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08 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. Editor Rachel Leibrock Staff Writer Raheem F. Hosseini Arts & Culture Editor Janelle Bitker Assistant Editor Anthony Siino Editorial Coordinator Becca Costello Editor-at-large Melinda Welsh Contributors Daniel Barnes, Ngaio Bealum, Bernie the Pug, Alastair Bland, Rob Brezsny, Jim Carnes, Willie Clark, Deena Drewis, Joey Garcia, Cosmo Garvin, Blake Gillespie, Lovelle Harris, Jeff Hudson, Jim Lane, Kel Munger, Kate Paloy, Patti Roberts, Ann Martin Rolke, Shoka, Bev Sykes, Graham Womack Editorial Intern Kris Hooks

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Going forward Recently, there have been some significant changes at SN&R. My co-editor Nick Miller cleaned out his office last week, for starters. He’s moving on to be editor-in-chief for another alternative weekly, the East Bay Express. We wish him the best—I can’t wait to see what he does over there in the 510. Meanwhile, I’m still here, now without the word “co” in front of “editor.” I’m excited for the opportunity, in part because I get to work with some of the smartest, most talented people in Sacramento. Now, we’ve added a few more names to that roster, including Art Director Margaret Larkin. She’s only been here a week but already brings as a fresh enthusiasm (not to mention mad skills) to our design process. The department also has a new-ish design director, Lindsay Trop. Lindsay makes for a quiet force—she’s thoughtful, super-talented and boasts the enviable ability to gracefully juggle a million tasks at once. Also new: Sales Coordinator Joanna Graves. Joanna steps into the void left empty by the wonderful Anne Lesemann, who also just departed (in this case for North Carolina). What’s a sales coordinator, you might ask? Oh, just the person tasked with keeping the editorial and sales teams happy when it comes to copy and ad placement. No big deal. Already Joanna, who is cool, calm and collected, has proven to be a pro at it. Finally, David Stogner just joined SN&R as its human resources manager. He’s only been a here a few days but has jumped right into the fray with a bright and friendly attitude. Here’s hoping we don’t wear him out too soon.

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I used to live on 17th and F streets. The city life in Midtown is the best part of Sacramento. I don’t mind having to pay for parking, but I don’t live here anymore. I can imagine that for people who are living here right now it would be a major inconvenience.

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[City council] is missing the point. Midtown is Midtown because it is accessible, because we have all of this culture and opportunity for people to come and check out. You can walk around or drive around and it is not expensive. I am not excited about it. I don’t know what I am going to do.

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hile there is disagreement over how much money has been saved through Proposition 47, one thing is certain: Those savings will fund programs to benefit communities statewide. California voters passed Prop. 47 in November 2014. The proposition reduced some nonviolent property and drug offenses from felonies to misdemeanors and allowed for the re-sentencing of inmates who were incarcerated when it passed. The law also mandated that Prop. 47 savings be invested in the newly created Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund. Money will be distributed annually through grants, to support recidivism reduction programs, truancy and dropout prevention programs and trauma recovery centers. The fi rst deposit to the new fund will be in July. These changes in the criminal justice system resulted in a decrease in inmates — an estimated reduction of 4,700 prisoners in 2015-16. Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration and the Legislative Analyst’s Office agree on that number. They disagree on how that number translates to dollars saved. An LAO report released in February says the Department of Finance’s projected cost savings of $62.7 million is low, and actual savings is closer to $135 million. If the LAO is right, that’s significantly more funding for community services.

Danielle Williams, community organizer with Sacramento Area Congregations Together (Sacramento ACT), says the city needs those services to re-integrate former convicts and keep people out of jail in the ﬁ rst place.

“PEOPLE WHO GET OUT [OF PRISON] NEED SERVICES AND SUPPORT TO FULLY REHABILITATE, OR THEY GO RIGHT BACK INTO THE SYSTEM.” Danielle Williams, Community Organizer, Sacramento Area Congregations Together

“Sacramento is a prime example where you see our challenges with homelessness and mental health are all intertwined with our criminal justice,” Williams says. “People who get out [of prison] need services and support to fully rehabilitate, or they go right back into the system.” Sacramento ACT’s work to mobilize and advocate for the successful implementation of Prop. 47 is partially funded through The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative. The organization

In November, Sacramento ACT employees and other organizations gathered to celebrate the anniversary of the passage of Prop. 47. Photo by Anne Stokes

is pushing for the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors to transparently document local Prop. 47 savings. Sacramento ACT and other organizations are hosting a tour during which they will informally gather opinions on how money saved through Prop. 47 should be spent in Sacramento. Those who need help processing forms to have their criminal records changed, or want information about employment, housing, mental health or reentry services are encouraged to attend.

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

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

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It’s about the sport, not the money Re “Strikeout” by Graham Womack (SN&R Feature Story, April 7): This story needed a man-on-the-street interview. Why didn’t Graham just ask the African-American community?

As someone who played baseball at the collegiate level, coaches little league and covered all sports at every level for 10 years for Northern California publications, this story missed an enormous undercurrent. Young African-American athletes are far more attracted to basketball and football. Many parents spend more

money on youth football and travel ball hoops teams, which are far more costly than baseball. The financial reasoning is sort of a joke. The number of AfricanAmerican youngsters on AAU travel ball basketball teams is astronomical compared to any other demographic. This is a cultural choice and indifference, not necessarily a problem. You can’t force kids into any sport if there is no desire, it’s as simple as that. Bryan DeMain Sacramento

Correction Re: “Off Air, Online and In-Tune” by Kris Hooks (SN&R Arts & Culture, April 14): Evan Duran’s credit for his photography accompanying this piece was inadvertently omitted. SN&R regrets the error.

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Melinda Ruger is the executive director of Harm Reduction Services in Oak Park, one of the few places to dispense free doses of the opioid overdose antidote Narcan.

An elusive antidote Narcan can bring opioid overdose victims back from the dead, so why is it so hard to get? by Raheem F. hosseini

Presh doesn’t remember what it’s like to come back from the dead. But her mom sure does. It was about three or four years ago. Jolene (not her real name) got a call from a local emergency room informing her that her daughter was being treated for a near-fatal heroin overdose after paramedics found her unresponsive in the back seat of a parked car. “I didn’t even know she was using heroin,” said Jolene. “When they found her, she was blue and barely breathing.” On the way to the ER, Presh, now 35, who agreed to use her real first name but asked to withhold her last name, received a 8 | SN&R | 04.21.16

muscle injection of naloxone hydrochloride, a fast-acting medication that can revive overdose victims within seconds. It works by blocking the opioid receptors in a person’s brain. Except for sending regular drug-users into immediate withdrawal, it has few side effects. And naloxone can even reverse the effects of fentanyl, which has recently scourged the Sacramento area with 52 suspected overdoses—12 of them fatal—since March 23. “Its only purpose is to save a life,” said Presh, who has been in recovery for more than three years now. So why isn’t this wonder drug widely available?

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Better known by the brand name Narcan, naloxone was patented in 1961 and approved to treat opioid overdoses a decade later by the Federal Drug Administration. Yet 55 years later, with the nation gripped by an expanding opioid epidemic that knows no demographic or geographical boundaries, government regulators have been slow to release their grip on it. In most places, hospitals and medical first-responders carry Narcan, but most cops and school nurses do not. Meanwhile, the reluctance of users to call 911 can mean the difference between an overdose that gets reversed and one that proves fatal.

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For instance, regarding the deadly fentanyl outbreak concentrated in Sacramento County, public health officials say first responders administered Narcan to every victim who still had a chance at survival. Not everyone did. “Some were found at home and it was already too late,” said Dr. Olivia Kasirye, the county’s public health officer. So far, 12 people have died following the outbreak of counterfeit street pills. Some of the surviving victims have said they believed they were taking the painkiller Norco, but instead ingested powerful doses of the much stronger synthetic opioid, fentanyl, which is 50 times more potent than heroin. Toxicology tests have officially linked the deaths to fentanyl. The age of the overdose victims ranges between 16 and 67 years old, with less than 10 percent being minors, according to Dr. Melody Law, the county’s assistant health officer. Kasirye and Law spoke to SN&R on April 12, when it appeared the crisis had ended. A week later, three more overdoses were announced—two of

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leaden reSponSe them fatal—bringing the figures to their current total. Outside of this fentanyl outbreak, rising opioid abuse has been an emerging public health crisis for more than a decade. Between 2000 and 2014, fatal opioid overdoses rose 200 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Heroin use has also skyrocketed, cutting across most demographics but with its users sharing one thing in common: Most first got hooked on prescription painkillers. ironically, some of the companies that profited from aggressive opioid marketing and overprescribing are now the ones selling the antidote. Hospira, which is owned by Pfizer and once had the monopoly on the Narcan autoinjector, and Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is based in Rancho Cucamonga, have both been accused of marking up prices to the point that community-based addiction programs can’t get off the ground. Both Ohio and New York have asked Amphastar for Narcan price rebates. According to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Narcan access is slowly increasing—but so is the price. Harm Reduction Services and Sacramento Area Needle Exchange, both in Oak Park, are the only places in the entire region where users and their loved ones can pick up free doses of Narcan and be trained to use it. It’s a simple procedure, says HRS Executive Director Melinda Ruger. At the HRS office on Stockton Boulevard, staff and volunteers show trainees how to conduct chest compressions and clear the airway of an overdose victim before injecting Narcan into one of the victim’s muscles. If the victim remains unresponsive after a few moments, trainees are told to administer another dose. (They are each given two.) HRS has been collecting survey data since beginning its Opiate Overdose Prevention Program in February 2014. As of April 15, HRS has trained 626 people to administer Narcan and distributed 1,164 individual doses. Thus far, 185 lives have been saved. Most overdose reversals have taken place in Sacramento County, where HRS is located, but have been reported as far as Nevada and Contra Costa counties. Eighty-two percent of the people who administered the Narcan were friends or acquaintances of the victims. “Junkies are saving other junkies,” said Presh, who received Narcan injections four times—and only once from a medical practitioner.

More than three years after that nearfatal episode, Presh is teaching others to administer Narcan at HRS. She’s even trained her mother. “If Narcan had not been present during my overdoses, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to make different decisions,” she said. “It’s that old phrase: A junkie can’t get clean if they’re dead.” “Given the opportunity to make a difference, these people are,” Ruger said. “This is the pragmatic and honest approach to addressing opiate use amongst these populations.” California is slowly catching on. In October 2013, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation intended to increase Narcan’s availability by allowing pharmacists to provide it over the counter to the public, without prescription. It then took more than two years to develop the protocols to make that happen. As of today, only two CVS locations in the entire region actually sell Narcan, according to the Drug Policy Institute. State lawmakers are also in the very early stages of considering a bill that would authorize school nurses and trained personnel to administer emergency Narcan in the case of an opioid overdose. Assembly Bill 1748, from Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes, R-Yucca Valley, follows FDA approval last year of Narcan Nasal Spray, from a start-up called Adapt Pharma. According to a release from Hayes’ office, the Clinton Health Matters Initiative partnered with the product’s manufacturer to offer two free doses to every high school in the United States. Sacramento schools have yet to accept the offer. Representatives from the Sacramento City, Twin Rivers and Elk Grove unified school districts all said their schools don’t stock the medication and couldn’t say whether that would change. Most cops don’t carry Narcan, either, unless it’s for their own protection. According to William Ruzzamenti, director of the Central Valley High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force, agencies are giving Narcan to officers who raid clandestine fentanyl labs. “Just the fumes can cause an overdose death,” he noted. Carrying Narcan to save overdose victims is more common for cops on the Eastern Seaboard, Ruzzamenti says, where fentanyl has struck communities harder. “They’ve actually saved a bunch of lives,” he said. Spokespeople for the Sacramento County and Placer County sheriff’s departments, and the Sacramento and Roseville

police departments, say they have no plans to start carrying Narcan. Strangely, the only downside to using Narcan might be how well it can work. Sacramento Fire Department spokesman Chris Harvey and firefighter Dan Underhill say it sends patients into such immediate withdrawals that they can come to shivering, nauseous and irritable, and sometimes prone to hallucinations and vomiting. Harvey says he once approached an overdose victim, splayed out on a lawn and unable to move, who tearfully begged him not to administer Narcan. There have also been cases where people on gurneys have regained consciousness and tried to extract their own tracheal intubation tubes, Underhill says. “We train extensively on administering it slowly,” he said. Narcan’s immediate effects can also give its recipients a false sense of security. Both Kasirye and Ruger noted that strong opioids can have a longer life than naloxone, meaning that a person can fall back into an overdose once the Narcan wears off. That’s why Kasirye urges people to call 911 no matter what. Of the people who participated in HRS’ Overdose Prevention Program, most were white, living indoors and at a high risk of overdose, either because they had used alone in the past year (78 percent) or had taken time off in the past year (63 percent). HRS conducted more trainings and reported more overdose reversals during the second year of the program than its first, largely due to word of mouth. Fifty-five percent of participants said they heard of the program from their friends, partners or families. Presh is one of HRS’ success stories. But the truth is she got extremely lucky. She was six months clean at the time, which is a vulnerable place to be in for longtime substance-users. “That’s the perfect opportunity to overdose, because I had a low tolerance for it,” she explained. Upset with her boyfriend, Presh says she knew exactly what she was doing when she met up with an old friend to get high. Instead, she almost died. And the people she was with left her in the car. “That was the last time I used heroin,” she said. “Being part of this family just redirected my life into a much more positive direction.” Outside Ruger’s office hangs a framed mural commemorating dozens of people who weren’t so lucky. Ω

A closed city of Sacramento gun range is nasty with poisonous lead, but the surrounding play areas and community pool of nearby Mangan Park received a cleaner bill of health, according to the results of a lead contamination study released Friday evening. The “limited lead risk assessment” from Entek Consulting Group Inc. was conducted April 13—12 days after Councilman Jay Schenirer requested the study after reading Sacramento Bee coverage about potentially unsafe levels of lead at the James G. Mangan rifle and pistol range, located in his district. Schenirer must not read SN&R, as this paper broke the exact same story (“Get out the lead” by Raheem F. Hosseini; SN&R News; August 20, 2015) several months ago. (His office didn’t return a request for comment.) Despite lead dust flare-ups dating back to 2006, the city-owned range to the south was closed just this past Christmas Eve, following a complaint to the city auditor’s whistleblower hotline late last year. The public health reasons for closing the range remained secret, even to those who operated it, until SN&R published its story that August. Yet, it would be another five months until elected leaders reacted, even though they knew full well of the hazardous contamination issues at the gun range. Shortly before SN&R’s story, City Auditor Jorge Oseguera briefed Mayor Kevin Johnson, Vice Mayor Allen Warren and Councilman Rick Jennings of his findings during a public committee meeting. The elected representatives asked no questions and requested no further investigation about the lead dangers to the surrounding community. Since the Bee’s coverage, the mayor’s office has contacted Oseguera, who said in an email that he found it “curious … that the other media outlets, despite having in essence the same info as you received back in August 2015, waited to report out on this until now.” Hey, sometimes it pays to be the big, bad daily. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

feel-Good arena enerGy All you arena-subsidy haters out there can at least take solace in the upcoming Golden 1 Center’s green-energy credentials. Speaking to SN&R last week, experts at the Sacramento Metropolitan Utilities District praised the future Kings home’s commitment to renewable energy. A quick rundown: G1C will be certified leed gold, complete with LED lighting, advanced energy controls and rooftop solar. Nearly 90 percent of the energy used to operate the arena will be solar—from SMUD’s soon-to-be-finished farm near Rancho Seco—and the remaining 10 percent will come from rooftop solar panels. This will keep more than 2,000 tons of greenhouse-gas emissions out of the atmosphere annually. “That’s equivalent from the emissions generated by over 4 million vehicle miles,” explained SMUD’s Greg Hribar. As far as he knows, G1C will be one of the first new arena constructions in the country to be built with entirely LED lighting and to use 100 percent renewables. The arena also has the capacity to put solar power back onto the grid, via a secure connection to SMUD’s 21 kilovolt downtown infrastructure. “The Kings arena actually has two redundant feeds, so we never had the New Orleans type shutdown,” said SMUD’s Mike Wirsch, referring to the snafu during the 49ers Super Bowl a few years back. If only solar energy could power the Kings to a winning season. (Nick Miller)

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“[UC’s] policies are rationing access for The University of California system is scrambling Californians, for taxpayers,” said McCarty, whose to defend itself against a March report from the Assembly Bill 1711 was introduced on January 26. state auditor alleging that the system has pushed But Dianne Klein, a UC spokeswoman, says the aside qualified resident student applicants to cash audit is misleading and woven together partly with in on out-of-state applicants, who pay a tuition rate “cherry-picked” data. triple that of Californians. “The report focused on undergraduates and The audit claimed that the University of UC’s educational core budget,” Klein explained. California, faced with state funding cuts, has failed “But when they wanted to show unprecedented to responsibly manage its own expenses, such as staff growth and expenses, they included the a booming employee payroll. Instead, according whole $27 billion enterprise, including the medical to the report, the system has sharply increased centers, rather than just the $6 billion core budget.” nonresident enrollment—in part by lowering its The medical centers, Klein says, account for academic performance standards—to put more cash 72 percent of the growth in UC’s staff over the in its coffers. cited time period. That growth comes entirely from The problem, say critics, is that these enrollment policies are making it harder for California residents nonstate funds, she says. When it comes to the system’s minorto attend a UC. They also tend to disproity enrollment, UC’s breakdown of portionately favor white and Asian ethnicity fails to represent the students, according to the audit. diversity of California, the According to the state audiWhen it audit argues. Of new students tor, Elaine Howle, nonresident comes to minority enrolled at UC Berkeley in enrollment increased by 82 enrollment, UC’s fall of 2015, 43 percent were percent, or about 18,000 Asian, 24 percent were white, students, from 2010 to 2015 breakdown of ethnicity 13 percent were of Latin while resident enrollment fails to represent the American descent and just dipped by one percent, or diversity of California, 2.8 percent were black and about 2,200 students. The African American. UC Davis auditor’s report also contends the audit argues. is 37 percent Asian, 28 percent that UC has rejected thousands white, 19 percent Hispanic and of California residents whose 3 percent black. academic performance scores were Bringing balance to such racial equal to or better than those of nonresidisparity will be difficult if the UC continues to dents who were accepted. favor nonresidents, the audit says. That’s because UC president Janet Napolitano has defended most out-of-state Americans who apply are white, the practices. In a March 8 letter to the auditor, and most out-of-state non-U.S. citizens who Napolitano wrote, “Unfortunately, the draft report apply are Asian. that has been shared with us makes inferences and Klein argues this conclusion was created through draws conclusions that are supported neither by the more selective data. data nor by sound analysis.” “They excluded UC Merced, which is a majority UC also produced its own report to counter the minority,” she explained auditor’s. Both reports were released on March 29. UC Merced, as well as UCSF, was indeed Even before, lawmakers were demanding an excluded from this portion of the audit because, as overhaul of UC’s admission policies. Assemblyman the report explains, these campuses had not yet been Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, coauthored legislaincluded in a process called “rebenching,” a scheme tion that would require UC to keep nonresident aimed at distributing state funding equally across all enrollment below 15.5 percent in order to receive campuses. funding from the state. But Ralph Washington Jr. says excluding Merced from a percentage-based analysis of ethnic

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representation is legit. Washington, a UC Davis grad student and chair of the campus’s Graduate Student Association, says the large proportion of Hispanics at UC Merced—48 percent of the population—creates an illusion of diversity. This is because the school’s total student population—grads and undergrads alike—is less than 7,000. The Berkeley and Davis schools are home to about 37,000 and 35,000 students, respectively. In fact, Davis’ undergraduate Hispanic population is almost twice the size of Merced’s. When racial diversity is represented in raw numbers, Washington says, UC Merced trails behind the other campuses. There are about 300 undergrad African-American studentts there and black grad students add almost nothing to the bar graphs. “You can count the number of black graduate students at UC Merced on two hands,” Washington said. For these students, “that can be an incredibly isolating experience,” he added. Klein says UC’s nonresident student population has recently jumped from 15.5 percent to about 17 percent. But nonresident students, she says, generated about $800 million in tuition fees 2015—a significant pile of cash for a university system. “If you took away the funds generated by out-of-state students, it would actually be worse for these California students because you wouldn’t have that $800 million for support services and the education and the faculty,” Klein said. Kevin Sabo, president of the UC Student Association, contests this claim. “We haven’t seen how the massive revenue that comes from nonresident enrollment actually gets turned around and reinvested in student support services,” he said. State funding for UC was cut by almost $1.4 billion from 2008 to 2011. This prompted increased enrollment of nonresidents, and from 2008 through 2015 revenue from nonresident tuition nearly tripled. At UC Davis, for example, nonresident enrollment has increased by 233 percent in the past five years, while resident enrollment increased by just 4 percent. Currently, Davis’s undergraduate population is about 13 percent nonresidents. Nonresidents pay $37,338 per year to attend. Residents pay $14,460. The increase in out-of-state students has allowed UC to bridge the budget gap, Klein says. But Sabo, a fourth-year undergraduate at UC Berkeley, says increasing the nonresident population has a direct impact on California-grown students, since campus resources are limited. McCarty acknowledges that “out-of-state students kept the lights on for two or three years. “But the problem was resolved for the most part, but they’ve become addicted to the extra funding,” he said. For a university system that claims to be strapped for cash, its executives and chancellors are paid exorbitantly well. According to the state auditor, payroll expenses boomed from $8 billion to $13 billion in the last decade. In the past 18 months, UC’s most highly paid employees have received generous raises. New salaries range from $231,750 for Anne Shaw, chief of staff for the UC regents, to $991,942 for UC San Francisco’s chief executive Mark Laret. Napolitano receives $570,000 a year. In a March 29 press release issued in response to the report, the university claimed it “is an effective, responsible steward of its financial resources.” Sabo doesn’t think so. He said high salaries may not add up to a significant cost but that it’s just one of many examples of inappropriate spending. “It’s kind of absurd, since we have students sleeping in forests on campus, or sleeping in their cars or students who are dumpster diving for food, and meanwhile the chief investment officer is making one-and-a-half million dollars,” Sabo said. Ω

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Right to Relief Like many Sacramento residents who experience homelessness, Brittany Stewart says she starts hunting for a public restroom at the first inkling she’ll need one. That’s because she knows the term “public accommodations” comes with an asterisk for her kind: No shirt, no shoes, no home—no service. “I’m always told that the bathrooms are out of order or they don’t have one,” said Stewart, who once tried bribing her way into a gas station restroom by offering to purchase hot water. It didn’t work. Her experiences aren’t unique. For Sacramento’s growing homeless population, each day starts as a perverted scavenger hunt, filled with rejections and micro-humiliations. So it’s onto the next restaurant, the next gas station, the next public park with its locked facilities. Insides churning, options racing toward zero. “And before you know it, you’ve walked halfway across town and it’s an emergency,” Stewart said. “And that’s embarrassing.” The dreaded emergency situation. Every homeless person knows it, or at least the nearly two-dozen individuals who spoke to SN&R for this story. And there’s an emerging consensus that it’s becoming more common with each additional public restroom the city padlocks over vandalism concerns. “There is not a preponderance of public facilities so people are using the street, which I find completely unacceptable,” said Councilman Jeff Harris, who is behind a plan to add one attended portable restroom in the River

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District on a trial basis. A couple of toilets will hardly solve the problem, but Harris hopes for more. “I’m trying to push this and push it fast.” This isn’t the first local attempt at finding a separate-but-equal compromise. But in the four years since a United Nations envoy scolded the city for its lack of public facilities, those accommodations have become more scarce, not less. Indeed, restroom discrimination isn’t new—it’s history. “Bathrooms have long been a site of civil rights struggles,” said UC Davis law professor Courtney G. Joslin. Like Woody Allen’s Leonard Zelig or Tom Hanks’ Forrest Gump, bathroom access keeps popping up for critical cameos throughout history: during the Jim Crow era when restrooms were racially segregated; in the 1970s when restrooms were inserted into the debate over women’s rights legislation; and in 1990, when restroom access was expanded through the Americans with Disabilities Act. Today, public restrooms

are at the center of numerous attempts to disenfranchise transgender communities, with North Carolina succeeding where other states have, so far, fallen short. (See sidebar, page 17) As with those other struggles, Sacramento’s restroom debate puts a kaleidoscopic lens to a macro topic. The ongoing Right to Rest occupation near City Hall has drawn unflattering attention to the city’s treatment of its homeless residents, including the ticketing of thousands a year for sleeping outdoors. So where’s the relief?

‘A lAwsuit wAiting to hAppen’ Collin “C.J.” Jackson’s morning began with an unexpected windfall. After packing up his camp in Old Sacramento, the lanky homeless youth with the bushy hair started making the long trek downtown. A man saw him carrying his belongings and handed him $50, unsolicited. One of those rare alms that transforms the day. The cash tore a reminder in his empty stomach, so Jackson hiked to the nearest Denny’s. He leans in and recalls the order. “Blueberry pancakes with ice cream,” he said. “So delicious.” After the repast, the 18-year-old paid the check and headed for the lavatory. An employee asked what he was doing. Using the bathroom, he said. It’s for customers only, the employee said. I am a customer, Jackson explained.

The detente broke only after the employee reviewed both Jackson’s receipt and video surveillance of him dining. On his way out, Jackson said the guy called him “a disease.” Reciting this tale inside Wind Youth Services’ drop-in center for homeless youth, Jackson seems unfazed. But the other kids grumble on his behalf. Someone suggests he consult a lawyer. Then they remember the world in which they live. Rights cost money. Mark Merin says there could be a case. The attorney serves on the board of Safe Ground Sacramento and has represented homeless individuals in his private practice for years. Fifty years ago, he witnessed racial apartheid in the Jim Crow south, while traveling to Louisiana with a fellow Cornell student, a black Kenyan. The courts have since reaffirmed equal access to public accommodations, which include private businesses like restaurants. Today, a business can’t bar access based on someone’s race, gender or sexual orientation. But what about access to its restroom facilities? “I think that is an area that still needs to be litigated,” Merin said. “That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.” It wouldn’t be the first time that a lack of restrooms got Sacramento into trouble. Back in 2011, a UN Human Rights Council inspector visited a burgeoning tent encampment along the American River, and discovered a lack of sanitation and clean water. The findings made their

The public restrooms located on 21st and C streets are open only for specific events and are not available for members of the homeless population to use.

way into a critical January 2012 letter to Mayor Kevin Johnson. “Because evacuation of the bowels and bladder is a necessary biological function and because denial of opportunities to do so in a lawful and dignified manner can both compromise human dignity and cause suffering, such denial could, in some cases, amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,” wrote UN Special Rapporteur Catarina de Albuquerque. In one section, de Albuquerque described the weekly chores of the encampment’s self-appointed sanitation technician, a homeless man named Tim Buckley. Using a jimmy-rigged sanitation “system” that consisted of an open-faced seat attached to a doublebagged plastic bladder, de Albuquerque wrote, Buckley hauled the 100-pound bags by bicycle every week to a public restroom a few miles away, dumped their contents into a toilet and rinsed his hands with lemon water. “Tim said that even though his job was difficult, he did it for the community, especially the women,” de Albuquerque wrote. Noting that both the city and county enforced ordinances against public defecation and urination, she added that the “criminalization” of those practices “combined with a lack of public toilets

leaves the homeless people in a desperate situation and without alternatives.” As scathing and public as the letter was, it didn’t usher in any sort of grand policy shift. Kind of the opposite, in fact.

‘A few bAd Apples’ Inside the crowded waiting room of Maryhouse, a daytime hospitality center for homeless women and their children, Demetria sits with her back to a baby-blue wall. The mother has just been asked what she and her 13-year-old daughter, who has autism, do when one of them needs to use the bathroom. “We do a lot of walking,” she said in a soft voice, eyes forward. “Some restaurants want you to pay first. And we’re homeless, so we don’t even have a nickel.” Spend any amount of time with the people at Sacramento Loaves & Fishes and its various programs, and it quickly becomes clear how much thought and effort go into something many of us take for granted. One Loaves staffer remembers paying $3 of his last $12 to use a cafe restroom the very first week he was homeless. Homeless or hospitalized since 2012, another man, veteran Greg Metcalf, says the options are limited.

“There’s really nowhere you can go,” he said. “I think it falls under civil rights commitments.” Joan Burke is Loaves & Fishes’ director of advocacy. She says the shower and restroom facilities provided on the grounds of the area’s flagship servicesprovider rank as the most critical services offered to the approximately 600 daily visitors. The bathrooms are regularly cleaned by staff, largely respected by their users and supplied with a year’s worth of donated toilet paper, courtesy of an annual drive that occurs each July. “There are just fundamental things that we as a society should make sure people have,” she said from her modest office inside the Welcoming Center, which looks onto a men’s room door. “It’s not particularly expensive. And it’s not brain surgery, either.” Tell that to the city. Citing the challenges associated with ongoing maintenance, the city has closed additional public restrooms in the four years since the UN letter. In all, 12 city park restrooms out of 57 have been closed to the general public, with others closed for “renovations.” Two of the restrooms are located in downtown parks—Cesar Chavez Plaza on I and

“I hate to say it, but people are brutal on our public facilities. That part of our human condition I can’t explain.” Jeff HArris

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“RIGHT TO RElIEf” continued from page 15 Ninth streets and Fremont Park on Q and 15th streets. An additional eight park restrooms are restricted to daytime hours, which is what the UN letter criticized. City spokeswoman Marycon Razo says most closures occurred at the requests of elected leaders, police officials or community members. She couldn’t get specific on when the closures occurred. A city webpage dedicated to “facts” about homelessness is more descriptive. “Toilets have been backed up with hypodermic needles, janitors have found used ‘foils’ with drug residue in toilets, and soiled underwear has been left on and around the toilets,” the webpage states. “Overall, the bathrooms have become filthy.” According to a city breakdown of costs associated with homelessness, the city spent $326,000 during the 2014-15 fiscal year to tidy up park restrooms that homeless people used for shelter and bathing. Councilman Harris says actual costs are difficult to pin down since most human waste cleanup is performed by property and business districts. He said the city tried reopening the bathrooms in Chavez Plaza twice, “and they were destroyed twice.” The same thing happened when the bathrooms in City Hall were left unsupervised, he added. “I hate to say it, but people are brutal on our public facilities,” he said. “That part of our human condition I can’t explain.” No one seems able to. The homeless individuals interviewed by SN&R say they’re as grossed out by trashed restrooms as anyone else, more so since that’s their only option. But they also say they shouldn’t be punished for the actions of a few, or stereotyped as the only ones responsible. “You can’t just generalize it and close it because of a few bad apples,” said a Maryhouse guest who declined to give her name. “What do they prefer? Do they prefer people literally defecating on the streets?” Demetria insisted that’s one option she and her daughter won’t consider. When it’s an emergency—and that isn’t rare—she and her daughter start heading for the nearest emergency room, because at least there they’ll find relief. “It’s always how are we going to get there,” she said. “It’s gotten harder.” Ryan Loofbourrow has been having this very conversation for more than two decades. Loofbourrow is the present director of Sacramento Steps Forward, which

strategizes approaches and coordinates funding for ending homelessness in the county. In the early 1990s, however, he was with the Downtown Sacramento Partnership and working with not-yetMayor Heather Fargo on getting human waste off the streets and into the porcelain. The problem locations were the same then as they are now: light-rail and bus stops, alleyways and sidewalks near popular clubs. The powers that were came up with a port-a-potty pilot project. Going off memory, Loofbourrow estimates that less than a dozen portable restrooms were posted like sentries at funky alleys circa 1995. There was even a toilet papercutting ceremony, he says with a chuckle. But a year later, the experiment was deemed a failure. Loofbourrow says there were plenty of people who used the restrooms properly. But there was also a cross section of folks who trashed the cramped facilities through copulation, drug use and random acts of restroom violence. By the time a portable near a former Greyhound station was burned to the ground, Loofbourrow says the white flag was waved. “They got so abused,” he sighed. “It just wasn’t worth it.” Loofbourrow has been searching for answers ever since. He’s checked out self-cleaning robot toilets in San Francisco (ruined) and the patented version in Portland (better), a Santa Cruz parking garage that turned its restroom into a translucent fishbowl, and attendant models in Denver (decent) and San Diego (not so much). “Of all the things I’ve had to manage, these were the hardest,” he said like a man who’s glad he no longer manages them. That task now belongs to Harris. The councilman sits on the subcommittee that was formed in response to the Right to Rest protests that began in December, and has carved out restroom access as his subissue to address. “I get the human impacts of it,” he said. “When you got to go, you got to go.” Under his recommendation, the city will test-pilot one rig featuring two flushing lavatories and two sinks on an elevated trailer, along with receptacles for trash and needles, regularly emptied throughout the day and minded by a single attendant. Harris saw this approach successfully deployed in multiple locations around San Francisco, including the Mission district, where he chatted with

The restroom at McClatchy Park is theoretically open daily to the public, but is currently closed for “renovations.”

the attendant, a formerly homeless man out of Fairfield who earned $16 an hour to keep the environs clean and stocked. “I was thoroughly impressed,” Harris said. “I was tickled pink.” While S.F. has 10 of these roaming units, Sacramento will start with one in the River District—and for only six months. But Harris would like to see additional portables set up downtown. With no plumbing hookup required, the price tag is estimated to be around $100,000 for six months, less than what the city spends on cleaning park restrooms annually. But Harris says he has already received pushback from the local business community, which worries the restrooms will be an eyesore and attract more homeless people to the area. Homeless individuals and their advocates find those fears insulting. They say the population is already here and should be shown some basic human decency. “Society should provide places for people to go to the toilet as a matter of both the individual and the common good,” said Ronald Blubaugh, a retired judge who runs Loaves & Fishes’ free legal clinic. “If people have to relieve themselves they will do it. Writing a statutory prohibition will not stop them.”

But those statutes do criminalize natural bodily functions. Both the city and county of Sacramento have ordinances on the books that make it unlawful for people to urinate or defecate in public. While Blubaugh said it’s been months since he’s seen the last such ticket, they are inching upward. According to the Sacramento Superior Court, its Carol Miller Justice Center processed 88 citations last year, up five from the previous year. Through April 4, the justice center processed 32 citations. All were filed under the city’s ordinance, not the county’s. If the pace holds up, between 90 and 100 people could be ticketed by the end of this year. “Most of the tickets are for homeless people,” Merin contended. He believes it’s intentional—drawing down the number of restrooms and then busting people who can no longer hold it—and fits with the city’s approach to ticketing or arresting homeless people for sleeping outdoors. “That is a strategy that the public agencies have adopted to discourage homeless people from staying in their area,” he said.

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“There are just fundamental things that we as a society should make sure people have.”

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when North Carolina lawmakers sped through legislation that effectively restricts transgender people’s access to public restrooms, the state set a grim precedent by playing to an old fear— that the so-called “other” wants to watch you go potty. “What we have seen historically … is resistance to changing the norms of restroom access,” said UC Davis law professor Courtney G. Joslin. The same tactic was employed— unsuccessfully—four decades ago in an attempt to derail the 1972 passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of gender and, at least theoretically, guaranteed equal rights for women. According to Joslin, opponents tried to convince Congress that the amendment’s passage would force men and women to go to the bathroom together. That didn’t happen, nor has any other negative prediction involving integrated restrooms, says Joslin and others. Yet that hasn’t stopped bathroom hysteria from timetraveling to the present and latching onto a different effort to curtail civil rights. Introduced, adopted and signed by the governor in 12 hours on March 23, North Carolina’s Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act made it illegal for someone to enter a gender-specific school or government restroom unless it matches up with the gender on their birth certificate. At least seven other states have tried adopting similar restrictions since last year, though none succeeded until the Tar Heels. A joint policy paper from the Center for American Progress and Fenway Institute traces the growth in discriminatory bathroom policies to a conservative backlash against recent advances in LGBT rights, primarily the Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling. Aside from

states with lavatory fixations— Minnesota, South Dakota, Texas, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Florida—there are approximately 200 anti-LGBT bills that have been introduced nationwide this legislative session alone, according to Laura E. Durso, the director of the LGBT Research and Communications Project at the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank. “These aren’t going away any time soon,” she said. “What this wave is showing us is that there is this hole in the law that needs to be filled.” And that there’s a need for basic education. The bathroom bills, in particular, attempt to exploit fact-free fears that transgender people are bucking social norms—and submitting themselves to untold harassment—simply so they can ogle others. That was the narrative pushed by the group Texas Values, which convinced Houston voters to repeal an anti-discrimination ordinance last year by claiming such protections would expose children to crossdressing predators. Back in reality, it’s the transgender community that reports skyrocketing mistreatment when forced to use the wrong restrooms, according to a growing body of research. Something like that happened to a homeless youth who spoke to SN&R. Elyah was assigned the female gender at birth, but feels more comfortable using the men’s room and has been reprimanded for doing so. But the gender-nonconforming youth, who doesn’t identify with either sex, says that’s better than what their transgender female friends endure. Elyah gets nasty looks. Their friends get kicked out. “I get a slap on the wrist,” Elyah said. And this is in nonbizarro California, where access to public school programs, activities and

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The restroom at the Sacramento LGBT Community Center is gender neutral and open to homeless residents.

facilities were expanded to students of all gender designations under 2013 legislation. And where the University of California has been degendering its restrooms since 2014. State lawmakers are considering broadening that approach to all single-occupancy public restrooms in California, which would, in effect, declaw a trumped-up controversy. Assembly Bill 1732, the Equal Restroom Access Act, passed its first committee test last month and is now before the Assembly’s appropriations committee. “It is as simple as changing a sign,” Durso said of the proposal. “And what it signals to a community is a welcoming atmosphere.” Ω

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‘Access to the public squAre’ On the third floor of a chalky commercial building in Midtown, a dozen homeless kids and young adults take turns venting into an empty circle. This patchily attired space—with its mismatched couches and steampunk kitchenette, a rattling kennel crate by the door and clothing rack in the corner—houses the Wind Youth Services drop-in center, the only refuge for unaccompanied homeless youth in five counties. On this squally Friday afternoon, street outreach coordinator Niki Jones has united the diverse group around a lightning-rod topic: bathrooms. Specifically, where do you go when you have no place to go? “I have a few designated popand-squats,” offered Rhi. “It’s fucked up because females have to use the bathroom no matter what.” She waits a beat for the obvious to set in. “Because we have a menstrual cycle.” “They really need more public bathrooms,” added Jason, whose skinny frame has earned him the nickname “Bones.” When businesses don’t let him use their facilities, he waits outside until the foot traffic dies down and sneaks into an alley. “And sometimes, it’s like, god damn,” he said of the wait. There are so many of these stories, and they tumble out over each other. The youth here discuss trying not to “look homeless” as they pass through a

jingling door, and worry about gallstones and bladder infections. There’s an underpass they all know to be a demilitarized sewer. One bespectacled youth, new to the area, says he’s seen people drop trou in front of him and release their bowels. “I’ve noticed feces everywhere,” Stewart agreed. After staying quiet most of the session, Jason’s girlfriend Nereida, with puppy-dog eyes and braces, chimes in. “Sometimes I don’t drink a lot because I don’t want to piss myself at night,” she shared. She and her boyfriend are double outlaws, in a way. Recently homeless, they’ve been breaking the city’s “anticamping” law by sleeping outside. Like other civil rights battlegrounds, toilets represent one piece of an interconnected puzzle, says Laura E. Durso, the director of the LGBT Research and Communications Project at the Center for American Progress. To her, the evolving national debate about who gets to use public facilities hints at something deeper, like a message scrawled on a bathroom wall. “This is the fight we’re having,” she said. “Who has access to the public square?” At the drop-in center, the kids have an answer: not them. Their discussion quickly flashes past restrooms to the myriad barriers they face in trying to come in from the cold: camping and panhandling tickets, shelter lotteries, housing waits and the profound sense that society doesn’t care about them. “Society fucking sucks,” Rhi said, zeroing on the mood in the room. Then the 20-year-old corrected herself. “Not society. Politics.” Ω

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El Dorado Hills writer Erika Mailman often digs into archives and history books to write her stories about strong, fictional women.

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Mailman had already written about prostitutes and witches and other historical women of note when she woke up in the middle of the night, shaken by a nightmare about another female. The dream: A young girl was wandering through the woods when she came across a quaint cottage—the kind straight out of the old “Hansel and Gretel” tale. As Mailman’s subconscious continued to drift, the cottage was revealed to be part of a larger house. An evil house, filled with secrets, and one that the young girl was actually fleeing from, not approaching. “I awoke and couldn’t stop thinking about it; I jotted down two pages of everything I could remember,” the El Dorado Hills-based writer says. “And then realized this would make a good young adult novel.” In fact, it would make three. Mailman, who will discuss and lead a workshop on young adult literature April 29 through May 1 at the Gold Rush Writers Conference in Mokelumne Hill, had little trouble selling the book to her agent, but the deal came with a stipulation. The stand-alone book Mailman had envisioned needed to evolve into a trilogy. Mailman agreed and the series’ debut installment, 2015’s Haunted, was published to strong reviews under the pen name Lynn Carthage. Betrayed, the second book in Mailman’s The Arnaud Legacy, was released in February, and Mailman just completed the third installment, Avenged, set for a 2017 publication date. Trilogies are hot in YA, of course. Think Twilight, The Hunger Games and Divergent. That doesn’t necessarily make writing them an easy feat to undertake. Haunted follows 16-year-old San Francisco-native Phoebe Irving, who moves with her mother, sister and stepdad to a mansion in rural England. Her stepfather inherited the mansion and, as it often turns out in books like this, the house is filled with mysteries and ghosts— both figurative and literal. It’s the entirety of that story that came from Mailman’s dream—with nothing left over for two sequels. “Everything in the first book is everything I had,” Mailman says. “I was inventing fresh for the second and third books, and that was one of the most challenging things I’ve ever done as a writer.” For inspiration, she turned to the Harry Potter books and the Shinobi samurai-themed series by Fair Oaks writer Susan Spann. The Arnaud Legacy, in the vein of the Potter series as well as the Chronicles of Narnia books and Twilight, follows classic young themes. It’s rich with teenagers in love, mythical creatures, scorned women seeking revenge and families torn apart by love and death. Throughout, there was an exhausting amount of detail to remember and sort out.

“I tried to create something that hinted at the rest of the story in the first book and then pays off in the second and the third,” Mailman says. “That kind of thinking doesn’t come naturally for me. I filled notebook after notebook, trying to keep the story straight in my head.” Whatever the genre, if there’s a commonality that runs through Mailman’s writing it’s found in her posse of strong, complicated female characters. Her debut, The Witch’s Trinity, centers on the story of an elderly woman, Güde, facing a witch trial in 16th-century Germany. Woman of Ill Fame is a gold rush-era murder mystery set in San Francisco that’s anchored by a sassy, gold-digging prostitute named Nora Simms. Mailman says it’s no coincidence that her main characters are all complex and tough as nails.

“I am a strong feminist. I love stories about strong women— women kicking ass.” Erika Mailman author

“I [write such characters] very consciously,” she says. “I am a strong feminist. I love stories about strong women—women kicking ass.” Still, Mailman acknowledges, there’s something of a leap between the worlds of witches and prostitutes and, well, adolescent heroines. That’s why the author decided to write The Arnaud Legacy under a pen name. “I wrote a book about an unapologetic prostitute, and while it’s not über-secret—any kid who can Google will learn my real name—I did want to protect YA readers,” she says. While the young adult series seeded in a dream, Mailman says the idea for both her adult novels “very much arose out of how many women’s important stories from the past were not being told.”

Woman of Ill Fame, for example, came out of research that Mailman did when she was living in Oakland, writing a history column for a newspaper there. The research involved hours spent inside the history and archives room at a local library. “There were all these great books about Wild West prostitution and I wrote several articles about [the subject],” she says. At one point in her research, she came across the photo that would later become Woman of Ill Fame’s cover: A black-and-white image of a young 18th-century prostitute wearing a fierce, defiant expression. The old photograph immediately inspired Mailman. “She’s really who I wrote the story for—I had this movie in my head and she was the main person.” For The Witch’s Trinity, Mailman was halfway through the writing process when her mother sent an email that made her realize just how deep and personal her connection to the subject matter actually was. “The story is a good one to illustrate the power of the uncanny,” she says. Indeed. Mailman’s mother had forwarded her a link to a University of Massachusetts website devoted to the Salem witch trials. The site included historical documents, including trial testimony. And, as it turned out, proof that Mailman was related to a woman named Mary Bliss Parsons, who’d stood trial for witchcraft not once, but twice. Both times she was acquitted. The family had known about Parsons’ husband, but this was the first they’d learned of his wife’s history, and for Mailman, it gave her writing and novel a sense of urgency. “That 400-year period in history when women were consistently burned to death—that story needs to be told; the world was once that way,” she says. “[Parsons’ story] did make me feel a strong connection to whatever power flows through us to make us write stories.” Mailman says learning Parsons’ story had a profound effect. “There’s so much to be said for blood and genetics and what remains,” she says. “Something was calling me to these stories.” Next up: Mailman is working on a novel about a 19th-century Massachusetts murderer. The character, not surprisingly, is a woman, and Mailman calls the undertaking “fun and morbid.” So, you know, business as usual. Ω

Learn more about Erika Mailman’s writing at www.erikamailman.com and www.lynncarthage.com. Learn more about the Gold Rush Writers Conference at www.goldrushwriters.com.

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Earth Day terrariums FRIDAY, APRIL 22 Recycling means more than simply throwing your aluminum cans in the blue bins. For this eco-friendly craft class, the focus is on reusing EnvironmEnt leftover materials to grow healthy sprouts. Bring an old jar, beans, seeds and avocado pits to make your own terrarium. Once you learn the basics, you can do it year-round. Free; 4 p.m. at Franklin Community Library, 10055 Franklin High Road in Elk Grove; (916) 265-2920; www.saclibrary. org/Locations/Franklin.

—AARon CARnes

Chocolate for Breakfast sATURDAY, APRIL 23 Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates tests the philosophy that it’s never too early in the day for chocolate with a one-day sale of chocolate croissants, chocolate waffles, chocolate cream puffs, chocolate custard brioche and breakfast affogato (a delightful FooD mix of espresso, ice cream, sipping chocolate, granola and whipped cream). Breakfast of champions, indeed. $4.50-$7 per item; 10 a.m. at 1908 L Street; (916) 706-1738, www.gingerelizabeth.com.

—AARon CARnes

Pet-a-Palooza sATURDAY, APRIL 23 If four-legged animals and feathered friends are more your people than actual people, Pet-a-Palooza is where it’s at on Saturday. Enjoy an exotic-animal show, a doggie obstacle course, a beer garden for the humans and live music by Matt Nathanson, PEtS Ben Rector and Haley Reinhart. Adoptions will be offered on-site. Free; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Rusch Park, 7801 Auburn Boulevard; http://kncifm.cbslocal. com/pet-a-palooza-2016.

it’s starting to feel like the only thing playing on the big screen these days are movies about superheroes, that’s because the only thing people pay money to go see anymore are movies about superheroes. Blame Netflix, blame Hollywood greed, blame the eternal need within all of us to find out whether Batman can beat up Superman, but for the foreseeable future, our silver screen destinies are tied to brooding, preternaturally gifted dudes reluctantly fulfilling their moral obligation to society. Luckily, a torrent of indie vibes descends on city this week for the annual Sacramento international Film Festival. Kick things off with the SFF Premiere Gala on Saturday, April 23, from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Other Office (928 2nd Street in Old Sacramento). There will be drinks, a fashion show, a zoot suit competition and deejays. Admission is free, but an RSVP is requested. On Sunday, April 24, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Crest Theatre (1013 K Street), the most popular event of the week takes place: 48 Hours Sacramento, wherein local filmmakers

—eDDIe JoRgensen band together to create a short in two days, centered around this year’s theme of supervillains. (I didn’t promise you could escape the whole hero-villain dichotomy entirely, did I?) Tickets are $15. Then stick around for the 6:30 p.m. screening of #Berobinthemovie, a documentary from filmmaker Kurt Weitzmann that covers hundreds of musicians, comedians and activists who created a street-theatre experience to benefit and raise awareness about homelessness—an effort led by comedian Margaret Cho following the death of her friend, comedian and homelessness advocate Robin Williams; tickets are $15. Prior to the screening, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in front of the theater, musicians will be emulating the #BeRobin movement and busking to benefit the homeless. Tickets and more information on various events running through Sunday, May 1, can be found by visiting http://californiafilm.net or by calling (800) 838-3006.

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Heavy Dirt Farm annual community potluck sATURDAY, APRIL 23 Carnitas tacos will abound at this annual gathering of the Davis farming community, and with all attendees bringing a dish to share of their own, expect FooD a smorgasbord of locally grown goodness. Everyone is welcome and it’s free, but don’t be that person who doesn’t bring something to share. Free; 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Heavy Dirt Farms, 24830 County Road 95 in Davis; http://heavydirtfarm.weebly.com.

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“in the Style of Andy Warhol” weDnesDAY, APRIL 27 This month’s “In the Style of” talk features a discussion of pop-art icon Andy Warhol with the Crocker Art Museum’s Erin Dorn. Stick around for the Warhol-inspired art activity preCULtUrE sented by local artist Ciara Cumiskey. Free; 6 p.m. at the Sacramento Public Library Arcade Branch, 2443 Marconi Avenue; (916) 264-2920; www.crockerartmuseum.org.

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Bird of the week buCket of fried CHiCken, CaSk & barreL Who serves the best fried chicken in this town? It’s a huge question, with many formidable contenders, but let’s make sure Cask & Barrel’s Thursday night special is on the list. For $16, you get three drumsticks and three thighs, which is a pretty great deal in the realm of fancy fried chicken. Chef Gabriel Glasier brines his bird in salt water for two days and buttermilk for 12 hours, then he fries it in a vodka batter. Twice. The result is super moist, with a light, thin crust that crackles. And yes, it really comes in a paper bucket. 1431 Del Paso Boulevard, http://caskandbarrel916.com.

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Beer for dessert SaLted CarameL Stout, breakSide brewery IllustratIon by Mark stIvers

Build a bowl by Janelle Bitker

Ramen dreams do come true: Shoki Ramen House softly opened its latest location at 2530 21st Street last week, and the space manages to feel both old and new at once. Old, because it still carries some of the same Western charm from the space’s previous tenant, Trails Restaurant. Trails opened in 1952, with its big neon sign practically a landmark ever since. The sign is still there, as well as the dark wood paneling, cushy booth seating and vintage lighting. The restaurant is noticeably brighter, in part because the kitschy wallpaper has been ripped down in favor of white paint. Shoki also added Japanese accents: orchids, artwork and wall hangings.

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Shoki’s other location is on R Street, near the Warehouse Artists Lofts. It closed its original ramen shop in Curtis Park last year to make way for the 21st Street location, which is much larger. The new Shoki will continue to add menu items during its soft opening—including, for the first time, breakfast—but already, the style is distinctly different than R Street. Here, the emphasis is on build-yourown ramen bowls. First, you choose your broth (shoyu, shio, tan tan men, tsukemen and eight other options, including three vegan-friendly versions). Then, your starch (different wheat noodles, yam noodles, rice or quinoa). From there, you can add meat, an egg, tofu and different veggies.

If you go with a group, you can order toppings for the table and share. Otherwise, you’ll need to be selective—or wind up with a pretty expensive bowl. The soup base ranges from $3 for a small to $7 for a large. Everything else costs an additional $1-$4 apiece. Aloha: Another fish-focused eatery is coming to the grid, but this time, with a Hawaiian flair. Coconut’s Fish Cafe, which first opened in Maui before expanding to Texas and Arizona, will replace Noodles & Company at 1420 16th Street in May. Hawaiian favorites include macadamia-crusted mahi-mahi ($14.99), poke bowls ($12.99) and fish tacos with mango salsa ($10.99). You can also get a variety of grilled or seared fish on a sandwich or over brown rice ($10.99-$13.49), with a few different seasoning and sauce options. According to the Sacramento Business Journal, Coconut’s Fish Cafe CEO Michael Phillips is a Sacramento native and plans to open several more locations in the region. Ω

Breakside Brewery’s Salted Caramel Stout is an oldie, but goodie. Breakside teamed up with fellow Portland-based company Salt & Straw Ice Cream to brew a dark and creamy, full-bodied stout that’s great for any season. The brewing company added sea salt and caramel before fermentation, which helps lift the sweet aroma of the chocolate malts and adds a slightly salty finish. Pick up a 22-ounce bottle ($7) from Curtis Park Market, pour it over some ice cream and you’ve got yourself the perfect beer float for dessert. www.breakside.com.

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Game for this Lamb Lamb is an underloved meat. Maybe it’s because the animals are so cute when they’re alive, but it’s worth noting they’re not mass-produced like beef or chicken. It’s common to find local, pastureraised lamb from farmers like Emigh Lamb in Dixon and Skyelark Ranch in Brooks. Spring lamb is best cooked simply: a rub of oil, garlic and salt; then a quick sear in the pan or on the grill, leaving it pink and juicy inside. Citrus and fresh herbs make ideal companions as sauces or pestos, as do salty ingredients like Kalamata olives and feta cheese.

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Conceptually fishy By Janelle Bitker

Make Fish Poke & Sushi Burrito

HH 1801 L Street, Suite 70; (916) 476-6731; 9015 Bruceville Road, Suite 100 in Elk Grove; (916) 647-4282; www.makefish.com Dinner for one: $8 - $13 Good for: Asian fusion snacks Notable dishes: pork belly asada fries, spam musubi, soft-shell crab salad

The best way to enjoy Make Fish Poke & Sushi Burrito is to avoid the poke and sushi burritos. Yikes. That sounds harsh, but it’s also a compliment to its snacks, the stuff of Asian fusion, munchie-fueled dreams. The star of the lot is the pork belly asada fries ($8), a massive portion of thin, crispy fries that hold up remarkably to a coating of melted jack and cheddar cheese. Crunchy bell pepper and sweet mango chunks cut through the ooey gooey-ness, while sake-braised pork belly adds a deep savoriness. It’s the sort of thing I’ll crave late at night and only regret a little bit in the morning. For a quicker fix, order the Spam musubi ($2). It’s an excellent rendition of the classic Hawaiian snack, with a hot slice of Spam encased in warm, seasoned rice and nori. Though not quite as satisfying as the pork belly fries, the volcano nachos ($8) similarly excel with a bounty of textures and flavors. Two mounds of spicy tuna crown a heap of fried wonton chips, tossed with edamame, mango, jalapenos and Sriracha. What’s wrong with Make Fish Poke & Sushi Burrito’s namesake dishes? Let’s back up a bit first. Make Fish is the rebranded version of Wrap N’ Roll Sushi Burrito. Same owners. Same sushi burritos. Slightly different concept and slightly higher prices.

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Make Fish took over the Elk Grove location last fall and the Midtown location in February. They both sport minimalist, modern and neutraltoned looks. The biggest change, however, is the introduction of a build-it-yourself poke bar. Diners can check off an unlimited number of toppings and sauces for their made-to-order Hawaiian seafood salads. Want wakame on there? And macadamia nuts? And crab salad? And masago? And cucumbers? And mango? With “five scoops” of fish? Say, salmon and tuna and octopus and shrimp and scallop? All in one? You bet! The result sounds like a bargain, but it doesn’t taste like it. The fish legitimately pales in comparison to Fish Face Poke Bar. On one visit, the tuna was nearly flavorless. The scallop felt slimy and distinctly off. And there was so little of it under that huge mound of freebies. For $12.50, I felt ripped off and hungry. Look at it this way: Fish Face touts its quality proteins, and since you have to pay for every topping, you wind up not adding a whole lot. The fish speaks for itself. At Make Fish, you can add as much other stuff as you want, all distracting from the raw fish beneath. I prefer the preset creations ($9-$12). You can order these over rice, as a sushi burrito or as a kale salad. I know, not everything needs to have kale, but we’ll get to that later. My frustration with the sushi burritos—essentially, giant sushi rolls—carries over from the Wrap N’ Roll days: the fish isn’t great, the nori wrap becomes stringy and textural variance is severely needed. They’re also difficult to eat, completely falling apart once you start approaching the bottom. Now, I was honestly ready to make fun of the kale salad-sushi idea, but I enjoyed the version with crunchy pieces of soft-shell crab, tangy cucumbers, fried wonton strips, avocado, masago and chunks of fake crab over shredded kale. Tossed in a creamy, spicy dressing, it’s a salad that’s fun to eat. And that’s when Make Fish succeeds, when it’s playful—not merely following a trend. Ω

Seder for all I regularly lament the lack of a Jewish restaurant in Sacramento—with the exception of the fabulous though far Bubbie’s Love in Citrus Heights—but for one night, Empress Tavern (1013 K Street) will celebrate Passover with a Seder dinner. The traditional meal usually involves the following: gefilte fish, matzo ball soup, brisket, kugel and tzimmes. Knowing Empress Tavern, the restaurant’s first Seder probably won’t be entirely traditional, but it’s hard to imagine chef Michael Thiemann not serving brisket. There will be some Passover activities, led by Rabbi Mona Alfi of Congregation B’nai Israel, but non-Jewish folks are welcome to attend. Expect a family-style feast, with games and stories and fun. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 24. Tickets cost $65, including tax, service and ceremonial wine. Children under 10 can get in for $45. The event doubles as a benefit for the Mustard Seed School. Grab tickets and learn more at www.eventbrite.com.

—Janelle Bitker

The star of the lot is the pork belly asada fries.

The palm oil problem By Shoka The New York Times recently reported a story about young orangutans being orphaned in Indonesia due to their forests and families burning in a 10,000-squaremile fire. Fires are annual and intentional, set by farmers to clear land for palm oil production. The ubiquitous and versatile oil is found in a multitude of products, including soap (Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day), snacks (Oreos) and vegan processed food (Earth Balance). Consumers can look to see if products are labeled

by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil as certified sustainable palm oil, but if they aren’t, contact the company—many have Twitter accounts, it’ll take less time to send an inquiry than to keep up with the Vaindashians. Besides the orangutans, the World Wildlife Fund says unsustainable palm oil farming destroyed habitat for other endangered species—rhinos, elephants, tigers—and “robbed indigenous people of their land and livelihoods.”

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Passing the peach ChangIng sEason Being a farmer is hard. Third-generation farmer David “Mas” Masumoto knows, and so does his daughter, Nikiko Masumoto. The film Changing Season: On the Masumoto Family Farm documents Nikiko—an author and performance artist—returning to the Masumoto Family Farm to grow organic fruit. “The big picture is to continue to do this, to save the family farm FiLm for another generation.” Catch a screening at KVIE Studios with a Q&A. Free; 5:15 p.m. Monday, April 25, at 2030 West El Camino Avenue; www.event brite.com/e/changing-season-on-the-masumotofamily-farm-screening-event-tickets-22554714759.

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Put a Bernie on it BIrdIE sandErs t-shIrt kICkstartEr Local artist Jet Kimchrea was quite taken with that one time a little bird landed on presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ podium during one of his speeches— so taken, in fact, that he launched a Kickstarter campaign for T-shirts illustrating FUNDRAiSER Bernie’s Disney princess moment. Help a local democratic-socialist out, would you? T-shirt pledges run between $1 to $25 and the campaign ends on May 5. www.kickstarter.com/ projects/543015236/birdie-sanders-t-shirt.

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Choreography of change BrEnda dIxon gottsChILd Brenda Dixon Gottschild, professor emeritus at Temple University, is slated to give a spirited lecture on her experiences with dance and race LECtURE studies. The 90-minute talk will chronicle Gottschild’s storied background including work as a cultural advocate, a dance studies scholar and her early life as a performing artist and choreographer. Free; 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, at UC Davis’ Nelson Hall, 1 Shields Avenue in Davis; http://arts.ucdavis.edu.

—EddIE JorgEnsEn

Eat, Pray, LovE MadE ME do It Scroll through your Instagram or Facebook feed, and there’s no shortage of blissed-out, self- diagnosed “travel addicts” making you simultaneously jealous and annoyed by the perfectly staged photos. These are largely the progeny of Elizabeth Gilbert’s wildly popular memoir Eat, Pray, Love, which was published 10 years ago. The book has proved to have some serious staying power: Last month, Eat, Pray, Love, Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling BOOK RELEASE Memoir, an anthology of nearly 50 readersubmitted stories, was published with an introduction from Gilbert herself (Riverhead Books, $16). Inspired by Gilbert’s trajectory of leaving behind the comfort of a nice home and good job in search of pleasure in Italy (hence the “eat” part), spirituality in India (yep, that’s the “pray” part) and romance in Bali (she married the man who makes up the “love” part), the stories cover a diverse range of self-discovery journeys. Sacramento gets its own slice of the cake on Thursday, April 28, at Time Tested Books with a celebration of the new release led by Sacramento City College professor and writer Jan Haag. She is joined by guest readers Katie McCleary (pictured), Karin Erickson, Deborah Meltvedt and Marie Reynolds. Free; 7 p.m. at 1114 21st Street; (916) 447-5696; http://timetested books.blogspot.com.

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Timing, teamwork, and technology saved my life. Meet Iwan van der Schoor – husband, father, expert skydiver and photographer. Following a hard water landing during a Fourth of July jump, Iwan was taken to a local hospital with ﬁve broken ribs and a life-threatening rupture in his aorta. Once stabilized, doctors rushed him by air ambulance to the level I trauma center at UC Davis – where the trauma team assembled to assist as vascular surgeons performed a minimally invasive aortic repair. Weeks later, with his doctor’s permission – and that of his wife – Iwan is raring to get back in the air.

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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.

Chinglish

This sharp, swift-moving satire tracks a bewildered American businessman in contemporary China, highlighting differences in business practices, language,

“I mean, like, OMG, curiouser and curiouser.”

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland; 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; $15-$20. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. Through May 22.

“You must be mad,” said the cat, “Or you wouldn’t have come here.” Greg Alexander’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, now at the B Street Theatre as part of the Family Series, is billed for those ages 5 and up. They got that right. During a recent performance, the little kids in attendance sat entranced, laughing uproariously at the zany antics on stage. This is not your mother’s Alice, nor is it Lewis Carroll’s. The outrageous frenzy was great for the kids, but wore a bit thin for adults. Here, the beloved fairy tale is turned into a moralistic lesson in 12-step programs, self-help groups and parenting lessons thinly disguised as life in Wonderland. Alice is not a little girl, but a petulant, selfindulgent teenager with lots of food allergies, glued to her cellphone. She speaks in internet-ese and says “OMG!” and “Like! Like! Like!” a lot. When she follows the White Rabbit, she first loses her GPS functionality, then her phone itself, in strange ways peripherally related to Carroll’s story, and has no clue how to survive. Ultimately, this becomes a lesson in realizing she had those skills all along. (I expected someone to invite her to click her heels together.) The weirdness of the script should not take away from the fine acting by the cast, particularly Stephanie Altholz as Alice, who effectively developed the annoyingly accurate screeching inflection of a spoiled teenager, and John Lamb, in several roles, each one fun to watch, particularly the caterpillar. Music composer Noah Agruss, along with playwright Alexander, has written some cute songs, particularly the opening number, which should be familiar to anyone living in the internet age. Ω

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no sacred cows. Th 7pm, F; Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 4/30. $20-$25. Community

Asian Theatre of the Sierra, Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad Street in Nevada City; (530) 273-6362; http://catsweb.org J.H.

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 must-see production.

Th 6:30pm; F 8pm; Sa, Su 2pm and 8pm; W 6:30pm. Through 5/1. $15-$38. Sacramento

West Side Story

This high energy production of the classic latter day Romeo and Juliet story by Leonard Bernstein features a strong cast, outstanding choreography, colorful costumes and a full orchestra under the direction of Dean Mora.

F, Sa 7:30pm; Su 2pm.

Through 5/1. $12-$25. Woodland Opera House, 340 Second Street in Woodland; (530) 666-9617; www.woodlandopera house.org. B.S.

Short reviews by Jim Carnes, Jeff Hudson and Bev Sykes.

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2 FAIR

The Fantasticks

Street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. B.S.

3 4 5 GOOD

WELL-DONE

SUBLIME– DON’T MISS

5 The Who’s Tommy Those familiar with The Who’s 1969 concept album Tommy know the lyrics and storyline are dark, but because the music is so powerful, sometimes it’s easy to forget about poor Tommy’s heartbreaking plight. However, watching the rock opera unfold onstage makes it clear just how disturbing the story is of a young boy who goes deaf, dumb and blind after witnessing a gruesome murder. The current production at Falcon’s Eye Theatre makes the tale of a tormented young boy resonate by bringing together breathtaking production elements, a talented cast and an impressive fourmember band that plays the hell out of the two-hour score with such familiar songs as “Pinball Wizard” and “We’re Not Going to Take It.” Director David Harris not only brings his background to the show (he was part of the original cast in the musical’s 1992 debut production), but also his renowned creative production team, which uses videos, elevating panels, a rotating stage and imaginative lighting and sound to portray London between 1941 and 1963. And then there’s Tommy—the talented 17-year-old Evan Martorana immediately draws the audience into his inner turmoil with his commanding singing, dancing and stage presence. The rest of the cast, including the chorus of student actors, are equally good—with a special recognition of Dominique Dates, who really delivers with her rendition of “Acid Queen.” Catch this production and never hear those familiar songs the same way again. —Patti RobeRts The Who’s Tommy; 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday; $12-$20. Falcon’s Eye Theatre at Folsom Lake College, Stage One, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.harriscenter.net. Through April 23.

“Careful with the biceps.” PHOTO COURTESTy OF SIERRA COLLEGE

Secrets, liquor and lies Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a stormy 1955 classic (seldom staged locally) with everything a sultry Southern drama needs: sex, secrets, liquor and lies. Ahead of its time (and far better than the sanitized Hollywood film) the play depicts a wealthy family with an athletic 30-ish son who’s boozing to obliterate his feelings (apparently romantic) about a former teammate. Homophobia, hot tempers and deception gradually shred the dynasty. $6-$12; 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday at Sierra College, 5000 Rocklin Road in Rocklin; (916) 660-8154; www.sierracollege.edu/events/upcoming/2016/04/ theater-cat.php.

—Jeff Hudson

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Elvis & Nixon Couple of sad emojis right here.

The latest attempt by Amazon Studios to poop in Netflix’s yard, Liza Johnson’s Elvis & Nixon boasts credibility-boosting above-the-line talent in Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey, but it also feels strangely pointless. It concerns the King of Rock’s hazily motivated and unannounced visit to the White House in December 1970, where he met with pre-Watergate, first-term President Richard Nixon, and posed for one of the most baffling and widely reproduced photographs of the twentieth century. Spacey plays Nixon, a still popular but culturally embattled commanderin-chief whose underlings grasp at any opportunity to win over “the youth vote.” But it’s a decidedly supporting role, and the film is even less interested in probing Nixon than it is in probing Elvis (it’s lonely at the top, sad emoji, moving on). Even Shannon’s Elvis plays something of a supporting part to Alex Pettyfer as Elvis’ childhood friend Jerry Schilling, a real-life Memphis Mafia member who Presley collected on his way to the White House. Of course, in order for that sort of switcheroo to work, you better write a compelling character and cast a charismatic actor, and Elvis & Nixon fails miserably on both counts. It doesn’t help that Pettyfer is nearly two decades younger than Shannon and looks three decades younger, but either way we never care whether or not Jerry gets home in time to marry the nice girl. It’s a major roadblock for the film—the only ticking-clock tension and moral agency comes from Jerry—and an obvious tactic to extend a wafer-thin story to feature length.

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To its credit, the film doesn’t try to psychoanalyze Elvis, and it doesn’t try to turn this sociocultural footnote into an all-encompassing commentary on the era. To its shame, the film doesn’t really try to do anything at all, except maybe score some cheap laughs and roll its eyes at Elvis’ wardrobe. But there’s a much bigger problem with Elvis & Nixon, one that dwarfs any concerns about overly precious political commentary or structurally dicey storytelling: Michael Shannon doesn’t look, sound or act anything like Elvis Presley. It’s not exactly a bad performance—Shannon certainly captures Presley’s mix of majesty and need, the way he could command any room, whether the Oval Office or a doughnut shop—but there’s just no getting past Shannon’s craggy face and Midwestern voice. At least he doesn’t make things worse by doing an impression. Whatever the intention, Shannon is so completely not Elvis (in much the same way that he was so completely not General Zod in Man of Steel) that the juxtaposition between actor and role is potentially fascinating. In the shoddy and self-satisfied Elvis & Nixon, though, it just comes off as shallow and ridiculous, and it’s hard to fathom why anyone committed to this tinfoil trifle. The film’s lowbrow sensibility and low-grade production values betray any artistic pretensions beyond nostalgic kitsch, and much of Elvis & Nixon plays like an extended rehearsal for a Saturday Night Live skit that never made it to air. Ω

It’s hard to fathom why anyone committed to this tinfoil trifle.

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4/24 â&#x20AC;˘ SAC INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL:

Barbershop: The Next Cut

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BY DANIEL BARNES & JIM LANE

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Hardcore Henry

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technical songwriting and Do contributing her classical background and lush vocals that seem to stretch on forever. Within a couple of years, Genuis grew to become a favorite underground act in Davis. The Davis love continues today, even though neither Do nor Leedom live in the college town. Do resides in San Francisco while Leedom calls Sacramento home, though he’s planning a move to Austin, Texas, this summer. It won’t impede their musicGenuis likes “fprests.” making too much, though, as Vtruea was primarily a result of digital collaboration. Already, Genuis is thinking ahead to its next record. Do hopes it’ll be truly The duo is called Genuis, and no, that’s not a typo. representative of the sound Genuis wants to create, It’s pronounced like genius. Or genuous. Or with just the right blend of samples and synthesizer. take a softer, more French-sounding approach: Less reverb and delay than its debut .//WAV, yet more “zhahn-wah.” gritty than Vtruea. Genuis does not have anything particular in mind. “I feel like [Vtruea] was the growing pains “We admire geniuses but we couldn’t spell it album—almost there, but not quite,” she says. right,” says Anthony Leedom, half of Genuis. If you look up Genuis online—after telling Ha ha, very funny. But that doesn’t explain why Genuis released an album in December called Vtruea. Google that you were, indeed, searching for “Genuis” and not “Genius”—you’ll probably find Or why some of its song titles almost resemble real alternative identities for Do and Leemon: elfboi words, like “Wprds” or “Orphilian.” and &nthony, respectively. For Do, the “You know how some people have nickname is an act of reclamation. synesthesia, when they hear a sound When she was 12, kids made fun they see a color? I have that with word of her for looking like a boy. One “If you pick patterns,” says Lien Do, the second day, a mosquito bit her ear, and half of Genuis. a word in the “elf” got thrown into the tauntEver since she was young, Do dictionary, it’s been ing mix. would make up words based on a At live shows, she doesn’t done before.” visual pattern or a feeling, rather necessarily introduce herself as than a definition. She carried this Anthony Leedom elfboi, but she does take on a over to Genuis. songwriter, Genuis different persona. “It fits the music too, because “Music and real life are sepayou can’t really describe it in words,” rate,” she says. “If I bring my anxiety Leedom says. “You just kind of make up and neuroticism to the stage, I’ll never be stuff for how it sounds.” able to perform.” True. Here’s an attempt: Genuis creates rich For Leedom, &nthony doesn’t hold as significant electronica that’s ethereal and experimental. Its a meaning. It’s just for fun—another distinction that older songs veer toward dark, ambient soundscapes adds to the unique world of Genuis. As he says: “If drenched in reverb, while newer stuff feels more you pick a word in the dictionary, it’s been done clean, textured and precise. before.” Ω Do and Leedom met in 2009, down in the basement offices of UC Davis’ free-form radio station KDVS. They clicked immediately as friends: two shy, sort of dorky music lovers, working separately on bedroom electronic projects. Eventually, they merged efforts, with Leedom taking on most of the

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Catch Genuis at 7 p.m. Sunday, april 24, at third Space art Collective, 916 olive Drive in Davis. the cover is $5. More at www.facebook.com/ thisisgenuis.

Beginning and end Congratulations: The room is filling up well before the designated 8 p.m. start time. I think, surely, Sacramento came out in droves for homegirls Terra Lopez and Dani Fernandez of Sister Crayon, who haven’t played in town in months. Then I realize Harlow’s is packed with stoic white dudes. Ah, Built to Spill fans. That shouldn’t have come as a surprise, I guess, considering Built to Spill is the headliner. And tickets are $35. Still, Lopez and Fernandez treat the sold-out house like it belongs to them. Lopez scours the entire stage, thrashing around and dropping to her knees. Fernandez rages on the drum pad. Hair flies in all directions as they engage in their signature headbangs. Too bad the bodies hogging the front of the stage are standing so stiffly. Lopez sings into their faces with the fiercest of eyes, pulling their heads closer. She begs people to move—just a little bit—but people are stubborn. I feel a shift in the room, though, once Sister Crayon launches into “To Show You Violence.” In the song’s quieter moments, Lopez’s pained vulnerability shines, and it’s powerful. Crowd favorite “Ride|Die” sees Lopez filling the room with her impressive vocal range practically mic-less. The high gets higher. “Thank you if you’ve ever fucking come to a show,” Lopez says, beginning a long, gratitude-filled list. Then, she announces Sister Crayon is signing with Warner Bros. Records—and that they wanted

to tell Sacramento first. Fan or not, everyone in Harlow’s seems to swell with pride and explode in applause. “We’re gonna fucking rep Sac,” Lopez says, beaming. This is just the beginning. —Janelle Bitker jan elleb@ n ew s r ev i ew . com

Rest in peace: What’s G. Green’s legacy? G.Green emerged organically seven years ago in a small friends circle that by proxy formed a community, a scene maybe. Its members shared housing, sweat, beers and bills with friends that found international notoriety, like Ganglians and Death Grips. In the demise and

disillusion of those bands, G. Green kept the torch lit. But that’s not its legacy. Was G. Green ever a local darling? That would require the rewriting of history. G. Green’s legacy was to exist in the margins. In its early years, the margins meant the perpetual opening band. Post-Area Codes, G. Green was a secret weapon. Despite seven years of itching and scratching for local infamy, Sacramento never let G.Green shed that larva state. The mood at the living wake at Red Museum last weekend suggested that G. Green changed nothing. The warehouse was not rabid with die-hards down to give their sweat and lose their voice one final time. A man resembling the last living hesher stood front and center as the only one who seemed to understand how performance funerals work. G. Green founder Andrew Henderson respectfully toasted to his passion and dance moves. Who shows up to a wake to be seen? Who steps out for a cigarette during a eulogy? Screature, built for weird funerals, paid tribute with a “Black Walls” cover. The song’s tortuous bass line and caterwaul of noise riffs translated in a manner that felt like G.Green wrote it with Screature on the brain. Did G. Green leave a will? If so, I hope it bequeaths “Black Walls” to its goth punk friend. The room was solemn, but the six feet of space occupied by G. Green was a brave and reckless duel with death. It closed with “Your House” and the whole thing almost ended quick and painlessly. Christopher Orr of Screature rallied an encore chant that led to the performance equivalent of a viking funeral. “TV Coast” bled into “Black Walls.” A noise session broke out with Henderson shouting from the floor while his guitar screeched feedback, while Morales let anyone in arms length play his solo. It was the closest I’ve come to witnessing a blaze of glory. G. Green always deserved better. For now, keep the records in stock. Some day a young, troubled boy or girl will glance at the Area Codes track listing, see “Brain Fuck,” “Sex Pt. II” and “Drugs,” and find a little taste of salvation.

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It’s seems all but impossible to be a rock band nowadays and not harken back to the ’60s and/or ’70s. Locals Mondo Deco are steeped in ’70s glam rock and power pop, while Honyock play a roots rock ’n’ roll hybrid that brings to mind Tom Petty and the Band. Both of these bands bring newer elements to their music, but they decided to show off their love for Rock the glory days of rock with a splitcassette release. They’ve recorded the tracks on an analog tape deck in a garage. The hiss and pops are deliberate, and to be enjoyed in all their nostalgic glory. 1901 10th Street, http://mondodecomusic. com, www.facebook.com/Honyockband.

She’s not just a girl with an acoustic guitar anymore. Sacramento native and perpetually touring musician Xochitl (pronounced “so-chee”) grows with every album, and surely her new EP What I’ve Become will SINgeR-SoNgwRITeR be no different. In the past, Xochitl was known for charming pop songs with witty lyrics. With her last EP, Lion Heart, she explored a deeper tone to her voice. And with What I’ve Become, she promises songs that feel more personal and honest. At the record release show, she’ll have a full band and local singer-songwriter Emily Kollars in the opening slot. 2708 J Street, www.xochitlofficial.net.

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tOrCH Club, 2 p.m., $10-$12

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The historic and family-owned Torch Club, prepares for a huge event that promises a dozen bands, $3 Olympia beers and an appearance by the Nacho ALT-coUNTRY Food Truck. The first annual Neck Fest is an all-day affair that welcomes a variety of alt-country and rock bands throughout the day and well into the evening. Performances include: 50-Watt Heavy, the Nickel Slots, Million Dollar Giveaway, the Ghost Town Rebellion, Pine Street Ramblers and more. With altcountry and rock in full swing, cheap beer flowing and nachos making an appearance, patrons may never leave. 904 15th Street, www.torchclub.net.

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The legend of the Beatles looms impossibly large, and even more so when you’re reminded that their seemingly innumerable hits were put out within a span of about six years. Local musicians take up an annual celebration of the Beatles’ catalog by year, and this go-round will feature songs from 1966; this was the year Revolver came out and the band played its last show at Candlestick Park, so think “Eleanor Rigby,” “Here, There and Everywhere,” and “Got to Get You Into My Life,” to name just TRIBUTe a few. Adrian Bourgeouis, Jonah Matranga, Lauren Wakefield and Mondo Deco, among others, will be paying tribute. 2708 J Street, www.harlows.com.

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Comparisons of duo Slingshot Dakota to Mates of State are certainly in order; the pair has all the same ingredients as the ’90s indie darlings: loosely stitched, driving INDIE keyboards with rock ’n’ roll drumming, male-female vocal harmonies and lots of lovesick lyrics punctuated with earworm melodies. Yet Slingshot Dakota’s version is louder, faster and more unhinged. One fan described it as the “happiest live band in existence.” That might have been true in the early years, but on the newest album, Break, it dives into a more contemplative, sloweddown sound. 3520 Stockton Boulevard, www.facebook.com/slingshotdakota.

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Arguably one of the best stoner-metal acts still currently headlining the dive-bar circuit, this quartet has been dealing out some super stonerific fare, showcasing a group that can dish up some musical main courses on par STONER METAL with brethren Kyuss and Sleep. Although different and far more bombastic than the aforementioned acts, these East Bay musicians often blow away the headliners wherever they roam. This Sunday’s show features a rare chance to see ’em play longer and, more importantly, destroy everything in their path in a greenfilled haze. 1517 21st Street, http://saviours. bigcartel.com.

Fifty-four-year-old Clint Black has been putting out records since 1989. The multiinstrumentalist modeled his early career after greats like the late Merle Haggard and George Jones, and while many know him as the husband of actress Lisa Hartman (the couple married quietly in 1991) and for succumbing to label demands when commercial country was king, he returned in 2004 with his own COUNTRY label, appropriately dubbed Equity Music Group, and reclaimed his rightful place on the throne. Don’t miss this chance to see a country great who never really went away. 242 East Main Street in Stockton, www.clintblack.com.

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strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take,” said philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Measured by that standard, your strength of spirit has been growing—and may be poised to reach an all-time high. In my estimation, you now have an unusually expansive capacity to hold surprising, effervescent, catalytic truths. Do you dare invite all these insights and revelations to come pouring toward you? I hope so. I’ll be cheering you on, praying for you to be brave enough to ask for as much as you can possibly accommodate.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Göbekli Tepe was

a monumental religious sanctuary built 11,600 years ago in the place we now call Turkey. Modern archaeologists are confounded by the skill and artistry with which its massive stone pillars were arranged and carved. According to conventional wisdom, humans of that era were primitive nomads who hunted animals and foraged for plants. So it’s hard to understand how they could have constructed such an impressive structure 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid of Giza. Writing in National Geographic, science journalist Charles C. Mann said, “Discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Göbekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife.” In that spirit, Cancerian, I make the following prediction: In the coming months, you can accomplish a marvel that may have seemed beyond your capacity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In myths and folklore, the

ember is a symbol of coiled-up power. The fire within it is controlled. It provides warmth and glow even as its raw force is contained. There are no unruly flames. How much energy is stored within? It’s a reservoir of untapped light, a promise of verve and radiance. Now please ruminate further about the ember, Leo. According to my reading of the astrological omens, it’s your core motif right now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Uh-oh. Or maybe I

should instead say “Hooray!” You are slipping into the Raw, Hearty, Vivid, Untamed Phase of your astrological cycle. The universe is nudging you in the direction of high adventure, sweet intensity and rigorous stimulation. If you choose to resist the nudges, odds are that you’ll have more of an “uh-oh” experience. If you decide to play along, “Hooray!” is the likely outcome. To help you get in the proper mood, make the following declaration: “I like to think that my bones are made from oak, my blood from a waterfall, and my heart from wild daisies.” (That’s a quote from the poet McKenzie Stauffer.)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In many cultures,

the butterfly is a symbol of transformation and rebirth. In its original state as a caterpillar, it is homely and slow-moving. After its resurrection time in the chrysalis, it becomes a lithe and lovely creature capable of flight. The mythic meaning of

the moth is quite different, however. Enchanted by the flame, it’s driven so strongly toward the light that it risks burning its wings. So it’s a symbol of intense longing that may go too far. In the coming weeks, Libra, your life could turn either way. You may even vacillate between being moth-like and butterfly-like. For best results, set an intention. What exactly do you want?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I gladly abandon

dreary tasks, rational scruples, reactive undertakings imposed by the world,” wrote Scorpio philosopher Roland Barthes. Why did he do this? For the sake of love, he said—even though he knew it might cause him to act like a lunatic as it freed up tremendous energy. Would you consider pursuing a course like that in the coming weeks, Scorpio? In my astrological opinion, you have earned some time off from the grind. You need a break from the numbing procession of the usual daily rhythms. Is there any captivating person, animal, adventure, or idea that might so thoroughly incite your imagination that you’d be open to acting like a lunatic lover with boundless vigor?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Difficulties

illuminate existence,” says novelist Tom Robbins, “but they must be fresh and of high quality.” Your assignment, Sagittarius, is to go out in search of the freshest and highest-quality difficulties you can track down. You’re slipping into a magical phase of your astrological cycle when you will have exceptional skill at rounding up useful dilemmas and exciting riddles. Please take full advantage! Welcome this rich opportunity to outgrow and escape boring old problems.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “When I grow

up, I want to be a little boy,” wrote novelist Joseph Heller in his book Something Happened. You have cosmic permission to make a comparable declaration in the coming days. In fact, you have a poetic license and a spiritual mandate to utter battle cries like that as often as the mood strikes. Feel free to embellish and improvise, as well: “When I grow up, I want to be a riot grrrl with a big brash attitude,” for example, or “When I grow up, I want to be a beautiful playful monster with lots of toys and fascinating friends who constantly amaze me.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In one of his

diaries, author Franz Kafka made this declaration: “Life’s splendor forever lies in wait around each one of us in all of its fullness—but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.” I’m bringing this promise to your attention, Aquarius, because you have more power than usual to call forth a command performance of life’s hidden splendor. You can coax it to the surface and bid it to spill over into your daily rhythm. For best results, be magnificent as you invoke the magnificence.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’ve got a

controversial message for you, Pisces. If you’re addicted to your problems or if you’re convinced that cynicism is a supreme mark of intelligence, what I’ll say may be offensive. Nevertheless, it’s my duty as your oracle to inform you of the cosmic tendencies, and so I will proceed. For the sake of your mental health and the future of your relationship with love, consider the possibility that the following counsel from French author André Gide is just what you need to hear right now: “Know that joy is rarer, more difficult and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.”

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Emotions, inked In 2007, local comic-book artist James Burton was diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma. Now in remission, Burton is using that experience to fuel and inspire his stories. By day, Burton works at Pride Industries, but together with co-creator James D. Schumacher III, is working on a comic series called Inheritance. The comic has sold out at the last three Sac-Cons, with a nine-issue series in the works. The first issue, Inheritance: Binding of Three, Part 1, saw a release through Outpouring Comics on April 15. Burton, also an illustration intern for SN&R back in 1996, got heavy with us about the supernatural, cancer and, well, nudity and motorcycles.

Where did the idea for Inheritance come from? My co-creator’s family has kind of like a supernatural family background, where his mom was a writer and whatnot. When she died, there were a bunch of conversations between he and she, and a lot of the story comes from that interaction between the two of them.

How did you meet James? [Schumacher] and I met right after I got in remission. He had put a thing up on Craigslist about storyboarding and we worked on a couple of projects in Nevada on an independent film.

What’s the basic story of Inheritance? Inheritance is about a family dealing with a curse from their great-great-grandfather across multiple generations. He’s basically trying to extinguish them for disobeying him. And so there’s two generations trying to deal with that curse. … Part of the story, the main character is dealing with the fact that he’s put his mom in a mental institution and she’s dying of chemo, as all this stuff is going on. We’re bringing in aspects of my experience along with it, where I’m the one showing what it’s like to be in chemotherapy.

Why are comics a good medium for a story like this? Well, we’re not limited by anything but busting our ass. Which we have to do, comics is a labor intensive process. But that’s our limit. We don’t have to worry about special effects budgets, we just have to worry about how much work it’s

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going to take once we figure out how to do it. And that’s it. The rest of it just comes down to us.

that ever made sense to me, was making stories and honestly drawing them out. It was the center of my chaos, for me.

How long does it take you to draw and ink an issue?

What’s your favorite comic-book based movie?

Inheritance is extremely labor intensive, and I’m doing all the visuals myself, except for the lettering, so I wouldn’t use it as the best example. To give you an idea of what it normally takes, it usually takes about eight hours to pencil a page, it takes about eight hours to ink a page and then it takes about eight hours to color a page. So each person takes about a day. Because I’m doing it, I can use certain techniques to shore up some of that time.

Even though I love the stuff that Marvel’s doing now—it’s not Iron Man or Captain America or any of that other stuff. My favorites [are] still the original Crow and the original Turtles movie.

How did you get involved in making comics? I wanted to do comics since I was like 8 years old; I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. My dad got me started into it, he worked in another town and one day he just dropped off this chalkboard for me before he left Sunday night and said “Draw me naked ladies and motorcycles,” because he was an old-school biker. And so pretty much from then on I’ve just been spending all my time drawing. … It connected with who I was and it connected with me wanting to do something for him ... as far as the comics, I just kind of grew up as a storyteller, it was my niche, it was the only thing

What do you hope people take away most from Inheritance? People lose something as they’re growing up. They lose the belief that things are going to be OK. The news media and how we treat each other strips that away from us. One of the points of Inheritance is for people to understand that yeah, the horrible crap is going to happen, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t survive it. And that doesn’t mean you can’t find a way to get through it. For me, that’s a big part of anything that I do. Anything that somebody reads or gets out of my work, it should always be that there’s always going to be a way to make it through the darkness no matter how dark it gets. Ω

Learn more about James Burton at www.angrybrainartworks.com.

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