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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 Associate Editor Raheem F. Hosseini Arts & Culture Editor Janelle Bitker Assistant Editor Anthony Siino Editorial Coordinator Becca Costello Contributors Daniel Barnes, Ngaio Bealum, Alastair Bland, Rob Brezsny, Aaron Carnes, 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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Severe injustice Last week, Brock Allen Turner, 20, was sentenced to six months in jail following his conviction for raping an unconscious woman at Stanford University. Judge Aaron Perskey justified the sentence by noting Turner’s lack of a previous record. Prison would have a “severe impact” on him, Persky said. The judge wasn’t alone in his outlook. Even as outrage followed, it became clear there’s still mass ignorance about sexual assault. Take Dan Turner. Brock Turner’s father complained in a letter that the verdict had “shattered” his family, calling it a “steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action.” Or the letter from Leslie Rasmussen, a friend who described the rape as a “big misunderstanding,” noting the victim’s intoxicated state: “Where do we draw the line and stop worrying about being politically correct every second of the day and see that rape on campuses isn’t always because people are rapists.” And Scott Herhold, the San Jose Mercury News columnist who called the sentence appropriate, in part because “for the rest of his life, Turner will have to register as a convicted sex offender. That effectively closes many career avenues.” Such viewpoints are a disheartening reminder that rape culture is very real. That said, the most important voice in this belongs to the victim. In a letter to the court, she explained what Turner’s supporters get horribly wrong. “We cannot forgive everyone’s first sexual assault. … The seriousness of rape has to be communicated clearly,” she wrote. “We should not create a culture that suggests we learn that rape is wrong through trial and error.”

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Do the hot math Two is better than one Re “Fighting for double duty” by Patrick Groves (SN&R News, June 2): Let me present you the cold, hard facts: Private ambulance 911 service is being squeezed and they’re looking to cut corners at all costs! AMR is one of the few capitalized firms who can provide a service; however, it comes at a cost. Their employees start with salaries between $40 and $60K per year, with few benefits. That’s for fulltime employees. They hire lots of part-time employees too! After five years the employees are broken, burned out and have no lasting connection to their communities. Well, after sitting in an ambulance on a street corner for 2,000 hours a year, with an ambulance without A/C—what do you expect? Employees are constantly being hired and the skills of a paramedic take years to develop. With MediCal paying $110 a transport, Medicare $400 and private insurance $800 a transport, the privates will slap a patient with a $2,500 bill. Oh, and since your insurance doesn’t pay the full amount, you’re forced to pay the balance under “balance billing.” This is great news if you have a high deductible Affordable Care Act plan. In fact, the private ambulance firms are so squeezed they want to increase your response times for an ambulance in order to save costs. Oh, and they’re looking for public entities to subsidize them, too! Their next revenue-seeking opportunity is community paramedicine. So, is that really cheaper than our reliable, professional firefighters at SFD? Oh, and the single-function fire ambulance model isn’t working too well in San Francisco. I hear the employees are run ragged, kept out of the firehouses, and treated like second-class citizens. The opportunity to become a firefighter there is nothing but a smoke-and-mirrors show! Keep the dual-function firefighter medic model! Better training, more versatile and a careerperforming job.

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Re “Fighting for double duty” by Patrick Groves (SN&R News, June 2): What the author fails to provide are hard facts. Sac Metro Fire has the same call volume as the Sac Fire Department does. They run out of 42 fire stations as compared to 24 for the city. Their daily staffing with three on a company is greater than the city because they staff more engines to do the same job. Roseville Fire has nine fire stations covering a population of 120,000 people. You can compare that to the Natomas area of Sacramento, which has the same population and only has three fire stations. The population increases daily in Sacramento by 100,000 people who work, but do not live in Sacramento. Sacramento is an urban city. All the comparables in the area are suburban cities. Craig Wiedenhoeft Sacramento

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Locks and chains Bait-bike arrests brought Sacramento the red-meat justice people demanded—but who do they really target? by Dave Kempa

Graying and tall, hands clasped in front and gaze to the floor, Randy Malone stood behind bars in a courthouse holding cell, awaiting the judge’s decision. Due to a strike from a felony conviction two decades earlier, he was likely to serve double the maximum sentence. It was Friday, May 27, the morning before a three-day weekend. Malone was looking at three years behind bars. The crime? He’d stolen a bicycle left out as bait by the Sacramento Police Department. Since its September 2013 inception, Sacramento’s bait-bike program has been lauded by police and bicycle 8 | SN&R | 06.09.16

advocates alike. But recent efforts to bring the program to south Sacramento have raised questions over its effects on impoverished residents. Critics are also concerned about Sac PD’s use of social media to highlight arrests, while new data analyzed by SN&R suggests the program isn’t targeting hardened criminals, but the city’s addicted and indigent. Last January, the Sacramento Police Department announced it would be expanding the “bait bike” program—an initiative in which officers leave bicycles with tracking sensors around the city to trap potential thieves—to south

Sacramento’s Florin Road and Mack Road corridors. The community immediately pushed back. Would this program, which charges suspects with felonies for stealing police bicycles priced at more than $950, target their teenage sons and daughters? Did it disproportionately target people of color? “Why aren’t you giving money to give kids bikes instead of giving money to get these kids to steal bikes?” asked Berry Accius, a south Sacramento resident and founder of the Voices of the Youth mentorship program. It was one of the biggest hiccups for the police department’s popular bait-bike

program, which started almost three years earlier in response to a growing problem. According to data compiled by the California Department of Justice, reported bike thefts hit a 21-year high in the city of Sacramento in 2013. A frustrated public came to view the police as part of the problem—uninterested in solving crimes that meant a lot to the victims but ranked as low priorities for a police force enduring budget troubles and hiring freezes. Flash-forward a few years and the bait-bike program is racking up arrests that law enforcement publicizes on social media. State DOJ records showed bicycle thefts in Sacramento County dropped in 2014 for the first time in six years—to 1,419, down 12 percent from 2013. In the city of Sacramento, they dropped to a three-year low of 727. But these figures are difficult to judge. Bike theft numbers rely on victims reporting the crime—something both law enforcement officials and bicycle advocates encourage while simultaneously fighting to reduce the incidence of theft. There’s also emerging concern that baiting

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comments, including: “A black person increase access to bikes and improve the stealing something? That’s unusual!” bicycle infrastructure are more pressing Abbot of the Mack Road Partnership issues for many residents than putting bike believes the community bait-bike forum thieves away for felonies. ameliorated the concerns of south For her part, Abbott says that the Mack Sacramento residents, then added, “The Road Partnership has joined with Kaiser decision was made to hold [off implementPermanente and Dean Alleger of Orange ing the program] for a little while.” Cat Racing to provide residents with fix-it Many have been under the impression clinics and bicycle safety education. after the forum that the program would not move to their neighborhood. But with no as for the bike thieves, community formal message from the police, people members wonder if Sacramento authorities have been uneasy. are treating the symptom rather than “People are still in that the illness. scared factor: Are the bikes “The police are saying there, or are the bikes most of them are addicts,” “We don’t need to not?” said Accius. said Person. “If that’s “If they lied to the case, why don’t we give them felonies. us, then we need to get them help rather We need to know,” said Person. than send them to give them help.” According to prison?” Sacramento PD, When asked Berry Accius the program is still what portion of the south Sacramento resident a go. “There are region’s bait-bike and youth mentor plans to expand the arrests include homeless program to the south residents or addicts, area of Sacramento,” said Heinlein said, “There’s no Heinlein, “but those details way I can accurately answer are still being worked out.” this question.” Mapping of recent bait-bike activity Court records of 28 bait-bike suspects suggests a move to south Sacramento may named on police social media and already be underway. activity logs in 2016 revealed that 17 A May 28 entry in the Sacramento arrestees (61 percent) had possession-ofPolice Activity Log shows a bait-bike methamphetamine charges in their court arrest near the corner of Fruitridge Road history. Ten of the 28 (36 percent) had and Freeport Boulevard, and May 27 multiple arrests for possession of meth. records show bait-bike activity on the 200 Court records also show that four baitblock of Florin. bike suspects faced prior fines for violation Sacramento Alliance of Bicycle of the city’s anti-camping ordinance, Advocates Executive Director Jim Brown suggesting that they had recently struggled has long considered the bait-bike program a with homelessness. Another three were useful addition to a multipronged approach listed as “transient” in county arrest records. to deterring bike theft that includes Randy Malone had both meth charges increased access to quality bike racks and and an anti-camping ordinance violation in reliable locks, as well as education on effec- his court records. tive locking techniques. “There are people out here who have But when he attended the Mack addictions, people out here that don’t Road bait-bike forum last April, Brown have jobs, who don’t have a way out. saw value in the concerns of the area’s They’re frustrated,” said Accius. “We residents. There are few bike racks in don’t need to give them felonies. We need the neighborhoods, and fewer bike shops to give them help.” where residents could obtain reliable On the day of his sentencing, Malone U-locks or heavy-duty chains. was given another chance. His public “There aren’t even bike lanes on Mack defender had convinced the judge that if he Road,” said Brown. “There are bigger were given a place in the Salvation Army needs here.” Adult Rehabilitation Program, he could Accius agrees, saying that if the Mack turn things around and eventually get that Road community had more opportunities trucking job he’d been studying for. He was to express its needs and concerns with the sentenced to five years probation. city beforehand, there might be a higher As he turned to leave, the judge probability of buy-in. addressed Malone. “Good luck,” he said, “I In a region where bicycles are often the expect to hear good things from you.” Ω primary source of transportation, efforts to

sn&r’s legal battle with mayor kevin Johnson over whether the city should release his National Conference of Black Mayors-related emails was postponed on June 2, when the judge issued a motion to request an “in-camera” review of of the remaining contested emails and attachments. The mayor’s lawyers at Ballard Spahr LLP were ordered to produce the documents so that Judge Christopher Krueger may review them in private prior to the hearing, rescheduled for July 8. It’s the latest chapter in a story that stretches back more than a year. Just one day before the last scheduled hearing, in April, Krueger issued a statement declaring that both sides had failed to make their cases about whether the remaining contested 158 emails and attachments (out of the original 400-plus documents) should remain private. The judge ordered both parties to further “meet and confer” on whether certain emails are protected. SN&R’s lawyers did so; meanwhile, Johnson’s lawyers revised the privilege log to indicate that several of the emails had been forwarded to Ballard Spahr attorneys—and were thus protected. In the same statement, Johnson’s lawyers also marked 13 contested emails as exempt from client-attorney privilege. Those documents, available to read on SN&R’s Page Burner blog, largely contain meeting minutes and documentation in the 2013 lawsuit that Johnson and the NCBM’s Special Task Force of the Board of Directors filed against Executive Director Vanessa Williams and East Orange, N.J., Mayor Bob Bowser. There is some evidence, however, of early internal discord over Johnson’s role with the NCBM, including an exchange in which Bowser complains that Johnson has blown him off: “For the record, I tried to call Kevin and speak with him several times and he would not return my call.” (Rachel Leibrock)

CoPPinG a dEal Last month’s graduation wardrobe malfunction involving the black teen evicted from his ceremony for wearing a traditional African garment drew tons of bad Pr for the Elk Grove Unified School District (which ordered the removal) and Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department (which facilitated it). But it hasn’t altered the two groups’ long-standing arrangement. On June 8, county supervisors were slated to extend a contract that allows the department to loan out 10 deputies and a lieutenant as school resource officers assigned to district schools for another year. The $2.9 million contract has grown to include additional schools and more officers since Elk Grove’s 2001 incorporation. Meanwhile, the official Sacramento chapter of Black Lives Matter has asked the district to discontinue the practice of putting cops in school settings and wants Cosumnes Oaks High School to apologize for kicking out graduated senior Nyree Holmes, 18, who refused a teacher’s orders to remove the kente cloth that originated in what is now Ghana. The group also wants the district to update the dress code policies that led to the initial confrontation, May 24, inside of Sleep Train Arena. District spokeswoman Xanthi Pinkerton said the district’s secondary education division set a June 13 meeting with BLM Sacramento and other parties to discuss updates to the dress code policy for middle and high schools. But the group’s demand to revisit cops in classrooms was not on the table. “That isn’t what the meeting will be focused on,” said Pinkerton, who noted that the district had renamed the division that covers campus officers—from the “police services” to “security and safety” division. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

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“The safety of our students is paramount to More than two dozen schools in Sacramento the work that we do here,” he told SN&R. County may have unsafe drinking water flowing None of the district’s schools have water from their taps, according to a recent study. contamination issues at this time, Pierce said. That study, however, may be flawed. Following the 2006 violation, the district applied Titled “Are We Providing Our School Kids Safe for a facility hardship grant from the Office of Drinking Water? An Analysis of California Schools Public School of Construction to help pay for a Impacted by Unsafe Drinking Water,” the report’s treatment facility, to decrease the arsenic levels in authors—the Community Water Center and the the school’s well water supply. It cost the district Environmental Justice Coalition of Water—used $91,021 to pay for bottled drinking water for four environmental mapping data to examine schools years before it acquired the grant to pay for half of that exceeded maximum contaminant levels as the treatment facility, which cost $732,882 in total. determined by the California State Water Resources When the district first discovered how expenControl Board. Some schools were connected to sive the facility was, officials briefly considered both public water systems and well water systems. sticking with the bottled water approach, Pierce The water’s two most common pollutants were acknowledged. bacteria and arsenic, the latter of which can cause “I’m all for the state putting policies and stomach pain, cancer, high blood pressure procedures in place to make drinking and cognitive delays in children, water safer for our students, but among other conditions. when the state gives us a new In the Sacramento region, requirement to live up to and the study found 22 schools “The safety of our absolutely no money to in the Elk Grove Unified students is paramount to accomplish that, it is diffiand five schools in the Galt cult,” he said. “There needs Union school districts with the work that we do here.” to be funding and resources possible traces of arsenic in Robert Pierce to pay for these mandates.” their water. associate superintendent of Officials at Galt Union Robert Pierce, the associfacilities and planning, School District didn’t respond ate superintendent of facilities Elk Grove Unified School District to requests for comment. and planning at Elk Grove The Central Valley had the Unified School District, said greatest number of schools with he was only aware of past water potentially unsafe drinking water, violations at one school—Franklin according to the study, which indicated that Elementary School. as many as 1,600 public schools in California may And he could be right. have water contamination issues. One of the report’s lead contributors, Jenny Children and pregnant women are particularly Rempel of the Community Water Center, a grassvulnerable to arsenic exposure. roots nonprofit located in the San Joaquin Valley, The Environmental Justice Coalition of Water, acknowledged the study’s limitations, saying it was which co-authored the study, is a statewide advobased on incomplete and sometimes inconsistent cacy group focused on water access for low-income tracking data from the state water board. people and communities of color. “Neither state nor local jurisdictions are Rempel said the study was based on spatial maintaining records of local water system analysis data provided by the state. Namely, providers, so there really is a lot that isn’t being “shapefiles”—a mapping format that depicts monitored at the state level,” she said. topographical features like water wells and bodies Franklin Elementary experienced water of water. But Rempel said it was possible that water violations in 2006, when, according to Pierce, systems might not always be accurately depicted. the state revised its water toxicity from the federal level of 10 parts per billion to 4 parts per These shapefiles, she said, “definitely have some inaccuracies.” billion. Violations again surfaced in 2009, 2010, Some schools also fell under overlapping 2011 and 2012, but the school was supplying geographic boundaries with two or more water bottled water to every student during that time, systems, she said. Ω Pierce said.

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When the city’s planning and design commission last month approved Yamanee, a proposed 15-story mixed-use condo building at the corner of 25th and J streets, it would have been safe to assume the battle over the controversial building wasn’t over. Indeed, local preservationists like William Burg and Karen Jacques have spent months opposing Yamanee, which would peak at roughly 171 feet. The 2035 general plan limits Midtown buildings to 78 feet, though the commission can permit deviations if it believes a project provides greater community benefit. The commission voted 9-2 on May 12 to approve Yamanee, with Burg filing an appeal five days later. The Sacramento City Council will hear the appeal on June 14. While Yamanee doesn’t amend the general plan, Jacques and Burg contend that it essentially invalidates it by setting a precedent for developers to opt out. “This decision sets no limit for how far developers can ask to go outside the general plan,” Burg said. He asserted that developer Ryan Heater is building in Midtown to skirt fees associated with downtown or the railyards. Heater told SN&R this is inaccurate and that he’ll be paying $800,000 in park fees alone. Heater said Yamanee works in Midtown because his residents will want to walk to stores and restaurants. He’d like to begin construction next spring or summer. “I think that it’s people’s right to appeal to the city council, and I look forward to presenting our case,” Heater added. Teresa Haenggi, an associate planner for the city’s Community Development Department, said Burg has voiced concerns to her department over the fees. “We don’t see the connection between building a high-rise in [Midtown] and avoiding downtown fees,” she added, since those fees represent a small part of overall costs. Stacia Cosgrove, a principal planner for the department, called Yamanee “pretty dynamic” and told SN&R, “I hope that it creates more of a precedent for people wanting to build residential in general in the central city.” The department recommended that planning and design approve Yamanee. It will recommend city council do likewise next week. Heater said he’s met in person with every council member and is hopeful that he has the votes he needs. If city council denies Burg’s appeal, Yamanee opponents will have 30 days to sue under the California Environmental Quality Act. Chris Butcher, an associate at Thomas Law Group, said CEQA lawsuits generally require a year for the trial followed by three years of appeals. He said CEQA “does not automatically prohibit a project moving forward during litigation.” Burg declined to comment when asked if he’d spoken to attorneys. Jacques said her group would “have to look at all options.” Ω

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La Garnacha isin semi-notorious Midtown for the drunken late-night activity that sometimes takes place at the outdoor-seating-only, 24/7 taqueria. Yet, tonight feels different. There are about 50 people quietly hanging out, and they don’t seem particularly interested in their burritos, nachos and carne asada fries. That’s because something that isn’t supposed to happen is about to happen. They’re young, mostly black and slouching in chairs with a sense of purpose. The vibe is electric, like a protest, on this chilly Monday evening in January 2014. When the clock strikes 8:08 p.m., a slender, scruffy and slightly hunched white guy climbs onto a chair. All eyes are on the man known as Andru Defeye. “Some of you guys know what’s going on right now. Some of you have no idea,” he says. “You have now entered the performance-arts dojo of Sacramento.” With that, he lays out a few bars, and someone else picks up the flow. Then someone else. Then someone else. There’s no sign-up sheet, no moderator, no rules—only respect. Poets like Dante Pelayo pour out their souls. A group of singers and rappers spontaneously collaborate on a spirited rendition of Kanye West’s “All Falls Down.” After a couple of hours, a brass band shows up, igniting a dance party in the parking lot. The La Garnacha visit marked the third edition of #TheMostOpenMicInTheCity, the first signature event by a new collective of artists known as ZFG. Up until a few months prior, they congregated at Defeye’s Microphone Mondays at Sol Collective, but that open-mic ended after a kid set off fireworks outside. Its regulars were devastated. They called it their church. Defeye tried to find it a new home, but venue after venue declined. “No one would touch it because it was hiphop,” he says. So, Defeye took his open-mic to the streets and started a movement. ZFG, which stands for Zero Forbidden Goals, quickly set out to prove that hip-hop could do great things for the community. The group worked directly in schools to inspire the next generation of artists, all the while battling its own perceived image as a hoodlum rap crew. Now, ZFG is ready to debut its latest project: a mobile stage and art gallery, which will be a key part of the Crocker Art Museum’s Block by Block party Saturday, June 11, in Meadowview’s Steve Jones Park. It also marks the first time ZFG received any serious funding—a $10,000

grant from the James Irvine Foundation—and the group plans to use its stage to pop up in random neighborhoods in Del Paso Heights, Oak Park and south Sacramento long after the Block by Block parties are over. With dwindling resources dedicated to arts education, the members of ZFG have made it their mission to make art more accessible by taking it out of its traditional settings—museums, concert halls, art galleries— and bring it straight to the people. “The system isn’t providing for our kids,” Defeye says. “If we see that the city isn’t gonna take care of it, the government isn’t gonna take care of it, the system that’s in place isn’t gonna take care of it, then isn’t it on us? If we don’t do anything about it, aren’t we cosigning that failure?”

Words as survival Defeye penned his first poem at 12 years old. It was a suicide note. After reading over his metaphors one last time, he decided the piece—his clear writing talent, to be exact—was a strong enough reason to keep living. “Writing has literally kept me alive at many points in my life,” he says, now 32 years old. Defeye’s childhood depression stemmed from a super-rare disease he’s wrestled with since birth. Characterized by weak abdominal muscles and urinary tract problems, Eagle-Barrett syndrome, also called prune belly, kills off many babies within a few months. Despite his chronic kidney issues and regular visits to the emergency room, Defeye says he’s a biological miracle. At age 16, his parents told him he was supposed to die by 15. “I lived knowing that I was already on borrowed time—that’s kind of the fabric of my entire life,” he says. “I’ve always looked at things with this deathbed complex.” The Bakersfield native moved around as a kid, first to Stockton, then Manteca, where he finished high school, inherited his first beat machine and eventually got fired from his first job, doing man-on-the-street interviews for the Manteca Bulletin. In typical Defeye fashion, he wanted to ask people about the Iraq War and social-justice issues. His editor, however, wanted him to ask people whether they were buying real or fake Christmas trees that year. At age 18, he left for San Francisco with the goal of becoming a rap star. He breathed in the neon lights, drugs and fast-paced entertainment lifestyle both on- and offstage for several years before it all became too much. He wound up homeless, bouncing from couch to couch while

Truth: The entire ZFG crew is too big to fit inside this frame.

he tried to figure out how to escape. He chose Sacramento for no real reason other than that it was somewhere else. It took him a while to find his footing, first dabbling as a writer-of-all-trades. He composed resumes, polished off homework for students he found on Craigslist and even freelanced for SN&R for a couple of years under the name Andrew Bell. Once he stumbled into Sol Collective, though, he says he knew he found salvation. That’s where he cleaned up and realized that giving back to the community—working toward something he believed in—was the only thing that would fill him with purpose and joy. That’s also where he launched his open-mic series and connected with so many artists who would become his family.

Microphone Mondays lasted about five years, and by the end, it was seeing 80-100 people every week. Among them: Luke Tailor, SpaceWalker, Aerial, Esso P and other now-ZFG members who were just starting their music careers—and had no idea what they were doing. “No one in the existing hip-hop scene was opening any doors or putting them on or teaching them how the game goes,” Defeye says. With his entertainment background from his San Francisco days, Defeye coached them on the fundamentals: how to book shows, how to make a press kit, how to properly hold a microphone. From that bloomed ZFG as an incubator for some of Sacramento’s best young talent—and the local music scene quickly took notice. ZFG dropped a compilation, aptly titled 8:08, to a

“We follow justice. If it’s for the community, it’s for the people, you do what you gotta do. If the system doesn’t like it, then we’re the rebels.” Andru Defeye founder, ZFG

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Andru Defeye (center) says he aims for ZFG to help people reach their potential.

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“They’re bringing up a lot of great artists who wouldn’t normally get the attention they deserve,” says Byron Colborn, bandleader of Element Brass Band. “[ZFG] gives me more confidence in the music scene as a whole.” Cam, also known as “the freestyle king of Sacramento,” says when he first moved to town, he felt lost trying to navigate the hip-hop landscape. And

The unicorn on the dance floor On paper, those flash-mob style open-mics marked the beginning of ZFG. In reality, it happened a few months earlier inside a bougie, K Street dance club. Defeye doesn’t even remember where it was exactly, but he does remember the scene: DJ Whores was spinning and no one was dancing.

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few established rappers appeared willing to advise a newcomer. “It was a crabs-in-a-bucket mentality,” he says. But, there were Defeye and ZFG, who helped him quickly ascend from the battle rap circuit to regular gigs and, ultimately, a Sammie nomination for Artist of the Year. Experimental live-looper SpaceWalker tells a similar story and now seems to have no trouble landing on bills. She, too, received her first Sammie nomination this year. “That’s why I personally do this,” Defeye says. “To see folks reach their potential. To see people get to where they should be.” ZFG members regularly say there aren’t many role models for black youth in Sacramento—that ZFG and Defeye, a white guy, helped give them direction. Defeye tends to play down his role. He’s very careful to say that he never speaks for the black community; rather, he’s an example of what a white ally should look like. “I think there are a lot of people who see the injustice, who see that these communities don’t have any resources, but don’t know how to have that conversation or don’t know how to get involved because it makes them feel weird, like there is that white savior complex,” Defeye says. “There has to be an honest dialogue about what being an ally means.” Defeye’s passion for social justice rings loud and clear and true, according to Sol Collective founder Estella Sanchez. Sure, she shut down Defeye’s openmic years ago, but Sol Collective still collaborates with ZFG regularly. Besides, it wasn’t entirely because of neighbor complaints after the fireworks incident. The open-mic was also growing too big for Sol Collective, which starts feeling awfully cozy with 100 people in the room. To Sanchez, Defeye is a team player with natural collective leadership—and one of the most kindhearted people she’s ever met. “He has empathy and compassion with others, which is why I think he’s been able to have such an impact in such a short amount of time,” she says. “It’s been amazing to see how much he’s done. … He’s a completely different person. Not only has he helped transform the city, I think the city has really helped transform him.”

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“ART FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE” continued FROM page 17 “It creates consistent art access,” Baker says. “You can be an active participant. … It’s extremely powerful.” Defeye hopes ZFG’s link with the Crocker presents more and bigger opportunities for the collective in the future. Still, Defeye doesn’t plan to apply for city permits to take ZFG’s mobile stage in neighborhoods after the Block by Block parties conclude. Needing to go through all that paperwork over and over again to perform for people doesn’t make sense, he says—ditto to the city’s stance on buskers not being allowed to play with any amplified sound. “I don’t want every hippie with a guitar on a street corner bumming change, but I keep hearing people talking about a ‘world-class city,’” he says. “You know what all world-class cities have? Street performers.” It’s all about bringing art into public spaces—something Defeye says he’s been noticing more and more in Sacramento in the past couple of years. He cites the Portal, the art installation temporarily living on R Street, and the Sacramento Ballet’s occasional flash mobs. While Defeye appreciates these efforts, he also hopes folks think about who they benefit: people who have little access to art, or people who can already afford to pay an entrance fee? When Defeye puts on events in Midtown, he says it’s so communities—namely, young people of color living in south or North Sacramento— have a reason to travel to the central city. Defeye remembers going into an Oak Park classroom recently and asking the kids if they’ve ever been to the Crocker Art Museum. Four raised their hands. Then, he asked how many students have a museum in their own neighborhood. None. Art galleries? None. “I was 21 before I went to an art gallery, because they didn’t have them in my community,” Defeye says. “I feel that struggle.” But ZFG’s school activities aren’t solely focused on art. Sometimes, they utilize art to dive into another topic, like anti-bullying. One recently developed workshop has SpaceWalker and Cam teaching students raps that promote positive thinking. “People’s general attitudes are dismissive of hip-hop,” says ZFG rapper Paul Willis. “Hip-hop is the most powerful tool to engage students. … Think of something as simple as call and response. That’s a hip-hop tool.” For younger kids, there’s Gorilla Storytime, a theatrical spin on traditional library storytime, with sets, props, costumes, morals and a pink gorilla suit. Dressed as Ms. Unicorn, SpaceWalker creates beats and live loops to make children’s poems come to life in a whole new way. Cam, wearing a cap and gown, goes by Professor Vocab and happily freestyles bars about puppies and kitties on demand. When Nicole Powell, a library supervisor at Sacramento Public

For ZFG, it’s all about bringing art into public spaces.

Library, first saw it, she knew she needed to bring ZFG to the Del Paso Heights branch. It finally happened in April, though instead of Gorilla Storytime, ZFG brought its Chainlink Poetry program, which resulted in a public art installation. Drive by the library right now and see words floating on the fence, which can be rearranged by passersby to form new inspirational phrases or poems. ZFG supplied the crafts as well as live music, deejays and spoken-word artists at no cost to the library. Powell says the event drew 84 adults and 40 kids. Compare that to the best turnout for an event in May: five adults and 25 kids. “They had to come from the heart and want to come to Del Paso Heights,” Powell says, noting that ZFG engaged some teens who have been particularly difficult to reach during that Chainlink Poetry day. “They brought Midtown to us, and that was very special.”

Fighting the stigma of hip-hop It’s 8:08 p.m. on another Monday night, but this time, the ZFG crew isn't spouting poems inside an unsuspecting business. Now, the time slot is reserved for meetings in Defeye’s Midtown living room, also known as the ZFG lair. Art lines the walls: a Sol Collective poster, a Guy Fawkes mask, a small photo of a mural by local graffiti artist Shaun Burner and a large, black-and-white still from Breakfast at Tiffany’s with gold Zs painted over Audrey Hepburn’s eyes. This is where ZFG organizes as well as communes—as a family, not just co-workers. A white board carries the evening’s agenda, and a quote: “Sing the pain of the people. And give them hope to overcome. Simple. Nothing else matters.” A Defeye original. First order of business: check-ins. Members go around, share what they’re up to, ask for advice and show support. Compliments abound, as do unrelated tangents. “You know what would be funny? Gorilla burlesque,” Defeye says out of nowhere.

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Defeye hadn’t actually been there to dance, but instead to talk business with other Microphone Mondays regulars who suddenly had nowhere to work on their craft. Witnessing the crowd of people too stubborn to become the first ones grooving, Defeye moved their meeting to the dance floor, seamlessly continuing the discussion while doing the two-step. A song-and-a-half later, everyone in the club felt secure enough to join them. That night, Defeye drafted the commandments of ZFG. One is that they are the strength in numbers. “We understand that if there’s five of us on the dance floor, it becomes a party, and everyone else loses those inhibitions,” Defeye says. “It’s the same as when we stand on the street corner and start spitting our poems. Someone will come along and be like, ‘All right, I’ve been waiting to do this poem forever, but I never had the guts before.’” Another commandment? Unofficially, Zero Fucks Given. “It’s not that I don’t give a fuck about my community,” Defeye says. “It’s if people are staring at you because you’re dressed like a unicorn on the dance floor, who cares? They’re one of the 85 percent of people that are gonna die wishing they danced more.” Kaila Dougherty, ZFG’s graphic designer, interprets it another way: Zero Fears Granted. “I was not one to dance on a street corner,” she says, recalling the “Love Yourself” series of ZFG dance flash mobs all over Midtown inspired by rapper Kendrick Lamar. “Soon, they had me in a fur vest dancing in a laundromat.” At the same time, the Zero Fucks Given mantra speaks to ZFG’s stance on the law. The cops repeatedly showed up at ZFG open-mics, expecting trouble. At an open-mic staged at Cesar Chavez Plaza in March of 2015, police threatened to arrest the poets for loitering after dark. Defeye says he doesn’t believe in following “unjust laws.” “We follow justice,” he says. “If it’s for the community, it’s for the people, you do what you gotta do. If the system doesn’t like it, then we’re the rebels.” Yet, it’s this very spirit that won ZFG that $10,000 grant for the Crocker’s Block by Block initiative, which aims to engage communities underrepresented at the museum through a series of block parties funded by the James Irvine Foundation. According to Lorenzo Baker, an Art Corps Fellow and the coordinator for the south Sacramento Block by Block event, awardees were chosen not solely for their artistic ideas, but also for how they inspired the community in a socially conscious way. He hopes the ZFG mobile stage will make a lasting impact across the city, arguing that it’s a stronger, more engaging form of public art than, say, a static mural.

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“You still gotta put tassels on ’em,” Cam says, as if he’s been contemplating the same idea all night as well. Defeye knows that if anyone is going to say something bad about ZFG, it’s that the group seems cliquey and exclusive. But, this is where interested folks can drop by, show interest and, with enough commitment, get initiated. Tonight, for example, there’s Matt K.O., a former battle rapper hoping to officially join ZFG, as well as the group’s newest recruit, David Loret DeMola, an improv comedian and spoken-word poet. Regardless of backgrounds and specialties, the dozen people who make up the core of the roughly 50-person collective all have one major thing in common. “We’re a bunch of broken humans, every last of us, from the emo-ass poets to the hardcore-ass rappers—every one of them has sat on my couch and cried with me,” Defeye says. “Everyone has used their art form to heal themselves and now uses it to heal the community, to heal what’s broken in our families, our relationships.” And these broken souls are battling a very real stigma surrounding hip-hop in Sacramento. There haven’t been any violent outbreaks at ZFG events, but the shooting outside rapper Nipsey Hussle’s show at Ace of Spades in early 2015—coupled with Sacramento rising star Mozzy’s gang activity—continues to make people wary about the genre. To ZFG’s members, that’s not fair, so they’ll keep working even if they never see much money for their efforts. Ever since ZFG began, its members have paid for everything out-of-pocket. Defeye admits that’s not sustainable, but, perhaps, the group is on its way. A couple of regular ZFG events recently started turning a profit. With Sol Collective as ZFG’s fiscal agent, it can continue to apply for more grants. About $50 per month comes via subscriber-based website Patreon, made up of fans from across the country inspired by ZFG’s online videos. Sol Collective’s Estella Sanchez hopes ZFG grows similarly to her own collective, with burgeoning national recognition for its artists. “It’s crucial for the arts to be funded in order for them to grow and have a larger impact,” she says. “But Andru is an artist. He’ll continue to do this whether there’s funding or not.” Defeye realized he couldn’t ask the communities he directly works with for money when he tried to crowdfund for extra features for ZFG’s mobile stage. After two weeks, the campaign only raised $20—from ZFG’s very own Willis. That doesn’t mean people don’t care, though. “Anytime I say, ‘I need cardboard,’ or ‘I need a ride,’ or volunteers, there’s never a shortage,” Defeye says. “Everything I need is here. I can’t ask people for money—they don’t got it.” Apart from funding, ZFG members say they only face one other hurdle in their quest for widespread support. “We’re a collective of young people of color,” Willis says. “Access is a barrier and a challenge. … A lot of people don’t want to do anything with us because of who we are and what we bring.” But that’s also precisely why ZFG puts in all this work—so the next generation of young artists of color don’t have to shout so loud to be heard. “It’s changing the culture—letting people understand it’s OK to be you unapologetically and think outside the box,” Defeye says. “We built our own sandbox, gave ourselves a slide, some monkey bars—” He pauses midsentence. Esso P’s stonerific song “43 Bucks” off the ZFG compilation just came on the speakers, and everyone must sing along together. Esso P smiles silently in the corner, feasting on Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. “It’s hard to narrow it down to one thing,” Willis says, picking up where Defeye left off. “It’s that constant pursuit for something very fleeting. Ideally, the kids we’re working with will take the mantle. They can build something even bigger and better.” Ω

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Check out the ZFG mobile stage at the Crocker Art Museum's Block by Block party, noon to 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 11, at Steve Jones Park, 2331 Casa Linda Drive. Admission is free. Learn more about ZFG at www.zfgpromotions.com.

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The Bananas (from left to right): Scott Miller, Mike Cinciripino and Marie Davenport.

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by AAron CArnes I t was February and local punk band the Bananas was playing Phono Select Records when singer-guitarist Mike Cinciripino made a joke about how the band’s performance was so bad, the crowd should ask for its $5 back. That wasn’t his only funny bit. In fact, he and drummer Scott Miller did a lot of kidding around that night. The show even turned into a spontaneous question-andanswer session with the audience and at one point, when Cinciripino missed a guitar solo, the rest of the band and the audience egged him on into redoing the song just so he could take another stab at the part. But in-between all the show banter, the group did play some music—fun, weirdo, lo-fi punk rock. The tempos always felt a little too fast, like the musicians were on the 22 | SN&R | 06.09.16

verge of coming apart at the seams at any moment. No one was complaining, however—this is what Bananas fans have come to expect. Indeed, the show was packed. Not bad for a group that formed nearly 25 years ago in July of 1992. In that quarter of a century, they’ve released two EPs, four full-lengths and have toured the U.S. a handful of times, and Japan once. And for the most part, the band remains the same, holding on to its original lineup except for its bassist. Over the years the Bananas have maintained a loyal cult following—not just locally, but internationally as well. That’s due, at least in part, to the fact that underneath all the goofing off and ridiculously fast tempos, the Bananas write some pretty sophisticated songs.

There’s also the band members’ undeniable camaraderie and chemistry. “It’s friends getting together and drinking and playing music. Hopefully we play more music than we talk—it’s fucking amateur hour right?” Cinciripino says. It goes deeper, though, he adds. “There’s an element under the cacophony and chaos, there’s a melancholy there,” Cinciripino says. It’s been a good year for the band. In March, its entire discography was reissued as a cassette box set by the Fullerton-based Burger Records. The group is also at work on its fifth album, and has been playing live a lot—more so than in recent years.

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The Bananas’ breed of punk rock is fast, distorted and barely stitched together, bringing to mind the childlike exuberance of Beat Happening. Rather than sounding aggressive in any capacity whatsoever, like so many punkrock bands, the music is fun and joyous with from-the-gut drunken sing-alongs. The lyrics, which are depressing and catastrophic, contrast brilliantly with the upbeat melodies. What’s not immediately apparent is how complicated the songs actually are. Cinciripino writes the music, subsequently bringing the tunes to Miller and bassist Marie Davenport. The three then spend an enormous amount of time picking the songs apart and working on all the details of each section, often including little details that most listeners probably wouldn’t even notice. Cinciripino credits his songwriting style to myriad very nonpunk sources: bossa nova records, Henry Mancini, Bruce Springsteen and ’60s girl groups like the Ronettes. “It’s a lot of minor sevenths, a lot of weird chords in there. If you’re listening casually, you don’t catch that,” Mike says. “Maybe it’s working on some subconscious level on the sad clown inside you.” It must be working on many levels, actually. The band’s loyal cult fan base is particularly impressive because the Bananas have only toured a few times and always released their music on small indie labels (Plan-It-X, Recess Records). Oh, and their albums are nearly impossible to find in stores. But the folks who do find them are die-hards. They send letters and drive long distances to see the band. Several have even been inked with Bananas tattoos. Some of the Bananas’ biggest supporters, however are the folks at Burger Records. Even before the label formed, its founders were superfans. Co-founder Lee Rickard was 15 when he discovered the Bananas via a record comp. He bought anything he could find by them. He even once got a crew together to drive up from Anaheim to the Gilman in Berkeley to see them play, assuming they’d never come to Southern California. Miller dubbed Rickard and his group of Southern Californian friends Bananaheim. The name stuck. To this day, Rickard still considers the Bananas to be one of the best bands of all time. “[The band’s first full-length] Forbidden Fruit is up there with the Weezer blue album as far as pop rock perfection goes,” Rickard says. “They simply just sounded fucking cool, and neurotic. I guess I could relate.” But, the band almost didn’t happen. When they formed in 1992, Miller was playing in the local band Nar. Cinciripino’s group, the Horny Mormons, had just broken up. Nar was scheduled to play Old Ironsides. When the club’s booker, in a push to bring more diversity to the venue, asked Miller if he could find another band to add to the bill, Miller instead decided to form another band. He asked Cinciripino, with whom he’d worked with at Tower Records, and Cinciripino’s then-girlfriend Lisa Branum to throw together a band. To make it official, they flipped open a dictionary and randomly selected the word “bananas” for their name. A week before their first official show, they ended up playing a friend’s house. Initially, the band didn’t think it would last beyond that Old I show. “The plan was to play one time, which obviously didn’t work. We started off with a failure,” Cinciripino says. No one’s sure exactly why they continued to play shows after that gig. Miller thinks maybe it happened because Nar and Horny Mormons were known in the

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scene, word got around that they had a new band, and folks offered them shows locally and in the Bay Area. Either way, Miller adds, he wasn’t even sure he wanted to continue. “I didn’t really like it when it first started. Then Mike came up with a batch of songs that I was like, ‘Oh, these are really cool,’” Miller says. There’s this take on it, too: “We joke about it, but the liner notes of one of the records said how we were too lazy to break up,” Miller says. “I think each of us thought the other one would be like, ‘OK, OK. Stop.’” But nobody did. In short, nearly everything they’ve done has defied typical band convention. “It’s really unlike any other bands I’ve ever played with,” Davenport says. “It’s pretty rare that everybody is as engaged as they are in this band. It’s just a special sort of chemistry that we have between the three of us.” Over the years, they released two EPs: Bad Banana Rising (1993) and the Peel Sessions (1995). Branum stayed in the band through its first two full lengths, Forbidden Fruit (1998) and A Slippery Subject (2001), with Davenport joining in 2002 and subsequently playing on Nautical Rock ’N’ Roll (2003) and New Animals (2008). Before Davenport joined the Bananas, she was a hardcore fan. Cinciripino and Miller still have fan letters she wrote them when she was 16. When Davenport was older, the three became friends and after Cinciripino and Miller learned she was a skilled bass player, she seemed like the obvious choice when Branum quit. These days, the trio clicks—not just as friends, but as a group of people who are equally devoted to the band. For most of the past decade, no one had much time to play—Cinciripino and Davenport each have kids—and although Cinciripino wrote the material for the next album eight years ago, they didn’t get around to turning it all into songs until late last year. Now, spending more time on getting their forthcoming album ready has motivated—and recharged—the Bananas. As much crazy, goofy fun as they have playing live, just getting together and making new music brings them infinite joy. “The music comes first. I always joke that we’re in it for the long haul. It doesn’t really matter how long it takes to make each record because, once they’re out there, they exist and it doesn’t really matter when it happened,” Davenport says. “Nothing’s rushed. No one’s ever accused the Bananas of rushing things.” Ω Check out the Bananas at 6 p.m. Saturday June 11, at Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen, 1915 I Street. Admission is free. Learn more at www.nokilli.com/ bananas/band.html.

ready for this?” The Trump plane moved into position on the tarmac behind the podium as 2 Unlimited’s 1991 hit “Get Ready For This” blasted out of the hangar’s sound system. An entrance fit for a presidential candidate who has also appeared at WrestleMania. Trump said he supports the veterans. The message “Veterans For Trump” was printed on one of two signs available immediately beyond the metal detectors at the entrance. Veteran lives matter was the message to a half-packed airplane hangar at the Sacramento International Airport on a hot Wednesday evening. “I raised almost $6 million,” he announced early in his speech. “I raised all that money and the press is killing me. They are bad, bad people.” Trump addressed the veterans donation scandal immediately, putting out fires at the podium in his red “Make America Great Again” trucker hat. He started a few fires as well, like announcing attendance at 11,000 when the hangar actually only reportedly holds 2,500. He also laid into the Clintons and Obamacare, and generally touted “facts” that would be quickly disproven in the hours post-rally. his media beef is extensive, but lately it’s been an exposé in the Washington Post on Trump’s poor record of followthrough that’s irked him. Post reporter David A. Farenthold found that Trump did raise nearly $6 million in an hour, but the distribution lacked the same immediacy. A month later, less than half the money was funneled to charities. Millions more in checks that were post-dated May 24 (the day after the Post article) arrived in mailboxes at 11 charities. It looks bad, but one supporter named Kyle Harris, a 23-year-old member of the National Guard, suggested Trump’s opposition can’t operate on his level. “All the other candidates use us veterans as pawns,” Harris said. “You can’t use veterans as pawns and make as much as he did.” Outside the rally, veteran Jeff Peck, age 70, from Elk Grove, thought Trump was all money talk. He stood with protesters, chanting “shame” and demanded those in line look him in the eye. Peck thinks it took the Post article to inspire Trump’s check-writing hand. “After 150 days, he happens to pay out the money on the day he was called on it. To me, that’s just what he does. he’s all about the money,” he said. Still, Trump closed in Sacramento after 35 minutes at the podium with words of assurance. “We are gonna win like we never won before,” he said. The crowd roared. Disturbances to his rally mostly remained outside. The protesters numbered around 30. Inside, one protester briefly interrupted the speech. Turned out Trump was a softy in Sacramento. “Be very gentle, don’t hurt him,” he said.

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Masters of art The closure of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery on the UC Davis campus last year—to make way for the new Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art—has Group SHoW been an opportunity for a first: to bring the university’s Master of Fine Arts candidates’ thesis exhibition to Sacramento. The second-year MFA student show, passively titled having happened, opened June 3 at Verge Center for the Arts with work in media including sculpture, photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, installation, performance and ceramic sculpture by Sarah Chan, Zach Clark, Anna Davidson, Kristin Hough, Jeff Mayry, Julian Tan, Brett Thomas and Angela Willetts.

Where: Verge Center for the Arts, 625 Street; (916) 448-2985; www.vergeart.com. Second Saturday reception: June 11, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Through June 18. Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

“Memory Mattress Minimalism” by Angela Willetts, digital video, 2016.

Seerey’s series A man wanders into an abandoned Victorian house, and within the dilapidation finds an intricately carved framed mirror shattered in the middle of the living room floor. The gilded frame’s curved pieces are broken off and Mixed Media darkened by years of dust and primary-color spray paint by local kids who had also wandered into the space. Torn pages from the home’s former resident’s books on runes and cuneiform are littered around the pile of shards. But this is just a fabrication, an illustration of what Charles Seerey’s series of work Baroque Sequence bears resemblance to. Rather than stumbling upon layers of symbols and meanings and haphazard hues, Seerey’s approach to creating his work “requires careful inquiries” and “uses a combination of periods of research and contemplation … and intense periods of activity.” The Sacramento-based artist says Baroque Sequence contains a “predetermined vocabulary of signs and elements, from the overlooked, forgotten and the common.” Forgotten like an old house, overlooked like a pile of ruined belongings on the floor and common like spray paint? That’s just a coincidence of imagination.

Where: Axis Gallery, 625 S Street; http://axisgallery.org.

“Color Your World” by Michelle Andres, mixed media acrylic and resin, 2016.

The writing’s on the wall Both Sacramento artists Michelle Andres and Judy Jacobs combine the use of words with blushing, ethereal abstractions in their respective works for Mixed Media their two-person show, See it With Words. If you miss the opening, there will also be a closing reception on July’s R Street Art Walk on Friday, July 1, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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Paddle for DArt Saturday, June 11 As the weather warms, thoughts wander to lazy afternoons by the river. What better way to start the season off than with a paddleboard race? Sign up for the solo run filled reCreAtIon with obstacles to make things exciting, or join the team relay with three of your friends. All participants will get a T-shirt and box lunch with their entry fee and proceeds support the Drowning Accident Rescue Team. $30-$140; 9 a.m. at the Riverbank Marina, 1375 Garden Highway; (916) 204-3537; www.paddle4dart.com.

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ext. 2, or visit www.sacballet.org/events/sketch-4x4 for more information. If you’re ready to cut a rug yourself, dust off your dancing shoes and probably brink a hankie just in case, because local musicians pay tribute to the late, great Purple One at the Prince Birthday tribute at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub (2708 J Street) on Friday, June 10, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12-$15; visit www.harlows.com for more details. Then the next day, the June installation of the summer block-party series thIS starts at 5 p.m. at 1050 20th Street. Swedish nu-disco deejay Tobtok headlines, plus Spacewalker and deejay Rich Soto are also on the bill. Find out more at www.facebook.com/thismidtown. Alternatively, on Sunday, June 12, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Sol Collective (2574 21st Street) stop by for Pulse, a yoga

Ginger elizabeth Chocolates Ice Cream Social Saturday, June 11 There’s nothing quite like bonding with loved ones (or hey, bonding with yourself) over a bowl of ice cream. And this month’s ice-cream social at Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates boasts FooD a doozy: Ferrari Farms Bing Cherry Brown Betty, which is frozen custard made with duck eggs, plus cherry butter sauce, Chantilly whipped cream and pain au Levain (or sourdough bread). Yum! $9; 10 a.m. at 1801 L Street; (916) 706-1738; www.gingerelizabeth.com.

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Block By Block: District 8 Saturday, June 11 Gather up the family and party in the streets with local musicians, deejays, vendors, food stands, dancing, art, urban gardeners, PArtY poets—basically anyone and everyone in the neighborhood that makes it the vibrant place it is. Hosted by the Crocker Art Museum’s Block by Block initiative, this series of block parties aims to connect neighborhoods with local art communities. Free; noon to 7 p.m. at Steve Jones Park, 2331 Casa Linda Drive; www.crockerartmuseum.org.

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flow class followed by a dance party. DJ Rock Bottom will be providing the tunes, and the safe-space vibes of the dance party ensure that you can let your inner Elaine Benes loose without judgment. A $15 donation is suggested; visit www.facebook.com/events/1001477209888245 for more info. Cap it all off with a screening of one of the greatest dance movies of all time, Footloose, wherein rebellious teens challenge authority with fancy-free footwork. The screening is on Wednesday, June 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the Crest Theatre (1013 K Street). By the way, this follows a performance from the actual Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael on Sunday, June 12, at 8:30 p.m., also at the Crest. Tickets for the movie are $8-$10 and $35-$55 for the concert; visit www.crestsacramento.com to purchase.

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Saturday, June 11 The traveling vegan chef Joshua Ploeg is back in Sacramento for the latest in his series of pop-ups at Cafe Colonial, and this time the event is bike-themed (in addition to being gluten-free and soy-allergy sensitive). Portland-based Joe Biel and Elly Blue of Microcosm Publishing will be showing Groundswell, a collection of short films about bicycle FooD activism, and will also be selling selected books, zines, shirts and movies. $25; 1 p.m. at 3520 Stockton Boulevard; www.eventbrite.com/e/ dinner-and-bikes-sacramentotickets-25686174038.

Sunday, June 12 Check out the city’s freshest crop of local filmmakers with this screening of nine short films. Promising young auteurs get innovative with animation, Westerns, comedy, drama and thrillers in this showcase designed to highlight the ways recent FILM technology is transforming what’s possible for independent filmmakers. Free; 5:30 p.m. at the Colonial Theatre, 3522 Stockton Boulevard; (530) 632-9427; www.facebook.com/ events/1073044502754425.

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BYOB bikes: Starting July 1, you’ll actually be able to get drunk on those roving party bikes—you know, the ones with all the WOOO!-ing people. Let me clarify: Right now, businesses like the Sac Brew Bike and Off the Chain Bike Bus Tours link up with local bars to fuel their riders with suds. But in July, patrons will actually be able to drink while riding the enormous bikes, not just after parking and unloading. The change came last week after Sacramento City Council voted unanimously to allow beer and wine on these pedicabs. Last year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Sen. Richard Pan’s bill, Senate Bill 530, which allow cities

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Italian destination: The hotly anticipated OBO’ Italian Table & Bar (3145 Folsom Boulevard) is scheduled to open Tuesday, June 14. Also, can we just reflect on that “Table & Bar” name for a minute? Thanks. OBO’ comes from the Selland family of restaurants, which also includes the Kitchen, Ella Dining Room & Bar and Selland’s MarketCafe. We don’t have much in the way of details right now, but at the very least, OBO’ promises seasonal, casual Italian dining with a large patio. Brunch off wheels: It was popular while it lasted, but now the Brunch Boys food truck is no more. The mobile, all-brunch-all-the-time eatery closed suddenly last week. Chefowner Charlie Cardona told SN&R he recently got the opportunity to travel the world for an extended period of time, and he’s taking it. Ω

I’ve never been a fan of bitter—in people or in coffee— so I don’t enjoy that flavor trend in a lot of cafes these days. Rounded flavor profiles are more my thing. Insight Coffee Roasters co-founder Lucky Rodrigues opened Identity Coffees in March, and he’s got a mellower coffee called El Apiario ($10 for 8 ounces). It comes from a small farm in Guatemala that he used to pass by and now helps support. The farmers have bees on the site, so maybe their honey-making helps develop the “clean, balanced and very sweet” roast. 1420 28th Street, www.identitycoffees.com.

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Act fast Cherries Cherry pie seems über American, but the fruit is actually native to Asia. The official species name is prunus avium, meaning “plum fruit for the birds.” Sweet cherries especially abound in Sacramento, but they’re only available briefly. Eat them fresh with cheese and nuts or make them into jam to relish throughout the summer. Try the yellow Royal Ann as well as the luscious red Brooks variety. Feeling gouty or arthritic? Drink cherry juice to combat inflammation and help cleanse your innards.

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Fancy stamping reductive relief PrintMaking Reductive relief printmaking only sounds like a psychological coping mechanism; in reality, aRT this four-class series will teach students about the ancient art of carving images on linoleum block, applying ink and creating prints from it. (Think of it like stamping, only artsier.) $125-$150; 10 a.m. on Saturdays, June 11 through July 2 at Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S Street; http://vergeart.com/ learn/classes/reductive-relief-printing.

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soft-serve sleuthing MasterMind treasure hunt: ice creaM edition As if spending your afternoon living out your childhood dream of going on a treasure hunt isn’t enough, this particular one is ice-cream themed. Gather up the best puzzle-solvers you know as your team scrambles around town, eats tons of that frozen-dairy goodness and tries to solve puzzles without getting a FOOD brain freeze. $25, 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 11, at 11th and L streets; www.mastermindhunts.com/ mastermind-hunt-sacramento.

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The gentle whirring of a cat’s purr has the power to mesmerize a human into a lump of pleasant existence. So why not give that experience back to cats with species-specific music made just for them, based on their biology and behavior? Composer David Teie theorized that cats would prefer sounds tailored to them over human music and even put it to the test in a scientific study. CaTs The results, published in the Applied Animal Behaviour Science journal, supported the hypothesis that cats “showed a significant preference for and interest in species-appropriate music,” meaning compositions in the same frequency range and with similar tempos used in their own species, versus, say, Metallica. Music for Cats was released this spring, after Teie received more than $240,000 on Kickstarter to fund making the album. On some tracks, there’s the flutter of a purr, the soft musical mimicking of cat vocalizations with string instruments, a sparkling cascade of keys, airy birdsong and gentle droning. It’s atmospheric, kind of like Explosions in the Sky, but furrier. See the Kickstarter video at www.musicforcats.com, where internet-famous felines listen and react to Teie’s songs, some looking bewildered (“Is that a bird? Where?!”), others blissed out (“Mom used to purr like this”); it’s both fascinating and adorable. The full album and individual tracks may be purchased on the site ($15-$20 and $1-$2, respectively), or humans may opt for a four-disc set, For the Times When You Are Away.

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When Legally Blonde opens the 66th Music Circus season on June 14, the production will have a real Broadway star in the cast. Chico, who appears as heroine Elle Woods’ pet, Bruiser, played the role in the original production on Broadway. His understudy, Roxy, is also a Broadway veteran of the show. Both dogs were trained by Tony award-winner Bill Berloni, a longtime associate of the Music Circus. “He connects us with great trainers and great animals,” says Music Circus’ Executive Producer Scott Klier of Berloni’s work with the company. The dog will be in good company this season. In addition to Legally Blonde, four other productions (out of six total) will make their Music Circus debut this season. As always, this year’s lineup choices followed a democratic process. “Audience input helps make the selection,” Klier says, explaining Music Circus patrons have the chance to fill out a questionnaire with choices for the following year’s shows. For the uninitiated, the Music Circus is a Sacramento institution, bringing musical theater hits to the area for generations. Over the years, it’s staged productions of more than 180 different musicals, many performed more than once, with The King and I, Oklahoma!, South Pacific and Show Boat leading the pack at 13 different productions each. The Sacramento company dates back to 1951 when Eleanor McClatchy, then president of The Sacramento Bee and arguably one of the city’s staunchest theater supporters, decided the region would eagerly support professional quality theater,

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and Justin Bieber-like disrespect for the Anne Frank House. The targets here are fatter than novelty piñatas—celebrity jerks, social media cannibalism, crass TMZ journalists—and yet Popstar whiffs as often as it connects. Who is supposed to be threatened by any of these naughty-boy high jinks? Bieber, At this point, it’s hard to imagine a subject less maybe, but that’s some pretty specific low-hanging deserving of affectionate satire than the egos and fruit. Popstar feels less like a successor to This is excesses of the entertainment industry. It takes a knife as serrated and vulgar as David Cronenberg’s underrated Spinal Tap and Walk Hard than an unofficial third Zoolander movie. Maps to the Stars to slice through that bubble of absurd A brisk but lumpy 87 minutes, Popstar features privilege. Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone’s likeable roughly the same number of gratuitous celebbut limp music mockumentary Popstar: Never rity walk-on “jokes” as any other Judd Stop Never Stopping, on the other hand, still Apatow production, but for once this has its comedic baby teeth, nibbling on lowest-common-denominator tactic subjects it should be ripping to shreds. actually fits the material. Even Andy Samberg stars alongside his better, everyone seems pretty the Lonely Island comedy teammates Popstar coasts by game, from Mariah Carey to RZA Schaffer and Taccone as pampered, on potty-mouthed to 50 Cent to Michael Bolton. dim-witted and narcissistic popstar affability alone. For a film so heavily dependent Conner Friel, re-dubbed Conner4Real on cameos, there is an admirable for a Timberlake-ian solo ascent, scarcity of phoned-in performances. and prepared drop his revoltingly selfAnd yet the sheer number of superaggrandizing sophomore album as the stars willing to wink at their own public movie opens. Schaffer and Taccone play images in Popstar only underlines the utter Conner’s former bandmates in the Style Boyz, lack of danger in the material. a post-Beastie Boys, pre-Backstreet Boys hip-hop boy There are definitely laughs, especially in an band institution that Conner razed with the wrecking ball excellent opening number where Conner4Real of his ego. humble-brags about his own humility while Adam Following the breakup of the Style Boyz, Schaffer’s Levine holograms freak each other on stage. Lawrence exiles himself to life as a bitter farmer and Unfortunately, the joke wears thin pretty quick, extremely untalented woodworker, while Taccone’s and the final third of the film goes heavy on more devoted Owen gets reduced to an increasingly plot, assuming an emotional connection with the insulting second-banana role in Conner’s solo career. characters that the rest of the film never attempts Conner’s first album was a raging success, but the to create. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping ill-advised follow-up gets roasted by critics (Pitchfork coasts by on potty-mouthed affability alone. Ω gives it a negative four out of 10) and rejected by fans, and he faces adversity and scrutiny for the first time in his sheltered life. As a camera crew documents his every move, Conner engages in James Franco-like social media Poor Fair Good Very excellent oversharing, Macklemore-like social issue pandering

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Alice Through the Looking Glass

Captain Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns from a sea voyage to find herself aced out of her command by an ex-suitor (Leo Bill). Worse, her old friend the Hatter (Johnny Depp) is in trouble, and Alice must go time-hopping through Wonderland to save him. Only scattered shreds of Lewis Carroll survive in Linda Woolverton’s neofeminist screenplay, so don’t rely on this if you have to do a book report. And the movie is top-heavy with CGI, like icing on a gaudy wedding cake. But under that vulgar exterior beats the heart of spirited fantasy adventure, directed with buoyant panache by James Bobin and with a high-powered cast (Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen, Rhys Ifans, Timothy Spall, Matt Lucas, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen) under layers of makeup and computer enhancement. J.L.

The Angry Birds Movie

What’s worse than a video game-inspired movie? A video gameinspired animated feature. If you’ve played the game, you know the story: A bunch of wingless birds fire a giant slingshot in an effort to get their eggs back from an army of green pigs. Somehow it took four writers (John Cohen, Mikael Hed, Mikko Pöllä and Jon Vitti) to come up with this. Meanwhile, it seems not to have occurred to director Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly—or anybody else—that what’s cute and amusing on a smartphone might look trivial, cheap and shoddy on a theater screen—to say nothing of the 3-D. Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader and Peter Dinklage head the voice cast. It’s harmless enough, as junk goes, but why blow 10 bucks on it when the app is only 99 cents—and you get to play? J.L.

Dark Horse

Documentarian Louise Osmond retraces the underdog career of the British racehorse Dream Alliance, which enjoyed an entirely creditable racing career 2004-2012, despite unexceptional genes and the fact that it was sponsored by a consortium of working-class neighbors in a depressed Welsh mining town. Osmond mixes talking-head interviews with the Dream’s owners and hometown fans (a warmly down-to-earth bunch of folks), archival news footage, home video and discreet reenactments to weave a heartwarming and crowd-pleasing story. The interviewees are the main attraction, especially breeder Jan Vokes and her husband Daisy (a nickname), but a surprisingly vivid presence is Dream Alliance himself, who comes off as a scrappy animal with a gamely competitive spirit and a lot of horse sense (no pun intended). J.L.

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A young woman with few work skills but a bubbly, irrepressible personality (Emilia Clarke) takes a job caring for a wealthy but morose young man (Sam Claflin) paralyzed two years earlier in a road accident. Written by Jojo Moyes (from her novel) and directed with good cheer by Thea Sharrock, the movie telegraphs every unsurprising development, but it has one priceless asset: the vivacious performance of Clarke, in a role as far from her Daenerys in Game of Thrones or Sarah Connor in Terminator Genisys as anyone could imagine. She’s overdue for major stardom, and a button-pushing tearjerker like this just might do it for her. Claflin has a nice chemistry with his leading lady, and there’s a good supporting cast (Janet McTeer, Charles Dance, Brendan Coyle) but it’s Clarke’s show all the way. J.L.

A Bigger Splash

Italian director Luca Guadagnino makes his English-language debut, as well as first narrative feature since 2009’s I Am Love, with the US Weekly art film A Bigger Splash. I Am Love star Tilda Swinton headlines as a Bowie-esque rocker whose post-surgery recuperation with her younger boyfriend (Matthias Schoenaerts) gets interrupted by the arrival of an influential ex (Ralph Fiennes) and his sexpot daughter (Dakota Johnson). A Bigger Splash is not nearly as lush and palatial as I Am Love, but it’s just as chilly and stylish and thin, an overinflated genre film highly dependent on magnetic performances to hold it together. Swinton is up to the task, regal and needy and detached in the same breath, just like a superstar, and so is a heedless Fiennes as a music industry sybarite still bragging about his contributions to one of the Rolling Stones’ worst albums; Schnoenaerts and Johnson, not so much. D.B.

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The Lobster

In a society where being single is illegal, a divorced man (Colin Farrell) must find a new mate; if he fails, he’ll be turned into an

animal (his choice, if need be, is to become a lobster). Written by Efthymis Filippou and director Yorgos Lanthimos (working for the first time in English), the movie alternates between long stretches of numbing tedium and moments of wanton cruelty—usually to animals but sometimes to people. Is this a cruel society or just a cruel movie? There are all the earmarks of mordant satire except the one a satire must have—a lively wit. Liveliness is the last thing on this movie’s mind. Its characters are merely single defining characteristics rather than real people; they have nothing, and hence nothing to lose. And as for wit—without that, satire is just meanness. J.L

who murdered his entire family. Zev scrawls notes on his body in order to assist with his periodic memory resets, while a shadowy figure from his past guides him towards the (not very) shocking truth. In other words, this is basically a non-backward Memento with Alzheimer’s and Nazis, informed more by Canadian director Atom Egoyan’s careerlong obsession with coping mechanisms in response to unspeakable tragedy than by concerns about momentum and suspense. Plummer does fine work in the lead role, but the supporting players tend to go way overthe-top, especially Dean Norris as a neo-Nazi cop. D.B.

The Nice Guys

A thug for hire (Russell Crowe) breaks the arm of a private eye (Ryan Gosling) to discourage him from finding the thug’s young-woman-on-the-run client—then decides she needs help after all, and convinces the gumshoe to team up to find and protect her. Director Shane Black and his co-writer Anthony Bagarozzi produce a highly enjoyable companion piece to Black’s equally enjoyable but sadly ignored Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), another trigger-happy comedy about two mismatched detectives unraveling a hilariously complicated mystery. Crowe and Gosling make a good bottom-feeding team (Gosling especially shows a surprising flair for physical comedy), and setting the movie in smoggy 1970s LA evokes nostalgic memories of TV’s The Rockford Files. Newcomer Angourie Rice shines as Gosling’s precocious daughter. J.L.

Remember

Christopher Plummer stars as Zev, a newly widowed Holocaust survivor suffering from dementia in Atom Egoyan’s chilly but overly broad mystery Remember. Reeling even further into memory loss after the death of his second wife, Zev slips out of his nursing home and embarks on a hazy mission of revenge against the Auschwitz butcher

X-Men: Apocalypse

The Netflix-ification of the blockbuster cinema-scape continues apace with Bryan Singer’s tolerable but disposable installment X-Men: Apocalypse. After the inane timeline-hopping of his 2014 feature-length episode Days of Future Past, Singer settles on the dorkiest timeline with Apocalypse, resurrecting a purple dildo-shaped god (Oscar Isaac, overqualified) and satisfying his own career-long Nazi fetish in the bargain. But the only thing that really matters is that the Marvel machine keeps chugging, and so Apocalypse peddles 144 minutes of pure, uncut franchise maintenance, dutifully serving as an anonymous chapter in a never-ending story. In addition to resolving the Apocalypse storyline and following any number of nostalgia-born narrative detours, Singer is also tasked with introducing a new cast of Muppet Babies character reboots. The film’s Godzilla-like ability to assemble and completely waste a legendary ensemble cast would be impressive if it weren’t emblematic of a Hollywood apocalypse, one of its own design. D.B.

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Hot piss for days: “How many fuckers like to drink hot piss? We got some hot piss drinkers tonight?” That was how a four-song suite about drinking hot piss got kicked off at the tour-closing Tim Heidecker and His Ten Piece Band show at Harlow’s on Friday. Heidecker, of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! fame, toured on his latest album, In Glendale, which is not about drinking hot piss. (Those songs were cribbed from another band of his, the Yellow River Boys.) Despite the piss, most of the show reflected the less obviously absurd style of his latest album, which focuses more on the mundane

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Migratory musicians: It happens all the time. Artists bloom in Sacramento, and then, just as they’re gaining a following, they move somewhere else. In April, Kristofer Jackson, better known as the rapper JustKristofer, left for Los Angeles. His reason was the usual: expand his fanbase, explore new opportunities and, hopefully, get famous for his smooth, soulful style. In light of a costly move, he recently launched a crowdfunding campaign to assist with producing his next album. Find it at www.gofundme.com/ justkris. Now, Sacramento must prepare to say goodbye to one of its most prolific, ubiquitous local musicians of the moment, who blew into town in summer of 2013 and will leave with four Sammies under his belt. Violinist Joe Kye is moving to Portland, Ore., in July. Unlike Jackson and most other artists who leave, Kye says the move is purely because his wife got a new job. He says Sacramento feels like home now—it’s, remarkably, where he first started his music career. He’ll say goodbye with a special show on Friday, June 10, at Beatnik Studios (723 S Street). Called “Seed to Sprout,” the evening will touch on a common theme: the future, investing in growth and why our society has failed to do so. (Spoiler: “our corporate overlords,” he says.) It will also be a multisensory, multimedia experience, with projection art by Jiayi Young and Shih-Wen Michael Young and a set featuring a new, original piece by the CORE Contemporary Dance company. General admission costs $20, and the event doubles as a fundraiser for the Mustard Seed School. Kye is careful not to call “Seed to Sprout” a “farewell show,” because he’s playing California WorldFest in Grass Valley later in July and planning to circle back to Sacramento on a hopefully international tour in October. It will build anticipation for his first full-length album, Migrants, due in 2017. Migrants is about the idea of travel and living in many places— Kye has also lived in Korea, Seattle, New Haven and elsewhere—and absorbing something from each place. His classical

nightmares of fatherhood and suburban living, with songs like “Cleaning

Up the Dog Shit” performed in a Warren Zevon or Jackson Browne sort of style. Heidecker die-hards filled up Harlow’s and seemed to love every bit of it, but I’ll admit that, hot piss and a song about Herman Cain as the Christ aside, I felt like I was stuck in a two-hour Andy Kaufman bit testing how long I’d sit there listening to dad rock. —anthony Siino an t hon y s @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

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Celebrate Requiem Events’ third birthday with headliner, Dirtybird Records cofounder Justin Martin. Martin’s vibe flows expertly with Requiem’s usual array EDM of feel-good house and bootyshaking bass. But if you want a real, visceral reason to rage with Martin, listen to his fiveminute minimix “the ghetto buffet” from five years ago. It begins with a lengthy wordburp, repeating the words “hamburger,” “cheeseburger,” “Big Mac” and “Whopper” before the beat drops. The hilarious samples continue, concluding with sobbing carrots and green beans who just wanna party in some boy’s tummy. Yeah. 2003 K Street, https://requiemevents.queueapp.com.

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Many Sacramentans got their first taste of Costa Mesa band the Growlers at TBD Fest last year, though they’d come through town previously for smaller shows. They’re now a fast-moving train, presently on their “Wet Dreams” tour; BEACH GOTH the night after this, they play the historic Fox Theatre in Oakland, if that gives you an idea of their trajectory. Take the name of their tour and the fact that their most recent EP was titled Gay Thoughts (and boasts a track called “Uncle Sam’s a Dick”), and all signs point to a fun, irreverent live show. 1417 R Street, www.thegrowlers.com.

—eddie Jorgensen

Every Second Saturday, Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen transforms its shop quarters into a loud rock ’n’ roll venue. The events are always free and family friendly, so bring the little ones and some earplugs to enjoy the live music. This weekend, it’s the Croissants (pictured), RAD, the Bananas and La Fête Du Chien rocking the bike shop. Each band kicks out the punk-rock jams, but with PUNK different twists that range from hardcore to more surf-like pop. What’s more, Oak Park Brewing Co. will be slingin’ the craft brews, with proceeds going toward Sacramento nonprofits. 1915 I Street, www.thecroissants.com.

—Janelle Bitker

the red museum, 8 p.m., $5-$10 San Francisco’s Foxtails Brigade has consistently stretched the boundaries of what it means to be a CHAMBER POP modern chamber-pop group. Its songs are sophisticated adult lullabies, some bubbling with childish exuberance, others drenched in unfiltered melancholy. Its new self-titled record not only flirts with rock elements, but is fierce and (somewhat) restrained in a totally new way, moving into rock-opera territory. Vocalist Laura Weinbach is still able to access her inner child with ease, but it sounds mature in a way that completely fits the strange rules of this brilliant band. 212 15th Street, www.hungryflies.org.

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Seems as though local indie band Merdog is about as slippery as a half-mermaid, half-dog sounds like it would be; though the band released an EP last year titled Holy Yes, it’s presently nowhere to be found. The INDIE only morsel you can currently track down from this promising indie band is “Slow,” a single released last month. Full of honeyed vocals from lead singer Cynthia Elmore with Local Natives-esque backing, there’s much to enjoy, and those seeking more would do well to attend this EP release party for The Lucky Ones. Rich Corporation and Blues Oaks open up. 1001 R Street, http://merdog.bandcamp.com/releases.

Led by singer-guitarist Clementine Creevey, the tongue-in-cheek lyrics and assured rock riffs of Los Angeles quartet Cherry Glazerr (named after NPR radio host Cherry Glaser) are well worth the cover for entry. Creevey’s career dates back to her solo work in high school, when she made music in her bedroom under the name Clembutt. Today, the group brings levity with tracks like “Grilled Cheese” (“If you want a bite / Go fly a INDIE RoCk kite”) as well as darker imagery in songs like “Nurse Ratched” (“Your eyes like daggers burn through his skin / You’re so cold master where do I begin.”) 2708 J Street, http://cherry-glazerr.com.

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All People play songs that have inwardlooking goth lyrics wrapped up in a rich, dreamy indie-punk package. Lines like PUNk “I wanna lie in a cold ravine,” and “I’m fearful and sick / I want none of this,” are playfully contradicted by drive-by trombone solos and synths that are almost-but-notquite cheery and light. Metallic guitar riffs and punk-induced drum beats are what give such digressions a catchy, indie edge. All People manage to make a three-minute song feel long (in a good way) and pensive without going comatose. Its new album S/T, coming in at 27 minutes, showcases this talent perfectly. 1111 H Street, www.facebook.com/ allpeoplecommunicate.

A non-Texan relying on generalizations about the state of various music scenes might suggest that Austin’s Pale Dian is more art-rock Marfa than rock ’n’ roll Austin, but what does this non-Texan know? The three-piece comes through in the wake of the release of Narrow Birth out on June 3. The album is chock full of ethereal vocals, spacey synths and general helter-skelter vibes; ART RoCk what starts off as a calculated unspooling delves and swoops into psychedelic territory. If you dig the Cocteau Twins or My Bloody Valentine, check this ambitious dark-pop trio out. Local bands Soft Science and All About Rockets share the bill. 1517 21st Street, https://paledian.bandcamp.com.

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Campbell analyzed fairy tales for clues about how the human psyche works. For example, he said that a fairy tale character who’s riding a horse is a representation of our relationship with our instinctual nature. If that character drops the reins and lets the horse gallop without guidance, he or she is symbolically surrendering control to the instincts. I bring this to your attention because I suspect you may soon be tempted to do just that that—which wouldn’t be wise. In my opinion, you’ll be best served by going against the flow of what seems natural. Sublimation and transcendence will keep you much stronger than if you follow the line of least resistance. Homework: Visualize yourself, as you ride your horse, keeping a relaxed but firm grasp of the reins.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I will provide you

with two lists of words. One of these lists, but not both, will characterize the nature of your predominant experiences in the coming weeks. It will be mostly up to you which emerges as the winner. Now read the two lists, pick the one you like better and instruct your subconscious mind to lead you in that direction. List 1: gluttony, bloating, overkill, padding, exorbitance. List 2: mother lode, wellspring, bumper crop, gold mine, cornucopia.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In his poem

“Interrupted Meditation,” Robert Hass blurts out the following exclamation: “I give you, here, now, a magic key. What does it open? This key I give you, what exactly does it open?” How would you answer this question, Gemini? What door or lock or heart or treasure box do you most need opened? Decide today. And please don’t name five things you need opened. Choose one, and one only. To do so will dissolve a mental block that has up until now kept you from finding the real magic key.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The following

excerpt from Wendell Berry’s poem “Woods” captures the essence of your current situation: “I part the out-thrusting branches and come in beneath the blessed and the blessing trees. Though I am silent there is singing around me. Though I am dark there is vision around me. Though I am heavy there is flight around me.” Please remember this poem at least three times a day during the next two weeks. It’s important for you to know that no matter what murky or maudlin or mysterious mood you might be in, you are surrounded by vitality and generosity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A half-dead blast from

the past is throttling the free flow of your imagination. Your best possible future will be postponed until you agree to deal more intimately with this crumbled dream, which you have never fully grieved or surrendered. So here’s my advice: Summon the bravest, smartest love you’re capable of, and lay your sad loss to rest with gentle ferocity. This may take a while, so be patient. Be inspired by the fact that your new supply of brave, smart love will be a crucial resource for the rest of your long life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Five times every

day, devout Muslims face their holiest city, Mecca, and say prayers to Allah. Even if you’re not Islamic, I recommend that you carry out your own unique version of this ritual. The next three weeks will be a favorable time to cultivate a closer relationship with the inspirational influence, the high ideal or the divine being that reigns supreme in your life. Here’s how you could do it: Identify a place that excites your imagination and provokes a sense of wonder. Five times a day for the next 21 days, bow in the direction of this treasured spot. Unleash songs, vows and celebratory expostulations that deepen your fierce and tender commitment to what you trust most and love best.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The road reaches

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my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re now in a phase when taking shortcuts may be counterproductive. To be as well-seasoned as you will need to be to reach your goal, you should probably take the scenic route. The long way around may, in this instance, be the most efficient and effective.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Truth is like the

flu,” says poet James Richardson. “I fight it off, but it changes in other bodies and returns in a form to which I am not immune.” In the coming days, Scorpio, I suspect you will experience that riddle first-hand—and probably on more than one occasion. Obvious secrets and wild understandings that you have fought against finding out will mutate in just the right way to sneak past your defenses. Unwelcome insights you’ve been trying to ignore will finally wiggle their way into your psyche. Don’t worry, though. These new arrivals will turn out to be good medicine.

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

to Guinness World Records, the most consecutive hours spent riding on a roller coaster is 405 hours and 40 minutes. But I suspect that during the next 15 months, a Sagittarian daredevil may exceed this mark. I have come to this conclusion because I believe your tribe will be especially adept and relatively comfortable at handling steep rises and sudden dips at high speeds. And that won’t be the only rough talent you’ll have in abundance. I’m guessing you could also set new personal bests in the categories of most frequent changes of mind, most heroic leaps of faith and fastest talking.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Whether we

like to admit it or not, all of us have acted like puppets. Bosses and teachers and loved ones can manipulate us even if they’re not in our presence. Our conditioned responses and programmed impulses may control our behavior in the present moment even though they were formed long ago. That’s the bad news. The good news is that, now and then, moments of lucidity blossom, revealing the puppet strings. We emerge from our unconsciousness and see that we’re under the spell of influential people to whom we have surrendered our power. This is one of those magic times for you, Capricorn.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A few weeks

ago, you undertook a new course of study in the art of fun and games. You realized you hadn’t been playing hard enough, and took measures to correct the problem. After refamiliarizing yourself with the mysteries of innocent joy, you raised the stakes. You began dabbling with more intensive forms of relief and release. Now you have the chance to go even further: to explore the mysteries of experimental delight. Exuberant escapades may become available to you. Amorous adventures could invite you to explore the frontiers of liberated love. Will you be brave and free enough to meet the challenge of such deeply meaningful gaiety? Meditate on this radical possibility: spiritually adept hedonism.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Poet Sharon Dolin

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Brew down With more than 50 craft breweries fermenting in Sacramento, it’s abundantly clear that the farm-to-fork capital also enjoys its beer. So, it’s no surprise to learn that co-founders of Beers in Sac, Ted Rozalski and Scott Scoville, started their partnership with a few cold ones on a shaded porch in Oak Park. Now, in its third year, Beers in Sac hosts beer-centric events with the help of its budding online brewery directory and its Beers in Sac app. Still, Rozalski and Scoville get a real buzz from organizing and hosting events like the Fantasy Food Truck Showdown, or their latest, Brew for a Cure on Saturday, June 11, in which Beers in Sac partners with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to host nearly 25 craft breweries to raise money for the global organization. The duo took some time to share the company’s history, Sacramento’s place in beer culture and the contents of their own fridges.

What inspired you to start a company based around craft beer? Rozalski: To be honest with you, we’re just two guys who love beer and love Sacramento. The goal now and our vision is to make Sacramento the beer mecca of the country. I know it’s a lofty goal and I know we have a lot of competition in San Diego and also up in Oregon with its densely populated breweries, but I think Sacramento can do it. So, whatever Scott and I and our team can do to make that happen, whether it’s having an up-to-date smartphone app with all our events, unique beer-related content on our website or being a part of killer events like Gather, we’re in.

What beer is in your fridge at the moment? Rozalski: Right now, I’m drinking anything barrel-aged. I’m looking forward to drinking Device, they just tapped their Brits in Moscow Imperial Stout, but they put it in barrels for the first time. So, I need to go before they run out of it. I don’t know if it’s something that they’re going to do just one time, but everyone seems to be going over there to try it out. Scoville: It’s hard to narrow it down to one, but some of the beers I’m really enjoying are also coming out of Device, their Double and Triple IPA I could have every day for the rest of my life. I also love the beers coming out of Track 7. It’s

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How do you source beer for events? Scoville: We’ve developed relationships with a lot of brewers. We go direct to the brewers for most of our beers and it’s built off relationships. We always try to have a heavy local focus and we want a range of style as well. So, we’re not going to have six IPAs on tap. We’re going to have a little bit of everything like a saison, a porter, a pilsner, a pale ale and also cider.

Does Sacramento love its beer? Scoville: Yes. Everyone has this inclination with something that’s locally crafted and beer is connecting to a wide range of demographics and that’s what’s so exciting. When you see 3,000 people come out to an event, they want to drink craft and they want to drink local and Sacramento has 50-plus breweries in-region. For us, our goal is to be that support for the bars, restaurants and breweries that are focused on craft. We want to let people know what’s going on, especially people who aren’t from here, because they’re coming here for the beer.

Tell me about the homebrew scene in Sacramento. Scoville: If you look at every commercial brewery in Sacramento, the majority started out as homebrewers. A lot of them would shop over at [Brew Ferment Distill], they shop at the Brewmeister and years later they have successful breweries. We wouldn’t have 50-plus breweries in Sacramento if it wasn’t for the homebrew community. They have a wealth of experience and knowledge, especially the Underground Brew Squad. They have club meetings, they do a lot for the community and they’re very organized and participate in a lot of competitions.

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