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So, Kris, how’d you end up in our newsroom?

I was once a kinesiology major, but realized that I really, really hated science. So I changed my major to English, and then to journalism.

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My favorite types of movies are rom-coms. They’re hilariously adorable for no real reason at all.

Umm. Any favorites?

Probably Friends with Benefits with Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis.

But the best one to me is 500 Days of Summer.

When you’re not working—which will be never—what do you enjoy in your spare time?

I’m usually watching sports. Either that or watching terrible TV shows and movies.

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I am sure there was a discussion of God when I was a child. There was more of a discussion of being a good human being, rather than attributing it to any organized religion.

The golden rule and “If it feels sneaky, don’t do it!”

That was one of my mom’s big ones.

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I went to Sunday school and Bible school. There was church camp and all that kind of good stuff. From a historical point of view, the Bible is a wonderful book, filled with stories and tales and that sort of thing. I can’t wrap my head around blind faith in something that is unobservable.

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I went a couple of times with my friends and got to stay the night. My grandma was Catholic, so whenever we went to her house we would always pray before we ate. I am today a more spiritual person. I do yoga.

I do not practice. ... There was a lot of talk against homosexuality. It made me feel very insecure of myself and have low self-esteem.

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hen 67-year-old Marcia Bauer was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 1999, she finally had a name for what had caused the chronic pain she had felt since her 30s.

The inflammatory disorder causes her immune system to attack her joints, resulting in pressure and swelling around her hands and feet.

Bauer’s doctor first prescribed her a powerful chemotherapy drug to help treat her symptoms, but it also caused harsh side effects.

“The drug was a heavy duty drug and it caused a lot of damage,” Bauer says. “I had a severe ulcer bleed out and I ended up losing seven liters of blood.”

She was also prescribed hydrocodone to help her deal with the pain, but Bauer didn’t want to rely on taking pharmaceutical drugs for her condition. Bauer says she was aware high cannabidiol (CBD) strains of medical marijuana could be used to treat the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis and decided to try it out for herself.

She quickly realized it was much more effective than the drugs she had been taking, but it was harder to control the dosage.

Marcia Bauer says she prefers vaping high cannabidiol strains of medical marijuana for her rheumatoid arthritis. She says it’s more effective pain relief than pharmaceutical drugs and she can do it discretely. Photo by Laura Marie Anthony.

Not only could Marcia more easily control how much of the CBD she was getting, she could also discretely use her pen in public if she began to feel pain.

“I was eating concentrate and smoking at first, but a lot of the acids in the cannabinoids burn off during combustion and it’s difficult to know how much CBD you’re getting when you’re eating it,” Bauer says. “I was introduced to vaping through a personal acquaintance and my first impression was how easy it was.”

“It’s less harsh on your lungs and it’s also discrete,” Roberts says. “It’s not a giant cloud of smoke coming out of your mouth — it’s vapor. It’s also a better bang for your buck. With paper-wrapped joints, 80 percent of it is wasted burning between drags. Vaping is measured and more consistent, allowing for 95 percent efficiency in consumption.”

Roberts says vaping pens also allow patients to control the exact temperature and duration to get a more precise dosage each time.

“Each pen emits approximately a 2 milligram dose [per hit],” Roberts says. “While it’s not exact, it’s a far superior way of measuring dosage than smoking or consuming an edible.

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Out of 135 applicants, a panel commissioned local artist Bryan Valenzuela to install his work at the new Kings arena.

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Two Sacramento artists, chosen out of 135 applicants from all over Northern California, to commission public art at new Kings home

by Nick Miller

A river of blue- and gold-colored glass spheres suspended above a concourse.

Giant darts and a disassembled dartboard on a walkway near L Street. A sound sculpture hidden in a plaza garden. These three ideas were recently greenlit by a panel of art experts to be commissioned as public art at the new Kings arena.

Some 135 artists from all over Norther California applied for the projects, and two of the finalists hail from right here in Sacramento. They’ll be joined by an artist from San Francisco to create and install works alongside 8 | SN&R | 02.18.16

modern-art superstar Jeff Koons at the Golden 1 Center.

Midtown artist and musician Bryan Valenzuela learned this past Friday that the panel had finally approved his presentation. “The potential to realize this thing that I’ve been thinking about and dreaming about for five months, that’s awesome, that’s wild,” he told SN&R on Monday.

Valenzuela’s project, titled “Multitudes Converge,” is a threedimensional installation that will go indoors near the arena’s escalator wells

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With a price tag of $350,000, his piece will include more than 400 blown-glass spheres, suspended as high as 40 feet above the ground and extending longer than half the length of an NBA basketball court.

“I’m really excited. I’ve never done a large-scale sculpture like this,” Valenzuela said.

The arena art commissions are also a massive undertaking for the city.

Shelly Willis, head of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, which

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oversees city-sponsored public-art projects, agreed that the opportunity to place public art at four locations at the arena is special.

“Every project is unique and has its own character,” she explained. “But the scale of this project, and the timeline of this project, is very unique to my experience.”

SMAC, of course, has overseen significant public-art programs in the past, such as the $6 million worth of installations at Sacramento International Airport’s Terminal B. A city ordinance mandates that development projects involving city monies set aside a percentage of their budgets for public art. The amount at the new Kings arena originally was $5.5 million.

That’s a lot of coin. But, last year, city council voted to spend it all—and more—on one purchase: “Coloring Book No. 5,” an 18-foot-tall sculpture of Piglet, from the Winnie the Pooh books, to be created by art-world legend Koons.

The price for the pig was $8.5 million, though, so three Kings owners—Vivek Ranadive, Kevin Nagle and Phil

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The problem was that the Koons blew the entire public-art budget for the arena.

Enter Marcy Friedman, whose son Mark is developing the Golden 1 Center: People close to the Koons deal tell SN&R that she was the driving force behind the “Coloring Book” purchase. And, so as to seal the deal, she donated $1.5 million to the city to pay for additional arena-art projects.

Friedman’s generosity didn’t entirely quell outrage over the Koons, however, and many criticized the council for the expenditure. SMAC had coordinated public meetings on the decision to purchase the Koons, but was also dinged by council members for insufficient public outreach.

To that end, the process for requesting proposals for the four remaining publicart spots was widely publicized, and 135 artists applied for the gigs by the July 2015 deadline.

A panel including Friedman, Crocker Art Museum Director Lial Jones and seven other art experts narrowed that group down to 17 finalists, each of whom were given $3,000 to present ideas this past October. These presentations were open to the public. Perhaps surprisingly, a representative from the Kings did not sit on the panel.

And now this week, after nearly a year of work, three finalists have been chosen: Valenzuela, longstanding central-city artist Gale Hart, and San Francisco’s William Fontana. City council was scheduled to approve Hart and Fontana’s contracts this past Tuesday, and Valenzuela’s should be finalized by the month’s end.

Artist Hart told SN&R that she’s never had an opportunity like this in her decades-long career.

“I have not done anything this big by any stretch,” she said. “It was so wide open. I could do anything that I’ve never been able to afford to do.”

Her piece, not yet titled, involves giant dart sculptures and a dismantled dartboard. Arena visitors will interact with the piece as they walk toward the entrance: They’ll see a dart shooting up to the sky, random numbers on the sidewalk, a dartboard on the ground and a bull’s-eye on the palm of a hand.

Passersby will also see the large darts and numbers as they pass Fifth Street.

Hart says she will use fiberglass, steel, concrete and terrazzo to complete the work, and her approved budget is

$283,000. She’ll receive a 15 percent artist fee, which is standard on public art, and her installation deadline is October.

She says the biggest challenge was coming up with an idea that complemented the arena but also stood on its own. “At first I was like, ‘What the hell?

I don’t even know what I can do with this,’” she admitted.

She quickly zeroed in on the deconstruction of sports and games. “The piece is about taking a game apart, and asking questions about competition,” she explained.

“Why are there no numbers on the dart board?

Why is the bull’seye not there?”

SMAC’s Willis called Hart the real deal. “She’s an incredible artist,” she said.

S.F.-based artist Fontana’s piece also will be installed outside the arena. Consisting of 34 weatherproof speakers, which will be strategically hidden in planters on the arena plaza and on walls that face the planters, a city report describes the piece as an “immersive sound experience.” Fontana envisions the speakers playings sounds from Sacramento’s landscape: birds, insects, the wind passing through trees, and even noises from Kings games. He is a major regional artist and his piece is being commissioned for $330,000.

The fourth location for public art will be LED boards on and inside the arena.

Willis says her vision for the LED project has evolved since last year, however, and now she hopes to commission multiple artists to display their work there for the first five years of the arena’s life. She also hopes to collaborate with local schools to show student work, and also borrow art from museums and collectors. The city of Boston does a similar thing with their LED screens at its convention center. Her deadline looms: October of this year.

Is that date hard and fast? “Oh yes,” she said, then laughed. “I mean, we’re going to try. These projects take on

lives of their own. These are original works of art!”

Installation of the Koons is on schedule for September. And the only remaining contract to be approved is Valenzuela’s, which council should greenlight in the coming weeks.

That’s good news for the artist: He’ll need the money to begin work, including flying to Germany, where the legendary Franz Mayer of Munich glassmakers will hand-blow his 400 spheres. This will take at least three months; he hopes to ship them to Sacramento by the end of July.

During that time, he’ll also continue collaborating with structural engineering firms and architects on the install.

Valenzuela says his initial inspiration for the piece was Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s ocean-wave paintings. That got him thinking about the Sacramento and American rivers, and how they are the “DNA of the city.”

He says he didn’t focus on his work being inside a sports arena. “I just thought more about the region,” he said.

“Something evocative of the area we live in.”

When the work is completed and installed this October, game attendees will enter the arena on L Street and look upward to see the glass spheres cascading above them, like two rivers converging into one. As people make their way up the escalator to the second concourse, some of the spheres will be closer, “flowing” overhead. And, when they finally make it to the second level, the art will take on a new perspective: It will be at eye-level. A nice reward for those in the cheap seats.

“If you’re going to sit in the nosebleeds,” Valenzuela explained. “You’ll get a whole different angle.” Ω

The piece will include more than 400 blown-glass spheres, suspended as high as 40 feet and stretching longer than half the distance of an NBA basketball court.

An Elk Grove man who allegedly participated in a four-year scheme that entailed selling fake paths to citizenship now faces the possibility of 20 years in federal prison.

The February 11 arrest of Helaman Hansen, 63, occurred after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with more than two dozen counts of conspiracy and fraud charges related to the organization americans Helping america, which claimed that undocumented immigrant adults “could achieve U.S. citizenship by being legally adopted by an American citizen and completing a list of additional tasks,” an FBI release states.

Annual fees grew from $150 to as high as $10,000, the release adds.

Though some victims paid their way through the phony adoption program, none achieved actual citizenship. Hansen had apparently been told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that what he was doing was not kosher under the law as early as October 2012. But he and his partners allegedly continued enrolling people, tallying approximately 500 new victims and more than $500,000 in fees until the business was raided last month, the release says.

Other than Helaman, 18 others were listed on a 2012 tax return as voting board members. The document listed no revenues or expenses. The return also showed checked boxes indicating tax-exempt nonprofit status, though it’s unclear whether AHA actually achieved that status.

AHA’s website was still functioning as of Monday and listed its full name as “Americans Helping America Chamber of Commerce.” It also presents itself as a nonprofit offering immigration integration services, including “adult legal adoption.”

No one answered a call to the office Monday evening.

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batHroom Humor Independent political candidates Russell Rawlings and Jenn Rogar confronted the competition over the Sacramento City Council’s unpopular homeless policies last Tuesday night during public comment, staking out their platforms in the process.

Both mayoral candidate Rawlings and District 4 candidate Rogar oppose the city’s anti-camping ban, as well as the closure of public restrooms. Regarding the latter, Rogar, a teacher and activist who is seeking Councilman Steve Hansen’s seat, said the city was forcing homeless residents to eliminate their waste “in alleys, near homes and businesses who have borne the brunt of the crisis,” creating a potential public health risk. “You’re making the problem worse, not better with your anti-camping ordinance and locked bathrooms,” she added.

Rawlings made light of the idea to send the city’s recently established committee on homelessness on a field trip to examine portable restrooms in San Francisco. “Honestly, I think that work could be done without traveling,” he said to audience laughter.

He urged the council to consider permanent self-cleaning restrooms and questioned the commission’s transparency, saying his attempts to reach out have been ignored. (RFH)

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California’s medical-pot industry is racing to organize itself and lobby Sacramento lawmakers before local and statewide rules remake the Golden State’s multibillion-dollar weed industry.

Almost 20 years after state voters legalized medical cannabis, California’s historic Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act took effect on January 1. The state Assembly held its first joint committee meeting on implementing MMRSA last month. Representatives of many of the dozen or so state agencies that are tasked with regulating medical weed gave testimony at the meeting, as did members of the medi-pot industry.

“It’s the first day of the rest of our lives. It was nice to see the state taking steps to work on this,” said Nate Bradley, director of the California Cannabis Industry Association.

Last month’s meeting kicked off two years of hearings on the creation of new state rules, which will take effect by 2018. These rules will determine winners and losers if or when voters pass recreational cannabis, so the industry is lobbying like never before. The CCIA also held its first Sacramento conference on January 19 and plans a huge state policy event on March 29.

At least a half-dozen state bills this year will seek to fund, clarify, alter or add to the rules— sometimes pitting industry against cities, counties and cops. And, other times, pitting industry against itself.

Existing businesses are going to try to use the new regulations to shut out new market entrants, Bradley said. “The main divide is between the way it is now versus the open market,” he said.

“The protectionism people vs. the freedom people.”

Gov. Jerry Brown already signed Assembly Bill 21, which lifted the March 1 deadline for local governments to regulate issues such as medical-marijuana cultivation.

Meanwhile, there’s a huge cleanup bill, Assembly Bill 1575, that addresses packaging uniformity; nurseries; new “virtual dispensary” licenses; research licenses; taxes and fees rules; temporary permits; testing rules and transportation. It’s being heard in committee and in both houses this month.

AB 26 is a union-sponsored effort to mandate official training for all budtenders. And AB 1821 would allow businesses to pay taxes in cash without a penalty or waiver.

Also on the menu: bills that will address home growers, delivery services and pot parties.

The days of selling an extra homegrown pound to a dispensary are numbered. All commercial growers must be dual-licensed by state and local officials by 2018. Even progressive cities like Oakland don’t want commercial pot farming in residential zones, due to fires, robberies and ruined housing stock.

Homegrowers have a “tremendous uphill battle,” said Alex Zavell, a regulatory expert in Oakland attorney Robert Raich’s office.

Delivery-only services also face existential threats.

Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Jose have either sued or threatened delivery services not tied to a physical dispensary. Dispensary owners are also lobbying to block competition from delivery-only services. The California Growers Alliance said it faces a tough battle this year to create a new license for “nontraditional” dispensaries.

Pot parties with weed giveaways are also endangered. HempCon moved its event this month from San Jose to Daly City after the city of San Jose promised to enforce its “no freebies” rule.

The Emerald Cup, which drew 20,000 attendees to Sonoma County in December 2015, might have to scrap freebies—a main attraction to the event. Ω

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This story originally appeared in the East Bay Express.

by Graham Womack

The city of Sacramento is expanding its meter muscle into neighboring territory.

With the Golden 1 Center opening in the fall and parking becoming more impacted on the grid, the city has agreed to enforce parking limitations in West Sacramento in exchange for 50 percent of collected fines and penalties, minus state-mandated surcharges as well as system and third party fees.

The expansion might not be primarily aimed at increasing revenue, at least according to City Hall.

West Sac residents and visitors will almost certainly see an increase in tickets. However, a Sacramento city staff report said the costs to expand its parking-protection reach could exceed its cut of the revenue.

The partnership comes amid complaints from central-city residents over lack of parking, and people parking for free at night in their neighborhoods. “The change is happening faster than, I think, the solutions we can come up with,” said Angela Tillotson, chairwoman of the Midtown Neighborhood Association.

In an emailed statement to SN&R, Matt Eierman, Sacramento’s parking manager, said city officials have spent the past two years meeting with neighborhood and business associations to discuss the possible influx of central-city visitors. “As Sacramento continues to evolve, the City needs to improve the current flow of traffic to accommodate the smart growth it desires,” he wrote.

The argument is that this will only get worse with the arena.

Enter West Sacramento, where people can park and walk across the Tower Bridge to attend Kings games or frequent other businesses downtown.

Sacramento also has meter police to spare. The staff report notes that West Sacramento has three full-time parking enforcement officers, while Sacramento has more than 50.

Preservation Sacramento President William Burg expressed concern that the city’s parking strategy serves visitors more than it does residents. He’d like to see metered parking in commercial districts and resident-only parking in bordering neighborhoods.

Others say that the stepped-up enforcement is driving people and businesses out of downtown and is merely a backdoor attempt to help the city recoup the cost of the arena. “They went on and pushed the deal and now we’re expected to pay for it in this way,” Curtis Park resident Natalie Rios told SN&R in July 2015. “It’s absurd.” Ω

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Sunshine Pruett once lived in the Jade Hotel, recently celebrated as the Art Hotel, where more than 60 local creators decked out the former low-income-housing spot in fleeting artistic splendor before it is demolished.

In one of the hotel’s rooms, a wooden sculpture of a man emerged from the floorboards. Many artistic works explored the heartbreak, loss and triumphs that played out within the walls of the Jade over the years.

Pruett recently revisited the third-floor apartment she once shared with her boyfriend. Its windows were darkened, and a video of a shifting cityscape was projected onto the walls. A tapestry of metal forks hung in the apartment’s kitchen—an exhibit curated by the Crocker Art Museum, its “Give a Fork” message intended to spark conversation about Sacramento’s relationship to food.

It was a modest living space, but Sunshine Pruett lived Pruett says she was thankful for the in the Jade Hotel from roof over her head. Before living 2001 to 2003. at the Jade from 2001 to 2003, she was homeless for two-and-a-half years. She also lived in transitional I remember their parakeets, and hearing their shelters at Quinn Cottages, a permanent parakeets sing, and they made a beautiful supportive housing program near Loaves & place in their little space,” she explained.

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Thousands of people of all walks of life Pruett called life at the Jade challenging. visited the Art Hotel during its one-week “Some of the people that lived there were run. From its rubble will rise a 10-story Hyatt alcoholics or addicts,” she said. “We made Place hotel, ushering in a new chapter in an a little oasis in the middle of hell, so when ever-changing cityscape. you walked in our door—you know, we made But old days and shifting sands are not lost it pretty. It was clean and it was a place of on Pruett. refuge and peace and happiness.”

“I can remember visiting downtown But the Jade was home to more than just Sacramento when I was growing up as a people. “It was overrun with cockroaches, child,” she said. “And now, everything is mice and rats,” Pruett remembered. gone. It’s just metal. It is all commercial.” Ω It wasn’t perfect, but it was home.

During her visit, Pruett explored apartment suites that she had never seen before and Corey Rodda is an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer at Wellspring noticed city views that some of her neighbors Women’s Center, a drop-in breakfast facility in Oak Park. She were fortunate to enjoy. created and curates the blog “Tales from the Heart of Wellspring” “There was one Mexican family a floor at http://wellspringwomenscenter.wordpress.com. down from us. We never really met them, but

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“Kimberlee Cline” has been a professional escort for a dozen years and doesn’t intend to stop. Now 35, the Sacramento resident’s fate is wrapped up in a federal civil rights lawsuit that seeks to overturn California’s anti-prostitution law.

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Kimberlee Cline recounts an awkward moment with her son’s preschool teacher. To say thanks for helping organize an event at the school, the teacher asked Cline for a short bio to include in a message to faculty and parents.

“First, she texted me,” recalls Cline, snacking on dates inside of her cozy downtown walk-up. “She was like, ‘Hey, can you send me one sentence?’” But 25 minutes later, Cline received another message. “‘Never mind. I Googled.’”

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Cline laughs: “I wonder what she thinks of all of that.”

The “all that” to which Cline refers is her decade-spanning career as an escort and sex workers’ rights activist.

“Kimberlee Cline” is her professional name, not her legal one. But there’s not much else that insulates the 35-year-old Sacramento resident from “proper society” and all of its potential perils—legal, moral and otherwise.

“The identity of being a sex worker goes a lot deeper than just having it listed as an occupation,” she explained.

“We have to decide if it’s safe to tell this person what we really do. … Do I have anything to risk? Like, I have all these interests and perspectives that have nothing to do with my work, and yet the way that I move within the world and interact with other people is totally shaded by my work in some way.”

Mother. Traveler. Activist. And, in the eyes of the law, a career criminal who’s one encounter away from arrest and exposure.

In that respect, she’s represented by interest, if not name, in a federal lawsuit that seeks to overturn California’s anti-prostitution law on constitutional grounds. Filed March 2015 in San Francisco, the audacious civil rights complaint comes at an intriguing time for the sex worker movement.

This past year, Amnesty International, the World Health Organization and Human Rights Watch all called for an end to the criminalization of sex work between consenting adults. They’ve since been joined by a trio of female lawmakers in New Hampshire, who introduced a bipartisan bill proposing to do the same.

Meanwhile, the recent data breach at Ashley Madison and the emergence of the website SeekingArrangement, which facilitates escort-lite arrangements between “sugar daddies” and “babies,” reveal the large demand for morality-blurring companionship services, primarily among millions of paying men. (See “Pour some sugar,” page 16.)

The courtroom drama here in California pits sex workers and their advocates against more than a century of morality-minded prohibition laws. An up-or-down ruling has the potential to reverberate throughout the country.

So is this the year that sex work goes mainstream?

CHalleNGING STaTe law It began with a failure.

In 2008, 59 percent of San Francisco voters rejected a local measure that would have effectively legalized prostitution, four years after voters did the same thing in Berkeley. It was a bruising setback for sex workers and their advocates, especially in the progressive Bay Area. So how did they respond?

They set their sights higher.

Maxine Doogan, director of the Erotic Service Provider Legal Education & Research Project, or ESPLERP, recalled getting the push from an ally to sue the state just days after the vote.

“The only thing I know about court is getting arrested,” she laughed.

That’s not to say there isn’t a precedent for this kind of thing.

In 1976, the sex workers’ rights group COYOTE filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against Rhode Island’s anti-prostitution laws. The argument was that authorities were only prosecuting the state’s mostly female workforce, not its mostly male clientele, and resulted in a quiet out-of-court settlement that relaxed the ban on indoor prostitution, though that’s been rolled back in the years since.

“That’s how we got the idea to sue,” Doogan said. “It’s total momentum at this point. … We’re in it to win it.”

Instead of arguing gender discrimination, however, the California suit is based on more recent rulings that have upheld the right to sexual privacy, including the dismissal of anti-sodomy laws and the ban on gay marriage.

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Our writer creates an account on a rich daddies website

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Why, yes,

I would like to be treated to a five-star dinner in San Francisco.

And, yes, I would like to fly out to New York for the weekend on your dime.

And, sure, maybe I am interested in a new, higher-paying job. Thanks for offering.

Now, would I like to have sex with a married, 55-year-old man in a hotel room once a week, in exchange for a monthly allowance of $3,000? Hmm. These propositions were all too real when I created an account on the so-called sugared dating website SeekingArrangement. Relationship goals vary, but typically the sugar baby gets pampered in the form of financial assistance or spendy gifts. In return, the sugar daddy—or sugar mommy—gets companionship, which could mean monogamy, casual dating or a straight-up contract based on sex.

My admirers? Predominantly white, lonely men in their 40s and 50s.

Some claim to be worth as much as $5 million, others cite annual sixfigure salaries.

While collecting 40-something messages over two weeks, I was struck by how nice and respectful these sugar daddies seemed—at first, at least. If you ignore a guy on OKCupid, you prepare for a flood of misogyny or even rape threats. When I ignored people on SeekingArrangement, they sent me good luck for my search.

A few played the dad card, which was super-weird considering they were old enough that they could be my dad. They said things like, “I’m a dad, so I understand your needs.”

They tried giving me advice: “I

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encourage you to take your time, put in the energy and be really selective,” which would be followed immediately by, “Let’s meet IRL tomorrow.”

Some messaged with a list of demands, suggesting they receive tons of requests from sugar babies and that I was so, so lucky to have caught their attention. One detailed his plan to form a harem. His exact words: “If you’re perfect, I’ll take care of you for life.”

A couple of men offered me a job, which I found fascinating. But I wasn’t necessarily special, as one sugar daddy’s whole profile read like a Craigslist wanted ad: “You should be intelligent. Vibrate. Sexy. And not afraid to take chances. You should have really good Internet and a really good computer.”

And then there were the totally normal-seeming, legitimately attractive 30-somethings who detailed their love for hiking, farmers markets and puppies. They were mostly in the Bay Area and, unsurprisingly, mostly in tech. They all hoped SeekingArrangement would fast-track a relationship and skip the frustrations and awkward missteps that come with normal dating—or normal online dating, for that matter.

When I tried to imagine my life as a sugar baby, I first thought I’d be the one taking advantage of men. But that wasn’t right, because they’d also be taking advantage of me. I’d just be a person caught in some sort of losing situation, figuring out how to get what I want, and they’d be doing the same. Nothing wrong with that.

I’m not normally inclined toward dating older men, but for a few thousand bucks a month, maybe I could be. Ω

shouldn’t be a determining factor in what is illegal,” said plaintiff attorney H. Louis Sirkin, who successfully challenged obscenity laws in other states, including one that made it illegal to purchase sex toys in Texas. “The more you put it underground, the more dangerous you make it for the workers.”

Because people can be charged for making overt statements about their intent to participate in acts of prostitution, Sirkin claims the California penal statute defining prostitution also violates the First Amendment.

Additionally, he contends that enforcing anti-prostitution laws imperils public health by making workers less likely to carry or use prophylactics. “Defendants use the fact of condom possession as evidence of prostitutionrelated offenses. By doing so, the Defendants discourage condom use and thwart safe sex practices,” his complaint asserts.

Records obtained by SN&R show that the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department cited the possession of condoms as contributing factors in 11 out of 22 prostitution arrests made during a three-day operation this past October.

In an earlier interview, sheriff’s Lt. Jason Ramos explained that the number of condoms someone possesses might be mentioned in a report to argue the sum totality of circumstances that lead to their arrest, but isn’t itself cause for that arrest. But harm-reduction specialists say sex workers don’t pay attention to those nuances; they just know condoms put them behind bars.

“You would rather [contract a disease] than go to jail,” said Kristen DiAngelo, a sex worker-turned-activist. “Especially if they’re supporting children. [Illness is] not even on their Richter scale.”

Aside from ESPLERP, the lawsuit’s plaintiffs include four unnamed individuals who want to participate in commercial sex work, including a disabled man who wants to procure the services of an erotic service provider.

The defendants are the state of California and the district attorneys of Alameda, Marin, San Francisco and Sonoma counties. The office of Attorney General Kamala Harris is representing them, and argues there is no right—free speech or otherwise—to engage in sex for hire.

“No court has recognized prostitution or its solicitation as a fundamental right or liberty that is ‘objectively,’ ‘deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition,’ [as the plaintiffs argue],” the government contends. “To the contrary, prostitution has been a crime in California since at least 1872.”

Back then, the law targeted a person’s status, not his or her conduct, and considered anyone living “in and about houses of ill-fame” or any “common prostitute” as violating the law, and subject to up to six months in jail and a $500 fine. That remained the case for most of the next century, until 1961, when the penal statute was revised to consider acts and “unambiguous and unequivocal” statements.

But Doogan believes the public has grown more accepting of sex workers since then, thanks to the work of Margo St. James, the ’70s-era feminist who founded COYOTE and was famous for sexpositive bon mots like, “A blow job is better than no job.” (St. James was also the one who suggested Doogan sue the state.)

The political conditions are also right, Doogan believes. “The momentum is to roll back high penalties and fees and reclassify felonies as misdemeanors,” she said, referring to bipartisan calls for federal sentencing reform and California’s passage of Proposition 47, which reclassified low-level “wobbler” felonies as misdemeanors.

“I think it’s just a matter of this country growing up,” Sirkin added. “It wouldn’t be the fall of Rome if it was legalized.”

Possible trends notwithstanding, the government has one more argument up its sleeve: human trafficking.

“The federal government recognizes that there is a link between prostitution and trafficking in women and children,” the government’s motion asserts.

But that link appears tenuous at best, and that’s according to one of the government’s own exhibits.

In 2011, the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics audited 17 months’ worth of human trafficking probes to learn what became of them once the news media stopped paying attention. Of the 869 sex trafficking investigations that took place during the period ending in June 2009, only 32 percent were confirmed to involve sex trafficking. The rest either involved no trafficking at all (35 percent) or couldn’t be determined one way or another a year later.

Of the debunked investigations, most involved straight prostitution offenses.

The sex worker community contends that law enforcement agencies deliberately pad their human trafficking stats with low-level prostitution busts so they can justify the continuance of lucrative federal grants that are intended to

“the more you put it underground, the more dangerous you make it for the workers.” attorney H. Louis Sirkin

“I haven’t finished college, so my [employment] options are different than they are for some, but I know plenty of women with college degrees who are in this business because their degrees are not affording them living wage jobs,” she said. “I think everyone knows a sex worker, but whether they know that or not is up to them.”

Rejection of the ‘whoRe-aRchy’

Cline, also an activist, expects to tell her son of her profession when he reaches a certain age.

“He’s just going to have the opportunity to love people for being different more than, you know, hating them for being different,” she says.

go after traffickers. And even those who side with the government’s view that prostitution should remain illegal think authorities should be more transparent about their enforcement efforts.

“To a large extent, you’re preaching to the choir,” said Ian Kitterman, policy director for Demand Abolition, which believes in targeting the buyers of commercial sex work and trafficking. “I’ve been harping on the FBI” to provide comprehensive data, like differentiating between pimps and traffickers, something they haven’t done. “We should call it like it is,” he added.

The government’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit is waiting on a ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey S. White.

There is no timetable for his decision, Sirkin says, but there’s much at stake, in that the debate reflects a fissure between

two camps that claim to represent the interests of sex workers—but disagree sharply about what that means.

In one camp are abolitionists, closely aligned with law enforcement, who believe all commercial sexual activity is exploitative and should be eradicated. In the other camp are those who say decades of enforcement have only made sex work riskier and harder to leave.

“Once you’ve been publicly branded by the criminal injustice system, you’ve basically been sentenced to a life of prostitution,” said Doogan, a longtime sex worker herself. “That’s what’s really wrong with prostitution laws.”

For Cline and women like her, the lawsuit represents the possibility to emerge from the shadows and become protected members of society.

Cline has this idea for a television show.

In it, a handful of sex workers split the rent on an apartment that they use for in-call appointments, allowing the characters to intersect with each other like passing ships.

She could write it from experience.

A middle-class kid from a good family, she nonetheless felt miscast in her country club high school and bolted after graduation. She moved to Hawaii, ostensibly to attend college. But her real desire was to strip.

She danced for a few years, but grew burnt out on the scene shortly after returning to California, where the rules are more restrictive. “I’m not really good at having a manager,” she said.

Still, she hadn’t considered sex work.

“In the strip clubs, we always looked down on girls who did prostitution, which is typical whore-archy and classism,” she said.

Until one shift at the last club she worked, in San Francisco. A doctor hinted at seeing her outside of work. She was intrigued, but too nervous to pull the trigger and told him so. A month later, the doctor texted an invitation to join him for a two-night business trip in Orlando, Fla. She tossed out a price and he agreed. She made $2,000 that weekend, minus airfare.

“The money is unparalleled,” she said.

“I’ve tried to have other jobs here and there, and $10 an hour doesn’t add up to real income … let alone trying to have an actual life.”

Cline says most of her regulars are businessmen of a certain age—lawyers are a staple—but she also counts couples,

the kink community and disabled people among her clients. To Cline, sex work at its best is a healing art, not unlike midwifery or physical therapy. And it has afforded her the stability to raise her son and pursue other interests, like political activism and travel.

“That right there is why this business has always been attractive to me, because I had wanderlust and needed to see the world,” she said. “And this was the only way I could do it.”

Cline has also served as an advocate for sex workers’ rights by co-founding the Sex Worker Outreach Project in 2003. While she’s been arrested for civil disobedience and marijuana possession, she’s never been busted for her work. She and Doogan, both white, say prostitution laws are disproportionately enforced against women of color, making this an equal rights issue as well as a sexual privacy one.

Of the 13 women booked into Sacramento County Jail on prostitution charges from January 24 through February 16, six were black, one was Latina and six were white.

In her personal life, Cline has used her advocacy role as a vehicle to test-drive coming out as an escort to those closest to her. Just about everyone in her life knows, including her parents.

“I have a pretty thin veil between my two identities,” she said. “Now it’s new concerns. Now it’s like, ‘OK, how many of the other parents at [my son’s preschool] have figured this out?’”

She’s also wondering when, not if, the time will be right to tell her 5-year-old son.

“I think I got lucky to have a co-parent who is on the same page with me about how not problematic my work is,” she said. “Because there’s not going to be someone here saying derisive things about sex workers in general, about me as a sex worker. I think that’s very hard for kids. But in our household, we revere sex workers.” Ω

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Laura Cardinali launched Reproductive Justice Hour as a way to educate and empower women on the subjects of pregnancy, abortion rights and reproductive health.

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Joey Garcia’s leap year guide to taking a leap into the great unknown

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The earth’s do-si-do around the sun takes 365 days and six hours, so every four years the Gregorian calendar plays catch-up by adding one day.

In addition to tacking an extra day on to the calendar, leap day, February 29, is also well-known as an opportunity to flip oldschool gender roles. For example, in the 19th century, women were encouraged to ask men for dates, or even propose marriage.

Since then, however, we’ve obviously come a long way, baby.

Need inspiration for a leap of faith, a leap of logic, a leap to love or a leap to consciousness? Here are three tales of risktaking to help you spring into action:

Leap to consciousness Sacramento native Laura Cardinali, 23, was single and studying conflict mediation in Sweden when she unexpectedly became pregnant. She married, gave birth to a daughter and then, to a movement. Last November, Cardinali launched Reproductive Justice Hour, a free monthly gathering where young professional women can talk openly about reproductive health. Similar programs around the country are happy hour-centric mixers, but Cardinali created RJ Hour true to

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Let leap day 2016 be your launch pad into something magnificent and surprising. her social justice roots. Held in various coffee houses and bars, Sac’s RJ Hour features speakers, question and answer sessions and, of course, socializing. Topics have included “Islamophobia and Reproductive Health” and “What a Sex Worker Can Teach Us About the Empowered Sexual Experience.”

The diverse nature of the topics have, not surprisingly, brought about impassioned debates, Cardinali says.

“Even in the RJ movement, pointing out the spectrum from pregnancy, to pro-life, to pro-choice to old age is controversial,” she says. “People think RJ should just be about abortion. I believe in the full spectrum of the reproductive narrative. Women should be empowered to be healthy.”

Cardinali is planning a three-day training in April to help women understand federal and state laws that protect their medical rights.

“We need to give the power back to people. We call it health care—care—but we’re separating people from their bodies. We have no say in how our bodies should be touched or treated,” she says.

Cardinali has traded in her conflict mediation studies and is now training as a doula. The change stemmed from what Cardinali says she saw as the need to get down to the basics of social reform.

“I was drawn to conflict mediation because I wanted justice in the world. But conflict mediation didn’t get to the root of why countries are in war or conflict,”she says. “The most efficient and proactive way to solve these problems starts with reproductive justice for women.”

That realization required Cardinali to wrestle free of the anti-abortion values she was raised with so she could be open to all possibilities.

“If my identity had not been so tied to pro-life beliefs, I could have asked, ‘When does life really begin?’ and, ‘What happens when a woman gets pregnant with a child she can’t afford to support?’ and ‘How many people are sexually abused?’”

Cardinali credits her daughter as the inspiration for her advocacy.

“It wasn’t until I became sexually active, got pregnant and chose to become a mother that my reproductive narrative became relevant,” she says.

Tapping into your own experiences, she says, makes it easier to awaken the social conscious.

“My pregnancy helped me understand what spirituality and what social justice really is.”

Leap of Logic

“I thought companies were loyal to their employees.

Then Carly Fiorina came in as CEO, and let’s just say I saw things happen to people I never expected to see.”

His division was closed but he was offered an outof-state move with the company. While Adams and his wife prayerfully considered options, he donated 16 hours of handyman services to an Ebony Ski & Racquetball Club fundraiser auction. When the package sold for $800, Adams realized his prayers were answered. “I’m a strong believer in God, in declarations of victory, and writing down where you want to go,” he says. He stuck a ladder

David Blanchard, 65, left a steady job in the music department of a Catholic school, a seemingly illogical leap for a professional musician. But the exit was motivated by his sudden unwillingness to hide away parts of who he is in order to appear a perfect fit for that gig.

“I’m too old to play that game,” he says, chuckling.

Now retired, Blanchard is busier than ever. Blanchard and his husband, Thom Green, just celebrated their 30-year anniversary together. Legally married in 2008, they beat Proposition 8 to the altar.

But don’t call him gay.

“I don’t like to say I’m gay, because I’m not a label,” he says.

“It’s just the preference I have for sex.”

Blanchard and Green recently co-wrote Left, a reimagining of Lord of the Flies as a musical. It’s dark, he says, and challenging.

The jazzy harmonies are difficult to sing, and the music he wrote is pushing him to learn new techniques—despite 60 years of experience as a pianist. “I don’t think I’ve done anything longer than that except eat and breathe,” he says.

Mark Adams swapped Blanchard understands the his MBA-driven career human hesitation to take risks but for a more fulfilling life doesn’t recommend it. Risk can lead path as a handyman. to growth and adventure, he says.

“I think there is too much emphasis on being secure. There’s PHOTO BY KEVIN CORTOPASSI no security in life, not really. It’s always better when I take a risk and try the next thing.” in his 1980 El Camino and started a handyman business.

Now a licensed contractor, Adams employs 10 people in Leap of faith his West Sacramento-based AHI Construction.

Growing up, Mark Adams, 40, learned the home repair The takeaway lesson? “When you take a leap of faith, trade by working on his father’s Bay Area investment the universe will pay you back.” properties. But he didn’t plan to enter the family business.

Determined to be the first college grad in his clan, Adams feeLing inspired? exceeded his goal, eventually securing two bachelor’s Shed old beliefs and raise your consciousness, decide degrees from UC Davis, and an MBA from Sacramento that age is irrelevant and push deeper into your creativity, State. He says his dream was to catapult up the corporate or believe in a power greater than yourself and leap into ladder and into a top spot. But while working at Hewletta career than truly suits you. Let leap day 2016 be your Packard in 2003, he had a rough awakening. launch pad into something magnificent and surprising— even to you. Ω Joey Garcia writes the Ask Joey column for SN&R. For more inspiration, connect with her on Twitter at @AskJoeyGarcia or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Ask-Joey-160189114012279.

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on the heels of the release of Zoolander 2, the city gets its own dose of really, really ridiculously good-looking people with the annual Sacramento Fashion Week. The weeklong program, now in its 10th year, is a mix of classes and workshops, fashion shows and boutique showcases, and while you’re probably not likely to spot any of T-Swift’s girl squad, a Kardashian or Kanye, attendees will get an intimate and educational look at the burgeoning local fashion scene.

Kick things off with the 10th anniversary celebration and boutique showcase at the California Auto Museum (2200 Front Street) on Sunday, February 21. A boutique showcase featuring the likes of Krazy Mary’s Boutique, Identity Boutique, Retrospect Vintage Fashion and others starts at 4 p.m., followed by an introduction of the designers and a fashion show. Tickets range from $10 to $30.

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BLUE STEEL For those looking to hone their craft and seek some insight into the industry, there are a range of free educational events, including Fashion Intro 101 at the Art Institute of Sacramento (2850 Gateway Oaks Drive, Suite 100) from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday, February 22; model boot camp on Tuesday, February 23, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Arden Fair mall (1689 Arden Way); and a hair and makeup workshop at Federico Beauty Institute (1515 Sports Drive) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, February 24.

The main stretch of fashion shows begins on Thursday, February 25, with the Emerging Next Showcase at Federico Beauty Institute, followed by the spring/summer showcase the next day and the fall/winter showcase on Saturday, February 27. And of course, what would fashion week be without a fancy-pants afterparty? It kicks off at 10 p.m. on Saturday at Vanguard 1415 (1415 L Street).

Tickets range from $20 to $350 and can be purchased at www.sacfashionweek.com along with tickets for all other events.

—DEENA DREwiS

Roller derby season is finally about to hit the ground running, or should we say, skating.

Sacramento’s local derby teams the Capitol Punishers and the Folsom Prison Bruisers will take on the Undead Betties and the Foothill SPORTS Foxy Flyers, respectively, in the doubleheader opening game of the season. Up your game with VIP seats, which include dinner from Hot Italian, two free alcoholic drinks and all of your questions answered by one of Sac City Rollers’ derby girls. $6-$30; 6:15 p.m. at The Rink, 2900 Bradshaw Road; http://saccityrollers.com.

—LoRY GiL

Black History Month: A Family Festival SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 February is Black History Month, and, appropriately, the Crocker Art Museum has a fun, educational and family-friendly event to celebrate the diversity of black culture. The entertainment COMMUNITY includes Next Phase, an Isley Brothers tribute band; the Topsy Turvy Queer Circus and Tyehimba Kokayi, who will present an homage to early black American circus pioneers. There’s also the Cypher Hip-Hop Workshop, which will present an insightful and fun history of hip-hop. Don’t miss the event’s special arts and crafts bazaar. Free; 11 a.m. at the Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; www.crockerartmuseum.org.

—AARoN CARNES

From Africa to the Americas SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 As part of their month-long calendar of programs during Black History Month, the multitalented musicians and dancers from the locally DANCE based Fenix Dance and Drum Co. will host this free afternoon event. Expect a high-energy show replete with interactive moments from a troupe that’s earned a solid reputation for its classes, live events and family-friendly programs.

Free; 1 p.m. at the Sacramento Central Library, 828 I Street; www.fenixdrumanddance.com.

—EDDiE JoRGENSEN

TrueStory THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Fiction is great, but there’s something about creative non-fiction that nothing else can touch.

Just the courage alone that often goes into writing these stories is commendable, and can create some truly amazing tales. Local organization TrueStory is a big advocate of the nonfiction format, and hosts its first event of the LITERARY year this Thursday at Shine. Listen as authors share their stories via readings, and get wrapped up in their world. $6; 7 p.m. at Shine, 1400 E Street; www.facebook.com/shinesacramento.

—AARoN CARNES

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Good yeast Waffle in hand, the Mill The Mill rolled out a line of waffles at the start of the year, and you can order them daily until noon.

The coffee shop describes them as Liege-style, but that’s not exactly accurate.

(For a true version of the Belgian specialty, hit up Volkswaffle.) Still, these waffles stand on their own: yeasted, fluffy and light with a marvelous chew. You can order them with seasonal jam, pure maple syrup or as “Waffle in Hand” ($4.25), the likes of which greets you in a paper to-go cone, dusted with powdered sugar and steaming hot. Consider it the tastiest hand warmer on a cool morning. 1827 I Street, www.themillsacramento.com.

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Dine downtown

by Janelle Bitker

More eats: Two high-profile restaurants—and a downtown wine bar—opened last week, making February an exciting time to explore the grid.

San Francisco’s Skool expanded into the local market with Skool on K (2319 K Street), replacing Turkish bistro Anatolian Table with upscale, Japanese-accented and sustainablyminded seafood. The San Francisco restaurant is, naturally, super hip and pretty expensive. Lucky for us, the Sacramento edition offers many of the same dishes at a lower price point.

For example, the signature squid ink spaghettina with shrimp, curry, lemongrass dashi broth, seaweed butter,

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enoki mushrooms and shiso costs $18 locally vs. $23 in San Francisco.

RailBridge Cellars & Company (921 11th Street) is also open, serving American fare for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Morning selections are minimal but ramp up at 11 a.m. with lots of sandwiches ($10-$16), soups ($6.50) and salads ($8-$10) served all day. After 2 p.m. the happy hour and dinner fare kicks in. Small plates are a little more interesting, such as lamb rib with baba ghanoush and pomegranate ($14), whereas entrees veer classic, such as pork osso bucco ($18).

Finally, there’s Whired Wine (410 L Street), banking on an influx

of business from the Golden 1 Center.

Whired is pronounced “wired,” and comes from mixing the words white and red, as in wines. It boasts a dark, sleek and modern interior, plus beer and sake on tap for those unenthused by its extensive wine list.

Juicy: WholeHearted Juice Co. is on the move. Its post in the MARRS building has been abandoned in favor of a spot at 28th and S streets.

Keep an eye on its Facebook page for more details. Meanwhile, Sun & Soil Juice Co. is adding a location in Davis at 527 G Street.

Also in Davis: Winds of Change House opened in the former Café Méditerranée spot (113 D Street in Davis), offering an eclectic mix of American, Middle Eastern and French fare. Yes, that means you can order a veggie burger ($11.95), your friend can get classic chicken shawarma ($11.95) and your other pal can go fancy with duck à l’orange (18.95) all at the same place. Winds of Change also specializes in flambéed dishes—both dinner entrees and dessert—that are set aflame tableside. Ω

On a recent morning when I was running errands I finally ran across Sun & Soil Juice Company. I meandered in and a bottle labeled “Dirty Chai” ($9) grabbed my attention, if not for any reason but the humor of it. Coconut milk is brewed with both chai and coffee, then sweetened with dates and honey. Sweet, bitter and bittersweet, it felt like exactly what I needed to perk up the senses. Even better? No coffee comedown later in the day. 1912 P Street, http://sunandsoiljuice.com.

—GaRRett MCCoRd

Feel French Radishes Radishes are one of the fastest-growing root veggies.

They’re available practically year-round here, but some of the prettiest varieties come to market right about now. Look for slender French breakfast radishes and pastel-colored Easter Egg beauties. They tend to be less spicy than the winter varieties, perfect in salads or for breakfast with top-quality butter and cracked salt, as the French do. You can also make a quick pickle and serve them with tacos. Don’t forget to stir-fry the leaves. They’re part of the same brassica family as broccoli and cabbage.

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Critics are supposed to be dispassionate about their subjects. However, we all have our preferences. It cannot be helped. At times we simply have to keep our excitement (or disdain) in check and remain as focused as possible.

For me, this can be difficult when confronted with a big plate of chicken wings because, ladies and gentlemen, I will end you if you get between me and a plate of wings.

So, naturally, when I was informed that a new wing joint in south Sacramento called Fire Wings had opened, I immediately knocked down my fellow food critics and volunteered.

Wing-wise, what it comes down to is three things: the chicken, the flavors and the dips.

Here, chicken is offered bone-in and boneless. Both are moist and meaty. The puritans will love that the bone-in wings and drumettes have plenty of girth, while the boneless nuggets are gargantuan in size. (’Murica!)

To quote Jennifer 8. Lee in her famous TED Talk, “The Hunt for General Tso,” “It’s sweet, it’s fried, it’s chicken: Americans will love this.” She was talking about General Tso’s chicken, but the concept applies here in most of the flavors. Let’s break down a few: Peking: I felt cheated by the name. These are simply wings glazed in candy red sweet-andsour sauce.

Salt & Pepper Wings: Cocaine isn’t as addictive as these wings. Phenomenal.

Jamaican Jerk: I don’t think the owners know what jerk flavor is. No herbs or spices except for gobs of cinnamon, and the heat level is nonexistent. A heavy dredge of sugar made these wings taste like they came from the airport Cinnabon.

Malaysian Curry Rub: These taste like a yellow curry, but in chicken-wing form. Noms.

Thai Chili: #fishsauce #iwantyouinsideme Cali Rub: This makes for a pathetic attempt at an actual barbecue rub. Add some chili powder, chipotle, thyme, paprika, cumin—hell, add some salt. Lose some sugar.

Peanut Butter: These are wings dipped in a Thai peanut sauce. Good for one wing, then you’ll feel heavy and sick. Still too much sugar.

Mango Habanero: I call bullshit on there being any of either ingredient actually present in that glaze. More sugar.

Meanwhile, the dips, frankly, are pedestrian.

They’re tasty, don’t get me wrong, but you’ve tried honey mustard, ranch, blue cheese and barbecue sauces. They’re no different here than they are elsewhere.

A number of sides are available.

The fries are fine enough and come out hot and crispy. The mac ’n’ cheese is uberprocessed, but still better than the stuff made by most restaurants in town. The coleslaw should be avoided because it’s dressed in a sauce that is 99 percent—you guessed it—sugar.

Cost here is flexible when it comes to the actual chicken, and ranges from six pieces and a dip from $8.99 to a 100-piece pack with eight dips, fries, two sides and veggies for $94.95. Plus, on Tuesdays, wings are 50 cents each.

Fire Wings is not revolutionary in the slightest.

Still, for a good time and food that encourages eating with your hands, mountains of stained napkins and dining with only your best crew, it’s hard to go wrong. Just avoid the too, too-sweet flavors and dips and you’ll be happy. Ω

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As she explains in her book, the Indian kitchen isn’t just a place of utility; rather, it’s a place of healing and rejuvenation. At a special 6 p.m. class on Thursday, February 25, Klein will reflect on Indian food and culture while the co-op’s chef Adam Lovelace will cook and demonstrate recipes from the book. On the menu: a chickpea snack, sweet potato casserole, milk fudge and avial, a south Indian vegetable and coconut stew. The class takes place at the Sacramento Food Co-op’s Community Learning Center (1914 Alhambra Boulevard), and tickets cost $35 for Co-op owners and $45 for the general public. More at www.sacfoodcoop.com.

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Green Valley theatre company, 3825 V street; (916) 736-2664; https://greenvalleytheatre.com. through march 12.

Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, at Green Valley Theatre Company is a falling in and out of love story.

Cathy (Jennifer Morrison), an aspiring actress, and aspiring writer Jamie (Kevin Caravalho, who also directed the show) switch back and forth. Cathy starts at the end of the relationship and works backward to the beginning; Jamie starts at the beginning and works forward to the painful ending. The two meet in the middle, at their wedding.

The play was initially designed for each character to be on stage alone to sing, but wanting to make it more fluid and meatier, Caravalho keeps both on stage most of the time.

The end result makes the story a bit fuller.

Morrison is a marvel, a “belter” of the first order.

She begins with the haunting “Still Hurting,” which has the ability to drag the audience into the song to feel her pain.

Caravalho, starting as a young man in love, brings delight and magic to the role as he gleefully talks about his “Shiksa Goddess.”

His mood darkens as the relationship begins to sour.

The music is further aided by the richness of a five-piece orchestra, which includes two cellos (and one cellist, Eimi Taormina, also an accomplished actress, stepping into the story briefly), and adds a depth that a single piano would not give. Ω

Photo courtesy of Green Valley theatre comPany

Two to grow on Writer-director Jerry Montoya—who joined the B Street Theatre 14 years ago—scores an uncommon achievement this week: He has two new plays opening, almost simultaneously.

First, there’s his Family Series adaptation of Mary Shelley’s pioneering 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein, which opens February 20 and runs through March 20. Then a limited run of Montoya’s original comedy Love and Baseball, which runs February 25 through March 19.

The two projects have kept Montoya busy for weeks. SN&R recently caught him on the phone, only slightly out of breath.

As part of his broad duties as B Street’s associate producer, Montoya pens a new script annually for the theater’s Family Series. Montoya says he’s been wanting to do Frankenstein for years.

Montoya is also a devoted sports fan, and Love and Baseball reflects that. “It’s a romance about two very modern people who like baseball,” he says.

The protagonists are also attracted to each other and, as with any romance, things don’t always go as expected. “The beauty is in the unexpected moment, which can sometimes derail the best laid plans,” Montoya says. “Two people struggling to make this thing work—a game, and life, at the same time.”

Montoya not only wrote both scripts, he is directing Love and Baseball, and directed the first week of rehearsals for Frankenstein before turning the show over to colleague David Pierini.

“It’s fun having two shows happening at the same time,” Montoya says. “It’s like creative nirvana.” Ω —Jeff Hudson frankenstein, 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. saturday and sunday, $15-20.

B street theatre, 2711 B street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreet theatre.org. through march 20. for ticket information for love and Baseball, call the theater.

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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 shortattention-span world hits all the emotional hot spots from tragic to hilarious and everything in between.

Th, F 8pm; Sa 2pm and 8pm; Su 2pm; Tu, W 7 pm. Through 2/28. $25-$35.

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the character of Alan never fully comes to life.

The film splits Alan into two different characters struggling for supremacy—Alan the writer and The onscreen credit that introduces Nicholas Alan the man. There are flashbacks within flashHytner’s warming but insignificant The Lady in the backs, narration on top of narration, twee narrative Van claims that it is “A Mostly True Story,” and misdirects and a lead character who talks to his the film keeps crawling up its own cutesy narrative own imaginary double. bunghole from there. Adapted by playwright Alan By the time the real-life Bennett rides up on his Bennett from his own memoir, The Lady in the Van bicycle to meet the actor playing Bennett, the film offers more fourth wall-breaking narrative devices has disappeared into a script gimmick wormhole than a Tarantino fever dream, but since we’re never of its own design. Hytner has a long history with that invested in the characters or the story, it doesn’t Bennett (Hytner’s films The History Boys and add up to anything but a self-satisfied distraction.

The Madness of King George came from Bennett Maggie Smith plays the title role, a cantanplays), so perhaps he anticipated an affeckerous eccentric and possible fugitive tion that fails to materialize. Alan going by the name of Mary Shepherd, comes to see Miss Shepherd as his Maggie a homeless woman who takes up “mother’s derelict counterpart,” residence in Alan’s neotrendy Smith excels at but our relation to Alan and his Camden driveway. Smith is excelmommy issues is always more playing characters lent, of course, somehow pulling assumed than felt. who have stopped off the unplayable role of a wacky, Outside of Smith’s quasi-adorable, life lesson-spouting caring about demented majesty, there’s homeless person without overdosing not a lot to recommend about what other on condescension and quirk. This The Lady in the Van. George people think. is maybe the least annoying version Fenton’s score is overly intrusive, of this sort of character since William too many scenes are shapeless and Powell in My Man Godfrey. the story drags whenever Smith is offNow 81 years old and tremendous as ever, screen. Even when the story focuses on Mary, Smith excels at playing characters who have stopped fleshing out her past as a WWII-era ambulance caring about what other people think, and the driver, ex-nun and piano prodigy, the script keeps brusque, onion-eating Miss Shepherd sits right in that throwing up narrative roadblocks in order to wheelhouse. But the main character here is actually justify turning such flimsy material into a feature Alex Jennings as Alan, a bookish and withdrawn film. It’s telling that at the end of the film, Alan playwright of questionable talent. The story comes pulls out a copy of The Lady in the Van, and it’s a from his perspective, a closeted gay man who quietly wafer-thin paperback. Ω resists the “odoriferous concerto” emanating from the yellow van in his driveway.

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45 Years

Charlotte Rampling gives the performance of a lifetime—and easily the best performance of 2015—in writerdirector 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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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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Hail, Caesar!

Josh Brolin stars in Hail, Caesar! as Eddie Mannix, a 1950s studio executive known for his ability to protect his stars and manipulate the press. Mannix is loosely based on the real-life MGM “fixer” of the same name, and as a series of disconnected scenes skewering old Hollywood, Joel and Ethan Coen’s film is a blast. Unfortunately, there’s no center to hold the disparate pieces together. We never connect with Mannix as a character, and the film moves in stops and starts, with the pace severely lagging between showstopping sequences. A lot of scenes work as ideas, but not as scenes, especially the ones involving a cabal of Communist screenwriters. There are still those welcome touches of Coen acidity, and as an examination of the post-war hypocrisy of Hollywood, the fantasyland of Hail, Caesar! is ten thousand times more righteous than the based-on-fact Trumbo. But as a Coen brothers’ movie, it’s just OK. D.B.

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How to Be Single

A young woman (Dakota Johnson) dumps her boyfriend (Nicholas Braun) in favor of the single life she feels she’s missing out on—only to learn that being single is more complicated than she thought. The script by Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein and Dana Fox (remotely suggested by Liz Tucillo’s novel) is an excruciating parade of cast-off chick-flick clichés, and it shows signs of desperate (and futile) doctoring, but to no avail. It remains a puny little amateur-night rip-off of Sex and the City, without the saucy wit or sharply-drawn personalities. Maybe without the talent in the cast as well, though the characters are so shallow and interchangeable it’s hard to blame the actors (always excepting the inescapable and insufferable Rebel Wilson as Johnson’s BFF). Directed (sort of) by Christian Ditter. J.L.

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A mentally unstable mercenary (Ryan Reynolds) undergoes experimental surgery for his cancer; it leaves him with advanced healing abilities, but so hideously ugly that he goes underground, allowing his girlfriend (Morena Baccarin) to think he’s dead while he seeks revenge on his doctor (Ed Skrein). Oh, and for reasons too contrived to go into, he takes the name “Deadpool.” The jokes in this foul-mouthed super-anti-hero movie begin with the credits—instead of actors’ names we get “British Villain,” “CGI Character,” “Comic Relief,” etc. Some of the jokes in Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick’s script (from the Marvel comics

by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza) are pretty funny, which helps compensate for the dreary familiarity of the CGI fight scenes. Tim Miller’s direction is flat, but he keeps things moving. J.L.

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 government. That’s pretty much the same plot as The Trial of Billy Jack, but we’ll allow it—if Ip Man 4 turns out to be an indirect remake of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, then the jig is up. The fight sequences in Ip Man 3 are fun but far from definitive, and the film is all over the place, never fully satisfying as an outsized genre piece (Mike Tyson snarls and punches his way through a glorified cameo) or as a substantial drama. D.B.

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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.

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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 been 15 years since Ben Stiller’s career—as actor, co-writer and director—hit rock-bottom with the execrable Zoolander, wherein he played a dim-witted supermodel brainwashed into trying to assassinate the prime minister of Malaysia. What bizarre professional death wish prompted Stiller to make a sequel to that sorry flop at this late date is a topic for him and his psychoanalyst, if he has one. The result, currently staining some 3,300 screens nationwide, is our problem. Owen Wilson is back as Zoolander’s fellow supermodel Hansel, likewise the parade of tawdry star cameos (Kristen Wiig, Benedict Cumberbatch, Will Ferrell and Penélope Cruz being the most prominent). The story is beside the point in this pointless movie; it’s less tasteless and offensive than the original, but just as god-awful. J.L.

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With help from Sean Stack at Fat Cat Recording Studio—and many weekends of Kinsella and Horner tinkering with songs over pizza—Rocket Surgery took about two years to complete.

The resulting evolution of PointDexter offers hints of poppunk, heavy rock and emo, all punctuated by Kinsella’s trusty saxophone.

“We want to let the sax shine and bring back what has gotten time off for good music behavior? lost in rock bands in the past few decades,” he says. “I think we’ve proven you can shred with sax.”

Kinsella has also proven that it’s possible to For Kevin Kinsella, PointDexter is all about maintain a cohesive artistic identity despite so many evolution. changes over a period of time much longer than most He founded the Sacramento alt-rock band in Sacramento bands last.

2007. Several years, a couple of albums and about “I think it’s good to show a band has evolved and 15 band members later, PointDexter is gearing become bigger than itself,” he says. “Most people up to release a new EP with a polished sound on will join a band and drop a band and start a band with Saturday, February 20. a new name. You accumulate art, you accumulate Rocket Surgery is a decent dive from songs. There’s no reason not to stay with your brand PointDexter’s debut album NeoAnomoly, which that you’ve built.” was full of bubblegum pop songs. Kinsella admits Kinsella points to Red Hot Chili Peppers, one of it was pretty formulaic. But over time, Kinsella his biggest influences. The band’s two original learned to channel his knack for catchy hooks members have stuck with the Chili with technicality: unusual time signatures, Peppers’ brand for decades despite complicated riffs, jazz-influenced chord going through a dozen guitarists progressions. and drummers.

And now, the group is solid, “I think that’s the differgoing on three years without any ence between a successful lineup changes: Kinsella (vocals/ and unsuccessful band,” keys/saxophone), Jarom Horner Kinsella says. “You don’t (bass), Brian Wood (guitar) and give up—you don’t give up Paul Bates (drums). on your vision. It’s just like “We’re like brothers in anything else.” arms,” Kinsella says.

Kevin Kinsella Already, Kinsella is “Our battle is getting our singer, PointDexter busy planning the rest of message out.”

PointDexter’s 2016. There will That’s not to say PointDexter is be a tour expanding the band’s a concept band with a unified message. college circuit, plus two more singles Every track carries a different theme, a and progress toward another EP. Kinsella different vibe, a different subgenre. is very careful about producing a steady stream of Rocket Surgery is the first album that Kinsella material for the band’s fans—perhaps it’s the secret to wrote with Horner, but their method was typical PointDexter’s unusually steady place in Sacramento’s PointDexter. They started each song by figuring always-evolving music scene. Ω out who they wanted to emulate, then applying lyrics and ideas that fit the sound. For this five-song EP, PointDexter channeled Foster the People, Catch PointDexter at 10 p.m. Saturday, February 20, at Pour House, the Neighborhood, Foo Fighters, Florence + the 1910 Q Street. Admission is free. More at www.facebook.com/ PHOTO BY MORGAN ANDERSON

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And this to see an art show inside a rundown flophouse that was curated on a $10,00 budget.

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Glamorous: Last week’s tribute to David Bowie marked the first time I had to wait in line at the Blue Lamp. The club was totally packed with a sweaty, enthusiastic and diverse crowd. On a Tuesday. Despite the much buzzedabout Art Hotel still open just across the grid, the people chose Bowie!

The Life on Mars visual art show, curated by TUBE Magazine’s Melissa Uroff Millner, was actually planned long before Bowie’s death. Originally, 40 artists were to create a piece of art inspired by a line from Bowie’s song “Life on Mars?” off 1971’s Hunky Dory. Then more artists hopped on, offering up an assortment of fun, colorful pieces plastered across Blue Lamp’s back walls.

The local music community’s presence was strong, with some musicians contributing to the visual show, too.

Tara Elizabeth, singer-songwriter with the Orange Scene, collaged bits of set lists from other local bands—50-Watt Heavy, Drop Dead Red and Macabre Shocks among them—after receiving the line “It’s about to be writ again.”

Dog Party’s Lucy Giles couldn’t actually attend because she’s not 21, but her dual pseudo-cameos of Bowie were there and they were rad.

Local glam band Mondo Deco proved to be the perfect act to close the night with a tight set of classic Bowie covers: “Space Oddity,” “Queen Bitch,” “Oh! You Pretty Things,” “Suffragette City.”

“Here’s to all the inspiration and good stuff you gave us,” singer Jeremy Greene said before launching into Mondo Deco’s last song. Then, the lights came on, “Life on Mars?” streamed through the soundsystem and everyone went home talking about Bowie, as one should.

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Death rattle ’n’ roll: The din of Kings arena construction took a backseat to pulses of distorted guitars and cymbal crashes this past Thursday.

For one evening only, the soon-to-begutted Marshall Hotel—you know, that shuttered single-resident occupancy dive on the corner of Seventh and L streets—welcomed head-nodders for a night of badass underground rock ’n’ roll. Inside, the lobby-turned-venue buzzed so hard that I forgot I was huffing urine fumes.

Local band Gymboyz—it’s an homage to everyone’s favorite Parmesan-dusted taco joint—took the stage before 9 p.m. I like to call the group the house band of Empress Tavern and Mother, since a majority of members work at those eateries, including chef/owner Michael Thiemann on drums. Thursday was Gymboyz’s sixth gig ever, so the groups remains a little rough around the edges, but endearingly so.

Singer Whittney Kebschull unpacked her lungs into the microphone, letting out ferocious yawps and cries while spinning and throwing her body about. Backed by two guitars (I’d describe their sound as equal parts catchy sonic noodling and grimy waves of guitar rock) and an unrelenting bass-drums attack, Gymboyz continue to fulfill their promise as an exciting local post-rock act.

Thursday’s show might’ve been the gnarliest lineup in the history of the Marshall. The hotel opened in 1911, and the city-landmark building was converted in 1940 to a live-music venue (then called The Clayton Club). Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong once graced its stage.

Add Gymboyz to that esteemed company—one last death rock ’n’ rattle before Marshall is gutted to make way for a boutique Hyatt.

For years, the city of Sacramento scratched its head and threw money at K Street and downtown, praying that investments in guitars of a Hard Rock Cafe variety and America Live! venues would equal visitors. No dice. We’re talking hundreds of millions of dollars in squandered investment.

But this week, tens of thousands of visitors flocked to downtown. On Saturday morning before 11 a.m., some 1,000 people were already queued up in hopes of entering the Art Hotel, inside the former Jade

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This was supposed to be a gloriously misanthropic night. Incredible downer bands Coffins and Noothgrush were going to come through and depress the hell out of all of us with sick riffs and anti-human goodness, but then Coffins got screwed by customs on their way from Japan, everything fell apart and now we’re all sad in a different, very unmetal way.

DOOM No worries, though—Chrch is still playing, and Battle Hag jumped on the bill.

Best of all? No cover. Now you can afford to drown your sorrows in whiskey and doom metal. 1517 21st Street, http://chrchdoomca.blogspot.com.

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Fans of eclectic jazz legends Bill Frisell and John Zorn will enjoy the fresh twist that trio Grex is adding to the genre.

Drums, keys, vox and guitar ART ROCk expertly weave in and out of choreographed riffs and free-form exploration. Surprising vocals pop out of nowhere, almost coalescing the music into an identifiable “song” before they all burst apart again into their separate headstrong melodies and musical agendas. The songs are cohesive, though; they are taking the listener on a journey—a roundabout trip with many pit stops and digressions along the way. 946 Olive Drive in Davis, www.grexsounds.com.

Cradle of Filth, the extreme metal band from the UK, canceled the first four dates of its U.S. tour in January due to problems obtaining visas from the American Embassy. Still, the hellish band with its symphonic, black and gothic metal appears to have resolved its issues and will stop in Sacramento to perform songs off its 11th studio album, Hammer of the Witches, set for release July 10.

EXTREME METAL The album’s cover art reflects the lyricism of the entire album.

It’s rich in Renaissance themes and conjures topics of heady witchcraft, torment and unregulated spiritual liberation.

1417 R Street, www.cradleoffilth.com.

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Local Joe Kye wears the title “chamber pop” artist because when he plays the violin, artists like Sufjan Stevens and Grizzly Bear come to mind. Keep that in mind regarding his two-day concert with ChAMbER local women’s vocal ensemble Vox Musica. Their music is a bit more in the classical, concert-choir realm, but with an adventurous spirit. Kye and Vox Musica will perform some reimagined classical choral pieces as well as some originals inspired by Sacramento’s landscape. If you can’t make the show, another takes place at 5 p.m. on Sunday. 723 S Street, www.joekye.com.

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Fans of the harmonica need no introduction to the great Charlie Musselwhite. For the uninitiated, the 72-year-old musician has been turning heads in the blues BLUES scene since the ’60s. As luck would have it, he’ll be joined by the equally compelling North Mississippi Allstars. Expect a night chock full of Southern-influenced fare along with some sweet and sticky grooves courtesy of one wicked rhythm section. The show is appropriately dubbed “Mississippi Home Cookin’,” so come hungry and leave some extra room for dessert served up at the encore. 10 College Parkway in Folsom, www.charliemusselwhite.com.

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Any band that merges the Beatles and Star Wars references can’t possibly be bad, right? Ringo Deathstarr has been quietly plugging away in the Austin, Texas shoegaze scene for nearly a decade, but the trio’s 2015 record Pure Mood rightly caught global attention. It creates an all-encompassing, pensive and haunting feel via pounding darkness, fragile whispers and droney noise. But it’s also fun, playful and—with influences such as the Cure, the Smiths and the Velvet Underground—accessible. Fellow Austin band Future Death and locals SHoEgazE Starrsha open this all-ages, booze-free show. 946 Olive Drive in Davis, www.ringodeathstarr.org.

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If you are an individual with any inkling to see Nick Carter, you’re likely well-versed in everything I’m about to tell you in addition to knowing his preferred brand of boxer briefs, but just in case: The early-aughts teen PoP idol of Backstreet Boy fame is a flurry of activity as he trots ahead of obscurity with the recent release of All American, the nearly sold-out Backstreet Boys Cruise, and the zombie Western Dead 7 that he is cowriting, directing and starring in (alongside members of O-Town, 98 Degrees and BSB).

Catch his solo show before the BSB and Spice Girls reunion tour that is still a rumor but is probably definitely happening. 1417 R Street, www.nickcarter.net.

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Michigan rapper Blaze Ya Dead Homie presumably died in the 1980s, yet he continues to tour post mortem. The conceit of Blaze Ya Dead Homie is side-show horrorcore rap performed by a reincarnated gang member, his Lazarus return bearing resemHiP-HoP blance to the clown-faced Insane Clown Posse and their Juggalo faithful. The decision to be undead came while appearing on a Twiztid record in 1999 and led to Blaze Ya Dead Homie’s signing to Psychopathic Records. Eight albums later, Blaze Ya Dead Homie has played many Gatherings of the Juggalos and is headlining The Casket Factory Tour. 9426 Greenback Lane in Orangevale, www.blazeyadead1.com.

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Zen and parenthood I was bullied during my sophomore year of high school by this really popular girl and her friends. She used to talk to me a lot in class, so I asked her to a dance.

She said no, and then went on Twitter and told everyone, making fun of me the whole time. This guy at school who liked her, and his friends, made my life miserable. I hated life and wanted to kill myself—or them. But I saw a counselor, got past it, changed schools and everything got better. My problem is my parents: They ask me about school every day, and when I say things are fine— which is true—they won’t stop asking me stupid questions. When I get mad, they push back, saying they’re just worried. If I don’t respond, they get mad and we have a huge fight. What can I do? My life is great now, except for my parents.

again and lose you. So, they interrupt your contentment with questions intended to avoid repeating the past. Unfortunately, in doing so, they inadvertently revive the past.

Your parents are creating drama, and that’s not cool, but they’re not doing it to annoy you. They’re just scared, and haven’t dealt with those feelings.

Part of the challenge of being a teenager is learning how to be an adult, and then practicing what you’ve learned. With that in mind, I’m assigning you “homework”: The next time your parents ask a question that you consider stupid, don’t answer in anger.

Take a breath, count to 10 and notice what’s happening inside your head and heart. Then, ask a question in response: “It sounds like you’re afraid that what happened in the past might happen again, is that true?” In other words, your task now is to not get triggered into having an argument. Be respectful in tone and word choice, but stand up for yourself: “I know I went through a dark time last year.

But I’m not stuck there today. I will let you know if I need help.”

Got it? Be clear, direct and have a backbone. You might also suggest that your parents see a counselor to process the fears they are dragging into the household each day. Ω

Your parents are creating drama, and that’s not cool, but they’re not doing it to annoy you.

Here’s a little secret that might help: Parenting is closer to a trade than a profession. Adults learn how to be parents by engaging in the experience of parenting, but they aren’t experts going in.

Parents might try to mimic or avoid attitudes and behaviors that their own parents engaged in, but ultimately it’s a hands-on job. Mistakes and ill-informed arguments are common.

Reading books on parenting helps to build knowledge, but knowledge informs the intellect. It doesn’t necessarily inspire wise parenting. The key is for parents to be self-aware regarding their own emotional triggers, and to have the self-discipline to respond instead of overreacting. That’s incredibly challenging, of course, and that’s why good parenting is truly a spiritual practice.

The deeper problem in your situation is that your parents are absent. Worrying attaches them to the past (they witnessed your suffering) and the future (they are afraid your suffering will return). So they are not present in the “now.” Your parents are probably scared that you sent signals about being bullied and about the stress and despondency that accompanied being bullied, and they missed those signals. They are afraid that they might miss your signals

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Your question has me thinking, though. As it stands now, there are about a million cannabis patients in California. a typical recommendation will cost between $40 and $60. You could pay more for one of those “Grow 99 plants!”-type recommendations, but those letters don’t really hold up in court. What if we legalized weed, and instead of an outrageous tax, we just charged folks something like $50 a year for a “weed license”? That’s $50 million off the top (not counting the money we would make from tourists) straight into the coffers of the state. That way, we could lower the proposed taxes and maybe make a dent in Legislators have to the black and gray markets. remember that weed Consider that as opposed to a recent is doing fine. proposal from Sen. Mike McQuire, suggesting a 15 percent tax on all medical marijuana sold in California. This would be on top of the taxes cities and counties charge, making the effective tax rate almost 30 percent in some places. Virtually every cannabis advocacy group in California opposes this bill.

Maybe my idea wouldn’t work, but we have to think of ways to keep the pot taxes from being ridiculous. Legislators have to remember that weed is doing fine. It’s the state that needs the money. If you make the taxes and regulations too restrictive, people will go back to their friendly neighborhood weed man and the state will be cut out of the deal. Listen, California’s cannabis sales could top $1 billion a year with no problem. Ten percent of a billion is $100 million. I think an extra $100 million a year, plus the revenues from the licensing and all the other regulatory BS, should be enough money. We will see how it goes, but something has to be done to let legislators know that trying to kill the golden goose is never a good idea.

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—Dabben Onnem It’s all good! Everyone wants in on the weed game: Bernie Sanders talked so much about weed that Hilary Clinton has had to change her stance; Roseanne Barr is opening a dispensary in Santa Ana; the family of Bob Marley has weed that just now got into the shops (and I need to try it); Snoop Dogg just signed a deal to sell cannabis in Canada; Margaret Cho has a line of delicious cannabis flowers available—Margaret and I are on the same boutique cannabis label, BTW; and it looks like Arizona and New Mexico will have cannabis legalization initiatives on the ballot in 2016! Weed stays winning. Ω

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FOR THE WEEk OF FEBRUARy 18, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent,” said playwright Lillian Hellman. “When that happens, it is possible to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman’s dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea.” Why does this happen? Because the painter changed his or her mind. Early images were replaced, painted over. I suspect that a metaphorical version of this is underway in your life. Certain choices you made in the past got supplanted by choices you made later. They disappeared from view. But now those older possibilities are re-emerging for your consideration.

I’m not saying what you should do about them. I simply want to alert you to their ghostly presence so they don’t cause confusion.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Let’s talk about your mouth. Since your words flow out of it, you use it to create and shape a lot of your experiences.

Your mouth is also the place where food and drink enter your body, as well as some of the air you breathe. So it’s crucial to fueling every move you make. You experience the beloved sense of taste in your mouth. You use your mouth for kissing and other amorous activities.

With its help, you sing, moan, shout and laugh.

It’s quite expressive, too. As you move its many muscles, you send out an array of emotional signals. I’ve provided this summary in the hope of inspiring you to celebrate your mouth, Taurus.

It’s prime time to enhance your appreciation of its blessings!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Coloring books for

adults are best-sellers. Tightly-wound folks relieve their stress by using crayons and markers to brighten up black-and-white drawings of butterflies, flowers, mandalas and pretty fishes.

I highly recommend that you avoid this type of recreation in the next three weeks, as it would send the wrong message to your subconscious mind. You should expend as little energy as possible working within frameworks that others have made. You need to focus on designing and constructing your own frameworks.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Old Testament

book of Leviticus presents a long list of forbidden activities, and declares that anyone who commits them should be punished. You’re not supposed to get tattoos, have messy hair, consult oracles, work on Sunday, wear clothes that blend wool and linen, plant different seeds in the same field or eat snails, prawns, pigs and crabs. (It’s OK to buy slaves, though.) We laugh at how absurd it would be for us to obey these outdated rules and prohibitions, and yet many of us retain a superstitious loyalty toward guidelines and beliefs that are almost equally obsolete. Here’s the good news, Cancerian: Now is an excellent time to dismantle or purge your own fossilized formulas.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I would not talk so much

about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well,” said the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau. In accordance with your astrological constitution, Leo, I authorize you to use this declaration as your own almost any time you feel like it. But I do suggest that you make an exception to the rule during the next four weeks. In my opinion, it will be time to focus on increasing your understanding of the people you care about—even if that effort takes time and energy away from your quest for ultimate self-knowledge. Don’t worry: You can return to emphasizing Thoreau’s perspective by the equinox.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are entering the

inquisitive phase of your astrological cycle. One of the best ways to thrive during the coming weeks will be to ask more questions than you have asked since you were 5 years old. Curiosity and good listening skills will be superpowers that you should you strive to activate. For now, what matters most is not what you already know but rather what you need to find out. It’s a favorable time to gather information about riddles and mysteries that have perplexed you for a long time. Be super-receptive and extra wide-eyed!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Poet Barbara Hamby says the Russian word ostyt can be used to describe “a cup of tea that is too hot, but after

you walk to the next room, and return, it is too cool.” A little birdie told me that this may be an apt metaphor for a current situation in your life.

I completely understand if you wish the tea had lost less of its original warmth, and was exactly the temperature you like, neither burning nor tepid. But that won’t happen unless you try to reheat it, which would change the taste. So what should you do? One way or the other, a compromise will be necessary. Do you want the lukewarm tea or the hot tea with a different flavor?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Russian writer Ivan

Turgenev was a Scorpio. Midway through his first novel Rudin, his main character Dmitrii Nikolaevich Rudin alludes to a problem that affects many Scorpios. “Do you see that apple tree?” Rudin asks a woman companion. “It is broken by the weight and abundance of its own fruit.” Ouch! I want very much for you Scorpios to be spared a fate like that in the coming weeks. That’s why I propose that you scheme about how you will express the immense creativity that will be welling up in you. Don’t let your lush and succulent output go to waste.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Asking you

Sagittarians to be patient may be akin to ordering a bonfire to burn more politely. But it’s my duty to inform you of the cosmic tendencies, so I will request your forbearance for now. How about some nuances to make it more palatable? Here’s a quote from author David G. Allen: “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” Novelist Gustave Flaubert: “Talent is a long patience.” French playwright Moliere: “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” Writer Anne Lamott: “Hope is a revolutionary patience.”

I’ve saved the best for last, from Russian novelist Irène Némirovsky: “Waiting is erotic.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “If you ask for

help it comes, but not in any way you’d ever know.” Poet Gary Snyder said that, and now I’m passing it on to you, Capricorn. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to think deeply about the precise kinds of help you would most benefit from—even as you loosen up your expectations about how your requests for aid might be fulfilled. Be aggressive in seeking assistance, but ready and willing to be surprised as it arrives.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): For a limited time

only, 153 is your lucky number. Mauve and olive are your colors of destiny, the platypus is your power animal and torn burlap mended with silk thread is your magic texture. I realize that all of this may sound odd, but it’s the straight-up truth.

The nature of the cosmic rhythms are rather erratic right now. To be in maximum alignment with the irregular opportunities that are headed your way, you should probably make yourself magnificently mysterious, even to yourself. To quote an old teacher, this might be a good time to be “so unpredictable that not even you yourself knows what’s going to happen.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the long-running

TV show M*A*S*H, the character known as Sidney Freedman was a psychiatrist who did his best to nurture the mental health of the soldiers in his care. He sometimes departed from conventional therapeutic approaches.

In the series finale, he delivered the following speech, which I believe is highly pertinent to your current quest for good mental hygiene: “I told you people something a long time ago, and it’s just as pertinent today as it was then. Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: Pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”

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Pull the string Christopher Oates has worn many hats.

He was a second-grade teacher, a tennis pro, a professional clown and also used to operate the store Toy Madness. Now, he’s the hand behind the strings of Christopher’s Musical Marionettes. You may have seen him around the streets in Old Sac with his musical, dancing puppets. SN&R caught up with him to talk about cute dog puppets, and the difference between puppets and marionettes.

How did you get started?

When I was a second-grade school teacher, I’d done some work with puppets in my classroom, and kind of made half of a puppet, kind of a rod puppet, that could move its arm with a rod. And I invented a little mouth mechanism so that they could move their mouth and lip-sync words for some concerts in the class. After retiring, I built the rest of the puppet, so to speak, and added a lot of realistic movements and turned it into a marionette. It was all trial and error, looking on the Internet and watching other performers. Being retired, I still was looking for an avenue to work with kids and have a lot of fun.

Is there a difference between a puppet and a marionette?

Puppets is a general category, and a marionette is a puppet, just a puppet with strings.

How’d you decide to start working in music?

My marionettes, you know, they play a musical instrument and their mouths move so they sing the songs, and they move around and interact with the audience.

And it’s something that if you go online

large puppets—maybe 2-and-a-half feet tall and they were so heavy my arms were getting really tired. I moved down to about a foot-and-a-half. It takes, if I went hard at it, I can make one in a week-and-a-half. It’s a lot of step-by-step building of the puppet, and making it work so it does what you want it to do.

and Google “street performers,” “musical marionette street performers,” South America, Europe, Russia, Asia, all over the world there’s performing artists that do marionettes just like I do them.

I think you were doing Johnny Cash when I was down there.

Old Sacramento’s a great spot. I get a lot of practice and I’m always trying new tricks, new interactions with the audience, without impeding their progress along the boardwalk.

I just go by their smiles and enjoyment, the best feedback that I’m know I’m doing the right stuff. The puppet hug, when one of my puppets gives a little child a high-five or a hug, it’s great. And it’s just as fun when one of the puppets goes up to an older gentlemen and gives them a hug as well, even more so.

Or an elderly person in a wheel chair … it’s a lot of fun and sometimes I get choked up with the situation out there.

It’s cool that you can reach people like that.

It is. I had no idea how powerful marionettes were and what they could do. It’s almost being hypnotized. Some people can and some people don’t [and] walk right on by.

It’s always fun when their kids in the stroller are getting a stiff neck looking … to keep watching the marionettes. So many fun moments, even a slow day is a lot of fun.

It just takes one family to make something really enjoyable.

How long does it take to make a puppet?

[When I started out] it’d probably take a few weeks to develop something. And then I started making others, and I had to develop a certain style. I started with really

What do you make them out of?

They’re made out of papier-mâché. And sometimes I have some simple clothing that I can put on. ... A lot of the time the clothing is painted on. But papier-mâché and simple wood controls.

How many do you have?

Probably two dozen.

Of the ones that you’ve made, do you have a favorite?

Well, I’ve got seven or eight puppets that are just really awesome in how they perform.

The ballerina is so amazing, she’s the most popular. I do the violin player when I want to show people I’ve got some classical moves, music or chops. And the variety really brings out the amazement. To have a country western cowboy and then mix in a piano player, you know anyone by themselves is OK, but when you put the whole group together ...

Are there any marionettes you are working on now?

Right now, I’m kind of in a holding position …

I guess a dog puppet. There’re a lot of cute [things] I can do with a marionette dog. Ω

Follow Christopher Oates online at www.facebook.com/ ChristophersMusicalMarionettes.

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