro, which the Gruskas have brightened up with fresh paint and modern accents.

Last summer, Tony and Rhonda were forced to close their Davis restaurant Monticello Seasonal Cuisine amid problems with the landlord. Those problems escalated to a legal battle—and a threat to take Fiddlers—that the Gruskas are still fighting. They have a court date in November.

“Right now, our goal is to leave Monticello behind emotionally and financially, and protect the farm,” Rhonda says. Like Monticello, EastSMF’s menu will change regularly—often daily—but there will always be one vegan entree and at least one vegetarian entree.

Tony, who cooked at Monticello, is joined by Rachel Kelley (Brasserie Capitale, South, Revolution Wines) and Stan Moore (Tuli Bistro, Capital Dime) in the kitchen. They’ll likely host a grand opening in spring and add on lunch and brunch. Ω

Though not quite a dubbel, Monk Belly is inspired by Belgium. The brewery labels it an “abbey ale,” a term that doesn’t really mean anything. Regardless, Monk Belly makes for tasty, easy drinking. It pours a lovely amber, ripe with butterscotch and fruity notes.

The maltiness is gentle, and at 6 percent alcohol, the finish extremely smooth. Jackrabbit isn’t selling bottles, but find it in the taproom at $5 a pint or $3 a half-pint. Tell the monks brewing in the back that I say hi. 1323 Terminal Street in West Sacramento, www.jackrabbitbrewingcompany.com.

—JANELLE BITKER

Get stung NETTLES Humans eat some strange foods, but why would you want something that stings? Stinging nettles have long been used as medicinal herbs, but they can also be eaten in many of the same ways as spinach.

Soaking nettles in water and cooking them will remove their bite. They’re a hearty topping for pizza, with the side benefit of possibly helping your arthritis, hay fever and anemia. Puree nettles into pesto when basil is out of season or stir them into soups just before serving. Or, have a bit of soothing nettle tea if you’re feeling nettled.

—ANN MARTIN ROLKE

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Holidays for days

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HHH 3445 Freeport Boulevard, (916) 476-3082 Dinner for one: $10 - $15 Good for: burgers, salads, local microbrews Notable dishes: soft tacos, hand-cut fries

It’s sort of a clumsy name—describing what you’ll do there—but the new Meet & Eat in Land Park has proven to be an immediate hit. From the owners of Cafe Dantorels in Curtis Park, it takes over the burned-out shell of Crepe Escape, which has sat empty since 2013.

The building renovation is noteworthy, turning a notorious eyesore into a light-filled sleek and welcoming space. The side patio is enclosed with garage doors, which will open to an outdoor space in warm weather. Tables painted to look like bowling lanes offer roomy group dining.

Since it opened last November, Meet & Eat has been plenty busy.

With breakfast, lunch and dinner service seven days a week, there’s not much downtime.

The servers are efficient and friendly, though, and never seem overwhelmed.

The breakfast choices have expanded a lot from the beginning, with service until noon. The breakfast tacos ($12) come with three organic corn tortillas filled with scrambled eggs, cheese, bacon, pico de gallo and a side of salsa verde. You can get them with salmon and cream cheese for an extra $2.

The tortillas are excellent, and the salsa really adds a nice piquancy without too much spice.

(There’s hot sauce on every table.) Out-of-season cherry tomatoes were unnecessary, though.

The Freeport Scramble ($12) is an even heartier choice, with a green scramble of eggs, olives, spinach, bell peppers and basil. Plenty of feta cheese on top adds a nice saltiness.

Fantastic “house potatoes” with crispy edges and lots of fresh herbs, plus toast and jam, round out the plate.

At lunch and dinner, the choices turn to burgers, huge salads and more top-quality tacos.

California microbrews and wines dominate the drinks menu, with rotating taps of craft beers in addition.

Of the 15 burgers, we tried the lamb burger ($14) and the sliders ($11). The lamb is flavored with citrus-y sumac, accompanied by a dill sauce similar to tzatziki. While the meat was cooked to medium rather than a juicier medium-rare, the sauce added a Mediterranean flavor.

All the burgers come with a mountain of handcut skinny fries, which may be some of the best in town. The sliders are satisfying little bites perfect for kids and light appetites, made with Niman Ranch beef and served on soft buns with lots of garnishes.

The best entrée we tried was crispy fish tacos ($13). The tender battered fried fish was accented with vinegar slaw, radishes, cilantro and a creamy jalapeno sauce. They’re juicy and simply delicious.

The veggie sandwich ($13) has slices of grilled marinated eggplant layered with greens, red onions, roasted beets and feta. Served on focaccia, the flavors meld well, but it’s a very messy experience. Large chunks and drippy juices made it a bit hard to enjoy.

Another dish in need of tweaking is the Chicken on Fire ($13) salad. All the salads are overwhelmingly large, piled in mixing bowls.

Aside from that, the salad was marred by big hunks of onion and chicken. No one wants to have to use a knife for salad.

There’s also a $10 hot dog, the price of which has raised eyebrows among some diners. It’s a Niman all-beef beauty, split and grilled, then served with caramelized onions and those crispy fries, so definitely a better deal than the $10 dogs you get at Raley Field.

The prices are calibrated to the neighborhood rather than the nearby City College, but the portions are plentiful. It’s a sweet spot of location, good drinks and all-day food. Ω

The $10 hot dog is a Niman all-beef beauty, split and grilled.

’Tis the season for both Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras. Celebrate the former—and the year of the monkey, in particular—in Little Saigon, where more than 10,000 people are expected to come out for the Lunar Flower Fest and Tet Parade. The parade will start at 9 a.m. on Saturday, February 6, on the corner of Stockton Boulevard and Fruitridge Road, and the flower ceremony will start at noon. Find music, games and, of course, lots of Vietnamese food until 8 p.m. as well as on the next day. More at www.lunarflowerfest.org. Meanwhile, the Mardi Gras party in Old Sacramento will be decidedly less family-friendly. It’ll take the form of a bar hop, with drink specials, live jazz and New Orleans-inspired food across eight venues starting at 8 p.m. on Saturday. Don’t miss the po’boys at River City Saloon (916 Second Street) or gumbo at Sports Corner Cafe (1030 Second Street). More at http://oldsacramento.com.

—JANELLE BITKER

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BY SHOKA Now that Guy Fieri’s chain restaurant on Arden Way is shuttered, the most novelty eatery in the area that doesn’t involve an animatronic band and Skee-Ball may be Tea Rex in Elk Grove. Besides having the most pun-tastic name ever, the shop (2475 Elk Grove Boulevard in Elk Grove, Suite 150) has a menu full of novelty consumables, including milk tea, boba, slushy, sushi, ramen and ramen burger—most of which is not vegan. But if sipping/ chewing on tea and staring into

the eyes of mounted dinosaur heads on the wall is what your heart desires, don’t deny yourself. A note about milk tea: After visiting several boba dispensaries around town, the employees said it contains nondairy creamer, so it’s OK for vegans. It is not. Nondairy creamer actually does contain dairy. Anyway, for a superior drink you can chew sans dino décor, Brown Sugar, located inside 99 Ranch Market (4220 Florin Road, Suite 106) tops the leaderboard.

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Walk this way CURATOR TALK WITH DIANA DANIELS: BACK TO LIFE Enjoying art for art’s sake is great, but sometimes context is even better. Imagine walking through a museum with an expert who could tell ART you what the artists were thinking as they worked. On Saturday, February 6, at the Crocker Art Museum, curator Diana Daniels will conduct a walk-through for the exhibit Back To Life: Bay Area Figurative Drawings, giving history and background to attendees. This exhibit represents an important period from art, in the ’50s and ’60s when a handful of regional artists there were redefining figure drawing with the use of, among other techniques, abstract expressionism. $12; 11 a.m Saturday, February 6. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; www.crockerartmuseum.org.

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Love in the city HER STORY Co-written by Jen Richards and Laura Zak and directed by Drunktown’s Finest’s Syndey Freeland, Her Story is a new six-part YouTube SERIES series that tells the story of Allie and Paige, two Los Angeles-dwelling trans women. The series, which premiered January 18, follows their romantic pursuits—and the cultural shifts and politics that both sustain and shadow them. The entire season is available for streaming and each episode is short—typically under 10 minutes. With polished cinematography and compelling stories, this IndieGoGo-funded show is a must-watch for anyone seeking insight into a community that’s too often mocked, misunderstood or misrepresented. http://herstoryshow.com.

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The show skates ICE SKATING into Sacramento Wednesday, February 10, for a sixday run at Sleep Train Arena.

Skater Becky Bereswill was cast as the story’s protagonist Elsa and in a recent interview talked about the pressure she’s felt in representing the role model.

“Elsa really is a dream role for me since she is such a wonderful character, so beloved by her fans,” said Bereswill.

Getting the job came from Bereswill’s lengthy experience on ice—and knowing the right, um, people.

“Since I was known and came from a competitive skating background, Elsa herself approached me,” she said. Of course.

A huge amount of work goes into each production. “This show goes through great lengths to bring the movie onto the ice with awesome effects including lots of snow machines and even Elsa’s ice tower,” she said. Cue the opening notes of “Let it Go.” $28-$101.50; 7 p.m. February 10-12; 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. February 13-14; noon and 4 p.m. February 15. Sleep Train Arena, 1 Sports Parkway; www.disneyonice.com/frozen.

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Driving Miss Daisy

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BY BEV SYKES

Janis Stevens and Michael J. Asberry star in this odd-couple drama about a crotchety old white woman and the African-American man who is hired to be her chauffeur. Stevens gives a bravura performance, slowing, weakening, seemingly shrinking as Daisy ages. Director Benjamin T. Ismail inherently knows what to do with this story, and what we see on stage is powerful and touching.

Th 6:30pm, F 8pm, Sa 2pm and 8pm, Su 2pm, W 6:30pm.

Through 2/14. $34-$38. Pol-

lock Stage at Sacramento Theatre Company, 1419 H Street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. J.C.

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“Damn. I can’t remember if this is the scene about the chickens or the pop star.”

Love and Information

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Love and Information; 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday; $25-$35. Capital Stage, 2215 J Street; (916) 995-5464; www.facebook.com/capstage. Through February 28.

Watching Capital Stage’s Love and Information, by award-winning playwright Caryl Churchill, is like sitting in front of the television set and flicking through the channels one by one, pausing briefly to see what’s going on. Eleven talented actors, some of the best Sacramento has to offer, perform in the roles of 100 characters during 50-plus scenes that play out over 95 minutes. There is no plot to intrude on the action and you’d think this would be a big mess, but miraculously, it works beautifully.

Under director Benjamin T. Ismail, the show moves at a fast clip and in the end, the viewer realizes the importance of “communication” in our lives, be it sad information, funny information or informative information.

Churchill takes the audience on an exhilarating carnival ride. Contrast two giddy teenagers mooning over a popular star with a conversation with an Alzheimer’s patient, or learning how scientists collect and test chicken brains, or various words for the thing we put our dinner on as we sit down to eat each night.

It sounds as if it wouldn’t fit together, but it does. This is innovative theater at its finest, thanks to the skill of all involved (no small amount of which includes the technicians who designed the set, lighting and sound—all integral to the success of this show).

This is a unique, acclaimed new play and it should not be missed. Ω

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4 Look Back in Anger The phrase “angry young man” comes up frequently in relation to John Osborne’s 1956 drama Look Back in Anger. Jimmy Porter, the protagonist of the gritty, groundbreaking drama, is, indeed, angry and young—mainly angry.

Really angry.

Originally the term referred not to Jimmy, but to John, the author. Osborne was the first among young playwrights of the late 1950s to develop a realistic style of theater (called “kitchen sink drama”) that explored issues of the working class.

The play takes place entirely within a cramped and dirty apartment where Jimmy (played with much intensity by Dan Fagan) and his mousy upper-middle class wife Alison (Elyse Sharp) are crowded by the lodger Cliff (Paj Crank, a most amiable actor) and Alison’s actress friend Helena (Mallory Monachino).

Social injustices, financial difficulties, spiteful acts and emotional wounds create the fabric of a plot that comes, finally, to a vaguely hopeful conclusion.

Director E.M. Hodge keeps the emphasis on the words—a long, steady stream of them—and her fine actors. In one small but integral scene, Loren Taylor, as Alison’s father, Colonel Redfern, delivers a remarkably naturalistic performance that gives added sheen to the production.

—JIM CARNES

Look Back in Anger; 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday; $20. William J. Geery Theatre, 2130 L Street; (916) 214-6255; http://emhpros.weebly.com. Through February 8.

St. Louis playwright Carter W. Lewis’ play is a one-act, 90-minute comedy with dark overtones. Directed by Buck Busfield, it revolves around Benjamin Rindell, an English professor, his AfricanAmerican fiancée Emmy, the unexpected arrival of Allison, a 15-year-old daughter he never knew he had, and Emmy’s former boyfriend, Bluetooth Atkinson, trying to get his woman back.

There are problems with

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this play, starting with the lack of back story. The end is excessively brutal, too. Still, it may not be the “hilarious” show advertised, but thanks to fine performances it’s decidedly enjoyable. Th, F 8pm;

Boulevard; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.org. P.R.

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The Realistic Joneses

This theater-ofthe-absurd play presents the story of new neighbors who find out they share the last name Jones as well as other similarities none of them want to admit. Here, playwright Will Eno creatively plays with language and meaning to convey the heartache, frustration and melancholy mystery of how a degenerative mental disease affects people, relationships and day-to-day interactions. Presented in short scenes, this existential dark comedy uses non sequiturs, awkward give-and-takes, illogical patters and inappropriate outbursts. The reward is a fascinating delve into the hearts and minds of four people struggling with watching loved ones slip-sliding away.

Sa 5pm and 8pm; Su 2pm;

Tu, W 6:30pm. Through 2/28. $23-$35. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. B.S.

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The Motherf**ker With the Hat

Stephen Adly Guirgis’ raw, crass, brash, in-your-face play about members of the underclass striving to survive and a paroled drug dealer trying to stay straight, is intense, funny and full of fucks—both literal and figurative. The characters are all struggling in purgatory and hells of their own makings, but sincerely trying to better themselves.

Jackie is just out of prison and trying to re-establish a relationship with his girlfriend Veronica, a street survivor who wants to “put the ghetto on hold” but is still caught up in her addictions. The impressive cast is flawless with a palpable chemistry between all of them. Th, F, Sa 8pm.

Through 2/13. $10-$20. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso

Th 2pm and 7pm; F 7pm; Sa 8pm; Su 2pm; Tu, W 7pm.

Through 2/6. $15-$35.

B Street Theatre B3 Stage, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreet theatre.org. P.R.

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Catch the wave “Kiss the Girl.” “Under the Sea.” With such songs, this can only be Disney’s The Little Mermaid. This charming tale of Ariel, who wants to experience life outside the sea, surfaces in Sacramento in a polished, retooled and even more delightful production than the Broadway version. Glenn Casale, who directed the Music Circus production in 2012, is at the helm of this Broadway Sacramento show. Flotsam and Jetsam and all the other see-worthy characters will be on hand, too.

2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m.

Sunday; $24-$92. Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street; (916) 557-1999; www.californiamusicaltheatre.com.

—JIM CARNES

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Unfortunately, Jane keeps getting overshadowed by the men in her own film. Portman is monotone until she gets a big crying scene, and then she goes John Ford’s great 1962 Western The Man Who Shot deliriously over the top. As the husband, Emmerich Liberty Valance ended with a newspaper editor could out-act all three leads in his sleep, which is opining that, “When the legend becomes fact, print essentially what he does here, only making it off his the legend.” At this point, the concept of a solemn, deathbed in flashback glimpses. Edgerton continues sepia-toned, ominously symbolic West is the mytholto reveal himself as a one-note actor, and McGregor ogy that demands debunking. In Gavin O’Connor’s did not suddenly become good. laborious Jane Got a Gun, everyone and everything Jane Got a Gun’s production was famously is brown all the time, including nearly every piece of troubled—original director Lynne Ramsay (We clothing and interior décor, a tired trope all too typical Need to Talk about Kevin) was replaced in preof the “revisionist Western.” production by a more conventional genre director The film adheres to this all-brown color scheme in in Gavin O’Connor (Warrior), while Portman’s an attempt at authenticity, despite the fact that male co-stars rode a recasting carousel other colors have existed at least as far that saw Edgerton switch roles and left back as the 19th century, and perhaps Michael Fassbender, Bradley Cooper even earlier. It’s a tactic employed for and Jude Law in the dust. All that Jane Got the sake of reality, even though it’s a and then the production company a Gun is a lie. Jane Got a Gun doesn’t replace went bankrupt, leaving the film in the legend with facts; it just replaces conflicted, clumsy, distribution limbo for two years. the old legend with a different, much You don’t need to know any compromised more boring, much more brown of that extratextual information mess. legend. It’s all so hazily brown that in order to know that Jane Got it’s hard to tell if O’Connor is going for a Gun is a conflicted, clumsy, Rio Brown-o, Pale Brown Rider or High compromised mess. It unfolds in a Noon—Brown Version. choppy and tedious flashback structure Natalie Portman stars as Jane Hammond, wife that robs the story of any forward momentum. of an outlaw (Noah Emmerich), a man who returns There’s never any emotional connection to home one day riddled with bullets, carrying news the characters, and the third act deaths don’t that their unspoken past has caught up. Jane loads up carry an impact. Aesthetic decisions are largely on ammunition and recruits the help of ex-lover Dan nonsensical, and each plot dump seems to Frost (Joel Edgerton), a Civil War hero still carrying a contradict the previous plot dump. Yes, those torch for his lost love, in order to protect her husband. dumps are colored brown, too. Ω Meanwhile, sadistic gang leader Colin McCann (Ewan McGregor) and his facial-scarred (i.e., evil) henchmen slowly (and I mean, slooooowly) advance.

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The 5th Wave

An ordinary high school girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) finds her world torn asunder when aliens invade Earth, pursuing a methodical plan for exterminating humanity.

Adapted by Susannah Grant, Akiva Goldsman and Jeff Pinkner from Rick Yancey’s novel, and directed (decently, if with little distinction) by J Blakeson, the movie begins as a novel twist on the alien-invasion formula, with a tough, determined performance from Moretz. Then it tips its hand, and our disappointment is palpable: Damn, it’s just another Hunger Games/ Divergent/Maze Runner clone, with the heroine torn between two lovers (Nick Robinson, Alex Roe) and joining a desperate Resistance made up of bravely hard-boiled teenagers. The book was the first of a series, naturally, so at least we know what Moretz will be up to for the next few years. J.L.

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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Director Michael Bay and writer Chuck Hogan, adapting Mitchell Zuckoff’s nonfiction book, recount the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. The movie focuses on two CIA operatives caught in the battle: one of the slain, Tyrone Woods (James Badge Dale), and a pseudonymous survivor played by John Krasinski. Tense and riveting, here’s the movie some of us never knew Michael Bay had in him—the action, when it starts, is paradoxically both chaotic and clear.

There’s a palpable sense of the sun-scorched uncertainty of the Lybian street, where the Americans are never entirely sure who is friend and who is foe. Dale gives what could, with luck, turn out to be a star-making performance, with Krasinski not far behind. J.L.

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Anomalisa

In order to become fully realized on film, the harsh metaphysical whimsy of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman requires an equally visionary visual artist. Many critics loved Kaufman’s 2008 directorial debut Synecdoche, New York, but I could never get past the film’s pushy message-mongering and lead-footed visual sense, and felt that he deeply missed the cinematic panache of directors like Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich and Adaptation) and Michel Gondry (Human Nature and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).

In the strange and pensive stop-motion animated mind-blower Anomalisa, Kaufman finds another visionary collaborator in co-director Duke Johnson, best known for his work on Moral Orel. Kaufman and Johnson’s film is a heart-stopping masterpiece of emotional malaise and disconnection, vividly surreal and achingly real at the same time. D.B.

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Director and co-screenwriter Adam McKay (Step Brothers) bungles a great opportunity to savage the architects of the 2008 financial crisis in The Big Short, wasting an A-list ensemble cast in the process. Steve Carell, Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling play various tenuously related members of the finance industry, men who made made a killing by betting against the housing market, which at that point had superficially swelled to record highs.

All of the elements are in place for a lacerating satire, but almost every aesthetic choice in the film is bad, from the U-Turn-era Oliver Stone visuals to Carell’s sketch-comedy performance to the cheeky cutaways where Selena Gomez and Anthony Bourdain explain complex financial concepts. After a brutal opening half, it finally settles into a groove, and there’s a queasy charge in watching a credit-drunk America walking towards that cliff’s edge, but not enough to save the film. D.B.

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Panda Po (voiced by Jack Black) meets his long-lost father (Brian Cranston), just as yet another supervillain (J.K. Simmons) rises to conquer the world. The formula of this gaudy franchise is growing stale, and the dialogue by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger bounces back and forth between pompous mumbo-jumbo and fart-poop-and-pee jokes. Still, the movie has its compensations. Like the first two, it’s stylishly pretty to look at, and the over-the-top fight scenes and visual humor (courtesy of directors Alessandro Carloni and Jennifer Yuh) are amusing. Also, the minotaur-like villain here is an improvement on the scrawny peacock of the first sequel. Once again, the allstar supporting cast (Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Kate Hudson, etc.) is largely wasted; the only voice we really remember is Black’s. J.L.

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Dirty Grandpa

A strait-laced, dull young lawyer (Zac Efron) reluctantly agrees to drive his recently widowed grandfather (Robert De Niro) to Florida for spring break—ostensibly to bond and complete the grieving process, but really to get Grandpa laid by some obliging college girl. Nonstop partying, drug use, vandalism and kinky sex ensue. De Niro, with nothing left to prove, has wasted his talent on some pretty unworthy movies in the last few years, but he’s never made one as shoddy or as thoroughly inept as this. Almost nobody has. John Phillips’ script is moronic, Dan Mazer’s direction is beyond sloppy; the movie is ugly in every sense of the word (shame on cinematographer Eric Alan Edwards, too). It never rises to the level of garbage. Already we have the worst movie of the year—and maybe next year as well. J.L.

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Fifty Shades of Black

Director Michael Tiddes and writers Rick Alvarez and Marlon Wayans do a send-up of Fifty Shades of Grey, with Wayans himself starring as the mysterious tycoon into seduction and kinky sex and Kali Hawk as the timid young virgin who falls under his spell. Heaven knows E.L. James’ novel and the movie made from it are both fair game for parody, but this one uses up all its cleverness on the title and has already blown its handful of decent gags in the trailer—where they’re actually much funnier because they’re not surrounded by all the cover-your-mouthand-snigger raunchiness that is Wayans’ and Tiddes’ main stock in trade. In the full movie,

laughs are virtually nonexistent—you’ll get more out of YouTube’s Honest Trailers treatment of Fifty Shades of Grey, and that’s only five-and-a-half minutes long. J.L.

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The heroic true-life Coast Guard rescue of 32 sailors from a sinking tanker off Cape Cod in the teeth of a horrendous storm in 1952 gets a lackluster filming from director Craig Gillespie and writers Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (from the nonfiction book by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman). It’s a story tailor-made for Hollywood—it’s remarkable that it hasn’t been filmed before—but virtually everything goes wrong except the CGI and sound effects. The script simply bristles with clumsiness and bad lines, while Gillespie, a director who has spent his career missing the point, seems more concerned with getting everyone’s Massachusetts accents just right than with building tension or suspense. He even manages to get a weak performance from Chris Pine as the leader of the rescue party. J.L.

Much like the previous collaboration of director Alejandro González Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, last year’s Best Picture winner Birdman, the gruesome adventure The Revenant is heavy on visual gimmickry and pulses with an aggravating energy, but also feels strangely empty and unnecessary. Leonardo DiCaprio clearly suffers for his art here, whether submerging himself in ice cold water or climbing inside of a horse carcass for warmth, but although the film works as a visceral experience, on the whole it’s a frustrating mess. There are is a change jar of messages regarding the pitiless beauty of nature and the savagery of man, but Iñárritu only knows how to lay it on thick, so it amounts to a lot of puffed-up finger-wagging. More than anything, Iñárritu excels at hectoring and exhausting his audience, and The Revenant is no exception—he’s good at grinding you to a nub, and not much else. D.B.

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“It’s kind of a cliché for bands to say we all bring our influences to the group, but it really does make a difference,” Davis says. “[Finding Burrey] was like two trains colliding—it just made a beautiful mess.”

Another collision: finding Arianna Kinsella. Burrey ran into her at a show and knew he knew her, but couldn’t remember why or how or even her name. Even still, he introduced her to the rest of Tell the Wolves as their new keyboard player. Alcohol may Thirsty like the wolf. have played a role.

“He was super wasted,” Kinsella says, laughing.

Yes, the band loves to drink, have fun and act like Members of Tell the Wolves sometimes dub it a idiots offstage, but the music is another story. They’re rock ’n’ roll band, but that doesn’t sound right. extremely serious about it, and sometimes tackle The Sacramento group’s debut EP The Great serious themes.

Design opens too dramatically, too angrily, with Take the EP title track “The Great Design” and just a dash of hardcore screaming. Then, it softens the acoustic finale “Basilica,” which are two parts of into something more cathartic, more thoughtful, the same story: an epiphany Burrey had while touring ultimately ending with a surprising and restrained the Vatican. acoustic track.

“There was this huge cathedral, marble— Indeed, Tell the Wolves is definitely more of an I couldn’t really get down with how audacious it was alternative band, influenced by the likes of Rage with how much sadness there is in the world,” Burrey Against the Machine, Deftones, Circa Survive and said. “Since 19, I’ve had a crisis of faith, and going Incubus. there, it hit me. I just saw the hypocrisy of it all.”

“Incubus kind of paved the way for It provided an artistic breakthrough as bands like us who are weird but you well. Burrey had written the instrudon’t know they’re weird,” says mental for “The Great Design” years The band bassist Zack Davis. earlier, but he could never come That weirdness mostly loves to drink, up with the right lyrics. After his stems from singer and primary trip to the Vatican, he stripped have fun and act like songwriter Leryan Burrey, it down and rewrote the song as idiots offstage, but the who previously played in “Basilica,” then went back and math and experimental rock music is another story. finished “The Great Design.” bands. Compromises had to be The pair of songs make for an They’re extremely made at first, but now he views intriguing, layered and active serious about it. writing for Tell the Wolves as listening experience. an artistic challenge with greater And, of course, Tell the Wolves rewards. takes its live performances extremely “I get to be more creative,” Burrey seriously. It’s not really a mosh pit sort of says. “It’s kind of like if you’re only given so band, but in Burrey’s words: “We want you to turn many words to explain this really big concept. It your head and put your damn beer down—or chug it forces me to make every note count.” because you need to watch this.” Ω Tell the Wolves was formed the way many local bands form—from the ashes of another group, in this case, Finding Apollo. In 2013, Ryan Catch Tell the Wolves at 10 p.m. Saturday, February 6, at Harlow’s Restaurant Griffith (guitar) and Ian Moch (drums) realized & Nightclub, 2708 J Street. Some Fear None and Hero’s Last Mission are also they wanted to keep jamming, so they searched for on the bill. Tickets cost $10. More at www.tellthewolves.com. a singer and bassist on Craigslist. Ta-da.

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Saxual healing Funky treasure: Getting acquainted with a dark, alternative and relatively asexual version of Badlands took some time. My last visit to the club was all pink sequins, bare skin and wandering hands.

But this was a special night put on by Requiem Events, the team responsible for regular rave-y dance nights at Midtown BarFly. Headliner Treasure Fingers merited a bigger space; the Fool’s Gold Records producer exploded after his hit “Cross the Dancefloor” back in 2008 and has since regularly enjoyed playing much, much larger clubs than, say, Badlands.

Considering his set didn’t start until midnight on a weekday, the turnout wasn’t too shabby. People were mostly dressed in all black, but naturally, there was at least one person in a furry onesie and neon accessories. I appreciated the extra room to comfortably thrash around.

Fathom Sound’s system was powerful, with the bass vibrating your insides in just the right ways. And the laser lights were rad—almost like the ones Pretty Lights brought to TBD Fest, but on a smaller scale.

Plus, Jell-O shots.

When Treasure Fingers finally took over, though, I didn’t notice for a while. It’s not that I expected a big outpouring of cheering, but the first 30 minutes of his set sounded interchangeable with a lot of generic house deejays. There was no dynamism. The crowd thinned.

I grew bored. But one glorious, old school saxophone sample signaled phase two of his set: funky disco that warmed the soul. It was like he was saving the good stuff for the dedicated partiers, the people who would go to work the next morning hungover and daydream of heavy bass.

Then, very suddenly, the sound faded. Treasure Fingers waved goodbye under the Badlands disco ball. It was only 1:30 a.m. The remaining dancers assumed they’d have at least 30 more minutes of fun and screamed for an encore, but Treasure Fingers quietly put away his headphones instead.

An apologetic voice came over the speaker: “Blame Sac PD.” Talent search: If you’re a local musician—or dancer, poet or other artist for that matter—with a passion

for engaging underrepresented communities, the Crocker Art Museum may want to hear from you.

The Crocker’s Block by Block initiative will throw block parties in city districts 2 (North Sacramento), 5 (Oak Park) and 8 (South Sacramento) this spring specifically to increase arts accessibility. It’s funded by the James Irvine Foundation and is a collaboration with the Crocker, Sol Collective and Sojourner Truth Multicultural Art Museum.

Meanwhile, the ZFG Promotions crew is working on a mobile stage and art gallery that will pop up throughout Sacramento with a special emphasis on these Block by Block events.

Again, if you are one of these interested artists, visit http://crocker blockbyblock.org/get-involved for an application and more information. The last live audition takes place Saturday, February 6, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Sojourner Truth Multicultural Art Museum (2251 Florin Road, Suite 126). You’ll have five minutes to perform, and priority will be given to artists with a connection one of the three aforementioned districts. Bands with four or more instruments should be prepared to bring their music on a flash drive, iPod or other mp3 player.

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artists and more opportunities to get stoked about our local music scene. We can’t release details yet, but do note that we’ll have a series of showcases in the days leading up to the big awards show at Ace of Spades on Thursday, March 24.

Block the week off because it’s going to be awesome.

We’re also excited to announce that we’re partnering with Capital Public Radio this year. That means even more local music on the airwaves, more local scene celebrating and more Sammies in general. Stay tuned.

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First and foremost, Homeboy Sandman is a writer. He taught writing among other subjects in New York City public schools for a while. Huffington Post HIP-HOP and Gawker have published his work. And, of course, he writes hip-hop.

Lots of hip-hop. The Stones Throw emcee’s lyrics are packed with artful wordplay and thoughtful rhymes, which makes him the perfect headliner for the ZFG crew’s first compilation release. The entire ZFG lineup—including Andru Defeye, Luke Tailor, Cam and SpaceWalker—will open the show in honor of its first-ever, collaborationpacked record, 8:08. 2574 21st Street, www.stonesthrow.com/homeboysandman.

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Dust off your leather chaps and barely suppressed rage in time to catch Jake Smith, a.k.a. the White Buffalo, a.k.a. the voice of the Sons of Anarchy soundtrack.

The California-raised singer-songwriter has a voice like Eddie Vedder with a smoking habit. With the long hair and full beard, everything works in concert AMERICANA so that tracks like “Come Join the Murder” or covers of “House of the Rising Sun” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” setting the mood for the TV show makes all the sense in the world. Alice Drinks the Kool-Aid is also on the bill. 1417 R Street, http://thewhitebuffalo.com.

—DEENA DREWIS

Join Cassette Idols (pictured), Ghostplay and Ghost Color for a night of post-punk, garage and indie rock. Cassette Idols vocalistguitarist Artie Dorame writes energetic and fast-paced garage rock with pop-oriented melodies. The trio, which also includes Kevin Bryant on drums and Michael Gervais on bass and vocals, looks forward to its selftitled EP release this spring. Two songs from the upcoming release featured on the group’s Bandcamp page—“Crimson Smile,” with its pop-driven cheek, GARAGE ROCK and “Deciding Factor,” with its more fluid guitar style—offer listeners a taste of what’s to come. 1517 21st Street, www.cassetteidols.com.

—JANELLE BITKER

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“I do not sniff the coke, I only smoke the sensimilla.” This is practically a mantra in reggae circles. This is, of course, a line from Pato Banton’s single from 1987. The song came out when reggae shifted from roots to hip-hop influenced dancehall. And while some people were criticizing dancehall for promoting violence and misogyny, Banton REGGAE kept his lyrics positive. Born and raised in Birmingham, England, Banton brought a distinctive upbeat English flair to his sound. He even got his start working with the English Beat and UB40. Since his first solo record in ’85, he’s released more than a dozen albums. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, http://patobanton.com.

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Roulé has done it again. The dance night at Dive Bar is inviting another TBD Fest alum back to town for an intimate deejay set among the mermaids. This time it’s L.A. electronic producer ELECTRONIC / DJ and member of the famed Wedidit collective, Groundislava.

Who is Wedidit? A crew loosely consisting of Shlohmo, RL Grime, the aforementioned Groundislava, and D33J—all vets of local electronic festivals in the past four years.

If he’s working from 2014’s Frozen Throne and 2012’s Feel Me albums, expect subdued, chill synths apt for underwater vibes.

1016 K Street, https://soundcloud.com/ groundislava.

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The world was left a little duller with the death of David Bowie last month, and the reverberations of his influence as a musician, artist and cultural icon are still being felt around the world. Sixty local artists were assigned a line from “Life on Mars?” off of the 1971 album Hunky Dory to interpret as a piece of art, and their work will be on display as a visual tribute to one of rock ’n’ roll’s singular visionaries. Local bands Mondo ROCK Deco, Skywalker and Klaiber will be putting on a tribute concert as the community gathers to honor the starman.

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Epsilona formed in 2013 and has since been enjoying local success with its unique style, described as an artful blend of indie, psychedelic and soul. The INDIE reedy, forlorn guitar hooks overlay distinct, direct bass lines and drum beats adorned with a jazzy flare, creating a sound that is reminiscent of the experimental, mellow indie rock of the ’90s. This week Epsilona is having a free show to celebrate bassist Cory Phillips’ birthday and has promised to roll out some new songs and covers. 1016 K Street, www.epsilonamusic.com.

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Defying the laws of tradition, Berlin-based organist extraordinaire Cameron Carpenter returns to Mondavi, but with his custom-built International Touring Organ in tow this time. The instrument cost $1.2 million to construct and now affords him the ability to bring his organ skills to any venue that will accommodate him. This particular engageCLASSICAL ment finds Carpenter playing a short recital before launching headlong into a wholly improvised score for the infamous 1920 silent horror flick The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. 1 Shields Avenue in Davis, www.cameroncarpenter.com.

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Record Club, M; Cactus Pete’s 78 RPM Record Roundup, 8pm Tu Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M; Open-mic comedy, 8pm Tu

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completely to another person. If you are experiencing this fear, practice giving a little more, and receiving a little more, every day. It’s an exercise that could allow you to repair your relationship, and accept your boyfriend’s forgiveness. More importantly, it will inspire you to forgive yourself.

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One last thing, if those roller-coaster you are diagnosed as emotions. Have you seen having bipolar disorder, your primary care doctor? please remember, the Some health conditions launch illness does not define you. hormones that cause emotions You have a disorder that sometimes to ping all over the place. A thorough manifests, and it is one of the many physical exam could yield valuable human experiences you are having here information. Also consider your comfort on earth. Ω level with intimacy—emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually.

Although most people are taught that being close to another human being MEDITATION OF THE WEEK should be among our life’s goals, we’re “ There are no traffic jams not instructed how to do it, or what to along the extra mile,” said do when it feels impossible. The reality Roger Staubach, former NFL is everyone struggles, in some way, with quarterback. How far are intimacy. Some people have no issue you willing to go to fulfill your with sexual intimacy but freak out about vocation? opening up emotionally. Other people are fearful of sharing their thoughts, but love to be affectionate. What are your limits and expectations of intimacy?

Write, email or leave a message for And, if you are someone who needs a Joey at the News & Review. Give lot of solitude, but isn’t getting enough, your name, telephone number you might act out in extreme ways. (for verification purposes only) and question—all Allowing yourself to regularly recharge correspondence will be kept strictly confidential. at a monastery or yoga retreat can soften rough emotional edges.

Write Joey, 1124 Del Paso Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95815; call (916) 498-1234, ext. 3206; or email Exploring your needs around askjoey@newsreview.com. intimacy will also reveal boundaries that inhibit your capacity to love or be loved. It can be scary to give ourselves

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—Blue Steele Close. It wasn’t a cannabis club that got raided, but a cannabis processing facility. Med West Distribution (which makes stuff for the Bhang line of cannabis products) in San Diego was raided by by the local cops, apparently acting on an “anonymous tip.” Two people were arrested and charged with manufacturing an illegal substance and manufacturing an illegal substance with intent to sell. Local advocates were surprised that Med West got raided, considering that Med West has been operating at the same spot in San Diego for a few Usually, years, and local officials had recently toured the they go facility. after whatever This is a huge drag, of course. No one should ever go to jail for anything cannabisdumbass set related. However, California law is very clear: a house Making cannabis concentrates with butane or on fire.

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Any news from the Legislature? You think these bans will end soon?

—Wonk A. Tania I will say this: The California Legislature has done a decent job of trying to fix its mistake. We will see if it does any good. The House and the Senate just passed Assembly Bill 21, which removes the deadline for cities and counties to have regulations or bans in place

by March 1. Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign the bill. Cities can still ban anything cannabis-related, but now they can do it slowly and after great deliberation. Let’s talk about this for a minute. Why should cities and counties be allowed to ban medical cannabis at all?

If Proposition 215 is supposed to guarantee safe access to everyone in the state, shouldn’t all the cities and counties have to allow it?

Bud Green, Fresno-based activist and all-around good person, has a good idea: We have to convince the Legislature that cannabis is a statewide concern. California needs to set default regulations that the cities and counties must follow. Sure, they can have more liberal rules, like Oakland’s 99 plant limit. (The default is six.) It would be unfair for the state to have to share cannabis money with ungrateful NIMBYS—after all, Colorado just hit $900 million in sales. Think of what Cali can do. Ω Ngaio Bealum is a Sacramento comedian, activist and marijuana expert.

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FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 4, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Bible’s book of

Exodus tells the story of the time Moses almost met God. “Show me your glory, please,” the prophet says to his deity, who’s hiding. “You cannot see my face,” God replies, “but I will show you my back parts.” That’s good enough for Moses. He agrees. I hope that you, too, will be satisfied with a tantalizingly partial epiphany, Aries. I’m pretty sure that if you ask nicely, you can get a glimpse of a splendor that’s as meaningful to you as God was to Moses. It may only be the “back parts,” but that should still stir you and enrich you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The archaic English

word “quaintrelle” refers to a woman who treats her life as a work of art. She is passionate about cultivating beauty and pleasure and wit in everything she is and does. But she’s not a narcissistic socialite. She’s not a snooty slave to elitist notions of style. Her aim is higher and sweeter: to be an impeccable, well-crafted fount of inspiration and blessings. I propose that we resuscitate and tinker with this term, and make it available to you. In 2016, you Tauruses of all genders will be inclined to incorporate elements of the quaintrelle, and you will also be skilled at doing so. If you have not yet dived into this fun work, start now!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Sufi teacher (and

Gemini) Idries Shah offered this teaching: “They say that when Fortune knocks, you should open the door. But why should you make Fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?” Let’s make this your featured meditation, Gemini. If there is anywhere in your life where proverbial doors are shut—either in the world outside of you or the world inside of you—unlock them and open them wide. Make it easy for Fortune to reach you.

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harbor a chronic ache of melancholy about what they’re missing. The unavailable experience in question could be an adventure they wish they were having or an absent ally they long to be near or a goal they wish they had time to pursue.

That’s the bad news. The good news is that you can harness the chronic ache. In fact, it’s your birthright as a Cancerian to do so. If you summon the willpower to pull yourself up out of the melancholy, you can turn its mild poison into a fuel that drives you to get at least some of what you’ve been missing. Now is a favorable time to do just that.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How will the next chapter

of your story unfold? I suspect there are two possible scenarios. In one version, the abundance of choices overwhelms you. You get bogged down in an exciting but debilitating muddle, and become frazzled, frenetic and overwrought. In the other possible scenario, you navigate your way through the lavish freedom with finesse. Your intuition reveals exactly how to make good use of the fertile contradictions.

You’re crafty, adaptable and effective. So which way will you go? How will the tale unfold? I think it’s completely up to you. Blind fate will have little to do with it. For best results, all you have to do is stay in close touch with the shining vision of what you really want.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “To hell with my

suffering,” wrote Arthur Rimbaud in his poem “May Banners.” I suggest you make that your mantra for now. Anytime you feel a sour thought impinging on your perceptions, say, “To hell with my suffering.” And then immediately follow it up with an expostulation from another Rimbaud poem, “It’s all too beautiful.” Be ruthless about this, Virgo. If you sense an imminent outbreak of pettiness, or if a critical voice in your head blurts out a curse, or if a pesky ghost nags you, simply say, “To hell with my suffering,” and then, “It’s all too beautiful.” In this way, you can take advantage of the fact that you now have more power over your emotional pain than usual.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I like people who

unbalance me,” says Irish writer Colum McCann.

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because the influences that unbalance you will be the same influences that tickle your fancy and charge your batteries and ring your bell and sizzle your bacon.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The African

Association was a 19th-century British group dedicated to exploring West Africa. Its members hoped to remedy Europeans’ ignorance about the area’s geography. In one of the Association’s most ambitious projects, it commissioned an adventurer named Henry Nicholls to discover the origin and to chart the course of the legendary Niger River. Nicholls and his crew set out by ship in their quest, traveling north up a river that emptied into the Gulf of Guinea. They didn’t realize, and never figured out, that they were already on the Niger River. I’m wondering if there’s a comparable situation going on in your life, Scorpio. You may be looking for something that you have already found.

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

P. Feynman was a brilliant physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his pioneering work in quantum electrodynamics. He also played the bongo drums and was a competent artist. But excessive pride was not a problem for him.

“I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb,” he testified. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.” I suggest you adopt him as your role model for the next two weeks, Sagittarius. All of us need periodic reminders that we’ve got a lot to learn, and this is your time. Be extra vigilant in protecting yourself from your own misinformation and misdirection.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Food

connoisseur Anthony Bourdain has a TV show that enables him to travel the globe indulging in his love of exotic cuisine. He takes his sensual delights seriously. In Charleston, South Carolina, he was ecstatic to experience the flavorful bliss of soft-shell crab with lemon pasta and shaved bottarga. “Frankly,” he told his dining companion, “I’d slit my best friend’s throat for this.” Bourdain was exaggerating for comic effect, but I’m concerned you may actually feel that strongly about the gratifications that are almost within your grasp. I have no problem with you getting super-intense in pursuit of your enjoyment. But please stop short of taking extreme measures. You know why.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may

sometimes be drawn to people or places or ideas long before they can give you their gifts.

Although you sense their potential value, you might have to ripen before you’ll be ready to receive their full bounty. Here’s how author Elias Canetti expressed it: “There are books, that one has for 20 years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after 20 years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book from beginning to end, at one sitting: It is like a revelation.” I foresee a comparable transition happening for you, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Leaning Tower

of Pisa is eight stories high, including its belfry, and tilts sideways at a 4-degree angle. When builders started construction back in 1173, they laid a weak foundation in unstable soil, and the building has never stood straight since then. And yet it is the most lucrative tourist attraction in the city of Pisa, and one of the top 10 in Italy. Its flaw is the source of its fame and glory. What’s the equivalent in your world, Pisces? Now is a favorable time to take new or extra advantage of something you consider imperfect or blemished.

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Ultra mega chicken One doesn’t really need an exact address to get to Larry Fox and his husband Rick Castro’s house. Just land somewhere in the vicinity of 22nd and N streets, and ask any person on the street for the location of Cluck, a giant chicken statue. Fox created the massive chicken that’s graced the second floor balcony of his house ArtFox for nearly a decade now. The 68-year-old artist and retired teacher took time out from a dinner party at his lively, art-filled home to discuss his creation and more with SN&R.

How many other holidays do you dress her up for around the year?

Is there deeper meaning behind Cluck?

I usually do Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Easter, then we sort of have different things going on, and Halloween, of course. This next year, I’m going to try to make a rooster costume.

What’s really funny about chickens is, you probably have noticed, [hens] are not male.

But it’s amazing. I know what a chicken looks like, and apparently a lot of people don’t know what chickens look like. They think a chicken could be a rooster or a turkey. I’ve had people say, “That was the most beautiful turkey I’ve ever seen.”

I don’t know. I think you can take anything and put a little bit of meaning in it. It’s sort of like, since my last name is Fox and this place is ArtFox, it’s nice having the chicken in the fox house.

What led you to put the chicken out there?

Are people around here mostly respectful of Cluck or does she ever get messed with?

It starts with the house. The house was in a fire, like 2001, and 2003, we bought the house. We didn’t get in the house until about 2007. So it’s been completely restored, and we got a preservation trust award because of the restoration. It’s also been on two or three [Sacramento] Old City Association home tours. Where the chicken came from is I have a friend who I used to work with in Fair Oaks, and she had a gallery there. She was a graphic artist, and then she opened up the Fair Oaks chicken museum. One year—I forget, probably about 2008—she told me that she was going to have an exhibit at the State Fair of stuff from her museum. I made the chicken to be part of her exhibit at the State Fair.

What inspired your decorating the chicken around the holidays?

Someone tried messing with her once, but nothing really happened. Cluck went through a blue period for awhile. In London, at Trafalgar Square, there was a blue rooster who’s 15 feet tall, and he’s no longer there because it was an 18-month exhibit. … What happened while he was still there is Cluck fell in love with him. I’ll give you this postcard. (He hands over a postcard that features Cluck.) This is a postcard that I made. So this is Cluck and this is a California stamp and then this is an English stamp. So it’s Trafalgar Square in London and California, Sacramento.

She was painted blue, and then I did these postcards. We did 1,000 postcards. We were in Trafalgar Square and gave out 800 postcards.

Tell me a little about this house.

This is from the original newspaper: Scott Ennis built the house in 1897 for $2,112. His sister used to be a librarian at the State Capitol. He was on the board of directors at Bank of America. He had a business. You know where Fat City is in Old Sacramento?

[It was in] the same building, Ennis, Brown & Co. It was a company that did produce.

When this house burned, how much restoration was required?

From the [second] floor up is pretty much all new. We’ve restored it as much as we could, as original to the house. It’s been kind of fun trying to keep it going. I’m an artist.

Most of the paintings in here are mine, and it’s been on tours and Second Saturdays.

Do you imagine that Cluck will be the first line in your obituary?

Probably. Everyone I’ve talked with, we’re always coming to people to who I say, “Do you know the house with the chicken?” and that’s what they remember. Everyone in the neighborhood says, “We live next door to the chicken” or “We lived across the street from the chicken.” Everyone knows where the chicken is. Ω

Well, I just figured since I had the chicken, why not decorate the chicken?

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