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Bernie’s wings It’s Saturday night at a show. Bands are jamming. It’s blasting. But that doesn’t stop a guy from yelling at me: “Nick Miller, feel the Bern.” And then, the next day, Sunday morning, during a walk to snag coffee, I bump into an old friend, and she asks, “You think Bernie can win?” Well … I didn’t. But it’s starting to feel like the Bernie momentum is spilling over into Obama ’08 territory. Oh, and there’s that little bird. Last week, Portland’s “Birdie Sanders” showed the country that Hillary Clinton absolutely does not have the Democratic nomination wrapped up. The Feel the Bern revolution—what with fundraising that outpaces the Clinton machine and a fiery millennial base—still has plenty of legs. Yet it’s a Kilimanjaro climb. Sanders has to inch into a virtual tie with Clinton before California. Only then might the endearing Vermont indie take a majority of Golden State delegates. But that’s looking too far ahead. Let’s zero in on the next Dem primary, this Tuesday, April 5, in Wisconsin. Yeah, Clinton’s leading in most polls— but not all of them, and not by much. Sanders’ ascent in recent weeks has been rapid. He could easily snag more than half of those 86 delegates. And the longer the race for the Democratic nomination remains contested, the more time for Berners to convert new believers. Winning is still a long shot, however. Sanders must enter the Democratic Convention with more pledged delegates than Clinton and convert “superdelegates” over to Team Bernie. I’m a doubter. Yet I’ve doubted Sanders since day one. My mistake: Bernie has wings. And in these final months, I’m excited to see if he can take flight.

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I was planning to go to the East Coast, but I heard it is going to snow this weekend and raining all of the time. I am from South Korea and why leave sunny California? I am going to sleep at the dorm and hang out with friends. I will head downtown and not be in a hurry. No stress. Shopping.

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I did plan to go to S.F. with my family, but they got colds. Today we are going bowling with friends and tomorrow I will get to visit an old friend from high school. I haven’t seen her since October. It has been a long time. Friday will be the day I go to the movies with my friends.

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Nothing special, really. I have been studying. I have also been practicing my piano. I have a recital coming up in April. I work at teaching piano. My oldest student is 65 and my youngest one is 7. I think I teach everything. I will be working on Thursday and Friday.

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I actually just came back from two days in Santa Cruz. I am having my piano recital in May, so I am spending most of the time practicing. I am also writing a research paper. The first draft is due this Friday, so that is everything together. I get just a little bit of a vacation.

I work here on campus, then I am back at home. My mom and I had a shopping spree this week and it was fun. I am a triplet, so it is fun to see my siblings. Although I really wanted to go to Cabo [San Lucas, Mexico], I really needed to make money for a car for next semester.

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ike Carlson has a distinct vantage on the medical marijuana business. He brings his business-school-grad acumen to a world that was, until recently, inhabited by mostly patient growers. After briefly operating his own dispensary in 2012, he is now a consultant for dispensaries, including Alpine Alternative in Sacramento and several others in the Bay Area and three other states. Here, he shares his perspective on the current state of cannabis business. Have you seen changes, even in just four years? Carlson: Definitely. Back in 2011, 2012, a lot of the dispensaries were mom-and-pop style. A lot of people got into this business because they generally cultivated themselves or produced something that allowed them to get into it. Now fast forward: In the last three or four years, there’s a lot more businesspeople getting into it — people wanting to organize it, brand it, push it in a whole other direction.

“In the last three or four years, there’s a lot more businesspeople getting into it — people wanting to organize it, brand it, push it in a whole other direction.”

onstrate that they can audit the businesses, but there’s still a hesitation. I think there’s going to be a conversation, because this is expected to be a $20 billion business in the next three years, and that’s a lot of money that’s not being tracked — and you can imagine the IRS would want to know.

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Could you explain what that $20 billion means for the economy?

What challenges do these businesspeople face? Carlson: Restrictions on banking is the biggest one, because without being able to do [cash] deposits, we have to track our cash like it’s its own bank account and what money we are able to get into the bank is through ACH [electronic network] or an ATM machine. It’s more complex because the Board of Equalization until recently wasn’t accepting cash payments for sales tax; payroll tax, you have to pay through an ACH process. Generally it’s not easy, and unfortunately I think a lot of businesses probably aren’t doing their share of it, but not because they don’t want to.

Alpine Alternative in Sacramento is one of dispensary consultant Mike Carlson’s clients. Photo by Anne Stokes.

Carlson: You’re talking anywhere from five to 20 employees in each of those businesses providing income for families. A lot of these businesses have tried to do low-income programs for their patients or community givebacks [funding charities]. The snowball effect is definitely there with that money, so if you look at it from the other direction of being able to collect that money, tax it properly at a rational rate, provide income to the state, money goes back to the schools, the jobs — it’s a win-win for everybody as long as it’s regulated properly.

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Fire Katehi! Re “‘She is rolling in money’” by Kris Hooks (SN&R News, March 24): The Fire Katehi movement is spot-on and I salute the brave and principled students of the Mrak Hall occupation. UC Davis deserves a much better leader than Linda Katehi will ever be. President Janet Napolitano: The UC Davis community needs you to do your job and put and end this chancellor’s morally bankrupt and divisive reign once and for all!

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Parking changes everything Re “Kings of parking” by Nick Miller (SN&R News, March 24) and “End of the line” by Cosmo Garvin, (SN&R Essay, March 24): For years, while attending River Cats’ games, I have parked near the Crocker Art Museum and walked across the Tower Bridge

to Raley Field. This not only provided some exercise, but also took advantage of the free parking after 6 p.m. The new parking enforcement hours make this impractical. I would gladly ride light rail or an RT bus to the games, but RT’s late-evening service makes this unworkable. A couple of years ago, I attended a minor-league baseball game in Toledo, Ohio, a city

much smaller than Sacramento. At the end of the game, about eight or nine buses were lined up outside the ball park, serving all the major bus routes in the city. The buses waited until about 15 minutes after the game was over before departing. Of course, RT would never do this because, for one thing, Raley Field is in Yolo County—outside its service area. This same lack of late-night transit service will be an issue for attendees at Kings games, as well. With better transit service, the extension of enforcement hours for downtown parking would have a lot less impact. Steve Miller East Sacramento

RT failed Re “End of the line” by Cosmo Garvin, (SN&R Essay, March 24): The real question is: Why do we have RT? Is it supposed to be a transit system that takes commuters from where they live to where

they work? Or is it an expensive social-engineering experiment that might lift a few people out of poverty? Light rail opened in 1987 and it will have been 40 years when it finally reaches the airport in 2027. Light rail goes to exactly zero major shopping centers. Seems almost as if it was designed to fail, doesn’t it? Peter Finn Sacramento

RT needs new leadership Re “End of the line” by Cosmo Garvin, (SN&R Essay, March 24): Sacramento Regional Transit has had problems for the last 30 years. When the talk of the town was bringing light rail to Sacramento, the board of directors didn’t have the foresight to realize there would be fare evasion. Unbelievable. They let their staff increase its wages at all levels, higher than almost all other transit systems throughout the country,

and at the same time started cutting service and increasing fares. (And they didn’t anticipate fare evasion?) The fact they failed to develop the smart-card technology, even though they had access to federal funds, demonstrates their inability to coordinate and work with other regional operators, frequently bullying other operators and manipulating circumstances. Unfortunately, it has left them with few friends. Especially the poor, who are transit dependent. I am afraid the only answer is a new leadership team. Mary Steinert Sacramento

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Correction Re “Art’s Utility Player” by Steph Rodriguez, (SN&R Arts&Culture, March 24): Darin Bradford’s credit for his photography accompanying this piece was inadvertently omitted. SN&R regrets the error.

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The mayor, his staff on city payroll and volunteers for his private nonprofits worked to discredit and destroy the Atlanta-based National Conference of Black Mayors—and now mayors plan to sue K.J. and the city of Sacramento.

A coup and the fallout 14 National Conference of Black Mayors members threaten Kevin Johnson and the city with lawsuit, claiming lost income and defamation by Nick Miller

SN&R’s legal battle with Kevin Johnson and Ballard Spahr continues, and will see its day in court in April. Look for additional coverage on the National Conference of Black Mayors situation and our litigation in upcoming issues of SN&R.

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Mayor Kevin Johnson probably wants to leave last week far, far behind. First, on March 22, HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel aired its investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct with underage girls, which featured, for the first time, multiple accusers speaking out in front of cameras. The website Deadspin said the episode “hammered another nail into Kevin Johnson’s political coffin.” But the mayor continued to deny the accusations, and spokesperson Ben Sosenko said in a statement to The Sacramento Bee that the 23-minute segment was “rehashed.” | 03.31.16

Still more bad news for Johnson arrived the next day, when 14 mayors from all over the country filed a claim with Sacramento’s city clerk, threatening to sue K.J. in his capacity as mayor, and also the city itself. The claim states that the mayors— in their role as board members of the Atlanta-based National Conference of Black Mayors—intend to litigate the city and Johnson for defamation and interfering in NCBM business contracts. The lawsuit will be filed in April. Specifically, the mayors say that Johnson, his city staff and volunteers from his Stand Up education nonprofit

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coordinated a smear campaign against the NCBM board and employees. The claim also states that Team K.J. unlawfully obtained NCBM banking records and worked to quash NCBM contracts. “[Johnson] put a cloud over the name of all the board members,” said attorney Kenneth Muhammad, who filed the claim on behalf of the NCBM mayors. “It really has had an impact on the mayors in real ways.” This all dates back to 2013, when Johnson, his staff and volunteers began working to get him elected as president of NCBM. Court documents obtained by SN&R show that Johnson’s office

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first sought to dismantle the group in February, long before his election as board president in May of that year. The NCBM claim again exposed how public employees do noncity work inside the mayor’s office. The NCBM mayors are specifically accusing city staff, including Sosenko and senior adviser Cassandra Jennings, plus volunteers with his education nonprofit, of colluding to damage NCBM. The NCBM mayors also hope to prove that Johnson worked behind the scenes to dismiss its executive director, Vanessa Williams. Williams has been accused of spending organization dollars on her kids’ private-school tuition and shopping sprees. Williams says the accusations are untrue and were part of a public-relations effort to force her to resign. “You can call me many things, but I am not a liar, and I am not a thief,” she told SN&R last week. Williams has also never been charged with any wrongdoing. Muhammad said that Williams plans to file her own claim against the city this week, also as a precursor for litigation.

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wiN for 15 Williams says she’s been defamed and has lost her ability to earn a living because of Johnson. “Not only do you kill my reputation, but you kill my source of income, because my whole background is financing,” she said. Neither the city attorney nor the city manager’s office responded to an email asking to discuss the claim. The mayor’s office also did not respond to a request to to discuss the NCBM situation.

wHy tHe mayors are sUiNG k.J. Many media outlets from all over the country have written about the Johnson/ NCBM drama. And, by all accounts, NCBM—while a longstanding and respected national organization—was poorly led and faced serious financial issues. Previous NCBM president Mayor George Grace, for instance, was indicted in 2010 and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2014 for accepting bribes. An FBI investigation of NCBM at that time revealed that Williams used the organization’s credit card for personal use. Williams, though, says the NCBM board permitted her to make these expenses, since they were not paying her a salary. “It was in my contract with the organization,” she said. After the Grace indictment, Johnson showed up in Atlanta in 2011 and joined NCBM as a member. In 2013, the mayor had already been elected vice president and was eyeing board presidency, which would be voted on in May of that year. In advance of the May 2013 NCBM annual meeting and vote, the mayor’s staff and volunteers ramped up an effort to secure his election as president—and get Williams fired. Perhaps most famously, someone on Johnson’s team created a PowerPointstyle slide, which featured the city of Sacramento seal and the words “National Conference of Black Mayors Annual Meeting ‘Coup.’” In a deposition of Johnson from December 2013 obtained by SN&R, an attorney representing Williams and NCBM asked Sacramento’s mayor if the “coup” slide came from his office. His response: “Yeah. I don’t know who produced it, but yes.” Also, a May 6, 2013 email from Johnson’s director of governmental affairs, Stephanie Mash, sent to Stand Up volunteers Aisha Lowe, Mariah Sheriff

and others—with the subject “NCBM documents for meeting”—states that Mash was attaching “strategy slides,” implying that she might be the author of the “coup” document. Mash continued the mayor’s NCBM takeover effort by working to recruit legal counsel before his election to president. On May 20, 2013, she sent a letter to Mary Merchant, a partner at Ballard Spahr, titled “Request for pro bono legal services.” This request was sent nine days before the NCBM meeting in Atlanta. Documents sent by Mash to Ballard Spahr, and obtained by SN&R, show that Team K.J. and his attorneys were preparing to terminate Williams long before the May vote. “[Mash was] telling the Ballard Spahr law firm that he’s about to become president of NCBM [and] one of the things that she lists was to terminate me,” Williams said of these documents. “She said that it was crucial to their plan, that the executive director be terminated, and that the law firm find a way to do this. “And this is [Sacramento] city staff doing this.” Johnson was eventually elected president of NCBM that month. Afterward, he forced the group to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in April 2014. He later formed his own black mayors group, the African American Mayors Association—and hired Mash as its executive director. The NCBM board members, however, are challenging the bankruptcy move in court. A judge may rule on this later in the summer. Until then, NCBM remains in bankruptcy proceedings. The NCBM trustee, Edwin K. Palmer, filed a motion last week, on March 24, to sell the NCBM’s assets to none other than the AAMA. In an interesting twist, Johnson’s pro bono attorneys at Ballard Spahr are representing both the NCBM and the AAMA in these proceedings. In December of last year, Mayor Gary Richardson, a NCBM board member, filed a motion with the state of Georgia’s Office of the General Counsel, asking that it investigate Ballard Spahr on the grounds that it is a conflict of interest to represent both groups. Meanwhile, attorney Muhammad is leading a challenge to the validity of the bankruptcy effort. He contends, for instance, that “at least one signature was forged on the bankruptcy.” His depositions of Team K.J. will continue through June, he says, and he anticipates a court ruling later this summer. Muhammad also questions whether Johnson was in fact in good standing

as president when he led NCBM into bankruptcy. He says that, in 2013, mayors called a meeting and dismissed Johnson as president before he filed NCBM for Chapter 7—and he says this vote was legal under the group’s bylaws. “It could nullify everything,” including the bankruptcy case, he said. “Ballard Spahr would have no legs to stand on to serve NCBM everywhere.” A judge was scheduled to hear this argument this past Wednesday, March 30.

etHical problems The 14 mayors who are threatening to sue the city of Sacramento and Johnson claim that the mayor and city employees defamed them individually and also cost NCBM revenue by interfering with contracts. The mayors say that Johnson and his team executed a public-relations campaign in 2013 to disparage the group. “These actions were a part of a scheme devised by Mayor Kevin Johnson, his staff and volunteers, and the law firm of Ballard Spahr to oust NCBM’s executive director, Vanessa Williams. Mayor Kevin Johnson’s ultimate goal was to liquidate NCBM, a 40-year-old institution, and to start his new organization now known as the African American Mayors Association,” the claim reads. It’s true that, by August 2013, the Team K.J. effort to discredit Williams was in full effect. In an email obtained by SN&R from August 26, Johnson sent a link of a Fox 5 Atlanta story on Williams to Shantel Gilbert and Heather Head. Later in the email thread, he wrote “we r almost there .., need to cross the finish line asap.” The 14 mayors also claim that Johnson and his soldiers “participated in an elaborate plan devised to keep [the mayors] away from purported board meetings, and to remove access to both tangible and intangible property of the organization.” Specifically, they cite an effort by the mayor’s office to prevent NCBM from forging a contract with the city of Hamilton, Bermuda. Muhammad suggested to SN&R that all this might just be the beginning of a protracted legal battle for Johnson and Co. “I think there are some more serious ethical problems that he’ll at least be investigated on,” he hinted. Ω

The fight’s over. Call it the win-for-15. In a historic agreement, California legislative leaders and Gov. Jerry Brown announced a plan on Monday to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by the year 2022, rendering a fall ballot initiative that would have done the same thing a year earlier likely to be rescinded. Predictably, the announcement was immediately met with celebration by those who say inching closer to a livable wage would uplift people out of poverty, and condemnation by those who claim it will hurt small businesses. The plan would not affect businesses with 25 or fewer employees for a year and calls for the first raise, 50 cents, to go into effect in January. In a statement, Brown said the plan “raises the minimum wage in a careful and responsible way and provides some flexibility if economic and budgetary conditions change.” A release from the office of Sen. Jeff Stone, a Riverside County Republican, labeled it “a backroom deal” among Brown and legislative Democrats. In its assessment of how the ballot initiative version would have affected the Northern California “megaregion” if passed by voters, the University of the Pacific’s Center for Business and Policy Research showed that nearly 44 percent of sacramento county workers would experience wage increases. The counties least benefited were San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara, where incomes already trend high. The biggest benefit was to Merced County, where 60 percent of workers would see increased wages. The study also found that while minimum-wage jobs vary by industry, occupation and demographics, young workers would be impacted the most. Workers under the age of 25 hold 77 percent of the jobs affected by a minimum-wage increase, about three times the share of workers over 35. It added that nearly 57 percent of Latino workers would be affected, compared to 26 percent of white workers. In a statement, Common Sense Kids Action heralded the deal and said it would greatly benefit women, who make up 60 percent of the minimum-wage workforce and are often “the sole or co-breadwinner for their families.” (Raheem F. Hosseini)

Heald by moNey California Attorney General Kamala Harris won a big ruling last week against the now-defunct corinthian colleges, forcing the for-profit company to pay $1.1 billion to former students for false advertising and predatory lending practices. Harris filed a suit in 2013 claiming Corinthian Colleges and its subsidiaries intentionally targeted low-income Californians by misrepresenting post-graduation job opportunities and job placement rates. This includes the local Heald college campuses in Rancho Cordova, Roseville, Stockton and Modesto. Among other things, the court stated some of the data the education company published were “systematically false, misleading, erroneous” and didn’t comply with state and federal regulations. “This judgment sends a clear message: There is a cost to this kind of predatory conduct,” Harris said in a statement. The ruling ordered $820 million in restitution for former students and $350 million in civil penalties. The attorney general’s office created a website (https://oag.ca.gov/corinthian) for affected students. Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission recently filed a similar suit against devry education Group, a company whose board Uc davis chancellor linda katehi recently stepped down from following controversy over her moonlighting practices. The FTC claims DeVry has also been participating in predatory lending practices for years. (Kris Hooks)

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It’s the development that public health officials and medical providers dreaded, but with a twist: With the nation gripped by a metastasizing opioid epidemic, 12 overdoses flooded Sacramento County emergency rooms in a twoday span last week. The suspected culprit is a synthetic palliative drug named fentanyl, which is 80 times stronger than morphine and hundreds of times more powerful than heroin, and is increasingly laced with the latter, say harm-reduction specialists. But instead of people coming in blue-faced and unresponsive from fentanyl-laced black tar heroin, this was believed to be something relatively new: fentanyl doctored to look like Norco pain pills and packing a devastating punch. “This is the first time I’ve heard of anything like this,” said county spokeswoman Laura McCasland, who has worked with the public health sector since 2004. “Fentanyl has been on the radar. The pill form, especially masked as Norcos, we haven’t heard of as much,” added Melinda Ruger, executive director of Harm Reduction Services in Oak Park, which provides addiction services to users around the region, including clean syringes and the overdose-reversing antidote Narcan. “That’s pretty new to us. Whereas hearing about it in the black tar, we’ve heard of that for a while.” On Tuesday, county officials raised the number of suspected overdoses to 28 victims, six of whom have died, though McCasland cautioned that the official causes of death pended toxicology exams. “The information is still coming in,” she said. But officials do know a few things. The first overdose was diagnosed March 24, McCasland says. The county was alerted a day later by the California Poison Control Center. The sheriff’s department was notified late that Friday afternoon, according to spokesman Sgt. Tony Turnbull. He said an investigator has interviewed Public Health Officer Dr. Olivia Kasirye, but that the investigation remains in the early stages. “It will take time to compile information from all parties involved,” he emailed on Monday. “It is too early to tell the source of the bad supply.”

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Whether the overdoses originated from one bad batch or several sources isn’t known. Officials also haven’t determined whether any of the tablets contained Norco. At least some recovered pills tested positive for fentanyl, a fast-acting synthetic opiate that is odorless and commonly administered for end-of-life pain management. “These were not prescribed pills,” McCasland said, noting that the tablets look to have been procured from strangers, friends and neighbors of the victims. Victims included men and women, with their ages ranging between 24 and 59. “It’s pretty scary how many people from how many age groups were affected,” McCasland said. “We’re looking at a very wide population from all walks of life.” That makes it trickier to target outreach efforts, she added, one of the goals of the county’s new Opioid Task Force, which started meeting in February and convened last week. The task force operates under the county’s Department of Health and Human Services. Its stakeholders include harm-reduction specialists, law enforcement, school officials and behavioral health providers, among others. “Many, many organizations have asked to be part of this,” McCasland said. Ruger is a member as well, and sits on its overdose prevention subcommittee. Since February 2014, HRS has provided its clients with free doses of Narcan, an opioid antidote that has reversed 139 overdoses in less than two years. According to her organization’s tracking, the largest proportion of opiate users first tried the drugs by ingesting them, and between the ages of 14 and 17. Opioid-related deaths in Sacramento County rose 83 percent between 2011 and 2013, according to the California Department of Health. But Ruger and her outreach workers are seeing an even quicker spread of opioid use in neighboring suburbs without programs like hers. “The greatest areas of growth that we’re seeing is Rocklin, Roseville [and] El Dorado County,” she said. “That’s where we’re seeing the steady increase.” Ω

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It was bound to come down to this: Sacramento’s top two mayoral prospects are clashing over rumors of money. On Tuesday, two supporters of Councilwoman Angelique Ashby objected to the idea that former state Sen. Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg could move more than $1.4 million from a separate campaign fund into his mayoral campaign fund. In a letter to City Clerk Shirley Concolino and City Attorney James Sanchez, the individuals—Sacramento Police Officers Association Vice President Paul Brown and Jesus Arredondo, a small-business owner—contend that the minutiae of the city’s campaign-finance ordinance restrict the candidate from transferring more than $165,000 from the outside fund. At issue is the war chest Steinberg accumulated through fundraising for a lieutenant governor run in 2018, an account valued at north of $1.4 million. “We have not reported any transfers yet,” said Steinberg campaign spokesman Jason Kinney. He also characterized the letter as a ginned-up controversy that shows the Ashby campaign going negative a little more than two months before the primary vote. Ashby campaign manager Josh Pulliam argued a different interpretation. “It really is more about the bigger picture—and this race is a microcosm of the bigger picture. Everyone needs to play by the same set of rules,” he told SN&R. “Steinberg should be perfectly happy that he’s raised more money than anyone else.” It’s true. Ashby was already falling behind in the money race, with her campaign having spent $14,000 to Steinberg’s $92,000 during the 2015 calendar year. For that same time period, Ashby reported $168,000 in contributions, a third less than Steinberg, whose camp reported $250,000. While new quarterly statements covering this year haven’t been filed, both candidates have been reporting individual contributions of $1,000 or more, and those individual filings show that Steinberg continues to widen his lead. The city ordinance doesn’t necessarily prohibit large transfers like the one Ashby’s supporters are objecting to, as long as the individual donations making up the transfer amount are itemized and stay within contribution limits for persons and large political committees. The one thing that Kinney and Pulliam did agree to was Ashby’s uphill battle against Steinberg. “In Darrell’s case, he’s already got pretty much every advantage in the book,” Pulliam said, referring to Steinberg’s broader name recognition, money and experience. He also framed the complaint letter as a bit of a trap. If Steinberg transfers the money, he’s violating their disputed interpretation of the city ordinance. And if he doesn’t, well, Pulliam said, “I guess he’s running for lieutenant governor.” Ω

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Twenty-seven years ago, in April of 1989, we were putting together our first issue of the Sacramento News & Review. At the time, Kevin Johnson was playing his first full year with the Phoenix Suns. Darrell Steinberg was moving to Sacramento. And Angelique Ashby was a young teenager. The media scene was dominated by three players. First, The Sacramento Bee, with hundreds of reporters and a huge Sunday paper, which was read by the majority of people in Sacramento. KCRA was the local television giant, winning top rankings year after year for the local nightly news. And KFBK dominated the radio news ratings, with its star Rush Limbaugh, who had just moved to New York City from Sacramento. Our role at SN&R was to create an alternative news source, telling stories not covered by the big three, providing a voice for the less powerful and often forgotten members of our community and covering a slowly developing arts scene. After approximately 75 million copies of the paper distributed, we are beginning our 28th year in a very different world, and a very different city. In 1989, the region had roughly 1.7 million people. Now it is home to more than 2.5 million people. What’s more, political power has decentralized. In 1989, community decision-making was made by a relatively small group of interconnected individuals. No longer.

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And the former big three media players are shells of their former selves. The Internet and cable fractured the television and radio audiences. The news staff of KFBK and KCRA are now greatly reduced. The Bee has had by far the most cutbacks, with perhaps 60 percent fewer people in the newsroom than in 1989. The Bee’s circulation numbers are even more troubling. In 2015, the Bee’s weekday circulation dropped from 140,000 to 116,000. At this rate of decline, SN&R will out-circulate the Bee on Thursdays in two years— especially if the Bee ceases to publish on Thursdays. The decline of the big three is a gamechanger. We have to find a new role that goes beyond “alternative.” I feel very lucky to be starting our 28th year. I am thankful for all the support from readers and advertisers. I am thankful to all my colleagues, who put so much energy and love into producing the paper. There is possibly a high school student in Sacramento today who will, 27 years from now, be running for mayor. And I hope there will still be a wonderful group of SN&R staff commenting on that race. But I don’t know what form our future will take, and how it will be financed—just as I could not see into today’s world 27 years ago, when we put out our first issue. Ω

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Earth Day is coming. A Northern California scientist shares his game plan for life after fossil fuels—and he’s asking for seemingly impossible changes.

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Our writer says curbing oil consumption by converting 250 million gasoline-fueled vehicles to electric cars should be easy—but we’ll see.

If our transition to renewable energy is successful, we will be rewarded with a quality of life that is acceptable—and, perhaps, preferable to our current one. We will have a much more stable climate. And we will see greatly reduced health and environmental impacts from energy-production activities. We all know this. But the transition will entail costs—not just money and regulation, but also changes in our behavior and expectations. It will probably take at least three or four decades, and will fundamentally alter the way we live.

This transition has never been done before. Most previous energy transitions were driven by opportunity, not policy. And they were usually additive, with new energy resources piling onto old ones. (We still use firewood, even though we’ve added coal, hydro, oil, natural gas and nuclear to the mix). Since the renewable-energy revolution will require trading

Richard Heinberg wrote “Life After Oil” for the Spring 2016 Issue of YES! Magazine. Heinberg is a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels.

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fossil fuels for alternatives such as wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and biomass, there are likely to be some hefty challenges along the way. Several organizations have already formulated plans for transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy. David Fridley, staff scientist of the energy analysis program at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and I have been

working for the past few months to analyze and assess those plans and have a book in the works titled Our Renewable Future. Here’s a very short summary, tailored mostly to the United States, of what we’ve found.

LeveL One: The easy sTuff Nearly everyone agrees that the easiest way to kick-start the transition would be to replace coal with solar and wind power for electricity generation. This would require building lots of panels and turbines while regulating coal out of existence. Distributed generation and storage (rooftop solar panels with home- or business-scale battery packs) will help. Replacing natural gas will be harder, because gas-fired “peaking” plants are often used to buffer the intermittency of industrial-scale wind and solar inputs to the grid (see Level Two). Electricity accounts for less than a quarter of all final energy used in the United States. What about the rest of the energy we depend on? Since solar and wind produce electricity, it makes sense to electrify as much of our energy usage as we can. For example, we could heat and cool most buildings with electric air-source heat pumps, replacing natural gas- or oil-fueled furnaces. We could also begin switching out all our gas-cooking stoves for electric stoves. Transportation represents a large swath of energy consumption, and personal automobiles account for most of that. We could reduce oil consumption substantially if we all drove electric cars. Replacing 250 million gasoline-fueled automobiles will take time and money, but will eventually result in energy and financial savings. Promoting walking, bicycling and public transit will take much less time and investment.

Buildings will require substantial retrofitting for energy efficiency. This will, again, take time and investment, but will offer still more opportunities for savings. Building codes should be strengthened to require net-zero-energy or near-netzero-energy performance for new construction. More energy-efficient appliances will also help. The food system is a big energy consumer, with fossil fuels used in the manufacture of fertilizers, food processing and transportation. We could reduce a lot of that fuel consumption by increasing the market share of organic local foods. While we’re at it, we could begin sequestering enormous amounts of atmospheric carbon in topsoil by promoting farming practices that build soil rather than deplete it—as is being done, for example, in the Marin Carbon Project. If we got a good start in all these areas, we could achieve at least a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions in 10 to 20 years.

of grid-level energy storage, as well as a major grid overhaul, to get the electricity sector close to 100 percent renewables (replacing natural gas in electricity generation). We’ll also need to start timing our energy usage to coincide with the availability of sunlight and wind energy. That in itself will present both technological and behavioral hurdles. After we switch to electric cars, the rest of the transport sector will require longer-term and sometimes more expensive substitutions. We could reduce our need for cars (which require a lot of energy for their manufacture and decommissioning) by increasing the density of our cities and suburbs and reorienting them to public transit, bicycling and walking. We could electrify all motorized human transport by building more electrified public transit and intercity passenger rail lines. Heavy trucks could run on fuel cells, but it would be better to minimize trucking by expanding freight rail. Transport by ship could employ sails to increase fuel efficiency, but relocalization or deglobalization of manufacturing would be a necessary co-strategy to reduce the need for shipping. Much of the manufacturing sector already runs on electricity, but there are exceptions—and some of these will offer significant challenges. Many raw materials for manufacturing processes either are

The most important thing to understand about the energy transition is that it’s not optional. delay would be fatal.

LeveL TwO: The harder sTuff Solar and wind technologies have a drawback: They provide energy intermittently. When they become dominant in our overall energy mix, we will have to accommodate that intermittency in various ways. We’ll need substantial amounts

fossil fuels (feedstocks for plastics and other petrochemical-based materials) or require fossil fuels for mining or transformation (e.g., most metals). Considerable effort will be needed to replace fossil-fuel-based industrial materials and to recycle nonrenewable materials more completely, significantly reducing the need for mining. If we did all these things, while also building far, far more solar panels and wind turbines, we could achieve roughly an 80 percent reduction in emissions compared to our current level.

LeveL Three: The reaLLy hard sTuff Doing away with the last 20 percent of our current fossil-fuel consumption is going to take still more time, research and investment—as well as much more behavioral adaptation. Just one example: We currently use enormous amounts of concrete for all kinds of construction. The crucial ingredient in concrete is cement. Cement-making requires high heat, which could theoretically be supplied by sunlight, electricity or hydrogen—but that will entail a nearly complete redesign of the process. While with Level One we began a shift in food systems by promoting local organic food, driving carbon emissions down further will require finishing that job by making all food production organic, and requiring all agriculture to build topsoil rather than deplete it. Eliminating all fossil fuels in food systems will also entail a substantial redesign of those systems to minimize processing, packaging and transport. The communications sector— which uses mining and high-heat processes for the production of phones, computers, servers, wires, photo-optic cables, cell towers and

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more—presents some really knotty problems. The only good long-term solution in this sector is to make devices that are built to last a very long time and then to repair them and fully recycle and remanufacture them when absolutely needed. The Internet could be maintained via the kinds of low-tech, asynchronous networks now being pioneered in poor nations, using relatively little power. An example might be the AirJaldi networks in India, which provide Internet access to about 20,000 remote users in six states, using mostly solar power. Back in the transport sector: We’ve already made shipping more efficient with sails, but doing away with petroleum altogether will require costly substitutes (fuel cells or biofuels). One way or another, global trade will have to shrink. There is no good drop-in substitute for aviation fuels; we may have to write off aviation as anything but a specialty transport mode. Planes running on hydrogen or biofuels are an expensive possibility, as are dirigibles filled with (nonrenewable) helium, any of which could help us maintain vestiges of air travel. Paving and repairing roads without oil-based asphalt is possible, but will require an almost complete redesign of processes and equipment. Great attention will have to be given to the interdependent linkages and supply chains connecting various sectors (communications, mining and transport knit together most of what we do in industrial societies). Some links in supply chains will be hard to substitute, and chains can be brittle: A problem with even one link can imperil the entire chain. The good news is that if we do all these things, we can get beyond zero carbon emissions; that is, with sequestration of carbon in soils and forests, we could actually reduce atmospheric carbon with each passing year.

Doing our level best This plan features “levels”; the more obvious word choice would have been “stages.” The latter implies a sequence—starting with Stage One, ending with Stage Three—yet accomplishing the energy transition quickly will require accelerating research and development to address many Level Two and Three issues

at the same time we’re moving rapidly forward on Level One tasks. For planning purposes, it’s useful to know what can be done relatively quickly and cheaply, and what will take long, expensive, sustained effort. How much energy will be available to us at the end of the transition? It’s hard to say, as there are many variables, including rates of investment and the capabilities of renewable energy technology

This transition has never been done before. Most previous energy transitions were driven by opportunity, not policy.

without fossil fuels to back them up and to power their manufacture, at least in the early stages. This “how much” question reflects the understandable concern to maintain current levels of comfort and convenience as we switch energy sources. But in this regard, it is good to keep ecological footprint analysis in mind. According to the Global Footprint Network’s Living Planet Report 2014, the amount of productive land and sea available to each person on Earth in order to live in a way that’s ecologically sustainable is 1.7 global hectares. The current per capita ecological footprint in the United States is 6.8 global hectares. Asking whether renewable energy could enable Americans to maintain their current lifestyle is therefore

One of the drawbacks of solar technology is that it draws energy intermittently. Behavioral changes will have to occur to time energy consumption with sun availability.

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It’s important to pay attention to equity issues as the world shifts to renewable energy; it’s not OK for only the rich to have access to clean energy.

equivalent to asking whether renewable energy can keep us living unsustainably. The clear answer is: only temporarily, if at all. So why bother trying? We should aim for a sustainable level of energy and material consumption, which on average is significantly lower than at present. One way or another, the energy transition will represent an enormous societal shift. During past shifts, there were winners and losers. In the current instance, if we don’t pay great attention to equity issues, it is entirely possible that only the rich will have access to renewable energy, and therefore, ultimately, to any substantial amounts of energy at all. The collective weight of these challenges and opportunities suggests that a truly all-renewable economy may be very different from the American economy we know today. The renewable economy will likely be slower and more local; it will probably be a conserver economy rather than a consumer economy. It will also likely feature far

We could reduce oil consumption substantially if we all drove electric cars. less economic inequality. Economic growth may reverse itself as per capita consumption shrinks; if we are to avert a financial crash and perhaps a revolution as well, we may need a different economic organizing principle. In her recent book on climate change, This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein asks whether capitalism can be preserved in the era of climate change. While it probably can (capitalism needs profit more

than growth), that may not be a good idea because, in the absence of overall growth, profits for some will have to come at a cost to everyone else. This short article only addresses the energy transition in the United States; other nations will face different challenges and opportunities. Poor nations will have to find ways to provide all their energy from renewable sources while advancing in terms of the U.N. Human Development Index. Nations especially vulnerable to sea level rise may have other immediate priorities to deal with. And nations with low populations but very large solar or wind resources may find themselves in an advantageous position if they are able to obtain foreign investment capital without too many strings attached. The most important thing to understand about the energy transition is that it’s not optional. Delay would be fatal. It’s time to make a plan—however sketchy, however challenging—and run with it, revising it as we go. Ω

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WHO’S YOUR SAMMIE? The 24th annual Sacramento Area Music Awards flew by with killer performances and big hugs

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You voted. Artists played. Bands took selfies with awards.

A capacity crowd came out to Ace of Spades for the 24th annual Sammies show last Thursday night, hosted by local musician James Cavern and Nick Brunner of Capital Public Radio. It was a massive celebration of the folks who make Sacramento’s music scene so rich and exciting— and, of course, we dished out some awards. The big winners were Some Fear None, for both Artist of the Year and Hard Rock; Joe Kye,

for Release of the Year and Outstanding Folk Rock; and Race to the Bottom, sweeping the Rock and Live Performer categories. But we clearly have serious contenders for the 2017 Live Performer award, based off of some of the evening’s stellar acts. Soul singer Zyah Belle slayed with hypnotic, gentle croons. Hip-hop group DLRN brought tons of energy and swagger. And Drop Dead Red rocked the room with sheer sass. All night, we witnessed sweet moments and big hugs on- and off-stage. And that’s what it’s really all about, right? Anyway, read on for a full list of this year’s musical champs.

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he trees are abloom, the sun is shining, the air smells like allergies— I mean budding flowers. Does the arrival of spring every year ever stop feeling like a wonder? Yeah, OK, maybe not so wondrous if you still haven’t filed your taxes and there’s not enough Zyrtec in the county to stop your eyes from itching. But ’tis the season to tidy up and get your proverbial ducklings in order. Because that’s what our internal clocks dictate, or something. Below, a few options to kickstart this year’s fresh start: Were you one of the millions of people who read up on Marie Kondo’s theories of neatness in The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up? No? Well here’s your chance for a different take from local organization expert Gwynnae Bird; the free Downsizing Your home workshop takes place at the Carmichael Library (5605 Marconi Avenue) from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 2. Bird will cover physically downsizing your stuff, plus managing less tangible things, such as electronic files. Find out more at http://sachometransitions.com or by calling (916) 878-8934. Do you have or know someone who has a very intense beard or mustache? Are you ready to bid it adieu before summer makes it a sweltering nest of stray food particles? Hold your horses for a minute: The fifth annual Northern California Moustache and Beard Competition is taking place on April 2 as well, from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the California Railroad Museum (125 I Street). There will be awards in 16 different categories, plus beer from Monk’s Cellar, Lagunitas Brewing Co. and more, and food from Jimboy’s Tacos and Gameday Grill. Admission is $8-$25, and competition entry is $25; get more info at www.facebook.com/ events/1482548082072954 or by calling (916) 599-2922. After it’s all over, bust out those clippers and let that upper lip breathe. Then on Wednesday, April 6, the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op is offering a class on Restoring health with Fermented Foods—basically, a way to scrub your insides with the tart goodness of probiotics, enzymes and vitamins that occur in things like yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut and kombucha. The class costs $20-$25; register and find out more at https://sacfood.coop or call (916) 868-6399.

The theme at the Lottery For The Arts is “Everyone Wins.” That’s not just because each ticketholder is guaranteed to walk away with an original piece of artwork (valued at $250 or more), but also because the artwork will ART be produced by local and regional artists. It’s a win-win situation. The auctioneer will be Rob Stewart of PBS’ Rob on The Road. $200; 6 p.m. at Blue Line Arts Gallery, 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100 in Roseville; (916) 783-4117; www.bluelinearts.org.

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Luna Fest THURSDAY, APRIL 7 Every year, the makers of the Luna energy bar put on a short-film festival showcasing women filmmakers. This traveling festival makes its way across the country, and this year it’s hosted FESTIVAL locally by Soroptimist International of Metropolitan Sacramento. The event will feature six short films covering such topics as racial identity, defying gender bias, overcoming social stereotypes and losing your car in a shopping mall. Proceeds benefit Soroptimist and the Breast Cancer Fund. $20-$30; 7 p.m. at the 24th Street Theater, 2791 24th Street; (530) 383-0728; www.lunafest.org/ sacramento0407.

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What’s brewing: Now that we’ve fully recovered from Sacramento Beer Week, a few more breweries are ready to open and pummel us with more. Fountainhead Brewing Co. (4621 24th Street) will open at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 1, with live music, barbecue and, of course, beer. Fountainhead—not to be confused with Fountainhead Brewing in Missouri—had a presence at Beer Week, pouring standards at Capitol Beer Fest. On the same day over in Elk Grove, Tilted Mash Brewing (9110 Union Park Way, Suite 107) will also host its own grand opening festivities, starting at 3 p.m. This brewery had some kegs floating around Beer Week as well, but expect some more experimental work

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in the near future, like the “White Gummy Bear Saison.” Yup. You might have also tasted Moonraker Brewing Co. (12970 Earhart Avenue, Suite 100 in Auburn) at Capitol Beer Fest. Its taproom isn’t quite ready yet, but it’s shooting for an April opening. Finally, there’s Big Stump Brewing Co. (1716 L Street), next door to Old Soul Co. With a focus on German and Belgian styles, it’ll be the first full-scale brewery in Midtown. According to Sactown Magazine, Big Stump is aiming for an April launch as well. Drinking food: Binchoyaki Izakaya Dining softly opened last week, taking over what used to be Doughbot (2226 10th Street). Izakaya-style dining is like the

Japanese version of Spanish tapas: lots of small plates shared with friends over drinks. In Japan, this is late-night munchies fare, but for now, it’s open between the more typical hours of 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for lunch and 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. for dinner. Binchoyaki specializes in skewered meats—chicken, steak, prawns, saba and more—cooked over a charcoal grill. But it also serves more composed plates, such as basiland miso-marinated black cod ($15), seared tuna with a sesame miso sauce ($15) and shio ramen ($8). Yum, sopes: Speaking of late-night eats, start looking for a new sopes and taco cart ready to feed the drunk and dazed. MAIZ916 comes from Brandon Martinez and Brock McDonald of Block Butcher Bar, and they make the tortillas, salsas and everything else from scratch. Look for it next on Saturday, April 9, from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. outside LowBrau (1050 20th Street). Ω

If you want to make coffee in this town, you better know what the hell you’re doing. A quick sampling of you’re doing. quick sampling the beans at Identity Coffees shows Coffees shows that its team of baristas-slashbaristas-slashsourcers-slash-roasters sourcers-slash-roasters at at the very least has a fightfighting chance. From Dipilto, Dipilto, Nicuaragua, the Finca la Joya beans ($11 for a half-pound) have a solid, solid, earthy taste, giving them a them a round and smooth nuttiness nuttiness while holding on to a certain certain sweetness. A thicker coffee, great for coffee, great for sipping while contemplating a sunbeam on your porch. contemplating sunbeam porch. 1430 28th Street, http://identitycoffees.com.

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Edible petal Flowers It’s spring and flowers are in bloom. We regularly eat flowers without even realizing it, like broccoli and artichokes. Meanwhile, there are pansies, which make for colorful colorful additions to salads with a surprising root beer flavor. Borage, or starflower, has a blue bloom. The flowers and leaves have a slight cucumber taste and are high in essential fatty acids and calcium. Lavender is best best used sparingly, but can add a a unique note to spice rubs for pork or chicken. In addition to enjoying chamomile in stomachcalming teas, try adding it to lemonade or iced tea.

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For most people, what we eat at home is not what we eat when out. We usually want something a bit more complicated at restaurants, though it depends on the occasion. Is it a big night out or just dinner on the way home from work? In either situation, Sacramentans especially seem to love Thai food. Note Taste of Thai and Chada Thai Cuisine existing practically next door to each other on Broadway for years. Last September, another Thai restaurant opened in Curtis Park. Situated in the original location of Shoki Ramen House, Noodles to Thai For adds a second eatery to this somewhat underloved intersection. Rather than a fancy place with gold-spangled elephants on the wall, this feels more like eating in someone’s home. Fittingly, it even looks like a little house, with lots of bright windows and just a few tables. It’s as if the owner, Janet Pitak, invited you over for dinner cooked by her mother, Lek Pitak. Lek used to cook at Thai Palace on J Street as well as restaurants in San Francisco. Here, she’s got her twin sister, Susan, on hand as well. They learned many of their recipes from their mother in Thailand. Maybe that’s why the food is less refined than in many other local Thai restaurants. The somewhat thin red curry ($7.95) lacks the silky lushness of the curries at Thai Basil, for example, but it still has a depth of flavor that works well with pork.

Similarly, the Thai fried rice ($7.95) is a hearty portion, but contains very few vegetables and underseasoned chicken. Compared to the colorful produce-rich version at Chada Thai, it’s a bit dowdy. Noodles are in the name, and they make up the majority of dishes on the menu. The sauces—but not the noodles—are made in-house. The pad see ew ($7.95) features wide noodles coated in a flavorful gravy with shreds of Chinese broccoli and egg. It looks nothing like the photo on the menu, but we enjoyed it enough to clean the plate. The pad Thai ($7.95) is usually a good gauge of a Thai restaurant’s style. This one has thin rice noodles—though, the menu advertised thick ones—coated in a sweet sauce, with large chunks of fried tofu and tender shrimp. Loads of ground peanuts coat the top. It’s fine, and even pretty good cold the next day, but not distinctive. That seems to be the theme here. Just as you might eat spaghetti and jarred marinara any night of the week, and even enjoy it, it’s not gourmet. Noodles to Thai For feeds you plenty of hot, hearty food that’s more mom-style than cheffy. Lots of people seem to enjoy the huge bowls of boat noodles ($7.95), though, with housemade meatballs. The chicken satay ($6.75) is better-than-average, too, with well-seasoned meat and tons of creamy peanut sauce. The owner and servers couldn’t be more friendly. They essentially welcome you to their home. On one visit, Janet encouraged us to get the blue pea juice ($2.50), noting that she specially orders it from Thailand. It’s made with pea flowers and, similar to hibiscus tea, is quenching and sweet. While there are plenty of great Thai places to choose from, Noodles to Thai For rewards folks craving a simple plate of noodles in a warm, cozy space. Sometimes you don’t want the latest heirloom vegetable or a banquet worthy of a king. You just want your mom. Ω

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romance of the young lovers, captivates while spouting faux Shakespeare and chewing the scenery. As always, the actor is fun to watch. Other cast members include Michael Coleman and Amanda Goldrick as the parents, Tara Henry as the mute “wall” and Joshua Durfey, perfect as the smitten Matt, head over heels in love with the girl he has hardly even met face to face. The Fantasticks is a simple and endearing show, done beautifully and, simply put, a must-see for Sacramento theater buffs. Ω

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Monique Ward Lonergan, a member of Sacramento Theatre Company’s Young Professionals Conservatory, is irresistibly enchanting as Luisa in The Fantasticks. Lonergan, 15, shares the role with Courtney Shannon. In her turn, the young actress holds the stage with a group of seasoned professionals. Theatergoers will fall in love with her. The Fantasticks is considered the longest running musical in the world. It opened in 1960, ran 42 years off Broadway, and closed in 2002. A revival opened in 2006 and is still going strong. On paper this seems like just a simple story about a boy and a girl and why parents should not meddle in matchmaking, so it’s always difficult to understand the magic that’s turned this into such a popular show. And yet the magic is there, particularly in this production. Take Jerry Lee as El Gallo, the quasinarrator-cum-bad-guy who strides onto the Pollack Stage, a towering presence with a twinkle in his eye that engages everyone instantly. An instant later that twinkle turns malevolent—and to great effect. Gary S. Martinez, one of the two bandits hired to abduct Luisa in a misguided attempt to seal the

It was 3 a.m. on a day way back in 1984 when Jan Isaacson woke husband Steve and told him it was time to start a family. Not that kind. Rather, she told him they needed to start a theater company. Jan envisioned a company that would encompass all ages and feature only musical theater productions. And so they did. The Davis Musical Theatre Company spent many years “homeless and wandering,” according to Jan, looking for a permanent location. It found that stability in 2005, when the company built the Jean Henderson Performing Arts Center, a 240-seat theater in Davis. At 32 years of age, DMTC is now the state’s longest-running, year-round, nonprofessional musical theater company that includes a full orchestra and a young performer’s theater. “We must be doing something right,” Jan says of the company’s longevity. For its principal players, DMTC’s success is rooted in its homey vibe. “There’s a real sense of family about the group,” says DMTC actress Dannette Vassar, who joined in 1997. “There’s not the backstage drama that you sometimes find in other theater groups. It’s a very comfortable place to be.” Over the years, the company has grown from a struggling community theater to a first-rate amateur theater. After a recent performance of Man of La Mancha, Nancianne Pfister, a veteran of the Davis theater scene, was so impressed she wrote a letter to its directors. “Everything about [the show] was without flaw: music, acting, directing, set, costumes … the show was a true lift to my soul,” she wrote. There are two shows left in DMTC’s current season: Brigadoon, which opens April 22, and The Music Man, which will open June 17. —Bev SykeS the Davis musical theatre company is located at 607 Pena Drive in Davis. for more information, call (530) 756-3682 or visit www.dmtc.org.

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It can be a heartbreaking privilege to help a parent along the last part of his or her life journey. The experience includes the blessing and burden of push-and-pull emotions, daily life and impending death decisions, fractures in family structures and the unsettling role reversals. Actress Amy Resnick gives a tour de force performance as the always-in-control daughter who’s trying to keep sane as her mom’s sanity fades. She’s aided by the show’s beautiful, tragic and humorous dialogue, courtesy of playwright Steve Yockey, and under the thoughtful direction of Capital Stage co-founder Jonathan Williams. Th, F 8pm;

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This is the musical version of the 2001 movie about a sorority queen deciding to go to Harvard law school, chasing her ex-boyfriend. The songs add little to the plot, though the production is

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A Masterpiece of Comic … Timing

How do you write a comic masterpiece when your writer is chronically depressed? That’s the subject of this very funny comedy starring some of Sacramento’s funniest actors. Question: If you duct tape a writer to a wheelchair with his typewriter, can you force him to be funny?

Th, F 8pm; Sa 5pm and 9pm; Su 2pm; Tu 6:30pm; W 2pm and 6:30pm. Through 4/17. $25-$35. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. B.S.

The Shadow Box

This production of Michael Cristofer’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play is a many-tissue journey through life, grief and impending death. It takes place in three cottages on hospital grounds, each one housing a terminal patient. Here, the important people in their lives have gathered for goodbyes

and the play explores the pain and privileges as well as the confrontations and avoidances of saying goodbye. The play is heady, and emotional, unveiling three different stories that have aches of recognition for those who have dealt with the challenges, anger, anguish and sometimes peace that death can bring. F, Sa 8pm. Through 4/2. $15$20. Resurrection Theatre at Wilkerson Theatre, 1723 25th Street; (916) 491-0940; www.resurrection theatre.com. P.R.

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[Title of Show], which is about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical, may have audience members feeling as though they’re trapped in a Möbius strip from time to time, but with 17 hummable tunes and four engaging actors, it’s an enjoyable one-act that most will enjoy. F, Sa 8pm; Su 7pm. Through 4/10. $18. Green Valley Theatre Company, 3825 V Street; (916) 736-2664; http://green valleytheatre.com. B.S.

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Tom Hiddleston Sings the Greatest Hits of Hank Williams Sr. If it were an album, no one would ever buy it, but that unappealing package is precisely what moviegoers are getting offered via Marc Abraham’s laborious biopic. Relegated to awards season backwash status after lackluster festival screenings late last year, I Saw the Light slinks into theaters sheepishly and pointlessly, like a would-be contender without a fight. Removed from the myopic frenzy of awards season, it feels especially chintzy. And here we go again, unfolding and assembling the timeworn critical arguments against bad biopics as though they formed some sort of ghastly memorial quilt. At this point, is there anything more tiresome than critics bemoaning the hoary conventions of musical biopics? Believe me, I return to this dry well without any enthusiasm, but as long as studios insist on recycling this inane movie mold like editions in some Godforsaken Franklin Mint collection, I will continue to meet their perfunctory with perfunctory. In brief: There are endless narrative inroads into the life of a human being, whether famous or infamous or a schmuck. The upcoming Elvis & Nixon is the second onscreen telling of the one time that the King of Rock met Tricky Dick, and that event is at best a mere footnote in both of their lives. Meanwhile, the easiest, laziest, most uninspired inroad into the life of a musician is to structure their journey like a greatest hits record. Why, oh why, do filmmakers burn to tell audiences the story they already know? Trophies, of course—11 of the 20 nominated actors and three of the four winners at this year’s Oscars played

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real people, while nine of the last 12 Best Actor trophies have gone to the stars of biopics. With statuettes in its eyes, I Saw the Light religiously follows the Ray blueprint (God help us all), reducing Williams’ short life to a series of pro-sobriety PSAs and endlessly indulgent concert scenes. Red flags are flown from the opening frames, as clunky fake-doc footage gives way to Hiddleston’s poster-ready pose in front of a mystical audience. It’s a big buildup to a big nothing. While Hank Williams’ music still sounds great, and his influence on country and rock are immeasurable (dead at 29, he was the proto-rock avatar for living fast, dying young and leaving an emaciated, booze-soaked corpse and an exploitable back catalog), there’s not a lot of meat on his life story. He sang and he played, he drank and he died, and somewhere in the middle he sired Bocephus. Roll credits. But that doesn’t stop Abraham from bathing the film in thudding portent and empty significance. Cinematographer Dante Spinotti, a classic light-painter, smears the screen in silty browns and tans, as though Williams lived at a perpetual magic hour. Hiddleston doesn’t embarrass himself or anything, and it’s all competently posed and mounted, but I could never figure out why this plodding cycle of rehab and relapse merited such aggressive bronzing. Ω

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A young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) awakens after an auto accident to find herself chained in an underground shelter presided over by a paranoid survivalist (John Goodman) who claims to have rescued her from a worldwide cataclysm. Written by Josh Campbell, Matthew Steucken and Damien Chazelle and directed by Dan Trachtenberg, this is a horror movie with a difference: It’s genuinely horrifying, not just “scary.” In fact, cheap scares are few, replaced by a mounting sense of dread and foreboding that gnaws at the pit of the stomach. Acting is excellent, including John Gallagher Jr. as Winstead’s fellow inmate. Depending on your perspective, the resolution is either a brilliant twist or a monumental howler. J.L.

Allegiant

The dauntless heroine of Divergent and Insurgent (Shailene Woodley) continues her fight against whatever she was fighting against in the first two movies (and the trilogy of novels by Veronica Roth). Fans of the books will probably find this chapter satisfactory (though it follows the annoying practice of covering only about half of Roth’s final book in the series; the rest, renamed Ascendant, is due out next year). For nonfans, it’s like a set of illustrations for a book they haven’t read and don’t care about; characters are too paperthin for even major talents like Jeff Daniels, Naomi Watts, Miles Teller and Octavia Spencer to breathe life into, and Roth’s insanely complicated plot fails to hold the attention of a disinterested observer. The cheesy visual effects look state-of-the-art for 1968. J.L.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Director Zack Snyder—foully aided and abetted by writers Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer—continues the heedless trashing of Superman (Henry Cavill) that Man of Steel had thus far so ignobly advanced. This time Batman (Ben Affleck) and Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) go down the craphole along with the Kryptonian hero. The result is ugly in every sense of the word—grimy, incoherent and a stupefying bore; everybody looks like they need a bath and the movie is as drained of fun as it is of light and color. This gobbling turkey may be critic-proof, but the DC universe isn’t Snyder-proof. While he goes killing the golden goose, we can only wonder about the mentality of people who take the comic books they loved as kids and turn them into movies unsuitable for children to see; the PG-13 rating should be an R. J.L.

The Bronze

A once-promising gymnast (Melissa Rauch), whose career stalled 12 years ago after a bronze medal and a career-ending injury, is now a foul-mouthed has-been lording it over her doting father (Gary Cole) and other citizens of her small Ohio town. Her local status is threatened when she is forced to coach a new kid (Haley Lu Richardson) who just might win the gold. The script by Melissa Rauch and Winston Rauch is profane, raunchy and dirty-funny, not for kids nor easily offended adults. But it’s also sweet and warm (under its surface crust), and the actress, aided by first-time director Bryan Buckley, manages against all odds to make this horrid person human—even likeable. J.L.

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The Brothers Grimsby

The Brothers Grimsby will almost undoubtedly end up as the best film of 2016 in which the heroes are attacked by giant penises while hiding in an elephant’s vagina, although Terrence Malick still has a couple more movies due out this year. Directed by Louis Leterrier but guided by the nothing-sacred body humor of star and co-screenwriter Sacha Baron Cohen, The Brothers Grimsby is too infantile and mean to recommend, but too embarrassingly funny to dismiss. Cohen stars as a sculpted-by-Liam-Gallagher-and-Guinness soccer hooligan who reconnects with his

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A British colonel (Helen Mirren), two American surveillance-drone specialists (Aaron Paul, Phoebe Fox), the colonel’s commanding general (Alan Rickman) and the United Kingdom’s defense minister (Jeremy Northam) all communicate on an operation to capture a radicalized British woman in Nairobi—until the woman and her cohorts are seen preparing a suicide bombing. Then the objective changes from capture to kill, with all the attendant military and political implications. Writer Guy Hibbert’s tense, complex script and Gavin Hood’s razor-sharp direction make this one of the best movies of the year so far—a riveting, white-knuckle thriller to rank with the best of Hitchcock, and an examination of the morality of drone warfare to rank with the polemical plays of George Bernard Shaw, where every side gets its fair say. J.L.

long-lost brother (Mark Strong), a deep-cover superspy in the middle of a dangerous mission. There are the expected fish-out-of-water beats and over-the-top gross-out gags, and the peripheral characters in this world feel like thinly sketched afterthoughts, but the film works when it focuses on Cohen and Strong. They do more with elephant semen than most actors do with Shakespeare. D.B.

Hello, My Name is Doris

Sally Field outclasses some pretty waxy and unfocused material in Hello, My Name is Doris, playing a shy office slave who develops an overwhelming crush on her much younger coworker. Following the death of her fellow hoarder mother, Fields’ meek Doris Miller comes under pressure to evacuate the family home and part with her stacks of junk. Instead, she focuses all of her attention on new employee John Fremont (Max Greenfield), creating a fake Facebook account to stalk him, and using the information she finds to insinuate herself into his life. Adapting a short film from co-screenwriter Laura Terruso, writer-director Michael Showalter turns potentially dark and thorny material into something polite and blandly therapeutic. We’re expected to simultaneously root for Doris to reject and seek help, all the while chuckling at moth-worn Williamsburg hipster stereotypes. Only a meekly towering performance from Field keeps the film centered during its many digressions. D.B.

Miracles from Heaven

Texas mother Christy Beam (Jennifer Garner) is first distraught at the lifethreatening illness of her daughter (Kylie Rogers), then amazed at her miraculous recovery after falling from a tree—especially when the girl says she visited heaven while unconscious. This adaptation of Beam’s memoir has strong performances, particularly by Garner and Rogers, to compensate for what might have been a slew of fatal drawbacks: a too-chipper atmosphere of sun-splashed wholesomeness, a leaden pace from director Patricia Riggen that takes forever to get around to showing things we’ve already seen in the trailer, an irrelevant time-wasting cameo by Queen Latifah and a kitschy-koo Candy Land vision of heaven. J.L.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

In real life it’s only been 14 years since writer and star Nia Vardalos’ surprise hit had her and John Corbett tying the knot, but in this sequel they have a 17-year-old daughter (Elena Kampouris). Yet that’s not who’s getting married now—it’s the grandparents (Lainie Kazan, Michael Constantine), who learn that thanks to a clerical error 50 years ago in Greece, they were never legally married. Once again Vardalos recycles the kind of cornball family gags that have been a staple of such movies. But under Kirk Jones’ laissez faire direction, the reunited cast shows such gusto that as before, resistance is futile. Besides, there’s the manifest pleasure of everyone getting together again after all these years. J.L.

The Perfect Match

A commitment-averse playboy (Terrence Jenkins) begins a casual affair with a mysterious young woman (Cassie Ventura); they agree there are no strings and no questions— but before long he finds himself falling in love and wanting more from her than he ever has from any woman. There’s enough talent in front of the camera to make this romantic dramedy work: Jenkins, Ventura, Donald Faison, Paula Patton, Joe Pantoliano, a few others. But others in the cast are downright amateurish, and the talent behind the camera doesn’t serve anybody well— the script is trite and stilted, Bille Woodruff’s direction awkward and ill-framed, and Tommy Maddox-Upshaw’s garish cinematography fails to impart the intended romantic glow. J.L.

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. D.B.

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“I don’t plan a sound,” Riccobene says. “I just write and it turns into what it turns into.” They drew up a few songs one night, brought on Patrick Shelley to play drums, practiced one time and turned that iPhone-recorded session into Sneeze Attack’s debut EP, Aurora, named after Riccobene’s bunny. Now, the band is taking a massive step up with its debut full-length, Maxwell, named after Riccobene’s dog. Sneeze Attack is aiming for an April 15 physical release and will celebrate with an all-ages gig Saturday, April 2, at the Hideaway Bar & Grill as well as a 21-and-up show Thursday, April 7, at Press Club. Maxwell speeds through 10, quick-hitting punk songs that feel fun, raw and sincere. Riccobene’s smart, charming lyrics come through on the highquality recording, which was actually produced in a similar fashion to Aurora—in terms of speed, at least. “We thought, in the spirit of the EP, let’s keep it real and live and who we are,” White says. With the help of Chris Woodhouse at the Dock Studio, they finished recording and mixing in just 12 hours, from noon to midnight. It speaks to Sneeze Sneezes are a small price to pay to hang with this pup. Attack’s laissez-faire, chill approach to just about everything. “It’s gonna be how it’s gonna be,” White says. “You might as well do it how it’s gonna be live, rather than make this pristine, wiped-clean record.” At one point, Dino Riccobene lived with 27 pets. This way, Maxwell actually sounds like the same There was a hedgehog and a duck. An iguana roamed Sneeze Attack you’d catch at a show. It’s got the free. Birdcages were left open. occasional rough edge, sure, but it’s also got That was back at her parents’ house. Now, personality. Riccobene has her own pet bunny, Aurora, On one song, Riccobene actually who has seen 26 states as a tour mate. forgot some lyrics, and mumbled And a dog, Maxwell. And two cats. “I don’t plan a along to get through. No one And a chameleon. She’s also a pet noticed, and Sneeze Attack sitter. Cute animal pictures flood sound. I just write chose not to get neurotic about her social media feeds. and it turns into what it the details. The funny part about all of this turns into.” Maxwell also features is that Riccobene is crazy allergic Patrick Shelley’s daughter, to animals. She takes Benadryl Dino Riccobene Christine Shelley, on drums constantly and regularly checks guitarist, Sneeze Attack and Charles Albright on guitar. the day’s pollen count, since the But the live lineup has already outdoors gives her problems, too. changed, and now puts Dog Party’s Hence, the name of her band with Lucy Giles on drums and G. Green’s Hans White: Sneeze Attack. Andrew Henderson on guitar. Riccobene Riccobene’s past credentials include the pophopes to get the new band in the studio soon for punk group Little Medusas, as well as playing bass another EP. for Kepi Ghoulie. White, meanwhile, currently plays And no, she doesn’t know which pet will grace with the Croissants, Blhans and Charles Albright. the cover yet. Ω He’s also the guy behind the cassette label Pleasant Screams. That’s how White and Riccobene first met, and then started dating, and then formed Sneeze Catch Sneeze Attack at 5 p.m. Saturday, April 2, at the Hideaway Bar & Attack back in 2012 with Riccobene on guitar and Grill, 2565 Franklin Boulevard. Entrance to the all-ages show costs $5. Sneeze Attack plays again at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 7, at Press Club, White on bass. A ’90s power-pop meets fuzzy garage 2030 P Street. The cover is $7. More at www.facebook.com/sneezeattack. rock style poured out effortlessly. PHOTO BY ROBIN C EAGAN

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Wigs and wails Halloween returns: It’s amazing to see the Sacramento Halloween Show in all its glory—with a packed audience, prime venue and legit organization—and remember, not too long ago, it took place in someone’s house. With Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear trading off as emcees, Saturday’s flora- and fauna-themed event at the Verge Center for the Arts converted plenty of new fans—presumably for life. And what’s not to love? Local musicians form new tribute bands—more than 25 in all—for one 12-minute set, not only presenting the songs but also the appearance and mannerisms of the famous act of their choosing. At more than eight hours long, the annual show definitely qualifies as a marathon, but I can’t think of a much better way to spend a day in Sacramento. With that, I’m going to give out some totally unofficial, unimportant, just-for-funsies Sacramento Halloween Show awards.

Best sideburns: Neil Young. So black, so furry. Best celebrity cameo: Jack Sparrow performing with Adam Ant. Best mustache: Scorpions, even when said platinum blonde, handlebar mustache slowly peeled off. Best worst accent: also the German-ish Scorpions. Best hair toss: Smashing Pumpkins, for literally tossing a wig into the crowd. Best demeanor: Cat Stevens. I just wanted to hug you and pet your head. Best facial expression: the bassist in the Partridge Family Band, for his overwhelmingly peppy, deranged clown smile. Best overall ridiculousness: the Partridge Family Band. First of all, the mere choice to do the Partridge Family Band. Then, the velour jumpsuits; the giant cardboard bus; the consistent jokes; the puka shell necklace and the awkward fake laughs to conclude every song. I nearly died. Plus, see above. Best technical performance: Kate Bush. Whoa. What a voice. And what a spot-on aesthetic, from the shadowy makeup to the flowing, ethereal red dress. I also enjoyed her backup singers, dressed like angels while letting out crying cat-like shrieks. Best monologue: Guns N’ Roses. “You see someone with a camera, you fucking punch them in the face.” They also would have won “Best way

to end the Sacramento Halloween Show,” for their fantastic, abrupt midsong cut-off: “You know what? Fuck you, Sacramento. We’re going home.” But then they came back for an encore and played “Welcome to the Jungle.” Again. —Janelle Bitker jan el l e b @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

So male: When it comes to discussing Sacramento-turned-San-Franciscogarage-rock band Male Gaze, it’s advised not to get hung up on the name. To some, four men naming their band after a feminist criticism term for the way visual arts are structured around masculine viewers is a big no-no. Instead, focus on legacy and face value. Male Gaze is comprised of Mark Kaiser (Mayyors), Adam Cimino (the Mall), and Adam Finken and Matt Jones (Blasted Canyons). Recorded with Chris Woodhouse, Male Gaze’s sophomore album King Leer is a dynamic outing compared to its primal debut. After some delay, it’s scheduled to drop June 17 on Castle Face Records. It’s not that Male Gaze has gone power-pop in the traditional San Francisco sense. Nothing about “Got It Bad” indicates a neutered hypermasculinity. But the acoustic aside of “Green Flash” folks up the formula and subdues the adrenaline rush, while “Ranessa” is vulnerable on an Elvis Costello level. King Leer shows Jones letting those tenor vocals off the leash and his bandmates follow suit. Past comparisons to Modern English remain, but there’s something poppier in a track like “Krav Maga” that hints of Weezer’s “Hash Pipe” without stinking of it. As for the problematic name, the chorus “I wanna take you down like Krav Maga” won’t help nullify the issue. Clever, yes. But, not helping. By “This Is It,” Male Gaze had pushed the parameters enough for King Leer to avoid being heard as another unchecked dude manifesto. The swap of leer for King Lear is also clever. Much like with its debut Gale Maze, Male Gaze makes concerted efforts to disarm their chosen name. With King Leer the music simply follows suit. —Blake Gillespie

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Portland trio Tango Alpha Tango has the down-and-dirty of blues-rock covered, particularly with its older material. Guitarist and frontman Nathan Trueb brings a haunting, passionate voice to the music that is equal parts Robert Plant and Portugal. The Man’s John Baldwin Gourley. However, the new album, White Sugar, moves BLUES-Rock the away slightly from familiar blues-rock territory; it’s an eerie, moody indie-rock record that still delivers on the rocking-out front, but with a lot more restraint and more unusual choices of chords and structure. 1517 21st Street, www.tangoalphatango.com.

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There was a time when Joanna Newsom fans were cast aside as unicorn-loving, cutesy space cadets. But those naysayers are few and far between now, particularly with the release of Divers last fall. Newsom’s critically acclaimed fourth album showcases cool contortions of her childlike voice, shimmering harp and lush orchestrations. There’s more thematic weight, too, as Newsom unspools narratives about life, love and death—but mostly death. In what feels BARoqUE pop like a quintessential move, Divers ends with birds singing. No word on whether those birds will make it to the Crest as well. 1013 K Street, www.dragcity.com/ artists/joanna-newsom.

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From malaise to laziness While we were dating, my girlfriend had a well-paying job. I work in a job I love but earn little money, so she generously paid for everything. Cool, right? Fast-forward to us living together. She hit a wall in her career, got depressed, realized she was burned out and quit her job. She decided to take two weeks off before looking for a new job. But it’s been two months without any movement. I’m drowning in bills, and she’s binge-watching Netflix in her pajamas all day. I love her, the old her, anyway, and wonder how to get that person to return. When reality became too much, your girlfriend gave up on it and opted to immerse herself in fantasy. Does she have family or close friends she’s known a long time? If so, do they know she’s stuck in a stagnant stage in her life? It would be helpful to ask whether she’s struggled like this in the past. Her family and friends might have insights about how she was previously able to launch herself out of the abyss and into something new. Or whether she needed assistance from a medical doctor or psychologist to find her freedom. In the meantime, continue to be the understanding partner that you are. Yes, she’s depressed, likely from overdoing. Don’t join in that suffering with your own worry. What she needs is permission to take time off. Without permission from herself, she will continue moving through days like the walking dead. Part of the problem is that we live in a culture that doesn’t value sabbaticals. And yet our souls need the freedom of extended unscheduled time off to renew, replenish and restore, without the weight of work and its relentless intensity. You must take care of yourself during this difficult time. Start cutting back on expenses. Stay connected to supportive friends. Get outside and exercise. Don’t make the same mistake your girlfriend did—overdoing until there’s nothing left to give.

Personality-wise, she’s always dating the same guy, but she never sees it and gets defensive if I point it out. Mostly I listen, make sympathetic noises and try to distract her into talking about something else. What else can I do? She doesn’t have many friends, and I don’t want to abandon her. Suggestions? Listening is enough. You can’t save her from her habit of choosing men who fit a particular pattern. Until she no longer needs the distress of heartbreak, she will choose men who cannot love her in the way she imagines she should be loved. But by listening you will learn how people delude themselves. That means you can gain valuable skills for use in cleaning out your own house.

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FOR ThE WEEk OF MARCh 31, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to my

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “People only get

really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages,” says philosopher Alain de Botton. If that’s true, Taurus, you must be on the verge of becoming very interesting. Metaphorically speaking, you’re not just rattling the bars of your cage. You’re also smacking your tin cup against the bars and trying to saw through them with your plastic knife. April fool! I lied. You’re not literally in a prison cell. And I got a bit carried away with the metaphor. But there is a grain of truth to what I said. You are getting close to breaking free of at least some of your mind-forged manacles. And it’s making you more attractive and intriguing.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If I had to decide what

natural phenomenon you most closely resemble right now, I’d consider comparing you to a warm, restless breeze or a busily playful dolphin. But my first choice would be the mushrooms known as Schizophyllum commune. They’re highly adaptable: able to go dormant when the weather’s dry and spring to life when rain comes. They really get around, too, making their homes on every continent except Antarctica. But the main reason I’d link you with them is that they come in over 28,000 different sexes. Their versatility is unprecedented. April fool! I exaggerated a bit. It’s true that these days you’re polymorphous and multifaceted and well-rounded. But you’re probably not capable of expressing 28,000 varieties of anything.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting,” warns Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. If that’s true, why bother? Why expend all your precious yearning if the net result won’t even satisfy your yearning?! That’s why I advise you to abandon your beloved plans! Save your energy for trivial wishes. That way you won’t be disappointed when they are fulfilled in unanticipated ways. April fool! I was messing with you. It’s true that what you want won’t arrive in the form you’re expecting. But I bet the result will be even better than what you expected.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re due to make a

pilgrimage, aren’t you? It might be time to shave your head, sell your possessions and head out on a long trek to a holy place where you can get back in touch with what the hell you’re doing here on this planet. April fool! I was kidding about the head-shaving and possessions-dumping. On the other hand, there might be value in embarking on a less melodramatic pilgrimage. I think you’re ready to seek radical bliss of a higher order— and get back in touch with what the hell you’re doing here on this planet.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Are you ready to

fight the monster? Do you have the courage and strength and stamina and guile to overcome the ugly beast that’s blocking the path to the treasure? If not, turn around and head back to your comfort zone until you’re better prepared. April fool! I lied. There is a monster, but it’s not the literal embodiment of a beastly adversary. Rather, it’s inside you. It’s an unripe part of yourself that needs to be taught and tamed and cared for. Until you develop a better relationship with it, it will just keep testing you. (P.S. Now would be a good time to develop a better relationship with it.)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your advice for the

near future comes from poet Stephen Dunn. “If the Devil sits down,” he says, “offer companionship, tell her you’ve always admired her magnificent, false moves.” I think that’s an excellent plan, Libra! Maybe you’ll even be lucky enough to make the acquaintance of many different devils with a wide variety of magnificent, false moves.

April fool! I lied. In fact, I think you should avoid contact with all devils, no matter how enticing they might be. Now is a key time to surround yourself with positive influences.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1841, a British

medical journal prescribed the following remedy for the common cold: “Nail a hat on the wall near the foot of your bed, then retire to that bed and drink spirits until you see two hats.” My expert astrological analysis reveals that this treatment is likely to cure not just the sniffles, but also any other discomforts you’re suffering from, whether physical or emotional or spiritual. So I hope you own a hat, hammer and nails. April fool! I lied. The method I suggested probably won’t help alleviate what ails you. But here’s a strategy that might: Get rid of anything that’s superfluous, rotten, outdated or burdensome.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): To begin

your oracle, I’ll borrow the words of author Ray Bradbury: “May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days, and out of that love, remake a world.” I have reason to believe that this optimistic projection has a good chance of coming true for you. Imagine it, Sagittarius: daily swoons of delight and rapture from now until the year 2071. April fool! I lied, sort of. It would be foolish to predict that you’ll be giddy with amorous feelings nonstop for the next 54 years and 10 months. On the other hand, I don’t think it’s unrealistic for you to expect a lot of that sweet stuff over the course of the next three weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I am tired of

being brave,” groaned Anne Sexton in one of her poems. “I’m sick of following my dreams,” moaned comedian Mitch Hedberg, adding, “I’m just going to ask my dreams where they’re going and hook up with them later.” In my opinion, Capricorn, you have every right to unleash grumbles similar to Hedberg’s and Sexton’s. April fool! The advice I just gave you is only half-correct. It’s true that you need and deserve a respite from your earnest struggles. Now is indeed a good time to take a break so you can recharge your spiritual batteries. But don’t you dare feel sorry for yourself.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1991, hikers in

the Italian Alps discovered the well-preserved corpse of a Bronze Age hunter. Buried in the frigid terrain, the man who came to be known as Otzi the Iceman had been there for 5,000 years. Soon the museum that claimed his body began receiving inquiries from women who wanted to be impregnated with Otzi’s sperm. I think this is an apt metaphor for you, Aquarius. Consider the possibility that you might benefit from being fertilized by an influence from long ago. April fool! I was just messing with you. It’s true you can generate good mojo by engaging with inspirational influences from the past. But I’d never urge you to be guided by a vulgar metaphor related to Otzi’s sperm.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Caligula was an

eccentric Roman emperor who had a physical resemblance to a goat. He was sensitive about it. That’s why he made it illegal for anyone to refer to goats in his company. I mention this, Pisces, because I’d like to propose a list of words you should forbid to be used in your presence during the coming weeks: “money,” “cash,” “finances,” “loot,” “savings” or “investments.” Why? Because I’m afraid it would be distracting, even confusing or embarrassing, for you to think about these sore subjects right now. April fool ! I lied. The truth is, now is a perfect time for you to be focused on getting richer quicker.

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Queen of Midtown Sandy Smoley wants to start a blog about a terrific way of aging. The 79-year-old served five terms on the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors and was the state’s secretary of health and human services under Gov. Pete Wilson. Many people in Smoley’s position might opt to quietly run out the clock, but that’s not Smoley. She moved to the grid four years ago and maintains an active social life. SN&R caught up recently with the woman who bills herself as the “Queen of Midtown.”

What brought you to Midtown? My husband passed away, and I was out at Hazel and 50, way out of town. Most of what I did was downtown, and I was still employed. I came down here to do health-care consulting, and I was making trip after trip after trip, clear out there 10 miles to Fair Oaks. After he passed away, we were in kind of an out-of-the-way place. I have to say I was a little frightened. I lived on the canyon that goes into Lake Natoma, and it was lots of animals. Lots of deer, so wherever there are deer, there are mountain lions. We had skunks and possums and raccoons that are mean. After he died, we used to be out on our patio all the time, but I wasn’t about to go out there at night alone. And so all of a sudden, I looked at myself, and I went, “Wait a minute, what am I doing living clear out here when everything I do is downtown, and I’m out of here?” Plus, I want to go where the fun is.

When you and your husband were married, were you pretty active socially? Very. ... I’m a huge volunteer. I’m a big volunteer in the arts. I work with the

philharmonic and the opera and the ballet, and I do a lot of volunteering at University of California at Davis Medical Center. My husband was very active also in different civic things. He was an architect, and he did a lot of city projects. So I’ve always had an interest in the city.

Do you have any thoughts about the new building for the ballet?

I think the people are now seeing the need, and we’ve really turned the symphony around. We’re having quite a fabulous year. The folks are buying back in. We’ve been (through) rocky times, but I think we did it right. We stepped back, we went dark, we had focus groups and we raised money. We did everything right, and then we came back.

It’s a tough one. Of course, we were supposed to get a brand new building on the property of Wells Fargo Pavilion. That was going to be kind of a theater district, and I loved that idea. You go down there for the California Musical Theatre, you go down there for the Sacramento Theatre Company, you go down there for the ballet, you go down there for the philharmonic. We didn’t get the money raised because it was a downturn time, and so it kind of fizzled. This was the next best. The ballet is what really needs that facility, and I’m a huge proponent of the ballet. They needed to be able to have a ballet school in order to support the rest of their programs. So it is a necessity, but it is starting over with a very old building [the Fremont School] that doesn’t have any room that’s nice. There’s going to be a lot of work but I’m happy for them, and I wish ’em well.

Are you excited about this election year?

Do you think things are going better for the arts in general in Sacramento?

No, because my daughter’s here, and I love this community. I don’t want to leave what I’ve helped develop. All my votes on the board of supervisors, I’m very proud of a lot of the things. You drive down the street, you say, “I had a hand in that” or “I put up that stop sign, put those speed bumps in.” That’s tough to leave when you helped develop the community in which you live. Ω

I do, and I think people are excited about our city. I think they see all the things going on with the arena. I think most people comprehend it isn’t a world-class city unless you have the arts and also the arena. I’m a season-ticket holder for the Kings, and I’ve been since day one but I also have a huge appreciation for the arts.

I’m excited about every election year, yes.

What keeps you interested? I want to elect the people that I want to elect. I stay involved and work hard for people that I think are qualified and are good people to be in office. I stay interested because I want to affect who’s elected. So I’m usually raising money for candidates of my choice and on their finance committee.

I see, it looks like, pictures of your grandkids. I have two grandsons.

Interesting. Where do they live? They live in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Would you ever consider relocating to Scottsdale?

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