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Party fouls I’m writing this on the morning of the New Hampshire primary. Votes have yet to be tallied but by all accounts, it’s going to be a close one for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, with the Vermont senator largely expected to outpace his rival.

It’s been exciting to watch the two Democratic contenders—their February 4 debate was a smart and impassioned breath of fresh air compared to the Republican slugfests.

Now if only their supporters would grow up and behave.

In the last few weeks the race for the Democratic presidential nomination has started to crumble thank to ridiculous intra-party squabbling.

First came the so-called Bernie Bro, typically a young, white male Sanders supporter prone to sexist comments on Clinton’s nonpolitical characteristics: age, gender and appearance, to be precise.

Then there are the self-righteous Clinton supporters, like feminist leader Gloria Steinem and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

On Friday, Steinem, in an interview with talk show host Bill Maher, declared young women like Sanders because “When you’re young, you’re thinking, ‘Where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie.’”

Way to insult an entire generation of motivated voters.

A day later, Albright introduced Clinton at a rally by saying, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” Apparently it’s a strident, intolerant hell.

C’mon, people. This is embarrassing. Focus on Sanders’ and Clinton’s accomplishments, and hold them accountable for their mistakes and missteps. Leave the disrespectful stereotypes to the other party.

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Will Sacramento become America’s next farm-to-joint capital?

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Farm-to-joint City council sparks up medical-marijuana cultivation, proposes increased taxes amid big statewide changes for cannabis

BY GRAHAM WOMACK

Last week, two days after Sacramento City Council voted to allow cultivation of medical marijuana, Brad Wasson’s phone wouldn’t stop ringing. The revenue manager for the city laid out the potential benefits of regulating cannabis cultivation before council on February 2. And while it’s going to be awhile before people can plant largescale medical-marijuana grows legally in Sacramento, maybe a few years, that hasn’t stopped Wasson’s phone from blowing up.

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on February 4. “The public is ready to go, but we’re not ready for them.”

Such is life in California these days, where sweeping medicalmarijuana regulations that the state passed last October have forced cities to act fast.

According to multiple media outlets, more than 160 California cities responded to the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act by banning cultivation. Sacramento went a different direction, however: It recognized that medical marijuana has been legal in California since 1996, and so decided to permit grows.

Sacramento also recognized that there’s money to be made regulating pot cultivation.

“I think it’s just the reality of the situation,” said Councilman Jay Schenirer, who made the motion that city council approved 8-0 on February 2 to approve medical-marijuana cultivation in certain parts of town. There’s currently a 45-day moratorium on growing. The council also voted 5-1 to allow dispensaries to move locations and change board members.

Sacramento has had a 4 percent tax on all marijuana-related business in effect since June 2011, and the city

took in just shy of $3 million on this in 2015. The Washington D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project estimates statewide tax revenues from dispensaries at about $50 million.

An analyst for MPP, Chris Lindsey, told SN&R that regulating cultivation offers benefits, too. “I think that there is an advantage to communities that are willing to license and allow cultivation to take place,” he explained. “I think that it’s a respectable market in terms of its scope. There’s been a lot of focus and attention on the sort of retail aspect of it and not nearly as much on licensing cultivation. That is an area where those communities that are willing to go there can find themselves in a really good spot.”

The agenda for the February 9 city council meeting also included a measure drafted by Schenirer for the June ballot to tax cultivation at 5 percent. This could generate $5 million annually, with the money going to local youth programs.

Schenirer told SN&R that Sacramento currently spends less than 1 percent of its general fund on youth.

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(Because of publication deadlines, SN&R couldn’t attend the February 9 city council meeting ahead of filing this story.

Discussions around regulating marijuana will likely continue in Sacramento for months, if not years to come.)

“I think at this point, legalized marijuana is something that appears to be very likely,” Councilman Steve Hansen told SN&R. “I think the city should embrace that and regulate it appropriately, but not try to stop something.

One of the ways we get there is really by ensuring that we’ve got fair regulations, but reasonable ones, and that we continue to have a process that produces good results.”

The council acted quickly because Assembly Bill 243, one of the three marijuana-related laws the state passed in October, had set a March 1 deadline for cities to establish land-use guidelines for cultivation, or cede control to the state’s Department of Food and Agriculture.

But Gov. Jerry Brown signed a cleanup bill last week, on February 4, that struck down the March 1 deadline. This was after Sacramento’s vote, however, so legalized cultivation likely would have proceeded in Sacramento.

“This is my least favorite way to do policy,” Councilwoman Angelique Ashby said during the February 2 meeting. “It feels a little held hostage by the state. We have to act fast. We don’t have the opportunity for outreach on the front end.”

The council approved medical cultivation with a 45-day moratorium, the maximum allowed under state law. But Sacramento can extend the moratorium up to 22 months and 15 days—and will almost certainly do so.

Before the ordinance can be finalized, Wasson noted, the city needs more time to build consensus. He anticipates holding a public stakeholder meeting sometime in the next couple of weeks.

“Normally we would’ve done that ahead of time, but we were trying to meet the state deadline,” Wasson said.

The ordinance also has to go again to Sacramento’s city attorney’s office, the law and legislation committee, and city council. Both council and the law and legislation committee need three weeks of lead time and generally don’t conduct reviews concurrently.

“When you look at 45 days, it’d really be impossible to go through our

legislative process and get it back in houses are unless there is a conditional front of the council,” Wasson explained. use permit? You don’t think they will Much work remains to finalize the know anyway?” ordinance.

“They don’t know,” Miller replied.

As it stands, cultivation would “You don’t know now. You haven’t had be restricted to buildings no larger any nuisance complaints on indoor than 22,000 square feet in industrial, grows.” commercial and agricultural areas.

Others supported conditional-use The council rejected staff’s recompermits, such as Tracy Schaal, executive mendation that grow buildings be at least director of the Power Inn Alliance.

600 feet from parks or schools. They’re She told council that by requiring considering upping the restrica conditional-use permit tion to 1,000 feet, which for every one of these leaves qualifying facilities, the city can areas for cultivacontrol the rollout tion mostly of pot growing. in the city’s “We want outskirts, to be able to primarily in have them be southeast equitable, Sacramento. transparThe council ent and members prudent,” in those she said. districts Brad Wasson aren’t happy In general, city revenue manager, on interest in Sacramento’s about this, by marijuana new medical-marijuana-cultivation rules the way. is coming out The city will of the shadows. require condiOn February 4, the tional-use permits for governor hired the cultivators, similar to bars. first chief for the state’s The council debated if these new medical marijuana regulapermits should be issued by a zoning tory board, Lori Ajax of the California administrator or the planning commisDepartment of Alcoholic Beverage sion, and ultimately left the venue to be Control. decided while they continue to work on Marijuana is also being more and the ordinance. more decriminalized. Possession of The city would also like to have up to an ounce for personal use in a public registry for cultivators. But California is now just an infraction multiple cannabis-community members rather than a misdemeanor or felony. spoke out against the additional The Obama administration has also regulations. reduced marijuana enforcement on the “I can’t even explain how many federal level, something that’s unlikely hoops we’ve jumped through to keep to change with the next president. our permits with the city for our “For the most part, we’re not seeing dispensaries,” Kimberly Cargile, CEO this looming threat on the horizon that of A Therapeutic Alternative, told city somehow there will be a game-changing council the February 2 meeting. election,” Lindsey said.

Dispensary reps say that publicizing “Because consider that during that addresses where cultivation occurs could same election, we’re going to have quite make them targets for the black market, a few states considering full legalization which they say has been hurt badly by initiatives, and medical marijuana has the recent regulations. never been more popular in terms of “Let me ask you a question about voter support. It regularly polls by a that,” Councilman Larry Carr said huge margin in favor.” to Richard Miller of Safe Access In Sacramento recently, that poll Sacramento and the California Growers’ was 8-0. Ω Association. “Is it your view that the people who are dealing in illegal marijuana will not know where these grow

“We’re probably getting 100 calls a day of people wanting to start cultivating.”

A long-running dispute involving smart-meter technology and radiation fears is shifting into legal territory.

Ratepayer Mark Graham filed a small-claims lawsuit last month against the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. Contending that smart meters pose grave health risks and exist primarily to gather marketing data, he wants his money back for opting out of the program—$127 to have the meter uninstalled and $14 for monthly readings of his analog meter.

Graham claims the charges are illegal since he never authorized a smart meter.

SMUD started installing smart meters in 2009 as a way to cut costs and greenhouse-gas emissions. The meters provide a more precise reading of ratepayers’ energy-using habits, allowing SMUD to generate only the energy it needs for its 600,000 ratepayers.

SMUD completed the installations in 2012. Almost four years later, a small but vocal contingent of ratepayers oppose the meters for privacy and health reasons. It’s a charged debate, with ratepayers like Graham claiming a link between radiofrequency waves and health problems. “It’s the health of a lot of people, which they are knowingly harming,” he said.

According to the American Cancer Society, radiofrequencies emitted from smart meters give off low-energy radiation on par with cellphones or Wi-Fi routers. But the chances of exposure are considerably less since smart meters are located outside of residences. Because of that, ACS states on its website, “it is very unlikely that living in a house with a smart meter increases risk of cancer.”

For those who worry about the potential health effects, SMUD allows ratepayers to opt out of having smart meters. But Graham says that option isn’t well-publicized and should be free. He filed his lawsuit January 8 in Sacramento Superior Court and expects to represent himself. (Graham Womack)

STRIKE A BALANCE SHEET The California Faculty Association is either one step closer to

going on strike or one step closer to getting what it wants— a 5 percent raise.

Following a vote by its board of directors, the CFA, a union that represents over 26,000 California State University faculty, announced Monday that it would strike for five days in April unless it comes to an agreement with CSU management.

The strike has been discussed since 2014, when the CFA and CSU signed an initial agreement to give faculty a 2 percent general salary increase. Since then, the CFA has inquired about, and been denied, a 5 percent raise.

Meanwhile, CSU executives have received two separate pay increases totaling 5 percent since 2014.

In response to CFA’s announcement, CSU released a statement saying it remains committed to coming to an agreement, but will be prepared if a strike does happen. “If a strike occurs, campuses intend to remain open. Many classes will be offered, and students should check with their instructors regarding the status of their classes,” the statement said.

Both sides are still attempting to come to a settlement recommended by a neutral third party.

However, if the union does strike, it would be the first since one-day walkouts at Cal State Dominguez Hills and Cal State East Bay in 2011. (Kris Hooks)

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Association’s PAC ($3,300). Her largest donors It’s not always about the issues. Sometimes, it’s were the Sacramento Area Firefighters Local just about money.

522 PAC ($11,000) and the Sacramento Police That was the case recently, at least, when Officers Association Political Activity Fund Sacramento candidates for mayor and city ($10,000). council submitted their first campaign-finance She’ll need more of that green to catch disclosure documents of the year to the city.

Steinberg, if an unverified opinion poll leaked Leading the fundraising pack, perhaps unsurlast week truly has its thumb on the race. prisingly, was former state Sen. Pro Tem Darrell A poll by the Oakland-based publicSteinberg. The mayoral candidate brought in $242,996 to his coffers last year (most of it raised opinion firm Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates dated January 29 has Steinberg since he announced his candidacy in October). up 54 percent to 24 percent over Ashby among His donors vary from high-profile lobbylikely voters (based on 602 telephone interviews ists like Darius Anderson (who gave $3,300) between January 26 and 28). Candidate Tony and Kings arena developer Mark Friedman “The Tiger” Lopez (who did not file a campaign($3,300), to Anthem Blue Cross ($1,000) finance report) came in at 8 percent on the and AT&T’s political action committee poll. Candidates Russell Rawlings ($1,000). The California Nurses ($235 cash on hand) and Jrmar Association PAC ($11,000) and Jefferson (did not file) didn’t the PAC for the California register in the poll.

Association of Realtors A reason there are According to the survey, ($11,000) were Steinberg’s Steinberg also lead Ashby in top donors of last year. few challengers to total favorability (62 percent The candidate ended council incumbents might to 28 percent) and overall the year with $195,331 cash be the lack of public name recognition (83 percent on hand. But he also has to 43 percent). It’s unclear a Steinberg for Lieutenant funding for campaigns. yet whether Steinberg’s Governor 2018 account filed campaign commissioned the with the state, which as of the poll; he did spend $6,250 this end of 2014 had $1,460,456 in past year on opinion polling with cash on hand. The Sacramento city Juan de Leon Research. FMM&A did clerk has stated that a majority of these not return two calls to discuss the survey. funds can be transferred to his mayoral-campaign No one had filed papers with the city to chalcoffers. lenge any of the four incumbent council members That’s a lot of coin. And yet Councilwoman Angelique Ashby, who is Steinberg’s most formi- as of this past Tuesday. Only Councilman Steven Hansen has a potential opponent, namely local dable challenger, released a statement last week singer-songwriter and activist Jenn Rogar. But announcing that her fundraising was in “a virtual Rogar has a big hill to climb if she’s going to run tie” with the former pro tem. a legitimate campaign. Hansen raised $79,923 “Steinberg and Ashby both have approximately last year, and has $113,201 cash on hand. the same amount of campaign dollars in their Councilman Eric Guerra has $23,927 on hand, Mayoral campaign bank accounts,” Ashby and Councilman Larry Carr $28,905. Councilman campaign strategist Josh Pulliam wrote in an email.

Allen Warren, who has not stated whether he will Not entirely accurate: Ashby raised a total run for a second term, has only $5,814 on hand. of $162,212 last year—nearly $83,000 less than The deadline to declare to run is March 11.

Steinberg—and her campaign ended 2015 with Perhaps a reason there are few challengers to $154,28 cash on hand. council incumbents might be the lack of public She drew support from such individuals as funding for campaigns. Council cut publicdeveloper David Miry ($1,000) and Phil Oates financing of campaigns from its budget during ($3,300), and major groups like firefighters the recession. Ω associations in San Francisco, San Diego and Riverside, and the Sacramento County Probation

Immigrant shuffle Following critical inspections, Sacramento  jail relocates federal detainees

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the inspections were completed for the For the second time in less than a year, they moved detainees back to the year, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s main custodial area.

Department has relocated its popula“They can go wherever the detainees tion of federal immigration detainees at are,� the deputy said of inspectors the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center from U.S. Immigrations and Customs in Elk Grove.

Enforcement, which has a contract The internal migration occurred with the sheriff’s department.

December 30, 2015, on the heels of Command staff, he added, wanted to an SN&R investigation into detention limit ICE’s reach. conditions that more than a dozen ICE inspectors visited RCCC four detainees, as well as their attorneys times last year, and most recently in and advocates, alleged were inhuearly December. Because of a number mane. (SN&R published its story on of deficiencies cited during these December 31, 2015.) inspections, ICE stopped sending Prior to the move, detainees spent detainees to RCCC for a period of about six months in the Roger Bauman approximately three months, but Facility, or “RBF,� a standalone reactivated its contract on housing unit at the northern December 21. portion of the complex After RCCC’s that was built in the detainee popula1960s and deemed The agreement tion dropped to “antiquated� by provides convenience 73 that month, a Sacramento to ICE and extra revenue it has since County Grand rebounded to 117 Jury in 1999. to the sheriff’s department, as of January Budget cuts which will receive 22, according to reportedly forced approximately $4 million figures provided RBF’s closure

by Turnbull. in 2010, though this fiscal year.

The contract it was reopened allows ICE to house two years later to up to 244 immigration accommodate an influx detainees as they navigate of inmates when the state civil deportation proceedings. The realigned its prison system. Since, agreement provides convenience to it’s been used on an as-needed basis, ICE and extra revenue to the sheriff’s explained sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. department, which will receive approxTony Turnbull. imately $4 million this fiscal year, less Detainees were initially relocated than it has in the past. The sheriff’s to RBF from a housing unit known department has expressed uncertainty as “KBF� in August 2015. Then, on that its contract will be renewed when December 30 of last year, they were it expires in 2018. moved back to KBF, which is located According to booking logs near other barracks-style housing obtained by SN&R, ICE placed as units in the heart of the penitentiary many as 76 individuals under sheriff’s compound. custody during a 10-day period ending A sheriff’s deputy who spoke to February 3, with half coming from SN&R on the condition of anonymLos Angeles County. Most of the rest ity believed command staff wanted originated from the Central Valley, detainees housed in the remote RBF including 15 from Fresno County. Ί to prevent federal inspectors from visiting the entire jail when they examined living conditions. And once

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Californians smoke a lot of marijuana. As you can imagine, it’s not easy to get an accurate estimate of just how much. Marijuana has been called California’s biggest cash crop, representing between $11 billion and $17 billion a year in sales, nearly twice as much as California’s next largest commodity, milk and cream.

Some say these California crop values are highly inflated. Regardless of who is right, legalized or expanded medical marijuana represents billions of dollars in sales. This is a mind-blowing number for any local community hoping to expand its economy.

The question now before the Sacramento City Council is: To what extent can Sacramento be California’s marijuana breadbasket?

Sacramento has many advantages. We have agricultural expertise. We have land. We have low electricity rates. We have lower commercial costs than our coastal neighbors. And as other cities and counties reject marijuana production, they are leaving a greater opportunity open to us.

Corey Travis, owner of Two Rivers Wellness, told me that, if Sacramento embraces cannabis and its related industries and encourages investment and innovation, “We could expect to see cannabis market activity approach $500 million per year within 30 months.”

He says that this will impact job creation, and that the region could see hundreds of jobs that would generate more than $8 million a year in new wages.

And this could mean as much as $20 million in tax revenues to the city of Sacramento.

While these are just estimates, there is no doubt that a thriving cannabis industry producing products to be sold outside our market would

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New money would come into our market and new jobs would be created here. And not just in the cannabis industry. When these new employees produce a product that is sold in San Diego or Los Angeles, they have money to go out to eat in a restaurant in Sacramento. They use a dry cleaner in Sacramento. They go to a grocery store in Sacramento. One new manufacturing job can often create five additional new jobs from this “trickle down” effect.

There has been concern about safety.

Legalization will help address this concern.

Criminals are not breaking into breweries.

Criminals are not raiding farms. Once marijuana is legalized, it would become more like any other legal operation.

There are concerns about young people using marijuana. But, any local high school student with rudimentary social skills and some cash can already easily purchase weed on the black market. This was true when I was in high school 50 years ago, and is still true today. Marijuana is one of the most readily available illegal drugs in the state.

Sacramento has an opportunity to significantly boost its economy by becoming a cannabis manufacturing center. We should seize the moment.

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T WAS 4 O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING on February 13 of last year, and

Autumn Sky Hall woke up with a song in her head. She’d been thinking of the

concept for a while and suddenly had a

fully formed idea. The track, which she

would eventually title “Virginity,” was

different than anything she’d done before.

Dark and complicated, haunting.

“The songs I wrote in the past were extremely fanciful and otherworldly, because I had a lot of painful stuff going on in my life I had to escape from,” she says now. “I wrote uplifting songs because I needed to be uplifted.”

It’s not that the pain was gone. Hardly. If anything, Hall just felt ready to confront it head-on. Compelled, even. But the song was also perhaps prescient—an indication of everything yet to come.

Soon after writing it, Hall found herself dumped by her boyfriend and without a band. It was a wildly public breakup, Facebook confessions and all. Then came a scam that left her penniless, followed by a subsequent crowdfunding campaign asking for money that brought on ruthless Internet trolls. Then some serious illnesses, a theft and an emptied bank account. And even a job at a sex shop.

Amid all the craziness and blowback, one of Sacramento’s most beloved performers disappeared.

The young woman probably best known to her fans as simply Autumn Sky—the auburn-haired singer with a guitar and fairy-tale pretty dresses—was out of the public eye. This after 12 years of doing everything from requisite coffee-shop gigs to captivating huge crowds at Concerts in the Park.

Today, Hall goes by her full birth name. A lot more has changed, too. Gone are the auburn locks, replaced with a cut

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that’s shorter and tougher. She left Midtown for the suburbs, writing songs in her bedroom, trying to start over, alone.

“If I was going to continue doing music, I needed to do something that I actually cared about,” she explained of the transformation. It was the worst of times. But, maybe, the best of times, too.

Because when you hit bottom there’s no where else to go but up.

Less than zero

It’s just past noon on a Monday in September and Hall is in the studio to record “Virginity” with producer Patrick Hills. Dressed in a cropped denim jumpsuit, she looks tired—maybe that’s because they’ve been working since 7 a.m. with Hills and her new bandmates Chris Karriker and Jarrod Affonso. The band, named Write or Die, came together last summer. Word got out that Hall was looking for a guitarist and Karriker contacted her. Affonso joined soon after. Now Hall is trying to nail the vocals on a crucial part.

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Hills hits rewind repeatedly and snippets of voice— sometimes a growl, sometimes an ethereal siren call—fill the cramped room at Earth Tone Studios.

“I’m not sorry. I’m not sorry. I’m not sorry at all.”

The music beneath—thumping beats and pretty bell chimes—recalls the likes of early club-scene Madonna, Bjork and Sister Crayon.

The song, along with the rest of Scream of Consciousness, Hall’s EP with Write or Die, documents her journey this past year, a time of loss and gain, of exploring feminism, sexuality and new endeavors. It will be released February 13. Full circle and all that.

Those expecting Hall’s usual garden-variety, flower-crown, twee folk—pretty, if not particularly distinct—will likely be in for a big surprise. Folk was her fallback genre.

“I found myself playing folk because guitar was the first thing I learned to play,” the 27-year-old singersongwriter said. “I wanted to write music that I myself would buy.”

That music, as it turns out, is rich with moody electronic beats and trippy rock vibes, the bones of which sound as though they were crafted deep in a forest, alone.

Maybe, in a way, they were. Metaphorically, of course.

The path there was long and winding. Hall was raised in a big, religiously conservative family—she’s the oldest of seven, with three brothers and three sisters. The kids, who were home-schooled, shared a tight bond as the family moved around; it was a nomadic existence that included a stint in Mendocino, where her parents ran a Christian prayer retreat. By the time she was 15, the family had settled in Sacramento and Hall started attending public high school.

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It was during this time period, Hall says, that she was raped. Just a few years later, when she was 19, Hall married. The church expected it, she says. The divorce happened when she was just 21.

Today, Hall looks at those experiences as the seed for everything that came after.

Growing up, there were doublestandards and judgments. She blamed herself for the assault; she must have been doing something wrong for such a thing to happen. Marriage was an even more troubling time, and Hall’s decision to divorce stemmed, at least in part, from feeling at odds with everything she thought she knew to be true. The pressure to be a good wife, she says, was oppressive and divorce felt like a “return to purity in my mind.”

After the divorce, Hall stayed busy, playing shows, releasing self-made albums, hanging out with friends, deciding what to watch on Netflix. It was just the usual 20-something musician lifestyle.

mn u t u A g tin c e enp d x r e a e g s l o Th ua s u n, w s ’ o l r l c a H Sky ty, flower kely be varie olk will li rise. t w e e fo r a b i g s u r p in f Then came that day when Hall wrote “Virginity,” which addresses the church doctrine she grew up with: the “deeply fucked up” idea that a woman’s so-called purity is something to be prized. A culture that celebrates a boy’s entry into manhood for taking it.

The next day—Valentine’s Day—her boyfriend broke up with her. Insult to injury, the following day her band’s bassist announced he was moving to Portland. The band, which her boyfriend had played in as well, was essentially done. “‘Oh, cool, go on,’” Hall remembered thinking. “‘I’ll just be sitting here in the ditch. You guys have a nice life.’”

After her boyfriend dumped her, Hall got a nanny gig through an online caregiver site. When she received her first check, she bought work clothes— khakis and T-shirts the toddler could spit up on—and stocked her fridge with food. Two weeks later, the check bounced.

She went to her bank and showed them emails from her employer. She tearfully asked them to restore her balance to what it had been before she’d

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deposited the bogus check. But this wasn’t exactly fraud, and Hall had been the one to spend the money, even if it wasn’t legit.

Hall remembers the despair. “It was really bizarre to wake up and have minus $200 in my account,” she says.

“This was me bottoming out—this was less than bottoming out.

“This was me at less than zero.”

Hall filed a case with the police but nothing happened.

Then came not one, but two kidney infections that left her hospitalized. As a result, Hall couldn’t work and lost out on another job.

Oh, and then her wallet was stolen.

Because, of course.

Desperate, Hall moved in with a friend’s family in Roseville. They suggested she also turn to the Internet for help so in June she launched a GoFundMe campaign. “Please Help Me Recover From Scams/Setbacks,” as it was titled, outlined her troubles with a plea.

“Sometimes it’s best to know when to ask for help, and so I’m asking,” she wrote. “If there’s anything you can do, I would be so grateful.”

Maybe it was the next natural step.

Hall is prolific online, and her Facebook posts are often frank, emotionally bare.

Some might say they veer toward oversharing. It mostly works in her favor; she’s built an online community of thousands. As such, reaction was swift.

Nearly 50 people donated in excess of Hall’s $2,000 goal.

Meanwhile, on Facebook, where the campaign was circulating among some of Hall’s friends and local musicians, word went viral with intense, perhaps unexpected ferocity when someone shared the post and the disparaging comments piled on. Another user created a parody campaign, ushering in another slew of nasty remarks.

Hall, according to the commentators, was a fraud. A trust-fund baby trying to scam others out of money.

Many of the comments were steeped in misogyny. The musician was nothing

but an attention whore getting by on her looks. The only people donating were guys who wanted a date. She was probably offering sexual favors in exchange for the money.

A friend sent Hall a screen shot of one of the posts. There were nearly 400 comments. By the end of the week the number would balloon to nearly 1,000.

Hall refused to read them. She couldn’t.

“It’s the most bizarre thing that’s ever happened to me,” Hall said. “All of this being shared with the music community at large—it got to the point where I was getting hate mail from people. I still get hate mail from people I’ve never met before.”

Some so-called friends chimed in, too, telling her because she appeared “rich” they wouldn’t support her. Others declared they’d never work with her again. The backlash stung.

“I [felt] let down—because I feel like everything I had done to this point was done with a heavy dose of realism,” Hall says. “I treat people with respect … because that’s how I want to be treated.”

AUTUMN SKY HALL (LEFT) AND WRITE OR DIE BANDMATE CHRIS KARRIKER TAKE IN SOME MUSIC IN HALL’S LIVING ROOM.

It wasn’t the first time she’d dealt with haters. All those Sacramento Area Music Awards really ticked some people off, too.

“A lot of people [said] I had coerced people into voting for me,” she says. “There are just a lot of people who got really offended when a little girl in a dress with a ukulele and a fucking flower in her hair had a coffee-shop-revival type scene going on and took the focus away from people they thought were more deserving.”

Audrey Kitchell, whose family took Hall in after the boyfriend fiasco, remembers watching her friend face the trauma head-on.

“At first she was shocked, kind of in a state of shock and in a state of sadness and grief,” Kitchell says.

Instead of wallowing, however, Hall channeled it into creativity, often texting lyrics to Kitchell during night writing sessions spent in the room next door.

“She jumped into her writing, which I think really saved her,” Kitchell says. “She just opened her eyes to everything … and she realized

she needed to get it out there and look at everything that happened in her life.”

The secret feminist

It’s been at least a year-and-a-half since Hall played live at TBD Fest in 2014. It may be be a while before she sets foot onstage again. The kind of show she envisions for Write or Die is elaborate.

Affonso recently quit the band for personal reasons; Hall says it’s really more of a hiatus. He’s welcome back anytime. In the meantime, she and Karriker must rethink certain elements.

Maybe they’ll do smaller-scale shows first. Hall really wants to play Sacramento LadyFest. There’s talk of a tour. No hurry, though.

The last year has been, in a way, something of an education. While she lived in Roseville, she worked at an adult boutique in the area. The job initially terrified her, but the people there were nice.

“You can’t be mean to people while you’re hanging up lingerie,” she says.

The work also proved enlightening.

“The people that worked there were so sex-positive and so educated and so

comfortable I eventually got to the point where I could talk about this with a customer or somebody who came in for something specific,” she says. “It just made me feel so much more empowered.”

That’s a big part of the journey.

Scream of Consciousness centers on themes of sexuality and feminism, and to that end Hall’s been taking in anything and everything on the subjects, she explains one rainy January morning at home. It’s a sprawling 100-year-old house located in rural Florin. She lives there with her boyfriend and there’s talk of hosting Daytrotter-styled recording sessions in the living room someday.

Today, she’s wearing a yellow kimono layered over a fuzzy sweater; her hair wet and face makeup free.

Water boils in the kettle for tea, and nearby is a laptop—opened to Facebook—and a copy of Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay’s 2014 collection of essays on gender, politics and pop culture. Hall’s reading it for a feminist book club she launched with some friends.

These days, Hall is a devoted pupil on the subject of gender equality, sexuality and women’s rights.

It’s a study that combines the rigor of research and coats it with sheen of girly bubblegum pink sparkles. To that end, she regularly posts images on Facebook and Instagram depicting musical icons such as ’80s-era singers Grace Jones and Siouxsie Sioux or pictures of pink roller skates and unicorns, hashtagging them with things like #writeordie, #feminist and #riotgrrl.

On the surface it all feels a little wide-eyed and overly earnest. Firstwave, second-wave or third-wave feminism? This is glitter wave.

Still, Hall’s identification with the subject has deeper, serious roots. “I think I was a secret feminist before,” she says with a laugh. “But I felt uncomfortable sharing it.”

The last year has changed that.

“I want to stand proudly and say I think education about sex is one of the most important things a young woman can have,” she says. “But it feels weird because … it can still be read as sexually explicit or promiscuous based on who you are talking to.

And that’s where it gets tricky.”

As a female musician, Hall is sensitive to the trickiness. Over the years, she says there have been plenty of out-of-line comments and behaviors—like the time a stranger grabbed her ass at a Sammies award show.

She chased him down and told him to “never fucking” touch her again.

Then there are the people who get inappropriately chummy—or worse—on Facebook. She gets tired of remarks about her appearance— the hair, the dresses, the whatever.

The weariness extends to her creative pursuits, too. When it comes to the EP, Hall is excited about its songs, but maybe a little freaked out, too, about sending it out into the world. To bear the inevitable scrutiny.

“It feels weird to have opinions, it feels weightier,” Hall says, then pauses to clarify. “It feels weird to be opinionated in music, because being opinionated is something I never ever was before.”

With all those bands, all those shows, all those songs, really?

“I’d constantly be demanding people respect me and listen, but I feel like I attracted the kind of people who didn’t because I didn’t either,” she says.

That’s different now.

Hills, the Earth Tone Studios producer, reached out to Hall long ago with an offer to record. By the time she took him up on it he says she’d ditched the earnest indiefolk sound.

“Things changed dramatically after [her life] sort of fell apart,” he says. “That’s a big reason why her sound evolved so quickly.”

Scream of Consciousness makes for a cohesive departure. Songs such as “Babygirl” and “Prom King Crown” pulse with aggressive guitars, downbeat melodies and, always, Hall’s voice—alternating between breathily pretty and guttural.

Throughout the recording process, Hills adds, Hall came in with strong ideas and the push to make them happen.

“If you listen to her songs … you get a clear vision that there’s a strong point of view and that she has something to say,” Hills says. “That’s what really art is all about.”

Karriker agrees. Over the last several months Hall has impressed him with her ideas, ambition and openness.

“She’s got a drive that’s really cool, and she’s got an idea but there’s a real big open door for whatever’s in between,” Karriker says.

Karriker, whose previous bands include Saint Solitaire, says he wasn’t really a fan of Hall’s folk songs—it just wasn’t his thing—but when he heard she was looking to start a band, he reached out.

The pair wanted a similar aesthetic—something dark, heavy, melodic and emotional—and

the band’s songwriting sessions were collaborative living room jam sessions that Hall recorded exhaustively.

Now, Karriker says, he expects others will see and hear a brand new Autumn Sky Hall.

“It’s going to be different for fans; it’s going to be really surprising in a good way,” he says.

Maybe the biggest things that have come out of the last year are the changes they’ve brought about for Hall, not musically, but in everyday life. She works full-time for one of those photo booth companies you find at weddings, parties and expos.

She pays her bills on time and doesn’t go out much at night. Maybe she’s a little square and boring.

That’s cool, though.

There’s more transition coming, too. In March, most of her family will be moving to Pennsylvania where her mother has taken on a midwifery job in the Amish community. It pays enough for her to support everyone, including Hall’s dad who has Huntington’s Chorea. Still, that’s a long haul from Redding, where her parents currently live.

She lets out a sigh as she talks about it.

“It’s sad but from a grownup perspective it’s exactly what they need to survive—they need to be somewhere where [finances] are not always up in the air,” she says.

And, she says, even with her family on the other side of the country, she doesn’t feel alone.

“Luckily this is the year my friends became family-friends so the dynamics have changed to support me in that way,” she continues.

Mostly, she just wants to keep making music, making art, making a statement. “I didn’t feel like I had much of a voice before, and now I want to be a voice,” Hall says. “I have a lot to add to the conversation and I had just never taken the time to let myself have fun with that.”

Whatever happens next, she says, she’s ready.

In a way, she says—in true optimistic Autumn Sky Hall fashion—everything that happened this last year turned out to be something of a blessing.

“I have stronger sense of self now,” Hall says. “I feel like I’m made of iron and nothing really affects me, nothing.” Ω Learn more about Autumn Sky Hall at www.facebook. com/AutumnSkyOfficial. Download Scream of Consciousness at http://writeordie.bandcamp.com.

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any of us bemoan the

commercialism of Valentine’s Day, the crowds at dinner, the pressure to find that perfect romantic gift, but the fact remains: If you are in a romantic relationship you must make some type of gesture toward the spirit of the holiday.

The question is whether you’ll go all out and spare no expense, or opt for a sweet token of love that won’t break the bank. Are you a baller or a baller on a budget? Suggestions for both follow:

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1 Eat to love Baller option

Ella Dining Room & Bar Prix fixe Valentine’s Day Dinner $135 per person

Many chefs tend to play it safe on big ticket, prix fixe holiday meals— loading the menu with the same high-ticket items, such as foie gras and truffles, that you’ll find anywhere. Not so at Ella Dining Room & Bar, where executive chef Rob Lind sounds jazzed about the decadent menu he has planned, including the amuse-bouche (“a perfect cube of yellowfin tuna, plated on a Chinese soup spoon” and topped with a

tempura sea bean) and a New York strip steak that’s “showered” with perigord truffles. Oh, and there’s a dessert comprised of a milk-chocolate terrine topped with Frangelico chantilly.

Also worthy of mention are the “plump, juicy and really big” woodroasted quail from Diamond H Ranch in south Texas, flown in, as Lind says, because “it’s a Randall Selland thing—Randall said ‘I want

you to use this quail, because it’s the best.’”

Despite all this meaty richness, Lind is equally enthusiastic about the vegetarian option, which includes pillowy, handmade stuffed agnolotti pas ta, served under a blanket of the aforementioned truffles so vegetarians can ball, too. Either option includes a bottle of Laurent-Perrier champagne. Reservations required.

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This Valentine’s Day he is hosting a fivecourse pop-up meal at the Cafe Colonial.

The brunch choices include blackberry walnut heart-shaped minipancakes, pesto croquettes stuffed with Greek olive tapenade, a vegan Monte Cristo sandwich and a red velvet cake with cocoa and berry sorbet and chocolate sauce. Nonalcoholic beverages include coffee, tea and a currant

spritzer—all included in the price. Alcoholic beverages will be for sale at the cafe. Plus, Ploeg promises diners will also “get a cute homemade card and chocolates from me.”

Sweet. Reservations are required, so email thetravelingchef@ gmail.com for more information. Noon-2 p.m., 3522 Stockton Boulevard, www.facebook.com/ events/1544704432508790.

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Cafe Colonial The Traveling Chef’s Valentine’s Day Vegan Brunch Feast $30 per person Although he no longer resides in Sacramento, punk musician and cookbook author Joshua Ploeg still has a soft spot for the River City and comes through often, peddling his fanciful, playful vegan wares. (Tip: Sign up for his mailing list to receive email blasts about dinner parties and food pickups)

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Autonomous Love Njoy Pure Wand $110

Nestled into a box with a pink satin lining, this stainless steel wand looks more like an objet d’art than a sex toy. Like a Jeff Koons balloon dog—for your butt! Or vagina. This gently curved toy is equal opportunity, for “your favorite spot—G or P” as the directions say. Autonomous Love owner Paul

Imagine points out that the wand can be warmed up in a bowl of warm water, and that some people like to pop it in the fridge for a few minutes for a delightfully cool sensation. The freezer is not recommended, however, if you’d like to avoid A Christmas Story tongue-stuckto-the-flagpole type of moment that could harsh that sexy vibe.

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Goldie’s Adult Superstore Climax Silicone Vibrating Love Bullet $13.99 Back in the ’90s, Goldie’s used to be just about the only game in town, sex-store-wise, but now that we have G Spot in Midtown, and the aforementioned Autonomous Love, is there any reason for anyone, especially a female, to venture into the worse-for-wear, cinder block, razor-wire-ringed bunker that is Goldie’s? Turns out

on a recent Sunday afternoon, this clean, well-stocked store was empty except for two cheery female clerks debating whether they were going to take their daughters to see Disney’s Frozen On Ice— so, perhaps. Low overhead means Goldie’s has low prices, and this 3-inch, nubbly silicone vibe offered in a “blue pop” color is cute enough to make your girl exclaim “awwww” before she turns it on and starts to say “oooohhh.”

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Baller Chocolates

Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates Hatbox assortment, sizes small to deluxe $60-$180 Does your boo or bae have extremely refined tastes?

Does she turn her nose up at gauche Victoria’s Secret undies and favor discreet La Perla lace? Will young domestic whiskey never cross his lips? Then the understated luxe of a Ginger Elizabeth

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Kobasic’s Candies Heart-shaped candy box Prices vary

If Ginger Elizabeth’s clean white atmosphere and hushed seriousness is all just a little too Williamsburg for you, then Kobasic’s Candies is its antithesis. This is basically your Nana’s sitting room reconfigured as a candy store—replete with pastel tones and stuffed animals abounding. There are empty heartshaped boxes for sale that range from about $5-$10 depending on fanciness and size (options offered include a half-pound and much,

hatbox may be the way to go. There is a range in size and price, but all of the hatboxes feature cocoa nib shortbread cookies, assorted truffles and chocolate bars and a tin of Ginger Elizabeth’s justly storied hot chocolate mix.

Packaged in a white hatbox with cotton ribbon for those who are turned off by unnecessary kitsch and sparkle. 1801 L Street, Suite 60; (916) 706-1738; http://gingerelizabeth.com.

much bigger), and some of the box designs will definitely scratch a retro itch. The candies themselves, some of which are called “kruffles”—i.e., “Kobasic’s truffle”—are handmade with love and cost $24.95 a pound.

According to shop owner Nancy Kobasic, one of the kruffles uses balsamic vinegar to enhance its flavor and the shop’s No. 1 seller is salted vanilla caramel. Indeed, Kobasic’s was ahead of the curve on the salting candy trend—they’ve been doing it for a good decade. The salted English toffee is a shatteringly crisp, meltingly luscious version of this confection—a klassic!

5324 Riverside Boulevard, (916) 448-3555, http://kobasics candies.com.

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Baller sparkling wine

Corti Brothers Magnum of Piper-Heidsieck Rose Sauvage champagne $137.29 When you think “baller,” what comes to mind? Likely yachts, Rolls-Royces and … magnums of champagne. This bottle of bubbly has a special Valentine’s Day touch—it’s a sparkling rose that actually pours a deep red color and sports a bright magenta label. The wine is a blend of pinot noir, pinot meunier and chardonnay, and exhibits notes of tart raspberry and a balanced acidity.

Plus, you’ll just look like a boss if you bring it out to dinner. 5810 Folsom Boulevard, (916) 736-3800, http://cortibrothers.com.

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58 Degrees and Holding Co. Bugey-Cerdon “La Cueille” $23 If the Rose Sauvage is the Rick Ross of sparkling rose—big and flashy—this bottle is the Chance The Rapper—interesting and intellectual. With an insanely low ABV (8 percent), it’s fruity, intensely carbonated and lightly sweet. Pair this refreshing blend of poulsard and gamay with some French cheese for a light Valentine’s Day repast and you may even have enough energy left after the meal to get lucky, which after all, is what the holiday is all about. 1217 18th Street, (916) 442-5858, www.58degrees.com. Ω

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What we ultimately consume The North Pacific Gyre is a floating mass of discarded plastic products. It’s estimated to be twice the size of Texas PHOTOGRAPHY and has devastating effects on wildlife and the environment, and artist Jerry Takigawa elegantly conveys this in False Food—A Metaphor for Survival.

He photographs plastic objects that were retrieved from inside albatross who perished, likely from mistaking the plastic as food, carefully arranged upon other images, like a photo of stones or an Asian drawing.

Takigawa has found an aesthetically compelling way to draw the viewer in, to reveal this situation and to remind ourselves how our actions affect others.

“Plastic is often designed for ‘single-use’ (think straw, cup, bottle),” he says, “but, by its nature, every molecule ever developed is still with us today. … [W]hat we throw away, we ultimately consume.”

Where: Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, 2015 J Street,

“F-379, Untitled” by Jerry Takigawa, pigment print on canvas, 2014.

Suite 101; (916) 441-2341; www.viewpointgallery.org.

Second Saturday reception: February 13, 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Through April 2.

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.

Firstborn, first year As a young adult, artist Hilary VonJoo wasn’t planning on having children. But after she got married, she knew familial expansion was the right move. And the first year of DRAWINGS her firstborn, Emerson, is the subject of VonJoo’s show at Archival Gallery.

VonJoo’s line drawings are delicate yet assertive, suggesting movement, compassion and a twinkle of magic. She said A Year of Emerson was actually the idea of Archival owner D. Neath and her husband, who are longtime friends of the artist (VonJoo also works as a framer at the shop). She said it was challenging squeezing in drawing an infant during her initiation into motherhood, but she soon figured out a way to regularly catalog his growth with her pen, and she plans to keep on drawing.

“Gas Station” by Richard Breedon, gelatin silver print, 1979.

A retro ’spective Every budding or wannabe artist may have a moment when he or she looks at his or her early work, like that primitive preschool scribble displayed on the gallery of Mom’s refrigerator, and thinks, “Better hold on to this—a gallery might want it for my retrospective one day.”

That makes Richard Breedon’s Shimo Center for the Arts photography exhibition PHOTOGRAPHY 1979 sound like a bit of a dream come true. While not accurate to describe his photos as, well,

“preschool scribble,” his early work shows the perspective of a nascent professional photographer—who went on to get a Ph.D. in physics and work in labs in Europe and Japan, among other locales.

Only those unbridled scribbled drawings on the fridge could not have predicted such an unexpected back story.

Where: Shimo Center for the Arts, 2117 28th Street; (916) 706-1162; www.shimogallery.com.

Second Saturday reception:

“Dat” by Hilary VonJoo, ink on paper, 2015.

Where: Archival Framing, 3223 Folsom Boulevard; (916) 923-6204; www.archivalframe.com.

February 13, 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Through March 5.

Second Saturday reception: February 13, 6 p.m. to

Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; or by appointment.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Tuesday through Saturday.

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7 CUFFS 2523 J St., (916) 443-2881, www.shopcuffs.com

8 ELLIOTT FOUTS GALLERY 1831 P St., (916) 446-1786, www.efgallery.com

9 EN EM ART SPACE 1714 Broadway, (916) 905-4368, www.enemspace.com

10 FLOPPY’S DIGITAL COPIES AND PRINTING 2031 J St., (916) 446-3475, www.floppysdigital.com

1 ART OF TOYS 1126 18th St., (916) 446-0673, www.artoftoys.com

2 ART STUDIOS 1727 I St., behind Easy on I; (916) 444-2233

3 ARTFOX GALLERY 2213 N St., Ste. B; (916) 835-1718; www.artfox.us

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12 INTEGRATE SACRAMENTO 2220 J St., (916) 541-4294, http://integrateservices sacramento.blogspot.com

13 THE IRON MONKEY TATTOO STUDIO AND FINE ART GALLERY 1723 I St., (916) 476-5701, www.facebook.com/ theironmonkeytattooandartgallery

14 KENNEDY GALLERY 1931 L St., (916) 716-7050, www.kennedygallerysac.com

15 LITTLE RELICS 908 21st St., (916) 716-2319, www.littlerelics.com

16 MIDTOWN FRAMING & GALLERY 1005 22nd St., (916) 447-7558, www.midtownframing.com

17 MY STUDIO 2325 J St., (916) 476-4121, www.mystudiosacramento.com

18 RED DOT GALLERY 2231 J St., Ste. 101; www.reddotgalleryonj.com

19 SACRAMENTO ART COMPLEX 2110 K St., Ste. 4; (916) 476-5500; www.sacramentoartcomplex.com

20 SACRAMENTO GAY & LESBIAN CENTER 1927 L St., (916) 442-0185, http://saccenter.org

21 SHIMO CENTER FOR THE ARTS 2117 28th St., (916) 706-1162, www.shimogallery.com

22 SPARROW GALLERY 2418 K St., (916) 382-4894, www.sparrowgallery. squarespace.com

23 TIM COLLOM GALLERY 915 20th St., (916) 247-8048, www.timcollomgallery.com

24 UNION HALL GALLERY 2126 K St., (916) 448-2452

25 THE URBAN HIVE 1931 H St., (916) 585-4483, www.theurbanhive.com

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29 ARTISTS’ COLLABORATIVE GALLERY 129 K St., (916) 444-7125, www.artcollab.com

30 AXIS GALLERY 625 S St., (916) 443-9900, www.axisgallery.org

31 CROCKER ART MUSEUM 216 O St., (916) 808-7000, www.crockerartmuseum.org

32 E STREET GALLERY AND STUDIOS 1115 E St., (916) 505-7264

33 LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE 2700 Front St., (916) 446-5133, www.lrpg.org

34 NIDO 1409 R St., Ste. 102; (916) 668-7594; www.hellonido.com

35 SMITH GALLERY 1020 11th St., Ste. 100; (916) 446-4444; www.smithgallery.com

36 VERGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS 625 S St., (916) 448-2985, www.vergeart.com

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39 CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO 7055 Folsom Blvd., 40 CAPITOL FOLK GALLERY 887 57th St., Ste. 1; (916) 996-8411

41 FE GALLERY & IRON ART STUDIO 1100 65th St., (916) 456-4455, www.fegallery.com

42 GALLERY 14 3960 60th St., (916) 456-1058, www.gallery14.net

43 JAYJAY 5520 Elvas Ave., (916) 453-2999, www.jayjayart.com

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III BLUE LINE GALLERY 405 Vernon St., Ste. 100 in Roseville; (916) 783-4117; www.bluelinearts.org

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Local Love. Don't look far for the perfect Valentine’s Day gift.

Love your sweetheart and Sacramento by showering your darling with gifts from local stores and boutiques. Roseville store, Reinvent Clothing Boutique and Consignment, just opened a new location in midtown Sacramento where “you'll find a beautiful selection of clothing and accessories, perfect for that special night out or as a gift for friends or loved ones,” says co-owner, Dan Williams. Cuffs, a midtown mainstay, also opened a second location in Davis and owner, Lacadia Johnson lets us know that “you can’t go wrong with a classic bag or a unique accessory for your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day. ShopCuffs has great gifts for guys too!”

Also in Roseville is consignment store, Sei Bella Boutique, where you can find something decadent for your lady at a fraction of the price.

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1 Heart Clothing Boutique 1903 Capitol Ave. • 916-441-1359 love layering necklace $12, best friend brass bangle bracelet $18

4 Cuffs 2523 J st. #101 • 916-443-2881 • 231 3rd st. Davis • 530-204-8813 faux leather Bit purse in wheat $39, Suede & Stone beaded necklace $24

2 Freestyle Clothing Exchange Citrus Heights – Downtown Sac – Roseville – Folsom • www.freestyleclothing.com scarf $8, clutch $13, bralette $10, Aldo shoes $28, Fossil watch $45

5 Krazy Mary's Boutique 3230 Folsom blvd. • 916-442-6279 pink floral print cocktail dress $68, cream flower bib necklace $20

3 The Clothing Hang-Up Boutique 1015 2nd St. • 916-970-5943 Heart Brooch $22

6 Sugar Shack boutique 2425 J st. • 916-447-4435 white floral print dress $56, coral stone bib necklace $24

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“This Valentines Day, fall in love with someone's Ex Handbag,” co-owner, Monica Jackson says and is offering their Gianni Versace Couture Wallet (pictured) at $199 (retails $875) to one lucky SNR reader (only one in stock).

“A moment in my arms, forever in my heart,” Dory Kramer of the Clothing Hang-Up Boutique says of the gifts available at her store, like her heart brooch (pictured). More pretty things for women and girls are found just down the street: “Krazy Mary's Boutique in East Sacramento offers a selection of girly dresses and beautiful Valentine's Day gifts!

Shop local in Midtown's Sugar Shack Boutique for flirty tops, dresses & gifts this season,” owner of both shops, Mary Kawano reminds us. Even more gifts for your lady can be found at midtown store, Heart Clothing Boutique but “don't let our small size fool you,” owner, Vanessa Lopez

7 Reinvent Clothing Boutique & Consignment 7441 Foothills blvd., Roseville • 916-774-0344 • 2009 J st. • 916-505-1972 Pink Kate Spade Handbag $110 8 Sei Bella Boutique 1950 Douglas Blvd B7, Roseville • 916-789-0404 Gianni Versace Couture Wallet retail $875 Sei Bella $299 w/ this ad $199 only one in stock

says, “Heart is packed with all the best Valentine's Day Gift items. Shop Heart for your hearts.”

Shop for men and women in East Sacramento at Article Consignment Boutique, “your one stop shop for all your Valentines Day shopping needs,” says co-owner, Abraham Sanchez,”Whether you need a gift for your sweetheart or for a friend, let our team of guest service experts help you find the right gift for those special people in your life.”

Finally, you don't have to go far for a gift with Freestyle Clothing Exchange, with four locations. “The best gift you can give on Valentines Day is something that enhances her inner beauty and femininity,” says Vanessa Kelley from Freestyle, “Try a lacy bralette or a sexy pair of heels and bring on the romance!

But when in doubt, you can never go wrong with a FreeStyle giftcard!”

9 Article Consignment Boutique 706 56th St #100 • 916-316-5772 Herve Leger by Max Azria dress, retail $799, Article $239.60.

Louis Vuitton LOCKIT PM bag, retail $1,870, Article $644.50

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You know

those insufferable jerks who get all “you shouldn’t just celebrate love one day out of the year, but every day” and “I refuse to participate in the commoditization of human emotion” on Valentine’s Day? We’re not going to do that. What I will

point out is that while this holiday is an excellent excuse for the attached and unattached alike to indulge in all manner of fun, excessive behaviors, there are some lame traditions that come with it.

Lucky for us all, this year it falls on a Sunday, which means there’s a plethora of events leading up to but not on the actual day. Which means that come Sunday, instead of dropping $200 on red roses, oysters and filet mignon (how inspired!), your celebrating will already be done and you can spend the night watching the Netflix and chilling, as the kids say these days.

It’s cheating, sort of, but you’re only screwing the system.

That the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op (1900 Alhambra Boulevard) wrote a description for a class called Passion for Pork that takes place three days before Valentine’s Day without any puns involving porking is impressive (well, at least to SN&R’s writers).

Also impressive: You coming out of this class knowing how to make Kalua pig loco moco, pulled pork sandwiches, chili verde and a braised pork chop in time to make that special someone or your special self dinner instead of going out.

Registration is $49 and the class goes from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 11; visit

www.sacfoodcoop.com for more information.

If this is more of a drinking holiday for you, get in on the second Annual Cupid’s Revenge Pub Crawl, which begins at Cornerstone Cafe (2326 J Street) on Saturday, February 13, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5-$10 and will get you food and drink specials all night, plus there will be an anti-Cupid costume contest and a scavenger hunt.

Tickets can be purchased at http://cupidcrawl.nightout.com.

Stick it to Hallmark and get major thoughtfulness points by making your own valentine this year at Make a Valentine Class for Guys on Thursday, February 11, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Verge Center for the Arts (625 S Street).

The class will be led by resident artist Gioia Fonda and the cost is $15, which includes a beer; register at http://vergeart.com/learn/ classes/guys-make-valentine. If you’re really feeling the art vibes after that, check out Date Night at the Gallery (405 Vernon Street, Suite 100 in Roseville) the very next night from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., during which you and a partner will make ceramic pieces while sipping on wine. Admission is $30 per person and can be purchased at www.blue linearts.org/event/date-night.

—DEEnA DREwIS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 TEDx, the popular intellectual speaker community conference series based on the global phenomenon that is TED, is back. The TEDx experiCONFERENCE ence is just like its parent, but local and independently organized. It features speakers, performers and technology installations. This year’s theme is “What’s Next” and is meant to make attendees think about what kind of future they are creating. $59-$99; 1 p.m. at the Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street; http://tedxsacramento.com.

—LoRY GIL

Darwin Day SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 This year marks the 207th birthday of Charles Darwin. To celebrate, the International Darwin Day Foundation sponsors events around the world.

The Sacramento celebration includes SCIENCE a presentation from paleontologist Dr. Matthew J. James on Darwin’s expedition to the Galápagos Islands in 1905. $10-$15; 2 p.m. at La Sierra Community Center, 5325 Engle Road in Carmichael; http://sacdarwinday.org.

—LoRY GIL

Hearts for Humanity SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 Put your heart where your art is—or something like that. Students at John F. Kennedy High School are ponying up their work for Hearts for Humanity, a silent art auction. The event is meant to encourage more arts in schools and proceeds benefit the American Heart Association’s goal to AUCTION provide CPR training to all California high school students. Free; 4 p.m. at Donald Joseph, Inc., 2620 21st Street.

—RAChEL LEIBRoCk

Brazilian Carnaval 2016 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 A plane ticket across the Americas may not be in the cards right now, but Sacramento has its own version of Carnival in Brazil. And, fortunately, there’s a lot of great regional samba bands to take up FESTIVAL the slack, including SambaDa and others.

There will also be capoeira, percussion workshops and Brazilian foods. $15-$20; 6 p.m. at E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts, 2420 N Street; www.braziliancentersac.org.

—AARon CARnES

Valentine’s Day at the Animal Shelter SUnDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Valentine’s Day is for love, and no creature has more love to give than a shelter pet. The Front Street Animal Shelter offers a special educational program for kids. They will get a tour behind the scenes, spend the day with the animals and learn safeANIMALS ty and pet-ownership skills. $50; 1 p.m. at Front Street Animal Shelter, 2127 Front Street; www.facebook.com/FrontStreetAnimalShelter.

—AARon CARnES

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ILLUSTRATIONS BY SERENE LUSANO

Keep it in the 916 TEMPEH REUBEN, GARDEN TO GRILL Dharma’s in Santa Cruz serves the world’s most amazing vegan tempeh Reuben piled high with gooey Swiss “cheese” and tangy sauerkraut. But 150 miles is a long way to travel for a sandwich (or is it?); luckily there’s a tasty option closer to home. Garden to Grill’s take on the sandwich ($10.50) is on rye (of course) with thick layers of tempeh bacon, avocado, sauerkraut, pickles and mayo. With a side of fries— get the garlic ones for $1.50 more—it makes for a satisfying plant-based Dagwood-worthy lunch without the commute. Or the beach, for that matter—but you can’t have it all. 2315 K Street, www.gardentogrill.net.

—RACHEL LEIBROCK

Cold buster KENTUCKY MULE, POUR HOUSE

ILLUSTRATION BY MARK STIVERS

Brew news

BY JANELLE BITKER

Forecast says suds: Per usual, the imminence of Sacramento Beer Week (February 25 through March 6) also brings an onslaught of local brew news.

The newest brewery in the area is Elk Grove’s Flatland Brewing Co., which opened at the end of January in what used to be Handcraft Brewing Co. (9183 Survey Road).

It’s owned by Andrew and Michelle Mohsenzadegan, and Andrew used to be head brewer at Handcraft.

According to Beers in Sac, Andrew will focus on hoppy beers but also loves brewing sours.

Also in Elk Grove, Tilted Mash Brewing (9110 Union Park Way, Suite 107) will be a nanobrewery

by Derrick Prasad and Jonathan Martinez. They don’t anticipate opening the taproom until late

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

March or early April, but they do plan on having a presence at Beer Week. Look for Tilted Mash’s kegs, carrying a coffee milk stout and the Hoppy Jefe, a wheat IPA with lots of citra and azacca hops.

Meanwhile, Fieldwork Brewing Co. is coming to Midtown.

It’ll be the Berkeley brewery’s first additional taproom, taking over the skinny, 1,436 square foot space between the Press Bistro and Zocalo at 1805 Capitol Avenue. Look for a summer opening.

Fieldwork has been open for just shy of one year, but it’s already one of the most respected craft breweries in the Bay Area, offering a range of nuanced IPAs, experimental sours and barrel-aged beers. Co-founder Alex Tweet used to brew at Modern Times Beer and Ballast

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Point Brewing Company in San Diego—not only that, he created the extraordinarily popular Grapefruit Sculpin IPA. Why come to Sacramento?

Co-founder Barry Braden said lots of Sacramentans regularly visit Fieldwork in Berkeley. They’d rave about the Sacramento beer scene and, essentially, convinced Fieldwork’s team to look at real estate.

“We thought if we were gonna put a stake in the ground somewhere else, Sacramento would be a good spot,” he said.

Braden said he couldn’t release many details yet, but the taproom will offer a rotating selection of Fieldwork beers on draft, plus growlers and crowlers to go. (A crowler is basically what happens when a growler meets an aluminum can.) Expect the aesthetic to stay true to the Berkeley brewery’s industrial vibe. As for how much beer? That’s still to be determined, but potentially, a lot.

“We have 18 beers on tap in Berkeley,” Braden said. “I think it’s fair to say 20-25 beers is possible.” Ω

Ginger is vaguely medicinal, as is whiskey. Put them together and you have a good excuse to drink while you’ve got a cold. If you’re the sort of jerk that stumbles into bars while you’re pulsing with infectiousness, the Kentucky Mule ($8) at Pour House is a fine coldbusting choice. Since the ginger beer is made from stuff pressed in-house, it’s got a fresh, fragrant snap to it, and the bourbon and lime keep it both full and bright. At least get a table in the corner where nobody else has to hear you sniffle, OK? 1910 Q Street, http://pourhousesacramento.com.

—ANTHONY SIINO

Fractal food ROMANESCO That striking, oceanic veggie that looks like pointy broccoli is, in fact, a brassica. Also known as Romanesque cauliflower, it’s the perfect thing to cook for math geeks because the spirals of buds are a natural approximation of a fractal. It’s crunchier than broccoli, but milder in flavor. The bright green color also makes it stand out in a crowd. Put it on display if you must, but not for too long. It will wilt quickly, so break apart the florets and steam or stir-fry like broccoli. Pair with stronger flavors like anchovy, garlic or aged sharp cheese.

—ANN MARTIN ROLKE

Pretty is as pretty does

Sweet deal

BY JANELLE BITKER

Sushi Q

HH 8325 Elk Grove-Florin Road, Suite 400, in Elk Grove; (916) 896-0116, www.sushiq916.com Dinner for one: $10 - $30 Good for: another Japanese option in Elk Grove Notable dishes: lobster tempura, Sacramento roll, spicy tantan ramen

Everything at Sushi Q looks attractive.

Exhibit A: chirashi ($22.50), the chef’s selection of 18 pieces of sashimi, tucked and curled over seasoned rice. In addition to the white and red tuna, ivory scallops, buttery escolar and marbled salmon, there are long, thin strands of dried pepper; a dark green relish of pickled wasabi; sweet marinated mushrooms; one large shiso leaf; a pile of shredded daikon; tangy seaweed salad and fresh daikon sprouts. It’s a marvelous-looking bowl, artfully arranged and full of different colors, textures and heights.

Then, there’s the contemporary lighting. The cute little dishes for your soy sauce. The ceramic plates in so many shapes and sizes. The plush, outrageously comfy bar stools. The guys behind the sushi bar are no slouches, either.

And so, I expected big things when I dove into that first chirashi bowl. But the flavors fell short, as did the service. Despite its good looks and elegant plating, Sushi Q is best thought of as a solid neighborhood joint. There are far superior destination spots elsewhere, but keep it in mind if you find yourself in Elk Grove.

Sushi Q opened in September to nearly immediate popularity. Show up for dinner after 6 p.m. and you’ll probably have to wait. Sometimes, with a group of people lurking by the door, the space can feel cramped. There are only 14 seats at the bar and eight tables. Lunch is mellower, where

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everyone seems to be a regular and the servers seem to know everyone.

Over three visits, service to this newcomer was friendly though spotty. One time I asked for ginger, and it never came. Two separate times, I ordered a chef’s choice item and received no explanation as to what I was eating. Another time, I felt hurried through my meal.

In any case, the food will arrive and it will be beautiful.

Exhibit B: the lobster tempura ($10) earned oohs and aahs with a lobster tail standing tall above chunks of meat. To answer your question, yes, the lobster tail was purely for looks. With its duo of sauces, delicate fry and buttery lobster, the dish still made for an excellent appetizer. The barbecued albacore ($12) was less successful, with any natural flavor from the fish buried under an orange blanket of spicy mayo sauce.

The spicy tantan ramen ($10.50) impressed with a subtly sweet, soy-based broth that packed heat. The noodles stayed nice and springy, cloaked in ground pork.

But the main draw to Sushi Q—the sushi— generally tasted subpar. Nigiri on multiple occasions featured slightly dry rice packed too tightly. The fish tasted like mild versions of their normal selves, especially the red tuna. I never felt like I was tasting the ocean.

Surprise, surprise: I actually found the gimmicky, bacon-topped Sacramento roll ($12.50) to be delightful.

The inside—shrimp tempura and spicy tuna—could be exchanged with just about any roll on Sushi Q’s lengthy menu, but the top layer of avocado, unagi and crumbled bacon totally worked together. Unagi provided the dominant flavor, while the crispy bacon brought texture and saltiness. The small dollops of garlic mayo showed restraint, unlike so many Americanized sushi spots that soak their rolls in sauce.

Sure, bacon sushi is ridiculous and bombastic, but maybe that’s more suited to Sushi Q’s strengths. And that’s perfectly OK. Ω

I never felt like I was tasting the ocean.

Rather than sit in traffic trying to get to Napa Valley, why not select a much closer, less pretentious and less expensive wine country getaway? It takes about 15 minutes to drive to Clarksburg from downtown Sacramento, and at the Old Sugar Mill (35265 Willow Avenue) alone, you can taste pours from 11 wineries. It gets sweeter on Saturday, February 13, and Sunday, February 14, which is the annual Port & Wine Chocolate Lovers Weekend.

Sure, going to anything deemed a “Lovers Weekend” might feel over-thetop, but it’s quite the deal. A $40 oneday ticket gets you the equivalent of up to three glasses of wine per winery— yes, you did the math right—plus barrel, port and chocolate tastings. An extra $25 gets you buffet lunch at Breedlove’s Bayou Bistro, featuring jambalaya, roast chicken, smoked brisket, salads, bread pudding and multiple cakes. Learn more at http://oldsugarmill.com.

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BY SHOKA The book How Not to Die is not a guide on how to become an immortal resident of Mount Olympus, but about how to reduce, reverse or eliminate diseases and live better and longer by our food choices. Its author, Dr. Michael Greger, uses science to get to bottom of it all. He’s also the author of NutritionFacts.org, where he presents videos and pens articles such as “The No. 1 Dietary Risk Factor is Not Eating Enough Fruit” and “Why are Chickens Fed Prozac?”

(Hint: It’s money, not your health.)

Greger will be in Sacramento for a talk on Sunday, February 14, at 4 p.m. at Kaiser Permanente at 1650 Response Road. See the event listing at www.meetup.com/ sacvegansociety-org for more info.

Take your valentine and get inspired by this superstar of health and nutrition findings, and maybe reconsider your dinner reservations at Outback Steakhouse in favor of a romantic, not-death-inducing meal at home.

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Even in the midst of working with dancers and choreographers, Ron Cunningham and wife Carinne Binda are still—always, actually—seeking funding, as well as dealing with carpenters, painters and parking space allotments as they prepare to move into their new home at the E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts in Midtown.

“As usual, we are up to our necks in it,” Cunningham said in a recent interview at the ballet company’s soon-to-be former home on K Street.

“But dancers thrive on being busy.” Apparently choreographers and artistic directors do, too. Since the beginning of the year, the company has spent three weeks learning Blood Rush (with choreographer Ma Cong), a week working with Jared Nelson (the former Sacramento Ballet dancer and choreographer who recently retired from the Washington Ballet) on a new piece, and, in between, fitting in Beer & Ballet work, piecemeal with 15 to 20 minutes spent here and there, co-artistic director Binda said.

Beer & Ballet, a signature event for the company, was planned to be the first performance in the Raley Studios. When it comes to construction, however, timelines rarely go according to schedule.

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“There were (inevitable) delays. Now, we expect to be settling in March through the summer,” Cunningham said.

The company’s final Second Saturday open studio event will take place this Saturday, February 13, at the old studio. The next Second Saturday open studio will happen March 12 at the new site. The Bach to Now and Beyond program is also scheduled there March 17 through April 2.

In the meantime, Beer & Ballet will be staged at Sacramento City College’s Art Court Theatre; the first three nights are already sold out.

The new home (housed in the former Fremont School) provides “a sense of real permanency, a feeling of ownership,” Cunningham said. A seismic retrofit was the first requirement to turn the old school into a viable performing arts center. Other announced tenants include Alliance Francaise de Sacramento, the Brazilian Center for Cultural Exchange, the McKeever School of Irish Dance and auxiliary office and storage space for Capital Stage.

The ballet’s home (which takes up about half of the 48,000 square-foot building) features a main performing studio. “[It’s] kind of like [our old space], but the paint won’t be peeling and the ceiling sagging,” Cunningham said.

The dance floor will be about 10 feet deeper, too. Seating capacity will be around 130, compared to approximately 100 now. In general, the room’s capacity is based upon which chairs are selected, depending on the performance.

The new space will also feature six studios of varying sizes, giving, among other things, the potential for ballet school growth, Binda said. The growth, she adds, is both artistic and financial.

The school is a source of dependable income.

Tuition-based income “is not cyclical—as fundraising drives and grants and donations can be,” Cunningham said.

For now, enrollment is maxed out at 350 but Binda estimates that it could rise to 500—or more—in the new location. Not a bad start for a new chapter that’s yet to even begin. Ω

Check out the Sacramento Ballet’s Second Saturday open studio, 4 p.m., Saturday, February 13 at 1631 K Street. Free. Catch Beer & Ballet, various times, February 19-February 28, at Art Court Theatre at Sacramento City College. Tickets are $35. For more information, call (916) 552-5800 or visit www.sacballet.org.

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Driving Miss Daisy

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.

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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

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Love and Information

Eleven actors, 50-plus scenes, 100 characters, 95 minutes of dizzying action with no plot to get in the way. Under the brilliant direction of Benjamin T. Ismail, this innovative play about communication in the short-attention-span world hits all the emotional hot spots from tragic to hilarious and everything in between. Th, F 8pm; Sa 2pm

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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.

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As a series of disconnected scenes skewering old Hollywood, Hail, Caesar! is a blast, as when Channing Tatum pops in to perform a vaguely A large part of the appeal of brother auteurs Joel and homoerotic musical number. The production Ethan Coen lies in their ability to credibly function in design is predictably meticulous, and the script’s multiple modes and genres. They can easily move from deep-cut references to Nick Schenck and Dave ice-hearted noir-ists to metaphysical theorists to zany Chasen and Norman Taurog are catnip for pranksters, sometimes within the same scene. Of all those cinephiles. But as much fun as it is to play “spot modes, I’ve come to like their taste for broad comedy the avatar” (Ralph Fiennes as a George Cukor-ian the least. Films like Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, director is a highlight), there’s no center to hold it Burn after Reading and O Brother, Where Art Thou? are together. too big for my taste, too needy to be funny.

We never connect with Mannix as a charTheir latest film, the star-studded studio system acter, and it feels like big chunks of story are picaresque Hail, Caesar!, is being sold as a missing from the finished cut. The film zany comedy, but it actually has a lot more moves in stops and starts, and the going for it. It’s a slavishly recreated pace lags considerably between vision of the Hollywood system, as showstopping sequences.

This is well as a playful dismantling of its Characters drop in and out probably the most phony and pious legends. Yet for all for no good reason, and long of its ambition and splashy style, stretches are spent with a aggressively mediocre this is probably the most aggreslikable but largely superfluous movie that the Coen sively mediocre movie that the supporting character played by brothers Coen brothers have made. newcomer Alden Ehrenreich, Josh Brolin stars as Eddie presumably because he tested have made.

Mannix, a 1950s studio executive well with preview audiences. known for his ability to protect his A lot of scenes work as ideas, stars and manipulate the press. Mannix is but not as scenes, especially the ones loosely based on the real-life MGM “fixer” of involving a cabal of Communist screenwriters. the same name, but the Mannix of Hail, Caesar! is a There are still those welcome touches of Coen straight-arrow Catholic who takes confession every acidity, and as an examination of the hypocrisy time he sneaks a cigarette, shouldering the sins of of blacklist-era Hollywood, the fantasyland his pampered talent in a heroic attempt to uphold a of Hail, Caesar! is at least ten thousand times crumbling system. smarter and more righteous than the based-onThe kidnapping of the studio’s ironclad star Baird fact Trumbo. But as a Coen brothers’ movie, it’s Whitlock (George Clooney) becomes the central just OK. Ω storyline, although the film barely builds any momentum. Mannix wanders from set to set, and the film wanders from scene to scene, establishing a movieswithin-movies-within-movies vibe that’s clever and POOR FAIR GOOD VERY EXCELLENT cute without ever paying off in any meaningful way.

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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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The Big Short

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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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. J.L.

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The Finest Hours

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.

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Wilson Yip directs charismatic star Donnie Yen in this third film in the Ip Man series, which centers on the real-life martial arts legend Yip Man, best known to western audiences as the man who taught Bruce Lee. Ip Man 3 opens in 1959, and it follows an exiled Ip Man as he protects a school from local thugs backed by evil developers and a corrupt

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Charlotte Rampling gives the performance of a lifetime—and easily the best performance of 2015—in writer-director Andrew Haigh’s equal parts wistful and brutal 45 Years. Her performance is a study in contrasts that perfectly personifies the film’s dueling moods of contented enchantment and nagging despair. She never lets the seams show, and the same goes for Haigh’s perfectly modulated script and deceptively restrained direction. 45 Years is Haigh’s cinematic follow-up to his quietly magical Weekend (he was also the creative force behind the HBO show Looking), and he brings that same air of immediacy and feeling of melancholic self-discovery to this story of an aging married couple exhuming long-buried secrets on the eve of their 45th wedding anniversary. It’s about nothing until you realize it’s about everything; a moment informs a lifetime, and a lifetime informs a moment. An almost equally magnificent Tom Courtenay plays Rampling’s emotionally oblivious husband. D.B.

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Jane Got a Gun

The 1962 John Ford film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ends with a newspaper editor opining that “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” At this point, the concept of a solemn, sepia-toned west is the mythology that demands to get debunked.

In Gavin O’Connor’s laborious Jane Got a Gun, everyone and everything is brown all the time, including nearly every piece of clothing and interior décor. It doesn’t replace the legend with facts; it just replaces the legend with a different, much more boring, much more brown legend. The production was famously troubled, but you don’t need any extra-textual information to know that this is a conflicted and compromised mess. The story unfolds in a choppy flashback structure that robs the story of any momentum, there’s never a strong emotional connection to the characters and each clumsy plot dump contradicts the previous clumsy plot dump. Yes, those dumps are colored brown, too. D.B.

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Kung Fu Panda 3 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 all-star 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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The Revenant

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 has become so easy and so right to blame Michael Moore for everything annoying about the contemporary state of activist documentaries that his skill as an entertainer often gets overlooked. One good belly laugh from Moore is worth a million paranoid whispers from Alex Gibney and Eugene Jarecki. Just try to watch any one of the neoconservative hit piece/rip-off documentaries produced in the last dozen years, and you’ll realize how difficult it is to do what Moore does. His first theatrical release in six years, Where to Invade Next puts Moore back in high-concept territory, as he “invades” foreign countries to steal their ideas for social change, such as Finnish school reforms and Portuguese drug policies. The arguments are simplistic but effective, and while this entertaining film probably won’t change many people’s minds about the need for social liberalism, that’s a ridiculous standard for any work of art. D.B.

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It’s such a strange blend, the members say they have a hard time getting booked with the right bands. In fact, they’re not even sure who those right bands might be.

“We’ve played with doom bands, metal bands, even buttrock bands. There’s electronic bands, dark rave bands, industrial. It’s kind of weird,” says guitarist Barry Crider.

Clevenger’s used to this.

An enigma wrapped in a mystery and clouded in shadow.

He used to play guitar for the hardcore band Pipedown, but the band that followed, Dance For Destruction, was a little harder to classify. It mixed punk rock and keys.

If at first glance it’s a little confusing how to People didn’t know what to make of it, and the band pronounce the vowel-less jumble of letters Nmbrsttn, wasn’t able to build much of a crowd for most of its don’t worry, it’s supposed to be. existence.

For the record, however, the band members So with Nmbrsttn, he’s prepared for a similar pronounce it “number station.” reaction. As a whole, however, the band’s members “It’s kind of a puzzle,” explains synth player Ean think if people can look beyond genre distinctions, Elliot Clevenger. “I’m drawn to things you have to they’ll enjoy it. decode, so making everything into something you “I don’t want people to think that the music is have to unravel is part of my nature. We’re kind of so challenging that it doesn’t have broad appeal,” challenging people.”

Crider says.

It’s not just the band’s name that Clevenger is If anything, he adds, he hopes listeners stick it out coding. The lyrics are deliberately obfuscated, for more than a few minutes. too. Clevenger says all his lyrics have “I hope it’s not too much of an specific meanings and inspiration, but affront when you hear it at first, like “Making he puts an extra effort to make them a lot of people are turned off to it everything into not so obvious. immediately,” he explains.

It’s not in the same way that something you have The group is still in an explorother bands make lyrics purposely ing period. The band’s debut 2013 to unravel is part of vague so that everyone can apply EP Energy and Entropy chronicles my nature.” them to their own lives. Clevenger its early sound with songs more says he does it to hide the true rooted in metal, as well as a few Ean Elliot Clevenger meaning. post-post punk tunes. synths, Nmbrsttn “It’s my little secret. I’ll write a And as the band works on what song and know that people will come will be its full-length debut, the sound to a consensus about it, and that they’ll be continues to evolve. wrong,” Clevenger says. “It’s boring to me to say “It’s a little more jagged, a little bit more indussomething obvious. I think people should have to trial, a little bit darker and less hard rock elements to work to get satisfaction from their art. They shouldn’t it too,” Crider says. “We’re stripping down to where be able to have it instantly. Then you use it up and the guitars are going to be more minimal, a lot more then you’re done.” basic drums and even programmed drums. It’s all an Musically, the group, which also includes experimenting game for us.” Ω Topher Snyder (drums) and David Wright (synth), can be just as confounding. Its influences are wide and difficult to classify. There are bits of heavy, Check out Nmbrsttn at 8 p.m. Friday, February 12, at Starlite Lounge, extreme music, like punk and black metal, along 1517 21st Street. Tickets are $8. Learn more at www.nmbrsttn.com. with washed-out shoegaze,

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Opening assault: Starlite Lounge promoter Chris Lemos has an uphill battle booking local acts in Sacramento. Apparently, nobody wants to headline and nearly just as many don’t want to open. However, when national acts come to town, there is suddenly no shortage of groups vying to get on any slot. Of course, this is when Lemos gets to really exert his booking power.

Last Tuesday’s show with Act Of Defiance (former members of Megadeth and Shadows Fall) featured two local acts that, although totally different in sound and scope, worked alarmingly well together.

New(er) Sacramento quintet Odious Construct kicked off the night with a heady blend of progressive metalcore. And while the band’s early start time of 8 p.m. meant playing to only 30 or so people, by the end of the set, singer Casey Ryle and his able band found themselves playing in front of nearly double that number.

Most exciting was the dual guitar assault of Wes Yee and Ben Jackson, who weaved an astounding amount of guitar showmanship into their all-too-brief set. Also equally impressive was the rhythm section featuring drummer KC Brand and bassist Sam Datu, which played together at breakneck speed with wicked precision.

Up next was Vacaville’s West Coast Fury who, although by the logo and band appearance might be mistaken for a hardcore band, played a furious set steeped in ’80s thrash fare. Led by vocalist-guitarist Pat Woods, the group ripped through a set that recalled some of the best moments of the early San Francisco thrash scene. In fact, unbeknownst to many in the crowd, the band featured members of Torment, Malicious Intent, Blind Illusion, Piranha, Franzlist and Skeptic, all active Bay Area bands from the ’80s and ’90s. So there you go.

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Party foul: When the crew of hip-hop artists known as ZFG works with kids in the community, they say the name stands for “Zero Forbidden Goals.” But to others, they say “Zero Fucks Given.”

The latter definition became especially apparent last week at the release show for their first compilation, 8:08. Stones Throw Records’ Homeboy Sandman came from New York to headline—and drew serious buzz for the event—with nerd rappers Mega Ran and Richie Branson in tow. But the ZFG crew treated its set like its own personal, inside joke-filled party instead of just one part of a massive bill. Much worse, most of them bailed right after and took their friends with them, leaving Sol Collective barren for the rappers still on deck.

ZFG’s set started out with dancing—that is, with a few rappers grooving on and around the stage for an abnormal length of time. Those in attendance for any of the non-ZFG artists stood confused, immediately alienated and groaning. The message may have been inadvertent, but the self-hype made it clear: ZFG is a super-tight clique and it doesn’t care what you think.

That doesn’t mean the set didn’t hold its impressive moments—the crew is, after all, chock full of talent.

Sammie Artist of the Year nominee Cam crafted on-the-spot bars based off wallets, cough drops, tampons and whatever else people pulled out of their pockets. Fellow Sammie nominee SpaceWalker built a dope soundscape out of breathy ahhs and beatboxing. Emcees Aerial and Paul Willis brought serious energy and confident stage presence.

Now, being an album release and whatnot, ZFG had every right to celebrate and be excited and even act cocky. It’s the following action that made the whole set feel problematic: leaving. You don’t perform and immediately ditch, no matter the genre. You stick around and support your fellow artists, and you encourage all your fans to do the same.

Mega Ran actually invited Cam on stage, impressed by the local’s freestyling skills. When he realized Cam had rapped and bounced, he lectured the absent emcee from afar. Since Cam wasn’t there, I’ll

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Back before Mickey Avalon wanted to see you do the Jane Fonda, he was part of the hip-hop four-piece Dyslexic Speedreaders along with former MTV veejay Simon Rex, a.k.a. Dirt Nasty, detailing sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. After a falling out circa 2010, Avalon struck out on his own, seeing success with such memorable hits as “My Dick.” But last fall, the longtime friends reunited and marked this special reconciliation with the single “Netflix and HIP-HOP Chill.” Expect the duo to keep on keepin’ on with its special brand of nothingis-out-of-bounds, are-these-guys-for-real lyrics and the infectious dance-party vibes.

1417 R Street, www.mickeyavalon.com.

Noirre is all the rage in Japan. Yet, on this particular evening, the 19-year-old Rocklin artist will celebrate his October album Nostalgia locally for the first time.

Considering his youth, Nostalgia is staggeringly polished and mature. Noirre writes, sings and plays guitar, INDIE POP keys, drums and bass on all the tracks. Oh, and he produced Nostalgia as well. Talk about talent. The result is a coming-of-age indie-pop record with catchy melodies and a neo-soul flair. The Usual Haunts will act as Noirre’s backing band as they all gear up for a West Coast tour. 985 Lincoln Way in Auburn, www.poolswimmermusic.com.

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OLD IRONSIDES, 9 P.M., $7

MONDAVI CENTER, 8 P.M., $18.50-$79 Those who were lucky enough to catch mezzo-soprano Susan Graham’s titillating cabaret-style performance last February need little coercing to come out in force again. She’ll be joining musical director and conductor Nicholas McGegan with San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. The program CLASSICAL is equally compelling and includes special period pieces solely by the late great George Frideric Handel, considered by many one to be of the greatest composers of the Baroque era. 1 Shields Avenue in Davis, http://philharmonia.org.

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There is something about the indie-pop scene born in the ’90s that just invokes everything California, and the quartet Cruel Summer embodies that tradiINDIE POP tion well. Thia Chacamaty’s vocals pleasantly saturate the slightly intemperate guitar and warm bass tones, while simple drum beats keep everything tidy and moving along. This is perfect music for a long drive across California, indulging in both wistful memories and optimistic fantasies of what’s to come. Cruel Summer will be sharing the stage with All About Rockets and an EP-release from Desario.

1901 10th Street, www.facebook.com/ CruelSummerSF.

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An amalgam of alternative rock, pop and post-hardcore, Lights and Sirens prove to be a new force in local music. Brittany Vanessa’s vocal tenacity adjusts smoothly ALT ROCK between hard-hitting percussion and driving rhythm guitar work. The track “Cake,” featured on its self-titled demo out this weekend, balances melodic lead guitar layers with Vanessa’s higher vocal range and lyrics that pierce the heart. Influences like At the Drive-In and Coheed and Cambria are noted in the track “Fuck Feelings” with its guitar progressions and vocal harmonies, but all with a Lights and Sirens twist.

1901 10th Street, http://artistecard.com/ lightsandsirensmusic.

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THE COLONY, 8 P.M., $7

The grand irony of indie-electronica band STRFKR is that its members chose the name as a statement of anti-fame. Now they are super famous after four studio albums, world tours and multiple song placements in TV and movies. Still fighting to not become the things they hate, STRFKR maintains a humor and psychedelic folly.

It’s electro dance for the unafraid to be uncool. STRFKR is joined by ELECTRONIC Ghostly International artist Com Truise, who’s graced local stages on Halloween and at TBD Fest 2014. The synthwave producer is on the verge of a new album and hopefully has a preview planned.

1417 R Street, http://strfkr.com.

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Although still in its infancy, Modern Man is one Sacramento quartet bent on wrecking psyches with more sonic twists and turns than should ever be allowed in a song. One listen to “All Weenie, No Balls” will either dissuade listenEXPERIMENTAL METAL ers for eternity or make them instant fans. Most area residents will already know the faces and names from their various affiliations with local and national acts: guitarist Jeremy Clemmons, guitarist Biaggio D’Anna, bassist Carson McWhirter and drummer Alfonso Portela. 3512 Stockton Boulevard, http://modernman916.bandcamp.com.

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Locals the Bananas have been a band for over two decades, and still when they play a show, it’s kind of big deal. Since it started, the band’s released four killer lo-fi garage-punk albums and a handful of EPs. The Bananas keep their songs short and sweet, and always sound as though they could not possibly be having any more fun than they are in that moment. The trio’s infrequent live shows are special because they consistently channel GARAGE PUNK that unbridled, unhinged energy that oozes out of the tunes. It’s as raw and natural as punk rock should be. 4370 24th Street, www.nokilli.com/ bananas/band.html.

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2003 K St., (916) 448-8790

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Fabulous and Gay Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

5th annual Bitter Ball Valentine’s Bash, 10pm, call for cover

CALLIE CROFTS, ROBERT GILLIES; 9:30pm, call for cover

HEARTBREAK TIME MACHINE, 9:30pm, call for cover

Trivia Night, 6:30pm M, no cover; Open-mic night, 7:30pm W, no cover

PAT TODD AND THE RANK OUTSIDERS, 8pm, call for cover

C2DAJ, 9pm, call for cover

THE TOASTERS, THE POMPS, LA NOCHE OSKURA, SAC STORYTELLERS; 8pm M

Second Saturday with Billy Lane, 10pm, call for cover

ATB, W, call for time and cover

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101 Main St., Roseville; (916) 774-0505

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Hip-hop open-mic with Bam Bam, 7pm, call for cover

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

THE BOARDWALK

ERIC MARTIN, EVOLUTION EDEN; 7pm, $17-$20

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Family Fun Day with the Amazing Bubble Man, 11am-5pm, no cover

COUNTRY CLUB SALOON

WHISKEY ALLEY, 9pm, call for cover

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 314 W. Main St., Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384 4007 Taylor Rd., Loomis; (916) 652-4007 Pierce Fulton, Alexx Adam; 10pm, $5

FACES

Everything Happens dancing and karaoke, 9pm, call for cover

Absolut Fridays dance party, 9pm, $5-$10

Party Time dance party with Sequin Saturdays drag show at 9:30pm, $5-$12

FOX & GOOSE

STEVE MCLANE, 8pm, no cover

HANDS AND THE HOT MESS, RICH DRIVER; 9pm, $5

JEM AND SCOUT, LUCKY LASKOWSKI; 9pm, $5

Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub quiz, 7pm Tu; All Vinyl Wednesdays, 6pm W, no cover

GOLDFIELD TRADING POST

Line dancing lessons, call for time and cover

WESTBOUND 50, 9pm, no cover

Country DJ dancing, call for time and cover

Open-mic night, M, call for time and cover

HALFTIME BAR & GRILL

Karaoke happy hour, 7pm, no cover

THE WIZ KID, 9pm, $5

SKID ROSES, 9pm, $5

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

HARLOW’S

PUSH TO FEEL, RICH CORPORATION; 6pm; OH! THE BAND, 9pm, $8-$10

GLEN PHILLIPS, 7pm; $25-$30 CRYWOLF, CONTRA; 9:30pm, $10-$15

FOREVER Michael Jackson Tribute, 10pm, $15-$18

THE HIDEAWAY BAR & GRILL

Chery Bomb with DJ Annimal, 9pm, no cover

LUNA’S CAFE & JUICE BAR

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

1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 2/15-2/17 Big Mondays happy hour all night, M; Karaoke, Tu; Trapicana, W

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SUNDAY 2/14 Sunday Tea Dance and Beer Bust, 4pm, call for cover

1603 J St., (916) 476-5076

5681 Lonetree Blvd., Rocklin; (916) 626-6366 2708 J St., (916) 441-4693 2565 Franklin Blvd., (916) 455-1331 1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931

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

ERIC BELLINGER, ADRIAN MARCEL, JR CASTRO, KAY COLA; 8pm, $25-$35

ANTON BARBEAU, ALLYSON SECONDS, MASON HOFFMAN; 8pm, $7

JCF Mythology Cafe, 5pm; Writings on the Wall, 8pm, call for cover

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

Salsa Bachata Friday, 8:30pm, $8

1119 21st St., (916) 549-2779 SYDNEY AND SAM SHARP, SHELBY LANTERMAN; 8:30pm, $5

1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

TOM RHODES, JAYSON ANGROVE; 7pm Tu, $10-$15; JOSHUA DAVIS, 7 pm W Record Club, M; Cactus Pete’s 78 RPM Record Roundup, 8pm Tu

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EDM and karaoke, 9pm M, no cover; Latin night, 9pm Tu, $5

JEFF BERKLEY, WHAT ROUGH BEAST, THE SOUL SHINE BAND; 8:30pm, $5

2708 J Street Sacramento, CA 916.441.4693 www.harlows.com

Salsa Wednesday, 7:30pm W, $5 DYLAN CRAWFORD, COLIN CURTIN & SHANE CRICK; 8:30pm, $5

Naked Lounge Quintet, 8:30pm M; DEEP POOLS, JOE KAPLOW; 8:30pm W, $5

2708 J Street Sacramento, CA 916.441.4693 www.momosacramento.com

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FRIDAY 2/12

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OLD IRONSIDES

THE RIPPERS, VASAS; 8pm, $5

DESARIO, CRUEL SUMMER, ALL ABOUT ROCKETS; 9pm, $7

AT BOTH ENDS, LIGHTS AND SIRENS, JULIET COMPANY; 8pm, $7

ON THE Y

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

Fonky Fridayz with DJ Joker, 8pm, $5

Valentine’s Eve Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke with Cammi Wammi, 7:30pm, no cover

Joe Hurley Birthday Jam and karaoke, 6:30pm Tu, no cover

1901 10th St., (916) 442-3504 670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731

SUNDAY 2/14

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 2/15-2/17 Guest chefs serve $5 plates, M; Karaoke, 9pm Tu; Open-mic, 9pm W

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

13 Main St., Winters; (530) 795-1825

PISTOL PETE’S

GOOD OL’ BOYZ, 8pm, call for cover

POUR HOUSE

Youth Cult dance party, 9pm, no cover

DJ Rue, 9pm, call for cover

Vixens of Vinyl Valentine’s Day, 8pm, call for cover

Trivia, M; EUGENE UGLY, WHAT ROUGH BEAST, KIRY SHABAZZ; 9pm W

CHEESEBALLS, call for time and cover

DISCO REVOLUTION, call for time and cover

DENNIS JONES, 3pm, call for cover

Live band karaoke, 8pm Tu, call for cover; 98 Rock Local Licks, 8pm W

140 Harrison Ave., Auburn; (530) 885-5093 1910 Q St., (916) 706-2465

POWERHOUSE PUB

FOLSOM PRISM, call for time and cover

THE PRESS CLUB

Berning Down the House Bernie Sanders dance party fundraiser, 9pm

SHADY LADY SALOON

TYSON GRAF TRIO, 9pm, no cover

ZORELLI, 9pm, no cover

ELEMENT BRASS BAND, 9pm, no cover

EMILY KOLLARS, 9pm, no cover

STARLITE LOUNGE

This Green City v. 13, call for time, $3

SOFT KILL, ALL YOUR SISTERS, NMBRSTTN, GRAVE LAKE; 8pm, $8

INFINITE SLEEP, SOVEREIGN, SALYTHIA, SWORN TO THE BLACK; 8pm, $7

THE MOBROS, HONYOCK, GREEN RIVERS; 8pm, $7

STONEY’S ROCKIN RODEO

Country DJ dancing, karaoke; call for time and cover

Country DJ dancing and karaoke, 8pm, $5

Country DJ dancing and karaoke, 8pm, $5

Country DJ dancing and karaoke, 8pm, $5

Country DJ dancing, 8:30pm W, $5-$10

TORCH CLUB

Acoustic open-mic, 5pm, no cover; DIRTY REVIVAL, 9pm, $5

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30pm, no cover; COFFIS BROTHERS, 9pm, $7

THE HUCKLEBUCKS, 5:30pm, no cover; BLACK STAR SAFARI, 9pm, $8

Blues jam, 4pm, no cover; Front the Band karaoke, 8pm, no cover

MATT RAINEY, 5:30 Tu, no cover; LEFT COAST COUNTRY, 9pm W, $5

614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586 2030 P St., (916) 444-7914 1409 R St., (916) 231-9121

1517 21st St., (916) 704-0711 1320 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 927-6023 904 15th St., (916) 443-2797

Pop 40 dance party, 9pm, $5

Callie Crofts with Robert Gillies 9:30pm Friday. Call for cover.

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MICKY AVALON & DIRT NASTY, OM3N, GEOFF TATE, MOTORIZE; RICHARD THE ROCKSTAR; 7pm, $23-$75 7pm, $20-$25

STRFKR, COM TRUISE; 7pm M, $17-$24; KEYS N KRATES, GANZ; 6:30pm W, $25

CAFE COLONIAL

GREENSIDE, SURVIVING THE ERA, FOURTH AND LONG; 8pm, $7-$10

Cory’s Cult Cinema, 6pm M; Consolcade retro console gaming, 6pm Tu, no cover

THE COLONY

XOME, CUT, INSTAGON, HEADBAND, PAROUSIA; 8pm, $5

MODERN MAN, TOIM, BIB GUNK; 8pm M, $7

SHINE

Jazz jam, 8pm, no cover

1417 R St., (916) 448-3300 3520 Stockton Blvd., (916) 736-3520 3512 Stockton Blvd., (916) 718-7055 1400 E St., (916) 551-1400

THE SEARCH, ADAM BLOCK, JOE MARSON, 8pm, $6

VINNIE GUIDERA & THE DEAD BIRDS, OFF YEARS, PATRICK NEHODA; 8pm, $6

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Mickey avalon & dirt nasty

om3n - richard the rockstar

1417 R Street, Sacramento, 95814 www.aceofspadessac.com

saturday, february 20

All Ages Welcome!

cradle of filth butcherbabies - ne obliviscaris cataclysmic assault

saturday, february 13

sunday, february 21

motorize

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geoff tate’s operation: MindcriMe monday, february 15

strfkr/ coM truise wednesday, february 17

keys n krates hermitude - stooki sound - ganz jess slayter thursday, february 18

brian fallon & the croWes

Whiskey Alley 9pm Friday. Call for cover.

Country Club Saloon Country

the Word alive monday, february 22

neck deep & state chaMps like Pacific - knuckle Puck tuesday, february 23

david nail wednesday, february 24

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FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 11, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Love is a fire,”

declared Aries actress Joan Crawford. “But whether it’s going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” I disagree with her conclusion. There are practical steps you can take to ensure that love’s fire warms but doesn’t burn. Start with these strategies: Suffuse your libido with compassion. Imbue your romantic fervor with empathy. Instill your animal passions and instinctual longings with affectionate tenderness. If you catch your sexual urges driving you toward narcissists who are no damn good for you, firmly redirect those sexual urges toward emotionally intelligent, self-responsible beauties.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Fifteenth-century

writer Thomas à Kempis thought that real love can arouse enormous fortitude in the person who loves. “Love feels no burden,” he wrote.

“It attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.” As you might imagine, the “real love” he was referring to is not the kind that’s motivated by egotism, power drives, blind lust or insecurity. I think you know what I mean, Taurus, because in the past few months you have had unprecedented access to the primal glory that Thomas referred to. And in the coming months you will have even more.

What do you plan to do with all that mojo?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini novelist

Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was fascinated in “life with the lid on and what happens when the lid comes off.” She knew both states from her own experience. “When you love someone,” she mused about the times the lid had come off, “all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” In accordance with the astrological omens, I propose that you engage in the following three-part exercise. First, identify a part of your life that has the lid tightly clamped over it. Second, visualize the suppressed feelings and saved-up wishes that might pour forth if you took the lid off. Third, do what it takes to love someone so well that you’ll knock the lid off.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “No one has ever

loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved,” wrote author Mignon McLaughlin. I think that may be true. The gap between what we yearn for and what we actually get is never fully closed. Nevertheless, I suggest that you strive to refute McLaughlin’s curse in the coming days.

Why? Because you now have an enhanced capacity to love the people you care about in ways they want to be loved. So be experimental with your tenderness. Take the risk of going beyond what you’ve been willing or able to give before. Trust your fertile imagination to guide your ingenious empathy.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here’s the counsel of

French writer Anatole France: “You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” What he says is always true, but it’s especially apropos for you Leos in the coming weeks. You now have a special talent for learning more about love by loving deeply, excitedly and imaginatively. To add further nuance and inspiration, meditate on this advice from author Aldous Huxley: “There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving—by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I do not trust people

who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you,’” said author Maya Angelou. She concludes: “There is an African saying: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” With this in mind, I invite you to take inventory of the allies and relatives whose relationships are most important to you. How well do they love themselves? Is there anything you could do to help them upgrade their love for themselves? If their self-love is lacking, what might you do to protect yourself from that problem?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Only love interests

me,” declared painter Marc Chagall, “and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.” That seems like an impossibly high standard. Our daily adventures bring us into proximity with loveless messes all the time. It’s

hard to focus on love to the exclusion of all other concerns. But it’s a worthy goal to strive toward Chagall’s ideal for short bursts of time. And the coming weeks happen to be a favorable phase for you to do just that. Your success may be partial, but dramatic nonetheless.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “A coward is

incapable of exhibiting love,” said Mahatma Gandhi.

“It is the prerogative of the brave.” That’s my challenge to you, Scorpio. In accordance with the astrological currents, I urge you to stoke your uninhibited audacity so you can press onward toward the frontiers of intimacy. It’s not enough to be wilder, and it’s not enough to be freer. To fulfill love’s potential in the next chapter of your story, you’ve got to be wilder, freer and bolder.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “It is not lack

of love but lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages,” said Friedrich Nietzsche. He believed that if you want to join your fortunes with another’s, you should ask yourself whether you will enjoy your conversations with this person for the next 30 years—because that’s what you’ll be doing much of the time you’re together. How do you measure up to this gold standard, Sagittarius?

What role does friendship play in your romantic adventures? If there’s anything lacking, now is an excellent time to seek improvements. Start with yourself, of course. How could you infuse more camaraderie into the way you express love?

What might you do to upgrade your skills as a conversationalist?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Love isn’t

something you find,” says singer Loretta Lynn.

“Love is something that finds you.” Singer Kylie Minogue concurs: “You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend your life.

Love is like a lottery.” I think these perspectives are at best misleading, and at worst debilitating.

They imply we have no power to shape our relationship with love. My view is different. I say there’s a lot we can do to attract intimate allies who teach us, stimulate us and fulfill us.

Like what? (1) We clarify what qualities we want in a partner, and we make sure that those qualities are also healthy for us. (2) We get free of unconscious conditioning that’s at odds with our conscious values. (3) We work to transform ourselves into lovable collaborators who communicate well. Anything else? What can you do to make sure love isn’t a lottery?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “We all have the

potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime,” writes Chuck Klosterman. “It’s easy.

But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. You’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years.” He concludes, “A lover like this sets the template for what you will always love about other people.” I suspect that you have either recently met or will soon meet such a person, Aquarius. Or else you are on the verge of going deeper than ever before with an ally you have known for a while. That’s why I think what happens in the next six months will put an enduring stamp on your relationship with intimacy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Sixteenth-century

Italian poet Torquato Tasso described one of love’s best blessings. He said your lover can reunite you with “a piece of your soul that you never knew was missing.” You Pisceans are in a phase when this act of grace is more possible than usual. The revelatory boon may emerge because of the chemistry stirred up by a sparkly new affiliation. Or it may arise thanks to a familiar relationship that is entering unfamiliar territory.

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

Floral freshman Wander to the back of the Warehouse Artist Lofts Public Market and you’ll find an adorable little stand stocked with mums, peonies and other flowers that are definitely more interesting than carnations.

Shoe craftsman Benjamin Schwartz (Benjamins) founded the Nice Stems flower shop with fellow WAL dwellers Ali Setayesh (Kechmara Designs) and Peter Chiu (Fish Face Poke Bar) a few months ago. They assemble custom bouquets depending on your budget, deliver flowers by bicycle and offer subscription services for folks who just need flowers on a regular basis. In honor of Valentine’s Day, SN&R chatted with Schwartz about the power of roses and other very important floral matters.

Why do you think people like flowers so much?

I think it’s in our nature to want to be surrounded by things that are alive.

Plants remind us of being outside when we’re trapped in our offices or when the weather is bad.

Do you remember the first time you received flowers?

No. (Laughs.) Doesn’t it just feel like something that’s always in your life? It feels like an event, but at the same time it’s always there.

Why open a flower shop at a time that so many flower shops are closing?

If you go to Europe or even New York or some other big cities, there are little flower stands all over the place. The overhead is low—it’s just this tiny stand.

You’re not paying for a lot of space, you’re not paying a bunch of employees.

It’s really just flowers and customers. So, I think the reason a lot of flower shops are closing in California is because of the model behind flower shops. There’s a really low profit margin with flowers, so to get rid of as many other obstacles as possible—number of employees, rent, utilities and everything else—and really just bring it down to flowers helps. …

But for me, the original reason to do it was because of that wall. It wasn’t really like, “I wanna do a flower shop and I wanna find a space for a flower shop.”

It was more like, “There’s this space in the market and the perfect thing for this space is a flower shop.”

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When you go shopping for flowers, do you already know what you’ll pick?

No. Sometimes we get requests. People can ask us ahead of time, like, “We need 50 stems of white roses,” and we can order that with enough notice. But when it comes to the holidays, like Valentine’s Day, it’s a little bit harder because all the florists are all getting similar things.

Sometimes they’re kind of fighting over flowers for people. But usually we just see what looks the best when we’re there. … We’re trying to pick up things that are a little more unique or are not just the average flower. I feel like there are some flowers that seem like drugstore flowers—carnations or something really basic—so we try to have something that looks really nice and will last a little longer, too.

It’ll be your first Valentine’s Day. Nervous?

A little bit. (Laughs.) It’s difficult because we don’t really know what to expect. I guess if we run out of flowers, we run out of flowers.

Do you have a background with flowers?

I think of it as no, that I don’t have any experience with flowers. But I did grow up with a lot of flowers in the yard, gardening with my mother. More recently, we’ve been learning as we go. I think in some ways it’s an advantage, because we’ll do something that’s not the traditional way.

But a lot of flower shops having been doing it so long, they just do it that way because that’s how they’ve always done it.

What are you looking for when you design bouquets?

It’s really about color and picking things that work well together from a color standpoint.

It works well for me at least because I do that a lot with fabrics for shoes.

What flowers best say, “I love you”?

I think most people would say roses.

But would you say roses?

I mean, yeah. (Laughs.) I wouldn’t say roses don’t say that. I don’t think it would be fair to say that somebody is wrong if they say roses.

Fair enough. What flowers best say, “This is just a one-night stand”?

Oh, I don’t know! Not a plant. Plant says long-term. Ali [Setayesh] thinks anything tropical. They’re flashy, and they’re cut flowers so they don’t last so long. They remind you of vacation.

Last one: What flowers best say, “Let’s just be friends”?

Oh, harsh. (Laughs.) Well, dead ones are probably not a good sign. Ω

Find Nice Stems at 1104 R Street, and learn more at www.nicestemsflowershop.com.

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