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Tech expectations With the recent presidential-election craziness, it can be easy to forget there are important issues at the local level, too.

There’s the mayor’s race, of course—and with it questions about the region’s outlook. SN&R addresses that with this week’s feature “Make Sacramento great again” on page 12. In addition to interviews with candidates Tony Lopez and Russell Rawlings, it includes a to-do list of 10 things the next city leader needs to take on, including better services for the homeless and improved public transit, among other mandates.

I’ll add a No. 11 to the list: Better tech opportunities for all.

With close proximity to Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, Sacramento should be poised to emerge as not just a hub for tech jobs, but a place that fosters great ideas and the resources to follow through at every level—from grade school to college and beyond. Right now, we’re still too far off the map. Last April, Sacramento ranked at No. 69 on NerdWallet’s 100 “Best Places for a Tech Job.” In February, a report from SmartAsset put us at No. 43 on its list of best places for women in the industry.

Those rankings (both based in part on opportunities and salary) aren’t good enough. Change, however, doesn’t just start at the hiring level.

Whether it’s bringing free highspeed Wi-Fi to the city via Google Fiber, implementing additional computer literacy programs in schools or funding improved access to digital devices in underserved communities, Sacramento’s next leader must push the region beyond the status quo and into the future.

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Health insurance. I had to go to the doctor and I waited to be seen over two hours.

I could have gone to the [emergency room] and been seen sooner. I wasn’t the only one. It’s like it wasn’t staffed well. … I had just had a seizure and told them that. They didn’t even check on me.

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There are a lot of empty buildings. It makes me think and I say, “If I had the money, I would invest.”

Investors could put people in there and there would be jobs. An investor could do this and at the same time be a successful businessman.

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I’d like to see him or her deal with the homeless problem. There needs to be a designated area, a place for the homeless, some kind of location where they can get mail and perhaps get a job or some income so they can move forward. They have no place to be. Everyone needs a place to be.

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Stand up for what’s right Re “On Guard” by Graham Womack (SN&R Beats, March 3): We need to again stand up nationally for what is right. California, including Sacramento, stood up strongly against apartheid in South Africa

and needs to just as strongly oppose the horrific abuses in the private prison-industry complex.

The United States of America leads the world by far in number of people incarcerated; this injustice is especially evident in the terribly unjust proportion of African-Americans imprisoned and in the disproportionate manner lengths of sentences

have been historically calculated against people of color.

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Say no to G4S Re “On Guard” by Graham Womack (SN&R Beats, March 3): As a United Methodist, I am proud that my denomination is one of several that have divested from G4S because of its involvement in human-rights abuses and private prisons. The Presbyterians, United Church of Christ, Quakers and Mennonites have all taken a stand for socially responsible investing by dropping G4S. Our public-transit dollars also must be spent with social responsibility in mind— that is why RT should not extend the G4S contract and allow it to expire this June.

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Identity crisis Amid proposed fare increases, cuts to service and declining ridership, Regional Transit scrambles to figure out who it’s going to serve

by Cosmo Garvin

Sacramento Regional Transit is not what it used to be. RT has lost 9 million annual riders since 2009—owing to steep fare hikes and deep service cuts. At nearly 26 million riders a year, the system has fewer passengers than at any point in the last decade.

And the troubled transit agency may soon lose more riders. Last month, RT staff recommended a 20 percent base fare increase, hikes to discounted fares and elimination of the monthly Paratransit pass for seniors and riders with disabilities. RT is also considering elimination of several more “underperforming” bus routes.

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transit the most: seniors, the disabled, youth and low-income riders. And fare increases and service cuts may only worsen the problem.

“To me, it’s like a death spiral,” says Jeff Harris, a Sacramento Regional Transit board member and city councilman. “You cut service, people can’t use the system, ridership drops, revenue drops.”

RT staff acknowledged that fare hikes would likely drive ridership down an estimated 3 percent for every 10 percent of fare increase.

“A big fare increase is not going to bring riders back. It’s likely to accelerate the decline,” says Greg Thompson, a transportation researcher who is working with

the local government watchdog group Eye on Sacramento. “A 20 percent fare increase would be catastrophic.”

And many are questioning RT’s timing.

Harris called the fare hike proposal “really out of the blue.”

RT’s most recent budget contained no hint of a looming shortfall. It did acknowledge that cheap gas prices were pulling down ridership, but fare revenues were still projected to outpace expenses for the next five years. That budget also projected more riders and more fare revenue thanks to the extension of its Blue Line to Cosumnes River College.

And in October, RT staff floated a proposal for gradual fare increases every

two years, because the agency had not raised fares since 2009.

But by late January, the financial forecast was scrambled, and RT was projecting sharply lower fare revenue, and asking for a big fare increase right away.

“I think there may be some funny accounting going on,” said Michelle Pariset, with Organize Sacramento, a group advocating for low-income and transit-dependent riders. “I read the last budget. I didn’t get a sense that [RT] were so underwater that they had to cut routes and raise fares. So what is it they want to pay for?”

Pariset and Thompson both noted that the amount of money that RT proposed to raise with higher fares, $4 million a year, is exactly the same amount of money that has been proposed for the operation of a new streetcar line to serve downtown development. Eye on Sacramento and transit advocates have been critical of streetcar, which would compete with neighborhood transit service for operations money.

Eye on Sacramento also wants RT to look closely at the new Green Line, which loops between downtown and the

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Eye on Sacramento’s Thompson thinks suspending operation of the Green Line could save millions. RT staff have considered changes as part of their analysis of underperforming routes, but haven’t made any determination about possible savings.

RT is also losing money to fare evasion, particularly on the light-rail trains. RT says 5 to 10 percent of riders don’t pay, though the real number may be higher. As of February 1, if you have a monthly pass, you have to swipe it now to board the bus, supposedly because people were photocopying passes. Harris says it’s well known that checking fares on trains “only happens infrequently.”

RT is hoping to hire more ticket checkers to ride the rails. Checking just 20 percent of riders would help give the impression that the system is back under control, says Thompson. But he warned the crackdown may not fill RT coffers. “It will probably cost more to step up enforcement than you’ll get back in revenue.”

Another idea that may help: bring back transfers. RT eliminated free transfers between bus and rail in 2009, ostensibly as a way to increase revenue. But Thompson said the loss of transfers, and the “dismembering” of RT’s coordinated bus and rail system, drove steep losses in ridership. “I think restoring that free transfer would have a big effect.”

RT is bringing back transfers, sort of.

Last month, RT launched its RideSacRT smartphone app, which allows customers to plan trips and buy tickets using their phones. Passengers who use the app also get unlimited transfers for 90 minutes.

But customers who don’t have smartphones, data plans or credit cards won’t get free transfers. “That’s an inequity,” said Chris Jensen, with the Resources for Independent Living, which advocates for Sacramento-area people with disabilities.

“They should bring back transfers for everyone.”

Usually RT conducts an “equity analysis” for any action that affects fares. But that hasn’t happened with the smartphone app, yet, because it’s technically only a pilot project.

The app highlights a certain tension writing, RT had not made that proposal between RT’s new focus on “choice riders,” public. who might be lured to occasionally leave RT has the highest base fares of any their cars behind, and the agency’s mission public transit system in California. But to serve the transit-dependent.

Sacramento taxpayers give very little “We’re going to get to a tipping point, financial support to transit, compared to where choice riders use the system, where other cities. it feels safe and it stays in the black,” Harris RT gets one-sixth of one cent from explains. The downtown Kings arena and Sacramento County’s Measure A sales tax other downtown destinations are part of for transportation projects. By comparison, RT’s choice-rider strategy. In fact, the arena Bay Area governments levy a half-cent for is the only place where RT is currently transit (three times the rate in Sacramento), planning new service. while Los Angeles taxpayers give a penny At the same time, RT is trying on every dollar spent (six times to squeeze more money from Sacramento’s rate). the transit-dependent.

“You get what you pay For example, RT hiked for, and we have to find a fees for Los Rios way to pay for something College student bus better,” said RT board passes last year. “It member Councilman feels like they are Steve Hansen during trying to change the the February meeting. customer base,” says As it happens, RT board member and Pariset. “When poor the Sacramento Councilman Jeff Harris people don’t ride the Transportation on cuts to RT service bus anymore, then the Authority, the multichoice riders will ride.” agency partnership that Transit advocates are administers Measure A, is pushing in the opposite direction. considering an additional half-cent They want “means tested” fares, like Seattle sales tax that would be divided up among and San Francisco, where low-income riders several transportation spending priorities, pay half price for monthly passes. In San including roads and transit.

Francisco, the low income Lifeline monthly RT’s long-forgotten Transit Action plan pass is $35. Sacramento RT—a much more shows a half-cent of additional sales tax limited transit system—charges $100 for revenue could fund a significant expansion a basic monthly pass, $50 for seniors and of the system, including streetcars, addistudents. tional light rail and more neighborhood bus Jensen said RT should hold off on and shuttle service. any fare increases until it investigates the But when STA sent out glossy mailers possibility of raising additional revenue earlier this month to help build support through sales taxes—more on that for a new sales tax, public transportation later—and until the agency finally implewas barely mentioned. There was a bullet ments its long-awaited Connect Card point about expanded Paratransit service for technology. seniors and disabled folks, and one about The Connect Card, which was supposed improved security and cleanliness for light to be implemented last summer, would rail. But the mailer focused more on repavallow the agency to be more creative with ing streets, widening highways and building its fare structure—for example, bringing new infrastructure. Nothing about expanded back central-city fares, higher fares for long RT service. (Regional Transit wasn’t even commutes and cheaper fares for short hops. mentioned by name.)

The Connect Card could also make it easier At the February meeting, Hansen said to implement a low-income fare.

RT faced an “existential quandary,” and that “There are all kinds of things you can do a “robust conversation” about the agency’s with the Connect Card,” said Jensen. “How future was needed. can we honestly talk about the best fare On this point, Jensen agrees. “I think RT structure when that’s still not in place?” is having an identity crisis. It has to decide It was clear during the February RT what it wants to be. If they decide they want meeting that a 20 percent fare increase gave an elite transit system for ‘choice riders,’ many board members heartburn, and there well, OK. But we still have to figure out seemed to be no appetite for elimination of how to provide affordable and accessible the monthly Paratransit pass. public transportation for everyone.” Ω Harris said it’s likely that RT staff will propose a more modest fare increase at its next meeting on March 14. But as of this

“To me, it’s like a death spiral.”

As the Sacramento City Council weighs making tent encampments a piece of its response to homelessness, Steve Watters wants to make sure his vision doesn’t get lumped into that one.

For the past two years, the executive director of First Step Communities—and the former head of Safe Ground Sacramento, which is spearheading talk of tent towns—has been seeding the idea of portable villages of tiny cabin homes, dotted around a permanent community center and medical clinic.

These temporary communities would house up to 125 people a year, directly connecting them with caseworkers, as well as medical, mental health and addiction services.

Watters envisions temporary communities as the evolutionary bridge between emergency tent encampments and permanent housing. “We’re somewhere in the middle,” he said. “We’re not the solution to homelessness, but we think we can play a big role.”

As people leave the village to enter permanent housing, new people would take their place. And when there was no more need, the cabins could be moved to where that need still existed.

Meanwhile, the community would get to keep its community center and medical clinic.

Versions of the villages exist in Oregon and Texas, among other places. Watters says Sacramento City Council representatives in Districts 2, 5 and 8 have expressed potential interest in providing the land, a fact he says was twisted in a recent column by The Sacramento Bee’s marcos Breton, who implied the villages were being forced onto poorer neighborhoods. Not true, says Watters.

He says the idea is to “go to the neighborhoods where the need exists.”

“The idea of putting tent communities in shouldn’t stop us from looking at longer-term solutions,” he said. “We support that as an emergency response. It gives people some hope.” But “what we’re talking about is really a separate concept.” (Raheem F. Hosseini)

the dRopout Before she was ever really in, Jenn Rogar has exited the race to challenge central-Sacramento City Councilman Steve Hansen.

She notified her Facebook followers of her decision on February 25.

“Due to some [unforeseeable] and some foreseeable circumstances, I will be withdrawing from the pursuit of the 4th District city council seat,” she wrote in a post on her wall. “More specifically, it is for family and health reasons. I apologize in advance to anyone I have let down. I feel like a bit of a fool. Thank you for your support.

Any donations I will return immediately.”

In response to a comment on her Facebook page, the teacher and amateur singer-songwriter wrote that juggling two jobs if elected would have “jeopardized my health.”

“I never intended to leave my day job,” she continued. “I was given the truth by insiders about what the commitment to city council entails. I haven’t slept well since deciding to run.”

Rogar never officially pulled papers to compete in the June 7 race. As a result, she hasn’t filed any campaign contribution forms.

But she publicly stated her intent to challenge Hansen during the public comment portion of Sacramento City Council meetings.

As of press time, hansen stood unopposed in his bid for a second straight term. (RFH)

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the Homeless Bill of Rights, legislation that would disallow cities to ban homeless people from resting or sleeping in public spaces.

Mama Cat says she is frustrated that anticamping laws continue to persecute otherwise nonoffending homeless people. “Many people out here have never had any kind of criminal record.

Now they’re getting ticketed. They’re creating criminals,” she argued.

Los Angeles isn’t alone in modifying or repealing parts of its anti-camping ordinance. Last month, the city of Portland passed a new law that allows sleeping bags and tarps on sidewalks between the hours of 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. The city also now allows tents on some public property, too. right to rest activists set up at the capitol.

Here in Sacramento, a subcommittee of three council members is exploring solutions for how to A short woman with a big smile stands in front deal with this growing homeless population. They of the state Capitol near L Street, braving the visited a “tent city” in Seattle last month, held a Tuesday morning chill. Next to her is a pushcart public meeting on February 29 and plan to make with rules and slogans emblazoned on its side: recommendations to the full council in April.

“Right to rest,” “Occupation,” and “Repeal None of the three council members on the Ordinance 12.52.030,” the latter being Sacramento’s subcommittee, however, responded to an SN&R now-famous “anti-camping ordinance.” email asking to discuss the possibility of a repeal The woman, who goes by the name or modification of the anti-camping Mama Cat, says she came up from ordinance, or whether they were Los Angeles recently to support looking at policy in Los Angeles or the Sacramento Right to Rest Portland Portland. movement. She’s actually from Meanwhile, Clark said passed a new law New Orleans, but had to leave that, even though the Right to that allows sleeping after Hurricane Katrina. She Rest movement has left City says she knows all too well bags and tarps on Hall, he doesn’t want council what it’s like to live and members to think they’ve quit. sidewalks between sleep on the streets.

“I am kind of concerned that the hours of 9 p.m.

In Los Angeles, however, they’ll think that we just left there’s a new law that allows and 7 a.m. because we were defeated,” he homeless people to camp and sleep explained via telephone on Tuesday. outdoors between the hours of 9 p.m.

“I’m worried that they might assume and 6 a.m. But not here in Sacramento; that. But it’s not true.” police regularly roust her during the night, but He called the move to the Capitol “more of an she’s yet to be cited under the anti-camping law. escalation than a de-escalation,” because now they “I’m lucky. I’ve gotten two warnings since I’ve have to deal with California Highway Patrol officers been here,” she said. At night, she occupies the in addition to city police. They also have to acquire sidewalk along L Street in front of the Capitol. “But a permit, which is free, for each day’s protest. you can’t sleep. You sit in a chair, and you don’t Clark also vowed to return the protest to City get caught sleeping.”

Hall next month.

So goes the city’s Right to Rest effort. After 90 S.B. 876, which was introduced last year and days of occupying a strip of grass in front of City was authored by Southern California Democrat Hall, homeless protesters are now located a few Carol Liu, awaits a possible committee vote someblocks away at the state Capitol. time this spring. If it makes it out of committee, it “We moved to the Capitol on Friday to support would still need to pass both houses and receive the S.B. 876,” James “Faygo” Clark, one of the governor’s signature. Ω protest’s main organizers, wrote in a text to SN&R this past Monday. The Senate bill is also known as

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Just before 3 a.m. on a torrential Saturday in January, John Dee Hawkins lost control of his semitrailer, authorities say.

The combination vehicle veered into a concrete wall that separates opposing lanes of traffic and bounced to a stop near the right side of the highway, just north of the P Street exit. A ruptured sidesaddle tank hemorrhaged approximately 50 gallons of diesel fuel onto the roadway, and was swept by the heavy rains into a nearby storm drain.

The January 16 accident is one of five small-time hazardouswaste wrecks that the California Highway Patrol has responded to this year so far. They take an environmental toll, say environmental officials.

“It only takes a little bit,” said Mary Fricke, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response.

According to an SN&R review of communications between the CHP and Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, vehicular accidents have dumped approximately 380 gallons of diesel fuel and 20 gallons of motor oil onto roadways, into the soil and, in two cases, storm drains.

That’s already 37 percent more diesel fuel than was spilled during all of 2015.

As much as 125 gallons of diesel fuel have entered storm drains, all in the city of Sacramento, compared with only 20 gallons last year, also in the city.

Diesel is a lighter oil that can be cleaned up effectively when spilled, Fish and Wildlife says. But it can persist when it gets into soil or sediment, and impact the food chain. Almost all storm drains empty directly into rivers, creeks and bays without any type of water treatment. “So a little bit could actually go a long way,” Fricke told SN&R. According to a CHP report to the county, the January 16 accident may not have a lasting environmental impact, since heavy rain flow would have helped dilute whatever fuel entered the storm drain. But, CHP Capt. E.L. Robinson added in a cover letter, “It is possible that residual fuel remained and [possibly] entered the river, which could cause an adverse effect on public health or safety.”

That’s what happened 10 days prior, when another semitrailer lost control during a rainstorm and hit the center wall on the northbound side of I-5, north of Capitol Mall Drive. This time, heavy rains fanned as much as 75 gallons of diesel fuel from a punctured sidesaddle tank into a storm drain.

County spokeswoman Brenda Bongiorno says the storm drain connects to a pump station that releases its contents into the Sacramento River, but says the rain would have diluted the oil’s impact.

Fricke said that if the spill occurs in an environmentally sensitive area, “even a small amount can be bad.” Ω

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Thank you, Jerry Enomoto A life lived with love and justice at its core by jeff vonkaenel

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legislation requiring redress for the internment of Jerry Enomoto came into the world January 24, Japanese Americans.

1926. He left the world on January 16, 2016. That In 1982, he married Dorothy Stevens, an gave him nearly 90 years to make the world a better African-American classmate of Martin Luther King place. Which he did.

Jr. They were both active in numerous civil-rights At the celebration of Jerry Enomoto’s life issues, and they co-founded Sacramento’s annual last Saturday, at a hall donated by local Muslim Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Dinner. leader Moe Mohanna, numerous community At Saturday’s celebration of life, a woman read leaders—including U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui, U.S. a different quote from Jerry after each speaker.

Marshal Albert Najera, U.S. Attorney Benjamin These quotes demonstrated the scope of his life and Wagner, former California Senate President the importance of his work. Here are two: Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, former Sacramento “Having been born and raised in California District Attorney Jan Scully and former and having experienced the internment of 120,000 colleagues from the Japanese American Citizen Americans of Japanese ancestry without charges League—all told stories about how Jerry and his or trial, I can personally testify to what can happen wife, Dorothy, had changed their lives. when we are judged by the color of our skin, and Born in San Francisco, Enomoto was attending Lowell College Preparatory School when his family the land of our ancestors.”

“Those who take equality for granted can learn was shipped out to internment camps, along with a lesson from our experience, which demonstrated 120,000 other Japanese-Americans. In 1943, he how fragile our Constitution can be when graduated as high school valedictorian at there is a failure in political leaderTule Lake War Relocation Center. ship. This is timely today, when This high school was noted more we find once again political for its armed guards, prison leaders eager to scapegoat walls and barbed wire than immigrants, legal or for more traditional high illegal, for all the ills of school features. our society.”

After serving in the After September 11, United States Army, Enomoto connected Enomoto earned the experience of his bachelor’s and Japanese-Americans in master’s degrees at 1942 with the current UC Berkeley. He experiences of Muslim then began his career Americans. Enomoto as a counselor at San brought his political Quentin Prison. He Jerry Enomoto stature to the task of became the first Asian working to ensure we do not Pacific Islander to serve ever have a repeat of the 1942 as prison warden, the first internments. to serve as head of the State Enomoto represented America at its Department of Corrections and the first finest. Speaking on behalf on the planet, thank you, to serve as U.S. Marshall.

Jerry. Thank you. Not only for what you accomLike Nelson Mandela, who was able to turn plished. But also for showing all of us of how to his mistreatment into a desire for universal justice live a life with love and justice at its core. Ω instead of revenge, Enomoto worked tirelessly for better treatment for prisoners and for civil rights for all. He served two terms as the head of the Japanese American Citizens League, where he was Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority owner of the News & Review. instrumental in spearheading the successful 1987

“The lack of a political voice made us easy victims of the racism that led to internment.”

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School to banK Uc Davis chancellor linda Katehi’s been raking in additional salary, serving at the UC, but also on the boards of DeVry University and a major textbook publisher. Assemblyman Kevin McCarty called for Katehi’s resignation. State Sen. Richard Pan has her back, however, and Katehi will donate some of her board earnings to student-scholarship funds.

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DeMarcus Cousins hammered a blow-by dunk for his 8,000th career point against the San Antonio Spurs (see also: his 259th career loss). The Kings were five games out of the eighth and final playoff spot as of this past Monday.

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Ten Things The nexT mayor of sacramenTo absoluTely needs To accomplish (and, yeah, we know sac is sTill a greaT place)

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obs. Crime. Development. The economy. We get it: These are the proverbial electoral-politics commandments that apparently matter to voters every cycle. And that’s OK—we’re fans of employment!—but the next mayor of Sacramento should be about more than just blanket platitudes that appeal to Joe and Jane Voter.

That’s not to say that the only thing frontrunners Angelique Ashby and Darrell Steinberg do is cough up generic promises to build more housing and get guns off the streets. There’s substance to those two, thankfully. Same goes for challenger Russell Rawlings (read more about him on page 15), and Tony “The Tiger” Lopez (well, perhaps the issues are more opaque in Camp Tony; read Raheem F. Hosseini’s profile on page 16).

Anyway, the clock is ticking and it’s three months until the June 7 election. Time to push forward issues we here at SN&R think the next mayor absolutely needs to get done.

Some of our ideas will encourage the mayor to work with the region at large—which in K.J. Land has been a foreign concept. Other pitches we consider obvious, even low-hanging-fruit priorities—such as more friggin’ trash and recycling cans in public spaces. (What’s up with that?!) And, of course, some of our proposals will sadly be met with all kinds of political pushback. Sigh.

Nevertheless, 10 things our future mayor should definitely put on the front burner:

Fund A 24-hour homeless crisis center Police or one of the city’s “navigators” encounters a homeless person sleeping outdoors. What happens next? Where do they go? The emergency room, jail or nowhere—those are the options.

Why not a crisis and triage center, a facility with caregivers and social workers, that’s open 24 hours?

Yes, city council is currently looking at this as part of its homelessness subcommittee outreach. And, yes, these centers are expensive. But if Sacramento is truly serious about helping its worse-off citizens, it’s time to invest in this type of facility. The county should kick in to pay for it—and the next mayor will have to work with the county to make it a reality.

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The city passed tough regulations on taxis a few years back—but did nothing to address Uber, Lyft and the ride-hailing economy.

Big mistake. Now, Uber manipulates “surge” pricing to at once undercut the cab companies and screw over users during peak hours (rainy days and busy after-hours nights). Cities such as Portland have passed

laws that protect against obscene surge pricing—and that city even gets a $1 fee from certain rides.

Sacramento also needs to protect Uber and Lyft drivers. For instance, some weeks many Uber drivers don’t make minimum wage, after cost of gas and vehicle upkeep. Uber also preys on drivers with dubious car-loan and “rideshare insurance” programs.

In the past, SN&R has recommended holding off on regulating ride-hailing companies. That honeymoon period is long over.

We’re also concerned that local electeds accept money from Uber and at the same time sit on their hands when it comes to oversight and regulation. How is this acceptable?

The clock is ticking and it’s three months until the June 7 election.

think two wheels over four The demand for two-wheel commuting and recreation far exceeds Sacramento’s bicycling infrastructure.

Here are a few suggestions to get the city out of first gear when it comes to bike policy: more public bike racks, including art racks; more paint on the roads and improved connectivity of the Jedediah Smith Memorial Bike Trail.

Bike racks are an easy, highly visible way to promote bikes as a safe and smart alternative to car travel. Let’s ramp up programs that make bike racks at local businesses and city centers more affordable.

(Think bike valet at the new Kings arena, eh?)

How many cyclist-vehicle accidents do we have to read about in the news before corridors like Arden Way or Freeport Boulevard adopt safer bike lanes?

Ditto the central city: Sacramento is generally flat and ideal for bike commuting—yet the prevalent attitude is that biking here is unsafe. Wha?! More modern bike lanes and road diets is an easy fix.

And how stupid is it that the American River Parkway bike trail, which draws significantly more visitors annually than basketball and soccer matches combined, doesn’t connect citywide, with south Sacramento, the Pocket or West Sac? The new mayor needs to work with the region to link up the Jedediah Smith Memorial Trail. It’s a gem, as they say, but it’s also a low-cost recreational option that can better serve the region.

end housing segregation Our most recent city council made a huge mistake.

It essentially gutted the city’s affordable-housing program, on the heels of similar cuts by local governments region-wide. This allows developers to focus only on housing projects for the wealthy in the central city—and poor people, if they get anything at all, are basically priced out to the city outskirts.

This makes zero sense, of course. And, worse, over years it will foster increasingly segregated communities: rich people on the grid, low-income folk relegated to north and south Sacramento.

Our next mayor needs a plan to bring low-income and workforce housing back to the central city. Maybe the solution is to incentivize smaller, affordable multifamily homes and apartments near light rail, a.k.a. transit-oriented development for the poor right here in the central city. We’re ready to hear new ideas!

Because if the next mayor doesn’t have a plan, we’ll be fueling new segregation patterns for years to come.

Bring Back the Buses Regional Transit’s annual state-of-the-union breakfast goes down this Thursday morning. There likely will be a lot of chatter about how outgoing General Manager Mike Wiley and Co. are finally “cleaning up RT” and getting light rail ready for the new Kings arena. That’s great. But it’s time for some real talk about RT’s critical deficiencies. In recent years, RT eliminated bus lines, increased fares, canceled free transfers and ditched the $1 central-city fare. Not cool. It’s time to bring all of these services back.

It’s about holding up the bottom and serving transit-dependent riders in the city’s inner-ring neighborhoods. RT needs to focus on route connectivity and better headways. And it needs to have a cheaper monthly pass for low-income riders.

Sure, we love rail and streetcar and all these central-city amenities. But RT should foremost serve

those riders who can’t afford cars, who look to buses and light rail as their first and often only option. (Read Cosmo Garvin’s news story this week, “Identity crisis,” on page 6 for more on RT.)

help sex workers As SN&R staff writer Raheem F. Hosseini has reported, there’s a public health and Black Lives Matter crisis in south Sacramento on Stockton Boulevard. Sex workers, who once worked online and with the safety of screening clients on websites now deemed unlawful by the FBI, have fled to this corridor, working in the open night. These predominately black woman have no recourse to escape this dangerous lifestyle.

The next mayor needs to work with the council member and county supervisor representing this district to help get these women off the streets.

Maybe a solution is a new women’s crisis center that helps with recovery and job hunting? All we know is that the FBI and local law enforcement aren’t finding solutions—so it’s up to us to make it right for the women of south Sac.

More sunshine at cit y hall City council greenlit a whirlwind of good-government reforms last year … but there’s still a helluva lot of work to be done. SN&R says drill down on these three issues: email, public financing of campaigns, and behests.

City employees should be using city email for public work. Mayor Kevin Johnson’s precedent of using private Gmail is dangerous: The city is more vulnerable to litigation, the city attorney can’t access public records and the mayor is much less accountable.

The city manager must put a stop to this, and the next mayor needs to set an example.

There need to be city rules for when persons or corporations donate unlimited monies to electeds’ private groups and nonprofits, or what is called “behesting.” City laws need to improve transparency and require electeds to recuse themselves from potential conflict-of-interest votes. As is, if the mayor takes money from, say, the Walton Family, the mayor can still go and vote on the city’s big-box ordinance.

Unacceptable.

It’s also clear that getting rid of public financing for campaigns has discouraged candidates to run for public office. (All four council members running for re-election this year, for instance, face scant opposition as of this print deadline.) It’s time to bring back public financing: It makes for a healthier democratic process, and it also means that candidates don’t need major dollars from special interests to get into the game.

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We thought Sacramento was going to be the greenest city in the world, a proverbial “Emerald City”? What happened to those lofty goals? Hell, we don’t even have recycling cans accompanying trash cans in our most popular downtown hospitality districts, and the city’s green-housing initiative years later still lacks teeth.

Listen to Leonardo DiCaprio, at least. Climate change is real, and it’s time to be aggressive: to force developers to build energy-efficient housing, to motivate residents to curb water and electricity use, to reward businesses that are eco-conscious and better stewards of their products and afterwaste. It’s time to really get green, Sacramento.

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Longshot mayoraL hopefuL russeLL rawLings pushes issues that matter to the disenfranchised

Public transit is a major issue for Rawlings as a candidate. But it Russell Rawlings jokes that he spent most of his life prior to running also impacts him personally, since he can’t drive. He wants Regional for mayor simply learning how to live. The 38-year-old Sacramento Transit rail and buses to be more accessible for everyone.

State student has the use of just one hand due to cerebral palsy, and For instance, there was a mayoral forum recently at KVIE, whose he needs a motorized wheelchair to get around. But Rawlings says he headquarters is more than an hour by RT’s Paratransit service from will fight more for the rights of poor and disenfranchised people than Rawlings’ Oak Park home. So Rawlings needed a $40 ride in a any other candidate in the mayor’s race. specially equipped taxi just to make it to the debate.

“Most people are less than one paycheck away from being on Rawlings is modeling his campaign in part the streets, and it’s a really scary reality,” after U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, Rawlings said. who bills himself as a democratic socialist. “It’s “He’s not a politician,” his caregiver Kim not about me as a person,” Rawlings said. “It’s Fuller told SN&R. “There are a lot of people about us as a community, and I think that’s a “MOst peOple aRe who are interested in a candidate that’s not a great message.” politician.” It’s true that Rawlings is foremost less than One Lack of money, both personally and in the an activist: a veteran of the Occupy moveform of public campaign financing, makes ment and also head of DOGFITE, a group paychecK aWay fROM running a challenge, however. “I don’t have that lobbies for disability rights. financial resources to donate to the campaign.

With little in his campaign coffers and Being On the stReets, … I don’t really have any kind of dedicated facing very long odds running against Darrell staff at the moment. However, I intend to Steinberg and Angelique Ashby, Rawlings and it’s a Really push these issues out into the forefront, and I looks to foster discussion about a variety honestly hope to inspire others to come to the of progressive ideals, such as having the scaRy Reality.” table.”

Sacramento Police Department hire more russell rawlings It’s working: At the end of the KVIE from the LGBT and minority communities. mayoral forum last month, audience member “It’s well-known that the hiring practices Alex Hilke approached Rawlings about getting of the police department don’t truly represent involved with DOGFITE and volunteering on the communities that they’re serving,” his campaign.

Rawlings said. “So we need someone who’s “It was like a West Wing moment,” Hilke told SN&R. “I just kind going to be a champion for changing that.” of sat there, and I’m like, ‘This guy’s actually making sense. He’s Similarly, Rawlings would like City Hall to follow through with talking about it in an astute way, where he understands the issues its ethics commission, and one with legal enforcement power to more than most people up there.’ I thought at times he outperformed hold public figures accountable. “There’s a lot of distrust,” he said. even Steinberg.” Ω “People feel like they don’t have a voice. And I think empowering people is going to be a big key component” to getting votes in June.

Specifically, he said the pathway to empowerment includes more affordable housing and less gentrification.

Open up the RailyaRds tO the RiveR distRict By all accounts, there’s likely going to be a Sacramento Republic FC soccer stadium in the blossoming railyards district. That’s fine. But let’s demolish the unused train trestle that separates the railyards from north B and 12th streets and the River District. Let’s integrate the overconcentration of low-income and homeless services near Loaves & Fishes with the forthcoming railyards community. There’s scant hope to diversify investment in the River District when it’s cut off from downtown. The next mayor must tear down that trestle and link vehicle and pedestrian access to Sacramento’s gateway near Highway 160.

tOilets and tRash cans!

Where are the hell are the public bathrooms and trash cans? What is wrong with this city?

The United Nations dinged Sacramento multiple times in recent years for not providing public restrooms and drinkable water. The next mayor must fix this.

A solution: Restrooms that are attended to and cleaned by paid homeless people. Ditto trash cans. This at once provides a job for someone who needs one, gives our most disadvantaged citizens a places to relieve themselves (and a better sense of dignity) and keeps our streets cleaner. No-brainer! Ω

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Lopez is running to replace one and join two others on the Sacramento City Council, but he hasn’t made it easy on himself. He has yet to report any campaign contributions or political endorsements, and he’s the lone Republican in a race dominated by big-name Democrats Darrell Steinberg and Councilwoman Angelique Ashby.

So why isn’t this tiger sweating?

“I don’t give a shit about Steinberg, I don’t give a shit about her [Ashby],” Lopez says in true, prebout, smash-mouth fashion.

“I’m on my own mission.”

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RAging Bull Unlikely mayoral candidate tony ‘the tiger’ lopez takes off the gloves in his first political boUt. bUt is the ex-champ really a contender?

Tony “The Tiger” Lopez isn’t accustomed to losing.

Compact and cobalt-eyed, the 53-yearold south Sacramento native hung up the gloves in 1999, capping a professional boxing career with a win percentage of 85 and three world titles. He then built a second career as a celebrity bail bondsman, and claims he hasn’t let a client skip out on him in 15 years.

But apparently there isn’t enough juice in signing autographs and chasing bail-jumpers.

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hasn’t been in a while: an amateur and an underdog.

Though, not in his mind.

“Politics isn’t hard. It’s fricking easy,” he boasts. “If you have half a brain, you can solve half the problems.”

Here’s how Lopez would solve his half: If elected, he says he will audit the city’s spending, crowdsource the development of the riverfront and charge homeless people rent in exchange for affordable housing.

And, though it’s a county issue, he’d also like to see the downtown jail start a chain gang like the one in Maricopa County, Ariz.

“You shouldn’t want to go to jail,” he says to the nervous laughter of his campaign manager. “I say make them work.”

That’s Lopez, whose unfiltered thoughts batter the air like rushed combinations. He’s a palooka philosopher taking his barroom brainstorms to the political stage. But is he a contender?

In any other year, no.

“If everyone runs a conventional campaign in a conventional year, then Lopez likely would not have much of an impact,” says conservative political consultant Tab Berg. “But Lopez is not a conventional candidate, and these are not conventional times.”

We’ll say. 2016 is the year of the celebrity apprentice as national frontrunner. And this is Sacramento, which has made a habit of electing ex-athletes.

Lopez says he’s been thinking of running for office for a few years, but it’s difficult to pin down his exact reasons. The hyperactive candidate flits from talking about auditing elder-care facilities to pimping out the riverfront with hotels like a Monopoly game board.

“We want to do shit that attracts people from all over,” he says. “That’s how you make the city money.”

As for his plan to end homelessness, Lopez makes it sound like a cinch. He says he wants to rent out “very retro—not ghetto, not dumpish—but very retro” affordable housing to people experiencing homelessness for $100 a month, money he says they would otherwise spend on drugs or alcohol. Homeless residents would have to be on a citywide register for at least a year before they could access these services, so as not to attract struggling people from outside the city. Lopez says he wouldn’t charge military veterans or those with mental illnesses, but everyone else would pay and be put to work.

“Watch, if I give you free, how much value is that to you? Nothing, it’s free.

Doesn’t cost you shit,” he reasons. “And that’s their attitude, because I talk to the homeless. … I talk to so many homeless people you could not shake a stick at. Been doing it for years.”

Two homeless service providers declined to comment on the Lopez plan (“I simply cannot,” said one), but most of his ideas are like this—confident sketches that may play well over clinked beers, but sound half-baked in the sober light of day.

And Lopez doesn’t necessarily dispute this. He considers himself a big-picture guy who isn’t interested in the minutiae of policy. He says he failed his first bail bonds licensing exam because he tired of answering “boring questions.”

“Here’s what I’m bringing, dude, I’m bringing the foundation,” he says. “Doesn’t mean there’s a building on it, but I’m bringing the foundation. Maybe your building is

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better than mine. If your building is better An environmental compliance officer than mine, fuck, dude, we’ll use yours.” with the county’s Waste Management and That kind of Teflon-minded swagger Recycling Department, Horr’s work shirt might not be a weakness this political literally features a blue collar. He grew up season. Donald Trump’s surprising ascent in the same neighborhoods and attended has proven there’s a “yuge” market for the same schools as Lopez, around the crass bluster. And Sacramento is no same time. To him, that stuff matters. stranger to electing sports celebrities to “That’s why I’m here,” he explains. political office.

“He’s from the same Just ask former place I am. You can’t Gov. Arnold deny that.”

Schwarzenegger This is the demo(bodybuilding), graphic that Collins departing Mayor believes is his guy’s Kevin Johnson for the taking: white, “I don’t gIve a shIt (basketball) and male baby boomers council members who can relate to about steInberg, Allen Warren Lopez’s humble roots (baseball) and Rick and admire his path I don’t gIve a shIt Jennings (football). to athletic glory.

So why not an “Now, to the aver[ ] about her ashbY . ex-champ? age person, you or I, “The advantages might look at it and I’m on mY own that we have say, ‘Yeah, boxing, mIssIon.” surgically is that that’s great,’” Collins Tony also has says. “But within the Tony “The Tiger” Lopez iconic status in the communities that like community,” says boxing, it’s a big deal. campaign manager And that’s a lot of Chris Collins, espewhite males, as you cially, he contends, know, who are now among Latinos and in this voting age, 55 white, male baby to 75.” boomers. It’s the former category that Horr isn’t quite there age-wise, but Collins thinks could swing this race. he is supporting a “Tony The Tiger” “The unknown in this is Hispanics. administration. He offers to volunteer And I can tell you right now that the for the campaign and invites Lopez other two candidates are freaking out to attend—and speak at—an annual about it,” says Collins, a former morning gathering of people who attended radio personality. “I’m not saying they’re Hiram W. Johnson and Sacramento automatic. If they were, the race would be high schools during the ’70s and ’80s. over, he’d win.”

“It’s off the hook,” he says.

After some more boosterism, the two share a big laugh over Horr’s last name. “I ‘You want to know don’t know if you’ll remember it,” he tells how real I am?’

Lopez. “H-O-R-R, and that’s exactly the way it’s pronounced.”

In making his case that Lopez is this race’s Lopez claps his hands giddily. real crime-and-punishment authority, “Awesome!” he says.

Collins points out a man with a ponytail “Yeah,” Horr grins, “you don’t forget and goatee, who has been waiting in the that one.” lobby for about 40 minutes.

It’s easy to see the tiger’s appeal in a “You have somebody who’s sitting moment like this. He’s the approachable here who Tony is working with as a celebrity, the guy you’d want to—and client,” Collins says. “He helps people. can—have that beer with.

He’s more helpful than the other two “You want to know how real I am? … [candidates] are.”

Shit, call me, motherfucker, I’m everyThe man pokes his head into the room. where,” Lopez says at one point. “I can be “No, I’m here to sign for the mayoral in Lavender Heights, I can be downtown, I thing,” he corrects, then turns to Lopez. “I can be at the mall. If it’s fun, I’m there.” went to school with you.”

Fun—it’s Lopez’s ultimate campaign Meet Mark Horr, the quintessential promise. And he’s made it to himself. Ω Lopez supporter.

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Emily Rose’s Backyard Soapsmith products include ingredients sourced from area farmers markets.

FA R M - T O - F A C E Sacramento DIY entrepreneurs harvest a new crop of natural beauty products

BY LOVELLE HARRIS • PHOTOS BY LISA BAETZ

bounty of Sacramento Valley region’s agricultural wellspring is rich and plentiful, nestled between the glacial beauty of the Sierra Nevada and the fertile wetlands of the Delta waterways. The area supplies 80 percent of the world’s almond harvests and also produces a massive rice crop. No surprise, then, that it’s been dubbed the nation’s farm-to-fork capital.

And while area farmers, chefs and foodies have been enjoying such abundance for decades, local entrepreneurs are also shopping the harvest to transform it into a new crop of beauty products derived from natural sources rather than questionable or potentially dangerous chemical compounds.

Think of it as a kinder, gentler, nontoxic quest for beauty, says Emily Rose, founder of the Backyard Soapsmith.

“When I started doing research and realizing what kind of ingredients were in commercial beauty products, I was a bit appalled,” Rose says. “So, I started to think to myself, as a consumer, I should

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have a choice of what goes in the products that I put on my body.”

Rose, who uses Etsy to market and sell her line of all-natural soaps, face scrubs, lip balms and body butters that she whips up in her Sacramento home kitchen, isn’t alone in questioning what she was putting onto her body. The entrepreneur is part of a wave of other regional DIYers opening up shop to satisfy a market that puts health first.

Pat Rogers of Folsom started her company, Babbling Brook Soap, after becoming certified in aromatherapy as a means to alleviate stress. It was then that she discovered that even the most innocuous-sounding ingredients could pose a health concern. And although laws have been passed in California to address concerns about, among other things, the presence of phthalates—a group of industrial chemicals linked to birth defects in men—business owners such as Rogers say making their own products ensures a personal understanding of the risks and benefits of every ingredient used.

Rogers’ products include handcrafted soaps, lotions, lip balms, body and massage oils, perfume oils, room sprays, body butters and bath salts made with locally harvested natural ingredients. She crafts her beauty supplies to exceed California standards put in place after laws were passed requiring better business transparency.

In 2005, the state passed the California Safe Cosmetics act, which mandates the disclosure and explanation of any known carcinogens or other potentially dangerous ingredients found in cosmetics. There’s even a database where consumers can investigate the ingredients in products living in their medicine cabinets and vanity tables.

“It is kind of scary. I learned about essential oils and a lot of synthetic compounds, too,” Rogers explains. “And [with] synthetic compounds, the molecules are so very much smaller than natural compounds that they will even get into your bloodstream, and you can find evidence of some of these things in your liver.”

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The idea of using natural ingredients in beauty products isn’t a new concept: The ancient Greeks used the pigment extracted from crushed mulberries to adorn lips and cheeks. Egyptians used barley flour and butter to soothe and relieve irritated skin. The original mean girl, Cleopatra, implemented an elixir comprised of almond oils, apple cider vinegar, Dead Sea salts, honey and milk to abate the signs of age.

If natural products worked for the ancients, why does the modern beauty industry look to parabens, phthalates, preservatives and ammonia to take care of the largest organ in the human body—the skin?

That question may be unanswerable—at least, from an ethical standpoint—but it’s certainly a motivating factor for DIY entrepreneurs.

Shawn Baird was looking to put a natural stamp on her own experience in the beauty industry when she started cooking soap in her Sacramento kitchen and launched EnoughBody on Etsy in 2014. She’d had enough of not being able to understand what ingredients were going into the products she and her family were using, she says. Now, as her business has expanded into boutiques in Folsom and art galleries in Roseville, Baird’s product line includes shea lip balm, body wash gel, natural deodorant, perfume oil, body lotions and butters, liquid hand soap and exfoliating sugar scrubs.

“I have sensitive skin and one of my kids has really sensitive skin, so that’s kind of where it came from to begin with,” she says. “When she was really little, she just had horrible rashes and so I started doing natural stuff for her just because it seemed less irritating for her skin [and] it kind of just grew from there.”

Since Elizabeth Arden, who opened the first modern beauty salon in 1910, took cosmetics out of the kitchen and into the lab, beauty has evolved into a billion-dollar industry with few signs of slowing

down. And as more information emerges to warn of possible dangers in products, beauty is starting in the kitchen once again.

“I’m a bit Type A, I’m a bit crafty and I’m a bit mad-science lover, so it’s kind of the best of all of the worlds because I can exercise complete and total control over what goes into my [products],” Rose explains. “I don’t have to put anything in it that I don’t like, so it makes it very easy for me create a custom blend.”

Honey and milk baths may sound exotic, but these procurers of the farm-to-face movement know that going natural is as easy as going to a farmers market.

“I [source] from a couple of different places— there are certain additives that I use in some of my products that I try and get here locally in Sacramento,” Rose explains. “I do have an avocado soap and I usually try to get my avocados from the farmers market, if they’re available. I have one that uses honey and beeswax that I buy [there] as well.”

As much as science has advanced over the years, the ancients may have been on to something when it comes to the beauty products we put on, and essentially, in our bodies.

“People should be able to choose what they’re putting on their bodies, and that is very important to me,” Rose says. “I’m not the only one in the city making this kind of stuff. There’s a little niche group of us who feel the same way about products and are doing the same thing. And you’ll notice a difference: It brings you closer to the earth.” Ω Learn more: Backyard Soapsmith https://www.etsy.com/shop/BackyardSoapsmith Babbling Brook Soaps https://www.etsy.com/shop/babblingbrooksoap EnoughBody https://www.etsy.com/shop/EnoughBody Want to know what’s in your cosmetics or bath and beauty products?

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Spotlight Serial It began with Serial’s theme song, the one that sort of starts out like “Chopsticks” and has become a common ringtone among the public radio-loving crowd. Then, the fuzzy voices, the old interview snippets. And finally, Serial podcast founders Julie Snyder and Sarah Koenig walked onto the Mondavi Center stage. It felt just right, like another episode of Serial, as the two public radio producers unspooled their narrative.

But first, applause. Huge applause. I haven’t seen Mondavi so packed nor a crowd so enthusiastic since the last time I saw Ira Glass here—on a Monday night, no less.

“This is really hard to believe, because look at us,” Snyder said, foreshadowing the rest of the evening’s self-deprecation and charm. “We’re public radio producers. … We’re not used to anyone paying attention to us.”

A little context: Serial began as a This American Life spinoff in 2014, a work of long-form journalism told weekby-week. Snyder and Koenig didn’t expect for it to become the hugely popular, obsessively followed thing that it is today—they hoped 300,000 people would listen to it at some point. They reached that goal less than a week after the first episode aired and soon started shattering records. Now, across two seasons, people have downloaded Serial more than 175 million times.

Over the next hour, Snyder and Koenig tried to answer a couple of questions: What happened? And why did Serial take off the way it did?

Snyder pointed to their decision to leave Koenig’s own thoughts in the reporting, to bring listeners into the process and embrace the humanity of it all. For that, they argue Serial feels more real, even with the thrilling storytelling, cliffhangers and theme song. Their goal is to reflect life as it is, full of complexities and ambiguities.

“Really truthful reporting can feel like art,” Snyder said.

Of course, the whole presentation was full of fun, behindthe-scenes notes: how Serial began in Koenig’s basement, and how they’d have to stop recording whenever one of Koenig’s kids needed to flush the toilet; how the person who pronounces MailChimp as “Mail Kimp” in the opening advertisement is actually a 14-year-old Norwegian girl, contrary to what a certain Huffington Post article claimed; how the hell the Serial Facebook account accidentally posted an “Adnan did it” comment, and how no one really noticed; and how Koenig and her murder-suspect source adnan Syed kind of, sort of flirted—in a manipulative, mutually advantageous way.

But most of all, I was struck by Snyder and Koenig, how calm and collected they seemed on such a big stage; how funny and clever they were, even off-script; and how they were completely normal, anonymous journalists, suddenly thrown into pop culture and public scrutiny.

Snyder ended their talk with an optimistic prediction, that even at a such a frazzled time in the media industry, people still have patience—and the desire—for journalism.

And, of course, someone in the audience insisted on asking Koenig if she thinks Adnan Syed killed his girlfriend in 1999. Koenig, of course, politely dodged it.

“How bored are you of answering that question?”

Snyder asked.

“I’m like a five,” Koenig said.

“I’m like a 10,” Snyder said.

Ditto.

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Ancient medium lives Strolling through the aisles of an art supply store recently, a flier next to the encaustic materials teased an opportunity to learn more about the 2,500-year-old medium. While the workshop promoted on that flier has come and gone, the ancient technique of using pigmented wax and resin to paint is alive and group SHoW well, as may be seen at Sparrow Gallery’s March group show, Heat: A Modern Look at an Ancient Medium. The show’s slew of encaustic-employing artists include Charlotte Cooper, Bethanie Humphreys, Barbara Nilsson, Linda Nunes, Adele Shaw, Emily Wilson and Dianne Poinski. Poinski, a local photographer, applies layers of transparent encaustic over her landscape and floral images, giving them an ethereal glow that would have made Barbara Walters’ wrinkle-masking camera filters on The View jealous. Yeah, they’re that dreamy.

Where: Sparrow Gallery, 2418 K Street; (916) 382-4894; www.sparrowgallerysacramento.com.

Second Saturday reception: March 12, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Through March 27.

Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“Spring” by Dianne Poinski, mixed media.

Meaty new format JayJay has a meaty inventory of art. The long-standing East Sacramento gallery has decided to let its patrons see that stash in more of a museumlike exhibition vs. a one- or two-person group SHoW monthly show. And because The Back Room II diverges from the solo-show structure, this “informal show” doesn’t include a reception, but who needs crackers and cheese when there is a feast for the eyes?

Where: JayJay, 5520 Elvas Avenue; (916) 453-2999; http://jayjayart.com.

Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and by appointment.

“Store” by Bill Shelley, paper collage, 2016.

Looking at the overlooked “Throwaway,” “forgettable” buildings were Bill Shelley’s muse. The Bay Area artist chose mundane, overlooked buildings in Northern CoLLAge California with underwhelming architecture, such as a bank, store, hotel and funeral parlor. With a neutral, gray-heavy palette, he used paper collage—a medium that is also overlooked or looked down upon as craft, not fine art—to pay homage to the buildings. The results are minimalistic, clean and not as easy to overlook as the actual structures likely are in person.

Where: Artspace 1616, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 849-1127; www.facebook.com/artspace1616.

Second Saturday reception: March 12, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

JayJay’s new approach will feature the art of many on its walls (and its floor).

Through April 3.

Hours: Thursday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and by appointment.

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ast March, the Sacramento City Council passed the Urban Agriculture Ordinance, allowing urban farmers to sell produce grown on their property or on vacant lots. Small farm stands quickly popped up, advertising their “hyperlocal produce” usually grown within a few yards of the stand.

But some residents of the Sacramento region soon learned that the ordinance would not apply to their properties, despite living a short bike ride from the city center.

“The actual boundaries of Sacramento City and Sacramento County are really weird,” says Matt Read, an organizer for the Sacramento Urban Agriculture Coalition, which is supported in part by The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative.

Many neighborhoods in South Sacramento, including those south of 14th Avenue all the way to Florin, are unincorporated and subject to the zoning ordinances of Sacramento County. Many of those neighborhoods suffer from lack of economic opportunity.

Judith Yisrael is a member of The Yisrael Family Urban Farm, which has land in both the city and the county. She says that fresh produce grown and sold locally will revitalize and strengthen these communities. “We live in a food desert. It is easier for me to locate and purchase a bag of

chips, a candy bar and a beer, than it is for me to fi nd an apple or fresh spinach.”

“WE LIVE IN A FOOD DESERT. IT IS EASIER FOR ME TO LOCATE AND PURCHASE A BAG OF CHIPS, A CANDY BAR AND A BEER, THAN IT IS FOR ME TO FIND AN APPLE OR FRESH SPINACH.” Judith Yisrael, The Yisrael Family Urban Farm

Yisrael believes urban agriculture can be a solution to a wide range of problems

facing her community. “This isn’t just about improving food access. It will provide economic development and opportunity throughout the county. Urban Agriculture

will improve the public health of our community.”

Read agrees: “Urban agriculture really gets people out on the sidewalk and engaging with their community. It is another tool to build community in a few minutes, to help people connect with a neighbor.”

The proposed county ordinance is still being developed. Chris Pahule, a principal planner for Sacramento County involved

Judith and Chanowk Yisrael of the Yisrael Family Urban Farm hope urban agriculture stands will soon be allowed in the county.

in drafting the ordinance, says that it still needs to get through the Community Planning Advisory Councils, the Planning Commission and the County Board of Supervisors before urban farmers could set up stands and start selling their produce in the county. It is unclear if and when the ordinance would go into effect.

The process may seem lengthy, but Yisrael is patient. “We understand that these types of things take time and research to really develop it all out.”

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.

Health Happens with Prevention.

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.

Start growing Sacramento’s Urban Agriculture movement!

Start growing food•Volunteer Attend public meetings Talk to your County Supervisor Visit www.sacurbanag.org for more info.

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One Voice: China THURSDAY, MARCH 10, THROUGH SATURDAY MARCH 12

here may be no better week than this one to play the part of sophisticated patron of the arts (before, of course, you play the part of drunk patron of Guinness on the 17th).

Kick it off Thursday, March 10, with a free (but definitely) highbrow event that just screams “art salon.” New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl will be on hand at UC Davis to discuss “The Critic as Artist: Updating Oscar wilde.”

The talk is part of the university’s Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture and starts at 4:30 p.m. in the Art Studio Building (1 Shields Avenue in Davis). RSVP by emailing LSEvents@ucdavis.edu.

Saturday, March 12, with the seventh annual Art of Painting in the 21st Century conference at the John Natsoulas Gallery (521 1st Street in Davis), starting at 10 a.m., the day is filled with programming regarding current trends in the art world and the work of artists Richard Whitten, Mark Van Proyen, Chester Arnold, Melissa Chandon and Richard Hull—all of whom will be in attendance and giving talks. A reception and gala follow at 7 p.m. and admission is free. Find out more at http://natsoulas.com.

On the morning of Thursday, March 17, celebrate Bright Underbelly, the much-anticipated 70,000-square-foot treecanopy mural on the underside of the freeway at W and Sixth streets. Put together by local artists and designers Sofia Lacin and Hennessy Christophel, this is the largest mural in the region and serves as an homage to the city’s native flora and fauna. The ribbon-cutting ceremony is at 9 a.m. Find out more at http://brightunderbelly.com.

Speaking of underbellies, if all of the above is a little too highfalutin for your rock ’n’ roll heart, catch a screening of Punk’s Dead: SLC Punk 2, sequel to the 1999 cult hit SLC Punk, at Tower Theatre (2508 Land Park Drive) on Monday, March 14, at 8:30 p.m. The film portrays drugs, alcohol and punk rock as it functions in super-conservative Salt Lake City. Tickets are $14 and can be purchased at https://tugg.com/events/92104.

—DeenA DRewiS

Did you know that one of Sacramento’s sister cities is Jinan, China? To commemorate that bond, students from the Natomas Charter CULTURE School and Jinan’s Confucius Institute are collaborating on a multimedia production that will document the commonalities these kids feel regarding family, peace, national pride, art and life. $10-$17; 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Saturday at Benvenuti Performing Arts Center, 4600 Blackrock Drive; www.benarts.org/OneVoice.

—AAROn CARneS

African-American Family History Seminar SATURDAY, MARCH 12 Genealogy is tricky. Family members change names, move around and sometimes go through multiple marriages. This presentation is designed to help African-American families retrace their FAMILY family trees. Genealogy expert Kenyatta Berry, host of PBS’s Genealogy Roadshow, will lead the discussion. $12-$28; 8 a.m. at the Sacramento FamilySearch Library, 2745 Eastern Avenue; www.sacfamilysearchlibrary.org.

—AAROn CARneS

Sac Comic-Con SATURDAY, MARCH 12, AnD SUnDAY MARCH 13 Sacramento’s premier biannual comic and toy convention is back with another round of pop culture fun. This weekend, the convention hall will be filled with myriad comics, toys, anime, CONVENTION and sci-fi and horror memorabilia.

At this two-day event, attendees can meet Paige O’Hara, the voice of Belle in Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and horror comic legend Bernie Wrightson. $8-$13; 10 a.m. at McClellan Conference Center, 5411 Luce Avenue; www.sac-con.com.

—LORY GiL

Vaudevillian Cabaret SATURDAY, MARCH 12 The Midtown Moxies is a dancing troupe specializing in the art of burlesque. In addition to the sultry stripteases that make this group sparkle, this show features singing acts, comedians and PERFORMANCE … pyrotechnics? Each performer brings her own personality to the stage, so there is something for everyone. Well, everyone over the age of 18, that is. $10-$20; 8 p.m. at Midtown Barfly, 1119 21st Street; www.midtownmoxies.com.

—LORY GiL

St. Patty’s Yappy Hour TUeSDAY, MARCH 15 Adoptable dogs plus booze—just what you need to make sure you wake up the next morning with a hangover, a new best friend and zero regrets. Right?

Stop by for a Track 7 beer; 20 percent of sales go to Sacramento SPCA. Plus, there will be costume PETS contests for best human and best dog in a green outfit. Free; 6 p.m. at Track 7 Brewing Co., 3747 West Pacific Avenue, Suite F; www.sspca.org.

—DeenA DRewiS

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Deli-worthy PastraMi sandwiCh, loCalis With no proper Jewish deli in Sacramento, what’s a girl with a pastrami craving to do? Believe it or not, she can go to Localis. At lunch, chef Chris Barnum whips up a towering pastrami sandwich ($13), loaded with napa cabbage kraut, golden pearls of mustard and meat juices dripping onto the dense, flavorful and barely burnt housemade rye. Then there’s the cascade of tender, peppery pastrami, which is also brined, rubbed and smoked in-house.

If you’ve avoided Localis in fear of high prices and tiny portions, this sandwich will prove you so, so wrong.

2031 S Street, www.localissacramento.com.

—Janelle Bitker

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Cocktails to go: If you’ve been to Shady Lady Saloon, then you probably know Ryan Seng. Or at least, you indirectly know Seng, because you’re familiar with his striking artwork. You also might know he’s a longtime bartender in town, formerly at Shady Lady and now at Grange Restaurant & Bar. Now, he’s embarking on launching his first business: Can Can Cocktails. Cocktails in a can, essentially. He’s been thinking about the concept “for forever,” as someone who can’t consume gluten and dreams of bringing six-packs of cocktails to parties.

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When Seng noticed last August that the San Diego-based brewery Ballast Point had unveiled a line of ready-to-drink canned cocktails, he called a lawyer to make sure the whole enterprise is legal. Then, he began making plans.

Expect flavors like a gin and tonic with grapefruit juice and lemongrass tonic; Boar’s Bourbon Sarsaparilla, which is basically a bourbon root beer; Jenny & the Mule, Seng’s version of a Moscow Mule; Shady Lady Old Fashioned; and a Sacto-sourced drink, featuring locally-distilled Wheel House 916 vodka, local Meyer lemons, local mint and local honey.

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As for distribution, Seng plans to start with a focus on Sacramento bars, restaurants and grocery stores.

He expects bars will sell cans at a similar price point to their other cocktails, but plans for folks to be able to pick up packs—studded with his artwork, of course—at a market for about $3 per can. Seng’s goal for all of this is August, because he wants to participate in Midtown Cocktail Week in some fashion, “even if I have to give them away,” he says.

Learn more and find the Kickstarter campaign at www.cancancocktails.com.

So happy: Empress Tavern finally gave in and added a happy hour menu. It offers $9 cocktails, down from the usual $11, and a bunch of small bites for $5, but many of those dishes were already $5. The real deal comes via the burger, which used to cost $16 and now can only be ordered from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. for $12. Also new: beignets, the New Orleans-style doughnut. Ω

Last summer, Davis-based Sudwerk released what its owner believes to be the first rye imperial India pale lager in the West Coast market. I didn’t fact-check that statement, but it’s definitely an unusual offering in a land dominated by IPAs. It’s also a nice beer bridge from winter into spring: roasty, spicy and malty while remaining crisp and light, with a not-too-aggressive hoppy finish. Still, it’s smooth and easy, especially considering its 7 percent alcohol content. Find 22-ounce bottles at most bottle shops for $6.99, or go straight to the source.

2001 Second Street in Davis, http://sudwerkbrew.com.

—Janelle Bitker

Sweet pods Peas Peas are practically a year-round crop in cooler areas, including much of Northern California. They don’t do well over winter, though, so the first crops since fall are now making their way to the markets. Look for sugar snap peas so sweet you can eat them right from the pods—but try to save some to stir into pasta primavera and risottos. Or try snow peas, the flatter variety. With edible pods, you can snack away or toss them in at the end of a stir-fry for a crisp addition. For a springy dip or pesto, puree peas with mint and fava beans.

—ann Martin rolke

Memorably hazy

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By Garrett Mccord

Hawks Provisions and Public House

HHHH 1525 Alhambra Boulevard, (916) 588-4440, www.hawkspublichouse.com Dinner for one: $30 - $40 Good for: a sophisticated night out Notable dishes: smoked salmon bruschetta, roasted sunchoke

salad, potato chips with French onion dip

Sometimes the best meals are the most difficult ones to remember. Chalk it up to one too many glasses of wine, the delirium of a good space filled by friends or just a dreamlike state caused by a truly excellent twirl of pasta. Regardless, Hawks Provisions and Public House hits that sweet spot where the only thing you may recall is the feeling of being happy.

This is the highest praise I can heave at the darling eatery.

After what took eons, Hawks Provisions and Public House, a dual restaurant and coffeehousebakery, finally opened in December. The space effuses warmth and sophistication but relies on keen staff to keep things relaxed.

Small plates are varied, well-executed and affordable.

Uber-crisp potato chips are served with a sweet French onion dip ($6); its earthy sweetness lingers around longer than heartbreak. This, I plead, should never come off the menu. A paté of pork shoulder and duck ($7), served with garlic bread and Armagnac-soaked prunes, is about as classic country French as you can get without leaving the United States.

Sunchokes don’t get enough love in the food world, too often puréed and forgotten under a slab of meat. Here, they’re deeply seared and roasted to the point that their natural sugars are so caramelized they taste like small nuggets of sweet potato pie. Paired with salty crisps of bacon, walnuts, Provolone and red frisée dressed in a warm vinaigrette, it’s one of the best salads I’ve had in years ($11).

In the fine dining world, steak tartare ($14) is the lava cake of the appetizer menu: seemingly always present, rarely exceptional. Yet, the creamy effect of cured egg yolk and crackly shards of baked Parmesan enlivens the often humdrum dish.

Homemade fusilli demanded our attention ($12 half order, $18 full order), with tender ribbons wound around briny Castelvetrano olives and arugula. It’s a pasta that doesn’t leave you heavy.

A Passmore Ranch red trout ($26) served with crispy skin—as it should be—was paired with charred trumpet mushrooms and leeks that brought out the lighter flavors of the fish. Sadly, it needed more acid and salt to fully come together.

The clear winner of the mains was the houseground wagyu beef burger ($18). Too many burgers rely on gimmicks and largesse that obstruct the flavor of the beef. Not so at Hawks.

This is simplicity at its best: beef cooked the blue side of medium-rare, Gruyere, caramelized onions and a sesame seed brioche bun. And the fries? Hot, crisp and salty. Think In-N-Out fries on the next level.

Some people have made a fuss about the cost vs. the portion size—and the gall of an $18 burger—but it varies from dish to dish. In some cases we couldn’t finish all of the food on the plate, while others left us wanting more. The value generally lines up with other higher-end eateries in the city, such as Ella Dining Room & Bar and Grange Restaurant & Bar. The wine menu is certainly vivid and varied, and many wines can be ordered by the half-glass. Cocktails mostly riff on well-known classics, but a few unique specimens show up, such as the Stockton Griffon ($14) with rye, vanilla, Fernet and chocolate bitters.

Don’t miss dessert. Coffee cream profiteroles served with butterscotch sauce make for an elegant, satisfying ending ($8). And brunch is just as brilliant, where housemade cinnamon rolls ($4) and a smoked salmon bruschetta ($16) left me utterly smitten.

In the end, it’s shocking I recalled all these memories considering the emotional haze it caused; you’ll likely find yourself in a similar amnesia if you dine here. Ω

Think In-N-Out fries on the next level.

The 10th annual Artisan Cheese Festival in Petaluma takes place next weekend, and for the first time, it features events in California’s Central Valley. About time, right? On Friday, March 18, two intimate tour groups will explore farms north and south of Sacramento from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The north tour meets at Nugget Market in Woodland (157 Main Street) and visits Pedrozo Dairy, Orland Farmstead Creamery and Sierra Nevada Cheese Co. up in Orland and Willows. The south tour meets at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op (1900 Alhambra Boulevard) and heads to Fiscalini Farmstead Cheese, Nicolau Farms and Nutcher Milk Company in the San Joaquin Valley for a mix of amazing cheddar, goat cheese and flavored milks. No matter the tour, you’ll meet farmers, hear stories, learn lots and taste delicious dairy products. Tickets cost $135, which includes transportation and lunch.

More at http://artisancheesefestival.com.

—Janelle Bitker

Conscious Eating meeting

By Shoka The Conscious Eating Conference in Berkeley aims to answer the following question: What are the best food choices we can make not only for ourselves, but for our planet and other animals? It’s not too far of a drive from the 916 to see the presenters United Poultry Concerns has pooled together to feed minds with solutions to this query— including Hope Bohanec, author of an article titled “The Humane Hoax,” and Ruby Roth, vegan children’s book author—and stomachs with vegan

scones, as part of a plant-based continental breakfast spread, and lunch from Hella Vegan Eats, a Bay Area food truck and maker of the “chorizo donut burger” and “mini burger cupcakes.” The whole, conscious shebang goes from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 19, at the David Brower Center (2150 Allston Way in Berkeley). Read presenter bios and register online ($15 in advance, $25 at the door) at www.upc-online.org/forums/2016.

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by Bev SykeS

The B Street Family Series brings literature’s most famous monster back to life with this excellent adaptation

by Jerry Montoya. Set in the opulent living room of the home that Mary Shelley and husband Percy own, on a dark and stormy night to amuse themselves, a group of 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. Excellent performances by all, particularly Megan Wicks as Mary, who narrates her story and holds her audience, on stage and in the audience, captive.

Sa, Su 1pm and 4pm. Through 3/20. $15-$20. B Street

Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreet theatre.org. B.S.

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A Masterpiece of Comic … Timing

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A Masterpiece of Comic … Timing ; 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday; $23-$35. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. Through April 17.

“Comedy doesn’t necessarily have to ‘mean’ anything,” says producer Jerry Cobb (David Pierini) in B Street Theatre’s world premiere of Robert Caisley’s A Masterpiece of Comic … Timing. “You take a hundred jokes and put it in two acts, there’s your plot.”

There are lots of jokes (some cleverly borrowed from other sources) that take up all of the crazy action going on on stage; there is a running gag and an early plot point that returns at the end to tie things up. There’s sexist humor, offensive humor, good clean humor, slapstick humor and weather aberrations.

When it all comes to an end, the audience is still laughing uproariously. Nobody cares that it really didn’t mean anything.

That this show works so well is due to the strong cast, some of the funniest in Sacramento. Pierini is a loud, blustery comic in the manner of Nathan Lane, who directs most of the action on stage.

Jason Kuykendall is Danny “Nebraska” Jones, the melancholy writer who has lost his comic muse.

Kuykendall is hilarious from the moment he enters the room and flops on the couch.

Then there is Andy Lee-Hillstrom as Cobb’s assistant, Charlie, who is that stereotypical lackey important people can’t seem to live without. With his ramrod straight spine and his tiny mustache, he becomes a caricature, but one that is very funny, Elisabeth Nunziato also takes a comic turn as the electric-haired Nola Hart, a girl with whom Danny has recently broken up with but also brought in to help him over his malaise. While the

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I think I know where playwright Madeleine George is trying to go in her dramedy 7 Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, now on stage at Big Idea Theatre, but I don’t think she’s there yet.

The plot involves a college dean (Linda Carbone) involved in a town-and-gown controversy over the imminent closing of a neglected natural history museum while simultaneously trying to reconcile within herself the professional and personal compromises she has made. When she invites a former lover with terminal cancer (Beth Edwards, channeling a dying woman perhaps too well) to move back into the home they shared— which she now shares with a younger lover (the impossibly talented Elyse Sharp)—there come questions of commitment, relevance, respect for the past and … death.

Watching over this and commenting on proceedings like a geeky Greek chorus are two representatives of early man—Zachary Scovel and Elizabeth Frederick. They add a lot of cogent humor but it’s unclear if they are live representations of cavemen in the diorama or whether they are inanimate replicas—like the mammoths—who happen to talk. The cast also includes Phillip Ryder as the museum caretaker.

Director Ruby Sketchley emphasizes the comedy in the dramedy, mining the talent of Sharp to the nth degree.

—Jim CaRnes 7 Homeless Mammoths Wander New England; 8 p.m., Thursday, Friday and Saturday; $10-$20. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.org. Through April 2.

At its core, this show is about its two title subjects, with sports and

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relationship analogies to capture the complexities of both. It’s the story of a roller-coaster relationship between community college philosophy instructor Michele (Brittni Barger) and baseball fanatic and documentary filmmaker Will (Brian Rife). The strengths of the production are the snappy repartee and fun baseball moments enacted by its talented actors. The weakness of the play is rooted in its scenarios and plotlines of convenience.

Th, F 7pm; Sa 8pm; Su 1pm; Tu, W 7pm. Through 3/19. $28-$35.

B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; http://bstreet theatre.org. P.R.

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Stick Fly

Shakespearean in nature—a great man is brought low by ambition and deception—the latest production from Celebration Arts is meaningful theater indeed. James Wheatley directs with a loose hand (perhaps too loose in scenes of high drama), but his cast, including Preston Collier as

the father and Tarig Elsiddig and Tory Scroggins as the sons, is excellent. Th, F, Sa 8pm, Su 2pm. Through 3/12. $8-$15. Celebration Arts Theatre, 4469 D Street; (916) 455-2787; www.celebration arts.net. J.C.

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Twelfth Night

In this production of the Shakespeare classic, it’s savvy women who stand tall. Alicia Hunt is charismatic as enterprising Viola, disguising herself as the beardless 20-something Cesario, and inadvertently catching the eye of wealthy and bored Olivia (the marvelous Melinda Parrett), who promptly puts the moves on the younger “man.” When Hunt and Parrett work together onstage, this show hums. Th 6:30pm, F 8pm,

Sa 2pm and 8pm, Su 6:30pm.

Through 3/20. $38-$15; Sac-

ramento Theatre Company, 1419 H Street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. J.H.

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That’s him in the corner Oh, Elizabeth Bennet, will you ever find love and marriage, and that horse and carriage? All while dealing with your mama drama, your pesky sisters and sundry suitors? Psst— the answer is silently standing over in the corner by way of the stand-offish Mr. Darcy. City Theatre stages a handsome production of Jane Austen’s sharp and witty parlor drama of manners, manors and marriage: Pride & Prejudice. The theater does have audio issues—a detriment in a dialoguerich play—and varied levels of performances, but overall this is a sweet rendition of a much-loved classic. $10-$18; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday at Performing Arts Center at Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Boulevard; www.citytheatre.net.

—Patti RobeRts

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at her wedding two years ago—just about the time Banning was cleaning the clocks of those North Korean gate-crashers. Couldn’t Barkawi have One pitfall of making a sequel to a guilty pleasure guessed? Surely that was in all the papers, even in movie is the danger of doubling down on the guilt while Pakistan. Barkawi may have suborned huge swaths walking us back from whatever pleasure the original of British Intelligence, the London Metropolitan offered. London Has Fallen does exactly that, with fists Police and the guards at Buckingham Palace to join flailing. his assault team, but did he really think he’d be a In 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen, Secret Service agent match for Mike Banning? The man didn’t do his Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), exiled to a desk job after homework. saving the life of President Benjamin Asher (Aaron A sequel to Olympus Has Fallen was inevitable, Eckhart) at the expense of the First Lady’s, redeemed but either Antoine Fuqua decided not to press his himself by being Johnny-on-the-spot when North luck or the sequel’s 20 producers (including Korean terrorists invaded the White House star Butler) opted to look elsewhere—the and kidnapped the president. The script director this time is Tehran-born

by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Babak Najafi, making his EnglishBenedikt was chock full of nuts, but language debut after a promising London Has Fallen director Antoine Fuqua hammered start in his adopted home of slides quickly into the action out with a certain amount Sweden. Najafi doesn’t try to of style, and Butler’s steely-eyed a sort of sadistic match Fuqua’s flair for gritty Bruce Willis act held our interest. street-level realism—or maybe monotony and Now it’s two years later, and he did and couldn’t manage narrative confusion.

Banning is back in the president’s it. Either way, London Has protection detail, ready for action when Fallen slides quickly into a sort a trip to London for the funeral of the of sadistic monotony and narrative British prime minister degenerates into a confusion. When Barkawi’s mole in terrorist battle that leaves Big Ben, Westminster British security is finally unmasked, we’re Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, Chelsea Bridge and not even clear on who it is. Wait a minute—who other landmarks in ruins, and several world leaders dead. was that one again?

This last point is a little unclear in all the mayhem, but Several overqualified and underused actors from we catch fleeting glimpses of bigwigs from Germany, Olympus return to knit their brows over this latest France, Japan and Italy getting their tickets punched crisis—Vice President Morgan Freeman, Secret in elaborate fashion, like teenagers in the latest Final Service Director Angela Bassett, General Robert Destination sequel.

Forster, etc. At least one of them won’t be back We can’t exactly count them because they don’t when Mike Banning sees the next city fall. But never exactly count; the real prize here is President Asher, mind who. That would be telling. Ω whom the terrorist army intend to take alive so they can kill him on live TV. Behind it all is a Pakistani arms dealer named Barkawi (Alon Aboutboul), still mad at the West for Poor Fair Good Very excellent a drone strike that missed him but killed his daughter 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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Embrace of the Serpent

Writers Sean Macaulay and Simon Kelton and director Dexter Fletcher blithely fictionalize the story of Michael “Eddie” Edwards, the English plasterer who realized a lifelong dream by attending the 1988 Winter Olympics as a ski-jumper. He didn’t win—came in dead last, in fact—but he had the time of his life and captured the indulgent attention of reporters and viewers, especially back home in the U.K. Taron Egerton plays Edwards with boyish, infectious zest, and Hugh Jackman does as an amusing turn as Eddie’s (fictitious) coach.

Some hilarious facets of the true story are left out while much is invented, but the movie is an irresistible sports tearjerker. J.L.

Although Colombian writer-director Ciro Guerra based his languidly hallucinatory Amazon adventure Embrace of the Serpent on the real-life diaries of two white explorers, the story is viewed through the eyes of Karamakate, an isolated shaman who encounters both men four decades apart. Guerra divides his two-pronged narrative patiently instead of urgently, but if you give Embrace of the Serpent time to build its world, the film grows quite entrancing, like an episodic jungle adventure à la Apocalypse Now with flashes of a Herzog-ian rainforest fever dream. It’s an elegy for lost cultures and an indictment of exploitation only occasionally waylaid by its own dreary good intentions. Guerra and cinematographer David Gallego make excellent use of black-and-white photography here, refusing to indulge like tourists in the lush greenery of the jungle.

The style feels equally indebted to history and hallucination, just right for a film about the link between memories and dreams. D.B.

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In a conspicuously pale-skinned ancient Egypt, 10-foot tall, shape-shifting deities walk amongst the mortals. Favored son and ribald god Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) prepares to ascend to the throne when he’s maimed and exiled by his father’s power-mad brother Set (Gerard Butler); meanwhile, a resourceful human thief (Brenton Thwaites) tries to retrieve his dead wife from the underworld. Smeary, cartoonish, largely unimaginative CGI special effects wash over every single shot of director and cowriter Alex Proyas’ dopey spectacular, while the performances are a bizarre mixed bag. Butler is crazy bad as the villainous Set, and it feels like Thwaites’ mop-topped thief wandered in from a community theater performance of Xanadu, but Geoffrey Rush was born to play Ra, the Egyptian sun god. The film is so ridiculously awful that it threatens to bend back into compelling camp, but the end result is just too excruciating to be entertaining. D.B.

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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

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In 2002, a New York TV news producer (Tina Fey) grabs an opportunity to shake up her life a little by signing on as a war correspondent in Afghanistan, only to find it more than she bargained for—and less, in a sense, as the Afghan War becomes a sideline when things heat up in Iraq. Written by Robert Carlock (loosely based on journalist Kim Barker’s memoir The Taliban Shuffle) and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the movie has a lot going for it—an almost documentary realism tempered and leavened by mordant black humor, as if the filmmakers were channeling the Vonnegut of Slaughterhouse-Five and the Heller of Catch-22. The fog of war sometimes dissolves into muddled moviemaking, but the picture’s biggest asset—Fey’s resourceful, wry and witty performance—pulls us through time and again. J.L.

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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Triple 9

After a striking debut with The Proposition, Australian director John Hillcoat has settled into a gruff, deadly serious competence. Triple 9 is Hillcoat’s third grimly serviceable film in a row, following The Road and Lawless, although he’s once again put together a shockingly good cast. Four Oscar-nominated actors (Kate Winslet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck and Woody Harrelson) and a supporting team of excellent character actors and promising talent (Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul, Norman Reedus, Gal Gadot, Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Kenneth Williams) assemble for a film that is the

dictionary definition of “wait for VOD.” Dirty Atlanta cops in too deep with the Russian mob pull off increasingly dangerous bank heists, while a wide-eyed rookie (Affleck) and his dogged but drug-addled uncle (Harrelson, having fun) threaten to blow the deal. The heist scenes are handled well, but the good cop/bad cop stuff feels rote. D.B.

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The Witch

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-de-force genre classic. D.B.

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Zootopia

Aside from a couple of over-the-moon box office smashes in recent years, Disney Animation has become a runner-up within its own studio. Disney churns out the occasional please-all-masters hit like Frozen or Wreck-It Ralph, but Pixar turns out classics. Pixar has set a high bar for films about anthropomorphized critters, inanimate objects, artificial intelligences and abstract concepts, too high for a harmless but only marginally clever time-filler like Zootopia to fully hurdle. Creaky animal puns aren’t going to cut it. Zootopia is like the baseline version of a Disney effort—crisp animation, an intriguing lead character and a wafer-thin story, all in service of a presumably ennobling message of acceptance. Zootopia springs from an extremely low-grade high-concept premise: What if animals were like people? End of premise. D.B.

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She learned, too, about crafting a greater degree of impact through imagery and writing open-ended lyrics with characters whose motivations weren’t always clear.

Now, all of this is conveyed beautifully by Dolores’ smooth, gorgeous voice and easy, folk-pop writing style.

“I’ve gotten better at telling [stories] in a way that’s not too specific to me or to any one gender or any age or anything. It can be universal,” Dolores says.

Originally from Lodi, Dolores Here’s where the story starts. moved first to Stockton in 2009, and then to Sacramento in 2011.

She started out playing solo, and then went through a few different backing bands, but eventually returned to performing by herself again.

If Sandra Dolores had her way, she would have Next month she’ll release her third album, Back ended up writing books. She’s always liked telling to the Start. There’ll be a house party to launch it stories, she just doesn’t like the restrictions of the (details for which can be found on her website) and format. also a tour.

“When you’re in a creative story class, they tell In many ways, Dolores says, the album represents you that you need character, you need a plot, you a significant milestone. Her first album, 2011’s Wait need a conflict and then you need a resolution,” and See, featured a full band. The second, Anima, she says. “My stories would go on and on forever featured a few guest musicians. Now, as the title because I could never end them.” suggests, here Dolores is circling back to where Songwriting, she says, takes a different she started, writing and performing alone. approach.

Since moving to Sacramento, “Songs you can resolve musiDolores has booked several regular cally—the story doesn’t have to gigs, including one at the Delta “Songs you can resolve and that’s how life is,” says King, the Old Sacramento resolve musically, Dolores, who will show off that riverfront destination that skill this Saturday, March 12, the story doesn’t have primarily attracts a tourist at Harlow’s Restaurant & crowd that dramatically to resolve and that’s how Nightclub. ranges in age. As such, her life is.”

When Dolores applied those sets cater to an older audience storytelling techniques to songand include several covers of Sandra Dolores writing, it clicked. Still, she didn’t artists such as James Taylor, singer-songwriter get serious about the medium until Carole King and Linda Ronstadt. she was in her late 20s. By then she’d Dolores says she likes the freealready been married and then divorced dom such a job gives her—no need to and, so, suddenly had a lot to write about. worry about pleasing a millennial audience.

“My ex-husband, he’s a great guy, but that life Hip? Probably not. Timeless? Definitely. wasn’t for me. I watched a lot of TV, I did a lot “I wish I could say it was heavy folk-rock, but it’s of couch-sitting, I didn’t ever go see live shows,” not,” Dolores says of her style. “It’s the kind of music Dolores says. “When I got back to it, the floodgates people would want to have a glass of wine and relax opened.” on a back porch and listen to. … I’ve embraced that I At first, Dolores wrote a lot but most of the can calm people down. My music will literally calm songs didn’t necessarily go anywhere. She describes you down. It’s weird.” Ω most of it as being of the “poor me” variety. Still, she found it a necessary step in the creative process Check out Sandra Dolores at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at Harlow’s toward becoming a full-fledged songwriter. Along Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J Street. Tickets are $8-$10. Learn more at www.sandradolores.com. the way she learned much about the art of subtlety.

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Artistic growth She runs: It’s Monday at Goldfield Trading Post, which means James Cavern’s open-mic brought out a throng of chatty, beer-guzzling music fans. Or in this case, fans of Rebecca Peters, the evening’s featured act.

Peters has performed in various incarnations over the past few years, switching from duo to solo acoustic to full band to solo acoustic. Now, she’s back as a solo artist, but with a backing lineup of Ryan Tillema (guitar and bass), Christian Midthun (drums) and Demetri Wells (keys).

“How do you feel?” Cavern asks Peters during the night’s extra lengthy soundcheck.

“I feel really good,” Peters says, excitedly eying the 75-or-so in the crowd. “Look at all my friends.”

It’s a pretty big night for Peters: her first single-release party as a solo artist. She recently quit her fulltime job in order to fully dedicate herself to music. She’s finishing up her debut EP, which has been started and scratched over and over again for more than a year.

“I’d go into the recording studio and be unhappy with the sound or confused,” she tells SN&R. “I’m glad now in hindsight, because I really was confused about the direction and style of my music. …

People were putting me in the soul genre and R&B box.”

Now, Peters says she’s embracing an indie-folk sound. But by the end of her Goldfield set, it becomes clear that her new direction isn’t that simple. “What Do You Want?” combines Peters’ naturally soulful, deep and sultry vocals with sparse, ethereal instrumentation. And “Run,” the new single, showcases haunting three-part vocal harmonies, powerful drums, unusual dynamics, intricate layers and Joe Kye’s violin. This is the start of Peters as a cinematic artist, ditching any soul, R&B or folk limitations.

She’s launching an IndieGoGo campaign this month to help finish the EP, which she hopes to release in late April or May. “This EP in general is really about the crossroads everyone experiences in their lives, the difficult decisions they make every day,” she says.

In that sense, it’s deeply personal, as she’s just decided to

move to Los Angeles in April with her music career in mind.

“I’m making a lot of big changes and embracing things that are scary and frightening,” she says. “I’m hoping to encourage people to do whatever feels right.”

Hip-hop, reinvented: It’s rare to see two emcees on stage with their heads down, quiet, during the climax of a song. But that happens several times over the course of Ensemble Mik Nawooj’s performance at Sol Collective Saturday night, because the rappers aren’t the star of the show. They’re just one equal part of the 10-piece hip-hop orchestra, which merges hip-hop with classical music to stunning effect.

With piano, drums, bass, cello, violin, clarinet, flute and a soprano opera singer, the Bay Area-based ensemble creates tremendous builds, euphoric crescendos and tragic epilogues. Composer JooWan Kim conducts from behind his piano, wearing long, flowing clothes; long, flowing hair; small, round glasses and Birkenstocks. He doesn’t present himself like a hip-hop artist nor a classical genius—with prestigious degrees from the Berklee College of Music and San Francisco Conservatory, no less. And by and large, the rest of the ensemble eschews such comparisons as well.

Their casual nature helps envelop you in the strange, extraordinariness of the situation: a group of expert classical musicians performing covers—or “deconstructions,” as Kim puts it—of the Wu-Tang Clan’s greatest hits.

That’s not quite it either, though.

Kim is completely reinventing the structure of each Wu-Tang song, making them multilayered, complex and challenging works.

They’re not a genre mashup, and they’re no longer hip-hop or classical. Ensemble Mik Nawooj’s sound operates on its own plane, a completely modern vision that will surely earn copycats in the future.

The following words, projected on the back wall of Sol Collective, pretty much sum up Kim’s story: “I met hip-hop once, now we’re best friends.”

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Starlite lounge, 8 p.m., $7

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Waning’s latest album, The Funeral Mountains, is a collection of six tracks inspired by native myths, California history and the childhood dreams of vocalistkeyboardist Susan Hunt. Ambient tones and trippy spells compressed with an auditory heaviness are arranged throughout the album with the intent to inspire different moods and transport the DOOM/PSYCH listener into otherworldly sonic dimensions. It’s intense, yet scales between doom metal and psychedelic with its gentler moments found in songs like “The Grove/Rootless,” which builds slowly with soft, ethereal tones. 1517 21st Street, www.waning.bandcamp.com.

Local singer-songwriter Andrew Castro is on fire, releasing four EPs in a single calendar year. The final SIngeR-SOngWRITeR one is here: Tell Me in Your Words, which also happens to be Castro’s first concept album. Its four songs describe different stages of a couple tested by distance, and they’re also each duets with a different female singer-songwriter. The best part? Those talented ladies—Rebecca Peters, Ruby Jaye, Xochitl and Sandra Dolores—will all join Castro onstage at the release show. In addition to their songs from the EP, Ruby Jaye and Sandra Dolores will deliver opening sets as well. 2708 J Street, www.facebook.com/AndrewCastroMusic.

—Steph rodriguez

Sleep train arena, 7 p.m., $29.50-$39.40

the boardwalk, 7 p.m., $20-$25

Local station Radio 94.7 is throwing this little soiree with some of the hottest indie acts along with the deejays’ personal favorites. Although most in attendance will be waiting for sets by headInDIe liners Cage the Elephant and Silversun Pickups, make no mistake: Sets

by Foals and Brooklyn’s Bear Hands will be well worth your while. The latter band has a new record titled You’ll Pay for This hitting shelves on April 15 from boutique indie label Spensive Records. Their latest single, “2am,” is proof positive the band has something special brewing. Get there early to indulge. 1 Sports Parkway, http://bearhandsband.com.

—Janelle bitker

—eddie JorgenSen

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For what it’s worth, the Wikipedia page of Oakland’s Philthy Rich lists as many arrests as rap-career accolades. It’s the sort of detail that justifies the naming of his new record R.N.B.I.$, which more or less stands for “real is back in style.” His point is proven on the record, which RAP is loaded with heavy-hitting tracks like “Broke Boy,” “I’m Feeling Rich Today” and “Buss Down.” All of which are sure to rumble the low end of the system at the Boardwalk. With multiple appearances from Sacramento’s Mozzy on the record, perhaps our local celebrity will make a special appearance? 9426 Greenback Lane, www.philthyrichfod.com.

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Joseph Kojima Gray’s 45th Birthday Bash

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Justin Bieber

Shine, 8 p.m., $7 Sacramento residents likely need no introduction to Anton Barbeau, who is enjoying somewhat of a renaissance with the release of his approINDIE POP priately dubbed new album, Magic Act. One would be hard-pressed to think of another ’90s-era indie artist who still plays the area and has retained so many fans. Fans of XTC, quirky indie fare and even the Beatles’ or Bowie’s catalog will find great reward in Barbeau’s latest and, more importantly, they’ll be impressed with his live show and updated interpretations. A prime example of Sacramento staying power. 1400 E Street, www.antonbarbeau.com.

Fox & gooSe, 9 p.m. $5

old ironSideS, 9 p.m., $6 Local musician Joseph Kojima Gray has been in a lot of bands. Best known as the lead singer-guitarist for roots-rock band 50 Watt Heavy and as the bassist for outlaw-country band Danny Morris & the California Stars, he’s been in too many other bands to name.

In celebration of his 45th birthday, four of his bands are playing on the same night, including two of Gray’s old bands: ROOTS ROcK heavy alt-rockers the Regulars and Americana group the Regards.

Buy Gray a beer. He’s going to get thirsty after four consecutive sets. 1901 10th Street, www.thecaliforniastars.com.

—AAron CArneS

—eddie JorgenSen

Folk-rock band Spangler doesn’t mind dwelling on each moment within its songs; unhurried guitar and tender melodies ponder every lyric with earnest attention.

These are songs for the AmERIcANA lovelorn and sentimental among us, with the band pining over the complexities of love and life. Its advanced perspectives suggest hard-earned experience, and the wife and husband who front the band frame their musings eloquently; nostalgia-tinted harmonies that are ardent and enduring keep from falling into the usual sugary-sweet platitudes or hardened-heart clichés. 1011 R Street, www.spanglermusic.com.

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There are Justin Bieber fans, and then there are people who listen to “What Do You Mean?” and “Sorry” when they’re alone in the car with the windows rolled up. No, really: If I had a dollar every time a full-grown adult with otherwise discerning musical taste told me in the last year that the new Bieber record is POP “actually really good,” I’d be on a yacht listening to “Sorry” right now. The former group already knows he’s coming to town; for everyone else, do what you will with this information (a.k.a. buy a ticket for your daughter/niece/baby cousin and blame it all on her). 1 Sports Parkway, www.justinbiebermusic.com.

—Amy Bee

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NATIONAL NATIVE

HIV/AIDS

AWARENESS DAY Monday, March 21st, 2016 Sacramento Native American Health Center, Inc. 2020 J Street, corner of 21st and J; main waiting room

FREE RAPID HIV TESTING 10AM-NOON; 1PM-4PM RAFFLES • FOOD • HEALTH EDUCATION MISSION STATEMENT National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NNHAAD) is a nationwide effort designed to promote HIV testing in Native communities through educational materials and use of marketing strategies.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES Encourage Native people to get educated and to learn more about HIV/AIDS and it's impact in their community;

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THURSDAY 3/10

FRIDAY 3/11

SATURDAY 3/12

BADLANDS

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Fabulous and Gay Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

Spectacular Saturdays, 10pm, call for cover

Sunday Tea Dance and Beer Bust, 4pm, call for cover

Big Mondays happy hour all night, M; Karaoke, Tu; Trapicana, W

BAR 101

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VAGABOND BROTHERS, 9pm, call for cover

BRIAN ROGERS, 9pm, call for cover

JAMES PARR, 2-5pm, call for cover

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

ALIER JOHNSON, FINESSE GOD, G. MALY BROWN; 9pm, call for cover

Black and White Affair with DUBBLYFE, SHOB ROB, J CREEP; 8pm, $8

WEST LORDS, KTP, CITY OF VAIN, RIOT RADIO; 6pm, call for cover

St. Paddy’s Hip-hop, 9pm W, call for cover

E.N. YOUNG AND GONZO, TWO PEACE, THE CULPRITS; 6:30pm, $12-$14

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BLUE LAMP

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THE BOARDWALK

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A LOT LIKE BIRDS, HAIL THE SUN, THE ONGOING CONCEPT; 6:30pm, $12-$14

PHILTHY RICH, 7pm, $20-$25

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

TIM BLUHM AND SCOTT LAW, 8pm, $17-$20

LISA LYNNE AND ARYEH FRANKFURTER, 7:30pm, $20

Masters of Hawaiian Music GEORGE KAHUMOKU JR, LED KAAPANA; 8pm, $37

COUSIN CRICKET, 5pm; LEGAL ADDITION, 9pm, no cover

KENNY FRYE, 9pm, no cover

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

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

FOX & GOOSE

STEVE MCLANE, 8pm, no cover

BANJO BONES, PINE STREET RAMBLERS; 9pm, $5

Met Music Department Benefit with PAT REILLY TRIO, SPANGLER; 9pm, $5

GOLDFIELD TRADING POST

Line dancing lessons, call for time and cover

URBAN OUTLAWS, 9pm, no cover

Country DJ dancing, 9pm, no cover

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Karaoke happy hour, 7pm, no cover

POP FICTION, 9pm, $10

ON THE FLY, 9pm, $5

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HARLEY WHITE JR. TRIO, SHAWN THWAITES REBEL QUARTET; 9pm, $20

RJ, 6:30pm, $15-$20

ANDREW CASTRO, RUBY JAYE; 6pm, $8-$10; ANUHEA, 9pm, $20-$25

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

LUNA’S CAFE & JUICE BAR

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

MIDTOWN BARFLY

Stilldreamin’ with Haana, A Hundred Drums, Century Got Bars; 9pm, $5

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN

HEATHER BECHTOL, LILY QUINTERO, DANNY BARRINGER; 8:30pm, $5

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A touchy subject My wife is super-defensive about sex. She overreacts every time I touch her. She always assumes I want sex, when sometimes I just want to touch her because I love her. We’re in our 30s, married for five years and have had sex maybe once a month for the last 18 months. I’m sick of getting myself off. How can I approach her so she’s less defensive?

you obey your gal pal’s dating restrictions, you will keep her friendship, but lose your self-respect. If you choose your guy, you lose a gal pal. But is she really a pal? A real friend wouldn’t quibble about you dating a guy she once liked but got nowhere with. Don’t let her intimidate you. Follow your heart.

One of my friends went to a well-known Keep your touch honest. Right now, your psychic and wants me to go. I’ve had a lot touch carries the weight of conflicted of pain—my husband died, I lost my job thoughts. Heal that dilemma by remindand have health problems. I’ve never seen ing yourself sexual desire is normal, anything positive come from my friend’s and so is your attraction to your wife. sessions with her psychic, though. It’s Don’t let your mind be consumed with expensive, and just gives my friend justistrategizing ways to approach her. fication for what’s happening (like karma), but doesn’t really That pattern of thinking is help her. Should I be more manipulative, and can be open-minded? felt in your presence and through your touch.

Think of your Your work now is You are open-minded. dilemma as the to be clear with yourHere’s the evidence: self: You would love universe teaching you You listened to your it if caressing your friend, you analyzed how to navigate other wife led to sex, and if her experience, you people’s drama, without it doesn’t, you’re cool are aware of your pain with that. By living taking it on. and you considered between your wants and finances. You also seem hers, you are free to enjoy to understand that not all what unfolds. Focus on the psychics offer true insight. sensuality of the moment, while Yes, there are individuals who staying in the moment. Don’t try to drive can see another reality, and I’ve met a few. the moment toward sex. Let every touch be But before seeing a psychic, develop and a meditation. Like this: No past, no future, strengthen your own intuition. That way, only this breath moving into being. you won’t be inclined to create the future a psychic describes, unless it suits you.

One of my best friends liked a guy who didn’t like her. Now he likes me, and she’s says I can’t be with him because she liked him. But they never dated, never kissed or anything. I like him but I don’t want to lose her friendship. What should I do?

We’re all in high school by the way, but he goes to a different school than my friend and me.

Unfortunately, trying to punish someone for unrequited affection isn’t limited to teens. It happens between college students, it happens among middle-aged adults and it even happens in assisted living facilities between senior citizens. Emotional immaturity can occur at any stage of life.

So think of your dilemma as the universe teaching you how to navigate other people’s drama, without taking it on. Practice inspires progress, right? Consider this: If

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Bye-bye, pot docs?

I would be interested in your commentary. First, with regard to doctor’s recommendations, there is a prevailing concept that one must go to a “pot doc” and pay good money for a yearly service. In reality, there is a form (CDPH 9044) published by the Department of Public Health that may be utilized by any attending California licensed doctor (your own?) for free and it has no end date built in.

There doesn’t seem to be much promotion out there for something that seems simple and was the Legislature’s original intent.

Second, there is a perception that is highly promoted, despite the concerns expressed by our elected officials trying to craft rules for local medical marijuana distribution, that a first-time visit to a “pot shop” means being showered with gifts. As if one could walk into a CVS and expect a prize for showing up, like maybe kicking me down a couple Norcos. The Sac County Board of Supervisors waved a copy of SN&R and cited the giveaways of “narcotics” as a nuisance that encouraged 18-year-olds to get an easy “pot doc” recommendation and tour the “pot clubs” in groups like trick-or-treaters, so the BOS banned all dispensing in the unincorporated areas of Sac County. This “try it, you’ll like it” vision of promotion annoys and invigorates the stodgy, good old boy opposition. What do you think?

—Matt Good call on that form. I had no idea the Department of Health had a form (http://tinyurl.com/form9044) for regular doctors. That’s pretty cool. Perhaps more people will be willing to talk to their general practitioners about cannabis, or at least show them the form and hope that they get the hint. There are a few things I would mention: Some “regular” doctors are still reluctant to recommend marijuana for their patients, so seeing a doctor who specializes in cannabis as a treatment couldn’t hurt. And while you’re technically correct when you say medical cannabis recommendations don’t expire, the law expects you to be “under a doctor’s care” while you take marijuana, presumably because maybe you will get better and not need the evil, pernicious Schedule 1 narcotic known as marijuana. Ha. To your second point: Prohibitionists gonna prohibit. Giving away medicine isn’t just a weed thing.

I could talk a doctor into giving me a few Viagra pills with no problem, and Viagra is way more of a recreational drug than pot will ever be. The pharmaceutical companies give away billions of dollars in prescription medicine every year; no one is trying to shut down the local Walgreens. Some people just don’t like the idea of marijuana, probably because they hate freedom and good jobs and helping people. The whole “clubs are giving away weed to 18-year-olds” argument is just a variation on the “But what about the children?!” form of concern trolling.

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FOR THE WEEk OF MARCH 10, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “He in his madness

prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in his novella The Death of Ivan Ilych. The weird thing is, Aries, that this seemingly crazy strategy might actually work for you in the coming days. The storms you pray for, the tempests you activate through the power of your longing, could work marvels. They might clear away the emotional congestion, zap the angst and usher you into a period of dynamic peace. So I say: Dare to be gusty and blustery and turbulent.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Quoting poet

W. H. Auden, author Maura Kelly says there are two kinds of poets: argument-makers and beauty-makers. I think that’s an interesting way to categorize all humans, not just poets. Which are you? Even if you usually tend to be more of an argument-maker, I urge you to be an intense beauty-maker in the next few weeks. And if you’re already a pretty good beauty-maker, I challenge you to become, at least temporarily, a great beauty-maker. One more thing: As much as possible, until April 1, choose beauty-makers as your companions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To have any hope of

becoming an expert in your chosen field, you’ve got to labor for at least 10,000 hours to develop the necessary skills—the equivalent of 30 hours a week for six-and-a-half years. But according to author William Deresiewicz, many young graphic designers no longer abide by that rule. They regard it as more essential to cultivate a network of connections than to perfect their artistic mastery. Getting 10,000 contacts is their priority, not working 10,000 hours. But I advise you not to use that approach in the coming months, Gemini.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be better served by improving what you do rather than by increasing how many people you know.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I sit before flowers,

hoping they will train me in the art of opening up,” says poet Shane Koyczan. “I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go.” I recommend his strategy to you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Put yourself in the presence of natural forces that will inspire you to do what you need to do. Seek the companionship of people and animals whose wisdom and style you want to absorb. Be sufficiently humble to learn from the whole wide world through the art of imitation.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The marathon is a

long-distance footrace with an official length of over 26 miles. Adults who are physically fit and well-trained can finish the course in five hours.

But I want to call your attention to a much longer running event: the Self-Transcendence 3,100-Mile Race. It begins every June in Queens, a borough of New York, and lasts until August. Those who participate do 3,100 miles’ worth of laps around a single city block, or about 100 laps per day. I think that this is an apt metaphor for the work you now have ahead of you. You must cover a lot of ground as you accomplish a big project, but without traveling far and wide. Your task is to be dogged and persistent as you do a little at a time, never risking exhaustion, always pacing yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In old Vietnamese

folklore, croaking frogs were a negative symbol.

They were thought to resemble dull teachers who go on and on with their boring and pointless lectures. But in many other cultures, frogs have been symbols of regeneration and resurrection due to the dramatic transformations they make from egg to tadpole to full-grown adult. In ancient India, choruses of croaks were a sign of winter’s end, when spring rains arrived to fertilize the earth and bestow a promise of the growth to come. I suspect that the frog will be one of your emblems in the coming weeks, Virgo—for all of the above reasons. Your task is to overcome the boring stories and messages so as to accomplish your lively transformations.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Your anger is a gift.”

So proclaims musician and activist Zack de la Rocha, singer in the band Rage Against the Machine.

That statement is true for him on at least two levels. His fury about the systemic corruption

that infects American politics has roused him to create many successful songs and enabled him to earn a very good living. I don’t think anger is always a gift for all of us, however. Too often, especially when it’s motivated by petty issues, it’s a self-indulgent waste of energy that can literally make us sick. Having said that, I do suspect that your anger in the coming week will be more like de la Rocha’s: productive, clarifying, healthy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Even now, all

possible feelings do not yet exist,” says novelist Nicole Krauss. In the coming weeks, I suspect you will provide vivid evidence of her declaration, Scorpio. You may generate an unprecedented number of novel emotions—complex flutters and flows and gyrations that have never before been experienced by anyone in the history of civilization. I think it’s important that you acknowledge and celebrate them as being unique—that you refrain from comparing them to feelings you’ve had in the past or feelings that other people have had. To harvest their full blessing, treat them as marvelous mysteries.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Look at

yourself then,” advised author Ray Bradbury.

“Consider everything you have fed yourself over the years. Was it a banquet or a starvation diet?” He wasn’t talking about literal food. He was referring to the experiences you provide yourself with, to the people you bring into your life, to the sights and sounds and ideas you allow to pour into your precious imagination. Now would be an excellent time to take inventory of this essential question, Sagittarius. And if you find there is anything lacking in what you feed yourself, make changes!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to a

report in the journal Science, most of us devote half of our waking time to thinking about something besides the activity we’re actually engaged in. We seem to love to ruminate about what used to be and what might have been and what could possibly be. Would you consider reducing that amount in the next 15 days, Capricorn? If you can manage to cut it down even a little, I bet you will accomplish small feats of magic that stabilize and invigorate your future. Not only that: You will feel stronger and smarter. You’ll have more energy. You’ll have an excellent chance to form an enduring habit of staying more focused on the here and now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): One of the legal

financial scams that shattered the world economy in 2008 was a product called a Collateralized Debt Obligation Squared. It was sold widely, even though noted economist Ha-Joon Chang says that potential buyers had to read a billion pages of documents if they hoped to understand it.

In the coming weeks, I think it’s crucial that you Aquarians avoid getting involved with stuff like that—with anything or anyone requiring such vast amounts of homework. If it’s too complex to evaluate accurately, stay uncommitted, at least for now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I wish I knew what

I desire,” wrote Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, born under the sign of Pisces. “I wish I knew! I wish I knew!” If he were still alive today, I would have very good news for him, as I do for all of you Pisceans reading this horoscope.

The coming weeks will be one of the best times ever—ever!—for figuring out what exactly it is you desire. Not just what your ego yearns for.

Not just what your body longs for. I’m talking about the whole shebang. You now have the power to home in on and identify what your ego, your body, your heart and your soul want more than anything else in this life.

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Tintype tinkerer In an increasingly digital age, the process of taking and developing photos has only gotten easier and faster.

Any idiot with a cellphone thinks he or she is an amateur photographer. But for others, photography is all about the past. Dan Herrera is a Sacramento-based photographer and adjunct professor who focuses not on Instagram or Snapchat filters, but on photography styles of old. Really old. Think 1800s, give or take, and you’ll be in the right century. Herrera just opened up Emerge from the Aether Tintype Studio in Sacramento, so SN&R caught up with him to talk about just what exactly tintype photography is, pirates, pinups and, you know, cosplay.

What is the tintype process like?

It dates back to the 1850s. It’s the complete opposite of what digital stuff is nowadays.

It’s totally inconvenient. They’re really, really long exposure times. And so, it’s a throwback to how things used to be done, it’s the same way that your great-greatgrandfather would photograph in the 1850s.

Are you doing them as they were done in the 1800s?

The only difference is I’m using electronic flashes. You can also do it in the sunlight, but I use electronic strobes vs. the old gunpowder flashes that they used to use.

Is it a pain to develop?

It’s definitely slower. I feel like it’s made me a better photographer because it’s forced me to really slow down and really look at what you’re doing. Because each plate that’s exposed takes about five to seven minutes to do—that’s for one shot, so you really have to make it count, otherwise you have to do it over again, you know, vs. today when you can just take a thousand photographs and pick the one that maybe looks the best.

What got you into tintype?

I’ve been doing alternative-process photography, which is a fancy word for older style photography, for awhile. I had a big show in 2012 that was gum bichromate printing, which is a different kind of older process. The tintype portraits historically have a very hauntingly beautiful aspect to them, which I’ve always found really interesting. So I started doing research and started getting all the chemistry together … and I just started doing it.

Was it hard to find that stuff?

Not really. There’s a few places that kind of cater to older darkroom techniques. So,

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instantaneous. The sitter, or the person getting the portrait done, they can watch me coat the plate, sensitize it, get it ready to go and then we expose it. And then they can see it develop right in front of them. … I bring a little mobile dark box that I made—it’s like a small version of a darkroom that I just tuck my head under—and I get in there and do that.

sourcing out the chemistry isn’t a big deal.

And you can find older film equipment that you can adapt and tweak to make acceptable for wet plate process—which is what tintype is—through eBay or online sellers like Craigslist and things like that. You just have to know what to look for.

Why do you think photography styles like this have had a resurgence?

I think there’s definitely a pushback to what’s happening with photography and Photoshop and the whole digital revolution. There’s a convenience factor that’s wonderful—I still shoot digitally a lot and I use that for my commercial work—but there’s something missing. It’s like that tactile, tangible quality that photography was kind of known for. There’s something special about going into a darkroom and doing things the slow, hard way. There’s an appreciation for the art of it, you know?

And then not only that but, like I said before, I feel like it’s made me a better photographer in terms of slowing down.

The process of slowing down has helped inform the way that I work digitally and I think a lot of people find that appealing.

You told me you’ll be working the Beard and Mustache Competition on April 2.

Yeah, so I recently started doing mobile pop-up booths where I’ll set up shop—it’s kind of the same way they used to do things back in the 1850s at carnivals and things like that. The process is fairly

What’s the most wild or outlandish thing you’ve shot?

The cosplay scene is pretty incredible, so I would have to say the different cosplayers that I’ve photographed. That is going to be one of the next big recognized art forms— the idea that there’s these people who are making their own homebrew costumes that are insanely detailed and really, really impressive. … They put this incredible amount of effort into their costumes and so being able to photograph that is pretty exciting.

What’s one famous picture that you wish you had taken?

Oh man, that’s a tough one. I think probably the one that my wife took the other day of my two-month-old son. I wish I’d taken that one. Ω

Learn more about herrera’s work at http://aether tintype.com. Learn more about the Moustache and Beard competition at www.mbscsac.com.

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