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Last week, San Francisco developer Justin Keller drew widespread scorn for an open letter he wrote to that city’s mayor, decrying the homeless “riff-raff.”

“I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle and despair of homeless people to and from my way to work every day,” he complained.

I thought of that last Thursday when, on my drive home from work, I encountered a man crouching in the gutter at the corner of Alhambra Boulevard and S Street. He was next to an overturned bike and even from a distance I could see he wore shabby clothes and was in need of a shower.

As he knelt, his forehead touching pavement, cars kept driving. I pulled over and as I approached, another person walked up. The man on the ground said he’d been struck by a truck. He clutched at his stomach in pain.

We wanted to call 911. He insisted we didn’t. Urgent care? There was a center nearby. But, no. He stood up, grabbed his bike’s handles and started moving, slowly.

The man who’d joined me followed worriedly and I watched them walk until they disappeared from sight.

I’m not sure if the struck man was homeless but he seemed like someone who faced real struggles and felt despair.

I’ve thought of him every day since. I hope he’s OK and I’m grateful for the man who appointed himself, however temporarily, his guardian.

You can’t teach someone empathy, but perhaps Keller will some day be lucky enough to feel it.

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Back in the day when I drank, it was lots of fluids and spicy food. I quit drinking 14-and-a-half years ago. That is the best cure.

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I like to wake up with my friends, so keep them close.

Drink some water with lemon to keep yourself hydrated. That is for an alcohol hangover. Now for a love hangover, you know, just go with his or her friend. It really does work.

Go with the friend. I am speaking from experience.

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My hangover cure is to wake up and drink a beer, right away. It settles your stomach and gets you ready for the day to keep drinking. I keep drinking the next day. It’s a weekend thing, never just one day.

My best friend is really into bloody marys as a cure. My sister likes Excedrin and Gatorade.

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ttention young people: Making healthy choices means more than eating nutritious foods, not smoking and not drinking.

It also means committing to responsible decisions — such as avoiding gangs and managing your emotions — along with goal-setting and respecting yourself and others. These are among the critical lessons 40 students are learning in Healthy Choices, a class at American Legion High School in Sacramento’s Oak Park.

Most of the students are trying to catch up with credits required for a diploma.

Aware that previous misbehavior and poor academic decisions caused them to lag, they have modified their ways and are now determined to succeed.

Unified School District. The lessons are delivered by center-hired teachers, with funding from The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities Initiative.

“IF WE WANT TO CHANGE OUR SOCIETY, WE HAVE TO START BY CHANGING THE STUDENTS WHO WILL GO INTO SOCIETY AS ADULTS.” Damien Giacchino, Healthy Choices teacher at American Legion High School

“If we want to change our society, we have to start by changing the students who will go into society as adults,” says Healthy Choices teacher Damien Giacchino, of the Sacramento Chinese Community Service Center. “If we can train (K-12) students … and equip them with skills such as social and emotional learning, health and wellness, then maybe we can see a shift in our society, our world, of healthier adults.”

At American Legion, Giacchino teaches during regular hours, but at other schools the program is taught after school. The curriculum varies by age group, says Kelsey Neff, program manager of social emotional learning for the nonprofit center. At Nicholas Elementary, for example, students do outdoor P.E. and study proper nutrition — a subject that used to be a low priority for some of Giacchino’s students, including seniors Ulyssa Hernandez and Brelen Page, both 18.

American Legion is one of four South Sacramento schools where the center offers health-related education in partnership with the Sacramento City

“Mr. Damien taught me that eating fruits and smoothies is a really good decision,” says Hernandez, who now prefers McDonald’s salads over Big Macs.

“This class is a big reminder every day that I should eat healthy.”

Page says he, too, stopped eating junk food after enrolling in Giacchino’s elective class. But Giacchino has taught him much more than making good food choices. Making responsible decisions extends to many aspects of our wellbeing.

“He’s a good teacher. He tells us how to get around obstacles that we may have in life,” says Page, who is college-bound.

Your ZIP code shouldn’t predict how long you’ll live – but it does. Staying healthy requires much more than doctors and diets. Every day, our surroundings and activities affect how long – and how well – we’ll live.

Health Happens in Neighborhoods. Health Happens in Schools.

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BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES In 2010, The California Endowment launched a 10-year, $1 billion plan to improve the health of 14 challenged communities across the state. Over the 10 years, residents, community-based organizations and public institutions will work together to address the socioeconomic and environmental challenges contributing to the poor health of their communities.

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On foster kids Re “Homeless mom” by Kris Hooks (SN&R News, February 4): This article spotlights an extremely important issue, especially in Sacramento County: Child Protective Services and homelessness. If at all possible, this issue needs to be front and center as it affects Sacramento’s children and families greatly. I know many families, parents, and former foster children in Sacramento County (and across the globe) that are or have been homeless (including myself and my wife) due to involvement with Child Protective Services, the Juvenile Dependency Court and their contracted service providers. Much of this problem stems from the financial issues families face when dealing with these legal entities. Parents and legal guardians spend vast sums of money on court costs (attorney and filing fees), transportation, “family maintenance services,” “reunification services,” food, shelter, utilities and moving costs in attempt to better their situation in order to have children returned to their care and custody. Eventually, the money runs out and these people end up on the streets after valiantly trying to juggle all of these issues and responsibilities. On the other hand, foster children (from my conversations) often are warehoused in foster homes and when they “age out” of the child protection system, they often are not given many resources to help them move forward and have not learned many skills necessary to survive as adults; indeed, many former foster youth have become homeless as a result, and still many more end up trapped in prostitution, mental institutions, on illegal drugs or worse. It’s time to bring this issue into the light; our children’s futures depend on it!

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Craft to the future Legendary brewers and local experts discuss the impacts of large corporations buying out popular breweries

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It is the best of times in the craft beer industry. Business is cruising, small breweries are growing bigger and the most successful craft brewers are becoming wildly rich.

Consumers are getting smarter, too.

And to meet their increasingly refined preferences, many brewers are striving to be more creative or specializing in their own unique brewing styles. Each of the last three years, about 100 breweries have opened in California. There are more than 600 breweries in the state now, and around the country there are more than 4,200.

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beer aficionados who have watched their favorite beer companies grow unfathomably large or, worse, get swallowed up by global corporations.

“It’s disappointing when your favorite brewery gets too big, because suddenly, everyone can get that 22-ounce bottle that you used to bring over and wow your friends with,” said Rob Archie, co-owner and founder of Pangaea Bier Cafe.

Tom McCormick, executive director of the California Craft Brewers Association, says overall national beer sales are not climbing. However, craft beer sales are on the up—and taking a bite out of national

brands’ profit margins. This has large companies that make globally distributed lagers strategically guarding their kingdoms by purchasing or merging with craft breweries.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, especially, seems to be on a mission to eat the competition it may not otherwise be able to outperform. In 2011, the maker of Budweiser bought Goose Island Brewing Co. in Chicago. The same brewing giant has since purchased 10 Barrel, Blue Point, Elysian and Golden Road this past year. In one week alone in December, the king of beer giants bought Arizona’s Four Peaks Brewing Co., Camden Town

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Brewery in the United Kingdom and Colorado’s Breckenridge Brewery.

In San Diego, Ballast Point was purchased in November by Constellation Brands, owner of Corona and Modelo, for a staggering $1 billion.

After such business transactions, the beer may not taste quite the same.

“There is no question about it, the quality of these brands has diminished,” McCormick said. He says InBev has allowed Goose Island to continue brewing its less widely distributed, specialty beers—like its famed Bourbon County Stout—at the original Chicago brewery.

But Goose Island’s IPA is now being made in Budweiser facilities for national distribution.

“And personally, I think that IPA is a completely different beer now,” he said. “It’s dumbed down and it’s lower in flavor.”

Sometimes, this is the result of an intentional marketing strategy.

“They understand exactly what they’re doing,” McCormick said. “They’re making a product that has lower flavor profile and appeals to a larger audience, and they

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Other times, the beer may get better as breweries grow bigger. With more financial resources at hand, they may more easily overcome challenges related to equipment or technology, or in finding the best ingredients.

By some accounts, Lagunitas Brewing Co.’s IPA, a flagship of the brewery for 20 years, has never tasted better—and this just months after the Petaluma brewery announced a joint 50-50 venture with Heineken.

Tony Magee, founder of Lagunitas, says the recipe of his IPA has indeed evolved.

“There are hop varieties out there now that didn’t even exist under the sun in 1995,” he said. Now, some of those newly developed varieties are in the beer. The beer hasn’t changed, though, according to Magee. “It’s just become a truer expression of itself,” he said.

tHe B.s. detector As the big boys swoop up competition, there are also small independent craft breweries that now pepper the landscape.

The omnipresence of beer in America has raised the bar on quality, and for craft beer devotees, mediocre beer no longer cuts it.

“Craft beer drinkers have developed a very acute bullshit detector, and if you try to sell us bad beer, we won’t necessarily take the bait,” said Brian Yaeger, beer columnist and author in Portland, Ore. Yaeger personally called bullshit on Ballast Point recently. The subsidiary of Corona lager initially made a name for itself largely through its Sculpin IPA, one of the most highly rated IPAs on the market.

But after being bought by Constellation Brands, the brewery released a flavored rendition of another popular beer, its Dorado Double IPA. “They released this watermelon IPA that tastes like they dropped a bunch of Jolly Ranchers into the beer,” he said.

Yaeger thinks an independently operated Ballast Point would not have released the same beer. “So, I’m not going to buy Ballast Point anymore because they’ve shown me they only want to sell beer, not make good beer.”

As a beer buyer, Archie says he is becoming more discerning the more new beers are made. He says he tastes roughly 15 new beers every week during meetings with brewery sales reps. Only one or two of these eventually wind up on the bottle shelf

or on tap at his beer bar, which features more than 200 beers at any given time.

“We’re looking for stuff that’s interesting, a twist on an existing style,” he said.

Many breweries are beginning to specialize in making particular styles of beer. Modern Times, in San Diego, has focused recently on making different renditions of coffee stouts. The Bruery, in Orange County, focuses on barrel-aged beers, many of them sours. So does Rare Barrel in Berkeley. Ol’ Republic Brewery, in Nevada City, is making Germanstyle beers. Moonlight Brewing Co., in Santa Rosa, makes a variety of beers with virtually no hops at all.

Owner Brian Hunt draws inspiration from beer styles made long before hops became a ubiquitous flavoring ingredient. In San Francisco, Woods Beer Co. brews beers with yerba mate.

“Very few breweries do everything well,” Archie said. “I love knowing that one brewery is honing down the details of a certain style rather than skirting the surface on a lot of styles, doing nothing great and doing a lot of stuff all right.”

Hunt, at Moonlight, says brewers should make the beers they’re good at making.

“There are enough breweries out there that you don’t have to do everything,” he said. “It isn’t necessary, because someone else can do it better than you.”

Hunt says young brewers everywhere are striving to excel in their own unique styles—and it has become a bitter struggle.

“More and more breweries starting up are trying to make increasingly unique beers, because they’re desperately, desperately trying to find a market they can grab onto,” he said. “They are struggling to find somebody that wants their beer.”

The challenge of standing out in the crowd may be what eventually stanches the craft beer industry’s growth, Hunt says.

In 2008, there were just over 1,000 craft breweries in America. After a 400-percent growth spurt in eight years, McCormick says the rate of expansion isn’t slowing at all—at least not yet. He says almost uncountable breweries-in-planning are now setting their roots and preparing to tap into the fertile marketplace.

But not all big names in craft beer are celebrating. Sales of New Belgium’s main beer, Fat Tire, dropped 1.4 percent in 2015—a decline compounded by the

simultaneous growth of the overall craft beer market. By comparison, sales of Lagunitas’s IPA jumped by 57 percent last year, according to Magee. He says his brewery is growing so rapidly because he has “stayed ahead of the curve.” By forming a joint venture with Heineken, Magee says, “Heineken is learning as much from us as we are from them.”

Magee, who still oversees operations at his Petaluma brewery and the more recently built facility in Chicago, says his partnership with Heineken is ultimately propelling the growth of craft beer. He says the growth of breweries and the evolution of the industry is nothing to lament. The craft beer industry was bound to change the moment it was born, he says, and it has changed every moment since and will not stop changing.

“And if you aren’t part of what’s happening, you’re a part of what happened,” Magee said. “I want to be a part of what happens next, and it isn’t that I’m just trying to be part of the winning team. We are the winning team—craft, not Lagunitas, but craft. I just want to be where craft goes next.”

Magee says he recently proposed joint ventures with three other craft breweries.

They declined, he says, and have plans to sell out to InBev. Here in the Sacramento region, Knee Deep Brewing Co. in Auburn is among the fastest growing breweries in the state and is expanding much faster than the industry itself. A production of 6,200 barrels in 2014 is expected to hit roughly 100,000 barrels in another two years, according to an interview with general sales manager Andrew Moore in 2015.

Moonlight is taking a different approach to growth. Hunt says he gets more inquiries from bar managers who want his beer than he is able to meet. Yet he has little interest in rapidly expanding his small operation, which he says is growing by a modest 15 percent per year.

“If people grow their business based on demand, are they growing to make quantity, or for quality?” he said. “Some brewers put money toward distributing their beer. I’d rather put my money toward making the beer I want to make.

“I may be a poor capitalist, but I see no need to get rich quick.” Ω

But more beer isn’t necessarily a great thing.

Police announced last week they’d arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with the shooting death of Grant High School student Jaulon “JJ” Clavo, who was killed in November of last year while driving some friends to their Del Paso Heights campus prior to a varsity playoff football game.

The suspect has actually been in juvenile hall custody since November 14, 2015, one day after the shooting, but was reportedly apprehended on an unrelated gun possession charge.

SN&R is not naming the juvenile suspect, whom the Sacramento Police Department identified in a February 18 release announcing the break in the case.

The release credited the public for providing the information that “ultimately led to the identification” of the person authorities believe opened fire on the compact sedan, fatally wounding Clavo, 17, and injuring passenger Malik Johnson, who has since recovered.

“The motive behind the homicide is still unknown,” the release states.

In a statement, the Twin Rivers Unified School District said the arrest of the juvenile suspect “has brought some measure of solace to all of us in Twin Rivers.”

The statement continued: “senseless gun violence has plagued our area far too long. With today’s arrest, we are one step closer to a safer community for all.” (Raheem F. Hosseini)

civil exodus When John Shirey announced last month that he would leave his position as Sacramento’s city manager toward the end of the year, it illustrated a pattern. In recent months, five other high-level officials have left or made plans to leave, sapping the area of institutional knowledge in the fields of transportation, planning and finance.

Sacramento Transportation Authority Executive Director Brian Williams retired at the end of 2015. County Executive Brad Hudson last month departed for the private sector. Sacramento City Treasurer Russ Fehr retired February 2. And Sacramento Area Council of Governments CEO Mike McKeever told the Sacramento Bee he’s retiring by year’s end, while Sacramento Regional Transit General Manager Mike Wiley announced he’d retire in 2017.

Retired county Supervisor Sandy Smoley said the departures could pose problems. “It’s highly unusual for the city manager and county executive to leave at the same time,” she told SN&R. So what’s with the sudden brain drain?

Sacramento City Councilman Steve Hansen cited coincidence.

“There’s a tendency by some people to always want to see some hidden hand or some unseen force,” said Hansen, who also serves on the boards of the STA and RT. “But the only one that I believe is at work here is just simply the age of the people involved and their length of service and a desire to retire.”

Except for Fehr, each individual held the top staff position in his respective field, which involves working directly with elected officials but not always seeing eye to eye.

Along with Hudson, who sometimes clashed with Supervisor Phil Serna, Shirey’s departure elicited speculation as to the real motive. Mayor Kevin Johnson campaigned for initiatives that would have shifted some of the city manager’s authority to his office, but was rebuffed by the voters.

Johnson wants to interview Shirey’s replacement candidates before he also leaves office at the end of the year. But mayoral candidate Darrell Steinberg wants that process to wait until the new mayor takes office.

“I do believe that the new mayor, whoever it is, needs to have a role in that process certainly,” he said. (Graham Womack)

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Surprise shutdown Sacramento’s only homeless shelter for adolescent youth forced to close

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“This is the first I had heard this,” said For more than a week, Peter Bell worked the Sacramento County Supervisor Patrick Kennedy, phone lines, trying to get the last of his kids into echoing the words of several others, including a home. Bell runs Wind Youth Services’ six-bed Emily Halcon, the city of Sacramento’s homeless emergency shelter for homeless adolescents—the services coordinator. “I am actually in contact with only one of its kind in the five-county Sacramento Suzi to work on getting WIND some funding and region. expand their program,” Kennedy added by email.

At least, he did.

Specifically, he says he’s trying to find resources Citing a running deficit in the high-five digits, to start a local Safe Place program under Wind, Wind indefinitely suspended its shelter operations which would partner with schools, fire stations, last Friday. libraries, YMCAs and private businesses so that “I think this will be felt and reverberate for a youth in crisis can “access immediate help wherever while,” Bell told SN&R. they are.”

Before its closure, the shelter, which serves Chief Probation Officer Lee Seale was one of homeless youths between the ages of 12 and 17, the few officials who did know of the closure, and typically operated at full capacity and with a expressed regret at losing a valuable partner, at waiting list, though not as long as the one for least temporarily. “I hope that they will Wind’s other emergency shelter for the be able to resume their operations,” 18-to-24 homeless bloc. he said.

Bell says adolescents often City and county officials were arrived needing respite services reluctant to pledge any specific from tumultuous homes, referred “This is the first support barring more details. by school counselors and homeI had heard this.”

City Councilwoman Angelique less liaisons working to triage Sacramento County Supervisor Ashby and Chief Deputy County their situations. Over the past two Patrick Kennedy Executive Paul Lake both told years, the shelter hosted nearly SN&R they were trying to reach 200 of these adolescents and teens, Dotson or her board to discuss the says Wind Executive Director Suzi nature of the shortfall and what could Dotson. be done to address it.

It hasn’t been cheap.

Meanwhile, Bell was spending the day trying “For too long, Wind has had to bear the burden to find the last of his displaced youths a temporary of running Sacramento’s only adolescent shelter home. The local high school senior was a few program,” Dotson wrote in an emailed statement to months away from graduating high school, after SN&R. “At this time the service of the shelter will be suspended and the youth will be directed to other which he planned to enlist in the military.

“I’m trying to find the least disruptive option for partners throughout Sacramento as appropriate.”

In follow-up text messages, Dotson said the goal him,” Bell said.

One of the people he called for help was Oak is to reopen the shelter “ASAP,” though that will Park resident Laura Goldstein. She and her husband take more financial support than Wind is accushosted two transgender teenagers experiencing tomed to receiving. The shelter program’s annual homelessness for a few weeks last year, but weren’t cost is $325,000, she said. Wind applies $198,000 available this time. “They say he’s a kid with a from an annual federal grant and another $40,000 great chance of success,” she told SN&R. a year from the Sacramento County Probation The couple relocated from Chicago, where Department, which rented out beds as an alternative homelessness isn’t as bad, or at least not as visible, to holding some kids in juvenile hall.

Goldstein says. “There’s nothing in Chicago like Wind relied on community donations to fill I’ve seen here,” she said. “Here I was just really in the rest, Dotson says, but averaged an annual struck by the number of youth sleeping in doorshortfall that sat between $75,000 and $85,000. ways, walking the streets, trying to keep body and That deficit eventually overtook the provider. mind together.”

And by all accounts, it happened rather suddenly.

There’s likely to be more of them now. Ω On Monday, city and county officials were surprised to hear of the shelter’s closure three A version of this story first appeared at www.newsreview.com/ days prior. sacramento/pageburner.

ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS

Finance lessons Hundreds converge on city school board meeting to fight for higher teacher salaries

by Kris HooKs

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In what was not a typical school board meeting, hundreds of teachers, parents and students marched into the Sacramento City Unified School District’s board room this past Thursday to discuss a raise in pay and a dire lack of educators.

More than 20 people supported the Sacramento City Teachers Association during the meeting’s hour-long public comments period—a time usually reserved for about 20 minutes. Teachers and parents urged the board to do more to ensure the retention of teachers and the hiring of new ones.

The first step, SCTA says, is to give teachers a 5 percent retroactive salary raise for this school year, which will make their pay comparable to other districts like San Juan and Elk Grove.

The district has offered 2.5 percent.

“Without having seen the numbers, teachers implicitly understand that the district’s priorities are out of whack,” SCTA President Nikki “I know how much Milevsky told the board. hard work goes into Milevsky presented statistics to the board Thursday teaching, and I don’t think night that showed wage anyone else on this board disparities between SCUSD really does.” and the 12 other Sacramento County districts. According Elizabeth Barry to the SCTA’s numbers, the SCUSD student board member average teacher salary ranks 12th out of the 13 county districts, but is second in school enrollment.

The wage gap between the competing districts, Milevsky said, is a large reason why SCUSD has 80 teaching vacancies, and why more vacancies are expected to open in the next school year. In a survey done by the SCTA, 54 percent of 914 teachers said they have considered leaving the district because of salary issues.

Board President Christina Pritchett told the audience that, although it is of high priority, the board must to go over the budget before it can come to an agreement on an increase of teacher salary.

“As a board, we also have a statutory, and moral, responsibility to look after the long-term financial health of our district,” Pritchett said. “The last thing we want to do is spend beyond our means to only have to turn around and lay teachers off if the economy takes a downward turn.”

Elizabeth Barry, SCUSD’s student board member, whose mother is a teacher in the district, also offered her support of the SCTA’s fight for higher salary.

“You can’t pay teachers enough, and I know, because I know how much hard work goes into teaching, and I don’t think anyone else on this board really does,” Barry said. Ω

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But the website Bernie is that Hillary Having the best does not mention what gets things done. position on issues is he’s accomplished important. But it’s not in all his years in as important as getting Congress. There are no things done. And Hillary significant bills that he can get things done. has passed. He hasn’t found I don’t think that Sanders’ democommon ground with Republicans or cratic socialism could garner the votes conservative Democrats for major initianeeded to win the presidency. His tives. Instead, Bernie is portrayed as a nomination would most likely result in a lone voice in the wilderness.

Republican president, God forbid Donald I spent four days in Reno last week Trump. We cannot let this happen. before the Nevada Democratic caucuses.

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It’s Sacramento Beer Week. Or, beer “week.” Since, you know, this year’s brew fest extends longer than seven days. Eleven, in fact: from February 25 (the night of the Brewer’s Showcase at Cal Expo) to March 6 (when the Capital Beer Fest hits Capitol Mall). Eleven friggin’ days. One short of a 12 pack. Such is life.

Here’s what you’ll find inside our annual Beer Issue: SN&R’s Bottle Shop of the Year A list of excellent bottle shops and beer bars SN&R’s first ever Brewery of the Year winner Don’t Miss Sacramento Beer Week Events A List of All Regional Breweries Judge This: Our Writer (Who Care Very Little About Beer) Chooses His Favorite Local Offerings SN&R’s Beer Bar of the Year You’re Not Getting Any Younger: On the Obsession with High-Octane Hops

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Corti Brothers’ beer aisle goes on forever—or at least we wish it did.

BY ED CARROLL

he year t f o p o h s e R’s bottl & N S s i s r e h Corti Brot hen it comes to fermentables, we truly are blessed with the freedom of choice. This is a welcome deliverance from the dark days, when the few bright spots on the shelf were obscured by mostly big-name breweries, those now scrambling to stay relevant, because craft breweries from far and wide and right here in River City are taking over.

One of the best places to find the latest brewing sensation is Corti Brothers.

Generally acknowledged as Sacramento’s most revered market, Corti’s is indispensable. With its legendary reputation for great

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food and wine, the transition to a one-stop beer shop made sense. It boasts the longest beer aisle in town, and features suds from every corner of the world. But, then again, that’s old news to anyone making the taproom, brewery and bottle shop rounds these days. After all, if the last few years haven’t convinced you beer isn’t what it used to be, then you’re not paying attention.

“I am a one-man show and have full control of what hits the shelves,” explained Todd Fancher, a 15-year veteran of Corti Brothers who has been supervising the market’s beer aisle for four years. He truly enjoys the challenge of maintaining a selection that has become a store trademark. With

sales climbing steadily over the last three years, it’s safe to say he found his calling.

Fancher says the biggest difference between Corti’s and our many other excellent local bottle shops is that those shops stock beers they personally enjoy, because their clientele are there for one thing. But being a grocery store means Fancher has to consider the preferences of casual customers and beer freaks alike, even though some beers he stocks may not be his first choice personally. Sort of like a band who wants to play new songs, but knows the audience wants the hits.

But that’s OK. Variety means he has options when recommending beer to those uninitiated in the ways of the bottle and can.

He is often called upon for suggestions and

enjoys helping folks find the perfect beer. “I take the responsibility of matching people with beers they will enjoy very seriously,” he said.

The breakdown of barriers between wine customers and the beer aisle has been a pleasant surprise at Corti. The somewhat recent phenomenon, at least by American standards, of sour beers—and use of chardonnay, cognac, zinfandel and other varieties of spirit barrels to age beer—has enlightened those who once considered beer unsophisticated or plain undrinkable.

Besides an enthusiasm to introduce people to the world of beer and his affability, perhaps Fancher’s most endearing quality is his willingness to provide shelf space to local breweries—whether they just opened or have been around the block a few times.

“I always try to stock a new brewery’s

BOttle ShOpS †Curtis Park Market 2703 24th Street, (916) 456-6488, www.face book.com/ CurtisParkMarket (Bottles to-go only)

†The Davis Beer Shoppe

2168 Sunset Boulevard, No. 104, in Rocklin; (916) 259-2337; www.boneshaker pub.com

Bonn Lair

3651 J Street, (916) 455-7155, www.bonnlair.com

211 G Street in Davis, (530) 756-5212, www. facebook.com/- TheDavisBeer- Shoppe

Bottle & Barlow

1120 R Street, (916) 379-7719, http://bottleand barlow.com

†Final Gravity Taproom and Bottle Shop

†Burgers & Brew

9205 Sierra College Boulevard, Suite 100, in Roseville; (916) 782-1166; 1850 Grass Valley Highway in Auburn; (530) 889-2175; www.finalgravity beer.com

†Pangaea Bier Cafe 2743 Franklin Boulevard, (916) 454-4942, http://pangaea biercafe.com

1409 R Street, (916) 442-0900; 403 Third Street in Davis, (530) 750-3600; www.burgers brew.com

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IPA to test the market and go from there,” he explained. This can be a real boost for a small brewery in an extremely competitive environment.

Whether your taste is locals only or solely sours, you definitely have options at Corti.

Previous visits have yielded more great beer than this writer cares to remember, and it really isn’t possible to leave empty-handed.

So why not drop in and take a chance on a few brews out of your comfort zone, or get a cheap education and ask Todd the Beer Minder for a few recommendations? 5810 Folsom Boulevard, (916) 736-3800, www. cortibrothers.com.

Boneshaker Public House

1010 White Rock Road in El Dorado Hills, (916) 941-3606, http://36 handles.com

6508 Lonetree Boulevard, No. 108, in Rocklin; (916) 899-6112; www. craftbeervault.com

†Dad’s Kitchen 2968 Freeport Boulevard, (916) 447-3237; 8928 Sunset Avenue in Fair Oaks, (916) 241-9365; www.ilovedadskitchen.com

†Der Biergarten 2332 K Street, (916) 346-4572, http:// derbiergarten.com

Alley Katz 2019 O Street, (916) 442-2682, http://alleykatz sacramento.com

†de Vere’s Irish Pub

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1521 L Street, (916) 231-9947; 217 E Street in Davis, (530) 204-5533; http://deverespub. com

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Like a bird in the rafters watching a stadium fill up with fans before a game, it’s been exciting over the past few years to witness newcomers get stoked on craft brew. RoCo Wine & Spirits, a strip-mall bottle shop in West Sacramento, has been on the scene for only a handful of years—but you can’t contain the staff’s wild enthusiasm for brew in the world’s largest growler.

Things I like about RoCo: how the shop is constantly updating social media with new beer arrivals. Get with it, competitors.

It’s also endearing how RoCo will snap “checkout photos” of customers and their brew hauls.

Added bonus: The prices are fair.

With the central city’s singles ban in full effect—still, nearly 20 years after its inception—RoCo is also one of the few options for single bottles and cans to go within a stone’s throw of the grid. Keep it up! 2220 Lake Washington Boulevard in West Sacramento, (916) 375-0466.

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Track 7 Brewing Co. boasts two locations: 3747 West Pacific Avenue in Curtis Park, and 826 Professor Lane, Suite 100, in Natomas. Check out hours and more at www.track7brewing.com.

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BY JANELLE BITKER is Trac janelleb@newsreview.com hen Track 7 Brewing Co. first opened four years ago, there was no IPA on its tap list.

After many pleas, however, Brewmaster Ryan Graham introduced Panic as the remedy. And today, Panic feels like Sacramento’s unofficial, quintessential beer. It’s ubiquitous in local bars, restaurants and bottle shops, and it’s carried Track 7 to new heights.

With Amarillo, centennial, crystal, magnum and simcoe hops, Panic isn’t some overblown, bitter hop bomb. It’s big, yet immensely drinkable. Smooth, with bright citrus notes.

During a stellar time for lots of area breweries, Track 7 excelled like no other in 2015. On February 21 of last year, it expanded into a massive, 35,000-square-foot facility in Natomas, capable of brewing 175,000 barrels per year. Even though Track 7 Natomas only brewed 5,600 barrels last year, it was still far more than its usual 1,200 at the original Curtis Park brewery.

Now, Track 7 can continue to grow locally.

Graham says he’s planning for 15,000 barrels in 2016, which would make Track 7 no longer a neighborhood brewery, but a regional one. It’s long been Graham’s goal to achieve that status by Track 7’s fifth year.

In other words, Natomas has been huge. “It allowed the whole year to happen,” he said. “I can’t even imagine the nightmare it would have been trying to meet demand otherwise.”

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Even though Track 7 brewed way more beer in 2015 than ever before, its distribution reach only grew slightly, extending south to Visalia, north to Shasta, east to Reno and west to Marin. That means most of those barrels stayed local—and 60 percent were Panic.

But it’s not all about that IPA. Track 7 took home a dozen awards in 2015 in basically every competition it entered. Graham is most proud, however, of the brewery’s first medal from the prestigious Great American Beer Festival in Denver, a silver for its Hoppy Palm Pale Ale. Track 7 also took home a bronze medal at European Beer Star for Left Eye Right Eye Double IPA, as well as gold and bronze medals at the Brussels Beer Challenge for its Daylight Amber and Alkali Wit, respectively.

And while Track 7 Natomas was busy churning out IPAs, Track 7’s first home in Curtis Park was able to focus on more experimental brews.

It wasn’t as much as Graham would have liked, but it was still more than ever before. His favorite small-batch sour of the year was Discord, a barrelaged IPA fermented with Brettanomyces. Expect more sours for Sacramento Beer Week. And throughout the year. And, of course, more Panic.

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Folsom Tap House

Karma Brew

Hilltop Tavern

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Old Town Pizza & Tap House

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5642 J Street, (916) 731-8888

9677 Elk Grove Florin Road in Elk Grove, (916) 686-6655, www.otpmenu.com

Firestone Public House 1132 16th Street, (916) 446-0888, http://firestonepublichouse.com

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This year’s co-runner-up Brewery of the Year: Berryessa Brewing Co.

This year’s co-runner-up Brewery of the Year: Mraz Brewing Co.

The front gates to Berryessa’s taproom and brew house in Winters opened on a recent Saturday morning at exactly noon. Within a half hour, the line for a beer extended out the front door, and the picnic seats were nearly filled up. So goes life at Berryessa’s home in Winters, a 45-minute jaunt from downtown Sacramento: Brew fans from this City of Trees and even the Bay Area regularly make the daytrip to one of the hottest breweries in Northern California.

What’s the draw? New-school hopped beers that are dry, sometimes tropical, often juicy, occasionally piney and always unlike any other brew in the region. One might call them rustic, or even farmhouse hoppy brews: The House IPA is hazy but finishes dry and clean, and the muchloved Douple Tap Douple IPA hides its high octane with a sappiness that belies malty sweetness.

Berryessa increased its production this year, and also began offering 32-ounce cans to go at the taproom each weekend. Sadly, San Francisco and Oakland have discovered this Yolo County gem, and a large amount of its brew ends up in the Bay over the valley. But, on a recent visit, head brewer and owner Chris Miller promised that Berryessa would be growing bigger this year. And who wouldn’t drink to that? 27260 California 128 in Winters, (530) 795-3526, http:// berryessabrewingco.com. N.M

The first-ever California Craft Brewers Showcase event was this past September on Capitol Mall. Russian River, Societe, Sante Adairius, Firestone Walker—some of the best breweries in the state made the pilgrimage. But, as the sun set over the Tower Bridge and brew-lovers queued up, the longest line of the day wasn’t for any of these legendary breweries. It was for Mraz Brewing Co. The draw was Mrs. Kiwi and Mr. Nelson: a wild ale, aged in barrels and fruit with fresh kiwi, and then dryhopped with the inimitable nelson hops.

Not for the uninitiated brew drinker, MKMN shot your eyeballs into your cranium, what with its sour tang and lychee sweetness. Definitely one of the most memorable local brews of 2015.

Mraz made its name in the region with its interesting barrel-aged, farmhouse and wild ales. But its IPAs, more on the rustic side, and Belgian styles also draw visitors up the hill to the El Dorado Hills taproom.

And Mraz keeps experimenting: Look for a bourbon-barrel-aged coffee brew, a collaboration with Chocolate Fish roasters, on March 2 of Beer Week. Why not? 2222 Francisco Drive, Suite 510, in El Dorado Hills; (916) 934-0744, http://mrazbrewingcompany.com. N.M

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Tank House BBQ & Bar

8704 La Riviera Drive, (916) 548-4848, www.pitchandfiddle.com

719 Sutter Street in Folsom, (916) 293-8207, www. samhornes.com

1925 J Street, (916) 431-7199, www.tankhousebbq.com

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1519 19th Street, (916) 952-7973, www.sacbrewbike. com

5201 Folsom Boulevard, (916) 457-5997, http://eastsacshack.com

1510 16th Street, No. 300, (916) 996-4844; 615 Third Street in Davis, (530) 759-1990; www. theuob.com

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Ballast Point/Knee Deep Goldfish Races. Swim little fella, your beer depends on it!

One off Wednesday - Rare, obscure, elusive. Bring your camera!

Newbie Night - Hey new guys! Welcome to Sac! F*#% It Friday- Break time. Come enjoy Kupros just cuz.

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Spring Cleaning/Kill the Keg - Thank the powers that be its over! $4 you call it draft all day long. Kill the keg, next ones on us.

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Check out more Sacramento Beer Week events at http://sacbeerweek.com.

Farm-to-liver

Rails, beers, dogs

Sacramento Brewers’ Showcase

Sacramento Beer Train

Is farm-to-liver a thing yet? The Sacramento Area Brewer’s Guild hosts over 30 local breweries to kick off beer week by showcasing beers specially made for the celebration. Thursday, February

25; 6 p.m., 1600 Exposition Boulevard, $40, http://sacbeer week.com.

PACK TO-DO

BY DEENA DREWIS

Drunk hi-fives for DeMarcus Long Live the Kings & Beer Week

A dozen don’t-miss Sacramento Beer Week events As the saying goes: all things in moderation, including moderation. This week, it’s high time to move beyond our steady appreciation of one of civilization’s oldest alcoholic beverages (bless you, whoever decided it seemed legit to drink some old, fizzy barley water back in the day) and devote a whole week of celebration to the bounty of good local brew.

Enter Sacramento Beer Week, which is unmercifully 11 days rather than a week (bless you, committee that planned this and forgot how long a week was).

This year’s lineup places a strong emphasis on muchdeserving local purveyors as well as craft-beer experts from the best breweries all over the country. Do right by our swilling ancestors and local craftspeople alike, but don’t forget to hydrate and get around responsibly: No one likes a hophead that can’t hang.

Raise a toast to the Kings as they play one of their very last games at Sleep Train with a pregame Beer Week party, put on by Track 7 Brewing Co. and Beers in Sac. The first 20 people to purchase tickets to the game using the code “Beers In Sac” will have the chance to high-five the players as they take the court against the L.A. Clippers. Friday, February 26; 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., 3747 West Pacific Avenue; game tickets start at $30, shuttle to the game is $5 and includes beer, www.beersinsac.com/ long-live-the-kings-beer-week.

Vanilla in Oak Park

Sip on brews from 21st Amendment Brewery, Lost Coast Brewery and Mendocino Brewing Co. as you ride the rails through Delta scenery, accompanied by Blue a Fuse with the live tunes. Tickets include eight tastings plus a souvenir glass; VIP tickets come with lunch and an additional two tastings. Dogs are also welcome for an additional $10.

Saturday, February 27, and March 6, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., 400 North Harbor Boulevard, $25-$65, www. sierradinnertrain.com/experiences/ beer-train.

Not your father’s beer circus … err, yes it is Cirque de Beer 2016

It’s a fact that barbecue is enhanced by beer and vice versa; throw in some burlesque, acro yoga, games, live painting and other antics, and this Dad’s Kitchen-hosted circus may very well be the one you want to run away with. Saturday, February 27, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., 2114 P Street, $45, http://ilovedadskitchen.com.

Oak Park Brewing Co. celebrates the release of its Vanilla Cream Stout with a low-key, neighborhood-party vibe, featuring meats on the grill, live music and brews. It’s pretty much summer, right? Saturday, February 27, 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., 3514 Broadway, www.opbrewco.com.

Mmm, crab cakes Beer & Bites: Bike Dog Brewing Co.

Sac Beer Week 5K

Pizza and beer will be besties forever, to be sure, but the ways to mix and match beer varieties and foods from all different cultures make for endless options for the perfect pairing. Chef Dionisio Esperas and beer expert Tyson Herzog demo crab cakes, Thai drunken noodles, pork chops, chicken mole and chocolate mousse along with their ideal companion brew. Monday, February 29, 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., 1914 Alhambra Boulevard, $45-$55, www.sacfoodcoop.com.

Detox before you retox by sweating it out in a 5K with your fellow local brew nuts. The run starts at New Helvetia Brewing Co. and will end with beer at the finish line, obviously. Sunday, February 28; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., 1730 Broadway, $35 pre-registration, $40 walk-up registration, http://newhelvetiabrew. com.

Big time hop fest Track 7 IPA, Specialty IPA and Anything Goes Invitational + Competition

The best thing about going to an event aimed at IPA lovers is that you can talk about hops as much as you’d like without running the risk of annoying everyone around you. Twenty-five breweries are bringing their most prized IPAs for an unlimited sampling event, with food from the Pizza Co. and Chando’s Tacos. Sunday, February 28; noon to 4 p.m., 826 Professor Lane, Suite 100, $50, http://track7brewing.com.

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Get beer smarts

Beer hotel Ninkasi’s Garden: A Toga Party

BBQ, Brews and Beats

Running for beers

Oregon-based Ninkasi Brewing— named after the Sumerian goddess of beer—joins forces with Blackbird Kitchen for a night of good ol’ fashioned hedonism. Artists Sunya Whitelight and Shaun Burner will be curating the three-level party, plus there will dancing, live music and bites from chef Carina Lampkin.

Saturday, February 27; 7 p.m., 1015 Ninth Street, $25-$40, www. blackbird-kitchen.com.

Dad’s Kitchen Beer School with Ninkasi and New Glory

Science disguised as beer drinking? It’s like the opposite of that bachelor’s degree that cost you tens of thousands of dollars. Brewing experts from Ninkasi Brewing Co. in Eugene, Ore. and Sacto’s own New Glory Craft Brewery expound upon the principles of beer making while you taste and eat snacks.

Sunday, February 28; 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., 8928 Sunset Avenue in Fair Oaks, $35-$45, http://ilovedadskitchen.com.

Auburn Alehouse Brewery

Big Stump Brewing Co.

Black Dragon Brewery

So many local breweries. Here’s a directory!

289 Washington Street in Auburn, (530) 885-2537, http://auburnalehouse.com

1716 L Street, (916) 572-0788, www.bigstumpbrewco.com

175 W. Main Street in Woodland, (530) 666-5347, www.blackdragonbrew.com

Amador Brewing Company

American River Brewing Co.

9659 Main Street in Plymouth, (209) 507-1900, www.amador brewing.com

11151 Trade Center Drive, Suite 104, in Rancho Cordova; (916) 635-2537; http://ameri canriverbrewingcompany.com

Big Sexy Brewing Co.

2534 Industrial Boulevard, Suite 110, in West Sacramento; (916) 572-0788; www.bikedog brewing.com

B re w th e r i g ht th i n g

5861 88th Street, Suite 800; (916) 374-7332; www.bigsexy brewing.com

Bike Dog Brewing Co.

Blue Note Brewing Co. 750 Dead Cat Alley in Woodland, (530) 358-4677, www.bluenotebrewing company.com

An excellent reason to get your butt off the grid this week: Breweries in Placer County have been getting busy for a while now. Come check out the latest offerings and chat with brewers from Boneshaker Community Brewery/Black Vinyl Ale Project, Loomis Basin, Auburn Alehouse, Knee Deep, Goat House and more. Thursday, March 3, 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., 2168 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 104, in Rocklin, www.boneshakerpub.com.

Grand finale Capitol Beer Fest

The biggest event of beer week returns for its sixth year with over 125 breweries slinging more than 300 craft beers. Food will be available from Drewski’s Hot Rod Kitchen, Slightly Skewed, North Border Taco, Bacon Mania, Dogtown and more, and tunes will be provided by Daze on the Green. Sunday, March 6, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., 300 Capitol Mall, $15-$65, www.capitolbeerfest.com.

Boneshaker Community Brewery 4810 Granite Drive, Suite A-1, in Rocklin; (916) 672-6292; www.boneshakerbrew.com

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Beer 1: The group chuckles at my Six local beers, one uninformed writer and a blind taste test: What could go right?

BY RAHEEM F. HOSSEINI raheemh@newsreview.com

onfession time, Sacramento: I’m not that into beer.

I mean, it’s fine. But I’ve got a small bladder, sensitive esophagus and dull palate. I’m just not built to appreciate the innovative fruits of our rich and growing brew scene.

So why did SN&R task me with judging a blind taste test between six local beers that I couldn’t pick out of a police lineup? Maybe my much more knowledgeable colleagues pitied my Goldilocks flavor profile and hoped to expand my horizons. Or maybe they just wanted to get me buzzed at work.

(Yeah, probablee that lasst wun.)

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first salient observation: “smells good.”

Great start. But, yeah, this one goes down like chilled amber. A strong first bite to establish its presence, but less aggressive with each sip. It also doesn’t overstay its welcome on the tongue.

Which is important to me. I’m guessing an IPA. Would I buy this at a bar? Yes. But probably just the one, and then segue to something less full-bodied.

Revealed as: Integral IPA from Device Brewing Co.

Ridiculous Raheemism: “When I swallow faster, it tastes better.”

Beer 2: Mildewed champagne smell, a little metallic, like someone melted a penny into a vat of unripe grapefruit peels.

Would I buy this at a bar? No. But I would take a sip off someone else’s glass so I could ridicule them from an informed place.

Revealed as: French Saison from New

Beer 3: Copyeditor Anthony Siino first notices the hint of marshmallow perfume that wafts the back of your throat. Aside from that little flourish, this beer is completely inoffensive. In contrast to the first beer, this one is like a guest who leaves too early. Would I buy this at a bar? Only if I could use the sense of money.

Revealed as: California Dry Hop

Siino calls this one a “high-end Tootsie Roll.” Co-editor Nick Miller calls it “roasty,” I’m tasting crisp black malt and a hint of absinthe. I think I’m getting the hang of being a pretentious critic.

Would I buy this at a bar? I typically avoid browns, but this one could bridge my timid palate to the dark side.

Lager from Sudwerk Brewing Co.

Revealed as: Bigwig Brown nut

Ridiculous Raheemism: “It’s like …

brown ale from Jackrabbit Brewing Co.

drinking the sense of beer.”

Beer 4: Siino nails the wet cat food odor. Having just adopted a kitten, my guess is Iams’ Tempt Me Tuna & Mackerel Dinner Flaked in Sauce.

Co-editor Rachel Leibrock and Arts & Culture Editor Janelle Bitker enjoy the astringent flavor, but it makes my face buckle. I now know what a chilled urinal cake tastes like.

Would I buy this at a bar? Not only would I not buy it, I wouldn’t kiss anyone who did.

Revealed as: Wild Meadow from Mraz Brewing Co.

Ridiculous Raheemism: “It’s coated my tongue and won’t leave. … I feel like it’s dipped in wuchh.”

Ridiculous Raheemism: “I would approve of someone who likes this beer.”

Beer 6: Darker and more potent than the last, its smoky flavor is reminiscent of the first time I tried Johnny Walker Black. But no gagging this time.

Would I buy this at a bar? These last two beers are a tad outside my comfort zone, but I feel like people with more sophisticated palates would enjoy them—a.k.a. everyone reading this.

Revealed as: Milk Stout from Bike Dog Brewing Co. Ridiculous Raheemism: “Kind of that ash tray [flavor], but not in a negative way.”

Final results!

Glory Craft Brewery

My favorite: Integral IPA Runner-up: Bigwig Brown

Ridiculous Raheemism: “It feels like a whiny beer.”

BR EW ER Y LIS TIN GS

Beer 5: Oracle of first impressions

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Claimstake Brewing

Device Brewing Co.

Fountainhead Brewing Co.

Jack Russell Farm Brewery

Lockdown Brewing Co.

Moonraker Brewing Co.

11366 Monier Circle in Rancho Cordova, www. facebook.com/ClaimstakeBrewing-839464399454102

8166 14th Avenue, Suite A; (916) 737-2739; http://device brewing.com

4621 24th Street, www.foun tainheadbrewingco.com

2380 Larsen Drive in Camino, (530) 647-9420, www.jack russellbrewery.com

12970 Earhart Avenue, Suite 100, in Auburn; www.moon rakerbrewing.com

Cool Beerwerks

Dragas Brewing 5860 Pacific Street in Rocklin, (916) 905-7710, www.dragas brewing.com

600 Wise Road in Lincoln, (916) 740-9100, http://goat housebrewing.com

718 Sutter Street, Suite 200, in Folsom; (916) 358-9645; 11327 Trade Center Drive in Rancho Cordova; http://lockdown brewingcompany.com

5020 Ellinghouse Drive in Cool, (530) 885-5866, www.cbw beer.com

Crooked Lane Brewing Co. 536 Grass Valley Highway in Auburn, www.crookedlane brewing.com

Dueling Dogs Brewing Co. 3030 Barrett Park Lane in Lincoln, (916) 434-8141, www.duelingdogsbrewing.com

EDH Brewing Co. 875 Embarcadero Drive in El Dorado Hills, (916) 939-6827, http://edhbrewing.com

Flatland Brewing Co. 9183 Survey Road in Elk Grove, http://flatlandbrewingco.com

GoatHouse Brewing Co.

Gold Hill Vineyard and Brewery

Jackrabbit Brewing Co. 1323 Terminal Street in West Sacramento, (916) 873-8659, http://jackrabbitbeer.com

5660 Vineyard Lane in Placerville, (530) 626-6522, www.goldhillvineyard.com

King Cong Brewing Co.

Hoppy Brewing Co.

Knee Deep Brewing Co.

6300 Folsom Boulevard, (916) 451-4677, www.hoppy.com

13395 New Airport Road, Suite H, in Auburn; (530) 797-4677; https://kneedeepbrewing.com

1709 Del Paso Boulevard, www.kingcongbrewing.com

Loomis Basin Brewing Co. 3277 Swetzer Road in Loomis, (916) 259-2739, www.loomis basinbrewing.com

The Monk’s Cellar 240 Vernon Street in Roseville, (916) 786-6665, http://monks cellar.com

New Glory Craft Brewery 8251 Alpine Avenue, (916)7608306, http://newglory beer.com

New Helvetia Brewing Co. 1730 Broadway, (916) 469-9889, http://newhelvetiabrew.com

Oak Park Brewing Co. 3514 Broadway, (916) 660-2723, www.opbrewco.com

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Craft beer has been cool for so long that it’s almost meaningless to say that you like it—may as well tell somebody how you’re into water.

Accordingly, every place that’s ever served a Bud now has at least three local IPAs and Ballast Point’s inescapable Grapefruit Sculpin.

So if you can walk into any low-class bar and nab a decent brew, what’s it mean to be an excellent bar, one that gets you more than easy access to reliably good suds?

Ken Hotchkiss obviously has an idea, given the success of Capitol Beer and Tap Room, the beer bar and bottle shop he co-founded with Patti Aguire in 2012. He keeps a rotating stock of 20 taps, each selected for quality and for the diversity it brings to their menu.

“We have one dedicated cider handle, we try to have a lager or two on tap, we’ll have something for people who like stouts and porters, we have four or five really hoppy beers on tap,” Hotchkiss said. “We try to have a balance so no matter who comes in here, there’s something for them.”

With a huge list of maybe-not-so-common beers and such a wide breadth of options—the board displaying the options is maybe 10 feet tall and even more so wide—it’s easy to be intimidated by the variety. It helps to know that the staff can help you figure it out, though, and they’re as enthusiastic about the beers they sell as Hotchkiss is.

“It’s a passion job,” he said. “People that come and work here—almost always, really—they’re already into beer. Our last couple of employees were longtime clients, so they already have the passion for beer.”

Beyond regular rotation, Hotchkiss goes deep every year for Sacramento Beer Week, when he plans and hosts daily events. Among this year’s offerings, he’s got a barrel-aged brew day and his fourth year of home-brew competition, where the winners will get a shot to brew with 21st Amendment Brewery.

The passion that fuels these events is a significant part of how Capitol Beer and Tap Room has survived and thrived in the last few years. When it opened, not many other places in the region offered the split bar-and-bottleshop option (aside from the Davis Beer Shoppe), so they had to overcome the confusion there. Plus, the shop is tucked into a not-so-visible corner of University Village, removed from the easy foot traffic of the downtown core.

“Being off of the grid a bit, you don’t get as much visibility. … But we’ve definitely found our groove,” Hotchkiss said. 2222 Fair Oaks Boulevard, (916) 922-1745, http://capitolbeer.com —Anthony Siino anthonys@newsreview.com

Th e ex Tr a di s Tan c e We also dig Final Gravity in Roseville It’s “Stouterday.” Saturday plus stout beers, obviously. There’s this line snaking through Final Gravity’s Roseville location, like nothing you’ve ever seen at the humble taproom. All you can do is marvel at the beer signs all over the walls—and wait for that malty, roasty, barrel-aged goodness.

Worth it, it is. Final Gravity goes the extra distance to always host top-level beer events, like their Societe Brewing party from September, or their Oregon beers event from last year’s Beer Week.

Final Gravity also went next level this past year, opening a second location. In Auburn.

Which, for us grid dwellers, might as well be Rio Vista. But we will make up there, oh yes, we will. Someday! 19205 Sierra College Boulevard, Suite 100, in Roseville; (916) 782-1166; www.finalgravitybeer.com. N.M

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630 K Street, (916) 447-1881; 8949 Olmo Lane in Dixon, (530) 601-8240; http://ruhstallerbeer.com

Out of Bounds Brewing Co.

Sactown Union Brewery

4480 Yankee Hill Road, Suite 100, in Rocklin; (916) 259-1511; http://outofboundsbrewing.com

1210 66th Street, Unit B; (916) 606-3373; www.sactownunion.com

Placerville Brewing Co.

2001 Second Street in Davis, (530) 756-2739, http://sudwerkbrew.com

155 Placerville Drive in Placerville, (530) 295-9166, http://placer villebrewingco.com

Revision Brewing Co. West Sacramento, www.revision brewing.com

River City Brewing Co. 6241 Fair Oaks Boulevard in Carmichael, (916) 447-2739, www. facebook.com/RiverCityBrewingCo

Roseville Brewing Co. 501 Derek Place in Roseville, (916) 783-2337, www.rosevillebrewing company.com

Rubicon Brewing Co. 2004 Capitol Avenue, (916) 448-7032; 885 Stillwater Road, Suite 100, in West Sacramento; www.rubicon brewing.com

Sudwerk Brewing Co.

Sutter Buttes Brewing 421 Center Street in Yuba City, (530) 790-7999, http://sutter buttesbrewing.com

Three Mile Brewing Co. 231 G Street in Davis, (530) 564-4351, www.threemilebrewing.com

Tilted Mash Brewing 9110 Union Park Way in Elk Grove, www.facebook.com/ tiltedmashbrewing

Twelve Rounds Brewing 866 57th Street, (916) 476-5384, www.twelveroundsbrewing.com

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BY ALASTAIR BLAND Ken Anthony of Device Brewing Co. gets a whiff of those coveted, delicious hops.

bout 15 years ago, something happened to the IPA: The most popular beer style in America became bigger.

The change was subtle, at first, but eventually the boosted alcohol and hop levels were substantial enough to merit recognizing a new style of beer: the imperial, or double, IPA. But now, even this high-alcohol, robustly hopped style is being outdone by another: the triple IPA, currently one of the hottest things bubbling in local brew kettles.

Locally, Auburn Alehouse, Device, Knee Deep, Track 7, Sudwerk, Out of Bounds and Berryessa, among others, have all brewed triple IPAs. More than a few are available this week, as midwinter has become the de facto triple IPA season.

“If you trace it backward, you see Pliny the Younger being released for a short time each February,” said Jeremy Warren, the founder of Knee Deep Brewing Co. who is now launching a new brewery called Revision Brewing Co. “Knee Deep was one of the first breweries to do a yearround triple IPA, and in the last few years, we’ve seen more and more on the market.”

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And why shouldn’t there be?

Aggressively hopped, almost wine-strength palate-burners are about the easiest sell there is in California’s hop-crazed beer market.

Warren says he plans to make hopforward IPAs, including doubles and triples, the foundation of business at Revision when the company first opens, which should be late this summer or fall.

At Device Brewing Co., owner Ken Anthony says his triple IPA, a popular beer named Basilica, only amounts to about 5 percent of the brewery’s production volume. However, the brewery depends on it. “Part of our reputation has been built on that beer,” he said.

Triple IPAs are nothing new in concept: They simply contain more of everything that makes IPAs so popular, namely ethanol and alpha acid, the bittering component in hops. Most triples measure 10 to 12 percent alcohol by volume and range at the very top of the detectable bitterness scale, generally containing 100 to 120 international bittering units.

While traditional IPAs are the backbone of many breweries’ inventories, triple IPAs often come in small-batch, seasonal releases. That’s because they are too expensive to brew regularly. They require large quantities of barley and hops, both costly to buy in the increasingly crowded beer market. On top of that, these ingredients act like a sponge, clinging to the beer at the bottom of the fermenting vat and substantially cutting the volume that ultimately goes to keg, can or bottle.

“We lose about two barrels from each seven-barrel batch [of triple IPA],” Anthony said. “It’s really bad. It’s a ridiculously impractical style to make.”

Though lots of high-octane beer is going down the drain, plenty is reaching local tap lines and retail shelves—especially right now, as breweries jockey to enter their triple IPAs into such events as the IPA, Specialty IPA and Anything Goes Invitational + Competition, scheduled for February 28 at the Track 7’s Natomas taproom. The 16th annual Double/Triple IPA Festival at The Bistro, in Hayward, took place on February 6.

Ryan Graham, owner of Track 7, says his event will showcase what he considers the most elegant, sophisticated, smartest interpretations of the IPA. He notes that out-of-control hop-bomb beers were particularly trendy several years ago, when Flying Monkeys Brewery, of Ontario, and Mikkeller, based in Copenhagen, both released beers containing more than 2,000 IBUs—both arguably stupid beers, since humans can reportedly not detect a change in bitterness much past the 100 level.

Graham feels that more recently, brewers of even the heaviest hitting IPAs have found ways to impart restraint, balance and subtlety to the style. After all, he says, there can be a lot more to triple IPAs than just bitterness and booze.

“Making these beers is about balancing the hops you use, not just getting a huge IBU count,” Graham said.

In fact, scorching bitterness may even be falling out of favor. “Overly bitter beers aren’t what people want anymore,” Warren said. “Nor are they acceptable. People want great aroma with great flavor.”

Making such a well-balanced triple IPA isn’t easy, though. Knee Deep brewer Chris Reeve says balancing sweetness, booziness and bitterness is the key. “But that gets harder and harder to do the bigger a beer is,” said Reeve, who also makes a quadruple IPA of 13 percent ABV called Hop-D-Ranged.

The craft beer industry is booming.

Nationally, there are more than 4,000 breweries. California alone has more than 600—and not surprisingly, most of these breweries want to make IPAs. That seems like a good thing for hopheads—but it might not be at all.

Warren says competition for hops is escalating. “Availability is getting tight,” he said. Warren says he is lucky and has made contract agreements to buy enough hops to keep his brew vats full for the next five years. “That’s because I have existing relationships [with suppliers],” he said.

Newer breweries without secure buying arrangements may need to sign onto waiting lists for when—and if—large breweries wind up with more than they need.

Device, like Revision, has hop contracts. However, the brewery is growing rapidly, which means Anthony may not be able to buy enough hops to scale up production of all his beers. Some brews will need to get cut, Anthony says, and first to get the ax may be the beloved triple IPA Basilica.

“We make it year-round right now, but the way things are going, we may be put into a position where we have to make it on a seasonal basis,” he said. Ω

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he window of opportunity to grow up to be a ballerina-astronaut-pastry-chef is heartbreakingly easy to miss; before you know it, the vast majority of us end up living inside a Dilbert comic. But while it may feel like you’re forever destined to file TPS reports to some stiff in jerk-face suspenders, the resources available to craft a career like one of those people who are always #livingauthentic seem to sprout up daily, and locally speaking, this week is as good as any to change up the trajectory of your career path if you’re feeling so inclined.

Get started by getting focused: On Thursday, March 3, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., the Crocker Art Museum (216 O Street) is hosting In the Company of Women, an evening of conversation, selfreflection, creativity and awareness in an artistic setting. Led by museum Director of Education Stacey Shelnut-Hendrick, the class is designed for you to be “open to all possibilities.” Tickets are $55 for members and $70 for nonmembers; more information can be found at www.crockerartmuseum.org.

If you’ve already got the inspiration bit down, Verge Center for the Arts (625 S Street) is hosting a two-day silk-screen class on Saturday, February 27, and Sunday, February 28, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. Attendees will learn the basics of printmaking with both stenciling and photo-emulsion techniques that will set you on your way to creating posters, T-shirts and more. Workshop fees are $175 for members and $200 for nonmembers; register at http://vergeart.com/learn/classes/ silk-screen-learn-about-screen-process-and-multiple.

For more new-media types who are looking to dive into the ever-changing frontier of ways you can actually make money off of being glued to your phone constantly, Outlet Coworking (2110 K Street) is offering a class called Instagramming with the pros on Saturday, February 27, from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Local ’gram experts and photographers provide instruction on phonephotography basics and techniques as well as maximizing effectiveness on social-media platforms. The class fee is $42 and will include a one-hour “instawalk” to try out new skills; register at http://igwithpros.eventbrite.com.

—DEENA DREwIS

Miss Black Sacramento is not a beauty pageant, per se. Rather, it is a scholarship pageant that recognizes the talent and brains of local AfricanAmerican women. Since 1970, winners have gone on to become business owners, doctors, attorneys, entertainers and more. This Friday, the organization will host a fundraiser with a musical performance by former Miss Black Sacramento winner and Team USA Masters FuNdrAISEr Track & Field athlete Stacey Noble. Other performers include Elodie “Styxx” LaFrance, Sandra “Black Pearl” Tyler and Tony Rodriguez. $15; 7 p.m. at Cosumnes River College Performing Arts Center, 8401 Center Parkway; www.missblacksacramento.org.

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undy run/Walk SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 What is adulthood but a cessation of opportunities to run around in your underwear without repercussions? Take back the dream while raising money and awareness for the fight against colon cancer.

In addition to the 5K, there will be a giant 5K ruN inflatable colon to play on, and if running in skivvies isn’t your thing, dress up as a superhero or anything else you please. $30-$40; 8 a.m. at William Land Park, 3800 W. Land Park Drive; www.ccalliance.org/events.

—DEENA DREwIS

Steampunk Emporium SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 To some, steampunk, a science-fiction subgenre inspired by the 19th century industrial age, wouldn’t seem like something that would spawn such a rabid subculture. But it did—and it continues to Expo chug along to this day, going way beyond the world of fiction and into the realm of cosplay, toys and fashion. So steampunk fanatics, prepare yourself for the annual Steampunk Emporium and stock up on all your goods for the year. Special guests this year include Captain Lucky from the “time-traveling” comedy troupe Aether Brigade. How appropriate.

Free; 11 a.m. at Great Escape Games, 1250 Howe Avenue, Suite 3A; www.sacsteam.org.

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They recently rolled out a mango ceviche tostada ($2.29) that’s an excellent little snack for when you need something a bit more refreshing and light than yet another lengua taco. It tastes fresh, like biting into the ocean, and it’s got generous chunks of shrimp sweetened with tastefully reserved mango chunks, topped with large slices of avocado and all on a crispy tortilla—what else are you even looking for at this point? 863 Arden Way, http://chandostacos.com.

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Caffeine highs and lows: Clearly, Sacramento is a coffee town, but growth isn’t exactly stable these days. In Folsom, Java Mama Folsom will close on Friday, February 26.

Pachamama Coffee Cooperative’s Davis cafe will also close at the end of the month.

There’s some good news too, though. Rocklin’s Hoot Coffee (6831 Lonetree Boulevard, Suite 101) recently held its grand opening, unrolling a wealth of creative-driven plans: local art, open-mic nights, live music, made-to-order sodas, Gibraltars (see Drink Me) and beans

by Sacramento small-batch company Mast Coffee Co. In Midtown, look for Identity Coffees (1430 28th Street) soon. It’s a new concept partially owned by

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Lucky Rodrigues, who most recently co-owned Insight Coffee Roasters.

Rodrigues says he wants to eliminate segregation in coffee, meaning baristas not only make lattes, they’re also the people roasting, sourcing and importing coffee. From Identity’s successful, $11,000-plus Kickstarter campaign: “We want coffee-loving baristas to have a fruitful and viable career in coffee. We believe that when the person serving you the coffee is the same person who sourced and roasted it, s/he will serve you better than anywhere else.”

Sudsy: As for breweries, growth is definitely more than stable. Add three more new breweries to your list: Sactown Union Brewing (1210 66th Street), which will open Saturday,

February 27; Three Mile Brewing Co. (231 G Street in Davis) and Claimstake Brewing (11366 Monier Park Place in Rancho Cordova).

Sactown will serve basics but also focus on lesser-known German styles.

Brewmaster Michael Barker carries a long resume, but he was most recently at Santa Cruz Ale Works.

Three Mile is softly open with a classic lineup but with its small, 3.5 barrel system, it plans to produce experimental, seasonal brews in the future. Credentials? Head brewer Roy Lester spent five years at the now-shuttered Brew it Up! Brewery and Grill.

Claimstake Brewing is the renamed Argonaut Brewing. Look for a grand opening March 16.

Oh, mom: The ever-interesting Mother will cease “regular dinner service” on March 1. Don’t freak out: its vegetarianism, price-point and hours will stay the same, but the menu will rotate each month based on a theme. Conceptual dining, essentially. First up is Mexican food.

And, oh yeah, say goodbye to Chef’s 10 as well. Ω

I’m apparently late to the party, but I recently discovered the Gibraltar coffee ($3.75) at Insight.

According to the barista, it’s like a “baby latte,” a shot of espresso with just a little milk foam. Similar to a cortado, a Gibraltar is specifically served in a 4-ounce Libbey glass, so it’s not really a to-go drink. It started in ohso-cool San Francisco in the early aughts, but lucky for us, finally made it inland.

A Gibraltar is a little more forward on the espresso, but not so strong that you hit the roof immediately.

1615 16th Street, www.insightcoffee.com.

—ann Martin rolke

Taste the rainbow Guavas The East Coast may be wallowing in snow, but it’s early spring here in California. So even though guavas seem like summery tropical fruits, they’re already in the markets. There are at least 100 varieties, so you can find a rainbow of colors for the skins and flesh. You may also see pineapple guavas, a.k.a. feijoas, which can be creamy white or pinkish inside. They aren’t true guavas, but whatever.

Regular guavas and pineapple guavas are both high in vitamin C and antioxidants, and they’re undeniably addictive. Oh, and start looking for guayaba aguas fresca in taquerias!

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HHH 2107 P Street, (916) 440-9611, www.adamoskitchen.com Dinner for one: $10 - $15 Good for: cozy neighborhood dining Notable dishes: Bolognese pasta, french fries, mussels

Sacramento has needed a casual but high-quality Italian restaurant for a long time. The kind you find in North Beach in San Francisco, a staple for that regular pasta fix.

Turns out that Adamo’s Kitchen quietly filled that niche when it opened in July 2014. John Adamo and his family own the building that also houses a laundromat and they all work in the restaurant.

Son Polo Adamo heads the kitchen, while daughter Chiara works out front. Polo, a graduate of the American River College culinary program, formerly worked at Gary Danko in San Francisco.

Exposed brick walls and a small bar make for a cozy atmosphere, along with photos and images of Italian scenes.

The menu is compact but filled with standout choices. John Adamo makes all the pasta in-house, and his narrow pappardelle serve as a tender but toothsome base for a six-hour Bolognese sauce ($16). The slow-simmered meat sauce is rich with layers of vegetables, topped with shards of excellent Parmesan. It comes with an equally excellent garlic bread that one can order as an appetizer with marinara ($5).

We used ours to help sop up some of the plentiful anise-y broth with the mussels ($13). They were cooked perfectly—no small feat—and served with caramelized onions and housemade fennel sausage.

You just need extra bread to get every last bit of the liquid.

Entrees come with a small salad, which is much better than most house offerings. Baby greens tossed with roasted peppers and garlicky croutons are lightly dressed with a tangy vinaigrette. You can

request a small version of the Caesar ($7) or mixed lettuces ($6.50) instead.

If you’ve given up on most Caesar salads for their gummy dressing, this version will win you over. The creamy garlic-infused dressing sings with pungent anchovy and fresh Parmesan balancing the crisp romaine and croutons.

The mixed lettuces, served with diced butternut squash, pomegranate seeds and goat cheese is one of the few misses. The flavors never quite come together, despite a lovely presentation.

Adamo’s has justifiably developed a reputation for great fries. The thick-cut potatoes are crisp on the outside and fluffy deliciousness inside. They are served with the burgers or you can order a side ($3) or the “Sucio” (dirty) fries ($9) laden with bacon, cheddar, poblano sauce, sour cream and onions.

Chicken entrees are also well executed. The pedestrian-sounding chicken breast ($18.50) with risotto turns out to be a succulent airline cut with gorgeously browned crispy skin. It sits atop a very clean-tasting mushroom risotto that boasts perfectly al dente diced vegetables.

The fried chicken ($18) may not outshine other versions in town, but it comes with outstanding stewed collard greens strewn with crispy bits of bacon. The heat of the sweet chili jam builds slowly and really perks up the chicken.

Meatballs and marinara ($10), an Italian restaurant mainstay, represent well, too. The polenta is creamy but not too thick and comes topped with three hearty beef-and-pork meatballs and marinara with a very fresh tomato sweetness.

Wines by the glass and beers on tap come at very reasonable prices ($5 to $6). A children’s menu offers smaller portions, including a nicely smoky cheeseburger ($9) with an excellent bun and plenty of those scrumptious fries.

Service is attentive and quite friendly.

Unfortunately, on a couple of visits, the open kitchen sent smoke into the dining room, making it somewhat cold inside when the servers opened the front door to vent.

Adamo’s is really a wonderful neighborhood bistro where you can drop in for a quick bite and a beer or gather a group for a hearty multicourse meal.

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Not beer I know this issue is dedicated to beer and whatnot, but maybe you don’t actually like beer. Maybe you aren’t interested in Sacramento Beer Week events. I’m not judging. Besides, there’s a rad wine event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, February 27: a preview of sorts for the popular Barbera Festival that takes place June 11 in Amador County. The Barbera Festival always sells out, but you can lock down $50 tickets by attending the free prerelease party at Terra d’Oro Winery (20680 Shenandoah School Road in Plymouth), which also includes wine tasting and food pairings. Not sure you like barbera? It’s a smooth, food-friendly red varietal originally from the Piedmonte region of Italy, but now nearly 200 California wineries produce barbera—and Amador County is known for some of the best. If you can’t make it, Barbera Festival tickets go on sale March 1 at http://barberafestival.com.

—Janelle Bitker

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emanates after opening the package —the taste is snappily pleasant.

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Bad Comedy for Bad PeoPle

ai WeiWei in foCus Ai Weiwei’s political activism alone warrants the world’s attention. His criticism and investigation of the Chinese government’s human rights violations have been important. But doCumentary Ai Weiwei is also a significant contemporary artist who’s known for his documentary films, visual arts and stunning architecture. This Saturday, prepare for a deep discussion about Weiwei, screenings of his films and an engaging chat with art critic Jeff Kelley about Weiwei’s art and activism. Kelley will also field questions from the audience. Oh, and while you’re there, check out the current related exhibit Ai Weiwei Circle of Animals. $15-$20; 2 p.m Saturday, February 27, at the Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; www.crockerartmuseum.org.

—aaron Carnes

Soaked floodPath William Mulholland got a famous street named after him, but, more importantly, he brought water to thirsty Los Angeles. Unfortunately, the St. Francis Dam, which he built 50 miles from the city, failed in 1928, sending billions of BooK gallons of water rushing down the San Francisquito Canyon, killing 500 people and costing millions in damages. In Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th Century America and the Making of Los Angeles (Bloomsbury, $28), Jon Wilkman weaves the story of the disaster with the history of SoCal’s need for water and what the region’s done to get it. It’s a welcome addition to California’s water histories, where drought and scarcity always make somebody think building a dam is a good idea.

—Kel munger

When local comic Keith Lowell Jensen first started doing open-mics, he got really good responses—which, perhaps not surprisingly, is not a normal thing for new comics. His confidence was so high that when he got his first actual booking, he decided to try his hand at storytelling Comedy comedy. He did a single 10-minute anecdote for his entire set. That didn’t go over so well.

Jensen backed off the storytelling approach for a while. Since then, he’s slowly inched his way back to the format. In fact, on his first comedy special, To The Moon, released on Apprehensive Films in 2009, he closed with that original 10-minute story, but this time killed it.

Now working on his fifth special, stories make up a majority of Jensen’s act. Bad Comedy For Bad People will be taped this Saturday, February 27, at the Harris Center for the Arts. Expect a couple of stories about Jensen’s daughter Max. That’s good news for anyone who follows the Twitter account he made for her, @MaxTheTiger, where he posts weird things she says.

There’s also a story about the time he and his wife had to give their nephew the sex talk, plus one that recounts the time he was the token able-bodied person on the Comedians With Disabilities tour.

This is his first special in two years, since Atheist Christmas, which got picked up by Hulu. $20; 8 p.m. Saturday, February 27, at Harris Center for the Arts, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; http://keithlowelljensen.blog spot.com.

—aaron Carnes

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Parallel worlds

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

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

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happy Armenians; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; $15-$20. Vista Players at california Stage company, Wilkerson Theatre, 2509 R Street; (916) 451-5822; www.calstage.org. Through February 28.

History can be fickle—any one alteration, whether it be slight or substantial, changes the future forever, with repercussions all along the way. Playwright Aram Kouyoumdjian embraces this notion in his innovative new play Happy Armenians by adding another layer—that there are alternative, parallel universes, where different outcomes coexist.

In this creative concept, there are two outcomes for Armenia—the present day one in which the country lives under the darkened shadows of a failed kingdom, the victim of a devastating genocide; and another one as a flourishing 600-year-old empire that dominates the world. These two parallel worlds intersect when a present-day young Armenian is transported from his teaching job in Los Angeles to the alternate Armenian world to become heir apparent to the king.

The imaginative plot demands the audience take a huge leap of faith and suspension of disbelief, but Kouyoumdjian pulls it off with enough believable explanations, interesting new historical concepts, a bit of humor and compelling characters, including the confused teacher Levon (Daniel Hubbard), the court steward Patrick (Tavis L. Baker) the dying king (Gregory DePetro), his queen (Jade Hykush) and the court’s scientist and physician (and Levon’s love interest), Siran (Heather Lynn Smith).

The minimalistic stage, futuristic uniforms, compelling original music by Ara Dabandjian and a nod to scientific and physics advancements give the play a slight Star Trek quality, which endear the quirky story to the audience. Ω

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The Last Five Years

This is the deconstruction of a love story, told by two characters, one starting at the end, one starting at the beginning, meeting briefly in the middle. The show features strong performances by two outstanding performers, Kevin Caravalho (who also directs) and Jennifer Morrison. A lush ensemble of strings adds to the magic.

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Love and Information

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

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Set in the opulent living room of the home that Mary Shelley and husband Percy own in Lake Geneva, it is a dark and stormy night. To amuse themselves, the writers begin to discuss ghost stories. Mary proposes a contest to see who can write the best one, since the men feel that women are incapable of writing such a story (in actuality, Mary wrote Frankenstein when she was 18 and it was published when she was 20).

Excellent performances by all, particularly Megan Wicks as Mary, who narrates her story and holds her audience (on stage and in the audience) captive, and Michael RJ Campbell as Lord Byron, who becomes Dr. Frankenstein’s monster in the story.

Also noteworthy: Bryan Staggers as Percy Shelley, Stephanie Altholz as Clair Clairmont (Mary’s stepsister) and John Lamb as John Polidori, Lord Byron’s personal physician. The show is aided

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McInnerny), and Eddie’s concerned, exasperated and proud parents (Jo Hartley, Keith Allen). If facts don’t fit, they get made up, such as providing I admit I’m a sucker for an old-fashioned sports Edwards with a washed-up alcoholic coach—but tearjerker. Isn’t everybody, or at least every guy? then, if Macaulay and Kelton didn’t invent that, we Whether it’s Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig talking about wouldn’t have the movie’s amusing turn by Hugh being the luckiest guy on the face of the earth, or James Jackman (and Jackman wouldn’t have had another Caan as Brian Piccolo dying of cancer, the drama of an chance to practice his American accent). So the athlete cut low in the prime of life is hard to resist. glass is considerably more than half full.

Then there are the “happy” tearjerkers, like 2013’s There are hilarious details in Edwards’ true story 42 (about Jackie Robinson) or the recently released that I wish were in the movie: the time he broke Race, which tells the story of Jesse Owens. Eddie the his jaw and had to practice with a pillow strapped Eagle is one of those—although to be honest, Eddie to his face; the helmet he tied on with string; the Edwards hardly ranks with Robinson or Owens. fact that he was living in a Finnish mental Edwards’ sport was ski jumping, and he hospital (though not as a patient) when really wasn’t all that good at it—he was he made the Olympic team. But simply good enough to come in last at Edwards was a genuinely nice guy the 1988 Winter Olympics. Plus he who gave his sport everything he never gave up, and that’s what jerks Eddie Edwards had, and was liked (if sometimes the tears. pitied) by all but the puffiest of never gave up, and In Eddie the Eagle, Edwards is stuffed shirts. The movie gets that’s what jerks played by Taron Egerton, and he that right. gives Edwards the boyish, infectious the tears.

And cinematographer George zest that Johnny Depp displayed in Richmond and editor Martin Ed Wood. (Real life justifies Egerton’s Walsh give us an athlete’s-eyeapproach more than it did Depp’s: Eddie view of ski jumping that makes us Edwards may have been the worst ski jumper understand why Edwards loved doing it. at the 1988 Olympics, but he was still the best in Never underestimate the value of that.

Great Britain at the time; Ed Wood, by contrast, was a They say the Olympics have changed the no-talent who only dimly understood which end of the rules since 1988 to make it harder for enthusiastic camera to point at the actors, and was usually too drunk amateurs like Eddie Edwards to come along and to care.) bask in their 15 minutes of fame. Too bad. That Written by Sean Macaulay and Simon Kelton, could mean fewer movies like Eddie the Eagle in the and directed by Dexter Fletcher, Eddie the Eagle is coming decades, so best enjoy them while we can. Ω “inspired by true events.” The inspiration seems to have extended only as far as it took to work in all the standard conventions of a combination ugly-duckling/ Cinderella story. Where the facts fit the clichés, they get in, such as in the British Olympic Association’s Poor Fair Good Very excellent disdain for Edwards (represented by a snooty Tim Good

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Deadpool

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 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.

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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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The Lady in the Van

Adapted by playwright Alan Bennett from his own memoir, The Lady in the Van offers more fourth wall-breaking narrative devices than a Tarantino fever dream, but since we’re never that invested in the characters, it doesn’t add up to anything but a self-satisfied distraction. Maggie Smith excels in the title role, playing a cantankerous eccentric and possible fugitive going by the name of Mary Shepherd, a homeless woman who takes up residence in Alan’s driveway, but the main character here is actually the bookish and withdrawn Alan (Alex Jennings). Beyond the inherently icky premise of framing a story around a destitute and dying woman teaching a privileged jerk to be slightly less of a privileged jerk, the character of Alan never fully comes to life. He comes to see Mary as his “mother’s derelict counterpart,” but our relation to Alan and his mommy issues is always more assumed than felt. D.B.

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45 Years

Charlotte Rampling gives the performance of a lifetime—and easily the best performance of 2015—in writer-director Andrew Haigh’s equal parts wistful and brutal 45 Years. Her performance is a study in contrasts that perfectly personifies the film’s dueling moods of contented enchantment and nagging despair. She never lets the seams show, and the same goes for Haigh’s perfectly modulated script and deceptively restrained direction.

45 Years is Haigh’s cinematic follow-up to his quietly magical Weekend (he was also the creative force behind the HBO show Looking), and he brings that same air of immediacy and feeling of melancholic self-discovery to this story of an aging married couple exhuming long-buried secrets on the eve of their 45th wedding anniversary. It’s about nothing until you realize it’s about everything; a moment informs a lifetime, and a lifetime informs a moment. An almost equally magnificent Tom Courtenay plays Rampling’s emotionally oblivious husband. D.B.

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Writer-director Robert Eggers makes a shockingly self-assured feature debut with the terrifying “New England Folk Tale” of The Witch.

A soul-withering, vaguely sexual slow creep in the vein of Under the Skin, only with all of the dialogue spoken in spot-on Old English, The Witch feels authentic both as Pilgrim anthropology and as a waking nightmare. In a tenuously settled American territory in the 17th century, a family of fundamentalists gets exiled from the commonwealth, forced to the edge of the forest for taking the popular religious doctrine too far. The father refuses to compromise his extreme beliefs about sin, taking his gospel to the freedom of the wilderness, but it’s not long before hunger, isolation, paranoia and supernatural terror tear the family apart. Undeniably disturbing and strangely elegant, The Witch creates its horror with such care that the film may be over before you realize it’s a tour-deforce genre classic. D.B.

won three gold medals and shared a fourth at the 1936 games in Berlin, thereby putting the lie to Hitler’s boasts of Aryan racial superiority, gets a solid if uninspired filming from writers Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse and director Stephen Hopkins. The truth is, the bare facts of the story are inspiring enough, and at least the movie doesn’t drop the ball. Stephan James puts himself on the map with a strong showing as Owens, matched by Jason Sudeikis as Owens’ coach, acquitting himself well in a change-of-pace straight dramatic role. It’s essentially a twocharacter movie, but others do well in support: Carice van Houten as documentary filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, Jeremy Irons in a long cameo as Olympic bigwig Avery Brundage, etc. J.L.

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Risen

A Roman soldier in Pontius Pilate’s Jerusalem (Joseph Fiennes) is tasked with finding the corpse of a crucified Hebrew preacher; it’s clear to Pilate (Peter Firth) that the man’s followers have stolen the body so they can spread a rumor that he has miraculously risen from the dead. We know where this is leading, of course, and the script by Paul Aiello and director Kevin Reynolds gets us there with honesty, intelligence and a surprising absence of preachiness. (In its own way, the movie is a bit of a small miracle itself.) Reynolds establishes a convincing atmosphere of a tense, dusty outpost of empire, and anachronisms are few and unobtrusive to all but the most pedantic.

Fine performances, too, from Fiennes, Firth, Tom Felton (as Fiennes’ aide) and Cliff Curtis as the crucified Yeshua (read “Jesus”). J.L.

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Son of Saul

At Auschwitz during World War II, a Sonderkommando—that is, a Jewish prisoner forced to work disposing of the corpses of his fellow Jews—finds one body he believes is that of his teenage son, then goes seeking a rabbi to say the proper prayers over the boy. This Hungarian drama from writer-director László Nemes won the 2015 Golden Globe for foreignlanguage film, and looks like the front-runner for an Oscar as well. But it’s turgid and uninvolving, a dreary downer even beyond the tragic subject matter. It’s never really clear what’s going on or

what the characters are talking about, or even who the main character is or why he thinks this is his son. Nemes stages nearly the whole movie as one long close-up of leading man Géza Röhrig, and his numb, expressionless face quickly becomes a boring presence. J.L.

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Touched with Fire

Two bipolar patients in a psychiatric hospital (Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby) fall in love; their romance burns so hot it destabilizes their lives, making them more uncontrollably manic than either of them was before—and tormenting their nerve-wracked families (Christine Lahti and Bruce Altman as Holmes’ parents, Griffin Dunne as Kirby’s father). Writer-director Paul Dalio’s debut feature is semi-autobiographical (Kirby even calls himself “Luna,” Dalio’s tag as a New York underground rapper), and its confessional authenticity helps lighten an almost unbearable aura of anxious dread. Oddly enough, the parents are more sympathetic than the young lovers, who seem too often headstrong and heedless. Dalio gets fine performances: Holmes fairly glows with haggard fragility, and Kirby is less bland than usual. J.L.

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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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For now, he adds, he’s holding off on making another full-length record.

“A good album is just a very cool work of art. I guess I’m not ready,” he says. “I haven’t found my voice just yet that I want to build an album on.”

There’s another reason Martinez has gone the singles route. When the LP was recorded, Brave Season was a band with consistent members, but now it’s one man, one band ... sometimes. just him, and whoever he can get to play with him. Martinez has always been the primary songwriter, but says in the Elmer Martinez has some issues with his band’s past his band members were always trying to push debut full record. the group in a more math, post-rock direction, while Brave Season’s album, On Long Distance and Martinez wanted to give the music a more subtle and the Ties That Held Us Together, a blend of emo, pop-oriented sound. punk and math rock, was released last June. But the Now, the series has inadvertently turned into songs were written more than a year earlier. Because Martinez experimenting not just stylistically, but with the music Martinez writes is so deeply personal and different lineups based off of the availability of his emotive, he says, that felt like a really long time musicians. for fans to wait to hear his art.

“I am the band,” Martinez says. “It’s “I was in a different part of my life not a permanent band, it’s like friends when I wrote those songs,” Martinez that play with me. I can never keep “I’m learning explains now. “We had been workanyone long enough.” to trust in my own ing on those songs for a year in Martinez says he misses the one form or another. A lot of those collaborative nature of a full-time abilities.” things just kind of passed. Now band but going it alone also has its Elmer Martinez I’m writing stuff that’s freshly benefits. “I’m learning to trust in singer-songwriter, happening to me.” my own abilities instead of relying Brave Season Lately, he’s taken a totally new on my bandmates.” approach to getting his music out. In This all seems to be part of the November Martinez launched a “Singles plan anyway. One of the things that Series” with two songs on Bandcamp. The irked Martinez while recording the album next single will drop March 25. was how little else the group was able to do during Martinez says he likes the immediacy that the the process. Everything else got put on hold while the series offers him. band did its best to fine tune one record.

“I’m playing these songs fresh. I won’t have to With the series, he says, he intends to release wait for myself to get completely over it,” he says. approximately four-to-five singles this year. That way The series also addresses another problem he can get fans new music all throughout the year, Martinez says he had with the full-length. With On not just once.

Long Distance, he says, the band members were “I hate when bands put out one album a year and pulling the record into different directions musically. they don’t do anything else,” he says. “I just want to Ultimately, Martinez says, the record lacked a put new songs out every few months so that people cohesive sound. That’s less important with the single keep interested.” Ω series because each release only features two or three songs.

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DIY punk vibe Throwback: Record store shows rarely feel like actual shows, with the band awkwardly playing in the corner through a reverb-drenched sound system and the audience halflistening while browsing through records. This wasn’t the case last Thursday for the Bananas’ Phono Select gig, which felt like a throwback to ’90s DIY punk rock shows.

The store was completely packed— too packed for anyone to do much in the way of shopping. And since it was after-hours with a $5 cover charge—like a real show—everyone was there to hear some music.

The Bananas have been together for more than 20 years and don’t play often. So, when they do, they try to make it special. They blasted through pop-punk tunes with more enthusiasm than technique and screamed their heads off through every song. While their songs in no way sounded like hardcore—there was too much joy going on—they played as fast as humanly possible, and then seemed to try and play them even faster.

A big highlight at any Bananas show is silly banter, and there was plenty of it at Phono Select. During one song, guitarist Mike R. Mike forgot to play his solo, so the other members cajoled him into starting over. The enthusiastic audience got in on the banter as well—song requests, jokes, rebuttals to Bananas’ jokes and random questions for band

members, which they were happy to answer. The best slice all night was from Mike, which pretty much sums up the Bananas’ silly ethos: “Well, we’re still a $5 band after all these years.”

—AAron CArnes

Defying expectations, again: The musical enigma that is Contra got even more confounding this month with the release of its first-ever EP. This is the band that claims to not really be a band. That might be because the members all have other projects they care about more, or maybe they think it makes Contra more interesting. They also insisted for years that Contra would never release an album, that there was no desire or motivation to bother.

Well, something changed, because they bothered. Or, Kris Anaya, Dusty Brown and Zac Brown bothered.

Without any announcement—or even fully informing their fellow bandmates—the trio quietly recorded and produced a five-song EP, I Heard Your Cousin Has Street Fighter II. Contra released it at a Harlow’s gig on February 12 and it should be available to stream online soon.

If you’re a Contra fan, you’re probably aware that the band had three demos floating on its rarely updated website from long ago. One of those songs, “Forget,” made it onto the EP. Anaya refreshed it with his airy, droning vocals and thundering drums engineered by Robert Cheek, the Sacramento expat who recently worked with locals such as Life in 24 Frames as well as national acts such as Band of Horses. It’s a definite improvement, and all the songs sound great for such an on-a-whim production. I only wish the synth played a more dominant role on certain songs to drive home Contra’s ’80s power-pop sound.

But it doesn’t really matter.

Contra doesn’t care. Anaya and the Brown brothers don’t have any financial gain in mind. Just listen to “I Don’t Give Two Shitz.” I Heard Your Cousin Has Street Fighter II feels like a bone for the fans, something to keep them occupied until the next live show but will never satisfy in the same way. Still, it’s appreciated.

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A 50-year singer-songwriter career is mighty impressive, and that of Bob Cheevers is full of memorable moments: opening for Johnny Cash, singing a AmeRICAnA television theme song and winning an Emmy among them. It all started in Sacramento, taking off with his monthly Sacramento Songwriters Showcase in the late ’80s. After moving to Nashville and Austin, he’s back home for a two-evening engagement, billed “Bob Cheevers: Family and Friends Night.” Friday’s guests include Brent Bourgeois, David Houston, Lance Taber and Mike Roe. At 5 p.m. Sunday, catch Pat Minor, Chris Ivey and Roger Thomsen. Yay, friends!

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For those who enjoy the high energy of a Be Brave Bold Robot performance at full band capacity (which includes viola and percussion), you’re in luck. This lively group of rotating musicians led by vocalist-guitarist Dean Haakenson captures the sincerity of indie and folk-rock music InDIe FOLK with a fun, pop-oriented vibe. Haakenson says the band will debut new songs after its three-month pause from live shows. Bellygunner will join BBBR this evening, along with ’60s-pop-influenced Yours Truly, Michele; an Oakland-based musician who many Sacramentans know as Tippy Canoe. 1001 R Street, www.facebook.com/ bebraveboldrobot.

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Sacto-raised brothers Hippie Sabotage have been at this whole deejaying thing for a minute. But it wasn’t until Ellie Goulding got ahold of their remix of Tove Lo’s “Habits (Stay High)” in 2014 and posted it on her Instagram that the rest of the world started to notice they were up to something special. Now the duo is stopping through its hometown on an extensive eLeCTROnICA national tour in support of Providence, which dropped on February 5.

Don’t let the curious Billabong-vibe of the cover art fool you—the beats are as complex and addicting as ever, and the brothers seemed poised to hit the big stage.

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In case you were feeling accomplished today: English guitar whiz Johnny Marr is probably best known as the guitarist and co-songwriter for the Smiths. But at ROCK various points in his career he’s also been a member of The The, Electronic (a collaboration with New Order singer Bernard Sumner), the Pretenders and Modest Mouse.

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1417 R Street, www.johnny-marr.com.

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Ace of SpAdeS, 7 p.m., $20

Folksinger extraordinaire Ani DiFranco is not afraid to change. Or maybe fear of change is what propels her to dive right into it, embrace it and challenge her listeners to do the same. Her prolific work manages to explore the full spectrum of musical genres (like jazz, electronic and even marching band) while stubbornly holding onto folk music as her nugget of truth. Her lyrics are personal, both for her and her listeners—a FOlK defiant quest for what is both bitter and beautiful, and to bring forth what she finds out into the light. Her fans respect her for her incredible musical chops and extroverted introspection. 314 West Main Street in Grass Valley, www.righteousbabe.com.

—Amy Bee

preSS cluB, 8:30 p.m., $7

Although the band is currently supporting Megadeth and Suicidal Tendencies on a fullfledged national tour, Finland’s Children of Bodom will headline a special one-off show with Colorado’s Havok and Sacramento’s own Graveshadow. Led by guitaristMETAl vocalist Alex Laiho, CoB will have lots of material to choose from, dating back to their formative years as well as the newest release, I Worship Chaos, which came out in October of last year on Nuclear Blast records. Fans of melodic death metal with heaps of guitar and keyboard prowess would be wise to check this one out. 1417 R Street, Sacramento, www.cobhc.com.

—eddie JorgenSen

A quick glance at Summer Twins’ album cover and you’re struck by just how adorable they are. On their self-titled 2012 record, sisters Chelsea and Justine Brown are posing awkwardly, wearing roller skates. On their latest, Limbo, they are ruffling each other’s hair and smiling. These images really give a sense of their music: These are carefree, wistful INDIE-pOp garage-pop tunes with a ton of harmonies and a tip of the hat to ’60s garage-rock and beach-pop—the lighthearted end of the spectrum in both cases.

The group is appropriately enough signed to Burger Records. And they are a lot of fun live. 2030 P Street, http://summertwins.com.

—AAron cArneS

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THURSDAY 2/25

FRIDAY 2/26

SATURDAY 2/27

BADLANDS

#TBT and 5 Card Stud, 8pm, call for cover

Fabulous and Gay Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

Spectacular Saturdays, 10pm, call for cover

BAR 101 Post your free online listing (up to 15 months early), and our editors will consider your submission for the printed calendar as well. Print listings are also free, but subject to space limitations. Online, you can include a full description of your event, a photo, and a link to your website. Go to www.newsreview.com/calendar and start posting events. Deadline for print listings is 10 days prior to the issue in which you wish the listing to appear.

Sacramento Beer Week Kickoff, 11:30am; Beer Week Pint Night with Rubicon, 5pm; Locals Only Pint Night and BRIAN Comedy open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover ISLAND OF BLACK AND WHITE, 9pm ROGERS, 9pm, call for cover

Beer Week Oregon Sunday and DYLAN CRAWFORD, 2-5pm, call for cover

Pint Night Trivia with Coronado, 6:30pm M; Beer Week Colorado Night, W

BLUE LAMP

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

Uprise Collective photography show, 7pm, no cover

HELION PRIME, SALYTHIA, ODIOUS CONSTRUCT, WORN THIN; 8pm

SOPWAMTOS party and award ceremony, 7pm, call for cover

X THE EMCEE, A.M.P., SES, I. ROC, T.C.O. EMPIRE; 7:30pm, call for cover

SNATCH N GWAP, CHEEDAR; Tu; THE CROSSING, BAER; 8pm W, call for cover

THE BOARDWALK

BLAZE YA DEAD HOMIE,

MYSTIC ROOTS, J RAS, CALI KIDD; 7pm, $12

LITTLE DEBBIE, D-LO; 7pm, $20

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

NOAM PIKELNY, 8pm, $27

Third annual Animal Film Fest, 10am-10pm, call for cover

COUNTRY CLUB SALOON

VINO BANDITOS, 5pm; THUNDER COVER, 9pm, call for cover

TWO STEPS DOWN, 9pm, call for cover

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

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 6:30pm, $18 314 W. Main St., Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384 4007 Taylor Rd., Loomis; (916) 652-4007

Dubvision, Alex Adam; 10pm, $5

Claude Vonstroke, 10pm, call for cover

Amy Robbins, 10pm, call for cover

FACES

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

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

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

BELLYGUNNER; BE BRAVE BOLD ROBOT; YOURS TRULY, MICHELE; 9pm, $5

BLAME THE BISHOP, ANTON BARBEAU, THE BOBBLEHEADS; 9pm, $5

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

1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

FOX & GOOSE

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

Hey local bands!

ANI DIFRANCO, 8pm, $38.50-$48.50

DISTRICT 30

2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

Want to be a hot show?

Mail photos to Calendar Editor, SN&R, 1124 Del Paso Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95815 or email it to sactocalendar@ newsreview.com. Be sure to include date, time, location and cost of upcoming shows.

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 2/29-3/2 Big Mondays happy hour all night, M; Karaoke, Tu; Trapicana, W

2003 K St., (916) 448-8790

List your event!

SUNDAY 2/28 Sunday Tea Dance and Beer Bust, 4pm, call for cover

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

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

GOLDFIELD TRADING POST

Line dancing lessons, call for time and cover

COLLEEN HEAUSER, 9pm, no cover

Country DJ dancing, 9pm, no cover

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

HALFTIME BAR & GRILL

Karaoke happy hour, 7pm, no cover

GROOVE THANG, 9pm, $5

REBEL YELL, 9pm, $5

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

HARLOW’S

BLU, CAMILLE, KEV CHOICE, DRE T, DJ G; 9pm, $15

DAVID LINDLEY, 7pm, $25; ROYAL JELLY, LIVE MANIKINS, HANS!; 9:30pm, $6-$8

THE HIDEAWAY BAR & GRILL

Punk and glam night with DJ Annimal, 9pm, no cover

MALE GAZE, MONSTER TREASURE, MALL WALK; 8pm, call for cover

LUNA’S CAFE & JUICE BAR

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

BOB CHEEVERS, 8pm, $10

1603 J St., (916) 476-5076

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

MIDTOWN BARFLY

Third annual Mandella 95 Concert with XSAMPLE, 9pm, $20-$25 Cactus Pete’s 78 RPM Record Roundup, 8pm Tu; Twisted Trivia, W DAVID HOUSTON & STRING THEORY, 8pm, $6

BOB CHEEVERS, 5pm, $10

Stilldreamin’: Guttakick, Professor Stone, Atom One; 9pm, $5

1119 21st St., (916) 549-2779

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN 1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

DANNY SECRETION, KEVIN SECONDS, STEVE SOTO; 8:30pm, $8

SILVER SPOONS, HONYOCK, MALLARD; 8:30pm, $5

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

Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M; Open-mic comedy, 8pm Tu Salsa Wednesday, 7:30pm W, $5

SKULLKID, SUNDAY SCHOOL, NICE MONSTER; 8:30pm, $5

NAKED LOUNGE QUINTET, 8:30pm M

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

Coming Soon 2/28 9PM $20ADV

2/25 9PM $15 SESSionS FEAT.

3rd annual mandela 95 ConCert

Blu and Camille KEV CHoiCE, DRE T, DJ G

3/3 8PM $20ADV

2/26 5:30PM $25

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Fatlip & slimkid3

2/26 9:30PM $6ADV

3/4 5:30PM $12ADV

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saved By the 90s

03/05 Dengue Fever 03/06 Zyah Belle 03/08 Anderson East 03/09 Pouya 03/10 Harley White Jr. Trio 03/11 RJ 03/12 Andrew Castro 03/12 Anuhea 03/18 Mustache Harbor 03/19 The Brothers Comatose 03/21 Kirko Bangz 03/22 The Black Lillies 03/22 Cory Henry (of Snarky Puppy) 03/23 Tauk 03/24 The Sword 03/25-26 Tainted Love 03/27 Kahulanui 03/28 Slum Village 03/31 Sonny Landreth 04/01 Freddie Gibbs 04/02 Petty Theft 04/03 Metalachi 04/07 Everly Brothers Experience

2/25

3/12

UBER THURSDAY COLLEGE NIGHT

DJ SERAFIN

(FREE BEFORE 11 W/ COLLEGE ID)

(LOS ANGELES)

2/26

DJ OASIS

3/23

(HIP-HOP/R&B)

2/27

DJ GHOST

CHRIS DUANO (SAN ANTONIO)

(OFFICIAL DJ FOR PHILADELPHIA 76ERS)

3/26

3/4

DJ JB

(HIP-HOP/R&B)

ERIC FORBES (LAS VEGAS)

THURSDAY 2/25

FRIDAY 2/26

SATURDAY 2/27

OLD IRONSIDES

Real Live Comedians, 9pm, $10

MIKE WATT AND THE MISSING MEN, BRUBAKER; 9pm, $12-$14

MR. HOOPER, BLAQUELISTED, SPACEWALKER; 9pm, $7

ON THE Y

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

KOREAN FIRE DRILL, DREAM IN RED; 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

THE KENNEDY VEIL, THE LAST OF LUCY, CYBORG OCTOPUS; 8pm, call for cover

Open 8-ball pool tournament, 7:30pm M, $5

POUR HOUSE

Trash Rock Thursdays, call for time and cover

WELL DRESSED MANNEQUINS, 9pm, no cover

WOLFHOUSE, SKYLAR MICHAEL; 9pm, call for cover

THE KELPS, VINNIE GUIDERA & THE DEAD BIRDS; 9pm, no cover

Great Basin Beer Trivia, 8pm M, no cover; FLOAT ON, 9pm W, no cover

POWERHOUSE PUB

LOCKED AND LOADED, call for time and cover

LOST IN SUBURBIA, call for time and cover

TIA CARROLL, 3pm; GET LUCKY BAND, call for time and cover

MIKE SCHERMER, 3pm, call for cover

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

Pop 40 dance party, 9pm, $5

Sunday Night Dance Part with DJ Larry, 9pm, call for cover

SUMMER TWINS, KNOCK KNOCK, PETS; 8:30pm W, $7

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

SUNDAY 2/28

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 2/29-3/2 Guest chefs serve $5 plates, M; Karaoke, 9pm Tu; Open-mic, 9pm W

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

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

PISTOL PETE’S

140 Harrison Ave., Auburn; (530) 885-5093 1910 Q St., (916) 706-2465 614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586

THE PRESS CLUB

2030 P St., (916) 444-7914

SHADY LADY SALOON

HOT CITY, 9pm, no cover

TWILIGHT DRIFTERS, 9pm, no cover

THE GOLDEN CADILLACS, 9pm, no cover

PETER PETTY, 9pm, no cover

STARLITE LOUNGE

RICH CORPORATION, FACE THE HORIZON, ANIMALS IN THE ATTIC; 8pm, $7

THE GARCIA PROJECT, ACOUSTICALLY SPEAKING; 8pm, $12-$15

SLAB CITY, OSTRACIZED, DEVILS NEED ANGELS; 8pm, $8

RAPTOR, SIX BREW BANTHA, HALLUCINATOR, RAD, XTOM HANX; 8pm, $8

STONEY’S ROCKIN RODEO

THE CORDUROYS, country DJ dancing and karaoke; call for time and cover

POPULAR DEMAND and country DJ dancing, 8pm, $5

Country DJ dancing and karaoke, 8pm, $5

Country DJ dancing and karaoke, 8pm, $5

TORCH CLUB

Acoustic open-mic, 5pm, no cover; ISLAND OF BLACK AND WHITE, 9pm, $5

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30pm, no cover; MR. DECEMBER, 9pm, $8

DR. ROCK AND THE STUFF, 5:30pm, no cover; DANIEL CASTRO BAND, 9pm, $8

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

1409 R St., (916) 231-9121

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

Mr. Hooper with Blaquelisted and Spacewalker 9pm Saturday, $7.

Old Ironsides Hip-hop

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

All ages, all the time ACE OF SPADES

HIPPIE SABOTAGE, ALEX WILEY, KEMBE X; 7pm, $15-$40

1417 R St., (916) 448-3300

CAFE COLONIAL

JOHNNY MARR, MIMICKING BIRDS; 7pm, $25-$30

BRAVE SEASON, 8pm, $7

3520 Stockton Blvd., (916) 736-3520

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

THE COLONY

3512 Stockton Blvd., (916) 718-7055

SHINE

1400 E St., (916) 551-1400

TrueStory, 7pm, call for cover

MISS MOUTH PEACE, 8pm, $10

CHILDREN OF BODOM, HAVOK; 7pm Tu, $20-$22

SICFUS, ISH, BEAU JAMES; 8pm, $6

DBABA PROJECT, 5pm, call for cover

Helion Prime with Salythia, Odious Construct and Worn Thin 8pm Friday. Call for cover.

Blue Lamp Power metal

Events

sac beer week events ★

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Thursday 3/3 • 5pm ★ FRUIT BEER NIGHT 25+Fruit Draft Beers of varying styles!

Local Food Vendor, Cash Prophets start at 7pm, Live Art & Art Display from local Artist Annie Limond ★

★ Friday 3/4 • 4-7pm ★ SEVEN STILLS TASTING & BEER PAIRING BBQ starts at 4 ★ Saturday 3/5 • 7pm ★ Pizza Port Tap Take Over & Revision Brewing Collab Night! PIG ROAST BBQ starts at 6pm, 11 Handle Takeover!

Come Challenge the Brewers to Cornhole & Horseshoe Games!

Country Club Saloon Prizes for 1st and 2nd places

4007 Taylor Road Loomis, CA {EXIT I-80 TO SIERRA COLLEGE}

916-652-4007 countryclubsaloon.com

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Dr. Jan's Dentistry For Children

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Janice R. Work, D.D.S.- Certified Pediatric Dentist Hours: Mon-Thurs 6:30 AM TO 3:30 PM

For An Appointment Call: (916) 683-PEDO (7336) www.drjanwork.com

Being in the wrong place at the wrong time can happen to anyone at anytime. If you or someone you care about is involved in an accident, you'll need the services of Ashton & Price regarding your personal injury case.

Many times, these accidents are caused by someone's negligence. That's when Ashton & Price can help.

Their office is at 8243 Greenback Lane, in Fair Oaks.

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The worst things can happen to anyone. You should be aware of your legal rights.

The editors of this 2016 Consumer Business Review are proud to recommend for the 10th year Ashton & Price. They care about your problems, and invite you to call and make arrangements for a free initial consultation!

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Does the thought of going to the dentist fill your children with fear and apprehension? Is this fear keeping you from taking care of their teeth properly?

Dr. Jan's Dentistry for Children in Elk Grove, at 9045 Bruceville Road, Suite #180, wants you know they can make your visit a pleasant and relaxing experience, striving to make every visit to Dr. Jan's office a FUN one!

Dr. Jan has taken a great deal of time and effort to make her office a friendly, fun and comfortable. Everyone on her kind and caring team shares the goal of providing the best pediatric dental care, making it a relatively fun experience. They all know just how important your children's teeth are, not only for appearance but also for general good health. Dr. Jan's emphasis is on your child's oral hygiene.

The best way to keep your children's teeth and gums healthy is to have regular check-ups and good, professional care, which starts by their 1st birthday. Dr. Jan can help your children keep their healthy, happy smiles.

CALL TODAY FOR AN APPOINTMENT! The editors of this 2016 Consumer Business Review for the 16th consecutive year highly recommend Dr. Janice R. Work, D.D.S., to our readers for competent, pediatric dentistry, since 1992 serving the community!

"Distinctive Designs For Your Total Image" Celebrating 18 Years of Service to the Community Voted Best Hairstylist In Sacramento Missy O'Daniel - Owner

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Phone 916-422-5650 For A Tour Dedicated to providing the finest assisted living options for seniors. With some of the finest facilities anywhere, Sky Park Gardens has become the preferred assisted living facility of many families throughout the community. The quality of care that the resident receives at Sky Park Gardens is rated with the very best. Located on beautiful landscaped grounds at 5510 Sky Parkway, near the Floran Mall in Sacramento.

Here you can relax and spend your time enjoying life instead of worrying about the little things. Let the team at Sky Park Gardens do that. Your favorite hobbies and past times can become pleasant realities when you're a resident of one of the community's most positive environment retirement communities, Sky Park Gardens.

The editors of this 2016 Consumer Business Review recommend Sky Park Gardens to anyone needing the utmost in quality care!

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What constitutes a person's total image? Well, a great deal depends upon healthy, fashionable hair and radiant skin, qualities that are the hallmark of Allure Salon and Spa. Allure is located at 815 16th Street, Suite #4 (Between 'H' and 'I'). You will discover what many regular clients have known and raved about for the past yearâ&#x20AC;Ś Missy's talent to transform their image by design cuts uniquely tailored to their facial features is unparalleled! Missy doesn't just cut hair, she expertly employs a system of hair design that compliments your facial features, providing contemporary designs that are also easy to care for. The salon itself radiates an atmosphere of tranquility. A full line of superior beauty products is available.

Allure Salon and Spa specializes in the modern beauty services such as Brazilian blow out, permanent hair straightening, hair extensions, corrective hair color, highlighting and coloring. More than just your hair can get beautified: complete skin care is available, featuring facial services, massage, anti-aging treatments, lash & brow tinting and waxing for the modern woman or man. Few investments you can make for your total image will provide more aesthetically visible results!

The editors of this 2016 Consumer Business Review recommend, for the 18th consecutive year, Allure Salon and Spa as the best salon in Sacramento, because of it's tranquility, aesthetics, personal one-on-one attention and modern styling for today's woman and man!

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Who keeps 'em rollin' in this area? Many experienced truckers trust Mike & Son's Truck Repair! With service facilities at7500 San Joaquin Street, in Sacramento, this is one firm that knows when a rig is down it costs you money. They are considered to be, not only among the fastest, but also among the best!

No matter what you drive: Kenworth, GMC, Peterbilt, Mack, IH, White or any other brand of truck...they'll get you back on the highway faster than anyone! The qualified technicians can handle both gas and diesel repairs. They are factory trained and can completely overhaul most any engine. Also keep in mind that when your trailer is in need of repair, Mike & Son's Truck Repair, Inc. offers repair of most trailers including fabrications and aluminum and metal welding.

The editors of this 2016 Consumer Business Review for the 6th year know you'll appreciate the kind of service and the quality of workmanship you find at Mike & Son's Truck Repair, Inc.!

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Serving Northern California since 1903, Best Collateral is the most professional, convenient and confidential alternative to complicated bank loans; as well as THE place to find the most outstanding bargains for fine merchandise of all kinds. Never pay full retail price again!

Don't mail your gold away and get a pittance for it some weeks later. Get a fair price for your gold - with NO WAIT. With the reputation for loaning the highest dollar in short term renewable loans on gold and diamond jewelry, Rolex and other valuable watches, loose diamonds, precious gems, TV's, DVD's, video equipment, musical instruments, cameras, tools and most all manner of goods, visit Best Collateral first.

Visit a multi-lingual location near you. In Sacramento, at 908 "J" Street, phone 916-448-7545, or visit us online at www.bestcollateral.com to find the location nearest you.

The editors of this 2016 Consumer Business Review recommend Best Collateral to our readers for their fair and friendly practices.

Lic #3404-0975 An automobile has become so vital to the American life style that when it malfunctions we are basically stranded. We want it fixed right now!

There are so many auto repair shops it's extremely difficult to find one that will provide honest service with knowledge and experience to handle any problem your car may have. We have found such a firm, and we recommend Roger's Automotive Repair, at 12215 Locksley Lane, Unit #5, in Auburn.

From a tune up, to major repair work, Roger's Automotive Repair has the tools and the knowledge to get you back on the road in the shortest possible time. They are the professionals with an impeccable reputation, and their prices are honest and reasonable. They provide something else that's extremely difficult to find these days...personal friendly attention to you and your needs.

So, if you're new in the area, or haven't found a firm that meets up to your standards, the editors of this 2016 Consumer Business Review, for the 12th year recommend you make an appointment with Walt Schmidt at Roger's Automotive Repair...he'll take good care of you, at prices you can afford!

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Detach from the role of grandmother, and free yourself from pain.

Anytime we confuse who we are with a role, we suffer. That’s because we inhabit the role, and in doing so, fail to be present with the people and situation we’re in. If you are being you, and not relating to your daughter and son-in-law as “parent” or to their children as “your grandkids,” you can relate to who they are. When you do, you might still have insights to offer about parenting, but you won’t believe you are “right” and your daughter is “wrong.” Yes, you can disagree with her choices, but as long as the grandkids are raised with love, wisdom and tenderness, you can relax. So don’t focus on external states. Concentrate on the state of your heart, mind and spirit.

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Aside from the fact the medicinal marijuana is a medicine, and California doesn’t tax medicines (Can you imagine paying taxes for penicillin or oxycodone?), this tax is a horrible idea. A top-shelf eighth of marijuana costs about $60 pre-tax. If this tax passes, the cost becomes $69, or maybe even $75. The friendly neighborhood weed dealer sells quality bud at about $40 to $50. It doesn’t take a degree in economics to do this math. The secondary point of regulating the cannabis industry—the first should always be to keep people who use cannabis from going to jail—is to discourage the black market. If the retail cannabis prices aren’t competitive, no one will buy your overpriced weed, and nothing will change.

Oregon and Washington face a similar problem. Lawmakers in those two states have been working to kill their state’s medical marijuana programs. Their argument is something like: Since adult use of cannabis is legal, all the people who need cannabis for medicinal purposes have disappeared. This is ridiculous. There are hundreds of thousands of people in California who use marijuana to treat symptoms from cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, chronic pain and all kinds of other things. Many of these people are not financially well-off. Using the sick and the poor to make extra money is not cool. SB 987 has just been introduced and there is time to kill it before it reaches the floor. Please call McGuire’s office at (916) 651-4902 and let him know how you feel.

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by Kris HooKs

by rob brezsny

FOR THE WEEk OF FEBRUARY 25, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Just one species has

a big enough throat to swallow a person whole: the sperm whale. If you happen to be sailing the high seas any time soon, I hope you will studiously avoid getting thrown overboard in the vicinity of one of these beasts. The odds are higher than usual that you’d end up in its belly, much like the Biblical character Jonah. (Although, like him, I bet you’d ultimately escape.) Furthermore, Aries, I hope you will be cautious not to get swallowed up by anything else. It’s true that the coming weeks will be a good time to go on a retreat, to flee from the grind and take a break from the usual frenzy. But the best way to do that is to consciously choose the right circumstances rather than leave it to chance.

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

clearance to fantasize about participating in orgies where you’re loose and free and exuberant.

It’s probably not a good idea to attend a literal orgy, however. For the foreseeable future, all the cleansing revelry and cathartic rapture you need can be obtained through the wild stories and outrageous scenes that unfold in your imagination. Giving yourself the gift of pretend immersions in fertile chaos could recharge your spiritual batteries in just the right ways.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Hell is the suffering

of being unable to love,” wrote novelist J. D. Salinger. If that’s true, I’m pleased to announce that you can now ensure you’ll be free of hell for a very long time. The cosmic omens suggest that you have enormous power to expand your capacity for love. So get busy! Make it your intention to dissolve any unconscious blocks you might have about sharing your gifts and bestowing your blessings. Get rid of attitudes and behaviors that limit your generosity and compassion. Now is an excellent time to launch your “Perpetual Freedom from Hell” campaign!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “A vacation is what

you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking,” said journalist Earl Wilson.

Do you fit that description, Cancerian? Probably.

I suspect it’s high time to find a polite way to flee your responsibilities, avoid your duties and hide from your burdens. For the foreseeable future, you have a mandate to ignore what fills you with boredom. You have the right to avoid any involvement that makes life too damn complicated.

And you have a holy obligation to rethink your relationship with any influence that weighs you down with menial obligations.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Your illusions are a part

of you like your bones and flesh and memory,” writes William Faulkner in his novel Absalom, Absalom! If that’s true, Leo, you now have a chance to be a miracle worker. In the coming weeks, you can summon the uncanny power to rip at least two of your illusions out by the roots—without causing any permanent damage! You may temporarily feel a stinging sensation, but that will be a sign that healing is underway. Congratulations in advance for getting rid of the dead weight.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “We are defined by

the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by,” says Virgo writer A. S. Byatt. That’s a key meditation for you as you enter a phase in which boundaries will be a major theme. During the next eight weeks, you will be continuously challenged to decide which people and things and ideas you want to be part of your world, and which you don’t. In some cases you’ll be wise to put up barriers and limit connection. In other cases, you’ll thrive by erasing borders and transcending divisions. The hard part—and the fun part—will be knowing which is which. Trust your gut.

the imaginative chutzpah and resilient willpower necessary to turn the mishmash into passable nourishment. Or here’s another alternative: You could procrastinate for two weeks, when more of the available resources will be natural.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your Mythic

Metaphor for the coming weeks is dew. Many cultures have regarded it as a symbol of life-giving grace. In Kabbalah, divine dew seeps from the Tree of Life. In Chinese folklore, the lunar dew purifies vision and nurtures longevity. In the lore of ancient Greece, dew confers fertility. The Iroquois speak of the Great Dew Eagle, who drops healing moisture on land ravaged by evil spirits. The creator god of the Ashanti people created dew soon after making the sun, moon and stars. Lao-Tse said it’s an emblem of the harmonious marriage between Earth and Heaven. So what will you do with the magic dew you’ll be blessed with?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s prime

time for you to love your memory, make vivid use of your memory and enhance your memory. Here are some hints about how: (1) Feel appreciation for the way the old stories of your life form the core of your identity and self-image. (2) Draw on your recollections of the past to guide you in making decisions about the imminent future. (3) Notice everything you see with an intensified focus, because then you will remember it better, and that will come in handy quite soon. (4) Make up new memories that you wish had happened. Have fun creating scenes from an imagined past.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Most of us know

about Albert Einstein’s greatest idea: the general theory of relativity. It was one of the reasons he won a Nobel Prize in Physics. But what was his second-best discovery? Here’s what he said it was: adding an egg to the pot while he cooked his soup. That way, he could produce a soft-boiled egg without having to dirty a second pot. What are the first- and second-most fabulous ideas you’ve ever come up with, Capricorn? I suspect you are on the verge of producing new candidates to compete with them. If it’s OK with you, I will, at least temporarily, refer to you as a genius.

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

familiar with the iconic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are. It’s about a boy named Max who takes a dreamlike journey from his bedroom to an exotic island, where he becomes king of the weird beasts who live there. Author Maurice Sendak’s original title for the tale was Where the Wild Horses Are. But when his editor realized how inept Sendak was at drawing horses, she instructed him to come up with a title to match the kinds of creatures he could draw skillfully.

That was a good idea. The book has sold over 19 million copies. I think you may need to deal with a comparable issue, Aquarius. It’s wise to acknowledge one of your limitations, and then capitalize on the adjustments you’ve got to make.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “People don’t want

their lives fixed,” proclaims Chuck Palahniuk in his novel Survivor. “Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions.

Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up.

Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.” Your challenge in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to prove Palahniuk wrong, at least in regards to you. From what I can tell, you will have unprecedented opportunities to solve dilemmas and clean up messy situations. And if you take even partial advantage of this gift, you will not be plunged into the big scary unknown, but rather into a new phase of shaping your identity with crispness and clarity.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When life gives you

lemon juice from concentrate, citric acid, highfructose corn syrup, modified cornstarch, potassium citrate, yellow food dye and gum acacia, what should you do? Make lemonade, of course!

You might wish that all the raw ingredients life sends your way would be pure and authentic, but sometimes the mix includes artificial stuff.

No worries, Libra! I am confident that you have

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Shared humanity One bag of basic essentials in exchange for one story. That’s all it takes to be a part of the Happy Homeless Project, a senior project started by Jennie Jasperson and Chloe Chang. The two C.K. McClatchy High School students started the social media experiment in December, and, with the help of community donations, have been handing out kits filled with socks, travel-sized hygiene products, snacks and water ever since.

How did you two begin doing this?

Jennie Jasperson: Well, it was actually Chloe’s idea originally.

Chloe Chang: Before we started doing this before the senior project, my sister and I actually saw the idea online to make bags and pass them out to the homeless. … We didn’t end up passing out that many, but I saw that I could expand it as a senior project. Another huge source of inspiration was—do you know the Humans of New York account?

Yeah, I love that account.

Chang: Well, I really liked what they did with their account, so I was thinking of combining that idea, and I know that Sacramento is one of the worst cities when it comes to homeless population in the state, so …

Has there been a lot of traffic on your Instagram and Wordpress accounts?

Chang: The Instagram account has 40 followers, so it’s not on Humans of New York’s level yet. They’re actually most of our schoolmates who are interested. I feel like the blog has gotten more attention.

Jasperson: I noticed that after I shared it, then over a couple of days, we got over 100 views to our blog, which is really cool.

We weren’t expecting to get that many because it’s not that big of a project.

What type of questions do you ask?

Chang: We don’t really have to ask questions, we just say that we’re doing a project and we want to hear your stories.

It can be long, short, happy, sad, funny or really traumatic.

Jasperson: We just ask them to share an experience. We always mention that it doesn’t have to be about how you became homeless or what your experiences are like on the streets. It can be about anything in your life. If they are willing to

Taking a cue from Humans of new york, Chloe Chang (left) and Jennie Jasperson share the stories of the homeless.

PHOTO BY LISA BAETZ

share, then they always find something to share with us.

Any funny stories?

Jasperson: They don’t really tell us any funny stories, but they’re just funny.

Chang: Yeah, you can just tell that a lot of people are really happy out there. Not necessarily happy with their situation, but they’ve retained their liveliness.

Jasperson: Yeah, they make jokes with us, and they laugh. So it’s not like every single person we meet has this depressing, heart-wrenching story.

What do you want people to take away from this project?

How have your experiences been so far?

Chang: It’s really overwhelming to see how massive the population of homeless people in Sacramento is, so every time we go out, we always see a new group of people.

Jasperson: Yeah, we never see the same face twice.

Chang: Even if we’re in the same area.

With he people we’ve talked to, there’s just so many, like—it just opens up your eyes that a lot of the reasons why they’re homeless aren’t really their fault, and it could happen to anyone.

What’s the story that you’ve heard that has hit you the most?

Jasperson: [A man named Rodney] said something about how he had daughters, and when they were younger, he wasn’t

really in their lives. Several years later, when they had grown up, he went to find them again, and he said that when his daughters saw him, they just asked him, “Where were you, Dad? Why weren’t you there for us?” That really touched me, just thinking that I wouldn’t know what I would do if my dad wasn’t here for me as I’m growing up. So that story really, really touched me in just how life is hard and maybe it wasn’t his fault that he couldn’t be there for his daughters. But it affected more than just his life. It totally changed his daughters’ lives, too.

Chang: I guess we just want to humanize homeless people more and bring light to them. Like, this one guy we talked to, he said that he grew up in the suburbs with a really nice family. And I remember at the end, he said, “I guess I just grew up too spoiled.” So, I’m just hoping a lot of people can just see a little bit of themselves in stories like that.

Jasperson: Yeah, just being able to not look at the homeless as a group, but seeing them as individuals. I guess that’s the biggest thing that we hope other people will see too. Ω

To check out some of the stories, visit @TheHappyHomeless on instagram or http://thehappyhomeless.wordpress.com.

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