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22 Our Mission: To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages employees to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare. To have a positive impact on our communities and make them better places to live.

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Moving on I joined SN&R in 2004 as a proofreader, eagle-eying the work of Cosmo Garvin, Melinda Welsh, Becca Costello and others. I admired how their thumbs were firmly on Sacramento’s pulse.

And I wanted so badly to be like them, for the chance to dig into this city’s earth. I even delivered copies of SN&R on my days off just to be closer to their world.

And now, nearly a dozen years and thousands of stories later, I am moving on. This is my final issue.

I tell people that working here was like one long vacation. I’ve interviewed so many awesome people, from Zach Hill to Seymour Hersch to Sister Crayon to Animal Collective. Bands playing in Midtown basements threw beers at me when my stories pissed them off. Kanye West’s bodyguard threatened to break a camera on my face. What a gig!

Eventually, I squeezed into news, and was instantly drawn to stories about the disenfranchised and powerless. I’ll never forget my birthday on December 28, 2012: On a freezing winter morning, I watched cops evict more than 100 homeless campers from tents along the American River’s bank. Years later, I still see many of those same faces.

I believe in SN&R. We give a microphone to people who seldom are heard, and tell stories of artists and thinkers who give this city its spirit.

We’ve frequently stood alone on critical public issues, like the arena and strong mayor. And I’m grateful readers had our back.

Now, I’m off to my next act, as editor-in-chief of Oakland’s longstanding alt-weekly, the East Bay Express. It stings my heart to say goodbye.

But SN&R is in talented hands. The story goes on.

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I think there is a big block by the medical association to keep it under lock and key.

I don’t think so. I think it is something people just do on their own in the privacy of their own homes. I don’t think it is something that really causes a lot of problems out in public.

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So if you need it, then you find a way.

No, because I don’t use it.

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If we are already having problems as it is, then when it is legal, it will be easier for people to get it. I think it will be easier for the people that use it already.

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Baseball is elitist Re “Strikeout” by Graham Womack (SN&R Feature Story, April 7): There are many reasons that are cause for this.

I took notice that MLB created Latin-American academies based upon cheaper development of players and less competition (no player draft) to access the talent. Do not dismiss or minimize economics. It is a very valid cause. The community Little League has lost its potential players to travel teams or other sports, such as soccer. In addition to complaints that the game is too slow and boring, baseball has become an elitist sport to participate in.

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too few at present, to instill the love of the game in our youth and give them the facilities they need, they would also be helping themselves down the road. I was in a family of six kids, and with money in short supply I would get my bat and glove and a baseball and play all day. …

I challenge MLB to invest in our youth and hire some passionate people that can identify the best way to give our youth the opportunity to discover this timeless game. Please don’t let it disappear while you still have the chance to salvage it for our future generations. Thank you, Graham Womack, for all your passion and love that you share with the rest of us. Go Pirates!

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Another ‘poor people are lazy’ email, sigh Re “Strikeout” by Graham Womack (SN&R Feature Story, April 7): The problem is not due to the disparity in income levels between two ethnic groups. The NCAA reports that 51 percent of African-American males receiving a full athletic scholarship take six years to complete a four-year program, while

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Money is not the issue here. …

Don’t confuse being poor with being lazy.

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Yes, if you focus on AfricanAmerican players, the number of minorities can seem small. But a much larger percentage of MLB players are nonwhite, just not African-American. … Twisting numbers and misapplying labels to players does a disservice to truth as well as to the players themselves.

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SN&R’s legal battle with the mayor finally gets a hearing this month, on Friday, April 22.

About those K.J. emails What SN&R learned from its legal battle with the mayor—and what happens next

by NicK Miller

This is a news-analysis piece.

Look for a longer version at www.news review.com.

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It’s been more than a year since SN&R reporter Cosmo Garvin filed a routine Public Records Act request with Sacramento’s city clerk, asking for records involving the mayor’s office and the National Conference of Black Mayors. Three-hundred and sixty-six days as of this past Tuesday, in fact.

This means that more than 100 of Mayor Kevin Johnson’s public emails and records have remained inaccessible, hidden, secret, for much longer than the normal week-or-two turnaround.

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lengths that the mayor’s attorneys have gone to prevent SN&R from its legal right to access these public records has amounted to “an extraordinary lawsuit … to keep from the public emails subject to the California Public Records Act.” We’re not alone in this view. The digital-media-rights nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote last year that Johnson’s suit against this paper was harmful to government transparency and the freedom of press everywhere. “[SN&R] hasn’t done anything wrong— it simply asked for documents, which the city attorney agreed SN&R could have under the California Public Records Act.

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But now it’s facing mounting legal bills as Johnson has taken the newspaper to court to prevent the emails from seeing the light of day.”

SN&R’s CEO Jeff vonKaenel revealed in his column this week that those legal bills are projected to reach $75,000. (Read more about this on page 10.) SN&R readers have generously have donated to defray these costs. (Learn more about that at www.gofundme.com/ SNRlegalhelp.)

And, last year, journalism-advocacy outfit First Look Media, who also backed a grant to Chelsea Manning’s legal defense, donated $15,000 to SN&R’s legal battle.

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“Although the media and political reach of this case may be regionally focused, it bears a significant public interest,” First Look wrote in its announcement of the grant last fall. “If the mayor succeeds in blocking public review of emails sent in his capacity as mayor that relate to the use of public resources, it could set a precedent that undermines the public’s right of access to governmental information.”

This paper agrees, which is why we stood up to the mayor when we were named in the injunction last July.

And now, SN&R will return to Sacramento County Superior Court on Friday, April 22, at 10:30 a.m.

We’ve filed a motion to have a judge perform an “in camera” review of the remaining 158 emails and documents, because it’s clear that they are not valid attorney-client communications.

They’re conversations between the mayor, his staff, volunteers, interns and public-relations contractors. They have zero to do with Johnson and his private legal discussions.

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Johnson’s legal team at Ballard Spahr, which is working pro bono, has avoided any and all review of our claims and good-faith meetings with our attorney.

SN&R also hoped to bring aboard Gawker Media in this case, since the website Deadspin also has an interest in K.J.’s secret emails. Deadspin would’ve significantly helped out with our legal bill—yet Ballard Spahr blocked Gawker from joining in on the battle, as did the city of Sacramento attorneys (without explanation).

But, no matter what goes down that Friday morning in court, SN&R feels as if it has already won.

Here’s why: on July 2 of last year, Johnson sued SN&R, and the city attorney’s initially decided to withhold more than 500 emails and documents from the public. No other media outlet in town stood up to this move, besides SN&R. And so, because we challenged it, on July 29 Ballard Spahr agreed to turn over more than 400 emails. “We determined after careful examination that a majority of the potentially privileged documents flagged by the City Attorney’s Office were not in fact privileged,” the firm wrote. That was a major win for freedom of the press.

What did SN&R learn from these documents and emails? A boatload: A majority of these records pertain to Johnson’s involvement with the National Conference of Black Mayors, the embattled Atlanta-based group that he took over as president in May 2013. After Johnson was elected leader, he sued the group and its executive director, Vanessa Williams, and ultimately drove NCBM into bankruptcy last year.

K.J.’s secret emails are a window into his office’s so-called NCBM “coup.” For instance, while Johnson’s spokespeople say his initial mission was to salvage the group, not destroy it, his staff nevertheless clearly held contempt for NCBM long before he became president. As one staffer wrote in a 2012 email: “I’m glad I’m not black. Those people don’t make no sense!”

A quick take on the Johnson-NCBM drama timeline, based on records obtained

by SN&R: The mayor joined NCBM in 2011. Around this time, and unbeknownst to most of its members, the group was in a bad place: debt, late rent and it’d even lost its nonprofit status. This came on the heels of the imprisonment of its former president, Mayor George Grace.

In the spring of 2013, Johnson was A significant amount of city employee angling to take over NCBM as president. time was spent pushing Stand Up’s In fact, executive director Vanessa education-reform agenda on members of Williams was in favor of his election the NCBM, however. Stephanie Mash to the top spot with the organization. was a paid Stand Up employee and city Johnson’s team said it had the best intenof Sacramento “volunteer” during most of tions, but that only after revelations of the period between May 2013 and August crummy bookkeeping and shady spending 2014. Her email signature states that she did he and his staff pursue more aggreswas with the “Office of Mayor Kevin sive strategies.

Johnson, city of Sacramento,” but for This claim by Team K.J., however, most of those months Stand Up paid her doesn’t align with the fact that his staff salary. She did things like prepare docuproduced the now-infamous ments for private meetings between “National Conference of Johnson, his wife Michelle Black Mayors Annual Rhee and billionaire Meeting Coup’” charter-school presentation backer Eli Broad; sometime in as well as coorearly 2013, dinate efforts before he to elect became Johnson NCBM as NCBM president. president.

This coup The presentaemails and tion records included obtain discussions

by SN&R First Look Media of how from the on SN&R’s legal battle with to “find a lawsuit show Mayor Kevin Johnson replacement how Mash and for [executive nearly all of the director]” and ways mayor’s staff use to fire Williams for special “OMKJ” Gmail “cause.” accounts, for “office of mayor It’s also suspect that, by June 4, Kevin Johnson.” For instance, Mash’s 2013, mere days after his election as email was “stephanie.omkj@gmail.com.” president, Johnson himself sent emails to The K.J. team employed these addresses Williams and then-NCBM legal counsel not only to skirt Public Records Act Sue Richardson. “Sorry we haven’t requests, but to project the image that had a chance to talk,” Johnson wrote to private employees are actually on City Williams, “but I am very concerned by Hall payroll, according to former staffers the things I am hearing and learning and who’ve spoken to SN&R. we have to act fast.” In that same email, The issue became such a time suck Johnson also attempted to persuade for Team K.J. that, at some point in 2013, Williams to show up at his pro bono an “OMKJNCBM” Google Group was attorney Ballard Spahr’s offices—for a created to facilitate communications. surprise deposition.

By August of 2013, the Johnson “Let’s work together to get these machine was in full PR mode, feeding matters resolved,” he concluded anti-Williams stories to media and the email. lobbying mayors to vote for her resignaThe emails also offer further insight tion. Leading this outreach to fellow into how Johnson uses private employees mayors was an employee on city payroll, from his nonprofits, such as education mayoral adviser Cassandra Jennings, nonprofit Stand Up, as city staff. And vice who at one point emailed her colleagues versa: how city employees spend a whole worried that she was spending too much lot of time working on noncity projects. time on noncity business.

Some of the work is benign, or even for the public good, such as in the spring of 2014, when Stand Up employees and “AboUt tHose K.J. eMAILs” city staff worked with the NCBM and the continued on page 9 White House to register more people for the Affordable Care Act.

“It could set a precedent that undermines the public’s right of access to governmental information.”

Thirty-four Sacramento and Davis residents traveled by bus to Benicia on April 4 to protest plans by Valero to build a facility that would allow it to ship 50 to 100 cars of crude oil by rail each day.

Benicia’s planning commission unanimously opposed the project on February 11, despite city staff’s recommendation. The Benicia City Council could vote on Valero’s appeal as soon as April 18.

Scores of local organizations, from environmental group 350 Sacramento to the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, oppose the project because it would bring crude-packed trains through downtown sacramento and other Northern California cities.

“That’s not OK to put so many people at risk for a few people making profits,” said Laurie Litman, co-founder of 350 Sacramento.

Congress voted in December to end a 40-year ban on exporting crude oil.

Valero currently receives crude oil at its refinery by ships and barges at Benicia’s port and a pipeline across the Martinez Bridge, said Andres Soto of Communities for a Better Environment. Soto expressed concern about what will happen to the Benicia refinery’s port operations if it’s allowed to build the rail facility.

“We suspect that they may have a hidden agenda of trying to do oil exports out of the port operation, which is not part of this project,” he said.

Trains also allow refineries to access crude oil from the Bakken Formation in North Dakota and Canadian tar sands that “are more volatile than typical crude,” said Chris Brown of the Sacramento Oil Trains Coalition.

Valero has argued that federal preemption laws for railways allow it to ship what it wants despite local concerns. Brown said those rules only apply to rail companies. Regardless, Brown and others expect Valero to sue if Benicia City Council votes against the company.

A Valero official, Chris Howe, defended his company’s plans to KCRA, saying, “There’s 30 million cars and light trucks on the road today, and we’re key to fueling that demand.” (Graham Womack)

strIKe tACtIC worKed After a year of negotiations and brinksmanship, the California Faculty Association and the California State University administration finally came to terms last week on a tentative new agreement that would give faculty a 10.5 percent pay increase over the next three years.

Under the new proposed deal, CFA members, which account for more than 26,000 CSU faculty—including about 1,600 at Sac State—would receive a 5 percent general salary increase in June 2016 and an additional 2 percent in July 2016.

But that’s not all. Faculty would also receive a 3.5 percent increase in July 2017 and, for those who qualify, a 2.65 percent service salary increase in the same year.

The new proposal is a stark contrast to the 2 percent increase the CSU offered earlier this year, just before the CFA scheduled a five-day strike that would have begun April 13 on all 23 campuses.

Despite the higher pay increase, CSU Chancellor Timothy White joined CFA President Jennifer Eagan in professing excitement about the deal.

“The tentative agreement enables all of us to focus our efforts on serving students and spares students the negative impacts of the threatened strikes,” White said in a statement.

For the deal to go through, it must still be approved by the CFA Board of Directors, ratified by its members and finally approved by the CSU Board of trustees. (Kris Hooks)

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Old building, new arts center.

Consider the curtain raised.

The E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts center officially opened in Midtown last week, and with it came a new branding effort and nickname: Clara (because the full name is admittedly a mouthful).

Clara’s color palette? The interiors are white and gray, with the occasional pop of teal, an homage to Joyce Raley Teel, the philanthropist and daughter of Claire Raley and who helped fund the soon-to-be home of the Sacramento Ballet and others.

Last Thursday, several public officials spoke to the importance of the arts for a city and the general excitement culminating around the project, including Congresswoman Doris Matsui, Councilman Steve Hansen and Sacramento County Supervisor Patrick Kennedy. “This is a very proud moment for all of us,” Hansen said.

The ballet will anchor Clara, which also houses Alliance Francaise de Sacramento, Brazilian Center for Cultural Exchange, Capital Stage, McKeever School of Irish Dance and Sacramento Preparatory Music Academy.

The historic building, at 2420 N Street, was most recently the Fremont School for Adults, which was built in 1920 and closed in 2012 due to budget cuts. With its original brickwork facade, Clara still looks like an old schoolhouse on the outside. You halfexpect to hear a bell ring at any moment.

The city of Sacramento now leases the building from the Sacramento City Unified School District, at a dollar a year for 40 years. The city also kicked in $5 million of the building’s $6.5 million renovation costs.

The new facilities are definitely modern. The ballet occupies an entire wing, with six studios that range from approximately 3,000 square feet to 24,000 square feet, according to Artistic Director Ron Cunningham. It’s significantly more space than what he had to work with on K Street, the ballet’s longstanding former home. The new place comes complete with a brand new, extra-bouncy sprung floor.

“I wish people could have seen the dancers when they first saw the floors,” he said. “It was like a trampoline.”

Cunningham hopes to fully move into Clara by May, but there’s still some work to do.

Capital Stage, however, will not be completely moving into Clara at all. Its J Street theater will still house all productions, but for the first time, the company has a dedicated rehearsal space. That will increase its ability to do more shows each season, funding allowing, of course. Find out more at www.claramidtown.org. Ω

“ABOUT THOSE K.J. EMAILS” continued from page 7

The emails show that Team K.J. wanted to keep the drama on the hush-hush. For instance, in December 2013, when the ousted NCMB executive director started sending out ACA recruitment emails on the organization’s behalf, Mash wrote: “I’m wondering if we can get the White house to take her off the distribution list? On the other hand, we might not want them to know how messy this is.”

And, by September of that year, Mash had created a special Gmail account just for the NCBM drama: “Urgent: Please send all of your NCBM emails to NCBMlitigation@gmail.com.” was the subject line of a September 13 email, sent to senior mayoral staff and noncity volunteers.

At this time, Johnson was still promising other mayors that his intentions were to “restore” the NCBM to its former glory.

But, by the spring of 2014, Johnson had moved to dissolve NCBM into bankruptcy—and had launched a new blackmayors group: the African American Mayors Association.

While it’s clear that the mayor’s secret emails are anything but privileged conversations between Johnson and his attorneys, on Monday Ballard Spahr filed a petition opposing SN&R’s motion to have a judge review the remaining 158 records, referring to our lawyer’s argument as “meritless” and “absurd.”

But is it? Doesn’t the public have a right to know who works for the mayor’s office, how they present themselves to the outside world and what technology and software they’re using to communicate? And, of course, who pays for those employees: private groups like the Walton family or Sacramento taxpayers?

Does anyone inside City Hall care?

SN&R reached out to mayoral candidates Angelique Ashby and Darrell Steinberg on this matter. We asked campaign spokespeople for the candidates’ thoughts on using private email in lieu of city addresses, and if noncity employees should be allowed to work inside City Hall. Or whether private Gmail accounts that were used for public work should be turned over to the city attorney.

We also asked whether the candidates, if elected, would establish private nonprofits or groups so that companies or individuals could “behest” them donations. And, if so, whether the current system of behest disclosures is sufficient, or if the city needs additional rules to regulate and oversee behests.

Neither candidate’s representatives bothered to respond by deadline.

There are a few possible outcomes at the April 22 hearing.

Judge Christopher Krueger could side with SN&R and tell the city to hand over the remaining 158 emails and documents. Or he could force us to go back to the drawing board, to shore up our argument. Or he could rule against us and force us to appeal.

Still, no matter what happens, it’s clear that public information isn’t always public in Sacramento—and that’s a problem that won’t be going away even when K.J. is long gone. Ω

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15 years old in 1996 when Johnson The good news so far is that, because allegedly molested her. She no longer this paper stood up to the mayor when he wanted to remain silent. And, in October sued us last year, hundreds of contested 2015, Deadspin released the 1996 police emails have been released. These docuvideo of an officer interviewing Koba. ments reveal many things—read Nick And, finally, in March, HBO produced a Miller’s news story in this week’s issue show documenting additional allegations for more on this (page 6)—but there against K.J. The rest is history—and remain additional emails that have not Johnson’s political career was history, been released. We do not know what is too. He will not run for re-election. He in these emails. But we do know that the rarely even shows up for city council mayor’s argument that they should not meetings. His Teflon suit was be released is bogus. stripped away.

Much has happened since And so, on April 22, March 2015, when our SN&R will be back in reporter Cosmo Garvin Ironically, court versus the lamefiled a routine Public the mayor set duck mayor. Johnson Records Act request has successfully asking to see emails in motion events delayed this case, which relating to the mayor’s that led to his should never have attempted takeover of destruction. been a case, resulting the National Conference in a legal bill for SN&R of Black Mayors. Garvin that will probably be in the suspected that city funds and $75,000 range. city staff were being diverted to Ironically, the mayor threw the first work on NCBM instead of more pressstone by suing us, and set in motion ing city business. events that led to his political destruction.

In a highly unusual legal move, It is time for Johnson to stop his Johnson decided to sue us, and the city, legal maneuvering and release the to prevent the release of emails that the final emails. After the June primary, city attorney had determined to be public Johnson should resign as mayor. record. The mayor cited attorney-client Sacramento needs to move on. And privilege.

Johnson needs to look in a mirror and Very quickly, the fact that the mayor start changing that reflection. Ω was suing a newspaper and his own city became a big story. Local television and radio were all over it. National outlets Help fund SN&R’s legal defense at www.gofundme.com/ such as USA Today and the Los Angeles SNRlegalhelp.

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It’s just before 6 p.m. on a Monday in early March, and Andrew “DJames” Garcia is setting up for his hourlong Left of Center show for KSSU, Sac State’s student-run online radio station. Garcia sifts through the thousands of CDs stored on the racks that are packed into the cramped studio before picking some albums seemingly at random.

The final song of the previous metal show is nearing an end, so Garcia grabs two CDs, loads them into the player and faces one of the room’s two microphones. As the song ends, he pushes up a slider on the soundboard, and pulls down another.

“Good evening, everyone. I’m your host for the hour, DJames, and this is Left of Center.”

Garcia, the station’s manager, is one of 37 student DJs at KSSU, the radio station that has, despite numerous struggles to stay afloat, managed to stick around for 25 years—an accomplishment the station is celebrating April 15 with an event that’s been billed as an “alumni takeover.”

The station, which originally used the call letters KEDG, has maintained a scrappy persona since its inception in 1991, fighting tooth-and-nail to maintain relevancy on the university’s campus.

The station got its start when Jim Bolt and Chris Prosio, two Sac State students who met in a TV production class, decided the campus was lacking a radio station that would allow students an educational option.

“We believed once the students were given the opportunity to have that voice, it would last,” Prosio says.

University administration disagreed. Between the early ’60s and late ’70s, the campus had the student-run KERS, a licensed station that broadcast locally at 88.9 on the AM dial.

However, some listeners weren’t too fond of the programming, according to Bolt. Student DJs played alternative music and ran politically themed programs about the Vietnam War and Black Power movement. Constant pressure from the community, plus budget constraints, didn’t bode well for the station.

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Gone were the days of the college station that played Like many things in the mid-2000s, the internet was then rock and featured deejays talking about provocative politics. becoming the place where seemingly everything could be Instead, the station now played classical and carried some of found, watched or listened to. But with the station functionNPR’s news programming. ing off the university’s carrier current and powered by a Years later, university administration had students, led by lowly three watts, not many were able to actually hear it. At Bolt and Prosio, fighting for the chance to have their voices least not beyond the campus boundaries. heard on campus.

So, to adapt to what was becoming Bolt and Prosio formed the a web-based world, the station added Associated Broadcasting Club in live streaming to its arsenal, which 1989, got the backing of a faculty Kuo said has helped keep the station adviser in 1990, and received more connected to students on campus who than 1,200 signatures of support. They could now pull out their phones and further proved to administration how tune in. It’s also grabbed the attention serious they were, Bolt said, when of nonstudents, including Prosio and they brought forth an annual budget Bolt, who admit they still listen in and drafted station bylaws with the from time to time. help from students at KDVS, UC “Part of me, mostly because of my Davis’ college station. age, will always miss the radio station, “[The station] was our baby,” but these days, being able to listen Bolt explained. “At some point, it in on the phone, plane, car… it’s was a source of obligation. All of the revolutionary,” Prosio said. pieces were there—we just needed the Despite some early setbacks and execution.” budget constraints, the second coming Administration let up, and of Sac State’s student-run radio station eventually granted $100,000 from has proven to be more than just a flash the university in 1991 to start up the in the pan. station. A short time later, after origiInstead, Garcia says KEDGnally broadcasting through Access turned-KSSU-turned-kssu.com has Sacramento, they secured two almost been essential in student education closet-sized rooms in the back of the and development. And they’ve been school’s library and began broadcastrecognized for it, too, winning several ing on campus on the 530 AM band.

College Music Journal awards and Chris Prosio Fast-forward 25 years, and the even being named as a top-10 college co-founder, KSSU station is still pumping out music on radio station by MTVU in 2010. Like campus. It’s still housed in a cramped many of the DJs before him, Garcia, space, but instead of the library, it’s who’s a film major graduating this front and center on the first floor of May, doesn’t see KSSU as just a place the University Union with the other to get radio experience.

Associated Student auxiliaries. And it’s still run by the In fact, many of the station’s current volunteer DJs have students, but instead of broadcasting on the airwaves, it’s no desire to go into radio as a career. Instead, Garcia says, heard via the Internet. joining is about forging bonds with people and experiencing something that can give students a “sense of belonging” at Streaming as survival what is typically considered a commuter school.

“Looking back at some of the historical things, like After the first four songs of his set end, Garcia hops back changing from KEDG to KSSU, or going from AM to on the mic to discuss his song choices for the day. Although web-only, it seems like people experienced similar sorts of his hour usually consists of playing random music that even things,” Garcia explained. “Like, it’s a change and different he admits to occasionally having never heard before, the structure over time, but it’s still the same soul … if you want process for choosing this particular set was methodical. to get gooey about it.”

Most of the songs from the set are reminiscent of his trip As David Bowie’s “The Pretty Things are Going to Hell” with KSSU to SXSW just a week before. Up next are some finishes up the final song of this day’s Left of Center, Garcia tracks from bands he heard at the annual music festival, stands up to the microphone and closes out his show like he bands who sound like those bands, and some, like Nine Inch has for the last three years.

Nails and David Bowie, that he just threw in because he “See you all next week. Same time, same place. Only on thought they’d fit in well on the playlist. kssu.com.” Ω “With the name Left of Center, you kind of want it to be a little out there,” Garcia said.

Listen to KSSU and learn more about the station’s anniversary In addition to his show, and being in charge of “not celebrations at www.kssu.com. burning things down,” Garcia also helps to manage the station’s website.

“Part of me, mostly because of my age, will always miss the radio station, but these days, being able to listen in on the phone, plane, car … it’s revolutionary.”

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Shut the lights off, Arco Arena Late in the fourth quarter, a familiar image of Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken parodying Blue Oyster Cult on Saturday Night Live was broadcast on the jumbo-screen above center court. “I’ve got a fever and the only prescription … is more cowbell,” Walken barked. And so, Kings fans, as they have for 28 years, made near-deafening noise in the former Arco, now Sleep Train, Arena for the last time.

This particular night, Saturday, April 9, was the final game before the arena presumably becomes a vacant ghost dome. Built in 1988 and named Arco Arena II, it only cost $40 million. Compare that to the $507 million price tag on Golden 1 Center downtown, and $40 million is likely just the cost of the chairs. Arco looks like a cement barn in a field, one where actual cows once roamed Natomas in the ’80s.

When Lakers head coach Phil Jackson called Sacramento a “cow town,” Kings fans leaned into the diss by filling the arena with cowbells. It’s a tradition that will not die. Cowbells still pass through security in obscene sizes to create a clanging, clunky symphony of 17,000 known as “Arco Thunder.”

In good times and bad, Arco Arena symbolized home-court advantage. Whether it’s Kobe Bryant, Bill Walton, Shaquille O’Neal or Lebron James, they all say the same thing: Arco (or whatever one calls it) remains the loudest court in the NBA. When Mike Bibby hit “the shot” that won Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals in 2002, Arco likely set the loudest arena record. In 2013, the Kings invited Guinness to make that record official. In the inaugural season, Larry Bird felt the thunder when he missed two clutch free throws that sealed a Kings win against the Celtic dynasty of the 1980s. So with seven seconds left on Saturday and Oklahoma City Thunder’s Russell Westbrook at the free throw line to potentially tie the game—to spoil the final game at Arco—Kings announcer Scott Moak hit his cue.

“Let’s give him a taste of that Arco Thunder.”

Westbrook made all three, but a foul at the other end that sent Rudy Gay to the line with one second remaining sealed a Kings victory. A finale apropos of the franchise’s haphazard season. Asked if meant a lot to him to be the last player to score in the arena, Gay kept it about the team’s accomplishment.

“Naw, it’s all about the win,” he said. “They could have beat us and shut the lights off and it wouldn’t have been as sweet.”

Throughout the night, 30 former Kings players were the guests of honor, sporting baby blue jerseys in homage to the first season. Brad Miller embraced the celebration by coming out of retirement in the form of an arena hypeman.

What he referred to as his “bow-hunting arm” was getting good use lobbing T-shirts and mini-basketballs into the crowd. Much like visiting players talk of Arco a certain way, former Kings have their own language of respect, admiration and an intangible element that gave them some of their best seasons in the league.

“That court out there—that 94 feet—that was magical,” Miller said.

In good times and bad, Arco Arena symbolized home-court advantage.

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Watch the Skies megagame sATurdAY, April 16 What happens when you turn a board game into a real-life event? You get a lot of people fighting for humanity in boardrooms and discussion panels.

Megagames are like model UN meetups for gamers.

Watch the Skies is a megagame about how the world might handle first contact with an alien GaMES race. Join your fellow sky watchers in this tournament of politics and intrigue. $55-$225; 10 a.m. at Great Escape Games, 1250 Howe Avenue, Suite 3A; (916) 436-1644; http://westcoastmegagames.com.

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—lorY gil Back in Sacramento proper, on Tuesday, April 19, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., there will be the annual Earth Day Celebration 2016 in Cesar Chavez Park (910 I Street).

Though Earth Day is officially Friday, April 22, why not take the opportunity to celebrate early? There will be live music and vendors, with an emphasis on education and how the community can be continue to work on being green.

Speaking of green, everyone’s favorite unofficial holiday, 4/20, is also this week, (on Wednesday, April 20, in case that needs to be made clear, in which case you probably don’t need to “celebrate” any more than you already have). And while there doesn’t appear to be any massive citywide celebration planned like there is in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco every year, take the opportunity to get creative. For instance, you could: Ingest via your method of choice, go to Nationwide Freezer Meats (1930 H Street) for a steak burger and a milkshake and then catch SNL alumn Brooks Wheelan at Punch Line Comedy Club (2100 Arden Way) at 8 p.m. and let the laughs just … happen, man. Visit www.punchline sac.com for more info.

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ince the 1920s, April has gotten something of a bad rap as being the “cruelest month.” (Word on the street is that T.S. Eliot guy was a real grump.) But if you are not a depressive poet and also don’t suffer from debilitating springtime allergies, it’s a pretty swell time, what with all the life bursting forth, the sun becoming increasingly sun-like, and those almost-river-weather vibes permeating the air. ’Tis the season for celebrating the earthly wonders of the planet (try as we might to constantly eff it up). Behold, ways to get down with Mother Earth this week around the city: UC Davis’ 102nd annual Picnic Day kicks off at noon on Saturday, April 16, with over 200 events taking place on campus; there will be standard festival-type things (a parade, live music, food vendors) of course, but events of the keep-Davis-weird variety, too (cockroach races, a liquid nitrogen ice cream demonstration and chemistry magic show, to name a few). As always, attendance is free and turnout is expected to be massive (just under 10,000 people have RSVP’d on Facebook as of this printing).

Check out https://picnicday.ucdavis.edu for more information.

Part of the fun of going to Comic-Con is dressing up like your favorite comic-book character.

Unfortunately, that’s still months away; bide your time in Roseville dressed as your favorite superhero and get a little exercise with a FUN RUN family-friendly 5K to benefit children’seducation programming. $25; 7 a.m. at Maidu Park, 1550 Maidu Drive in Roseville; (916) 632-8407; www.starsacramento.org/funRun.

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art hotel: aftershock, Thoughts and Wonderings WEdnEsdAY, April 20 It’s been more than two months since Art Hotel, and everyone is still obsessed. Relive the guts and glory with organizers Seumas Coutts and Shaun Burner, plus artists Gioia Fonda, Franceska Gamez, Bobby Edwards and Wel Sed. Free; 7:30 p.m. aRT at Sacramento State Department of Art, 6000 J Street; (916) 278-6166; www.facebook.com/ events/1127018513995968.

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The latest is the Allspicery (1125 11th Street), which opened last week selling more than 200 spices, herbs, blends, chiles, fancy salts and more. The downtown shop’s walls are lined with jars full of some familiar names, like cumin and sage, as well as more unusual offerings, like urfa biber, epazote and ras el hanout. The idea is that instead of driving out to all

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Lunchable: It’s been months since Block Butcher Bar (1050 20th Street) first promised lunch service, but it’s finally here. You can now head to Block for sandwiches, salads, charcuterie and supposedly “grown-up Lunchables” for a graband-go option. In partnership with Liquidology, Block will also serve cold-pressed juice and juice-based cocktails.

Yet another poke shop: Yeah, yeah.

I know. How could we possibly care about another build-your-own poke bowl place? Well, Zuma Poke & Lush Ice (730 Third Street in Davis) is the only place in the region to also serve true Hawaiian-style, premarinated poke. Zuma further shows its island dedication with Hawaiian beers and boozy, soju-infused shave ice.

Market news: The Midtown Farmers Market recently expanded another block down 20th toward L Street.

That means more room for farmers’ summer bounties and more nonfarmers selling crafty wares. Ω

Developing a shrub habit can get expensive, with the fruity, vinegar-based sodas often running $4 or more a pop. Local startup company Burly Beverages makes a variety of all-natural drinks for the health conscious, including bottles of shrub syrups ($11 for eight ounces). Simply mix an ounce of the stuff into seltzer water, and you’ve got a fancy shrub soda. I like the grapefruit brulee flavor, accented by vanilla bean and two types of vinegar. Burly sugars and torches the grapefruit, which mellows out the bitterness. The result is sweet, bright, refreshing and—if you do the math—a bargain. http://burlybeverages.com.

—Janelle bitker

Taste of spring Fava beans Like eagerly awaited Delta asparagus, fava beans are a spring market prize. Often grown as a winter crop to improve the soil, these bright green legumes take a little work: shuck off the pods to reveal the rooster crests on each bean, which you then blanch and peel off to enjoy the tender flesh beneath. Sauté them ever so briefly with oil, then toss with pasta, fresh herbs and goat cheese. Or make a pistou with blanched favas, garlic, Parmesan and nuts, and swirl it into soups and over pizza. They’re the ultimate taste of spring.

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To step into the Warehouse Artist Lofts Public Market is to feel like you’ve found a portal to San Francisco.

The warehouse retains its scarred concrete and exposed beams, into which the hippest of businesses have been installed. It’s bursting with creative energy, but also, sometimes, with noise.

Fish Face Poke Bar and Metro Kitchen + Drinkery anchor the retail space, with communal seating indoors and out. Both eateries might be more expected in San Francisco’s Ferry Building Marketplace. In Sacramento, they feel cutting-edge and unique.

Metro owners Lisa and Keith Musilli Johnson began selling their coldpressed, organic juices at local farmers markets in 2014. While they still sell them here ($6 for 10 ounces, $7.50 for 12.5 ounces), there is a nice sense of balance to the expanded menu; it’s not all crunchy granola and things you ought to eat.

Among the many sandwiches, the Southern Meatloaf ($8.95) with onion jam, sun-dried tomato tapenade and herb aioli is a refreshingly light take on a meatloaf sub. Metro uses custom whole-wheat loaves from Grateful Bread and adds lightly dressed side salads.

There’s a short cocktail menu that utilizes Metro’s juices, such as the Mandarin Margarita ($9), which balances sharp tequila with floral citrus and agave. Yes, there are lots of fancy

cocktails around town these days—however, a restaurant that embodies health and locavore ideals seems like an unexpected place to find them.

Another notable surprise here is the strong sense of collaboration the owners foster. Perhaps that’s the influence of Lisa’s former work as a Waldorf teacher. One day, she asked for feedback on the already knockout brie, apple, onion jam and spinach sandwich ($8.95). She told us about the evolution of the sandwich and its current balance of less sweet/more savory, illustrating her attention to customer feedback.

This is refreshing. As diners, we don’t usually feel so involved—unless we do the specialorder-dressing-on-the-side routine, which is just annoying for everyone.

For those who want to customize, the quinoa bowls ($9.95 to $11.95) offer lots of choices.

Protein-packed quinoa is the ultimate in nutrition these days, so paired with amaranth, millet and a variety of toppings, you’ll feel ready to run a marathon. It’s a bit too spartan, though; I longed for a bit of butter or salt.

There are always a few salads, some vegan and gluten-free. We liked the sharpness of the pickled onions with the curried chicken salad ($11.95) and greens, although the portion seemed small for the price.

Keep an eye out for pizzetta specials, too. The version with herby za’atar and ricotta ($3.75) is simple but perfect with large crystals of salt garnishing the top.

There are a variety of paper menus and boards, so ordering can be a bit confusing. Ask about daily baked goods, some made in-house and some from Sugar Plum Vegan. The Queen Mum’s chocolate-almond torte ($6) is a light bit of dessert to pair with the Bubbles menu ($7 to $9 per glass).

All together, Metro makes for a fun, energetic place to stop for drinks and a light meal. It teeters on the edge of spendy and noisy, though, so go when you’re feeling ultra-urban and sit outside. Ω

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Savor history If you’re the sort of person who wishes they could fly back in time and take advantage of Sacramento’s cheaper rent and simpler food scene, Maryellen Burns can help—conceptually, at least. The author of The Lost Restaurants of Sacramento—and Their Recipes will host a talk on Wednesday, April 20, at the Sacramento Medical Society Building (5380 Elvas Avenue), entitled “The Savory and Unsavory Bits Behind the History of Sacramento Food: 1839-Contemporary Times.” Sounds juicy, right? Burns, an avid collector of cookbooks and Sacramento food-related memorabilia, will not only show old recipes and newspaper clippings, but she’ll offer sample tastes from some of them.

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A music holiday record Store day This Saturday, April 16, is one of the biggest holidays for vinyl aficionados. Each year, Record Store Day joins indie record store shops across the world for an event that promises special RSDonly releases and in-store performances.

Music Some of this year’s releases include works from Lush and Hüsker Dü frontman Bob Mould. In Sacramento, the local music chain Dimple Records will host in-store events with a noon performance

by Bellygunner at Dimple Arden (2433 Arden Way) and an 11 a.m. gig by Destroy Boys at Dimple Broadway (2500 16th Street). KZAP radio staff will be at both locations giving out swag. www.record storeday.com.

—rachel leibrock

Back to the ’90s SoNGS for JeNNa If, like me, you love sitting around (preferably late at night) talking about music, then you most definitely need to check out the new Songs for Jenna podcast.

Here, host Ryan gives a musical history education of sorts as he plays ’90s-era indie rock for his sister Jenna. Jenna happens to be less into twee pop and PodcAst Neutral Milk Hotel and more into, say, Dave Matthews—but she’s open to her brother’s history lessons. Each episode centers around a well-researched theme and even though the conversation sometimes feels scripted, it’s still a fun listen—even if it’s hard to believe that a grownup woman such as Jenna has really never heard the term “riot grrrl” before. www.facebook.com/ SongsForJenna.

—rachel leibrock

NatioNal (Guerrilla) Poetry MoNth April is National Poetry Month, but those not invited to read somewhere shouldn’t feel left out.

That’s because April is also National (Guerrilla) Poetry Poetry Month—or so say the folks with the Zero Forbidden Goals art collective.

The group has teamed with Sol Collective to challenge poets to create and share their own spoken word videos.

The instructions are pretty simple, according to ZFG’s Facebook event directions: “1. Create an awesome guerrilla poetry video.

2. Post it on your social media outlets and use #NationalGuerrillaPoetryMonth and tag ZFG Promotions.

3. Share it like crazy!”

ZFG also enlisted Outside the Lines, a film production company, to tape its members taking to the streets for a series performances featuring Andru Defeye and other local poets, including Ike Torres and AndYes (pictured). These sneakattack sessions happened around town at spots such as LowBrau and the state Capitol.

This year, the campaign, which originally launched as a regional event in 2014, is not limited to area poets: ZFG has enlisted word warriors across the globe, including several Def Jam poets.

The campaign runs through April 30. www.facebook.com/ events/832575103521017.

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Arlington

Alternate expectations

by Jeff HudSon

California Stage’s latest production is Arlington, a so-called “chamber musical” about a lonely military wife (the excellent Analise LangfordClark) whose everyday life is shadowed by fears and realizations of what war has done to her husband (Jonathan Blum), herself and humanity as a whole.

F, Sa 8 pm; Su 2 pm. Through 5/1. Three Penny Theater at California Stage, 1723 25th Street; (916) 451-5822; www.calstage.org. J.C.

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Blackberry Winter

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

“See, it’s just a hilarious misunderstanding.”

Chinglish

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Chinglish; 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; $20-$25. Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra at the Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad Street in Nevada City; (530) 273-6362; http://catsweb.org.

Through April 30.

Chinglish is a sharp-edged comedy about cultural miscues between America and China, written by Pulitzer-winner David Henry Hwang. It’s full of barbed humor, hilarious misunderstandings and interesting reverses. Laughter and satire go hand in hand.

The story involves a Midwestern businessman, speaking only English, desperate to swing a deal to provide well-translated English signage for a new Chinese performing arts complex. And the modern reality is that the American needs the contract more than the Chinese authorities need him.

Closing the deal proves tricky as both sides grapple with unfamiliar business customs, political systems and corruption scandals. Chinglish also has a sexy subplot illuminating alternate expectations in marriage and romance.

A quarter of the dialogue is in Mandarin (with English supertitles)—the Mandarin portion generates many of the biggest laughs. Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra has imported some Mandarin speakers, including Seattle’s Kathy Hsieh in the pivotal role of Vice Minister of Culture Xi Yan. Also good is David Rosprim as an expat-English-teacherturned-business consultant, and Hock Tjoa as Culture Minister Cai (trying to steer the contract to a relative).

Director Annie Lareau wisely maintains a brisk pace.

Because it needs Mandarin speakers, Chinglish— which made its debut in 2011—has previously been staged mostly in bigger markets. This production by CATS, the only Asian theater company in the region, will likely be the only opportunity to see it here. But it’s well worth the drive to Nevada City to experience this smartly staged, highly topical comedy. Ω

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The Jets gang exploded onto the Woodland Opera House stage for the opening number of West Side Story, directed by Angela Baltezore with musical direction by Dean Mora.

This is a testosterone-driven chorus, with impeccable choreography by Staci Arriaga and exceptional vocals with the assistance of vocal director James Glica-Hernandez.

This latter-day Romeo and Juliet tale features 10 newcomers to the Woodland company in its 28-member cast. Particularly outstanding are Donovan McNeely as Riff, the leader of the Jets; Kevin Gruwell as Bernardo, the leader of the rival Sharks; and Daniel Silva as Action, Riff’s right-hand man.

Newcomer Giana Gambardella is sweet and innocent as the sister of Bernardo, newly arrived from Puerto Rico, whose wide-eyed love at first sight for Tony (Joshua Wheeler) is as believable as her pain at the tragic events to follow.

Also new to Woodland is Christina Castro as Bernardo’s girlfriend Anita, a woman whose fiery temperament infuses her every move. She’s a wonderful addition to the cast.

Wheeler, while a good Tony, is sadly not up to the caliber of the other men in the show.

His energy seemed low and his vocals, which displayed a polished voice, did not have the same level of passion as his fellow players.

Overall, however, this is an excellent production that boasted a near full house on opening night.

—bev sykes

West Side Story; 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; $12-$25. Woodland Opera house, 340 Second Street in Woodland; (530) 666-9617; www.woodlandoperahouse.org. Through May 1.

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;

Sa 2pm and 8pm; Su 2pm; W 7pm. Through 4/17. $23-$35.

Capital Stage, 2215 J Street; (916) 995-5464; http://cap stage.org. P.R.

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The Fantasticks

The world’s longest running musical is a captivating show that will win your heart. This is the simple story of a boy, a girl, two meddling parents and the long journey that will ultimately unite the young lovers. Outstanding performances make this a

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Th 6:30pm; F 8pm; Sa, Su 2pm and 8pm; W 6:30pm. Through 5/1. $15-$38. Sacramento Theatre Company; 1419 H Street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. B.S.

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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.

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Sure plays a mean pinball Falcon’s Eye Theatre Director David Harris scored on the timing of his Folsom Lake College’s production of The Who’s Tommy, as fans are already excited about The Who’s upcoming May concert in Oakland. The musical, based on the band’s iconic 1969 rock opera double album, brings to life the challenging and bewildering story of Tommy, a pinball-playing deaf, dumb and blind boy battling adversities. Harris comes full-circle with his version of this production since he appeared onstage in the 1992 opening production of the musical in San Diego before the show’s Broadway debut. $12-$20; 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday at the Harris Center for the Performing Arts, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.harriscenter.net. Through April 23.

—Patti RobeRts

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(Wyatt Russell), the bearded pothead whose smoky aphorisms sound profound only if you’re as stoned as he is; Niles (Juston Street), the arrogant blowhard “My plan B,” writer-director Richard Linklater once who thinks this podunk college is just a whistle stop said, “has always been to make a film about people on his way to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown; who talk a lot.” This from the man who made Boyhood, Finnegan (Glen Powell), the pipe-sucking intellectual SubUrbia, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly and the (by comparison, anyhow), who observes his teamBefore trilogy (… Sunrise, … Sunset and … Midnight) mates and himself with the wry detachment of an with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. It makes you anthropologist. wonder what his plan A is.

There are others, but you get the idea. Much of Maybe Linklater’s plan A is to make raucous the fun of Everybody Wants Some!! lies in the way comedies set to irresistible rock-music soundtracks, Linklater and his appealing ensemble of newcomers like Dazed and Confused and School of and little-knowns sketch these individuals Rock—and now, Everybody Wants Some!! as archetypes rather than stereotypes.

Linklater’s latest is driven by a doubleAnother clever and canny touch is the barreled nostalgia—first, because it’s presence of the movie’s sole female set in 1980 and bristling with songs principal, Beverly (Zoey Deutch), This new movie

by Pat Benatar, Devo, Van Halen a freshman fine-arts major and Cheap Trick; and second, might as well be called whom Jake meets and bonds because it returns Linklater to his with on a level somewhat higher Dazed and Confused native Texas and loudly echoes than the relentless horndoggery and in College and Five Slackers and Dazed and Confused, of the other guys. Deutch, in a the movies where he made his Years Later. role virtually identical to the one name back in the 1990s. she played in the atrocious Bad This new movie might as well Grandpa, gets a worthier showcase be called Dazed and Confused and in here, and her fetching presence helps College and Five Years Later. The trailers redeem the streak of objectification in a play up the resemblance, and Linklater himself calls movie where females have little to do but flash Everybody Wants Some!! a “spiritual sequel.” He might their boobs and mud wrestle. have said it’s a virtual remake, with a similar assortment It’ll be fun to look back at Everybody Wants of amusing characters who are only a few months older.

Some!! in 10 years or so and see where the cast The center of attention among the movie’s almost-all- winds up; there may well be a star or two in the male principals is Jake (Blake Jenner), a freshman with making here. Personally, my money is on Glen a baseball scholarship to an unnamed Texas university, Powell; he easily steals every scene he’s in, and a arriving the Friday before classes start, moving into the breakthrough is surely in his future. For that matter, slightly seedy house set aside for the team and meeting this movie may be it. Ω his new teammates: McReynolds (Tyler Hoechlin), the team’s leading alpha male, who disdains freshmen and pitchers, knowing Jake is both; Dale (J. Quinton Johnson), the team’s resident nice guy and, we notice Poor Fair Good Very excellent with some surprise, only black player; Willoughby Good

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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. J.L.

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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.

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The Boss

A ruthless tycoon (Melissa McCarthy) goes to prison for insider trading; when she gets out, she’s forced to move in with her former assistant (Kristen Bell), then decides that her ticket back will be to horn in on the assistant’s daughter’s Girl Scout troop cookie business. McCarthy teams again with husband Ben Falcone as director and co-writer (with McCarthy and Steve Mallory). Did they set out to make an even worse movie than 2014’s Tammy? Well, they did—crude, cruel, coarse and laughless. Falcone encourages and caters to McCarthy’s worst impulses; she should leave him home and stick with Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, Spy). J.L.

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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-LiamGallagher-and-Guinness soccer hooligan who reconnects with his 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

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Midnight Special

This long-awaited sci-fi bummer from Jeff Nichols is an admirable mixed bag, an attempt to make a Spielbergian magical child movie without any style or spark. The film stars Michael Shannon as the father to an inexplicably telepathic and extrasensory child, both of them escapees from a religious cult called The Ranch, on the run with family friend Joel Edgerton toward an unknown destiny. Much like Nichols’ last movie, Mud, the film starts strong but loses its way, and there are enough narrative dead ends (e.g., the machinations of The Ranch and its figureheads matter a lot and then don’t, and then kind of do again and then don’t) and superfluous characters (the Edgerton character seems wholly unnecessary) to suggest a troubled post-production and a reduced running time. Whatever the case, the film never quite satisfies as genre entertainment or as big-ideas cinema, and emotional investment is weirdly minimal. D.B.

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Demolition

When his wife dies suddenly, a Wall Street banker (Jake Gyllenhaal) fixates on a defective vending machine, writing complaint letters to the company and venting about more than his lost $1.25; his letters touch the heart of a secretary (Naomi Watts) whose own life is going nowhere. Written by Brian Sipe and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, the movie pinballs between clichés and quirky off-the-wall twists, and for a while, thanks to strong performances (including Chris Cooper as Gyllenhaal’s father-in-law and Judah Lewis as Watts’ son), it manages to pass for insight.

But once our diffident hero begins dismantling and destroying things—smashing his old life to build a new one—we begin to suspect that Sipe and Vallée are selling us a crock of art-house malarkey. That thought, once entertained, won’t go away. J.L.

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Eye in the Sky

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.

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Hardcore Henry

A man wakes up with bionic arms and legs but with no memory and no voice. A woman (Haley Bennett) says his name is Henry, and she’s his wife; beyond that he knows nothing,

except that a vicious warlord (Danila Kozlovsky) is in pursuit and trying hard to kill him. Director Ilya Naishuller (co-writing with Will Stewart) has a cool gimmick: the entire movie is seen through Henry’s eyes, and the chases, fights, falls, crashes and stunts are virtually nonstop. It’s a commendable technical tour de force, but it wears thin eventually. The constant bloodletting becomes oppressive, the story is more trouble to follow than it’s worth, and the movie becomes like watching somebody else play a video game.

There’s one first-rate performance: Sharlto Copley as a series of identical incarnations of the same personality. J.L.

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I Saw the Light

Tom Hiddleston Sings the Greatest Hits of Hank Williams Sr. If it were an album, no one would buy it, but that unappealing package is precisely what moviegoers are getting offered via Marc Abraham’s laborious biopic. Relegated to awards season backwash after lackluster festival screenings late last year, I Saw the Light slinks into theaters sheepishly and pointlessly, like a contender without a fight. Red flags are flown from the opening frames, as clunky fakedoc footage gives way to Hiddleston’s posterready pose in front of a mystical audience. It’s a big buildup to a big nothing. While Williams’ music still sounds great, and his influence on country and rock are immeasurable, there’s not much meat on his life story. But that doesn’t stop Abraham from bathing the film in thudding portent and empty significance. D.B.

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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. J.L.

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“I’ve been very conscious of not fetishizing any genre, and getting into this sort of futuristic, fusion, eclectic melange of stuff—almost in this postapocalyptic, Blade Runner kind of way,” Stern says.

Yeah, what he said.

The release show takes place on Saturday, April 30, at the Panama Pottery warehouse. Some guest musicians will round out the sound and ramp up the fun.

And even though Duke Chevalier is more or less a solo Sometimes Duke Chevalier looks like this. project, Ace of Swords features Other times, it doesn’t. a slew of Sacramento musicians, including Buddy Lamorey (keys, synth), Zack Kampf (drums) and Christopher Fairman (percusA weird, profound thing happened when Sam Eliot sion, vocals). Robert Cheek (Band of Horses, Life in Stern briefly moved from Sacramento to Seattle a 24 Frames) engineered while Scott McShane (Sister couple of years ago.

Crayon, Exquisite Corps) mixed and mastered.

A band asked Stern to play guitar for a while Writing and recording took about two years. For and, eventually, to help produce its next record.

Stern, it was a process akin to recipe tinkering, solvStern found himself relishing in complete freedom ing a puzzle or sculpting. and unbridled creativity—something that was lost “You make this big block and chip away at it, on his last solo album, Monte Sereno. Without his then stand there and look at it for a while, then do name attached, his vanity and precociousness no more things,” Stern says. “It took me a long time to longer got in the way. like the songs.”

“With Monte Sereno, I was really into The album name comes from the making a Fleetwood Mac record—like tarot card. Not that Stern is super really well-produced, beautiful; what into tarot cards—he thinks they “Almost in this I thought a classic record sounded look cool. Anyway, the Ace of like,” he says. “And now, that just Swords card basically means post-apocalyptic, seems so stupid.” absolute success or failure, Blade Runner kind of When Stern got back to which symbolizes Stern’s way.”

Sacramento in 2014, he launched current outlook on his music a new project, Duke Chevalier. career.

Sam Eliot Stern Even though it’s still just “Sometimes I’m like, ‘Why singer-songwriter, Stern—for the most part—he’s the fuck am I still doing music?’

Duke Chevalier found that the dissociation in name I see friends my own age having helps him challenge his songwriting, kids and doing very different things his production and even his own concept with their lives,” he says. “Am I wastof what sounds good. He pushed himself to feel ing my life pursuing the things that I love? I self-conscious, deconstruct his taste and embrace was getting sick of being on the fence and not really humor in everything. going hard with music, being very safe.

The result is the five-song EP Ace of Swords, “This record is like, everything I do from here on which drops Saturday, April 16. Stern calls it out, no fucks. Full swole. No holding back.” Ω a murky nighttime record, “like stoned driving through the Delta.” Heap on a slew of influences— soul, glam, Afro-Caribbean and West African folk Catch Duke Chevalier at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at Panama Pottery, music, Tropicalismo—and throw in some horns, synthesizer and normally cheesy effect pedals. Wrap 4421 24th Street. the cover is $8. More at www.facebook.com/ dukechevalier. it all up into one cohesive package and tie it with a bow of poetic, imagery-heavy lyricism.

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Hometown lovin’ Harp life: With her operatic baby voice, Joanna Newsom can be an acquired taste. Regardless, though, to see her live is to be amazed.

The ornate, majestic, creamcolored pedal harp glows in the center of the stage, hugged by a grand piano, drums, violins, violas, guitar, bass, cello, recorders and other noisemakers. Her five-person band, which includes two siblings, glides between instruments within songs.

Her own gentle choreography—from harp to piano and back again—feels like theater. Her intricate orchestrations infuse folk, indie rock and jazz into a unique baroque pop with zero pop song structures.

Last week at the Crest Theatre, the Nevada City native played for friends, family and her first piano and harp teachers. It was a special night, a hometown show. “[My harp teacher] is making me nervous,” she said, sporting a long and flowy floral-print dress as well as a long and flowy ponytail. “I’m trying to make sure my technique isn’t too bad tonight.”

The venue held a special place in her heart, too.

“Once or twice a year, we would do the big drive from Nevada City to the Crest, to the big city,” she said.

While she quietly tuned her harp in between songs, the audience remained perfectly silent, attentive to any possible thing Newsom might utter. Though, every so often, one person would shout something out, like the name of the street she grew up on.

“I hope you know that for legit reasons,” she responded quizzically.

Or, simply the word “mystical.”

Even that, Newsom acknowledged politely, and entirely unfazed: “I’m mystical?”

—Janelle Bitker jan elleb@ n ew s r ev i ew . com

Listen up: Immediate, effervescent and beholden of a personality that’s not transparently derivative of regional trends, Esso P’s Finally Focused just might be 2016’s Best

Local Rap Album No One Outside the 916 Will Hear.

Even locally, this record feels bound to be criminally overlooked.

It drops digitally on Wednesday, April 20, with a release party on Saturday, April 23, at Taqueria

Jalisco (330 16th Street). Esso P invites the listener into his everyman rap life: the highs and lows of a productive pothead, the bonds formed and the breakdowns.

Finally Focused glides in on a cosmic jazz that’s reminiscent of Dungeon Family and Earthtone III production circa Outkast’s Stankonia crossbred with the downtempo of Zero 7. It’s the proper backdrop for the ZFG affiliate to lock into a heavy mental state that runs counter to typical stoner music. Esso P might trade celebratory wake ’n’ bake bars with C Plus on “3 Strains,” but “Remedy” explores the dark side to substance abuse. That yin-and-yang balance is present across the album. Seeking a Bonnie to his Clyde, “Pop Off” asks, “Is you down, babe?” over drowsy subterranean grooves, while “Don’t Chu” reiterates the inquiry over bouncy synths to Esso P’s confident croon of, “Ooh la la, you really wanna fuck with me, don’t chu?”

Finally Focused stumbles occasionally: “Love For Me” and “Thinkin Different” deflate early momentum. “Same Same (Intro)” sets a psychedelic, third-eye vision for the album, but it could do without James Franco’s crass “same same” speech from The Interview.

He recovers with “Blowin It Up” and plateaus on “Paula” which features assassin-level turntablism by DJ Nocturnal and a tongue-twisting guest verse by fellow ZFG rapper Luke Tailor, who rightfully declares that Esso P messed up by letting him get a word in. It’s friendly competition that ends in a stalemate.

Invoking Stankonia might seem malapropos for a local artist, but repeated listens to Finally Focused reveal nuance to the production largely handled by Chinza//Fly and Mister Mammoth. Notably, Chinza// Fly is a credited producer on Nicki Minaj’s “Shanghai.” Esso P has connections to proven professionals, but the strength of Finally Focused remains provincial. Recordings were split between Soundcap Audio and engineer AlienLogik’s Elk Grove studio. AlienLogik’s mastering might unify the record’s atmospheric haze, but the catalyst was Esso P’s focus and clarity in pairing a sound simpatico to his woke ’n’ boke persona.

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Harlow’s restaurant & nigHtclub, 7 p.m., $30-$35 No offense to Built To Spill—it’s a perfectly excellent ’90s indie-rock band and whatnot— but I’m guessing many people heading to this show are more stoked ElECTRo-SoUl to see Sister Crayon. The Sacramento-born duo of Terra Lopez and Dani Fernandez show serious hometown love whenever they return, and it’s been several long months since that’s last happened. We’ve missed Sister Crayon’s pulsing energy, moody electronica and powerful, soulful vocals. It’s always a fiery, passionate and brilliant live show—there’s a reason fans insist on seeing them again and again. You will headbang, and you will dig it. 2708 J Street, www.facebook.com/sistercrayon.

Veterans memorial auditorium, 8 p.m., $45-$52 If being in a crowd that’s high on life in addition to numerous other not-so-legal substances is not your thing, it would be wise to steer clear of George Clinton’s funk night in the foothills. Those looking to hear music from both Parliament and Funkadelic eras will be delighted to know the 74-yearold bandleader hasn’t lost a step, and his live members are certainly no FUNK slouches. Odds are, every child of the ’70s and ’80s has heard “Flash Light” or “Aqua Boogie,” as both songs both got much airplay. 255 South Auburn Street in Grass Valley, www.georgeclinton.com.

—Janelle bitker

tHe red museum, 8 p.m., $5 G. Green announced its last show midset as the openers for Protomartyr at the Blue Lamp back in early March. It left those there and those missing out little time to process the loss. Rather than leave on a weird note, G. Green are holding a proper wake. No better way to exit than PUNK pretty much the same way you came in: at a DIY venue. Plan that nostalgic coo to “Your House.” Hold hands with a stranger to “Area Codes.” Scream the primal chorus of “Sex Pt. 2” with reckless desperation. Or just smoke a cigarette during the set like old times. 212 15th Street, https://cultofggreen.bandcamp.com.

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Sun Valley Gun Club often gets described as slacker-esque—a band bringing back all the genuine, unironic aspects of our favorite ’90s indie rock. But really, it just knows how to put a good song together—one that compels both emotionally and sonically, and the band deserves to stand on its own merit without the slacker badge to prop them up.

Great lyrics and artfully selected genremixing abound in SVGC’s newly INdIE reissued self-titled album, which culminates in a series of songs that yearn, contemplate, digress and, most of all, rock.

1910 Q Street, www.sunvalleygunclub.com.

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An internationally recognized event with more than 1,400 independent stores that participate nationwide, Record Store Day puts the needle to the groove once more this weekend. Dimple Records in Sacramento will shake things up with a live performance by feminist garage-rock trio Destroy Boys, which recently released its EP Grimester on April 6. Just in time to celebrate record-store culture, the four-song EP features tracks like “30 Seconds of Shit,” a fast-paced ditty with a fitful temperament GARAGE ROCK courtesy of drums and guitar, studded with the quick-witted vocalstyle of Alexia Roditis. 2500 16th Street, www.facebook.com/destroyboys.

—steph RoDRiguez

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Circa 1995, coffee-shop philosophers everywhere were sipping their dark roast, mulling over the question brought up by Joan Osborne’s breakout BLUES AMERICANA hit: What if God was one of us? Whoa. Deep. Twenty-plus years later, seven-time Grammy nominee Osborne is still at it, with her latest album, Bring it on Home, released last month. Those only familiar with “One of Us” will be impressed with Osborne’s stylistic range; she actually specializes in a blues and R&B feel, and once toured with legendary Motown backing band the Funk Brothers. The trio is filled out by Keith Cotton and Jack Petruzzelli.

1013 KStreet, www.joanosborne.com.

—Deena DRewis

This will be Las Vegas soul singer Cameron Calloway’s first solo set in Sacramento. But locals might have already caught him last summer as one half of hip-hop/soul group Camra—the other half being expat rapper Rasar. Now, folks can catch an SOUL entire set of Calloway’s heartfelt, sunny soul tunes. He brings a Motown vibe to his music: feel-good pop with straightfrom-his-heart passion. He has a strong voice that draws from classic singers like Curtis Mayfield and Al Green, but also a little CeeLo Green in the mix. He’ll be playing an acoustic set with guitarist Brittney Valen.

1016 K Street, www.cameroncalloway.com.

—aaRon caRnes

haRlow’s RestauRant & nightcluB, 8 p.m., $18-$20 Chuck Prophet (pictured) and the Mission Express is backing Garland Jeffreys on a short West Coast tour. Jeffreys continues his most prolific stretch in decades while garnering critical praise for his classic roots rock. Prophet will be delivering his own social commentary ROOTS ROCK and jangly guitar sounds that mix well with the band’s wellestablished grooves. “Alex Nieto,” a timely protest song Prophet released last week, is sonically coupled to Neil Young and lyrically reflective of his “Ohio.” 2708 J Street, http://chuckprophet.com.

—maRk hanzlik

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420 hat's better than marijuana? It's medicine with tremendous positive health impacts.

It imparts the feels. Despite a federal government that limits research on the plant, most studies suggest it's safe to ingest. Oh, and did we mention those feels?

Anyway, this year’s SN&R 420 Issue looks at all the big news and cultural issues in the cannabis world, from the possibility of legalization of adult use and how Donald Trump might help legalize weed to marijuana-industry whitewashing and whether pot makes your least-favorite foods amazing.

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AUMA on the scale

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Medical-cannabis dispensary owners and activists discuss the (mostly) good and bad of this fall's potential legalization initiative, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act by blake Gillespie

ill California’s 420-friendly voters puff, puff, pass adult legalization this year? It’s no guarantee: Six years ago, California’s weed-legalization initiative, Proposition 19, failed by a 53.5 to 46.5 percent vote.

But this November, a new initiative, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, or AUMA, will likely be on the ballot: What do cannabis insiders—the activists and pot-shop owners—have to say about this latest shot at legalization?

Nate Bradley, executive director of the California Cannabis Industry Association, says his organization was a day-one supporter of AUMA, which is backed by the likes of Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and tech mogul Sean Parker. He sees it as a step forward. “Is it the step everyone wants? No. But it’s a step,” he said.

Local medical-marijuana dispensary owner Forrest Heise of Green Solutions in Midtown is among AUMA’s critics.

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He wishes the initiative was less bogged down by statutes and more Wild West like Colorado’s Amendment 64, which passed in 2012.

“I think it will cause more confusion, or a mess, before it starts helping the citizens of California,” he said. “Leave it to California to over-regulate something.”

Kimberly Cargile with A Therapeutic Alternative medical-cannabis dispensary in East Sacramento expects dense new regulations. But she’s sympathetic to the initiative builders’ attempts to learn from the mistakes of over-restriction in Washington and the “free-for-all” of Colorado.

“Problems we’ve seen so far are due to lack of regulation,” she said of other states with adult legalization. “I think [AUMA is] trying to nip it in the bud.

That way we can circumvent the problems of the past.”

Bradley said the new regulations are necessary so as to open pot lounges and retail cannabis stores. Lounges that resemble vape bars rather than opium dens means complying with the Sherman Food, Drug and Cosmetic Law. “Do you want your doors kicked in or would you rather obey a bunch of rules?” he asked.

Proponents of AUMA say part of their marketing strategy will be about alerting voters to a very big number: $1 billion in new tax revenues each year. According to www.letsgetitrightca.org, the total revenue from excises on retail sales, as well as state and local taxes on businesses, will generate 10 figures annually once the new system is fully implemented.

Both Cargile and Bradley also referred to the pot industry as “in the shadows” and say AUMA is an opportunity for legitimization. “Basically, legalization that’s very heavy on the

tax side, it brings cannabis into the 21st century,” Cargile said.

But cities and counties will miss out on tax revenue if they exercise their right to ban legal weed. Heise cited Folsom as a city that jumped the gun on an outright ban measure for medical pot—and is forfeiting tax dollars. “We need to make sure local lawmakers are up to speed on education,” he said.

Supporters also laud the numerous decriminalization benefits of AUMA. For Cargile, the biggest positive is the rights that it grants to landlords and legal business owners: Landlords who in good faith rent to a licensed cultivator can no longer be subject to arrest, prosecution, civil fines, forfeiture or seizure under AUMA. Wellness centers and dispensaries SN&R spoke to on- and off-record all agreed that the city of Sacramento has been open-minded and welcoming, and they anticipate the same attitude for legalization.

The one thing AUMA supporters don’t want? For legalization to harm the medicinal movement.

Cargile says A Therapeutic Alternative will remain a medical center and will not seek a recreational license.

And Heise agreed that legal pot should not have a detrimental impact on medical cannabis.

“We spent all this time establishing, ‘It’s a medicine and helps out a lot of people,’ and now we’re going to flip-flop,” he said. “We still want it to be known as a medicine. We still want to help people and not have things get caught up in the recreational.” Ω

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Extremely white. Ridiculously white. Whiter than a Wonder Bread-andmayonnaise sandwich served with a side of whole milk. Whiter than new teeth.

Whiter than the Gods of Egypt movie.

Hella white.

And I’m not alone in thinking this.

Consider Michelle Alexander, author of

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This number is shocking—and more than a little bit offensive. The cannabis industry must work to create more opportunities for people of color.

There are a few things already happening. The Minority Cannabis Business Association (www.minority cannabis.org, I’m on the board) has been working to expand opportunities for women and people of color. The National Cannabis Industry Association has started an “Inclusion Initiative,” too.

Meanwhile, the state isn’t doing much to help, either. California’s new Medical Marijuana Safety and Regulation Act, or MMRSA, is set up so that individuals with felony convictions can be denied licenses by the state to distribute medical cannabis.

MMRSA does allow for people to maybe get a permit, after they have jumped through a bunch of extra administrative hoops. But why should people have to do more work—and spend more time and money—simply because they were targeted by an unfair law? MMRSA automatically puts some people who would be great at running a

cannabis-based business at an immediate disadvantage.

Dr. Amanda Reiman, manager of marijuana law and policy at the Drug Policy Alliance, told this writer that the Adult Use of Marijuana Act initiative, likely on November’s ballot, has no restrictions on nonviolent drug felons, and would designate up to $50 million per year toward job training and community redevelopment. She also told me that Oakland insists that 50 percent of all dispensary employees live in the city, and they offer incentives for clubs to hire people from census tracts that have been most affected by the war on drugs. The Oak Park gentrification project needs to get a program like this in place ASAP. If the goal of the cannabis-legalization movement is to end the black market and provide jobs and tax revenue, then there needs to be a concerted effort to make sure that everyone has access to the tools and programs that will put them in a position to be successful. This is not just the right thing to do; studies also show that culturally diverse businesses make more money.

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On this year's possible marijuana initiatives--and how Donald Trump might help legalize pot in California

by DAVID DOWNS or those wondering what's going to happen with the crowded field of proposals to legalize cannabis in California this year, look no further than an independent source of information with boots on the ground: paid signaturegatherers. Thousands of these mercenaries have fanned out across the Golden State this April, earning an estimated $2.50 per signature to help place pot legalization on the ballot.

Despite 23 different legalization proposals on file with the state, paid gatherers in California are now working on one initiative: the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, or AUMA. It’s almost certain that the initiative’s sponsors will file enough signatures to qualify it for the ballot by the state’s final deadline, April 26.

The backers of AUMA have reported $3 million in campaign donations, including $500,000 on April 1. They’ve also certified to the state that they’ve collected 25 percent of the 365,880 total signatures needed. No other legalization group has matched this fundraising prowess or signature-gathering goal.

The Adult Use of Marijuana Act’s rivals appear to be out of time and money. For example, the Marijuana Control, Legalization and Revenue Act gained the lastminute support of Oakland author and celebrity pot grower Ed Rosenthal in March. Rosenthal called AUMA’s flavor of legalization too strict and compared it to legalization in Washington vs.

Colorado.

“Don’t be like Washington, let’s be like Colorado. Sign and vote for MCLR,” Rosenthal said. MCLR is hoping patients download, print and mail in the needed 365,880 signatures by April 20. But MCLR up against the wall, said Dave Hodges from the MCLR campaign. And MCLR has no cash to pay for last-minute gatherers, either.

“It’s the cannabis community,” he said.

“It has a really hard time getting everything together.”

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Another rival initiative, the California Cannabis Hemp Initiative, is also using volunteer signature-gatherers, but it has not passed the 25 percent signature threshold yet.

Eight of the other 23 pot legalization initiatives approved to circulate for this election have already failed to gather enough signatures by their 180-day deadline.

“If Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee for president … [it] would definitely benefit a marijuana legalization measure in California.”

Ben Tulchin professional pollster Assuming AUMA makes the ballot by itself, professional pollster Ben Tulchin, whose Tulchin Research clients include Bernie Sanders, said that the odds for California legalization will be up from 50-50 in November, to 55-45. And that’s thanks to unlikely ally: The Donald.

“If Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee for president … that will benefit progressive candidates and causes around the country, as it would likely lead to the progressive base being very motivated and coming out to vote in large numbers while the conservative base would be dispirited,” Tulchin wrote. “This dynamic would definitely benefit a marijuana legalization measure in California.” Ω David Downs writes about cannabis for various media outlets, including the East Bay Express, where this story originally appeared.

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higher EDIBLE ed ou’ve got your 'script and you’re ready to rush down to your local dispensary to buy a grocery bag full of quasi-high-end edibles. It’s a great time for medical cannabis patients: New and established companies have flooded the market with candies and cookies and popcorn and pretzels and lemonades and hot chocolate mixes, and it’s a buyer’s market to boot.

But for anyone lacking edibles experience beyond that unmarked brownie consumed decades ago at a college party, it’s also a potential minefield of confusion and misuse.

That’s why we put together this list of wristslapping suggestions for edible rookies.

As Maureen Dowd will attest, edible medical cannabis is not your mom and dad's reefer.

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and slowly increase the dosage until you find your level.

DO treat edibles like food. A moldy

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DO be self-aware, and know your body, including any food-related allergies.

The medicine affects different people in different ways; it’s not the same high as smoking marijuana.

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legalization, the higher the scrutiny on an industry that will need to prove it’s not marketing to children.

DON'T be in a hurry. Stay patient

DON'T leave your edibles where pets and children can get them. Note that many edibles are packaged in a manner similar to their nonmedicinal, store-brand doppelgangers.

cannabis edibles if you have digestive issues.

and give the cannabis time to do its work before you go back for seconds.

DO sample more than just candy and

cookies. The future of edibles is savory rather than sweet. The closer we get to full

DO trust the brands that you like. It’s great to be adventurous, but if you find a brand that works for you, try its other products rather than label-hopping.

DON'T take edibles on an empty stomach. Treat them the same way you would treat a painkiller.

DO read the labels in full, and don’t trust anything that isn’t properly labeled.

DO know your THC limit. Depending on your tolerance, a single serving dose should be somewhere between 10 and 25 milligrams of THC. Remember: smoking tolerance doesn’t equal edible tolerance.

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Prepare your environment for couch lock and enjoy. Ω

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SN&R's pot expert Ngaio Bealum on his favorite strains from the past year

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smoked a bunch of weed this year. I don't mean in the usual “I’m a stoner. I smoke weed. Duh.” kind of way. I mean in the “Oh my goodness, I have been invited to be a judge at two cannabis competitions. I need to step my game up.” kind of way.

This is going to sound odd, and I sometimes giggle at the thought, but it’s a bit of a strange feeling when you have to smoke weed for your job. Like, for real. Testing 60 different strains in a week (as I did at the Denver High Times Cannabis Cup) or more than 200 strains in a month (see the Emerald Cup Outdoor Organic Cannabis Competition) was a tough, but great, gig. It did wonders for my palate—and my tolerance levels.

But enough humble-bragging. In no particular order, these are my favorite strains from 2015:

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Tangie This citrus flavored bit of deliciousness is a cross between Cali-O (a mid-’90s strain that didn’t get much love, for some reason) and Skunk. It smells like tangerines and tastes like a citrus punch.

Good sativa. Excellent for daytime. granddaddy PurPle Old-school purple indica with a heavy narcotic feel. Great “purple” flavor, especially when grown right. Excellent for pain relief and naps.

BlueBerry Cookies Kinda the best of both worlds. Super-sweet blueberry inhale, then a nice, rich, slightly coffee flavored exhale. Very balanced effects. I liked this one so much I chose

it as the feature flavor when I joined the High Life team of chronnoisseurs. yayger I thought this weed was named “Yeager,” after the dude that grew it, but it turns out that it was named “Jaeger” because it does indeed taste like Jägermeister. The folks at Jägermeister weren’t pleased, however, and after a few cease-and-desists went around, folks decided to change the spelling to “Yayger.” Now, everyone seems to be happy about it. Found primarily in southern Oregon, this hearty outdoor does indeed taste like its namesake liqueur: spicy and savory, with a great happy buzz that will have you smiling like a hippie at the Oregon

Country Fair. One of my all-time favorite strains.

PurPle Candy Cane This weed was so good—it won third place in the 2015 Emerald Cup—that I had to track down the grower. He told me that this plant was an especially tasty phenotype he found after growing some random seeds, so I don’t really know the genetic background. But it smells like limes and tastes like candy; very sweet on the tongue and in the air. The effects are uplifting but not overpowering. This strain is hard to find, but worth the hunt. omega Another tasty Oregon creation. (IMHO, California and Oregon are smashing the game right now. Colorado, not so much—although I have smoked some nice “head stash,” the commercial cannabis has a ways to go.) This strain from near the Roseburg area, Omega Frost from Rogue Bud farms (www.roguebuds.com) is spicy and fruity with a smooth high.

Bog’s Cherry sPiCe sour BuBBle The “Bushy Old Grower” has been on the California scene for more than 20 years. His Sour Bubble strain is damn

near legendary. The Cherry Spice SB was a one-off from a really nice Sour Bubble cut. Tastes like cherries and bubble gum. Indica, but not too heavy.

Cherry limeade no. 6 This strain was my pick in the Emerald Cup. It was purple, tangy and super nice. It didn’t win the big prize—an unnumbered Cherry Limeade from the same grower ended up winning, but whatevs—yet it won my heart with its pleasant aroma and comfortable buzz. nonsolvenT hash Sure, butane-hash oil is cool. But give me a nice cold water, or some sort of dry sift, extraction and I am a happy stoner.

Plus, no danger of explosions. A little dab’ll do ya.

WhaTever you are smoking righT noW We are fortunate to live on the West Coast. We have access to all kinds of marijuana and marijuana accessories.

We are more than a little bit spoiled when you think about the good people in Kansas and Idaho that don’t even get to see weed like this. Enjoy what you have, my friends. Ω

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Read this paper’s profile of Ryan Landers (“Mr. Compassion” by Nick Miller; SN&R Feature Story; October 28, 2010) at http://bit.ly/1SZNtHK.

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FOREVER RIP activist Ryan "Mr. Compassion" Landers, 1971-2016

by NICK MILLER • n i ck am @n e wsrev iew .c om

here was a time not so long ago when partaking in marijuana wasn’t easy: It was often challenging to purchase, it definitely wasn’t lawful to drive around with it in your glove compartment, the bud itself wasn’t lab-tested for dangerous chemicals and you took a risk every time you sneaked a toke.

So, in year 2016, if you enjoy the privilege of medical cannabis, you definitely have Ryan Landers to thank.

Landers was one of the founding fathers of medical cannabis. Worldwide. In 1995, he worked with the likes of Dennis Peron to file and get voters to approve Proposition 215,

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the first-of-its-kind initiative that legalized medical pot. In 1999, High Times magazine named Landers its activist of the month.

And, over the decades, the advocate worked on issues such as Senate Bill 420, which essentially laid the framework for medicalcannabis dispensaries as we know them.

When patients crossed paths with the law, Landers was there to testify in their trials as an expert witness.

The activist was brazen, and known for lighting up joints anywhere from the White House to the state Capitol. He was the buttoned-up pot warrior, always cleanshaven and wearing a suit—and this earned

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November, my hunch is that he was against But he was a patient, too, a sufferer of it, too. And this haunted him, since so many HIV who looked to cannabis to alleviate of his contemporaries in the activist world pain and nausea. supported legalization.

In the fall of 2010, I hung out with “You think I want to fuck it up for Landers for more than a month for a everybody?” he confessed to me back in cover-story profile. We drove to a debate 2010. “My goals are for the sick. That’s in Oakland, with departed fellow activist something I cannot compromise.” And he Joy Cole (rest in peace), never did. where Landers argued Sadly, Landers left us “My goals are for against Proposition 19, earlier this month, on a contentious initiative April 2. He was only 44. the sick. That’s that would’ve legalized This past Friday, dozens adult use of cannabis. At converged on a funeral something I cannot home in north Sacramento the time, Landers said it would’ve made things to praise Landers and compromise.” tougher on real patients celebrate his life’s work. who needed pot for medical He impacted so many— Ryan Landers purposes. including this writer. medical-pot activist He and I enjoyed long In this world of Ted chats in the offices upstairs Cruz and constant threats at A Therapeutic Alternative, a Midtown of federal pushback, Sacramento definitely pot dispensary. We sat together at patient needs someone to grab the baton and finish support meetings, too, and even went to what Landers started. So, if you enjoy cannabis comedy shows. cannabis and all the freedoms that come It always surprised me how he was with it in 2016, take a moment to toke opposed to legalization of recreational use and remember a guy who fought to make in 2010. And, although I never spoke to that freedom possible. Take a moment to him about the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, remember Ryan Landers. Ω

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ith the possible exception of pizza, there is no greater complement to marijuana than television. After all, it's called couch lock for a reason.

And the love flows both ways, as the medicine has become a staple of contemporary television, inextricably linked to shows like Weeds, Broad City, The League, Parenthood and most adult-oriented animated fare. Marijuanarelated storylines have also fueled memorable episodes of modern classics like The Office ('Drug Testing'; Season 2, Episode 20, available on Netflix), Freaks and Geeks ('Chokin' and Tokin,' S1, E13, Netflix) and Curb Your Enthusiasm ('Carpool Lane,' S4, E6, HBO Go), among others.

But pot plots have been a staple of "very special episode" family pap, quasitopical cop shows and comparatively edgy network comedies since the very dawn of television. In honor of this hoary plot device, we put together a streaming playlist of weed-related television episodes from the pre-legalization 20th century. This 4/20, you can Netflix and chill with the greats of TV past.

The Andy Griffith Show, "Quiet Sam" (S1, E29, Netflix) Seemingly the earliest reference to cannabis in a streaming-available show comes in this 1961 episode of the apple pie series about a small-town sheriff (Griffith) and his spasmodic deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts). No, Aunt Bea

and Floyd the Barber don’t trade dabs while Opie and Andy are off at the ol’ fishing hole. Instead, the plot revolves around Barney harassing a quiet, shiftyeyed loner for no good reason (ah, police abuse of powers … always good for a wholesome chuckle), suspecting the guy of growing marijuana when he sees him tilling the fields at night.

Dragnet, "The Big High" (S2, E8, Hulu) More paranoid fascist dementia, only updated to Los Angeles in the late 1960s, and played with the straightest of straight faces. Jack Webb’s tight-ass Detective Joe Friday was famous for slam-dunking hippies with one closed-loop rhetorical argument after another, but this 1968 episode deals specifically with the insidious evil of marijuana. “The finished cigarette is called a joint. It sells on the street from 50 to 75 cents. The seller claims it’s heaven; the buyer soon finds out it’s hell.” Fifty-cent joints? No, yeah, that’s heaven. A worried father wants Friday to arrest his daughter, a fresh-faced suburbanite who argues for marijuana legalization. The cops don’t find any evidence, but in Friday’s world, where there’s no smoke there’s always fire, and soon enough the young mother is fishing her dead baby out of the tub following a “wild pot party.”

Sanford and Son, "Fred's Treasure" (S4, E11, YouTube) Note to self: Binge-watch all six seasons of Sanford and Son as soon as humanly possible. Even with star Redd Foxx missing due to a protracted contract holdout, this episode is a gold mine of dig-it wordplay (“Before we turn it in, why don’t we do a little turnin’ on?” says son Lamont’s friend Ronald) and epic putdowns. Grady is taking care of Fred’s garden while he’s away, mistaking bushels of cannabis for wild parsley, and accidentally feeding a salad full of the stuff to a couple of cops.

(That wouldn’t get them high, but whatever.) “I’ve been eating a lot of salads lately, you may have noticed I’m getting lighter,” says the white cop. “If you get any lighter, you’ll be transparent,” says Ronald. Belly laughs like that abound.

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Three's Company, "Days of Beer and Weeds" (S2, E22, YouTube) Never a show to shy away from recycling a used plot, Three’s Company essentially remade “Fred’s Treasure Garden” in this Suzanne Sommers-era episode. (The show was such a ravenous recycler that it returned to the weed well in the Season 7 episode “Going to Pot.”) In this iteration, Jack Tripper and the gang are railroaded into clearing out Mr. Roper’s garden, only to discover that the wild flowers they picked are actually cannabis. While Jack makes an ill-considered attempt to turn the pot leaves over to the police, Mrs. Roper unwittingly grabs some for her flower-arranging class. Unfortunately, this is a bit of a dud episode, with distinctly low stakes and very little of the show’s trademark horndog innuendo.

Barney Miller, "Hash" (S3, E11, Crackle via Hulu) I never quite “got” this single-set detective comedy from the mid-1970s, but this particular episode is pretty solid. Wojo

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There are some great moments for Jack Soo’s Nick, who becomes obsessed with the word “mushy,” and a clever integration of the side story about a feuding actor and critic who grow captivated with the “very Chekhov-ian” scene unfolding in front of them.

Punky Brewster, "Just Say No" (S2, E8, YouTube) A spate of drippy, doe-eyed, anti-drug bromides plastered TV screens throughout the mid-to-late 1980s, and this treacly, shot-on-film sitcom was such a product of empty, Reagan-era fanaticism that the episode is actually called “Just Say No.” Punky and her friend are initiated into a sixth-grade girl gang called the Chicklettes, where they dress up “like pint-sized Pointer Sisters,” endure harsh initiation rituals and get offered hard drugs. The lead Chicklette pulls out a

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Saved by the Bell, "No Hope with Dope" (S3, E21, Hulu) It’s probably no surprise that the most inane and inscrutable moral compass with regard to drugs comes from this aquamarine and hot pink early 1990s nightmare/beloved institution. Hollywood star Johnny Dakota comes to Bayside High to tape an anti-drug commercial, befriending Zack and wooing Kelly in the process, but the gang is shocked to learn that their matinee idol is a secret stoner. Their moral outrage is so outsized that they refuse to appear in an anti-drug “tune in, drop out” continued on page 61

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wonder if everyone in Rick’s Dessert Diner is also completely stoned. I contemplate this while in line, high and at ease. The child standing behind me probably didn’t just smoke a bowl. But the couple in front of me, ordering two slices of cake, a cream cheese brownie and a cinnamon roll? Definitely.

And, crud: Suddenly it’s my turn, and I’m distracted by Rick’s inability to properly label his desserts. Come on, Rick. This mocha torte is not a torte. It’s a cake. Just a cake. Nothing fancy. I order it to prove my point.

Why am I here? Not just to feast on six layers of buttermilk cake with coffee and chocolate buttercream, but to see if something tastes differently after a little cannabis. OK, a lot of cannabis.

A bite. Initially, I feel pure pleasure.

Then, horror. The buttercream melts away, leaving me left with just dry cake.

I feel each individual crumb slowly disintegrate onto my tongue. Its dryness feels amplified—deeply intimate, even. Still, I finish it, because it’s cake.

Next, I revisit one of my all-time most disappointing meals: Thai Basil’s pad Thai with tofu.

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It looks OK when it arrives, although I’m still philosophically angry at the stalks of broccoli poking out. What are you doing there, broccoli? You don’t belong in pad Thai.

As I eat, I realize that, flavorwise, it’s sweet and nothing else. Lime doesn’t help. The cubes of tofu break apart like dry sponges—and I like tofu, when it’s cooked or marinated or something, anything, please. Still, I devour it quickly, soundlessly, because I am high and hungry and eating feels good.

Luckily, I have a Rico’s Pizza delivery already scheduled, which I made while smoking on my couch earlier, of course.

Thanks, MyPizza.com!

As I’m walking home, my phone rings and I don’t want to answer it. I try to avoid answering the phone when I’m inebriated. Then it rings again. It’s the pizza guy, claiming to be at my building.

But he’s not at my building. I’m at my building. So, I start stonedly arguing with the dude, like, come on, what?

Then I realize I gave him the wrong address, because I was already dazed and confused when I put in the order hours earlier. Oops.

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I inspect. The bottom crust oddly splits into two parallel layers. The bottom resembles greasy cardboard while the top looks raw. The cheese can’t possibly be real cheese—there’s no stretch to it, no flavor. Its sweaty sheen best resembles rubber. Is there even tomato sauce?

Where does Rico source his mushrooms?

They look like shit. I am repulsed.

Yet, the process of eating feels too good. Weed doesn’t make bad food taste any better, it just makes you care less about whatever you’re forcing down your throat—and the fact that you just spent way too much money on awfulness. That slice of cake? $7. The pad Thai? $16 with tip. Rico’s? $20.

I might as well grab another slice. Ω

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The Cosby Show, "Theo and the Joint" (S1, E17, Hulu) Blossom, "The Joint" (S2, E3, YouTube) 7th Heaven, "Who Knew?"

(S2, E4, Hulu) Basically the exact same episode served three different ways: Mom and/or Dad finds a j-bone in the house, but they don’t know which child it belongs to, which leads to a lot of handwringing about parental responsibilities and the imminent threat of things that you’ve read about in the newspaper. All three episodes are epic bummers (the 7th Heaven episode about broken family trust is only resolved when the parents eavesdrop on their child’s prayers), although at least Blossom brings a touch of self-aware ribaldry to its dreary

message-mongering. The lessons are all the same, though: prison-warden parenting works; drugs are literally being forced on children at school; there is a direct line between smoking your first joint and selling your ass for a single hit of crack and so on.

Home Improvement, "What a Drag" (S7, E16, YouTube) Similar to the above “very special episodes” in its pandering attitudes about marijuana (coming from Tim Allen, no less … he’s like a real-life Johnny Dakota here), but this season seven installment of the long-running, long-unfunny sitcom is also an outlier in that the child is an eager smoker rather than a mere patsy. In fact, the first half of the episode is structured like a mystery: Tim finds a bag of weed in the backyard, and so he and Jill set up a sting, staking out their children from neighbor Wilson’s yard. As in the 7th Heaven episode, the mom fesses up to being a teenage pothead who only stopped when her friend died from using the stuff, which is just insane.

Roseanne, "A Stash from the Past" (S6, E4, Netflix) The ultimate marijuana-related bottle episode: Roseanne uncovers drugs that she thinks belong to her daughter’s boyfriend David, only to find that it’s her own 20-year-old weed, eventually sparking up with her husband Dan and big sister Jackie in an attempt to recapture their irresponsible youth. There is a wealth of peppery dialogue (“That’s just great, Dan, a very fine example you’re setting for the kids, stealing their mother’s stash.”) and physical humor (Goodman’s giddy hop when he realizes they’re going to smoke the pot) in this gem from the tail-end of the show’s prime.

Friends, "The One with the Stoned Guy" (S1, E15, Netflix) None of the six insufferable lead characters on Friends were known for getting lit, although you have to imagine it might have made Chandler a little bit less of a complete pile of human garbage. Weed is super-tangential to the plot in this Season 1 episode, which mostly revolves around Chandler re-examining his life after getting a promotion at his soul-sucking job. However, the B story involves Monica

preparing a fancy dinner for a prospective employer (a cameo-ing Jon Lovitz) who “blazed up a doobie” in the cab ride over.

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Last week, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced it will look into rescheduling cannabis. Right now, the feds still consider weed a Schedule I drug, meaning it has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse, just like other Schedule 1 drugs such as LSD and heroin. According to the DEA, cocaine and oxycodone are safer than marijuana. Bwahaha. That may change this summer, but I’m not holding my breath. Asking the DEA whether pot should remain illegal is like asking a fox if chickens are delicious, especially when the fox gets billions of dollars per year to go after chickens. Listen, cannabis shouldn’t even be on the list of prohibited drugs.

A rescheduling (to Schedule II or III) would create an entirely different set of problems for cannabis manufacturers, but could be a step in the right direction. It would be awesomely awesome if cannabis was removed from the schedule completely.

There is no logical or sane reason for cannabis to be on anyone’s list of “dangerous narcotics.” Perhaps this summer, common sense and logic will win the day.

There’s a bunch of stuff to celebrate.

2016 may be the biggest year for cannabis ever.

California, Arizona and Nevada are poised to legalize adult use this year. Massachusetts and Florida also have a shot.

If activists can manage to hold it together, we could have legal weed nationwide by 2020. #squadgoals.

And that’s just a few things. The cannabis freedom army is peacefully and gently kicking all the ass right now. Happy 4/20.

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FOR ThE WEEk OF APRIL 14, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “When I discover

who I am, I’ll be free,” said novelist Ralph Ellison.

Would you consider making that a paramount theme in the coming weeks? Will you keep it in the forefront of your mind, and be vigilant for juicy clues that might show up in the experiences headed your way? In suggesting that you do, I’m not guaranteeing that you will gather numerous extravagant insights about your true identity and thereby achieve a blissful eruption of total liberation. But I suspect that at the very least you will understand previously hidden mysteries about your primal nature. And as they come into focus, you will indeed be led in the direction of cathartic emancipation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “We never know

the wine we are becoming while we are being crushed like grapes,” said author Henri Nouwen.

I don’t think that’s true in your case, Taurus.

Any minute now, you could get a clear intuition about what wine you will ultimately turn into once the grape-crushing stage ends. So my advice is to expect that clear intuition. Once you’re in possession of it, I bet the crushing will begin to feel more like a massage—maybe even a series of strong but tender caresses.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your sustaining

mantra for the coming weeks comes from Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer: “I am not empty; I am open.” Say that aloud whenever you’re inclined to feel lonely or lost. “I am not empty; I am open.” Whisper it to yourself as you wonder about the things that used to be important but no longer are. “I am not empty; I am open.”

Allow it to loop through your imagination like a catchy song lyric whenever you’re tempted to feel melancholy about vanished certainties or unavailable stabilizers or missing fillers. “I am not empty; I am open.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to my

analysis of the astrological omens, you are close to tapping into hidden powers, dormant talents and future knowledge. Truths that have been off-limits are on the verge of catching your attention and revealing themselves. Secrets you have been concealing from yourself are ready to be plucked and transformed. And now I will tell you a trick you can use that will enable you to fully cash in on these pregnant possibilities: Don’t adopt a passive wait-and-see attitude. Don’t expect everything to happen on its own. Instead, be a willful magician who aggressively collects and activates the potential gifts.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This would be a perfect

moment to give yourself a new nickname like “Sugar Pepper” or “Honey Chili” or “Itchy Sweet.” It’s also a favorable time to explore the joys of running in slow motion or getting a tattoo of a fierce howling bunny or having gentle sex standing up. This phase of your cycle is most likely to unfold with maximum effectiveness if you play along with its complicated, sometimes paradoxical twists and turns. The more willing you are to celebrate life’s riddles as blessings in disguise, the more likely you’ll be to use the riddles to your advantage.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Right about now you

might be feeling a bit extreme, maybe even zealous or melodramatic. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were tempted to make outlandish expostulations similar to those that the poet Arthur Rimbaud articulated in one of his histrionic poems: “What beast must I worship? What sacred images should I destroy? What hearts shall I break?

What lies am I supposed to believe?” I encourage you to articulate salty sentiments like these in the coming days—with the understanding that by venting your intensity you won’t need to actually act it all out in real life. In other words, allow your fantasy life and creative artistry to be boisterous outlets for emotions that shouldn’t necessarily get translated into literal behavior.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Adyashanti is my

favorite mind-scrambling philosopher. One of his doses of crazy wisdom is just what you need to hear right now. “Whatever you resist you become,” he says. “If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always

suffering. If you resist confusion, you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.” Can you wrap your imagination around Adyashanti’s counsel, Libra? I hope so, because the key to dissipating at least some of the dicey stuff that has been tweaking you lately is to stop resisting it!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During every

election season, media pundits exult in criticizing candidates who have altered their opinions about important issues. This puzzles me. In my understanding, an intelligent human is always learning new information about how the world works, and is therefore constantly evolving his or her beliefs and ideas. I don’t trust people who stubbornly cling to all of their musty dogmas. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because the coming weeks will be an especially ripe time for you to change your mind about a few things, some of them rather important. Be alert for the cues and clues that will activate dormant aspects of your wisdom. Be eager to see further and deeper.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Friedrich

Nietzsche published his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, in 1872, when he was 28 years old. In 1886, he put out a revised edition that included a preface entitled “An Attempt at Self-Criticism.”

In this unprecedented essay, he said that he now found his text “clumsy and embarrassing, its images frenzied and confused, sentimental, uneven in pace, so sure of its convictions that it is above any need for proof.” And yet he also glorified The Birth of Tragedy, praising it for its powerful impact on the world, for its “strange knack of seeking out its fellow-revelers and enticing them on to new secret paths and dancing-places.” In accordance with the astrological omens, Sagittarius, I invite you to engage in an equally brave and celebratory re-evaluation of some of your earlier life and work.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Go back to

where you started and learn to love it more.”

So advised Thaddeus Golas in his book The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment. I think that’s exactly what you should do right now, Capricorn. To undertake such a quest would reap long-lasting benefits. Here’s what I propose: First, identify three dreams that are important for your future.

Next, brainstorm about how you could return to the roots of your relationships with them.

Finally, reinvigorate your love for those dreams.

Supercharge your excitement about them.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “What am I doing

here in mid-air?” asks Ted Hughes in his poem “Wodwo.” Right about now you might have an urge to wonder that yourself. The challenging part of your situation is that you’re unanchored, unable to find a firm footing. The fun part is that you have an unusual amount of leeway to improvise and experiment. Here’s a suggestion: Why not focus on the fun part for now? You just may find that doing so will minimize the unsettled feelings. I suspect that as a result you will also be able to accomplish some interesting and unexpected work.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): How many fireflies

would you have to gather together in order to create a light as bright as the sun? Entomologist Cole Gilbert estimates the number to be 14,286,000,000. That’s probably beyond your ability to accomplish, Pisces, so I don’t recommend you attempt it. But I bet you could pull off a more modest feat with a similar theme: accumulating a lot of small influences that add up to a big effect. Now is an excellent time to capitalize on the power of gradual, incremental progress.

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Shooting the stars If you ever find yourself schmoozing at one of Sacramento’s many hors d’oeuvre-laden events, chances are tiny bites won’t be the only thing shoved in your face. For the last decade, Tia Gemmel has run around the Sacramento area, camera in hand, snapping photos for the Sacramento Business Journal, Comstock’s magazine, N Magazine and others.

During her busiest months, Tia will snap more than 20,000 photos of Sacramento handshakes, smiles and tipsy politicians. I sat down with her to find out just what the lady behind the camera has learned watching Sacramento’s suits mingle.

No, I missed that one.

Do you do very many political fundraisers?

It was outside at the school. You walked down these long paths and there were all kinds of hors d’oeuvres.

I’m doing a lot of more political stuff now.

I really kind of have to refocus a little bit, think about how I want to grow my business in a different direction. I’m getting away from so much of these nonprofits.

I’m just kind of burned out by them. I need to grow myself.

What advice would you give to someone who is putting on a mixer?

Ambiance, the location. I’ve been to some that are so boring. And the lighting is terrible for a photographer. But I would say the location is one of them.

Are the Republican events more fun or the Democrat events?

What are your favorite venues?

I used to be when I was in my 30s.

I was just over at Lion’s Gate for the Asian Chamber Biz Talks Series and I thought that was pretty nice. I like that inside part, that was nice. It was in the hotel and the chef prepared really beautiful food for luncheon. I don’t really have an answer to that, because usually they are in small venues.

What are the best hors d’oeuvres you’ve had?

What are some of the funnier things you encounter?

You’re probably Sacramento’s leading party girl.

That’s a good one. The Sacramento Business Journal just had their Book of Lists function and they were serving lobster and shrimp hors d’oeuvres.

Lobster and shrimp hors d’oeuvres?

It wasn’t like big pieces. But yeah, I thought that was pretty grand. The other one I can think of is MeriStem, the school. They had their grand opening outside and I have never seen so much pageantry for hors d’oeuvres in my life. They had stations where you had steak on sticks and lobster on sticks. It was—whoa.

So you’re a lobster girl?

Not really. I don’t even like crab. But for someone who was starting a nonprofit type organization, the who’s who were there.

You were there, weren’t you?

I’ll tell you, when you do these events you know there are probably politicians there.

I’m not going to say names but I know them and they know me—most of them.

They see me and the first thing they do is put their wine down. They don’t want a photo with a glass of wine in their hand. …

I’ve had a phone call once or twice, when somebody said, “Please don’t use that photo. I’m going through a divorce. I really don’t want to have that out there yet.”

But I don’t get those too often. Or I’ll have someone tell me right there at the event, “This is not my wife. I better not have this taken.”

I don’t know how to say one is better than the other because I don’t look at it that way. I just go to these events. I don’t go because it’s Democratic or Republican.

Which ones drink more?

I don’t know.

Do you recommend that people smile or should they keep a straight face?

Which makes a better photo?

Oh, I would say smile! I say, “OK. I’m ready!

Smile!” Click, click.

I’m never sure what to do with my hands in these photos. Should people embrace the person next to them?

It depends on the situation, of course. Most of the time I let it go because you’re not doing anything for a magazine front page.

You’re just doing casual reception gala-type photos. Sometimes if it’s a couple, I say get a little closer in together. … Sometimes I’ll tell them to put their hands in their pockets, but that’s not too often. Usually, you just kind of flow with it. Ω

Wow. (Laughs.) Yeah, that happened just recently. He was polite, he was laughing, like you’re laughing, but he says, “I just don’t think she would be happy.”

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